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Bill Maher, the outspoken host of HBO’s “Real Time,” has understandably never been a favorite of the right, and he didn’t exactly endear himself to his legions of haters with his latest slam of Middle America.

The flyover states have become the passed over states. That’s why red state voters are so pissed off. They don’t hate us, they want to be us. They want to go to the party. It’s like we’re the British royal family, and they’re Meghan Markle’s dad.’

That’s just a snippet from Maher’s closing segment on Friday’s “Real Time.” His lampooning of everywhere between the coasts went on for several minutes.

“The blue parts of America are having a big prosperity party, while that big sea of red feels like their invitation got lost in the mail. And they still use the mail,” he said. “They turn on the TV and all the shows take place in a few hip cities, there’s no ‘Real Housewives of Toledo’ or ‘CSI: Lubbock.’

Jokes aside, the overarching point of his bit was that Amazon AMZN, +1.25%  should have done its part to help revitalize areas of the country that could use a boost instead of choosing two already prosperous locales for HQ2.

Read: Amazon cancels New York HQ2 — critics said it would have pushed hundreds of people into homelessness

“Amazon picked two places that didn’t need them at all,” he said. “Bezos, you’re worth $130 billion, take one for the team. Stop playing cities off against one another and help a dying one come back to life.”

Maher argued that red states are “going to keep getting angrier and crazier” if they keep getting left behind. He envisioned what Amazon West Virginia would mean for that state’s population, for instance.

“People get better jobs that don’t give them black lung,” Maher quipped. “The locals meet people of different races and backgrounds and sexual orientations, none of whom kill them... Before you know it there’s legal weed and decent healthcare and the schools are teaching science again.”

Watch the full segment:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-maher-red-states-wish-they-were-us-2019-02-24?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_3864233

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https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/02/red-states-to-bill-maher-eat-it.html

and as Ronald Wayne Van Zant said so succinctly, “A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow”. 

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20 minutes ago, aubearcat said:

https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/02/red-states-to-bill-maher-eat-it.html

and as Ronald Wayne Van Zant said so succinctly, “A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow”. 

The dude is smarm personified.

I like his point about Amazon though. Imagine what it could do to a city in dire need of economic stimulus. 

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13 minutes ago, kd4au said:

Isn't Bezos a liberal ?

Hard to say. He’s not a social conservative by any means.  I get libertarian vibes from him. 

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Nobody wields the truth so irresponsibly and counter-productively as that a**hole. The Bill Mahers are why us bleeding heart libtards can't have nice things.

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