Ep. 614 - The Dying Wish Doctrine
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87, but according to several highly reputable sources in the mainstream media, the late justice has never felt better and fully intends to finish the Court s term. We ll get into all of the lies that are being told right now about what this means for the Supreme Court, and what this could mean for the election cycle.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87, but according to several
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highly reputable sources in the mainstream media, the late justice has never felt better
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and fully intends to finish out the court's term. If you thought 2020 had reached peak
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madness, buckle up. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Biggest news that could have possibly happened just about
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in the 2020 election cycle has happened. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. You know,
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the mainstream media have been saying now for years and years after this woman has battled all
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sorts of cancers and she was obviously up there in age, they keep saying, oh, she's doing great.
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She's fine. Not a worry at all. But, but of course they, they can't continue to keep making that
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protestation and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has gone to her eternal rest and we have gone to our eternal
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unrest in the madness that will follow. We will get into all of the many lies that are being told right
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now about what, what this means for the court, what this means for the election cycle. First,
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my favorite comment from Thursday. This is from GS on YouTube. I don't think China is who Hollywood
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has sold its soul to. That's true. That's true. It's not just China. China is a sort of stand in.
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There is also a moral and a philosophical dimension here as well. And you see that actually,
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that same sort of thing at play in the Supreme court. RBG is gone and the Democrats are threatening
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civil war. This from Bo Willimon. Uh, he's some show business blue check. He says, quote,
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we're shutting this country down. If Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before
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the election, well, jokes on you, Bo, you already shut this country down. You shut it down six months
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ago over the China virus. And really just because orange man is bad. And you, you guys all thought
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that by shutting down the country and driving everybody crazy and crashing the economy,
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you'd have a better chance of winning the election. So now, now that you want to do it over a court
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vacancy, you can't because you've already done a former CNN host and noted cannibal Reza Aslan tweets
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out. If they even try to replace RBG, we burn the entire effing thing down. Once again, Mr. Aslan jokes on
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you. You've already been burning the country down for six months. Listen to this madness. If they try to
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fill a court vacancy, if they try to do one of the basic functions of government that the Constitution
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tells the president and the Senate to do, they will burn the country down. Well, of course, they're willing
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to burn the country down over anything. They're willing to burn the country down over justified use of
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police force. They're willing to burn the country down over the election of a Republican president.
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They're willing to burn the country down over just about anything. Many others are threatening
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violence. That's a bad reaction to Justice Ginsburg's death. How about a decent reaction for that? We turn
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to President Trump, who was giving a rally when the justice passed away, when the news broke. And so he
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was asked, he was sort of told of this news for the first time by a reporter. Everyone is a little
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nervous. You know, sometimes President Trump can speak off the cuff and it gets, it's a little
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impolitic, but I have to tell you, he handled this beautifully.
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I didn't know that. I just, you're telling me now for the first time.
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She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman. Whether you agreed or not,
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she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear
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Perfect response from the president of the United States. The fact that you had Elton John playing
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in the background after this rally, it just makes it all the more cinematic. Hold me close. And he's
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there. It gives us very empathetic, or at least sympathetic response. So that was great. How
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should the rest of us react? I was actually doing a radio interview when this news broke. So I didn't
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have any time to think of it either. And I was asked, breaking news, the justices died. What's your
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take? First reaction is we should pray for Justice Ginsburg's soul. We should pray that she gets to go see
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her old buddy Nino Scalia again. Don't forget Antonin Scalia, who we all love. His best friend
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on the court was Ruth Ginsburg. And so we should pray for her because now she's gone and hopefully
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she gets to see her buddy again. I don't think we need to sugarcoat this. I've seen some conservatives
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come out and say, oh wow, we all need to be like Ginsburg. She was notorious. She was so wonderful.
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She was so great. You don't, you don't need to say that she stood for very bad things on the court.
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And we don't need to pretend that all of a sudden now we agree with those things. She, she certainly
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lasted a long time and she, she certainly had some good opinions and, and she had as a matter
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of judicial opinions, mostly bad opinions, but, but you know, she's still a human being and we
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should pray for her when she dies. Some people are saying this is a tragedy, that it's a tragedy
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that Ginsburg has died. It's not a tragedy when a woman dies at the age of 87, having a
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accomplished everything in her life that she's wanted to accomplish. That's not a tragedy.
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It's a tragedy when a little kid gets an illness and dies. It's not a tragedy when someone lives
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their natural life and has a life that they're happy about. Really the only tragedy that Ruth
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Ginsburg endured is that the Democrats were so hell bent on killing babies that they wouldn't
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let this poor woman retire. That's the tragedy. This woman didn't get two seconds of retirement
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because the Democrats were so intent on keeping one very bad court decision, Roe versus Wade in play
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here. It shows you how weak that Roe v Wade decision is because that's what all of this is about. That's
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what the whole thing is about is Roe versus Wade, which in 1973 invented the fictional constitutional right
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to kill a baby in his mother's womb. And because there's obviously no constitutional basis for that
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right whatsoever, the courts have become hyper politicized. This isn't about any other issues.
