Bill Maher is very sad because you hate him. boo fucking hoo

read the room, asshole

what was it about Bill Maher that first made you loathe him?

was it his Islamophobia? his transphobia? his misogyny? was it the glee with which he punches down on every marginalized group? his willingness to embrace anti-science nonsense?

was it his habit of inviting right-wing hatemongers like Ann Coulter onto his show and giggling along with them as they spew vile shit?

or was it just his general air of smug assholishness? ‘look at me, I’m a baaaad boy!’

shut the fuck up, Bill.

Bill Maher is very very very sad right now.

here’s why: last week, he visited the White House and sat down to dinner with Crazy Uncle Fascistpants — and afterwards, gushed about how Dear Leader was “gracious and measured.”

Bill assumed he would be be hailed as a Great Peacemaker for Our Times for normalizing a fascist shithead. instead, people are rightfully calling him out for being a complicit tool.

“You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar,” Maher told his audience. “Trump was gracious and measured. And why isn’t that in other settings? I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”

Bill, you can fuck straight off with this woe is me nonsense. read the fucking room. America is being torn apart right now. people are being disappeared off the streets. the social safety net is being blowtorched to oblivion.

the last thing we need is some useful idiot waxing rhapsodic about how the monster responsible for it all is gracious and polite.

for fuck’s sake, of course Donny was gracious and polite. that’s how getting conned by a conman works, Billy. Donny was carnival-barking you, telling you exactly what you wanted to hear — and you pounced on the bait like some backwoods rube who just fell off the turnip truck. step right up and win a prize! all it will cost you is your credibility.

smug, whiny and easily-conned is no way to go through life, son.

charming the pants off credulous dupes like Bill Maher is the one and only fucking thing that Donny is good at. it’s his one idiot-savant-like superpower — and it completely mystifies the rest of us.

but don’t just take my word for it. listen to Darryl Silver, one of the producers of The Apprentice.

when The Apprentice’s producers plucked a bankrupt imbecile from the garbage bin of failure, dusted him off and sold him to America as the SmArTeSt BuSiNeSsMaN wHo EvEr LiVeD, Silver got to witness first-hand Donny’s confounding ability to con the shit out of just about anyone he wanted to.

here’s what Silver posted to Threads, regarding the hoodwinking of Bill Maher.

Having spent time around Trump when I produced The Apprentice this didn’t surprise me. I have told, anyone who will listen to me, that Trump’s superpower is being whatever you want him to be when he is standing in front of you. If he’s standing in front of coal miners he’s promising “clean coal,” if he’s standing in front of environmentalists five minutes later he will promise them whatever their dream scenario is. Unlike Hillary who gave people the hard truths but had solutions like retraining coal miners to work in solar, but people want to hear what they want to hear and he gives it to them.

With regards to Bill Maher’s visit, Trump’s job was to lull him into a false sense that he cares and that he's not the insane person he appears to the rest of us. He put on a show so that he can get the desired effect he is looking for. Bill Maher saw a “show” and reported back to the world what he saw. I can assure you Trump is laughing and telling everyone around him “see how easy it was to manipulate Bill.”

I saw this time and time again on the set of The Apprentice. He was able to talk to people the show was screwing over and make them feel good about it. Again. It’s his superpower and it is the only way he was twice elected as president.

got that, Bill? Dear Leader is laughing at you right now. he’s the one you should be mad at. he pantsed you and made you a fool.

if all of this sounds way too familiar, that’s because it is.

this exact same scenario played out last December, after Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski slunk down to Motel-a-Lago to kiss Donny’s ass. the two got mocked so mercilessly for their servile cowardice that Joe had a thermonuclear meltdown on live TV.

“you can say he had fascist rhetoric and still go in and talk to him, you know why I do that? to get the read of the man. you know why I went in and talked to Macron? to get the read of the man in a crucial time in EU funding, and NATO funding. that’s why I went to leaders in the Middle East who were angry at the United States and I sat there and I listened to them attacking me personally for forty-five minutes because of US policy. know why I do that? to get the read of the leader. to get the read of where the county’s going. [here, Joe starts shouting] SO I CAN COME BACK HERE AND TALK TO YOU AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.”

defensive much, asshole?

Morning Joe and Any Time Of Day Mika failed to read the room, and lost half their audience as a result.

Bill Maher failed to read the room, and is now being ridiculed for sanewashing a fascist.

who’s next?

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here’s a fun thing that happened last night.

after a hard day spent cheating at golf, Donny decided to attend a UFC event in Miami — and of course he had to do that thing where he makes a big entrance and then wanders through the crowd, soaking up the adulation. that’s what being needy and broken-inside is all about.

enjoy this clip of Donny greeting Bobby Brainworms and then completely snubbing Bobby’s wife, Cheryl Hines.

that bit of clownfuckishness calls to mind what happened at the Republican National Convention last July, when Donny’s own daughter Tiffany swooped in for a kiss and Donny just stared off into the distance, having no fucking clue who she was.

ouch! too bad, so sad.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.