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boboke

I still love you Maher, and your in-your-face comments. And this segment most definitely made me laugh, regarding all the absurdity, when it comes down to water management. Please do not get me on the topic of why all our government buildings have such a need for green grass. And bless you for pointing out all the insanity of ALL the multitude of stupid regulations our state insists on enforcing.

BUT Mayer REALLY needs to be invited out to California's agricultural areas. His claim in putting down the economic contributions California ag industry contributes to California's combined GNP is flat out wrong. He claims it is only 2%, but he completely NEGLECTS (and shows his ignorance) as to what our state's (and actually country) one last remaining MAJOR natural resource, also contributes to the growth of other industries, within our state. AND country. (and world) Such production produces, what are then labeled, “value add on products.

It is point on, on how California's ag industry really does need to learn how to more effectively grow LESS water demanding crops. AND they are doing so. Most farmers and Ranchers flat out KNOW very clearly, how valuable out access to water is. (Yeah, but don’t get me on the subject of Corporate farmers who are WAY too removed from the dirt they also are dependent upon.) BUT the one photo of showing an ag sprinkler systems, is NOT how our tree crops are being watered in our state. So Maher allowed a straight out lie to get posted, in the form of a photo!

Our ag industry is WELL aware of our areas need to conserve water, and has been leading the industry, world wide, on innovative products which conserve water. WHICH the production of such, is also dependent upon our ag industry. (I mean, our state's ag production is FAR higher than any other state in our country.) There exist SO MUCH manufactured ag related products, which is NOT being figured into this basic ag industry GNP.

btw, natural resources are what an area is able to produce, directly from an area's natural (already in existence) resources. Natural resources are considered fundamental, to the health of another sector, one that runs across the entire economy and is associated with making things. AND, because of how these resources are exported, that cash then comes back into the local economy.

Our nation really does not have that much left, of natural resources to exploit, thanks to our environmentalists AND our EPA regulations. btw, I am a Conservationist, which is a HUGE difference from being an environmentalist. And I became pretty anti environmental, AFTER I move to the valley and have directly witnessed, how destructive our environmental policies have become, to the conservation of our natural resources. AND how dang costly the clean up, of these natural disaster become; which could have been easily lessen, if conservation methods would be embraced. (Just as an example, please contemplate our state's issues with forest fires.)

So PLEASE extend the invite out to Maher, to come and visit our Central Valley. One has to live here to begin to understand how California actually exists as FOUR distinct parts, not just Northern and Southern California. But more Californians really need to come visit, in order to gain a bit more of an understanding as to why our area does deserve the water OUR OWN AREA GETS from the mountains surrounding us. (You are aware that San Francisco directly gets it water from Yosemite??)

Why the heck should we share our water with your over populated metropolis areas??? Which has ALL been built up, despite the fact you all have to import water, to sustain your populations! (Don't worry, I am actually a very giving and sharing individual.) BUT our coastal communities really DO NEED to start investing in more desalination plants, from ocean water. ALSO what is readily NEEDED is for ALL of Californians to get out of their love affair with green lawns! Which most definitely includes both Public (think school districts and government office areas) and large industry's (think PG&E for one) desire to keep their own lawns green. i.e. we still have those issues here in the Valley.

I lived in southern LA county, before I moved to the Central Valley. So I am now WELL aware of how ignorant I also was, to our state's ad industry's overall contributions to not just our state's GNP. There exist SO MUCH intertwining of industries, within our Central Valley. I can recognize it, but someone just has to visit here and learn it themselves.

Our area's labor force is also dependent upon our ag industry and the other industries it supports. So tell me, are our metropolitan areas, READY to then contribute more of their tax dollars to support the citizen's of our Central Valley, if they choose to cause our own ag and ag related industries to lose more jobs?

I confess I am a farmer's daughter who relocated to California out of desperation, to escape from such conservative nature. "Bless their dear hearts." Yet that statement of "You can take the girl out of the country, but you cannot take the country out of the girl" most definitely does apply to me.

So once I relocated here, I did suddenly realized I felt I was kind of back home again. You all in the metropolis areas, haven't a clue what it means to go to some place, just an hour away; where you can find those only local known areas, where one rarely stumble across another individual. Yep, I am definitely back home.

So trust me, many here whom I live around, will definitely assume the attitude, of take your opinion and shove it. Our industries are not that dependent on your area's appetite for consumption. We can definitely decide just to shut off the tap. Maybe then, your areas, will start to consider not allowing your OWN rain water to head off into the sea. (I do remember all the flooding, from heavy rain storms, which happens on your city streets.)

All comments from YouTube:

Michael K

3y↑507

I don’t understand why it’s so hard to find news and commentary that calls out the bs on both the left and right. Thank you Bill. This show is one of the few safe harbours in a turbulent sea of talking points and half-truths.

Dale Miller

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J C.

More views from stuff that causes anger, just like social media algorithms. We gotta responsibly click.

Mike Cole

@Pounce Pounce Deep

Pounce Pounce

@Mike Cole I think water does not really care if you are right or left leaning...

Rho Bidderskag

@Monkeybongoes well to be blunt, A) Trump was always going accelerate this country tearing itself apart across political lines, both by winning the first election and losing the second and refusing to concede. Culture wars, loss of faith in the election process; America is beginning to Balkanize. Russia would very much enjoy if the States of America ceased to be United. Much easier to manage a divided adversary than one thats united and got its shit together.

B) Hillary was anti-Russia, Trump was not. It was better for Moscow if Trump won.

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Josh Hamilton

3y↑40

As a farmer, this is what’s wrong with subsidies… it encourages certain behaviors, even if the conditions on the ground don’t warrant that behavior/crop/style of farming.

