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Bill Maher is a textbook reactionary centrist: he'd sell out any minority for the sake of his own influence and pocketbook.
From the constant digs on trans people to the time he was ready to scab (until it became clear that it would diminish his influence), he'd step on every person he views as beneath him to get powerful people to think he's smart.
And he's not half as smart as he thinks he is— he ends up platforming the absolute worst people and letting them run rhetorical circles around him.
I genuinely liked how he brought Bill Burr on there and tried to act like he was smarter than Bill Burr, who rightfully called him out on his bullshit.
or get stupid people thinking hes smart, republicans are the only that agrees with him
His recent interview on Pod Save America was so off putting, so filled with his own narcissism, that I simply couldn’t finish listening to the interview. There was little of substance there; just a very out of touch very rich guy loving the smell of his own shit.
Wait. The "we get it. We happily moved to the right like we always do, and we totally get it, that sucks, but..." podcast had the only person other than Joe Manchin that typifies all they have ever been about as a guest?
How many ads per ep are they up to by now? 20? 30?
I don't listen to the show very much, but I was tempted out of masochistic curiosity.
Dude is like a boomer Joe Rogan— he buys into the dumbest bullshit because he thinks being a contrarian is a cheat code for the truth.