Posted on 03/22/2025 6:32:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while President Donald Trump is going about it the wrong way, he’s correct that “Europe should pay for their own defense.”
Maher said, “[T]here are some things I don’t like altogether, but there are some things, — I think you and I both agree, I don’t know if you do on all of these — but some of the things that Trump has ideas for, like, Europe should pay for their own defense. Yeah, they should. They’re rich. Border security, equity completely replacing the idea of equality. Some things, maybe biological men should not be competing with women, lots of things.”
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And yet, he still hates Trump
Sometimes that blind squirrel does indeed find an acorn.
It’s not a blind squirrel. He’s playing the game-throw a bone here and there. Works both ways. There’s money in it.
The question of paying for defense for others is complex and one size does not fit all.
Most rules have exceptions. That’s why libertarians get nowhere.
Yes, not a complex question.
It’s very simple.
We pay for our defense and they pay for theirs.
The question circulating over there is - where is the money to do that going to come from?
I would simplify the complexity by boiling the matter down to trade deficits. The US should not be running a trade deficit with a country they supplement regarding defense. The trade deficit should be either 0 or preferably in the minus column. Ireland, Germany, Canada, Mexico, India, and Israel (Which are in the billions) better open the gates to our products without a “paywall” attached.
I know we’ve been paying more than our share for long enough.
Ah, gee, Wally. They’re going to have to take funds from their socialist programs.
Their people will take to the streets if they do that....especially the foreign numbers they’ve taken in over these past years.
“The question of paying for defense for others is complex and one size does not fit all.”
That’s absolutely true. The reason we had and have troops in Europe Japan and elsewhere wasn’t primarily to defend Europe, etc but for our own defense. Of course over the years things change, so what was the right thing for our interests decades ago may no longer be the case today, so the policy is worth revisiting.
Bill Maher is a smart guy but he is an avowed liberal based in LaLa land.
Jimmy Kimmel is an complete idiot based in LaLa land who was NEVER smart enough to have a political ideology hence his puerile start on the Man Show which was mildly funny if one has not developed beyond emotional adolescence.
They BOTH have unmercifully attacked Trump.
Maher ideologically is where he has always been but he is starting to move on from monologues devoted to demonizing Trump to commenting on the issues.
He understands the liberalism he signed up for as a youth has been hijacked by a perverse cult of personality.
It is perverse because it is not based on the deification of its own cult leadership but of the demonization of its opposition as personified in its leader, DJT.
Democrats, Marxist, or liberals whatever you call them are no longer about policies at least policies that promote the way of life of average folk in the majority.
As a conservative I would love to honestly debate liberals on their policies.
I respect true liberals even those that are atheists like the late Christopher Hitchens.
Hitchens was a true believer and ideologue and if you followed him you knew he hated Hillary Clinton as much as anyone on this site.
Glen Greenwald is as left as you can get, but he is clearly not on board with the left solely defining themselves by their obsession with Trump.
The left was pro-war before it was anti-war.
The record is clear that Ike sent Ridgeway to Vietnam on a fact finding mission and he came back saying stay away even though there were those at the Pentagon advising Ike to become more involved in SE Asia.
The Democrats owned the Vietnam war and would come to own the anti-war movement for the most part.
The Democrats were also the party of the working class until Slick Willie cut a deal with the Republican wing of the uniparty on NAFTA.
The Democrats were ALWAYS the party that most favored Israel and any question of funding Israel was left to Pat Buchanan who would be labeled an anti-Semite by liberal Democrats for his questioning the sacred cow.
I laughed out loud when I saw Amy Clarkbar aligning with Goober Grahamnesty by meeting and stirring up the little dictator before he was spanked and sent home without his happy meal.
Maher knows that “liberals” have completely lost their way on war and defense by supporting this stupid unwinnable war in the Ukraine.
Maher knows as does Fetterman that this both tacit and overt support of Hamas is against the liberalism that his party was known for a half century ago.
And Maher as a known heterosexual lecher is disgusted his party has thrown away so much political capital on men pretending to be women.
Bottom line is when true liberals honestly reflect on the issues they realize how far down the rabbit hole they have gone.
The celebrity wing of Democrat party has been taken over by stupid, uneducated, looney tunes like Kimmel, Whoopi, Behar, Streisand, Cher, Ellen Degenerate et al.
Maher is trying to go back to its roots on policy.
Great post
Absolutely. And, dissolve NATO and the UN. Otherwise, get us out of both. Both those commie fag entities have undue and unwanted influence over the USA.
The only President in the last 70 years who put citizens over white liberal 'elites' in DC was Donald J Trump.
It wasn't that democrats were unaware - it was that they and their families and friends benefited. Sniffer Biden, the Clintons and the rest of 'em were NOT the exceptions. Foundation slush funds the norm.
Maher - demcrats weren't clueless about why foreign counties would pay them a half million for 40 minute 'speeches'. Arab Dictators in the middle east especially resented the fact they had to hire audiences to 'meet the American standard for pretending a bribe wasn't a bribe'. And did Congress know when they wrote the rules for "bribes that aren't bribes"? Yes, these 'legal bribes' bills might have been the ONLY bills democrat crooks in Congress bothered to read before they passed them.
So Maher you're on the right track but Democrats have known about the rip offs for years. And if elected they would have continued selling us out to their paying 'friends', to cartels, to foreigners who wanted a cut of the money American taxpayers had to fork over. And access to the lives and treasure of our country to defend them for 'free'.... yeah that includes America's young potentially dying for Europeans and anyone else who had 'cash'.... Our treasure tossed way for pennies on millions. It was NEVER an accident by clueless liberal 'elites' - they knew what they were doing and it's why some of the wealthiest zip codes in the country are clustered around Washington DC. Then again it's been years since I've been a democrat - and maybe it's all changed and now democrats would stop the ripoffs... and bring down astronauts and stand up for powerless girls forced to play sports against men pretending to be women. But I have my doubts.
“Most rules have exceptions. That’s why libertarians get nowhere.”
All laws are, in essense, a negation of liberty.
That is why the libertarian party is full of anarchists.
Bill Maher says intelligent things more and more these days.
But he still has to add in his “Let’s Hate Trump” lines.
Maybe they’ll bond over this common ground.
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