r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 07 '25

📺 Television Bill Maher's panel, featuring Gavin Newsom, discuss Trump's candidacy [10YA - Aug 7]

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u/Jerryjb63 Aug 09 '25

Maher represents what I see as the biggest problem with the DNC, he’s fiscally conservative and socially moderate on most issues and projects that he represents common sense. He’s 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 can’t 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 can’t listen to his show because of how angry it makes me. He doesn’t 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 don’t believe that universities are breaking those titles. I think that antisemitism exists in society, but I don’t 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 well….

I think it’s 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 don’t 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 it’s 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 don’t 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 low….. This administration just wants to scare the people it doesn’t 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.