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Obamacare, redefining marriage, even really intense issues. No, those aren't threatened at all by these
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courts. It's just Roe versus Wade. When Democrats are threatening to burn down the country right now,
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Reza Aslan and Bo Williman and all these people, they're threatening to burn it down if the right
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to kill a baby in his mother's womb is ever even remotely threatened. Consider, that's amazing.
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That's an amazing fact. That shows you that sometimes bad ideas drive people mad or maybe spiritual things
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drive people mad and it leads them to bad ideas. So it's not tragic that Ruth Ginsburg died, but it is
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still sad and we should still pray for her. I'm seeing some other people now come out and say,
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we, who cares about Ruth Ginsburg? No, we, we should care because in the words of John Donne,
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any man's death diminishes me because I am a part of mankind, right? So therefore never send for whom
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the bell tolls, it tolls for me. We should pray. It's a nice thing to do. And we should move on now
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and look at the political realities of this court. We've been told that Ruth Ginsburg's dying wish
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was that no conservative gets to replace her. It was her dying wish. Well, I'm, I'd like to grant
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people's dying wish, but that's one I don't think we can grant. We'll get to that in one second.
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Write in Knowles so they know we sent you. According to many Democrats, I don't even know if this
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is true. Poor RBG has been so exploited, particularly in her latter years by the left,
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that we don't even really know if this is true or not. But we're told her dying wish
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is that Trump not replace her. AOC, I don't know, I guess she has some inside knowledge here,
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delivers that final message. The very last dying wish of RBG was that her vacancy not be filled until
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the new president takes office in January. That was her dying wish. Tonight, Mitch McConnell publicly
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the night of her passing, he couldn't wait 24 hours, issued a statement saying that he was going
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to give Trump a vote in violation of her dying wish. People can say how appalling, people could say this is
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horrible, etc. But we know who this man is. We know who this man is. This is a man who does not care
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about a dying woman's final wish. Clearly. Hashtag me too. I do not care about this dying wish.
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I certainly, I certainly do not care that this justice who I'll take Scalia at his word. Maybe
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she was a very nice lady, but she was hyper, hyper partisan. And I don't care that she allegedly said
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this very partisan thing at the end of her life. I'll tell you what I heard. Here's just what I heard.
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And who knows if it's true. I just heard it. That Antonin Scalia's dying wish was that Roe versus
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Wade be overturned. So are you really going to deny the man his dying wish? Look, it's his dying wish.
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He said it. It's in the constitution. It's right there in one of the penumbra's and the emanations,
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the dying wish doctrine that if someone on the court wants anything at the end of their life,
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you have to give it to them. So look, that's, I'm pretty sure that's what also Scalia said that
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the treasury should give me at least four to $10 million. I remember, I heard it from somebody said
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it and you know, it's in the penumbra's. So anyway, give me, give me my money, please. Not how our
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constitution works, huh? There is lots of confusion about how our constitution works. Even some Republicans
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like Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins now want to honor RBG's wish and not confirm a
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judge. I will take you through in a whirlwind. I will take you through all of the ridiculous and
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dishonest arguments going on right now about whether or not we should fill the court seat.
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Just to give you the top line view, should we fill the vacancy? Yes,
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of course we should fill the vacancy. This is going to be a very bad faith fight with a lot of
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bad faith arguments, including from some people on the right. In the midst of all this political
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posturing, everybody is missing the point. So the first argument, this is the first point that the
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Democrats are making. Bill Clinton just made it the other day. It's that Mitch McConnell would be a
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hypocrite to fill this seat in an election year after he refused to fill Antonin Scalia's seat with
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Obama's appointee during 2016. We're really close to the election. And let's remember the example
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Abraham Lincoln set. And let's remember the commitments and the comments Mitch McConnell made.
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I think it would be good for Senator McConnell to make him feel better when he gets up in the morning.
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If he if he proved that he wasn't being a hypocrite at the time and he just stuck with his position.
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And I think all the other Republicans could should be asked to do the same. But, you know,
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you can't keep a democracy if there's one set of rules for one group and another set for everybody else.
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You heard it from old Bubba himself, who definitely would never play by a different set of rules than
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his political opponents, right? No, not Bill Clinton. You kidding me? The Clintons?
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They could never be hypocritical. But that's the that's the point they're making. I don't even
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I'm not even going to get into the Clintons today. The point they're making is Mitch McConnell's a
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hypocrite because he wouldn't he wouldn't fill the seat in 2016, but he wants to fill it now.
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Well, OK, what did Mitch McConnell say? What precisely is the McConnell rule from 2016?
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It's campaign season. We're right in the middle of it.
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Been more than 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy arose and was filled in a presidential election year.
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It will not be hearings or votes. The next president, whoever that may be,
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is going to be the person who chooses the next Supreme Court justice.
