Anonymous wrote:I haven’t watched his show in years and I watched every week for probably a decade. He’s one of the people that Covid broke - he couldn’t handle doing his show from home and not having an audience, and that really turned him around politically IMO.

The canned laughter in his monologue highlights his narcissism, or he wa doing a deep satire that most people missed.

I haven’t watched his show in years and I watched every week for probably a decade. He’s one of the people that Covid broke - he couldn’t handle doing his show from home and not having an audience, and that really turned him around politically IMO.

I think there is a simple explanation for Trump being nice at dinner. He has no real backbone. He needs to feed off other people, and then because he's actually spineless he has zero judgment--zero moral compass. This is the classic setup you see in TV involving kids--the horrible bully when he's cornered and undefended turns into a sniveling baby. The dog who snarls and lunges at the end of a leash held by his owner, but if the dog is alone confronted by another dog is belly to the ground and pees on the sidewalk. I wouldn't call it self -awareness. I think it's more that he depends completely on the cues around him. In a simple, private social situation he's pretty much helpless. Maher could probably easily have goaded him into being the pussy-grabber or any of his other evil personas but it takes the cues and prompts.

For example, if he had a principled opinion that the Iran deal should have never gone down, he would have been able to stand up for his own decisions about that.

Which is also why when talking about Reagan the only thing he could come up with was the guy's hair, he can't see beyond superficialities.

Anonymous wrote:What does glazing mean

Obsequious/flattering. Sorry, that was my teenage son’s lingo being used

What does glazing mean

More sketchy and guarantee that Trump has dirt on him. He has a proclivity for prostitutes. It’s been well well known. Would not surprise me at all if he’s wrapped up in Epstein stuff.

Anonymous wrote:I tried watching last week’s episode, I skipped the Bannon part, but turned it off when Maher got snippy and defensive to the guest who tried calling him out on his BS about the White House visit.
Not watching any more of him

He was so rude to the guest who was totally right.

I tried watching last week’s episode, I skipped the Bannon part, but turned it off when Maher got snippy and defensive to the guest who tried calling him out on his BS about the White House visit.
Not watching any more of him

Can’t stand him. Don’t care at all about his political blathering. He’s a lip smacking, limp d|ck pothead.

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Anonymous wrote:Maher is a has-been. Not sure who pays attention to him at this point

He's 70 years old. I used to like him, but now I really question the drugs he's taking.

He seems older than 70

Anonymous wrote:NP. It’s always something to watch the DCUM sealed bubble in action.

- Democrat who was begging folks here to see that Biden/Harris were going to lose months before the debate.

I don’t think there’s a nuanced perspective anywhere in this bubble. People can (and should) have evolving opinions, be able to accept when wrong, shift, whatever!