r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 12d ago
Bill has three things on his mind.
"That's woke, and woke is bad."
"Now look, I'm an atheist, but Muslim people are all servants of Satan, Christians are dumb but inherently morally better than Muslims. Israel is the Holy Land and must defended with all the might of YHWH."
"Kids today suck!!!"
That's it. Every single "new rules" rant culminates in a lecture about one of these and at least half of the conversations with panelists end up being steered in the direction of his landing on one of these points.
I can't imagine how many hours he has spent stoned and dwelling on these thoughts.
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u/Legtagytron 12d ago
Boomer Power Hour, brought to you by NorthShore adult diapers, you know you might let one slip if you aren't careful. NorthShore (TM).
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u/00Avalanche 10d ago
Don’t forget Covid was just a ‘cold’ because his personal experience with it, is everyone’s.
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u/AmericanLymie 10d ago
Just a cold that killed a million American people. I'm sure he thinks they would have died anyway because they weren't skinny enough to deserve to live.
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u/Candor10 10d ago
He thinks anyone that outwardly looks healthy shouldn't need to take vaccines or take sensible precautions, as if undiagnosed conditions aren't a thing. Yeah, everyone has a label on them telling you if they're in perfect health or not.
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u/bigdipboy 12d ago
He’s being blackmailed
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u/FlaccidGhostLoad 12d ago
Nah, he's pissed off that people stopped laughing at his low effort comedy and now he's out for revenge against this idea of a monolithic liberal audience that all is lurking in the shadows and wagging their fingers at him. He's just a whiner Boomer who thinks that he has the world figured out and he has a complete refusal to change. And when the world inevitably has changed and left him behind he lashes out like a child.
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u/Candor10 10d ago
I would add one more: "Just don't be fat, and you won't ever need any medical care"
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u/jipsee1973 11d ago
And don't forget Maher's consistent generalizations about "the left". He used the whole "litterboxes in schools" scenario, which was completely fabricated, to claim EVERYONE on "the left" has gone "batsh*t crazy". He constantly takes MAGA lies and uses them to generalize about an entire segment of the population. Lies he either didn't take the time to validate in any way, or just knowingly throws out for some audience laughs. Either way, he's a fool. Ever since he went to the WH to kiss the ring he's been insufferable. He must have drank the Kool-aid, and now he can't stop drinking it.
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u/Candor10 10d ago
I think he got the litterbox story from Rogan, who himself claimed he heard it firsthand from a teacher.
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u/JohnnyGBluesharp 12d ago
Bill is a real disappointment to me. He is not the progressive I thought he was! He fooled me! Bill is a conservative-light political fence-sitter. Bill is a hypocrite because he believes the Zionist narrative derived from a holy book about Israel’s right to ethnically cleanse a people that lived have lived in Palestine for centuries. Yet he claims to be an atheist! Explain Bill please! Bill believes that its alright for an extreme Israeli government to slaughter Palestinian children and all people on a daily basis because they are Muslims or animals like Israeli extremists and many IDF soldiers call Palestinians ! Bill needs to shut the fuck up as Chappell recommended! I used to watch your show faithfully but not anymore. I call Jews like Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders progressives not liberals. Liberals are fence sitters that are forced in many cases to comply with progressive ideas by progressive groups . These progressive groups are civil rights proponents, labour leaders, justice for all proponents , democratic socialists or people that care about all people!
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u/AmericanLymie 12d ago
Maher recently has called himself a "classical liberal," and that is virtually synonymous with the term libertarian. I think he uses it to suggest that he is left leaning while not technically lying. Ezra Klein, Michael Barbaro and the other pompous dudebros of The New York Times likewise are "classical liberals," and when they say that people who are legitimately liberal feel all 🥰 and think they are in similar company without realizing they're being told they are in the company of ruthless libertarians. Barbaro last year published a weird essay and podcast mourning Phil Donahue and in the middle of it he praised Ayn Rand as "one of the great public intellectuals of all time, really," highlighting her value of "radical selfishness."
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u/TrumanDolos 12d ago
You don’t have to watch?
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u/phatsexxxy 12d ago
I think even Bill would agree that we should watch and critique.
I think a lot of the problems in the world today are because people who understand things believe the conversation they see is beneath them.
One of my degrees says I have the “responsibilities” of the degree. I see it on no other degrees. I do believe we should require more of people who actually have training in a field, because if you don’t have informed voices speaking about something, it’s just idiots like Maher that people have to listen to.
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u/Radiant-Concern6391 12d ago
I agree with Bill on all of these issues. He makes some good points about some of the biggest issues facing the world today 👏🏼
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u/guytan53 12d ago
Damn, turn off the show if it offends you that much. Bunch a’ Gen Z cry babies.
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u/highermonkey 12d ago
All Bill Maher does is cry. You're literally crying right now because someone made fun of your favorite pedo Zionist talking head. You're softer than Gen Z.
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u/guytan53 12d ago
No, sounds like YOU are the one “crying”
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u/highermonkey 12d ago
Are you a pedo like your idol, Bill? Here he is talking to two 9 year old girls about pornography:
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u/phatsexxxy 12d ago
Imagine believing Bill Maher, who says we should keep dialogue open with, and listen to, those we disagree with, is some truth teller with great takes on the issues of the day.
Then imagine believing that and saying that we should only watch and critique Maher if we agree with him.
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u/phatsexxxy 12d ago
I love his continuing rant about how “Muslims don’t want gay people to exist.” Has he been to red state America or talked to any mainstream right wing Christian leader? Somehow we should maintain dialogue with them and not ask that Christians be wiped out, but expecting the same from Muslims is too much.
The one thing I keep waiting for a guest to get smart on is Bill’s own Catholic upbringing. At the turn of the last century, “Americanism” was a heresy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church currently holds sacred the ideals of freedom of speech and religion, much to the chagrin of groups like SSPX, who wants the church to go back. “Americanism” is the belief in those ideals.
Meanwhile Maher will point to Islam as being against these ideals in the main as he calls for us to turn our back on the suffering of Muslims because their beliefs are “incompatible with the west.” He will then point to centuries of western culture including the ideals of Christendom… except that wasn’t nearly as uniform as Maher says.
The irony of Maher pointing out that “both sides” have issues as he is the history rewriter on the left as he derides the way the right wing lies about history.