Bill Maher and Senator Ted Cruz find an unusual point in the “real time” debate

oil and water. Oscar and Felix. Come in tonight Real timeOne would expect Sens. Ted Cruz and Bill Maher would fit into the “don’t mix” category.

You would be mostly wrong. Although there were occasional arguments, the two political opposites often found themselves in agreement.

Cruz endorses his new book, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America and surprisingly admitted his admiration for the “old-school liberal” Maher, who called Cruz “funny” and “believed in free speech.”

“I really appreciate what you’re doing,” Cruz said, adding that he retweeted some of Maher’s monologues.

Maher looked surprised. “I feel really bad about the jokes I made about you,” he said. He admitted that he is often accused of slowly becoming more conservative, particularly because he refuses to “lend” to the left’s “crazy train” ideas.

Cruz said the “echo chambers” people have created are disturbing. “If you look at Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity,” he said, the result “is not good for America that we’re not talking to each other.”

Maher asked Cruz how he defines “woke.”

“It’s intertwined with cultural Marxism,” Cruz said, blaming major institutions that have been captured by the far left, starting with universities.

Cruz then joked about Harvard and the light bulb tax, which Maher teased, noting that politicians shouldn’t try to be funny.

Cruz responded, “You can’t do this job without laughing or having fun with it. “There are too many politicians who act like they have a stick up their ass.”

Maher was impressed. “I’ve never seen this side of you,” he said, adding that Cruz was generally unpopular.

They argued whether Joe Biden was legitimately elected. Cruz acknowledged that Biden was chosen, but added that he doesn’t think everything is fair. Then they went back and forth with blame, ranging from Nixon in 1960 to Al Gore and Hilary Clinton.

Jordan Peterson, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and author of the best-selling book participated in the panel discussion that evening. 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaosand and Pamela Paul, former editor of the New York Times Book reviewer and current opinion columnist for the newspaper.

After an in-depth conversation about why younger people don’t have sex, the discussion turned to Joe Biden’s political future and why there is chaos in the Middle East.

Maher’s editorial, “New Rules”, lamented the decline in discipline in schools and contrasted Britney Spears, who danced in the hall twenty years ago to “Baby One More Time” with today’s version of “Dancing with Knives”. Maher presented Bill Maher’s non-Catholic Catholic school as a possible solution to restore order.