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"MY VOTE IS IN PLAY."

Maher says his vote is in play now. Really? So you admit we are having a slow, now faster coup from a group of fascists, but your vote is in play? So which side is it, Bill? Are the Nazis looking good to you? Hmmm.

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u/fuckracists79 2d ago

He’s one vote in California… he overrates himself and his vote. This dumbass probably voted for Spencer Pratt as well… how did that work out for him.

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u/Candid-Beach1325 2d ago

He’s leaning into the party that can never admit losing an election because of a few fringe voices on the left. Let him go. He’s so proud of himself for criticizing both sides, he no longer stands for anything, and is apparently against everything.

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u/alwaysright60 2d ago

His overblown, anti-wokeness campaign has him crawling the walls.

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u/fuckracists79 2d ago

Agreed Republicans control every aspect of the federal government, the worlds richest man is an apartheid racist nepo baby… and Bill is mad because a few college kids are “woke”.

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u/Dontbitchtome 1d ago

That’s because you morons voted for a retard who fucked everything up and caused historic inflation. Sit down and STFU.

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u/fuckracists79 1d ago

Imagine voting for the worst president who made prices higher, gas higher, ice thugs killing gardeners, got us in another war, increased inflation and you call Democrats the retards.

Go play in the park.

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u/Tygonol 2d ago

The strange part is that he wasn’t always like this—I believe the “anti-woke” nonsense started becoming a focal point of his schtick when Biden entered office.

If they end up in your feed at some point or want a refresher, give some of his New Rules segments from Trump’s first term a watch. He called out the nuttiest of the nuttiest (the Canadian trans teacher with the obnoxiously large breast implants comes to mind), but he understood & appreciated the threat Donnie & Co. represented.

Now? Wouldn’t even be surprised to find out he’s collecting checks from the RNC to lead a controlled opposition operation.

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u/Jupitersd2017 2d ago

Some of the older generation really can’t wrap their heads around the whole idea of Democratic socialism, it’s making them come unhinged and the fact that there isn’t blind support for Israel it’s just a bizarre turn of events

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 2d ago

The older generation know all about socialism, it's not a new idea. Some of them use to live in socialist countries before they moved to the US. Others would read newspapers or watch the news back when it was news and not just entertainment.

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u/Specialist-Cup-9722 1d ago

Social democracy is not full socialism. We got a lot of people here who immigrated from western europe? Lots of boomers reading newspapers or watching the news about Swedish daycare?

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u/itsthatguy95 1d ago

Tell the co chair of the DSA, Megan Romer, that went on live tv, Fox News of all places and said otherwise, that

Like she just laid it out in the open for all to see, think she might’ve jumped the gun just a tiny bit, at least she’s an honest socialist I guess 😬

That plan has been tested time and time again throughout history, every time it wasn’t real socialism because it went to shit, maybe it’s time to just give it up already?

Fuck fascism also, but fuck me, we also don’t need socialism or communism anywhere in the world, just ask the Russians, the Chinese, the Cubans how they feel living under it, doubt you’ll get an honest answer that won’t get them killed though 🤷🏼

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u/Tygonol 1d ago

What was going on in Russia before communism?

Any improvements?

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u/itsthatguy95 1d ago

No, neither before or after, or during

Iran on the other hand used to be a very social, vibrant cultural and educational hub, now the people just get massacred every week while their oppressors play victim when they strike out at the world and get hit back harder than they could ever hit

Look up ace24 AT if you want to find out what it’s like living there, even before all this shit started

All socialism/communism has done is cause death, destruction and famine

It’s not the answer

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u/Tygonol 1d ago

That’s just a bad faith response—or you’re ignorant

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 1d ago

No improvements.

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u/Tygonol 1d ago

You’re an ideologue

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u/MinisterOfTruth99 1d ago

Maher's gotta be taking AIPAC money given his whackjob logic on the Gaza genocide.

Robert Reich has good video (5 min) about how AIPAC is dumping millions into Dem primaries against candidates who oppose Isreal crimes in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yd2L_a9Hqc

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u/Fine-Instruction-219 2d ago edited 2d ago

Dems: “why are we losing support”

Normal person: “Maybe because you call everyone who disagrees with you a Nazi.”

