The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 235 - The Great Democrat Crack-Up

00:00:00.000 Senate Democrats go into full meltdown, our president calls his former hooker a horse face,

00:00:05.960 and Stephen Hawking warns of the cyborg apocalypse from beyond the grave.

00:00:10.080 Then Google does an evil and subsequently exposes the weaknesses of neoliberalism.

00:00:15.820 Plus, we will see Democrats employing the same strategies they're doing now,

00:00:20.240 even 20 years ago in the case of Robin Williams.

00:00:22.820 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:07.240 I got to tell you, when I realized yesterday that I didn't have a show,

00:02:11.740 I was out giving a speech to a Republican club around here,

00:02:15.080 I was really upset because the morning opened up with horse face.

00:02:21.360 You know, Elisa wakes up before I do, sweet little Elisa.

00:02:24.560 So, you know, she's reading the news and she just wakes me up.

00:02:26.760 She goes, Mac, Mac, wake up, horse face.

00:02:29.760 Wake up.

00:02:30.300 You got a lot of news to read, Mac.

00:02:32.200 So, so we see this.

00:02:34.580 The president called his former hooker a horse face.

00:02:37.640 Specifically, he tweeted out, quote,

00:02:39.060 So, federal judge throws out Stormy Daniels' lawsuit versus Trump.

00:02:44.320 Trump is entitled to full legal fees.

00:02:46.980 At Fox News, great, now I can go after horse face 0.99

00:02:49.760 and her third-rate lawyer in the great state of Texas.

00:02:52.520 She will confirm the letter she signed.

00:02:54.580 She knows nothing about me, a total con.

00:02:58.540 Horse face obviously referring to Stormy Daniels.

00:03:02.280 I have the opposite reaction to this that I think virtually everyone else did.

00:03:06.800 So, we'll get into why I think this was actually not a terrible political move in a second.

00:03:11.760 Not exactly polite, not exactly chivalrous,

00:03:14.180 but politically it actually might have been a smart move.

00:03:17.080 But first, we're actually very fortunate to be joined now by Stormy Daniels.

00:03:22.200 I think this is an exclusive on the Michael Knowles Show

00:03:24.460 to get Ms. Daniels' reaction to the Trump tweet.

00:03:29.440 Ms. Daniels, what do you make of it and why did you start this fight with him?

00:03:33.520 You know, this battle of names.

00:03:35.160 Obviously, you first called out President Trump for his genitalia

00:03:40.680 and you put that in your book and then he's responding to this.

00:03:43.580 Why did you start that fight in the first place?

00:03:45.800 I got those empty feedback, empty feedback blues.

00:03:56.320 Understood. That makes sense.

00:03:57.680 Obviously, if you publish a book with scintillating details

00:04:00.480 about the shape of the president's member,

00:04:02.940 then you can fill up that feedback a little bit more,

00:04:05.600 make a little more money, honey.

00:04:06.800 I totally understand that.

00:04:08.220 I totally understand that tendency.

00:04:10.760 Let's not forget, before we get into the rudeness of it all.

00:04:14.340 It's so rude. It's so rude.

00:04:16.020 She did start this fight. 0.95

00:04:17.800 She did.

00:04:19.140 The president slept with this porn star, 0.67

00:04:22.000 allegedly, in what, 2006, something like that.

00:04:26.560 They have a one-night stand and then he offers her some money.

00:04:31.020 She doesn't take the money. 0.97

00:04:31.900 Then before the election, it seems that she blackmails the guy.

00:04:35.820 He wants her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

00:04:38.140 He pays her, what was it, $130,000, $150,000 to keep quiet.

00:04:43.680 Money not very well spent because she didn't keep quiet.

00:04:46.300 It came out.

00:04:47.240 She started talking about it.

00:04:48.860 Total violation of even the blackmail NDA

00:04:52.280 that she had been pushing for,

00:04:54.720 all the money she received.

00:04:56.800 Then she publishes this book.

00:04:59.520 So she publishes this book where she says,

00:05:02.420 President Trump's little Donald,

00:05:06.200 Donald Jr., and I'm not talking about his son,

00:05:08.960 resembles the mushroom character from Mario Kart

00:05:12.260 and on and on.

00:05:13.640 Now, what we know about Donald Trump

00:05:16.800 is that he responds to every single attack.

00:05:19.980 Any attack that you make on him,

00:05:22.000 he will return five times as hard.

00:05:24.180 Doesn't matter if you're a man, woman, child,

00:05:27.060 you know, anything.

00:05:28.560 He will hit back.

00:05:30.140 It doesn't matter if you are John McCain,

00:05:32.380 POW in Vietnam.

00:05:34.000 He hits back against anybody.

00:05:36.900 And she started the fight. 0.98

00:05:38.220 We saw this with the Rosie O'Donnell thing.

00:05:39.840 You know, Rosie O'Donnell attacked Donald Trump. 1.00

00:05:43.080 Donald Trump was merciless and vicious toward her,

00:05:45.520 but she did start it.

00:05:46.460 So that's the first side of this.

00:05:48.380 Now, is it ever nice to say these things about women? 1.00

00:05:50.740 No.

00:05:51.320 Is it ever nice to say these things about the hooker

00:05:53.120 that you were sleeping with while your wife was pregnant?

00:05:55.380 No.

00:05:56.100 Do I recommend that people do it?

00:05:57.760 No.

00:05:58.840 That said, Stormy Daniels made this a political battle. 1.00

00:06:02.760 She decided to blackmail a presidential candidate. 0.98

00:06:05.080 She decided to violate her nondisclosure agreement.

00:06:07.960 She decided to try to attack the president in an election year, 1.00

00:06:12.060 in a midterm election year.

00:06:13.520 And so he's got to fight back.

00:06:14.720 I mean, the reason we elected Donald Trump

00:06:16.280 is because he fights back, finally.

00:06:19.440 Now, I want to analyze this language a little bit, too,

00:06:23.880 because I think politically it was a good attack.

00:06:25.980 Why?

00:06:26.700 The kind of consensus conservative view

00:06:29.660 is that this squandered all of the good news.

00:06:32.820 The good news is he won the defamation ruling.

00:06:35.360 The court threw out Avenatti, threw out Stormy Daniels,

00:06:39.060 and gave a win to President Trump.

00:06:41.420 That's the good news.

00:06:42.580 And he's stepping on it by calling her horse face.

00:06:45.180 I don't think that's true.

00:06:46.260 I don't think anybody would report

00:06:47.800 that he won that ruling, that defamation ruling,

00:06:52.780 if he didn't make it saucy with something like horse face.

00:06:56.700 If he didn't, we wouldn't be talking about it.

00:06:58.640 Maybe on this show we would have mentioned it,

00:07:00.300 but it wouldn't have gotten any play in the media.

00:07:02.640 The reason it's getting play

00:07:03.720 is because he called his former prostitute a horse face.

