Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, June 13, 2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 23rd season Friday, June 13 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:01 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Sen. John Fetterman, Democratic senator from Pennsylvania.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; and Rutger Bregman, Dutch historian and author of Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Fuck Bill Maher

[Xavier Breath]

6. As always.

[SocialDemocrat61]

12. Good for them

They aren't a sycophantic minon of a bigoted, sexist, anti-vax, rich, white male TV celebrity who parrots right wing talking points straight from FAUX News.

[Paladin]

2. I think Maher and Fetterman fully deserve one another's company.

That's how much I loathe both of them. Fetterman ought to bring along a gift-wrapped pair of kneepads for Maher---I hear Maher wore out his old pads in the course of his recent White House visit.

[Simeon Salus]

3. Fluffing is definitely on the menu

It wasn't so long ago it was Dennis Miller who had lost his humanity; people started laughing AT him and not at his jokes.

[newdeal2]

4. Surprised Fetterman is going to LA with all of the "anarchy"

[JBTaurus83]

5. I'm surprised

Any progressives or liberals still watch Bill Maher.

[Paladin]

7. So am I.

Particularly after all the hard work Maher has put in over the years, devolving into a rightwing pimp. Credit where credit is due...

[JBTaurus83]

8. It's sad

I watched him until maybe a year ago, but he’s really gone over the edge.

[Paladin]

10. I walked away from him and his show, years ago.

The only way I keep up with his garbage output is from online reports I come across, here on DU and elsewhere.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Thanks for the heads up. I'll watch it if I find that I'm in need of an emetic.

[Celerity]

15. lol

emetic

[UTUSN]

11. K&R for, thanks dear friend and esteemed DUer for the public service,

the Lib open mindedness, and at minimum the facilitating for Opposition Research.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Thanks! I've been posting Bill Maher since 2017, I think, since the "bootleg" link was always gone by the next day.

And if I'm not interested in something, I just skip over it. *sigh*

[UTUSN]

14. "skip over" - me, too. Mystery that peeved ones can't find thousands of threads they like

to be constructive in instead of being irresistibly drawn to one they don't like and feeling compelled to express their personal peeve, especially if claiming to be more-Lib-Than-Thou.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I've also been posting Colbert for just as long, and I'm not interested in all his guests, either.

So if someone's not interested, they can just skip over it.

[UTUSN]

17. Fun fact, MAHER has a ferocious animus toward Stephen, calling him

a corporate tool, which is obvious envy for Steven's success surviving compared to MAHER's having been cancelled. There's also MAHER's (and my) anti-religion/superstition compared to Stephen's extreme Catholicism (me, Lapsed).

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Now that I did not know! I can't recall either of them mentioning the other one

And I kind of dropped out after I reached my teens, despite being baptized and confirmed. I'd give a lot to have the faith that my father did, but at the time I had a big resentment because he sent me to a boarding school where we had "chapel" every day.

[AZProgressive]

20. Maher is actually further to the right of ordinary resistance liberals

That is how much he has moved over to the right. Look at his one on one guest which is the most pro Trump Democrat in the Senate.

I usually do skip over these threads but DU is a place where people like to give their personal opinion but there seems to be a strong effort to silence dissent of Maher.

[UTUSN]

21. For me he's more about kids-get-off-my-lawn now

[Abolishinist]

25. To be clear, are you saying that

those on DU who criticize or disagree with Maher are being shut down, discredited, silenced?

[Abolishinist]

19. We'll be watching!

Well, at least part of it, I doubt I’ll watch Fetterman. As we’re busy with other things this evening I’m taping it, so I can fast forward.

Ruther Bregman, a Dutch historian and author, sounds interesting. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In an interview with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in September 2017, Bregman said that "to move forward, a society needs dreams, not nightmares. Yet people are caught in the logic of fear. Whether it is Trump, Brexit or the last elections in Germany, they vote against the future and instead for solutions to replace it, believing the past was better based on a thoroughly mistaken view of the world: the world was worse before."

And of course, his opening and New Rules are usually fun. Thanks for posting!

[question everything]

22. I don't know what Fetterman will say, but Ian Bremmer is a knowledgable journalist

Thanks for postings.

Individuals here who "do not watch," who need their weekly dose of fu**ing do not realize, or refuse to realize that in order to win one has to be familiar with what the other side says. For me Maher is preferable to Fox or whatever the White House issues.

And at least Maher can be funny and his "New Rules" can be eye opening.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Thanks! And I feel the same way

We often see guests on the show that we see nowhere else and it's often eye opening.

[Henry203]

26. The day I saw the hoodie get up

I knew he was a phony.