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"Former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) shut down Bill Maher after the HBO "Real Time" host complained about booster shots to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I mean, I don't want a booster," Maher said. "I never wanted the vaccine, I took one for the team."
"And by the way, do you know who doesn't get a lot of vaccines? Millennials. I know a lot of millennials," the 65-year-old host claimed. "Especially the twenty-year-olds, they don't want it, they don't think they need it, they're probably right. But I tell them, I didn't want it either, I took one for the team."
"But every eight months you're going to put this sh*t in me?" Maher asked. "I don't know about that."
https://www.rawstory.com/bill-maher-2654741913/
He "took one for the team"???
BULLSHIT. I am pretty sure the jackass took one because HBO required it if he wanted to do
a live show
No one should be fooled by Maher. He is an anti-vaxer, and he pushes a lot of dangerous information out regarding this on his program, and has been doing that for years.
Phoenix61
(17,020 posts)Hes just another load mouth jerk in search of ratings.
cate94
(2,816 posts)leftstreet
(36,117 posts)Xavier Breath
(3,656 posts)The ones he pathetically tries to date, that is.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,478 posts)Id say again but Im not sure he ever WAS.
pwb
(11,294 posts)He is in the Dennis Miller slide from clever to foolish.
PortTack
(32,809 posts)The same crap the gqp shovels. Theres plenty of that in the news feed..
Mortos
(2,390 posts)and he is rich and doesn't want to die. Fuck Bill Maher.
You know what else took one for the team? Bill's fake ass hair dye to try to make him look more like one of the many millennials he knows and hangs out with.
Get the fuck outta here.
LakeArenal
(28,858 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,768 posts)Covid positive walking.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Don't think he got very sick, though.
Baitball Blogger
(46,768 posts)hlthe2b
(102,417 posts)what an ignorant jackass Maher is being. And the woman, whoever she is, that sat there laughing at Maher's comments made me want to smack her through the tv.
Paladin
(28,277 posts)forthemiddle
(1,383 posts)They are the most liberal kids (both mid twenties) that I know. They both campaigned for Bernie during the Wisconsin primaries. My one nephew helped organize a BLM protest over George Floyd in their small rural county.
Yet they both refused the vaccine, and tell me most of their friends are not getting it either. I just dont get it.
Im just Thankful that my 31 year old son, and his wife are fully vaccinated.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)very important. And these are crazy times when many young people are looking for different ways from their parents.' I was an adolescent in the late '60s to mid '70s.
You mention, though, that they're the most liberal kids you know, but maybe not. A terminology issue.
Definitely activist left. But liberal is a real thing, definable both psychologically and politically, and the farther toward the far left people go, at some point the less liberal they tend to increasingly become. Less liberal in liberal personality traits but also less supportive of what are considered liberal positions and more interested in more radical solutions. Like my era, in this one at least some radicalization has become pretty normal as societal disturbance causes people to search for new answers.
Same on the right. People wonder what happened to conservative "values;" but as almost our entire right was increasingly radicalized and then became extreme RW, typical conservative traits and values lessened and were replaced with...this mean, amoral ruthlessness. People like Nicolle Wallace and Bill Kristol weren't carried along by extremism and still fit the definitions of what it is to be conservative.
Most young people mature to more truth- and stability-compatible viewpoints, especially after they become parents. Like the Chicago Seven. And times keep changing. Chances are probably very good your nephews will both insist on vaccination for their children.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)As has been pointed out if anti vaccine nonsense had been around in the 1950s we would still have Polio and Measles circulating around.
They approve a vaccine I take it. Period.
Music Man
(1,184 posts)I watch Bill Maher pretty regularly because I think he's a good comedian. On average, he's on our side, but boy, is it frustrating when he trots out this bullshit.
Max Rose tried to push back, but Bill kept interrupting him. "I SAID I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM!" Bill really gets defensive. He's used to his audience clapping non-stop for him (If you took out the Real Time audience's applause, you probably have about two minutes of content).
Music Man
(1,184 posts)I watch Bill Maher pretty regularly because I think he's a good comedian. On average, he's on our side, but boy, is it frustrating when he trots out this bullshit.
Max Rose tried to push back, but Bill kept interrupting him. "I SAID I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM!" Bill really gets defensive when people criticize him. He's used to his audience clapping non-stop for him (If you took out the Real Time audience's applause, you probably have about two minutes of content).
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)I watch/listen to his show every week, and generally like what he has to say. Not on all things, but enough.
But the vaccine stuff riles me up. He has a strong strain of what I call Wacky Californian. You see it a lot in Hollywood. All kinds of alternative medicines and treatments. Ideas that have little scientific backing. You know, the Gwyneth Paltrow Goops of the world. (You're putting what in your vagina?!)
He can be so clear-eyed about many things, but then he has these little areas where no one is going to tell him differently no matter how wildly wrong.
Still watch, but this is definitely a moment of cringe.
ProfessorGAC
(65,237 posts)Other people here get wound up about him. We still have people chiming the "he's a libertarian" thing, despite him giving over $3 million to Obama, the DNC, & other candidates.
But, last night really annoyed me. He's smart enough to know he's not an expert on human physiology or virology.
He shouldn't even be expressing such an opinion.