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Comedian explains to Bill Maher why she's not scared of 'cancel culture' — and why apologizing is good
June 18, 2021
HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher did not make it 15 minutes on Friday before bringing up his fixation with so-called "cancel culture."
Maher repeatedly books guests who share his infatuation with the Fox News talking points and brings up the topic on show after show.
But this Friday, comedian Nikki Glaser explained to Maher why she wasn't worried about being canceled.
"Please don't apologize," Maher asked. "Because there's too much apologizing in America."
"I love apologizing, I love it," Glaser said. "I love apologizing, it feels so good when you mean it," she explained. "I don't mean empty apologies, I mean, when someone is really like, 'I didn't even consider that somebody could feel that way.' Like having empathy, like, 'that sucks that I made you feel that way.'"
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Marco Rubio hilariously fact-checked by Alexander Vindman's wife: 'You're so bad at this'
June 18, 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was hilariously shut down by the wife of retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in Trump's first impeachment trial.
Rubio tweeted a Politico story on the White House freezing military aid to Ukraine that was labeled "nonsense" by press secretary Jen Psaki.
"Remember when freezing military aid to Ukraine was an impeachable offense?" Rubio asked.
But Rachel Vindman, co-host of The Suburban Women Problem podcast, offered a fact-check.
"Oh, no you don't. What was impeachable was the attempted extortion," she wrote.
"You're so bad at this; you can't even troll well," she added.
@marcorubio Oh, no you don’t. What was impeachable was the attempted extortion. You’re so bad at this; you can’t even troll well.— Rachel Vindman (@Rachel Vindman) 1624049780.0
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On Friday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow suggested that Democrats should employ a simple maneuver to make greater use of their tenuous Senate majority before a closely contested midterm: cancel the August recess. This would, she noted, make it easier for Democrats to do things like confirm more judges, something that they have already made clear is a priority.
"They don't work in August," said Maddow. "What are they, French? I kid you not. The Senate's official website says the reason they take all of August off is in part — look — so senators can, 'catch up on their summer reading.' For that noble reason, they take off all of August every year. It's on the calendar this way. In this Congress, they will take off all of August this year and next year. Take those months off the calendar. That gets the Democrats from 24 months in theory down to 23 months because McConnell stole their first month from them, then drop down two more months to 21 because of the August catching up on reading time."
By contrast, Maddow noted: "[When] Republicans were in control of the Senate ... they were cancelling the August recess. They shortened it. They took a single week off instead of the whole month off. They did it because they could. Because Mitch McConnell and the Republicans had the majority. They wanted to use it to do stuff, even if their summer reading lists were going to be neglected. They didn't actually even have legislation they were working on at the time. They just wanted to confirm more Trump judges. Even still, they gave themselves time to do it."
"Why don't Democrats do that this year?" asked Maddow. "They would give themselves more power and more options by giving themselves more time at work to do stuff while they were this precious majority that history says they are likely to lose and conceivably could lose before the next election."
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