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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night Series, Real Time with Bill Maher.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

All right, we seated.

Congregation, thank you.

So listen, Congress may not be doing anything, but companies stepping into the breach here.

That's good to see.

That's where America is.

Our moral compass now is Walmart.

This Walmart, I love this.

Walmart put out a statement.

They said, we also do not sell handguns except in Alaska, where we feel we should continue to offer them to our customers.

No other explanation.

But really, that's what they said.

What the fuck?

Congratulations, Alex.

You just beat Alabama in a redneck contest.

Just Alaska

grandfathered him.

Trump, of course.

This man.

It'll give me a heart attack, this man.

He's been talking about guns non-stop since the shooting, and he is now, as you saw, was talking about arming teachers.

It would make the track team run faster.

We're not going to phone it in now.

And he says, you know, to make it more normalized in the school, the librarian's gun will have a silencer.

So, you know, it's just trying to get these.

And then Trump said the thing that of all the things he said in his whole career the craziness the one that bothered me the most you heard it this week he said I really believe I would run in there

even if I didn't have a weapon first of all the idea of Donald Trump running

then yesterday oh my god he had this meeting bipartisan meeting where he just agreed with everybody.

Democrats and Republicans sitting around the table.

Whatever anybody said, because he doesn't know anything.

Van assault weapons?

Yeah, great idea.

Armed teachers?

I'm for that too.

Yeah.

Background checks?

Why not?

Censor video games?

Let's do it.

He thinks laws are like a buffet at his casino.

Whatever you can pile onto your plate and waddle back to the table with, it's good.

That's yours.

You own it.

He completely freaked out the Republicans when he suggested raising the age that people could buy a gun to 21, and then suggested just offhand seizing guns without due process to people who might pose a threat.

Of course, none of that will happen, but for a brief shining moment, his stupidity was on the side of good.

But how about this?

And you see, in Pennsylvania,

hundreds of couples went to a unification church where the women, all dressed in virginal white,

the men wearing crowns, crowns,

drinking holy wine, and they had their AR-15s blessed.

Blessed by the church elders wearing pink and white robes.

That happened.

I read it.

I was like, thank God this is not another story about guns falling into the hands of the mentally ill, huh?

Even Scientologists were like, pull it together, people.

It bothers me that this parkland shooter, nobody is talking about the fact that he was a Trump supporter.

Right?

He had the Make America Great Hat with swastikas carved into the magazine that he was using in his rifle.

He had Nazi doodles, which is Steve Bannon's favorite food snack.

Past the Nazi doodles.

But yeah, Hopecast left.

She said she just wants to spend more time breaking up other families.

But she will be missed.

Stephen Miller today was sniffing Sarah Huckabee Sanders off his chair, but he said it's

But he said it's just not the same

No, it's it's a little suspicious where she left yesterday because just the day before she spent nine hours before a congressional committee where she told them that she told white lies on behalf of the president and apparently when she she got back to the White House, Trump said to her, How could you be that stupid?

Now, some people think he was yelling at her.

I think he was looking for tips.

He's had five, he's been in office 13 months.

He's had five communications directors.

There's more job security on the walking dead.

And the Oscars are Sunday.

You excited?

Oh, not me.

There's a movie being made about Trump, The Shape of Walrus.

And one about Melania, 13 years a slave.

All right, thank you very much.

We're going to continue over here.

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