Ep. 246 - How I Got Suspended From Twitter
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I knew it was only a matter of time before I was banned from the social media platform, but I didn t know how bad it would be. And then I found out it was for telling a dad joke. And I was kicked off.
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Bad jokes and dad jokes abound as alleged SNL comedian Pete Davidson
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and I get kicked off of Twitter for telling a dad joke.
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We will analyze the comedy double standard with funnyman extraordinaire Owen Benjamin.
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He's actually my consultant on getting deplatformed on social media.
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Then, a millennial writer whines in the pages of Vice
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that he has been disenfranchised from voting in Tennessee
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merely because he's not eligible to vote in Tennessee.
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Finally, a look around the races on the last day before the midterms.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I knew I'd get banned from Twitter at some point.
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I figured it might be something that I said that was incendiary or controversial or politically incorrect.
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Usually, I get to talk to people over the weekend on Twitter, and this time, I couldn't.
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By the way, I've never been more productive in my entire life.
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Not being on Twitter has freed up so much of my time.
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The reason that they have suspended me, because I could get my platform back in two seconds.
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Eventually, I suppose I'll have to, but I'm resisting for now.
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The post that I tweeted out that created so much trouble was this.
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It said, quote, remember, Democrats, don't forget to vote on Wednesday, November 7th.
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And by the time I was kicked off, had not been kicked off.
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I went further to show the punchline of this joke, because I suspected they might use this
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The addition to that tweet said, quote, specifically, of course, I mean voting in this poll, which
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will be open until Wednesday, November 7th, should Twitter ban or suspend conservatives
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Thank you, Jack Dorsey and Twitter, for proving my point, for proving my exact, you couldn't
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And so I told this joke, and nothing happened for 24 hours.
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The time I got kicked off of Twitter was when Donald Trump Jr. retweeted something that
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I'm kicked off of Twitter a full day after I send out my election joke and a ton of other
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of the same election joke all up on the internet.
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I mean, here's SNL made a similar election joke in their coverage.
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Is SNL going to get kicked off of YouTube for telling that joke?
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A ton of blue check marks had tweeted out, hey, Republicans, don't forget to vote on
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I log into my account and it says, quote, your account has been locked.
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We have determined that this account violated the Twitter rules.
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There was one blog post that talked about misleading during an election.
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But what it was talking about was misleading who you're representing.
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If you're representing a campaign or a political party or this, obviously I'm not representing
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So specifically, it didn't say you can't make election jokes.
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But of course we know that because they didn't kick off the left.
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They only kick off right wingers or use it as an excuse.
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Some of the Daily Wire guys start a free Knowles hashtag.
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I appealed that ruling and I said, look, I actually explicitly say, I explicitly underline
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the punchline to the joke, which is a poll about kicking conservatives off Twitter.
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I actually, you shouldn't, I mean, even, you shouldn't kick people off for a joke.
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But even in this joke, I'm explicitly not talking about the midterm elections.
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But they responded very quickly when we started pointing out all the left wingers who made the
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They would rather censor a handful of leftists than stop censoring conservatives.
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At some point, I'll have to take down the post.
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So there's no reason to have it up anymore, but, and Twitter also already took down the
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And the question that we need to ask these big tech companies like Twitter is, does their
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Does their interference, their censorship of conservatives over left wingers so close to
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Is that an in-kind contribution to Democrat candidates?
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I think we should burn their bank accounts down to the ground if they're violating election
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law, because that certainly seems like what they're doing.
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They say they're open and anyone can use it and the rules are clear, and then they start
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selectively, unfairly targeting people with whom they disagree politically and kicking
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If they're publishers, treat them like publishers and burn their bank accounts down to the ground.
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Now, obviously, I'm having a little trouble processing this.
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Fortunately, though, I have someone who is well acquainted with getting kicked off of social
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media platforms, the very funny Owen Benjamin is here, my consultant on getting kicked off
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Thank goodness I have my Twitter band consultant, Owen Benjamin here.
