Here\u2019s the latest comedy\/news bit from Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday. This one is called \u201cNew Rule: Ghost Brands,\u201d and is about commercial brand names that still exist but have been forgotten, like General Electric, Kodak, and RCA. Maher\u2019s fear is that the Democratic Party, which is at its lowest rating in 35 years, is also becoming a ghost brand.\u00a0 And if the Democratic Party becomes a ghost brand, it will be for the same reason, says Maher, that companies become ghost brands: they deviated from a successful formula. In the case of Playboy, he argues, the magazine eventually put gay and trans-identified men on the cover. In the case of Democrats, says Maher, \u201cthey want to be that upscale store that impresses celebrities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The implicit message, conveyed by the final note that \u201cDemocrats need to get their shit together,\u201d is that the Dems have gone off-brand by being woke.\u00a0 This is nothing new for Maher (or this website), and maybe Maher\u2019s listeners are indeed upscale, woke Democrats, too. But if people don\u2019t absorb the lesson, in a few years we\u2019ll be faced with President Vance.<\/p>\n
The other guests were Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, Dan Farah and Michael Moynihan<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the latest comedy\/news bit from Bill Maher\u2019s \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday. This one is called \u201cNew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-258156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}