Bill Maher had a message for young socialists on Friday: the revolution already happened. You just weren't old enough to qualify.
On the October 23 episode of HBO's "Real Time," with Karoline Leavitt, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Steve Hilton at the table, the closing conversation turned to whether Social Security and other benefits can stay affordable from one generation to the next. In a clip posted by Townhall, Maher put it this way: "If you're a senior citizen, you're already living like Mamdani is president."
Now, everybody is going to tell you this was a great line. It was. I'm still against it.
Let me explain, since nobody else in this argument is going to.
First, the young socialists. Your entire platform is free stuff, guaranteed income and a government that never says no. Bill Maher just pointed out that this exact arrangement exists, it's called being 70, and the waiting list is about 45 years long. You didn't lose the argument. You lost the line.
Second, Maher. Townhall summarized his case as government spending far more on older Americans than on younger ones while schools and the next generation get squeezed. That's a fair point. But a man who goes to four-hour dinners at the White House is now the guy explaining entitlements to kids who split rent six ways in Bushwick. The kids are wrong, Bill. You're just wrong from a nicer chair.
Third, the people in Zohran Mamdani's own city. New York elected a socialist mayor, and the most successful version of his program, according to Maher, is something Congress has kept funding since 1935. The DSA spent years building a movement. FDR built it in a weekend and gave it a number.
And then Maher kept going. In another Townhall clip, he went after parents who keep covering their grown children's rent, groceries, phones and car payments. His verdict: those parents raised a "subscription service" with automatic renewal.
Everyone laughed. I didn't, because I can do math. These parents are the only working socialists in America. They tax themselves, redistribute to a dependent population and get zero policy input in return. That's not bad parenting. That's the most faithful Mamdani administration on the continent.
Picture a fictional dad named Gary in Scarsdale, staring at a credit-card statement listing his 27-year-old son's Spotify, Hulu, car insurance and a $19 oat-milk latte, quietly realizing he has become a small, sad government.
Gary, cancel the subscription. You were never going to win the election anyway.
So here's where the Crow lands, and you're not going to like it. The young socialists are wrong because they want everything without paying for it. The seniors are wrong because they got everything and want you to pay for it. Maher is wrong because he figured all this out on HBO, the network that charges you monthly to watch him complain about monthly charges.
Bill Maher told the kids the revolution already happened and their grandparents won it. He's right. Somebody's still going to send you the bill, and it isn't going to be Mamdani.
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