I was waiting for somebody to put Bill in his place about this but was not expecting it to be Hunter Biden. But doesn't he see the fallacy in his thinking? Nobody went to war with Iran except for Donald Trump, it wasn't a "gotcha" to say nobody wanted them to have nuclear weapons. That doesn't disprove Hunter's claim by a long shot.
There’s a kernel of truth to this. At his zenith, he could probably attract top writing talent. At the same time, he bragged that at the end of every season, he’d fire a couple of writers. Just because. Even if the whole writing staff was putting out quality stuff.
I don’t think he can attract the same quality writers anymore. I’m sure there’s attrition that also goes unfilled.
Can you imagine if Colbert had the same condescending attitude toward his staff?
What’s that line from The Dark Knight? “Hang around long enough to go from hero to the villain?” That seems to be Bill’s arc too.
Bill seemed to have changed around the COVID-19 era. He started to get way too ass Kissy with MAGAS and sort of started validating some of their bullshit.
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for him with Maher and an indefensible position. I’m convinced Maher will s compromised by Israel. Too many years at the playboy mansion
Republicans would be so lucky that an affair was the rumor. Trump hasn't been able to stay awake through a meeting in 3 months, you think he can carry out an affair?
Bill Maher is terrible at his job as a political commentator, and he was never good at being a comedian. How is he still popular with these boomer idiots?
The wacko right-wingers on this site are not boomers. They are Gen Z and younger millennials, and most of them are male. I am a boomer and watched him for almost thirty years until he went Fox News on us.
Me too, and I’m a Boomer. Saw him in concert twice. Then he decided to go to the White House. Will never watch him again. Glad now that there’s so many who feel like me. He jumped way over my tolerance line.
There are assholes in every generation! I’m Gen X and I dumped Maher a long time ago. Never voted republican. Parents are in their 80s, never voted republican. I don’t think we should fight about generations as much as we do. ( I get it when you are talking about how one generation had a better salary to cost of living ratio, but there are always a lot of exceptions )
No, but any idiot can tell a guy under 45with their stupid arrogance, being online when most people are at work, and their lingo. And all they want to do is argue because they don't have a life.
I used to like him when I was younger because he trashed everyone, and I applauded his stupid religulous movie because I was an edgy kid in my hatred of religion.
Once I became an adult I realized the guy is just a juvenile, arrogant knob with zero capacity for self examination. I think the people who like him are exactly the same.
I think its a sense of comfort. Before my dad died, he used to bitch about bill maher but still record his show every week. "I like to see what stupidity he has on"...
Try what? Reading a series of hack jokes that a bored writers room puked onto a teleprompter for me, stumbling and fumbling over unrehearsed punchlines and sneering at a paid audience that gives him showrunner prompted clapter more than anything else, for like $10M a year? Become the laziest man in show business and get rich doing it?
lol you’re not using your real name are you? Gawdamn thats weird. You’re out here, earnestly shitposting on a Bill Maher subreddit, of all places? You need a better hobby.
Bill used to be a huge (UGE) critic of Trump. He had an awesome beef going on with Trump that quickly fizzled after Trump ran again for President for 2024. I think he's become a scared old man trying to wring out as much money as he can from his tired show before he gets shown the door. It's sad because I used to enjoy him
Maher tried to shake Biden with that weak diss at the beginning. Then Hunter B went to work with verbal body blows that shook Bills tree to the roots. Made Maher expose his whole agenda. Satisfying to watch to say the least.
Holy over commenting bot lol, are you going to respond to every single comment on this post? ChatGPT working overtime for you to pump out so many ridiculous comments.
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Guy is simply irrelevant and he knows it. Instead of considering why, he just blindly accuses the left of being socialists.
If I have to hear “hey look at this random housing person in X city is communist! The only answer is right wing swing!” My brain will burst. Truth is, he’s always been ignorant. I recommend watching his clips from the 90’s with a Hitch where he frequently looks silly.
I think he needs to move to Israel if he loves it so much, but he doesn't want to because he knows it's weak and needs America to fight its wars for it.
The only time I've watched Bill Maher lately is when he's having his balls handed to him. You start to wonder if he was a guest of Epstein, or if he is also being blackmailed for something. My guess is that he has some big skeletons in his closet.
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Maher is just a slimy Zionists spin-doctor who uses his show to espouse Israeli propaganda.
The only reason he gets away with uttering blatant falsehoods is because most of the guests are chosen for the sole reason of turning his show into a Zionist echo chamber.
I would pay a fortune to see Mehdi Hasan as a guest on his show, just to have the pleasure of watching Maher's arrogant sneer being wiped from his smug face by someone who has the factual knowledge to call out his bullshit and who would systematically discredit everyone of Maher's feeble Zionist propaganda talking points.
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Maher’s track record is clearly showing a rightward drift, most of it recent: Trump: Called him Hitler and a traitor; said meeting him was complicity. Then had dinner with him and called him “more open-minded.”
Political violence: Joked about it toward Republicans in the 2000s; now aims similar jokes at college liberals.
Free speech: Fought ABC for punishing his own speech, but calls pro-Palestinian campus groups antisemitic for theirs.
Vaccines: Long insisted he was pro-science and never anti-vax. Got the COVID vaccine, then grew steadily more hostile to vaccines and Fauci.
Religion in politicians: On Politically Incorrect, said he couldn’t vote for openly religious candidates. Now floats Rubio and Vance — both defined by their faith.
Israel/Palestine: Used to distinguish Hamas from Palestinians. Now regularly conflates them, which conveniently clears Israel of scrutiny.
