New Rule: Democracy's Deathbed | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rule well we had a good run I know that's not really a rule but since everything in America is about to change in a very fundamental way what the rules are about to go out the window Tuesday is election day and I know I should probably tell you to vote and what honest to God is really the most important election ever so okay yes you should vote and it should be for the one party that still stands for democracy preservation but 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 the January 6th hearings it turns out changed nobody's mind Democrat Jamie Raskin said the hearings would tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house no that was Hurricane Ian the hearing's roof not blown the committee did a masterful job laying out the case but we live in partisan America now so it's a little like doing stand up when half the crowd only speaks Mandarin no matter how good the material is it's not going to go over after all the hearings the percentage of Americans who thought Trump did nothing wrong went up three points that's American now it's like trying to win an argument in a marriage even when you're right it still gets you nothing foreign Franklin said our country was a republic if you can keep it well we can't and unless a miracle happens on Tuesday we didn't democracy is on the ballot and unfortunately it's going to lose and once it's gone it's gone it's not something you can change your mind about in Reverse that's gender [Laughter] so here's what's going to happen Republicans will take control of Congress and next year they'll begin impeaching Biden and never stop they'll impeach him for getting out of Afghanistan and getting into Ukraine for inflation for recession for falling off his bike it won't matter and it won't make sense but Biden will be a crippled duck when he goes up against the 2024 Trump carry Lake ticket and 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 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 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 24. the facts the policies the behavior don't matter anymore Trump could be filmed throwing a baby off a bridge and still win not to give Herschel Walker any idea [Applause] 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 the Republican up for Wisconsin governor just said if he's elected quote Republicans will never lose another election this is how it happens Hitler was elected so was Mussolini Putin erdogan Victor Orban this is the it can't happen to us moment that's happening to us right now we just don't feel it yet 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 democratic government was supposed to look like so how sad can they be about losing something they never knew they had you can try and tell them that we will no longer have a system of checks and balances but they will have an answer for that what's checks and balances democracy is hard Athens didn't have to deal with Fox News or the smartphone that made everybody stupid and they only lasted 200 years so r246 doesn't look that bad but before we do go I'd like to say a little farewell to some of the things that really did make America great that now we're going to lose forever like the peaceful transfer of power the jewel in our crown that thing that so many other nations couldn't pull off that we always did oh well the Bill of Rights when there is no accountability at The Ballot Box there are no actual rights look generalisimo Trump is not going to bring back child labor or end Social Security or re-segregate the water fountains he doesn't hate Jews Ivanka is a Jew and he loves her now that she's 40 only as a friend but still but 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 a very strong free speech well he's a man who's always taken criticism well but I wouldn't count on that one lasting I wouldn't count on freedom of religion lasting Q Anon and the other shock troops of the Trump takeover of the Republican Party are all quasi-religious entities who want a Christian government oh and the FBI might be replaced by an army of proud boys under the leadership of Michael Flynn even something like pot will it stay legal it probably depends on whether Snoop Dogg calls Trump brilliant one day I mean that's that's how things will be decided not by the rule of law ah the rule of law that one was a real Jewel yeah maybe our finest Hour As Americans was after World War II when we gave even the defeated Nazis a fair trial Justice Robert Jackson said that voluntarily submitting our captive defeated enemies to the rule of law was one of the most significant tributes that power had ever paid to reason well power will very soon not be paying any more tributes to Reason Not In America anyway so yeah I urge you to vote but I've always been a realist I'm afraid democracy is like the McRib it's here now it'll be around for a little bit longer so enjoy it while you can

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Length: 7min 54sec (474 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 04 2022