Here’s the latest comedy/news bit from Bill Maher’s “Real Time” show on Friday. This one is called “New Rule: Ghost Brands,” and is about commercial brand names that still exist but have been forgotten, like General Electric, Kodak, and RCA. Maher’s fear is that the Democratic Party, which is at its lowest rating in 35 years, is also becoming a ghost brand. And if the Democratic Party becomes a ghost brand, it will be for the same reason, says Maher, that companies become ghost brands: they deviated from a successful formula. In the case of Playboy, he argues, the magazine eventually put gay and trans-identified men on the cover. In the case of Democrats, says Maher, “they want to be that upscale store that impresses celebrities.”
The implicit message, conveyed by the final note that “Democrats need to get their shit together,” is that the Dems have gone off-brand by being woke. This is nothing new for Maher (or this website), and maybe Maher’s listeners are indeed upscale, woke Democrats, too. But if people don’t absorb the lesson, in a few years we’ll be faced with President Vance.
The other guests were Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dan Farah and Michael Moynihan.
Brutal
I fully agree with Maher. I’m super progressive socially, but Dems have definitely gone far too woke, and far too accepting of illegal immigrants. I’m dumbfounded as to the degree liberals are self-destructing the past 5 or so years.
The radio station is such a clear reflection of what’s going wrong. They only ever have guests on that support the super liberal/woke viewpoint, as if that’s the complete picture. They pretend to be a fair & balanced source but even as a liberal it’s so easy for me to see their extreme one-sidedness. So for that reason I’m glad they lost federal funding, because they are mostly a propaganda machine.
“I’m super progressive […]”
Where precisely are you going
Unfortunately quite accurate about the Democratic Party. I count myself as someone who currently doesn’t think highly of the party. Yet they will continue to get my vote; the Republican Party is a rubber stamp for an authoritarian.
Young college educated youth from affluent families and their professors and cultural heroes seem to be leading the Democratic woke movement. Voting for woke leaning Democratic politicians fuels the success of those efforts and prolongs the madness. Only a term in the wilderness will help the party return to sanity. No one needs to vote for the other major party. I write in people who don’t necessarily represent either party but do seem to care about effective governance. I never win those votes but also don’t help put crazy or venal into power. It’s one option anyway.
The Democrats are pretty much in the wilderness right now. They are outnumbered in both houses of Congress, have lost the Executive branch, are powerless in the Supreme Court, and are seen unfavorably by a majority of Americans across the political spectrum. I assume it can get worse, but they are close to bottom.
Excellent points all.
A black lesbian just got kicked out of a Gold’s Gym in California for complaining about a man walking into the changing room when she was naked. If the Dems can’t understand her anger they are lost – morally if not electorally (my money’s on both): https://archive.ph
Gosh, a person who ticks three boxes in the Intersectionality Sweepstakes has to yield to a guy who ticks none. What is the world coming to? No one could have been more surprised than she, I’ll bet. The gym in California, as we are in Canada, is surely worried about the expensive legal consequences to itself had it allowed the woman’s transphobic outburst to go unpunished.
(I think you need more of the URL in that archive link to recover the story, Jez.)
Leslie, I’m as shocked as you are that a person “who ticks three boxes in the Intersectionality Sweepstakes has to yield to a guy” who only ticks one box.
Here’s the link to the article in the New York Post:
https://archive.ph/hF33R
While I’m clutching my pearls, with the smelling salt near me, to reassure myself that I will get through this, I’m reminding myself of a certain Captain Renault:
I wonder how Gavin Newsom will explain this to the median voters when he runs for president in 1928. (He’s the governor of the state in which this happened.)
Yup, total link fail there! I’m not sure what the original link was to, but here’s a Newsweek report on the same story: https://www.newsweek.com/gym-chain-center-tish-hyman-dispute-flooded-negative-reviews-10989692