Why did silicone valley jump to Trump? - After 4 years of Democratic mafia guns pointed at their backs- they said - 'enough.' They don't like Trump -- but real people/ real business- DETEST the corrupt democratic mafia party.... more.
That was a pretty good episode on the whole. The alt-med Stanford guy was allowed to speak. So even was Christopher Rufo, who predicted total Nixon rehabilitation by 2035.
Bill Maher lives rent-free in many people's minds (there's a group of his classmates on Facebook discussing if he was a nice guy or a jerk). I evicted him years ago and am not letting him back in.
"yes Nixon was the beta test for lawfare....." and who worked as a lawyer on the Democrat House Judiciary Committee, during the impeachment process? Why, Hillary Rodham, or course.
He'll never get it. He's too into Bill. He's always telling people how he said this or that long ago, but will never admit he was wrong all those times. To put a point on it, he's a dipshit
Bill Maher will swallow any lie that a retard like Kamala Harris spewed forth because Bill Maher thinks like a tribal shaman. His tribal loyalty places limits on his ability to think critically. Even though Trump is doing all the right things for many many people Trump is still wrong because Maher is in a different tribe.
Bill Maher is also the same type of man as Bill Clinton. He is proud of being a whore who will sleep with anything that moves and not having children. His moral development is grotesquely stunted.
All of this is driven by Maher's greed. He still gets paid millions of dollars by his globalist masters to keep people on the globalist plantation.
I really don’t like having clothes come out of the washing machine needing to be washed a second time to get clean, nor do I like having to flush twice. These regulations are not really promulgated in the name of the environment — that excuse is for people gullible enough to believe it — they are there to annoy the normal people and for no other reason.
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 115#. https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 135#.
When I was in eighth grade, my little sister could done a couple reps https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
Nixon ended the war in Viet Nam and made peace with China, when the neocons wanted war over Taiwan. He had to go. Who took his place? The Congressman, Ford, who shepherded through the coverup of the JFK assassination, speaking of which...
JFK negotiated deals with the Russians on nuclear arms, and made a deal with the Russians to remove our missiles from Turkey, which were there first, if Khrushchev took his out of Cuba.
Well JFK got his brains blasted out, the missiles got put right back into Turkey, and Johnson became president and the war in Viet Nam really got underway.
They tried a couple of times to take out Trump, by impeachment, and by underfunding his security and putting second rate agents on his detail. Neither worked, the second one came within an inch or so of working.
Oh yeah, JFK, who was a little to chummy with enemy of the state Ike (Don't trust the military industrial complex), tried to wind down the Viet Nam War.
Clueless Libtard Maher can't even intelligently analyze his own spiel. He praises Democrat Party members for "high-minded intangibles like Equity and saving the soul of America" and mocks Trump for his focus on Tax on Tips. Sickening narcissistic displays of self-importance are valued among Party members, but normies know that Democrat Party members are just lowlife power-hungry scumbags who really don't believe that America or anyone else has a soul. We know that libtard focus on Equity is just a euphemism for racist, anti-American fascism. Meanwhile, letting citizens keep the money that we earn has real and tangible benefits for Americans, something that libtard Democrat Party member pieces of shit like Bill Maher strident oppose.
So, Kamala campaigned "for democracy", did she? What does Maher imagine that means, I wonder. Not a bad description of Trump's strategy, even if it was partisan and sarcastic. He picks issues that resonate with people and then he follows through with his promises (aside from the flying cars, though deregulation will speed that up).
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 115#. https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
The best part was he pretended he actually did it.
Trump was not appealing simply because he opposed low flush toilets - he is appealing because he opposes the constant, relentless intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans by the government. Forcing low flush toilets on us is but an example.
Also, of all of the presidents of my lifetime, Trump has done the best at actually living up to his campaign promises. Maher's b.s. assertions to the contrary are simply wrong.
Democrats spoke about "equity," "the soul of America," and "Saving Our Democracy," to avoid saying what they actually would do. That's the scam -- a smokescreen of high minded rhetoric to conceal what the government actually was doing to the country.
