Posted on 04/02/2025 8:12:12 AM PDT by Twotone
Its good that Kid Rock wants to see more civility but liberals don’t care about that. They want CONTROL. That, not civility or rational debate, is what liberalism is fundamentally all about.
We want freedom, they want control. That’s a very wide gap.
Thats a step in the right direction. Now that Maher has seen Trump up close and personal, what message does good ol’ Bill bring back to his people?
Everybody who meets PJDT in person always has the same comments: he is funny, gracious, kind, interested in me as a person, and he’s wicked smart.
I still don’t know what “dishes” means in the headline, though.
Many of Bill Maher’s core fans will rip him to pieces if he says anything favorable about Trump. It will be a micro-aggression. Control is their God.
Rats, “civility, shmivility, gimme the effin reins!”
To “Dish” is to provide inside info/gossip on something
I don't know if Maher has had a show since that meeting, or what he said about Trump if he did. However, to piggyback off something someone else in the thread said....
Everybody who meets PJDT in person always has the same comments: he is funny, gracious, kind, interested in me as a person, and he’s wicked smart.
My guess is that Maher may well say a lot of those positive things about what Trump is like in person, and then say "I still don't like a ton of what he says and does, and believe a lot of his actions are nuts. That hasn't changed."
I personally could not care less what a political leader is like in private, and in person. It's irrelevant to me because I don't have (and don't want) any kind of a personal relationship with them. Bill Clinton apparently is a great guy in person but that didn't sway me one iota on any of his policies. I suspect Maher will comes out and say something similar.
I believe he said he would comment on the meeting April 11th. Said no one would believe him if he commented on April 1st.
So President Trump thought when he sat down with Bob Woodward .. and other libs.
Exactly.
As in “serving up” something.
Thanks.
We will never win the hard left. But if we move the needle five points among middle of the road people, and basically prove that we aren’t the way the left characterizes us, that could be enormous. The left is not monolithic. There is a hard core maybe 30% of the electorate. But there is a vast swath in the middle that as crazy as it seems, do not pay attention to politics except superficially.
If they turn on the Bill Maher show someday, and he describes meeting Trump, and has a few nice things to say, that is a massive victory.
Did they try to pass a doobie around?
I know Trump don’t play dat!
“If they turn on the Bill Maher show someday, and he describes meeting Trump, and has a few nice things to say, that is a massive victory.”
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That’s certainly true but the Left in general has a strong desire for control (which is to say they want a massive government to enable that) and conservatives stand in their way so there’s never going to be much in the way of a rapprochement with the Left IMO.
To you point, not all Lefties are insane radicals, but most of them are still very hard to reason with. They all believe in the utopian promises of big government and don’t like or trust anyone who doesn’t.
I think most in Maher fan base will hate him saying anything positive about Trump, personality and/or policies. That should cause Maher to rethink which side he is on, but it won’t.
If it were just the fact that they met, I'd agree, but Maher has been watching the DNC move further and further left for a while now. He's spoken out about trans madness and Islamic terrorism, and been treated badly by the left each time. Like Jon Stewart, like Ana Kasperian, I think Maher is starting to realize that if today's left is the Official Left, he's no longer on the left. He's in the middle.
Now, once you're in the middle, that's when you start to look around you and see who is willing to talk and who is screaming at you to shut up.
“Dishes” is short for “dishes out” or “serves” spoken words to someone, and is used to mean “revealing” or “spewing” semi-private news or opinion.
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