Invoice Maher used his Actual Time soapbox responsible progressive liberals for Donald Trump’s election to the Oval Workplace.
“Somebody should inform the same old suspects on the far left that the saying is, ‘If you’re in a gap, cease digging.’ Not ‘hold digging,’” Maher mentioned on the Friday, November 15, episode of his HBO present. “Discuss doubling down on what bought you f***ed within the first place. Even the one concession I’ve heard a couple of folks on the dropping facet provide — that liberals ought to cease saying that Trump voters are silly — comes with a sort of unstated parentheses. ‘We all know they’re silly — simply don’t say it.’”
Maher then referred to as out “silly” liberals, citing queer individuals who assist Palestine, individuals who nonetheless put on face masks to cease the unfold of COVID-19, and individuals who use gender-inclusive language like “one that menstruates.”
“You like to talk reality to energy, and we all the time ought to, however you have got utterly misplaced the flexibility to talk reality to bulls**t,” Maher claimed.
The pundit additionally cited a Blueprint ballot that discovered Black voters have been extra prone to discover the Biden too liberal than too conservative. “In addition they discovered that voters didn’t simply need Harris to distance herself from Biden, they needed her to distance herself from what they imagine all the Democratic Get together has develop into — a Portlandia sketch, a bunch of privileged imply women complaining about privilege and making an attempt to make ‘fetch’ occur,” he mentioned. “The premise for Democratic campaigns has develop into: ‘We’re the good folks, that we all know from the get-go, no have to look into that.’”
And after different making analogies about Democrats — together with one wherein he dropped a slur about folks with mental disabilities — Maher gave recommendation to the political get together. “Possibly take the garments pins off your noses and truly converse with the opposite half of the nation,” he mentioned. “Cease screaming at folks to get with this system and as an alternative make a program price getting with.”
Maher concluded by saying the rationale he’s mad with Democrats is that leftists “blew” the prospect to guard the setting and democracy, the 2 causes Maher mentioned have been necessary to him, with their “aggressively anti-common sense agenda and s***y exclusionary perspective.”
“You misplaced every part — Home, Senate, White Home, Supreme Courtroom,” he added, “and left us utterly unprotected and able to be violated.”
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Fridays, 10/9c, HBO