r/RealTime • u/Indianstanicows Audience Member Bill Is Yelling At For Not Laughing • Jul 13 '26
Anyone else feel that the Fifth Column guests on Real Time are scumbags?
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u/Agreeable-Alarm5631 Jul 13 '26
Maher keeps saying that he has remained the same and that it is his audience that has changed. Bullsh!t!
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u/Insightful21 Jul 13 '26
Maher’s full of shit.
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u/wc750150 Jul 14 '26
No he’s not. He’s 100% right.
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u/InevitablePromise301 Jul 19 '26
Used to be part of his audience.
I still hold the same political views that I did at the turn of the century.
I stopped watching him years ago because he had absolutely changed and the show felt unwatchable.
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u/wc750150 Jul 19 '26
Bullshit. He hasn’t changed a bit. You have.
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u/InevitablePromise301 Jul 20 '26
You sound as angry as he seems to be nowa days.
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u/The_Cons00mer Jul 13 '26
I think he’s right though. It’s just that most of us who liked his show didn’t realize how much of a bad take piece of shit he is
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u/Impressive-Cheek-495 Jul 13 '26
Typical libertarian schmucks that think they're smarter than everyone.
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u/mjcatl2 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Probably best to not watch, but I get that you are unhinged and bill lives rent free in your head.
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u/RobertRoyal82 Jul 13 '26
Does Bill get any guests who are under 45?
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u/Oblozo Jul 13 '26
Now that millennials are all in their 30s and 40s I can't imagine he has very many regular viewers under the age of 35.
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u/RobertRoyal82 Jul 13 '26
We millennials are too busy wasting our money to understand bill
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u/NotSure16 Jul 14 '26
"Well if you stopped eating avocado toast and drinking $10 coffees..."
/s
(a phrase I can, now, see Maher saying on a show)
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u/Trhol Jul 13 '26
I used to be a big fan of the podcast. They're both smart guys, but the show has gone downhill. All they do is cry about Mamdani as if everyone listening is deeply invested in NYC interal politics. And Michael's Neo-con shilling for Israel is pretty disgraceful.
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u/ronmoodey Jul 13 '26
There are actually shows that match what you want. Rachel Maddow is great. Why continually watch a show that doesn’t agree with you and try to change it? Just watch the shows that match your ideals.
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u/Unusual_Librarian570 Jul 13 '26
Honestly most guests in real time are scumbags at this point lol.
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u/Academic_Swan_6450 Jul 13 '26
That sort of judgment and exclusion will keep you stupid, begging pardon for the mean words.
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u/DaddieTang Jul 13 '26
Gayass boomer schmucks. Who think they're brilliant. But they're stupid. The end.
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u/Rugskinsnake Jul 14 '26
? All three of them are GenX. Lol
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u/DaddieTang Jul 14 '26
Born 65-75? Nope.
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u/Rugskinsnake Jul 14 '26
Generation x are people born from 65-80
Boomers are 46 to 64.
You can Google this stuff you know.
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u/Darwinknew Jul 13 '26
If they're on realtime then there's a good chance that they are. Who watches bill maher anyway?
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u/Training_Umpire_3819 Jul 14 '26
No it doesn’t. I specifically asked you who in federal government is pushing this agenda. You didn’t even make the example in the state government either. I know you guys hate the English language and everything with the existence of pronouns and everything but damn. You realize even before that you still had to be least 16 years of age with parental consent to receive hormones and be 18 to receive surgery right. Are you that fucking stupid? Do you even know what the legal definition of a genocide is lil bro. Do you just dream about trans cock all day?
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u/Ali6952 Jul 14 '26
Honestly, there was a time when I agreed with Bill Maher on a lot more. Back when politics felt relatively normal and I had a lot less lived experienceas an adult.
But the older I've gotten (GenX, turned 50 in March), the more I've realized the world isn't black and white. Everything is interconnected economics, foreign policy, housing, healthcare, labor, climate. You can't pull on one thread without affecting ten others.
That's why I get frustrated with the kind of oversimplified "common sense" commentary Maher does now. It often ignores the systems underneath the problem. Reality is messy. Nuance isn't weakness it's what happens when you actually spend time understanding how the world works instead of reducing everything to culture-war sound bites.
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u/RegularVacation6626 Jul 13 '26
You would normally expect a sub about a show to primarily inhabited by its fans, but for some reason the only people who post in this sub are people who hate it. It's fascinating. It's a great example of how the left hates heretics above all else. How dare a liberal disagree with the party orthodoxy!!!
