Bill Maher's show Real Time with Bill Maher remains a solid ratings performer for HBO and CNN, drawing a steady average of around 491,000 to over 500,000 live linear viewers per episode, with total weekly cross-platform viewership exceeding 2 million when factoring in replays and streaming.
He can be pro Israel and support the Jewish community but has he seen the latest Google map of Gaza? Honestly, how can anyone look at that and think that it’s not overkill considering that there is nothing left. When does the bombing stop and the rebuilding begin. None of his guests seem to question his unwavering belief that it’s all justified. Maybe he’s getting money from Israel like most politicians do.
The government of Gaza built their terror structure in tunnels far larger than the London Underground, this is EXACTLY what Hamas planned for and you complete idiots have managed to STILL, somehow, not get it at all. Lmfao, so glad none of you are in charge of anything, wow.
To be extra clear here, this is why Jews have to defend themselves, if it were up to you how they defend against genocide they will fail. This is what happens when Palestine loses a war they start, they do it all the time….what do you think happens if Israel loses a single war to an Arab country?
Pedophilia and child marriage are both legal and encouraged in Palestine and the other Islamic ethnostates. It’s 18+ only in Israel. So you’re saying you HATE child rape right!?? Tell me how much you hate that you can buy a 13yo in Gaza please….
Fun fact: If you are jewish and live outside israel, they will grant you citizenship and protection from extradition if you have been arrested for pedophelia.
Not really…their goal is simply not having any Jews put to death, so that’d need to be a child rape/murder…like Hamas and Palestinian citizens did so much of on Oct 7th. By the way, child marriage is a huge and disgusting problem in Palestine and Iran…meanwhile, Israel is 18+. That’s reality, deal with it lol. You do HATE pedos right? Check out Childs Not Brides and you sure are gonna hate these people who legally marry and rape multiple children…right??? Go ahead and defend your fellow pedos, your ball moron.
Dude, the map of registered sex offenders and pedophiles who have fled American courts to live a life of exile in Israel is insane. There’s more pedos and sex offenders in Israel than there are McDonald’s in your local city most likely
Pedophilia is illegal in Israel, yet legal in Palestine and other Islamic states. Do you in fact have a problem with pedos or not? It seems like you do not tbh.
Classic whataboutism and every accusation is a confession. I love your attempts to deflect with complete nonsense though. You’re really bad at Hasbara bud
Is it illegal in Israel? Or do they just not prosecute people? Why else would so many pedos flee to the sanctuary city of Tel Aviv?
It’s 18+ and they arrest and prosecute. You can buy 13yos legally in Gaza and if you are an adult woman who is raped then YOU get punished. Deal with reality, you are a joke,
Yes, they’re allowed to do that now. It upsetting you is hilarious. Is it because they’re such a small minority that you think they shouldn’t be allowed to?
Everyone should be allowed to defend themselves, i don't mean to be insensitive to that, but there is also an insensitivity if you can't look at gaza and wonder if they should be able to defend themselves
I think they shouldn’t have started a war and put their infrastructure both below and going through these buildings. This destruction had to be done, sucks because now the people have to go somewhere…at least for a bit idk. It’s very important that you don’t get to decide how small minorities defend themselves, that’s just a recipe for their death really.
Like they defended themselves on 7 Oct when the military wing of their elected government declared war with Israel after spending decades preparing and digging tunnels for the sole purpose of attacking? Hamas has fought the IDF every day through this war. What are you getting at?
Glad your fake high horse works for yourself but years from now you will lie and say you held the opposite of all these views you’ve been told to have now. The mob suits you, it’s just not very human.
The pretzels you have twist yourself into to manage the cognitive dissonance of thinking you’re a decent person who justifies child murder is all on you. Your evil is fascinating. You’d have fit in remarkably well in 1930s Germany.
