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Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF
The Federalist.com ^ | May 24, 2022 | Elle Reynolds

Posted on 05/24/2022 7:56:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/24/2022 7:56:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF

Neither is Tulsi Gabbard, as much as I'd like her to be...

I saw a billboard this past weekend that Bill Maher is coming to Soaring Eagle Casino in Michigan for a live stage show.

Why would I want to go to a Bill Maher standup routine?

2 posted on 05/24/2022 7:59:38 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Absolutely he is not, however, it is fun to watch him fight against the far left that has debased the Democrat Party, and it causes sincere fear in Bill.

In other words, it's popcorn time as the desperation & fear is in full view for all to see. 🙂

3 posted on 05/24/2022 8:01:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Kaslin

Maher knows the Dems are getting crushed in November. He’s just trying to moderate them by attempting proactive damage control. He hoping they will follow his lead and ease off the radicalism to avoid a catastrophic defeat.


4 posted on 05/24/2022 8:02:57 AM PDT by Starboard
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Bill Maher is just trying to keep his ratings up, because with Trump out of the White House, ratings have gone down. Conservative sites praising him are stupid.


5 posted on 05/24/2022 8:03:53 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Kaslin

Suspiciously similar to Tulsi Gabbard. Another gun-grabbing baby-killer with the ability to sucker too many conservatives.


6 posted on 05/24/2022 8:04:27 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Bill Maher is not, and never shall be, a “conservative” by any definition. He is a gadfly, flitting from one position to another, inflicting his sting on vulnerabilities that persons of al political convictions carry around with themselves as their personal baggage. He deflates pomposities and swollen egos, much to the delight of a portion of his audience, at least as long as they want to deflate the same pomposities and swollen egos. But when this same talent is directed at those whom his core audience have an affinity for, that makes them sort of bat guano crazy, and therefore, he must be denounced in he sternest terms possible.


7 posted on 05/24/2022 8:04:30 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Yo-Yo

I agree about Tulsi.

Smart, attractive, fairly articulate, served her country, and willing to buck her party seemingly on principle. I want to buy it. I am too cynical.


8 posted on 05/24/2022 8:05:42 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: TakebackGOP

Doesn’t really need “ratings” since it is a subscriber based service.

If you subscribe to it, this is being funded, even if you never watch.


9 posted on 05/24/2022 8:05:49 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Nope. He just has some sense in his head when things are going off the rails. He's still a crazy leftie. Just not an insanely crazy leftie.
10 posted on 05/24/2022 8:08:42 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
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Of course, we know that. But he has trouble intellectually with some issues. That’s a good thing.

Cult ridden liberals will forgo logic and accept hatreds to stay in the fold. They desperately do not want to be cancelled. OMG


11 posted on 05/24/2022 8:09:17 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Fox news has her on many times. She definitely sounds more like a conservative instead like a lib. I hope she will eventually change her party affiliation and become a conservative. I definitely would have voted for her if I were a resident of Hawaii


12 posted on 05/24/2022 8:09:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Bill Maher Is Not Your New Conservative BFF

He doesn't need to be. He's an old-school leftist who is appalled by how insane and unserious American leftism has gotten, and his speaking out is valuable.
13 posted on 05/24/2022 8:13:20 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Kaslin

no shhh.....nevermind


14 posted on 05/24/2022 8:14:05 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher can be trusted almost as much as National Review!


15 posted on 05/24/2022 8:22:40 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: Kaslin

He is a businessman. Maher is simply aware of which way the wind is blowing and trying to gradually position himself in order not to become irrelevant.


16 posted on 05/24/2022 8:27:43 AM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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Maher is a good indicator that not all liberals or democrats are on the same page with everything the leftists are perpetually spewing. Some of them DO have common sense or the ability to reason even if its slow. I’ve often said that real-world democrats are not really that bad. Most of the ones that I know allow their compassion to guide them past the point of reason. For example, I worked for years with a guy who would tell me straight up that his decisions where politics were concerned revolved around what was good or best for children. He was in favor of gun control because he felt it was better (safer) for the kids. He was in favor of welfare because he couldn’t stand the thought of kids going hungry or not having heat during the winter. Nothing I said would convince him to think in bigger terms about having no safety net forcing people to get jobs so their kids wouldn’t starve. Nothing I said would convince him that people should be capable of defending themselves and the police should essentially back them up. But its hard to fault a guy for being emotional about kids and wanting the best for them, even if his ultimate logic about what the best is was essentially faulty. Maher is still a liberal but he’s not one who is insane enough to voice support for child maiming or child abuse. I don’t especially like him, but I agree with his stance on this. If your kid wanted the doctor to cut off his hand, he would be referred to a psychiatrist because his thinking was broken. How is cutting off your genitals any different?

Lately, a lot of my thinking about the left side of the political spectrum, including Tulsi Gabbard, is that they can say and think things that make a lot of sense, but they are still baby killers. That one fact alone tells you all you need to be against them.


17 posted on 05/24/2022 8:28:10 AM PDT by NicoDon
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Maher can KMA and ESAD for all I care.


18 posted on 05/24/2022 8:29:33 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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Oh, how could ANYONE criticize that blessed man who has saved so many lives???!!!!!

Just kidding.


19 posted on 05/24/2022 8:40:19 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Stay out of crowded places. Telling you this because I care. )
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To: aynrandfreak

NR is a pathetic shadow of days gone by. To seek affirmation from an individual who will humiliate and ridicule them in a heartbeat is indeed an illustration how NR has evolved into a flock of clucking GOPe capons. Just sail away on a cruise with Goldberg Williamson ad nauseum.


20 posted on 05/24/2022 8:42:19 AM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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