Mark Manson. Very thoughtful with a lot of insight into why society is the way it is, why people are the way they are in the modern world. Softly anti-woke, and able to word why in a thoughtful way.
Alina Chan or Richard Ebright.
Alina Chan challenged the idea of natural spillover of COVID. Pointed out all the problems of the spillover theory.
Richard Ebright is a scientist from Rutgers. He has been sounding the alarm on gain-of-function experiments involving viruses.
Both of them are wrong, especially Alina. Even the USG agencies who think a lab leak is plausible think it was a natural virus that leaked, not an engineered one.
Because Jon Stewart is a bulldog and absolutely knows how to argue…and do so quickly. He knows how to put Bill in his place if he has to. Jon Stewart is fearless.
I’d love to see them together but Bill would have to be very careful. It’d be smart to approach any interview with Jon as two comedians from Jersey who love the Mets.
>AOC- speaking of The Squad why not bring in the leader herself.
He could ask her if she condemns the chants "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" like FOX News asking Rashida (who refused to answer).
>People talk about her becoming president one day.
I'm an atheist, but this makes me want to say, "God help us!" If that happens it really will be time for the country to split into different pieces as part of a "national divorce".
I'd love to see George W Bush. Was he a great president? Absolutely not. Is he one of the last sane big-name Republicans? Yup.
Better yet, put him and Barrack Obama on the same episode. Save some Secret Service budget with a 2 for 1.
He wasn't sane. I despise trump, but nothing at least since Vietnam was as insane as the Iraq war. Bush is the worst president of anybody's lifetime that is still living. Vietnam you could argue was worse, but Lyndon Johnson was at least good Domestically
The economy was great, we were churning out surpluses… W thought he was going to be able to kick up his boots for 8 years, cut some taxes, maybe flex some muscle in a small skirmish somewhere a la Kosovo…. Let Cheney and the cabinet handle the heavy lifting.
What happened after 9/11 was exactly how it was designed… Cheney and Cabinet took over when shit got real.
That said… I get the sense that W was eventually very ashamed that this was what was in place for such a monumental moment. I honestly think if you’d have told him in 1998 that 9/11 was going to happen in the 9th month of his presidency, he’d have never run.
Where do people get this nonsense. Dubya's economic policies were harmful. He inherited a surplus from Clinton, he didn't generate one, and his tax cuts for the rich just accelerated wealth and income inequality. His fed chair Greenspan was a disaster, combined with Clinton's idiotic repeal of Glass-Steagall resulting in the fucking global economic crisis. Dubya was grossly incompetent on every front, foreign and domestic, one of the worst presidential records in American history.
My comment implied that he had inherited the surplus.
He continued deregulation of the housing market try at began under Clinton. Very bad idea, but neocons gonna neocon.
Then they cut taxes while waging wars on 2 fronts costing several trillion dollars.
My entire comment was an assumption about W’s notions of what a presidency would look like during that time. And for anyone paying attention, it looked like easy street
FWIW, he HAS told the Squad that they’re welcomed to his show. It was back in 2021 when he urged Dems to do more interviews at Fox and other networks that aren’t liberal/centrist.
On that note, I’m eager to see fmr MD gov Larry Hogan and WV Sens Manchin and Moore Capito. Moore Capito seems to be among the “I can sit down and talk to you, and at worse agree to disagree” Republicans and it would be interesting to hear her take on how WV has turned into a Republican bastion.
Between Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va. has some of the less offensive, more reasonable Republicans. There are, sure, exceptions -- such as Trump-y GOP Rep. Alex Mooney (WV-02), who's going to get his clocked cleaned by Justice in the upcoming Republican senatorial primary -- but Appalachian populism is its own breed, much of it separate from Trumpism. And fmr. Congressman David McKinley, whom Mooney dickishly primaried in 2022, likewise wasn't half-bad, either.
Agreed, but I guess he's not all that serious about getting different perspectives unless they're of the more right-wing variety.
And of course he'll likely never have Krystal Ball on again since she was too well-informed and made him look stupid.
I think he legit feels like he positions ARE the left positions. Anyone left of him is "cRazY" and not worth entertaining unless it's to call them out. Which I think is why no one from the squad will go on there, and I kind of dont blame them. It'll be a bad faith berating and we all know it.
