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On Valentine’s Day morning, Donald Trump woke up and rage-posted Bill Maher on Truth Social. 

He said the dinner was a waste of time. He said Maher was nervous and scared, no confidence. He said Maher immediately wanted a vodka. He called him a jerk, a lightweight, a man with low ratings. He accused him of Trump derangement syndrome. He said the whole thing, the entire evening, the dinner that Maher had described to his audience as a revelation — gracious, measured, the real man behind the headlines — was nothing. Less than nothing. A performance for a mark who didn’t know he was the mark. 

Maher found out Saturday morning. Valentine’s Day. The day the Theater of Intimacy ended. 

Except it didn’t.


Last year, I wrote in a piece titled “The Theater of Intimacy”: Maher’s White House dinner monologue was not merely a personal anecdote but a dangerous form of normalization — one that operated not through intellectual abstraction but through the performance of personal connection. I suggested that the private civility Trump displayed did not mitigate his public conduct. I pressed, more precisely, that it deepened his moral culpability, because a man who can listen attentively over dinner to concerns about threatening judges and ruling by decree, who can engage with self-awareness and even humor, is not a man who doesn’t understand what he’s doing. He is a man who understands it perfectly and does it anyway. 

I said, at the time, that Maher had perhaps unwittingly provided a case study in how charming authoritarians work. I extended that mercy because the error seemed, at least on the surface, like the error of an intelligent man who let his experience override his analysis. He went in. He was charmed. He reported it honestly. He was wrong about what it meant. 

I’m done with “perhaps unwittingly.”


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Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 1:42 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 1:42 pm

On Valentine’s Day morning, Donald Trump woke up and rage-posted Bill Maher on Truth Social. 

He said the dinner was a waste of time. He said Maher was nervous and scared, no confidence. He said Maher immediately wanted a vodka. He called him a jerk, a lightweight, a man with low ratings. He accused him of Trump derangement syndrome. He said the whole thing, the entire evening, the dinner that Maher had described to his audience as a revelation — gracious, measured, the real man behind the headlines — was nothing. Less than nothing. A performance for a mark who didn’t know he was the mark. 

Maher found out Saturday morning. Valentine’s Day. The day the Theater of Intimacy ended. 

Except it didn’t.

Last year, I wrote in a piece titled “The Theater of Intimacy”: Maher’s White House dinner monologue was not merely a personal anecdote but a dangerous form of normalization — one that operated not through intellectual abstraction but through the performance of personal connection. I suggested that the private civility Trump displayed did not mitigate his public conduct. I pressed, more precisely, that it deepened his moral culpability, because a man who can listen attentively over dinner to concerns about threatening judges and ruling by decree, who can engage with self-awareness and even humor, is not a man who doesn’t understand what he’s doing. He is a man who understands it perfectly and does it anyway. 

I said, at the time, that Maher had perhaps unwittingly provided a case study in how charming authoritarians work. I extended that mercy because the error seemed, at least on the surface, like the error of an intelligent man who let his experience override his analysis. He went in. He was charmed. He reported it honestly. He was wrong about what it meant. 

I’m done with “perhaps unwittingly.”

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Psst...I heard the ladies aid committee was sipping moonshine too.      

and yet another PG thread.

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 3:14 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:14 pm

Military.com is not something you regularly read or even post from.  Who is your source?  Remember, if you PG this, this is your tactic.

But your tactic is to refuse to answer...

I found the substack in my mailbox, and searched for further elaboration.

Acknowledge the immediate and responsive answer.


 

 

I acknowledge that you is rare you give an immediate answer unless you are trying to make a point.   As you are doing here. So I raise your lie:

Huey » 14 Dec 2023, 12:14 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2023, 12:14 pm

R.Suave » 14 Dec 2023, 12:11 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2023, 12:11 pm

how many fingers, champ?


 

As far as what I read I check Drudge, the NY Post, CNN and MSNBC in the morning to see all sides take on any new issue.

So, no need to ever ask again, Meltdown Legacy Boy.  Put in your sig box if you need to remember it.  

Acknowledge you have received this.  

 

I have answer that question MANY times and I linked in my sig box so when ******* Snow Bunnies forgot and keep asking.

How many lie have I caught you telling in less than two days?

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm

Not interested in touring another Edifice of ****.

Start a thread

Sorry, not **** and you *******, you shouldn't have responded to it.  But you did and know you are playing the "but Huey" game.

As long as you don't respond, I'm done.

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 3:40 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:40 pm

I acknowledge that you is rare you give an immediate answer unless you are trying to make a point.   As you are doing here. So I raise your lie:

I have answer that question MANY times and I linked in my sig box so when ******* Snow Bunnies forgot and keep asking.

How many lie have I caught you telling in less than two days?

Not interested in touring another Edifice of ****.

Start a thread
 

 

Sorry asshole, you replied to them on THIS THREAD and then you turn ****** when I reply back.  Do you understand why I don't care if you know my name and address?  Because you are coward who ain't gonna do ****.  That is why you use PG as much as you do.  

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 4:03 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:03 pm

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:00 pm

Not interested in touring another Edifice of ****.

Start a thread

Sorry, not **** and you *******, you shouldn't have responded to it.  But you did and know you are playing the "but Huey" game.

As long as you don't respond, I'm done.

 

 

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 3:40 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:40 pm

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 3:14 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 3:14 pm

Military.com is not something you regularly read or even post from.  Who is your source?  Remember, if you PG this, this is your tactic.

But your tactic is to refuse to answer...

I found the substack in my mailbox, and searched for further elaboration.

Acknowledge the immediate and responsive answer.


 


 

I acknowledge that you is rare you give an immediate answer unless you are trying to make a point.   As you are doing here. So I raise your lie:

Huey » 14 Dec 2023, 12:14 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2023, 12:14 pm

R.Suave » 14 Dec 2023, 12:11 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Dec 2023, 12:11 pm

how many fingers, champ?



 

As far as what I read I check Drudge, the NY Post, CNN and MSNBC in the morning to see all sides take on any new issue.

So, no need to ever ask again, Meltdown Legacy Boy.  Put in your sig box if you need to remember it.  

Acknowledge you have received this.  


 

I have answer that question MANY times and I linked in my sig box so when ******* Snow Bunnies forgot and keep asking.

How many lie have I caught you telling in less than two days?

 

 

Johnny » wrote:

02 Feb 1970, 9:12 pm

Huey » 21 Feb 2026, 4:20 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:20 pm

Sorry asshole, you replied to them on THIS THREAD and then you turn ****** when I reply back.  Do you understand why I don't care if you know my name and address?  Because you are coward who ain't gonna do ****.  That is why you use PG as much as you do.

Golden Years Wop Wop Wop..   

Bowie in the Chopper Upper of Geriatrivists..

 

 

Shouldn't you be looking for a job Mr. Eastern Shore?

Blackvegetable » 21 Feb 2026, 4:20 pm » wrote: ↑

21 Feb 2026, 4:20 pm

Your rule.

How many cocks did your father's asshole suck in when you were growing up? Is the *** still livin'?