Overtime: John Heilemann, Julia Ioffe, Sen. Jon Tester | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[@jpan7071]

Overtime ends up being more substantive than the actual show once again.

[@chrisdavis9928]

I agree on your overtime opinion. The full show was so partisan, but that's me.

[@prezidenttrump5171]

jpan, I challenge you. I challenge you to tell me exactly what you gained from this segment. What did you learn? What expanded your mind in any way to improve it? What I got from it, is a "Russian expert" at the start, saying that Bill and Her were 'Comparing ourselves to Putin' before the segment started. Also, the bald guy giving Russia advice on which parts of the Country to attack, that wouldn't be part of the NATO agreement so nothing could be done about the attack on a world stage. That's what I got, because I listened. What did you get from this? If you don't answer, that's the loudest answer you could give me. I'll watch and wait to see your reply, doubtful it will ever come.

[@NickCageRage1]

Panel needs to go back to 3 people. I never watch OT and completely agree.

[@buckchile614]

@@chrisdavis9928 I'm sorry that there's no entertainment options on the right, besides Fox--and they're just a barrel of laughs 24/7

[@buckchile614]

@@prezidenttrump5171 There's more substantial news here, than you'll ever find at Fox and Fiends

[@justadad6677]

I love Julia Loffe, watched her Frontline interviews/documentaries back in 2017 and again when Putin invaded Ukraine. Do yourself a favor and watch it, it is gold. Her insight and facts is incredible. And the best part was that so many others that made similar interviews at Frontline said the exact same things. None of them are surprised by this, they expected it. Her looks when John Heilemann is making the argument that even the idea of a small error could be catastrophic. She don't buy the mistakes, she fears Putin will do this. And sounds like, that is exactly what Bill think as well. I sure hope they both are wrong, but this is definitely a crucial moment in history. This is Biden's Cuba Missile Crisis.

[@williamerickson520]

I don't think Putin is going to do that at all. It doesn't suit his objective. But I'm no expert.

[@quietstrm11]

Love how Bill mansplains Putin to the Russia expert, lol.

[@notme2day]

His objective is to destroy Ukraine if he can't rule it. That's why he's been destroying cities. The longer it takes Ukraine to rebuild and QUALIFY for joining nato is Putins newest goal.

[@justadad6677]

@@quietstrm11 yeah, I laughed at that too. But I think it was more to how, he get him too, and a way to let us the audience know, this is where I am going with this. I mean this episode was so good, on all parts. Guests, comedy, facts, it was classic bill when he is best.

[@justadad6677]

@@williamerickson520 I honestly didn't think he would invade. Anyone that is not a fucking idiot, would know that was a terrible idea. Like the worst he had ever had. And I thought, like many, that he really was too smart for that. but here we are, and they predicted it. Cause they actually know him. So I listen to them, ad not my own gut feelings. Because we clearly dealing with a psychopath.

[@zachsmith3376]

Julia Ioffe has been sounding the alarm for a long time, she has been right.

[@nunya___]

It's a shame they didn't spend more time listening to her analysis of Putin's long term attitudes and mental state. The other discussion of how to respond is proven. If he fires one he will fire more so if he fires one the only answer is to that is fire all you have. It's the only, _best_ chance destroy a lunatic.

[@ocox8659]

She’s been right as she’s a part of the neocon deep state and has contributed to causing this war.

[@nunya___]

@@ocox8659 ooooh. Deep state. The idiot's catch phrase for people smarter than you _actually_ doing something to make the world a better place.

[@snoski]

@@nunya___ I think Heileman's point about staying conventional is the right move. we have enough massive conventional warheads to level Moscow without escalating up the nuclear ladder

[@bolofinder9750]

You are correct…Loffe is spot on…Bill says maybe it’s Putins “brinksmanship”….sorry in my opinion if a nuclear threat is brinksmanship we are all doomed

[@livefromplanetearth]

an overtime worth watching finally

[@eviliswhereevilthinks9617]

Love it when Bill has John on, there isn’t a more well read reporter than him.

[@JadeDelphi]

It would be nice if he didn't think he was the only guest. He constantly derails the conversation with babbling.

[@snoski]

@@JadeDelphi I agree both with you and the OP

[@susanforrest128]

When Bill is on his game and he has thoughtful, knowledgeable, intelligent guests, there is no better show. This was one.

[@Odin31b]

Other than the clap happy audience.. do they have a clap sign or something?

