Bill Maher tries to explain to baffled William Shatner why Harris lost election

Fox News ^ | November 18, 2024 | Kristine Parks

[Baladas]

Actor William Shatner admitted to "Real Time" host Bill Maher that he didn't understand why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, as the pair discussed what went wrong for the Democratic Party on Maher's "Club Random" podcast on Sunday.

Maher opened his show suggesting the left's "intolerance" to Democrats who don't toe the party line on every issue cost them votes this election.

"Conservatives are much more tolerant of people they don’t like. It's the liberals who are purists, especially the ones in this town. They are the ones who say if you don’t agree with me one million percent, I don’t even want to know you. That’s one of the reasons they lost. They have a bad attitude," he told Shatner.

But Shatner admitted he was baffled by the election results. "I don’t know why Democrats lost. I don’t understand [it]," he said.

Maher argued that President Biden was partly to blame for staying in the race too long.

"That, I understand," Shatner replied. "But inflation? Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don't know why they voted against her, against the party," he said.

[Baladas]

Captain Kirk is an elderly Canadian, sad day when Bill Maher is the voice of reason.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Shatner is a little too old to be discussing politics.

[maro]

Isn’t Captain Kirk saying, I’m doing OK. What’s the problem?

[dadgum]

McCoy: “She’s dead, Jim.”

[jimpick]

Well your leadership is right there with you Bill. And since neither of you know why, that is why you lost. You have lost touch with the base.

[CatOwner]

Maher: "Conservatives are much more tolerant of people they don’t like. It's the liberals who are purists, especially the ones in this town. They are the ones who say if you don’t agree with me one million percent, I don’t even want to know you."

Nailed it.

[The Unknown Republican]

Shathead apparently now has enough money to be insulated from the effects of a bad economy. I suggest he talk to 1970’s Shathead that was forced to live out of his car.

[HerrBlucher]

[Dad was my hero]

Shatner replied. "But inflation? Prices have come down, the economy is good.

Uh, no Bill, costs have stopped rising at double digit inflation, they are still going up, just not as fast. Kinda like stopped warp 9 and are now at warp 1, maybe you can understand that?

[SteveH]

American Bill Maher tries to explain to baffled Canadian immigrant William Shatner why Canadian-American anchor baby Harris lost election

[bigbob]

Because she has the IQ or a Tribble, Captain.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Shatner made a lifetime meal ticket out of a recipe for thin gruel. It's as though Bob Keehsan financed a lavish lifestyle off the earnings from Captain Kangaroo.

Maybe someone should reopen the murder investigation into the mysterious death of Shatner's wife. Still a mystery.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Conservatives are much more tolerant of people they don’t like.”

Don’t tell a liberal that, however. They’ll hate you for life.

[xp38]

He’s lived far more of his life in Hollywoodland than Canada at this point. That’s where his cluelessness originates from.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Shatner replied. "But inflation? Prices have come down, the economy is good

By this statement, Mr. Spock can deduce that this is a man who does not shop for groceries, does not buy his own gas, and does not pay his own utility bills.

There has been no deflation to bring prices down. $6/gal gas and $7 Big Macs are the new normal, and will remain the basement price for those commodities. It will take years for salaries to rise to the point where those prices will seem reasonable.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Who thought it was a good idea to put Shatner on TV and destroy his legacy even more than his climate crisis rocket ride did.

[Flaming Conservative]

I guess if I had Shatner’s money, I’d think the economy was good, too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“But inflation? Prices have come down, the economy is good.”

Clueless.

[griswold3]

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[kiryandil]