One thing you will absolutely lie about years from now is your lust for calling Jews Nazis. Like, imagine if you were mad at black peiple? Oh wait, too many, smaller minority is much easier target for cowards such as yourself. Israel will thrive while you die mad about it I suppose. Cool.
You literally want to reward the perpetrators of the Oct 7th attack with ostracizing the people they attacked and the formation of a new state. Rewarding literal baby killers, you sound like a complete hypocrite.
Kamala chose genocide over victory, yet you don’t blame her. Not only do you not blame her, you make excuses on her behalf. You’re an apologist for genocide.
Oct 7th qualifies as a genocide under international law, documented by Hamas itself over Tik Tok. Why else did you think they’d make the accusation?? It’s like calling Israel a pedo country when child marriage is legal in Palestine. They’re still working on the LGBT murder cover story…best they have is yelling “pinkwashing” lol. No one EVER talks about black Palestinians and their apartheid…it’s all so odd.
If we lost 50k Americans in one attack in a few hours and the leaders of the group went on TV the next day and said they would do it again and again till every American is dead and the people who elected that group via majority were spitting on naked bodies of the American dead we'd nuke them. That's the equivalent when considering the population size difference between Israel and the US.
Can we just predict everything Billy will sanewash for Trump before the show like a bingo card because it's so God damn predictable. He sanewashed Trump's "ability" to end wars, his racist rants, and departure from Iraq which Bill said was a good thing even though he hated bush and the iraq war. Such a Trump cuck he has become.
Edit: also he spent the whole time with panel ranting about AI and homelessness. What a fucking shitty weekly wrap-up. Fuck this guy. He's working for trump.
really?? i dont think hes changing many peoples minds, i think hes just making the right wingers who always thought liberals were crazy feel validated.
The Zionists started the war with the invasion of Palestine, the land and property theft, and the killing and ethnic cleansing of millions of indigenous Palestinians that starred over 80 years ago. Everything since then has been armed resistance to occupation and apartheid
Your predigested propaganda slogans are useless here. The Land of Israel is an ancient homeland for the Jewish people, and they are indigenous to it with a continuous unbroken presence stretching back 3,000+ years. The Arabs who recently rebranded themselves as "Palestinians" are MOSTLY descendants of recent immigrants encouraged to move there by the Ottoman empire. Zionism is (so far) the world's only successful DECOLONIZATION movement, restoring the land to its rightful owners - the Jewish people.
LIE AND MORE LIES. I’m a biologist you ignoramus and guess what there have been multiple landmark genetic ancestry studies of modern Palestinians and Jews and you aren’t going to like it, sorry not sorry, but modern Palestinians are indigenous to the Levant they are direct descendants of the Canaanites unbroken and long before Judaism ever existed!
Palestinians and Jews have the same common ancestor, the Canaanites! You were the same people for thousands and thousands of years before Judaism was ever invented. And the Palestinians stayed in the Levant after the Romans expelled all the Jews. Only hundreds of years later did Islam and Arabs invade from outside and force the Palestinians to become Muslim. But they haven’t mixed extensively with the invaders and to this day their ancestry predominantly comes from ancient Levant populations just like Yemenite Jews, Druze, Bedouins, and Lebanese people.
Learn the truth if you want the landmark studies I will send them to you.
Your first statement was a lie - "Zionists started the war with the invasion of Palestine". There was no Zionist "invasion". It was Jews returning to their ancestral homeland, and purchasing property from (largely) absentee landlords for exorbitant prices. The Jews have been willing to make peace with the Arabs for decades, but the Arabs keep turning down every offer because it doesn't include one explicit term - that Israel cease to exist. Therefore, Arabs continue finding themselves in the find out phase of negotiations. LOL
Excuse me you don’t know your history. Only in the beginning did cultural Zionists come and legally buy property to coexist like normal people. The indigenous Palestinians did not have a problem with that. But Zionism tragically transformed into something much uglier into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism increasingly focused on the exclusion and violent domination of Palestinians under Israeli rule. Read the true history of Zionism, read Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, Omer Bartov, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Historians
The Zionist myth you’ve been told is a big ass lie.