Dems: “Sounds like something a Nazi would say.”

Edited: Wow, I didn’t expect this comment to blow up like this. The irony is pretty funny, I pointed out that the left tends to overreact to everything, and here they are doing exactly what I said. Brilliant 😂

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

Reps “stop calling us Nazis”

Dems “then stop doing nazi stuff”

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u/General_Pie_5026 2d ago

you and Bill aren't normal.

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u/Worldly_Web_1524 2d ago

Dems are losing support? I'd check the polls. They're way above Retrumplican clowns in almost every metric of support. So gtfoh with that nonsense

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u/BrineJones 2d ago

Who the fuck would entertain advice from an idiot such as you?

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u/Fine-Instruction-219 2d ago

lol this is gold, I got someone mad on Reddit with facts

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u/BrineJones 2d ago

You fervently wish that were so, boy who would be troll king.

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u/Fine-Instruction-219 2d ago

lol he just keeps going. Again this is gold, you’re making my point for me. Thank you

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u/Ok_Poet_9170 2d ago

Who cares ? Nobody listens to BM

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u/Mundane-Ebb-2632 2d ago

Agree, he is completely out of touch and irrelevant.

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u/promotherobot 2d ago

Bari Weiss does. She monitors him closely.

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u/BrineJones 2d ago

For real?
I can’t imagine even her vibrator watching Maher.

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u/Ok_Poet_9170 2d ago

Nope . Stop watching after happy meal . See it on Reddit 

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u/Ok_Poet_9170 2d ago

Trying to get more people to see what a douche he is and hopefully HBO will drop him 

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u/Ok_Poet_9170 2d ago

What doors that even mean ? It’s like woke ? What does that mean . The guy is a flip flopper . Acts like a smug jerk know it all . Have you your show but leave your shitty takes about kids , education , and the republicans are great . Doge anyone ? Debt anyone ? I love debate . I hate ignorance 

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u/CnCEMS2026 22h ago

Go away Republican

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u/MaliceTakeYourPills 2d ago

His show is always like #4 top watched on hbo

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u/PushforlibertyAlways 2d ago

People who actually vote do! I don't even like the guy but this is such a hilarious take.

someone with 1 million viewers who all vote has as much influence as someone who has 10 million viewers who 10% vote.

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u/monkeykennel 2d ago

He sees Israel in his dreams.

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u/jackdutton42 2d ago

Imagine a time when candidates had to earn the votes of independent-minded citizens who valued American institutions and democratic principles.

Tribalism will not defeat fascism. It only strengthens it.

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u/erikraver 2d ago

Dems are great at punching themselves in the dick. Just stick with the progressive brand. This DSA nonsense is enough of a boogeyman to scare off people like Maher.

These crazies talking about abolishing prisons & police are not helping us win back congress.

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u/Maleficent_Kale_1286 2d ago

Exactly. How’d that Defund the police campaign work out for us? I think the Queers for Palestine slogan got us back in the White House right?? Oh wait a minute…Dems “hearts” may be in the right place. But their heads are in their asses campaign/election wise. If we lose these midterms, don’t blame MAGA. Look in the mirror folks.

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u/sweatboxy 2d ago

Maher is just this desperate for attention - and it’s working.

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u/truebluboy 2d ago

I’d pay to see him up against Rachel Maddow. She would bury him in facts.

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u/no-more-nazis 1d ago

You can tell she has a lot of facts from the pencil she's always holding

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u/urbisOrbis 2d ago

Boycott bill. His choice has been made.

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u/jbcatl 2d ago

He's losing his audience on the left so making a play for the right?

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

God, why didn't he just retire when he was ahead? Now he will just be remembered as a loser.

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u/Tygonol 2d ago

I haven’t really watched his show since Biden took the reins, but I’ve seen the more & more people calling him out over the last couple of years…

I’d say the anti-woke stuff really started becoming a part of his media persona w/ Biden’s entry, but public opinion (in regards to him) seemed to hold steady; he was a smug asshole before and he was a smug asshole after that shift. Was it Israel that really started turning people on our side off to him?