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Boom. He's a hypocrite. He's a hypocrite, right? He has to be because he wouldn't fill the seat in 2016,
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but he wants to fill it now. That's the McConnell rule, except is that the eternal McConnell rule
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that you can't ever fill a court seat during an election year? Or was that a rule specific to that
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time? Well, it gets a little more complicated because at the time in 2016, Democrats were
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lambasting McConnell for not filling that seat, except do you know where McConnell got that rule
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right? Because he wouldn't fill the seat then and he wants to fill the seat now.
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But he was evil then. Remember, they were all upset that he wouldn't fill the seat then. So
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then by their logic, shouldn't, shouldn't they be excited that we're going to fill the seat now?
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Well, I don't know because the McConnell rule actually comes from the Biden rule, which was given
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back in 1992, where Joe Biden said, absolutely not under no circumstances should the president put
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forth the nominee. Now, why did he say that? Because there was a Republican president who
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would be picking the nominee. It is my view that if a Supreme Court justice resigns tomorrow or within
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the next several weeks or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following
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the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not, and not name a nominee until after the
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November election is completed, the Senate too, Mr. President, must consider how it would respond
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to a Supreme Court vacancy that would occur in the full throes of an election year. It is my view
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that if the president goes the way of Presidents Fillmore and Johnson and presses an election year
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nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation
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hearings on the nomination until ever, until after the political campaign season is over.
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Okay, now this is getting really complicated because it turns out that that McConnell rule in 2016
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that the Democrats were so upset about was actually invented by Joe Biden, who's the guy that they just
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picked to be their nominee for president this year. So to put it into perspective, you've got on the
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side of do not appoint a judge nominee in an election year, you've got Biden in 92 and McConnell in 2016.
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And then on the side of appoint a judge in an election year, you've got McConnell in 2020. But it gets
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even more complicated than that because it turns out that Joe Biden after 2016, Joe Biden in 2020 is
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for confirming a judge in an election year. Here is, here is Joe, I guess not Joe Biden in 2020 because Joe
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Biden's changed his tune again, but this is now Joe Biden, not in 1992, after the Merrick Garland fiasco
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saying, yes, they should have confirmed a judge.
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I made it absolutely clear that I would go forward with the confirmation progress process as chairman, even a few months
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before presidential election. If the nominee were chosen with the advice and not merely the consent
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of the Senate, just as the constitution requires, just as the constitution requires president can put
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forth a nominee and that's great. We'll have him. So I'm sorry to keep you spinning in a whirlwind
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of changing opinions. Biden 92, don't put a judge on the court. Biden 2016, 2017, yes, put a judge on
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the court. McConnell back in 2016, do not put the judge on the court. McConnell 2020, put the judge
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on the court. Democrats now saying, absolutely, you cannot put the judge on the court in an election
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year. Democrats in 2016, all of the top Democrats in 2016, you must put the judge on the court.
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The American people deserve a fully staffed court of nine. The president nominates and then the Senate
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advises and consents or not, but they go forward with the process. What we're seeing here, and I hope
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this is temporary, is a disrespect for the constitution. The constitution is 100% clear. The president of the
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United States has the right to nominate someone to be a justice of the Supreme Court. Senate's function
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is to hold hearings and to vote. The blockade on filling a naturally occurring vacancy, in my view,
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is harmful to the independence of the article three branch. You cannot keep a seat on the Supreme Court,
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which represents all of us. You cannot keep it vacant against the constitution. Do pretty much
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everything they can to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of our democratically elected
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president. The American people expect the president's nominee to be given a fair hearing and a timely vote
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in the Senate. Every day that goes by without a ninth justice is another day the American people's
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business is not getting done. Oh, I love that symphony. I love that symphony because you have every top
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Democrat in 2016 making the opposite argument than they are making right now. And sure, maybe McConnell's
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doing that a little bit too, and Joe Biden's done it multiple times, totally swinging from side to side.
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Does this mean that they're hypocrites? No, it means they're very funny. It means they're very funny
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people, and it means that some of them are unserious people, but it does not actually mean that
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they're hypocrites. At least McConnell's not a hypocrite. The people trying to make the eternal
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arguments, universal, here's the rule for all time. There's a little hypocrisy there, but the people
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making the argument, no, in this election year, we shouldn't put up a judge. In this election year,
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maybe we should put up a judge. That's not hypocritical. That is about power. This is a very
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simple issue. The constitution says that the president has the right to put forward a judge nominee.
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The Senate has the right to advise and consent to or reject that nominee. And then when they
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consent to it, the judge is put on the court. Very simple. There is nothing complicated about
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that. There is nothing controversial about that. Anybody who is trying to tell you that this is
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complicated or controversial is deceiving you or deceiving themselves. So what changes? Well,
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what changes is power. Right now, we have a Republican president and a Republican Senate.
