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"We want Americans to stop being afraid of demanding our politicians to take action. They work for us, we don't work for them. The
#MarchForOurLives
is us coming out and saying to our employees, you guys suck at your job." –
@cameron_kasky
#NeverAgainMSD
"Each election, in many ways, produces somebody who's the reverse of what we just had. And you could argue that it doesn't get more different from this president than a laid-back, intellectual, young, gay mayor from the Midwest." –
@PeteButtigieg
#RealTime
Robert De Niro on Trump: "I'd never play him as an actor, because I can't see any good in him. Nothing."
Watch the two-time Oscar winner get real about his feelings toward
@realDonaldTrump
on Real Time:
Trump "knows that he can start a fight and he doesn't have to finish it, because someone else will finish it for him. And that's his role in domestic terrorism." –
@SarahKSilverman
#RealTime
"The reason the president won't do anything is he believes that any acknowledgment that Russia was involved delegitimize is his election. That is the distinction between a president devoted to the rule of law and a president devoted to personal power." –
@jmeacham
#RealTime
"...Dignity for all human beings, equality under the law, respect for dissent, love of truth. These are the things we are losing under this president, and no policy is worth that price." –
@BariWeiss
#RealTime
"I grew up in a country where I was told that, if you show your hair, you're gonna go to jail, you will receive lashes, you will get killed like
#MasahAmini
. But here, they tell me that, 'Shh, if you talk about this you're going to cause Islamophobia...'" –
@AlinejadMasih
#RTWBM
Oh, and ladies, he's a good listener...
Watch
@ASP
co-founder
@ChrisEvans
and
@BillMaher
discuss the importance of engaging with people you don't agree with on
#RealTime
:
"Donald Trump's biggest fear is that we are going to recognize, those of us who are in the working class...that we've actually got a lot more in common than we have apart. And that he's doing the bidding of the top 1% and not the rest of us." –
@AndrewGillum
#RealTime
#NewRule
: If your position is that they have to stop counting the ballots in the states where you’re ahead or it’s “fraud,” and they have to keep counting the ballots in the states where you’re behind or it’s “fraud,” you have to consider… maybe it’s *you* who’s the fraud.
"Al Franken did a bad thing, and the condemnation has been universal, which he deserves. What he doesn’t deserve is to be lumped in with Roy Moore. Or Kevin Spacey. Or Harvey Weinstein. Or Donald Trump." –
@BillMaher
"I feel like something is different about this time, and maybe it's because the children are speaking out." –
@BillMaher
on the Parkland school shooting
"I do try to defend [Trump], but there are certain things he's done that are absolutely indefensible...What I'm astonished by is the lack of courage of Republican elected leaders not to pick up the phone and call him out..." –
@Scaramucci
#RealTime
• Do the Russian people know what's really going on in Ukraine?
• Do they talk to their neighbors about it?
• What's something that doesn't fit in your ass and doesn't buzz?
Russia expert
@JuliaIoffe
answers ALL THREE of these questions (and more!) on tonight's
#RealTime
.
“First of all, before we go on to the political part of it, she was just awesome.”
News of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing arrived in the midst of our live taping this evening with
@BillMaher
,
@traecrowder
,
@Timodc
and
@JaneFonda
.
"If Trump wins, he'll cast it as a complete endorsement of his most undemocratic behavior. If you're 18 and that happens, you stand a very real chance of not living in a Western-style democracy for part or all of your life." –
@BillMaher
#RealTime
"Who are these perfect people out there in the world today, who have never made any mistake of any kind – and don’t they think it’s going to come back and bite them in the ass?"
Watch
@BillMaher
discuss cancel culture and race with
@thomaschattwill
and
@bariweiss
on
#RealTime
:
"The thing about censorship is that, for those who would advocate it, just remember: at some point, that will be turned on you."