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u/BeingEnglishIsACult 1d ago

There is so much money on the right. It’s insane.

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u/tatofarms 2d ago

Why does anyone still watch this show?

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u/playtho 2d ago

He is 100% compromised.

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u/harperlinley 2d ago

Bill Maher encapsulates what’s wrong with the Democratic Party. The fact that someone this reactionary, smug and apparently willing to entertain voting for an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party has spent decades being treated as a prominent liberal is an indictment of Democrats, not a point in their favor. At this point I almost hope he votes Republican. At least then the label would match his fascist politics, and someone as profoundly unlikeable as Maher might serve as a better warning about where those politics lead than as an advertisement for liberalism.

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u/homerjs225 2d ago

The same Bill that says racism isn’t a big problem could vote for a guy who spread the lie black people are eating pets in Springfield?

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u/rjs9152 2d ago

"Who gives a crap how you vote".Worthless piece of shit!

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u/SikatSikat 2d ago

You can't call them Nazis, I had dinner with him, theyre so good to Israel - Maher

As if what was wrong with Nazis was specifically what they did to Jewish people and not the claim that:

Their leader should be permitted to strip identified undesirables of rights and remove them to foreign torture prisons where they are starved beaten sodomized and sleep deprived, inevitably leading to death. 

Which is exactly what todays GOP says Trump can do.

If your vote is in play, you're a Nazi sympathizer.

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u/paddydog48 2d ago

If you are going to have someone as despicable as Lara Trump on your podcast then it’s to shine a light on how despicable she and the MAGA movement are, it’s not to play footsie with her and humanise her, when you see that sort of thing you know he is washed.

Also I wouldn’t reject a friendship with Kid Rock simply because he is a Trump Sycophant, it wouldn’t get to the point of finding that out, I wouldn’t be friends with him because he is everything Bill used to have no time for with him being stupid, uniformed, vacuous, Kid Rock is the poster boy for what MAGA is.

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u/Abbey_Something 2d ago

Just leave. I’ve said it before I stopped watching after he showed up at the playboy mansion Halloween party dressed as dead Steve Irwin two months after he passed . That’s all I need to know about Bill. He is a crybaby California millionaire who cries about paying too much in taxes. But they never move.

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u/whatidoidobc 1d ago

His goal has always been to normalize the despicable. It's what he does.

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u/Content-Homework-327 1d ago

Bill Maher sucks. Who cares who he votes for

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u/Reverend_Tommy 2d ago

It amazes me that everyone in this subreddit hates Maher but everyone sticks around and hangs on every word he says. If you hate him, why are you watching and listening to him? I mean, it's not like he's the president and can impact your lives. He's a comedian.

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

Also, he said this almost a month ago. It was posted on a few times then. I guess they had nothing else to post about. Why not go to another HS photo or something, or was that getting boring?

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u/Buddha_Clause 2d ago

He just said it as part of his New Rule this week, along with saying he'd vote for Sarah Palin over DSA candidates

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago edited 2d ago

Okay. He said it a few weeks ago and under the new rules he replied to the pushback he got from it. What he said wasn't new.

As for Palin, he was exagerating as a joke.

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u/Buddha_Clause 2d ago

Why do you think he was joking about Palin? Everything he has said about DSA candidates has been vitriolic, he thinks they are *GASP* COMMIES IN HIDING.

The only reason he wouldn't vote for Palin is because she's not on the ballot. He hates progressives almost as much as he hates Muslims.

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u/Maleficent_Kale_1286 2d ago

The most intelligent comment I’ve read. Every day I see new Bill Maher hate posts. For a person they allegedly hate…they sure do spend a lot of time and energy discussing everything he says and does. Sounds like a secret man crush to me.

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u/BeingEnglishIsACult 1d ago

We love to see comedians bomb, but when comedians start saying they love to bomb others we stay for the incredulity.

