Bonus Bill – Ep. #502

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night Series, Real Time with Bill Maher.

Thank you, you, folks.

How are you?

I appreciate it.

Thank you, Bert.

Did you see Robert Mueller?

Oh, that was not good.

He said the Russians are hacking us as we sit here now.

And Mitch McConnell won't do anything about this.

You know, there's two bills in Congress to fix our elections so we don't get hacked.

One that requires paper ballots, another one that says you have to notify the FBI.

If somebody like Russia comes and says, we have dirt on your opponent,

Mitch McConnell, nope, not even going to bring them to the floor.

He He says they're just for a partisan advantage.

Partisan?

It's like opposing rape whistles because they give an edge to the woman.

Trump,

Trump was complaining today that Fox News is not loyal enough to him.

Wow.

This guy is hard to please.

He's like the guy in porn who keeps saying, suck my dick, while the girl is sucking his dick.

Did you watch the debates?

Exhausting.

Wow, good for you.

I had to, it's my job, but you're on the debate high, I can tell you.

Last night, did you see that?

Demonstrators were shouting at the beginning, they were yelling at de Blasio about police brutality, and they were yelling at Biden about immigration.

And then Mayor Pete's mom was yelling, Go to bed, you have school tomorrow.

But

that enthusiasm did not cross over to the home audience.

The ratings were way down from the first debate.

And the debate last night was against the Bachelorette, which I got to say, I hate that over-produced reality show bullshit.

And don't get me started on the Bachelorette.

You know who I like in the debate for one reason?

Biden.

Because when they tell him his time is up, he stops talking immediately.

After Trump, that's what we need, a president who knows when to shut the fuck up.

And if you like Andrew Yang,

boy, every time they came to him, he said the same thing.

I'll give you $1,000.

Medicare for all, give you $1,000.

Children at the border, $1,000 right here.

What is your closing statement?

I'll give you $1,000.

One time they showed him he was just counting out 20s.

He was just at the podium.

Kristen Gillibrand, she tried to make a big splash by saying her first move as president would be to Clorox the Oval Office.

Just what Trump's office needs.

More whitening.

Thanks.

But yeah, last night and the night before, we finally got the big battle in the Democratic Party that we need to have progressives versus the moderates.

Okay, the progressives want Medicare for all and the moderates want Trump for no one

And of course Twitter was very upset because Joe Biden started the night when Kamala came out by saying, go easy on me, kid.

Outrage!

Oh, for fuck's sake.

He didn't say kid out of disrespect.

He forgot her name.

He's old.

His first idea was to say nurse.

Kristen Gillibrand, she thought she had a big gotcha moment and she came up with with this editorial that Biden wrote 38 years ago.

For more details, visit the National Archives.

I mean, if I want to see people mercilessly harangued for shit that they said decades ago, I'd hang out with married people.

But you know, that Gillibrand, she just doubled down on that shit.

She said, as long as we're going back to 1981, yeah, let's do it.

And then she attacked Mayor Pete for not being born yet.

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