Looking for episodes where the guest needles and pokes fun at Bill.

He might've said it on his last show but haven't seen it

I kinda wanna see Jeb Bush go on club random lol

I think this might answer why there is so much hate in the sub. If you take religious extremism Bill's standards has always been the majority should hold a moral responsibility to condemn the extremist and their silence should be treated as endorsement of their actions. Does it feel like that standard was applied here?

Edit: Bill spends so much time taking about the woke mind virus and his dislike of religious extremism meanwhile an unironic Christo-Fascist is rallying young men to act the fool and we have literally clashes in the streets in cities like Boston and there is a tepid response at best. If you think the no name blue hair activist are a bigger issue we are definitely in decline as a nation.

Granted better than Nye "the science guy" barely. However there's so many actual geniuses to choose from that have lived real, interesting lives. Like say Dolph Lundgren. There's tons more but not writing an essay. Yet

I'm sorry if this upsets anyone, and maybe this will get downvoted, but enough is enough. There's no clear understanding of why we lost. How did we let an aging Biden stay on the ticket until everything fell apart? Kamala hasn’t managed to distance herself from him, and people like Donnaare now trying to "own it"? Really? Democrats like her have done significant damage to this country. The Supreme Court is red. The House is red. And now, Trump is back. It may not be the apocalypse, but it’s going to be bad.

What we should have been doing is taking a page from the opposition's playbook and fighting as hard for power as they do. You can't accomplish anything if you're not the ones running the show.

And now some are worried that Bill is becoming a darling of the right? Seriously? We've taken hit after hit—when are we going to learn?

Which is it Bill?

He's so self-righteous, he called for Biden's ouster, he worshipped his own opinion about Harris winning before she lost, he then tells liberals to look in the mirror.... helloooooo.....!?

Also, granted I think obesity is a health issue, he hates fat people and yet calls out "ageism" - this is narcissism and self interested because he's getting older himself.

Don't get me wrong, I've watched so many of his episodes and even paid $200+ to watch him in person like 3rd row from stage, but here's the thing: he can't look at himself in the mirror and recognize his own shortcomings.

Liberals are in a bubble blinded by pride and status that comes more often with education. Another hypocrisy of Bill is anytime he talks down about Liberal Universities as if he didn't go to Cornell. This is the year I see Bill and Democrat's snobbery as what it is: exclusionary, pompous, self-interested, out of touch, disloyal, hypocritical, and ultimately destructive as hell because it thinks it's the opposite of all of this.

The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and will use wealth, power and fame to do it. Modest, family oriented rural people who voted for Trump have done so because of devilish pontificating from smug immoral elitist out of touch democrats. Pretty simple.

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There was a clip on Bill Maher where he was talking about a friend that saw a mom dealing with her kid in a parking lot and his friend used that to explain why he couldn't vote for democrats.

Copied from a Facebook post.

In 2008 President Obama got 9.5 million more votes than John McCain — it was the largest landslide victory since Reagan’s win over Walter Mondale in 1984. President Obama was so strong that he ushered in a whopping 257 House seats for Democrats, compared to a paltry 178 for Republicans — a 79-seat majority! And in the Senate, President Obama’s coattails were so long, 60 Democrats rolled into the upper chamber — neither party had seen 60 seats since Democrats controlled 61 during Carter’s presidency from 1977 to 1981.

Remember how Republicans humbly decided to respect President Obama for his enormous across-the-board victory? Remember how Republicans felt chastened because they had obviously been supporting policies that were out of touch with the majority of the American public? Remember Republicans entering a period of soul-searching and hand-wringing, rethinking their positions and revamping their message?

Remember Republicans soberly saying, “the people have spoken; it’s time to let the Democrats run things for a while because obviously the American people prefer the policies President Obama ran on, like tax subsidies for health insurance”?

Remember all the Fox News morning hosts shuttling up to Chicago’s South Side to kiss President Obama’s ring and make nice with him before he was sworn in? Yeah, I don’t remember any of that, either.

Because none of it ever happened.

President Obama’s seismic victory over Republicans, and the American public’s total repudiation of Republican policies, were totally dismissed by Republicans.

