its nice to see folk like maher and desantis who aren't quite the same as most 'featured personalities' in that they demonstrate possession of a brain that works;

Liberal HBO host Bill Maher defended Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during an interview this week over a “despicable” hit piece that The New York Times wrote about how he managed the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

DeSantis appeared on “Real Time” with Maher Friday evening where the two talked about DeSantis’ record and his Republican presidential campaign.

“I’m fed up with woke, too,” Maher said. “That’s why I have trouble with friends in Hollywood. I’m an old school liberal, and that’s a whole different thing than woke. And I’m sympathetic to you because, you know, you very often, like, take on an issue where I feel like, yeah, there is crazy stuff going on in schools. There is crazy stuff.”

Maher mentioned, though, that the problem is that some people do not understand why it was important to take on Disney or fight wokeness in schools because they don’t actually see what is going on.

“This idea of ideology corrupting institutions, I see it in Los Angeles with the amount of crime that’s here and the homelessness,” DeSantis said. “There are people that commit crimes who are not prosecuted like they would be in Florida. Our state’s crime rate is at a 50-year low. You elect these people like Gascón and what they did in San Francisco. You can break into somebody’s house or mug somebody, and you don’t end up going to jail?”

“That doesn’t work, but that’s driven by ideology,” he continued. “So it’s not just we’re having just a philosophical debate. I think woke ideology has corrupted institutions. I think it’s corrupted things like the CDC with how they handled COVID with the nonsense that they did. So it’s a broader issue than just a philosophical fight.”.......more.........