New Rule: Losing to China | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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China sees the problem and they fix it, They build a dam, we debate what to rename
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and finally new rule you're not going to
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win the battle for the 21st century if
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you are
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a silly people and americans are a silly
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people
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that's the classic phrase from lawrence
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of arabia when lawrence tells his
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bedouin allies that as long as they stay
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a bunch of squabbling tribes
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they will remain a silly people well
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we're the silly people now
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you know who doesn't care that there's a
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stereotype of a chinese man in a dr
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seuss book
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china all 1.4 billion of them could give
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a crouching tiger flying
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because they're not a silly people if
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anything they are as serious as a prison
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fight
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look we all know china does bad stuff
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they break promises about hong kong
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autonomy they put uyghurs in camps and
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punish dissent and we don't want to be
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that but
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it's got to be something between
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authoritarian government that tells
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everyone what to do
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and a representative government that
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can't do anything at
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all
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in two generations china has built 500
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entire cities from scratch
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moved the majority of their huge
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population from poverty to the middle
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class
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and mostly cornered the market in 5g and
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pharmaceuticals
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oh when they bought africa
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their new silk road initiative is the
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biggest infrastructure project in
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history
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indebting not just that continent but
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large parts of asia europe and the
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middle east to the people who built
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their roads bridges and ports
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if you want to go anywhere in the world
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these days you better have a yen for
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travel
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for travel oh stop it
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in china alone they have 40 000
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kilometers of high-speed rail
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america has none
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our fastest train is the tram that goes
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around the zoo
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california wanted to build high-speed
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rail connecting the
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entire state but alas could not we're
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six billion in the hole just trying to
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finish the track connecting the vital
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hubs of bakersfield and merced
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one small step for nobody one giant leap
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if you're a raisin
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on a national level we've been having
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infrastructure week
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every week since 2009 but we never do
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anything
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half the country is having a
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never-ending woke competition deciding
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whether mr potato head has a dick
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and the other half believes we have to
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stop the lizard people because they're
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eating babies
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we are a silly people even when we all agree on something, like getting rid of the penny no the inertia the ass covering the graft the lawyers the cowardice nothing ever moves in this impacted
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colon of a country
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we see a problem and we ignore it lie
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about it fight about it endlessly
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litigate it
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sunset closet kick it down the road and
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then write a bill
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where a half-assed solution doesn't kick
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in for 10 years
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china
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china sees a problem and they fix it
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they build a dam
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we debate what to rename it
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that's why their airports look like this
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and ours look like this
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in san francisco it took 10 years just
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to get two
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bus lines through environmental review
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the big dig
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a tunnel in boston took 16 years
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and don't get me started on my solar
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hookup
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china once put up a 57-story skyscraper
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in 19 days
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they demolished and rebuilt the san yuan
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bridge in beijing in 43 hours
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we binge watch they binge build
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when kovet hit wuhan the city built a
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quarantine center with 4 000 rooms in 10
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days
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and they barely had to use it because
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they quickly arrested the spread of the
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disease
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they were back to throwing raves in
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swimming pools
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well we were stuck at home surfing the
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dark web for black market charming
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we're not losing to china we lost the
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returns just haven't all come in yet
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they made robots that check a kid's
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temperature and got their asses back in
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school
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most of our kids are still pretending to
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take zoom classes while they watch
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tick-tock
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and their brain cells slowly commit
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ritual suicide
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as george bush once said is our children
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learning
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there's a progressive trend now to
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sacrifice merit for equity colleges are
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chucking the s.a.t and a.c.t
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test and in new york mayor de blasio
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announced merit would no longer decide
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who gets into the schools for advanced
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learners
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but rather a lottery system you think
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china's doing that
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letting political correctness get in the
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way of nurturing their best and
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brightest
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you think chinese colleges are offering
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courses in
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the philosophy of star trek the
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sociology of seinfeld
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and surviving the coming zombie
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apocalypse
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those are real and so is china and they
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are eating our lunch
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and believe me in an hour they'll
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they'll be hungry again
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