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Yeah, I'm here to help you through your transition.
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Yeah, I guess I was previously a platformed American.
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I'm really, I'm glad, too, that you're here, because, I mean, you're an expert in comedy.
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I was kicked off of Twitter for making a really incendiary, violent, oh, no, it was a dad
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Well, they'll kick you off if you kick a sacred cow, even if it's not.
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Like, I was banned for life for making fun of David Hogg, and that's when I realized there
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was something seriously going on with that kid.
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I actually don't think I've ever made fun of him on Twitter.
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And then when they realized, they realized how they could get me, which is so ironic
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to the leftist disposition in Hollywood, because I said, anybody that isn't old enough to grow
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pubes can't tell me not to have a gun, which is, they said I was sexualizing a minor.
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He was about to be 18, and that's not sexualizing a minor.
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You lost your career because you refused to sexualize minors, because of the trans kid
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Yeah, and people don't believe me, so I may read emails and say, eh, eh, it's kind
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They started the Me Too movement in a conference room as they were repping Harvey Weinstein.
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But yeah, I refused to, or I was calling out this dude who had a five-year-old boy that
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he was saying was a girl and he was going to put him on hormone blocks and stuff.
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You know, people can be broken up between like abusers, people that sit by and watch,
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And they get real mad when you don't let him eat the babies.
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What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
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Hillary, can we eat one of these little babies?
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That is how the election's going to break down.
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And this, the fact that they kicked me off three days before the election.
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Because, you know, I think they kicked me off because it wasn't what I said.
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I made some joke about the election that everybody makes.
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And then they kicked me off the next day, right after Don Jr. tweeted something that I
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And it was right then they almost immediately kicked me off.
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Isn't it a bad look for them, though, to kick off conservatives, blue checkmark conservatives,
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You'd be surprised how many people don't notice.
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Because that's one of the great things and weaknesses of conservatives is usually we have
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So it's like a lot of people don't, they can't tell unless they're listening to the podcast.
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You know, they're just like looking and working and dealing with families.
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You know, a lot of leftists are unemployed, you know, just childless, you know, warlocks
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They're just running around doing spells and stuff and chanting.
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Vox.com encouraged left-wingers to practice witchcraft.
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Everyday feminism encouraging people to practice witchcraft.
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Didn't he have some spirit dinner or something?
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And I just introduced my wife who's here to some of these emails.
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And she, like this last week, because some of this stuff I missed.
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I've just been coming out of my office like, Amy, they're witches.
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You know, because I don't like going down the conspiratorial rabbit holes that you can't
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prove, but the ones that are just right there, like they have parties where they cut up a
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cake that looks like a human body and they're like, how is your flesh tasting, Hillary?
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I'm like, dude, most of my buddies are like truck drivers and plumbers and stuff.
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No, that's hedonic treadmill like your whole life.
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That's like you've run out of sins and you just have to invent them.
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You're almost tempted to practice virtue because you've just run out of sins.
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Dude, I've been doing lines of ethics all morning.
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I turned down a murderer this morning and I feel like I can't feel my face.
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So it seems like everything's going well for you.
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This is what I've wondered because you've been thoroughly deplatformed.
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So I started another channel and it was up to, you know, like 2,000 people watching within like a week.
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That's the thing is they keep trying to get rid of people and all it does is solidify your base.
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Because they think they kick you off Twitter, they kick me off Twitter, and then the audience goes away and then nobody hears from you ever again.
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But then you crop up again and immediately you get your whole audience back.
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This is what I think is going to happen in the midterms.
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We have been told 0% chance Republicans are going to get blown out in the House.
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I know Clavin freaked both of us out a little bit.
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But being like a comedian and just never bending the knee, I get to see a lot of perspectives.
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Like, it's never the people they say are against Republicans.
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It's always these leftist weirdos that are literally eating human cake flesh.
