The Michael Knowles Show - November 06, 2018


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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00:00:27.260 Bad jokes and dad jokes abound as alleged SNL comedian Pete Davidson
00:00:32.540 mocks a veteran's injury with no consequences,
00:00:35.420 and I get kicked off of Twitter for telling a dad joke.
00:00:39.060 We will analyze the comedy double standard with funnyman extraordinaire Owen Benjamin.
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00:01:05.060 I knew I'd get banned from Twitter at some point.
00:01:14.120 It was only a matter of time.
00:01:15.640 I figured it might be something that I said that was incendiary or controversial or politically incorrect.
00:01:23.080 No, no, no, no.
00:01:24.120 It was for telling a dad joke.
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00:02:56.980 Well, I've missed you all.
00:02:58.180 I've missed you all the last few days.
00:02:59.660 Usually, I get to talk to people over the weekend on Twitter, and this time, I couldn't.
00:03:04.000 By the way, I've never been more productive in my entire life.
00:03:06.840 Not being on Twitter has freed up so much of my time.
00:03:10.880 They have kicked me off.
00:03:12.340 The reason that they have suspended me, because I could get my platform back in two seconds.
00:03:17.440 All I have to do is delete the offensive post.
00:03:20.620 Eventually, I suppose I'll have to, but I'm resisting for now.
00:03:23.720 They want me to delete a post, and it's wrong.
00:03:26.160 I don't want to delete it.
00:03:27.180 The post that I tweeted out that created so much trouble was this.
00:03:31.480 It said, quote, remember, Democrats, don't forget to vote on Wednesday, November 7th.
00:03:37.520 Ha, ha, ha.
00:03:38.140 Do you get it?
00:03:38.900 Because election day is Tuesday, November 6th.
00:03:41.280 But I said Wednesday, November 7th.
00:03:43.120 Ha, ha, ha.
00:03:43.640 Get it?
00:03:43.960 This is one of the oldest jokes in elections.
00:03:47.180 People have told this forever.
00:03:49.200 A ton of lefties told it.
00:03:50.160 And by the time I was kicked off, had not been kicked off.
00:03:54.060 But then I even went further.
00:03:55.880 I went further to show the punchline of this joke, because I suspected they might use this
00:04:00.340 as an excuse to kick me off.
00:04:01.620 So I added to that tweet.
00:04:03.960 The addition to that tweet said, quote, specifically, of course, I mean voting in this poll, which
00:04:09.480 will be open until Wednesday, November 7th, should Twitter ban or suspend conservatives
00:04:13.820 over election jokes.
00:04:15.560 Thank you, Jack Dorsey and Twitter, for proving my point, for proving my exact, you couldn't
00:04:21.320 have done it any better.
00:04:22.960 I go, I log on to Twitter.
00:04:25.000 And so I told this joke, and nothing happened for 24 hours.
00:04:29.380 The time I got kicked off of Twitter was when Donald Trump Jr. retweeted something that
00:04:34.540 I had sent out.
00:04:35.640 I'd criticized CNN or something like that.
00:04:37.500 Don Jr. retweets it almost immediately.
00:04:40.320 I'm kicked off of Twitter a full day after I send out my election joke and a ton of other
00:04:45.100 of the same election joke all up on the internet.
00:04:47.840 I mean, here's SNL made a similar election joke in their coverage.
00:04:51.360 Here they are.
00:04:53.020 Me and all my friends can't wait to vote.
00:04:54.820 So we'll see you at the polls next Thursday.
00:04:56.980 Tuesday.
00:04:57.760 I know, Mom.
00:04:58.360 I'm kidding.
00:04:58.980 It was not funny.
00:05:00.420 So be part of the victory.
00:05:02.340 Get out there and vote.
00:05:03.780 Promise me you're going to vote.
00:05:04.960 I am.
00:05:05.720 Feels pretty good.
00:05:07.000 We're going to win.
00:05:08.700 Stay in there.
00:05:10.360 We're going to win.
00:05:11.780 There's a longer bit that SNL did.
00:05:14.320 Is SNL going to get kicked off of Twitter?
00:05:15.880 Is SNL going to get kicked off of YouTube for telling that joke?
00:05:19.140 For saying, oh, it's on a different day.
00:05:20.880 Ha ha.
00:05:21.640 It's on Thursday.
00:05:22.420 It's on Wednesday.
00:05:23.100 It's not on Tuesday.
00:05:23.760 Of course not.
00:05:24.560 A ton of blue check marks had tweeted out, hey, Republicans, don't forget to vote on
00:05:28.400 Wednesday.
00:05:29.380 Ha ha ha.
00:05:30.340 And they had not been blocked.
00:05:32.080 So they block me.
00:05:33.620 I log into my account and it says, quote, your account has been locked.
00:05:37.240 We have determined that this account violated the Twitter rules.
00:05:39.820 As a result, we've locked your account.
00:05:42.320 What rule did I violate?
00:05:44.300 Can anybody show me the rule that I violated?
00:05:47.540 Because I look through the Twitter rules.
00:05:50.120 There's no rule that I violate.
00:05:51.940 There was one blog post that talked about misleading during an election.
00:05:56.420 But what it was talking about was misleading who you're representing.
00:06:00.700 If you're representing a campaign or a political party or this, obviously I'm not representing
00:06:03.920 any of those things.
00:06:06.960 So specifically, it didn't say you can't make election jokes.
00:06:09.640 But of course we know that because they didn't kick off the left.
00:06:12.780 They only kick off right wingers or use it as an excuse.
00:06:15.180 So at this point, I'm kicked off.
00:06:18.160 Some of the Daily Wire guys start a free Knowles hashtag.
00:06:21.020 So it gets a lot of posts very quickly.
00:06:25.260 So Twitter finally responds.
00:06:27.400 They won't respond to my appeal.
00:06:29.820 They will not.
00:06:30.500 I appealed that ruling and I said, look, I actually explicitly say, I explicitly underline
00:06:36.380 the punchline to the joke, which is a poll about kicking conservatives off Twitter.
00:06:40.860 I actually, you shouldn't, I mean, even, you shouldn't kick people off for a joke.
00:06:44.500 But even in this joke, I'm explicitly not talking about the midterm elections.
00:06:49.220 They won't respond to my appeal.
00:06:50.540 But they responded very quickly when we started pointing out all the left wingers who made the
00:06:54.620 same joke.
00:06:55.500 They deleted their posts.
00:06:57.040 They deleted those posts.
00:06:58.720 They would rather censor a handful of leftists than stop censoring conservatives.
00:07:05.120 Absolutely outrageous.
00:07:06.400 So they've kicked me off of Twitter.
00:07:07.520 At some point, I'll have to take down the post.
00:07:09.960 In part because the election will be over.
00:07:11.360 So there's no reason to have it up anymore, but, and Twitter also already took down the
00:07:15.320 post, but they will not respond.
00:07:17.440 This is targeted.
00:07:18.660 This is a ton of bias.
00:07:20.540 And the question that we need to ask these big tech companies like Twitter is, does their
00:07:25.980 interference constitute election interference?
00:07:28.880 Does their interference, their censorship of conservatives over left wingers so close to
00:07:33.900 an election?
00:07:34.320 Is that an in-kind contribution to Democrat candidates?
00:07:38.240 Is that interference?
00:07:39.280 I think we should hold them to account.
00:07:40.820 I think we should burn their bank accounts down to the ground if they're violating election
00:07:46.560 law, because that certainly seems like what they're doing.
00:07:49.680 Are they publishers or are they platforms?
00:07:52.180 Are they publishers or platforms?
00:07:53.440 They say they're platforms.
00:07:54.460 They behave like publishers.
00:07:55.280 They say they're open and anyone can use it and the rules are clear, and then they start
00:07:59.800 selectively, unfairly targeting people with whom they disagree politically and kicking
00:08:04.180 them off right before an election.
00:08:06.520 If they're publishers, treat them like publishers and burn their bank accounts down to the ground.
00:08:11.100 Now, obviously, I'm having a little trouble processing this.
