shut her mouth.”You can catch a small clip from Maher’s opening monologue above and this week’s “New Rules” by clicking here.
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Bill Maher celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on Friday during his Real Time on HBO – or, as he referred to it, “Alcoholic Christmas” – by bringing up the dangerous parallels between the religious hatreds that fueled politics in last century Ireland and the turmoil in today’s United States between Democrats and Republicans.
“You can’t think about the Irish without thinking about the division,” Maher said, harkening back to the violent rebellions that created a fractured society there. Now, the same level of intensity is bubbling between Democrats and Republicans here, he noted. “We used to pray for the nation. Now each side prays the other side doesn’t destroy the nation.”
Taking excerpts from a speech former President Donald Trump gave recently at the CPAC convention, Maher noted how it reflected an almost Biblical level of intensity about smiting the other side. It was “big talk from a guy who can’t even shut up his girlfriends,” Maher joked, but then noted, “That’s where we are. Your fellow citizens aren’t just wrong. They are heretics that have to be destroyed.”
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently called for a national divorce between red and blue states. “She is playing with the kind of fire that made Northern Ireland a living hell,” said Maher. Yet he also cited statistics where a full third of voters agree with her and want a national divorce.
“Just voicing this idea is dangerous,” Maher said. “It reinforces the idea that you can’t talk to “those people.”
The problem is that a simple separation is not so simple. There are conservatives who support abortion, and liberals who are against defunding the police, and many more examples where views don’t fit into neat boxes that would be at home in states
shut her mouth.”You can catch a small clip from Maher’s opening monologue above and this week’s “New Rules” by clicking here.
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break was a 1941 movie from W.C. Fields. But it could have been the theme to Bill Maher’s Real Time on Friday night.
Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.
Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.
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Bill Maher was in his frequent “down with religion” state of mind during Friday’s “Real Time,” landing a one-two blow to both the Catholic church and his favorite former president to razz, Donald Trump.It being St. Patrick’s Day and all, Maher’s New Rules began with a shout to Ireland, which quickly turned into a political comparison of the country’s division over religion to the current state in the Republican party.“[Ireland] went through a period where political hatred born of religion turned into something called ‘the troubles,’ which meant the hatred got so bad it could not be contained by the usual means of disagreement. So people lived with bombings and sniping and urban warfare, which Tucker Carlson calls sightseeing,” Maher said, cutting to images of Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Jan.
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The Atlantic criticized the Sierra Club’s “Equity Language Guide,” which it says, is to “demonstrate our commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion is by using respectful, thoughtful language in all of our communications.” Among its suggestions, refrain from using words like “Americans,” “blind” and “crazy.”“He mentioned, I think, ‘felon’ is now ‘justice involved person’” Maher said. And his examples didn’t begin and end there. He also cited the “death tax,” which used to be called “estate tax.” And last week, Maher asked Senator Bernie Sanders what the difference between “equity” and “equality” was in his view, and Sanders said he wasn’t sure he knew.
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