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And meanwhile, all these Israelis are emailing me like, we love that dude.
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Meanwhile, Israel is building Trump a train station in Jerusalem.
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And they're not against political correctness stuff.
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They all have some Ivy League degree, certainly.
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And they're offended on behalf of every other person on earth.
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They're like, well, I have a made up friend whose friend is black.
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And that's the thing is they always treat them like the worst stereotypes of what they're trying to defend.
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They're like, they can't read, so that isn't very nice of you.
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They say, we can't, look, Michael, we can't require IDs to vote.
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I'm pretty sure black people are entirely capable of getting IDs.
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If they stop importing them, I think you'll see Hispanic people start leaning right.
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That's why they lean left, just because they get a new crop of illegals.
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And they're like, we'll give you a card if you vote for this witch.
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It's like, people assume that my wife was on the left because she's half Mexican.
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You know, this actually, what you've just said, your wife, she makes me really grateful
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The American nightmare being married to Owen Benjamin sometimes.
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And this reminds me of Operation American Gratitude.
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One, because then we can make a little money, honey.
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You can make life better for Vietnam veterans, and you can also instill a sense of gratitude
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so that your kids don't grow up to become these screeching, awful, millennial, America-hating
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Gratitude really is the antidote to witchcraft.
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If you're around Hillary Clinton and you're like, oh, thanks for this coffee, she'd just
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be like, and she'd just melt into just a puddle of something that Bill would be like,
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The way that you can find out that I sent them is to go to raisingamericans.com slash
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It's, as always, partnering alongside Operation American Gratitude makes you 50% more likely
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I will be extraordinarily grateful if they do this, because this is the great thing about
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a rising tide lifting all ships and American productivity.
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The only people you don't help are those witches.
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So go over there, raisingamericans.com slash covfefe.
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I think I've lost about 50% of advertising revenue, because I picked a word that is a
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What's the best promo code you think you could use?
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Oh, real quick, I do have to address the eagle situation.
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Because we live in Washington, and we have a bunch of chickens and a bunch of dogs and
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And at first, I was like, oh, God bless America.
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And it's now just this, like, border wall situation with the chickens, where I just keep
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Because the eagles are huge, and they'll just come down and be like...
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They just want to just come over to the hen house, you know.
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Those talons and that giant, sharp beak are just randomly there.
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Are you trying to tell me that just because Guatemalan authorities arrested seven human
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smugglers in the caravan, those eagles are trying to do your chickens harm?
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Yeah, that's going to be the new postmodern book, I think.
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Well, you can always tell someone's up to no good when they're trying to redefine monstrous
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Like, what happened with Polanski, with all the celebrities, remember Whoopi Goldberg was
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So when you're trying to make these distinctions, you back away.
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I like to get along with everyone at Thanksgiving.
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I'm not going to take an extreme position on that.
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Yeah, it's like she said, no, but there weren't several exclamation points.
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I want your opinion on this from the comedy perspective.
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Which is, okay, so they've been deplatforming people.
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The Pete Davidson, he's there making fun of this combat veteran.
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You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas
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To another witch who said God is a woman and had this super culty video.
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Yeah, there was broom-only parking rights outside of SNL.
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It's good for the environment, you know, it only...
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The crazy thing about this, and I was arguing with people on Instagram,
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I was like, oh, Owen's got great Instagram posts,
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and I'm only there because I got kicked off Twitter.
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But someone was saying, well, he made fun of his dad who died in 9-11,
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And also, if it was that dude's friend, that would be one thing.
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But someone who clearly hates you for your politics
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and is making fun of something that happened to you in a war,
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you can do a joke about rape versus mocking a rape victim.
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Yeah, you'd never tell a joke about a rape victim who's, like, you know,
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especially one who's in the public eye who's, you know, especially...
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because this guy got his injury serving that witch,
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serving that dude trying to protect her freedom.
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And it was, like, his third deployment as a SEAL or something.
