Bill Maher may still be a liberal, but he clearly has no more patience for people on his side who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
During a recent episode of his podcast, with guest actor John Stamos, Maher slammed liberals who can’t stop thinking and talking about Trump.
It really does make a person boring and one-dimensional when you can tell that they spend every waking moment thinking about how much they hate Trump. Even worse, the people who are like this have a never ending need to talk about it, even when people don’t want to hear it.
Maher knocked Trump in his usual ways, but his point about the Trump-obsessed left is spot on.
Bill Maher Sends Blunt Message to People Constantly Bashing Donald Trump
Bill Maher sent a blunt message to people who constantly hate on President Donald Trump during a conversation with Full House star John Stamos.
On the December 29 episode of Maher’s Club Random podcast, the Real Time With Bill Maher host and Stamos chatted about a number of topics. Stamos, 62, at one point, brought up Maher, 69, having dinner at the White House with Trump, 79.
“All I’m saying is he was extremely different,” Maher said of meeting the POTUS in person. “Maybe I’m the Trump whisperer. But I think we would do a lot better to have more people like me talk to him. He’s not against talking to people.”…
Additionally, Maher pointed out, “It is a phenomenon we have never seen before that one person would dominate just national… for over a decade.”
Stamos echoed, “Every conversation, every dinner, every f***ing thing.”
“And I do think you have to fight that,” Maher urged. “Like I say, if that’s your whole personality, is the first thing out of your mouth is ‘What are we going to do about Donald Trump?’ I just can’t.”
Here’s the video:
Bill Maher SLAMS Trump-Obsessed Democrats: “It is a phenomenon we have never seen before that one person would dominate just national… for over a decade.”
John Stamos: “Every conversation, every dinner, every f—king thing.”
There are people on the left who no longer like Bill Maher since he has taken a (somewhat) more reasonable stance on Trump. He at least deserves credit for letting go of TDS and all the performative rage that goes with it.
Jessica Tarlov, the liberal panelist on The Five on FOX News, had a predictably dumb take on Nick Shirley and his explosive video report on fraud at Somali daycare centers in Minnesota.
You all know she would have a bad take on this, didn’t you? If so, Tarlov does not disappoint.
She suggests that there is ‘no way’ that Shirley actually uncovered all the fraud that he claims in his report.
JESSICA TARLOV: It’s going to get incredibly complicated for [Gov. Tim Walz] and I’m sure that he and his team are talking about whether he could mount another, you know, I don’t want to say challenge because Donald Trump won’t be running again, but obviously he’s been considering 2028.
I think that that will be more difficult when something like this has gone on in your state while you are in office, even if you’re not personally involved in it. The program that he was talking about that you reference Kellyanne’s school lunches, which I’ve seen no fraud about that, that kids go to school and they get lunch and they should. Yes, school lunch is a good thing.
Sometimes breakfast too, even. Nick Shirley’s reporting there’s no way that this kid walking around uncovered $100 million worth of fraud on his own. There have been tons of people working behind the scenes quietly, including independent local journalists that have been exposing this.
Here’s the video:
WTF?! Jessica Tarlov just LIED about Nick Shirley, saying he didn’t uncover Somali fraud in Minnesota
“Nick Shirley…there’s NO WAY this kid walking around uncovered $100M worth of fraud on his own!”
Listening to Jessica Tarlov on the Five should be used as a form of torture. She just makes shit up as she gos along an says it all with such a condescending tone. Why is she still employed?
Later Tuesday, the Health and Human Services Department announced it is freezing all childcare payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud.
“We have turned off the money spigot,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said.
The HHS took three actions against the rampant fraud in Minnesota: All payments across the country will require justification and photo evidence before money is sent to a state.
All individuals in Nick Shirley’s video have been identified and audits have been demanded.
The HHS has also launched a fraud reporting hotline.
Walz lashed out at President Trump again.
“This is Trump’s long game,” Walz.
“We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along,” Walz said.
“He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans,” Walz added.
This is Trump’s long game.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. https://t.co/7ByWjeXxu0
It turns out even Disney’s “magic” has legal — and costly — limits.
The Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs announced in a news release Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with the entertainment giant over alleged violations of federal children’s privacy law.
Under an order entered by a federal court, Disney Worldwide Services Inc. and Disney Entertainment Operations LLC — collectively referred to as “Disney” — will pay $10 million in civil penalties.
