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The Democratic strategist accused Maher of lending ‘legitimacy and credence’ to Trump’s behavior

Political strategist James Carville has branded Bill Maher “supremely naive” after the comedian dined with President Donald Trump and praised him as an “effective politician.”

Carville, who helped get Bill Clinton elected to the presidency, hit out at Maher and accused him of giving Trump “legitimacy.”

The criticism comes after Maher, a longtime critic of the president, had a private dinner at the White House with Trump at the end of March. He made the surprise admission that, actually, he found Trump “gracious and measured” despite railing against him regularly on TV.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

This is an arsehole complaining about an arsehole dining with another arsehole. Arseception

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who actually watches Maher? For me he just sounds like a boring asshole. His show is neither entertaining nor informative. What demographic enjoys watching this guy?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Who cares? Both of them are just money grubbing charlatans.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Everyone named in this article can please help themselves to a large steaming plate of my shit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is real time still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately... His show's poster on HBOMax used to have an "emmy nominated" banner at the bottom, probably to ride on Oliver's success... Looks like they took it off now, LOL

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Carville and Maher can both fuck off to their hospice care homes already.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Bill Maher is and always has been an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Is there some way Carville and Maher can mutually annihilate, leaving behind nothing but a whiff of horseshit?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

putin found a new talking head you mean, in the "both sides maher", after most of them are past thier prime or used up by the media, so they need a "maga-lite" grifter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

So Maher is going to suck some butthole. All hail the new king. kiss the ring, suck the anus.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's not even a comedian. He's a propagandist who wishes he was Jon Stewart

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking of something clever and this is just better. Bravo. Bill Maher is such an idiot

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I recently heard somebody say that Joe Rogan wishes he was Bill Maher. Do we have a wannabe chain started here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Lol. Rogan has like ten times the number of viewers as Maher, if not more than that. It's the other way around. Maher is a loser who only appeals to a rapidly shrinking audience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Joe wishes he was Carlin or Dave Chappelle or Mike Tyson

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i would probably exclude dave now, because hes transphobic.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you yourself heard or seen Dave Chappelle say or do something transphobic? AFAIR Dave Chappelle pissed off one trans person, and got labeled as transphobic. He may not be an active trans allied, but IIRC he actually has trans people in his friends groups who haven't disavowed him.

Don't get me wrong, if someone's actually transphobic, they should totally get called out for it. But if the term is to keep its meaning, we shouldn't throw it around.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Nah, a couple years ago he had a big section of one of his Netflix specials just bashing trans folks with unfunny jokes.

Just looked it up, the special in question is "The Closer" and yeah just look at this mess -

A little more than halfway into The Closer, Chappelle mentions writer J.K. Rowling, who in recent years was called out for her own transphobic remarks.

“They’ve canceled people that are more powerful than me,” Chappelle said in the new special. “They canceled J.K. Rowling, my god. J.K. Rowling wrote all the Harry Potter books by herself. She sold so many books, the bible worries about her. And they canceled her because she said in an interview—and this is not exactly what she said but effectually—she said gender was a fact. And then the trans community got mad as shit. They started calling her a TERF.”

Chappelle added that he didn’t know “what the fuck that was” initially, using the opportunity to mock the trans community.

“I didn’t event know what the fuck that was but I know that trans people make up words to win arguments, so I looked it up,” he said. “TERF is an acronym. It stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and this is a real thing. This is a group of women that hate transgender, they don’t hate transgender women but they look at trans women the way we Blacks might look at blackface. It offends them. Like, ‘Ew, this bitch is doing an impression of me.’”

Chappelle then noted he “shouldn’t speak on this” because he’s not a woman, but continued anyway.

“I am a feminist, that’s right,” he said. “I’m team TERF. I agree, I agree man. Gender is a fact. You have to look at it from a woman’s perspective.”

Later, Chappelle claimed he wasn’t saying “trans women aren’t women” before immediately rolling into remarks that contradicted that claim.

“I am just saying that those pussies that they got, you know what I mean?” he said. “I’m not saying it’s not pussy but that’s like Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy, you know what I mean? It tastes like pussy but that’s not quite what it is. That’s not blood, that’s beet juice.”

So in the space of about 10 minutes we have transphobia, complaints of cancel culture, support of TERFs, support of JK Rowling, and a self admission that he "doesn't know what the fuck that is" but runs his mouth about it anyway.

When he (rightfully) got called out about this, the only thing he talked about for the next year afterward was how jazzed he was to be getting "canceled", as Netflix continued to bankroll more specials for him and suspended/fired trans employees who had complaints about this.

Dave Chappelle is a clown and not the good funny kind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Joe is too though, right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

I watched this Maher thing and I really don't get why anyone cares at all. He basically said trump wasn't a giant douche in person like he is on tv and online. And I totally believe that. Does that really surprise anyone? He's 100% the type of guy that would smile to your face and say your great and then talk mad shit behind your back. Call your mother a whore on truth social and then the second you see him he'd say he regretted it or it's fake news or he didn't actually mean it. I mean just look at zelensky, he talked MAAAAAD shit online for like weeks leading up to that and when they finally met he was asked "why did you call president zelensky a dictator?" And Trump's answer? "Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question."

So yeah, I totally buy that he'd be mild mannered and even reasonable in private with some people. But once you turn your back or if he has a little army of ass kissers with him he will immediately change his tune. I feel like everyone has met a guy like that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bill Maher is the Chuck Schumer of comedy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wouldnt that be seinfeld, recently he called people woke for not thinking his joke is funny, and also his and his wifes support financial of israels genocide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

his wifes support financial of israels genocide.

Give her a break, they didn't get to the Middle East unit in her Social Studies class yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Maher probably came dressed looking like he was about to sing “Splish- Splash, I was taking a bath”.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bill Maher is a right wing troll, who's surprised he's meeting with a fascist regime?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's not a right-wing troll he is the epitome of what the DNC has become without all the populist rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The captured opposition portion of the DNC, yes, who are right wing trolls, so also yes.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seriously... This fucking guy... "I like weed so that makes me liberal, but fuck the left on every other meric possible oh and don't even get me started on anyone younger than me, they deserve death."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Also I'm a free speech absolutist except for anyone who's 'woke' or Palestinian.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago

Maher isn't naive. He is knowingly and willing being the living embodiment of the concern troll.. the "Now I'm a Leftist, but can we all admit that Ayn Rand is Hella based?" Kinda guy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Pot, kettle, black and such.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nope. Two awful people had opinions about each other that’s all

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

In this one isolated instance Carville isn't wrong for once. Which is actually very notable. That said fuck both Maher and Carville

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

James carville putting his name out there. Must have a book coming out. What a piece of shit human.