Good one! (And accurate.)
Hunter Thompson said of (I think) Hubert Humphrey that he should be placed in a bottle and set out on the Japanese current.
Maher is much like Trump in that they both are prone to saying ridiculous and stupid things to get attention and own the libs (Maher however is probably not also demented). Aside from being fixated on attention, Maher has a better chance of attracting MAGAite and other right-leaning off-kilter personalities for his show if they know they have a good chance of finding common ground with him.
Wasn’t that what Mary Todd Lincoln said after that unpleasantness at Ford Theater?
So he doesn’t mean it, he’s just doing it to appeal to a MAGA audience.
He’s a Tucker Carlson wannabe.
Applause! 
The perfect riposte.
Nope. As I keep repeating, apparently to no avail, some of the alleged offenses on Maher’s show are molehills that have been built up by his detractors into mountains higher than Everest. When he talks about vaccines – which is very rarely – I just mentally tune him out because he has no credibility on the issue. There’s a great deal of valuable and interesting information on each one of his shows about influential people, their personalities, and how they think. And, his hateful critics notwithstanding, I think a lot of humour, too.
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Different topic. Here’s something about Maher’s infamous dinner with Trump that I had not seen before, and it says a lot about both of them.
I cannot believe how juvenile the Orange Toddler can be. I literally cannot. This is the freaking president of the United States, and he has the mind of a six-year-old. This is part of what this Toddler posted on his site (screen capture from Maher’s show last Friday)
As to claims that Trump and Maher have similar personalities in some way, nope again. This wasn’t something that Maher dwelt on. It was just a very brief picture flashed on the screen for a moment while Maher was talking about something else entirely – the contemptible and dangerous trend of celebrating political violence.
Trump the Orange Toddler was obsessed with putting down Maher. Maher thought it was funny and didn’t give a shit or give it more than a moment’s attention, and focused in that segment on condemning political violence. The kind of violence that the demented Orange Toddler has encouraged and incited many times in many different ways. There’s no equivalence here, not even remotely.
Bill!
I love you so, I always will
And in your voice I hear a choir of carousels
- The Fifth Dimension
It may be to no avail because all of us are wrong–or it may be to no avail because you don’t have credibility on the topic.
Ain’t no molehill high enough
(Ashford & Simpson)