Bill Maher And Guests Swipe Right On The Growing Pains Of Younger Men In ‘Real Time’ Summit

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It was time for a guys-only talk on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, as the host welcomed a panel to discuss just what the heck was going on in a week where the Queen died, the NFL opened, and Los Angeles was so hot “it was like Death Valley with In and Out burgers.”What it boiled down to was that guys aren’t getting enough traction on Tinder, and Top Gun: Maverick is a macho outlier in a world that is typically afraid to go there.Panelists Scott Galloway, podcast host and author of Adrift: America in 100 Charts, and Matt Welch, editor-at-large for Reason magazine and cohost of The Fifth Column”podcast, dived into a discusson of Joe Biden’s now-infamous “Bowels of Hell” speech.

Maher felt that Biden could have hit a home run by tweaking his speech slightly to embrace the foibles of his own party, as well as the MAGA people he condemned.Welch agreed. “The way he did it was a missed opportunity,” he said, and then pondered why the Electoral Reform Act was not being discussed. “If you really believe democracy is in peril, act like it.”“His big mistake was thinking Americans could appreciate nuance,” Maher claimed, adding, “If he had made a speech that critiqued the fringe of both sides, I think he would be in such a winning place right now.”Things grew contentious when Welch brought up “the traits that we don’t want to see” from the MAGA side, and mentioned the election denial in the Democratic party, particularly from Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.Maher took offense. “Republicans own that issue of election denial,” he insisted.

He also mused on why the mainly macho MAGA “completely relate to this feeling of grievance” created by “a whiny little bitch.”Welch said that was because “They don’t like the way