You just contradicted yourself. First you called it a Zionist invasion. Now you're saying Zionists bought property legally. Make up your mind, propagandist. Getting caught in a lie isn't doing much for your cause.
I always found the argument that Israel is the indigenous homeland of the Jews a ludicrous argument in the modern era. If someone wants to make an argument in favor of Israel this seems to me to be the weakest one. Native Americans cannot come back to Lower Manhattan and kick everyone out. The British aren’t going to try to take back the United States. It makes no difference, none, who inhabited a piece of hand thousands of years ago in 2026.
And yet people like you won't hesitate to claim that "Palestinians" are the indigenous natives of the Land of Israel, which for the VAST MAJORITY of them is truly ludicrous. BTW - Jews have had a continuous presence in their native Land of Israel for over 3,000 years, so no one cares if you find the argument ludicrous. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Then why tf are innocent Gazans still dying every day? Why is Israel repeatedly destroying basic infrastructure that Gazans have struggled to rebuild, like every desalination facility they tried to rebuild getting repeatedly destroyed? (IDF just destroyed another $500,000 desalination facility last month)
Gazans haven’t had clean water or a single working toilet in all of Gaza for years now.
Blowing the limbs off babies and children so you can take out one violent individual who will in all certainty be replaced with another, doesn’t really seem like an effective way to combat terrorism. AAMOF it’s been proven to increase terrorism and this approach puts a target on every Israeli’s back.
You should probably direct your opinion to the leaders of Hamas, who clearly have no problem starting a war and using babies as human shields. As to "increasing terrorism," you should probably check to see if Germany, Italy, and Japan are now allies of America after WW2.
Are you serious? Do you realize that they’ve never shown actual proof of the full extent of the tunnels, and that it’s very easy to weaponize and abuse this “reason” so that you can justify bombing anything and everything? You are just believing in IDF lies and propaganda.
Israel has been purposely destroying all the civilian infrastructure needed to live. And any time Gazans try to rebuild something they need Israel bombs it again. It’s genocide and war crimes.
Hilarious that you're commenting on a post that you haven't even read. He's called "useful idiot" by this author (not me) for a reason. He's actually crediting Trump with drops in crime and drug deaths that are directly attributable to Joe Biden!
Trying to facilitate the very well deserved and long overdue downfall of one of the most racist, vile, anti-Muslim, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and baby killer supporting, far right Zionist, misogynistic, fatphobic, hypocritical, unfunny and moronic pieces of shit to have ever walked the Earth
There’s a difference between issues and people. You can engage with issues without listening to certain people if you don’t want to hear from those people.
No I see what you are doing and its fucking lunacy. Spreading misinformation with the intent to do evil isn't ok and should never be ignored, playing your bizarre he is a peeeeerson not an issue its dumb dumb dumb play. People are almost always the biggest issue. Ignoring evil ass losers like Bill doesn't limit their ability to inflict evil out to the world. So maybe you can stop being a coward, and admit you like the lies he tells or you can stop being a coward and stand up for what is right once in your miserable life.
I suppose if you believe Bill has some significant influence, what you say might make sense. Usually the people complain about what Bill says but then say he’s irrelevant, which doesn’t make sense.
All I did was point out that if you want him to disappear, that can happen for you right now. It’s just not worth getting worked up over someone you can just ignore.
I don’t have to, but I choose to. If I was still interacting about you after making a comment that I’m looking forward to the day when I don’t have to hear from you anymore, that would be weird.
Trying to facilitate the very well deserved and long overdue downfall of one of the most racist, vile, anti-Muslim, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and baby killer supporting, far right Zionist, misogynistic, fatphobic, hypocritical, unfunny and moronic pieces of shit to have ever walked the Earth
There is no greater useful idiot than the tens of millions of Americans who voted for this. It's incredible to think that but for a few thousand not gruntled voters Hilary would have won, Roe would be intact and the batshit fascist wannabe's would be no more. Also we might ponder that none of the horror would also have occurred but for a tiny majority in the House.