00:07:07.780 And so everyone is running with that on NBC,

00:07:10.140 on the New York Times, Washington Post, all of that.

00:07:11.960 And then you have to ask,

00:07:12.880 well, why did he call her a horse face?

00:07:14.000 Oh, it was while he won that defamation ruling against her.

00:07:17.560 So I actually think politically it's pretty smart.

00:07:19.620 And I don't think that you need to be

00:07:22.140 some conspiratorial mastermind 4D chess person to think so.

00:07:26.500 Donald Trump is a media manipulator.

00:07:28.700 That is essentially what this guy is.

00:07:30.880 He is, has been doing it since the 1980s.

00:07:33.420 He is the greatest media manipulator of his age.

00:07:36.000 He's doing it again in this tweet.

00:07:37.380 He knows exactly what he's doing.

00:07:38.880 He knows exactly what effect the words will have.

00:07:41.860 I'd also like to point out on the nickname itself,

00:07:45.660 it's a pun.

00:07:47.320 I don't think people have noticed this.

00:07:49.660 Horse face to refer to his whore. 0.62

00:07:52.160 She's a, she takes money to have sex with people. 1.00

00:07:54.980 So the horse face, he's saying her face looks like a horse

00:07:58.520 and she's a whore and it's a whore's face. 1.00

00:08:02.620 Again, I don't think this is conspiratorial.

00:08:04.520 He's really good with nicknames.

00:08:05.860 He knows what nicknames will stick.

00:08:07.760 He knows why they stick.

00:08:09.000 Low Energy Jeb, Little Marco, Lion Ted, Crooked Hillary.

00:08:12.640 He's really good at this.

00:08:13.780 He does it all the time.

00:08:14.980 And horse face is one of these.

00:08:16.260 And the reason that we're talking about it,

00:08:18.100 the reason we're spending so much time talking about it,

00:08:19.960 even on this show, is because of the name.

00:08:22.000 But what does the name represent?

00:08:23.600 That the Stormy Daniels thing was a farce,

00:08:25.880 that it was nothing, it went nowhere.

00:08:27.700 And it reminds us, it keeps at the front of our minds,

00:08:30.040 that she lost this battle.

00:08:32.020 Michael Avenatti, the third-rate lawyer, lost this battle.

00:08:35.120 Who won the battle?

00:08:36.100 President Trump.

00:08:37.580 And a reminder that he's very good at language.

00:08:41.640 Now I want to get into the Democrat meltdown.

00:08:44.100 There has been nothing short of a total Democrat meltdown here.

00:08:48.640 You've looked at the case, you know, the Senate races across the country.

00:08:53.820 Let me put this in perspective for you.

00:08:56.320 Yesterday in the state of Nevada, a GOP candidate for state legislature and a pimp, 0.99

00:09:01.840 he was a pimp and a brothel owner,

00:09:04.200 was discovered dead in his bed by legendary porn star Ron Jeremy

00:09:11.000 after a campaign brothel party at which Sheriff Joe Arpaio and tax reform hero Grover Norquist

00:09:20.680 were in attendance and that Tucker Carlson called into.

00:09:24.920 Pimp, GOP candidate, brothel owner, brothel party, 70s porn star Joe Arpaio, Grover Norquist,

00:09:32.600 that is like not even a headline today.

00:09:35.040 That is so not the news of the day.

00:09:37.560 That might be the fifth wildest political story of the day.

00:09:41.740 That tells you something about the Democratic Party going into full meltdown mode.

00:09:47.480 What is going on?

00:09:48.560 Obviously, the biggest one is Elizabeth Warren. 0.92

00:09:51.400 This is true of Heidi Heitkamp.

00:09:52.720 It's true of Beto O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:09:56.040 It's true of all of these races, but the Liz Warren one is just too delicious. 1.00

00:10:01.680 The Cherokee Nation has come out now and issued a statement saying,

00:10:06.640 stop pretending to be Native American. 1.00

00:10:08.440 You're not Native American. 1.00

00:10:09.540 This is a fraud.

00:10:10.260 You should apologize.

00:10:11.760 Total PR disaster.

00:10:13.880 I don't, I like to give politicians their due when it comes to little PR stunts,

00:10:19.160 even if they're Democrats.

00:10:20.460 This was an unmitigated disaster, a complete backfire on Liz Warren.

00:10:25.960 She could have walked outside and just repeatedly stepped on a rake. 1.00

00:10:28.700 It would have been less of a self-inflicted wound than what she did with this stupid DNA test. 0.99

00:10:34.380 Even MSNBC, the left-wing news outlet, is making fun of her for this. 0.92

00:10:40.240 Here they are.

00:10:41.220 Did she gain anything by putting out this DNA, the DNA test results?

00:10:45.740 Best I can gather, according to your papers reporting, she's one thousandth or something like, 0.69

00:10:52.080 I mean, I think I might be just as Native American as she is.

00:10:54.960 I think I might be just as Native American as she is on MSNBC.

00:11:00.800 Statistically speaking, he, that guy is, he's probably more Native American than she is.

00:11:04.580 The average American is 1.8% Native American, the average white person, and she is one thousand

00:11:12.080 twenty-fourth.

00:11:13.280 And she thought this was going to work.

00:11:16.220 So now she's in, in total damage control mode.

00:11:19.060 She's tweeting.

00:11:19.800 She's trying to go into damage control mode. 1.00

00:11:21.260 Here is, I think, this is the most compelling, uh, damage control, uh, commercial that the

00:11:27.660 Warren campaign has put out so far.

00:11:29.160 Take a look.

00:11:30.960 People can stop it.

00:11:35.820 I'm not even going to explain that for the people who are just listening to this show right now.

00:11:39.500 You have to go online and watch that clip.

00:11:41.760 I, you know, people can stop.

00:11:43.820 There's the one, one little tear going down.

00:11:45.960 Uh, I don't know if that one's going to work either though.

00:11:48.220 Absolutely awful.

00:11:49.420 You know, she really, you might say she really tried to Buffalo the American people on this

00:11:53.880 one.

00:11:54.200 Hmm.

00:11:55.120 You might say the response was really, uh, savage.

00:11:58.260 Hmm.

00:11:59.280 Hmm.

00:11:59.780 All right.

00:12:00.300 Enough of that.

00:12:01.240 Uh, so the Cherokee Nation comes out against her.

00:12:03.060 They say, please stop pretending to be a Native American. 0.99

00:12:06.380 And then, you know, Donald Trump calls her Pocahontas.

00:12:09.780 This has now added, this whole episode has added a number of new nicknames to the popular

00:12:14.780 consciousness, a Laya Watha, Pocahonky, uh, chief spreading bull, uh, on and on and on.

00:12:22.840 Now a Pocahontas descendant, her name is Debbie White Dove Perico, Perico is coming out and 0.99

00:12:29.900 calling on Liz Warren to apologize.

00:12:31.580 Says it makes a mockery of Native Americans.

