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Adam Sandler, you know that you’ve made it when you have become a spirit day at a junior high school.
@AdamSandler
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I teared up when Kathy Bates watched the video gobsmacked at being wrong about not thanking her mom when she won the Oscar, and turned to the interviewer and said, "Thank you."
Kathy Bates says she was sure she never thanked her mother in her Misery Oscar speech, then the interviewer showed her the tape
"She gave up her retirement because I was born so late in life to them."
"When I won the Oscar for Misery, she said, I don't know what all the excitement about, you didn't discover the cure for cancer."
"Why did I think I didn't thank her?"
"Because she should have had my life."
"I wanted her spirit to come into me and enjoy everything I was enjoying because of what she'd given up."
Her mom's whole review of the Oscar was that she didn't cure cancer, and Kathy still believed she had shorted her that night. Then she watches herself thank her mom at home, right there in the speech. Some people never stop trying to pay their parents back. You can hear it in how quiet she gets at the end.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
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So move over, my friend Larry David: somebody pulled the ashes of Bill Maher's career out of the fireplace and somehow re-burned them.
His new friend Trump, dinner with whom he keeps boasting about, just had Bill for dessert
Sleep with Trump, get fleeced
1/5
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El-Sayed: In my Neurology unit, I would have to give that MOCA exam, that cognitive test he's so proud of… The only people you give that test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you’re taking one of those tests, something is wrong.
And you know the doctor who gave it to him was like, I just want to see how smart you are, sir. And he's like, me too.
He brags about having taken it. He's like I remembered the rhinoceros. You're like Habibi, everybody remember the rhinoceros.
And the funny thing about it is, you know, he's taken it multiple times. So he's not even bragging about the first time he took it. He's like, I took it the 1st time and then I took it the 2nd time. So with Donald Trump, you can't blame him for this, he's just dumb.
But for Mike Rogers, can you imagine how small of a human being you have to be to know that he has real deficits and to just nod your head approvingly at the most ridiculous shit that the man proposes?
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Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.
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Reminding everybody that Nicki Minaj only became a MAGA influencer after she was on the verge of losing her house, and her husband and her brother, who are both sex offenders, need pardons from Trump.
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I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Lots to unpack here but Trump says Bill Maher is an unfunny loser pothead/drunk and the recent dinner was a waste of time.
TRUMP: Let's talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher.
When I became President, I agreed to meet, after the first one, and the last one, but never agreed to do his show, which he wants me to do, DESPARATELY
I believe he lied to me when I asked him, with all the applause and laughter he gets after almost everything he says, about thing that aren't funny or even any good, what Laughter Machine does he use? People can't think he's funny.
Bill was very nervous. He asked for a drink. He was very insecure, and he had a seriously bruised eye and nose area, as though somebody had just beaten him up — But it wasn't me!
No sooner had we had that first dinner at the White House, which is a very seductive and beautiful place, especially now that I have fully renovated and fixed it in the style which it deserves, Bill wanted to come back.
Also, I wanted to tell Bill that he's a major POTHEAD. He's got to stop, it's very bad for his health. He looked like hell this time. Bill was drunk and had alcohol in his hand as he walked through the White House. Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock came along with him.
I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time. After the first dinner, Bill Maher was friendly, I guess, everyone walked away pleased.
After the second dinner, Bill's "show" was far worse than the first. He went crazy! He's gutless, because he enjoyed every minute.
Also, I am not a building a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room, and never had any intention of doing so.
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Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers tmz.com/2026/10/25/nicki-min…
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Dear dumbfucks,
You can like the Cheesecake Factory and not want the White House to look like the Cheesecake Factory.
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TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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This is actually a condescending view of working-class people. I grew up in a working-class immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster and The Cheesecake Factory for "fancy nights out." But even we understood that the White House should not look like the inside of a Red Lobster. Working-class people are not culturally illiterate just because their experiences are shaped by their limited means.
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Trump’s Transportation Secretary used the word “libtard” while standing next to his daughter with Down syndrome. Then he defended it. Sean Duffy is a terrible father and a failed human being.
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Yes you are the bad guy. Actually the worst. And the most annoying part is how smug you are about it. Strong and wrong
“Yeah I did it again, bitches. Fuck you, I like these dinners.”
@billmaher lashes out, defends himself for having dinner with Trump again. He says Trump had good etiquette, never lost his temper or yelled… How nice!
Imagine being this far up your own ass.
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Bill Maher is embarrassingly gullible.
Trump wines and dines him, pretends to care about what he has to say, and Maher walks away convinced he’s somehow gotten through to him.
After nearly SIX YEARS of Trump in office, people like Maher are still delusional enough to believe he’s capable of changing. He isn’t. His actions have proven that time and time again.
Maher is just another out-of-touch Hollywood elite who mistakes access to power for actual influence.
Trump is playing him like a fiddle, and Maher is too blinded by his own ego to recognize it.
Absolutely pathetic.
Bill Maher admits Trump is a remarkable listener who never interrupts and values every opinion in the room.
MAHER: "Remember, we were going to have a live execution of the Fort Hood shooter? Somebody talked to him. He DOES LISTEN when he’s in that White House. He never interrupts. He never gets mad. He listens."
LEAVIT: "He does. And he surveys the room. Something that I find admirable about him is he’ll look around the room, and he’ll ask the opinions of everyone in it, whether it’s a low-level staffer or his chief of staff."
MAHER: "True."
LEAVITT: “He genuinely wants to know how people feel, what they think. He takes their counsel and advice, and then I think he makes the best decision that he believes is best for the country in that moment.”
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Bill Maher is so disappointing . Trump was always really nice to me too. He offered me a job but I cared enough about other people and my country to go hard against him. It was the easiest decision I ever made. I’d seen how cruel he was to his own kids. Trump told Michael Cohen 1.0 he was baffled by me. I’m baffled by Michael Cohen 3.0.
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I'm glad people are clipping @billmaher now because his entire moderate and liberal audience is now gone, and we'd never see just how much he's prostituted himself for MAGA