00:08:13.660 I haven't been kicked off of Twitter before.
00:08:16.320 Fortunately, though, I have someone who is well acquainted with getting kicked off of social
00:08:21.020 media platforms, the very funny Owen Benjamin is here, my consultant on getting kicked off
00:08:26.920 of Twitter.
00:08:27.960 Thank goodness I have my Twitter band consultant, Owen Benjamin here.
00:08:32.360 Owen, thanks for coming on.
00:08:33.500 Thanks for having me, brother.
00:08:34.520 Yeah, I'm here to help you through your transition.
00:08:36.320 It's right.
00:08:37.280 Yeah, I guess I was previously a platformed American.
00:08:40.520 Yeah.
00:08:40.740 I'm now trans and de-platformed.
00:08:42.620 De-platformed.
00:08:42.920 You've been de-depth.
00:08:44.780 I've been de-depth.
00:08:45.680 I'm really, I'm glad, too, that you're here, because, I mean, you're an expert in comedy.
00:08:50.240 I was kicked off of Twitter for making a really incendiary, violent, oh, no, it was a dad
00:08:56.140 joke.
00:08:56.420 Yeah.
00:08:56.740 I made a dad joke.
00:08:57.700 Yeah.
00:08:58.100 And then I got kicked off.
00:08:59.260 And a bunch of lefties made the same joke. 0.87
00:09:01.220 They stayed on.
00:09:01.920 Well, they'll kick you off if you kick a sacred cow, even if it's not.
00:09:04.920 Like, I was banned for life for making fun of David Hogg, and that's when I realized there
00:09:09.580 was something seriously going on with that kid.
00:09:11.760 I've made fun of David Hogg.
00:09:12.940 I haven't, maybe not on Twitter, though.
00:09:15.200 I actually don't think I've ever made fun of him on Twitter.
00:09:16.840 Well, I was pretty relentless.
00:09:18.000 And then when they realized, they realized how they could get me, which is so ironic
00:09:22.620 to the leftist disposition in Hollywood, because I said, anybody that isn't old enough to grow
00:09:27.980 pubes can't tell me not to have a gun, which is, they said I was sexualizing a minor. 1.00
00:09:33.460 He was about to be 18, and that's not sexualizing a minor.
00:09:36.900 They are sexualizing minors.
00:09:38.620 You lost your career because you refused to sexualize minors, because of the trans kid 1.00
00:09:43.940 thing, right?
00:09:44.420 Yeah, and people don't believe me, so I may read emails and say, eh, eh, it's kind
00:09:49.400 of a little blow, but like...
00:09:51.400 Do it.
00:09:51.700 They fired James Woods.
00:09:52.740 They fired James Woods.
00:09:53.620 They fired you.
00:09:54.040 And it's the heart of darkness.
00:09:55.360 There's that.
00:09:55.940 Yeah, that's true.
00:09:57.420 It's just like the mowing hole.
00:09:59.280 They started the Me Too movement in a conference room as they were repping Harvey Weinstein.
00:10:04.260 Yep, that's right.
00:10:04.960 So, you know, there's that.
00:10:06.600 But yeah, I refused to, or I was calling out this dude who had a five-year-old boy that
00:10:10.660 he was saying was a girl and he was going to put him on hormone blocks and stuff.
00:10:12.980 I'm like, that's abuse hiding in plain sight.
00:10:15.840 You know, people can be broken up between like abusers, people that sit by and watch,
00:10:22.000 and then people that don't sit by and watch.
00:10:23.720 It's kind of what the world's broken up into.
00:10:26.320 And they get real mad when you don't let him eat the babies.
00:10:31.040 Bill, Bill, when did you get here?
00:10:32.820 President Clinton.
00:10:33.860 I love it.
00:10:35.640 What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
00:10:38.540 Yep, that's really...
00:10:39.900 Come on, I'm a little hungry.
00:10:41.660 Hillary, can we eat one of these little babies? 1.00
00:10:43.500 That is how the election's going to break down.
00:10:46.340 And this, the fact that they kicked me off three days before the election.
00:10:49.920 Well, it's by design.
00:10:50.780 It's by design.
00:10:51.260 It is by design.
00:10:51.840 Oh, 100%.
00:10:52.460 There's no question.
00:10:52.620 Yeah.
00:10:53.140 Because, you know, I think they kicked me off because it wasn't what I said.
00:10:57.540 I said something.
00:10:58.420 I made some joke about the election that everybody makes.
00:11:00.980 And then they kicked me off the next day, right after Don Jr. tweeted something that I
00:11:05.400 said making fun of CNN.
00:11:07.100 And it was right then they almost immediately kicked me off.
00:11:10.640 Isn't it a bad look for them, though, to kick off conservatives, blue checkmark conservatives, 1.00
00:11:16.600 two days before the midterm election?
00:11:18.520 You'd be surprised how many people don't notice.
00:11:20.780 Because that's one of the great things and weaknesses of conservatives is usually we have
00:11:26.360 jobs and families.
00:11:28.080 So it's like a lot of people don't, they can't tell unless they're listening to the podcast.
00:11:34.260 You know, they're just like looking and working and dealing with families.
00:11:37.920 You know, a lot of leftists are unemployed, you know, just childless, you know, warlocks 1.00
00:11:45.860 and witches. 0.99
00:11:46.720 They're just running around doing spells and stuff and chanting.
00:11:50.280 You know, you're joking.
00:11:52.360 Witchcraft abounds right now.
00:11:54.140 And I am not speaking about some fringy thing.
00:11:57.400 Vox.com encouraged left-wingers to practice witchcraft.
00:12:01.720 Everyday feminism encouraging people to practice witchcraft. 0.60
00:12:05.460 This is John Podesta, wasn't he?
00:12:07.780 Didn't he have some spirit dinner or something?
00:12:10.240 Yeah.
00:12:10.580 And I just introduced my wife who's here to some of these emails.
00:12:16.140 And she, like this last week, because some of this stuff I missed.
00:12:19.040 I've just been coming out of my office like, Amy, they're witches.
00:12:22.860 They're actually witches. 1.00
00:12:24.860 And then door closes.
00:12:26.060 I open the door.
00:12:26.660 That's all up for lunch.
00:12:27.360 Something weird is happening in Haiti.
00:12:29.840 You know, because I don't like going down the conspiratorial rabbit holes that you can't
00:12:33.380 prove, but the ones that are just right there, like they have parties where they cut up a
00:12:37.740 cake that looks like a human body and they're like, how is your flesh tasting, Hillary? 0.87
00:12:42.160 And they're like, mmm.
00:12:44.220 And they think that's normal.
00:12:45.860 Yeah.
00:12:46.080 They're like, we're taking strength from it.
00:12:47.940 I'm like, dude, most of my buddies are like truck drivers and plumbers and stuff.
00:12:52.940 Like no one's like.
00:12:53.760 Not hosting spirit dinners?
00:12:55.040 No, that's hedonic treadmill like your whole life.
00:12:58.220 That's like you've run out of sins and you just have to invent them.
00:13:01.760 Yeah.
00:13:01.940 You're almost tempted to practice virtue because you've just run out of sins.
00:13:06.300 Maybe I'll give virtue a try.
00:13:07.960 Try to get some adrenaline.
00:13:09.760 Dude, I've been doing lines of ethics all morning.
00:13:11.840 It's nuts, man.
00:13:13.020 I turned down a murderer this morning and I feel like I can't feel my face.
00:13:17.360 Oh, yeah.
00:13:17.800 I've been faithful to my wife for days now.
00:13:20.020 Dude, I'm so high off it.
00:13:23.320 So it seems like everything's going well for you.
00:13:26.140 It is.
00:13:26.400 You're really high off.
00:13:27.300 No, it's fun being off Twitter.
00:13:29.160 It actually clears your head a little bit.
00:13:30.300 This is what I've wondered because you've been thoroughly deplatformed.
00:13:33.320 You're still on YouTube.
00:13:34.800 Yeah, I'm on YouTube.
00:13:35.720 And then they took away my live streaming.