If we had a true free market in agriculture, we wouldn’t be growing almonds where there is no rain, we wouldn’t be growing corn to turn into fuel, and we wouldn’t have consolidation of small farms into these corporate/industrial monstrosities.

The only way these unsustainable farms can operate is because they do so at the tax payer expense, while truly sustainable farms like I operate have to do so with little to no help.

This is not a plea to get government into subsidizing sustainability… stopping the funding of these industrial farms and allowing them to be on the same footing as us is more than enough for these industrial farms to collapse under their own bloated weight.

Josh Hamilton

@Stephen's Game Channel Bingo! Subsidies ossify these unsustainable practices and retard the natural process of adaptation to changing growing conditions…
The Midwest US should transition most of their acreage to the native prairie that contained grasses/shrubs/etc that fed millions of bison for thousands of years. They could still grow enough corn for human consumption… just not for making fuel or feeding ruminants.

Stephen's Game Channel

2y↑2

Look at Australia's agriculture. Narry a subsidy in sight and yet it produces enough food for three times the population of the country on the driest continent in the world.

If less efficient corn farmers in Ohio need to go bust and start farming elderberries instead then so be it. The world would be better off if the land was used more effectively.

Wyze Dominick

3y↑341

Bruh when Bill is talking about leaving CA you know they fucked up…

azores15

3y↑1

@Drigeolf The white liberals spreading throughout the country definitely think the culture wars are important in meat space.

Drigeolf

@azores15 If you believe a person who goes to another place in the same country is a "refugee" or your own compatriots are akin to vermin, you need to calm yourself. I believe you're angry at the wrong people. In California and in other states, the problem is corporations like the big-agro almond farms and oil companies screwing everyone else for their own profit.

Most people who move around the country does it for economic reasons(cost of living/jobs) or marriage. They're not there to invade "your" state, they're people like you with mostly the same concerns, unless you believe culture wars is an actually important issue outside of Twitter.

Blane D. Gunner

Not really, in the words of Carlin, it's all bullshit

Austin Shelton

@K Chris did you even listen? Lmao. He’s saying they don’t regulate this ENOUGH. They’re corrupt and sold to the almond industry…. And you think he wants to leave because ‘muh California liberals’

Shawn Sterling

@K Chris has

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Lily N

3y↑37

OMG this was done ingeniously! Informative, surprising from a language point and also very funny! Eieio incorporated 🤣 great!

Williams Mark

Garryd Hintz

3y↑27

This actually makes sense. I would love to see a restructuring of all these sectors of business.

Robert Phillips

@justgivemethetruth The trees should be harvested one last time and the farmer given a choice. Move them to another area or pay them a small amount for each tree destroyed and be done with it. Or we can keep heading toward catastrophes and displacing people as their houses burn because god forbid we harm the helpless little agricultural giant that uses huge amount of water. No, even though this will help lets look for other means and skip this one.

justgivemethetruth

3y↑1

The problem is that the almond trees are a sunk cost ... they are where they are ... how do we move them, and where would we move them to?

The answer I think is massive investment in energy - and that means nuclear - and that means we have enough energy to desalinate massive amounts of water, to use the leftover sludge as building materials mixed with concrete, and then pump that water to where it is needed - and then quit taking natures rain water.

The choice is between planetary castrophe and death of humanity, or the chance that in the next 40-50 years we might have a Fukushima or Chernobyl? Seems like an easy decision to me ... I did not say pleasant did I? ;-)

MJ Maccabee

3y↑492

Also worth mentioning is that monoculture like almond orchards plays a large part in the die- out of bees.

Cellus KH

@none of your business People started worrying about wild bees as soon as they gave up trying to convince people honey bees were dying out despite the numbers continuing to rise. "Come on, people! We gotta keep 'em angry about... something! Anything!"

Cellus KH

@Carol Rademacher Carol, you said bees are dying out and also that there are 2 trillion of them in the world. You can lie to yourself, your friends and your kids, but not to me. You're not going to be able to argue that there is both record high numbers and also they are nearly extinct to anyone with half a brain.

MJ Maccabee

@none of your business you may be a great beekeeper of apiary bees, but you're missing the point. There no longer ARE sufficient wild bees, due to all the factors that have been mentioned: monoculture, pesticides, herbicides, air pollution, and more.

none of your business

3y↑1

No it doesn't. It is misuse of apairy bee's. The bee's we are worried about are wild bee's not apiaries. Stop tossing around buzz words. PS. I'm a bee keeper.

EpicMusicLemon

3y↑2

@B Z € h hold up there Bh. Dairy cattle go through just about as much water as almonds do and they produce Methane and require absolutely sickening practice. Try the many other milks like Oat Milk, Any Locally Grown Nut, Rice Milk, Coconut Milk.

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Somber Petrović

3y↑19

We have a saying here in Southern Argentina: “Growing bananas in Patagonia”, which basically means putting all your efforts into something stupid and time consuming that doesn't give you nearly enough in return. Granted, I've never seen anyone attempting to grow bananas in Patagonia, but whoever is growing almonds in California is just as stupid.

Viewing Wiz

3y↑5

Thank you Bill for always telling it like it is. This is nuts!

EEM1978

3y↑8

“California, I love you, I’ve been here a long time. I was a booster for you when it wasn’t fashionable. I don’t want to go, but I don’t want to breathe ash for the rest of my life. You make me very happy, California, but I can be happy without you.”

Nailed it.

STIRK STIRKLAND

3y↑240

They’re trying to farm in a damn desert.

LeckMichImArsch

Why doesn't California import agricultural technology from Israel? The country is renowned for drip irrigation.

Auturgic Flosculator

@bipedalbobI...can't breathe... ty for that laugh.

