Here’s this week’s comedy/news bit on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” show. His topic is voters who can’t seem to agree on a Presidential candidate, and how they should be voting for Kamala Harris. Maher avers that if Harris loses, it will because of “progressophobia,” which he calls “Steven Pinker’s term for the liberal fear that […]
Bill Maher on the election and “progressophobia”
Bill Maher on the election and “progressophobia”
05 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher’s weekly bit: an open letter to Chappell Roan
13 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
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If you don’t know who Chappell Roan is, she’s a singer/songwriter who recently became famous; you can read about here. She identifies as queer and as a drag queen, even though she’s apparently a biological woman. In this video, Bill Maher addresses an open letter to her. Roan has touted the virtues of open-mindedness, which…
Bill Maher’s weekly bit: an open letter to Chappell Roan
Cleese on ‘woke’
13 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, movies, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, television Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
John Cleese says woke people want to be right even if they don’t know why:
Cleese on ‘woke’
The woke to a tee
30 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher on patriotism and privilege
29 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Here’s Bill Maher’s latest (8-minute) comedy bit from “Real Time”. Surprisingly, it’s very patriotic. Maher extols the Harris’s campaign emphasis on patriotism and the privilege of being an American, but kvetches that the young folk aren’t buying it. His example: the vocal attempts of pro-Palestinian protestors to bring down America. Yes, whether or not they’re […]
Bill Maher on patriotism and privilege
Bill Maher: comedy on comity
23 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Earlier today I criticized Angel Eduardo for making a useful but un-original plea for comity between people of conflicting ideologies. (Try that with Jewish students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators!) Apparently a false rumor started that J.D. Vance (whom he calls a “giant asshole”) was copulating with his couch, leading to Maher’s claim that we’re all willing […]
Bill Maher: comedy on comity
“A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton Calls for the Arrest of Americans Spreading Disinformation
18 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, television Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Hillary Clinton has long been one of the most anti-free speech figures in American politics, including calling upon European officials to force Elon Musk to censor American citizens under the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). She is now suggesting the arrest of Americans who spread what she considers disinformation. It is a crushingly ironic moment…
“A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton Calls for the Arrest of Americans Spreading Disinformation
Bill Maher on the endless campaign
16 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Here are two clips from the latest Real Time show: the introductory monologue and the longer comedy bit, which this week is on the interminable campaigning going on. This 3½-minute intro is about the debate and Trump’s abysmal showing (he doesn’t forget to bring in Haitians and dogs). His imitation of Trump at the end […]
Bill Maher on the endless campaign
Bill Maher won’t vote for someone who conveys “ick”
12 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Although Maher is always accused of being a right-winger, that’s not true at all; he’s more or less a left-centrist, like me. Here he defines “ick” with some graphic examples, and says that Trump has a bad case of it, and that’s the best thing Democrats have going for them. But. . . . he […]
Bill Maher won’t vote for someone who conveys “ick”
Cheese on the offended
10 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Tony Robinson’s VE Day Trailer – worth watching
07 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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