It’s been a week of news, from Donald Trump’s impeachment to a school shooting in Nashville. Or as Bill Maher put it on Friday real time“March came in like a lion and ran away with Trump.”
Maher was visibly excited that Trump, one of his favorite targets, was having a really bad week. He noted the irony that “the most boastful man in history is being sued by a man named Bragg.” Also ironically: “He’s kept people tight all his life, and the one time he pays them…”
Maher was ready to fight on Friday and for now, he had panelists ready to fight back. The show opened with Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu admitting that the impeachment against Trump was “an absolute circus.” Sununu, though a staunch Republican, said he doesn’t think Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024 and said he “can’t win” the general election.
However, he pressed Maher’s support for demoting Trump on Jan. 6 and Trump’s insistence that the election was not a fair one. Sununu agreed that Jan. 6 was one of the worst days in American history, but pointed to subsequent failures by Democrats, including “the loss of energy independence.”
Noting that he lived in San Francisco for three years, Sununu encouraged Maher to defend the city’s decline. “They tell me the Democrats are winning[dort]’ he said, calling it ‘a humanitarian crisis’.
The guy has floated the possibility of running in the GOP presidential primary, but wouldn’t commit until things played out more.
The panel discussion included journalist and author James Kirchick and Winsome Sears, the latter the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor of Virginia and the first woman of color and Jamaican-born American to hold statewide office in Virginia history .
After some back-and-forth about Trump, the conversation turned to the Nashville school shooting and its connections to gun proliferation.
Sears said she is a Marine and has no problem admitting she would use a gun if someone broke into her home. She said black women are the fastest growing demonstrations to arm themselves.
“I don’t like guns,” Maher admitted. “But I’m glad they exist.” He noted that his small stature resembled some women and that a gun “levels the playing field.”
Maher said it is not unreasonable to make gun acquisition more difficult. But he claimed opposition was a conservative tactic against crazy liberals. “Are you trying to be crazy? I’m going crazy too And I’ve got bullets.”
Maher’s usual mid-show pause played a portion of the new J6 chorus in which Trump said the Pledge of Allegiance. The usual path of a hit followed by an album is likely, Maher said, holding up a mockup of the album cover of “Appetite for Insurrection,” which features songs like “I Guess That’s Why They Call It Fake News ,” “The Kids”. Are Alt – Right’ and ‘Midnight Call to Georgia’.
The panel ended with a discussion of the vexing Nashville trans shooting issue and euthanasia issues.
Kirchick noted that the trans community strives for “equality, dignity and respect,” already covered in those areas by a 1964 amendment to the Civil Rights Act, and that most of the controversy revolves around children. “That’s where the conflict comes from.”
Maher said trans activism “sometimes looks like a power play with them.”
Sears said she wants to control all aspects of her children’s lives and doesn’t want a drag queen giving them a lap dance at school.
“We need to go back to a place of sensitivity,” she said. “You want to live a certain way and I will do what I do. Let’s make peace with that.”
Maher’s New Rules editorial spoke of the need for a special holiday for atheists. See monologue above.
Source: Deadline
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