Real Time With Bill Maher: Overtime With Ari Melber & Andrew Sullivan

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher and Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan.

"Bill and his guests continue their conversation after the show." 

From Real Time With Bill Maher

I'll just take one issue at a time here. 

As far as the inflation: both the Trump and Biden administration's poured a lot of money into the economy in the early 2020's to deal with COVID and the recession that followed. And when that happens, at least when stimulus bills are done right and you don't pull that spending back when the economy starts moving again, you get a lot of inflation as a result. Because all that government borrowing leads to a weaker currency. 

I thought Andrew Sullivan had the perfect response here to deal with inflation. We should just be enforcing our antimonopoly laws and antitrust laws and breaking those cartels. Or tell them to start lowering prices, if they want to stay as big as they are. Real deficit reduction that actually doesn't hurt people who need that public assistance, or weakens our infrastructure system, with things like work requirements, the expanding the child tax credit, but just for full-time workers, would be good ways to deal with the deficit and help to bring down prices.

As far as masturbation: Thank God for Bill Maher, because without him, where could we go to hear about this in a political discussion. I have a hard time believing that God (even though I'm not religious) would punish people for feeling good, especially when they're not hurting people. Or being involved in consensual activities, like sex, that lead to expanding human life. But that's me. 

As far as Nikki Haley for Vice President: even if she were to make a good choice for Donald Trump, she and Senator Tim Scott have a big question to ask themselves: is Donald Trump worth giving up your self-respect and perhaps even career as a possible future presidential candidate and in Nikki Haley's case, her whole political career. 

Donald Trump is not just looking at bankruptcy, at least in New York but being a convicted felon, who might be remanded after he's convicted in Washington this summer. And guess who MAGA will blame when The Donald goes down in flames, assuming he loses? I'll give you one big clue: it won't be their cult leader.

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