The Michael Knowles Show - November 05, 2026


Ep. 2097 - JD Vance's Post-Election Comments Go Viral

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00:00:47.620 Republicans reel as late-breaking election results
00:00:50.600 make Tuesday night go from bad to worse.
00:00:53.560 Sorry, from really, really, really,
00:00:56.060 really bad to catastrophic. And all the top dogs jockey for position. Vice President J.D. Vance
00:01:02.980 comes out swinging against the Iran war. Iran war supporters come out swinging against J.D. Vance.
00:01:08.960 President Trump defends both the Iran war and J.D. Vance. Underneath the national level,
00:01:14.900 an overt socialist looks poised to replace a secret communist in Los Angeles. West Hollywood
00:01:20.720 it establishes new legal protections for orgies, and Republicans at this very moment are set to
00:01:27.740 lose Mississippi. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:31.700 Welcome back to the show. A little bit of a palate cleanser amid this morass of crazy political
00:01:56.140 news. Liam Neeson has just reacted to the news that Meryl Streep will play the Jesus character
00:02:02.500 in the new Narnia movie, and his reaction is just perfect. It's delightful. We need a little
00:02:07.480 palate cleanser with all of the political news. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though,
00:02:13.120 election night hasn't ended yet. I know it seems like election night ended and all the headlines
00:02:18.180 are the Republicans got routed, but it actually hasn't ended because America is kind of a banana
00:02:24.080 Republic now, and we can't conduct elections in a night or two nights or three nights.
00:02:28.060 So we still don't know the final tally. We still don't know how many seats the Democrats are poised
00:02:34.900 to pick up in the House of Representatives. Initially, it could have been limited to 25
00:02:39.400 seats, 30 seats. I actually, I had a congressman friend of mine text me. He was kind of texting me
00:02:45.460 dark humor jokes about how bad it was on Tuesday night. And I was responding with these kind of
00:02:50.960 macabre jokes, but it never even occurred to me that congressman friend in a deep red part of the
00:02:57.600 country very likely will lose his seat too. Never even occurred to me that his seat could be in play.
00:03:03.280 I only realized that when I Googled the races later. So that 25 seat pickup for the Democrats
00:03:07.640 is now looking closer to 40, 40 plus. Then at the Senate level, Democrats pick up seven seats.
00:03:13.460 we still don't know about mississippi mississippi m-i-s-s-i-s-i-s-i-p-p-i
00:03:21.460 mississippi i know two things about mississippi how to spell it because they teach you that in
00:03:27.260 kindergarten and that it is a deep deep republican part of the country until now the the results
00:03:34.840 right now separated by about 1200 votes 1200 votes almost a million votes cast 1200 votes
00:03:43.180 separate the Senate candidates. And the Democrat is currently in the lead. Democrat Scott Cullum,
00:03:50.520 49.01% to the incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, 48.89%. Total vote counts,
00:03:59.400 464,926 for the Democrat, 463,788 votes for the Republican. That means that the Democrats could
00:04:09.700 pick up eight seats in the Senate. And we'll put that in perspective in a second. We'll bring the
00:04:16.140 perspective and the balance. Everyone's running around like a chicken with their head cut off.
00:04:19.580 Everything's on fire. We'll get to that in a second because I was a big doomer going into
00:04:25.420 election night. Uncharacteristically, I was probably more doomer than most Republicans,
00:04:30.260 and I'm usually pretty chipper about it. So we'll get a little balance in a second because now
00:04:34.600 I was a doomer and a lot of people weren't. Some people even thought that Republicans would do
00:04:38.660 well. Now it seems like it's flipped. Now everybody is just completely blackpilling and
00:04:43.220 despairing. And I think we need to add some important historical and political context.
00:04:46.820 First, though, about the reactions. Vice President J.D. Vance has an amazing tweet come out yesterday,
00:04:53.120 comes out swinging, bold take on the meaning of the election, saying the things a lot of
00:04:57.740 Republicans don't want to say, and identifying the main issue cause of the Republican route,
00:05:04.020 namely the iran war people are trying to point at other things they say oh it's candidate quality
00:05:09.100 oh it was this always tariffs so was this was that give me a break if there is an issue it's
00:05:15.140 about more than issues but if there is an issue that caused the republican route it was the iran
00:05:21.020 war as sensible people knew from the beginning as sensible people knew before the iran war kicked
00:05:28.060 off as the bombs were falling at the outbreak of the iran war and for the days afterward so here's
00:05:33.520 the vice president's very, very thoughtful tweet. It's really an essay. You're now seeing some
00:05:37.980 Republicans posting essays on Twitter, and they're pretty thoughtful. But this is what got J.D. in all
00:05:42.540 sorts of trouble, and I think what's getting him a lot of support. Quote, one of the things the
00:05:47.760 data analysts on our side obsessed over was composition, whether the electorate looked
00:05:52.440 close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. Don't forget, it was two years ago that Republicans
00:05:56.500 win this big blowout, deprived Democrats at the popular vote for the first time in 20 years.
00:06:01.460 big new coalition, young voters, young men coming over to our side, Hispanics coming over to our
00:06:06.640 side, Republicans chipping off enough of the black vote to really hurt the Democrats. 0.63
00:06:12.400 Is the composition the same? Despite the polls that showed a Democrat blowout,
00:06:17.440 the data kept on telling us the same story. In some states, turnout was merely okay. In other
00:06:22.340 states, it was downright amazing. And in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of
00:06:27.980 optimism on our team. Our people were showing up. So you understand that in the tracking,
00:06:32.640 in the days before the election, they said, okay, well, in midterms, the big problem is
00:06:37.180 that our side just doesn't feel motivated to show up to the polls. And the other side is
00:06:42.040 really energized. That's true, no matter which party we're talking about in the first midterm
00:06:45.680 after a presidential election. So they say, okay, well, hold on the data show. Our guys are showing
00:06:50.280 up. This is good news. Maybe that blue tsunami is actually going to be a blue trickle. Maybe
00:06:56.620 there's going to be a big red undertow there because the Republicans are showing up to the
00:06:59.700 polls. And so they say, well, this is really, really good news. But actually, what first
00:07:05.280 seemed like good news turned out to be far worse news than had the Republicans not showed up to
00:07:11.620 vote at all. What happened was the Republicans did show up and they voted for Democrats.
