MAHER preaches "Let it go" - tolerate wingnuts. Well, I'm not.

[UTUSN]

[BeyondGeography]

1. Reconciliation without truth

just makes things worse in the end. Like letting bankers skate with fines so we could all move on.

[UTUSN]

4. You get me.

[LenaBaby61]

10. I run hot and cold with Maher ...

This week I was frigid to what he was saying.

Yeah, you have about 30-40% of this country who are WILLING to let tRump and thuglicans it turn into a Banana Republic and WORSE, into what the Soviet Union is, and that's a busted, broke-ass country outside of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and outside of those two places, that country looks like a junkyard with increasing white nationalism and homophobia is at the point of running amok. Hell, 8 oligarch's (putin included), are running that country into the ground. They've got very few natural resources and although a huge land mass, they have an economy the size of Italy's.

Maher can have several seats. He's a white male who'd fair far better than I would as a Black/Native-American woman.

I'm not letting SHIT go.

[Hoyt]

2. Saw it Friday, but didn't take it like that. Might see it differently if I look again,

but as I remember it — while playing my mandola and imbibing — was more about a willingness to compromise somewhat to move forward, rather than getting nowhere. But, I’ll look again.

[UTUSN]

3. Well, he sees the need for all of us to get along somehow. I get it, but the divide is undeniable.

And being Stockholm or appeasing or defeatist just don't cut it.

[Hoyt]

5. I hear you, but until GOPers are out of office, we may need to compromise unless

willing to wait until we hold large majorities in Congress and Presidency.

[UTUSN]

6. "huge majorities" winning/demolishing/obliterating - Look, we all yearn for unanimity

"Can't we just get along" - we NEED to get along. But there's that 33% that will never even try and I'm willing to admit that I'm in the opposite 33%. My stance is that not-resisting means surrender.

[Hoyt]

7. Resist on, I'm with you. But I'd compromise for say enhanced ACA if MFA

is going to lose. I think that’s what Maher is saying.

[UTUSN]

8. Or, for a digestible Thanksgiving plate!1

[SunSeeker]

9. Worst New Rule ever.

[Initech]

11. No the one about snowflakes a couple of weeks ago was the worst one.

This was pretty bad, but nowhere near on that level.

I'm sick of the snowflake / too much PC bullshit.

[uriel1972]

13. "PC" is a hot button issue for me...

It's about demonizing, care and compassion. Hearing the term sends my blood pressure through the roof.

[Initech]

15. Yeah that's exactly why I'm sick of that whole talking point.

If you bring up crap like PC and "snowflake" I really don't need to hear anything else you have to say.

[uriel1972]

16. Too true...

Just say Happy Holidays and walk away.

[Initech]

19. Yup! Just like in social media - block and move on.

[meadowlander]

12. Yeah, no.

We're in this position because we've been letting this shit go since 1994.

We're right. They're wrong. And they need to hear about it until they stop being wrong.

[uriel1972]

14. Yes,

Sometimes there are no clear answers, but at other times there are right answers and wrong answers.

[Initech]

17. Hell, since Reagan.

The GOP has been drunk with power and out of control since then. They definitely need to be kicked in the ass and taken down a few pegs.

[meadowlander]

18. I feel like the irrational Clinton hatred ramped it up a notch though.

Once Newt Gingrich and all his croneys came in and said "Let's impeach the President just because we can" that's when they started really just ripping pages out of the rule book.

They slimed Michael Dukakis and Jimmy Carter and other Democrats before that but I think Republicans of conscious started to become the minority in the early 90s.

[Initech]

21. The right wing smear machine has grown by leaps and bounds.

Now they have 3 24/7 news networks to spew the bullshit depending on your degree and level of wing nuttery that you choose.

[greyl]

20. Ready or not, here it comes.

[wryter2000]

22. Oh, gee golly gosh

Both sides do it. Understand your MAGT neighbors. I've been so uncharitable.

Fuck Maher. It's all about making him look clever at the expense of the truth.

[KentuckyWoman]

23. Bill Maher.... Bill Maher? Hmmmm Isn't he that old guy on HBO?

Is he still trying to get attention?

[lunatica]

24. What a sanctimonious jerk he is

Maher is one of the original rabble rousers, always screaming and whining that the Democrats were too accommodating, too docile and that they needed to fight like the Republicans do. Now he wants to get points and laughs by demanding Democrats get along with Republicans.

Fucking jerk.