Ep. 235 - The Great Democrat Crack-Up
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Summary
Stormy Daniels joins me on The Michael Knowles Show to talk about her reaction to President Trump calling his ex-hustler a "Horseface" in a tweet, and why she thinks it was a smart political move.
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Senate Democrats go into full meltdown, our president calls his former hooker a horse face,
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and Stephen Hawking warns of the cyborg apocalypse from beyond the grave.
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Then Google does an evil and subsequently exposes the weaknesses of neoliberalism.
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Plus, we will see Democrats employing the same strategies they're doing now,
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even 20 years ago in the case of Robin Williams.
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I got to tell you, when I realized yesterday that I didn't have a show,
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I was out giving a speech to a Republican club around here,
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I was really upset because the morning opened up with horse face.
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You know, Elisa wakes up before I do, sweet little Elisa.
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So, you know, she's reading the news and she just wakes me up.
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The president called his former hooker a horse face.
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So, federal judge throws out Stormy Daniels' lawsuit versus Trump.
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At Fox News, great, now I can go after horse face
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and her third-rate lawyer in the great state of Texas.
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Horse face obviously referring to Stormy Daniels.
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I have the opposite reaction to this that I think virtually everyone else did.
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So, we'll get into why I think this was actually not a terrible political move in a second.
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but politically it actually might have been a smart move.
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But first, we're actually very fortunate to be joined now by Stormy Daniels.
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I think this is an exclusive on the Michael Knowles Show
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to get Ms. Daniels' reaction to the Trump tweet.
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Ms. Daniels, what do you make of it and why did you start this fight with him?
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Obviously, you first called out President Trump for his genitalia
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and you put that in your book and then he's responding to this.
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Why did you start that fight in the first place?
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I got those empty feedback, empty feedback blues.
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Obviously, if you publish a book with scintillating details
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then you can fill up that feedback a little bit more,
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Let's not forget, before we get into the rudeness of it all.
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They have a one-night stand and then he offers her some money.
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Then before the election, it seems that she blackmails the guy.
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He wants her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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He pays her, what was it, $130,000, $150,000 to keep quiet.
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Money not very well spent because she didn't keep quiet.
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resembles the mushroom character from Mario Kart
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You know, Rosie O'Donnell attacked Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump was merciless and vicious toward her,
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Now, is it ever nice to say these things about women?
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Is it ever nice to say these things about the hooker
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that you were sleeping with while your wife was pregnant?
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That said, Stormy Daniels made this a political battle.
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She decided to blackmail a presidential candidate.
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She decided to violate her nondisclosure agreement.
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She decided to try to attack the president in an election year,
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Now, I want to analyze this language a little bit, too,
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because I think politically it was a good attack.
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The court threw out Avenatti, threw out Stormy Daniels,
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And he's stepping on it by calling her horse face.
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that he won that ruling, that defamation ruling,
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if he didn't make it saucy with something like horse face.
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but it wouldn't have gotten any play in the media.
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is because he called his former prostitute a horse face.
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on the New York Times, Washington Post, all of that.
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Oh, it was while he won that defamation ruling against her.
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So I actually think politically it's pretty smart.
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some conspiratorial mastermind 4D chess person to think so.
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He is the greatest media manipulator of his age.
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He knows exactly what effect the words will have.
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I'd also like to point out on the nickname itself,
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She's a, she takes money to have sex with people.
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So the horse face, he's saying her face looks like a horse
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Low Energy Jeb, Little Marco, Lion Ted, Crooked Hillary.
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the reason we're spending so much time talking about it,
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And it reminds us, it keeps at the front of our minds,
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Michael Avenatti, the third-rate lawyer, lost this battle.
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And a reminder that he's very good at language.
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There has been nothing short of a total Democrat meltdown here.
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You've looked at the case, you know, the Senate races across the country.
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Yesterday in the state of Nevada, a GOP candidate for state legislature and a pimp,
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was discovered dead in his bed by legendary porn star Ron Jeremy
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after a campaign brothel party at which Sheriff Joe Arpaio and tax reform hero Grover Norquist
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were in attendance and that Tucker Carlson called into.
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Pimp, GOP candidate, brothel owner, brothel party, 70s porn star Joe Arpaio, Grover Norquist,
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That might be the fifth wildest political story of the day.