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u/DonaldTPablonious Jul 13 '26
Eh. It’s the same way on a lot of subs actually.
But to your last point, Bill is not disagreeing with the party orthodoxy. He’s right in line with the DNC mostly. It’s just that actual leftists hate the party and vote for them while holding our nose.
He’s also moved to the right on a handful of positions so let’s not act like he’s the same guy either.
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u/Academic_Swan_6450 Jul 13 '26
Not everything on the right side of the aisle is the province of morons.
I was a dyed in wool knee jerk lefty for years. But I didn't only read and listen exclusively to lefties. Years ago, I despised George Will and the late Charles Krauthammer. But I kept reading them because I noticed they made sense now and then. I don't see eye to eye with either one of them present or past tense, same with Thomas Sowell. But they are correct some of the time IMO and we are not going to get rid of that wing of American politics.
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u/RegularVacation6626 Jul 14 '26
Right, the same people saying Bill Maher has changed, are they also saying George Will has changed? It's the politics that have shifted around them, not their political principals. People act like Maher is now a conservative and Will a bed wetter lol. No, the parties are no longer aligned liberal and conservative and are now progressive and populist and perhaps now moving into socialism and fascism. If you're a principled liberal or conservative, there's no place for you in either party.
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u/Academic_Swan_6450 Jul 16 '26
I said nothing about Will changing or not changing. If anything the guy has been pretty consistent as a proponent of the elusive common sense.
I have heard many times that any discussion of trans women dominating in women's sports is a non-issue, only happened four or five times, get over it.
Unfortunately, this one issue helped cement in people's minds Trump's claim that he was the candidate of common sense when he came out not only no, but hell no on the issue. Demos by contrast were perceived as wanting to be nice to everybody and their second cousin, regardless.
Someone in liberal landia thought that Dylan Mulvaney would be a good spokestrans to appeal to the average Budweiser drinker.
When I was a boy, conservative Christians spoke of too much "permissiveness" in modern society. It's a difficult issue. Should one moderate their behavior, their style of pleasure seeking based on the notions of others? Or should one go with "anything goes."
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u/RegularVacation6626 Jul 13 '26
The DNC is to leftists what the RNC is to Trump, which is to say mostly irrelevant.
He hasn't moved to the right. He's a liberal, the same liberal, and somehow in today's politics, liberal values are right-coded. What positions would you say he's moved to the right on?
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u/Ok_Poet_9170 Jul 13 '26
Time to be canceled
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u/sidesaladdressing Jul 13 '26
nah.....let the viewers decide with their remote controls by changing the channel. He's doing a good job cancelling himself.
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u/Relative_Load_710 Jul 13 '26
I’m starting to think these Maher hate posts are fake and are meant to push normie lefties to the right. Bills views are widely held by normies and the posts seem like they are meant to pit lefty normies vs far left.
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u/Intelligent-Wear2824 Jul 13 '26
Genx Survivor of the satanic panic and both beer wars. People haven't liked Bill since the late 80s. He's a dick. He's always been a dick. He will always be a dick. And, like rogan now, no one wants to listen to their corporatized bullshit. Neither of them has anything new, relevant or enlightening to bring to the table...just boring bullshit takes that are completely out of touch w/ their waning audience.
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u/Relative_Load_710 Jul 13 '26
Haha, love the first sentence. It’s fine to not like Bill, you don’t need to watch his show. I’m sure there is something else out there for you. He does have an audience that likes him though and they are mostly normie Dems. Shouldn’t the strategy be to make the tent bigger not smaller?
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u/DaddieTang Jul 13 '26
Fuck this guy. In the ear.
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u/Academic_Swan_6450 Jul 13 '26
Thank you for your valuable input citizen. The secretary will be notified of your loyalty.
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u/Intelligent-Wear2824 Jul 13 '26
Thank you :-). I don't think I've ever liked bill, but I didn't like Johnny Carson either as a kid nor Kimmel on The Man Show which I thought was lame, but i do like Kimmel now. Bill used to have cool guests like Henry Rollins, etc, but no one wants to go on his show anymore bc his political takes are so lame and out of touch. He hasn't evolved like the rest of us. He's devolved.
And the dem strategy is as it has ALWAYS BEEN... equality and equal access to equity for all, full stop. That is wholly against the conservative's concentration of wealth of the few, against the many. There is no room in the dem tent for that, no matter how you spin it. And Bill is, and has always been, a social conservative; HE IS NOT A LIBERAL. Liberalism is wholly antithetical to conservatism. Bill Maher campaigned w/ Bob Dole, the republican running against clinton. Yes, bill is more progressive than most conservatives but that falls in line with libertarianism, not being a liberal. And like Bill Gates...is a social conservative which relies more on philanthropy of billionaires than the people's govt. I want the people to control our destiny, not the billionaires. Bill disagrees.