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So we can probably, maybe, except the Republicans are so useless, but we can maybe get a judge nominee
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through. Good. 2016, you had a Democrat president, a Republican Senate. They weren't going to get a
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judge nominee through. Okay, cool. Great. That's power. That's how it works. There's nothing
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hypocritical about elected politicians using the power entrusted in them by the people according to
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the constitution. Nothing hypocritical at all. All about power. There is a kind of funny coincidence here,
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which is that this brutal confirmation process for the Supreme court was a very modern thing.
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And it is in part, Joe Biden's legacy. It's Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden, Joe Biden with Clarence
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Thomas, Ted Kennedy with judge Borg. And it's all about Roe v. Wade. It's all about abortion. This
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started when conservative judge Borg was being put up for the court in the 1980s. And Kennedy used in
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particular, the issue of abortion to demagogue the issue. In Robert Borg's America, there is no room
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at the end for blacks and no place in the constitution for women. And in our America,
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there should be no seat on the Supreme court for Robert Borg. Mr. Borg has been equally extreme in his
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opposition to the right to privacy. In an article in 1971, he said in effect that a husband and wife
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have no greater right to privacy under the constitution than a smokestack has to pollute
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the air. This was unprecedented in Supreme court nominations where you have this, this murderer,
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Ted Kennedy. That's not, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable, right? That Ted Kennedy, this womanizing
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drunk killer of his mistress comes out and calls a judge Borg, an absolutely upright man,
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some sort of a sexist. That's a beautiful thing in that it's so hilarious. It's so outrageous.
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That, you know, it, it strains credulity. He calls him a racist too. Of course, you're going to call
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him all these things. And he shoots down the nomination of a qualified guy. These judges used
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to sail through. They'd be confirmed unanimously. But because in particular, the issue of Roe v. Wade
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was decided on such preposterous constitutional grounds, they now need to have their own hyper-partisans
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in the mold of Breyer or Ginsburg or any of these other people to be put on the bench to protect
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that fictional right. And they do it and they do it. And instead of Borg, we got Kennedy and Kennedy
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became a liberal and threw our jurisprudence into absolute madness. Biden tried to do this
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to Clarence Thomas when, when he was nominated by George H.W. Bush. He tried to do it to Thomas.
00:25:15.180
Fortunately, Thomas was a bit quicker on his feet. He was a little more clever, totally shut it down.
00:25:20.760
The committee will please come to order. Judge, it's a tough day and tough night for you, I
00:25:31.640
know. Let me ask, do you have anything you'd like to say before we begin?
00:25:36.880
This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American,
00:25:45.480
as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think
00:25:53.260
for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. And it is a message that unless
00:26:01.120
you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed,
00:26:09.620
caricatured by a committee of the U.S., U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.
00:26:20.220
You know, you can't see it in that particular clip, but you can see it in others. The minute
00:26:25.020
that Clarence Thomas brings this point up, the high-tech lynching point, Joe Biden, who's
00:26:31.840
chairing the committee, his head goes right down and goes, oh, shoot. We're the only ones who are
00:26:36.040
supposed to play the race card. The race card's for Democrats. Republicans can't play the race
00:26:39.600
card. Ah, darn. Guess we're going to have to let this guy through, huh? It's a beautiful,
00:26:45.260
you should watch the entire statement that Clarence Thomas gives. At that point there at
00:26:49.820
the end, he goes, this is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think
00:26:52.600
for themselves. And they'll be lynched by a committee of the Senate rather than hung from
00:26:56.800
a tree. Guess what happened? Then they confirmed him. Didn't work. This was the moment that Andrew
00:27:01.520
Breitbart says made him conservative. It radicalized him because he saw that even more than the
00:27:09.000
borking what they would do to any conservative who threatened the liberal regime of completely
00:27:16.380
imaginary constitutional rights that was subverting our constitution. So Democrats did this. Joe
00:27:22.580
Biden in particular did this. They've been doing it for over 40 years. Republicans have
00:27:26.180
never done this. We've never done this to any Democratic judicial nominee. Part of me is
00:27:32.360
hoping that Trump will nominate Merrick Garland just so that the Democrats will be forced to
00:27:38.100
call him a rapist because that's the new thing. Now, if you, if you're put up for the Supreme
00:27:41.700
Court, you're called a rapist. That's the rule. They'll do it to any, they'll probably do it to
00:27:46.200
Amy Barrett. Amy Barrett is now considered to be the leading contender to replace Ruth Ginsburg.
00:27:52.840
We'll get into that in one second. We'll get into who and how we should fill this vacancy.
00:27:57.880
Lots of, lots of takes from the left that are actually the opposite of, of the reality. It tells us a lot
00:28:04.200
more about the left-wing view of women and the judiciary than the conservative view, which we'll
00:28:10.200
get into in one second. But first, if you watch this podcast on YouTube, you got to know that on
00:28:14.180
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00:28:19.880
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00:28:23.320
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00:28:31.640
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00:29:01.640
Should we fill the vacancy? Absolutely. Should we get rid of the filibuster to do it? Absolutely.