The settlement stems from allegations that Disney violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, commonly known as COPPA.
According to the Justice Department, the violations involved Disney’s handling of data connected to popular video content that’s distributed on YouTube and widely viewed by children.
A complaint filed in a California federal court by the DOJ alleged that Disney failed to properly designate certain YouTube videos as content directed at children, the news release states.
Because of that failure, the news release states, Disney collected data from young viewers and served them targeted advertisements without first providing notice to parents or obtaining required parental consent.
The issue is especially significant given Disney’s reach.
Its YouTube videos attract billions of views in the United States, the DOJ news release states, meaning the alleged violations could have affected a massive number of children and families.
“The Justice Department is firmly devoted to ensuring parents have a say in how their children’s information is collected and used,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in the release.
“The Department will take swift action to root out any unlawful infringement on parents’ rights to protect their children’s privacy.”
Beyond the $10 million fine, the settlement places clear limits on how Disney can operate on YouTube in the future.
The agreement bars the company from running YouTube content in any way that violates federal children’s privacy law and requires Disney to implement a compliance program designed to ensure it follows COPPA rules, according to the release.
Taken together, the case is a reminder that scale and brand power don’t excuse basic legal responsibilities. Disney’s content reaches millions of children, and with that reach comes an obligation to play by the rules meant to protect young viewers — not quietly sidestep them for convenience or profit.
For a company built on family-friendly imagery, the settlement lands as an uncomfortable reckoning.
The message from regulators is clear: When it comes to children’s privacy, even the most powerful entertainment empire’s “magic” has clear and well-defined limits.
Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). Photo courtesy of Senator John Kennedy.
In a December 3, 2025, Senate floor speech, Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) said federal prosecutors uncovered roughly $1 billion in welfare fraud in Minnesota involving three major schemes tied to child nutrition, housing for the homeless, and autism services. He said the fraud was concentrated within Minnesota’s Somali community, while stressing that he was describing facts rather than attacking the community as a whole, noting that dozens of individuals have already been convicted or charged.
Kennedy opened by emphasizing that the United States is the most generous nation in the world, providing food, housing, and medical care to those in need at enormous taxpayer expense. That generosity, he said, makes large-scale abuse especially infuriating. What federal prosecutors uncovered in Minnesota, he told the Senate, was outright theft.
He said investigators identified three elaborate fraud schemes. The first involved Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit that claimed to be feeding hungry children in the Somali community. The organization received federal funds administered by Minnesota welfare authorities and distributed money to local businesses, many of them Somali-owned, that were supposed to operate meal sites. Kennedy said the program began with modest funding but rapidly expanded, eventually receiving about $100 million per year.
According to Kennedy, the children existed, but the meals did not. Instead of feeding hungry children, the businesses involved used the money for personal enrichment, including luxury purchases such as yachts, vacations, jewelry, and home furnishings.
The second scheme was presented as a program to house homeless people. Another nonprofit sought millions of dollars to provide housing, with funding requests escalating quickly from a few million dollars to more than $100 million per year. Kennedy said none of the money went to housing and that the funds were simply pocketed by those running the program.
The third scheme, which Kennedy described as the most disturbing, involved autism services. Providers sought funding to treat autistic children but could not identify enough qualifying cases. Kennedy said they then bribed parents in the Somali community, offering between $400 and $1,500 per child in exchange for falsely certifying children as autistic.
The scheme expanded rapidly, with annual funding requests eventually reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. Kennedy identified Asha Farhan Hassan as the leader of this operation and said she was also involved in the child nutrition fraud.
Across all three schemes, Kennedy said, approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds was stolen.
Kennedy said state employees raised concerns and attempted to intervene but were blocked by political leadership. In the Feeding Our Future case, welfare officials who questioned rising claims were threatened with lawsuits and accusations of racism. He said the nonprofit warned that denying applications from minority-owned businesses would result in legal action and damaging media coverage.
According to Kennedy, those concerns were elevated to senior officials, but no action was taken. He cited Minnesota’s legislative auditor, who said threats of litigation and negative press influenced how politicians exercised regulatory authority. Kennedy also quoted a fraud investigator in the attorney general’s office, who said there was a perception that aggressive enforcement would trigger political backlash among the Somali community, described as a core Democratic voting bloc.