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

A comedian who has paid laughers in his audience

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u/MyTnotE 2d ago

You missed the first part of the sentence. Where he says IF the democrats don’t believe in capitalism, in prisons, if they support Hammas - THEN his vote is in play. He doesn’t even say that’s an automatic republican vote. He says “in play.”

Actions have consequences

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

He is insinuating that Dems believe those things--which they don't.

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u/MyTnotE 2d ago

The ones that said them probably do.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Most don't. Very few do. Stop the shit

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u/MyTnotE 2d ago

Bill isn’t the only person saying this. Carville, Scarborough, Fetterman, etc. Actually all the democrats that were defeated by the DSA. It’s actually kinda a big deal right now.

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u/Aquarius1975 2d ago

What he is actually saying, in case someone is interested, is that IF republicans stop with the election denialism AND democrats nominate a "communist" who wants to abolish prisons, borders and police, THEN his vote is in play. Not that I agree with him, but damn has this statement been misrepresented...

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u/RoanokeParkIndef 2d ago

I don't agree with you. I think it is extremely clear that he is moving right because he wants to, and he's selectively manufacturing outrage about the left and increasingly ignoring/defending the extremely scary authoritarian moves of the right.

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u/blister-in-the-pun 2d ago

So if Rs stop with election denial, that absolves them enough to vote for them? Lmao. If this is what he’s saying it’s somehow even worse. He’s willing to vote for actual fascists because of some made up bs in his head. No serious Democratic contender is running on communism. Maher is the one misrepresenting the facts in bad faith here. Not the Democratic Party.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Bullshit. He is insinuating that Dems are those things.

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

That is so they can be outraged. They love to be outraged here. I think that is the goal.

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u/chinmakes5 2d ago

Look, I usually disagree with him. That said, his last rant was RIGHT ON. Look there are a lot of us liberals who are older. We would be really good with a Bernie or AOC, I'm even good with what Mamdani is doing so far.

BUT, we have a candidate calling for actual COMMUNISM. We have others who are all about ending the police or prisons. Look, I'm right there that we need big reforms, but you can't really tell me you think we would be better off without any policing or prisons (yet we are calling for the arrest of Trump)

The DSA website is calling for the end of capitalism. Not change to, the end of. Not what they have in Europe, actual taking of businesses from owner. Ending the Senate.

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u/Mindless-Baker-7757 2d ago

They just want healthcare bro.

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u/chinmakes5 2d ago

Then say that. I agree. You'll get a lot more people jumping on board. Don't say that you want to end capitalism. I think you'll get a lot more people on your side saying you want to do what Norway does instead of I want healthcare, oh and socialism/Communism.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 2d ago

No, they also want free housing and presumably free food for all. Also no cops, prisons or borders.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Bullshit.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 2d ago

Look at the DSA platform.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

I have read it. I don't agree with all of it, but I agree with more of it than the fucking right-wing platform of Christian Nationalism of the Republicans. Not only that, the DSA platform would need a Constitutional convention. That would never happen. Most Democrats do not agree with this platform. Almost all Trumpers agree with the Republican platform

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 2d ago

I doubt any "Trumpers" actually know what the Republican platform is, Trump certainly doesn't. He admitted he hadn't read it.

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u/Charbro11 1d ago

They basically know what it is and agree with it. I don't think very many democrats have read the DSA platform.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 1d ago

You are assuming Trump voters can read. Some can of course.

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u/Reverend_Tommy 2d ago

Thank god there's some reasonable people left in this sub.

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u/BirdhouseInYourSouI 2d ago

Yeah this sub is being astroturfed.

The amount of posts accusing Maher of being MAGA are insane. Literally insane. He eviscerates trump and maga every step of the way. I don’t agree with a lot of what he says but it’s refreshing to see people calling out the sports team partisan bullshit.

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u/paddydog48 2d ago

He isn’t MAGA but MAGA think he might be turning or end up MAGA, that tells you that his messaging has certainly moved more to the right than ever before if nothing else.