Trump paid attention to people's concerns and they paid attention to him. Remember that in 2020 people actually (or not actually) elected someone who literally promised on the debate state to open the borders and stop all new oil drilling. If Biden really was elected, his America was either stupid or not paying attention. In either case they fell for the guy who told them we were returning to normal, without ever explaining just what "normal" was.
Maher was sort of funny, at least at the beginning of his rant, but he seems like someone from another era, the old guy yelling at people to get off his lawn.
He's also too full of himself and playing a role he can't pull off: we recognize by now that TV's talking heads don't know more than we do and are ridiculous when they preach and pretend to be moral or intellectual guides.
And what is with the strange leaning to our right (his left)? Should I tilt my computer to set things right (or left)?
Maher's not wrong about Trump chipping away at the small groups that normally support the left, but he ignored the elephant in the room. Many members of the Black and Latino community are very "uncomfortable" with the rainbow coalition. (Many for religious reasons) The Democrat's enthusatic embrace of the LGBT+ and, especially, the trans community drove a lot of Blacks and Latinos into the arms of the Republicans.
"Democrats spoke about equity, the soul of America, and Saving Our Democracy," Replace equity with equality and those were actually what MAGA wanted and Trump delivered. As always, they were just words to Democrats. When people realize that your words are just words, they go elsewhere. That's what happened. Maher knows it, most Dems know it, and we all know it. A lot, like Maher, just can't admit it.
I thought the toilet bit was a reference to people upset about men in women's bathrooms. But it was about low-flush toilets.
The most effective thing Trump did in the 2024 campaign was make pronouns an issue. Or rather, to make the Democrats the pronoun police, while Trump was concerned about way more serious things.
What's invaluable about Maher is that he's actually trying to bring the Democrats out from their 2-minute hates and trying to get them to think rationally about why Trump won.
Trump is the best retail politician since Bill Clinton.
You say TACO, I say triangulate.
What do you mean "since?"
Trump outperformed Bill in every possible metric and he did it in a much more difficult environment with a massive handicap.
How popular do you think Bill Clinton would be if Juanita Broaddrick was paid a million dollars to bring charges against Clinton and given free lawyers rather than assaulted, intimidated, and harassed by Arkansas Police?
Donald Trump is an infinitely better and more competent man than Bill Clinton not just morally but as a retail politician.
I wonder if he feels like Cassandra. You can tell libs why they lost, but fundamentally they will always lose in the end. They want incompatible things, and they hate their own country and its citizens. There's just no way to square that circle.
What's invaluable about Maher is that he's actually trying to bring the Democrats out from their 2-minute hates and trying to get them to think rationally about why Trump won.
Maher wants his tribe to win. That is all he wants.
Maher does not care about what his tribe does to society. He will never support anyone else.
Maher will never give Trump credit for actually doing good things. Maher will never celebrate the success of the leader from another tribe.
Maher is not trying to bring the Democrats to sanity because he cares about any of the principles involved. He only wants them to lie better.
Was Bill Clinton able to convince people that 1992 was 1932 and he was FDR -- quite an achievement -- or did Poppy Bush do most of the work by convincing everyone that he was Herbert Hoover? Or was it all because of Ross Perot?
The left think repeating the word "Democracy" over and over -means something. it doesn't. It's meaningless - and in fact more people have come to know that modern progressive "democracy" is just another word for leftist tyranny.
Why did Silicon Valley jump to Trump? This interview with Marc Andreessen is rather important I think. Andeessen is one of those guys that deserves a bronze statue in Cupertino btw. Yeah, Douthat and NYT but its got the guts of it. I was on the edges of the "Valley" at the time in the 80's and yes they (like say Larry Ellison and the original hardware/software types) were normie Republicans that switched to swinging Internet Democrats. I saw it, latterly a a big customer/buyer of tech. But like Andreessen puts it they got boxed in by existential attacks on THEM.
Andreessen - "Mark Zuckerberg just talked about this on “Rogan.” Direct phone calls from senior members of the administration. Screaming executives ordering them to do things. Just full-on “[Expletive] you. We own you. We control you. You’re going to do what we want or we’re going to destroy you.”
