New Rule: Republican Idiocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rules someone must explain Herschel Walker and how in a supposedly sophisticated country a person with his resume could ever be elected to office although the answer might be a little more complicated than you think for the past month there's been a lot written about how Republicans standing behind a guy like Walker means they've lost all sense of integrity really just now [Applause] died a long time ago after a long battle with tribalism Integrity is survived by hypocrisy and fear of the other party now of course of course I could make a long string of jokes about how unfit for office Walker is and I think I will [Applause] if you have not been following this story you need to know where to begin well first of all he's just a idiot on a scale almost impossible to parody although we did once present his book called Herschel Walker science talker as he says things like if man descended from apes why are there still Apes then there's the lying and the crazy and the violence not only did he write a book about having 12 different personalities he wrote it with two other people [Applause] he admits that he used to play Russian Roulette he used to threaten to blow his wife's brains out a lot and seems to have never met a family member he hasn't threatened to kill he threatened to kill his girlfriend and he stalked a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader but that was just to get Ron DeSantis her boots laughs he has threatened to shoot cops he claimed to be a cop he wasn't claimed to be an FBI agent wasn't claimed to be valedictorian of his high school wasn't claimed to graduate in the top one percent of his class never graduated claimed to have once supervised six hospitals which is amazing given the job he had with the FBI foreign hit he tried to sell a dry missed coveted cure that would quote kill any covet on your body because one of his personalities is Dr Oz and just since the campaign began three secret children have been Unearthed and one of his kids says of Herschel he has four kids four different women wasn't in the house raising one of them yeah he's very pro-family just not his he's 100 against abortion no exceptions but his girlfriend has proof he paid for hers then he got her pregnant again and tried to get her to abort that one his campaign slogan has stopped me before I kill again if you're thinking where have I seen this man before you have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho from the movie Idiocracy so why do Republicans stand by him now the easy answer is they're deplorables ignorant and bad and yes there is some of that I'm sorry if I'm going to stay in America and America is going to stay America I can't write off half the country that easily also I talk to deplorables so let me try to translate not endorse but translate for Liberal America part of the appeal of a Herschel Walker or a Donald Trump or any number of egregious Republicans have backed is in their mind the worse a candidate is the more it says to Democrats do you see how much we don't like what you're selling all that socialism and identity politics and victimhood and oversensitivity and cancel culture and white self-loathing and forcing complicated ideas about race and sex on kids too young to understand it literally anything would be better than that that's their View that's why you can be a really bad dude in Republican politics and it's not a deal breaker Judge Roy Moore was in his 30s when he was still going to the mall and picking up teenage girls Eric greitens was Missouri governor then this year a Senate candidate despite the fact that his ex-wife says he beat her and the kids and he was charged with tying up a woman he was having an affair with taking nude pictures and threatening to blackmail her with them I mean Andrew Cuomo was creepy but there was no begging to be untied thank you Al Franken took a gag picture but he didn't go Phil Spector on anybody [Applause] this is a clear difference between the parties Democrats also think the other side is an existential threat but their response is not to nominate sickos to make a point if it was they have a guy who'd fit the bill [Applause] but they don't nominate him because that would just be trolling here's a question is this person trolling [Laughter] this is a transgender teacher in Ontario who made news last month when the school supported her right to come to school and teach children with these tits [Applause] so sure she isn't doing due to make a statement that anyone can do absolutely anything in the name of wokeness and the left will never stop them and that's when Republicans say well then we'll have to no matter who we have to elect to do it the fact that Republicans have no shame in their game and will vote for any monster with an R by his name is their way of signaling how serious they are about blocking this they're like the bad guy in action movies who shoots one of his own men wow and then he's like I liked him but I had to make a point

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Length: 7min 28sec (448 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 15 2022