[@markusheller11]

Bill Maher is a master at brain washing, and a hypocrite, he wants to portray him self as a liberal, however does not allow any one to disagree with him and go out of his way to get guests he would manipulate. what's going on in Ukraine is not fair to the Ukrainian people, however who is actually responsible for their suffering, in United States, as usual the other side is deprived from their narrative, it is the usual practice of United States of America, their citizens and the citizens of the western world should hear the American side of the story, the other side is evil and should be banned. Putin is a dictator and a criminal, that is granted, however what should we say about our leaders, they are toys in the hands of big corporations who are blood thirsty criminal cartels. so non of the regimes controlling this world are innocent. the world should move towards peace, however the fact that America keeps on strengthening the NATO alliance, which means that the world is moving towards mass slaughter, what is the point of NATO expansion. Russia has simple requirements, 1. NATO halt their expansion. 2. Ukraine does not join the EU. 3. Ukraine is neutral, this is not impossible and easy to do, however America is refusing all that and push Ukraine to this confrontation. Now the one trillion dollar question, who is responsible for the blood of the Ukrainians, was it Putin who wants to defend his country, the American government who instigated this problem and refused to back down, or the Ukrainian government who wants it war till the last man standing. I hope we use intelligence to think about this question and let us stop being brain washed by this orchestrated propaganda. thank you.

[@piotrswat169]

@@markusheller11 all you said its nice and neat almost not like kremlins general line.You forget 1 crucial thing tho.Ukrainians chose with their vote the EU.So whatever russians want is not what Ukrainians want.Only US or the west fault in here is that their countries are run better which was appealing to the people of Ukraine.Keep doing russian bidding tho we all need money.

[@mathgod]

Fewer and fewer shows, he has become a conservative curmudgeon who thinks everyone else has changed.

[@jeffhughes9120]

@@markusheller11 Very good Insight

[@nigel-Rollercam-channel]

The first episode of Club Random with William Shatner was great, thanks for giving your audience another way of connecting with you! I am as critical of Bill as most others he is not always right or funny sometimes but most of the time he exposes you to different perspectives and he respects his guests while finding common ground or shaming his guests when they are way off of societal norms that is what I appreciate. Cheers!

[@sgarrita2561]

Well said

[@fakeshemp9599]

Agreed 👍

[@williamyoung9401]

You can't respond in kind with nuclear weapons...it's unwinnable... Send B-52s and stealth bombers to attack the bases that launched it, but you can't launch nukes in kind...

[@TheProtocol48]

I love his show but “he respects his guests” many times he interrupts his guests before they can finish a sentence.

[@mindfulpessimist]

Loved the ending. We're all gonna die. See you next week!

[@anaibarangan4908]

I'm constantly getting feed about how much we're going to die. All the ways. News like "US doomsday plane is already deployed, spotted in The UK" "Commercial flights and vacations to Florida cancelled for April". Earthquakes and two meteor strikes tonight and tomorrow, don't know how big or where, no information about that. Ends up being I look out the window, it's still okay here every day.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

@@anaibarangan4908 Well we're not all going to die just a lot of us. How many people who got covid a year ago were sure they would stick around for more decades if you asked them in 2019? Stop taking it for granted!

[@j.dragon651]

@@BigBadJerryRogers maybe not, but they will be living in the stone age.

[@Cree_Money]

@@anaibarangan4908 Yup. "The world is going to end" is BS. Hot take: Nukes are adult Santa Claus. Better behave or else!!!

[@l.r.6630]

Julia Ioffe is above and beyond these men. Well spoken and articulate. Listen to her!!

[@Random-ut7jw]

Why? She has pro establishment narrative. Stop advertising her.

[@thinktwice-me7ie]

I totally agree

[@jakebe4915]

This was a dynamite guest roster. Bill should have a Senator there more often.

[@JadeDelphi]

yeah I thought it was one of the better episodes.

[@bigskygemsmontana9464]

That senator will not go to war. He hates America and is a new age nazi.

[@bigskygemsmontana9464]

They need to be on the Frontlines if any war happens.

[@grokeffer6226]

This has all been very disturbing.

[@marcpeterson1092]

More like scary as sh*t.

[@richardfitoussi767]

Bill you are the cure to this idiotic Qanon!!! Your show should be part of the high school curriculum !! Keep up the great work! and Thank you for the weekly fresh air you provide us!

[@ThePhilfyPhil]

"You've got to keep every option on the table"? No wonder Putin has such a *huge* table

[@victorpradha9946]

Underrated joke! In reality, there's absolutely NOTHING on those tables. I think Putin's paranoid of getting assassinated!

[@리주민]

If one country commits genocide, another country shouldn't retaliate by also committing genocide. If one country uses nukes, the other country should not retaliate with nukes. Use cyber attacks to permanently disable and deactivate all nukes around the world.

[@satsubatsu347]

@@리주민 You play Metal Gear Solid too much.

[@havefaith4358]

L O L ! ! ! !