Kennedy further cited statements from Minnesota Department of Human Services employees, who publicly blamed Governor Tim Walz for allowing the fraud to continue. In a statement posted by employees, they said Walz was “100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota” and accused his administration of retaliating against whistleblowers through monitoring, threats, and repression.
Kennedy also referenced a City Journal report alleging that some of the stolen funds may have been sent to al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization in Somalia. He said the claim had not been proven but confirmed that prosecutors were investigating the allegation.
Responding to accusations of racism, Kennedy said the issue had nothing to do with race and everything to do with criminal conduct. He said the facts showed that the schemes were organized by leaders within the Somali community, that most participating businesses were Somali-owned, and that kickbacks were paid to Somali parents. Those facts, he said, should not be ignored for political convenience.
Kennedy concluded that Minnesota politicians allowed the fraud to continue for political reasons, diverting taxpayer money away from people who were genuinely homeless, hungry, or autistic. He said refusing to confront the scandal out of fear of being labeled racist only enabled further abuse and undermined public trust.
Resurfaced video footage from a December 12th press conference has gone viral, showing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz confessing “we should have been keeping Minnesota citizens “more up-to-speed on what was happening.” Addressing the state’s massive fraud scandal, Walz attempted to emphasize the necessity of new “checks and balances” to restore public trust following the loss of millions in taxpayer dollars, in a manner, not so confident.
The clips also feature Walz directly addressing President Trump, who had recently targeted the governor with well deserved personal insults and inflammatory rhetoric regarding Minnesota’s Somali community. The tension traces back to a Thanksgiving Truth Social post in which President Trump called Walz “seriously retarded” and referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage”.
Tim Walz also has strongly rebuked the President’s language, warning that such “vile” comments inevitably escalate from online taunts to real-world danger. He specifically describes a pattern of motorists driving past the Governor’s Mansion to scream the “R-word” repeatedly at him and his family.
New viral footage has surfaced of social media users filming themselves in front of the Governor’s Mansion screaming “RETARD” repeatedly at the Governor mocking him. The act has been dubbed on social media as “retard drive-bys” ever since President Donald Trump dubbed the limp governor as “seriously retarded.”
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When the Somali daycare fraud scandal broke I assumed there would be no Democrat dumb enough to turn it into a partisan issue and come to the defense of the fraudsters. I was wrong.
While Democrats rally to the defense of the Somalis, Tim Walz went a step further.
Rather than address the fleecing of taxpayers in his state, Governor Tim Walz attacked Shirley instead, calling him a “White supremacist” for daring to expose the fraud.
Shirley shared clips of his investigation, including footage of the door being slammed in his face while he asked a Minnesota Childcare Center that claims to care for 102 children, which appeared empty.
Shirley released the full 42-minute video of his investigation noting, “We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable.”
GOP Whip Tom Emmer lashed out at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on X and demanded answers asking, “4 million dollars of hard-earned tax dollars going to an education center that can’t even spell learning correctly. Care to explain this one, Tim Walz?”
Walz has responded to the fraud by attacking Shirley.
“This is what happens when they scapegoat and this is what they happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy,” Walz said of the investigation.
As the massive fraud in the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota continues to unfold, with the extent of the fraud potentially reaching more than $9 billion in stolen taxpayer money, renewed scrutiny is also focusing on how much of the billions stolen has gone directly into the hands of al-Shabaab terrorists.
There is truly nothing that the left will not defend.
Tim Walz should be ashamed of himself, the people of Minnesota deserve leadership that will put them first rather than propping up Somali fraudsters.
The Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday announced it is freezing all childcare payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud.
Somali healthcare and daycare scammers may have stolen more than $9 billion in taxpayer money in Minnesota.
“We have turned off the money spigot,” HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said.
The HHS took three actions against the rampant fraud in Minnesota: All payments across the country will require justification and photo evidence before money is sent to a state.
All individuals in Nick Shirley’s video have been identified and audits have been demanded.
The HHS has also launched a fraud reporting hotline.
Full statement from Jim O’Neill:
We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota.
You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade.
Today we have taken three actions against the blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country:
1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state.
2. Alex Adams and I have identified the individuals in @nickshirleyy’s excellent work. I have demanded from @GovTimWalz a comprehensive audit of these centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
3. We have launched a dedicated fraud-reporting hotline and email address at https://childcare.gov Whether you are a parent, provider, or member of the general public, we want to hear from you.
We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud.
We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota.
