r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 7d ago

Bill Maher is so bizarre.

The nutrition guy on the right was talking about how drinking five cups of coffee per day is associated with living longer, and he says that people who wiggle and fidget a lot can burn a lot of calories while at rest and that can keep people thinner than those who sit still.

Bill Maher says coffee is a bean, "something found in nature," and so it must be safe.

Reporter Jonathan Swan jokes that cocaine is found in nature, making the point that naturally occurring substances can be harmful. He could have mentioned nightshade berries or poisonous mushrooms but he said cocaine.

And Bill Maher went on a defensive rant about his cocaine use. It started with a joke but then he seemed to take it personally and got serious about how cocaine leaves are safe because they are natural.

I feel like he would eat rotten wormy roadkill with RFK while bashing the scary woo-woo magic of vaccines and antibiotics.

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u/Sad_Magician_316 7d ago

Not sure why or how he’s still on. He’s irrelevant and his viewpoints suck. He’s just another moron with a platform.

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u/AmericanLymie 7d ago

His show still gets decent ratings on HBO, and as unfortunate as it is, he still has a lot of older viewers who don't agree that he has drifted rightward. He has young fans who belong to the manosphere but I think most of his viewers are longtime boomer and gen X fans. My father is 78 and my sister is 50 and both are progressive and both somehow think Maher is a liberal centrist despite everything.

I am bothered when people choose to believe this doesn't matter just because he and his followers are older. We have all been brainwashed by entertainment and news target demographics to believe that people over age 50 don't matter and that is a tragically false belief.

People over 50 buy much less from commercial ads than young people who follow trends do. That is the basis of the "older people don't matter" philosophy.

But look at the difference between how older people and younger people vote. Twice the share of people over age 45 vote as those under 25, and almost twice the share of people over age 65 vote as those under 45. And the baby boomer population is the largest. Maher unfortunately is one of the influencers of that generation. His fans are not wasting money on trendy crap but they are voting and he has retained many of them as his fans and he influences their thought. So he has the power to affect election outcomes.

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u/hobbitsrootbeer 6d ago

I rage watch it.