They were not chastened; they were not humbled; they did not feel reproved or rebuked. They did not worry if they had been out of touch or if their messaging needed to change. No… they were livid; they were seething mad. In fact, President Obama’s unparalleled success upset them so much that they became permanently enraged — they are STILL mad about it, even today.

On the night of his inauguration when President Obama and Michelle were still dancing to Beyoncé crooning “At Last” at the Inaugural Ball, Republican leaders gathered at The Caucus Room Brasserie in downtown DC to plot a strategy of bringing government to a standstill by opposing President Obama on everything he tried to do, even if they agreed with what he was doing.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that his number one legislative priority over the next four years was to make sure President Obama would only serve one term.

Bitter evangelicals spent every waking minute demonizing President Obama, calling him a terrorist and the Antichrist.

Mad-as-hell Republicans formed the Tea Party to stand in open defiance of everything President Obama tried to accomplish. The Tea Party later evolved into the MAGA movement, trademarked by the same level of out-of-mind anger and fury.

Republicans, who had caused the Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash of 2008, tried to blame President Obama — who didn’t take office until 2009 — for the economy they themselves had wrecked.

The Republican minority in the Senate used the filibuster to sabotage President Obama’s every effort to fix the economy they had broken.

And now the same Republicans who refused to acknowledge President Obama’s 2008 earth-shattering victory as a mandate, are claiming a “mandate” for Trump when he barely won by the skin of his teeth. Two weeks ago, Trump won Wisconsin by 29,500 votes, Michigan by 79,500, and Pennsylvania by 122,500 votes, giving him the electoral college win by only 231,500 popular votes spread across three states.

Not only did Trump barely win the electoral college, he only won the national popular vote by 2.6 million, one of the lowest margins of victory in history. By comparison, Biden beat Trump in 2020 by 7 million votes.

Trump’s victory two weeks ago was so weak that he only ushered in 218 Republican seats in the House, the very minimum number needed to control the House. (The count currently stands at 218 Republican seats to 212 Democratic seats with five seats yet to be determined.)

And Trump’s lackluster coattails only brought in 52 Senate seats.

Yet, Republicans are trying to claim Trump’s very weak win is a mandate to govern, even though they never recognized President Obama’s much greater victory as a mandate.

Let’s compare the numbers, side by side: Trump won the electoral college two weeks ago by a vote of 312 to 225. In 2008, President Obama won the electoral college by a vote of 365 to 173. Trump won the electoral college by getting only 231,500 more popular votes than Harris in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. In 2008, President Obama got 1.8 million more popular votes than McCain in those same three states.

Trump won the national popular vote by getting 2.6 million more votes than Harris got. In 2008, President Obama won the national popular vote by getting 9.5 million more votes than McCain got. Trump’s party just took control of the House by a margin of 218 Republican seats to 212 Democratic seats, a 6-seat majority. In 2008, President Obama’s party took control of the House by a margin of 257 Democratic seats to 178 Republican seats, a 79-seat majority.

Trump’s party just took control of the Senate with 52 Republican seats to 48 Democratic seats. In 2008, President Obama’s party took control of the Senate, with 60 Democratic seats to 40 Republican seats.

Republicans and the complicit media are now pushing the false narrative that we just saw a huge rightward shift in the country — even some demoralized Democrats have fallen for it.

A lot of Democrats have taken the bait and turned on each other in a circular firing squad. Some are ridiculously claiming that Democrats abandoned the white working class.

The truth is, Democrats created more jobs for the working class than Republicans ever did; Democrats gave child tax credits to the working class, tried to raise their minimum wage, pushed for worker rights in collective bargaining, walked the picket lines with them, created a way for the working class uninsured to buy health insurance using their tax dollars — what can we do for the white working class that we haven’t already done, short of demoting and firing black workers and female workers? Some claim Vice-President Harris didn’t inspire enough votes.

Remember when President Obama pulled off one of the greatest landslides in history by getting 9.5 million more votes than McCain in 2008?

Do you know the total number of votes President Obama got, to achieve that monumental win? It was 69 million.

Vice-President Harris just got 74 million.

She bested that huge turnout for President Obama in 2008 by 5 million votes. Sure, she came up short compared to Biden’s 81 million — but the comparison isn’t fair… 2020 was unique due to the pandemic and consequent ease of voting from home.

