🤣 Is he Boston Irish Catholic? Sounds like my office hours around 5 pm- my 8th meeting running on fumes. Now I do this and think 'holy shit I'm gonna lose my job.' I did it years ago (pregnant --so exhausted) with a conservative student. I was scared. He later gave me a GIANT flower arrangement.
He is! (Boston-area, anyway, I dunno how you feel about Canton.) It will never cease to amuse me that they cast him in a couple episodes of The Mandalorian but were like, yeah, whatever, just keep the accent, they prob got you guys in Star Wars somewheres too.
The more we awaken Trump's voterbase to his lies, the more we'll be able to take back the house and senate and then throw him out onto the sidewalk to be drawn and quartered by a righteous mod
He sounds so genuinely upset in this clip. Like I'm so used to his "angry" voice that hearing him sound genuinely kind of smad sort of made me a little upset.
He says "...Tear apart their families..." and there's SO much grief in that, you can actually hear him waver a little bit. I don't think I've EVER heard that out of Bill. What did they fucking do to him?
Might not be completely unbiased since I am visibly queer and consider myself trans on some level, but if people have basic empathy they don't need to have done something to them to be this torn up about it.
I'm white, I'm probably not an immediate target to 🍊's kidnappings to foreign concentration camps. Still ,the fact out Gov. is sending anyone to concentration camps and tearing apart lives and families does genuinely upset, sadden, and enrage me in ways words can't describe.
If we used our tax dollars to provide free social services, it would be very easy for businesses to pay everyone enough to live. Instead we use our taxes for corporate subsidies, for profit prisons & endless wars.
bill burr is kinda the perfect leftist joe rogan when you think about it:
- laid back vibe but gets angry sometimes
- talks about politics in a way where you know he's not affected like others but still believes in what he's saying
- bald
This. I have a really hard time getting onboard with him but I will always support self reflection and evolution ... get everyone on board then we can refine.
Yup. But this is a great direction that does support those very groups. As a transwoman I'm willing to accept his correct takes, especially if he actually did some self reflection like it seems.
He is fundamentally honest in my opinion, sometimes to his own detriment. Bill Burr is also one of the few celebs that if they say they have changed their mind / evolved on something, I 100 percent believe them.
Like most Americans, Bill Burr's politics don't nicely line up on the left-right spectrum, and the stuff that gets the most attention in his standup is complaints about feminism/wokeness/etc, but he has always had a burning hatred for corporate America.
Is no one going to mention they bleeped everything but cunts...oh, you're all focused on the content of his words and not the cursing...right right right. That makes sense.
It's perpetually astounding to me how much these uber rich creeps want to be liked, and how easy it would be for them to be liked if they just threw some of their vast wealth towards making the world better.
Realistically Elon and a cabal of several other billionaires could team up to dramatically improve conditions on like 5 major issues that effect most working class people, and most people would probably think they're pretty cool even if he was still a ket addled weirdo turkey basting women.
I really don’t think they care about being liked. At some point they view Everyone as a leach or someone that wants to take advantage of them. They have become paranoid and cry how everyone’s so mean while they yell some dog whistle.
Right. The fact they become so unglued when the uppity masses dare to hate them with a boiling rage suggests to me they somehow think we should kissing their feet in reverence. So, do they think because they have money we have to like them, or do they truly not understand why we hate them?
I was gonna disagree because the next thing he does is talking about the emergence of right wing goons in comedy but *then* he starts whining exactly like you said. JFC. As if Chapelle got “cancelled” and it was over they/them stuff
Was hoping for character development. Literally no self-awareness. "They blame people who don't affect their lives and are just trying to live it!" *goes into blaming people who don't affect their lives and are trying to live it*
Dems: "We need the Joe Rogan of the left to reach out to all these kids"
Bill Burr: *spitting fire about how rich people never want to pay you, that it's laws forcing them to do so, and how they exploit immigrants and use offshoring to get around that*
Dems: "We need a joe rogan with the optics of the left so we can reach out to all these kids and take power, but still be anti union and anti healthcare and pro genocide".
No. I mean the dems need a joe rogan like figure who is socially left wing, but who supports their right wing agenda. Someone who is anti-racism, pro LGBT, pro choice, etc... but who is also anti-union and supports their capitalist agenda.
Burr is too far to the left on economic issues for them.
That's what the US Dems always do, because they're not leftist or progressive. They don't want woke progressive illuminating the real issues because they benefit just as much from capitalism and get paid by the same billionaires and also fancy themselves kings in ivory towers.
One of the only meaningful policy differences between US Dems and Conservatives is that they recognize diversity is profitable and want more POC, queer folk, and women oppressing the working class in upper echelons.
The hell are you talking about? Do you have a refutation of anything I actually said, or is anybody who says something counter to your personal beliefs Russian?
Bill is a complicated figure. He smelled bullshit, but man was it hard to watch him try to identify the source. More than a decade of saying stuff that made my teeth itch, sandwiched between some fairly profound insights.
He was on the fence for quite a while. Good to see him straighten it out.
I imagine his black wife who seems to be a good egg herself probably helped him see the rot at the roots as well. That picture of her flipping off the President is iconic.
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If you tell people the truth and expose the scam perpetrated on them, that's when things change.
Instead we get the same mealy mouthed bullshit from the Dems.
They take bribes from Capital, and so they can't oppose Capital.
They always act like cultists who face a reality alien to their beliefs, and chose to deny reality rather than face doubt.
He's been at the "talk truth to power" stage for a bit.
And he's delighted that some of his old fans hate it.
This tracks with how some of them have been getting smarter about class awareness.
- laid back vibe but gets angry sometimes
- talks about politics in a way where you know he's not affected like others but still believes in what he's saying
- bald
Maybe?
*(in the same very-apropos way that everywhere in America fucking sucks because the rent is too high and nobody wants to pay you)
2 seconds of Bill
DNC consultant class: NOT LIKE THAT!!!
Bill Burr: *spitting fire about how rich people never want to pay you, that it's laws forcing them to do so, and how they exploit immigrants and use offshoring to get around that*
Dems: "WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, TOO LEFT! TOO LEFT!"
Please tell me how that is the optics of the left 🤔
Burr is too far to the left on economic issues for them.
He was on the fence for quite a while. Good to see him straighten it out.