00:07:18.080 This is five alarm fire scenario. You can come back from your base is not motivated to go vote.
00:07:24.940 You can come back from that.
00:07:25.960 There's a path.
00:07:26.640 That's a tried and true precedent.
00:07:29.960 It's much harder to come back from your guys did show up and voted for the other guys.
00:07:35.680 So vice president goes on.
00:07:37.880 He says, I asked the smartest data guy I know.
00:07:41.740 Does that mean we're going to shock the world?
00:07:43.380 No, he told me.
00:07:44.480 We might do better than the poll suggests, but the data is telling me that a lot of Trump
00:07:47.680 Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys.
00:07:51.320 Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.
00:07:53.540 Well, that looks prophetic now, says the vice president.
00:07:56.460 Our voters did show up.
00:07:57.500 In Florida, for example, the electorate was nine points more Republican than Democrat,
00:08:00.880 just a couple points worse than 24.
00:08:03.040 Undoubtedly, there were places we could have done better on turnout,
00:08:05.480 but the main problem is not turnout.
00:08:07.140 The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump fans in 2024
00:08:10.620 voted for Democrats in 2026.
00:08:13.980 He goes on, he points out, there's gonna be a lot of infighting.
00:08:17.060 People are gonna try to point fingers and identify the blame.
00:08:20.260 But that is just a fact of the data.
00:08:23.540 Okay. So he says, okay, there are all these issues. Economic messaging wasn't sharp enough,
00:08:29.640 blah, blah, blah. I'm sure that's true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
00:08:34.160 Another pollster, one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday,
00:08:37.420 we would lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday,
00:08:41.040 but even I was shocked by this. Again, this is almost my reaction too. I felt negative going
00:08:46.760 into Tuesday, I was one of the doomers. And yet, the only way in which my prediction was inaccurate
00:08:54.640 is that even I, thinking it was going to be bad, didn't think it was going to be quite that bad.
00:09:00.860 So, what caused all of this? Talk to the voters, talk to the respondents, conduct the polls.
00:09:09.100 This pollster asked those voters who had abandoned us, what would cause them to come back to our
00:09:12.740 team, the top four answers accounting for nearly all the responses were, one, end the war. Two,
00:09:19.540 focus on cost of living inflation. Three, put America first. Four, and this is the really
00:09:26.560 controversial one, supposedly, in certain quarters of the Beltway, change our relationship to Israel.
00:09:33.380 Now, these are all related issues, of course. The top issue, according to the exit polls for
00:09:38.700 the voters was cost of living, the economy, gas prices, on and on and on. But that is just another
00:09:46.780 way of saying the top issue for people was the downstream effect of the war in Iran. People are
00:09:53.780 going to try to cast blame, say, oh, you know, actually it was tariffs. The tariffs were fine.
00:09:58.320 The tariffs actually didn't really spike inflation. A lot of economists said they would,
00:10:01.760 and then Scott Besson spiked the football and pointed out they didn't actually.
00:10:05.960 They're going to say, oh, it's Biden.
00:10:07.360 It's the holdover from the Biden inflation because you had 9% inflation year over year under Joe Biden.
00:10:11.380 And it takes a little while to clean that up.
00:10:13.080 So we brought the rate of inflation down, but we didn't actually reduce the cost of goods other than certain specific cases like eggs.
00:10:20.640 So, no, it's actually Biden's fault.
00:10:22.020 And that's what they're upset about.
00:10:22.920 No, no, no, no.
00:10:24.100 The inflation that we are seeing now and the inflation that we're seeing really directly because diesel is at $6.50 a gallon and gas prices are way up from where they were before the war.
00:10:33.460 that's because of the war. And when oil goes up, the cost of everything goes up because everything
00:10:40.860 has to be transported all around the country. So that's a way of saying it's the war. Focus on
00:10:47.480 cost of living inflation. One of the big drivers of cost of living is the high interest rates.
00:10:50.660 That's the Fed. The politicians have basically no control over that. So, okay, yeah, the interest
00:10:56.500 rates are really tough, but the interest rates are where they are because the Federal Reserve
00:10:59.820 is trying to manage inflation from the Biden era and from COVID. And okay, yeah, that's true.
00:11:05.140 But the proximate issues of cost of living and inflation come from the war. Yes, mass migration
00:11:13.460 caused the big spike in housing prices five, six years ago. That's true. But what voters already
00:11:18.480 voted in the meantime, they voted for the Republicans massively in 2024. So 2026, what
00:11:24.900 has changed. It's the war. Number three, put America first. This is a tricky one because
00:11:30.520 voters want the government to focus on domestic issues. Now, it's not as simple as turn away from
00:11:36.260 the rest of the world. We can't actually do that because we're a global empire. To quote Thucydides
00:11:42.000 in the history of the Peloponnesian War, a lot of people don't want to have an empire. They don't
00:11:47.360 feel comfortable having an empire. They didn't seek an empire perhaps, but they will miss the
00:11:51.780 empire when it is gone. Because the thing about empires is a lot of our domestic prosperity,
00:11:57.900 a lot of our domestic way of life is contingent upon the American maintenance of the global order.
00:12:04.340 It's contingent upon perhaps the global reserve currency. It's contingent upon the United States
00:12:09.700 guaranteeing that the waterways are open and that oil and goods move around the world.
00:12:13.960 It's contingent upon keeping our adversaries like China and to some degree Russia in check.