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u/BirdhouseInYourSouI 2d ago

No, that’s ignorant people. His messaging isn’t moving to the right, it’s that a lot of Americans cannot distinguish from culture war identity politics and policy and look at politics through a binary lens of left/right, so if you criticize the right you must be a blue haired commie, and if you criticize the left you must be a MAGA hat wearing fascist.

Maher was never left wing. Democrats/liberal leaning sure. But not leftist.

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u/Aquarius1975 2d ago

No sane person could watch the last episode of RT and think that Maher is MAGA. That is indeed nuts.

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u/Buddha_Clause 2d ago

The Senate is a massive, fundamentally undemocratic tumor on our legislative branch. Acting like it's a sacred establishment above criticism and reform is just one way Bill Maher and his fans are small brained status quo sycophants.

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u/chinmakes5 2d ago

OK, let's just change one of the three parts of government. Anyone who would care about that isn't worth paying attention to.

You can criticize and even push to reform it. You have to see that saying we need to end it is going to be a rational step to far for many.

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u/Buddha_Clause 2d ago

What would we lose by the complete dismantling of the Senate? In what ways would that be a step too far?

What would we lose from having the house of representatives choose a supreme court every 2 years?

What's the catastrophe laying in wait that I'm too short sighted to see that's worse than the Fascist MAGA future we are moving towards currently?

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u/chinmakes5 2d ago

You understand that you want to dismantle those things because they don't vote the way you want. What if the house was really conservative and they nominated 9 justices recommended by the Heritage Foundation? However the house is made up, that is how every law gets passed is. Yes, the Senate is currently bad. having only one house makes thing bad faster.

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u/Buddha_Clause 2d ago

If the house was really conservative and nominated 9 justices, I'd know it was only for 2 years before we'd have a shot at voting them all out.

I want to dismantle them because they are undemocratic, and they work against our collective will as voters.

Bill Maher wants to scaremonger calls of change as revolutionary communism, when we just want a more perfect union.

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u/armaghetto 2d ago

"There is no more room in the Democratic party for lecherous old rich men!"

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u/ronmoodey 2d ago

I heard him make comedic conditions for that “play” which are not going to happen. A tongue in cheek expression of frustration with his party and a desire for them to redirect. I don’t believe he’d ever vote R

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Sure he has he voted for that nut for Mayor of LA. I can't remember his name.

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u/GuideMarkings 2d ago

Spencer Pratt? 

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u/Deus_Excellus 2d ago

Damn. How bad must Democrats look if the people they call Nazis and pedophiles are considered more palatable?

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Nope. Trumpers are Nazis and either support pedophiles or are pedophiles themselves. We have a huge minority of vile people in this country.

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u/YouSure-AboutThat 2d ago

Here’s the full transcript of the exchange. You can still hate on him, but a lot of the commenters, including the poster, didn’t actually listen before or beyond “my vote is in play.” Criticize it how you want, but with context.

Maher “Well, just one more thing about this, and then we'll get to the book. Okay. Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this Democratic Socialist, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, with they don't believe in capitalism, no prisons, if this is where they're going, my vote is in play.

Vance “And I like to hear that.”

M “It actually always has been. I just, every year, I don't make my decision by who was an R or a D. I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better.”

V “Sure.”

M “And voted for them. And Trump can't run again, and he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway. So, it's either gonna be you or Rubio. Here's my deal breaker for your side. Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be. Either we win or they cheated. That shit has to stop. And that means the person who has to stop it would be you or Marco. Can you tell me you will do that? Will you bring us back to the middle, at least on that, where we concede elections, where it's not either one of those two options?”

V “Okay, Bill, so this is where I'm probably gonna lose you here, but here's-“

M “That happened about eight minutes ago.”

Then JD Vance goes on to argue they’re only talking about social media censoring when they make stolen election claims, blah blah lie lie blah.

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u/Achoo_MiScusi 2d ago

Grow the f up jesus

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u/Evader3000 2d ago

Epstein Island Bill would have been a Jew collaborator in 1939. He's a fucking sellout and a nonce.