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That tells you something about the Democratic Party going into full meltdown mode.
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Obviously, the biggest one is Elizabeth Warren.
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It's true of Beto O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke.
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It's true of all of these races, but the Liz Warren one is just too delicious.
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The Cherokee Nation has come out now and issued a statement saying,
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I don't, I like to give politicians their due when it comes to little PR stunts,
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This was an unmitigated disaster, a complete backfire on Liz Warren.
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She could have walked outside and just repeatedly stepped on a rake.
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It would have been less of a self-inflicted wound than what she did with this stupid DNA test.
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Even MSNBC, the left-wing news outlet, is making fun of her for this.
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Did she gain anything by putting out this DNA, the DNA test results?
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Best I can gather, according to your papers reporting, she's one thousandth or something like,
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I mean, I think I might be just as Native American as she is.
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I think I might be just as Native American as she is on MSNBC.
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Statistically speaking, he, that guy is, he's probably more Native American than she is.
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The average American is 1.8% Native American, the average white person, and she is one thousand
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Here is, I think, this is the most compelling, uh, damage control, uh, commercial that the
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I'm not even going to explain that for the people who are just listening to this show right now.
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Uh, I don't know if that one's going to work either though.
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You know, she really, you might say she really tried to Buffalo the American people on this
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You might say the response was really, uh, savage.
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Uh, so the Cherokee Nation comes out against her.
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They say, please stop pretending to be a Native American.
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And then, you know, Donald Trump calls her Pocahontas.
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This has now added, this whole episode has added a number of new nicknames to the popular
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consciousness, a Laya Watha, Pocahonky, uh, chief spreading bull, uh, on and on and on.
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Now a Pocahontas descendant, her name is Debbie White Dove Perico, Perico is coming out and
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I, I take it that this Native American family married into the Italians at some point if
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with a name like Debbie White Dove Perico, maybe not, I don't know.
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So I think the idea was, I'm going to go out, I'm going to show that I'm going to hit back.
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She's actually, ironically, Liz Warren is trying to learn the lessons of the Trump era.
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She's trying to emulate Donald Trump because Donald Trump punches, he fights back, he does.
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But it doesn't work when people who are not Donald Trump try to be Donald Trump.
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Do you remember, you know, little Marco doing the Rickles routine?
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I mean, look, everything you've ever done is going to be exposed.
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You're going to have all these fair and unfair attacks against you.
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The inauthentic things are going to wash away, especially in this era with 4K and social media
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I, I'm, I'm willing to make that prediction now, actually, which is so early to do it.
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I mean, even for vice president, I think she would have a very hard time.
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I thought she was fatally wounded, mortally wounded, even before this debacle, this DNA
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test, again, because of this authenticity thing.
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And again, because what we know about Liz Warren, first of all, she's grating.
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She's not an attractive candidate outside of Massachusetts.
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So she wasn't a great candidate nationally in that regard anyway.
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But after this, I mean, you know, in the, in the beginning, all we knew is she's a fraud.
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She passed herself off as something that she patently has not for decades and decades, beginning
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in the eighties, doubling down in the nineties.
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So I thought that would hit her if she had just not addressed it and just left it up
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Maybe she could have pulled the Clinton and said, oh, that's old news.
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They would, they would commit some scandal and then they would stonewall reporters when
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they would ask about it or stonewall Republicans when they would ask about it.
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And then years later, they'd say it's old news.
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Um, but after this, the gamble left her far worse off.
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Now we know she's one, 1,000th, maybe, maybe one, 1,000th Native American.
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This also teaches another lesson of 2018, which is deny, deny, deny till you die.
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Uh, it's sort of a sad state of our politics that there's no grace and there's no mercy and
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The, the people who admitted to sexual misconduct in Hollywood, in corporate America, and in
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politics, the ones who admitted and apologized are dead.
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They get cast into the outer darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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These other media moguls who deny, they survive it.
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Some politicians who deny, sort of Bob Menendez can survive it.
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That's kind of sad because it means we're in a particularly shallow moment where we don't
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And candidates who are running this year have to watch out for that.
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Hopefully it'll change in the future because I'd rather live in a world where you can
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say, oh yeah, 10 years ago I did that thing and I shouldn't have done it.
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So if you're running in 2018, deny till you die.
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Um, America's not feeling particularly remorseful at the moment.