00:13:37.420 So I started another channel and it was up to, you know, like 2,000 people watching within like a week.
00:13:43.160 That's the thing is they keep trying to get rid of people and all it does is solidify your base.
00:13:48.440 It's really, it's having the opposite effect.
00:13:50.120 It's kind of hilarious to watch.
00:13:51.180 This is what I think.
00:13:51.820 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.
00:13:57.820 But then you crop up again and immediately you get your whole audience back.
00:14:00.960 This is what I think is going to happen in the midterms.
00:14:03.700 This is what I suspect is happening.
00:14:05.200 We have been told 0% chance Republicans are going to get blown out in the House.
00:14:09.460 Don't even vote.
00:14:10.140 It's not even worth it.
00:14:11.420 Yeah, I think, I think, I'm very optimistic.
00:14:14.160 I know Clavin freaked both of us out a little bit.
00:14:16.220 He did.
00:14:16.300 He keeps texting me.
00:14:17.240 He's like, he's now become bent.
00:14:18.880 He's texting me all this pessimism.
00:14:20.380 But being like a comedian and just never bending the knee, I get to see a lot of perspectives.
00:14:25.180 Like, it's never the people they say are against Republicans.
00:14:29.100 It's never these big voting blocks.
00:14:31.960 In fact, a lot of times it's the opposite.
00:14:33.320 It's always these leftist weirdos that are literally eating human cake flesh.
00:14:37.620 They're like, oh, the Jews hate Trump. 0.99
00:14:40.040 And meanwhile, all these Israelis are emailing me like, we love that dude. 0.66
00:14:43.760 Meanwhile, Israel is building Trump a train station in Jerusalem.
00:14:46.780 Literally.
00:14:47.360 And they're not against political correctness stuff.
00:14:49.960 That's right.
00:14:50.380 It's only white girls from your alma mater. 1.00
00:14:53.060 I know.
00:14:53.440 I know.
00:14:54.000 They're ruining the world.
00:14:54.700 They're ruining the entire world.
00:14:55.900 It is all white millennial girls. 0.99
00:14:58.320 They all have some Ivy League degree, certainly.
00:15:01.660 Yeah.
00:15:01.960 And they're offended on behalf of every other person on earth.
00:15:04.560 Literally.
00:15:05.060 They're like, well, I have a made up friend whose friend is black.
00:15:09.300 And Jerome doesn't like it.
00:15:11.220 Yeah, T-Bone.
00:15:12.040 And that's the thing is they always treat them like the worst stereotypes of what they're trying to defend.
00:15:16.920 That's right.
00:15:17.320 They're like, they can't read, so that isn't very nice of you.
00:15:20.140 And you're like, they can read.
00:15:21.480 They can read.
00:15:21.980 They do this on voter ID.
00:15:23.180 They say, we can't, look, Michael, we can't require IDs to vote.
00:15:27.920 Black people can't get IDs. 1.00
00:15:29.360 Exactly.
00:15:30.020 Exactly.
00:15:30.320 I think they can.
00:15:31.420 I'm pretty sure black people are entirely capable of getting IDs.
00:15:34.200 In fact, I think they have IDs.
00:15:35.720 I've been to bars with black people.
00:15:38.280 I've bought tobacco.
00:15:40.460 I've traveled on airplanes.
00:15:41.820 It's the same with Hispanic. 1.00
00:15:42.360 I think they can get IDs.
00:15:43.500 If they stop importing them, I think you'll see Hispanic people start leaning right. 1.00
00:15:48.860 Oh, yeah.
00:15:49.340 They already do.
00:15:49.960 That's why they lean left, just because they get a new crop of illegals. 0.98
00:15:53.460 Yeah, right.
00:15:53.800 And they're like, we'll give you a card if you vote for this witch.
00:15:58.860 And Hillary's like, abracadabra. 1.00
00:16:02.320 And that's the thing.
00:16:03.420 It's like, people assume that my wife was on the left because she's half Mexican. 0.99
00:16:07.940 And I'm like, her whole family's on the right.
00:16:09.900 Why would you assume that?
00:16:11.120 Yeah, right.
00:16:11.540 It makes no sense.
00:16:12.280 Like, I'm really tall.
00:16:13.440 I don't play basketball.
00:16:14.600 I'm not black.
00:16:15.900 That's true.
00:16:16.940 It's a stereotype on stage.
00:16:18.800 You know, this actually, what you've just said, your wife, she makes me really grateful
00:16:24.440 for America.
00:16:25.660 She does.
00:16:26.200 The American dream.
00:16:27.500 It is the dream.
00:16:28.820 The American nightmare being married to Owen Benjamin sometimes.
00:16:31.780 She's a brave woman.
00:16:32.820 But it makes me really grateful.
00:16:34.200 And this reminds me of Operation American Gratitude.
00:16:36.940 Oh, tell me more about it.
00:16:37.840 I don't know if you've heard about this.
00:16:38.840 Operation American Gratitude.
00:16:40.320 I really like them for two reasons.
00:16:41.720 One, because then we can make a little money, honey.
00:16:43.940 But two, you know that.
00:16:45.400 But also, they do excellent, excellent work.
00:16:48.300 This is the opposite of witchcraft.
00:16:50.480 Operation American Gratitude was started when the founder heard a Vietnam veteran say on
00:16:54.220 his podcast that he had never been welcomed home in 50 years since returning from Vietnam.
00:16:58.640 So, Operation American Gratitude, you go, you get a box, you'll get your own kit, it'll give
00:17:04.700 you a bunch of thank you cards for veterans, an interview of veteran card, a you are not
00:17:08.100 forgotten card, a POW MIA card, a 58-220 card, that's the people who were lost in Vietnam
00:17:13.360 for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
00:17:14.800 And what's more, 100% of the profit from Operation American Gratitude goes toward building the
00:17:20.200 Freedom Never Sleeps business training center in beautiful Eagle, Idaho.
00:17:24.240 I love Idaho.
00:17:25.180 I love Eagles.
00:17:27.220 I like it.
00:17:28.000 That's a combination.
00:17:29.260 I don't love Eagles.
00:17:30.560 We'll get to that in a second.
00:17:31.500 I'm trying to take out my chickens.
00:17:33.100 Go on.
00:17:33.640 Okay, all right.
00:17:34.240 Fair enough.
00:17:34.640 It's an on-site six-month paid entrepreneurship training program designed for veterans and
00:17:38.860 underprivileged youth.
00:17:40.160 You can make life better for Vietnam veterans, and you can also instill a sense of gratitude
00:17:44.720 so that your kids don't grow up to become these screeching, awful, millennial, America-hating 0.99
00:17:50.640 people.
00:17:51.780 Gratitude really is the antidote to witchcraft.
00:17:53.940 It is.
00:17:54.540 It actually is.
00:17:55.340 If you're around Hillary Clinton and you're like, oh, thanks for this coffee, she'd just 0.62
00:17:58.280 be like, and she'd just melt into just a puddle of something that Bill would be like,
00:18:03.500 can I drink up that puddle?
00:18:06.140 Like, they're just so gross.
00:18:07.600 Anyway, how do people know that you sent them?
00:18:10.500 The way that you can find out that I sent them is to go to raisingamericans.com slash
00:18:15.720 covfefe, C-O-V-E-F-E-F-E, get your Operation American Gratitude Kit.
00:18:19.400 You will get a 25% discount for this week only in honor of Veterans Day coming up.
00:18:24.820 You can make Vietnam veterans' lives better, help your kids learn some gratitude for less 1.00
00:18:29.160 than 20 bucks.
00:18:30.160 It's, as always, partnering alongside Operation American Gratitude makes you 50% more likely
00:18:34.840 to meet George Washington in heaven.
00:18:37.160 Whoa.
00:18:37.660 It's guaranteed.
00:18:38.480 Happy Veterans Day.
00:18:39.100 And will you be grateful if they do this?
00:18:41.040 I will be extraordinarily grateful if they do this, because this is the great thing about
00:18:45.060 a rising tide lifting all ships and American productivity.
00:18:48.380 You help us.