[@hunglikeahamster3248]

I said it when Jon Tester was on Real Time last time and I'll say it again. That man should be our next president. His previous appearance brought that home more than this one, but still. The guy's a rock star.

[@raycebannon6374]

The dude who loves China, etc., etc. ? You have an interesting perspective.

[@TheYobo1016]

@@raycebannon6374 Hmmm. So you own nothing made in China or another communist country like Vietnam? Doubtful. Try practicing what you preach. If you do, you'll find it's pretty much impossible. America supports China more than any other single country because we buy more crap from them, because it's cheap. And that's the reality.

[@hunglikeahamster3248]

@@raycebannon6374 I have zero clue what you're talking about. Except for the etc etc - nice and specific there

[@FS-eb5ej]

he is utterly corrupt. More lobbyist money taken than anyone. Definition of legalised bribery. Hes against climate action and raising min wage....................he is a cancer, a political gun for hire, fn disgrace of a man

[@rebekkad.2092]

I am from Montana and so glad that Jon Tester is our Senator. He's such a stand-up guy.

[@turbo-jm8hk]

He's a F'n idiot, dude says Trump did some bad stuff and should be prosecuted, meanwhile I bet Tester is a multi millionaire due to insider trading just like the rest of Congress, Dems and Reps, those 2 idiots resigned because they wanted to keep on with a investigation that was leading nowhere and should of never been started, if they Trump on camera J walking they would of indicted him guaranteed, they have nothing and will never have anything, yall have been lied to from the very beginning by MSM

[@johnmarcustaylor]

As a registered republican libertarian, this is one of my favorite venues for commentary. Great groups of guests. Bill Maher is Voltaire of our age.

[@jeffblack4039]

A "Republican Libertarian". Is that a 3rd party composed of fascists and government haters?

[@myguykaikai9215]

@@jeffblack4039 how could a libertarian possibly also be a fascist? That makes no sense whatsoever.

[@Paul-ew5st]

@@myguykaikai9215 They're opposed to regulations that keep other people and the land safe from their greed it doesn't make sense because they are liars. They've just twisted the idea of a Libertarian to suit their purposes.

[@johnfontenot5015]

@@jeffblack4039 You guys were the government and vaccine haters back some years ago. Now that the Ratz are in office you so conveniently changed your position on this matters.

[@johnfontenot5015]

@@Paul-ew5st Does it make sense to get our oil from countries with almost no regulations to extract it , rather than get it extracted from here with way more regulations than them?

[@ozzie3963]

US representatives always say, when it comes to war, “Everything is on the table” Which means EVERYTHING Putin is not the first to put nukes on the table

[@nelsonc6173]

No but he probably is the craziest since Stalin to do so. A man in power for 22 years with no counter levers of checks on that power leads to insanity. Putins unchecked power has driven him insane and kept him trapped in a 20th century mindset he can't escape. He's a man living in the past trapped by that past and his insanity could possibly doom us all.

[@gallery7596]

As evil as he is, I gotta think Putin doesn't really want to spend the rest of his days living underground like a gopher because he just had to engage in a nuclear exchange with the US.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Exactly - so quick we forget that we had major hawks that after WWII wanted the US to use nuclear weapons to take over the world. Then Gen Curtis Lemay I think it was, and others wanted to use nukes against North Korea and China, and then Nixon wanted to nuke Viet Nam, and of course Trump probably doesn't even know what nukes are, but kept wondering why we can't use them. The US has been in a covert undeclared war with Russia since we lied to them about not moving NATO to the East. The one issue that Noam Chomsky and Henry Kissinger agree on is that moving NATO to the east is/was a very bad idea and never should have been done. Yet, we keep doing it. We siphoned 20 billion dollars to Ukraine to bring about the 2014 coup, and keep pushing to bring Ukraine into NATO - the reason was that a Rand Corporation report from the 60's I think it was said that to destabilize and overthrown Russia - Ukraine was the key. Putin knows this, we know he knows it, he knows we know ... but the stupid American people are kept in the dark.

[@LordIstar]

@@gallery7596 Assuming that he is a rational person by any normal standard, his ego, paranoia, and obsession with his legacy could in a worst case scenario lead him, backed into a corner, to go all out, enraged that if he can't have it his way, no one will. Scores of people in the middle east display this kind of dogmatic self-sacrifice, though obviously for different reasons, but it shows you that with enough conviction, and just a touch of insanity, people are willing to do preposterous things.

[@tinaperez7393]

Omg. Everyone's in this situation BECAUSE PUTIN INVADED UKRAINE. No one else did. And if America's "out nukes on the table" it's only as a defensive move not an offensive one.