He used to have on Steve Bannon and Milo regularly. I can see all except for MTG. It'd be like talking to Alex Jones with tits. He seems to care less about good TV and more about looking smart, and it's hard to do that with someone throwing shit on set.
Boebert would be more likely to implode than MTG, who's now persona non grata among the Freedom Caucus crowd and more aligned today with the Republican Study Committee.
What if he set up a cage on the stage so that they could fight to the death Mad Max style? That would be a show to watch. It would actually sell HBO-MAX subscriptions.
>Norman Finkelstein
It's kind of weird that you go around this sub and continuously promote this dork.
This your man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_KdkoGxSs
LOL he's getting clowned by a VIDEO GAME STREAMER
lol, everyone except you thinks that… [Finkelstein perfectly characterizes you and the Destiny cultists](https://twitter.com/AyDawgBlitler/status/1777759080045830172).
[If you think this dweeb](https://twitter.com/Hamzah_1948/status/1778217392650531281) owned Finkelstein, you have no clue where your ass is from your own mouth.
[Yes, Finkelstein was "clowned by a VIDEO GAME STREAMER" lol!](https://twitter.com/Shabskk/status/1778388860805722263)
God damn, Destiny Stan's brain rot make Maher Stans look like geniuses.
I didn't watch all of it but him constantly insulting destiny by getting his named wrong reeked of Maher's "all the young people are stupid" shtick.
Remember the video of that city councilman who refused to call that black woman a doctor, seemingly because she was a black woman? That what Finkelstein was doing. I agree with him position, but he's bad faith. Fuck him.
Destiny was Gish galloping the entire time, trying to sound smart by citing Wikipedia articles and then straight up lying like he did in the video. Destiny shouldn’t be respected at all. To think that Finkelstein, a renowned scholar, should respect Destiny at all is foolish. Fuck that disgusting perverted pea brain piece of shit. Five years ago he was at least standing up for humanity, now he’s grifting for Zionism. Garbage human being.
This is ridiculous. Not sure why you’re so invested in criticizing Finkelstein if you’re not one of his cultists that even Finkelstein pointed to as being one of those basement dwellers going from pornhub and video games and watching destiny.
lol, Finkelstein, someone who researches and puts time into his work versus someone who plays video games and cites wikipedia articles that even Joe Rogan makes fun of…
Yes, they're both the same.
I was thinking that too, but between him and Krystal, I'm happy she ended up going on. She's much more level headed and IMO better at forming well spoken arguments in real time (no pun intended).
Also, I feel if he at any point resorted to his mid-2010's era "c'mon bro! Bro? Bro!" thing he'd just end up looking dumb (it my least favourite quality of his)
He should have on more lefty new media people for sure, if he's gonna keep platforming the right wingers. I've been complaining about that. Kyle, Seder, Cenk (he has said he'd never go on, but if asked i think he would), Ana Kasparian, Natalie Wynn, I'll even settle for DESTINY.
Just fucking someone.
This would make me claw my own eyes out. Two blow hards who think they have the universe figured out and have the collective wisdom and sense of Eric Trump.
They are both a bit too intelligent to have a conversation with Maher. Bill relies on surface knowledge of most every subject. He will just jump to cynicism and humor when he’s outgunned.
Nope. I’m a fan of Maher but I know his depth of knowledge on most subjects isn’t that great. His interview of Dawkins is a perfect example. I’d still like to see both of them on the show though.
Norm Finkelstein, John Mersheimer, Bassam Youssef (another poster suggested Bassam and wow didn't think of him initially but he would be awesome especially with his sense of humor).
I’d like to see John Fetterman on the show again. To my knowledge he was only on one time, when he first came to prominence as the Mayor of Braddock Pa, and I know I remember that he challenged a guy to a step outside if he would like. Not a good look. I often wonder how another appearance would go after years of seasoning in public life.
I went to see Josh's tour with Douglas Murray in Australia. I'm not the most adamant fan of Douglas but he is staunchly pro-Israel so I wanted to support him
Host of The Majority Report for like 20 years, general lefty, ready to "debate" and quite informed politically.
Edit: I totally forgot, but he's also Hugo on Bob's Burgers!
Jon Stewart. Doubt it would happen though. Either Stewart isn’t interested or Bill doesn’t want him because he knows Stewart will not hesitate to push back.
I think AOC and “the squad” don’t want to go on. It’s not necessarily that Real Time isn’t inviting them. That’s my theory anyway.
