[Morpheus2009]

Well screw it. I didn’t wish for a recession, not even under Obama, but I guess I am not some filthy rich person like Maher either.

[Democrats hate too much]

If it happens, the Uni Party / Establishment will actually be the one to get blamed any way. lol

[Sarah Barracuda]

Maher’s audience are a bunch of cackling hen idiots..if Maher said “I hope everyone here gets cancer” the same audience would clap

[GOPJ]

Bill Maher has a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome ...

Maher doesn't care if everyday Americans are hurt - he's got his ... and his liberal elite friends have plenty too...

[Rurudyne]

Dear Idiots Applauding Recessions,

Move to Venezuela ... enjoy.

Don’t come back.

[econjack]

Why should anyone be surprised? After all, it’s all about him...he could care less about the common people. Who cares if they lose their job? He sure doesn’t. What an ass...

[SkyDancer]

I wonder how happy those people will be along with Maher when they get what the wish for?

[pepsi_junkie]

“He wants to be king,” the comedian continued. “I keep saying: slow-moving coup. I’ve been saying it since before the election. Macron tweeted ‘nobody is forever’ about Trump yesterday. That was his burn. I’m sorry, but dictators are.”

I'll admit to being a little uneasy about the times Trump has been dictatorial. Like that time the lower court judge said he couldn't reverse Obamas unilaterail DACA executive order and Trump had the judge arrested and sentenced to death while he continued to tear up that EO in defiance.

Oh wait, that never happened, he complied with the court ruling and appealed. Just like dictators do I guess.

[WKUHilltopper]

May Maher, the rich socialist, and his bleating audience get their wish...and go broke.

[bigbob]

Well of course they did! Recession means MORE BIG GOVERNMENT! What’s not to applaud? /s

[olezip]

And, yes, fellow deranged audience members applauded him.

Bill Maher said that everyone should have herpes and HIV, and the audience applauded him. Michale Savage said that liberals have disordered minds.

How is that different from what he said about a recession? Is it more stupid? Is it less stupid? Or, is what he said totally unrelated to his mental illness?

[Fhios]

Don’t get excited about the audience laughter. It’s almost always cued upped and enhanced.

[albie]

The same ass wipes that are in his audience also frequent “The View”. Whoopie can say, Hope Trump has a heart attack, and the audience will howl.

[Bob434]

we already had a massive recession during the last administration’s reign of terror

[DoodleBob]

Maher is on to something, in the sense that a recession seems like the ONLY thing that can stop a Trump re-election.

As noted elsewhere, the data are compelling:

The statistical reality is that in modern times, if a recession occurs during or pretty close to a Presidential election year, the standing President OR the Party holding the Presidency always loses that election:

August 1929-March 1933: FDR comes to power
January 1980-July 1980: Reagan is elected
July 1990-March 1991: Clinton is elected (yea, yea, I know....the recession was technically over by election day but if memory serves me correctly, the NBER didn't call the end recession until AFTER the election; indeed, they announced that we were IN a recession around March 1991)
December 2007-June 2009: Obama is elected

In contrast, if the economy is doing well**, standing Presidents always win re-election.

Truman won in 1948 (note that recession started during the month of the election, and Truman almost lost)
Ike was re-elected in 1956
Nixon was re-elected in 1972
Reagan was re-elected in 1984
Clinton was re-elected in 1996
Obama was re-elected in 2012

** - At the risk of sounding Clintonian, for Obama it depends on the definition of the word "well." Certainly, most breathing, rational humans recognize that the US' economic performance under Obama's Presidency vis-à-vis other post-recessionary situations was horrible:

Further, along other dimensions, life under Obama was pretty bad around the 2012 election:

Nonetheless (and please, don't take this as me applauding Obama), the economy and the stock market were growing vs contracting, unemployment was declining vs rising in 2012. Add having the media and entertainment industries in his pocket, and you get a re-election. However, as pointed out elsewhere, Obama won ONLY by about 350,000 votes.

All that said, The Trump Economic Train is unlike anything we've seen, people of all walks of life are doing better. We can say what we want about Maher, but the reality is that "It's the economy, stupid!" is a pretty solid political truth. While I don't think Trump will lose re-election, we cannot take our foot off the gas: Deplorabilism must continue to grow in size and stature for the betterment of all Americans.

[Cobra64]

More campaign fodder for the Republicans... but The Stupid Party won’t use it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I never thought any of the Democrat ideas would work. But for the sake of the country I hoped I was wrong.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I won't take back what I said about kissing my "buy American" beliefs goodbye if Hillary won, but there is a big difference.

The Clinton's are about selling us out to the highest bidder, and the loss of American manufacturing would have continued under the guise of "free trade", so Americans would have effectively given up on the country anyway if she had won.

On the other hand, President Trump has stood for bringing back American jobs, fair trade, record low unemployment for blacks and Hispanics, and if he succeeds with N. Korea then peace. What in all of that does Maher oppose?

[Boomer]

I see Maher has been taking advantage of the new heroin/mushroom/meth/ecstasy/vodka cocktail that’s so popular among ‘his kind’ these days.

Sounds like even had a double.

[shanover]

The left is insane and extremely dangerous. They would accept economic collapse or an American city in smoldering ruin to protect liberalism (disguised as their “Democracy”). How sick is that Americans applaud despair upon other Americans? I remember Obama’s “boot on neck” and “bring a gun” comments. The infantile audience was ecstatic as a bunch of drunken Brown Shirts or Antifa types.