00:12:34.640 I don't know.

00:12:35.540 I, I take it that this Native American family married into the Italians at some point if

00:12:39.540 with a name like Debbie White Dove Perico, maybe not, I don't know.

00:12:42.700 Um, but she does, she should apologize.

00:12:44.960 Liz Warren should apologize. 1.00

00:12:45.880 She can't apologize now.

00:12:47.620 So I think the idea was, I'm going to go out, I'm going to show that I'm going to hit back.

00:12:52.420 She's actually, ironically, Liz Warren is trying to learn the lessons of the Trump era.

00:12:56.880 She's trying to emulate Donald Trump because Donald Trump punches, he fights back, he does.

00:13:00.720 But it doesn't work when people who are not Donald Trump try to be Donald Trump.

00:13:05.800 Do you remember, you know, little Marco doing the Rickles routine?

00:13:08.300 It does not work.

00:13:09.780 They don't get this lesson.

00:13:11.040 You can only be yourself.

00:13:13.320 You can only bring yourself to politics.

00:13:17.220 I mean, look, everything you've ever done is going to be exposed.

00:13:19.940 Your character is going to be exposed.

00:13:21.560 It's going to be tested.

00:13:22.320 You're going to be exhausted.

00:13:23.160 You're going to have all these fair and unfair attacks against you.

00:13:26.220 You can only be yourself.

00:13:27.560 The inauthentic things are going to wash away, especially in this era with 4K and social media

00:13:32.760 and 24 seven news.

00:13:33.980 You can only be yourself.

00:13:35.380 She, she isn't this person.

00:13:36.580 She's not good at fighting back. 1.00

00:13:38.720 I think her 2020 hopes are over.

00:13:41.760 I, I'm, I'm willing to make that prediction now, actually, which is so early to do it.

00:13:46.360 But I think it's over.

00:13:47.360 I mean, even for vice president, I think she would have a very hard time. 0.98

00:13:50.460 It's more plausible for a VP spot.

00:13:52.720 I thought she was fatally wounded, mortally wounded, even before this debacle, this DNA 1.00

00:13:58.860 test, again, because of this authenticity thing.

00:14:01.760 And again, because what we know about Liz Warren, first of all, she's grating. 0.99

00:14:06.020 She's annoying. 1.00

00:14:07.020 She's elitist.

00:14:08.240 She's arrogant.

00:14:09.080 She's all of these things.

00:14:10.880 She's not an attractive candidate outside of Massachusetts. 1.00

00:14:14.560 Was that her tribe?

00:14:15.280 No, she's Cherokee, not Massachusetts.

00:14:18.700 So she wasn't a great candidate nationally in that regard anyway.

00:14:22.820 But after this, I mean, you know, in the, in the beginning, all we knew is she's a fraud.

00:14:28.620 She passed herself off as something that she patently has not for decades and decades, beginning 0.96

00:14:33.060 in the eighties, doubling down in the nineties.

00:14:35.200 So I thought that would hit her if she had just not addressed it and just left it up

00:14:41.540 to people's imagination.

00:14:43.060 Maybe she could have pulled the Clinton and said, oh, that's old news.

00:14:46.360 You know, the Clintons would always do this.

00:14:47.960 They would, they would commit some scandal and then they would stonewall reporters when

00:14:52.940 they would ask about it or stonewall Republicans when they would ask about it.

00:14:55.780 And then years later, they'd say it's old news.

00:14:58.220 It's not old news.

00:14:58.900 You just haven't answered it until now.

00:15:00.380 And now you're saying it's, it's old news.

00:15:01.700 She, she might've been able to do that. 0.98

00:15:03.660 Um, but after this, the gamble left her far worse off.

00:15:08.640 Now we know she's one, 1,000th, maybe, maybe one, 1,000th Native American.

00:15:13.660 It really hits her.

00:15:15.140 This also teaches another lesson of 2018, which is deny, deny, deny till you die.

00:15:21.400 Uh, it's sort of a sad state of our politics that there's no grace and there's no mercy and

00:15:26.240 there's no repentance right now.

00:15:27.440 But you see it with the Me Too movement.

00:15:29.320 The, the people who admitted to sexual misconduct in Hollywood, in corporate America, and in

00:15:34.800 politics, the ones who admitted and apologized are dead.

00:15:38.760 They are in jail.

00:15:40.000 They have had their careers ruined.

00:15:41.620 They are like, they get Kevin Spacey'd.

00:15:43.440 They get cast into the outer darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.

00:15:47.600 The ones who deny do fine.

00:15:50.580 The ones who deny basically can survive it.

00:15:53.840 Ben Affleck denied.

00:15:54.700 He survives it.

00:15:55.800 These other media moguls who deny, they survive it.

00:15:58.700 Some politicians who deny, sort of Bob Menendez can survive it.

00:16:03.120 Um, uh, that is the lesson.

00:16:05.160 That's kind of sad because it means we're in a particularly shallow moment where we don't

00:16:09.600 have a sense of mercy.

00:16:11.300 We don't have a sense of grace.

00:16:12.480 We're just out for blood.

00:16:13.660 We're out for revenge.

00:16:14.380 We're out for justice.

00:16:15.100 But that is the fact.

00:16:16.460 And candidates who are running this year have to watch out for that.

00:16:19.620 Hopefully it'll change in the future because I'd rather live in a world where you can

00:16:23.380 say, oh yeah, 10 years ago I did that thing and I shouldn't have done it.

00:16:26.320 I feel bad.

00:16:26.860 I haven't done it since.

00:16:27.800 I don't want to do it anymore.

00:16:28.980 Say, okay, that's fine.

00:16:30.360 But we don't, we don't live there right now.

00:16:32.280 So if you're running in 2018, deny till you die.

00:16:34.620 That's all you can do.

00:16:36.140 Um, America's not feeling particularly remorseful at the moment.

00:16:39.500 The other total collapse beyond Liz Warren is Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.

00:16:45.340 Heidi Heitkamp, if you haven't seen the story, she released a full page newspaper ad listing

00:16:51.720 the names purportedly of sexual assault victims.

00:16:56.600 So women who say, I was sexually assaulted. 1.00

00:16:58.800 I was, and she just lists their names in a newspaper ad for her campaign. 0.68

00:17:02.900 And then it turns out the women never gave their permission to be in the ad.

00:17:07.260 And then it turns out some of the women were not sexually assaulted.

00:17:12.740 They actually deny ever having been sexually assaulted.

00:17:16.440 What was Heidi Heitkamp thinking?

00:17:19.140 I mean, or whatever aid took out this newspaper ad, what were they thinking?

00:17:24.040 This is the Me Too hysteria in full swing.

00:17:26.740 You want to talk about a pendulum going back and forth.

00:17:29.020 This is absurd.

00:17:29.680 You're now outing people who were raped or sexually assaulted and don't want it to be known

00:17:34.640 because of the stigma attached to it.

