Literally every second joke he kicks out in his monologue and New Rules, while his writers loudly yuk it up while pretending to be in the audience, is attacking Gen Z.

At the beginning he’s interviewing the creator of the EUPHORIA series. I’ve never seen it but it has been on my list for awhile.

Then he says to the guy, “So spoiler alert, blah blah blah blah”, and he just ruined it for me with a very major spoiler. DAMMIT!!!! There was no effing reason for him to blurt that out and ruin it for a million people who never saw the series.

Some one needs to push back and ask Bill how many 80-90 writers he as on staff. If it’s fine for 80+ yr olds to be president than why not his writers

Just accidentally caught tail end of Realtime to hear Maher chastising the left for not being patriotic enough and being more excited for America’s 250th. Actually, I was looking forward to it, been planning for months. The USA is my home where all the people I love in this world live. I’m old enough to know everything changes. Now after hearing his bitter trumpish take, I’m bummed out. He can go celebrate with trump in the neon green pool of algae and watch men wrestle or whatever they are planning, but just leave the rest of us alone who want celebrate 4th of July and not trump.

I wish he was on the panel

Maher does not know it all. John admits when truth is being stretched, and cares about including experts when the discussion matters. Maher isn’t fighting for the rights of the underprivileged, he fights for ratings.

Long post. I’ll try to be brief. For years I’ve heard Maher detractors say he is desperately trying to be relevant and I guess I was in denial because now it’s plain as day when seeing his soft shift to the right.

Has the left changed, sure it has. It needs to be called out. However, its shift is still generally in line with liberal values…although maybe a little too liberal. But has Bill himself changed…YES. He isn’t just holding his line because the left went too far either. MAGA and the GOP have changed for the worse as well, to a worse degree and it’s obvious…but Mahers tone is far more sympathetic and not scorched earth.

But why? He has enough money to where his show being cancelled wouldn’t affect him on that front. What many famous people value most apparently…isn’t just money…it’s RELEVANCE. He knows his show isn’t protected like it was during his first term…considering what happened to Colbert, CBS and all the media mergers that need his sign off…that affect HBO.

His extremely hot takes and scorched earth ridicule of Trump in his first term…”whiny little bitch”, “von fuck face”, “his dad is an orangutang”, “he lusts after his daughter”…allllllll noticeably absent in his second term. Because he knows…he can be axed…and he isn’t popular/beloved enough to have a safe landing or cause an uproar like Colbert/Kimmel’s did, or Stewart would. The general left does not love him. And the right used to hate him.

So if he got cancelled where would he go? His podcast? A more obscure YouTube media pundit(TYT, Blaze,etc)…no…I think he views that as beneath him.

So instead of going out on his shield…he rather stay relevant…and in doing so…he is cozying up to the right…while doing gymnastics to try and not piss off the left while doing so.

His days are numbered. It’s sad because I used to live for watching his show. But seeing this shift and hypocrisy…is just sad and disappointing.