00:29:12.640
One issue now is that we have this rule called the filibuster, which means you need 60 votes to
00:29:16.500
get anything done, not a simple majority. Should we get rid of it? Yes. The filibuster is not part
00:29:21.520
of the constitution. It's only been theoretically possible since 1806. It's only been used since the
00:29:27.460
mid 18th, 19th century. It's only really been used in earnest since the 1970s. And Harry Reid and the
00:29:34.400
Democrats got rid of it for most appointees, executive and judicial back in 2013. And McConnell
00:29:39.280
warned him. He said, don't do this. You're going to regret it. Well, now's the time for it to be
00:29:43.500
regretted by the Democrats. They're already promising to get rid of it. If they come to power,
00:29:47.120
we won't get any cookies or brownie points for maintaining this tradition and, and tying one arm
00:29:52.280
behind our back. So yeah, absolutely. A hundred percent fill the post. Question is who should it
00:29:57.440
be? The leading contender right now, Amy Coney Barrett. Three words that strike fear under the
00:30:05.140
heart of the liberals. Who is Amy Barrett? She's an appeals court judge. She's a mother of seven,
00:30:10.540
five biological children, two adopted children from Haiti. She's a law professor, obviously qualified.
00:30:16.140
We don't know much about her judicial philosophy, actually. We know she clerked for Scalia, but you know,
00:30:20.920
she's young. She's been on the bench not too long. Still the left hates her guts. Why? Two big reasons.
00:30:26.400
First one, they hate her primarily because she's Catholic. Here is Senator Democrat Dianne Feinstein
00:30:32.880
lambasting her because the Catholic dogma lives loudly within her. When you read your speeches,
00:30:41.180
the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.
00:30:50.920
And that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for
00:31:02.880
It's a big concern because Catholics aren't allowed on the Supreme Court because our constitution
00:31:09.120
establishes a religious test for president and you need to belong to the religion of secular
00:31:13.700
liberalism. You can't possibly be a Christian. That would be un-American.
00:31:17.500
That's the argument she's making. Luckily, Dianne Feinstein is far too ignorant to know that that's
00:31:23.900
the argument that she's making, but it's a deeply anti-American argument. The things she's saying
00:31:29.300
right there violate the constitution. Even asking those questions is a violation of the constitution.
00:31:37.260
Dick Durbin, another leading Democrat, a little bit quicker on his feet than Dianne Feinstein,
00:31:44.600
You use a term in that article, or you both use a term in that article I'd never seen before.
00:31:49.320
You refer to Orthodox Catholics. What's an Orthodox Catholic?
00:31:53.020
As I recall, that term, we said something like, for lack of a better term, we're using the term
00:32:00.900
Orthodox Catholic, and there was a long footnote saying that that was an imperfect term. It could
00:32:07.260
refer to Orthodox Judaism, Greek Orthodox, and so we kind of cast about, but what that term was designed
00:32:13.880
to capture, because we were talking about conscientious objection, was a judge who accepted the church's
00:32:22.040
teaching that the death penalty would be impermissible in that case.
00:32:27.660
I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin. I don't, well, Orthodox Catholic, we kind of, as I said in that
00:32:33.800
article, we just kind of use that as a proxy. It is not, to my knowledge, you know, a term
00:32:39.300
Curlian used, but if you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic,
00:32:43.600
I am, although I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would
00:32:49.740
not bear on the discharge of my duties as a judge. She gave a very long judicial sort of
00:32:56.320
judicious answer here, but a simpler answer is, what do you mean you've never heard of Orthodox
00:33:03.500
Catholic? Dick Durbin is not a stupid man. He said, I've never heard that Orthodox Catholic.
00:33:09.840
Well, let me spell it out for you, Senator Durbin. Orthodox, meaning you actually believe the things
00:33:15.520
that you say that you believe. Catholic, meaning you're a Catholic. You're part of the Catholic
00:33:20.680
Church. You could be a heterodox Catholic, meaning you consider yourself a Catholic, but you don't
00:33:26.080
believe the things that the Catholic Church believes. You could be a heretic, a heretical
00:33:30.640
Catholic. You could openly preach things against what the Catholic Church teaches, even though you
00:33:35.200
consider yourself a Catholic, or you can be an Orthodox Catholic and actually believe the things that
00:33:39.280
the Catholic Church teaches. And that's the issue here, because when Democrats use the term
00:33:43.940
Catholic, they say, I'm a devout Catholic. My Catholic faith is important to me. What they
00:33:48.100
really mean is, I have Christmas dinner. I maybe go to mass sometimes if I want to.
