Comedian Bill Maher joined right-wing pundits weaponizing California wildfires to lambast the state government’s progressive-leaning policies in his Friday monologue on HBO’s Real Time. Maher prefaced his argument with,

Maher lamented paying 13% of his income every year to California officials ‘who I assumed were working on things like this.’

Despite previous threats to quit, Bill Maher plans to stick by his HBO talk show 'Real Time' until the bitter end.

Reports of Bill Maher exiting Real Time are greatly exaggerated. In fact, Maher said that HBO will have to drag him off the weekly talk show. Maher addressed the speculation on CNN’s The Lead on Friday,

Bill Maher has joined a burgeoning chorus of pundits in railing against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over an ill-timed trip to Ghana she took as her city became engulfed in ongoing wildfires. The wildfires have devastated Southern California since last Tuesday: More than 40,