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The other total collapse beyond Liz Warren is Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.
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Heidi Heitkamp, if you haven't seen the story, she released a full page newspaper ad listing
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the names purportedly of sexual assault victims.
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I was, and she just lists their names in a newspaper ad for her campaign.
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And then it turns out the women never gave their permission to be in the ad.
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And then it turns out some of the women were not sexually assaulted.
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They actually deny ever having been sexually assaulted.
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I mean, or whatever aid took out this newspaper ad, what were they thinking?
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You want to talk about a pendulum going back and forth.
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You're now outing people who were raped or sexually assaulted and don't want it to be known
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And then you're just making it up for other people.
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One of the women, Katie Miller said, quote, a lot of these people listed, including me,
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did not get, give anyone permission for our names to be posted.
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I don't even support Heidi Heitkamp and I am not a domestic abuse survivor.
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Obviously, whatever staffer put this together has long been fired and probably murdered.
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She was already facing a really tough reelection fight.
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She got killed in this Kavanaugh thing because she doubled down on the character assassination.
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And so she was already 10, 12 points behind her Republican opponent.
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Now, could you imagine her face, the jaw just dropping and hitting the floor?
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She immediately went into damage control mode and issued an apology, but probably too little too late.
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I'm not going to ask for forgiveness, but I want to know what we can do to fix this.
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And so it's not that this is, I'm not minimizing in any way, Scott, this event.
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I think that this is horrible and I look at this the way I would if I were someone whose name was in the paper who didn't authorize it.
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And I think that that is a colossal and huge mistake for which I will undoubtedly, you know, have reputational injury as a result of it.
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I'm worried about fixing what we've done and the mistake that's been made.
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I mean, she, she had the right instinct, which is, oh, dear God, I have to apologize right now.
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So she goes on, she calls into CNN, she calls into whatever this radio station and they played all over cable news.
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And she said, it was a colossal mistake for which I will.
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And what she doesn't say is for which I will lose the election.
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She doesn't say for which my political career will be over.
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She's clearly thinking and she's thinking, how can I say that in a way that gives me an out if by some miracle I win this election now?
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And so she says, for which I will, you know, suffer personal reputational injury.
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And then she realizes, oh, my gosh, I'm what am I doing?
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The mistake in the first place is that I made these women's rapes and sexual assaults all about me and used it cynically to my own political advantage.
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And this is what Democrats have been doing for the entire Me Too movement.
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This is what they've been doing for the entire Kavanaugh circus is they've been pretending to care about sexual assault and rape.
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And all they're doing is cynically exploiting it.
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They're actually injuring the people who have been raped and sexually assaulted by exploiting crimes against them for political benefit to no benefit to no benefit to the victims or the accusers or in some cases, the hoaxers to no benefit.
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And then and then she has to turn at the end to she says, you know, it'll give me personal reputational injury.
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And I as a result of this, I'm going to have my reputation injured.
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These women have been dragged through the mud are now exposed to the national news media are now at the height of this sexual assault.
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You're sorry that it's going to hurt your reputation.
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You're sorry that it's going to hurt your chances at reelection.
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I think it is because Trump is getting in their heads.
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Because everything, they expected everything to fall apart if that guy was elected president.
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They expected the economy to collapse, us to start a world war, to be in some conflict.
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And when everything turned out to be exactly the opposite, it does not compute.
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They didn't consider the possibility that things would work out if the Republicans were running the government.
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And by the way, the next line you're going to hear out of Heidi Heitkamp and out of her campaign is that, oh, Heidi Heitkamp didn't know about this ad.
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Oh, it was just some low-level staff or it was just some campaign whatever.
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The candidate has to go out and be the candidate.
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The actor in the movie has to perform in the movie.
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And the director needs to watch everything else.
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But nevertheless, the buck stops with the candidate.
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If a candidate can't run a campaign, then the candidate cannot be trusted with the keys to our federal government.
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It would be a miracle for her if she wins out there in North Dakota.
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She has a lead over the Republican, Martha McSally, still.
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But all of the momentum is in McSally's direction.
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So, you know, the Republican candidate was way down here.
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The Democrat was way up here, kind of floating along.
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Now taking a little bit of a nosedive and McSally is shooting up.
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It's not as though McSally is in the lead right now.