00:12:18.140 it's dependent upon peace. That is, at the most basic level, what an empire promises. That is the
00:12:24.480 advantage of an imperial system of politics, is that you get peace. And when you have peace,
00:12:30.460 you can have freedom, and you can have prosperity, and you have new companies, and you have jobs,
00:12:34.380 and you can have all of those things. So you can't neatly separate America's imperial interests
00:12:39.980 with our domestic concerns. They're dependent upon the other. If you only focus on the domestic
00:12:45.500 concerns, you're going to lose your place in geopolitics and your domestic prosperity is
00:12:50.740 going to collapse. But if you focus too much on all the foreign stuff and you get involved in a
00:12:55.000 bunch of imperial wars, you are going to neglect domestic concerns. And then you ask, well, what's
00:12:59.520 the empire even for? Very thorny issue. I think the vice president nails it. And then number four,
00:13:03.780 change our relationship to Israel. This is the really controversial part because there are many
00:13:09.360 people for whom Israel is the top issue, whether theologically or as a matter of brand strategy
00:13:14.880 or whatever. It's always very, very controversial and it brings out people from the fringes
00:13:20.320 and it does bring out certain aspects of bigotry. But it's also just like a basic part of
00:13:26.820 geopolitics. And so that's the one that's going to get all of the heat. And yet,
00:13:32.880 something I haven't seen anyone mention, for that fourth controversial point,
00:13:37.580 change our relationship to Israel. Do you know who agrees with that? It's not just the vice
00:13:42.400 president going out on a limb saying something totally crazy here. You know who else agrees with
00:13:46.240 that? President Trump, who said that the morning of the election. He said, oh yeah, we're going to
00:13:52.380 stop the way that we fund Israel. We're going to end that. We have to change our relationship to
00:13:56.940 Israel. You know what's kind of funny too? You know who else agrees that America needs to change 1.00
00:14:01.200 its relationship to Israel? Benjamin Netanyahu. Okay. Netanyahu months ago came out and said,
00:14:08.680 yeah, the way that this is working
00:14:10.800 where we just get a check from the United States,
00:14:12.720 that's not good for anybody.
00:14:14.000 It makes Israel too dependent on the United States
00:14:16.040 and we want more control over our domestic affairs.
00:14:18.600 The American voters resent that
00:14:19.960 because they think that they're just sending
00:14:21.120 all their money over to this country in the Middle East.
00:14:22.980 Yeah, we got to change it.
00:14:24.160 It's not to say we need to blow up the US-Israel alliance,
00:14:26.180 but it's saying we need to change the relationship.
00:14:28.860 It's not working for either party here.
00:14:30.420 So all of a sudden,
00:14:31.080 the most controversial part of the vice president's tweet
00:14:32.940 is actually perhaps one of the few issues that all American voters can agree on and all the
00:14:41.940 people at the high levels of government can agree on, even that our allies can agree on,
00:14:45.700 including Israel. So he's going to get a ton of heat for that. And yet to me, that one's just
00:14:50.340 common sense. The vice president concludes, he says, our voters showed up, but all of the above
00:14:56.260 four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. Need to figure that out. So the
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00:16:31.220 The vice president goes rogue, sends out this tweet about the midterms.
00:16:35.280 Trump must be fuming, right?
00:16:36.540 Mr. President, what do you think of the vice president's tweet?
00:16:39.640 The vice president wrote a very lengthy post about how the war impacted the results last night.
00:16:46.420 Did you know he was going to do that?
00:16:48.440 I knew he was, I know how he feels about it.
00:16:50.740 I think it was, I think it was fine.
00:16:52.460 I thought it was good.
00:16:54.000 We knew that.
00:16:54.880 I know that.
00:16:55.300 I knew that when I went in and we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon and they will never
00:17:00.860 have a nuclear weapon. So this really deflates a lot of the people who are waging this shadow war
00:17:07.540 soon to come out of the shadows for the 2028 presidential nomination. There's been all this
00:17:12.480 little shadow boxing among supporters for the vice president, supporters for Marco Rubio.
00:17:16.780 Marco Rubio, who himself has shown no indication that he's going to run, who actually has endorsed
00:17:20.600 J.D. Vance. There are other people, though. Governor Ron DeSantis making big, big moves to
00:17:24.320 start a presidential campaign by all accounts. We'll get to that momentarily. Senator Cruz has
00:17:30.000 suggested that he wants to run in 2028. Rand Paul has suggested he wants to run in 2028.
00:17:35.220 So now this is coming out into the open. The minute you have the midterms, the next day,
00:17:38.520 the presidential campaign starts. And what does Trump come out and say? He says, oh, yeah,
00:17:42.980 I saw the vice president's post. I thought it was good. I agree with it. Yeah, yeah,
00:17:49.340 was good. I know how he feels and I agree with that. And I stand by my decision to launch the
00:17:55.860 Iran war. So he's defending both vice president who says, yeah, we lost the midterms because of 0.93
00:17:59.920 the war and the war itself. He does so explicitly. Talking about running, you can have people
00:18:06.160 running. You can have a lot of people, maybe a lot of people running. Maybe nobody's going to
00:18:10.400 run. Maybe he won't run. I don't know who's going to run. But I can tell you that as far as that
00:18:15.960 war is concerned, I would have done nothing different. Okay, so here is President Trump
00:18:20.320 offering a little steady leadership. And this is what the Republicans need right now.
00:18:25.160 We need steady leadership. We got totally rocked at the ballot box. It was bad. It happens,
00:18:32.960 though it doesn't happen like that very often. What we need is steady leadership.
