Current Events > Wait...did something change with Bill Maher?

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Iamdepressed
10/04/23 6:18:15 AM
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Why is he now interviewing Ron Desantis? Has his views always been right leaning? This is giving me so much cognitive dissonance that my brain is about to implode.

Why Bill? Why????

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NittanyLions23
10/04/23 6:22:01 AM
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It always confused me when people thought Bill Maher was left leaning.

He is a MAGA Republican.

Leading up to the 2020 election he would constantly talk about Trump and how he wasnt going to leave office if he lost the election.

He literally reminded people every single episode and would put montages of himself saying the same thing over and over about how Trump was never going to leave office, as if he was going to say I told ya so when it happened.

spoiler alert: it didnt happen.

Bill Mahers net worth is $140 million with an annual salary of $10 million.

He is the type of person that wants low taxes for the ultra rich.
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Charismic_Zach_Gowen
10/04/23 6:27:14 AM
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He's never had any morals or ideals beyond propping up his ego. 2016 was when the noticeable cracks began forming when he started blaming Trump's win on liberals not just rolling over and allowing conservatives to persecute gays and transgender, and stood up for women and minority rights. A bunch of liberals turned him off after that, but the real damage was COVID restrictions minorly impacting him which caused a full flip, hence him praising DeSantis on the issue as if Florida didn't have the highest per capita deaths

It also doesn't help that liberals don't tend to idolize their media figures like conservatives do. It's very similar to the transformation Musk had when Democrats started realizing how shitty his practices were, so he started going alt right because those types would worship him

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Iamdepressed
10/04/23 6:30:54 AM
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NittanyLions23 posted...
It always confused me when people thought Bill Maher was left leaning.

He is a MAGA Republican.

Leading up to the 2020 election he would constantly talk about Trump and how he wasnt going to leave office if he lost the election.

He literally reminded people every single episode and would put montages of himself saying the same thing over and over about how Trump was never going to leave office, as if he was going to say I told ya so when it happened.

spoiler alert: it didnt happen.

Bill Mahers net worth is $140 million with an annual salary of $10 million.

He is the type of person that wants low taxes for the ultra rich.
I always thought his agenda sort of changed to more liberal during 2021 and 2022, as he appeared to be more sentimental of the plights that the left were suffering from. It's too bad the John Oliver show is only 30 minutes long. I guess I only have half an hour to look forward to every week.
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UnfairRepresent
10/04/23 6:35:06 AM
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Maher was never "liberal"

He was always a pro wealthy contrarian

He was against religion and pro gay rights and drugs because "You're not supposed to be"

Now those views are mainstream it changed to being anti "Woke" and "SJWs go too far" while defending MAGA

He's also anti vax for the same reason

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TonyKojima
10/04/23 6:37:47 AM
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He fawned over Elon Musk during that interview and it was disgusting.

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brestugo
10/04/23 6:52:18 AM
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No.

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Jiek_Fafn
10/04/23 7:15:19 AM
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He has at best had some libertarian leanings

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NatsuSama
10/04/23 7:58:24 AM
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NittanyLions23 posted...
He is a MAGA Republican.
He isn't a MAGA republican.

He's anti wokeness anti progressive type. Whatever subsection of voters that falls under.

But we totally agree hes no ally, and has gone off the deep end. Recent years he's dug into woke hysteria, anti vax rhetoric, and both Republicans and Democrats equally bad, nonesense.

My point is there is a distinction between MAGA types and types who make false equivocations that both Democrats and Republicans are the same.

Because love them or hate them, we have a population of voters who legitimately are brainwashed into thinking things like CRT in schools is a thing (when it's not), vaccinations are bad (when they arent) and so much more. People who legitimately think "both sides" are actively trying to harm them.

Like I'm sure there's other users on this board with loved ones and friends who hate Trump, but ignorantly repeat dumb shit they heard about Democrats that they heard/read on YouTube /TikTok /Twitter/etc so "so Democrats are no better" logic.

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Intro2Logic
10/04/23 8:00:11 AM
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Maher is a liberal. His politics are nigh indistinguishable from Obama's. You just wish that term meant something good.

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variasuite
10/04/23 8:32:42 AM
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Bill Maher in 2000 during the "Be More Cynical" show:

"I'm a Libertarian."

People in 2023 when Bill Maher acts like a Libertarian:

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UnfairRepresent
10/04/23 8:35:16 AM
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Intro2Logic posted...
His politics are very similar to Obama's
Ah, that well known liberal

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KiwiTerraRizing
10/04/23 8:35:38 AM
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Maher suffers from the same delusion all rich comedians have is they think comedy is the last bastion of truth and philosophy and thus they should be able to say anything without consequences.

I think when he said the n word on his show and people dared to criticize him thats when he flipped.

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Intro2Logic
10/04/23 8:48:06 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Ah, that well known liberal
Yes.

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