Locking this thread because some threads have spiraled and people are violating the “don’t be a jerk” rule.
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Except Dems have always been the party of fiscal responsibility too.
That's what's baffling, social services are fiscally conservative, taxing the richest in order to make sure the poorest have better living conditions is fiscally conservative, not spending public funds on companies worth billions is fiscally conservative... Fiscal conservatism is supposed to be spending public money wisely, well the most logical way to spend money for a government is by having a monopoly on certain things to make sure they're provided to the population without the goal of making profit from it!
The most fiscally responsible stance is to be against corruption. The corruption is the thing that causes money magically disappear.
There are bad apples in Democratic party (Kevin de Leon from LA for example. I hope he never gets beyond current position) and we should fight hard to kick them out, but right now GQP is in its own league in terms of corruption.
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When conservatives say "fiscal responsibility" they mean cutting social spending so they can inflict as much harm on poor people as possible. If you look at everything they say through that lens, it all makes sense.
This. It's more like the dems have been trying to unfuck things for ~~years~~ decades while Rs have continuously fucked it up. Spent gods fortune on war, shitting on civil rights and human progress, ect. All for what?
Soon to be the Uncle in Prison party.
Also, I’m suspicious this is really Bill Maher…
I'm suspicious this is really Bill Maher
It's from page 106 of "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You", Maher's 2024 book.
Sorry, but fuck Bill Maher. He's a fucking groomer.
(That article doesn't include the part where one of the little girls tells Maher that Sofia Vergara's character's husband is much older than her and he says to them, "nothing wrong with that.")
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Bill Maher is a boomer. But this is some broken clock high level thinking.
Agreed. It definitely has 'the person you hate the most made a good point' vibes.
This reads like something one of his writers came up with.
he's been creeping on kids lately, which is just natural progression i guess. a true libertarian
I've never heard the GoP called the "Daddy Party".
Who the fuck is calling them that?
Bill Maher, and the shitlibs agreeing with him that the Republicans used to be respectable.
the Republicans used to be respectable
It’s been about 120 years. Make the Republican Party great again!
To be fair, old school Republicans from 30-40 years ago would be losing their shit at how much the current party has been cozying up to Russia and the Saudi's which is where a very large chunk of the modern corruption comes from.
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Lol. Girl read a history book. I’m not even American and can tell you that the Republicans were never the party of fiscal responsibility and security. Stop listening to that cunt Bill Maher. Imagine being so moronic that you think that Maher is right.
I always see it as giving people who call themselves Republicans an 'out'. Like saying "I get why you're voting that way, but it just isn't true anymore" but we all know it never was and they're morons, but if you just call them a moron, they double down
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Man the dumbfucks in this comment section. Maher hit this one out of the park and you whining cunts can't even acknowledge the obvious win. Doesn't mean you like anything else he's done, fuck's sake.
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Say what you will about Bill Maher
Don't mind if I do.
Bill Maher is a pedophile:
"She is in jail because she is in love. That’s how I view it. Basically, they’re having a family and they’re keeping the mother in jail because she won’t conform to what society feels should be the perfect American family."
-Bill Maher on a 19 year old who raped a 12 year old boy and got pregnant with his child.
"If a 28-year-old male teacher is screwing a 13-year-old girl, that’s a crime. But with Debra Lafave [another teacher who had sex with a student] screwing her 14-year-old boy student, the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape. Was he being taken advantage of? I wish I had been taken advantage of like that. What a memory she gave him!"
-Bill Maher on why teachers raping students should be legal so long as he gets to watch child porn of it.
this does make him a terrible person, but not a pedophile.
and he fantasizes about being an adolscent that gets taken advantage of an adult.
thats the opposite of a pedophile.
and anyway, what you mean is Hebephilia, not pedophelia.
"the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape"
Yeah, the guy openly talking about the kind of child porn he wants to watch isn't a pedophile...
Folks like you will let powerful men get away with anything. He literally talked about how hot he thought child rape was, and fantasized about having it on video, and you're still giving him the benefit of a doubt...
i don't have doubts. I am sure about what i say. there is no crime at hand.
folks like you are the reason we have this kind of problem in the first place. you dumb everything down, and put your own projections into your sourroundings. its a sensational, truth bending rethoric.
you do your people no favour at all.
is it morally heinus? absolutely. is there an actual video that he watched? no. is there an video? well, we don't know. it was not mentioned in the case.
yes, he excersizied his right of free spech. should he be smacked in the jaw for this kind of talk? yes. does he have to lick your boots and shut his mouth? no.
democracy baby.
definition of child porn.
Child pornography under federal law is defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict a minor who is recognizable as an actual person by the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic. Undeveloped film, undeveloped videotape, and electronically stored data that can be converted into a visual image of child pornography are also deemed illegal visual depictions under federal law.[7] The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that images created by superimposing the face of a child on sexually explicit photographs of legal adults is not protected speech under the First Amendment.[8] However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "virtual child pornography" was constitutionally protected speech, unless meeting the criteria of obscenity.[9][10]
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This goddamn shitheel
Why do we have to gender this shit? Fuck the republicans. I honestly hope that party dies. But I am also worried what's going to happen afterward because it will be one viable party. And I am seeing shades of republicans in some of the memes that get spread around. None of these people are your friends. Its best to think of them like a reptile would.
There will never* be only one viable party. If the Republican party fails, either a third party will become a big competitor to the Democrats or the Democratic party will split. This won't be the first time a party goes away if they do. We've had this happen several times in US history.
*There may be only one large viable party for a short time while things organize around whatever comes next, but it won't be significant.
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We are in the third level of repost now. Congrats
What is so political_weirdo about this?
Not this, but Bill Maher is. I agree with the other commenter that this could be written by anyone on his staff, it doesn't sound dumb or creepy enough to be from the man himself.
Okay but why is "Bill" capitalized while "maher" isn't?
Auto correct recognizes bill as a name but not Maher. Mine did the opposite, but who knows.
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