Bill Maher attacked Biden

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Bill Mahr used to be great but now he’s clearly got dementia. He’s irrelevant now.

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Anonymous wrote:He is an AHole. Who cares what he things about anything?

Millions watch him.

So? There are millions of AHoles in the US.

[Anonymous]

It's pretty sad people think Bill Maher is libertarian or right-wing because he has guests from the right and makes fun of progressive lunacy. Uh, he spends most of his political talks going over Democrat strategy and beating Trump. He only really brings out his arrogance and smarm when his right-wing guests try to go into MAGA and Fox mode. I have a feeling a lot of you are commenting on his show after watching TikTok "commentary"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sad people think Bill Maher is libertarian or right-wing because he has guests from the right and makes fun of progressive lunacy. Uh, he spends most of his political talks going over Democrat strategy and beating Trump. He only really brings out his arrogance and smarm when his right-wing guests try to go into MAGA and Fox mode. I have a feeling a lot of you are commenting on his show after watching TikTok "commentary"

Maher has ALWAYS been a RWNJ. He defended Bush constantly. He was always sucking up to other better-known rightwing pundits like Hannity and Limbaugh. And now he’s carrying trump’s water. He’s a dutiful servant of the fascists. Always has been.

[Anonymous]

Pot and old age. Sad combination. Does a number on cognitive ability and humor.

[Anonymous]

Does he wear an ear piece?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats, your time is coming to an end. You hqad better wake up.


Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Michael Barone, March 8, 2024

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.

With Nikki Haley’s withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or caucuses—the earliest both parties’ races have been over since something like the current primary-dominated system was put in place in 1972.

The primary results have spotlighted some of both nominees’ weaknesses.

Donald Trump lost high-income, high-educated constituencies, including the entire metro area—aka the Swamp. Many but by no means all Haley votes there were cast by Biden Democrats. Mr. Trump can’t afford to lose too many of the others in target states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Majorities and large minorities of voters in overwhelmingly Latino counties in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and some in Houston voted against Joe Biden, and even more against Senate nominee Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas).

Returns from Hispanic precincts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts show the same thing. Mr. Biden can’t afford to lose too many Latino votes in target states like Arizona and Georgia.

When Mr. Trump rode down that escalator in 2015, commentators assumed he’d repel Latinos. Instead, Latino voters nationally, and especially the closest eyewitnesses of Biden’s open-border policy, have been trending heavily Republican.

High-income liberal Democrats may sport lawn signs proclaiming, “In this house, we believe ... no human is illegal.” The logical consequence of that belief is an open border. But modest-income folks in border counties know that flows of illegal immigrants result in disorder, disease, and crime.

There is plenty of impatience with increased disorder in election returns below the presidential level. Consider Los Angeles County, America’s largest county, with nearly 10 million people, more people than 40 of the 50 states. It voted 71 percent for Mr. Biden in 2020.

Current returns show county District Attorney George Gascon winning only 21 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan primary. He’ll apparently face Republican Nathan Hochman, a critic of his liberal policies, in November.

Gascon, elected after the May 2020 death of counterfeit-passing suspect George Floyd in Minneapolis, is one of many county prosecutors supported by billionaire George Soros. His policies include not charging juveniles as adults, not seeking higher penalties for gang membership or use of firearms, and bringing fewer misdemeanor cases.

The predictable result has been increased car thefts, burglaries, and personal robberies. Some 120 assistant district attorneys have left the office, and there’s a backlog of 10,000 unprosecuted cases.

More than a dozen other Soros-backed and similarly liberal prosecutors have faced strong opposition or have left office.

St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigned last May amid lawsuits seeking her removal, Milwaukee’s John Chisholm retired in January, and Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby was defeated in July 2022 and convicted of perjury in September 2023. Last November, Loudoun County, Virginia, voters (62 percent Biden) ousted liberal Buta Biberaj, who declined to prosecute a transgender student for assault, and in June 2022 voters in San Francisco (85 percent Biden) recalled famed radical Chesa Boudin.

