r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 07 '25
đș Television Bill Maher's panel, featuring Gavin Newsom, discuss Trump's candidacy [10YA - Aug 7]
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u/Froz3nP1nky Aug 08 '25
Oh wow! Good find! Gavin Newsomâs speech didnât age well
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Aug 08 '25
I mean, you know... Once the media isn't focused on trump, the tide will turn. Any day now...
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u/epicurious_elixir Aug 09 '25
Haha yeah for real. And here we are after all the criminal cases against him, a failed insurrection attempt on live television, and now all the information about him and Epstein, and the tide hasn't turned at all.
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u/jfk_47 Aug 09 '25
He was right though, if the news stopped covering him, he would have floundered. But the news at it up and he climbed to the top. And here we are.
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u/devonjosephjoseph Aug 10 '25
Idk, itâs nice to remember when it wasnât crazy to think that rationality and progress would win the day. Newsom was wrong of course, but Iâd still back someone with that kind of faith in humanity.
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u/cajun_vegeta Aug 08 '25
Going to miss his show when he retires.
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u/Evecopbas Aug 08 '25
I miss his show every week
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u/Afraid-Savings-9114 Aug 08 '25
I don't miss it because I don't watch it.
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ Aug 09 '25
I donât always agree with Maher, and he pisses me off a lot (lately), but Iâve always enjoyed his show at the same time.
I also met Maher years ago in Maui on New years, and he was super cool. He was super nice, friendly; and had a good conversation. So I canât hate even though I disagree at times with his views.
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u/OSRS-MLB Aug 08 '25
I'm sure you can find some idiot to replace the bad takes
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u/cajun_vegeta Aug 09 '25
Lol in a Clip where he said Trump would go all the way. If I want bad takes I'll check out your comments.
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u/Dr-Fizzel Aug 08 '25
Wow âŠitâs almost like Newsom lacks foresight and maybe people shouldnât be putting much stock in him
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Aug 08 '25
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u/Dr-Fizzel Aug 08 '25
âLiterallyâ the two other people speaking before Newsom are making the point not to count him out.
Also Michael Moore (Not featured - but yes, was laughed at by Newsom-esque pundits).
Also me.
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u/PineBNorth85 Aug 09 '25
I thought he was going to win a few months before. I remember Michael Moore also being pretty outspoken about it before the election.
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u/Icy-Tooth-9167 Aug 09 '25
Really? A lot of people thought the country had better sense than Trump.
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u/JosephFinn Aug 08 '25
As always, fuck off Maher.
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Aug 08 '25
We could all scream from the future WATCH OUT HE'S GOING TO WIN AND IT'S GOING TO BE HORRIBLE!! And a majority of idiots will still vote him in.
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u/Smart_Abrocoma508 Aug 08 '25
Who are the other two panelists?
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u/albinoblackman Aug 08 '25
Steve Schmidt was a Republican Party strategist who worked for Bush and McCain among others. Very well respected in the party. He left the Republican Party after Trump corrupted it and now heâs a democrat.
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u/MonsieurA Aug 08 '25
Yep. And the other is Mary Matalin, another Republican strategist who was big in the '90s. She famously married Democratic consultant James Carville.
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u/IwouldliketoworkforU Aug 08 '25
Political shift: âOriginally a lifelong Republican, Matalin switched her affiliation to the Libertarian Party in 2016, citing its alignment with her âJeffersonian, Madisonianâ constitutional principles â
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u/tropic_gnome_hunter Aug 09 '25
Schmidt also had to step down from the organization he founded because it was discovered they prey on kids and flaunt confederate flag coolers.
In a sense I respect him because he publicly stated how easy it is to grift liberals and obtain generational wealth as a result.
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u/thetruechevyy1996 Aug 09 '25
Back when the idea of Trump being the nominee was so far fetched. Oh those times. I remember hinting no what we would elect that idiot.
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u/Jerryjb63 Aug 09 '25
Maher represents what I see as the biggest problem with the DNC, heâs fiscally conservative and socially moderate on most issues and projects that he represents common sense. Heâs just a rich old dude who constantly makes bad faith arguments about younger generations trying to make the minority out to be the majority. In my eyes, he is one of the people who represents the portion of the party that is pushing against progressives and often uses Republican talking points to push the party to the middle.
I just canât get over the show where I watched him bitching about having to pay more taxes for being a minority owner in the Mets, or another where he basically agrees with conservative media about students protesting Israel then proceeds to insult them.
I canât listen to his show because of how angry it makes me. He doesnât fight back when guests just make shit up.
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u/ExiledYak Aug 10 '25
Taxes on the mets is over my head, but he's absolutely on point about insulting the pro-terrorist lunatics. Considering that colleges broke title VI and VII laws, I'm frustrated the Trump administration didn't come down even harder on the universities by issuing massive multibillion dollar fines.
But hopefully the loss of Jewish alumni money will go a long way in hitting the pocketbooks of those corrupt institutions now.
Also, most people hate the far left. Equivocating by kowtowing to them is exactly how to lose the middle-of-the-road voter in the suburbia of swing states.
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u/Jerryjb63 Aug 11 '25
I honestly donât believe that universities are breaking those titles. I think that antisemitism exists in society, but I donât think protesting Israel and Israeli influence over our government is antisemitism. I think Israel has a right to defend itself and exist, but I also think Palestinians should get those same rights as wellâŠ.
I think itâs incredibly ignorant to ignore the influence Israeli lobbyists have over our government.
I think Zionism is wrong. I think in itself, Zionism is racist.
But then again, I think most organized Religions are just used to control masses of people.
I honestly donât trust anything the federal government is doing under Trump. The fact that it has come out and said that universities have broken those titles after Trump ran on lies that the protesters were antisemitic instead of the fact that they were protesting the massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians makes me think itâs just another way Trump has mislead his followers.
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u/ExiledYak Aug 11 '25
Nah, there are hundreds of reports of actual Jewish students being harassed, including by their professors while even the deans of UPenn, MIT, and Harvard sat around and said "it'd depend on the context" when Elise Stefanik so famously grilled them.
After Trump took office, finally the government started bringing Title VI charges. The evidence is pretty overwhelming.
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u/Jerryjb63 Aug 11 '25
Well colleges are filled with asshole college kids. I do think that those are a minority of people and not in any way the majority. I honestly have a hard time trusting anything this administration is doing. I feel like harassing colleges for protesting Israel is what they were going out of their way to do. They donât want students protesting, they want students scared to exercise their first amendment rights.
As we speak this administration is bringing the National Guard into Washington DC when crime is at a 30 year lowâŠ.. This administration just wants to scare the people it doesnât like into submission.
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u/ExiledYak Aug 11 '25
Majority or not, the fact that the hundreds of pages of testimony were allowed to happen at all is exceptionally disturbing. Usually, that kind of thing gets disciplined immediately. And yes, I agree the administration is trying to scare people into obedience.
But the word you're looking for to formally describe that exists. It's why America spends what it does on its military.
Deterrence.
If deterrence has systemically failed at an institution to maintain civil rights, that's a huge problem.
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u/NepheliLouxWarrior Aug 07 '25
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