Bill Maher Talks About The Migrant Crisis As “A Disaster For The Democrats”
07.10.2023 - 04:23
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Bill Maher was off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Friday’s edition of Real Time on HBO.
Maher kept the focus squarely on politics in his opening monologue and in his panel discussion, with particular emphasis on covering the immigration border crisis. The panel was composed of Matt Welch, editor-at-large of Reason Magazine, and Sarah Isgur, senior editor for the online magaine The Dispatch.
The migrants issue has mushroomed into “a national crisis,” Maher noted. Panelists Welch and Isgur talked about the fentanyl plague that’s part and parcel of the loose border enforcement. Welch indicated that the crackdown on opioids is part of the reason that fentanyl has risen in popularity, turning “into a hockey stick” of overdose charting. He later referred to it as “bathtub heroin.”
Isgur advocated for patients in hospitals to suck it up and endure more pain as a way to lessen the desire for drugs in the real world.
As for the sheer number of people crossing the border each day, Maher referred to it as “a disaster for the Democrats.” Their efforts to roll back the tide makes them “look like sanctuary city hypocrits.”
That’s led to conservative ridicule, Maher noted, although he allowed, “I understand a little “I told you so” on the border.
Isgur backed up that idea. “They need to apologize to Texas.”
Welch noted that New York City has lost half a million residents in four years. Thus, it’s not that the city is full, but the shelters are full. That’s because “The way New York is governed, which is really bad.”
The solution to this is far less clear.
“We can never do anything in the middle,” Maher lamented. “There’s nothing between “bomb Mexico” and “Come one,