Aaron Bacus

Bill Maher calls Democratic special-interest groups “the biggest Karens in the world” and wants candidates who stand up to them. He cites Josh Turek’s opposition to males in women’s sports and taxpayer-funded sex changes, then rejects the left’s Gaza litmus test.

Bill Maher CALLS OUT Hakeem Jeffries after he said Stephen Miller’s presence in government should be “eradicated like a malignant tumor.” “Way to take a victory graciously.” “Way to cool the temperature down right after that.” Ali Vitali responds that Democrats face a base that wants “fight and accountability.”

“THE CHALKBOARD MAFIA.” Coleman Hughes and Bill Maher take on teachers unions protecting failure instead of students. Hughes says the Brooklyn school they’re discussing spent $50,000 per pupil: “The problem isn’t the funding, it’s that you can’t fire anyone bad.” Maher to MS NOW’s Ali Vitali: “I think this is the kind of thing I will never hear on MS Now.” Her response, and Hughes’s case for rewarding good teachers, follow.

California is the warning, not the selling point. Coleman Hughes tells Bill Maher why Gavin Newsom’s record is “really tough to stand by.” Ask a Republican what they don’t want happening to their city, Hughes says, and the answer is San Francisco. Maher on the city’s shift from far-left governance: “Let’s arrest criminals.”

Coleman Hughes warns Democrats not to turn an election win into a mandate for the DSA on Bill Maher’s show. He points to Abdul El-Sayed doing worse than moderate Democrats in Michigan. “So the real lesson for Democrats is Americans prefer moderate Democrats.” Maher notes El-Sayed says he is not a democratic socialist, despite the DSA endorsement, then identifies his main issue: Israel.

“It doesn’t work when one side of the table doesn’t want peace.” Bill Maher pushes back on Peter Berg’s appeal for diplomacy. “And that’s when you call in the Marines.” Berg agrees the military is necessary, but argues against using it when it does not have to be used.

“You have a mandate for something, for sure, but it’s not for political prosecutions.” Coleman Hughes warns Democrats on Bill Maher’s show to remember how Trump’s indictments helped him rally Republican voters. Maher acknowledges Trump’s border accomplishment before Hughes makes his case.

Bill Maher on the far left’s socialist pitch: “They want the government to take over everything. That is a prescription for failure.” Coleman Hughes: “We got a hundred years of data on socialism. It’s not good for the economy.”

Five Trump states flipping to Democrats? @LarryOConnor is NOT joining the panic over a Senate map built on polls he doesn’t trust. “Texas, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, and Alaska, those are five states that Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, carried by 10 points or more.” “It has never happened before that five Republican states that just elected a Republican president two years later swings that far in the other direction and loses the Senate race. It’s literally never happened before.” “Could it happen? Well, of course it could happen. Of course it could. Are we gonna waste a lot of time here? Wringing our hands saying it probably will happen, or because it could happen, we should figure out why it won’t. No. Not when most of these decisions are based on what everyone roundly recognizes are flawed polls.”

Where was this interrogation for Liz Cheney? @LarryOConnor CALLS OUT Anderson Cooper’s treatment of Haley Stevens for backing Mike Rogers. “I actually kind of adore the fact that she just looked back at him and said, You got a question?” “Hey, could we play the video of Anderson Cooper interviewing Liz Cheney like this when Liz Cheney decided to abandon her party and her principles and vote for Kamala Harris?” “No, she was a hero. They celebrated her, right? That’s what I thought.”

Trump handed Macron’s call to Kid Rock, then drove off in the golf cart, according to Kid Rock’s story on Bill Maher. “Hey, I’m here with the great Kid Rock.” “I’m from the Paris of the Midwest, Detroit.” Bill Maher: “He leaves Macron on the phone with Kid Rock.”

DENIAL: @LarryOConnor TORCHES the DNC chair’s repeated defense of the Peltola campaign over Alaska’s Dan Sullivan ballot controversy. “They can’t deny that it happened. We know that it happened.” “The question is, did the Peltola campaign have any involvement in this? Did they fly out and convince him to do this? Did they help organize it?” “How about Washington, DC and the hierarchy of the DSCC, who, according to the New York Times, helped participate in this scheme.”

PROSECUTE AN ELECTION MEME, but dismiss a same-name ballot operation as a “dirty trick”? @LarryOConnor RIPS the double standard. Under Biden, a man was prosecuted over false voting information online. Now multiple sources cited by the New York Times implicate Democrats in recruiting a second Dan Sullivan for Alaska’s ranked-choice ballot. “Don’t call this a dirty trick. Don’t say, oh yeah, both sides do dirty tricks.” False information to confuse voters merits a prosecution, but an alleged operation involving a Senate campaign and the DSCC gets brushed off as politics? “Maybe that’s a little bit more than a dirty trick.”

WHERE’S THE SEGMENT, MARGARET? @LarryOConnor CALLS OUT CBS over its coverage of Alaska’s second Dan Sullivan. Face the Nation? 60 Minutes? CBS Evening News? “Hey, um, can we run the video of Margaret Brennan and Face the Nation covering the fake Dan Sullivan story and all the hard work that they did on that?” “We don’t have that. Yeah, we don’t have it. They didn’t do anything.”

CAUGHT: RASHIDA TLAIB ON HIDDEN CAMERA SAYS IT DOESN'T MATTER IF ABDUL EL-SAYED HAS AN EGYPTIAN PASSPORT! "If they're from freaking Europe and stuff and they got, like, French passport, nobody gives a s***. But because he's got an Egyptian one, everybody gives a s***." Asked about voters pushing back on the "Muslim Brotherhood thing": "Obviously he's not a terrorist. They're, you know, trying to gaslight people to believe that." "His sister, by the way, his sister is a professor at a university, and like, if that was true, like, I don't think she'd be working in a school." Told El-Sayed listed Egyptian citizenship on his CV: "I don't know what the f*ck a CV is." "It's like when I went to doors and people actually said, 'Is Obama Muslim?' I said, 'So what if he is?'"

A University of Utah student laughed that "Republicans should be shot in the street, personally," then lunged at a College Republican on camera and tore his shirt. The punishment: two misdemeanor citations. Now left-wing campus groups want even those dropped. Should the student be expelled?

Black voters pushed to the back of the line again? @LarryOConnor WARNS Democrats about the resentment he sees building around Detroit. “That’s why you’ve now got Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib instead of a black Congresswoman from that area.” “And by the way, don’t think that this doesn’t have resonance with those voters when they realize that they might make history by sending the first Arab American senator to Washington, DC before Michigan has sent an African American senator to Washington, D.C.” “You guys get to the back of the bus. You had your chance, you didn’t make it happen. So it’s our turn now. Don’t tell me there’s not some resentment there, because there is, and we’re seeing it manifest.”

Asked why he signed a letter advising Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government, Abdul El-Sayed said: "Bro, that was about democracy." The letter urged Morsi to "purge the media and the police as quickly as possible." 👇

Whose campaign was counting on confused voters? @LarryOConnor TURNS THE TABLES on Mary Peltola after she says Dan Sullivan insulted Alaskans’ intelligence. The New York Times reported her campaign helped recruit his same-name challenger. “But good try, Mary.”