00:17:36.460 And then you're just making it up for other people.

00:17:39.000 Where did they get this list?

00:17:40.780 One of the women, Katie Miller said, quote, a lot of these people listed, including me,

00:17:46.700 did not get, give anyone permission for our names to be posted.

00:17:50.300 I don't even support Heidi Heitkamp and I am not a domestic abuse survivor.

00:17:58.740 Obviously, whatever staffer put this together has long been fired and probably murdered.

00:18:03.580 But could you imagine Heidi Heitkamp's face?

00:18:07.360 She was already facing a really tough reelection fight. 0.76

00:18:09.720 She got killed in this Kavanaugh thing because she doubled down on the character assassination. 1.00

00:18:14.300 And so she was already 10, 12 points behind her Republican opponent.

00:18:19.000 Now, could you imagine her face, the jaw just dropping and hitting the floor?

00:18:23.700 She immediately went into damage control mode and issued an apology, but probably too little too late. 0.91

00:18:28.020 Here she is.

00:18:28.940 The only thing I can do is say, I am so sorry.

00:18:33.440 I'm not going to ask for forgiveness, but I want to know what we can do to fix this.

00:18:37.860 And so it's not that this is, I'm not minimizing in any way, Scott, this event.

00:18:45.100 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.

00:18:54.060 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.

00:19:08.360 But I'm not worried about that.

00:19:09.720 I'm worried about fixing what we've done and the mistake that's been made.

00:19:13.720 She even botched the apology. 0.81

00:19:16.340 I mean, she, she had the right instinct, which is, oh, dear God, I have to apologize right now.

00:19:21.480 Oh, what has happened?

00:19:22.860 So she goes on, she calls into CNN, she calls into whatever this radio station and they played all over cable news.

00:19:28.180 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, da, da, da, da.

00:19:29.660 And she said, it was a colossal mistake for which I will.

00:19:33.200 And what she doesn't say is for which I will lose the election.

00:19:36.020 She doesn't say for which my political career will be over.

00:19:38.820 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?

00:19:46.920 And so she says, for which I will, you know, suffer personal reputational injury.

00:19:52.940 And then she realizes, oh, my gosh, I'm what am I doing?

00:19:56.360 I'm making it about me again.

00:19:58.560 I'm making it all about me.

00:19:59.740 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.

00:20:08.800 And I'm doing it again.

00:20:10.000 And this is what Democrats have been doing for the entire Me Too movement.

00:20:12.820 This is what they've been doing for the entire Kavanaugh circus is they've been pretending to care about sexual assault and rape.

00:20:18.800 And all they're doing is cynically exploiting it.

00:20:20.940 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.

00:20:37.220 So she says that.

00:20:38.520 And then and then she has to turn at the end to she says, you know, it'll give me personal reputational injury. 0.89

00:20:44.260 But I'm not concerned about that.

00:20:45.580 Yeah, obviously, you are concerned about that.

00:20:47.480 That was your conclusion.

00:20:48.740 You said this is so bad.

00:20:50.040 I'm so, so sorry.

00:20:51.320 And I as a result of this, I'm going to have my reputation injured.

00:20:55.300 It's not.

00:20:55.960 I'm so, so sorry.

00:20:56.720 These women's reputations have been injured. 1.00

00:20:58.480 I'm so, so sorry.

00:20:59.400 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. 0.84

00:21:07.240 National debate, international debate.

00:21:09.060 No, no, no.

00:21:09.320 You're not sorry about that.

00:21:10.200 You're sorry that it's going to hurt your reputation.

00:21:12.220 You're sorry that it's going to hurt your chances at reelection.

00:21:14.640 And then she's.

00:21:15.260 Oh, no, I didn't mean that.

00:21:16.100 I mean, tot botches it every which way.

00:21:18.620 How on earth do you mess up this badly?

00:21:22.280 I think it is because Trump is getting in their heads.

00:21:26.320 Because everything, they expected everything to fall apart if that guy was elected president.

00:21:31.400 They expected the economy to collapse, us to start a world war, to be in some conflict.

00:21:37.120 And when everything turned out to be exactly the opposite, it does not compute.

00:21:42.560 They were shocked.

00:21:43.380 They didn't consider the possibility that things would work out if the Republicans were running the government.

00:21:47.980 And they've just cracked up.

00:21:49.620 They've totally broken down.

00:21:50.900 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.

00:21:58.160 Oh, it was just some low-level staff or it was just some campaign whatever.

00:22:02.360 The buck stops there.

00:22:03.700 The buck stops with the candidate.

00:22:05.360 It's true.

00:22:06.020 Candidates don't run their campaigns.

00:22:08.220 Not on the day-to-day.

00:22:09.380 That's why you have a campaign manager. 1.00

00:22:10.800 The candidate has to go out and be the candidate.

00:22:12.640 The campaign manager has to be the manager.

00:22:14.860 The actor in the movie has to perform in the movie.

00:22:17.400 And the director needs to watch everything else.

00:22:20.020 But nevertheless, the buck stops with the candidate.

00:22:23.620 If a candidate can't run a campaign, then the candidate cannot be trusted with the keys to our federal government.

00:22:28.640 Period.

00:22:29.400 End of story.

00:22:30.100 So, really, really brutal.

00:22:32.880 It would be a miracle for her if she wins out there in North Dakota. 0.98

00:22:37.960 I don't see it really happening.

00:22:39.620 How about in Arizona?

00:22:41.140 Kirsten Sinema?

00:22:42.240 Sinema?

00:22:42.700 Sinema?

00:22:43.680 She has a lead over the Republican, Martha McSally, still.

00:22:48.200 But all of the momentum is in McSally's direction.

00:22:51.940 So, you know, the Republican candidate was way down here.

00:22:54.620 The Democrat was way up here, kind of floating along.

00:22:56.880 Now taking a little bit of a nosedive and McSally is shooting up.

00:23:00.360 So the momentum is there.

00:23:01.620 It is a dead heat, though.

00:23:02.680 It's not as though McSally is in the lead right now.

00:23:05.820 Not in a statistically significant lead.

00:23:07.880 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.

00:23:23.720 You couldn't make this up.

00:23:25.260 You say, okay, I need some good oppo to drop in October.

00:23:30.700 Do you have anything?

00:23:31.340 She talks about taxes or I don't know.

00:23:32.860 Well, how about if she says she hates all of the voters? 0.95

00:23:34.920 What if she says she despises her constituents and the people voting for her?

00:23:39.340 Take a look.

00:23:40.240 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.

00:23:53.860 Arizona could all, heaven forfend.

00:23:56.560 Goodness, I hope that Arizona isn't the future.

00:24:00.200 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.

00:24:15.980 I mean, just a little bit of political advice to Kirsten.

00:24:19.100 Voters really don't like change.

00:24:23.840 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.

00:24:31.280 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.

00:24:37.280 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.

00:24:48.880 That is the equivalent of this.