Miller Forester

For hot air....

bipedalbob

@Redigt Hemlig baa haa haa, they don't maintain the forests, have you ever been in a forest? I'm thinking no, do you have even a clue what a forest that hasn't been parkified looks like.
What you are proposing probably couldn't be accomplished in a year if you put 25% of the entire population on the project,
And by the following year it would be time to start again.
Not to mention if it could be done it would be an ecological nightmare , the damage to the forest itself would be immense.
In fact if it was possible to keep the forest floor all tidyied up like you propose there would be no nutrients returning to the soil and the entire forest would die . Then you'd have a fire hazard that couldn't be stopped no way no how.

Costas

3y↑2

The Israelis have been doing it for years with minimal rainfall. There are ways to do it without spending too much water.

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Oreos&Milk

3y↑757

Rants like these are why I still listen to Bill; and this is one of his most important yet imo. I don't agree with a lot of what he says - but he is right about a lot and even when I don't agree I appreciate the perspective. It's called being an adult and we all need to get better about it.

Joaquin Waters

3y↑1

Hard agree. Smart, well-rounded arguments are important to listen to and acknowledge even if we don’t agree with them

Kermit T. Frog

Why look at it as government subsidies to farmers? I suppose that these crops could be move to other localities, but money to farmers is going to keep the price of produce lower for consumers.

DMarie Ceppetelli

Tracy Lynn Houle

well said!

Mahan Esfahani

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M

3y↑5

We need more of these types of segments. Great job

Leo Panunzio

3y↑7

I'm with Bill. He always makes perfect sense.

Derek Condo

Thank you for bringing attention to this issue. I am from the Great Lakes region, and have read periodicals talking about a plan to ship water from the lakes to California to help with their agriculture, and I can say from the perspective of "rust belt" voters, they are not fans of this idea. I hope lawmakers in all of these states (especially California), are re-reading what happened to the Aral Sea...

Dandangalo Dangalus

Another strong take from Bill! Dude has been killing it these last couple seasons. Fantastic content.

Billy Mathers

3y↑733

Love the deep dive on Nestle a non American Company and Coke selling us back our own water

Ira Seierstad

"Water is not a human right" - nestle

Matthew Spika

@Aj It says right on the packages... Vevey, Switzerland

James Macleod

@vipertact Here's your water back with no value added. Now that's marketing

Retrovirus

@Ian Wrong. Socialism is usually means of production controlled by the government. Socialists often make the delusional claim that "the government is the people"...

xia en Gao

3y↑1

@Aj No. They also deny any knowledge of child slavery and rain forest deforestation in Africa for cacao production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9

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Aaron S

3y↑196

It's not about 'California not living without nuts' when 70% of the almonds are exported anyway...

jukey

Tim Book Two. Please...there are "nuts" everywhere.

jukey

The Culture & Anarchy Podcast. HUH???

Latinexus Socivaru-Simulacrum

@Megan O You're right. But I would argue it is still the consumer's responsibility to be conscious of the part they play in the world. And it is the consumer's responsibility to organize and get those regulators to do what they are supposed to do.

Megan O

@Latinexus Socivaru-Simulacrum that’s like saying the impetus is on people to recycle. When we don’t even have recycling plants or infrastructure. The buck stops with regulators, not the people.

Bobby Jackson

3y↑1

@The Culture & Anarchy Podcast
You really think that starving people around the world are relying on almonds to stay alive?

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Troll Of Jom

3y↑35

The Caitlin Jenner line killed me 😂😂😂😂

Wendy Mookie

3y↑3

Thank you Bill for talking about California's fucked up water allotment !!
Cannabis needs a lot less water so let's replace the almond crops with cannabis 💚

Rick Baker

3y↑6

This is a great monologue. Really great. But I just want to look at Bill and the sycophants clapping and yell “YOU VOTED FOR THIS!”

Anonymous Commentator

3y↑53

This was honestly a really great segment and I learned something new today

Robert Michael

3y↑53

Bill has been on the money so much recently

quakeslider1

Except for the fact that "Southern California", where Bill resides, uses more than half of the water from the Colorado River not to mention the rest coming from the San Joaquin water shed area. He is using something about Almonds to cover up the greedy needs of those with Pools and Golf Courses in SoCal. he isn't right on so much as he is so wrong.

T H

3y↑1

Tell me one thing that is not related to money on this show?

anahatatutu

3y↑1

This is going to be one of the coolest years for the rest of your life and beyond. No, Bill, most of global warming hasn't already happened - just enough to show us that we should have wised up already.

Suzanne Wheat

3y↑1

I lived in San Diego as a child. There was a water saving campaign called "Nip the Drip." As a 4th grader I took it very seriously. Ever since I have conserved water. I live in an eastern state that has plenty of water but several years ago there was a drought. You never know when its coming. Water is precious everywhere. Just imagine living without it.

Ray A

3y↑23

The entire Season 3 of the hit series "Goliath" featuring Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Quaid deal with exactly this story line. Almonds and the literal 'drain' on water.

J R

3y↑64

Bill was dishing out some tuff love. The greedy CEOs running these corporations don’t give a rat’s ass about the working class and the middle class. We need to hold the politicians accountable for this mess.

Chris B

@Mark Furst SO true. That's a huge part of the problem.

Mark Furst

3y↑4

Not just the CEOs. Shareholders DEMAND returns and approve fat payouts for top brass to ensure it happens.

Karen Hanania

3y↑2

Thank you, Bill, for some clarity on this issue.

Addie McLain

Bill, you say it like it is and I appreciate that so much. I am disappointed that we can't do anything about any of this. I am looking for a home outside of CA and the reasons why is in part, because of everything you have uncovered.

Mary Anne Gant Parker

3y↑5

I appreciate Bill Maher. He is smart, intelligent, entertaining and funny. Thank you.

