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All right, the latest fun is that Bill Maher came down on the BDS movement, that's boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, that Tulsi representative, Tlaib, is behind. And so Bill Maher sort of broke ranks, which is not that unusual. He broke ranks with the Democrats to say that that was a dumb idea. And so Tlaib has responded by saying that people should boycott Bill Maher's show. Is this, could th…

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Now Bill Maher was like one of the biggest critics of the president, right? He's one of the most vocal critics. And Bill Maher says in the tweet, this is a fresh tweet, "But one other thing, Mr. President, as long as we're talking," this is Bill Maher, "if you were to do a total 180 on the environment and become the most dogged fighter we've ever had against climate change, pollution, and killing wild species, etc., I'd vote for you."

So Bill Maher is saying that if on that one issue, if Trump became a, you know, just a maniac about protecting the environment, that Bill Maher would vote for him. Do you believe that? Now I'm not sure you could take that as a literal, you know, I'm the one who always cautions you against taking things literally because obviously there are lots of variables in the world. But I think I've been telling you for a while that it feels to me that Bill Maher is sort of teetering on the edge of becoming a Trump supporter. I'm not going to predict it'll happen, but I'm not going to be surprised if on Election Day 2020 Bill Maher says, you know, I hate a lot of things about this president but look at the other person. Sorry. You might find that Bill Maher is a lot closer to Trump by Election Day than you ever thought was possible.

Now one of the reasons, one of the things that would bind them is Bill Maher has to be noticing that most of the arguments against Trump are literally just made-up ridiculous BS and that he's being attacked for being politically incorrect. Imagine Bill Maher, whose TV show used to be named "Politically Incorrect." It's his brand. What's Trump's brand? Politically incorrect. They literally have the same brand. It's hard for me to imagine that there's so much distance between them. Now remember they've had some personal dust-ups in the past, so some of it's personal. You can't really score that.

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Here's my other favorite story. It's being reported. I don't know that you could consider this credible. Whenever you hear a quote from people who were not recorded at the time, usually you should say the quote is not necessarily credible. It might be accurate, but you can't really believe quotes unless you see them on video or hear them on audio. And even that it could be a deepfake. But if you'r…

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