Back to episode — Episode 2959 CWSA 09/15/25
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Jr. still has to come through and produce the goods, but I think he will. I think he will. That's one of the biggest accomplishments in the world. Let me say that again. Putting RFK Jr. and Trump together and making it work. If Charlie did that, that's one of the biggest accomplishments in the world. And he got there honestly by being the person who would talk to everybody. So everybody would talk…
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I don't know if this is new, but I saw a clip of Bill Maher praising the right's willingness to engage in dialogue. Actually, it is new. It's after Charlie Kirk's assassination. I should tell you that there are two accounts that I enjoy especially following because they summarize the news and that's really useful. So Jason Cohen is a great follow on X if you want to get summaries of all the good news stuff, makes it easy. And Mario Nawfal I've mentioned before. But Jason Cohen, you probably want to follow him if you want to know the latest. Anyway, so he had that clip. Jason did. So Bill Maher was right and here's what he said. So Bill Maher said Charlie Kirk was a guy who was always talking and I talked to him here. The right-wingers, say what you want about them, but they talk to you. Now, this is one of Bill Maher's best contributions to political discourse. He has gone into the belly of the beast, so to speak, because he talked to Trump. And although they don't agree on everything, of course, he just found out, oh wait, he's not Hillary. He's actually really, really just fun to be with. And then he hangs out with Charlie Kirk on his other show and he comes away saying, "Huh, he's totally open to talking about anything." And so the fact that he's had that experience and he's willing to take some chance with his audience to just say that that's his observed truth, really useful. Really useful. It's one of the best things he's ever done.
But he says the left really has much more of a "I don't talk to you, I don't want to deal with you, you're deplorable, I can't break bread with you" attitude. All the right-wingers, they don't have that attitude. Can you believe that? He said all the right-wingers, he said, all the right-wingers will talk to you. As far as I can tell, that's true. Can you think of any exception? Can you think of anybody who would say, "I won't talk to you." I've never seen that. Never seen it. My experience with the left is the same as yours. They don't want to talk to you. They want to talk over you and they want to make sure you don't talk. Why do they do that? I believe, and this might sound like I'm hyperbole or I'm exaggerating to make a point or something like that. I'm not. So the following is dead serious. I believe that they know that their opinions can't be supported. I believe they know their arguments don't hold together. I believe they know that. And probably the reason they know that is most people rehearse their arguments in their head, you know, so at least you know what you would have said if somebody asked you. And I think that they know on some level they can't support their views and so they go the other way. They make sure that you can't talk and that you're cancelled if you do. And once people understand that the Democrats are an anti-talking, it's easier to kill you than it is to change your mind kind of a group, that will be probably about the time that the entire Democrat party dissolves. Now, it'll come back. I'm sure it'll come back. We need two parties, but the Democrat party is teetering on the edge of something like a total collapse because the moral bankrupt element of it is kind of hard for anybody to ignore at this point. Yeah. The left doesn't talk, it talks over.
Now, by the way, that's a really good frame to put out there. The left doesn't talk, they talk over you. The reason is that if you say that and then you get into a debate with a leftist and they start talking over you, which
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they will, with the exception, by the way, of Cenk, but one of the reasons I like Cenk Uygur, I think it's pronounced. I never know how to pronounce his last name, but Cenk is fabulous in letting you talk and doesn't like to be interrupted if you interrupt him. And I appreciate that as well. But even though I quite often disagree with Cenk, I've had two online conversations with him. He does not i…
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