Earnest Everidge

3y↑111

Wow! Finally, somebody acknowledging this? I've known about Nestle for a long time; they are stealing Lake Michigan too. I didn't know about the almonds, though out there, holy crap!

elsonlam

3y↑1

Look up Nestle Baby Formula Scandal. In the 70's, Nestle used to dress their salespeople in nurses outfits to promote Nestle baby powder in poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Many new mothers believed them and made the switch. (Women stop producing milk when they stop breastfeeding). Due to the lack of information, many women either mixed it with unsanitary water or water the expensive formula down. A lot of infants died unnecessarily.

lakotasue Nonya

It’s been known for awhile. But, almonds? I’m going to have to boycott that too. 😳

Retrovirus

@pia Governments problem.

pia

3y↑4

Netflix has a documentary about how nestle is taking water from public sources all over the world and selling it. It was really informative and super depressing.

David Jones

3y↑1

The almonds dont even stay here they are big sellers in Asian countries

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Glitch

3y↑1

I was never a fan of Bill but lately hes making alot of sense and Im proud to be a fan of his.

Christoph Hager

3y↑11

Thank you for showing this. I am from Germany and I know of this for over 10 years and always though why this is not spoken of. Good job.

Jennifer Smith

@Christoph Hager I’m fine I would like to know you more don’t you mind giving me your email or number so we can chat better off here

Christoph Hager

@Jennifer Smith I'm doing fine, thank you for asking. How are you? :)

Jennifer Smith

How are you doing Christoph

boboke

Fernando Ferdinand

3y↑1

Thank God for comedians like this dude.. 👍💯🙏

Trevdawg48

3y↑167

I'm a conservative and Bill is spewing straight fire here. Preach on, my brother!

Big E

@Taco Tacotington Many people on the left agree with Bill, including me. Both sides have wackos and wackiness.

Tobias Reaper

@Taco Tacotington he might lean to the left, but at the end of the day, he keeps it real...

Tom

@Trevdawg48 LOL Libertarianism would make the drought situation in California worse, not better! LOL!!!!!!

Tom

@Trevdawg48 lol Suuure...

Tom

@Taco Tacotington lol Not really.

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o77eh

Finally catching on a decade later... I was asking you to speak up about this years ago when we had the water sprinkler gestapo. The state gave bounties to people who told on their neighbor; and incentives for the commoners to replace their grass with rocks or sand(which is one of the reasons the cities are 10 degrees hotter than they were 10 years ago and now dogs burn their paws when you take them for a walk.) You were all in with the California Fascists then, but now you wake up... I am glad you did, just wish you had been quicker.

Marques King

3y↑4

"You make me very happy, but I can be happy without you"
mic drop
Bill Maher has left the building ladies and gentlemen.

And this does come across as both a personal and political statement about how Bill lives his life, with personal growth and maturity.

Vic J

3y↑16

Just decided to use oat milk in my coffee instead of almond. Knew that decision was coming soon.

tallard666

3y↑14

Excellent! The almond industry has always been a pain in my craw! Plus, you didn't even get to all the disappearing bees, the almond industry is a major bee killer!

C Bailey

They have to truck in bees from other states in order to pollinate all those almond trees. We need to shift to coconut milk or something else....almonds need too many resources to grow in cali....something that in grows in dusty dry soil. Cactus milk anyone???

alexander martino

3y↑98

The reason they slipped through the cracks is because they lubed themselves with money and gave it to the regulators/ politicians who despite being in the position of power for as much as 5 decades still have not noticed these obvious issues. I wonder why?. Great episode.

alexander martino

3y↑1

@pisces031372aj That's ok we all can jump the gun occasionally. One of the reasons I like Bill Maher's new rules is that he always tends to at least Express what many moderates like me feel about the left and the right. I just hope people on both sides can be as reasonable as we have been.

pisces031372aj

3y↑1

@alexander martino I can absolutely agree with you. I should not have done that. We're so conditioned to think negative because rarely are there decent conversations in the comments area. The problem is I added to that and I shouldn't have. My mistake.

alexander martino

@pisces031372aj Don't jump to conclusions so quickly. I asked if he was saying it had nothing to do with corruption. He answered and so I thanked him. Assuming people's intentions instead of enquiring is one of the reasons we are so divided right now. Can't we agree that is not helpful?.

alexander martino

@haunted House Ok that makes sense, Did not know what path you were going down that's why I asked if you where saying it had nothing to do with corruption. Obviously you are, so thank you for clarifying.

pisces031372aj

@haunted House why are you explaining the obvious to a person who seems to just want to argue. I understood exactly what you said so I'm not sure why that person responded to you like that. Thanks for recommending the book. It's good to read and learn about the why so we can all be better informed and make better choices.

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SC Vandy

7:28 - 7:32 "You make me very happy, California. But I can be happy without you."
WOW. Way to go, Bill -- 'RIGHT between the eyes.'

He sounds VERY open to being on the 'exit California' bandwagon.

Robert Trask

3y↑2

It’s easy to see ways for farmers to reduce water usage — for any crop. Delivering the water directly to the crop plants instead of spraying it all over the field should help a lot. Agree that some water thirsty crops might be better grown elsewhere.

T

"You make me very happy, California. But I can be happy without you."

I'm gonna use this now replacing California with a lot of things and beings. 😁
Thank you, Bill.

asidder

3y↑1

Bill makes good points about almonds but he missed an even bigger problem in agriculture: cattle. Alfalfa plus "other forages," such as irrigated pasture and corn that's chopped into a cattle feed called silage, consume more water per acre than almonds, and they also cover nearly twice as much land (per an NPR report from 2015).

J M

3y↑439

The problem is the farmers are still getting f'd in all of this. They are kept in debt by these companies. But he is not wrong. This and the bottled water industry. For a good California water history watch the classic Jack Nickolson movie Chinatown.

mxylpx

@Noir Rain Do you gone grow?