Then they just came after crypto. Absolutely tried to kill us.
They just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I. That’s really when we knew that we had to really get involved in politics. The crypto attack was so weird that we didn’t know what to make of it. We were just hoping it would pass, which it didn’t. But it was when they threatened to do the same thing to A.I. that we realized we had to get involved in politics. Then we were up against what looked like the absolutely terrifying prospect of a second term."
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Maher is a self-important, idiotic libertine. No real wisdom there.
hasn't that been what maher has been serving up for a quarter century,
I laughed. Who are his writers? does he write his own stuff? If so - he's good.
More people are realizing Trump is a common sense pragmatist who knows how to win or at least move a priority forward.
Mocking Trump for all the bogus corrupt lawfare against him pisses me off.
They tried to kill Trump. Isn't it glaring that no-one touches that FACT.
I do like the shit-eating grin they placed on that gold coin.
well done, Bill. Make your own audience eat it.
Why did silicone valley jump to Trump? - After 4 years of Democratic mafia guns pointed at their backs- they said - 'enough.' They don't like Trump -- but real people/ real business- DETEST the corrupt democratic mafia party.... more.
maher is gutter trash, who occasionally finds a nut, but he has been more blind than mr magoo,
That was a pretty good episode on the whole. The alt-med Stanford guy was allowed to speak. So even was Christopher Rufo, who predicted total Nixon rehabilitation by 2035.
RR
JSM
Maher is an entertainer. He dances on stage. Sometimes he is funny. He has a deep purpose in life, to make money.
I thought it was funny but a big paisley necktie needs stripes underneath.
A little ganja weed colors your perspective for consensus. Some blow when you can afford it. Never Fentanyl.
yes and he gives clay and buck an audience on occaasion, but like a trained chimp he knows how far his leash stretches,
yes Nixon was the beta test for lawfare some of his other policies were foolish,
Bill Maher lives rent-free in many people's minds (there's a group of his classmates on Facebook discussing if he was a nice guy or a jerk). I evicted him years ago and am not letting him back in.
"yes Nixon was the beta test for lawfare....." and who worked as a lawyer on the Democrat House Judiciary Committee, during the impeachment process? Why, Hillary Rodham, or course.
He'll never get it. He's too into Bill. He's always telling people how he said this or that long ago, but will never admit he was wrong all those times. To put a point on it, he's a dipshit
Kamala ran on Democracy? WTF!
Bill Maher will swallow any lie that a retard like Kamala Harris spewed forth because Bill Maher thinks like a tribal shaman. His tribal loyalty places limits on his ability to think critically. Even though Trump is doing all the right things for many many people Trump is still wrong because Maher is in a different tribe.
Bill Maher is also the same type of man as Bill Clinton. He is proud of being a whore who will sleep with anything that moves and not having children. His moral development is grotesquely stunted.
All of this is driven by Maher's greed. He still gets paid millions of dollars by his globalist masters to keep people on the globalist plantation.
I really don’t like having clothes come out of the washing machine needing to be washed a second time to get clean, nor do I like having to flush twice. These regulations are not really promulgated in the name of the environment — that excuse is for people gullible enough to believe it — they are there to annoy the normal people and for no other reason.
they are there to annoy the normal people and for no other reason.
The annoyance is the means to an end.
The end is getting the little people to accept rules from the rulers and inures them to discomfort that the rulers impose.
It also keeps smaller appliance companies from competing with General Electric.
"Richard said...
Kamala ran on Democracy? WTF!"
His best joke and the audience didn't get it.
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 115#.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 135#.
When I was in eighth grade, my little sister could done a couple reps
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
Nixon ended the war in Viet Nam and made peace with China, when the neocons wanted war over Taiwan. He had to go. Who took his place? The Congressman, Ford, who shepherded through the coverup of the JFK assassination, speaking of which...
JFK negotiated deals with the Russians on nuclear arms, and made a deal with the Russians to remove our missiles from Turkey, which were there first, if Khrushchev took his out of Cuba.
