Posted on 09/21/2022 9:05:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
On Bill Maher’s Overtime, the post-show after Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO, his liberal guests expect an apology or some sort of repentance from those who supported or voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Trace Adkins wasn’t taking their guff and blatantly told them, “I ain’t asking forgiveness for shit”.
Bill Maher doesn’t like how divided things are, he doesn’t want to have to pick a state to live in based on politics because he sees flaws in both parties. Speechwriter for Joe Biden, Jon Meacham replies, “it has to be both, and both have to accept the rule of law.”
Meacham then informs us he lives in Tennesee and has many conservative friends “who don’t want Trump and then they’ll say but Biden’s spending too much money.” He then shakes his head and says, “You don’t get to say the second part until you fix the first” He then admits he has become very partisan himself admitting, “I didn’t feel this way until the [2020 presidential] election was over.”
He then places blame about his feelings on January 6th and the way Trump handled the election results.
He motions to Adkins and says “see if you agree with this.” Adkins doesn’t look thrilled.
Meacham continues, “Republicans who don’t like Trump, want forgiveness but they don’t want to repent.”
Maher laughs sheepishly and looks at Adkins who is also smiling at the uncomfortable statement. Maher starts to say, “You don’t have to answer.”
Adkins interrupts and declares, “I ain’t asking forgiveness for sh*t.” He continues, “It’s not personal, it’s policy.”
Puck New’s founding partner Julia Loffe seems triggered by Adkin’s response.
She starts her tirade, “It is personal. I think Trump made a lot of things personal, and when we talk about the division in this country, we can’t talk about it as if it’s a meteorological phenomenon that just happened, right? There were certain things that were done by certain people in certain institutions, Trump among them – very consciously, to divide this country, to prey upon the fissures that already existed, and to make them wider and wider and wider to the point where we can’t see each other across them.”
She adds, “So it’s not just like, ‘Oh my, this has happened.’ This was done in many ways on purpose by Trump… and so when we say it’s not personal, it is personal. And I do think people who supported Trump and who enabled Trump do have something to apologize for and do have a lot to repent for.”
“A man who calls countries s-hole countries, who tells congresspeople of color to go back to where they came from, who calls women pigs, who makes fun of their menstrual cycles, I could go on, and on, and on… And that people still follow him and think that’s still okay… That is something that we have to talk about.”
Maher replies, “I would say most of the people I know who voted for Trump say, ‘The biggest mistake liberals make is thinking I like him’”
Loffe interjects, “It doesn’t matter If you vote for him.”
Maher continues, “What they’re saying is that you get two choices in this country, I would never vote for Donald Trump, nobody was harder on Donald Trump than me… but it’s a little more nuanced than that. It’s a little more nuanced than that. I understand why people who make the decision to vote, which most people do, based on not who I like the best but who I hate the least.”
Loffe then doubles down, “That means all of the things he said and has done are not bad enough to keep you from voting from him, which means you’re more okay with him being in power and him having the nuclear codes and him having control of the army and the Department of Justice … that means you’re okay with that or you’re more okay with that than the other guy no matter what he said, no matter what he’s done.”
Maher then steers the conversation, “It depends on what’s your priority. To me, the two biggest issues are democracy and the environment… but I don’t have kids. I know people who say, ‘I have kids and I don’t like it when they come home and say ‘Uh, they divided the class today into oppressors and oppressed. And if I changed my sex I don’t have to tell my parents’.’ There’s s— like that going on that makes people go, ‘You know, I agree. Donald Trump is a creep. He is everything wrong that could be stuffed into one man. But I have these other considerations.’ That’s all.”
Maher also told Loffe, “And that’s why you, you know, you seem like you have such contempt for half the country. I don’t think that’s gonna get us where we need to go because… I think we’ve crossed this line. And now the question is, how do we walk it back? How do we walk it back from I hate you so much that I can’t live with you. And we have to live with each other. There’s no apartment where we can put the tape down the middle of it. We have to find a way.”
Maher’s Friday night Overtime show certainly got confrontational with some very harsh rhetoric coming from his liberal guests. Adkins kept it short and sweet but definitely got under the skin of Loffe who seemed quite offended by his comment.
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De centralize Washington DC. There is no need for Centralization in this age as opposed to when DC was set up. Break up Government Agencies and relocate them.
There IS no getting along. To hell with ‘em.
And by “ ‘em “ I mean anyone left of far right.
“Opps I’m sorry I kicked your Obama/Hillary/Biden voting head in and your fluids are everywhere.. but you really deserved every bit of it and it was sooo much fun.”
That’s the apology they should get- on a macro level.
Stupid, corrupt people saying stupid, forgettable things.
NUTS
I got two words for ‘em.......and it AIN’T “happy birthday”.
Mahre likes it both ways.
Don’t you just love how progressives claim we (the right) are divisive, how we are insurrectionists? Divisive means not letting them get their way.
They must think we don’t remember the “mostly peaceful” BLM and Antifa riots, or how Trump obeyed the law and judicial rulings even when the judges were clearly partisan. Or how Trump offered to a path to citizenship for the Dreamers but couldn’t get them to budge on the border wall (too expensive they said—haha).
*** It is personal. I think Trump made a lot of things personal, and when we talk about the division in this country, we can’t talk about it as if it’s a meteorological phenomenon that just happened, right?***
Obama lovers go first, beyotch. He made a lot of things personal, and he was the first to divide us.
So no, not apologizing, and not asking for forgiveness.
The Liberals want apologies and repentence from Trump voters, while they and the entire Dim party considered Trump illegitimate throughout his whole term of office, and they went along with and supported the “Russian collusion” hoax, perpetrated by Hillary Clinton, watched and applauded as the lies in that hoax became part of trying to impeach Trump, and even now, knowing it was a hoax make no apologies for the many lies they commited themselves to in the name of that hoax. They have no right to ask apologies or repentence from any Republican.
Trump didn’t cause the division in this country, he revealed it.
The Russia hoax was personal.
Yup,the Red Guards.Not all Freepers are old enough to remember Mao’s Little Red Book and the Red Guards.Many Freepers,when speaking of Rats,make references to Nazis. I say that the Nazis were amateurs when compared to Mao.
If I was in Adkins shoes, I would have demanded an apology from the liberal swells that are more concerned with how this country is being talked about amongst their fellow Cosmopolitan Elites around the world and told 2/3rds of the country that they don’t matter at all.
And added that if repentance for how badly they have f-—ed up this nation is not coming, along with a walk back of a LOT of the crap they have shoved down our throats in the last 40 years, they will get something in a few years that puts 1/6/22 into the proper perspective. (A comedy of impotent and ineffectual frustration that became quite useful to the folks that need to be not around any power anymore.)
I didn’t have to wait for Trump to reveal it, but maybe the masses did. Obama was the worst…until Biden.
Yes, the Uniparty is all about making things personal to those who they perceive as unworthy.
Mahr is a nasty lowlife piece of work that once dressed up as Steve Irwin for halloween mocking his death is a very disrespectful and despicable way.
Just because he has a moment of clarity and says something that the right likes occasionally doesn’t cut any ice with me.
He’s a proper jackass
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