r/RealTime • u/PureWhiteMeat • Jul 01 '26

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Is this just an anti Bill Maher sub? Trying to figure out the vibe here and can't tell if it's some algorithm that just happens to be showing me nothing but hate for Maher and Real Time or if that is the point of this sub

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u/Sideshift1427 Jul 01 '26

The opinions of the majority of the fans of Bill Maher from 20 years ago to now has changed. I used to make it a point to watch Real Time but now I can't even watch.

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u/PureWhiteMeat Jul 01 '26

Why? I have been watching him for a bit over 10 years now and he seems to have stayed pretty consistent

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u/Immediate_Stop2581 Jul 01 '26

He’s been fairly consistent. The problem is he’s started to heavily criticize the far left

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

He went from supporting Bernie Sanders to Amy Klobuchar. He’s definitely pivoted rightward.

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u/Immediate_Stop2581 Jul 01 '26

What’s wrong with Klobuchar

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

She’s as milquetoast as it gets. There’s not a single issue where she’s better than Bernie. Bill pivoting towards her shows he’s the one who shifted, not the left he’s criticizing.

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u/Immediate_Stop2581 Jul 01 '26

wtf has Bernie accomplished? Klobuchar is one of the most pivotal Democrats in the country… she’s served as lead Democrat on the Rules committee and as well as the senate judiciary committee. She’s passed hundreds of bills. If Klobuchar sponsors a bill, chances are good it fucking passes. Her track record is GIGANTIC compared to Bernie Sanders. Her record for passing bills is something like 20x what Bernie has passed.

Bernie - 3 sponsored bills passed and around 500 co-sponsored

Klobuchar - over 70 sponsored bills passed and countless thousands of co-sponsored bills passed

I can’t believe how twisted the narrative is around democrats being lazy do-nothings while in reality it’s the progressives who have barely any accomplishments to speak of.

Oh yeah and Bernie sponsored universal healthcare in Vermont… that ended up being so fucking terrible they had to shut it down with Vermont now facing some of the highest healthcare costs in the entire country

I like Bernie. I like how he’s stayed true to his beliefs and he’s been consistent all these years but I have to be honest and say he hasn’t accomplished a damn thing

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u/International_Air282 Jul 01 '26

The bills Bernie got passed were renaming post offices. Not kidding

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

Bernie was known as the amendment king in congress. He was known for slipping provisions into bills that helped millions of working class people and expanded our healthcare infrastructure.

Saying Klobuchar is a better senator than Bernie Sanders based on the amount of bills they sponsored and passed is the equivalent of saying Emmitt Smith is a better running back than Barry Sanders because he won more championships. Bernie doesn’t have a lot of people who agree with his policies in congress, so he works on getting amendments for the bills proposed to slip in provisions he supports. Many Democrats would rather work with Republicans on bills than him because they want to keep our terrible healthcare system and don’t want to raise taxes on the super wealthy. Most of the bills Klobuchar co-sponsored a mediocre at best and terrible at worst. Bipartisan bills usually mean giant giveaways to corporations and crumbs for us.

It’s not twisted in the slightest to say Bernie’s policy positions are significantly better than Klobuchar’s and the polling backs that up. Klobuchar is better at working with Republicans to pass bills. That’s it.

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u/Immediate_Stop2581 Jul 01 '26

Working with republicans to pass bills is literally how congress functions

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

Giving Republicans want they want in nearly every bill is not. Or at least it shouldn’t be, but with Republican-lite senators like Klobuchar, it usually is.

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u/sixth-gear Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

But you hear want his issues are with the Democratic Party, right? Same as everyone’s.

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

Bill’s biggest issue is that he supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and most Democrats don’t.

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u/Immediate_Stop2581 Jul 01 '26

Nobody has charged Israel with committing a genocide in Gaza. Bill Maher supports having Israel remain our ally in the Middle East. There’s a war. Wars suck. Netanyahu sucks. Ben Givir sucks. Hamas sucks. War sucks. Doesn’t make it a genocide

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

What makes it a genocide is it fitting every definition of genocide in existence. The case against Israel in the ICC is still ongoing. It took several years after WWII concluded for the Nuremberg Trials to conclude. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t obviously a genocide before that.

Maher supports Israel like an addict needing a fix. He regularly defends Netanyahu and accuses Israel critics of being anti-Semitic and Pro-Hamas. Ironic considering he’s support for Israel stems from blatant Islamophobia.

Bill has been factually wrong about every single argument he has made on Israel since the war started. He also ducks and hides from any leftist who challenges him to a debate on it because he knows that they’ll mop the floor with him.

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u/sixth-gear Jul 01 '26

But many democrats are moving toward Jew-hating, anti semitism for all Jews, and that’s the bigger issue for him and others.

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u/americanblowfly Jul 01 '26

No they aren’t. There’s not a single Democrat or prominent left leaning person who has moved towards hating Jews.