This is rediculous, but, also really funny.

They do tend to gravitate towards each other when they know they can benefit from each other. But it is never a lasting relationship.

I would cringe less having to watch a grown man destroy a watermelon with a mallet on stage, than having to listen even for a second to Bill Maher's self-important, disdainful and gross rhetoric and "jokes".

I think "comedians" who predominantly punch down to trans people and then soften to billionaire pedophile rapists simply because it'd be punching up are probably less deserving of a time slot in your week than just about anyone. Cowards aren't very funny, surely there's enough real comedians in the land of free speech to piss off better targets, like Stavros or Adam Friedland.

I tried a few years back and I couldn't either

I've been loving Books That Kill podcast. So many authors needing a bit of a roast. I might check out the Maher one. I don't care that much either way about him. When I do watch him, I binge watch several episodes and have my fill for a while. Even with lots of skipping forward.

I'm not sure if it's more me or him changing or a bit of both, but I remember kinda moving into the "meh" stage on him over a decade ago, but still watching. It seems to get worse every year, though. Not sure if it really started with the Me Too thing and people like him seeming to concern-troll over the "cancelling" thing. No one is getting fucking cancelled, though, and I'm sick of hearing people like Maher talking about it as if it's a real issue or something. And then after Gaza, JFC. He's one of the ones clutching his pearls over the blue hairs protesting on campus, too, IIRC...he's so protective of Israel, holy shit.

Same goes for “libertarians.”

I have to say, after listening to Robby Soave shill for fascists while strenuously pretending to be a smooth free-thinking libertarian and not a member of the cult, I've come to the same conclusion as you.

I guess that's his job - being the right-leaning voice on The Hill - but it's honestly painful to watch him each time he opens his mouth to offer a conservative-friendly counterpoint while pretending he's not one of them.