They aren't a sycophantic minon of a bigoted, sexist, anti-vax, rich, white male TV celebrity who parrots right wing talking points straight from FAUX News.

It wasn't so long ago it was Dennis Miller who had lost his humanity; people started laughing AT him and not at his jokes.

Any progressives or liberals still watch Bill Maher.

Particularly after all the hard work Maher has put in over the years, devolving into a rightwing pimp. Credit where credit is due...

I watched him until maybe a year ago, but he’s really gone over the edge.

The only way I keep up with his garbage output is from online reports I come across, here on DU and elsewhere.

the Lib open mindedness, and at minimum the facilitating for Opposition Research.

And if I'm not interested in something, I just skip over it. *sigh*

to be constructive in instead of being irresistibly drawn to one they don't like and feeling compelled to express their personal peeve, especially if claiming to be more-Lib-Than-Thou.

So if someone's not interested, they can just skip over it.

a corporate tool, which is obvious envy for Steven's success surviving compared to MAHER's having been cancelled. There's also MAHER's (and my) anti-religion/superstition compared to Stephen's extreme Catholicism (me, Lapsed).

And I kind of dropped out after I reached my teens, despite being baptized and confirmed. I'd give a lot to have the faith that my father did, but at the time I had a big resentment because he sent me to a boarding school where we had "chapel" every day.

That is how much he has moved over to the right. Look at his one on one guest which is the most pro Trump Democrat in the Senate.

I usually do skip over these threads but DU is a place where people like to give their personal opinion but there seems to be a strong effort to silence dissent of Maher.

those on DU who criticize or disagree with Maher are being shut down, discredited, silenced?

Well, at least part of it, I doubt I’ll watch Fetterman. As we’re busy with other things this evening I’m taping it, so I can fast forward.

Ruther Bregman, a Dutch historian and author, sounds interesting. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In an interview with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in September 2017, Bregman said that "to move forward, a society needs dreams, not nightmares. Yet people are caught in the logic of fear. Whether it is Trump, Brexit or the last elections in Germany, they vote against the future and instead for solutions to replace it, believing the past was better based on a thoroughly mistaken view of the world: the world was worse before."

And of course, his opening and New Rules are usually fun. Thanks for posting!

Thanks for postings.

Individuals here who "do not watch," who need their weekly dose of fu**ing do not realize, or refuse to realize that in order to win one has to be familiar with what the other side says. For me Maher is preferable to Fox or whatever the White House issues.

And at least Maher can be funny and his "New Rules" can be eye opening.

We often see guests on the show that we see nowhere else and it's often eye opening.

I knew he was a phony.