Similarly, this Tuesday, voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures strengthening police powers and requiring treatment of drug-addicted welfare recipients.

In retrospect, it appears the Floyd video, appearing after three months of COVID-19 confinement, sparked a frenzied, even crazed reaction, especially among the highly educated and articulate. One fatal incident was seen as proof that America’s “systemic racism” was worse than ever and that police forces should be defunded and perhaps abolished.

2020 was “the year America went crazy,” I wrote in January 2021, a year in which police funding was actually cut by Democrats in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver. A year in which young New York Times (NYT) staffers claimed they were endangered by the publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) opinion article advocating calling in military forces if necessary to stop rioting, as had been done in Detroit in 1967 and Los Angeles in 1992. A craven NYT publisher even fired the editorial page editor for running the article.

Evidence of visible and tangible discontent with increasing violence and its consequences—barren and locked shelves in Manhattan chain drugstores, skyrocketing carjackings in Washington, D.C.—is as unmistakable in polls and election results as it is in daily life in large metropolitan areas. Maybe 2024 will turn out to be the year even liberal America stopped acting crazy.

Chaos and disorder work against incumbents, as they did in 1968 when Democrats saw their party’s popular vote fall from 61 percent to 43 percent.

Cotton's op Ed was treated like a Nazi call to arms. Now NYC is doing what he suggested. The tides have turned and Biden needs to come back to the center if he wants to win. He campaigned as a moderate and has governed as a progressive.

[Anonymous]

Biden is not coming back to the center.

He's not steering. He's stepping on the gas.

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The walls are closing in on bumbling stumbling Dementia Joe. The people are realizing he’s out of touch and out of his mind.

The alternative is Harris, she’s one heartbeat away from the presidency and it’s a scary thought. Really scary.

We can’t have another four years of a president that isn’t mentally competent enough to even be charged or indicted (that’s according to the Biden DOJ).

So you're voting for Trump?

We’re all voting for Trump. Sorry, it’s what we’re working with here.

??? I know of no one with at least average intelligence voting for Trump or Biden. Don't be ridiculous. The POTUS position is a very important and demanding job. Voting for one of these two in 2024 to serve through 2029 would be an insult to all past presidents.

Of the people you know, they are either not voting or voting for someone else, or below average intelligence. Given about half the country is voting, and maybe 10% of that half is not voting Trump or Biden, this means you know mostly below average intelligence. More likely you just consider someone to be dumb if they are voting for one of these candidates even though they are smarter than you.

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Really? How dramatic. You know of no one voting for either one? Sorry, that’s not how this works. One of them will win, one will lose. No matter how many histrionics you throw it is a fact. Sorry to past presidents and you but prepare yourself for the inevitable.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sad people think Bill Maher is libertarian or right-wing because he has guests from the right and makes fun of progressive lunacy. Uh, he spends most of his political talks going over Democrat strategy and beating Trump. He only really brings out his arrogance and smarm when his right-wing guests try to go into MAGA and Fox mode. I have a feeling a lot of you are commenting on his show after watching TikTok "commentary"

Maher has ALWAYS been a RWNJ. He defended Bush constantly. He was always sucking up to other better-known rightwing pundits like Hannity and Limbaugh. And now he’s carrying trump’s water. He’s a dutiful servant of the fascists. Always has been.

MTG is a RWNJ. Bill Maher is a comedic genius. He may not be as funny as he once was but he still speaks to what a majority of Americans are thinking in a satirical way. His honesty and lack of bias does undoubtedly offend some of you RWNJs or LWNJs but us normal people like him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sad people think Bill Maher is libertarian or right-wing because he has guests from the right and makes fun of progressive lunacy. Uh, he spends most of his political talks going over Democrat strategy and beating Trump. He only really brings out his arrogance and smarm when his right-wing guests try to go into MAGA and Fox mode. I have a feeling a lot of you are commenting on his show after watching TikTok "commentary"

Maher has ALWAYS been a RWNJ. He defended Bush constantly. He was always sucking up to other better-known rightwing pundits like Hannity and Limbaugh. And now he’s carrying trump’s water. He’s a dutiful servant of the fascists. Always has been.

