Bill Maher: Democracy like the McRib, here now gone soon

Bill Maher believes that democracy will lose during this upcoming election. A Republican takeover of Congress “would change” America, and “not in a good way.” Things that made us great, that made us “America” will be changed, or even removed, and that “we had a good run”.

From Fox News:

“Well, we had a good run,” Maher began his “New Rules” closer. “I know that’s not really a rule but since everything in America is about to change in a very fundamental way, what the f—. Rules are about to go out the window. Tuesday’s Election Day and I know I should probably tell you to vote and what honest to God is really the most important election ever. So, OK, yes, you should vote. And it should be for the one party that still stands for democracy preservation. It’s also a waste of breath because anyone who believes that is already voting and anyone who needs to learn that isn’t watching and no one in America can be persuaded of anything anymore anyway.”

Maher complained how the Jan. 6 hearings have “changed nobody’s mind” despite the “masterful job laying out the case” against former President Trump, noting that polls of people who say he did nothing wrong “went up three points,” blaming it all on a “partisan America.”

“Ben Franklin said our country was a republic, if you can keep it. Well, we can’t,” Maher told his audience. “And unless a miracle happens on Tuesday, we didn’t. Democracy is on the ballot, and unfortunately, it’s going to lose and once it’s gone, it’s gone. It’s not somebody who can change your mind about in reverse. That’s gender.”

The HBO star predicted that once Republican retake both chambers of Congress, “they’ll begin impeaching Biden and never stop” over a myriad of things, making the president a “crippled duck when he goes up against the 2024 Trump-Kari Lake ticket.”

“And even if Trump loses, it doesn’t matter! On Inauguration Day 2025, he’s going to show up whether he’s on the list or not. And this time, he’s not going to take no for an answer because this time, he will have behind him the army of election deniers that is being elected in four days,” Maher said. “There are almost 300 candidates on the ballot this year, who don’t believe in ballots, and they’ll be the ones writing the rules and monitoring how votes are counted in 24.”

“This really is the crossing the Rubicon moment when the election deniers are elected, which is often how countries slide into authoritarianism. Not with tanks in the streets, but by electing the people who then have no intention of ever giving it back… This is how it happens. Hitler was elected. So it was Mussolini, Putin, Erdo?an, Viktor Orban. This is the ‘It can’t happen to us moment’ that’s happening to us right now. We just don’t feel it yet. We’re the Titanic right after the iceberg hit,” he said.

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Category: 2022 Elections