[@TheBloodyPoint]

Bill's "How can you let it stand" comment in regards to nuclear war, really should also be applied to what Putin is doing right now in Ukraine with conventional forces. This is the real problem - drawing the line at nuclear use is like relying on your safety in football, you really need to oppose the actions well before it gets to that point.

[@zachsmith3376]

Agreed. By the time it gets to that point millions have died. I wish Poland or some smaller power would roll into Ukraine and drive the Russian out. I can't see any Putin stopping

[@TeamPill]

low-key

[@jennifermathis3983]

Your new rules today was awesome!!! I love you Bill!!!!!

[@richhunt8528]

Best show in a while, Bill. Love Heilman, Ioffi. Tester might’ve been replaced by a Republican, though I happen to like the only working farmer in the senate. Nice ‘New Rules’ and new westerns bit, too.

[@briangrigsby1842]

not much difference between Tester and a Republican.

[@sandyunderpants4376]

@@briangrigsby1842 Just the part about Tester being a Democrat and not loyal to Trump and his entire world view. But other than that yeah the same thing.

[@xaspirate8060]

@@sandyunderpants4376 You just can't be too far to the Left anymore. This show was 100% pro-Democrat and malcontents still chime in here and let the world know how Bill Maher is such a Trump guy and also to the right of Atilla the Hun.

[@anderseckstrand7033]

@Xaspirate... Maybe that’s because working class Americans have been left behind and haven’t had any real representation in Washington for the last 30+ years? Maybe that has something to do with it? Maybe because they say they care about making healthcare affordable but have kicked the can down the road since Nancy first introduced the idea BACK IN THE 1990’s!!! Maybe because Obama bailed out his WallStreet friends and let the predatory banks off the hook? Maybe NAFTA? Maybe how hard they fought to smear Bernie Sanders and all his supporters as radical commies... Maybe, just maybe. 😉

[@direwolf6234]

@@briangrigsby1842 democrats who live & work in montana are not going to behave like dems from other urban zones .. it comes with the climate & terrain ..

[@barbaraconnett5057]

I really like the talk, thank you!, it’s frightening!

[@hollywooda111]

This is an incredible dangerous question to answer, I'm not sure this is the place for this.

[@nfbconnect]

Treat Putin like an abusive spouse… you never want them feeling backed into a corner bc that’s when you can get hurt

[@gemanscombe4985]

There's a strong element of a hostage situation staged by an aggrieved, estranged boyfriend whose reactions to the police are tinged with apparent irrationality. Told the house is surrounded, he threatens to fill the house with gas and light it up. He might choose blowing up the neighborhood, or he might be dealing for an out - a helicopter + $1M. Seen the movie.

[@praeceptor]

No, he already has become a hostage-taker. You don't negociate with hostage-takers. Either they give up or will be taken out.

[@brassbear3373]

“The only winning move is not to play.”

[@donreiman]

How about a nice game of chess instead?

[@Badbadbambi]

The best move is the move your opponent wants you to play the least

[@svscared]

Exactly!! And in this case not playing should mean not buying the game at all in the first place!

[@i2really1der]

The Movie War Games With Matthew Broderick describes those nuclear scenarios.

[@imisstoronto3121]

Yes and something Putin should revisit. It points out very simply that nuclear war is unwinnable by either party.

[@arturosanchez7009]

Hi Julia. You are Awesome!

[@JJMHigner]

The best way to break the nuclear cycle is to not let it start to begin with OR to simply not respond if even one goes off. Also eliminate as many of the missiles as you can before they hit someone

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

If you don't respond if one is used then more will come from the same place. Nobody stops at one, it's like eating one Pringle.

[@kn747]

Don't respond? Oh really? So a monster has my wife wirh a knife at her throat. Like Putin has Ukraine. And You say i should let him have her?. Rather than escalate the violence.? I say hell no if 8m put in that situation i won't hesitate to strike him down dead. There is always a righteous side and an evil side in war. Evil kills to conquer with pleasure and no remorse they are evil. The righteous kills their enemy for it's own good because the good side knows evil can never, by its nature of being evil ever reform.

[@sna1976]

if someone hurls a nuclear weapon at us, or one of our allies, it would be politically impossible not to retaliate.

[@petesmitt]

@@sna1976 Ukraine is not an ally.. the west getting involved is monumentally stupid.

[@creativewriter3887]

@@petesmitt So let invasion and genocide continue.. okay.. Is that what you're saying?

[@Jellofreeze]

They really need to do something about the crowd audio. Makes no sense for the crowd to be blaringly louder than the mics on the panel.

[@loumareno158]

One hell of a show Bill, Real talk no bullshit......

