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Prabha Milstein's avatar

Bill Maher has never had a progressive guest on. He has had Lauren Boebert , Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc. He is very opinionated, but seems unwilling to be challenged. I would like to see Momdami, AOC, or Bernie Sanders. His thinking is very inflexible, arrogant, and lazy.

Tessie's avatar

"SOCIALISM!! BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!" does not constitute an argument.

Tessie's avatar

Despite his pretentions of being above it all, Bill Maher has been a right wing ass-licker for at least 20 years, and a libertarian asshole before that.

I didn't give a shit about anything he had to say 40 years ago; how much do I care now?

Tessie's avatar

Socialism and Communism have the failure rate that they do because Capitalism shoves a wrench in every upstart country that tries it.

Greg's avatar

How does this guy still have a show?

Arthur T. Himmelman's avatar

I agree with all the criticisms of Bill Maher such as Marycat2021's succinct description of him as "an asshole and Islamophobic moron and been an asshole and moron for years..." And I can't stand his insistence that his studio audience laugh and clap continuously, with rare exception, after every comment he makes, no matter how disgusting. I also think that many people describing themselves as democratic socialists needlessly give their opposition and easy way to label them as dangerous. In fact, what is being called democratic socialism is social democracy. Social democracy more accurately describes Medicare, Social Security, and other policies and programs addressing issues and needs which capitalism does not and will not. Denmark, Portugal, and Sweeden are social democratic not socialist; they do not favor abolishing capitalism. In the United States, moving from capitalism to socialism would involve an enormous amount of violence because capitalists will never give up their power and money because of the results of elections.

Marycat2021's avatar

Maher is an asshole and an Islamophobic moron, and has been an asshole and a moron for years, which explains why Trump doesn't try to get him fired.

mfp-6s,7s,9s's avatar

bill maher is the living embodiment (and example #1) of why "BLUNTS AND GUMMIES FOR ERRR-BODYYYYY!!" wasnt such a great idea after all--the weed-brained, insufferable prick 🙄

Boojum's avatar

A man's reach should exceed his grasp or he's just Bill Maher.

Boojum's avatar

Don't forget Uruguay!

Kathi Ruel's avatar

Maher has been a bad joke for quite awhile now.

John Morris's avatar

I had to look it up. Actually, the GDP of Japan is about 5 times larger than Poland's. As you would expect. On a per capita basis, it's still a big lead for Japan, 36k vs 27k. Anyway, Japan is also a capitalist country, so what is Maher's point?

Darktimes's avatar

Why does he still have a show? Like, surely it’s operating at a loss at this point.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. I would love it if NYC became far more socialist.

marydn's avatar

Hey Maher, you have never been funny. The only time you get a laugh on your show is from your writers' material. I have to assume the reason you have gotten as far as you have in show biz is because of blackmail, bribery or blowing. Your net worth is supposedly $140 million. You could live very comfortably on that for the rest of your life. Do the world a favor and retire.

Tessie's avatar

Didn't some English guy call Maher a big-nosed c**t?

Jessica's avatar

New Zealand recently elected a far right government who are busily rolling back all the previous advances