Bill Maher, though no conservative, or even much an ally of the right on cultural topics, is one of the few members of the media who is willing to speak the truth as he sees it, even if somewhat controversial or less that helpful to his side, the left. Such could be seen in a recent broadcast of his show on HBO, “Real Time,” during which he discussed the Biden approval disaster.
Particularly, he explained how the mass homeless encampments that can be seen on the side of the streets in many of America’s major cities, along with the crime that holds those cities in a vise-like grip, have people thinking that something is wrong and so blaming Biden.
As background, RealClearPolitic’s average of polls shows that Trump is up over Biden by more than one point nationally in a hypothetical matchup, a fact that should be terrifying to Democrats given that the Republican contender typically is behind by a few points nationally during presidential races, even if that GOP contender is able to win the electoral college.
With that shocking result in mind, Maher discussed Biden’s approval rating on Friday with ABC News Contributor and The Dispatch Editor Sarah Isgur, with the two leftists discussing crime in America and how it is impacting the current president’s approval ratings.
Maher began the discussion, lamenting that America and Americans cannot seem to find a “middle ground between what a lot of these liberal cities are doing, which is…they say, ‘it’s not a violent crime‘” and what former President Donald Trump has called for, which is using deadly force against looters.
For reference, the former president told a crowd of California Republicans that shoplifters should be shot, saying, “We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store.”
Isgur, in response, said that the attitude of the leftists that run cities about which Maher was speaking is “a luxury belief” held by those who “aren’t actually affected by crime.” Continuing, Isgur added “It’s not compassionate…to be paying drug cartels billions of dollars that are going to drug cartels to move people, to smuggle humans over the border. … It’s not compassionate to say, ‘well, like, I’m fine with the homeless people in tents shooting up fentanyl. In fact, I’ll give them a clean syringe.’ It’s not compassionate to tell someone that they should die on the sidewalk.”
Maher, agreeing with Isgur, said, “I agree. And it’s also just psychologically demoralizing these things, like if you’re in a store and you can’t shop freely. Biden’s always saying, why don’t people like me more? And then they cite numbers. Because it just doesn’t feel good when you see tents everywhere on the street. It just doesn’t feel like the country’s right. It just doesn’t feel good when I’ve got to get a sales associate to unlock the hair scrunchies.”
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