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It was, like, he just kept going the extra mile and this little weasel.
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And, like, okay, because someone was telling me, they're like,
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Like, it's about me going into, you know, like, a drugstore and being like,
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And they're like, well, the whole thing is, it's like, well, my toenails are long.
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And they're trying to compare that to that actual pedophile directed Guardians of the Galaxy.
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And I'm like, no, he's just saying he wants to have sex with children.
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Yeah, and I'm starting to really wonder if people have lost their, any morality at all.
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Well, you're eating chicken and I'm eating a baby.
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Because they're calling conservatives hypocritical over this for saying,
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I think you just kind of, we just focus on our gratitude
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and just let this guy just keep just practicing witchcraft.
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But according to a tweet, it's, what was it, the 7th or the 8th?
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The minute I say this joke, the minute I say this dad joke,
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They're going to say Michael is inciting violent, hateful, bigoted,
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But you have Farrakhan's on there calling Jews termites.
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Calling Jews termites and saying death to America, death to Israel.
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They also didn't tell me what policy I violated.
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Well, that's why I've been telling this to people for a while,
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that you've got to stand with everybody getting deplatformed,
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Because appeasement just means you get eaten last.
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And so what they do is they have, one's called bullying,
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or one's called, I don't know, but I'm like, that's all comedy.
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everything's an exaggeration, hyperbole, irony.
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They would ice me if they knew that it wouldn't create the opposite effect.
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They're really getting caught in that, you know,
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Right now you're in my sanctuary cave in Bora Bora, I think.
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Hugepianist.com to get tickets to my upcoming tour or my last special persona non grata shot
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And make sure to follow Owen on the dwindling list of social media platforms that will have
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I'm on Instagram, but Facebook gives me 30-day bans.
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They let me back for one day and then they kick me every time.
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Like Zuckerberg's playing this little game of cat and mouse with me.
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Yeah, well, I just bought a drone, so we'll see what happens.
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This is why we bring in social media deplatforming consultants to really make you feel better
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So speaking of very funny things, a vice writer, a writer in vice.com has inadvertently published
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one of the funniest columns of the entire midterm elections.
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It's this millennial who is extremely angry that he was not allowed to vote in Tennessee
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and the excuse, the reason why he wasn't allowed to vote is that he's not eligible to
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vote in Tennessee and he's very upset about this.
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The headline is, quote, what it feels like to be disenfranchised by a voter ID law.
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That can't be his real name, but maybe it is his real name.
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So, subtitle, I had a birth certificate, a photo ID, and utility bills proving my residency,
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He's got the proof that he's a Tennessee resident.
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Maybe they're really preventing you from, oh, no, not at all.
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He goes on to write, quote, you had to have either a Tennessee state-issued ID or a federally
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My wife and I were in this strange situation of being young and married, but still somewhat
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Our vehicles were registered in our parents' names and we had Georgia driver's licenses.
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Registering the vehicles in Tennessee would have incurred a pretty significant tax burden.
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And getting a Tennessee driver's license, we were led to believe by our insurance agents
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would be a problem for us since then we'd be listed as drivers on our parents' cars without
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So we were in this space where we feared losing our transportation or having to incur a significant
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financial burden if we tried to get Tennessee driver's licenses.
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The law says you need to have an ID from Tennessee or from the federal government.
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So what this means is, one, he was committing insurance fraud because he's saying he lived
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in Georgia and drove in Georgia when he didn't.
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Also, I think he may have tried to rectify this right before the election, but there are
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Then he says, my wife and I were in the strange situation of being young and married, but still
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Unfortunately, this is not a strange situation anymore.
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I think the age now to go off your parents' cell phone plan is about 65.
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And you didn't even just miss the deadline to register as a Tennessee resident and get
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You chose not to do it because you didn't want to pay taxes.
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Now I think the left is trying to lower the voting age to 12 or something, but they actually
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are trying to lower it to 16 in certain places.