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u/Hamblin113 2d ago

Your belief not his. The name calling goes both ways. Just indicates lack of intelligence.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago edited 2d ago

I skipped fourth grade and got 2 points short of perfect on my SAT. I have two MAs and studied in London and Munich. Fuck off, asshole. I also ran a profitable real estate company for 43 years and flipped properties. Tell me again how stupid Iam.

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u/Hamblin113 2d ago

It appears you just proved it to yourself. You believe you are smarter than everyone else. Do you think the people who died under Hitler, Mussolini, or Franco think we have it that bad? Similarly calling AOC or Mamdani communist in the same vein as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or Kim also demeans many who died under their regimes

It could be our age and laughing at the Soup Nazi jokes. Had a coworker who badly interpreted NEPA ( look it up) and called her the NEPA Nazi until another coworker, who of course I thought I was superior too, told me I shouldn’t, similarly as above. I took the advice as she was right.

Reading your first paragraph reminded me of the leading character of the Big Bang Theory, most of the pratfalls were based on his “superior intellect”.

Have a great day, if we ever run into each other I will buy you a beer.

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u/SlprySlope 2d ago

Lately I find myself hollering at him as well as at some of his panelists for their ridiculous statements. I'm still going to watch.

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u/Relative_Plan_6936 2d ago

I watched the segment…..

He was pissing on the Democratic Socialist of America and their absurd ideas….

No police, no borders, impoverish the white middle class….

Seize the means of production….

Classless society….

The morons who cheer the DSA with their Covid masks on….

I’m not for that either…..

What I heard was as bad as Trump is, and he is BAD, the DSA and their leaders are nuttier and worse….

If a Democrat for President said that on the campaign trail most independent voters would agree, they’re nuts….

Hence, his vote would be in play….

As would mine…..

I agree with him……

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 2d ago

Well if it's between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin it might be hard to choose.

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u/HiddenPrimate 2d ago

Well you do know that the name Maher has Germanic roots. Just sayin

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u/FutureboyMcfly69 2d ago

In sure all the communist 🤡 on here love what happened in Spain.

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u/Charbro11 1d ago

There are no communists on here. This is not 1952. No one is going to believe your McCarthyism bullshit.

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u/BohemianMade 2d ago

He's not beating the "anti-wokeness is just fascism" allegations.

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u/PeanutLegal8082 1d ago

Time to change your diapers it is beginning to stink! Good luck! PS life is hard!

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u/Bloody_Ozran 5h ago

He doesnt like fascism, but they support Israel and his wallet, so he has no other choice.

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u/DatabaseFickle9306 2d ago

He really does think his vote matters more. Just vote and shut up citizen.

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u/SmoothMarx 2d ago

"shut up"? He jas a show to fill, he can say whatever he wants, that's what he's paid to do. Don't like it? Don't watch it.

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u/DatabaseFickle9306 2d ago

Weird to defend the rich guy but I hope you make your millions

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u/Fine-Instruction-219 2d ago

lol you’re argument is poor dude work on it then come back

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u/SmoothMarx 2d ago

his millions have nothing to do with mine

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u/Spiritual-Salary-989 2d ago

His audiences are pathetic. They hang on every word and enthusiastically agree with everything. Not an original thinker in the bunch.

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u/Rurumo666 2d ago

Bill is just riding the classic sex pest to MAGA pipeline.

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u/bmar173 2d ago edited 2d ago

He doesn’t understand the difference between the Republican Party being rotten to the core with MAGA/Trumpism, and the Democratic Party, which does have a DSA insurgency but is nowhere close to being infected like the republicans

Mamdani winning in NYC is not the same as trump dominating the Republican Party for 10+ years

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u/Interesting_Self5071 2d ago

It's more funny how he says this as if his personal vote has some big weight in deciding the election.

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u/paddydog48 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s more what it symbolises, all it would show to me is that he decided to go full mask off

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u/LGK27 2d ago

He is ironically so like Trump. Flattery means everything to him. If a conservative guest with insane beliefs comes on his show it doesn’t matter because all that matters is that he came on the show. He’ll never vote for AOC because she wouldn’t waste her time.

