14 Apr 2025 11:00 am
Cannonpointer » Yesterday, 10:16 pm » wrote: ↑ I'm not at all a Bill Maher fan - though I absolutely respect his talent. Felt the same about Robin Williams: didn't like the man, absolutely respected his talent.
I cannot be a Bill Maher fan, because he's a hollywood guy and a deep state/democ rat apparatchik.
But if I ever COULD be a Bill Maher fan again (my younger and less savvy self loved the guy and told him so one day on Geary Street in SF), that video would have made me one. That's about the best and most authentic SEEMING thing I have ever seen from him except for his pitches to legalize weed. It didn't strike me as finger-to-the-wind the way his way-too-****-late red-pill moments about gender and censorship do.
I stressed the word seeming because I am convinced on good evidence that Bill Maher is an entirely inauthentic fellow. In particular, I will never forgive him for making every bernie bro he had on his show swear allegiance to hitlery klingon IF (wink wink) she "won" the coronation nomination, but never made a single hitlery supporter make a similar oath. Let's face it - he knew the fix was in for hitlery - he was helping to put it in.
The inauthenticity goes both ways. What Maher mentioned about "the guy I met" vs "the guy at the podium" is him validating what I have heard before. Trump and Maher both have a job to do.
Publicly, they have their armor on. Can't wear that all the time.
Like Robin Williams.
Not always funny and light-hearted. Privately, we all have to contend with . . . ourselves.
Richard Jeni comes to mind, as well.
That "swear allegiance to Harpy" IF she wins (but not to Bernie) really isn't inauthentic, is it?
To my way of thinking, it was uber-authentic. Evil, but not really a lie.
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.