Bill Maher reluctantly stands up for Kamala Harris

Bill Maher personally addressed undecided voters on Friday evening and gave them a clear reason why they should vote for Kamala Harris.

In a defiant monologue on HBO Real Time with Bill Maherthe host talked about everything from the economy to SpaceX to Christmas.

But ultimately, Maher implored undecided voters to go Democratic next week to avoid “the rule of a mad king.”

“Do I love everything about Kamala? No, who told you that you can love everything? Do I wish she had a better reason for running for president than “I’m not Trump”? Yes, it would have been very helpful. But let’s not forget: “I’m not Trump” is still a really great reason,” he said at the end of his monologue.

In the introduction to that statement, Maher defended the Democrats' economic record, criticized the “woke mind virus” and compared undecided voters to holiday shoppers.

Maher also warned that America is now a land of “two tribes, united by a history but perhaps not by a future.”

“I stand by my other prediction that Harris will win, but I can't say I'm not nervous that the election is in the hands of a small cohort of undecided voters, those few curious bisexuals of the political world,” began he.

“I call them the Christmas shoppers of politics. You know the big day is coming, but you can't bring yourself to do anything about it until the last minute. My dad was the guy with Christmas who did all his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve, going to a single department store in the evening, an hour before the store closed, not knowing what he was going to buy. But that's exactly why a department store is great. Oh look, toys!”

Maher's light-hearted metaphor for undecided voters quickly became more serious as he addressed their feelings about a potential Harris administration.

“Look, you obviously don't like Trump, otherwise you'd already be in this camp, but you're still torn, and I'm the guy who keeps saying, I understand why,” he said.

“They wanted more certainty that the Democrat would not go along with every aggressively anti-common sense idea that emerged from the woke-mind virus — which is a thing. If she loses, that will be the main reason.”

But Maher also had positive things to say about the Biden administration, which will be coming to an end very soon with the upcoming election hanging in the balance.

“Part of this mental virus is 'progressophobia,' Steven Pinker's term for the liberal fear of ever admitting when things are actually good. As the economist puts it: An economy with a 4 percent unemployment rate and a per capita GDP of $85,000 in today's America doesn't need to be made great again, it is great.”

“The economy is the other big issue for Christmas Eve voters, and they think it’s terrible when in reality it’s bigger and better than ever.”

He then warned Democrats not to convey that message to voters by listing several metrics that have fallen in recent years since the pandemic, such as employment and inflation.

“If Trump were president with this economy, we would have the greatest economy ever, 24/7, in the history of the world, maybe the universe. A lot of people say it, but Trump is not president now.”

Maher showed a graph showing a decline in inflation over the past two years and said: “It peaked here in 2022 and has since dropped like a stone to 2.4 percent.” Biden has tamed it without triggering a recession, It’s like catching a SpaceX rocket with your buttocks.”

“Undecideds should vote for Harris because of the economy, but undecideds don't get that message because Democrats can never get the words 'things aren't that bad' out of their mouths lest someone somewhere accuse them of not caring enough about people who have problems.”