Nice.

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Anonymous wrote:On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while he thinks President Joe Biden “did well” in his State of the Union, he should stay in his basement like he did in 2020 because whenever he does interviews and press conferences, he messes up and looks like a “zombie” and the State of the Union was good because it was on a teleprompter and Biden only had to go off script every so often.

Maher said, “I think the strategy that Joe Biden should employ if he wants to win this election is just to come out every once in a while. I’ve been — when I first said he is going to be Ruth Bader Biden — and I still think that may be the possibility, I still think we still would do better with a younger candidate, but okay, maybe not, we’ll see. He did well last night. But everybody said, and I said, well, he can — I don’t think he’s doing a bad job as President, he can do the job, I don’t think he can win the job, because it’s a grueling thing to run for President. And everyone said, yeah, well, he can’t do what he did last time because there was a pandemic, stay in his basement. Yes he can. No one gives a shit about that, … the chattering classes will talk about it, and the public will [say,] what do I care, I don’t want to watch this all the time anyway, I don’t need to see him every day, he doesn’t need to go around the country. Stay where you are, every once in a while, make a speech like this. Trump proved in 2016 — he saved all his money and put one big ad at the end and people liked it better, they weren’t sick of him.”

With friends like this- who needs enemies?

Once again, Bill Maher is absolutely correct. Biden did well at the SOTU - because he stuck to the teleprompter for the most part. In a debate, he would be an absolute mess. We all know this.

You’re just grasping at straws because the SOTU didn’t go the way you hoped.

"The way I'd hoped"? Wow, you sure do generalize about anonymous posters you don't even know. I didn't "hope" he'd flail or bomb his speech, but like anyone who's been paying attention, the bar was very, very low. Again - he did well because he read off the teleprompters almost exclusively. Anytime he tried to ad lib, it was clear he was starting to fumble. If you can't admit that, then you're simply a partisan hack.

DP... Oh puh-leeeze honey. He didn't merely "read off of teleprompters" - someone suffering from dementia wouldn't even be able to do that. Biden went WELL BEYOND that. He confronted his worst opponents like MTG face to face and smacked them down. He called out hecklers in realtime. Face it, for the last 3 years you have been peddling this crap "dementia Joe" line but what you got was Dark Brandon. And if you can't face up to that reality YOU are the partisan hack.

Nowhere in my post did I use the word “dementia” - tellingly, only YOU did. I used the word “fumble,” which is absolutely an accurate description of Biden’s general demeanor and speaking style, as is “gaffe-prone.” Again, the only reason he didn’t fumble (much) is because he had been strictly instructed not to deviate from the teleprompter. And “Dark Brandon”? I’m truly embarrassed for you.

We’ll see if he is unwise enough to freely debate Trump, with no safety rails like teleprompters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty sad people think Bill Maher is libertarian or right-wing because he has guests from the right and makes fun of progressive lunacy. Uh, he spends most of his political talks going over Democrat strategy and beating Trump. He only really brings out his arrogance and smarm when his right-wing guests try to go into MAGA and Fox mode. I have a feeling a lot of you are commenting on his show after watching TikTok "commentary"

Maher has ALWAYS been a RWNJ. He defended Bush constantly. He was always sucking up to other better-known rightwing pundits like Hannity and Limbaugh. And now he’s carrying trump’s water. He’s a dutiful servant of the fascists. Always has been.

MTG is a RWNJ. Bill Maher is a comedic genius. He may not be as funny as he once was but he still speaks to what a majority of Americans are thinking in a satirical way. His honesty and lack of bias does undoubtedly offend some of you RWNJs or LWNJs but us normal people like him.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Democrats, your time is coming to an end. You hqad better wake up.


Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder?

Michael Barone, March 8, 2024

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.

With Nikki Haley’s withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or caucuses—the earliest both parties’ races have been over since something like the current primary-dominated system was put in place in 1972.