00:18:36.480 If the vice president came out and said, I totally disagree with the VP,
00:18:39.540 one, I wouldn't have expected that to happen. But two, that's no good. And if Trump came out
00:18:44.300 and he said, yeah, I made a huge blunder on Iran. It was crazy, and we're going to
00:18:47.960 pull out of the war tomorrow, and it was just the worst thing ever. And that also would be strange,
00:18:51.800 because the huge pendulum swings that you're seeing among the electorate, you can't really
00:18:57.220 see that reflected in the government, too, where things really can start to spin out of control.
00:19:01.240 So here you have good, steady responses from the White House, an acknowledgement of reality.
00:19:07.080 I think reasonable minds can indeed disagree on the Iran war. I think, as you know, before the war
00:19:13.320 happened. And while the bombs were falling and in the early days of it, I made very clear,
00:19:18.520 had I been on the National Security Council, I would have urged restraint. There was reporting
00:19:21.700 that came out from the New York Times at the time that said that plenty of people in the government
00:19:25.660 were urging restraint, including the VP and the Secretary of State and the CIA director.
00:19:30.500 Other people were urging more of a hawkish stance on the Iran war. Obviously, President Trump was
00:19:36.020 swayed that it was worth going in. Everyone hoped the war would wrap up quickly. It didn't wrap up
00:19:39.900 quite as quickly. My argument for restraint was not that the Iranian regime is good or that they 1.00
00:19:44.700 don't want a nuclear weapon or anything that you hear from the peaceniks. I said, no, no, no, 0.75
00:19:48.280 they're awful. They're like the worst people in the world. They definitely want a nuclear weapon. 1.00
00:19:51.440 They hate us. They want to blow us up. That's true. My disagreement was prudential. I just 0.97
00:19:56.240 thought the Iranian regime is more durable than the hawks said it was. And I think I was proven 0.55
00:20:01.020 entirely correct about that. Don't forget the Iranian regime, the mullahs, the Islamic regime 0.94
00:20:05.340 has lasted twice as long as the CIA-backed regime that we had from 1953 to 1979 after we ousted 0.93
00:20:11.940 Mosaddegh. That was my argument. It's just these guys are willing to take a lot of pain. These
00:20:16.100 guys are pretty good at politics. These guys have 50 years of contingency plans. I don't think this
00:20:20.140 is going to be smooth sailing in the way that you saw in Venezuela, for instance. So now the knives
00:20:25.960 are coming out. A lot of reporting saying Pete Hegseth is on the chopping block. The Iran war
00:20:31.020 was the cause of the midterm route, and Pete Hegseth is the secretary of war, so they got
00:20:36.000 to fire Pete Hegseth. And I don't know, Trump seems to be tamping down some of that rumor mill,
00:20:41.600 but it doesn't really make sense to me to blame Pete Hegseth for the war in Iran.
00:20:46.680 If you want to make a comparison to 2006, when the Republicans got routed in the midterms,
00:20:52.280 and then George W. Bush fired Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, you say, okay, well,
00:20:57.680 people hated the war, and Don Rumsfeld was running the war, so they had to fire Rumsfeld.
00:21:01.640 Okay, people were upset about the execution of the war in Iraq, and there were lots of
00:21:06.720 mistakes in the execution of the war in Iraq. But in this case, what people are upset about
00:21:10.820 is simply the decision to go to war in the first place. And it wasn't Pete Hegseth who made that
00:21:16.420 decision. In 2006, you're talking about a war that had been going on for three years and had
00:21:21.320 ups and downs and lots of big problems. In this case, the issue is that the war has gone on for
00:21:25.980 six months instead of two months. So I don't think those are really comparable, and I don't
00:21:31.340 think it would solve the administration's problems if they just fired Hegseth. For Suzy Wiles, 0.95
00:21:35.680 some people are trying to blame Suzy Wiles, chief of staff. I don't really see why you would do that.
00:21:40.240 I don't see any evidence that Suzy Wiles is responsible for the midterm loss or the Iran
00:21:44.020 war or anything like that. I think reasonable minds can disagree on the Iran war, but President
00:21:50.900 Trump is coming out and saying, look, I knew it would be politically tough, but I think it was
00:21:54.300 the right thing to do for grand strategy, for morality, for this, that, or the other thing.
00:21:58.280 And you say, okay, that is actually a bold stance. That's a courageous stance. He's sticking by his
00:22:02.140 guns. People can disagree with him. A lot of voters obviously did. But it's not passing the
00:22:06.180 buck and saying, no, it was just one cabinet secretary who made some bad moves. No, no, no.
00:22:10.280 Trump is taking responsibility for that. So now what do we make for all of this different
00:22:16.060 messaging? Well, I'll tell you what, there's one connection that people are not drawing.
00:22:19.540 after that vance tweet oil prices collapsed which is a good thing that's what we want to see there's
00:22:29.640 a little reporting in axios on this but you can just see brent crude prices after the tweet
00:22:35.200 they drop right down oil prices fell sharply wednesday's trader traders weigh signs
00:22:40.700 including a widely circulated post by vice president jd vance that the midterm election
00:22:45.060 will add pressure on the White House to find an off-ramp to the Iran conflict.
00:22:50.100 So when all the dust settles beyond all the little arguments and the infighting and jockeying for
00:22:55.140 2028, what do we have happen? We have all the top dogs, all the real players in the arena saying,
00:23:01.560 yeah, we got routed. It was really bad. There's some structural issue here, which is that
00:23:07.100 Republicans always faced headwinds going into the midterms. The proximate cause on issues was the
00:23:11.400 Iran war, and we need to find an off-ramp for that. And as a result, the markets are reacting
00:23:17.640 very well. I don't know. This seems like a good management thus far from the White House of a
00:23:25.060 very, very tough situation. Meanwhile, you have all the potential presidential contenders
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00:24:53.540 taking a victory lap after the whole country's going blue and Mississippi might go blue and
00:24:58.400 Texas went blue, and DeSantis says Florida remains the bright red spot.
00:25:06.200 Last night, we witnessed, to call it a wave, I don't think would be fully accurate.
