Bill Maher began this monologue going after Nickelodeon and Disney, detailing their horrifying record of child abuse as revealed in the recent docuseries Quiet on Set. “As one of the few people in the public eye who’s gone through life and never had kids, someone has to tell me why am I always having to defend them?” he asked. “I don’t even like kids, but I also think it’s every adult’s job to protect them.” Ron DeSantis, he noted, “wasn’t wrong – but we’re so tribal now, the left will overlook child f*****g if the guy from the wrong party calls it out.”

It is “time to admit” that it is “more for the queen than the kids.” He didn’t mince words: “Sure, kids love a clown but does the clown have to have t-ts? And when I see a five-year-old tipping, tipping at a bar under a sign that says ‘It’s not gonna lick itself,’ do I have to pretend that’s cool in order to keep my liberal ID card? Sorry, I can’t do that.”
“I said it before, wokeness is not an extension of liberalism anymore,” he continued. “It’s more often taking something so far that it becomes the opposite. Teaching kids not to hate or judge those who are different? Great. Proud we got there all for that. But at a certain point, inclusion becomes promotion. And contrary to progressive dogma, children aren’t miniature adults wise beyond their years. They’re morons. They’re gullible morons who believe anything and just want to please grown-ups. And they don’t have any frame of reference so they normalize whatever is happening. That’s why endlessly talking about gender to six-year-olds isn’t just inappropriate, it’s what the law would call entrapment, which means enticing people into doing something they wouldn’t ordinarily do.”