A New Rule from Bill Maher
Here’s the comedy bit from Bill Maher’s latest “Real Time”, and it’s called “New Rule: Don’t be a hypocrite.” A few examples: Trump touting electric cars (Teslas) after he appropriated Elon Musk. Republicans buying Tesla cybertrucks after most saying they’d never buy an electric truck The American Academy of Pediatrics reversing its position on getting … Continue reading A New Rule from Bill Maher
Here’s the comedy bit from Bill Maher’s latest “Real Time”, and it’s called “New Rule: Don’t be a hypocrite.”
A few examples:
Trump touting electric cars (Teslas) after he appropriated Elon Musk.
Republicans buying Tesla cybertrucks after most saying they’d never buy an electric truck
The American Academy of Pediatrics reversing its position on getting kids into schools after Trump agreed with them
Republicans denigrated Michelle Obama’s program, “Let’s get American healthy again”, simply because it was from Michelle Obama.
Republicans now love Russia (so Maher said) when it was previous their nightmare country.
There are lots of examples of people accepting or rejecting programs or propositions simply because of who advocated them, and that is a form of hypocrisy. Most of his examples are anti-Republican, so take that, those people who consigned Maher to hell because he had dinner with Trump and found him a gracious host. (That denigration of Maher by those who dislike Trump—and those people include Maher—is itself a form of hypocrisy. If you dislike Trump, it’s impossible to ever find him gracious.)
As he says, we should “not to automatically rush to the opposite viewpoint based solely on who said it. But until we get to where we can do that, and I just hope the Democrats come out strongly next week for a dictatorship, coal mining, and making pot illegal.”
It’s a plea for comity, but nobody seems to be in that mood these days.
