Bill Maher Defends Trump's Firing Squad Speech

Oh look, Bill Maher being a cranky old man contrarian! Anyway...

Shut the Fuck Up, Bill! The 1990s are over, your way overextended 15 minutes are DEAD!

If you pick apart exactly what Trump said, it was a hypothetical in the context of combat but it was still a hypothetical of extremely violent content. On another aspect of his comment, have any Trumps ever served in the military, much less in combat?

What Bill and his small mind fail to realize is Trump only said that because Liz Cheney is his political enemy who had the temerity to stand up to him and his minions when Trump tried to wipe his fat, white, entitled shit encrusted ass with the US Constitution.

To pretend that Trump is some kind of pacifist hell bent on ending all wars is absolute nonsense. To be sure, if there is enough money in it for him, Donald Trump will go to war with anyone in a nano-second. Just look at the way the Trump kkklan profited off the sale of medical equipment during COVID.

Time for Maher to call it a day and slither under the nearest rock.

I might agree if this was the first and only instance of him threatening death to one of his political enemies but it's far from the first occurrence. Doesn't anybody remember his second amendment Hillary comment. Or you know that time that he unleashed a mob on the capitol to murder the entire Congress and his own vice president. So Bill Maher and anybody else saying this is being taken out of context can f*** off.

Bill is giving it a pass because the sexual subtext (bukkake) arouses him.

John Bolton: "His criticism of [Cheney] is not based on her being a warhawk or anything else, it's the fact that she voted to impeach him...It's just typical of the way he goes after people when you're on the wrong side of Trump."

Most people understand the broader context of Trump’s comment. I’m just glad the Democrats don’t give a fuck about context and are giving the Trumpers a taste of their own medicine.

Why do the Democrats need to add context to every statement when the Republicans never need to?

Let's remind everyone that Bill has been predicting Dems would lose this election by a landslide because of its insistence on 100% political correctness.

Still want to die on that hill, Bill?

Agree, R5. I was not defending this jackass in any way just noting that even giving him the any benefit of doubt, it is an extremely violent comment. His paatern is horrifying and many have become deaf to it over time. A tactic of normalizing.

R3 - the problem with what Dump says and how he says it is you’re never entirely sure it’s not a dog whistle. Regardless, he’s a demented old fool.

Nice work, Bill. Ann Coulter will continue to blow you.

R4 I got that. My comment wasn't really directed toward you it was just in general toward the ass hats that are defending him.

Bill Maher thinks he's relevant? Have I been teleported back to 2005?

He's right. Trump was saying she's a war hawk and should be fighting her own wars. Trump throws so much shit out it's easy to overact.

These people are ridiculous. Trump already retweeted the “Kill Liz Cheney” meme. I don’t know why these people stick their necks out to revise his statements into something palatable. Unless their goal is just to add to the noise, defuse the obvious intent of his statements.

It’s like when last week JD Vance tried to gaslight us about Trump being a racist or whatever and it’s like, c’mon. He just makes them look like fools for even trying. #ETTD

Bill Maher is desperately trying to get on Megyn Kelly's good side.

So sick of everyone running to Trump's defense on every statement he makes. Let it die already.

Bill is right.

Kamala trotting out Liz Cheney is angering a lot of Democrats. They hate that family.

Imagine if we ever reached the point when all those people started saying, “But I thought he was kidding! I thought it was hyperbole!”

The unchangeable fact remains: the man is unfit for office. Now and forever.

Oh please, any fool knows that was a not so veiled threat that Trump wants to kill Liz Cheney. And as if he gives two shits about war. He's said for years he'd like to drop a nuclear bomb. STOP GIVING TRUMP THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT!

So Trump gets the benefit of the doubt on this, but Biden gets raked over the coals for his "garbage" comment.

Yeah, that tracks. Double standard as usual.

And people wonder why Trump gets away with EVERYTHING and thinks he's untouchable.

Defend the microphone blowjob, Bill.

[quote]Let's remind everyone that Bill has been predicting Dems would lose this election by a landslide because of its insistence on 100% political correctness.

He said a month ago he thinks Kamala is going to win, and he's reiterated that every week since.

Don’t forget Dump is prepared to go to war ON HIS OWN COUNTRY! J6 - never forget.

R25, Maher changes his views like he changes his socks or underwear. Check out any of his programs from last winter and his diatribes about PC and how it would destroy the Democrats come election time.

In case you haven’t noticed, Dems have cut way back in the PC message. Harris rarely if ever plays the first black woman card in her speeches. You can also enjoy the hilarious Mondaire Jones ads where he begs voters to forget his defund the police comments. Because he was a mere babe when he made them!

He is correct. When you edit a clip to fit your narrative it diminishes and dilutes his threats when the full quote/clip is shown. If the media had just shown the whole clip and dissected his actual words vs his intent, it may have had more of a truthful and precautionary impact. Now it looks like another misquote attack on Trump.

The media gave rise to this monster, and he continues to flourish because both sides of the media continue to feed him whether intentional or not.

Bill again proves he’s just a right wing asshole.

R29: Oh shut up, asshole. Everyone knows what he meant. And there is no both sides, the media in the US is overwhelmingly conservative biased and anyone who has ears and eyes and is intellectually honest can see it.

R290 and they are fools and the reason the GOP is generally a step in front of us. Sometimes you have to adhere to the enemy of my enemy is my friend in order to get things dome.

I think there’s a direct relationship between Bill’s slow estrangement from The Left and his “new,” contrived, pathetic persona as Joe Rogan’s funnier bro. Bizarre and sad.

R16 Exactly. I'm sick and tired of being told by everyone but Trump what he "really means". If he can't even be trusted to speak for himself, how can he be trusted to speak for a nation?

Bill Maher has a bad case of old and it's terminal.

