Bill Maher broke down the only possible way that Donald Trump could win the presidential election on Friday.
And that's false equivalence.
“They (Republicans) can't deny Trump is horrible, it's on tape,” said the “Real Time” host. “So they want voters to believe Hillary (Clinton) is just as bad.”
Maher said the GOP had a “very powerful ally” in its pursuit of that goal, which was “lazy people.”
“People who like to say 'they're (politicians) all bad' because when you say that, you don't have to do any homework,” he said. “You say you're cynical about politics, don't flatter yourself. Cynical comes when you know too much. You, on the other hand, haven't bothered to learn anything.”
After citing social critic and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky's assertion that the American public could retain huge amounts of detailed information when it came to sports but not on international affairs or domestic problems, Maher admitted “we're not clueless.”
“We just apply our brain power to bullshit,” he added.
Throwing shade at those who spend inordinate amounts of time researching where to buy the best taco or plane ticket, Maher then took aim at the same people who simultaneously “don't care who runs the world for four years.”
Check it out in the clip above.
Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 billion members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.
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