Stephan Dumond

@Russell LaValle It was one of the uses for one of the characters, I guess they sold almonds for other products. And again, as I said, this is entertainment not a documentary nor journalist news.

Russell LaValle

@Stephan Dumond Wasn't that about using almonds to make anti-aging products for rich Hollywood people? I wonder how much truth there is in that.

Karl Hungus

Almond farmers are far from poor. They are all multimillionaires, which is precisely the problem as they can buy off politicians in the 'legalized bribery' that is the american political system. Almonds. Hilarious that you yanks would let a state with a population greater than my entire country, Canada, go down the drain just to allow almond corporations (not 'farmers') to keep wasting all your water. 😲

gigaus0

We don't have farmers anymore. We have plantations, or 'growing acreages'. All of it's handled by automated machinery. No farmers.

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J Thomas McMurray

3y↑1

Damn right on Bill. I left California for a multitude of reasons but the idea of pure wealth extraction from the environment without regard to consequences made my mind up. I wish California the best in the grey smoke this summer.

Mark Jones

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kagey

3y↑48

wow! Bill finally returning to his roots and making sense... without having to go blue or red. I miss those rants when his arguments where well-thought out.

Juli Caldwell

3y↑2

He's always made sense. You just choose not to like it when he's calling put your side.

Jennifer Smith

How are you doing kagey

GEORGINA SMITH

3y↑31

It's the visuals that make this argument so damn compelling....

Sparky

3y↑1

You’re on the right track Bill, but almonds aren’t the real problem. Animal Ag is. The amount of water wasted to raise and kill farmed animals for people to eat is magnitudes higher than any plant crop. It’s also the biggest cause of climate change to start with. Subsidies need to go towards transitioning these “farmers” to growing sustainable crops for humans to eat. ✌🏻

Nadi Nadi

3y↑28

Tell it Bill!!! That was a damn good rant! I loved every word of it!

Jimi P

3y↑2

Its actually a red herring. Beef and dairy production accounts for significantly more water usage in California, as compared to almonds. The water use for alfalfa production alone accounts for more of California's water use than almonds.
https://www.businessinsider.com/real-villain-in-the-california-drought-isnt-almonds--its-red-meat-2015-4

Scott Mallender

3y↑7

One of your best lately, shows how naive we all our…

Jennifer Smith

How are you doing Scott

Sudhir Nair

Bill, truely a tresure to the world! The contents of what he says is solid and he mixes it with great humor!

Helder Pinto

3y↑33

Bill is awesome, the ultimate centrist this country needs more of.

Jennifer Smith

How are you doing Helder

Daniel Parkison

3y↑2

@d1p70, and whatever anyone does, even the ones on their side, it'll never be enough. It's like when Anakin Skywalker said, "You're either with me or you're my enemy." Well, the Far Left wants you completely on board with what they want. If you deviate even an iota or say, "Woah, we need to slow our roll," the Far Left will denounce you. The Far Left will always want more and more, in my opinion, regressive action and they'll never be sated.

It's about time we say, "No more," and demand that this nonsense stops. We need to come back to the Centre because that's where roughly 70% - 80% of Americans are.

The Democrats are trying to feed an insatiable beast that'll eventually eat them too. The Republicans are all but spineless cowards who don't know what they stand for anymore. During the Cold War they stood against Soviet Communism. Now? What do they stand for? What have they conserved? They're practically useless.

So where does that leave us in a solidly two-party system? That Simpsons skit has aged very well.

d1p70

3y↑1

@Daniel Parkison Oh that's already happened. His views on Islam, the woke movement and cancel culture has got him cancelled (!) by the new left. It's hilariously sad to watch these new lefties in action. Like toddlers throwing tantrums.

Daniel Parkison

3y↑3

He’s still very Lefty, but he might be shifting toward Left-of-Centre. Unfortunately in this political climate that’ll get him labelled “alt-Right” and likely cancelled before too long.

Michael Tran

Bill Maher, you are so right most of time, WTF
send the almond farmers to the states that have most rain every
year, and keep the water
for human and animal consumption. Don't subsidize water to them
anymore.

Naked Mongoose

3y↑158

“California grows 81% of all the world’s almonds”

Wow, that’s the most interesting almond related fact i’ve heard all week.

finding solutions

@Renak Mans yes, in order to have more milk they kill the majority of the Young ones .... the reason why they sell little cow and goat to the meat market is that they need to eliminate them i suppose . I don't think is really for the flavour. Disgusting isn't It ? This is the commercial type , obviously little farmers don't do this .

Renak Mans

@finding solutions please explain…do they not use them for veal? BTW, I’m sickened by veal or lamb, so just asking for real.

Simulation algorithm

3y↑1

Well it was the most interesting fact until he told us how much water the almonds need! I thought damn Oranges need a lot of water until he showed what almonds need!

JewTube

@Anna Repetto interesting. what's the most economical way to make almonds?

Anna Repetto

3y↑3

@JewTube Almond agriculture requires a Mediterranean climate and California fits that description. Other top almond producing countries include Spain, Iran, Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Italy, and Australia. Malaysia is too wet for this type of crop.

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Christina Merklin

I spit out my drink on the regulation bit! 😂🤣

Cooldrop02

Bill needs to produce an episode that directly focuses on the water crisis that our nation is facing rapidly rather than a 8-minute section at the end of his show. The part about Nestle essentially redistributing public property of the people and making money off of it has been the subject of multiple documentaries. Some of which produced by some of his favorite guests.

lovetownsend

3y↑17

Remember that beginning of Interstellar when Michael Cain's watching the failed crops and tells Mathew Mcconaughey "Your daughters generation... will be the last to survive on earth" ...uhh yeah... that seems less and less like a movie every passing year.

