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Unlike many conservatives, I’m not a fan of talk-show host/comic Bill Maher just because, like a broken clock, he gets things right occasionally. For every commonsense position Maher tepidly asserts, he pushes Progressive propaganda the other nine times. Confirmation of this came in last Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time, when Maher actually urged Maine Democrats to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, one of the most repugnant human beings in politics (which is no mean feat).

In his closing monologue, Maher joked that Platner – who has boasted of identifying not only with the Nazi SS but also with the domestic terrorists of Antifa; who has declared himself a communist and called all cops “bastards” and white Americans “racist”; and who unreels a new sex scandal every week, “doesn’t need a term in the Senate. He needs a gap year in Costa Rica.” Platner actually needs a gap year in a communist country to really appreciate the level of misery he wants to inflict on Americans.

In any case, Maher went on to say, “I don’t judge Graham Platner,” which begs the question, Why not? If the Jewish Maher isn’t repulsed by Platner’s infamous Nazi tattoo, to say nothing of his “non-gay” fantasies of raping people to assert power over them, what would it take for Maher to judge him? The fact is that Democrats circle the wagons and withhold judgment on their own unless it is politically expedient to throw them under the bus, such as happened recently with Chinese honey-pot enthusiast Eric Swalwell.

Maher justified his reluctance to judge Platner by suggesting he is some kind of a war hero: “What I do know is he served his country in the Marines, in war, and you can never discount how big that is.” Here is what Platner said about his service to the country:

After the war, I’ve pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place… Nothing makes my skin crawl more when I get a ‘thank you for your service.’ I used to ignore it, but these days I tell people not to thank me, I didn’t do anything good for America when I was in uniform.

Maher went on to make light of Platner’s scandals: “But then there’s the sexting while married, scary behavior – so say some of his exes – old posts about how he’s a Communist and all cops are bastards and black people don’t tip. And then, of course, there’s the Nazi tattoo on his chest.”

Need I point out that if a Republican were guilty of all those things, Maher and his rabidly Left-wing audience would have no trouble judging him? But because Platner is a Democrat, and because the Left would vote for the actual Adolph Hitler if he were running against the President they call “Hitler 2.0,” Maher backs him:

I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons: One, we need to restore balance in our government and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that. And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly-educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror.

For a man who postures smugly as an intelligent culture critic, this is perversely idiotic reasoning. True, there are many broken, horribly-educated, phone-addicted, nutty people in America today – and they vote Democrat – but to say that those people are representative of most Americans, and that therefore we should simply “get used to” putting people like that in positions of political power, is almost too stupid and nihilistic to dignify with a response. Almost.

Then, after referring to an ex’s claim that the rape-obsessed Platner said “a lot” that “if anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” Maher excused that by stating war does things like that to people and “that’s who we created. Our society is not healthy. We create broken people.”

Again, even if this were generally true of Americans (and it’s certainly not true even of most Americans who have gone to war), why should we simply shrug and accept it? Why not seek out the best and the brightest for political office instead of settling for the lowest common denominator?

As for that notorious tattoo, Maher made an excuse for this also by suggesting Platner may not have known its Nazi association when he got it: “People today are so inundated with misinformation and Internet bullshit, I wouldn’t trust he knew what it stood for anyway.” Seriously? Who chooses a tattoo without understanding its symbolism? Spoiler alert: no one. This is the poorest possible excuse, especially coming from Democrats who lost their ever-lovin’ minds over Pete Hegseth’s Christian-themed tattoos. This is to say nothing of the fact that at least one of Platner’s former girlfriends have confirmed that he knew very well what his Totenkopf tattoo meant, and reveled in its implied bad-assness. She also reported that he said he kept it as “a reminder that the United States was the evil, bad guy overseas.”

This is the kind of man Maher thinks will bring a healthy balance to Washington D.C. This is the kind of candidate Maher thinks should be in office because he’s supposedly representative of Americans. Maher also added – and apparently he thinks we should get used to this too – that there is a new kind of voter in America: “people who are intensely political, but somehow know almost nothing about politics.”

If he thinks Graham Platner is the kind of politician we should “get used to,” then Bill Maher is that kind of voter.

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