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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher is a fucking idiot. Spewing that the young don't have a problem with the virus. What [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)23. He's lost it. He's gotten to be like Kanye West in that he says things for attention and...
to be controversial, to get a rise out of people and hope they repeat it. West has said enslavement was voluntary and Harriette Tubman took slaves and sold them to other slave holdersjust ridiculous stuff.
West is crazy. I didn't think Maher was but repeating that old excuse that slave holders were men of their times is so bogus, maybe he's losing it too. Guess he forgot about the abolitionists who existed in slave holders times.
Maher might as well have said "a president who holds kids in cages is a product of his time." Ridiculous.
Now he'll have to contribute another million to Biden's campaign to smooth it over, like he did to the Obama campaign.
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Bill Maher is a fucking idiot. Spewing that the young don't have a problem with the virus. What [View all]
still_one
Aug 2020
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and I don't know what he was trying to say when he said people who had slaves were a product of
still_one
Aug 2020
#5
He's lost it. He's gotten to be like Kanye West in that he says things for attention and...
brush
Aug 2020
#23
He's always had alt-right (or alt-left) elements to his worldview, remember Coulter
radius777
Aug 2020
#35
It was crazy talk Cha. I though I was watching trump's new doctor, Atlas, who is spewing the
still_one
Aug 2020
#11
I imagine there will be a youtube excerpt of it soon enough where you can judge for yourself
still_one
Aug 2020
#29
When it comes to anything medical, he really should keep his mouth closed.
Behind the Aegis
Aug 2020
#31
BTA we agree 100% on the medical advice, and your description of his "product of our times" final
still_one
Aug 2020
#33