Comedian Bill Maher offered a scathing critique of the “disaster for the Democrats” unfolding as the Biden administration commits to a new border crisis strategy.
After doing seemingly everything they could to exacerbate the problem at the U.S.-Mexico border while demonizing Republicans and former President Donald Trump for efforts to preserve national sovereignty, President Joe Biden’s team has moved to advance construction of the long stigmatized “racist” border wall.
With his panel, the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” cut right to the political framing the left had boxed themselves into.
“I feel like this is a disaster for the Democrats,” he told ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur and Reason Magazine editor-at-large Matt Welch.
Bill Maher on the border: “I feel like this is a disaster for the Democrats. Trump today said he wants Biden to apologize. Because it looks like Biden is adopting his policy. They look like Sanctuary City hypocrites.”
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“Trump today said he wants Biden to apologize because it looks like Biden was adopting his policy. This does not look good for the Democrats,” he continued. “Also, they look like sanctuary city hypocrites. They were the ones who said, ‘Look, we’re the compassionate people. Everybody should get a shot here.’ And then when they started sending- I mean the quotes from Eric Adams, this is the mayor of liberal New York, ‘This issue will destroy our city.'”
“The governor, ‘If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else.’ Keep walkin’ is from the governor of New York [Kathy Hochul]? They put out a flyer in New York City now, says, ‘New York is one of the most expensive cities in the world. You are better off going to a more affordable city’…there is a little, I understand a little ‘I told you so’ on the border.”
Following Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ announcement regarding the “acute and immediate need” to waive 26 federal laws to permit the construction of a border wall, Trump had done precisely that as he remarked that the incumbent, “has to reinstate Remain in Mexico and Title 42. He has to do all of the other things that were doing,” as he wondered “What is he going to do about the 15 million people from prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, and terrorists that have already come into our country?”
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— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) October 5, 2023
Isgur reacted to Maher’s take and asserted it was “even worse” considering the Big Apple had been left contending with 110,000 of the roughly 2 million illegal aliens that had flooded the Lone Star State in 2022 and demanded that leaders from the local, state and federal level “need to apologize to Texas.”
“New York City has lost half a million residents in four years,” tacked on Welch. “New York City is not full. It is the shelters where they promise everyone that you have a right to, those are full and they’re full of migrants right now. And so you have zero-sum contests for whatever resources are there. Because of the way New York is governed, which is very badly — I say this as a resident of New York, then they’re unable to absorb people.”
“We’re talking about numbers that pale in comparison to numbers that were coming into this country in the ’70s and ’80s,” he argued “The Mariel boatlift was 110,000 people in a week-and-a-half or whatever it was. Miami survived. Not only that, but kind of thrive from it too, but we’re not in a place right now where we have that same kind of capacity to deal with people.”
“And it’s a damn shame because it’s the biggest crisis — the biggest refugee crisis in the history of the Western Hemisphere. Seven million people are an advertisement for why socialism doesn’t work in Venezuela right now,” Welch continued, adding another layer to failed leftist policies, “and we need to come up with a bigger-hearted and smarter way of dealing with it, and right now our politics are incapable of coming up with it.”
Maher went on to lament, “I feel like we can never do anything just in the middle. There’s nothing between ‘bomb Mexico’ and ‘come one, come all,'” before he attempted to land a blow on a comment from Trump who said illegal aliens are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“I know you’re not supposed to compare to Hitler, but I gotta compare to Hitler. I mean, that’s Hitler-y,” the host quipped.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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