He's shifted further right over the past decade.
During covid it became clear he had moved beyond right of center.
Going against his own union is the final step in this journey.
Yup, I used to enjoy the show, but now he's just a miserable old white guy yelling at shit
I'm not sure about that. I'm guessing the final step will be endorsing Trump. I won't be even remotely shocked when he does it.
He constantly tries to get Republicans to disavow Trump on his show. He used his show to practically beg people to vote for Biden even if they didn't like him, just to get Trump out of office. People here may not like everything he does, I certainly don't, but the guy will never support Trump, I'm willing to state that unequivocally.
Lol, he's not even close to right of center. Yeah, he has a couple strange views like being anti bread, but he is definitely a liberal. We have to stop this purity test bullshit on the left.
Bill Maher is a transphobe and a scab
John Oliver could kick his ass
I believe you meant that John Oliver could fork him up.
Don’t forget a raging islamophobe, a racist against Arabs, and an antivaxxer.
I'm pretty sure he was vaccinated. He did criticize the piss poor messaging during Covid, i.e. claiming the vaccine would keep you from getting the virus entirely, which was never true, and harmful to the effort to get people vaccinated. He made a lot of fun of incoherent mask rules. If you watch his documentary, Religulous, you'll see that he's actually anti all religion, not just Islam. As far as being a transphobe, I'm not like a huge fan or anything, so I don't see his stuff all that often, but he doesn't seem like the kind of person to care from what I've seen. That said, his fawning over Elon in particular made it impossible for me to take him seriously, along with his compulsive shitting on millennials and Gen Z.
You shouldn't pick on him.
Picking scabs isn't healthy.
Booooooo. Booooooo.
Don't support scabs. Support the striking actors and writers, and support unions. That's the thing I'm really endorsing here right now.
I'm with Margot!
Yay
"[…] will not be as good as our normal show."
How.
How can you possibly go lower. Hire Tucker?
I am one of them
Uh, really? That's why you're scabbing?
Thirty minutes of Bill Maher saying “really?” couldn’t disappoint because I never expected any quality in the first place.
I can't comment on the quality of his show but once upon a time Jon Stewart did this on The Daily Show and people applauded him for it. Why is it different when Maher does it? Stewart still supported the writers but wanted to keep the rest of the people who worked on his show working, isn't that the same thing Maher is doing?
Maher doesn't still support the writers and Stewart was not in the WGA. Maher is.
I didn't know that about the WGA (Maher being in it but not Stewart), that is an important distinction, thanks.
I might be wrong about this, but I believe in the John Stewart situation (or whatever show this happened with), restarting the show was a collaborative effort between the show and the union. In this case, the union has stated that they would consider restarting a show without writers as crossing the picket lines.
Scab
Wow his actual tweet was terrible. Tone deaf doesn't even describe it.
Peak liberalism. "I have principles, don't get me wrong. It's just that as soon as they cost me anything I abandon them."
Lmao nicely done