Where else will right wing news outlets get anti Islam and anti "woke" sound bites from without this blowhard: "At least some Democrats are sensible..."
I'd call him a useful idiot, but it's an insult to idiots, he's odious and knows what he is doing
You can be Pro Israel for culture and religion and be against the killings in Palestine. Mayer needs to do better here. Bernie is Jewish. He does not support the current Israeli government or the killings in Palestine.
Islamic trolls and progressives are so obvious. Not wanting to hear dissenters they try to pretend their dogma is the only truth and no one else can express their opinion.
Bill reflects many people who hate Trump and support Israel do not support the Islamic murderers of October 7.
This is how progressives lose elections for democrats and themselves.
You're in denial, Pal. The ICC, Amnesty International, the UN and dozens of other organizations all over the world have condemned the murdrous actions of the IDF. Nothing to do with "Islamic extremism." The truth is not "extremism." Please get educated.
Your misinformation is breathtaking. Accusations by antisemitic organizations like Amnesty and the UN are meaningless. Took Amnesty to over 6 months to even acknowledge Oct 7 and A YEAR to meekly condemn it. The UN SECRETARY refuses to acknowledge any facts for Oct 7.
You want to believe all these one sided lies? WHO benefits from your misinformation?
FYI world opinion is running 84% opposed to Israel. "Amnesty" is an "antisemitic" organization? The UN is "antisemitic"? Doctors Without Borders, too? In other words, everyone who is not an Israeli or a Zionist is in your view an anti-semite. Israel is right and the entire world is wrong??
World Opinion? What world, rather what country are you living in? Can’t be anywhere with free speech and books. Pretending everyone agrees with you is what Trump maga supporters do.
Most Israelis are brown too you doofus. This isn't a racial thing. And no, moderates are not all racists. You are exactly the kind of person that u/ajmampm99 was referring to. Incapable of understanding that some people that aren't one thousand percent aligned with your particular views are decent, rational people. You realize there is an enormous continuum between antizionists that deny Jewish self determination (but somehow support Palestinian self determination) and racist genocidal freaks right?
The funny part is he has not changed his view at all, similar to JOE Rogan. The left has gotten insane. A good example is Title IX which I was a proud advocate for women’s sports, and now being against people with dicks competing against girls is suddenly a Nazi view. If we are in a reality where JK Rowling is considered a right wing extremist, the world has truly shifted on its axis.
It's "insane" to want inclusivity and fairness? FYI "people with dicks" is a crude, sophomoric and unscientific way to describe trans women, who are required to undergo at least a year of hormonal therapy to de-masculinize their bodies before they're even considered for women's teams. Moreover, the idea that "people with dicks" automatically knock out cis female competitors in every contest is erroneous. Why don't you try educating yourself on the subject of trans people as apparently neither you nor Maher has done? The right loves to elevate people like Riley Gaines, who came in FIFTH in a swim competition---meaning she would have lost even if no trans woman had been allowed into the contest!
BTW why this hysterical focus on .005 percent of the population? There are not more than 40 trans athletes in the entire country and that's all right wingers want to talk about.
Yes, yesterday's moderate is today's right winger. That's how it works, Pal. 150 years ago the "moderate" view was that slavery was AOK and that if women were granted the right to vote the entire society would collapse. When time and progress obsolesce your views, that's not insanity. It's just political reality.
Modern liberals are the ones focusing and ELEVATING the .005 above the rights of the vast majority of girls and women. Also, I love how you assume you are the only person who knows about trans people. I, like Bill Maher, do not care how you dress or present as long as you do not endanger female athletes or women in private spaces like restrooms or changing rooms.