00:24:50.780 And it's unfathomable that she would ever make these kind of comments except that the left has gone insane.

00:24:58.700 It's totally, it's lost control of the narrative.

00:25:01.500 So they used to always say, look, the left is just as patriotic as the right.

00:25:05.200 The left, we love our country too.

00:25:07.180 Dissent is patriotic.

00:25:09.160 And then you say, well, but you burn the American flag.

00:25:13.540 You protest the national anthem.

00:25:15.960 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.

00:25:28.140 This is when the truth comes out.

00:25:29.840 They've cracked up.

00:25:30.540 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.

00:25:40.300 No, it's on Tumblr.

00:25:41.540 It's on blogs.

00:25:42.540 It's on Twitter.

00:25:43.580 It's in your own little ideological bubble where you unfriend anybody who disagrees with you and anybody that you disagree with.

00:25:51.520 And in that bubble, that makes sense.

00:25:53.760 But you've lost an understanding of everybody else.

00:25:57.220 She goes on.

00:25:57.940 Those weren't even really her most damning comments about Arizona.

00:26:02.040 Here are some others.

00:26:03.440 Arizona is the state of the five C's.

00:26:06.060 So cattle, copper, citrus, cotton, and climate.

00:26:11.260 But I would add a sixth C.

00:26:12.620 It's called crazy.

00:26:15.180 My state, Arizona, is clearly the meth lab of democracy.

00:26:18.720 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.

00:26:26.780 Damn, those people are crazy.

00:26:29.420 Arizona is the meth lab of democracy?

00:26:32.100 Is she like a late night comedian? 0.77

00:26:34.000 Is she, what is she doing?

00:26:35.620 Obviously, this was taken a little while ago, though not that long ago because she looks exactly the same there.

00:26:42.300 Not a good idea if you despise your state to try to run for Senate there.

00:26:49.940 You should run somewhere else.

00:26:51.840 You should run where people like you.

00:26:53.040 So I think this is going to really hurt her.

00:26:54.640 The momentum was already in the other direction.

00:26:56.900 And this is a pretty good October surprise for whichever Republican dug this up.

00:27:00.960 Pretty good stuff, and I'm glad they sat on it.

00:27:02.800 We're going to see a lot more October surprises.

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00:27:07.600 Beto.

00:27:08.440 Beta Male. 0.56

00:27:09.380 Beta O'Rourke.

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00:28:33.400 Last but also least, Beta O'Rourke, Mr. Beta himself, met for the final debate with Ted

00:28:51.420 Cruz, national debating champion.

00:28:54.420 It was bloody.

00:28:55.880 It was pretty bad.

00:28:57.340 His campaign, not looking great right now.

00:28:59.860 I mean, looking great from our perspective, not looking great for Mr. Beta.

00:29:04.260 So I'll point out, Beta O'Rourke raised $40 million in the third fundraising quarter.

00:29:11.040 This is a $40 million.

00:29:12.660 This is a huge amount of money.

00:29:15.180 I think it breaks the record, right?

00:29:17.480 He took in a huge cash hole.

00:29:19.620 What on earth he needs $40 million for with three weeks to go of the campaign?

00:29:24.060 Not even three weeks left of the campaign.

00:29:26.060 Nobody knows.

00:29:27.220 We might have some speculation.

00:29:28.260 So he's taking in all of this money.

00:29:31.360 He's not really spending a lot of it because his numbers are not great.

00:29:34.360 I think right now, polls show Cruz has a seven-point lead.

00:29:37.200 So look, Beta O'Rourke could win. 1.00

00:29:39.460 It is entirely possible, if Republicans don't get out to vote, that Beta O'Rourke will win. 0.90

00:29:44.820 Now, Greg Abbott has a higher margin right now.

00:29:47.560 The governor of Texas has a higher margin of victory than Ted Cruz does, according to

00:29:52.280 the pollsters.

00:29:52.800 However, nobody is going to go be an Abbott voter, but not vote for Cruz, right?

00:29:57.180 Nobody's going to be an Abbott Beta voter.

00:29:59.260 So I'm even a little skeptical of some of those polls.

00:30:02.600 Nevertheless, Beta is raising a ton of money.

00:30:05.500 It's the largest amount ever raised by a Senate candidate in a single quarter.

00:30:08.900 But the last record was in the year 2000 when Rick Lazio ran for the Senate against Hillary

00:30:15.480 Clinton and raised $22 million.

00:30:18.100 So let this sink in.

00:30:19.760 The last record that Beta O'Rourke just beat was raised by one of the biggest losers to 1.00

00:30:25.500 run for the United States Senate.

00:30:27.400 He lost to Hillary Clinton, carpetbagging Hillary Clinton, moved to New York about a week before

00:30:31.700 her election campaign, and he lost tremendously and foisted Hillary on us for another eight 1.00

00:30:37.040 or 10-year ever, no, I guess 16 years.

00:30:39.580 So not great news.

00:30:40.980 If O'Rourke said, yeah, I've raised all this, look at all this money that I've raised, you

00:30:44.140 think, well, the guy you just beat was one of the biggest losers, not a huge victory.

00:30:48.680 So they met last night, Cruz and O'Rourke, for the final debate before the election.

00:30:55.220 Oh, where to begin, where to begin?

00:30:56.880 Take it away, Mr. Beta.

00:30:58.020 First, Jason, let me thank you and Sarah for moderating tonight's debate.

00:31:03.240 Ken's Five for hosting us, the people of San Antonio for being here, and the people of

00:31:08.400 Texas for watching this and participating in one of the most important decisions of our

00:31:12.460 lifetimes.

00:31:13.660 Okay.

00:31:14.600 Okay.

00:31:15.080 Starts out basically good.

00:31:17.240 I mean, biggest decision of our lifetimes, the Senate race in Texas, I don't really buy

00:31:23.120 that, I don't think that the race between Beta O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, when the Republicans

00:31:27.940 control Congress, Republicans control the Senate, Republicans control the House, or the White

00:31:31.600 House, is really one of the biggest decisions in your lifetime.

00:31:35.160 You should rethink your life if that is the case.

00:31:37.640 But okay, he's just speaking typical political hyperbole.

00:31:40.980 Go on, Mr. Beto.

00:31:42.700 Es un honor estar aquí con ustedes otra vez aquí en San Antonio.

00:31:48.540 Ooh, muy mal, muy, muy mal, señor Beto.

00:31:52.200 Señor Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:31:54.560 Robert Francis Beto.

00:31:56.460 Oh, yes, my name's Señor Beto.

00:31:58.960 Yo hablo español, don't you know?

00:32:01.200 Haydi-da-ydi-do.

00:32:02.360 Okay.

00:32:03.500 Not helping your case.

00:32:06.880 Beto O'Rourke is a fully Irish guy.

00:32:10.880 He's probably a little more Native American than Elizabeth Warren, but he's still an Irish 0.99

00:32:14.120 guy.