[@jonasfermefors]

I disagree with Julia Loffe about the Soviet Union. In the Swedish military I was trained in responding to ABC-weapons (atomic-, biological- and chemical-weapons) and we were taught that the Soviet Union regarded ABC-weapons as "conventional" weapons. The only thing limiting their use i a war was world opinion and they didn't care much about that either.

[@rabbit251]

An alternative to Putin using chemical or nuclear weapons is to send a cruise missile to Putin and hope that Russia doesn't respond, telling them it will be Mutual Assured Destruction if they do.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@rabbit251 The only time you'll be sure where he is is during the next G20.. and that would be a whole new level of madness.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@rabbit251 That's what i was thinking as well, Dee Ess Cah Late (sorry) the situation, they've got millions of conventional bombs, enough to carpet Moscow. I don't see the big deal, just fire whatever else you got that isn't a nuke.

[@jakebe4915]

So scary. I thought I could die without another (1962) missile crisis. God bless President BIDEN.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@jakebe4915 I'd rather keep God out of it since it's one of the primary reasons for Putin's war. Putin is a Russian Orthodox Christian who thinks that his calling is to reunite the Russian Orthodox people which, to him, means Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. He sees it as a personal affront that Ukraine's church (where Russian orthodoxy was founded) in 2019 broke out of the Russian Orthodox church. (And I'm an atheist so i don't ask God to do anything)

[@bradleyfitzik2447]

99 red balloon-type mistakes can happen when Nuclear weapons are armed 🎈

[@kushviper]

Never knew Tester was missing 3 fingers on his left hand 🤙

[@Silver_79]

I love how they use “tactical nuclear weapon” like it’s tiny. Tactical Nuclear weapons/warheads can be as big as 200kt, then they typically move into “Strategic” beyond that yield……For reference the two we dropped on Japan were 15 & 25kt.

[@anderseckstrand7033]

It’s about comparison. Relative to the “Czar Bomba?” Yes, a tactical nuke is small.

[@jazzman1904]

@@anderseckstrand7033 Yes, that's true, it is about comparison. Two hundred kt as opposed to 15 & 25 kt. It's not tactical, it's the end of the world.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@jazzman1904 The nukes on top of ICBMs are usually one megaton bombs!....more than enough to wipe out any city within a radius of 5+ miles...and I mean really wipe out!...the bombs of 1945 were like little firecrackers, compared to more modern nukes....if Putin is manic enough to use even one of these, we are doomed as a species...along with millions of other species!.

[@gemanscombe4985]

I believe the US had cannon-fired nukes - "Long Toms" - that had 1KT yields. A thousand tons of TNT is plenty, to be sure. The Beirut fertilizer explosion was less than that.

[@mehdirahan6943]

I was just quiet for a while after the thought of a possible nuclear war. Like how far has humanity come to just end it all over a conflict that could've been handled diplomatically like most conflicts.

[@alan6685]

Some people just become unreasonable. We just hope there's a thought out there once the order arises. After all it's not Putin that'll push the button.

[@imisstoronto3121]

How would this be handled diplomatically? Just give Putin what he wants?? Deny him what he wants? HOW? Didnt we see that in history when HItler took Sudentland and the rest of the world said ok you can have it. Neville Chamberlain came back with an agreement that wasn't worth shit. Hitler invaded other countries because he paid no price for doing it!! Putin has to pay a price. With his life or his position, or giving up everything he and the oligarchs own so Russia can start paying reparations to Ukraine for a couple of generations would be a start. Isolating Russia behind a new Iron Curtain sounds good too.

[@petesmitt]

@@imisstoronto3121 Ukraine is not an ally of the west! the west will not go to war over Ukraine..

[@imisstoronto3121]

@@petesmitt Ukraine prefers to align itself with the West. It's fighting like hell to stay out of Russias clutches.

[@petesmitt]

@@imisstoronto3121 Of course Ukraine wants the west to get involved; as the U.S. has been meddling with Ukraine since WW2 and backed a right-wing coup in 2014, the U.S. and allies are helping Ukraine, to the detriment of world economics and peace.

[@harris8401]

Love Julia, what a smart Woman

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

I feel like its 1985 and I'm back in junior high science class debating whether or not I'd want to survive the impending nuclear apocalypse, or die in the blast.

[@OneAdam12Adam]

I've always loved Julia Ioffe. I subscribe to Puck because of her.

[@intoreality1189]

“Strange game. The only way to win is not to play." - Joshua/WOPR, “War Games”, 1983

[@Mkundera]

Julia dropping the F-bomb!

[@LuckyDogProductions]

WE NEED MENTAL EVALUATIONS FOR LEADERS WHEN ELECTED!!!!!

