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Maher doubles down on call for recession to oust Trump; says it would be 'very worth' it
Fox News ^ | August 17, 2019 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 08/17/2019 1:19:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

"Real Time" host Bill Maher doubled down Friday on his desire for the U.S. economy to fall into recession in hopes of blocking a second term for President Trump -- telling his panel of guests any hardship that results would be "very worth" it.

"I've been saying for about two years that I hope we have a recession and people get mad at me," said Maher, a multimillionaire who would likely be well insulated from a financial downturn.

“I’m just saying we can survive a recession," he continued. "We've had 47 of them. We've had one every time there's a Republican president! They don’t last forever, You know what lasts forever? Wiping out species!”

The HBO star then pointed to a U.N. report warning how many species of plants and animals are at the risk of extinction and went on to blast the Trump administration for rolling back regulations from the Nixon-era Endangered Species Act "like any evil villain would do."

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KEYWORDS: 2020; economy; recession; recessionmonger; trump
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The masks are coming off.
1 posted on 08/17/2019 1:19:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A recession could be two years from now and only lasts six months.
Now what they got?


2 posted on 08/17/2019 1:25:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hang him high!


3 posted on 08/17/2019 1:28:32 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I despise this self styled elitist rear hole.


4 posted on 08/17/2019 1:34:03 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HE’D BE FINE, ME AND THE REST OF US DEPLORABLES...NOT SO MUCH.


5 posted on 08/17/2019 1:34:45 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just a stone’s throw of those on the far left who want to crash the system. They don’t care who is harmed or killed in the inevitable rush to fill the void. Of course they calculate they will be ok because they are politically connected. They probably are the least equipped to survive such a crash.


6 posted on 08/17/2019 1:43:21 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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Maher: a basket of pedovore slime, he is.

7 posted on 08/17/2019 1:49:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Great post.

And if that was “growth” under Obama, I’d rather have the real thing and get a recession over with.


8 posted on 08/17/2019 2:05:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America be damned! Trump must go!

These elitist limousine leftists are pathetic.


9 posted on 08/17/2019 2:30:34 AM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank you for sharing Bill.

10 posted on 08/17/2019 2:44:32 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: DarthVader

Twice for good measure


11 posted on 08/17/2019 2:49:43 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds to me like the liberals are nervous and desperate now that their “Russia collusion” story has been shown to be a phoney.


12 posted on 08/17/2019 2:54:50 AM PDT by HarleyD
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The Left’s “I hope he fails” moment. And Maher ain’t the only one to say they look forward to an economic recession just to spite Trump.


13 posted on 08/17/2019 3:06:07 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The masks are coming off.

Like never before, they are. These people can not even be defined by the word "evil" any more. Imagine saying something like that in hopes of getting Obama out of office. We would have riots on the streets.

14 posted on 08/17/2019 3:17:00 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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The masks are coming off.

Yes, indeed. They are being torn off by alternative media.

The Party Organs (the old, progressive, media) are no longer able to control the narrative, set the agenda, determine important issues, and define what is a scandal. Those powers were used to control the nation.

15 posted on 08/17/2019 3:49:22 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Worth WHAT? Easing their blinding hatred and deranged emotion?

Now a hack on MSNBC said that Trump supporters cannot point out Greenland on a map. Can you imagine if we accused a large percentage of Ds unable to read or spell Greenland? I hope their name-calling continues until we make them cry again on election night. Please, morons, don’t stop now!!!!


16 posted on 08/17/2019 3:53:11 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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says the millionaire dopehead


17 posted on 08/17/2019 4:22:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: BradyLS

The Left wants total economic collapse, banks default, people out of jobs, so full Soviet “socialism” can make things “bettah”. FDR on steroids.


18 posted on 08/17/2019 4:24:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: a fool in paradise

Crony Capitalist Obamaite Warren Buffet’s been in cash since early July waiting for the market to correct. GDP and consumers aren’t playing along so far. Additionally, foreigners are buying USTs and stocks for higher returns than what they can get in their own countries. This isn’t helping Doomers either.

Don’t they realize it’s their Pals’ Crony Capitalist socialized economies in Europe which are failing and causing money to flow into US markets? No, they don’t because they don’t think the system which works for them is a poor economic system.


19 posted on 08/17/2019 4:36:43 AM PDT by Justa
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President Trump is the President of growth and prosperity. The fact that Bill Maher would destroy that if he could, while he stays personally rich, says a lot. He’d rather be a rich man who stands out among a destitute population than a rich man in a middle class society where most people live as well as he, albeit less opulently. He has a serious case of wanting to flaunt superiority, compounded by an utter lack of empathy for other people.


20 posted on 08/17/2019 4:45:01 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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