Has Bill Maher ever defined exactly what the "Woke Left" that "controls" the Dem Party believe?

[Quixote1818]

What is this nonsense CNN is pushing having him on telling made up fairy tales? I don't even know who these super "woke" people are? They wouldn't even get any attention other than people like Maher and all the idiots on Fox picking out a few people in a chat room or Youtube comment section that say some wacky stuff that HE GOES LOOKING FOR so he can push this both sides are nuts narrative. I saw him trying to push Bill Burr into going after a few extreme "woke" people that occasionally show up in his audience and Bill Burr just blew him off saying they were rare and he just ignores them and Maher looked stumped and didn't know what to do because Bill Burr didn't run with his stupid narrative.

Don't get me wrong because Maher is 100% better than a lot of the media but there are some things he is totally full of shit on and he is actively searching for a handful of somewhat nutty things a few people on the left say and then tries to apply it to the entire Democratic Party while the ENTIRE Republican Party is fucking NUTS on an EPIC LEVEL minus a few people like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney and a handful of others.

The rest of the video is total BS of them fawning over Ron DeSantis.

[czarjak]

1. They may not be fucking nuts, but ALL Republicans are nuts. Romney?

[H2O Man]

2. No.

[budkin]

3. "100% better than..."

NO. Just NO.

[Quixote1818]

10. Okay, 50%. LOL

[brush]

4. Maher once donated 1m to Obama's campaign but now...

apparently has been listening to DeSantis too much lately as there is no such thing as "wokesters", just people who refuse to not acknowledge the real history of this country's past bad acts, and feel hiding and lying about them is harmful, and being truthful about it is more important than the alleged hurt "feeling" of some sensitive white kids.

Kids can take it. It's just that white racists are ashamed of what their ancestors did to Blacks and other POCs and LGBTQ+ people, and many of them still do every chance they get.

[canuckledragger]

5. Bill Maher is an opportunist that plays to whatever side gets him the most attention.

And pretends to be an 'edgy' entertainer, but is mostly just a smarmy asshole.

I gave up him years ago in favour of actual funny comedians with integrity like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

And I learned a lot more in the process with those other guys.

[SunSeeker]

6. Maher thinks anyone who doesn't think he is cool anymore is a "wokester."

Yet another sign of how irrelevant he has become. Maybe he can run back to Ann Coulter's arms for some comfort.

[brush]

9. Quite true. Maher sees himself as cutting edge...

but is really passe and getting redder and redder.

[Cha]

13. I like Trae Crowder

Link to tweet

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[Carlitos Brigante]

7. This has to be his funniest material in years. If not decades. nt

[jcgoldie]

8. Maher's all pissed because some students protested to him speaking at Berkeley 10 years ago

Now he can't get over it and its the demon wokesters lurking around every corner. Fuck Bill Maher, he's not particularly funny and he's not particularly astute and he isn't particularly a Democrat.

[Hekate]

11. Bill Maher is an ass. I had to stop watching him years ago.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I had to stop watching his show for my mental health

He was driving me crazy with all his hypocrisy and Libertarian attitude. He gets pissed off when it benefits him financially. When he had to cancel stand up comedy during Covid he became anti-mask since it hurt his bank account, poor baby. He's a dick.

[allegorical oracle]

25. Same here. He's like a weather vane that swings around with the wind. nt

[Bucky]

14. A straw man about 1/4th of the way along the road to the Emerald City

and like most straw men, he's without a brain

[betsuni]

15. Same thing Obama, Carville, Franken and others are talking about.

Just in case: President Obama, James Carville and Al Franken are NOT right-wingers and the following quotes are their own opinions.

Obama has talked about it for years, to not be so judgmental and easily offended, that Democrats shouldn't lose sight of the big issues, the actual policies that voters care about rather than passing purity tests.

"This idea about purity, and you're never compromised, and you're always politically woke, and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."

"How does politics even -- how is it relevant to the things I care most deeply about? ... not being a buzzkill, right? And sometimes Democrats are, right? You know, sometimes people just don't want to feel like they're walking on eggshells. And they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us at any given moment can say things the wrong way, can make mistakes."

Carville: "We're letting a noisy wing of the party define the rest of us and my point is we can't do that. I think these people are all nice people. I think they're very naive, and they're all into language and identity. And that's all right, they're not storming the capitol. But they're not winning elections. ... I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off schools, I mean -- people see that. ... Some of these people need to go to a 'woke' detox center or something. They're expressing a language that people just don't use, and there's a backlash and a frustration at that."

Franken: "The wokeness is a problem. ... So many of my comedian friends won't do colleges now. ... Now, anybody who can possibly take offense can find a way to take offense. ... There is a part of our party that are these people."

This is actual constructive criticism. What's NOT constructive criticism is noisily yelling that Congress is corrupt and both parties are the same because they're all bribed, oligarchs control everything, calling liberal Democrats "corporate Dems" "establishment" "status quo" who ignore the working class.

[Abolishinist]

17. Uh oh... just in case...

at :30

[betsuni]

24. Thank you. But somehow Bill Maher is Satan, like Hillary Clinton!

Blah blah blah.

[ecstatic]

26. The problem with Maher is that he is really angry and really bitter

and basically a "mean" boy now. You're not going to be an effective communicator or comedian when you have so many personal and specific grievances that most people can't relate to.
I don't care about his solar panel issues or his bad experiences on college campuses. I can't remember the others issues because I haven't watched him in a long time. He is completely unhinged now, and I say that as someone who watched his show for almost two decades before I finally said enough is enough.

[betsuni]

27. I can think of others who are really angry and really bitter and HATE Democrats.

Not Maher.

[Abolishinist]

18. It's unfortunate, for I would like to see a response from the OP to your post.

I think you bring up a good point, but for whatever reason, I guess it's not to be. Sad, in a way.

[betsuni]

21. Thank you. It is not to be, no.

[LexVegas]

19. I see it as a movement co-opted by white people to virtue signal. nt

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Well, I'm in charge of Morale and bringing the donuts to the Woke Left monthly meetings.

[In It to Win It]

20. He once said

something to the effect of it liberals being perpetually offended.

[Samrob]

22. Bill is a POS. That is all.

[Paladin]

23. Life improves when you walk away from Bill Maher.

I've been saying it for years, and I'll continue to do so.