[@TheMerryPup]

"The only winning move is not to play." - War Games (1983)

[@XerxesGammon200]

We are all fucked...

[@thomasdaley2929]

togetherness!

[@jrs9264]

Result of putting sleepy joe in the white house. Nobody is afraid of biden.

[@tremontefr5617]

Would love to hear Julia’s opnion if a tactical nuke is used how real is a military coup attempt in Russia. The read out this week seems like there is a chance

[@jenmac287]

Bill has been great in 2022

[@marketing077]

Prof. Emeritus Mearshmaier 7 years ago was lecturing the west about situation in Ukraine and what Russia will do about that.

[@michaelrizzo7889]

Wake me when it’s 2024

[@yasisoufi]

Did u say this on 2022?! 😂🫣😬

[@paulj8726]

Wait till Bill comes back on this Friday. His “have a great Oscar weekend” is funny now that we’ve all heard what happened at the Oscar.

[@laszynandriy]

Julia is correct, Budapest memorandum!!!!

[@dinarap6610]

The United States publicly stated in 2013 that "the Memorandum is not legally binding," calling it a "political commitment." Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer, who participated in the signing of the memorandum, commented on the content of the document and its terms: In the English text of the memorandum there is the word "assurances", that is, "assurances of support", but not "guarantees" (guarantees). This is an important distinction. For example, our NATO allies have security guarantees. South Korea and Japan, with which the United States has joint defense treaties, have guarantees. In the case of Ukraine, we are talking about assurances. It's a less powerful word. Secondly, the memorandum did not spell out a mechanism for retaliatory actions, except for an appeal to the UN Security Council if nuclear weapons were used against Ukraine.

[@orffrocks5667]

Jesus, Bill. You ask someone a question and then interrupt them continually. Great guests but no chemistry. Bummer.

[@DJ-bj8ku]

Asking non-experts questions about national security. Neither funny nor informative.

[@maryclare2968]

It’s inappropriate to discuss military options on a talk show

[@albertogonzalez5707]

"have a great oscar weekend everybody"....lmao

[@batgurrl]

Interesting topics but I didn’t appreciate the way Bill kept pestering Senator Tester about what will happen if Putin uses a a Nuke as if he can speak for the 99 other Senators plus hundreds of congressional reps

[@pmasterlex]

Thousands?! When did that happen

[@jdenino6022]

I thought Biden makes that decision?

[@xaspirate8060]

Well that's because you don't like Bill in the first place you see.... wait...pestering? REALLY? because he rephrased question?

[@batgurrl]

@@pmasterlex I meant to type in hundreds, about 435. It was a huge typo. I think I’ll correct it, so dumb ☮️

[@usps8797]

I'm a moderate Republican but I do love Real Time. Even though Bill is more Liberal than me, I do value his opinion. Only question I have, if they are in favor of prosecuting Trump (which I will applaud if the evidence is true) then why no mention of investigating Hillary???

[@EVZimora]

Try letting her speak Bill without interrupting

[@EnochByrd]

What happened to Senator's hand? 6:31

[@kkkk-wg6je]

So when can I vote for bill Maher?

[@thedelapo1606]

The evidence was so strong ... that two people quit because they won't prosecute... because the evidence wasnt there . You lost get over it as you would say bill

[@coreywinters8939]

I have a lot of questions for Julia.

[@josephvalente5061]

When all else fails blame Russia.

[@vinskeeter]

Think of a world without the Russian threat. It's been an issue all my life, I'm 59.

[@psyskeptic9979]

Get John Heilemann off: he is a fool.

[@fitztastico]

If I remember correctly, I think Maggie Haberman said one of the reasons Trump would run again would be to avoid criminal prosecution. If that memory is correct, would you rather let him off to fade into obscurity or have another full go of him?

[@roameragency8373]

Julia is the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen

[@roncarney9158]

We don`t need the expense of real courts, just use Real Time with Bill Maher`s Kangaroo Court!

[@andrewskokna9760]

Don't worry Democrats we have a very intelligent man in the White House you put him there never mind the dementia

[@mateodelacosta7688]

I think they should investigate Bill Maher the way they're investigating Trump and see what they find...

[@BottleConcreteBlond]

Why does Bill Maher ask a question and then keep interrupting the "expert?"

[@PaulSmith-tt2cy]

Intelligent educated Americans bring it on

[@warrenwalker8170]

Charge Trump charge Trump what is wrong with the New York DA -- Corrupt

[@jalijali8448]

Julia was the only person who knew what she was talking about here, absurd

[@brianredmond4919]

Banging on about trump again but no mention of hunters laptop. Come on bill face it .

[@jimmybolton8473]

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[@ralphbourke5473]

There is one equation left out of this conversation. Putin will not launch just one! Now finish this conversation!