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So just at this moment where already you've got McSally on the upswing, we have released, probably as a little October surprise, from the Republicans, a video of Sinema saying how much she hates her own state.
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You say, okay, I need some good oppo to drop in October.
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Well, how about if she says she hates all of the voters?
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What if she says she despises her constituents and the people voting for her?
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For if you choose not to acknowledge the changing nature of your community and allow instead extremists to fill the space that is created by the natural movement of change, then Arizona could also be your future.
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Goodness, I hope that Arizona isn't the future.
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She's saying if you don't allow change, if you don't force me to go in and change the way of life in Arizona, and if you don't allow change in other communities, you're going to end up like those troglodyte knuckle draggers in my home state of Arizona.
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I mean, just a little bit of political advice to Kirsten.
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When you go in and you say your way of life is terrible and I want to change it, I want to fundamentally transform it, that creates a resistance against you.
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And then if you go in and say, also, I hate your guts and I hate who you are and you people are awful, not a great way to win votes.
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It would be like a presidential candidate having it uncovered that there was a video of him saying that he hates bald eagles and apple pie, you know, like a week before the election.
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And it's unfathomable that she would ever make these kind of comments except that the left has gone insane.
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It's totally, it's lost control of the narrative.
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So they used to always say, look, the left is just as patriotic as the right.
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And then you say, well, but you burn the American flag.
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You say, your presidential candidate says you want to fundamentally transform the country, which means you don't like the country, you dislike the country and you want it to be something different.
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They realize, they actually think that it's in the common culture that people hate America, they hate the West, they hate their community, they hate their countrymen.
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It's in your own little ideological bubble where you unfriend anybody who disagrees with you and anybody that you disagree with.
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But you've lost an understanding of everybody else.
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Those weren't even really her most damning comments about Arizona.
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So cattle, copper, citrus, cotton, and climate.
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My state, Arizona, is clearly the meth lab of democracy.
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I want to talk to you about some of the things that I think that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona.
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Obviously, this was taken a little while ago, though not that long ago because she looks exactly the same there.
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Not a good idea if you despise your state to try to run for Senate there.
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The momentum was already in the other direction.
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And this is a pretty good October surprise for whichever Republican dug this up.
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Pretty good stuff, and I'm glad they sat on it.
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We're going to see a lot more October surprises.
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And then we have to get to the best race of all.
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Stephen Hawking is giving us a warning from beyond the grave of the upcoming apocalypse.
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First, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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This is the straight from the meth lab of democracy itself, the leftist tears tumbler.
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And also, I guess I'm going to have to talk a little trash about our leftist tears tumbler
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Hopefully, by the time you subscribe, we'll have bigger, we'll have like a Titanic-sized
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vessel to contain all of them because they're really, really big.
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Make sure you get your tumbler before it drowns you.
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Last but also least, Beta O'Rourke, Mr. Beta himself, met for the final debate with Ted
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I mean, looking great from our perspective, not looking great for Mr. Beta.
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So I'll point out, Beta O'Rourke raised $40 million in the third fundraising quarter.
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What on earth he needs $40 million for with three weeks to go of the campaign?
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He's not really spending a lot of it because his numbers are not great.
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I think right now, polls show Cruz has a seven-point lead.
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It is entirely possible, if Republicans don't get out to vote, that Beta O'Rourke will win.
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Now, Greg Abbott has a higher margin right now.
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The governor of Texas has a higher margin of victory than Ted Cruz does, according to
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However, nobody is going to go be an Abbott voter, but not vote for Cruz, right?
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So I'm even a little skeptical of some of those polls.
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It's the largest amount ever raised by a Senate candidate in a single quarter.
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But the last record was in the year 2000 when Rick Lazio ran for the Senate against Hillary
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The last record that Beta O'Rourke just beat was raised by one of the biggest losers to
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He lost to Hillary Clinton, carpetbagging Hillary Clinton, moved to New York about a week before
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her election campaign, and he lost tremendously and foisted Hillary on us for another eight
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If O'Rourke said, yeah, I've raised all this, look at all this money that I've raised, you
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think, well, the guy you just beat was one of the biggest losers, not a huge victory.
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So they met last night, Cruz and O'Rourke, for the final debate before the election.
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First, Jason, let me thank you and Sarah for moderating tonight's debate.