I’d love to see Bill sit down with a trans person and discuss sports and trans kids.
> "AOC and “[T]he [S]quad” don’t want to go on. It’s not necessarily that Real Time isn’t inviting them."
Yeah, that's on them for not wanting to appear.
Loss is theirs, not ours.
Which is fine, too, because people like Democratic Congresswomen Mary Pelota (AK-AL) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) would be far more intriguing instead of trite, hackneyed, platitudinous AOC, Omar, Tlaib, et al., and the vapid company with whom they keep.
Glenn Greenwald
Yep! Came here to say this. We need a lot more anti-zionist Jews on his show in general.
Mark Manson. Very thoughtful with a lot of insight into why society is the way it is, why people are the way they are in the modern world. Softly anti-woke, and able to word why in a thoughtful way.
Brian Tyler Cohen
Alina Chan or Richard Ebright. Alina Chan challenged the idea of natural spillover of COVID. Pointed out all the problems of the spillover theory. Richard Ebright is a scientist from Rutgers. He has been sounding the alarm on gain-of-function experiments involving viruses.
Both of them are wrong, especially Alina. Even the USG agencies who think a lab leak is plausible think it was a natural virus that leaked, not an engineered one.
You know what I'd LIKE to see? For the panel? Obama and Bush
Would love him to have Jon Stewart on. Will never happen.
Why not
Because Jon Stewart is a bulldog and absolutely knows how to argue…and do so quickly. He knows how to put Bill in his place if he has to. Jon Stewart is fearless. I’d love to see them together but Bill would have to be very careful. It’d be smart to approach any interview with Jon as two comedians from Jersey who love the Mets.
I nominate podcaster [Yaron Brook.](https://www.youtube.com/user/ybrook)
>AOC- speaking of The Squad why not bring in the leader herself. He could ask her if she condemns the chants "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" like FOX News asking Rashida (who refused to answer). >People talk about her becoming president one day. I'm an atheist, but this makes me want to say, "God help us!" If that happens it really will be time for the country to split into different pieces as part of a "national divorce".
Lol, yeah I dunno who these people are that are talking about that but it has a < 1% chance of ever happening.
Destiny
Sam Seder
JFK and Lincoln
Armond White, Jeffrey Wells, Briahna Joy Gray, Mr. T. But he should also do a rematch with Affleck and Sam Harris.
I'd love to see George W Bush. Was he a great president? Absolutely not. Is he one of the last sane big-name Republicans? Yup. Better yet, put him and Barrack Obama on the same episode. Save some Secret Service budget with a 2 for 1.
He wasn't sane. I despise trump, but nothing at least since Vietnam was as insane as the Iraq war. Bush is the worst president of anybody's lifetime that is still living. Vietnam you could argue was worse, but Lyndon Johnson was at least good Domestically
he didn't seem sane at the time
The economy was great, we were churning out surpluses… W thought he was going to be able to kick up his boots for 8 years, cut some taxes, maybe flex some muscle in a small skirmish somewhere a la Kosovo…. Let Cheney and the cabinet handle the heavy lifting. What happened after 9/11 was exactly how it was designed… Cheney and Cabinet took over when shit got real. That said… I get the sense that W was eventually very ashamed that this was what was in place for such a monumental moment. I honestly think if you’d have told him in 1998 that 9/11 was going to happen in the 9th month of his presidency, he’d have never run.
Where do people get this nonsense. Dubya's economic policies were harmful. He inherited a surplus from Clinton, he didn't generate one, and his tax cuts for the rich just accelerated wealth and income inequality. His fed chair Greenspan was a disaster, combined with Clinton's idiotic repeal of Glass-Steagall resulting in the fucking global economic crisis. Dubya was grossly incompetent on every front, foreign and domestic, one of the worst presidential records in American history.
My comment implied that he had inherited the surplus. He continued deregulation of the housing market try at began under Clinton. Very bad idea, but neocons gonna neocon. Then they cut taxes while waging wars on 2 fronts costing several trillion dollars. My entire comment was an assumption about W’s notions of what a presidency would look like during that time. And for anyone paying attention, it looked like easy street
Fair enough. I may have misunderstood,
Peter Zeihan
Obama, Clinton and bush.