00:25:12.580 It's the political equivalent of a meteor strike that went all around the United States,
00:25:17.780 blue states, red states, everything in between.
00:25:20.740 And the one state that was able to hold the line and withstand that
00:25:24.680 is right here in the free state of Florida.
00:25:27.440 Okay, so DeSantis, look, he worked for this victory lap. He deserves this victory lap. He
00:25:32.840 obviously has presidential ambitions because he ran the last time. He did get clobbered because
00:25:37.540 he was running against Trump and Trump is Napoleon, but he won't be running against Trump the next
00:25:42.580 time. And so he seems to be setting the stage. I agree with most of what DeSantis said here,
00:25:48.080 and he deserves a lot of credit for sure. But he did say one thing that I felt took it a little
00:25:52.680 too far. But let's just be clear about what happened last night. This is close to an extinction
00:26:00.200 level event for Republicans in many parts of the country, as we have seen probably in the last
00:26:06.280 hundred years. Okay. So DeSantis did a great job here. He deserves a lot of plaudits. He's got a
00:26:14.460 lot of political advantage now, and he's totally capitalizing on that. Good for him. That's very,
00:26:19.280 very impressive. The only part I would quibble with is that last little bit of rhetoric where
00:26:23.700 he says, what Republicans saw on Tuesday was a near extinction level event.
00:26:30.460 As I have mentioned once or twice, I was one of the, one of the doomers going into election day
00:26:36.800 uncharacteristically. So I was, I was on Nigel Farage's show that day and he said,
00:26:40.960 oh, I think the Republicans are actually going to do well. I said, Nigel, you're drunk. Get
00:26:43.880 out of the pub. There's no way. I love the hopefulness, but I know it's going to be bad
00:26:47.820 for Republicans. So I think I have a little credibility here when it comes to the other
00:26:54.600 side of it. As everyone now is freaking out, the Republican Party is dead. It's going extinct.
00:27:00.980 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold your horses. Now, I was one of the biggest doomers going into the election.
00:27:07.220 I guess I'm one of the more hopeful people coming out of the election because
00:27:09.900 how bad was it? The best comparison to what happened on Tuesday night and what is continuing
00:27:16.560 to roll out as more results come in. The biggest comparison was 1994. In 1994, many of our listeners
00:27:23.400 will be too young to remember this. I am almost too young to remember this, but I was a political
00:27:28.360 nerd from a very young age. 1994, the Democrats had controlled Congress for 40 years. Gingrich,
00:27:35.680 leading the Republicans in 1994's midterm elections, picked up 54 seats and eight Senate
00:27:44.720 seats. 54 seats. This was a major turnover. Bill Clinton had just been elected two years prior.
00:27:53.060 You'd had Republican rule before that for three terms, two of Reagan, and then Reagan got a third
00:27:58.060 term in the form of George H.W. Bush. Bill Clinton gets elected in 1992. Two years later, Democrats
00:28:03.380 suffer the most brutal midterm loss you can possibly imagine. A midterm loss that was in
00:28:09.280 fact, worse than what Republicans saw on Tuesday night. Republicans might lose 40, 43 seats in the
00:28:15.600 House. Democrats lost 54. The Democrats in the 94 elections lose eight seats in the Senate.
00:28:25.340 Republicans might lose seven seats. Depends what happens in Mississippi. Let's say it's eight
00:28:29.480 seats. Okay, then that's a draw. Did the Democratic Party go extinct after that? That was brutal.
00:28:37.440 That was a worse loss for the Democrats in 94
00:28:39.680 than the Republicans faced in 2026.
00:28:41.480 Did the Democrats go extinct after that?
00:28:44.680 No, unfortunately.
00:28:46.320 I wish they had, but they didn't.
00:28:48.280 The Democrats remained strong.
00:28:49.720 In fact, do you know what happened two years after 1994?
00:28:52.880 Doesn't take a math whiz.
00:28:54.580 1996, what happened in 1996?
00:28:57.260 Bill Clinton won re-election.
00:29:00.580 Now, what happened after 1996?
00:29:02.380 You had 1998, you have the impeachment of Bill Clinton
00:29:04.340 for getting a little frisky with his humidor in the Oval Office. By humidor, I mean his intern.
00:29:11.260 They were synonymous at that time. Things went south for a little bit. Then you got George W.
00:29:16.300 Bush. But Democrats were supposed to go extinct in 1994. They won a big presidential victory
00:29:21.480 just two years later. And so much of the hand-wringing over the midterm election results
00:29:25.480 last night was over the 2028 presidential cycle. Can any Republican win? Well, our nearest historical
00:29:31.760 analogy says, yes, a Republican could win. Now, a lot of things have to happen in the meantime
00:29:37.840 because the way that Bill Clinton was able to survive that brutal shellacking in 94 was when
00:29:43.200 he came out and said the era of big government is over, when he changed up some personnel,
00:29:47.740 when he changed up his attitude on the government. Nevertheless, it was really, really bad. People
00:29:54.120 didn't want to admit that it was going to be bad going in. They should have. People didn't want to
00:29:57.260 admit it was the Iran war. They should have. But likewise, right now, people are also facing a 0.98
00:30:02.260 different kind of delusion. They're saying the GOP is just totally dead and might as well pack
00:30:06.520 it in and start a new political party. Hey, guys, is that what the Democrats did in 94? I don't
00:30:12.060 think so. And the Democrats have done pretty well since then. Need to keep a little bit of
00:30:17.780 perspective, okay? Before we get into more of the political fallout, I just, on the point of
00:30:24.240 extinction, we need to focus on some of the craziness going on outside of Washington, D.C.
00:30:31.520 We need to talk about some of the predictions made by the conservatives in the 1990s, actually.