00:18:48.940 You help the show.
00:18:49.520 You help get a message out.
00:18:50.380 You help Vietnam veterans.
00:18:51.380 You help little kids.
00:18:52.300 The only people you don't help are those witches.
00:18:54.540 Which you don't want to help.
00:18:55.440 You don't want to help them.
00:18:56.280 No.
00:18:56.420 Absolutely not.
00:18:57.080 So go over there, raisingamericans.com slash covfefe.
00:18:59.640 That's right.
00:18:59.980 You should go over there, too.
00:19:00.780 I will.
00:19:01.140 Absolutely go over there.
00:19:02.980 I might spell covfefe wrong, though.
00:19:04.300 I'm going to have to Google it.
00:19:05.040 I know.
00:19:05.660 I think I picked the worst promo code.
00:19:08.080 I think I've lost about 50% of advertising revenue, because I picked a word that is a
00:19:12.980 misspelling.
00:19:13.740 Right.
00:19:14.160 That is, by definition, a misspelling.
00:19:16.160 What's the best promo code you think you could use?
00:19:18.060 Oh, real quick, I do have to address the eagle situation.
00:19:20.380 Yes.
00:19:20.660 Please do.
00:19:21.280 Because we live in Washington, and we have a bunch of chickens and a bunch of dogs and
00:19:24.780 a bunch of eagles.
00:19:26.000 And at first, I was like, oh, God bless America.
00:19:28.420 Look at those eagles flying.
00:19:29.580 And then there'd be, like, five.
00:19:31.600 And it's now just this, like, border wall situation with the chickens, where I just keep
00:19:37.140 trying to, like, keep the...
00:19:38.340 Because the eagles are huge, and they'll just come down and be like...
00:19:41.040 Just let them in.
00:19:41.720 They're not trying to hurt the chickens.
00:19:43.660 No.
00:19:43.820 They just want a better hen house. 1.00
00:19:46.440 They just want to work in the hen house. 0.88
00:19:48.580 They just want to just come over to the hen house, you know.
00:19:51.080 Don't even check what species they are.
00:19:53.900 Doesn't matter.
00:19:54.700 Might as well be a caterpillar.
00:19:56.300 Those talons and that giant, sharp beak are just randomly there.
00:20:00.340 Are you trying to tell me that just because Guatemalan authorities arrested seven human
00:20:04.520 smugglers in the caravan, those eagles are trying to do your chickens harm?
00:20:07.920 Who's to say what rape is? 1.00
00:20:13.100 I mean, who are you?
00:20:14.640 Yeah, that's going to be the new postmodern book, I think.
00:20:17.640 Who's to say?
00:20:18.300 Well, you can always tell someone's up to no good when they're trying to redefine monstrous
00:20:22.300 terms.
00:20:23.520 Like, that's the biggest red flag ever.
00:20:25.080 It's like, well, who's...
00:20:25.620 That's true.
00:20:26.060 Yeah, yeah.
00:20:26.660 Like, what happened with Polanski, with all the celebrities, remember Whoopi Goldberg was
00:20:31.360 like, well, it wasn't rape rape. 1.00
00:20:33.000 It wasn't rape.
00:20:33.680 It wasn't real rape.
00:20:34.740 Right.
00:20:35.120 It wasn't, yeah.
00:20:35.580 So when you're trying to make these distinctions, you back away.
00:20:38.400 You should just back away, you know.
00:20:40.380 It's like, no, I'm a centrist rape guy.
00:20:42.320 I'm kind of in the middle, you know.
00:20:43.800 I like to get along with everyone at Thanksgiving.
00:20:45.000 Well, come on, I'm a moderate.
00:20:45.920 I'm not an extremist, is what I'm saying.
00:20:47.780 Right.
00:20:48.060 I'm not going to take an extreme position on that.
00:20:49.940 Yeah, it's like she said, no, but there weren't several exclamation points.
00:20:53.840 Come on.
00:20:54.860 I know.
00:20:55.360 You know, I actually do.
00:20:56.580 I want your opinion on this from the comedy perspective.
00:20:59.340 Okay.
00:20:59.700 Which is, okay, so they've been deplatforming people.
00:21:04.560 They take extreme voices away.
00:21:07.360 Whatever.
00:21:07.880 My extreme voice of telling dad jokes, fine.
00:21:09.840 Right.
00:21:10.200 Did you see that Pete Davidson joke on SNL?
00:21:12.300 I did.
00:21:12.840 You saw him.
00:21:13.260 Do we have it?
00:21:14.320 The Pete Davidson, he's there making fun of this combat veteran.
00:21:18.100 And practicing witchcraft, yes.
00:21:19.360 And practicing witchcraft, almost certainly. 0.88
00:21:21.380 Yeah, here he is.
00:21:21.780 Look at that.
00:21:22.120 That's a witch outfit. 1.00
00:21:23.420 This guy's kind of cool.
00:21:24.500 Dan Crenshaw.
00:21:26.860 Oh, come on, man.
00:21:28.380 Yo.
00:21:29.160 Hold on.
00:21:30.900 You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas
00:21:34.820 and not a hitman in a porno movie.
00:21:40.360 I'm sorry.
00:21:41.080 I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.
00:21:47.340 Whatever.
00:21:48.340 All right.
00:21:49.000 Well, here's a Democrat, so I look fair.
00:21:51.220 Give me that, like, Cuomo guy.
00:21:52.400 There he is.
00:21:52.820 All right.
00:21:54.580 So there he is.
00:21:55.680 Looks like a witch. 1.00
00:21:56.560 Was engaged recently to...
00:21:58.420 A witch. 0.92
00:21:58.900 A witch. 0.92
00:21:59.320 To another witch who said God is a woman and had this super culty video. 0.93
00:22:02.720 Okay.
00:22:03.340 Yeah, there was broom-only parking rights outside of SNL.
00:22:07.140 It's really efficient.
00:22:08.600 It's good for the environment, you know, it only...
00:22:10.440 The crazy thing about this, and I was arguing with people on Instagram,
00:22:12.980 which is my new Twitter.
00:22:13.980 I've made it just toxic.
00:22:15.420 I know.
00:22:15.840 I'm with you.
00:22:16.480 This is actually...
00:22:17.140 Bring that heat.
00:22:17.880 I was like, oh, Owen's got great Instagram posts,
00:22:20.520 and I'm only there because I got kicked off Twitter.
00:22:23.120 That's where we go.
00:22:24.120 That's why their stocks keep tanking.
00:22:26.080 But someone was saying, well, he made fun of his dad who died in 9-11,
00:22:28.980 so why can't he do that?
00:22:29.960 I'm like, that was his pain to mock.
00:22:31.700 Yeah.
00:22:32.160 And also, if it was that dude's friend, that would be one thing.
00:22:35.080 Right.
00:22:35.260 But someone who clearly hates you for your politics
00:22:38.340 and is making fun of something that happened to you in a war,
00:22:41.500 that's the difference between, like,
00:22:42.560 you can do a joke about rape versus mocking a rape victim.
00:22:45.960 Yeah, you'd never tell a joke about a rape victim who's, like, you know,
00:22:50.120 especially one who's in the public eye who's, you know, especially...
00:22:54.440 I mean, this case is even crazier than that
00:22:56.920 because this guy got his injury serving that witch,
00:23:00.800 serving that dude trying to protect her freedom.
00:23:03.200 Oh, exactly.
00:23:03.640 And it was, like, his third deployment as a SEAL or something.
00:23:06.640 Right.
00:23:06.980 It was, like, he just kept going the extra mile and this little weasel.
00:23:12.620 And, like, okay, because someone was telling me, they're like,
00:23:15.180 oh, you've done a pedophile joke.
00:23:16.480 I'm like, it was a pun about a pedophile.
00:23:19.840 Like, it's about me going into, you know, like, a drugstore and being like,
00:23:23.700 where are the pedophiles at?
00:23:24.460 And they're like, well, the whole thing is, it's like, well, my toenails are long.
00:23:28.360 It's like, it's a long joke, but it's a pun.