The primary results have spotlighted some of both nominees’ weaknesses.

Donald Trump lost high-income, high-educated constituencies, including the entire metro area—aka the Swamp. Many but by no means all Haley votes there were cast by Biden Democrats. Mr. Trump can’t afford to lose too many of the others in target states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Majorities and large minorities of voters in overwhelmingly Latino counties in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley and some in Houston voted against Joe Biden, and even more against Senate nominee Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas).

Returns from Hispanic precincts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts show the same thing. Mr. Biden can’t afford to lose too many Latino votes in target states like Arizona and Georgia.

When Mr. Trump rode down that escalator in 2015, commentators assumed he’d repel Latinos. Instead, Latino voters nationally, and especially the closest eyewitnesses of Biden’s open-border policy, have been trending heavily Republican.

High-income liberal Democrats may sport lawn signs proclaiming, “In this house, we believe ... no human is illegal.” The logical consequence of that belief is an open border. But modest-income folks in border counties know that flows of illegal immigrants result in disorder, disease, and crime.

There is plenty of impatience with increased disorder in election returns below the presidential level. Consider Los Angeles County, America’s largest county, with nearly 10 million people, more people than 40 of the 50 states. It voted 71 percent for Mr. Biden in 2020.

Current returns show county District Attorney George Gascon winning only 21 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan primary. He’ll apparently face Republican Nathan Hochman, a critic of his liberal policies, in November.

Gascon, elected after the May 2020 death of counterfeit-passing suspect George Floyd in Minneapolis, is one of many county prosecutors supported by billionaire George Soros. His policies include not charging juveniles as adults, not seeking higher penalties for gang membership or use of firearms, and bringing fewer misdemeanor cases.

The predictable result has been increased car thefts, burglaries, and personal robberies. Some 120 assistant district attorneys have left the office, and there’s a backlog of 10,000 unprosecuted cases.

More than a dozen other Soros-backed and similarly liberal prosecutors have faced strong opposition or have left office.

St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner resigned last May amid lawsuits seeking her removal, Milwaukee’s John Chisholm retired in January, and Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby was defeated in July 2022 and convicted of perjury in September 2023. Last November, Loudoun County, Virginia, voters (62 percent Biden) ousted liberal Buta Biberaj, who declined to prosecute a transgender student for assault, and in June 2022 voters in San Francisco (85 percent Biden) recalled famed radical Chesa Boudin.

Similarly, this Tuesday, voters in San Francisco passed ballot measures strengthening police powers and requiring treatment of drug-addicted welfare recipients.

In retrospect, it appears the Floyd video, appearing after three months of COVID-19 confinement, sparked a frenzied, even crazed reaction, especially among the highly educated and articulate. One fatal incident was seen as proof that America’s “systemic racism” was worse than ever and that police forces should be defunded and perhaps abolished.

2020 was “the year America went crazy,” I wrote in January 2021, a year in which police funding was actually cut by Democrats in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver. A year in which young New York Times (NYT) staffers claimed they were endangered by the publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) opinion article advocating calling in military forces if necessary to stop rioting, as had been done in Detroit in 1967 and Los Angeles in 1992. A craven NYT publisher even fired the editorial page editor for running the article.

Evidence of visible and tangible discontent with increasing violence and its consequences—barren and locked shelves in Manhattan chain drugstores, skyrocketing carjackings in Washington, D.C.—is as unmistakable in polls and election results as it is in daily life in large metropolitan areas. Maybe 2024 will turn out to be the year even liberal America stopped acting crazy.

Chaos and disorder work against incumbents, as they did in 1968 when Democrats saw their party’s popular vote fall from 61 percent to 43 percent.

Cotton's op Ed was treated like a Nazi call to arms. Now NYC is doing what he suggested. The tides have turned and Biden needs to come back to the center if he wants to win. He campaigned as a moderate and has governed as a progressive.

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Barone is correct that 2020 is clearly when America went crazy - this is absolutely evident on the left. I can only hope he is also correct that 2024 will bring a return to normalcy.