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Ken's Five for hosting us, the people of San Antonio for being here, and the people of
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Texas for watching this and participating in one of the most important decisions of our
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I mean, biggest decision of our lifetimes, the Senate race in Texas, I don't really buy
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that, I don't think that the race between Beta O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, when the Republicans
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control Congress, Republicans control the Senate, Republicans control the House, or the White
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House, is really one of the biggest decisions in your lifetime.
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You should rethink your life if that is the case.
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But okay, he's just speaking typical political hyperbole.
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Es un honor estar aquà con ustedes otra vez aquà en San Antonio.
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He's probably a little more Native American than Elizabeth Warren, but he's still an Irish
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He goes by Beto because he wants to appeal to Spanish voters in Texas, Hispanic voters,
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but he's not at all Hispanic and it's absurd and it's cynical.
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So what, look, racial identity politics has become very important thanks to the left and
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When you lie about your ethnicity, that doesn't reflect very well on you.
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What you need to do when you're called out for this is stop calling attention to it.
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Stop calling attention to the fact that you're a fraud and a cynical race hustler.
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He speaks Spanish during a debate in the state of Texas.
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So he, he hablas Espanol with his Irish brogue and then he goes on.
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What's the, what's here, Eric, sock it to me, Mr. Beto.
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What's going to be your, your clock on Ted Cruz?
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Our junior Senator will not stand up to President Trump.
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Someone who apologizes for Russia, defends that country, Vladimir Putin, the leader of
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the country that sought to undermine our democracy.
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He won't stand up against him and he won't stand up for us to make sure that our elections
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are free and fair, that your vote goes to the intended candidate.
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This is getting, uh, this is getting our democracy back on track and we need a, a senator from
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One, virtually every public opinion poll shows Americans do not care about Russian collusion,
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mostly because there's no such thing as Russian collusion.
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It looks increasingly like a setup by Democrats.
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We have evidence in part that it was a setup by Democrats and the Obama administration and
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By the way, there, there is talk now that Robert Mueller is wrapping up his investigation.
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They've been saying he's wrapping it up for months now, so I don't know if I believe it.
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If, if Mueller had something on Trump, it would be leaking right now.
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So give it a few more days, but it would be leaking right now.
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If they really had something that was going to get the president of the United States.
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If it doesn't leak before these midterms, they don't have nothing.
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He stands up to, he doesn't stand up to Russia.
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And then he says that Cruz won't stand up to President Trump.
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There are plenty of good ways to attack Ted Cruz.
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Cruz fought Trump tooth and nail for the Republican presidential nomination.
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He fought him all the way to the convention and then at the GOP convention, he wouldn't
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He wouldn't even say, go out and vote for Trump.
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Now, people might have an issue with Cruz doing that.
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But what that certainly shows is that he's willing to stand up to Donald Trump.
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He stood up to him for the entire campaign and he was the last man standing.
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In fact, that, that is probably Cruz's biggest problem.
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The biggest problem facing Cruz right now is he isn't seen as being a team player and
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loyal to the administration, which has been very successful for conservative policy in
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I think he's been terrific actually, but in some quarters he's seen as not, not loyal
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So by Beto O'Rourke saying that, saying that he won't, you know, go out and attack Donald
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Trump, you're actually galvanizing Cruz's base.
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Why does Cruz have a lower, uh, have lower poll numbers than Greg Abbott, the Republican
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It's because Cruz has been embroiled in some of these controversies with the current president
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because he's been embroiled in some controversies as senator.
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Uh, Beto is doing, Beto, Robert Francis is doing Cruz's work for him here.
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Uh, the only thing that makes sense about this is that he's not running for Senate right
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He's saying, I'm probably not going to be able to make up that difference in the next two
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So what I'm going to do is save the 40 million that I've gotten out of Democrats and try to
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That's word on the street from people who are working on some of these races.
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Uh, all I can say is if you're a Democrat watching this show, thanks.
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Uh, also, if you're a Democrat watching this show, give your money, donate now to Beto
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Give all the money you possibly can because O'Rourke is sucking money out of all of these
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other swing Senate races and he's just throwing it in his campaign coffers to try to run in
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I, I'm sure that, uh, Republicans in North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, I am sure they thank
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you, Congressman O'Rourke for, uh, for taking money out of races where it actually might
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Um, not looking great, not looking great for them, not looking great for him at all.
