{"id":126271,"date":"2019-08-04T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126271"},"modified":"2019-08-04T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:56:23","slug":"is-this-how-the-democrats-will-steal-2020-like-obama-won-2008-after-the-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126271","title":{"rendered":"Is this how the Democrats will steal 2020 like Obama won 2008 after the crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Maher Says 2020 Democrats &#8216;Blowing It&#8217; , Wishes (Again) For Crippling Recession To Unseat Trump<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Bill Maher thinks that 2020 Democratic\u00a0candidates are &#8216;blowing it&#8217; &#8211; and he&#8217;d begrudgingly accept Joe Biden as his next president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the Democrats have to do to win is to come off less crazy than Trump, and, of course, they\u2019re blowing it.\u00a0<strong>Coming across as unserious people who are going to take away all your money so migrants from Honduras can go to college for free and get a major in America sucks<\/strong>,&#8221; Maher said On Friday&#8217;s broadcast of\u00a0HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, do I want Biden to be president? Not really. But Biden\u2019s the only Democrat who beats Trump in Ohio. He\u2019s like non-dairy creamer. Nobody loves it, but in a jam, it gets the job done,&#8221; Maher added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid177343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8TZ1yNK3SU?start=175\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"my_spring1\"><\/aside>\n<p>Maher also slammed 2020 Democrats for heaping criticism on former President Obama &#8211; mocking the candidates for saying the\u00a0ex-president who remains highly popular with Democrats &#8220;is not woke enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Democratic candidates went after the president hard. Unfortunately, the president was Obama. \u2026 The guy with the 97% approval rating among the Democrats, his shit is not woke enough now. Trump saw that, he called Putin. He said, I got this one,&#8221; joked Maher.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid309757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8krzIHPHNs?start=214\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Maher wishes for recession<\/b><\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<p>During the guest segment of the show, Maher &#8211;\u00a0<strong>who makes $6 million per year and has an estimated net worth of $100 million<\/strong>, revived\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-09\/millionaire-bill-maher-hoping-economic-disaster-oust-trump\">his 2018 wish<\/a>\u00a0for an\u00a0<strong>economic collapse<\/strong>\u00a0in order to unseat President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve been hoping for a recession \u2013 people hate me for it \u2013 but it would get rid of Trump,&#8221; said Maher &#8211; to which\u00a0<em>New York Magazine<\/em>\u00a0business columnist Josh Barro replied: &#8220;Recessions are really bad. People lose their jobs and homes and we shouldn\u2019t wish for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know. It&#8217;s worth it,&#8221; said Maher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Maher: \u201cI\u2019ve been hoping for a recession \u2013 people hate me for it \u2013 but it would get rid of Trump.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Josh Barro: \u201cRecessions are really bad. People lose their jobs and homes and we shouldn\u2019t wish for it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Maher: \u201cI know. It\u2019s worth it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ysc2LhHbs2\">pic.twitter.com\/Ysc2LhHbs2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1157696160892481537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Maher, of course, would hardly be affected if the economy crashed &#8211;\u00a0unlike tens of millions of low and medium income Americans\u00a0whose lives would be immeasurably worse his dreams come true.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-03\/maher-says-2020-democrats-blowing-it-wishes-again-crippling-recession-unseat-trump\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-03\/maher-says-2020-democrats-blowing-it-wishes-again-crippling-recession-unseat-trump<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1157696160892481537\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maher Says 2020 Democrats &#8216;Blowing It&#8217; , Wishes (Again) For Crippling Recession To Unseat Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}