You have probably read the serious allegations that the state of Minnesota has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to fraudulent daycares across Minnesota over the past decade.
The HHS’s announcement comes after federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security were on the ground going door-to-door at suspected Somali fraud sites in Minneapolis following journalist Nick Shirley’s viral video revealing rampant fraud in the Somali community.
Federal agents descended on Somali businesses in Minneapolis on Monday.
“Homeland Security Investigations @ICEGov are on the ground in Minneapolis right now conducting a massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud,” DHS Chief Kristi Noem said.
Image: Wikimedia Commons (Department of the Air Force News, 2021)
In Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Sage’s case, he was left in command. No action was taken against him because of the many legal errors in the investigation. His own chain of command continued to support him and recommend him for promotion.
That is, until those voices were disregarded and he was taken off the two-star promotion list due to a flawed investigation that included his opposition to COVID-19 mandate policies.
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Brig Gen Sage, who, after three decades of honorable service to his country, now finds it difficult to come to terms with the fact that those in authority appear indifferent, or at least that’s the impression they create by disregarding his pleas for help.
“Why is the Air Force still not listening? Why are they still doubling down on a flawed investigation and hellbent on retiring me? Why are they not complying with President Donald Trump’s order to nullify all actions taken by the autopen?” These are only a handful of the questions that crowd his mind each day as he observes his own exemplary 31-year career come to an end, with a forced retirement looming on December 31, 2025.
According to reviewed documents, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), and nine other Congressmen have called for the investigation against him to be dismissed. These same individuals have also requested a formal inquiry into the Air Force Inspector General (IG) who oversaw his case. “They called out his conduct and misuse of the IG system,” Brig Gen Sage explained. “Rather than investigate the IG, the Air Force promoted him to 4-star general.”
In March 2024, after two years of delay, Brig Gen Sage was issued a memo bearing the autopen signature of former President Joe Biden, which removed him from the promotion list. The Air Force is still acting as if the document is binding despite President Trump’s call to terminate executive actions signed by Biden’s autopen. Even the Department of War appears to be ignoring Trump’s intention.
Have attorneys like the acting General Counsel Shannon McGuire and the Deputy General Counsel for Military Affairs Julia Muedeking also played a role in the destruction of Brig Gen Sage’s career? For many following his story, it begs the question: Who are the lawyers and bureaucrats advising the Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF), or the Secretary of War for that matter? These very people are the same ones who advised the last administration on implementing the illegal COVID-19 shot mandate. They now appear intent on waiting Brig Gen Sage out until December 31, effectively forcing the one-star into retirement.
The Air Force Board of Correction for Military Records (AFBCMR) recommended removing the IG investigation and all adverse actions from Brig Gen Sage’s military records and restoring his promotion for continued service in early November. However, the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Richard Anderson, chosen by Trump, seems to have opted to abandon the fight against the injustices of the previous administration based on the counsel of the aforementioned Air Force attorneys.
A May 7 Department of War memo gave broad discretion for AFBCMR to fix the injustices of the last administration. Thus, the overturning of Brig Gen Sage’s board outcome undermines the purposes and policies of President Trump and War Secretary Hegseth and necessitates immediate action, but are they listening?
“The same advisors who legally justified my initial investigation and promoted failed COVID policies are still advising President Trump’s appointees,” Brig Gen Sage pointed out. “How can any warfighter trust this system? The thousands of persecuted warfighters who are watching this case are becoming demoralized.”
“I trusted the system and played by the bureaucratic rules for 46 months, but the system has failed me and is failing thousands of other warfighters,” said Brig Gen Sage. “On Wednesday, I will be forced out of the Air Force because of an IG investigation that the Correction Board threw out, and by a nullified autopen document that removed me from the promotion list.”
In what may be one of his final statements to the press about his plight while still in uniform, Brig Gen Sage makes a plea to the President of the United States. “President Trump, people are policy. Second and third-tier bureaucrats are obstructing your executive orders and commander’s intent. They continue to come after us. You have stood between us and them before. I am appealing to you for your swift intervention as Commander-in-Chief.”
Brig Gen Sage now prays that “common sense, discernment, and justice guide our Air Force leadership.” May Air Force leadership do what is right and just and not succumb to the advice of entrenched lawyers and bureaucrats that served and carried out the policies of the last administration with fervor and intensity.
Brig Gen Sage emphasized that his views do not reflect those of the Department of War and Department of the Air Force.