Coming from Datalounge. A site, where at least once a day, calls for the death of Trump and his family.

Maher is being willfully obtuse here. Trump will often use scenarios to belittle or wish harm on women.

Remember when Megyn Kelly didn’t take off her pumps, get on hands and knees, crawl over to Trump and duck his penis to orgasm during their interview? He used his “bleeding” put down, nominally to say she was angry, but really to say “just another irrational cunt on her period.”

^^^ suck

Once you start lying about your opponent you’re giving them the upper hand. Trump was not threatening Cheney. The entire conversation was about her and her father being warhawks. They couldn’t care less about service men and women having guns pointed at them on the battlefield. They have never had to face the wars the Cheneys voted for and waged, thus the comment about Liz. She couldn’t face the battlefield. Kamala’s people are doing her a disservice with this. It’s where it does becomes “both sides” about the parties lying for votes. You’re only helping Trump and you’re reminding people that Democrats are now in bed with the Cheneys and the Bushes who are responsible for the Iraq war and 9/11.

If you look closely you can see Liz still has a little blood on her hands.

R39/R40: quit trying to pretend Trump is some fucking dove pacifist.

If Putin gave Trump enough money and/or power for Uday and Qusay to be drafted into the Russian Army, those two piles of human garbage would be out of the United States and on a plane to Russia in the blink of an eye.

You're right R41. Just like last term.

[quote] I think there’s a direct relationship between Bill’s slow estrangement from The Left and his “new,” contrived, pathetic persona as Joe Rogan’s funnier bro. Bizarre and sad.

It’s called the Overton Window, r33, and it has moved so much that Bill looks relatively conservative compared to those he claims are infected with the “woke mind virus”. I feel much the same as Bill: middle-aged, white, male, imbued with liberal sensibilities back in the day when it was just about hippies and Vietnam. He’s enjoyed watching marijuana become legal whereas for me it was LGBTQ rights. We learned to appreciate the strength of diversity from our own experiences on opposite coasts, exposed to different cultures and ideas.

Who knew that it would all turn out this way: personal liberties enjoyed by so many to such an extreme that many others “feel” belittled, shamed and yes, even threatened.

He’s been saying for awhile now, “The Left left me!” But yet we’re still here opposing the Republicans, Trumpers and other idiots that we (mostly civilly) disagree with.

[quote] I feel much the same as Bill: middle-aged, white, male

You think Bill Maher is middle-aged? He's almost 70.

^^^

Ah ok then, never mind. Someone should show him to Carousel.

Excuse me, R31? The US media is not overwhelmingly conservative and just because you see it that way does not make it so. You need to expand your mind and allow others their point of view. Oh, and please stop telling those with whom you disagree to shut up as you come across like an unhinged moron. Or should I use your intellectually based terminology and refer you as an asshole.

He called her a war hawk, which could be a proper criticism.

It’s the putting her in front of a firing squad that makes me wonder WTF

The Pussygrabber and his sycophants proudly claim that he is the only President tk NOT start a war. This is true. But only because he doesn’t have the guts to do so.

He pulls at the levers of power only for his own personal aggrandizement. No matter how much he disrespects the service of those in our military, he is not man enough to send them to battle because he can’t fathom the responsibility, or even THAT act of courage, as President.

R48, Donald Trump is a purely transactional animal. If a war would benefit Trump financially in some way, he'd have no problem getting involved and keeping it going as long as it was putting money in his pocket.

As long as he ain't fighting it, Donald Trump has no problem with war.

r46, More than 90 percent of the media is controlled by George Soros. Kidding! No, it's 6 billionaire funded conglomerates. Many of these conglomerates have progressive employees who are sometimes permitted to share their interpretation of observable facts while adhere to strict editorial control, even Maddow.

When Mehdi Hasan was let go from MSNBC after the attack on Israel, none of the progressives said a word.

All of you Trumpsters on here who want to pretend Trump is some benevolent peacemaker, consider this: If Trump were operating his businesses in Germany during WWII, you can rest assured he would have taken advantage of free slave/forced labor provided by Nazis, just like Krupp, Farben, BMW, Daimler, BASF, etc., etc.

Scruples and morality are something unknown to Trump. If fact, he thinks these things are a sign of weakness and femininity.

R27 - no, once Harris debated Trump, Maher has said he thought Harris is going to win the election. And as R35 said, he's been saying it every week since.

Meant to say "and as R25 said" above.

In what combat situation would someone have 9 rifles pointed at their face?

It was his typical garbled mess, but the imagery is firing squad.

Besides, she’s not a particular hawk. She is his enemy.

Like him or not, this is brilliant and should have been a foundation of the Dem message. But, they chose not to.

His time has come and gone. He just doesn’t know it

Interesting that Maher, who constantly complains that the left is so woke and criticizes all racist, homophobic, and sexist jokes, didn’t defend the “Puerto Rico is garbage” joke….

He Trashed trump and all their supporters on his show.

I despise Bill Maher. I think he's right. But I think he's wrong to waste his time and ours defending anything Trump says. All three things are true.

Does it really matter whether Trump meant this one particular thing the way it sounds? No, it doesn't. Trump gets away with saying things that are just as bad all the time, and he gets away with deliberately misconstruing other peoples' words. It's not worth the trouble to "clarify" things on behalf of a man who's a metastatic malignancy on America. It doesn't hurt anything for him to be on the receiving end of that once in a while.

Listed the new rules this week. That redeems him.

New Rules at R 55. He did redeem himself.

I thought he redeemed himself months ago with the New Rules about Merrick Garland

He desperately needs to be punched in the face. Maybe that will make him shut the fuck up?

Nothing annoys a progressive more than a liberal who doesn’t always tow the party line.

(But he’s wrong on this one.)