Bill Maher Reveals the One Thing That Might ‘Tip Me Over to the Republican Side’

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he may have a tipping point to cross over to the Republican Party.Maher, the staunch liberal who ushered politics into late night with “Politically Incorrect” and now “Real Time” on HBO, has had taken many sojourns into centrist and center-right thinking of late.

He and Rogan likened their mutual centrism to a rare form of “common sense” on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that debuted Tuesday.Maher suggested that runaway government spending — and the grift that comes along with it — just might be the thing that changes his stripes.

Rogan and Maher began by riffing on the enormous spending packages the federal government has floated of late, including the Democrats’ doomed “Build Back Better” package and the Trump-era COVID-19 stimulus packages, and how much of that money winds up in the hands of fraudsters and grifters.“People would say to me, ‘Oh, you’re complaining [like a Republican] about the government spending money,” Maher said. “OK, but is there any number at which I am not tipped over to the Republican side?

That I can’t complain about money that’s just being stolen?”Like everyone, Maher apparently has a price. (Watch the video clip below).Maher went on to make the connection to California’s now-defunct Pacific Coast railroad line, which absorbed hundreds of millions of federal and state dollars only to break down and fade to oblivion.“As a good liberal, I totally accept the notion that ‘You cannot transfer money without a leaky bucket,'” Maher continued. “I get it.