00:32:14.860 He goes by Beto because he wants to appeal to Spanish voters in Texas, Hispanic voters,

00:32:21.120 but he's not at all Hispanic and it's absurd and it's cynical.

00:32:24.820 So what, look, racial identity politics has become very important thanks to the left and

00:32:29.980 the Democratic Party.

00:32:31.260 They've made a big deal about this.

00:32:33.260 When you lie about your ethnicity, that doesn't reflect very well on you.

00:32:38.540 Elizabeth Warren has learned this.

00:32:39.660 I think Mr. O'Rourke has learned this too.

00:32:42.100 What you need to do when you're called out for this is stop calling attention to it.

00:32:47.920 Stop calling attention to the fact that you're a fraud and a cynical race hustler.

00:32:51.980 What does Beto O'Rourke do?

00:32:53.360 He speaks Spanish during a debate in the state of Texas.

00:32:58.160 Not a very smart move.

00:32:59.840 So he, he hablas Espanol with his Irish brogue and then he goes on.

00:33:04.040 What's the biggest hit?

00:33:05.200 What's the, what's here, Eric, sock it to me, Mr. Beto.

00:33:08.160 What's going to be your, your clock on Ted Cruz?

00:33:11.960 Our junior Senator will not stand up to President Trump.

00:33:16.000 Someone who apologizes for Russia, defends that country, Vladimir Putin, the leader of

00:33:21.140 the country that sought to undermine our democracy.

00:33:23.900 He won't stand up against him and he won't stand up for us to make sure that our elections

00:33:28.220 are free and fair, that your vote goes to the intended candidate.

00:33:32.680 This, this is beyond party politics.

00:33:34.740 This is getting, uh, this is getting our democracy back on track and we need a, a senator from

00:33:39.920 Texas who will do that. 0.84

00:33:41.700 What a stupid strategy.

00:33:44.260 The Russia thing is totally empty.

00:33:47.460 One, virtually every public opinion poll shows Americans do not care about Russian collusion,

00:33:53.340 mostly because there's no such thing as Russian collusion.

00:33:55.820 The FBI hasn't come up with anything.

00:33:57.360 It looks increasingly like a setup by Democrats.

00:33:59.920 We have evidence in part that it was a setup by Democrats and the Obama administration and

00:34:03.680 the Clinton campaign.

00:34:05.220 Not a great issue.

00:34:06.560 Why would you make this your issue?

00:34:08.480 By the way, there, there is talk now that Robert Mueller is wrapping up his investigation.

00:34:13.440 I don't know.

00:34:13.760 They've been saying he's wrapping it up for months now, so I don't know if I believe it.

00:34:16.880 But, uh, let me tell you something.

00:34:18.980 If, if Mueller had something on Trump, it would be leaking right now.

00:34:23.360 So give it a few more days, but it would be leaking right now.

00:34:25.620 If they really had something that was going to get the president of the United States.

00:34:29.020 If it doesn't leak before these midterms, they don't have nothing.

00:34:32.580 They don't have anything.

00:34:33.940 So that attack is a total waste.

00:34:36.220 He stands up to, he doesn't stand up to Russia. 0.97

00:34:38.200 Okay.

00:34:38.560 And then he says that Cruz won't stand up to President Trump.

00:34:41.780 This attack also falls flat.

00:34:43.700 There are plenty of good ways to attack Ted Cruz.

00:34:46.320 This isn't one of them.

00:34:47.600 Cruz fought Trump tooth and nail for the Republican presidential nomination.

00:34:51.840 He fought him all the way to the convention and then at the GOP convention, he wouldn't

00:34:56.140 even endorse the guy.

00:34:57.360 He wouldn't even say, go out and vote for Trump.

00:34:58.960 He said, go vote your conscience.

00:35:00.880 Now, people might have an issue with Cruz doing that.

00:35:03.640 Absolutely.

00:35:04.320 Fair enough.

00:35:05.240 But what that certainly shows is that he's willing to stand up to Donald Trump.

00:35:08.920 He stood up to him for the entire campaign and he was the last man standing.

00:35:12.360 In fact, that, that is probably Cruz's biggest problem.

00:35:15.420 The biggest problem facing Cruz right now is he isn't seen as being a team player and

00:35:20.760 loyal to the administration, which has been very successful for conservative policy in

00:35:27.500 some quarters.

00:35:28.020 I think he's been terrific actually, but in some quarters he's seen as not, not loyal

00:35:32.380 to the administration.

00:35:33.420 Okay.

00:35:34.260 So by Beto O'Rourke saying that, saying that he won't, you know, go out and attack Donald

00:35:38.400 Trump, you're actually galvanizing Cruz's base.

00:35:41.060 Why does Cruz have a lower, uh, have lower poll numbers than Greg Abbott, the Republican

00:35:46.520 governor of Texas?

00:35:47.660 It's because Cruz has been embroiled in some of these controversies with the current president

00:35:51.760 because he's been embroiled in some controversies as senator.

00:35:54.900 Uh, Beto is doing, Beto, Robert Francis is doing Cruz's work for him here.

00:35:59.400 Uh, the only thing that makes sense about this is that he's not running for Senate right

00:36:04.060 now.

00:36:04.760 O'Rourke, O'Rourke is looking at the numbers.

00:36:06.980 He's saying, I'm probably not going to be able to make up that difference in the next two

00:36:10.380 and a half weeks.

00:36:11.280 So what I'm going to do is save the 40 million that I've gotten out of Democrats and try to

00:36:17.280 run for president in 2020.

00:36:18.660 That's word on the street from people who are working on some of these races.

00:36:22.180 Uh, all I can say is if you're a Democrat watching this show, thanks.

00:36:26.340 Hey, well, that's cool.

00:36:27.540 I didn't know.

00:36:27.980 I didn't know you were there.

00:36:28.940 Uh, also, if you're a Democrat watching this show, give your money, donate now to Beto

00:36:33.560 O'Rourke.

00:36:34.560 He donate, right.

00:36:35.760 Give all the money you possibly can because O'Rourke is sucking money out of all of these

00:36:40.940 other swing Senate races and he's just throwing it in his campaign coffers to try to run in

00:36:45.340 2020.

00:36:46.320 So sounds good.

00:36:47.300 I, I'm sure that, uh, Republicans in North Dakota, Indiana, Missouri, I am sure they thank

00:36:52.800 you, Congressman O'Rourke for, uh, for taking money out of races where it actually might

00:36:57.880 matter.

00:36:58.320 Um, not looking great, not looking great for them, not looking great for him at all.

00:37:03.540 Uh, we'll see.

00:37:04.220 Look, things can change all the time.

00:37:05.460 I'm not predicting anything because there are always October surprises that come up even

00:37:10.100 later than this.

00:37:11.160 And that might happen again.

00:37:12.860 Uh, plus the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates and put a damper on the economy.

00:37:17.840 I think it's still a little too late for that to really matter.

