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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 seems like a Kennedy Jr. guy
He's an anti-vaxxer too, so probably.
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.
He's a tribal Democrat. He would absolutely endorse Trump if he had a D by his name. Trump actually used to be a Democrat. He just switched to R because he is a conman and saw which party base could be conned more easily.
That's actually not true. That was just a lie created. Check your facts.
"That's a lie! I'm not going to say which part, though."
They made several assertions, simply saying "LIAR!" accomplishes exactly fuck all.
Sorry didn't think I had to say the main argument in his statement was what I was referring to.
We know what you're referring to but you've done nothing to prove your position. What was the lie? Spell it out. What is the truth instead?
What are you talking about? Trump was a registered Democrat in the 2000's. He's switched part affiliation over and over based on what he thinks will work best for him optically. Now as for Maher, he's a typical old neoliberal. He may be pro-choice and also more for reforms like gun control and taxing the rich, but on many social issues he might as well be a Republican. I think he agrees with Trump's position on a whole host of issues. I think if Trump was a registered Democrat, we would be seeing a very different tone from Maher about him.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/dec/18/blog-posting/no-donald-trump-did-not-call-republican-voters-dum/
What's this quote have to do with anything? I never said he said Republicans are dumb in the 90's.
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.
Liberals are right of center. America is almost the only place on the Earth where liberalism is considered left wing.
In Australia our conservative party is called the Liberal Party.
I wonder if these are people from outside of the US referring to what we call libertarians.
But anyway, the “left” in the US is certainly no where near as left as the left in say European countries.
I always hear this, but it doesn't make sense to me. To me it sounds like we define liberals differently. What specific stances make a liberal right of center? I would like to know we're defining the word the same way.
I've thought of it this way, a liberal is a master being giving liberally the treats they shower their workers with to keep them happy and productive. A leftist believes in the class consciousness struggle and that human rights are innate and not something handed down from masters.
That wasn't anything specific at all.
Then Google it. I gave you an overview of the two political philosophies. It's not my job to educate you if you don't like the answers you get.
You weren't even the person I was originally asking the question of. You went out of your way to give an answer that didn't answer my question, and then you get upset at me for what you did?
They defend corporate rights instead of worker rights, as an example.
Endorsement of capitalism, for starters.
Being anti-union sounds pretty right wing to me.
Being pro giving his employees a paycheck is not anti union.
Yeah, and I'm sure that GM just want to give their employees a paycheck and are not anti-union either, right?
That's not even close to the same thing and you know that.
I haven't listened to him recently but his anti-woke stuff is unbearable to get through. That being said, he really defended Biden against Trump on the JRE podcast. At least from the clip I've seen, saying Trump is both crazy and stupid.
He was also constantly asking anyone who would listen what we would do if Trump refused to step down. Everyone laughed at him, and then Trump incited an insurrection.
Bullshit. Lots of people were saying that all the way back to 2016 when he called that election illegitimate.
Okay not literally everyone, but definitely the majority of his guests and definitely the politicians.
A liberal bashing minorities? Come on. He’s left on some issues and right on others, but then again so is Bill O’Reilly.
He doesn't bash minorities...
He is openly anti-Arab to the point where he sided with Jewish extremists despite claiming to hate “all” religion. His black guests have called him out on his dumb stereotypical views and he used the N word on his show. Just because he claims to be a liberal doesn’t mean he gets a pass on genuine bigotry.
He is anti Islam not anti Arab. That's an important distinction.
He’s both.
He wanted to ban Syrian refugees from the “West” by stating that “their cultures are not like ours.” He said “talk to anyone who ever dated an Arab, it’s not pretty.” That’s grossly racist, in addition to comments like they’re “bringing that desert stuff to our world,” and uncivilized.