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Bill Maher Calls Left ‘Aggressively Anti-Common Sense’ at Aspen Ideas Festival, Predicts Trump ‘Very Likely Will Win’
MEDIAite+ ^ | Jun 26th, 2024, 1:43 pm | Zachary Leeman

Posted on 06/27/2024 10:34:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Bill Maher ripped into the “aggressively anti-common sense” left and casually predicted a Donald Trump victory during an appearance this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Maher participated in a talk with English journalist Tina Brown in which he called out modern political tribalism and at one point ripped into younger liberals so much that Brown had to tell the comedian and Real Time host he’s “very cantankerous” as he continued on.

Maher argued Democrats are doing themselves no favors ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Part of it the left has to own. They are aggressively anti-common sense,” he said. “The Democrats keep running on this one idea, saying to the American people, ‘You can’t possibly think you can do worse than Donald Trump.’ And they keep saying, ‘Yes, we can. Yes, we can.'”

Maher at one point asked the audience if any of them were Trump supporters. The room stayed quiet. Maher argued there were absolutely Trump supporters in the audience, but they weren’t comfortable coming forward as Trump supporters in that group. The same awkward silence would be the response at a NASCAR race if he were to ask for people to admit being to being supporters of President Joe Biden.

This sort of tribalism, he argued, is leading to more extremism in politics.

Maher’s rant against the left’s role in feeding tribalism led him to younger liberals, a group he’s often open about his disdain for.

“Tear down statues of Lincoln? Maybe give communism another shot? Get rid of the border patrol? Get rid of capitalism? White supremacy has never been worse? Gender is always just a social construct? It’s okay to have penises in the women’s swimming pool, in women’s prisons?’ No, it’s not that I’m old; it’s that your ideas are stupid,”...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; demagogue; hbo; r; realtime

1 posted on 06/27/2024 10:34:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"No, it’s not that I’m old; it’s that your ideas are stupid insane"

More accurate, imho.

2 posted on 06/27/2024 10:38:49 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“at the Aspen Ideas Festival”

Well, theres certainly nothing elitist sounding about any of that. Lol!


3 posted on 06/27/2024 10:39:03 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And yet the fraud still plans on voting for them. Bill Maher’s phony middle of the road, common sense routine got old about 20 years ago.


4 posted on 06/27/2024 10:39:52 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

Bill Maher is the left’s version of controlled opposition. His purpose is to keep Democrats, who may have doubts about their party, from leaving. His tactic is to acknowledge the left’s faults so he can appear reasonable to the more reasonable Democrats out there, only to lead them back with “But we have no choice. We have to vote Democrat because the Republicans are Hitler, etc.”


5 posted on 06/27/2024 10:44:41 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember when Maher was firmly on the left. I don’t know if he has moved right or that liberals have move so far left that he will not follow.


6 posted on 06/27/2024 10:53:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

the liberals are have moved left.

Trump is a 1990’s democrat.

Ronald Reagan was a 1930’s democrat until the democrat party moved leftward in the 1940’s. Reagan then became a republican.

Reagan’s way of putting it was that he didn’t leave the democrat party. The democrat party left him.

Same with Trump.


7 posted on 06/27/2024 10:57:46 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Maher at one point asked the audience if any of them were Trump supporters. The room stayed quiet.”

Nobody is volunteering for lifetime cancellation by the “tolerant” and “diverse” left.


8 posted on 06/27/2024 10:57:54 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

The same is true for public opinion polls. I am guessing that Trump supporters tend to refuse to participate. Or if they do, they hide their preferences.


9 posted on 06/27/2024 11:14:39 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
Every day, the left proves they have no critical thinking skills, personal awareness nor common sense. These people are so DUMB, that if they got shot in the head, they’d take two Tylenol for the headache.

“Guns kill.” Really?

10 posted on 06/27/2024 11:19:11 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Americans better hope Trump wins;. America cannot stand 4 more years of Obozo, Klain and Biden running the Country another four years.


11 posted on 06/27/2024 11:22:34 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No one admitted to be a Trump supporter because they knew they’d be pounded into the floor.


12 posted on 06/27/2024 11:22:44 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I agree with this. But I also believe this is his *act*. He's just a performer.

When tomorrow comes he'll say something different. Because he's a performer.

13 posted on 06/27/2024 11:53:53 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maher keeps lying about not voting for Trump. It’s becoming harder and harder to believe him.


14 posted on 06/27/2024 12:21:15 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The identity politics the Dems went all in led to all of this.


15 posted on 06/27/2024 12:25:29 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The latter


16 posted on 06/27/2024 12:25:57 PM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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