Maher is 'hoping for' economic collapse so he can 'get rid of Trump': 'Sorry if that hurts people'

The Washington Examiner ^ | June 8, 2018 | Christian Datoc

[2ndDivisionVet]

HBO host Bill Maher said Friday that he is "hoping for" an economic collapse because that is the only way the president's opponents can "get rid of Trump."

Maher first asked guest Shermichael Singleton to asses the current economy under President Trump.

"It is going well," Singleton answered. "For now."

"Thank you, that’s my question,” Maher added. “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. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”

The economy appears to be improving under President Trump despite his ongoing trade war with both China and U.S. allies.

Earler in June, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, a 50-year low.

[miss marmelstein]

Because he’s not as classy as classy Bill Maher.

[JockoManning]

What we need to understand is this: whether called liberals, progressives, or leftists, these people are narcissists who lack self-discipline and whose emotional mentality is on a level with five year olds. And because every moment of every day is their 'birthday,' we are expected to celebrate them, ooh and aah over them, be amazed by their 'greatness,' withhold nothing from them, expect nothing (i.e., work, gratitude) from them, and in every way selflessly serve them--be untiring slaves and floor mats for them.

But because we who occupy the conservative right are self-disciplined, mentally and emotionally mature adults, the destructive, genitalia obsessed, hate-fueled, out-of-control tantrum-throwing narcissists hate and fear us because they hate the idea of rules, norms, authority, self-discipline, order and social expectations of all of this.

Bears repeating.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I wonder what Maher said when Rush told his audience that he hoped Obama’s policies fail. Seems to me the left went crazy over that statement. Rush just wanted Obama’s policies to fail, Maher wants our nation to fail just because he does not like President Trump.

Maher, get a clue, the economy is moving and gaining momentum, the only thing that would crash it is if a Democrat wins the next election and begins raising taxes and creating more regulations.

[Torahman]

They hate you but they do not fear you. They will one day kill your children with relish. Bill Maher is an insect. He can and will be replaced. As in all oligarchies the executioners face is always well hidden. Who put this joker on the air? Who runs the show? Find out who these sons of bitches are and go after THEM. They have names and addresses. Find that out and bring them down. Occupy THEIR space until they are forced to promote real American values that built this country. It must be a verbal struggle and it must be a physical one if necessary. But they must be brought down. Enough!

[MayflowerMadam]

So there you have it. Someone finally came out and said what they’re all thinking.

Just as we expected: They hate Trump more than they love America.

[joshua c]

I have always said that the LEFT didnt care if the US was a pile of rubble as long as they are in control

[cnsmom]

I’m sure the millennial generation that is working60 hours a week to pay for an overpriced mortgage in a city ridden with homeless,drugs, and crime want to know their meager investments are a political game.

[Gay State Conservative]

BILL MAHER: NET WORTH $100 MILLION

$100,000,000.00

[EEGator]

The only atheist I remember who occasionally had valid points was Christopher Hitchens. I disagreed with him often, but he seemed principled in his reasoning.

[arthurus]

An atheist who recognizes no higher power and no Reward has no problem using people, impoverishing them or killing them, to advance a position. What matters to an atheist, even when he is talking about what he wants for the future, is only the right now and so far as he can see into that future which is his own projected lifespan and only he, himself, matters because once he is gone nothing exists.

[arthurus]

He is not so much “fighting back” as rolling over them. He is way beyond Defense mode.

[moovova]

Whoa. Good find.

[bray]

Either a recession or lose your Marxist Dictatorship.

[TexasM1A]

But don’t question their patriotism.

[kanawa]

Bill “America Second” Maher

[FrankR]

Gosh...an “economic collapse” would mean I’d have to drop HBO...perhaps even cable. /s

[KarlInOhio]

"I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy. So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Satan in Paradise Lost Bill Maher

And what is this "lose your democracy" BS? Does he really think that if President Trump loses either the primary or the electoral college vote in 2020 that he will refuse to step aside on January 20, 2021? Or is "democracy" just where leftists get their way of increasing their power with an occasional turning back of the political ratchet making a lot of noise but reversing nothing? Finally we have a president who is beginning to turn back the left and the left is howling in a way that they didn't even under Reagan.

[depressed in 06]

Come on Bill, say it with meaning, “I like Pence.”

[mjp]

I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy.

Depressions are usually caused by rising interest rates, or credit crunch, or government interventionism to stop inflation (slowing down or stopping the growth in the money supply). Trump don't need no stinkin contraction phases.