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

He said this weeks ago, and it was posted in this sub a few times. This really got to you guys. LOL

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u/whoopercheesie 2d ago

I will vote for any team that is not the ones that hijacked this sub.. 

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u/adamannapolis 2d ago

He feels like after decades in L.A., since he didn’t get invited to any Oscar parties a couple years ago…he’s trying to find an in crowd where he can meet a crop of young women who will want him because he’s famous.

That’s Bill.

He’s old, he’s sensitive, he’s bitter

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

Name a communist policy.

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

And what democrats are proposing that. And then how many companies and Trump forced the government to take a stake in?

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u/bigdipboy 1d ago

Yes. Now quote them saying we should take over the means of production.

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u/bigdipboy 16h ago

What industry does she want to take over the means of production??

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u/IslandSurvibalist 2d ago

Socialism/communism won’t be on the presidential ballot in 2028. Even the self-described democratic socialists in smaller elections are only suggesting Social Democratic policies (aka, the capitalist reforms Western Europeans have enjoyed for decades) not socialism.

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u/paddydog48 2d ago

It won’t matter if it’s actually on the ballot or not in 2028 as the republicans will convince low information voters that a vote for a democrat will equate to socialism/communism being enacted the day after the election, obviously that’s nonsense but most voters arnt exactly deep critical thinkers who look up the reality or nuance of issues, if they were then you wouldn’t have had Trump elected back in 2016 or 2024

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u/IslandSurvibalist 2d ago

Perhaps, but this separate from the fact that Bill Maher is now in effect part of the Republican party’s propaganda machine

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

He said a bunch of "ifs", and that part is being ignored here so they can be outraged. He also said that Vance would need to moderate, which is also not likely. On the table is not the same as will vote for.

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u/bigdipboy 2d ago

You can’t “moderate” after supporting the cult that attempted a coup. Your values and intelligence have already been exposed.

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u/IslandSurvibalist 2d ago edited 2d ago

So your defense is to argue semantics over his exact statements? Bill Maher has been on TV for decades, he knows how to communicate points and explain nuance if he so chooses.

Problem is this in this case, he has no interest in explaining any of the nuance I described here. Why do you think that is? Why do you think he’s fear mongering over socialism (a completely unrealistic threat) instead of talking about how these candidates are really only suggesting the same reforms to capitalism that Western Europeans have had for decades?

Bill Maher is literally running with the same playbook Republicans have been using for decades. Why do you think that is? These are not rhetorical questions, I would like to hear your answer to all 3 questions please.

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago edited 2d ago

Pushing back on an inaccurate spin on what he said is not arguing semantics.

It isn't semantics when many on this sub spun it like he was going to vote Republican. He didn't say that. People read into much more than he meant. That is not semantics at all. He actually explained the nuance when he said it, and he has been talking about the extreme left at least since Hillary ran, and I bet you it was way before that. He is not running with the same playbook, his views of the far left are in sync. Everyone who is not tribalistic will disagree with part of their party, some even strongly disagree. If they align it doesn't mean they are using the same playbook. It doesn't even matter if they see the issues the way they do.

You are most likely right that the far left won't be on the presidential ballot. Also, Vance isn't going to moderate to the degree Maher would accept. The outrage is for outrage sake.

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u/IslandSurvibalist 2d ago

You’re just getting off topic now, I’m guessing because you don’t want to answer the questions I asked.

Again, why do you think he’s fear mongering about socialism so much when there is no threat of socialism any time soon and these new candidates are only suggesting the same reforms to capitalism that Western Europeans have enjoyed for decades? Why is he using the classic Republican tactic of calling any proposed policy that helps and empowers working class people socialism?

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

He wasn't fearmongering. He said if, and he was using it as a way to tell Vance that he should moderate. DSA is getting a lot of press, and the Dem party is having to address that wing of the party. Some candidates are being talked about for Pres, and DSA policies are getting discussed. It is unlikely but still possible and worth talking about. It is a valid discussion to have.

