That’s all you Democrats have is Trump and we’re looking for something different.
It seems like Tyler Rake is making this case and I think the fact that he won in Texas [music] I think says a lot.
>> Adam Schiff just got humiliated on national television and what happened next made it so much worse.
Bill Maher, no conservative, sided with Trump voters over Schiff Friday night telling the senator to his face that 10 years of Trump is quote a bit of an eye roll.
Schiff’s only answer, do both.
That’s it.
Meanwhile, a Democrat who completely ditched that playbook just won in Texas and even Maher said that says a lot.
The pressure on Schiff isn’t just embarrassment, what it’s full exposure.
When your own side publicly calls out your strategy, trust collapses fast.
But here’s the thing, but what Schiff did right after this exchange? That’s where this story goes off the rails entirely.
Stay with me.
>> This statement from the administration, the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
That’s too vague for you? Totally vague.
>> Okay, cuz that’s from Obama about about Libya.
Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization.
I and many others pushed back on that argument.
Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad even though Assad was gassing his own people because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.
Um but I respect the fact that that that was important to him and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren’t going to go forward.
Um Adam Schiff is a United States Senator from California.
He spent years as one of the loudest voices in Congress, leading impeachment hearings, running intelligence committees, going on every cable news show that would have him.
He built his entire brand on one idea, holding power accountable.
But this past Friday night, something remarkable happened.
Schiff walked onto Bill Maher’s show, one of the most watched political talk shows in the country, and got demolished.
Not by a Republican, not by a Trump supporter, by a liberal comedian who looked him dead in the eye and said, “You are a hypocrite.
” The conflict here is simple.
The United States just struck Iran.
Democrats are screaming it’s illegal.
But Maher had receipts.
And what those receipts revealed is that Schiff and the Democrats didn’t care about legal when their guy was doing the bombing.
Here’s why this matters to you.
Because the people making the rules about war and peace are playing by two completely different sets of rules depending on who’s in the White House.
Schiff came on the show thinking it was going to be friendly territory.
It usually is.
Maher is a liberal.
His audience is liberal.
Schiff probably expected some light pushback, a few applause lines, and a clean exit.
That’s not what he got.
Maher opened a trap, and Schiff walked straight into it.
The issue was presidential authority to use military force.
Schiff was there to argue Trump had no legal basis to bomb Iran.
Maher pulled out a statement from a previous administration about exactly that kind of authority.
I think it’s terrible.
What do you think of the trap that Trump laid in the State of the Union address, where he uh I mean just just show the type there because I think it’s self-explanatory what he did.
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
And the Democrats didn’t stand.
I mean, obviously it’s a it’s a deliberate trap.
Because, you know, they always played these games of Simon says there at the uh State of the Union.
Well, I think you and I agree on this is all performative.
And I know, but But is it going to look bad in campaign ads? I don’t think anyone’s going to remember that come campaign and Well, they will if they put it in the ad.
>> That just That That exchange right there is the whole story.
Schiff called the constitutional justification vague until Maher revealed it came from Obama on Libya.
Then suddenly Schiff starts threading needles.
Suddenly there are reasons.
Suddenly Congress not approving actually showed respect for the process.
You cannot watch that moment and walk away thinking this man has a consistent principle.
He has a team and when his team does it, it’s statesmanship.
When the other team does it, it’s a constitutional crisis.
This is the double standard that has poisoned public trust in Washington for decades.
And Schiff just demonstrated it live on camera in front of millions of people.
Now here’s what makes this even sharper.
Maher didn’t let it stay in the past.
He connected it directly to how Democrats operate today and and he brought in one of their own to illustrate it.
The context was Trump’s State of the Union.
Trump played a very simple, very deliberate trap for the Democrats in that chamber.
He made them choose in public whether they stood for American citizens or not.
What happened next became a moment the left is still trying to explain away.
Also, this week, war.
Did you hear about that thing the we bombed Iran and it’s going on.
Now, if you expect me to say I hate it, I don’t.
Sorry.
When he puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it.
Now, I know too many happy Iranian Americans.
Sorry.
Uh and >> [applause] >> you you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.
They’re like six degrees of they don’t eat bacon.
And it’s popular.
I mean, Iranians all over the world are doing the Trump dance.
Have you seen that? The the whole world is jerking off two guys at once.
Now, Oh, it’s uh it’s amazing, yeah.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> Don Lemon’s response there tells you everything.
Nobody’s going to remember come campaign season and Maher, a Democrat, just stared at him.
Because Maher understood something Lemon didn’t want to admit.
It doesn’t matter if voters remember it on their own.
You put it in an ad, they remember it forever.
The Democrats walked into that trap because they genuinely could not bring themselves to stand up for the statement the first duty of government is to protect American citizens.
They made that choice in real time on national television and now they’re calling the military strike on Iran illegal while they couldn’t even stand up for their own constituents at the state of the union.
The credibility gap is enormous.
Then Maher shifted gears completely.
And this is where the show took a turn that nobody in that liberal studio expected.
Iran came up, the actual strikes, the actual war.
And Maher didn’t say what his audience wanted to hear.
He said something honest.
Something that cut through 50 years of diplomatic fog and Middle East complexity and got right to the point.
You cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.
That’s not a conservative talking point.
That came from a man who has spent his entire career criticizing the Republican Party.
And he said he doesn’t hate the strikes.
He said Iranian-Americans around the world are celebrating.
The regime that funds Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the regime that has exported terrorism across the region for half a century got hit.
Maher got that right.
And the fact that he had to say sorry before saying it tells you exactly how much the left has lost its moral compass on this issue.
They’ve become so committed to opposing Trump that they’re now functionally defending the interests of a government that brutalizes its own people.
And speaking of defending the indefensible, Kamala Harris decided this was a good moment to weigh in.
The woman who just lost a presidential election in historic fashion.
The woman whose campaign was one of the most rejected in modern American political history.
She issued a statement on the Iran strikes.
Maher had thoughts.
But, you know, when it comes to the war, when it comes to anything in this country, everybody assesses everything by way of did my team do it, then I love it.
If their team did it, I hate it.
I mean, Kamala Kamala Harris made a statement.
She said, “This is a war the American people don’t want.
” And who knows more about what the American people don’t want? Uh >> [applause] >> Who knows more about what the American people don’t want? That line landed because it’s true.
Kamala Harris ran on a platform the American people rejected at the ballot box loudly and clearly just months ago.
And now she’s positioning herself as the voice of American public opinion on foreign policy.
It would be funny if the stakes weren’t so high.
These are real strikes.
Real geopolitical consequences.
And the opposition party’s response is to put forward a failed candidate with no credibility to speak for anyone outside of her donor base.
That’s where the Democratic Party is right now.
Schiff gets into actually pinned by a comedian.
Lemon dismisses a real political trap because it’s inconvenient.
And Harris becomes the face of opposition to a military action that, whether you agree with it or not, had broader public support than anyone on the left wants to admit.
What happened Friday night on Bill Maher’s show wasn’t just good television.
It was a snapshot of a party that has traded principle for partisanship so completely that one of their own liberals can’t hold a straight conversation with them anymore.
Schiff didn’t get kicked out because Maher turned Republican.
He got exposed because the truth finally showed up in the same room and refused to leave..
