The Omnibus Deplorables Thread

Both Bill and Rogan have dropped the ball big time lately in platforming that lunatic.

The crazy part is that Maher is cheerleading the nutter. RFK is so obviously, categorically, wrong and Maher encourages it. It boggles the mind.

Unfortunately Bill and RFK Jr have been pals for a long time. And anti-vaxx and other medical silliness has always been Maher's major Achilles heel. He's been in limousine-liberal California too long for his own good and soaked up too many kooky ideas from the "holistic" part of the left. He's far from being QAnon or a Trump flake, obviously, but when it comes to health & medicine he's way off the reservation. It's not Dr. Maher any more than it is Dr. Alex Jones when it comes to infectious diseases so he really needs to stop dishing out or promoting alt-silliness when he hasn't the credentials for it.

Maher voting Democrat all the time is proof that he's a Democrat. So too with when he does things like donate a million dollars to a presidential campaign, like he did for Obama. He doesn't have to do anything else to prove his bona fides. And group-think isn't mandatory for membership, at least not in a group worth belonging to. Woke hive-mind is the bane of the Democrats. It costs them elections. And Maher telling them to knock it off with the performative SJW routine is something they should follow. MSNBC or an atrocity of a show like The View with those nauseatingly self-righteous & pretentious Hollywood bitches are where the Dems have to go for unquestioning approval and seal-like applause from the hosts because Real Time is where some hard questions get asked of them sometimes.

His COVID stuff was nuts though. Like you said, with his "mostly fat people died" crap. Really? Were they just fat, or were they smokers as well? Because fatness by itself doesn't cause the sort of respiratory damage that something like COVID could exploit. How about alcoholics being mowed down by COVID, because the stress that excessive alcohol use over the years can cause to the heart certainly affects the lungs down the line. I think that Bill avoided this altogether because he's both a smoker (pot anyway) and a drinker, so it's not like he's going to want to hold his own habits up for examination any more than any other holier-than-thou type ever does.

I'll stick with Bill because on most things he's far more correct than he is wrong. But on medical/health issues? Nah. I'll just give him the eye-roll and go "that's nice, dear" when he starts tripping too much on the typically Californian holistic organic Whole Foods warrior bullshit routine.

It's weird that Maher has shown that he's generally willing to change his mind on certain things when new evidence presents itself. But on health & medicine he's more than willing to die on the hill of anti-vax and other stupid alt-health nonsense. Yeah, so Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Insurance pulls in a couple of trillion dollars per year. How much does Big Alt-Health make off of peddling things that are either entirely fake, potentially dangerous, useful only as a supplemental preventative for an already healthy person to take, or entirely worthless to someone who's already sick? I haven't seen one of the holistic Earth Mother worshipper types pushing these things do it for free, and combined they're obviously raking in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in the US alone.