00:23:31.180 And they're trying to compare that to that actual pedophile directed Guardians of the Galaxy.
00:23:35.980 And I'm like, no, he's just saying he wants to have sex with children.
00:23:39.500 Like, that's called being a psychopath.
00:23:41.300 It's not even a joke.
00:23:42.020 Yeah, and I'm starting to really wonder if people have lost their, any morality at all.
00:23:47.980 Like, they don't see the difference.
00:23:49.340 Well, that's the thing.
00:23:50.080 Well, you're eating chicken and I'm eating a baby.
00:23:52.000 What's the difference?
00:23:52.540 What's the difference?
00:23:53.220 You're a hypocrite.
00:23:54.000 Because they're calling conservatives hypocritical over this for saying,
00:23:57.920 oh, you know, you're criticizing this joke.
00:24:00.400 They somehow don't see the difference.
00:24:01.960 How do we get it through to them?
00:24:03.200 I don't think you do.
00:24:04.120 I think you just kind of, we just focus on our gratitude
00:24:06.900 and just let this guy just keep just practicing witchcraft.
00:24:12.540 And we just got to win.
00:24:13.460 That's why we got to vote.
00:24:14.840 That's true.
00:24:15.420 We just got to bury them.
00:24:16.880 Have you voted yet?
00:24:17.720 I haven't yet.
00:24:18.640 I'm going to drive people to the booth.
00:24:21.540 But according to a tweet, it's, what was it, the 7th or the 8th?
00:24:25.240 Well, I forget what it is.
00:24:26.460 They're going to shut our stream down.
00:24:27.600 The minute I say this joke, the minute I say this dad joke,
00:24:30.780 they are going to shut down this stream.
00:24:32.280 They're going to say Michael is inciting violent, hateful, bigoted,
00:24:36.240 rules-breaking rhetoric.
00:24:38.340 It was the other thing.
00:24:39.020 But you have Farrakhan's on there calling Jews termites.
00:24:41.260 Calling Jews termites and saying death to America, death to Israel.
00:24:43.660 They also didn't tell me what policy I violated.
00:24:46.500 Oh, there is no policy.
00:24:47.380 There is no policy.
00:24:47.900 Well, that's why I've been telling this to people for a while,
00:24:50.060 that you've got to stand with everybody getting deplatformed,
00:24:52.280 even if you don't agree with them.
00:24:53.460 Exactly right.
00:24:54.100 Because appeasement just means you get eaten last.
00:24:56.280 Yep.
00:24:56.400 And so what they do is they have, one's called bullying,
00:25:00.460 or one's called, I don't know, but I'm like, that's all comedy.
00:25:04.320 So it's like, knock, knock, who's there?
00:25:05.560 It's like home invasion statistics.
00:25:08.360 Sadness now.
00:25:09.220 You're mean to me.
00:25:10.640 And you're like, okay, so now my job is,
00:25:14.040 everything's an exaggeration, hyperbole, irony.
00:25:16.820 Like, I can't do it if I don't do that.
00:25:18.360 So they're just waiting to ice me.
00:25:20.500 They would ice me if they knew that it wouldn't create the opposite effect.
00:25:23.640 That's true.
00:25:24.040 And if they weren't going to abolish ICE.
00:25:25.480 They're really getting caught in that, you know,
00:25:27.260 abolish ICE kind of rhetoric.
00:25:29.700 I know.
00:25:30.060 It's like, we're going to ICE Owen.
00:25:31.140 It's like, oh, so you're for ICE?
00:25:32.180 It's like, what do you mean?
00:25:33.240 You mean the existence of a nation?
00:25:34.400 No, no, no, not me.
00:25:36.540 No, come on, let's not talk crazy.
00:25:37.740 I don't think we should enforce laws.
00:25:39.160 No, no, no.
00:25:39.600 Not at all.
00:25:40.180 Sanctuary city.
00:25:40.880 Well, this is my sanctuary tank.
00:25:42.600 I know.
00:25:43.120 Yeah.
00:25:43.320 Right now you're in my sanctuary cave in Bora Bora, I think.
00:25:46.400 You know.
00:25:46.540 Yeah, this is definitely a CIA blackout.
00:25:48.180 Yeah.
00:25:48.840 All right.
00:25:49.420 Owen, I got to kick you out.
00:25:50.400 Good to see you.
00:25:50.680 Oh, you're the man.
00:25:51.200 Good to see you.
00:25:51.420 Where can people find you?
00:25:52.980 Where have you not been blacklisted?
00:25:54.900 Hugepianist.com to get tickets to my upcoming tour or my last special persona non grata shot
00:26:01.600 in Atlanta.
00:26:02.800 All right.
00:26:03.420 And make sure to follow Owen on the dwindling list of social media platforms that will have
00:26:09.220 him.
00:26:09.560 You're still on Instagram.
00:26:10.860 I'm on Instagram, but Facebook gives me 30-day bans.
00:26:13.500 They let me back for one day and then they kick me every time.
00:26:16.200 Every time.
00:26:16.760 Like Zuckerberg's playing this little game of cat and mouse with me.
00:26:18.900 It's really, it's really nice.
00:26:19.900 Yeah, well, I just bought a drone, so we'll see what happens.
00:26:22.780 It's not a threat, by the way.
00:26:23.740 It's a joke about looking at it.
00:26:24.200 It's not a threat.
00:26:24.660 It's not a threat.
00:26:25.360 All right.
00:26:25.880 All right.
00:26:26.140 Good to see you.
00:26:26.500 Yeah, you too.
00:26:26.980 Later, bro.
00:26:28.520 This is why we bring in social media deplatforming consultants to really make you feel better
00:26:33.440 when you get kicked off of them.
00:26:34.400 So speaking of very funny things, a vice writer, a writer in vice.com has inadvertently published
00:26:41.380 one of the funniest columns of the entire midterm elections.
00:26:44.400 It's this millennial who is extremely angry that he was not allowed to vote in Tennessee
00:26:50.340 and the excuse, the reason why he wasn't allowed to vote is that he's not eligible to
00:26:55.020 vote in Tennessee and he's very upset about this.
00:26:57.860 The headline is, quote, what it feels like to be disenfranchised by a voter ID law.
00:27:04.160 The guy's name is Davis Winky.
00:27:06.280 That can't be his real name, but maybe it is his real name.
00:27:08.340 Davis Winky is what it says on the article.
00:27:09.840 So, subtitle, I had a birth certificate, a photo ID, and utility bills proving my residency,
00:27:17.300 but Tennessee decided that wasn't good enough. 0.90
00:27:20.020 Okay.
00:27:20.440 Well, that sounds pretty interesting.
00:27:21.900 He's got the ID.
00:27:23.620 He's got the proof that he's a Tennessee resident.
00:27:27.140 Okay.
00:27:28.260 Let's, I'm with you.
00:27:29.900 Let's see.
00:27:30.400 Maybe these laws really are discriminatory.
00:27:32.940 Maybe they're really preventing you from, oh, no, not at all.
00:27:35.260 It's just total nonsense.
00:27:36.020 He goes on to write, quote, you had to have either a Tennessee state-issued ID or a federally
00:27:41.560 issued photo ID in order to vote.
00:27:43.560 My wife and I were in this strange situation of being young and married, but still somewhat
00:27:49.660 financially dependent on our parents.
00:27:52.120 Our vehicles were registered in our parents' names and we had Georgia driver's licenses.
00:27:56.680 Registering the vehicles in Tennessee would have incurred a pretty significant tax burden.
00:28:00.280 And getting a Tennessee driver's license, we were led to believe by our insurance agents
00:28:04.840 would be a problem for us since then we'd be listed as drivers on our parents' cars without
00:28:09.860 Georgia licenses.
00:28:11.320 So we were in this space where we feared losing our transportation or having to incur a significant
00:28:17.300 financial burden if we tried to get Tennessee driver's licenses.
00:28:21.360 I know that was a gobbledygook of words.
00:28:23.220 Let me try to summarize that for you.
00:28:27.220 He didn't have a Tennessee ID.