[@eileenhughes7395]

Bill, talk about the unbelievable role and power of FEMA in a large emergency. Have you ever looked at what FEMA can do? It can essentially take over the government, military, manufacturing etc

[@itsabouttthattime]

That's why this whole show is on the road.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

All I know is...when my basement flooded, due to an extreme snowstorm and melt-off, a friend of mine at work gave me a phone number to call--local FEMA...a dude showed up at my home a day later, took a tour of my basement, and handed me a check for $2,500 dollars to repair my basement!...I thanked him so much, he just smiled and said "Hey, you are a citizen in need, you pay your taxes, so you deserve these benefits."....That is what government is there for!

[@ocox8659]

Julia Ioffe - born in Russia, raised in the West as a neocon

[@robinbreheny293]

Time to have Howard Stern on

[@lewy1]

What the F is a tactical nuke?

[@boblozaintherealworld3577]

Everybody seems to be talking over the Senator. I wanted to hear him say more.

[@PeterJarrell]

The world being outraged is nice. That's a "thoughts & prayers" response, I'm afraid. Proportional response sounds more appropriate.

[@petesmitt]

What if Ukraine invaded Russia; would the west send military support to Russia?

[@David_7-n3q]

"Hell bent, Heaven sent It all got started by an accident"...... Don Henley "Them and Us"

[@tabc6870]

Julia is a genius. So glad you had her on.

[@sleepymarmot7047]

Why does John Heilemann have such a grin on his face when he speaks about reactions to a nuclear war that could cause perhaps a billion lives ? Is it stress ? I find it really weird...

[@eviliswhereevilthinks9617]

He’s a very well read highly passionate person I’ve watched him often, on many different shows etc… I find that he uses the smile when he’s seriously uncomfortable with the subject, and I don’t mean intellectually.

[@marks7192]

Thats a 'fear grin'

[@eviliswhereevilthinks9617]

@@marks7192 could be.

[@mudge40]

This is three buffoons and one guy who is starting to catch on.

[@Have_A_Nice_Day242]

Looking for a silver lining with Putin, at least unlike our last President he did not suggest the possibility of nuking a hurricane.

[@migueldecarvalho8012]

They keep saying "tactical nuke" and it makes me doubt they know what they are talking about.

[@rw9207]

Julia Loffe if a towering intellect.. shut up Bill and let her talk.

[@JSolar590]

In order for Putin to use nukes in Ukraine, his generals and some of his military would have to agree with him on some level. It's not like he can order it and it can magically happen. Depending on the delivery, there would have to a lot of steps to launch the nuke, eg. getting the warhead on the delivery system, transporting them to the front lines, planning for the strike, authorizing it, etc. Let's just hope the rest of the military will understand what it means to using nukes and prevent it from happening. I believe during the first Gulf War, Saddam ordered the use of chemical weapons on coalition troops, and his generals refused. A dictator's power only goes far as the military is willing to support him, so we shall see...

[@gallery7596]

Let's all hope you're right.

[@bonnierobinson9993]

Then why do we have Nuk if they are never to be used

[@siniaura]

John sure likes to take time w his comments. sometimes less is more

[@dinarap6610]

Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk in an interview with the German agency Deutsche Welle said that the Budapest Memorandum was only a formality, since in fact Kiev was powerless. Ukraine did not have the ability to maintain the existence of its nuclear weapons, since if the missiles were produced in Ukraine (and also required substantial funds to maintain at that time the world's third largest nuclear arsenal in a safe and combat-ready position), then nuclear charges were produced in Russia. More importantly, the entire nuclear weapons control system was in Russia and Ukraine did not have access to it: "It would cost us $65 billion (€53 billion) and the state coffers were empty." In addition, the West threatened Ukraine with isolation, as nuclear-armed missiles on the territory of Ukraine were aimed at the United States. Therefore, the only possible solution, according to Kravchuk, was to abandon weapons.

[@RedBarchetta910]

How is that whole coup thing going?

[@Maksym1977]

„Russia expert” 🤣🤣

[@geuxbdheucbe8397]

Just keep that same energy with Biden

[@gallery7596]

Yes, no matter what anyone's political party affiliation is: I think now is the time to rally around the president who's trying to stop a dictator with expansionist ambitions.

[@paulmoulton7248]

Investigate Trump 2016 Investigate Trump 2017 Investigate Trump 2018 Investigate Trump 2019 Investigate Trump 2020 Investigate Trump 2021 Investigate Trump 2022 Nope, nothing, but wait until 2023 and 2024, just wait!

[@gallery7596]

Ah, Trump was the same way with Hillary. Not likely to get a penny either, but he's just launched a law suit against her, too.