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I'm not predicting anything because there are always October surprises that come up even
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Uh, plus the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates and put a damper on the economy.
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I think it's still a little too late for that to really matter.
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Uh, but President Trump is talking about this right now.
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So the, the big headline that no one's talking about is that, uh, the U.S.
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has reclaimed the number one most competitive country in the world title.
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Uh, this is according to the World Economic Forum.
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This is the first time since 2008 that we've had that.
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What happened between 2008 and this administration?
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Is that, uh, I've got a few Sil Baraks, Saddam Hussein Oswald, no, no, no, uh, Barack Hussein
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I've almost forgotten about him because his legacy has been erased.
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Uh, right now we're beating Singapore, beating Germany, beating Switzerland,
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Right now, if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, uh, that could put a damper on the exploding
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He said that the biggest threat that he faces politically is the Federal Reserve because
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Monetary policy, unlike fiscal policy, is independent of political machinations from the elected officials.
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So, uh, if they raise the rates too quickly and they put a damper on economic growth, it
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But, you know, this is a big win for all Republicans.
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This is on top of the Trump win on the court ruling with Stormy Daniels and her third-rate
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And Republicans are running hard on the confirmation of Kavanaugh right now and all of the other judges.
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Stephen Hawking, uh, published a new book, uh, where he explains all of the awful things
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that are going to occur to all of us in the near future, particularly around AI, artificial
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So rather than read the book, rather than tell you to read the book, I, uh, was actually
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able through the power of voodoo to get, uh, Professor Hawking on the phone from beyond
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the grave and to get a, a, just a quick little interview.
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Um, Professor, uh, what would you like for us to know?
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I don't know if that's talking, you know, he was a famous atheist, so I don't know if he's
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talking about the horror of where he is or the horror where, where we're going to be.
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You never know where people go after, after this life is over, once we've shuffled off
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So he's predicting that, uh, things are going to look pretty bad for us pretty quickly.
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He's writing in his new book, quote, while primitive forms of artificial intelligence
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developed so far have proved very useful, I fear the consequences of creating something
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Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution could not compete and would be superseded.
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We've heard these kind of scare stories about artificial intelligence, you know, are you
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Ah, you know, Terminator comes back and, and they slaughter all of humanity.
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I'm not that concerned about that right now, mostly because I'm skeptical of artificial intelligence
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Right now, we think of artificial intelligence as, uh, you know, being so advanced, it's about
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But artificial intelligence doesn't think the way that humans think.
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I think David Galerner, the computer scientist at Yale, made this point decades ago.
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The way that artificial intelligence works is it solves problems.
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And certainly the human brain solves problems, but it does a lot more than just solve problems.
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When I'm, you know, I'm sitting there with my covfefe on the table and I'm, you know,
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I don't know, Ben and Jeremy are trying to get me to do work or something.
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And I'm just kind of looking at them and I'm staring off in the distance.
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Like, I was like, uh, you know, I'm, I, you would call that daydreaming, I guess.
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Is that think, I'm certainly not solving problems, but I am thinking there is some kind of thinking
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What about when I sleep, when I'm dreaming, uh, at night, I'm not solving problems usually
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in my sleep, but I am thinking there is, uh, uh, an intelligence going on at that, at
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Artificial intelligence doesn't really capture that.
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And it doesn't capture inventiveness and creativity.
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And I suspect it will never be conscious because, uh, our consciousness is, uh, a metaphysical
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question rather than merely a physical question.
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The relationship of our mind to our brain and our physical body, uh, and a lot of the
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people pushing the AI, uh, scariness and spookiness are materialists who think that there's nothing
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in the world other than that, which is physical and material.
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Obviously, we know that that isn't true because there's love and beauty and, uh, mathematics
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and, uh, transcendence and glory and virtue and all of those sort of things.
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So I'm not terribly worried about that aspect of it.
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He says, quote, once such superhumans appear, uh, and we're not just talking about AI anymore.
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He's talking specifically about the ability to edit our genome.
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So right now we have, uh, emerging technology like CRISPR gene editing, uh, C-R-I-S-P-R, uh,
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to be able to go in to the human genetic code and delete, um, uh, malformed pieces of the
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genetic code, things that cause disease, things that cause, uh, deformations in our genes.
