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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:38 PM Apr 2021

Did you catch the Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz interview tonight?

Perfect example of what we encounter every day. She, her brain, could only comprehend the now. He, wanted to talk about the hypothetical world. Neither bad, just different brains.

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mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)
1. I've always been a diehard Bill Maher fan..
Sat Apr 24, 2021, 10:55 PM
Apr 2021

but lately not so much.. I've taken a break. I will watch a clip of this cause I like Fran, and the two of them together is usually funny.
Sounds like his interview with Judge Judy, which was hysterical. He wanted her to talk about all her verdicts and all she would talk about was Bloomberg and how he should be president. She totally punked Bill. He clearly wasn't expecting it.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
9. Well he does have a super ego for sure. Funny, cuz I like Fran
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 11:58 PM
Apr 2021

too... But forgetting about Bill for a second... Thought she did not offer any kind of depth/wisdom for today's world. Not did he.

But..Probably shouldn't judge/review anyone for at least 6 months post pandemic... If it ever ends.

UTUSN

(70,683 posts)
11. Well, I like both of them, contrary to the MAHER haters. I didn't see that much talking-over each
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 12:12 AM
Apr 2021

other. They seem to be soul mates, personally and ideologically. Their general attitude is the "If I were king" thing, a college bull session of knowing more than anybody else.

I don't intend anything negative in what I've said. I like, and share, the contrarian thing. When Fran talked about the plastic sheets around cashiers' stations, I said the same thing back when they started - that they shield nothing floating in the air.

I like them both, including the I-know-better-than-you!1





 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
12. Good take, as always. I spurn the same old... He said one
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 12:36 AM
Apr 2021

thing I didn't like so now I hate him meme. Absolutism.

UTUSN

(70,683 posts)
13. Meme - exactly! & we have a vibrant contingent at DU/GD lecturing others about what is permitted,
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 12:53 AM
Apr 2021

what can be thought, who can't be monitored (MAHER, ROGAN). Too clueless to be "ironic" but they are the ones who claim to be more-Dem/Lib/DU- than ANYBODY ELSE! They seem to have missed the parts of Liberalism about free-thought, free-speech, and not being threatened by hearing out contrariness or *being* contrary!

As for MAHER, the big rap on him seems to be that he hosts wingnuts. Yet I see him as giving the wingnuts rope to hang themselves with and that he confronts them. Although he seems to have fondness for the wingnut women, like he doesn't mind banging them, just enough not to succumb to their wingnuttiness.

I like his anti-religion/theology. And anti-"royalty". Yes, he criticizes Dem strategies, but that is also a Dem/Lib virtue, looking inside for root causes and long term solutions instead of Wingnut looking outside for who to blame and throwing cash at cronies/contractors for non-solutions. We win by fixing what didn't work for us, not by digging in.


*******ON EDIT: DUer said it better than I:

By PCIntern:: "I will personally contact you and ask you what I’m permitted to think feel and say. In the future, I shall subject myself to censorship in order not to be able to express an opinion which tens of millions of other people possess. I don’t want you to be upset, I don’t want you to be agitated or put upon by me having an opinion or feelings."














 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
15. Kudos for "vibrant contingency" !!!!! And PCIntern's response is stellar!
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 01:58 AM
Apr 2021

I WILL steal that, if I ever feel emotional self control

betsuni

(25,472 posts)
4. I have Fran brains.
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:17 AM
Apr 2021

I love her. I love humorists. Jerry Seinfeld said that comedians are the smartest stupid people. True.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
8. I've decided he is one track. He wants to be around people
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 11:51 PM
Apr 2021

who feed off of him and gel with him.

Maybe an unforseen result of year+ long covid nightmare? I find myself so less tolerant of differing opinions myself..( didn't think that was possible)

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