t. Because you know I always talk about Bill Maher being willing to criticize the Democrats as well as the Republicans, and I do appreciate that. That's good stuff. He's got TDS of course, but outside of the narrow cone of TDS he is very, very good compared to most people in being able to see the whole field. Very rare for any of the public figures to even be able to do that.

So here's what he said. I'll just paraphrase a few things. He did suggest that Democrats thinking that Republicans are the dumb ones might be just the opposite. So I don't think it's true that either one is the dumb one, but he's definitely going to debunk the idea that the Democrats are the smart ones and the Republicans are the dumb ones. So he's definitely off that train right now. And he's very off it. Like he's completely off "Democrat smart, Republican dumb." He's abandoned that completely. It's just not—there's just no evidence for it. And he's just watched Democrats be so dumb that you can't even believe it. So he's abandoning "Republicans dumb." Now that's kind of a big deal. Do you realize how big a deal that is? Because "Republicans be dumb" is pretty much the stereotype that the country has been operating under, you know, the anti-Republican part of the country. And I think that Bill isn't the only one who might be abandoning that idea.

Anyway, so he also said maybe Democrats would be better if they would maybe stop acting like the people that voters would want to punch in the face. Okay, that's just a perfect line. That is a perfect line. Stop acting in a way that makes everybody want to punch you in the face. Now I of course am against violence, but as a humorous way to express things, that fits. When I watch MSNBC I have to actively curb my feeling of punching the television because their faces all look punchable. That and I talk about this all the time: their facial expression doesn't match what they say in such an uncanny valley kind of a way. You don't even know what you're seeing. Are they lying? Are they crazy? Are they demented? They have bad information. And you're just trying to figure it out. Like why does the face not match the words and what am I watching?

So yes, even Bill Maher has noticed that his side has the most punchable faces. I think that probably you know maybe that changes over time. There may be times when the Republicans have more punchable faces, but at the moment I think the Democrats have—I think they've got that locked up.

Bill Maher also goes, the Democrats have an anti-common-sense agenda. Yes, yes, yes. How about maybe that's the whole story. Maybe that's the whole story—that the policies don't even look like they make sense. It's not like you're choosing among, well that's a good idea but you know that's a good idea too. Which of these two good ideas is slightly better? It's nothing like that. There's one bad, crazy, and one that might work and it might not. It's not like you're comparing equals.

And he also criticized the Democrats for their quote "shitty exclusionary attitudes." Yes. So he's doing great and I'm like, yes Bill, go Bill, go Bill. I'm like rooting for him. I'm feeling like he's really crossed into some higher level of awareness, which is you know it's what I say when people agree with me. So since it's me talking I get to set the level of awareness in my own little subjective world. So when I see him talk like this I'm like, wow Bill, you've commanded your TDS and you've recognized that the things that the Democrats say are not sensible in many, many times and that they're lying to you and they're not the smart ones.

And then he ended by saying that the Democrats didn't even do much. Oh, he ended by saying that because they're so bad at their politics that the things he cares about the most that Democrats can protect the best are not being served. So here are the two things. After Bill Maher criticizes the Democrats for being idiots, he says the two things he cares about the most were number one losing democracy and number two climate change.

Okay Bill, you just lost all of your credibility. Losing your democracy? Who told you you were going to lose some democracy? The Democrats. The people you said are idiots with the punchable faces just made up a thing that you're going to lose your democracy. Completely made up. You know, I mean they looked to January 6 but you know most of that's imaginary as well. So they've got this made-up thing. And after Bill Maher criticizes them about being idiots, he tells you that he's really worried about losing his democracy because the country elected in a landslide the person who would most protect their freedom of speech, their gun rights, and pretty much all their other rights. Yeah, and that's what he's worried about—losing his democracy.

And then he said climate change. Now as you know I don't know if climate change is caused by people or how much of it is caused by people. A little bit. I don't know if it's going to be dangerous or not dangerous. What I'm sure of is that nobody else knows either. That's the only part I'm sure of. So after going through this whole thing about how dumb the Democrats are and even criticizing them specifically for being bad on science—because he criticized them about the pandemic and about mask wearing two years later—so he's very specifically saying the Democrats get science wrong. And then he says climate change is his biggest concern besides losing his democracy.

Now do you see it? Do you see that it looked like he was all the way out of his TDS but in fact he's all the way in? The two things he cares about aren't even real. They're not even real. So anyway he's almost there.

Here's my favorite dumb Democrat thing. So is it Eli or Ellie Mystal who appears on MSNBC a lot? And he said that—so this is the Democrats figuring out what they did wrong and then correcting it. All right, so this is MSNBC's one of their regulars figuring out what they did wrong and then here's his suggestion for correcting it. He says liberals need to build their own Joe Rogan. Oh, do you see any pattern here? The pattern where the anti-Trump people don't know how anything works—like anything.

Now it's not so bad that they don't understand that a large complex model for predicting the temperature of the Earth in 80 years isn't real. I can see how they'd be fooled by it because a lot of people are fooled by that. But sometimes they're easy things. Like if you create a set of incentives that will cause people to move toward the incentive, and somehow that part's invisible to Democrats. But here's my favorite one. How do you build a Joe Rogan?

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