Michael Minugh

This is the kinda monologue that keeps me watching Bill Maher, when he fights against the corporate interests that are killing us, because the California-almond situation is absolutely insane. How this didn't change decades ago is just leading us to the core rot, corporations rule our governments, and that needs to change.

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Alina Ioana

3y↑275

I was wondering if he's gonna mention Nestle or Coca Cola. Well said Bill!

Josh Woods

@Ectoplasmic Feedback Gives a WHOLE new meaning to rippin' ya nuts off!!

Diana SUNSHINE Wulf

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hardrays

pile on!!!!

Diana SUNSHINE Wulf

3y↑1

@Josh Woods he can go without then

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ChrissyMalinky

This is actually quite similar to what lead to the catastrophic droughts and famine in the Soviet Union though a smaller scale. It's just that in California they've determined that imposing a drought on ordinary people restricting the use of water even for basic needs is a cost worth protecting and serving business interests and profits.

T.M. Larson

3y↑1

Born and raised in SLO. I moved away in 2016. I am now a proud Minnesotan and couldn’t fathom moving back to California. I miss my beaches but not much else. Good segment Bill.

Stan Refermat

3y↑12

this is one of the New Rules every American should watch, it’s extremely important.

Also, if you’re vegan or dairy-free, choose a plant-based milk that uses a lot less water than almond milk, such as soy milk or oat milk. you can find graphs of their water use online

EchoFoxtrot2.0

@Stan Refermat Ingestion of soy leads to increased levels of estrogen. Overuse of soy also causes cancer...so don't act like soy is better. Granted, I don't think cows should be given hormones. Americans (and many other countries) are statistically looking more and more like Walle "blimp-like" characters. We all would be healthier with less processing. However, health food doesn't exist. Everything has been genetically modified to the point of an extreme reduction in nutritious components. Even "organic foods" are all GMOs...They're just more expensive. Also, Styrofoam is an "organic" compound so words don't always mean more than just marketing tactics to get you to pay more for the same foods in perky looking packages.

Van Man

2y↑1

@Gus Valadez So, I just saw Bill's water use chart, which said 1900 gals of water per pound of almonds. You just claimed that one pound of almonds will produce 95 glasses of almond milk. 20 gallons per glass........1900 gallons per pound of almonds...........1900 ÷ 20 = 95 I do not believe your water to almond juice ratio is correct.

Stan Refermat

3y↑1

@Honeyfur Farm that’s not necessarily true, plant-based diets with soy can be very healthy, and there are tons of hormones and chemicals in cows milk that have tons of side effects, including leading to earlier puberty in girls

Stan Refermat

3y↑1

@Kira S. exactly!! humans are the only animal that drinks milk after infancy, and the only animal that drinks another mammals milk

Stan Refermat

3y↑2

@Riquet Caballero lmao yeah i drink soy milk myself, i agree the dairy industry has done a lot of propaganda to convince people who are not baby cows that they need cows milk

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Jeanne Pagano

Spent 2 years in Santa Monica in a Meditation Center, a subculture. So sad a beautiful place ruined by man’s over use cruelty to the environment. Love to have you back in the Northeast Bill!. Former NYer I love New England.

Sandy Leyva

3y↑1

Perfectly said as usual 👏

Kevin Odom

3y↑10

Damn, Bill on fire in this episode

Pat Doyle

3y↑1

I've been saying this for years. California agriculture is important to the country in terms of growing important food crops year round. But almonds and beef and dairy, take MASSIVE amounts of water. As for almonds, I don't know it they can grow elsewhere in the USA, but they are not important! As for livestock - we have plenty of places in the Midwest that can do that especially in the Great Lakes region - where there's actually WATER!

Williams Mark

How are you?

JP Fragoso

For my fellow Europeans, who are wondering the convertion:
1900 gallons is 4100 liters, and 1 pound is around 0.45 kg.

Yep, 450 grams require 4100 liters of water...

Aspie Atheist

3y↑131

I'm glad that someone is pointing out how already rich farms are getting subsidies from the government.

dMoca

@Frasier Crane Again, this doesn't address any of the points of the piece and sounds like you're more interested in ranting than explaining your views. Crop selection is the main issue, not the delivery of agriculture- grade water. The planning of what to grow is then what dictates much of farm subsidies as well as the divergent accompanying water supplies. Restructuring the cash crops forms nearly half of the segment. The second issue, corporations taking advantage of loopholes to resell water--adding insult to injury for residential areas experiencing severe drought--has nothing to do with non-potable anything. It's no different than the jackasses who stated selling toilet paper for $5/per roll during COVID lockdown. As far as your claim of people hoarding water out of fear or anything based on a some type of misinformation campaign, I believe in the fear of the ignorantly self-delusional. It's probably a good idea to assume these knuckle-draggers will store their water right next to their loaded semi-automatic arsenal that rests on top of four thousand rolls of toilet paper. Anyway, you made an interesting point that I regret responding to now. I would suggest you need to stick to the topic at hand and stop leaning so hard on the conspirator concepts. Look at the other comments, everyone seems to be picking up on the main points I laid out.

dMoca

@Frasier Crane Interesting. But "lying" seems overwrought. Does your post redress or drastically change the overall point about crop consumption? I dont think so but that doesnt make you a liar. Nor does your post address the corporate profiteerism at work on the tax-payer dime. Lumping two very valid points made by the show's writers together as lies isnt productive, its actually highly subjective trying to be objective. Again in my opinion, theres a degree of greater accuracy that needs to be attached onto the already strong arguments being made. Case closed.

walker

3y↑2

Republican farmers sure love that socialist government when it fits their needs

John Shafer

3y↑15

Only a small amount of farmers are rich and those small amount of farmers are getting the Lions share of the farm subsidies. Majority of farmers are struggling to survive. I blame the Republicans and their get big or get out mentality.