00:33:57.240
That's what they mean. Joe Biden's a devout Catholic. He thinks that taxpayers should, should pay to kill
00:34:02.840
babies in the womb up until the moment of birth, but he's a, which, which Catholics are not permitted
00:34:07.280
to believe, but you know, he's a devout Catholic. Some Democrats say, yeah, I support socialism,
00:34:12.780
but I'm a devout Catholic. You're not allowed to be a socialist if you're a Catholic. So what they
00:34:17.920
mean by devout Catholic is they think that religion is this kind of little ornament and it's the sweet
00:34:23.060
little thing that maybe you do in the privacy of your own home because you're afraid of the dark and
00:34:26.940
it's a little superstition like knocking on wood or, or any other superstition, but you don't take it
00:34:32.620
seriously. You don't think it means anything. You certainly don't believe all that crazy stuff that
00:34:38.040
those churches say. And the Democrats are shocked to find a woman who is intelligent, who is articulate,
00:34:45.220
who is accomplished, who actually thinks it's true. And now there are a lot of Catholics and,
00:34:53.260
and, and Christians and people who think this way, but the Democrats don't meet them. They're always
00:34:58.900
shocked. They say, you don't, you couldn't possibly believe that stuff. So that's the first reason they
00:35:02.940
hate her. Second reason they hate her is because she disproves all their stupid theories about how
00:35:08.040
to be. On paper, she is everything a woman should be or could be. The left always says women can have
00:35:17.340
it all. Right. And usually what that means is that women should go and delay getting married and delay
00:35:23.360
having children and just work for the widget factory. And you know, they should go cut their hair and they
00:35:29.280
should go only vote for Democrats and they should have lots of abortions and they should, uh, I don't
00:35:34.700
know what are all the, I'm trying to mix the high and the low, you know, you should get like stupid,
00:35:39.140
like really like ugly haircuts. Like, do you remember that thing that the Democrats were doing
00:35:43.500
years ago? The feminist women were doing, it's like, it is very unpleasant. And the very important
00:35:49.380
things like they should engage in abortion or they should form families in a certain way or this or that
00:35:55.380
or this or that. That's what the Democrats say. You can, you can have it all. That's the promise
00:36:01.660
that you can have a career, have a family, have kids, do all these things you want. Usually it
00:36:09.000
doesn't work out that way. So you have to fall into one, one camp or the other. But for Amy Barrett,
00:36:14.100
it did work out that way. She had five biological kids. She then adopted two children from Haiti.
00:36:19.980
They'll find some way to call her a racist. I'm sure she found a way to have this incredibly
00:36:23.820
incredibly successful legal career. And yet they still hate her. How do they hate her?
00:36:30.780
She did what most of them never could do. She had it all. Well, it's because she doesn't think the
00:36:36.400
way that they do. New York times runs a piece to conservatives. Barrett has perfect combination
00:36:41.880
of attributes for the Supreme court. Maybe that's true for conservatives, but actually it's more true
00:36:48.380
for liberals. The headline should read to liberals. Barrett has the perfect combination of attributes for
00:36:53.080
the Supreme court. She is a woman and they think that a woman needs to replace Ruth Ginsburg.
00:36:58.560
She's has it all. She has had this great career, but she hasn't had to sacrifice in her personal life
00:37:04.180
or not at least that we can see. She checks all of these kinds of boxes, right? I don't care that
00:37:12.300
Amy Barrett's a woman. I don't think a woman needs to replace RBG on the Supreme court. I don't think a
00:37:17.720
woman needs to have it all, you know, needs to have this very intense career and have a total family
00:37:22.320
life. I don't, I don't think you have to do that, but they do. And she did it, but she doesn't think
00:37:29.020
the way that they think. So now all of a sudden they hate her. They're going to try to kick her out.
00:37:38.940
We absolutely should push her through if for no other reason than to trigger the libs. It'll be very,
00:37:43.500
very funny. Also, the reason we need to push her through, I think we should all get on board. If
00:37:48.680
it's her, it might be, so there are a couple other people who are being talked about. She's the leading
00:37:51.340
contender right now, but the reason we need to push through this nominee, if the nominee is in
00:37:56.160
any way acceptable to conservatives is because we're in a bare knuckle moment of politics right
00:38:00.240
now. We're not in a nice deliberative moment of politics where all these judicial nominees get
00:38:05.140
unanimously confirmed. That's gone. And the Democrats ruin that. And so we've got to play.
00:38:09.700
We've got to participate in the politics that we actually have. This is bare knuckle stuff. Right
00:38:16.100
now there's a poll out that just, just 22% of Americans believe that this year's presidential
00:38:21.900
election will be free and fair. This according to Yahoo News and YouGov. 22%, little over one in five
00:38:27.520
Americans think the election will be free and fair. Half of Trump supporters say the election will not be
00:38:33.840
free and fair. More than a third of Biden supporters agree it will not be free and fair.
