Bill Maher saved the best for Friday night Real TimeOn HBO. After bland discussions on civil liberties, Covid-19 rules, affirmative action, and whether actual partisan combat may be brewing, he turned his guns on an unexpected target – the leftist progressives whose crazy demands have turned real life into comedy gold.
Maher noted a recent statement by a Fox News commentator, who suggested he’s gearing up to run for president, which critics saw as a sign that he’s changed. “I am not,”He was insistent. “I am still the same unmarried, pot-smoking libertine I always was.”A recently-turned 66-year old added, “I have many flaws, but you can’t accuse me of maturing.”
“Let’s get this straight,”Maher said. “It’s not me who’s changed, it’s the left. A large contingent has gone mental, and I’m willing to call them out.”
That willingness to keep it real, Maher said, shouldn’t make him a hero to Republicans, “where simply acknowledging reality is seen as a profile in courage.” While critics say the old Maher didn’t make fun of the left as much, he countered, “Yeah, because they didn’t give me so much to work with. The oath of office I took was to comedy.”
Maher claimed that it wasn’t his fault that FDR and JFK have now moved to LOL and WTF moments. Congresspeople are talking about cancelling rent and mortgages, cancelling Lincoln and Dr. Seuss and making Mr. Potato Head, among other sins, is gender neutral.
“You have to inject yourelf into everything,”Maher lamented about hyper-liberal wake. “This is why so many were triggered by Covid policies. They were already sick of rules.” He claimed that the average voter would agree that banks and chemical plants and drug companies need watching. “But Democrats are becoming a parody of self, making rules to make rules…making sure everything bad never happens again.”He said that you cannot do it. “It just makes everything a drag.”
“Democrats no longer possess the common sense to know that not every problem can be fixed with a regulation,”He stated. “Democrats have to stop thinking that what voters dream about is to be hassled.”
Ira Glasser, a former executive director at the American Civil Liberties Union discussed how it seems like that organization has lost its way.
He was followed closely by the former US National Security Council senior director and author of There is nothing for you here: Finding opportunity in the 20th century Fiona Hill, among others The Reason Roundtable podcast co-host The Fifth Column podcast Matt Welch.
All agreed that the pandemic rules have outlived their usefulness and that NATO had to have been restructured after the collapse of the Soviet Union.