I do recall some conservatives trying to give both companies shit for their DEI programs but it never gained traction.
Maher says “Why should I have to go an entire podcast recording without smoking weed just because my guest has been sober for 16 years?”
What an insufferable, arrogant, inconsiderate ass of a bad host. If you invited him to your house for dinner he’d wear his dirty shoes on your new carpet, tell your wife her cooking sucks, then pass out on the couch after drinking all your beer.
Having spent a fair amount of time around functional addicts, this is the kind of thing that indicates to me that he has a drug problem. Like, if you have a healthy attitude toward your drug use, it’s no problem to refrain for a couple of hours to do your job and accommodate a guest. If you’re prioritizing your drug of choice over your job and other people, you likely have a problem.
Maybe it is prioritizing his job. Maybe Maher knows that he’s only funny or interesting when he’s stoned. Or maybe he isn’t, but thinks he is.
Well…assuming one ascribes to concepts like “bad” or “evil”. 
For the record, I’m not advocating “moral relativism”. But it seems to me that a lot of liberals hold a somewhat absolutist, uncompromising view on their positions. “Woke”, to me, describes a certain extremism, often regarding topics or subjects the woke person may not be completely familiar with. But they don’t care because they feel so strongly the have the moral justification.
Have you actually listened to the current crop of conservatives???
Not really, outside of what my inlaws might watch on FoxNews. But I expect them to sound like dim-witted lunatics.
Let me attempt to enlighten you,
But it seems to me that a lot of conservatives hold a somewhat absolutist, uncompromising view on their positions. “Conservatism”, to me, describes a certain extremism, often regarding topics or subjects the conservative person may not be completely familiar with. But they don’t care because they feel so strongly the have the moral justification.
Wrong, in the real world it is the conservatives of today the ones that don’t care that they where misled about what they imagined what the left was doing. The moral justifications the right uses are what is the problem.
Even conservatives that encounter what was really going on in “woke” schools found that they get to be shunned by the current crop of conservatives,
“Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the ‘progressive’ way of thinking, and yes, they’ve tried to do this in Granbury ISD,” she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. “I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.”
But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”
After Gore reviewed hundreds of pages of the school curriculum, she was shocked that the pervasive indoctrination she had railed against as a candidate did not exist. She has since helped form a group that supports Republican candidates who have been alienated by the local GOP’s far-right faction.
After Gore reviewed hundreds of pages of the school curriculum, she was shocked that the pervasive indoctrination she had railed against as a candidate did not exist. She has since helped form a group that supports Republican candidates who have been alienated by the local GOP’s far-right faction. Credit: Shelby Tauber for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune")
Gore rushed to share the news with the hard-liners who had encouraged her to run for the seat. She expected them to be as relieved and excited as she had been. But she said they were indifferent, even dismissive, because “it didn’t fit the narrative that they were trying to push.”
So, in the spring of 2022, Gore went public with a series of Facebook posts. She told residents that her backers were using divisive rhetoric to manipulate the community’s emotions. They were interested not in improving public education but rather in sowing distrust, Gore said.
“I’m over the political agenda, hypocrisy bs,” Gore wrote. “I took part in it myself. I refuse to participate in it any longer. It’s not serving our party. We have to do better.”
Gore’s open defiance of far-right GOP orthodoxy represents an unusual sign of independence in a state and in a party that experts say increasingly punish those deemed disloyal. It particularly stands out at a time when Republican leaders are publicly attacking elected officials who do not support direct funding to private schools.
Earlier I said that “woke” is the new way for very extreme conservatives to tell businesses and institutions to stop being “Ni**** lovers”. It is sad to see many so called moderates to fall for the dog whistle.
It doesn’t surprise me that Maher defends Harrison Butker’s bigoted comments. He increasingly defends scumbags, since he has a lot in common with them.
Aw, you broke the code!
Maher,
Like he’s saying some of you may go on to successful careers, but a lot of you are excited about this other way that people, everybody used to be and now can. Can’t that just be a choice too?
Butker,
“I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” Butker told the audience. He also described the “promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career” as some of the “most diabolical lies” the women in the audience had been told.
Umm Bill? Sounds like you should be asking Butker why that can’t be a choice too.
Well? Why should he not smoke on his own show just because some uptight soberoid has a problem with other people doing what he obviously can’t? Expecting smokers, drinkers and users to always defer to the righteous abstainers is valuing the abstainers over the indulgent, and enough abstainers tend to be bossy and self-righteous enough on their own without being favored by law and society. I despise Bill Maher but he’s 100% right on that issue.
Brilliant satire.
I hope.
Last night Anderson Cooper had an interview with Bill Maher. For the first time in Many years… for 10 whole minutes Bill Maher almost made sense. Almost.
Also, kudos to Anderson Cooper for saying something in the first 60 seconds that is not immediately obvious: Both “AC360” and “Real Time” have the same parent companies.
First, it was obvious that Anderson had no choice; his arms were being twisted like he was in an Edgar Allen Poe dungeon. They only had to say four words to him to make him do the interview: “Ana Cabrera. Don Lemon.” Anderson Cooper was a consummate professional.
Sure, it was the equivalent of Face The Nation inviting on Stephen Colbert and demanding solutions to Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, Taiwan, Haiti and New Caledonia ( go look it up, Stephen, you ventriloquist dummy suited bastard ). If Buffalo Bob was alive, he’d probably be really pissed about why he and Howdy Doody weren’t invited.
Second, ‘fuck your feelings’? No, Fuck Your Feelings… And Fuck Your Parent Company’s Too…!
I have never heard this term before but I will steal it from now on.
That’s an incredibly fucked up way to describe someone trying to recover from addiction.
It is, as is shaming someone for trying to fight their addiction. And it’s also acting like Bill is going to be sitting in an enclosed bubble. When you’re smoking, so is everyone who is anywhere near you.
It’s not a problem with Bill smoking, it’s a problem with Bill forcing everyone else to smoke.
Burr exposes the core of Maher’s assholery – it’s not having opinions, it’s not even the content of his opinions, it’s his ego. Maher makes it clear he thinks he’s a brave truth-teller, and those who disagree with him secretly must agree because he’s so obviously smart and correct, and they’re just bowing to the powers that be that demand different views because they aren’t as brave as Maher.
If Maher was just another random guy with some idiotic views, he wouldn’t get nearly the criticism. But when you pair those idiotic views with an almost unique level of ego and smugness, you get a special kind of idiocy that gets that special kind of disdain.
Good for Burr. And fuck Maher.
I totally misread that as Bill Barr and was fascinated, picturing the former Trump attorney general ripping into Maher.