It was a week full of news, from the looming Donald Trump indictment through the Nashville school shooting.
Maher was obviously delighted that Trump, one of his favorite targets, had a real bad week.
He noted the irony of the most boastful man in history is indicted by a man named Bragg.
You tell me the Democrats are winning (there), he said, calling it a humanitarian crisis.
She said Black women were the fastest-rising demo thats arming themselves.
I dont like guns, Maher admitted.
But Im glad they exist.
Maher did say it was not unreasonable to make guns harder to obtain.
But he claimed that opposition to that was a conservative tactic used against the crazier liberals.
You want to be crazy?
Ill be crazy too.
And I have bullets.
The panel wrapped with a discussion of the tricky issue of the trans shooter in Nashville and deadnaming issues.
This is where the conflict is coming from.
Maher said that trans activism sometimes seems like a power game with them.
We need to come back to a place of sensibility, she said.
You want to live a certain way, and Ill do what Im doing.
Lets be okay with that.
Mahers New Rules editorial talked of the need for a special holiday for atheists.
See the monologue above.
