ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith isn’t known for his political commentary, though he has sprinkled in some now and then on First Take and his radio show. He’s not woke. Like Maher, he’s a commonsense liberal who also appears to have had it with the hypocrisy and outright insanity of the progressive Left. Maher has a better track record bashing his side, though he’s bound to return to his roots soon, but not this week.
Maher torched Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass again, while Mr. Smith obliterated all the excesses of American liberals, which made Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) very uncomfortable. It was done with the usual enthusiasm and animation exhibited by Stephen A—which is his schtick—but it was also a brutal torching of the current disposition and ethos of the Democratic Party.
Bill Maher torches Karen Bass for yet another week:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
"We're not out of the woods yet with the fires. They came up again. Some of them came up so quickly, the mayor barely had time to book a trip."
The same people who said 'Kamala Harris ran a flawless campaign' are telling you… pic.twitter.com/GszpTVP4V5
First, Democrats were the ones who made Trump a celebrity, with Mr. Smith noting how the president was ‘the man’ when cozying up with Hollywood’s elite. Second, how he and other Democrats felt like fools voting for Kamala, along with the oddity of casting her as some rockstar when she couldn’t manage to win a single Democratic primary. Third, the pronoun games are insane; where he’s seen at his network that saying gender-specific and scientifically accurate words were considered anathema to left-wingers.
“It got to the point where 'he or she' was taboo amongst some Democrats. How the hell did that happen?" Smith said.
Khanna tried to make a pitch to keep some illegal aliens in the country, which Smith took apart in less than five minutes, noting the inanity of catch and release and how Democrats use the phrase due process as another way of saying they’re not going to do anything about immigration enforcement. No one wants to hear about due process for people who commit crimes and who are also here illegally.
Stephen A Smith depicts how the media flipped on Trump once he ran for office:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
SAS: "He was a celebrity but he was made to be a celebrity by a whole bunch of Democrats.
I knew Trump before he ran for president:
Hosting fights at Trump casino, showing up to Knicks basketball games… pic.twitter.com/JRD5pFug1u
Stephen A Smith scolds Democrat Ro Khanna for putting the American public through the pronoun nonsense:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
SAS: "As opposed to try and guilt them and fear mongering, to get them to do what you as a politician want you to do.
If you uttered the wrong pronoun, they was ready to cost… pic.twitter.com/0TvK9DQDvL
Stephen A Smith feels like a damn fool for voting for Kamala Harris and declares she would have not been the Democrat nominee for president if a primary was held:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
SAS: "So Kamala Harris - who didn't resonate during the primaries in 2020, couldn't even get to Iowa - suddenly is… pic.twitter.com/cQzLrMIILU
Stephen A Smith scolds Democrat Ro Khanna for putting the American public through the pronoun nonsense:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
SAS: "As opposed to try and guilt them and fear mongering, to get them to do what you as a politician want you to do.
If you uttered the wrong pronoun, they was ready to cost… pic.twitter.com/0TvK9DQDvL
Stephen A Smith gets an applause break from the audience with an anti immigration stance after Maher calls out Ro Khanna for voting against the Laken Riley act:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
SAS: "Here in your state, they can drag their feet and prolong certain things.
When we're talking about immigration:… pic.twitter.com/8W0drhehup
If this were an MSNBC or CNN segment, Stephen A. might never be invited again. Luckily, this is HBO. It’s Maher's show, and he isn’t afraid of debate.
Maher then attacked the illiberal zombies among Gen Z for popping champagne over the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was murdered by Luigi Mangione last December outside of the Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City. Thompson was there for a shareholders meeting. Maher didn’t hold back on his criticism of the healthcare industry but also noted that killing Thompson was hardly any revolutionary act that would induce change. It’s not the insurers but the hospitals who drive up costs. In all, Maher brutalizes the lefty youth as lazy social justice warriors who know next to nothing about the issue that they whine about on TikTok.
Maher also noted how this cheering for assassinations obliterates the Left’s crusade for stronger gun control laws. He’s saying it but not accepting that liberalism today is unhinged, unprincipled, and off the rails. The HBO host, as does ESPN’s Smith, knows the latter, but give it time. Maybe they’ll come around and jettison from this movement because the crazy will only get worse.
There's an entire generation that is too lazy to do the work to really understand an issue, but happy to pose as social justice warriors for it. pic.twitter.com/9SYpbnN41k
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) January 25, 2025
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