HBO host Bill Maher urged People to “recover from the fantasy” that they’re individuals of “core convictions and deeply held beliefs” on an episode of “Actual Time” Friday night time.
Maher criticized People for flip-flopping on their beliefs, saying they base their values on what’s fashionable with their political celebration.
“They solely care which aspect is saying one thing,” he mentioned, citing electrical automobiles (EVs) for example.
“This automobile was ‘fireplace.’ Now it’s on fireplace,” Maher mentioned whereas displaying footage of Teslas being burned at a dealership.
“Back when Elon Musk was presumed liberal, liberals beloved electrical vehicles and conservatives hated them,” he continued. “Then Elon went MAGA, and whereas the automobile market grew by 10% final month, gross sales of electrical automobiles have been down 5%, and never simply Teslas, all EVs.”
“Conversely, MAGA Nation used to hate EVs two years in the past,” he added. “Seventy-one % of Republicans mentioned they’d not contemplate shopping for an electrical automobile. Trump mentioned they have been for, quote, ‘radical left fascists, Marxists and communists.’ Now he’s promoting them on the White Home garden.”
The “Actual Time” host then turned his focus to a problem on which he felt Democrats had modified their stance on resulting from politics: retaining youngsters in class.
He referenced “An Abundance of Warning,” a guide by David Zweig, which detailed the detrimental results closing colleges had on kids throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Right here’s the writer’s takeaway line: ‘The Academy of Pediatrics have been very strongly in favor of getting youngsters into colleges, however as quickly as Trump got here out in favor of reopening, they utterly reversed their place,” he quoted.
Maher adopted up with a tongue-in-cheek comment: “Hey, if you end up instantly hating one thing you liked 5 minutes in the past or vice versa, ask your doctor if ivermectin is best for you.”
He introduced up the controversy surrounding the drug throughout the pandemic, noting how public opinion shifted largely alongside celebration strains.
“It [Ivermectin] gained the Nobel Prize in 2015 for what it did for people, however regardless of the level is, it’s a drug, it’s not a politician,” Maher famous. “Medication don’t have political events, though I do suspect Xanax is a Democrat.”
Staying on the subject of well being, Maher criticized conservatives for supposedly switching their stance on public well being over the previous few years due to politics.
“Do individuals actually need to put politics forward of their very well being?” he requested. “Let me reply that — Sure. I do know they do, as a result of when Michelle Obama adopted as her first woman undertaking to get America wholesome once more, Republicans went buck wild apes— actual housewives throw drinks in your face loopy in opposition to it as a result of it was Michelle Obama who mentioned it.”
He recalled conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh mocking the initiative by asking if People have been “imagined to eat roots and berries and tree bark.”
However in accordance with Maher, conservatives’ views on public well being utterly shifted as soon as U.S. Secretary of Well being Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed to his new cupboard place.
“However now that Robert Kennedy, leader of the Make America Healthy Again movement, is within the Trump administration, tree bark good, f— yeah make America wholesome,” he quipped. “Lastly, any individual mentioned it. And once I say any individual, I imply not a Black, liberal woman.”
Maher closed the phase by urging People to cease reflexively supporting or opposing positions based mostly solely on who helps them.
“However till we get to the place we are able to try this,” he joked, “I simply hope the Democrats come out strongly subsequent week for dictatorship, coal mining, and making pot unlawful.”