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Okay, uh, that's good and, and, uh, that's emerging technology to be able to try to correct
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Once we really harness that technology, what would stop human beings from using that technology
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to improve the human genome, make us stronger, better, faster, stronger, to quote, uh, our
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Once we have that technology, certainly we'll do, certainly we'll do that.
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He says, once the superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems
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with the unimproved humans who will not be able to compete.
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Presumably they'll die out or become unimportant.
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Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever
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And that's certainly true because once you really improve yourself, you get super smart,
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super better, faster, stronger than, uh, you're, uh, exponentially going to increase
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Uh, that this is a true fear because it raises a lot of bioethical questions about what happens
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Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to play God.
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It doesn't turn out well for people who do it in the Bible.
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It doesn't turn out well for people who try to do it in history.
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That's happened politically with utopian political movements.
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It's happened with, uh, technological political movements, eugenic political movements like
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the Nazis and in the United States for that matter.
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And the worst part of it is that our moral dialogue has been so impoverished that we don't
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even have the vocabulary to talk about these bioethical concerns.
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During the Bush administration, they had a panel on bioethical inquiry to talk about abortion,
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cloning, uh, in vitro fertilization, that kind of stuff.
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I don't know that we even have that ability to discuss bioethical questions like that.
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Why, even if we can create a race of superhumans, maybe we shouldn't.
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And speaking of our paltry, uh, uh, ethical dialogue, Google has gone out and just basically
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You know, they had that old quote, uh, don't be evil.
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And now the, the new motto I think is just, uh, uh, be evil.
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It's streamlined, uh, because now they're saying, uh, Sundar Pichai, the head of Google
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is saying that they're working with the Chinese government.
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They're exploring work with them to censor their citizens, to censor political dissidents,
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to work with one of the most evil regimes on earth.
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Uh, we, we know that this is happening after Google pulls out of a competition for cloud
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computing with the Pentagon, with the United States Defense Department, and after they're
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pulling out of an AI project with the U.S. Defense Department, because employees at Google
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complained that Google was working with the U.S. military.
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The employees don't want Google to work with the U.S. military.
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They do want Google to work with the censorious, communist, brutal, tyrannical, totalitarian
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That is a moral idiocy and a moral blindness that is pretty shocking.
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Um, it, it also exposes a point that the Trump campaign understood in 2015, 2016, and that
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I think some conservatives are coming to now, which is a questioning of our idolatry of the
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It creates so much prosperity for ourselves and for the whole world, but we can't make
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an idol out of it because there are some questions raised by this.
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Neoliberalism being the advocacy of free markets, free trade, free everything without regard to
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Uh, this can breed a lot of good, absolutely, but if you've got an American company, Google,
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an essentially American company saying that they won't work with their own government to
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protect their own government's national interests, and they will work with that government's enemies,
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with their own nation's enemies to censor their citizens and maybe give them technology that
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could be used to fight against the United States, then you know that neoliberalism has gone wrong.
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Uh, Irving Kristol, who is a neoconservative, uh, that word neoconservative has been abused
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to the point of not having any meaning anymore almost, but, uh, Irving Kristol was a left winger
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who became a conservative in the 60s and 70s, and, uh, Irving Kristol described a neoconservative as
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a liberal who had been mugged by reality, uh, but then he went on, people know that quote,
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he went on to describe a neoliberal as a liberal who had been mugged by reality but didn't press any charges,
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and I think that's what we're seeing here, a real questioning, look, I love being able to get cheap
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consumer goods, I want to be able to sell cheap consumer goods, I want access to a lot of markets,
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but when you have one of the biggest countries in the history of the world and an American company
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going in and saying we will not help out the United States government, and we will help out the
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government, the United States' enemies, and we will help those enemies censor their own population
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and help to enslave their own population, which is what China has become. China is becoming a slave
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state with concentration camps, um, cameras everywhere, monitoring citizens, facial recognition,
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I mean a true dystopian, uh, hell. Uh, then you know that something has gone terribly wrong,
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in your economic ideology, and maybe it requires, uh, changing. A lot more to get to,
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but unfortunately we don't have time today, we're out of time. Uh, tune in for Backstage,
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maybe we'll talk a little bit more about those things. Get your mailbag questions in,
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that's going to be tomorrow, and, uh, so we'll be, uh, we'll be seeing you then. In the meantime,
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I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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