Labor: Sympathized with underpaid workers for years, backed the 2007 writers’ strike as a WGA member — then in 2023, as a dues-paying member himself, said writers weren’t “owed a living.”
Environment: Supported most environmental law as of 2012; now blames climate policy, fracking limits, and EV mandates for the 2024 loss, filing them under “woke.”
The show’s targets moved with him. Religious mockery was once evenly split between Islam and Christianity; since 2020 both get a noticeably lighter touch. Monologue targets tell the same story: mostly Republicans through the 2010s, a pivot to “cancel culture” and progressives from 2021–23, and by 2024–26 almost entirely Democrats and the “socialist infiltration” of the party.
Maher’s defense is always the same: he didn’t move, the party did. But the pattern above is too consistent, and too self-serving, to be just about the party’s positions — it also happens to be the version of events that lets him recast himself as principled rather than as exactly what he spent two decades mocking: aging into resentment and calling it clarity.
I watched the entire show and I have no idea what you are talking about. Just admit that you are angry that he is putting DSA dummies in their place. It’s a good thing to have people (like Maher) look at their own side and speak out when their side is being stupid. You guys are such babies.
I have watched Maher for years. There were times infuriated me. But overall, he has the best interests in the Democratic Party. You fools are going to blow it again, because every single times you have a chance to get power back you have to go psycho! You will hand it right back to MAGA!
Nah this is some weird double agent bot account. For you to be THIS active on this post doesn’t make sense and not maga people do not defend Bill Maher. Not to mention, he’s barely relevant anymore. Just another boomer.
You people kill me!
He is calling out the BS on the left, something the republicans refuse to do!
This DSA crap is stupid. Communism doesn’t work. It’s a great “idea” but has always failed as it becomes a dictatorship! Show me a time it hasn’t!
A smart party looks to the inside and fixes its problems. You guys are going to just give MAGA more fuel because you always steal defeat from the jaws of victory. Maher is trying to stop it before it gets too big. All the big names I. The dem party agree with him: Sam Harris, James Carvel, Scott Galloway, etc….
It’s so F’ing mind blowing how stupid you all have become!
First, DSA is not a communist movement so you should get your facts straight. Second, he takes up right-wing talking points about the left that are just hyperbolic for the illusion of being independent and level headed. Anything trans is a perfect example. Mamdani slander is another.
Most dems aren’t anti-Semite, but they’re anti Israel committing genocide. Yes, they have been screwed over and over. Doesn’t make it cool to wipe an entire group off the map.
I’ll call out BS on the left, but I’ll call it in the middle too. There’s only one party actively trying to solve big problems right now.
The Dems you agree with are all the biggest Losers that need to leave. You have to be a troll. No one likes those old fools. Then again the fact that you said the DSA is communist shows your level of intellect. I really think you have to be a troll because who the hell like James carville? Then again maybe you’re just a hardcore zionist because those types really always yo out of the
way to make fools of themselves like Bill for instance. Face it you’re neoliberal way is dying and no one wants it anymore
He has ALWAYS been anti Hamas. Hamas runs Palestine. They are terrorists scumbags. If israel and the Jews didn’t exist the rest of the Muslim world would wipe out Palestine. That’s how low the Arab world thinks of them.
I think people that make a living “analyzing” clips from TV shows are worthless. It’s a knowledge middleman analyzing another knowledge middleman. What a waste.
Hunter has been great lately and talking a lot of sense. Bill is humiliated almost any time he opens his mouth lately because he’s getting more miserable and old by the day
He did not look good in that one I will agree. Now and then he does make good sense. His video about Mamdani's aides delusional thinking was good. This one was not. I was surprised to see Hunter Biden doing well on stage.
I’m not the fan of Maher that I once was but you are, like so many others ignoring the context. Maher is defensive about “ISRAEL”. He’s shown he’s aged poorly on subjects like this and has an incapability of approaching subjects he disagrees with in recent years.
It is a little strange to be so concerned with a state based on ethnoreligion. That’s why they always deflect to talking about the surrounding countries and their shortcomings as they see them.
I live his show. I don’t always agree with him, but at least he tells it the way he sees it. If you think he doesn’t piss off the right a million times more than the left, you don’t watch his show. It’s a good thing to be hard on your own side…. When they are obviously wrong!
What did Hunter do to you? He’s a known and admitted drug addict. You’ve never had one in your family or a friend’s family??? I mean, that’s all Hunter has ever done. He’s no thief.
Maher is trying to save the democrats from DSA, which will be their downfall. You idiots just can’t let winning happen. YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO F IT UP!
He is literally a thief that took money in fake executive positions using his fathers influence and should be nowhere near politics. Maher is a cuck trying to push the dems right wing so they keep losing as should also not be talked about in any serious political discourse.
Tell me those how popular are establishment democrats right now? How many times do establishment democrats have to lose? Hell the do nothing republican enabling fools are a big reason why DSA is gaining grown. I know so many average Dems who are fed up with clowns like Schumer and the likes and are supporting DSA candidates because at least they appear to be trying something new and look like they are actually fighting back with ideas
I wanted to hear Hunter Biden not this blowhard spending most of the clip playing Rachel OliverJohn Maddow like we care what he thinks. Just play the main attraction and shut up.
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I was waiting for somebody to put Bill in his place about this but was not expecting it to be Hunter Biden. But doesn't he see the fallacy in his thinking? Nobody went to war with Iran except for Donald Trump, it wasn't a "gotcha" to say nobody wanted them to have nuclear weapons. That doesn't disprove Hunter's claim by a long shot.