Posted on 05/24/2022 7:56:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Leftists like Bill Maher complain about the ridiculous ends of their own beliefs while refusing to reconsider them.
Left-wing comedian Bill Maher’s name was on conservative commentators’ lips again this weekend after the TV host suggested some children claim to be the opposite sex because “it’s trendy.”
“If we can admit that in certain enclaves there is some level of trendiness to the idea of being anything other than straight, then this is not a serious science-based discussion,” Maher said on his show Friday. “We’re literally experimenting on children,” he added.
National Review cheered Maher’s comments, figuring that “Bill Maher is still a Democrat, but he’s become the kind of Democrat who posts NR headlines on Real Time and makes points that echo the ones we make all the time here. In other words, he’s a National Review kind of Democrat. Welcome, Bill.”
Maher’s candid observation was certainly not wrong, and even sounded refreshingly sensible compared with his fellow leftists’ refusal to listen to medical caution, psychological concerns, or rational debate amid their push to fill kids with puberty blockers and lop off their genitals. Conservatives should be glad to let Maher join the politically diverse coalition of people who think such treatment of minors likely amounts to abuse. That said, opposing such abuse is a very, very low bar.
If a lifelong practitioner of left-wing thought popped into the conversation to say that murder is bad, that parents shouldn’t beat or starve their children, or that we shouldn’t march the Marines to Ottawa and pillage cities in their path, he would hardly deserve applause. (Saying that mothers shouldn’t be able to kill and dismember their unborn children, or that we shouldn’t be marching so flippantly toward nuclear war, should be equally obvious, but those are points for another day.)
So of course Maher’s comments from the weekend were right. They even sound smart if you compare them to the looney agendas the Democrat Party has latched onto.
But just because he’s foolish enough to still associate with the Democrat Party doesn’t make Maher uniquely deserving of accolades for stumbling upon a basic statement of common sense. The fact that most of his political ilk are crazy enough to oppose that common sense doesn’t make Maher suddenly astute, either.
Plenty of smart people on the right and in the center of the political aisle have been saying exactly what Maher did (and far more), for far longer, in the face of relentless criticism, cancellation threats, prosecution, and worse. In fact, Maher’s pretty late to the reality party.
Parents have spoken out after their children were taken from them or driven to suicide by radical trans ideology. Eighth-grade kids in Wisconsin are being subjected to a Title IX sexual harassment investigation for using pronouns other than “they” and “them” to refer to a female student. A Loudoun County father was infamously arrested after he showed up at a school board meeting incensed that the district had covered up the rape of his daughter in a school bathroom so the board could push through a transgender bathroom policy.
That’s not to say someone has to suffer what these families have before participating in the conversation. But when parents, children, and families have endured so much and received so much hate (from Maher’s own side), is Bill Maher really the most deserving recipient of sympathies and accolades for taking far less of a stand than they have? People on the right shouldn’t be such a cheap date for those who work to destroy our constitutional order.
Maher is by no means a red-pilled conservative convert who is willing to acknowledge reality or limits on leftism even when it hurts his image. He was a Bernie bro in 2016 before throwing his support behind Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He’s called the Second Amendment “bullsh-t” and insisted “The problem with Obamacare isn’t too much socialism, it’s still too much capitalism.”
On abortion, he said just this month that “I never thought life itself was particularly precious.”
“I really don’t. I’m serious. I think life is for the living,” he continued. “Until you’re born you’re not living. We wouldn’t miss you if you’re not born.”
In March, he parroted the talking point that Republicans are racist and “would be thrilled to have no black seats on the court,” despite the fact that conservative hero Justice Clarence Thomas is a black man. And last April, he assured us that doddering Joe Biden would be “the right man for this moment” who was “getting things done on wealth inequality, in Afghanistan, racial justice and climate change.”
So no, Bill Maher is not your new conservative BFF. It’s well and good to acknowledge leftists when they call out their own side’s insanity (as he has), or when they reject their philosophical framework that created the insanity to begin with (as he has not). Someone doesn’t have to agree with you on everything to join forces in pursuit of a particular cause. But leftists like Maher call out their own party when they see the party doing things that are bad for the party.
Like blue-state emigrants who resettle in red states to escape their decaying governance and then vote for the same decadent policies, they complain about the ridiculous ends of their own beliefs while refusing to reconsider their allegiances. Their ultimate goal is still a stronger but still very far-left Democrat Party, not a rejection of the party’s dangerous and failed fundamental tenets. And the right has far better things to do than celebrate that.
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?
In other words, it's popcorn time as the desperation & fear is in full view for all to see. 🙂
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.
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.
Suspiciously similar to Tulsi Gabbard. Another gun-grabbing baby-killer with the ability to sucker too many conservatives.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
no shhh.....nevermind
Bill Maher can be trusted almost as much as National Review!
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.
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.
Maher can KMA and ESAD for all I care.
Oh, how could ANYONE criticize that blessed man who has saved so many lives???!!!!!
Just kidding.
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.
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