Based on The Dispatch’s Sarah Isgur, it’s not a lot that Republicans received on Tuesday as a lot as it’s that Democrats misplaced on account of liberal tradition warring and financial incompetence. HBO Actual Time host Invoice Maher might need been prepared to concede the primary level, however not the second as he addressed inflation by asking, “Can we shut up about bacon?”
Isgur theorized, “Donald Trump elevated his vote with everybody, which implies it wasn’t his marketing campaign technique. I believe it was the American folks simply — they voted for Joe Biden as a result of they had been promised normalcy and competency and so they did not get both, and the simplest advert that Donald Trump ran was the they-them advert, you understand, ‘he is for you, she’s for they/them.’”
She continued, explaining that “Democrats thought that was an advert about, you understand, transphobia. They missed the purpose solely. It was an advert about language. That these individuals are extra obsessive about whether or not you’ve gotten a signature block in your e-mail together with your pronouns in it than they’re about getting the financial system again on monitor and in order that was simply roundly rejected.”
Maher tried to defend Biden and Kamala Harris, “Effectively, truthfully, they did get the financial system again on monitor. Let’s not—”
In politics, notion is actuality, as Isgur shot again, “Folks do not feel that approach.”
Maher tried to place himself because the unbiased truthteller: “It is bullshit that he wished Liz Cheney shot within the face and it is bullshit they did not get the financial system—let’s name bullshit wherever it’s, lets? The financial system—what’s an indictment, what I believe is in an incredible indictment of Kamala Harris is that she could not win an election with the inventory market at report highs and unemployment at report lows. Whenever you give me that hand, it is best to be capable of win an election.”
Isgur once more tried to elucidate why that was, “She could not win the election as a result of Joe Biden refused to truly be a bridge to a different technology that he promised to be and I do know that you are looking at inflation numbers and saying the speed of inflation has gone down, bacon continues to be twice as a lot because it was. Inflation occurred, and it is not going away.”
An exasperated Maher requested, “Oh, can we shut up about bacon?”
Alluding again to Maher’s opening monologue, Isgur chuckled, “You talked about bacon first.”
Isgur is true. Positive, the inflation fee has fallen, however most voters nonetheless see the excessive costs and see the controlling the inflation fee as Harris making an attempt to take credit score for placing out the hearth that Biden set within the first place.
Sarcastically, in that monologue, Maher appeared to get it, “Ladies [voters] are a bit of stronger than you suppose. Ladies had been like no matter, ‘I haven’t got to fuck him, I simply need bacon.’”
Here’s a transcript for the November 8 present:
HBO Actual Time with Invoice Maher
11/8/2024
10:23 PM ET
SARAH ISGUR: Donald Trump elevated his vote with everybody, which implies it wasn’t his marketing campaign technique. I suppose it was the American folks simply — they voted for Joe Biden as a result of they had been promised normalcy and competency and so they did not get both, and the simplest advert that Donald Trump ran was the they-them advert, you understand, “he is for you, she’s for they/them.”
Democrats thought that was an advert about, you understand, transphobia. They missed the purpose solely. It was an advert about language. That these individuals are extra obsessive about whether or not you’ve gotten a signature block in your e-mail together with your pronouns in it than they’re about to get within the financial system again on monitor and in order that was simply roundly rejected.
BILL MAHER: Effectively, truthfully, they did get the financial system again on monitor. Let’s not—
ISGUR: Folks do not feel that approach.
MAHER: It is bullshit that he wished Liz Cheney shot within the face and it is bullshit they did not get the financial system — let’s name bullshit wherever it’s, lets? The financial system — what’s an indictment, what I believe is in an incredible indictment of Kamala Harris is that she could not win an election with the inventory market at report highs and unemployment at report lows. Whenever you give me that hand, it is best to be capable of win an election.
ISGUR: She could not win the election as a result of Joe Biden refused to truly be a bridge to a different technology that he promised to be and I do know that you are looking at inflation numbers and saying the speed of inflation has gone down, bacon continues to be twice as a lot because it was. Inflation occurred, and it is not going away.
MAHER: Oh, can we shut up about bacon?
ISGUR: You talked about bacon first.