By the way, I live in western Wisconsin.

Marvin Martion

3y↑19

I live in Wisconsin and farmers here brag about the 250000.00 dollar farm subsidie checks they get! Of course they hate people on welfare!

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BrocLarter

3y↑1

I was waiting to hear about all the water used in animal agriculture, but I guess almonds are an easier target. You can't tell people to stop eating hamburgers without being labeled an extremist.

Stoney Spring

Here is the solution I've been proposing: farmers in the West must be compelled to convert to drip irrigation on their crops. It's insane that farmers are still allowed to take huge water allotments and then use flood and spray irrigation on their crops, even though it's many times less efficient and much of it evaporates in minutes. Crazy. We could phase this reform in over several years and subsidize it using water use fees on urban water users.

Zagg Branagan

Hey Bill, I think you'd love Seattle, or a suburb like Bellevue right up here in Washington State. There's also plenty of media outlets, studios, and production companies. I grew up in the Bay Area (60's-1990), and loved it, but all of California has water, and heat issues now. The Puget Sound is a good choice as the planet cooks a little more every year. We'd love to have you too!

Jannes Friedrichs

3y↑1

100% right on the nuts 😂

Haunted By The Truth

3y↑720

“Corporations selling us the water we own” read that again. America isn’t a country it’s a business and profit is king.

Steven Vanaman

@James Johnson Yep.

Steven Vanaman

@travellight Yep.

Fubar AlAkbar

Snap your fingers and shout "Water!" and see if it appears.
That's right, the water company can't do it either, or we wouldn't have this problem.
Things are not free to you because they are not free to the people you get them from.

iceink

thank conservatives and neolibs

A Kuf

Or maybe just maybe, stop buying bottled water and get yourself a filter for your tap.

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el goog

Always on the fence about this guy, but that was a dam good rant. Some funny content, but his loyalties stop there.

One thing I don't understand is, why don't influential individuals like this, organize and fund the people, to rise up against these corporations?

Oh yeah, Bill needs his pay check. His loyalties seem to bow to the all mightly dollar. And needs to have a corporation fill his ego, with viewers.

Quit bitching bill and put your money where your mouth is. Talk the talk, walk the walk.

S T

Bill Maher’s best real life speech in a while. Water needs Bill Maher.

Jeff Heyer

3y↑218

In my honest opinion his show has taken on a much more important role recently. He’s almost morphed into a edgy version of John Stewart.

Jesse Barnes

@Kelly R.Tourigny well thank God you’re now able to show others on the internet that Christlike moral perfection can be attained by mere mortals on Earth. It’s not narcissistic to recognize that sometimes people without a lot of power actually do kind of have a lot of collective power and wield it in stupid ways. Just because someone is marginalized in some ways doesn’t mean that they’re always right. And it doesn’t require a lack of compassion for them to point that out.

sabbracadabra

Bill Maher has always been the same.

Jennifer Smith

How are you doing Jeff

Shangri-la-la-la

3y↑1

@Riquet Caballero It is when truth is treason.

Ali Nawaz Khan

@Caine Marko I know he is right in Cherry-picked matters and his "ranting" seems righteous. I was just speaking in context of a comparison with Jon Stewart. Who literally remained the "people's voice" for years. Also, when he thought that media was veing corrupted, he left with dignity.

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J n

3y↑48

California has a whole ocean right there, how they haven't made industrial desalinization plants is beyond me. Just saying.

Teten Larios

Because corporations greed. Why you think there's no bullet trains in the US?

Jimmy Crackcorn

The Corporations haven’t figured out how to do it profitably yet. As soon as they figure out how to turn sea water into gold, it will happen.

Randy Trollinger

@poivre22 figure it out

stripedtigress

@SHWN SHTS Well then how do any of that work?

SHWN SHTS

@stripedtigress that's not how any of that works

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Marino Aristy

3y↑20

One of the best new rules in a long time. I felt Bill's raw emotions. We living in strange times.

Marino Aristy

@Toby Thompson agreed.

Marino Aristy

@FrankFit Now a days both sides are massive hypocrites.

FrankFit

Trump talked about the same issues of regulating the dishwashers instead of the corporations, but liberals made fun of him!🙄

Ancient Flames

3y↑1

“I have a few questions: starting with what the fuck.”

Phenomenal line

Mike Castellano

He hit the nail on the head, like about the subsidizing of water, giving it to West VA. Also hit the nail on the head, of the million amount of regulations, we need de-regualation. No more hand outs/subsidiies to corp.

Dean DuPont

3y↑12

I can't lie: when I heard the "Mounds bar with tits" line, I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard.

D MERLS

Thankfully peanuts require a modest amount of water (4.7 gallons per ounce vs 80.4 for almonds). Walnuts are also terrible at 73 gallons/oz. and pistachios so so at 18.8). I am going to stop buying almonds and walnuts but will continue to buy peanuts and pistachios.

Nice to see Maher making a valid point for a change, he's been losing the plot like he's getting kickbacks from right-wing media lately.

Thomas Becker

3y↑48

Best part of his shows, when Bill hits us with "New Rules".
That's when he gets very real and serious.

Kally Parker

3y↑2

A based take from Maher again, finally. Occasionally we see glimpses of the lefty he once was.

Lit life S

3y↑10

Coincidentally watched it while I was eating my almond chocolate

alpho j

One of your best right here. All the flooding in the Gulf Coast, MS, Alabama, and Louisiana, you would think most of the poor black farmers would lobby for growing almonds there.

Mike B.