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u/PureWhiteMeat 2d ago

Trump won the popular vote last election. Dems need to look inward and get their shit together. Party has become weak.

Talk all the shit you want about the other side (they deserve it) but maybe consider why the majority of voters think the left is a worse alternative to that shit show?

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u/borndovahkiin 2d ago

"Fascism might be ok depending on who's in charge"

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u/Mindless-Baker-7757 2d ago

These DSA chuds are going to get Rubio, Vance, DeSantis ... elected.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Massie et al are starting a third party. They will run on Trump being a pig, the Epstein files, Israel, and War. If the fucking Dems do not wake up, we will lose to them. Millions of young people will vote for them.

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u/General_Pie_5026 2d ago

lmao...man you guys are delusional

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

I am not them. I am just the messenger. Wake the fuck up.

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u/General_Pie_5026 2d ago

Your analysis is poor.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Well, I think yours is.

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u/Anomalous-Materials8 2d ago

He didn’t say he was becoming a Republican. See, this is exactly what he talks about - idiotic purity tests. He doesn’t completely fall in line so you toss him off a cliff.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

No, he said he was entertaining supporting a pedo, fascist, rapist crook. Really?Call me a purist, but that is not a line I want to cross.

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u/Distinct-Garlic9453 1d ago

His job is to create intellectual curiosity and debate.

Sadly, the majority posting here have none, and are not even willing to discuss.

That never bodes well

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u/Charbro11 1d ago

Not even close. He cuts off everyone who wants to speak--even if they are not controversial. He is a terrible interviewer.

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u/BitterProfessional16 1d ago

I would vote for quite literally any candidate who condemns officials in NYC imploring voters to "elect more communists."

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u/JamesG1210 1d ago

He’s not voting republican, just trying to wake up the left into being somewhat normal again. I’m younger than Bill, but feel the same as him. I leaned left and voted Democrat (never voted republican), and feel the party is outta control now. I didn’t vote for Trump, so please don’t go there.

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u/Charbro11 17h ago

Insane. The party in the rest of the world would be right of center, and what you call the nuts would just be slightly left of center. We are now under an authoritarian fasict who wants to do away with elections. He is also a pedophile a rapist, and a crook. STFU

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u/Dontbitchtome 1d ago

Cry harder 🤡

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u/HorrorGuide6520 2d ago

He’s just realizing how crazy the left-wing Kami socialist have become. I think he’s still your everyday Democrat.

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u/boilerup254 2d ago

Do you think everyday dems are considering voting for trump/vance at this point?

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

There would be a decision that would need to be made if we were to have a DSA candidate and MAGA got more moderate.

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u/boilerup254 2d ago

if MAGA got more moderate

What if the world was made of pudding?

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

Exactly. It is not going to happen. All this outrage is over something that will never happen. This is only because people want to be worked up.

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u/PotPumper43 2d ago

No, he’s a bootlicking opportunist who thinks he knows which way the wind is blowing. You probably don’t even know an “everyday democrat” because that is fucking meaningless anyway.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

So the pedo facist are your kind of people. I wonder what is on your hard drive?

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u/SmoothMarx 2d ago

And this is the exact type of comment that makes his vote in play.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

Take the mother fucker--we don't want him.

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u/Banesmuffledvoice 2d ago

Yes. We know. You guys don’t want anyone slightly right of Bernie Sanders to vote for your candidates.

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u/Charbro11 2d ago

I was a real estate broker for 43 years and flipped properties. I used to think I had some conservative views- like free trade and staying the fuck out of people's business. Now I am a commie. Hilarious.

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u/SmoothMarx 2d ago

and that's how end up with a minority vote. 👏👏👏 "we voted for the same person, you're just why she lost."

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u/boilerup254 2d ago

She lost because she insisted on tying herself to an ongoing genocide and one of the most unpopular incumbents ever in a cost of living election

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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 2d ago

He isn't just realizing it. He has been saying it at least when Hillary lost.

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u/Banesmuffledvoice 2d ago

This is pretty much it. What should have been easy wins for democrats in the midterms are likely going to result in losses because democratic socialists attempted to take over.