Posted on 09/24/2018 4:29:42 PM PDT by grundle
Bill Maher may have made his cruelest and most ill-informed comment yet -- and that says a lot, given his track record -- on his HBO show Friday night.
Maher, during a discussion of the economy under Donald Trump, acknowledged that it was "going pretty well." Then Maher, the sometime liberal, shared his hope that the economy would tank to hurt Trump politically: "I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point. And by the way, I'm hoping for it. I think one (way) you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy."
He then jaw-droppingly added, "So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy."
This is wrong on so many levels. It's despicable for Maher, who is wealthy enough to have donated $1 million in 2012 to a super PAC, to root for an economic downturn in exchange for political gain.
If our nation were to hit a recession again, millions of Americans who are not well-off like Maher would horribly suffer, as unemployment would climb and families would struggle to put food on the table.
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What do you expect from a vicious, ignorant, leftist a$$hole ?
Maher is wrong. Period.
They wouldn’t be able to afford HBO (or AT&T either)
I fondly remember a time when comedians were actually funny and lighthearted.
This is how Leftists think. People and their success and happiness don’t matter, Leftists’ desire for control over others is all that matters.
His mother took Thalidomide and gave birth to a nine pound nose!
“...root for a recession or you lose your democracy”
Imbecile. Never said a word when Obama and Clinton were running roughshod over the constitution, with all his illegal executive orders. Clinton and Kerry lining their pockets while at the State Department.
And since when do Bolsheviks care about democracy?
DemocRats NEED misery to stay in power.
Bill Maher is wrong to root for a recession.
No surprise since he is usually wrong on everything else.
In a real economic collapse I would make punks like Maher dig trenches and fill sandbags at gunpoint until they dropped dead. He better be careful what he wishes for.
You mean lose our democracy like get rid of someone we voted for because a-holes like you don’t like him Bill?
Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and reported the crime.
The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the channels, and a K-9 unit patrolling nearby was the first to respond.
As the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch, shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the steps.
Putting her face in her hands, she moaned, “I come home to find all my possessions stolen. I call the police for help, and what do they do? They send me a blind policeman.”
"So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it's either root for a recession or you lose your democracy."
He has no examples for how the democratically elected President Trump is destroying democracy. OTOH, we know for a fact that entertainment industry nitwits like Bill Maher back a single party state, which appears to be what he's talking about, really. Thanks grundle.
>>He then jaw-droppingly added, “So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”
Like the Democrats orchestrated in the 2000s?
Ha! Good one.
Yep. Maher is a comedian? I thought he was just a sicko libtard.
He needs his own, personal depression. Leave the nation alone.
He is funny....in the head.
Could have saved the writer some typing w/o losing any validity.
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