Bill Maher got brutally honest about the 2024 presidential ticket on the Democrat side of the aisle during his Friday show. During a panel discussion on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher said what everyone thinks. Creepy old Joe Biden will very likely run for re-election and Democrats should insist that Kamala is replaced with a running mate that Democrats actually like.

In making his point, Maher said that Biden “is not giving up” on his bid for re-election. He said that once a person finds himself calling the Oval Office his work space and is enjoying the trappings of being in the White House, it is really hard to let that all go by choice. So, instead of fussing about replacing Biden with someone younger and competent, Democrats should just boot Kamala off the ticket and replace her because she is just “not very popular anywhere.”

“Once you have that real estate, and you wake up in the White House, and your office is the Oval, I just don’t think you give it up,” Maher said. “It’s very hard to take away the nomination from the president, a sitting president.”

“What I could see is replacing the vice president,” Maher continued, which immediately sparked applause from his liberal audience. “Because she’s just not very popular anywhere. And it didn’t seem to work out. And, I don’t know, that’s been done before on a ticket.”

She’s not popular, we can all agree on that. It’s rare to see anyone voice support for her in how she performs in office, other than her staff or a political operative like Donna Brazile. The liberal studio audience agreed with Maher and applauded when he said Kamala should be replaced on the ticket.

The lack of appeal of Kamala with voters was on full display during the Democrat primary in 2020. The most striking moment that people on both sides of the aisle still have fresh in their minds was when Tulsi Gabbard took Kamala to the woodshed over her incarceration record as California’s attorney general during a debate. Kamala was caught flat-footed over her own record. The Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan, a panelist on Maher’s show, predicted that Kamala, whom she called “an off-putting person”, has “a lot of baggage that wouldn’t do well under a lot of scrutiny.” Well now. Is Flanagan actually implying that the media would scrutinize Kamala’s job performance and record when they didn’t do so in 2020 when she became the vice-presidential nominee? She was given the star treatment by journalists, both during her presidential run and then as Biden’s running mate. Female journalists, in particular, fell all over themselves because she would be the first woman vice-president and she’s biracial, too. She checked off some important identity boxes for Democrats.

Maher went on to mention those identity boxes that are so important to Democrats, too.

Maher went on to complain that the “problem” for the Democratic Party is that they’re “so boxed in by identity politics” that it’d be impossible for the ticket to not have either a woman, a person of color or “a deaf Eskimo.”

He’s a comedian and Maher was making a joke with a point – Democrats and their obsession to prove how inclusive and diverse they are as a party often ends up backfiring in their choice of candidates and even in those chosen by Democrat presidents. Does anyone honestly believe that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got her job on her professional qualifications? Of course not. She is embarrassingly incompetent but she hits the identity box trifecta. KJP is a black female lesbian immigrant. She checked off three boxes and the first White House press secretary to check those off. There’s no way she wasn’t getting the job. We see how badly it has backfired on the Biden administration.

Most importantly, though, Maher hit the nail on its head when he said Kamala is a bad politician. He said she’s bright – words with which I disagree – but people will want to get her off the presidential ticket because Biden is so old that voters worry that he’ll die in office and we’ll be stuck with the vice-president as president. No one wants Kamala Harris as president, a point that was made by Democrat primary voters in 2020 when she had to drop out of the race before the Iowa caucuses were held.

Biden’s relationship with Kamala has appeared strained at times. Vice-presidents are supposed to be seen and not heard, as the focus should always be on the president. Kamala’s frequent gaffes and weird cackling at inappropriate times often make headlines and that’s no good for the Biden administration. Biden makes enough gaffes on his own and certainly doesn’t need any help in that department.

Kamala’s latest gaffe was an international one. As she was wrapping up her latest adventure in Asia, she visited the DMZ during her stop in South Korea. She praised the U.S. alliance with the ‘Republic of North Korea’ in speech at DMZ. Holy moly. Of all times to do that. Little Rocket Man is busy launching missiles to prove his relevance in the region. He did it before and during her visit in South Korea. He’s done it again now that she’s left, too. The fourth missile fired by North Korea in the past seven days was fired into the East Sea today, according to South Korea’s military.

Political chatter about Biden potentially dumping Kamala in 2024 has been circulating in recent weeks, especially since they both continue to have such low approval numbers, but Kamala is putting on a brave face and insisting she will run as Biden’s “ticketmate” if he runs for re-election. That’s an odd choice of terms but there you have it. Kamala is gonna Kamala.

Will Joe Biden have the cojones to cut Kamala loose in 2024? We know from reporting that Jill doesn’t feel all warm and fuzzy for Kamala. Nonetheless, I don’t think that Bumbling Joe will replace her. He can’t afford to piss off black female voters, the demographic he credits for his victory, especially in the South Carolina primary that turned his presidential campaign around. What would he do? Switch out Kamala for another black female politician? That would look way too sketchy, even for a Democrat.

Let’s face it. It’s good that Maher said the quiet part out loud and was rewarded by applause from his liberal audience, not boos. However, let’s not kid ourselves. Biden is a status quo kind of guy. He’s not going to rock the boat, especially if he thinks it will interfere with his quest for power. He wants to be a two-term president, just like Barack and to show up Trump. Biden lives for that stuff. In the meantime, our country is going to hell in a hand basket. Maher’s right this time.