 Every time I talk about how bad Bill Maher has gotten it's like he takes this as a challenge And I absolutely am not under the illusion that he's watching my show But it's like he keeps devolving and just when you think that you know, he's bottomed out He can't get any worse than this. He really says something Even dumber than anyone could fathom that he would be saying I mean five years ago To hear the way he talks about politics and Bernie Sanders and progressive policies I wouldn't have believed that that's the same person, but here we are. So I'm gonna stop talking I'm just gonna play the clip for you When he says something very stupid watch one of the panelists face Can I present a scenario? I think this might be one of those years where it's the last the discussion Mike And I were having it's that they can't get over that centrist versus socialist thing so Elizabeth Warren at some point takes Bernie's voters. He drops out. It's Warren and Biden And they go to the convention and it's deadlocked. This has happened before in American politics and they need to compromise candidate I'm looking hard at Amy Klobuchar. You know why? because Like this is not an insult Amy Klobuchar. I like you but when they put generic Democrat on the ballot they win You don't have a thing. She's a woman. So like that helps that moves a lot Do you think that economic populism whatever you want to call it socialism democratic socialism, etc Medicare for all is so unpopular when a poll just came out that had Bernie Sanders beating Trump in Texas By more than any of the other candidates the last 20 polls have shown Bernie Sanders beating Trump and here's the other thing though Meaning meaning that you don't need a centrist to win centrism is why we have lost. It's why we lost Even the centrist in the Democratic Party are pretty far left So the look on Crystal Ball's face I think She really represented how we all felt watching him make that idiotic point. I mean There's like multiple layers to why that's not just a bad idea, but it's downright stupid So first of all, let's say hypothetically speaking this scenario plays out where it comes down to Biden and Warren and they're deadlocked first of all He is actually saying rather than going for the top two choices in this hypothetical scenario We should go with the candidate who's polling at like 2% instead That is an absolutely moronic thing to say in and of itself because it's antithetical to democracy That would be super delegates Openly choosing whoever they want unilaterally. Do you not think that that would demoralize the base bill? Second of all to say that Amy Klobuchar of all people is the compromise candidate between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren Shows that he just doesn't care about policy at all because she is the female Joe Biden so in what way does she embody any of the principles that Bernie Sanders and even Elizabeth Warren are Espousing in what way what does she even stand for Bill? Can you name a single policy that sets her apart from Joe Biden? Can you name one because she's not talking about policies? She is pitching herself as Well, I was gonna say a moderate but she actually self identifies as a progressive still hilariously enough But you know in the same vein as Hillary She is basically saying I'm a progressive who's practical and I like to get things done And that's good enough for Bill because she self identifies as a progressive even if she is politically moderate That's good enough for Bill to say you know what she's a compromise candidate. I mean, I don't know what else to say Bill Maher used to be someone who offered unique political insight and now he is one of the worst pundits In fact, I don't know if he's one of the worst or just that, you know He fell so far right because everyone on mainstream news. They say idiotic things They, you know, they do apologia for the Democratic Party establishment and the political elite class But Bill Maher, he was really different. You know, he Supported Bernie in 2016 even if he was very dismissive of Bernie's chances, but now it's just like He's full mask off and he seems to have contempt for Bernie Sanders He hasn't even brought Bernie Sanders back since he, you know announced that he's running again And unless I'm forgetting, you know an appearance But I mean it's just it's embarrassing and crystal ball brought up the point that I would have absolutely brought up She said we don't need a centrist to win Centrism is why Democrats have lost more than a thousand seats in state legislators across the country How do you not grasp this yet, Bill? How do you not grasp this? I'm so glad that crystal balls on the panel to make that point and push back because Bill Maher oftentimes he surrounds himself with Republicans and corporate Democrats and Democratic Party strategists who think the same way. They're all in that same bubble So they aren't, you know as likely to push back But crystal ball thankfully was there to point out how dumb of a strategy that was but then how does he respond to crystal ball? He says even centrists in the Democratic Party are far left. I Don't even know what to say to that his perception of the overton window from the standpoint of someone who used to be progressive is Far right It's right-wingers who think that centrist Democrats are far left But in actuality when you compare the Democratic Party to the average left-wing party Anywhere in Europe or throughout the world in Latin America. They are to the right There are probably more Similarities between the conservative UK party and Democrats than there are between Republicans and Tories maybe that's not necessarily the case now with Boris Johnson as Prime Minister But still when you compare them to average left-wing parties They are far to the right and basically the way that the overton window is Sitting in the United States is we have two right-wing parties One is a far right party an extremist party the Republican Party That is you know more aligned with UKIP and these fringe right-wing parties you see in Europe Then they are with any normal conservative party and then we have a center-right party or a centrist at best in Democrats now thankfully there's been an effort to push that overton window back to the left But that's still you know the overwhelming majority of Democrats. They are very much centrist to center-right I mean Chris Coons was on Fox News talking about how maybe we would be justified if we Bombed Iran if they really were culpable for this Saudi oil attack I mean in what world are centrist Democrats far left you honestly think that Joe Manchin is a far leftist bill I mean the things that he says It's it's baffling the thing that he believes it after you listen to him just from like what five to six years ago It was him who was saying we need a left-wing equivalent of the Tea Party and now he's saying The complete opposite now he's saying you know anyone who's a far leftist who's too pure They can go fuck themselves with a locally grown organic cucumber after he said no We really need a left-wing Tea Party The man is an absolute fraud and a joke and I don't know how anyone can still take him seriously But his platform is large enough to where people do take him seriously So I do think it's incumbent on us in indie media to push back against what he says You could support the humanist report at patreon.com Slashed humanist report, but trust me I'd have way more supporters at patreon if that was my podcast said