00:30:37.880 West Hollywood has now officially decided to allow people to register as throuples,
00:30:45.580 foursomes, and multi-partner relationships. We're talking about a foursome. We're not talking about
00:30:50.540 golfing at the Bel Air Country Club. We're talking about really weird sex stuff in West Hollywood,
00:30:55.560 which is one of the top three capitals of weird sex stuff in the entire country.
00:31:00.180 The West Hollywood City Council has unanimously approved new legal protections for polyamorous
00:31:06.320 couples. This was put forward by Mayor John Heilman, quote, the measure allows people in
00:31:12.620 relationships involving multiple partners to officially register with the city,
00:31:15.940 granting them certain rights, including hospital visitation and additional tenant protections.
00:31:21.380 This will allow three or more individuals to formally register their relationship with the
00:31:24.800 city by submitting paperwork to the city clerk. To qualify, participants must satisfy several
00:31:29.180 conditions, including mutual consent and the absence of blood relations. So they get all
00:31:35.320 these other protections now. In other words, West Hollywood has just legalized polygamy 0.77
00:31:40.780 for all intents and purposes, exactly as the social conservatives have been predicting for
00:31:46.520 decades. I remember, I was around in the 90s and 2000s when there was the debate over same-sex
00:31:51.320 marriage. And the social conservatives said, you can't have same-sex marriage. It's just an
00:31:55.840 incoherent concept because marriage is intrinsically the union of a man and a woman or toward the
00:32:01.080 procreation and education of children. So it's not that we want to be mean to the homosexuals.
00:32:05.460 It's that that just can't be marriage. It's like same-sex marriage is like a square circle. 1.00
00:32:10.520 It's just not possible in its nature. And if you do it at a more practical level, 0.97
00:32:17.140 there is nothing stopping you from legalizing polygamy. And at the time,
00:32:20.840 all the liberals said, that's ridiculous. Come on, stop it with your stupid slippery slope 1.00
00:32:25.180 arguments. The social conservatives have been vindicated on every single slippery slope 1.00
00:32:32.920 argument they've ever made. Every single one. And then we're going to make some today and they're
00:32:37.260 going to say the same thing about us. But we've been vindicated on every single one. On abortion.
00:32:44.320 If you legalize abortion and you establish that it's okay to kill innocent babies in the womb,
00:32:48.160 pretty soon you're going to have abortion, not just in the first trimester or even the second.
00:32:51.060 You're going to have abortion late term. You're going to have partial birth abortion. You're
00:32:53.920 going to have an abortion on demand. The craziest slippery slope argument we made was pretty soon 0.93
00:32:57.780 they're going to let you have abortions after the baby is already born. And what happened?
00:33:02.880 All the libs said, oh, it's crazy, slippery slope, stupid nonsense. You're hallucinating. 1.00
00:33:07.260 what happened? How many years ago now was it that the Democrat governor of Virginia,
00:33:12.260 Ralph Northam, came out and he said, yeah, yeah, if a baby's born, but the mother doesn't want it,
00:33:16.780 she actually wanted to have an abortion, she'll talk to the doctor, maybe they'll kill the baby.
00:33:21.100 We now ballot referenda around the country on Tuesday night, in Virginia, legalizing abortion
00:33:26.380 up until the moment of birth. All of that, all of that was predicted by the Social Conservatives.
00:33:31.860 Before we move on from this totally predictable and totally revolting story, I just want to focus
00:33:36.740 on the next slippery slope thing. It says, okay, the ordinance allows throuples and menage a quatre,
00:33:42.800 menage a cinq, menage a six, sept, huit, to get legal protections, basically to be married.
00:33:50.980 But they must satisfy some conditions, including mutual consent. Consent is the only moral
00:33:55.600 criterion of liberalism and the absence of blood relations. So they say, okay, you can do plenty
00:34:00.320 of weird stuff, gay, trans, pans, thank you, ma'ams. You can do whatever, three, four, five people or 1.00
00:34:07.120 more in your fake marriage. But the one thing we won't cotton to is blood relations, no incest. 0.98
00:34:15.460 Why? Why? West Hollywood does not have a lot of heterosexuals running around. So for these,
00:34:23.960 all polyamorous relationships have to be homosexual to some degree, because there's
00:34:28.560 only two sexes, despite the protestations of the libs. So they're all gay in some way or other. 0.78
00:34:35.280 So why can't you have blood relations? The argument against incest, the reason that we've
00:34:40.700 had legal prohibitions on incest when it comes to marriage and relationships is because, well,
00:34:45.720 it's really icky. But two, because it can cause birth defects. If you have too much consanguinity,
00:34:51.460 then there are going to be defects and deformations in the kids.
00:34:54.440 but we've mostly taken the kids out of sex we now have kids outside of marriage and outside
00:35:03.080 of even sexual relations because of in vitro fertilization and uh people can get married and
00:35:09.300 have no intention of ever having kids so we have so weakened the meaning of marriage it's no longer
00:35:13.580 a lifelong bond necessarily because we legalize divorce it's no longer ordered toward the
00:35:17.940 procreation and education of children because uh now plenty of people get married and don't have
00:35:21.840 any intention of having kids. We don't think that kids are an intrinsic part of what a marriage is,
00:35:25.860 the openness to life. Obviously, many couples suffer infertility, but the openness to life,
00:35:30.140 we always thought was part of marriage. We no longer do. And in West Hollywood, a lot of these
00:35:34.520 marriages are gay. So you take that out entirely. If, this is so gross, and it's a family show, but 0.99
00:35:42.700 we have to just follow this to its logical conclusion. If kids are not a big factor here,
00:35:49.100 If it's just like three or four fellows who want to pretend that they're married in West
00:35:51.840 Hollywood, why can't they be related to each other?