00:28:28.620 The law says you need to have an ID from Tennessee or from the federal government.
00:28:32.640 He had a Georgia ID.
00:28:34.100 Why?
00:28:34.580 Because he was lying about his residence.
00:28:37.160 So what this means is, one, he was committing insurance fraud because he's saying he lived
00:28:41.260 in Georgia and drove in Georgia when he didn't.
00:28:43.840 He was living and driving in Tennessee.
00:28:46.100 Also, I think he may have tried to rectify this right before the election, but there are
00:28:50.340 cutoff dates for registration.
00:28:52.060 So he missed his shot.
00:28:53.500 Sorry, too bad.
00:28:54.360 Try again next time.
00:28:55.180 Then he says, my wife and I were in the strange situation of being young and married, but still
00:29:00.000 financially dependent on our parents.
00:29:02.100 Unfortunately, this is not a strange situation anymore.
00:29:05.020 A lot of millennials do this. 0.99
00:29:06.620 I think the age now to go off your parents' cell phone plan is about 65.
00:29:10.880 I think that's the median cutoff.
00:29:13.280 It means that you're a bum. 0.97
00:29:14.960 Get off your parents' finances.
00:29:17.700 You're married.
00:29:18.400 You're an adult.
00:29:19.440 Start acting like an adult.
00:29:21.260 Stop being a little child.
00:29:23.920 Stop committing insurance fraud.
00:29:25.860 Stop blaming everybody for your problems.
00:29:28.880 They're your problems.
00:29:30.660 I get it.
00:29:31.180 Look, I sometimes forget deadlines.
00:29:32.640 I forget paperwork.
00:29:33.500 Okay, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:34.320 Fine.
00:29:34.880 You missed the deadline.
00:29:36.760 And you didn't even just miss the deadline to register as a Tennessee resident and get
00:29:41.500 your car insurance and everything pushed over.
00:29:43.160 You chose not to do it because you didn't want to pay taxes.
00:29:45.920 You didn't want to pay fees.
00:29:47.240 You didn't want to be an adult.
00:29:48.800 Okay, fine.
00:29:49.660 But that's your fault.
00:29:50.920 You're a child and children don't get to vote.
00:29:52.600 Adults vote, not children. 0.84
00:29:54.460 Now I think the left is trying to lower the voting age to 12 or something, but they actually
00:29:59.700 are trying to lower it to 16 in certain places.
00:30:02.240 But if you're going to behave like a child, you're going to be treated like a child and
00:30:05.800 you don't get to vote.
00:30:06.560 If you want to be an adult and you want to stop committing insurance fraud and register
00:30:09.940 where you live and stop having mommy and daddy pay for everything for you and your
00:30:13.400 wife, then you can vote because then you're behaving like an adult. 1.00
00:30:17.440 But it's unbelievable.
00:30:19.380 And even the language that millennials use, listen to this, we would have to incur a significant 0.84
00:30:26.000 financial burden if we tried to get Tennessee driver's licenses.
00:30:30.320 You mean you would have to pay the taxes and fees that you legally are required to pay because
00:30:35.200 you moved to Tennessee.
00:30:36.840 Nobody made you move to Tennessee.
00:30:38.540 You could live in Georgia.
00:30:39.400 You still should have your own car insurance, but nobody made you.
00:30:44.080 You chose to do it, but now you won't accept the consequences for your actions.
00:30:47.320 This is the best they've got.
00:30:49.000 Because the other argument, and we were talking about it with Owen, the other argument against
00:30:52.560 voter ID is a racist argument.
00:30:55.240 They say that black people can't get IDs.
00:30:57.340 They can.
00:30:57.960 Black people have IDs.
00:30:59.480 They have ID cards.
00:31:00.840 They can go.
00:31:01.300 They can go vote.
00:31:01.980 They can go buy alcohol.
00:31:03.120 They can go travel on airplanes.
00:31:04.680 They can buy cigarettes.
00:31:06.100 You need IDs for a lot of things in life.
00:31:07.800 And the argument from these white liberals who choose to be offended on behalf of other
00:31:13.080 people is that black people, for whatever reason, aren't capable of getting ID cards.
00:31:18.840 They are.
00:31:19.500 White millennials might not be capable of getting ID cards, but other people can. 0.97
00:31:23.700 Don't be offended on behalf of other people.
00:31:26.360 Don't put your problems off onto other people.
00:31:30.100 We've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:31:31.420 We have a lot more coming up.
00:31:32.540 I want to give my final thoughts on the midterm elections, because my gut feeling on this
00:31:38.420 is a little different than what the pollsters are saying.
00:31:40.720 Before we do that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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00:32:50.820 Again, none of that matters.
00:32:52.520 This is what matters.
00:32:53.460 Because right now, never say never, who knows, Democrats told us we were going to have a blue
00:32:59.140 wave.
00:32:59.760 Democrats were going to take the whole Senate.
00:33:01.480 They were going to take the House of Representatives.
00:33:03.280 They're going to do all of this stuff.
00:33:05.280 Now it's not looking like that, is it?
00:33:06.960 Now it's looking like maybe they won't take the Senate.
00:33:09.640 Now it's looking like maybe Republicans will gain in the Senate.
00:33:12.980 Now it's looking like they might not get 50 seats in the House.
00:33:15.980 They might not get 40 seats in the House.
00:33:17.740 They might not even take back the House.
00:33:21.000 Can you imagine what the tears will taste like?
00:33:26.440 They actually, we probably will need a new vessel because it's just going to be a block
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00:33:32.380 That's what, it's going to come out that way.
00:33:33.880 They're not going to have any more tears left to cry.
00:33:36.240 It's just going to be pure salt popping out.
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00:33:40.440 We'll be right back.
00:33:41.000 All right, the midterms.
00:33:53.160 What do we think about the midterms?
00:33:55.380 Nate Silver tells us 87% chance, I think he's upped it to, that the Democrats take the House.
00:34:01.860 History tells us Democrats are going to take the House.
00:34:04.440 Obama lost over 60 House seats in his first midterm.
00:34:07.680 Clinton lost 54, I think, in his first midterm.
00:34:11.540 Bush didn't lose any, but it was right on the heels of 9-11, and America was pretty unified
00:34:14.940 behind that president.
00:34:17.080 Reagan lost a bunch in his first midterm.
00:34:19.120 It goes on and on and on.
00:34:21.180 Okay.
00:34:22.200 Mike Pence says he thinks we're going to keep the House.
00:34:24.000 Here he is.
00:34:25.460 Well, Buck, I think we're going to expand our majority in the United States Senate, and
00:34:28.920 I think we're going to hold our Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
00:34:34.560 That's what he thinks.
00:34:35.360 Now, I talk to my pollster friends.
00:34:38.080 They say one in 1,000 chance Republicans keep the House.
00:34:42.040 But I talk to my Politico friends, the ones on the ground, the ones who are in the fields.
00:34:47.700 They say Republicans are going to keep the House.
00:34:50.100 My gut tells me Republicans are going to keep the House.
00:34:53.420 I know that the odds are so slim when you look at all the numbers.
00:34:57.120 I would, if I were to make a bet on this, I would want some of those good Shapiro odds.
00:35:01.140 You know, I'd want him to give me another one of those four to one odds.
00:35:03.900 And then I would, then I would put money because I'm looking at the data.
00:35:07.260 I get it.
00:35:08.460 But my gut tells me something that this is not a typical midterm election.
00:35:13.220 My gut tells me President Trump hasn't lost votes.
00:35:16.420 My gut tells me Republicans can keep the House by a slim majority, or maybe they'll lose it
00:35:20.880 by a slim number.
00:35:22.760 But that's what my gut is telling me right now.
00:35:24.720 Another reason I'm thinking this is that the Democrats are going fluffy.
00:35:28.060 They're going really, really fluffy.
00:35:30.260 They're not hard charging at the end of this campaign.
00:35:33.020 Here's CNN talking to, they're at a rally for Andrew Gillum, socialist, gubernatorial
00:35:39.860 candidate in Florida.