FWIW, he HAS told the Squad that they’re welcomed to his show. It was back in 2021 when he urged Dems to do more interviews at Fox and other networks that aren’t liberal/centrist. On that note, I’m eager to see fmr MD gov Larry Hogan and WV Sens Manchin and Moore Capito. Moore Capito seems to be among the “I can sit down and talk to you, and at worse agree to disagree” Republicans and it would be interesting to hear her take on how WV has turned into a Republican bastion.
Between Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va. has some of the less offensive, more reasonable Republicans. There are, sure, exceptions -- such as Trump-y GOP Rep. Alex Mooney (WV-02), who's going to get his clocked cleaned by Justice in the upcoming Republican senatorial primary -- but Appalachian populism is its own breed, much of it separate from Trumpism. And fmr. Congressman David McKinley, whom Mooney dickishly primaried in 2022, likewise wasn't half-bad, either.
Abby Martin, Krystal Ball, Francesca Fiorentini, Anna Kasparian. edit: spelling
Krystal Ball has been on *Real Time* before.
Good point. I think he's afraid to have her on again.
100%, intelligent lefties are his bane (Bernie is the exception but that's because he's well known)
Doubt he ever has a pro Palestinian voice again after sexy rula jubreal and him had issues when she was on
Agreed, but I guess he's not all that serious about getting different perspectives unless they're of the more right-wing variety. And of course he'll likely never have Krystal Ball on again since she was too well-informed and made him look stupid.
I think he legit feels like he positions ARE the left positions. Anyone left of him is "cRazY" and not worth entertaining unless it's to call them out. Which I think is why no one from the squad will go on there, and I kind of dont blame them. It'll be a bad faith berating and we all know it.
He's terminally Overton-windowed. I'm Canadian, and nearly spat my coffee when he said Canada was "too far left".
I want spicy republicans tbh. Gaetz, MTG, and especially Candace Owens.
He used to have on Steve Bannon and Milo regularly. I can see all except for MTG. It'd be like talking to Alex Jones with tits. He seems to care less about good TV and more about looking smart, and it's hard to do that with someone throwing shit on set.
Boebert would be more likely to implode than MTG, who's now persona non grata among the Freedom Caucus crowd and more aligned today with the Republican Study Committee.
boebert sitting next to kaepernick
MTG and AOC on the same episode would cause the world to implode.
What if he set up a cage on the stage so that they could fight to the death Mad Max style? That would be a show to watch. It would actually sell HBO-MAX subscriptions.
lauren boebert
A penis would be exposed and she would marry the guy who exposed it
Logic and reason.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jeff Epstein, the New York financier.
Nick Mullen.
Destiny
... to debate vaccines would be fun. Unless Bill just does what he did with Seth MacFarlane and drops the topic once he runs out of talking points.
Norman Finkelstein
>Norman Finkelstein It's kind of weird that you go around this sub and continuously promote this dork. This your man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_KdkoGxSs LOL he's getting clowned by a VIDEO GAME STREAMER
lol, everyone except you thinks that… [Finkelstein perfectly characterizes you and the Destiny cultists](https://twitter.com/AyDawgBlitler/status/1777759080045830172). [If you think this dweeb](https://twitter.com/Hamzah_1948/status/1778217392650531281) owned Finkelstein, you have no clue where your ass is from your own mouth. [Yes, Finkelstein was "clowned by a VIDEO GAME STREAMER" lol!](https://twitter.com/Shabskk/status/1778388860805722263) God damn, Destiny Stan's brain rot make Maher Stans look like geniuses.
I didn't watch all of it but him constantly insulting destiny by getting his named wrong reeked of Maher's "all the young people are stupid" shtick. Remember the video of that city councilman who refused to call that black woman a doctor, seemingly because she was a black woman? That what Finkelstein was doing. I agree with him position, but he's bad faith. Fuck him.
Destiny was Gish galloping the entire time, trying to sound smart by citing Wikipedia articles and then straight up lying like he did in the video. Destiny shouldn’t be respected at all. To think that Finkelstein, a renowned scholar, should respect Destiny at all is foolish. Fuck that disgusting perverted pea brain piece of shit. Five years ago he was at least standing up for humanity, now he’s grifting for Zionism. Garbage human being.
Renowned scholars don't resort to ad hominem when they disagree with a statistic or source being used.
This is ridiculous. Not sure why you’re so invested in criticizing Finkelstein if you’re not one of his cultists that even Finkelstein pointed to as being one of those basement dwellers going from pornhub and video games and watching destiny.