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But if you're going to behave like a child, you're going to be treated like a child and
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If you want to be an adult and you want to stop committing insurance fraud and register
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where you live and stop having mommy and daddy pay for everything for you and your
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wife, then you can vote because then you're behaving like an adult.
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And even the language that millennials use, listen to this, we would have to incur a significant
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financial burden if we tried to get Tennessee driver's licenses.
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You mean you would have to pay the taxes and fees that you legally are required to pay because
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You still should have your own car insurance, but nobody made you.
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You chose to do it, but now you won't accept the consequences for your actions.
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Because the other argument, and we were talking about it with Owen, the other argument against
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And the argument from these white liberals who choose to be offended on behalf of other
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people is that black people, for whatever reason, aren't capable of getting ID cards.
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White millennials might not be capable of getting ID cards, but other people can.
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We've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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I want to give my final thoughts on the midterm elections, because my gut feeling on this
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is a little different than what the pollsters are saying.
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Before we do that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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They probably already kicked me off halfway through this show.
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What I've got to remind you, though, is that we're going to have a backstage tomorrow
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It's going to be the God King Jeremy Boring, Ben, Drew, Elisha, myself.
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We're going to be covering all the latest election news as it happens.
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We're actually going to be getting Twitter updates from our own Cassie Dillon and Colton
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Why we're letting Colton do anything, I have no idea why we would subject ourselves to
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And Cassie and Colton are going to be on in the throes of social media while it's happening.
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Because right now, never say never, who knows, Democrats told us we were going to have a blue
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They were going to take the House of Representatives.
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Now it's looking like maybe they won't take the Senate.
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Now it's looking like maybe Republicans will gain in the Senate.
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Now it's looking like they might not get 50 seats in the House.
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Can you imagine what the tears will taste like?
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They actually, we probably will need a new vessel because it's just going to be a block
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of salt, like those thick blocks of salt that you grill meats on.
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They're not going to have any more tears left to cry.
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Nate Silver tells us 87% chance, I think he's upped it to, that the Democrats take the House.
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History tells us Democrats are going to take the House.
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Obama lost over 60 House seats in his first midterm.
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Clinton lost 54, I think, in his first midterm.
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Bush didn't lose any, but it was right on the heels of 9-11, and America was pretty unified
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Mike Pence says he thinks we're going to keep the House.
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Well, Buck, I think we're going to expand our majority in the United States Senate, and
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I think we're going to hold our Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
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They say one in 1,000 chance Republicans keep the House.
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But I talk to my Politico friends, the ones on the ground, the ones who are in the fields.
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They say Republicans are going to keep the House.
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My gut tells me Republicans are going to keep the House.
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I know that the odds are so slim when you look at all the numbers.
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I would, if I were to make a bet on this, I would want some of those good Shapiro odds.
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You know, I'd want him to give me another one of those four to one odds.
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And then I would, then I would put money because I'm looking at the data.
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But my gut tells me something that this is not a typical midterm election.
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My gut tells me President Trump hasn't lost votes.
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My gut tells me Republicans can keep the House by a slim majority, or maybe they'll lose it
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But that's what my gut is telling me right now.
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Another reason I'm thinking this is that the Democrats are going fluffy.
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They're not hard charging at the end of this campaign.
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Here's CNN talking to, they're at a rally for Andrew Gillum, socialist, gubernatorial
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And they interview just a random person, just a random woman at the end of the event to get
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Will Barack Obama's presence in this race and here today influence your vote?
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We picked her randomly out of the crowd, but at the end of our interview, when I finally
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As a matter of fact, my son is running for governor.
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You, you, the woman who's here at this exclusive area of the Gillum campaign rally, you, the
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woman who looks like Andrew Gillum because you're his mother, you, you, you're his mother.
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I mean, is he like, he's super great or he's just like, really?
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Can you imagine if they were at a Trump rally and I don't know, they, they were talking
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And she said, oh, you know, yeah, I think Trump is going to do well.
