Liberal speak host Invoice Maher appeared on CNN this weekend and informed Jake Tapper that he doesn’t assume historical past will probably be sort to Joe Biden.
Maher’s criticism stems primarily from Joe Biden’s determination to run for a second time period earlier than in the end bowing out. Maher compares Biden to late Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was hailed as a hero by the left till she died throughout Trump’s first time period, giving him the chance to call her substitute.
Whereas Maher is probably going proper about Joe Biden and historical past, his criticism is solely about what Biden has executed to the Democrat social gathering. Biden won’t be handled kindly by historical past for a complete slew of issues that he did as president, not only for what he did to Democrats.
Transcript by way of Real Clear Politics:
TAPPER: So I’m writing an election e-book, and one of many issues I simply found was a monologue you gave in October 2023 during which you warned the Democratic Social gathering of Ruth Bader Biden. You had been saying the American folks assume he’s too outdated. You’re too you’re fearful about this.
You had an excellent line about it doesn’t matter if he’s a nationwide treasure and has executed nice issues. Should you obtained on an airplane and also you heard that Buzz Aldrin was the pilot, you’d get off. I’m sorry for botching.
You’re a really humorous joke. However they didn’t take heed to you. However you had been confirmed right.
MAHER: Yeah. And I felt I had standing to make that case as a result of I had for therefore a few years been the one particular person I do know on tv who was constantly railing in opposition to ageism. I’ve been saying for years ageism is the final allowable prejudice that we will have on this nation.
You possibly can all the time do the age jokes. You possibly can all the time rail on folks for being too outdated. And it was, as I stated, a case by case foundation.
Some folks at 70 are act like they’re 100 years outdated and a few individuals are like 40 12 months olds. However this was a case, OK, the place Biden was too outdated. Having made that case that it’s a case by case foundation, I used to be now saying, sure, a few of these circumstances are that the particular person simply is just too outdated for the job.
And he was going to be very similar to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, somebody who was seen in historical past as one who stayed out, stayed on the truthful too lengthy and value his social gathering dearly. And he did. And, you understand, I don’t assume historical past goes to deal with Joe Biden kindly for doing that.
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Maher is taking a barely extra agnostic method to Trump in his second time period, however nonetheless stays extremely crucial of him. On the very least, Maher has develop into very crucial of the unconventional left in recent times as effectively.