00:35:55.180 They're not making babies. 0.97
00:35:56.680 Even if they go to the baby store in the surrogacy industry and they try to buy one, they're 0.60
00:36:00.600 not, they still haven't figured out a way to create a baby out of a man and a man. 0.99
00:36:05.540 You'd just have to go rent the eggs of some other woman who presumably is not related 1.00
00:36:08.680 to you.
00:36:09.160 So according to the logic of the West Hollywood mayor and love is love and let people do whatever
00:36:16.960 they want, my body, my choice. Why can't two brothers get gay married in West Hollywood?
00:36:23.320 Why not? You're saying that five, six different people of any sexes can get married. Why can't
00:36:28.220 two brothers do it? They're not going to make a baby. There's no threat of genetic malformations
00:36:32.520 or anything like that. By the way, according to the logic of my body, my choice, you do you,
00:36:36.820 maximize individual autonomy. I'm not even sure that that argument would hold up against incest
00:36:42.280 and marrying people of your family.
00:36:45.100 But let's just put that off the side for a moment.
00:36:48.040 Why can't two male cousins, two brothers,
00:36:50.460 an uncle and a nephew, why can't they do it?
00:36:53.400 According to the logic of West Hollywood. 0.92
00:36:55.120 Here's my argument, is it's totally icky and gross
00:36:57.460 and it should obviously be illegal
00:36:58.600 and it's contrary to natural law.
00:37:00.120 And marriage has a meaning that is intrinsic to what it is. 0.99
00:37:03.960 And so not only should you get rid of the throuples
00:37:06.440 and all this weird stuff and incest and all the rest,
00:37:09.080 but also it's a lifelong union of a man and a woman.
00:37:12.280 order toward the procreation education of children. That's my argument. You say that
00:37:16.220 my natural law arguments are wrong and it inhibits people. Okay. What's the limiting principle?
00:37:22.660 You say, oh, come on. That's just a slippery slope argument. You're right. It is. And we
00:37:27.040 have been proven right on all of them. Stay tuned, man. Stay tuned. Gomorrah by the sea over there.
00:37:32.680 Okay. Now, speaking of LA, things are getting worse. This is a race nobody's even talking about.
00:37:39.580 The socialist city councilman, Nitya Rahman, who was running against Spencer Pratt, the Republican,
00:37:46.020 and against Karen Bass, the incumbent Democrat mayor of LA, she was kind of written off for a
00:37:50.800 long time. It looked like Spencer Pratt had destroyed her chances of becoming mayor of LA.
00:37:56.240 Now, the socialist is supplanting the mainstream Democrat. And it's especially ironic because that
00:38:03.460 mainstream Democrat actually used to be a communist. So we'll get to how LA has gone from
00:38:07.200 not just bad to worse, but really, really, really bad to catastrophic.
00:38:11.260 Then we'll get to Liam Neeson, and then maybe a little bit more on the election first, though.
00:38:15.160 Speaking of Hollywood, Confession comes out November 11th on Daily Wire. It's in select
00:38:20.160 theaters. Go to dailywire.com to buy tickets. Movie's terrific. Go check it out. I did not
00:38:25.800 pick the favorite comment yesterday. There's just a fire hose of information coming in,
00:38:30.300 and I had the producers pick it. This is from Eddie, who says, at least an ex-Yankees player
00:38:34.400 won a Republican seat in Texas. We're saved. I know, that's exciting. And the congressional
00:38:39.960 baseball game is going to be great this year. Okay. Nydia Raman, socialist, is leading right
00:38:47.140 now. This race still hasn't been called either, at least as of turning the cameras on this morning.
00:38:51.980 The latest LA County election results show Raman with 405,193 votes. That's 51.67 percent
00:38:57.920 compared to Karen Bass, 379,069 votes. Nice. So that's 48.33% for Karen Bass. That is a 26,000
00:39:10.120 vote advantage right now. It means the incumbent is getting taken down. So the way this should be
00:39:15.260 read, because most people don't know the total personal history of Karen Bass, the way this
00:39:20.900 should be read is voters choosing an overt socialist over a mainstream Democrat. 0.95
00:39:27.600 Now, Karen Bass, I mean, she let her city be burnt to the ground. You remember during the LA
00:39:31.240 fires that destroyed that city, Karen Bass not only wasn't on the job in LA, she wasn't even
00:39:35.880 on the continent. She was visiting Africa. She was phoning it in while her city was burning down. It
00:39:41.320 was burning down in part because of her own policies and the Democrat policies from the
00:39:46.360 governor. So what the voters went into is they said, okay, we can either keep our mainstream
00:39:50.800 Democrat or we can go further left and elect a socialist. It looks like they're electing a
00:39:54.860 socialist. There is a little wrinkle to this though, which is Karen Bass is not a mainstream
00:39:59.660 Democrat. Karen Bass is actually a communist. So Karen Bass, this was years ago at this point,
00:40:04.600 but she was an actual card carrying member of explicitly communist organizations.
00:40:09.380 so it in reality in la it's it's just all awful and i'm very glad i left because that city is is
00:40:19.020 just unsalvageable at this point at least for the foreseeable future but we should still be very
00:40:25.380 concerned about this because what it means is the the voters in la for all they know not not
00:40:31.980 understanding that karen bass is a communist they're moving further to the left they are they
00:40:36.900 are embracing socialism in their own minds in a more distinct way. Okay. Speaking of Hollywood,
00:40:42.000 another little palate cleanser, Liam Neeson, love Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson was just reacting in an
00:40:48.260 interview to the news that in the new Narnia movie by Greta Gerwig, Aslan, the Jesus character,
00:40:55.300 is going to be played by a woman. My first introduction to your work was not your face,
00:41:01.920 it was actually your voice when you voiced Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia films. I was just
00:41:06.320 Now that Narnia is back in the news cycle,
00:41:08.280 we're getting a new interpretation next year.
00:41:10.140 If you had a chance to check out the trailer
00:41:12.040 and what it feels like to now have people
00:41:13.980 revisiting that franchise on the big screen.