00:35:41.280 And they interview just a random person, just a random woman at the end of the event to get 1.00
00:35:46.480 her take on the race.
00:35:47.380 Here they are.
00:35:48.160 For one voter here, this really is personal.
00:35:51.280 Will Barack Obama's presence in this race and here today influence your vote?
00:35:55.080 Um, I believe that it will.
00:35:58.540 We picked her randomly out of the crowd, but at the end of our interview, when I finally
00:36:03.080 asked her name, it sounded strangely familiar.
00:36:06.720 And what's your name?
00:36:08.260 My name is Frances Gillum.
00:36:09.920 As a matter of fact, my son is running for governor.
00:36:12.780 No.
00:36:13.460 Yes.
00:36:14.360 Oh, wait a minute.
00:36:16.840 Why didn't you tell me that you'd be gay with? 0.78
00:36:19.100 No.
00:36:20.020 That is not true.
00:36:21.520 That is hilarious.
00:36:22.860 Well, now that changes everything.
00:36:25.660 Oh no.
00:36:26.800 Oh my God.
00:36:27.880 You're kidding.
00:36:29.200 You, you, the woman who's here at this exclusive area of the Gillum campaign rally, you, the
00:36:35.840 woman who looks like Andrew Gillum because you're his mother, you, you, you're his mother. 0.98
00:36:40.280 Oh my gosh.
00:36:41.500 Wow.
00:36:41.740 What a coincidence.
00:36:42.840 So tell me like, how great is your son?
00:36:44.980 I mean, is he like, he's super great or he's just like, really?
00:36:47.300 Can you imagine if they were at a Trump rally and I don't know, they, they were talking
00:36:52.940 to Tiffany Trump.
00:36:54.080 They didn't know it was Tiffany.
00:36:55.080 And she said, oh, you know, yeah, I think Trump is going to do well.
00:36:57.900 And you know, actually I'm his daughter.
00:36:59.120 I'm Tiffany Trump.
00:37:00.220 It's like, biting her head off.
00:37:03.040 They, you know, it'd be this awful segment, but it's total fluff that they're going into
00:37:06.860 this with.
00:37:07.280 And I think it's fluff because one, they don't have anything to run on.
00:37:10.980 And two, they're nervous.
00:37:12.280 I mean, SNL did that sketch.
00:37:14.020 They actually got this pretty right, which is all the Democrats saying like, oh, we're,
00:37:17.420 we're looking forward to the election.
00:37:19.260 We're confident.
00:37:20.020 Blue wave.
00:37:20.780 Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:37:21.880 You know, beads of sweat pouring down their face.
00:37:24.000 They're very nervous because by all historical rights, this should be a blue wave election.
00:37:29.360 They should win the Senate and they should win the House.
00:37:32.180 And the polling doesn't quite suggest that.
00:37:34.460 Um, they're also, uh, in trouble right now because prominent Democrat candidates are
00:37:40.440 really, really kooky.
00:37:42.240 I mean, Andrew Gillum puts on a good show, but he is a socialist.
00:37:45.740 He's a radical, radical candidate.
00:37:48.180 And, uh, this woman in Arizona, Kirsten Sinema is about as kooky as they get. 1.00
00:37:54.040 And there are several others like her.
00:37:55.340 Here's Sinema. 0.72
00:37:56.520 Martha McSally has asked you to apologize for what she said was treasonous comments about
00:38:00.800 somebody being able to go and fight for the Taliban.
00:38:02.720 Do you regret that statement at that time?
00:38:04.980 You know, Martha crossed the line with those comments. 1.00
00:38:07.620 And that's the choice that she's made in her campaign to run a campaign that's based on...
00:38:12.240 But do you regret that statement, though, at all?
00:38:14.000 Well, it was an offhand comment during an interview about a war that I believed was misguided
00:38:18.460 and still believe is misguided.
00:38:20.720 What Martha has chosen to do is run a very negative campaign based on false attacks and 1.00
00:38:25.500 smears and lies.
00:38:26.280 And that's her choice.
00:38:27.960 But I think Arizonans are choosing the person that they believe shares their values and they
00:38:32.560 believe will stand up for them.
00:38:34.020 So, just to translate that from gobbledygook, what she just said is, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:38:38.760 I'm not going to rescind my comment.
00:38:40.620 And her comment was, during the Afghanistan war, the early stages, she said it would be
00:38:45.060 perfectly fine for Americans to go fight for the Taliban.
00:38:47.500 And Martha McSally obviously said, uh, what? 0.77
00:38:51.920 No, you can't do that.
00:38:52.860 That's awful.
00:38:53.360 That's treasonous.
00:38:54.560 And she won't even walk that back. 1.00
00:38:57.180 She won't even walk back her pro-Taliban comments.
00:39:01.460 And she... 1.00
00:39:02.440 This kind of reminds me a little bit, during the Tea Party election, there were some kooky
00:39:05.900 Senate candidates.
00:39:07.100 None ever is kooky as this woman.
00:39:09.360 I mean, none ever like that.
00:39:11.140 No one ever said that Americans should go fight for the Taliban.
00:39:14.260 But it's like the bizarro world version of the Tea Party.
00:39:17.020 During the Tea Party election, we had this woman, Christine O'Donnell, who was running 0.51
00:39:21.740 for Senate.
00:39:23.760 And speaking of which, we were talking about witchcraft with Owen.
00:39:26.320 She... 1.00
00:39:26.720 There was some allegation that she practiced witchcraft.
00:39:29.360 And she came out with this ad, this insane ad, and said, I am not a witch.
00:39:33.740 Here she is.
00:39:35.240 I'm not a witch.
00:39:37.420 I'm nothing you've heard.
00:39:39.760 I'm you.
00:39:41.580 None of us are perfect, but none of us can be happy with what we see all around us.
00:39:47.020 Politicians who think spending, trading favors, and backroom deals are the ways to stay in
00:39:52.740 office.
00:39:54.000 I'll go to Washington and do what you'd do.
00:39:58.320 I'm Christine O'Donnell, and I approve this message.
00:40:02.580 I'm you.
00:40:03.080 Okay, not a great ad, not a great campaign from Christine O'Donnell, but I would like
00:40:10.180 to point out the difference between her and Kyrsten Sinema.
00:40:15.400 Christine O'Donnell said, I am not a witch.
00:40:17.920 Kyrsten Sinema's comments, to say that Americans should go fight for the Taliban, is the equivalent
00:40:24.200 of running an ad and saying, I am a witch.
00:40:26.640 I am a witch.
00:40:27.580 Hi, I'm Kyrsten Sinema.
00:40:28.600 I am a witch.
00:40:29.740 Yes, I am exactly what you've heard.
00:40:31.720 Everything you've heard is true.
00:40:32.760 I'm a witch.
00:40:33.320 So I get, you know, it was a bad ad from Christine O'Donnell, but at least it was angling at something
00:40:39.940 good.
00:40:40.580 And, you know, it was her defending herself and saying, no, I'm the good thing, not the
00:40:44.660 bad thing.
00:40:45.340 Kyrsten Sinema and other Democrats are saying, no, I'm the bad thing.
00:40:48.080 I'm the bad thing.
00:40:48.860 Open borders, abolish ICE.
00:40:52.120 Americans should fight for the Taliban. 0.99
00:40:54.200 That is a big difference.
00:40:56.340 So it's this bizarro world version.
00:40:58.500 It's bizarro world Tea Party, too, because, one, it's the midterm right after a controversial
00:41:04.560 presidential election, and because Democrat voter enthusiasm is very high.
00:41:08.940 The reason it's different than the Tea Party is, one, because Republican voter enthusiasm
00:41:13.960 is also very high, and two, there's no issue that Democrats are running against.
00:41:19.280 They're running against a guy.
00:41:20.700 They're running against Trump, because Trump is mean, allegedly, and says mean things.
00:41:24.880 But there's no issue.
00:41:26.020 You know, in 2010, that election was about Obamacare, this awful law that took away our
00:41:31.060 doctors, that destroyed a sixth of the economy, that took away our freedom to make life and
00:41:35.980 death decisions and gave it to government bureaucrats.