3y↑1

The reason that 80% of the almonds are grown here is it’s one of the only places in the world they CAN grow. Shelf stable protein is bad? Let’s discuss how we let huge amounts of water into the ocean, when it can be used and diverted elsewhere ? There are a ton of politics around that too Bill. This conversation is much more difficult than a simple rant by a “comedian”. If you 100% believed this rhetoric, there is no hope. Also, if you believe the forests are on fire because of almonds and not lack of proper management, then there is really nothing that can be done.

Sreng Lim

Bill is on points at everything he said, Im dying laughing hard at the sign at Santa Monica street, that shit is so fking annoying, I been there twice and can't find parking whatsoever..ridiculous...so much restriction on every levels...this is no longer free country, the moment we woke up, we start spending every dollars...

Jach

3y↑3

0:22 Okay, somebody has to tell me how that joke got a 7 seconds long applause

FillerUp001

One of the many reasons I love Bill Maher and listening to these rants!

Thomas Yarnes

3y↑108

This little bit of information just blew my mind. Almonds, wtf....

Kolin Boorom

@Jod McJod beef or almonds in and of themselves is not a problem. The problem is we’re doing this in California. A literal desert. You can’t compare Iowa beef with California water because the amount of available water in those two places is completely different. California should not produce beef OR almonds

Isaac Newton

3y↑1

@ryan s I choose almond before beef/milk.

Jod McJod

3y↑2

@Brendan Spanier Well, in your country yes, good point. I just keep forgetting how these products are made in America.

Brendan Spanier

3y↑1

@Jod McJod beef and dairy are important for cancer development yes that’s true

Brendan Spanier

3y↑3

@ryan s you really can live without beef

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vmwindustries

3y↑23

So true, and farmers flood their ditches with water so they can get the same amounts of water the next year. I have a friend that's a farmer in California, and he said all the farms in his neighborhood just flush water out into ditches for this purpose. Absolutely crazy greed, and destroying their own areas for this purpose. As he just said, "WTF!"

Hian Hoo Lim

3y↑1

Farmers flooding ditches or jobless who preferred to stay at home collecting unemployment check aren't greedy greedy per say, they are responding to the incentives offered by government policies. I'm not sure why you and many others are blaming the people, because they are doing what is expected. The actual party that should be blame is policy makers.

Susanne Grabowski

3y↑1

Sign when entering California: "Welcome to the New Dustbowl"

Bond James

Bill is a part of something bigger than him. He delivers unfiltered truth 🙌 and gives God a voice.
We all do...

Curtis Lund

I'm a truck driver that has driven almost every road and highway through California, and the biggest water needing crop I've seen is the rice field which are flooded a foot deep each. California has over 550,000 acres of rice fields, all flooded a foot deep to grow rice. Now c'mon, let's get rid of the rice growers, and almond growers and save our water supplies for us humans!

Mike Hankins

Bill keeps it up,and the will replace him..🤣To be honest I used to think Bill was just an insane leftist.IN the past year it seems he's changed.I still disagree with him alot politically but now at least I can listen to him.Seems he's more into grounded common sense approaches to America's problems.We should work on the small things and abandon these large scale utopian dreams..

Angel Puello

3y↑2

“You made me very happy California but I can live without you” - Facts! And just how everyone is going to feel with this non-sensical state government🤡🤡🤡🤡

John Ames

@azores15 yup 100% guaranteed, so are all the others leaving California

azores15

3y↑1

Here's a fact: Bill Maher is about to move to another state and vote for the same political party that made California so miserable.

Marcia Perone

3y↑27

I love how you analyze these problems. Never hear about any of this in the mainstream media/news. So much ridiculous crap going on that its unbelievable. California dreaming is beginning to sound like a nightmare....

Dion McGee

3y↑1

@Nicholas E Journalism is expensive, and often dangerous. The dearth and likely death of real journalism was predicted back when the Reagan administration did away with the fairness doctrine and media news divisions became suddenly, and regrettably,"for profit".
Seemed like an obvious prediction to make. What other outcome could the change lead to in the end? Just as the Reagan era change in tax policy would inevitably decimate the middle class and lead to grotesque income inequality, making american news "for profit" was never going to "open up new vistas of news gathering" was basically how the repubs sold the change. I knew they were lying back then, just as they're still lying today. The only difference being that some of us remember (or have learned) that most republican promises and predictions are not real and are never going to happen.
That,in essence, explains the american rights predicament with being unable to tell the difference between truth or fiction. All the wonderful things they said the Reagan Revolution would make happen didn't happen. Rather than facing disillusionment, the repub party and constituents, almost as a whole (kind of incredible) pretended they never said such things- forget all the books and news footage- didn't happen. Trump was only keeping a republican tradition alive and well when he did the same thing repeatedly over 4 years+. Hell, he's still doing it- and so are they.

Dion McGee

@Riquet Caballero meh, nice attitude. Relax a little. Reality is far from perfect.

Nicholas E

3y↑1

There's not enough real journalism going on. Everyone just argues the same tired topics, not even providing a new perspective.

Riquet Caballero

@Dion McGee Meh. Prefer Caribbean.

Dion McGee

@Williams Mark Beach living.

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Greg Bester

An interesting take from my part of the world. I live in South Africa. We have had increasingly hot weather for well over 15 years. We have had droughts, major water shortages and restrictions, and blistering heat. Now, with La Nina happening, we have had the coolest and wettest summer in decades. Dams are flowing over up to 110% capacity. People have ample water and crops are thriving. It's crazy. We haven't had a day this summer over 30C and this AFRICA. Climatologists say this might last for a decade or more. We can only hope. The rain is a blessing! Things changed so quickly, the weather is milder and it's absolutely beautiful outside. Our city has never been greener. I love it. I got so tired of being baked to death every day. I hope this lasts for a very long time.