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They, you know, it'd be this awful segment, but it's total fluff that they're going into
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And I think it's fluff because one, they don't have anything to run on.
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They actually got this pretty right, which is all the Democrats saying like, oh, we're,
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You know, beads of sweat pouring down their face.
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They're very nervous because by all historical rights, this should be a blue wave election.
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They should win the Senate and they should win the House.
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Um, they're also, uh, in trouble right now because prominent Democrat candidates are
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I mean, Andrew Gillum puts on a good show, but he is a socialist.
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And, uh, this woman in Arizona, Kirsten Sinema is about as kooky as they get.
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Martha McSally has asked you to apologize for what she said was treasonous comments about
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somebody being able to go and fight for the Taliban.
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You know, Martha crossed the line with those comments.
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And that's the choice that she's made in her campaign to run a campaign that's based on...
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But do you regret that statement, though, at all?
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Well, it was an offhand comment during an interview about a war that I believed was misguided
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What Martha has chosen to do is run a very negative campaign based on false attacks and
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But I think Arizonans are choosing the person that they believe shares their values and they
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So, just to translate that from gobbledygook, what she just said is, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And her comment was, during the Afghanistan war, the early stages, she said it would be
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perfectly fine for Americans to go fight for the Taliban.
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She won't even walk back her pro-Taliban comments.
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This kind of reminds me a little bit, during the Tea Party election, there were some kooky
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No one ever said that Americans should go fight for the Taliban.
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But it's like the bizarro world version of the Tea Party.
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During the Tea Party election, we had this woman, Christine O'Donnell, who was running
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And speaking of which, we were talking about witchcraft with Owen.
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There was some allegation that she practiced witchcraft.
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And she came out with this ad, this insane ad, and said, I am not a witch.
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None of us are perfect, but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us.
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Politicians who think spending, trading favors, and backroom deals are the ways to stay in
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I'm Christine O'Donnell, and I approve this message.
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Okay, not a great ad, not a great campaign from Christine O'Donnell, but I would like
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to point out the difference between her and Kyrsten Sinema.
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Kyrsten Sinema's comments, to say that Americans should go fight for the Taliban, is the equivalent
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So I get, you know, it was a bad ad from Christine O'Donnell, but at least it was angling at something
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And, you know, it was her defending herself and saying, no, I'm the good thing, not the
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Kyrsten Sinema and other Democrats are saying, no, I'm the bad thing.
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It's bizarro world Tea Party, too, because, one, it's the midterm right after a controversial
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presidential election, and because Democrat voter enthusiasm is very high.
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The reason it's different than the Tea Party is, one, because Republican voter enthusiasm
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is also very high, and two, there's no issue that Democrats are running against.
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They're running against Trump, because Trump is mean, allegedly, and says mean things.
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You know, in 2010, that election was about Obamacare, this awful law that took away our
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doctors, that destroyed a sixth of the economy, that took away our freedom to make life and
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death decisions and gave it to government bureaucrats.
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It was a referendum on that, and so GOP enthusiasm was high and Democrat enthusiasm was low.
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Now they're both very high, and I think this is going to have significant impacts.
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You know, there was a guy, Tim Ryan, who is now running away from his party on key issues
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He wants to run away from the party to try to save his own seat.
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You're seeing a lot of Democrats do this around the country.
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You know, you're seeing proposals out there like Medicare for All.
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Do you agree with these proposals, and what is your platform?
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You know, first of all, I don't know a whole lot of Democrats that are talking about abolishing ICE.
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The most prominent Democrats running for office in this country are talking about it.
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You had Ocasio-Cortez made it a big part of her platform.
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For at least several weeks there during the summer, now they're trying to walk it back
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because it's obviously deeply unpopular with the American people.
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He's saying that they're not running on abolishing ICE.
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Imagine if in 2010 Republicans were running away from opposition to Obamacare.