[@paulmoulton7248]

@@gallery7596 Not just against her. It is necessary and I am glad he did it. You can't let the system pull crap like that with no consequences.

[@pglasc]

Amazing how Biden does not come up in this video but former President Trump does.

[@brianbabin7020]

we have no president right now. its scary

[@mr.ray-ray7222]

Bill Maher: Putin has always been a rational Guy. Me: What the hell are talking about>?? I'm sure UKraine would disagree with that.!! I'm sure the families of all the people he posioned would disagree with that.

[@jrs9264]

He is still in his liberal bubble...

[@futurethinking]

He said he is a rational guy, not a compassionate guy. His plan is to put USSR back together. He has taken all rational steps to annex Ukraine. He just never counted on Zelenskyy being such a bad mf. He thought like afghanistan, Zelenskyy would be on the next flight out and he can take control of Kiev in less than 2 weeks.

[@Relugus]

Putin has never been rational. He is a KGB man at his core. If Trump had won, he would have pulled out of NATO, leaving an open goal for Putin. Brexit, Trump, and the various extremist politicians funded by Putin, have weakened the west, while Putin bided his time.

[@deadshot8077]

@@Relugus all of that sounds pretty damn rational to me.

[@tinaperez7393]

rational meaning thinking and calculating - capable of logical thought and accomplishing his ends. That doesn't exclude murdering lots of people. He seems uncharacteristically dumb, unhinged and off his game now because he's done something seriously big and dangerous to lots of people and countries geopolitically and it has NOT gone his way as things always have in the past and how he thought thimgs would now. That combined with the fact that he has no end game (cuz he was so sure of success and a quick one), makes him even more dangerous because no one knows what he's going to do now or how he's going to handle it.

[@emeraldislevacationhomespe3621]

In war, you are all in, or not. We were all in against the English, the Confederacy, Germany and Japan. And, we won each time. We were not all in Korea, Vietnam or Iraq. And, we lost. The question is not whether we launch nuclear weapons if Putin does so in Ukraine. It’s whether we are all in or not.

[@stansumrall5582]

It’s immeasurably sad to have such a beautiful planet to enjoy and in all likelihood someday destroy it. The earth human beings are bound and determined to end the wonder and amazement of this thing we know as life. Ironic how we spend so much searching for life outside our planet and have so little reverence for the life we already have. I’m sickened by what I see here and if all this life has been is a test of love then I’d say we’ve failed that test. To love is to accept and create. What we’ve created with our nuclear arsenals is completely opposite of that.

[@therealhiesenberg2731]

NATO country or not, using a nuke sends a clear message and the response has to be proportional. We should prepare 😰. I actually had a nightmare last night, I was caught in a nuclear bomb explosion and I saw my skin burn and melt off before I woke up, but that has nothing to do with the current situation, I have at least a nightmare a month. It is a little disconcerting though.

[@tomjackson4374]

Do you know the history of Heisenberg? He was the head of the Nazi nuclear bomb project and he intentionally sandbagged them because he understood just how terrible an atomic bomb was. Here is the scenario, you have a loaded shotgun pointed at the head of your opponent and he has a loaded shotgun pointed at your head both with dead man's triggers. Do you pull the trigger if he shoots your neighbor's dog? Proportional and nukes don't exist. It is MAD.

[@wirebeam]

You want to destroy the world over a former soviet state called Ukraine? Im sorry if Ukraine gets nuked but its not worth WW3

[@curbozerboomer1773]

We cannot prepare...when I was a child, in the 1950s, our grade school would have Atom Bomb drills...we would squeeze under our desks, and the teacher would pull the blinds shut!...and we actually thought that would be enough to save us!....a few folks--with money perhaps--would build small underground "fallout shelters", in some naive hope that such a temporary place would somehow save them....nope...if it comes down to being hit with nukes, it will be better to just run towards it, and be vaporized....to die from radiation poisoning/burns is beyond horrible...Just look at some of the old films of Japanese victims that survived the blasts.

[@therealhiesenberg2731]

@@tomjackson4374 Proportional response: When someone initiates an attack against you, a proportionate response is said to be one that suffices to prevent further attacks. This could be a missile fired at their launch site or a black ops mission to destroy it, no need to use nukes. Sorry, I should have been more specific.

[@therealhiesenberg2731]

@@wirebeam Your first mistake is thinking this is only about the Ukraine. If you read my comment I was referring to a reactive response; I was in no way advocating for a nuclear strike. Proportional response: When someone initiates an attack against you, a proportionate response is said to be one that suffices to prevent further attacks. If he fired a nuke, the world is destroyed already, the only thing we can do is act to save what we can.