Well JFK got his brains blasted out, the missiles got put right back into Turkey, and Johnson became president and the war in Viet Nam really got underway.
They tried a couple of times to take out Trump, by impeachment, and by underfunding his security and putting second rate agents on his detail. Neither worked, the second one came within an inch or so of working.
Oh yeah, JFK, who was a little to chummy with enemy of the state Ike (Don't trust the military industrial complex), tried to wind down the Viet Nam War.
Clueless Libtard Maher can't even intelligently analyze his own spiel. He praises Democrat Party members for "high-minded intangibles like Equity and saving the soul of America" and mocks Trump for his focus on Tax on Tips.
Sickening narcissistic displays of self-importance are valued among Party members, but normies know that Democrat Party members are just lowlife power-hungry scumbags who really don't believe that America or anyone else has a soul. We know that libtard focus on Equity is just a euphemism for racist, anti-American fascism. Meanwhile, letting citizens keep the money that we earn has real and tangible benefits for Americans, something that libtard Democrat Party member pieces of shit like Bill Maher strident oppose.
So, Kamala campaigned "for democracy", did she? What does Maher imagine that means, I wonder. Not a bad description of Trump's strategy, even if it was partisan and sarcastic. He picks issues that resonate with people and then he follows through with his promises (aside from the flying cars, though deregulation will speed that up).
FullMoon said...
Almost as funny as Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani failing to bench 115#.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn/
The best part was he pretended he actually did it.
…yah, I dunno what people get out of him. There was a time before clapter his grade school doosh act might be mistaken for wit or wry…
If I had known Trump was opposing low-flow toilets too, I would have voted for him twice.
Trump was not appealing simply because he opposed low flush toilets - he is appealing because he opposes the constant, relentless intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans by the government. Forcing low flush toilets on us is but an example.
Also, of all of the presidents of my lifetime, Trump has done the best at actually living up to his campaign promises. Maher's b.s. assertions to the contrary are simply wrong.
rehajm said...
…yah, I dunno what people get out of him. There was a time before clapter his grade school doosh act might be mistaken for wit or wry…
Bill Maher is one of the most talented Yes Men the Oligarchs have. Much like John Stewart.
Maher and Stewart are talented. They are still Yes Men.
They are paid millions of dollars and trotted out when needed to convince people to stay in the fold and stop believing their lying eyes.
They still work on people like Ann.
The Women on The View are less talented than Maher. But they serve the same purpose. The View tells stupid women how to think.
Maher is just aimed at slightly smarter people than The View.
Democrats spoke about "equity," "the soul of America," and "Saving Our Democracy," to avoid saying what they actually would do. That's the scam -- a smokescreen of high minded rhetoric to conceal what the government actually was doing to the country.
Trump paid attention to people's concerns and they paid attention to him. Remember that in 2020 people actually (or not actually) elected someone who literally promised on the debate state to open the borders and stop all new oil drilling. If Biden really was elected, his America was either stupid or not paying attention. In either case they fell for the guy who told them we were returning to normal, without ever explaining just what "normal" was.
Maher was sort of funny, at least at the beginning of his rant, but he seems like someone from another era, the old guy yelling at people to get off his lawn.
He's also too full of himself and playing a role he can't pull off: we recognize by now that TV's talking heads don't know more than we do and are ridiculous when they preach and pretend to be moral or intellectual guides.
And what is with the strange leaning to our right (his left)? Should I tilt my computer to set things right (or left)?
Maher's not wrong about Trump chipping away at the small groups that normally support the left, but he ignored the elephant in the room. Many members of the Black and Latino community are very "uncomfortable" with the rainbow coalition. (Many for religious reasons) The Democrat's enthusatic embrace of the LGBT+ and, especially, the trans community drove a lot of Blacks and Latinos into the arms of the Republicans.
He had some great lines in that bit.
Also, marijuana is out of place as a Schedule I drug.
The end made me laugh. Welcome to the party, pal!
