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Martin Holmes
Real Time host Bill Maher tore into Democrats on Friday (June 19) for being scared to embrace patriotism amid Americas 250 birthday celebrations.
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He then turned his attention to Democrats and former Vice President Kamala Harris, saying, Every election year, Democrats seem to remember patriotism for about an hour at their convention when theyre trying to win back swing voters. The whole message of Kamalas speech in 2024 was take back the flag. Thats why she talked about America like a pageant contestant.
After showing a clip from Harris speech at the convention, in which she said, the greatest privilege on Earth is the privilege and pride of being an American, Maher quipped, Hard to believe she lost, huh?
Well, you cant take back the flag in an hour if the rest of the time you treat patriotism as something vaguely embarrassing, he added. It shouldnt be!
https://www.tvinsider.com/1271195/bill-maher-mocks-kamala-harris-slams-democrats-over-patriotism/
niyad
(135,328 posts)UpInArms
(55,658 posts)I wish him an abundance of what he deserves
niyad
(135,328 posts)Faux pas
(16,608 posts)niyad
(135,328 posts)Faux pas
(16,608 posts)my dear niyad. I've actually hated that mofo since politically incorrect. It only gets stronger every year.
niyad
(135,328 posts)necessary. It upsets my kitty!
Happy Hoosier
(9,725 posts)Bill Maher is an enemy democracy and placater of authoritarians.
Why do we allow his propaganda on this site? I'm flabbergasted.
hookaleft
(1,400 posts)He clearly is the enemy.
mtairyguy
(57 posts)here I am!
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)
Cheezoholic
(4,120 posts)Celerity
(55,364 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)yardwork
(69,958 posts)It's not worth dissecting. Basically he's just wrong.
Totally wrong.
3_Limes
(630 posts)Why? Nick Fuentes and Candice Owens should be given the same billing here. They're just as friendly to us.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,858 posts)He's just a bag of shit. No one even voted for him, unlike the bag of shit in the Oval Office.
Has anyone ever seen Maher as someone qualified to criticise anyone about patriotism? What has he done for his country, as opposed to for himself?
durablend
(9,453 posts)Can't be repeated enough times
Blue Owl
(60,085 posts)BannonsLiver
(21,027 posts)Haha just kidding. There isnt a breaking point. Sound familiar?
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)City Lights
(26,175 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)MineralMan
(152,043 posts)Don't know why anyone does, frankly.
Mark.b2
(837 posts)Yeah, half the time I get pissed off. But, I like the conversational format. People are generally respectful, most of his guests are usually thoughtful (even if they may have wrong viewpoints) and answers arent limited to 15 second sound clips. I do like how he keeps the vibe light. Good for a Friday evening.
I do wish more Democrats would go on. Too often our side relies on pundits.
chowder66
(12,703 posts)He's such a Trump fluffer.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)that dont support his narrative.
dem4decades
(14,661 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,681 posts)I watched it. I think the author missed the point.
Wiz Imp
(10,822 posts)aocommunalpunch
(4,599 posts)Wake me for the obituary. Fuck Maher.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)thebigidea
(13,597 posts)Cha
(321,559 posts)GenThePerservering
(4,097 posts)they're just clutter
SamuelTheThird
(1,470 posts)PATRIOTISM, n.
Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)Johonny
(26,861 posts)And he can go fuck off if he thinks we don't. Does he love America? Doubt it. He only loves himself. He is a loser that could never keep a woman because his brand is toxic. That isn't our fault, it's his. Sad really.
Cha
(321,559 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,326 posts)him - so he chides and criticizes the polite Democratic Party who pose zero threat to his punk ass.
marble falls
(73,537 posts)tavernier
(14,578 posts)Do you, Bill Maher, really believe that Trump wants our country to prevail? That he didnt start the Iran war and now made it worse by giving them billions to use as they see fit?
That he truly believes that despite all the filming in the area of the pool in Washington DC, there are hundreds of people diving in and ruining it, even though there is no proof of this?
Did the people who came into our capital building and smeared feces from the top to the bottom, and you freed them, shouldnt be held responsible even when many of them have recently been found to have committed horrendous crimes against children and families?
Are you truly too stoned to know the difference between people and politics?????????
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)struggle4progress
(127,189 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)eShirl
(20,543 posts)33taw
(3,384 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,982 posts)"Republican policies are failed policies" is what he said at the time.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)in New York for decades. Doesn't give him a pass either.
DeeDeeNY
(3,982 posts)I just thought it was strange.
SocialDemocrat61
(8,391 posts)to what he is doing and saying now. Especially when he attacked Obama just a week ago.

mwmisses4289
(5,163 posts)You wouldn't know patriotism if it bit you in the ass and hit you upside the head with a clue by four!
biocube
(291 posts)it needs to be said but has gotten stale.
His "young people suck" rants have gotten tiresome, too.