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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon to be the Uncle in Prison party.

Also, I’m suspicious this is really Bill Maher…

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm suspicious this is really Bill Maher

It's from page 106 of "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You", Maher's 2024 book.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, but fuck Bill Maher. He's a fucking groomer.

https://www.cracked.com/article_43274_all-the-completely-unrelatable-advice-bill-maher-just-gave-to-children.html

(That article doesn't include the part where one of the little girls tells Maher that Sofia Vergara's character's husband is much older than her and he says to them, "nothing wrong with that.")

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never heard the GoP called the "Daddy Party".

Who the fuck is calling them that?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bill Maher, and the shitlibs agreeing with him that the Republicans used to be respectable.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, old school Republicans from 30-40 years ago would be losing their shit at how much the current party has been cozying up to Russia and the Saudi's which is where a very large chunk of the modern corruption comes from.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except Dems have always been the party of fiscal responsibility too.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When conservatives say "fiscal responsibility" they mean cutting social spending so they can inflict as much harm on poor people as possible. If you look at everything they say through that lens, it all makes sense.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's what's baffling, social services are fiscally conservative, taxing the richest in order to make sure the poorest have better living conditions is fiscally conservative, not spending public funds on companies worth billions is fiscally conservative... Fiscal conservatism is supposed to be spending public money wisely, well the most logical way to spend money for a government is by having a monopoly on certain things to make sure they're provided to the population without the goal of making profit from it!

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The most fiscally responsible stance is to be against corruption. The corruption is the thing that causes money magically disappear.

There are bad apples in Democratic party (Kevin de Leon from LA for example. I hope he never gets beyond current position) and we should fight hard to kick them out, but right now GQP is in its own league in terms of corruption.

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Maher is an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian genocide, so this post checks out.

Liberals really have abandoned all tether to reality, lmao.