Bill Maher Hopes for ‘Crashing Economy’ to Get Rid of Trump — ‘Bring on the Recession’

Breitbart ^ | 9 Jun 2018 | Jeff Poor

[mandaladon]

Bill Maher Hopes for ‘Crashing Economy’ to Get Rid of Trump — ‘Bring on the Recession’(Full Title)

Friday on HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher admitted he was hoping for the American economy to falter because he said that was the one way to “get rid” of President Donald Trump.

Maher acknowledged the economy was good for now but said he felt like the bottom could “fall out at some point.”

“That’s my question — I feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point, and by the way, I’m hoping for it because I think one way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy,” Maher said. “So please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people but it’s either root for a recession, or you lose your democracy.”

[ETCM]

How ironic that many of us wished the same under 0bama and were roundly excoriated for being racist, divisive and anti-American...

"We" never hoped for America to fail, of for the economy to fail, we hoped for Obama and his "fundamental transformation of America" to fail. We wanted Obamacare, his "spread around the wealth", open border immigration and all his other crap to fail. We still wanted America to thrive.

[Oatka]

More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder...

At one time I thought that was just a clever jibe at those people, but when you see them wish cancer on people or any good thing the President does go wromg, you realize it is Spot On. These are evil people.

[jazminerose]

He speaks for all democrats.

[Rennes Templar]

“Sorry if that hurts people but it’s either root for a recession, or you lose your democracy.”

He means: “Sorry if that hurts people but it’s either root for a recession, or we lose our dependent victims base.”

[jazminerose]

And you’re basing that on what? The frickin NYT ‘ran out of words’ to describe how good the economy is.

[Olog-hai]

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

We need to lose the democracy so that the republic can be restored. The left always preaches democracy since it is a means to an end:

[T]he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.

— Communist Manifesto

What will be the course of this resolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […] Democracy would be totally valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.

— The Principles of Communism

[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

— Socialism and Democracy by Woodrow Wilson

History warned us over and over.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I don’t think we were “hoping for the change under Obama” but just expecting it under Obama... and we were so rewarded.

[HotHunt]

Maher is a proven Leftist idiot wannabe-comedian who say outrageous things to get attention and increase his audience count. That's his schtick.

But I don't agree with not posting the article on his antics.

It just helps us to see who the opposition is, what they are up to and how far they will take their hate of Trump.

I don't mind reading the articles about these looney bins and their hateful rhetoric.

But your advice to just ignore them is well-taken.

[PGR88]

I still don’t understand the Left’s hate for Trump. Trump is simply not a strong social conservative, and his economic policies can best be described as pragmatic.

He isn’t part of the GOP elite club, which the hippie Left has claimed to hate since the 1960’s.

So I just don’t understand their rage.

[eclectic]

It would be the other way around: if they get rid of Trump the economy will crash.

[I want the USA back]

He must have been happy during bammy’s reign - 8 years of crashing economy, joblessness, and misery.

Hoping this unfunny man does what so many other nihilist celebrities have done. Where they went, they won’t have to worry about Trump any more.

[Gumdrop]

Liberals are willing to wish the worst upon the American people so they can say, “I told you so.”

Selfish to the end - and their Ends justify the Means. Their means are really MEAN.

[DoodleBob]

Maher is the idiot.

That may be true, but not here.

Let's look at the data:

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

We can say what we want about Maher, but the reality is that "It's the economy, stupid!" is a pretty solid political truth. And, judging by how Trump is flying now, and notwithstanding a flurry of other things that could throw things into a ditch, wishing for a recession is about the best thing statists can do to hope Trump loses in 2020.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If Trump had been elected as a Democrat, the leftists would not have such rage against him.

[neverevergiveup]

He’s just a typical arrogant, smarmy, pseudo-intellectual ‘liberal’ who would rather others suffer than for him to be wrong. He is proving himself to be a very childish little man.

[miss marmelstein]

Strange post, wasn’t it?

It was practically a depression much less a recession!

[CodeToad]

The economy being a factor is not genius; everyone knows it.

Maher is an idiot for hating Trump.

[xp38]

That letter beside your name can make all the difference apparently.

[Rapscallion]

They are willing to be disloyal to win power.

[Peeps47]

HBO is a charity for liberal douchebags who have no talent. The only reason they have a show is because they attack conservatives and republicans. Bill Maher is a little pissant who hasn't been funny, ever. He's a no talent dickhead.