Bill Maher Gets His Irish Up With A Warning To Those Who Want To Subdivide The US Into Separate Political States

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Bill Maher celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on Friday during his Real Time on HBO – or, as he referred to it, “Alcoholic Christmas” – by bringing up the dangerous parallels between the religious hatreds that fueled politics in last century Ireland and the turmoil in today’s United States between Democrats and Republicans. “You can’t think about the Irish without thinking about the division,” Maher said, harkening back to the violent rebellions that created a fractured society there.

Now, the same level of intensity is bubbling between Democrats and Republicans here, he noted. “We used to pray for the nation.

Now each side prays the other side doesn’t destroy the nation.” Taking excerpts from a speech former President Donald Trump gave recently at the CPAC convention, Maher noted how it reflected an almost Biblical level of intensity about smiting the other side.

It was “big talk from a guy who can’t even shut up his girlfriends,” Maher joked, but then noted, “That’s where we are. Your fellow citizens aren’t just wrong.