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If they were interviewed and they said, oh, well, I don't know if we need to repeal Obamacare.
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No, I haven't heard a lot of Republicans talking about repealing Obamacare.
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You need to have a platform that you're hard charging and running on.
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Democrats don't have that, which is why I'm really skeptical of the conventional wisdom right here.
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But I was looking at some of the breakdowns and real clear politics has a good breakdown because they take all the major polls and average them out.
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Right now, according to real clear politics, this was as of last night.
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Of those 38 toss-up districts, 26 of those districts voted for Trump.
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Regardless of whether they're represented by a Democrat or a Republican, 26 of those toss-up districts out of 38 voted for Trump.
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It actually seems to me that in just looking at numbers and districts, the GOP has a raw edge here.
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I mean, it would be history-shaping, history-shattering if the Republicans held on to the House here.
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Right now, they're looking at some of the highest voter turnout since 1966.
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Now, you can't even take too many lessons from 1966 because the Democrats owned the House for decades and decades.
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So you didn't see the House swaying between Republicans and Democrats at that time.
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Not until the Gingrich Revolution did Republicans finally retake the House after decades.
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So you've got the highest turnout since the height of the Vietnam War, after the Kennedy assassination.
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I mean, you are in historically unparalleled times.
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So the rhetoric that they're employing at the last moment, right before the election.
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Paul Ryan and House Republicans want to talk about the economy.
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One of the reasons to temper our hopes that Republicans keep the House is they seem to be blaming each other for why they're going to lose the House.
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So Trump seems to be blaming Ryan and Ryan seems to be blaming Trump.
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They're not really touting how they're going to keep the House much anymore.
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By the way, Trump is talking about the economy a lot too.
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And Morning Joe and Paul Ryan and Mika Brzezinski and all of the Brooks Brothers set is wrong.
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Here is the conventional wisdom care of Morning Joe.
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Donald Trump has not completely destroyed the Obama recovery.
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And they would think that and they'd get a lot more votes.
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But Donald Trump has reminded them of Charlottesville every day over the last couple weeks.
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That inspires Democrats, independents, moderate Republicans, suburban Republicans to vote Democratic.
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He's saying because Trump is talking about immigration, he's reminding them of a white supremacist killing a woman.
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What he is saying is Trump should keep his mouth shut on immigration and on cultural issues and should only talk about the economy.
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Nobody is motivated to vote in midterm elections, especially when your party is in the White House because of the economy or because of 401ks.
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The reason that there's a reaction to the party in the White House is because if the Republicans are in the White House, then Republicans are happy.
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And a marginal upswing in the Dow Jones is not going to cause them to go out and vote.
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Whereas the party that's out of power does have high motivation.
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So they go out and vote and they take the House.
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How many times has the elite media and Morning Joe and the Chamber of Commerce Republicans, how many times have they told Trump, stop talking about immigration?
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Trump's been talking about immigration since he walked down the escalator, since the beginning of his presidential campaign.
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And he wiped the floor with every other GOP candidate, 16, 17 candidates, mows them all down because he was talking about these issues that people care about,
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that are foundational, that are cultural, that are essential.
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The economy is downstream of culture for that matter.
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And so run on the economy, sure, but run on these things too.
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It's the only way that you're going to be able to rally support from your base when you're in the White House for the midterm elections.
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My gut feeling is we're going to be in for a lot of surprises.
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There is some polling that shows that Beto O'Rourke is neck and neck with Cruz.
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I think it's polling designed to manipulate public opinion.
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I think Cruz is going to be fine, but Republicans have to go out there and vote.
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The reason you have to go out there and vote is because we will bathe in leftist tears and it will be absolutely delightful.
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But I think we could be really in for a surprise.
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I think it will be close elections, but the sum total of all those close elections could be excellent news for Republicans.
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We'll have a few, a little bit of last minute analysis tomorrow and then stick with us during all the coverage.
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