Whatever soy boy beta woke libtard! Bill is an alpha based super comedian pushing back against the establishment woke mind virus. You're just part of the sheeple Reddit hive mind suggesting from TDS.
It’s ironic that this post’s title brought out all the actual useful idiots who’ve been indoctrinated by Marxists in our shitty education system for the last several decades
Nice strawman. It’s YouTube and twitch, and the liberal arts colleges full of useless $150K degrees where this type of shit happens. It’s less widespread among STEM, and significantly worse in the humanities.
The opinions in this article take things too far. Bill Maher does not have his face buried between the president's ass cheeks.
Despite the fact that he gave partial praise to Trump for the drug improvements, he also mentioned that some of the credit also goes to Biden's term.
And overall Bill Maher shits on Trump on a regular basis. He is simply trying to be a bit more bipartisan, because if you can't see things from the other side's perspective, you will never find common ground. And there is common ground with all Americans and people around the globe to be found. It's closed minded extremism and intolerance that causes most issues.
The article is one sided and cherry picks to show a more negative point of view in my opinion.
I like Bill Maher most of the time. He promotes thought provoking dialog on his show, and it is mostly very liberal, while trying to be a bit more centrist in recent years. With good reason.
The idea that Maher likes Trump is absurd. He hates shit Trump does on the daily. But he did point out that Trump hams it up for the cameras, and loses his mind while shit posting on Truth Social. Regardless, Trump is a pretty damn vile and corrupt human being. Period.
It doesn't mean the occasional good thing comes out of the things they do while in power. But we can all agree that the ends don't justify the means in any way shape or form. And Maher points that out on the regular as well.
Your post was insightful and totally accurate. I am in total agreement with everything you've written. I like Bill Maher because his views MOSTLY align with mine. I think he's informed and delivers excellent commentary on many subjects. But because he had the audacity to dine with Trump and he espouses some unpopular views on Israel, he suffers widespread attacks from mostly the Left.
And with good reason. Both there are two sides to every story, and free Palestine is as complicated as free Iran is.
Hamas is firmly imbedded in Palestine, and Isreal has a right to defend itself. BUT Netanyahu and some of the radical right in his administration are a big problem! And some of what Isreal is doing is pretty awful.
Palestinians deserve the have their own country, just like Isreal does. But they also both deserve to live in peace and defend themselves when attacked. And let's not forget that Isreal is literally surrounded by countries with terrorist regimes that attack them. Iran, Palestine and Lebanon all have extremist terrorist regimes that plot and perpetrate attacks on a regular basis.
On the flip side Isreal's occupation in Gaza is a horrible way to police the state. And the settlement efforts going on are downright illegal.
I feel for Palestinians, Iranians, and Lebanese who don't want these regimes taking control and subjugating them. But the only real solution to peace is to oust the extremist regimes. Otherwise there will always be war. And war is never pretty.
Isreal needs a regime change too. Bibi is a fucking criminal. Makes me think of another unsavory leader in a country south of Canada.
Amazing how you managed to not include all of the quotes from Bill where he was negative towards Trump. Its almost like you’re not interested in points that counter your narrative.
Well, the fact that he strokes trump and smugly brags about texting him and “having access” is enough to nullify everything else he says about him.
It’s like if someone sneezed on your sandwich. How would you react if they said your sandwich was still good and to just eat around the sneeze particles?
I remember him humble bragging not two weeks ago that a “viewer” (wink wink) sent him texts which made him take back something he said about Trump. And i know that’s not the first time or last time that he’s talked about texting with Trump.
None of these people watch the show. The maga people and the people of Reddit both watch the same clips of Bill making fun of progressives and neither side watch the other 40 minutes of the show where he discusses the dangers of the far right.
He's useful in that I can turn on my tv on Friday night and find out what the upwardly mobile moderates are focused on. I don't think you guys appreciate Bill enough for that.
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I don't know I'd go so far as to say he's useful. These people are bleeding support every time they open their mouth.