00:41:38.760 It was a referendum on that, and so GOP enthusiasm was high and Democrat enthusiasm was low.
00:41:43.960 Now they're both very high, and I think this is going to have significant impacts.
00:41:48.080 You know, there was a guy, Tim Ryan, who is now running away from his party on key issues
00:41:54.320 because he wants to win his House seat.
00:41:55.940 He wants to run away from the party to try to save his own seat.
00:41:58.680 You're seeing a lot of Democrats do this around the country.
00:42:01.340 That doesn't speak well for a blue wave.
00:42:03.640 Here's Tim Ryan.
00:42:05.120 You know, you're seeing proposals out there like Medicare for All.
00:42:09.320 You're seeing abolish ICE, raise taxes.
00:42:13.320 Do you agree with these proposals, and what is your platform?
00:42:18.740 Well, you know, I think these are principles.
00:42:21.260 You know, first of all, I don't know a whole lot of Democrats that are talking about abolishing ICE.
00:42:26.080 I come from Ohio.
00:42:27.800 You don't know a whole—are you kidding me?
00:42:29.160 The most prominent Democrats running for office in this country are talking about it.
00:42:33.600 You had Ocasio-Cortez made it a big part of her platform.
00:42:36.900 Democrats used her as a major fundraiser. 0.98
00:42:38.980 Beto O'Rourke was talking about it.
00:42:41.280 Liz Warren, Laya Watha, was talking about it.
00:42:43.600 Everybody was talking about abolishing ICE.
00:42:46.240 For at least several weeks there during the summer, now they're trying to walk it back
00:42:49.480 because it's obviously deeply unpopular with the American people.
00:42:53.260 So you've got Tim Ryan there, one, lying.
00:42:55.460 He's saying that they're not running on abolishing ICE.
00:42:57.340 They are.
00:42:57.980 But he's running away from his party.
00:43:00.200 Imagine if in 2010 Republicans were running away from opposition to Obamacare.
00:43:07.020 If they were interviewed and they said, oh, well, I don't know if we need to repeal Obamacare.
00:43:10.280 No, I haven't heard a lot of Republicans talking about repealing Obamacare.
00:43:15.120 No, they wouldn't have won.
00:43:16.800 You need momentum.
00:43:17.760 You need to have a platform that you're hard charging and running on.
00:43:20.860 Democrats don't have that, which is why I'm really skeptical of the conventional wisdom right here.
00:43:25.640 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.
00:43:34.060 Right now, according to real clear politics, this was as of last night.
00:43:38.180 It could have changed in the morning.
00:43:39.520 The GOP has 218 solid seats.
00:43:44.620 Democrats have 205 solid seats.
00:43:47.600 There are 38 toss-up seats.
00:43:51.940 Of those 38 toss-up districts, 26 of those districts voted for Trump.
00:43:57.900 Regardless of whether they're represented by a Democrat or a Republican, 26 of those toss-up districts out of 38 voted for Trump.
00:44:04.820 So 26 to 12, Trump versus Hillary.
00:44:07.580 It actually seems to me that in just looking at numbers and districts, the GOP has a raw edge here.
00:44:14.600 The Democrat advantage is historical. 0.93
00:44:16.660 And it's not to be understated.
00:44:19.000 I mean, it would be history-shaping, history-shattering if the Republicans held on to the House here.
00:44:27.220 Or even if they didn't lose that many seats.
00:44:29.540 But we're in history-making times.
00:44:31.500 We're in really strange times right now.
00:44:33.620 This is not a typical midterm election.
00:44:35.400 Right now, they're looking at some of the highest voter turnout since 1966.
00:44:41.060 Now, you can't even take too many lessons from 1966 because the Democrats owned the House for decades and decades.
00:44:48.200 So you didn't see the House swaying between Republicans and Democrats at that time.
00:44:51.420 Not until 1994.
00:44:52.720 Not until the Gingrich Revolution did Republicans finally retake the House after decades.
00:44:57.200 So you've got the highest turnout since the height of the Vietnam War, after the Kennedy assassination.
00:45:03.580 Massive civil unrest.
00:45:05.000 The civil rights movement.
00:45:06.660 All of these things.
00:45:07.760 I mean, you are in historically unparalleled times.
00:45:11.200 You can't make those comparisons.
00:45:12.560 Okay.
00:45:13.180 Look at the rhetoric now.
00:45:14.980 So the rhetoric that they're employing at the last moment, right before the election.
00:45:19.860 Paul Ryan and House Republicans want to talk about the economy.
00:45:25.120 Donald Trump wants to talk about immigration.
00:45:26.860 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.
00:45:34.200 So Trump seems to be blaming Ryan and Ryan seems to be blaming Trump.
00:45:37.320 Okay.
00:45:37.900 They're not really touting how they're going to keep the House much anymore.
00:45:40.680 Paul Ryan or Mike Pence is.
00:45:43.120 But other people are not as much.
00:45:44.920 But look at those two approaches.
00:45:46.500 Paul Ryan saying talk about the economy.
00:45:48.360 Trump saying talk about immigration.
00:45:50.240 By the way, Trump is talking about the economy a lot too.
00:45:52.340 But he's not shying away from immigration.
00:45:55.480 Trump is right here.
00:45:57.040 Trump is right.
00:45:58.440 And Morning Joe and Paul Ryan and Mika Brzezinski and all of the Brooks Brothers set is wrong.
00:46:04.700 Here is the conventional wisdom care of Morning Joe.
00:46:08.600 Donald Trump has not completely destroyed the Obama recovery.
00:46:13.220 And they would think that and they'd get a lot more votes.
00:46:16.780 But Donald Trump has reminded them of Charlottesville every day over the last couple weeks.
00:46:21.540 And what does that do?
00:46:23.280 That inspires Democrats, independents, moderate Republicans, suburban Republicans to vote Democratic.
00:46:32.220 Well, it may.
00:46:33.360 He's reminding them of Charlottesville.
00:46:35.220 He's saying because Trump is talking about immigration, he's reminding them of a white supremacist killing a woman.
00:46:40.120 I don't see the connection.
00:46:41.960 But then again, that's Morning Joe for you.
00:46:44.120 What he is saying is Trump should keep his mouth shut on immigration and on cultural issues and should only talk about the economy.
00:46:51.680 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.
00:47:00.420 That's just it does not happen that way.
00:47:02.340 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.
00:47:10.280 They're not as motivated to go out and vote.
00:47:12.300 And a marginal upswing in the Dow Jones is not going to cause them to go out and vote.
00:47:17.420 Whereas the party that's out of power does have high motivation.
00:47:20.620 So they go out and vote and they take the House.
00:47:22.100 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?
00:47:35.460 Trump's been talking about immigration since he walked down the escalator, since the beginning of his presidential campaign.
00:47:40.820 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,
00:47:50.140 that are foundational, that are cultural, that are essential.
00:47:53.520 Politics is downstream of culture.
00:47:55.620 The economy is downstream of culture for that matter.
00:47:57.960 And so run on the economy, sure, but run on these things too.
00:48:01.240 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.
00:48:10.100 This is my, that's my gut feeling.
00:48:12.360 My gut feeling is we're going to be in for a lot of surprises.
00:48:15.480 It could all go wrong.
00:48:16.900 There is some polling that shows that Beto O'Rourke is neck and neck with Cruz.
00:48:21.160 I don't believe that polling for a second.
00:48:22.840 I think it's polling designed to manipulate public opinion.
00:48:25.600 I think Cruz is going to be fine, but Republicans have to go out there and vote.
00:48:28.620 The reason you have to go out there and vote is because we will bathe in leftist tears and it will be absolutely delightful.
00:48:33.780 But I think we could be really in for a surprise.
00:48:35.720 I think it will be close elections, but the sum total of all those close elections could be excellent news for Republicans.
00:48:42.800 And we'll see what happens tomorrow.
00:48:44.700 We'll have a few, a little bit of last minute analysis tomorrow and then stick with us during all the coverage.
00:48:49.340 Okay, until then, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:48:50.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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