00:38:38.420
It's about 46% say that the election will not be free and fair, which is more than twice the
00:38:46.580
percentage of Americans who say that it will be. You're now at a place where a small number of
00:38:54.980
Americans have faith in that institution of our free elections. So now you've got to exercise power in
00:39:02.220
a way that's a little less subtle than perhaps you would in the past, in the past. Part of the reason
00:39:07.480
why I think Americans don't believe all this stuff is that everything seems fake right now. The lockdown
00:39:15.020
has really contributed to this. There are a lot of reasons why we don't have faith in our institutions
00:39:18.380
anymore. But one reason I haven't heard people talk about, and it does come from COVID, is the degree
00:39:24.140
to which now everything is virtual. Everything is digital. The Emmys were last night. I know that nobody
00:39:28.960
watched it. But what was so weird about the Emmys is that the Emmys didn't really take place.
00:39:35.920
It looked like they took place, but they didn't. What happened was the Emmys used Jimmy Kimmel on a
00:39:44.100
green screen to host the thing and then cut to footage from past years to make it seem like people
00:39:49.740
were laughing at the jokes he made. The jokes weren't that funny. The way you knew there was a
00:39:53.680
laugh track is that people were laughing at it. It sounded like people were laughing at them. So,
00:39:57.260
you know, that couldn't possibly have happened. The whole thing was just a weird virtual award show.
00:40:14.440
Well, hello and welcome to the pandemys. Wow. It's great to finally see people again. Thank you for
00:40:23.780
risking everything to be here. Thank me for risking everything to be here. You know what they say?
00:40:29.640
You can't have a virus without a host. The big question that I guess we should answer is,
00:40:36.200
why would you have an award show in the middle of a pandemic? No, seriously, I'm asking,
00:40:42.580
why are we having an award show in the middle of a pandemic?
00:40:44.880
And what the hell am I doing here? This is the year they decide they have to have a host?
00:40:54.500
A lot of groaners in Jimmy's monologue was not very good. And then you're looking out in the
00:40:59.020
crowd, you say, wait, none of them are wearing masks. Wait, they're all together. Wait,
00:41:01.420
they're laughing at those dumb jokes. Oh, because it's all fake. The whole thing is fake. And so
00:41:05.940
this is a problem. It's not Jimmy Kimmel's fault necessarily, or the Emmys. This is one that has
00:41:10.640
grown over time. And it's not even our politicians' fault. It's actually a technological problem.
00:41:19.260
I was reading an article about deep fakes the other day, deep fake photos and videos where it
00:41:24.880
looks like someone is saying something that they aren't actually saying. And part of me actually
00:41:29.640
welcomes this into politics because now we live in such a gotcha moment of politics that I think it
00:41:34.760
would actually maybe help our politics if we can't trust video as much. Video footage, you know,
00:41:40.860
and just say like, I don't know, maybe that's real, maybe that's not real. We'd have to start
00:41:43.940
actually listening to the arguments that our politicians are making and looking at their
00:41:47.540
actual records rather than just these kind of silly gotcha moments. But one effect of this
00:41:54.360
technology is we don't trust reality anymore. We don't trust even things that we see with our own
00:42:02.500
eyes because we know that they can be manipulated like the Emmys or even like our politicians,
00:42:05.900
because it's not just the Emmys that was glitching out. It's Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi was giving an
00:42:11.140
interview on ABC News and halfway through the interview, it seems like her brain just melted
00:42:16.680
and she didn't know what to say. And she kind of glitched out for a second. Then they got the
00:42:19.860
wires working again and she continued. Ten states, as I said, on Friday, I started their early
00:42:26.700
voting the day that we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But to be clear, you're not taking any arrows
00:42:32.400
out of your quiver. You're not ruling anything out.
00:42:36.800
Good morning. Sunday morning. We have a responsibility. We take an oath to protect
00:42:45.320
and defend the Constitution of the United States. You're going to look at George Stephanopoulos
00:42:50.580
doing the interview. He's obviously a Clinton spokesman. He's a Democrat flack. And even he's
00:42:57.020
looking at her, he's like, what did I just witness? What happened to you? She just kind of totally
00:43:05.080
glitches out for about 10 seconds in there and then gets back into it. So we think, okay, I can't trust
00:43:10.520
what I see on video. I can't trust that these politicians are at all with it. They're completely,
00:43:15.860
it's like they're, they're not even alive. It's like they're just, we're relying on these people who
00:43:23.600
have been in public life now for 750 years, who, who seem to have a very tenuous grasp on reality.
00:43:30.220
So we can't trust them to make persuasive arguments more and more. This is just a
00:43:35.100
bare knuckle brawl for interests. And then you have the democratic nominee for president who probably
00:43:39.320
has the least solid grasp on reality. Just gave a speech about the coronavirus in which he said that
00:43:46.520
two-thirds of the country was about to die. It's estimated that 200 million people have died
00:43:52.580
probably by the time I finish this talk. The complication of COVID-19, like lung scarring and heart
00:44:02.100
damage, could become the next deniable pre-existing condition for over 6 million Americans.
