Fired-up Bill Maher Backs Truckers, Rips Trudeau’s ‘Hitler’ Tactics – Opinion

Comedian and political pundit Bill Maher continued his streak of blasting the left on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” this week, this time torching Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his heavy-handed moves toward Canadian truckers protesting the government’s draconian COVID mandates.

Maher kicked off the show with a panel discussion on the trucker protest, suggesting there is more at play with the ongoing protest than just Trudeau’s vaccine mandate. Fox News transcription

What’s happening this week, it looks like, is people are understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate. It’s becoming a big thing. It’s happening all over the world now. They’re thinking it might happen here in Washington on Super Bowl Sunday.

Panelist and author of the book “Woke,” multimillionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, agreed with Maher’s assessment, arguing that the “uprising” consists primarily of “everyday citizens” protesting against “the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world.”

These are the unelected class leaders that ultimately, I think, are using the bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday – not only Americans but Canadians and Western Europeans too – and that’s why we’re seeing a fusion of both the left and the right here saying that, “Actually we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table.”

Maher claimed that protest organizers were truckers in particular because they delivered food and supplies to people who work from home during the pandemic. He was right — in the sense that the Canadian Freedom Convoy is much less about COVID vaccines in general and much more about a repressive Canadian government mandating what free citizens can and cannot do.

The acerbic suggested the “have-nots” are “p***ed off” at the “haves”:

You didn’t use that word “elitist” in your whole speech, but, like, that’s the word I think is on people’s tongues and minds. There is this idea, and it’s not wrong, that some people are staying home in their Lululemons [expensive workout clothes] and other people can afford to, like, wait out and get a free vacation and money from the government, and other people can’t. And they’re p****ed off — the people who can’t.

However, Maher reserved his harshest criticisms for an attack on Trudeau.

[Trudeau]He was referring to people who have not been vaccinated. He said, “They don’t believe in science. They’re often misogynistic, often racist.” No, they’re not. He [Trudeau] said, “But they take up space. We have to choose who our leader is as a nation. Do we tolerate these people?”

“‘Tolerate these people’? Now you do sound like Hitler,” Maher said.

“And recently, he talked about them holding unacceptable views — I mean, c’mon!” “I think that’s what gets under people’s skin.”

.@billmaherObserves the horrible comments Trudeau made about unvaccinated Canadians pic.twitter.com/l2BQzLlwGp

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 12, 2022

Panelist and former Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williams also weighed in, suggesting corruption at the top of the proverbial food chain, including “corporate elites.”

People are so angry about the corrupt system because of this. The system is so corrupt, and it’s not just corporate elites, it’s the corporate elites who are corrupting the system because of the money that corporation, their undue influence on a very, very corrupt government.

It is so well-ingrained that corruption is a part of the fabric.

Democrats make sense. Who’d a thunk? (And yes, random commenter on one of my previous articles, purposely lazy English aside, “thunk” is indeed a legit — and fun — word. Just sayin’.)

So what’s up with Maher? What’s the deal with Maher?

Maher is a dedicated, lifelong liberal who has performed admirably throughout the Biden Administration. This allowed him to earn what most of us thought impossible: new respect from the left.

These are some of the things you should be thinking about:

As we reported earlier in February, Maher’s full-metal attack against Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, and the entire Democrat Party over how wrong they have been throughout the COVID pandemic.

And in January, as we reported, Maher absolutely destroyed “really ignorant” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor over her incessant COVID “fearmongering.”

Maher was slapped in the face in an incredible beatdown. We reported this in November. Socialist Barbie™ “lame and clueless” Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and the entire Democrat Party a new one, this time over the left’s “plainly insane” “wokeness” nonsense.

Finally, Maher’s classic takedown in October of Biden’s ill-fated “Build Back Better” (massive wealth-redistribution scheme) monstrosity, in addition to the disastrous Biden Border Crisis™.

Bottom line:

Months ago, when Maher first began to tee off on his left-wing brethren, I suggested, as the old idiom advises— “Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.” Many of our peers were unconvinced of Maher’s “staying power” on the right side (no pun intended) of the issues facing America under the so-called “progressive” Biden regime.

Many remain skeptical — which I accept.

Except now, that no-longer-completely-blind squirrel finds an acorn or two on a weekly basis, often slapping the very hand that has fed him for decades, in the process.