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Bill Maher predicts the GOP will win big in the midterms because of ‘woke culture,’ and compared America to the ‘Titanic right after the iceberg hit’ and said democracy was like a ‘McRib, so enjoy it while you can.’
The Real Time host, 66, didn’t seem too positive about the 2022 Midterm Elections on Tuesday, and says ‘woke culture is just one reason why the Republicans are going to do so well in this election.’
He went on to say that the ‘left has gone super crazy with lots of s**t that the average American just never voted for,’ such as gender identity and homelessness.
Maher was also certain it ‘didn’t matter’ if former President Donald Trump, 76, who is rumored to be running in 2024, ‘wins or loses.’
‘He’s going to show up on inauguration day and this time he’s got those 300 people behind him who are going to back his bulls**t and that’s when the rubber is going to hit the road,’ he said on comedian Bill Burr’s podcast on Thursday.
It is predicted that the Republican Party will rule the Senate and the House after Tuesday’s election.
‘Things are going to change fundamentally in this country after this election,’ Maher said on Thursday. ‘They’re definitely going to win.’
Bill Maher, 66, (pictured on Friday) predicts the GOP will win big in the midterms because of ‘woke culture,’ and said Americans ‘won’t care’ because ‘they never followed politics to begin with’
Maher said Democrats have ‘gone super crazy with lots of s**t that the average American just never voted for’ and it has hurt them in the 2022 midterms
The self-proclaimed ‘traditional liberal’ channeled the same energy on his Friday night show on HBO, where he again declared that ‘democracy will lose’ and Trump’s ‘election-deniers’ will prevail on Tuesday.
He said on his show that the former president’s election deniers will carve out seats for themselves and Americans ‘won’t even care after it happens.’
‘We’re the Titanic right after the iceberg hit, and honestly too many Americans just don’t care and won’t even care after it happens, because they never followed politics to begin with and were never taught in school what [a] democratic government was supposed to look like,’ he said on his Real Time show.
‘I’m afraid democracy is like the McRib, it’s here now [and] it’ll be around for a little bit longer, so enjoy it while you can,’ he said.
‘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,’ he joked, alluding to gender reassignment and de-transitioners.
‘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 [20]24.
‘Well, we had a good run…Rules are about to go out the window.’
One of his panel guests was Washington Post columnist, Fareed Zakaria, who agreed with Maher’s claim, and added that the ‘majority’ of Republican candidates running in the midterms ‘are election deniers.’
‘These are people who are essentially contesting real and fair elections, the trapping of liberal democracy,’ Zakaria told Maher. ‘And the party doesn’t reign them in, the party doesn’t preform the role, that it used to, of gatekeeping.
‘I worry a lot about this. I feel as though – when I talk to my Republican friends – they say: “Oh, the system works, looks at the last election,” It worked, to be fair, because of a lot of good Republicans stood up, like Brad Raffensperger in Georgia and a lot of Republican-appointed judges, but many of those have been neutered or defeated out of office.’
Republicans are forecasted to win the House and the Senate after Tuesday’s midterm election
Republicans are estimated to gain four seats in the Senate and get 228 seats in the House
The Senate is predicted to have 46 Democrats and 54 Republicans filling the seats, with seven undetermined
‘We have a really dangerous situation here,’ Zakaria said. ‘Lower your taxes is not our democracy.’
Maher’s second panelist, New York Times reporter and author Maggie Haberman, said Democrats ‘aren’t consistent’ with their processes and culture.
‘There has not been a consistent way that the Democrats are approaching what is an enormous issue,’ she said. ‘They are all over the map, depending on the races.’
Rising crime and concerns about the state of the economy – including inflation – appear to have won out as the top issues for likely voters.
Polls have projected a discontent among Americans with how Democrats have handled both issues. Though neither party has seemed to net a decisive majority on public trust to stop rising crime and fix the economy, the vast majority of surveys show voters favor the GOP to oversee them.
Republicans are now projected to pick up four seats in the Senate, according to RealClearPolitics, for a total of 54 GOP lawmakers to 46 Democrats – including the two Independents that caucus with the left.
The poll aggregator’s latest analysis shows Republicans flipping Senate seats in Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia and Arizona. All four states have Democratic incumbents being challenged by GOP candidates aligned with Donald Trump.
Democrats are not forecasted to pick up any seats, according to the analysis.
It shows that 51 percent of likely voters would pick a Republican on a generic Congressional ballot, while 47 percent chose Democrats.
The poll was taken between October 26 and 31. An earlier iteration had the parties’ margins nearly flipped.
In September, 50 percent of people said they’d vote for a Democrat and 47 percent sided with the GOP.
Even white women have swung toward the Republican Party by 27 points since August, as economic issues are taking precedent to abortion rights, a poll showed.
Maher also said that the January 6 hearings, which recently ended, ‘changed nobody’s mind’ despite the ‘masterful job laying out the case.’
Maher also predicted that it didn’t matter if Trump ‘wins or loses’ in 2024, that he will show up to inauguration anyways and will be backed by the ‘300 people’ in the midterms now. He also said Democrats, like Biden, are pushed on topics Americans ‘never’ voted for, like gender identity and homelessness
‘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,’ he said. ‘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.
‘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.’
Maher said this is how Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin were elected and that America is facing a ‘it can’t happen to us’ moment.
‘That’s happening to us right now. We just don’t feel it yet,’ he said on his show.
The outspoken host also bid farewell to peaceful transfer of power, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law.
‘Make no mistake, it will be an entirely different way of life for many, because our elections will just be for show like in China and Russia and all the other places Trump says are “very strong,”‘ he said.
He encouraged Americans to vote, but said ‘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.’
Although he said Americans are united in one front: ‘Everybody here cannot wait for Tuesday to come for the ads on TV [to be] gone.’
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