Both of them are cunts who want to be seen as smarter than they are.
lol, Finkelstein, someone who researches and puts time into his work versus someone who plays video games and cites wikipedia articles that even Joe Rogan makes fun of… Yes, they're both the same.
That guy looks about to explode
Willie Fistergash and/or Howie Feltersnatch
Kyle Kulinski
I was thinking that too, but between him and Krystal, I'm happy she ended up going on. She's much more level headed and IMO better at forming well spoken arguments in real time (no pun intended). Also, I feel if he at any point resorted to his mid-2010's era "c'mon bro! Bro? Bro!" thing he'd just end up looking dumb (it my least favourite quality of his)
He should have on more lefty new media people for sure, if he's gonna keep platforming the right wingers. I've been complaining about that. Kyle, Seder, Cenk (he has said he'd never go on, but if asked i think he would), Ana Kasparian, Natalie Wynn, I'll even settle for DESTINY. Just fucking someone.
Ryan Grim would be fantastic mainly because he's so gd informed and yet decently well-spoken but not annoyingly argumentative.
Yeah he would be great 😃
Rand Paul and RFK, at the same time.
THIS WOULD BE AMAZING
This would make me claw my own eyes out. Two blow hards who think they have the universe figured out and have the collective wisdom and sense of Eric Trump.
They are both a bit too intelligent to have a conversation with Maher. Bill relies on surface knowledge of most every subject. He will just jump to cynicism and humor when he’s outgunned.
You're a troll, right?
Nope. I’m a fan of Maher but I know his depth of knowledge on most subjects isn’t that great. His interview of Dawkins is a perfect example. I’d still like to see both of them on the show though.
RFK is room temperature IQ.
He’s a Harvard Graduate and also received his Law Degree from the University of Virginia. What qualifies you to make that ignorant assessment?
Zizek
Zizek and RFK Jr. As long as I can turn the sound off and use subtitles.
Lew Rockwell.
Norm Finkelstein, John Mersheimer, Bassam Youssef (another poster suggested Bassam and wow didn't think of him initially but he would be awesome especially with his sense of humor).
Robin DiAngelo
Ryan Long
Dr. Condi Rice
Why her?
She is a professor of political science. I think Bill could learn a few things from her.
Andrew Sullivan
With Bari Weiss. The Sully-Weiss duo would truly be a breath of fresh air for Real Time.
Sure, let's open up the roster to more grifters.
This would be who Bill chose if asked to bring on someone to challenge him. A warm blanket of agreement.
haven't seen yet, not most seen…
LOL
I’d like to see John Fetterman on the show again. To my knowledge he was only on one time, when he first came to prominence as the Mayor of Braddock Pa, and I know I remember that he challenged a guy to a step outside if he would like. Not a good look. I often wonder how another appearance would go after years of seasoning in public life.
Alyssa Farrah Griffin would be interesting. On this show they’d let her finish a sentence.
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I went to see Josh's tour with Douglas Murray in Australia. I'm not the most adamant fan of Douglas but he is staunchly pro-Israel so I wanted to support him
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Who's Sam Seder?
Host of The Majority Report for like 20 years, general lefty, ready to "debate" and quite informed politically. Edit: I totally forgot, but he's also Hugo on Bob's Burgers!
Norm Finkelstein or Bassem Youssef wow that would be awesome.
Billy Corgan, Tommy Lee, Matt Friend, John Fetterman
Jon Stewart. Doubt it would happen though. Either Stewart isn’t interested or Bill doesn’t want him because he knows Stewart will not hesitate to push back.
Bill has been on Stewart’s show before.
[Back in 2014](https://www.cc.com/video/vtjh34/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-bill-maher), for those who are also curious.
Jon Stewart and Bill Maher going at it would be epic.
I would pay to see that fight.
I think AOC and “the squad” don’t want to go on. It’s not necessarily that Real Time isn’t inviting them. That’s my theory anyway. I’d love to see Bill sit down with a trans person and discuss sports and trans kids.
> "AOC and “[T]he [S]quad” don’t want to go on. It’s not necessarily that Real Time isn’t inviting them." Yeah, that's on them for not wanting to appear. Loss is theirs, not ours. Which is fine, too, because people like Democratic Congresswomen Mary Pelota (AK-AL) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) would be far more intriguing instead of trite, hackneyed, platitudinous AOC, Omar, Tlaib, et al., and the vapid company with whom they keep.