Watch
@ElonMusk
and
@BillMaher
discuss the need to protect
#FreeSpeech
on last night's
#RealTime
:
"The rise of the flat-Earthers is evidence of two things: One, we live in a country that protects free speech. Two, we have a failure of our educational system." –
@neiltyson
#RealTime
"You call me unpatriotic, but you come to my neighborhood where I’m from and you’ll see me take the shirt off my back and give it to someone in less need. I mean, what would you call that?" Watch
@MoneyLynch
respond to
@realDonaldTrump
on
#RealTime
+ visit
"Everything Donald Trump does that is illicit...he does right in public." Watch
@SethAbramson
and
@BillMaher
illustrate how Trump conducts his shady behavior out in the open:
"I have an 8% chance of standing next to
@JoeBiden
and that's the plan, because I want America to google 'Asian man standing next to Joe Biden' when they turn on the debate." –
@AndrewYang
#RTOvertime
"Trump lost this election and you won't say it. You're either part of the Big Lie, or you're part of the conspiracy."
Watch things get spicy between
@BillMaher
and
@SeanSpicer
on tonight's
#RealTime
:
"The Republican Party...made a wager, they sacrificed their principles, such as they ever were, and their dignity, such as it is, all in the interest of serving a president who is unworthy of service, and that needs to be punished." –
@GeorgeWill
#RealTime
"You are traitors and you are un-American." Watch
@BillMaher
call out
@senatemajldr
#MoscowMitch
McConnell and the Republicans for refusing to secure our elections:
"[Trump] is ubiquitous – he's in our lives every second of every day, he wants to be in our lives every second of every day, and he's bad for us and he fatigues us, just like the internet does." –
@SethAbramson
#RealTime
"I feel like something is different about this time, and maybe it's because the children are speaking out." –
@BillMaher
on the Parkland school shooting
"If Trump is a threat to democracy - and in many ways he is – so too are the Dems, who are in danger of being as feckless as the Republicans have long been shameless, if they're gonna send this guy out there."
Watch Bob Costas get real about Biden's reelection with
@BillMaher
:
"You do not see Biden people walking around in these bright red hats, putting, like, ten flags in their yard. You know why? Because we’re not members of a cult, okay?"
Watch
@Lis_Smith
join
@BillMaher
and
@jheil
on the
#RealTime
panel:
"We're going to do as much as we can to make sure that Donald Trump is not reelected, using all the tools in our toolbox. And some of them are pretty frickin' nasty."
Watch
@TheRickWilson
discuss
@ProjectLincoln
on
#RTOvertime
:
"I think Americans don't want the loudest voice in the room anymore – they've got that in the White House. I think they want someone that is tired of the noise and nonsense and wants to get things done." – Sen.
@AmyKlobuchar
#RealTime
"If we really think children are our future, shouldn’t the people who mold their minds make more than the night manager at GameStop?" -
@billmaher
#RealTime
"You wanna say that the Trump Tower condominium is 10,000 sq. ft. when it's 1,000? No problem. But you can't lie about the science."
Watch Anthony
@Scaramucci
's take on why Trump's
#coronavirus
talk is tanking the markets on
#RTOvertime
:
"I never thought I would quote George Will but I'm gonna do so tonight. George Will called Lindsey Graham a 'political wind sock.' This is a guy who is totally focused on his own personal relevance." –
@harrisonjaime
#RealTime
"Since we now accept that it's okay to merge your party with a foreign power, I'd like to be the first member of
#TheResistance
to say "China, if you're listening...I hope you can find Donald Trump's tax returns." –
@BillMaher
#RealTime
"Trump tapped into our fears and our rage and he gave us a place to put it: That place was each other...They want us divided because we are easily controlled that way." –
@SarahKSilverman
"Trump calls the media 'the enemy of the people.' Except, of course, for Fox News. They are so far up his ass, they are the enema of the people." –
@BillMaher
#RealTime
"Donald Trump's biggest fear is that we are going to recognize, those of us who are in the working class...that we've actually got a lot more in common than we have apart. And that he's doing the bidding of the top 1% and not the rest of us." –
@AndrewGillum
#RealTime
"I think dissent is a great duty around all topics."
Watch Russell Brand (
@rustyrockets
) share his skepticism of mainstream messaging and stick around for his description of just *how wet* that Wuhan market was on Friday's
#RealTime
:
"It's time to get
@AlFranken
off the bench so he can come back to doing what he does better than any other Democrat: taking down right wing blowhards." –
@BillMaher
#RealTime