00:37:21.140 Uh, but President Trump is talking about this right now.

00:37:23.620 So the, the big headline that no one's talking about is that, uh, the U.S.

00:37:27.540 has reclaimed the number one most competitive country in the world title.

00:37:32.160 Uh, this is according to the World Economic Forum.

00:37:34.780 This is the first time since 2008 that we've had that.

00:37:37.780 Hmm.

00:37:38.280 What happened between 2008 and this administration?

00:37:42.540 Hmm.

00:37:43.140 Is that, uh, I've got a few Sil Baraks, Saddam Hussein Oswald, no, no, no, uh, Barack Hussein 0.89

00:37:47.780 Obama, I think that was his name.

00:37:49.440 Uh, that's what happened.

00:37:50.600 I've almost forgotten about him because his legacy has been erased.

00:37:53.600 Uh, right now we're beating Singapore, beating Germany, beating Switzerland,

00:37:57.260 beating Japan. 0.78

00:37:58.340 Uh, so great economic news.

00:38:02.220 Right now, if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, uh, that could put a damper on the exploding

00:38:07.980 economy.

00:38:08.720 And President Trump acknowledged this.

00:38:10.300 He said that the biggest threat that he faces politically is the Federal Reserve because

00:38:14.420 the Federal Reserve is independent.

00:38:16.700 Monetary policy, unlike fiscal policy, is independent of political machinations from the elected officials.

00:38:23.160 So, uh, if they raise the rates too quickly and they put a damper on economic growth, it

00:38:27.300 could obviously hit him.

00:38:28.480 Hopefully that won't happen.

00:38:30.060 But, you know, this is a big win for all Republicans.

00:38:34.240 This is on top of the Trump win on the court ruling with Stormy Daniels and her third-rate

00:38:39.040 lawyer, Michael Avenatti.

00:38:40.220 This is on top of getting Kavanaugh confirmed.

00:38:43.000 And Republicans are running hard on the confirmation of Kavanaugh right now and all of the other judges.

00:38:47.660 This is all pretty good news.

00:38:50.120 So the bad news comes from Stephen Hawking.

00:38:52.940 Uh, Steve, I know.

00:38:53.740 He died in March.

00:38:54.660 How does he have bad news to give us?

00:38:55.900 He has a message from beyond the grave.

00:38:57.760 Stephen Hawking, uh, published a new book, uh, where he explains all of the awful things

00:39:04.200 that are going to occur to all of us in the near future, particularly around AI, artificial

00:39:08.180 intelligence, and gene editing technology.

00:39:10.660 So rather than read the book, rather than tell you to read the book, I, uh, was actually

00:39:16.420 able through the power of voodoo to get, uh, Professor Hawking on the phone from beyond

00:39:22.680 the grave and to get a, a, just a quick little interview.

00:39:26.000 Um, Professor, uh, what would you like for us to know?

00:39:29.640 Run, run for your life.

00:39:31.880 Oh, the horror, the horror.

00:39:34.520 Was that, are you still there, Professor?

00:39:36.060 Did you, I guess he cut out.

00:39:37.520 I don't know if that's talking, you know, he was a famous atheist, so I don't know if he's

00:39:40.400 talking about the horror of where he is or the horror where, where we're going to be.

00:39:43.260 I don't know.

00:39:43.540 Who knows?

00:39:43.900 You never know where people go after, after this life is over, once we've shuffled off

00:39:47.160 this mortal coil.

00:39:48.140 So he's predicting that, uh, things are going to look pretty bad for us pretty quickly.

00:39:52.360 He's writing in his new book, quote, while primitive forms of artificial intelligence

00:39:56.700 developed so far have proved very useful, I fear the consequences of creating something

00:40:01.720 that can match or surpass humans.

00:40:04.740 Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution could not compete and would be superseded.

00:40:10.400 We've heard this before.

00:40:12.420 We've heard these kind of scare stories about artificial intelligence, you know, are you

00:40:18.120 Sarah Connor?

00:40:19.240 Ah, you know, Terminator comes back and, and they slaughter all of humanity.

00:40:23.180 I'm not that concerned about that right now, mostly because I'm skeptical of artificial intelligence

00:40:30.540 ever being creative.

00:40:31.860 Right now, we think of artificial intelligence as, uh, you know, being so advanced, it's about

00:40:37.760 to surpass humans.

00:40:38.940 But artificial intelligence doesn't think the way that humans think.

00:40:42.440 Humans are creative.

00:40:43.520 I think David Galerner, the computer scientist at Yale, made this point decades ago.

00:40:47.500 The way that artificial intelligence works is it solves problems.

00:40:51.500 And certainly the human brain solves problems, but it does a lot more than just solve problems.

00:40:55.360 We think creatively.

00:40:56.820 When I'm, you know, I'm sitting there with my covfefe on the table and I'm, you know,

00:41:00.700 I don't know, Ben and Jeremy are trying to get me to do work or something.

00:41:03.600 And I'm just kind of looking at them and I'm staring off in the distance.

00:41:06.580 Like, I was like, uh, you know, I'm, I, you would call that daydreaming, I guess.

00:41:11.440 Is that think, I'm certainly not solving problems, but I am thinking there is some kind of thinking

00:41:16.280 going on.

00:41:16.900 What about when I sleep, when I'm dreaming, uh, at night, I'm not solving problems usually

00:41:22.000 in my sleep, but I am thinking there is, uh, uh, an intelligence going on at that, at

00:41:27.140 that moment.

00:41:28.140 Artificial intelligence doesn't really capture that.

00:41:30.840 And it doesn't capture inventiveness and creativity.

00:41:33.880 I suspect that it won't be able to do that.

00:41:36.020 And I suspect it will never be conscious because, uh, our consciousness is, uh, a metaphysical

00:41:41.320 question rather than merely a physical question.

00:41:44.220 The relationship of our mind to our brain and our physical body, uh, and a lot of the

00:41:49.540 people pushing the AI, uh, scariness and spookiness are materialists who think that there's nothing

00:41:56.100 in the world other than that, which is physical and material.

00:41:58.160 Obviously, we know that that isn't true because there's love and beauty and, uh, mathematics

00:42:03.260 and, uh, transcendence and glory and virtue and all of those sort of things.

00:42:07.860 Okay.

00:42:08.640 So I'm not terribly worried about that aspect of it.

00:42:12.760 Stephen Hawking then goes on.

00:42:14.160 He says, quote, once such superhumans appear, uh, and we're not just talking about AI anymore.

00:42:21.140 He's talking about superhumans.

00:42:22.560 He's talking specifically about the ability to edit our genome.

00:42:26.660 So right now we have, uh, emerging technology like CRISPR gene editing, uh, C-R-I-S-P-R, uh, 0.54

00:42:34.600 to be able to go in to the human genetic code and delete, um, uh, malformed pieces of the

00:42:42.180 genetic code, things that cause disease, things that cause, uh, deformations in our genes.