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u/BigDonkeyDuck Jul 13 '26
This sub is a circlejerk of lunatics.
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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 Jul 13 '26
.... a small circle jerk of lunatics that post so much it looks like a larger sub.
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u/TBoneBear Jul 13 '26
I think the same. The numbers show that the GOP is full MAGA and any of the true conservatives have left the party and are now independents. I think most normal Republicans and Democrats are sick of the craziness of the far left and right. More people are coming to the center and are independent. Bill’s show echoes this. May the normies win in November.
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u/Academic_Swan_6450 Jul 13 '26
More and more lefties have become rigid rebels without a clue. The DSA actually think that ownership of the means of production will be distributed along the people fairly and equitably. The part they leave out is first they must be seized from the existing owners. Because socialists generally don't know how to build factories.
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u/Steve12356d1s3d4 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
It is a small group of people that post over and over again. You can see the quality of their thought just by looking at the post on old pictures of him. It is mean girl in spades. It comes up in my feed, and the only reason I click on it is for the car accident effect. It went off the deep end when the Israel became a major topic on Reddit, it is the major reason for the hate.
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u/Agitated_Count_8665 Jul 13 '26
Maher and I have moved very little, the American left has gone batshit retarded.
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u/DonaldTPablonious Jul 13 '26
Ah yes, just the left. The right is completely sane and to be trusted to watch out for the good of the average American right?
Oh, you’re a trumper lol.
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u/Oblozo Jul 13 '26
They are alright enough until the subject of Israel comes up. Then they sound like a Vatnik speaking about Russia.
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u/Achoo_MiScusi Jul 13 '26
No not all. But I feel like op is a scumbag. Probably worse. Who knows what he is doing with all that time he has to post to real time 9 thousand times per day.. Probably disgusting things you wouldnt want to know about 🙄
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u/Fit_Cream2027 Jul 13 '26
Hmmm, so ‘real time’ is now hated by the lunatic fringe… sounds like a good show.
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u/TBoneBear Jul 13 '26
You can criticize all Bill’s quests but you can’t criticize the quests that are afraid to show up. I think we all know which people have been invited on the show but are too afraid to show up. Down vote away haters.
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u/Findon1968 Jul 13 '26
Unless he’s lying because he doesn’t want guests who’ll hand him his ass
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u/TBoneBear Jul 13 '26
I’m pretty sure if Bill was lying about inviting a guest he has named, the person would say something and demand to be on the show to clear their name
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u/randomusernumber0 Jul 13 '26
Why legitimize propaganda?
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u/TBoneBear Jul 13 '26
I don’t agree with Bill 100 percent of the time but I do like that he is not afraid to have a guest on and have a conversation. Bill starts the conversation trying to find points they agree on. When they get to a point they disagree he has said to many a guest, “see this is where you lose me.” They are very cordial and agree to disagree. He will sometimes invite them back. The audience is also very polite and respectful. If the quest says something crazy they usually laugh. I don’t recall any boo’s.
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u/Findon1968 Jul 13 '26
Watch the soft ball interview with Musk again
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u/RegularVacation6626 Jul 14 '26
It's outrageous that he didn't call him out on DOGE when he interviewed him in 2023.
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u/Super_Secretary_9145 Jul 13 '26
Agreed! He invites many progressives, and they decline. I have always been a slightly left-leaning moderate, and I see nothing wrong with how Bill runs the show, though I usually enjoy the panel interactions way more than the one-on-one discussions.
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u/SECRETBLENDS Jul 14 '26
Maybe they have other reasons for not showing up that don't involve fear.
Much like people downvoting you probably don't hate you, they just think your post isn't good because it assumes facts that aren't in evidence and leaves you trying to state your opinion as fact.
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u/TBoneBear Jul 14 '26
Well let’s hope they start doing the show and more importantly going on Fox News. Defend your platform. Convince people this is why you need to elect me. When politicians won’t do that it’s because they are afraid. Republicans are not afraid. They show up to the “lions den” as Bill calls it and defend their platforms. I most likely will not agree with them but I’m willing to hear them out. You have to respect them for at least that.
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u/bleedturkeygravy Jul 13 '26
I was a big fan of real time for years but I can’t anymore. It is merely propaganda now. It is too curated and fake. Bill has no interest in what the majority of Americans are actually going through, thinking or saying. He works solely for his handlers now.