00:41:16.040 I'm sorry, this is news to me.
00:41:18.200 The new Narnia?
00:41:19.040 Yeah.
00:41:19.880 Well, I'm grateful to be the one to break it to you.
00:41:21.200 Oh, great. 0.78
00:41:23.200 Meryl Streep is taking on Aslan this time around.
00:41:25.520 Meryl is playing Jesus Christ.
00:41:27.600 She is. 1.00
00:41:28.980 Well, if you're going to make Christ a lady, 0.89
00:41:32.640 nobody better than Meryl. 1.00
00:41:34.400 what an amazing, amazing reaction. And it's just like, he's me for real, for real. Everyone's
00:41:40.780 talking about how we now identify with Anakin Skywalker. I identify with Qui-Gon Jinn.
00:41:45.420 I think Liam Neeson's reaction is just magnificent. I am withholding judgment on the
00:41:52.640 Narnia movies for now because Greta Gerwig has been a crypto conservative filmmaker for a long
00:41:57.060 time and her movies are great. But I don't love what I'm seeing in the news, that they're getting
00:42:03.020 a lady to play the Jesus character. And look, for a rock-ribbed right-wing conservative like me, 0.68
00:42:10.480 that's an understandable reaction. But even Liam Neeson, I mean, I think he's got the reaction
00:42:17.380 of the kind of normie, not all that political audience member, which is they're having a lady 0.76
00:42:24.000 play Jesus. And he's very diplomatic about it. He goes, well, if you're going to have a lady play
00:42:30.740 Jesus. I guess Meryl Streep's the best one. She's the best living actress. So if you're going to 1.00
00:42:37.940 have a lady play Jesus, what? If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If ifs and buts 1.00
00:42:43.660 were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. That's a big if. Why are we?
00:42:49.480 So for all the people covering this, we'll see what happens when the Narnia movie comes out.
00:42:54.140 it's not just a right-wing ginned up culture war issue among these perpetually angry incels on the
00:43:01.940 internet you know it's like liam neeson you know it's hollywood royalty people who are relatively
00:43:07.820 lib you know or live in liberal environments they say hold on we got a lady playing jesus
00:43:12.960 why are we what are we doing what are we doing with that he's me he's me for real you guys can
00:43:17.980 be Anakin. I'm going to be Qui-Gon Jinn. Last little bit of political news coming out.
00:43:24.740 Mike Johnson, it is now being reported. I don't know that he's made a direct statement on this.
00:43:31.240 No, I suppose he has at this point. I suppose he has actually confirmed this now. Mike Johnson,
00:43:34.860 who is the Republican Speaker of the House, done an excellent job. I know Congress gets so much
00:43:38.720 flack. The reason Congress gets flack is because they don't do anything. And the reason they don't
00:43:43.020 do anything is actually structural to Congress. Congress has been rendered politically impotent
00:43:48.860 for years and decades, with very few exceptions in between. So Mike Johnson, I think, has done
00:43:54.240 an excellent job as Speaker of the House. Given what Congress can do in the 21st century,
00:44:01.180 I think Mike Johnson has done an excellent job. And it's the worst job on Capitol Hill.
00:44:06.040 I've said it for years now. Whenever names are floated, some friends of mine who were in Congress,
00:44:10.580 hey, so-and-so should be speaker.
00:44:11.820 So-and-so might be speaker.
00:44:12.700 I said, I wouldn't wish that on him
00:44:14.040 because I like that person.
00:44:15.140 And that's the worst job in Washington, D.C.
00:44:18.460 I would much rather be the janitor
00:44:20.360 at Shelley's cigar bar
00:44:23.180 than have to wrangle the herd of cats 0.96
00:44:26.760 on Capitol Hill as a Republican speaker,
00:44:28.600 especially as a Republican speaker.
00:44:29.780 It's harder than being a Democrat speaker.
00:44:31.160 In any case, I think Mike Johnson's done a great job.
00:44:34.480 But he says, I have no interest
00:44:36.020 in being the minority leader on Capitol Hill.
00:44:38.600 you are you are seeing a sea change here something big has shifted so we need to keep these two
00:44:46.620 things in mind right now you just have people coping and saying oh no nothing's changed it's
00:44:51.200 no big deal keep calm and carry on this is fine you know no no no oh it's just you know just a
00:44:56.840 little instability because of the tariffs no and you have some people saying this is obliteration
00:45:02.480 we need to start a new political party the country's gone to pot go you know buy a compound
00:45:06.180 to New Zealand. No, no, that's wrong too. This is a survivable event. This doesn't even mean a
00:45:14.740 Republican can't win in 2028. But this is a massive change. An era ended on Tuesday night.
00:45:25.420 What happens in the future is anybody's guess. The Republican Party will survive,
00:45:29.940 but it's going to be a very, very bumpy road. Okay. Much more to say. We're out of time.
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00:45:46.060 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:46:03.000 I cannot feel anything here.
00:46:16.060 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:46:21.180 What have I done?
00:46:22.120 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
00:46:25.620 That is all I know.
00:46:27.340 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence,
00:46:33.260 who protest, who cry.
00:46:41.740 There are no answers here.
00:46:43.580 Other than the ones they put in your mouth
00:46:47.400 You'll break
00:46:48.520 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people
00:46:55.360 I would like to know why I'm here
00:46:59.220 Of course
00:47:00.120 But you already know, don't you?
00:47:04.640 You must believe in something greater than the party
00:47:08.680 You will remember your duty
00:47:10.900 I have told you I know nothing
00:47:12.380 And he growled like a feral animal. 1.00
00:47:16.380 You stink of failure. 1.00
00:47:18.380 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:47:19.380 Still a drunk! 1.00
00:47:20.380 Damn you! 1.00
00:47:23.380 They all break. 1.00
00:47:27.380 Maybe.