The last time Democrats were this demoralized was in 2004 when Bush, Jr. was re-elected a year after he had started the Iraq War.

With the evangelicals fully in the fold, Bush began courting Latinos, thinking their Catholic background would make them reliable Republican voters due to abortion. Many said Republicans would be in charge of the country for the next 100 years. There was even talk of the Republicans having a “permanent majority.” Republicans had a 30-seat majority in the House and Bush’s approval rating was through the roof.

But something started happening. People who had been misinformed about the war finally started seeing the truth.

And in 2006, a MERE TWO YEARS after Republicans were said to have a permanent majority, Democrats flipped 31 seats, gaining control of the House and installing Speaker Pelosi. Two years later, Democrats increased their margin in the House to 79 seats and President Obama achieved a landslide victory for Democrats.

Bush who had the highest approval rating in history (90% following 9/11 in 2001), left office in 2009 with the lowest approval rating in history: 22%

This election doesn’t call for soul-searching and re-vamping and re-tooling and all the other drastic things some Democrats seem to think we have to do. It doesn’t call for abandoning our principles or being subservient to billionaires or kissing the ring of fascists.

Casey Means is under consideration for Surgeon General or HHS Assistant Secretary in the Trump administration.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/19/trump-transition-health-finalists-00190365

Wanted to do something fun since we all can get a little on edge in this sub sometimes.

"Real Time with Bill Maher" appears in "Iron Man 3" where Bill mocks the creation of Iron Patriot in the New Rules segment.

This means that Real Time is canon in the MCU. I thought it would be fun to imagine what that would look like if he did full episodes within the MCU

"New Rule, perhaps we shouldn't let the private sector take charge of our national security. Last week Tony Stark introduced Ultron, a sentient AI that was meant to protect the world but instead attempted to destroy humanity.

Tony Stark, have you ever seen 'I-Robot'. I know that you said you wanted to put a suit of armor around the world but perhaps you should continue wearing your suit and not rely on AI.

If there is one group that hates AI it's the Sokovians. You could ask them but, oh wait, no your can't"

Before the pasteurization of milk raw milk was the primary cause of food borne illnesses.

I worked in my state legislature in the 2010s and happened to be a peer of a rancher who was following a bill attempting to make it legal to sell raw milk in stores. Initially he supported the bill but after all the testimony and information he and the entire Texas GOP opposed the bill and it failed. In my 9 years in the Texas Legislature it’s the only bill I ever saw start with majority Republican support that was subsequently killed by the Republicans by the end of the session.

People do not understand how dangerous raw milk can be. Is it healthy? Yeah, of course. Does the pasteurization kill off good sources of nutrients and bacteria? Of course. But the reason milk of all things has been chosen for pasteurization is because of the history raw milk has with risk to the population. When pasteurization was introduced it cut infant mortality rates in half.

Even today with the population that drinks raw milk theyre over 830 times more likely to be hospitalized for food borne illness.

It’s really sad to see so many people falling for this nonsense. Especially Maher who constantly says we have to trust the science. It’s easy to look up figures on the safety of raw milk. There are other ways to introduce good bacteria and get nutrients than through a source that can dead ass give you tuberculosis.

A few that come to me:

• Chris Hitchens giving the audience the finger

• Opening segment (remember that used to exist?) called Unlearning. "If we came from Monkeys, why are there still monkeys?"

• Bill jumping into the crowd to throw out 9/11 protesters

• Paul Begala dunking on Meghan McCain

Far Right: “Elections are rigged. Politicians should be jailed. Pregnant women should be tracked. Show papers or you get deported. Trans people should not be teachers. Let’s put the Bible in every classroom”

Bill: “I don’t like these ideas but these people are valid and we can’t call them stupid. Unfortunately you can’t hate half the country. Democrats needs to listen to them and shouldn’t judge”

Far Left: “Israel is destroying Palestine. Prisons should be shut down. The police need to be defunded. Guns should be banned. Abortions need to be unrestricted. Latinx is a proper term”

Bill: “You guys are acting crazy. You are stupid and you need to go away. All Democrats need to disavow them. And staying silent isn’t good enough. They need a Sister Soulja moment. My blood pressure is rising from talking about you”