00:42:47.380 Okay, uh, that's good and, and, uh, that's emerging technology to be able to try to correct

00:42:52.440 diseases.

00:42:53.480 Once we really harness that technology, what would stop human beings from using that technology

00:42:59.120 to improve the human genome, make us stronger, better, faster, stronger, to quote, uh, our

00:43:04.380 future Republican president Kanye West.

00:43:06.800 Uh, I, I can't imagine what.

00:43:08.600 Once we have that technology, certainly we'll do, certainly we'll do that.

00:43:11.140 We'll create a race of superhumans. 0.99

00:43:12.460 Here's the fear from Hawking.

00:43:15.440 He says, once the superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems 0.98

00:43:18.940 with the unimproved humans who will not be able to compete.

00:43:22.580 Presumably they'll die out or become unimportant.

00:43:25.600 Instead, there will be a race of self-designing beings who are improving themselves at an ever

00:43:30.320 increasing rate.

00:43:32.220 And that's certainly true because once you really improve yourself, you get super smart,

00:43:35.940 super better, faster, stronger than, uh, you're, uh, exponentially going to increase

00:43:42.400 the rate at which you can improve yourself.

00:43:44.560 Uh, that this is a true fear because it raises a lot of bioethical questions about what happens

00:43:49.760 when you play God.

00:43:51.180 Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to play God.

00:43:53.860 It doesn't turn out well for people who do it in the Bible.

00:43:55.940 It doesn't turn out well for people who try to do it in history.

00:43:58.080 And it can breed a lot of human misery.

00:44:00.480 That's happened politically with utopian political movements.

00:44:03.460 It's happened with, uh, technological political movements, eugenic political movements like

00:44:08.680 the Nazis and in the United States for that matter.

00:44:10.920 Uh, it, it's not good.

00:44:13.440 And the worst part of it is that our moral dialogue has been so impoverished that we don't

00:44:19.380 even have the vocabulary to talk about these bioethical concerns.

00:44:23.440 During the Bush administration, they had a panel on bioethical inquiry to talk about abortion,

00:44:27.980 cloning, uh, in vitro fertilization, that kind of stuff.

00:44:31.680 Today, it's only 15 years later.

00:44:34.320 I don't know that we even have that ability to discuss bioethical questions like that.

00:44:39.540 Why, even if we can create a race of superhumans, maybe we shouldn't.

00:44:44.420 And obviously, we shouldn't do that.

00:44:47.240 Um, uh, that, that's unfortunate.

00:44:49.440 And speaking of our paltry, uh, uh, ethical dialogue, Google has gone out and just basically

00:44:55.280 admitted that they're going to be evil.

00:44:57.020 You know, they had that old quote, uh, don't be evil.

00:44:59.560 And now the, the new motto I think is just, uh, uh, be evil.

00:45:03.980 I think they deleted one word.

00:45:05.180 It's now, it's, it's more efficient.

00:45:06.540 It's streamlined, uh, because now they're saying, uh, Sundar Pichai, the head of Google

00:45:11.540 is saying that they're working with the Chinese government.

00:45:13.760 They're exploring work with them to censor their citizens, to censor political dissidents,

00:45:18.580 to work with one of the most evil regimes on earth.

00:45:21.500 Uh, we, we know that this is happening after Google pulls out of a competition for cloud

00:45:27.220 computing with the Pentagon, with the United States Defense Department, and after they're

00:45:31.280 pulling out of an AI project with the U.S. Defense Department, because employees at Google

00:45:37.720 complained that Google was working with the U.S. military.

00:45:41.400 The employees don't want Google to work with the U.S. military.

00:45:44.180 They do want Google to work with the censorious, communist, brutal, tyrannical, totalitarian

00:45:51.120 Chinese government.

00:45:52.560 That is a moral idiocy and a moral blindness that is pretty shocking.

00:45:56.920 Um, it, it also exposes a point that the Trump campaign understood in 2015, 2016, and that

00:46:06.140 I think some conservatives are coming to now, which is a questioning of our idolatry of the

00:46:12.780 free market.

00:46:13.300 Obviously, we, we love free market economics.

00:46:16.100 It creates so much prosperity for ourselves and for the whole world, but we can't make

00:46:19.900 an idol out of it because there are some questions raised by this.

00:46:23.760 This is what we call neoliberalism.

00:46:26.660 Neoliberalism being the advocacy of free markets, free trade, free everything without regard to

00:46:31.880 national boundaries or national loyalties.

00:46:34.640 Uh, this can breed a lot of good, absolutely, but if you've got an American company, Google,

00:46:40.140 an essentially American company saying that they won't work with their own government to

00:46:44.720 protect their own government's national interests, and they will work with that government's enemies,

00:46:50.400 with their own nation's enemies to censor their citizens and maybe give them technology that

00:46:56.220 could be used to fight against the United States, then you know that neoliberalism has gone wrong.

00:47:00.340 Uh, Irving Kristol, who is a neoconservative, uh, that word neoconservative has been abused

00:47:06.220 to the point of not having any meaning anymore almost, but, uh, Irving Kristol was a left winger

00:47:11.000 who became a conservative in the 60s and 70s, and, uh, Irving Kristol described a neoconservative as

00:47:17.300 a liberal who had been mugged by reality, uh, but then he went on, people know that quote,

00:47:22.860 he went on to describe a neoliberal as a liberal who had been mugged by reality but didn't press any charges,

00:47:28.580 and I think that's what we're seeing here, a real questioning, look, I love being able to get cheap

00:47:34.900 consumer goods, I want to be able to sell cheap consumer goods, I want access to a lot of markets,

00:47:39.840 but when you have one of the biggest countries in the history of the world and an American company

00:47:44.540 going in and saying we will not help out the United States government, and we will help out the

00:47:49.420 government, the United States' enemies, and we will help those enemies censor their own population 0.98

00:47:55.220 and help to enslave their own population, which is what China has become. China is becoming a slave 0.98

00:48:01.480 state with concentration camps, um, cameras everywhere, monitoring citizens, facial recognition,

00:48:08.640 I mean a true dystopian, uh, hell. Uh, then you know that something has gone terribly wrong,

00:48:14.540 in your economic ideology, and maybe it requires, uh, changing. A lot more to get to,

00:48:18.560 but unfortunately we don't have time today, we're out of time. Uh, tune in for Backstage,

00:48:22.400 maybe we'll talk a little bit more about those things. Get your mailbag questions in,

00:48:25.480 that's going to be tomorrow, and, uh, so we'll be, uh, we'll be seeing you then. In the meantime,

00:48:29.500 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:31.560 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal. Executive producer, Jeremy Borey. Senior

00:48:42.600 producer, Jonathan Hay. Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover. And our technical producer is

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00:48:54.380 Jesua Olvera. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production. Copyright

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 17, 2018

Ep. 235 - The Great Democrat Crack-Up

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