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UTUSN

(73,930 posts)
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 05:51 PM Sunday

Now MAHER went & did it, twisted FDR against us, "I welcome their hatred"

Near the end of a Club Random featuring somebody I had to look up (Charlie KIRK), with a main agreement being their Woke Attacking, MAHER repeated how much 10% of Libs hate him, dared to use FDR's quotation against US instead of FDR's target/WINGNUTS - unspeakable!

Yes, almost all of this week's other Real Time was a raking of KRASNOV and he always sticks in that he is a REAL Lib, like he's on damage control for his date with KRASNOV. And on *that* topic, he keeps saying that KRASNOV was a different, "gracious" person - like THAT person was a REAL person, MAHER completely ignoring/diverting from the very possible reason of its being a PERFORMANCE for 2 1/2 hours especially for MAHER to spread out there/TOOL/useful-idiot.

As for KIRK his Wiki is a rolling rap sheet of financial and dirty tricks.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk
....Kirk briefly attended Harper College, a community college near Chicago, but dropped out without having completed any degree or attaining a certificate.[12] ....

In 2020, ProPublica investigated the finances of TPUSA and claimed in their report that the organization made "misleading financial claims," that the audits were not done by an independent auditor, and that the leaders had enriched themselves while advocating for Trump. ProPublica also reported that Kirk's salary from TPUSA had increased from $27,000 to nearly $300,000 and that he had bought an $855,000 condo in Longboat Key, Florida.[16] In 2020, Turning Point USA had $39.2 million in revenues.[17] Kirk earned a salary of more than $325,000 from TPUSA and related organizations.[18] ....

Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories
Kirk promotes the antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, and has described universities as "islands of totalitarianism".[5][43][44]

In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that he had applied to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and was not accepted.[13] He said that "the slot he considered his went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.[5] He told The New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.[5] He told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been told,"[10][45] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.[45] ....

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Irish_Dem

(68,685 posts)
1. Maher's grandiose narcissism is getting out of control.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 05:55 PM
Sunday

Comparing himself to FDR.
Ha. What a joke BM is.

Pinback

(13,170 posts)
2. Struggling for relevance.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:04 PM
Sunday

The only time I ever encounter this guy’s name anymore is when I see DU threads decrying some performative “bad-boy” statement he’s made.

Then I forget about him again.

UTUSN

(73,930 posts)
6. Well, we've got to keep him tagged, like with Chris Tweety MATTHEWS
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:14 PM
Sunday

As a DUer said about Tweety, "WHEN he's on our side, there's nobody better."





Mike 03

(18,404 posts)
11. Same. I know the name from way back, but I don't know if this guy does a
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:46 PM
Sunday

late night tv show, a weekend show, a podcast, a YouTube thing.

Whatever he does, someone should try to figure out if his ratings are going down recently. That type of thing can cause a person of low character who lacks core principles or ethics to attempt whatever is necessary to get back the eyeballs. I learned this from Confucius.

Pinback

(13,170 posts)
12. As Confucius said,
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:53 PM
Sunday

“Half the quotes attributed to Abe Lincoln on the Internet were actually mine.”

sop

(13,823 posts)
4. Maher's just upset people are laughing at his naivete; the joke's on Bill this time, he was played by Trump.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:12 PM
Sunday

For a comedian whose stock in trade has always been skeptical cynicism, falling so easily for Trump's bullshit has to be deeply embarrassing. And when "Maher-a-Lago" becomes the punchline, you know you're fucked.

kimbutgar

(24,911 posts)
5. Bill Maher is a right wing hack who has been brainwashed in the magaloon cult.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:13 PM
Sunday

And I will never watch or have any respect for him.

dem4decades

(12,686 posts)
7. Why Maher gets so much oxygen here, I'll never know.
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:24 PM
Sunday

Ignore that fucker, do we have weekly threads on all the Fox News hosts?

struggle4progress

(122,868 posts)
8. Bill's attempt to play cool rebel by promoting "fascist chic" won't work long
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:31 PM
Sunday

His schtick has never been much more than "smug and smirky" -- and people won't be charmed when the necropolis begins to stink

Xavier Breath

(5,540 posts)
13. I used to watch him religiously (ironically).
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 06:57 PM
Sunday

I won't say covid "broke" him, because that implies his path since was not entirely by choice. But, it did seem to change his outlook, and not for the better. Since its appearance it's been hard tack to the right for him. I don't believe the BM of 2017 goes anywhere near Cheetolini or his white house.

chouchou

(1,791 posts)
14. Ah Yes..I'm pretty much in sync with what you're saying. Was it Bill or the Corporate masters?
Sun Apr 20, 2025, 07:17 PM
Sunday

Anyway..Your words are true.

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