"Democrats spoke about equity, the soul of America, and Saving Our Democracy,"
Replace equity with equality and those were actually what MAGA wanted and Trump delivered. As always, they were just words to Democrats. When people realize that your words are just words, they go elsewhere. That's what happened. Maher knows it, most Dems know it, and we all know it. A lot, like Maher, just can't admit it.
Trump is the best retail politician since Bill Clinton.
You say TACO, I say triangulate.
I thought the toilet bit was a reference to people upset about men in women's bathrooms. But it was about low-flush toilets.
The most effective thing Trump did in the 2024 campaign was make pronouns an issue. Or rather, to make the Democrats the pronoun police, while Trump was concerned about way more serious things.
This campaign ad was brilliant.
How smart was it? After the 2024 election, AOC took down her pronouns.
What's invaluable about Maher is that he's actually trying to bring the Democrats out from their 2-minute hates and trying to get them to think rationally about why Trump won.
Kevin said...
Trump is the best retail politician since Bill Clinton.
You say TACO, I say triangulate.
What do you mean "since?"
Trump outperformed Bill in every possible metric and he did it in a much more difficult environment with a massive handicap.
How popular do you think Bill Clinton would be if Juanita Broaddrick was paid a million dollars to bring charges against Clinton and given free lawyers rather than assaulted, intimidated, and harassed by Arkansas Police?
Donald Trump is an infinitely better and more competent man than Bill Clinton not just morally but as a retail politician.
I wonder if he feels like Cassandra. You can tell libs why they lost, but fundamentally they will always lose in the end. They want incompatible things, and they hate their own country and its citizens. There's just no way to square that circle.
Saint Croix said...
What's invaluable about Maher is that he's actually trying to bring the Democrats out from their 2-minute hates and trying to get them to think rationally about why Trump won.
Maher wants his tribe to win. That is all he wants.
Maher does not care about what his tribe does to society. He will never support anyone else.
Maher will never give Trump credit for actually doing good things. Maher will never celebrate the success of the leader from another tribe.
Maher is not trying to bring the Democrats to sanity because he cares about any of the principles involved. He only wants them to lie better.
There is nothing valuable about Maher.
Was Bill Clinton able to convince people that 1992 was 1932 and he was FDR -- quite an achievement -- or did Poppy Bush do most of the work by convincing everyone that he was Herbert Hoover? Or was it all because of Ross Perot?
The left think repeating the word "Democracy" over and over -means something. it doesn't. It's meaningless - and in fact more people have come to know that modern progressive "democracy" is just another word for leftist tyranny.
Why did Silicon Valley jump to Trump?
This interview with Marc Andreessen is rather important I think. Andeessen is one of those guys that deserves a bronze statue in Cupertino btw. Yeah, Douthat and NYT but its got the guts of it. I was on the edges of the "Valley" at the time in the 80's and yes they (like say Larry Ellison and the original hardware/software types) were normie Republicans that switched to swinging Internet Democrats. I saw it, latterly a a big customer/buyer of tech. But like Andreessen puts it they got boxed in by existential attacks on THEM.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html
Andreessen -
"Mark Zuckerberg just talked about this on “Rogan.” Direct phone calls from senior members of the administration. Screaming executives ordering them to do things. Just full-on “[Expletive] you. We own you. We control you. You’re going to do what we want or we’re going to destroy you.”
Then they just came after crypto. Absolutely tried to kill us.
They just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I. That’s really when we knew that we had to really get involved in politics. The crypto attack was so weird that we didn’t know what to make of it. We were just hoping it would pass, which it didn’t. But it was when they threatened to do the same thing to A.I. that we realized we had to get involved in politics. Then we were up against what looked like the absolutely terrifying prospect of a second term."
The original snake oil was high in Omega 3 fatty acids, which is essential for health. The fake stuff was cheaper, like seed oil today
Never had snake oil but I've had snake bile. Twice!
They bring out a live snake and cut out his gall bladder (I think) and squeeze the juice out and serve it to you in a shot glass.
This was not in Mississippi.
Rabel,
China?
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