00:44:11.540
200 millions are going to die before Joe Biden finishes speaking. That's two-thirds of the
00:44:16.980
country. I've got a 67% chance of dying. Goodbye, cruel world. Goodbye. I thought that I had a 99.7%
00:44:23.860
chance of survival, even if I got the virus, but turns out just a regular Joe on the street
00:44:29.100
has a two-thirds chance of dying. Of course, that is not true. Joe Biden was off by several numbers,
00:44:35.740
mathematics, critical thought, economics never has been the Democrats' strong suit.
00:44:41.540
Obviously, he's not with it either. So you look around and you just say, gosh, nobody
00:44:45.880
is even capable of making arguments right now that could allow us to use reason and use prudence
00:44:55.020
to govern ourselves as our constitution was intended. And there's a deeper problem too
00:45:00.340
that goes to Trevor Noah. A lot of problems go to Trevor Noah. He's the guy who took over the Daily
00:45:06.160
Show after John Stewart and then everybody stopped watching him. Trevor Noah said something on his show.
00:45:10.880
A few weeks ago. And all this RBG court talk has brought it back to me, which is Trevor Noah was
00:45:22.200
talking about the wildfires and how the wildfires in the West were started by a gender reveal party.
00:45:27.300
And he made a joke about the gender reveal party. But what was so weird about it was
00:45:31.500
the basis of the joke was not common sense. Usually, usually what would happen is you're making
00:45:39.100
a joke and the joke is something bizarre and fantastical. That's what the setup is. And then
00:45:44.620
the punchline brings you back to common sense. But with Trevor Noah's joke, the punchline was
00:45:49.560
that gender is socially constructed and we won't know somebody's gender until they're 18 or so.
00:45:55.580
The premise of the joke, the setup was actually the common sense and the punchline was bizarro world.
00:46:02.160
It was an inversion of a normal joke. Take a listen.
00:46:05.120
Guys, this has to stop, right? Or at least if you insist on a gender reveal,
00:46:09.580
you should do something that helps the situation. The water's pink. It's a girl.
00:46:14.860
And aside from all the damage it can cause, celebrating a baby's genitalia is starting to
00:46:19.520
feel very outdated. Like, given everything we're learning about gender, gender reveal parties
00:46:25.240
should only happen when the child is old enough to know their actual gender and to pitch in some
00:46:31.300
cash for the fire damage. So he gets that little, like, little jokey bit in at the very end, which
00:46:38.060
is, yeah, and they've got to be able to pitch in cash too. But he's dead serious when he says we
00:46:42.240
should hold off on gender reveals until the kid is old enough to choose his own gender.
00:46:46.320
So you're now flipping a joke, but not to him, because to him, that's common sense to a lot of
00:46:53.360
people in the country. Maybe not a lot, maybe not half the country, but let's say a third or so
00:46:57.080
of these hardened left wingers seriously believe that you can't tell if a baby is a boy or a girl
00:47:03.760
at birth, that you have to wait until they decide whether they're boys or girls and maybe they're
00:47:08.320
boys and they become girls or vice versa. And what that shows you is the country is more divided
00:47:15.800
than we have ever been more divided than we were at the time of slavery, more divided than we were
00:47:22.140
at the time of the civil war. The issue of slavery was practically a much tougher issue than the issue
00:47:29.800
of gender or whatever, right? Because you're actually talking about all of these Americans
00:47:33.560
held in bondage. But the division over slavery was, it was a division over a group of people.
00:47:40.180
It wasn't, it was a division basically over if someone is a man or not a man, but it wasn't a
00:47:45.800
division over essentially what a man is or is not. The, the, the issue of, of the civil war,
00:47:55.600
the issue of whether or not a certain group of people qualifies into humanity is a specific
00:48:02.420
problem because some people didn't recognize humanity in a, in a whole swath of the earth's
00:48:06.140
population. But now what we're talking about is people don't recognize humanity at all. They
00:48:11.800
don't recognize human nature at all. That's a much deeper divide. So I don't see any way to bridge
00:48:17.360
that. Now, if you, if you've got a huge number of political activists saying they're going to burn
00:48:22.480
the country down if you in any way threaten their right to kill a baby in the womb, that's not
00:48:27.260
recognizing human nature. That's not, that's, that's not recognizing humanity at all. If you've got
00:48:34.020
people in this country who don't believe that there's such a thing as sex, so fundamental to
00:48:38.100
our human nature, how do you bridge that? Who, how do you have a self-governing republic? How do you
00:48:42.320
make persuasive arguments when you preclude the possibility of logical argument? Then you just have
00:48:47.880
a bare knuckle brawl. And that's what we've been seeing for the past six months in this country.
00:48:52.460
Something tells me it's only going to get crazier at least through election day, probably afterward as
00:48:57.520
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00:49:04.020
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Ben Davies. Executive producer, Jeremy Boring. Our technical
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director is Austin Stevens. Supervising producers, Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling. Assistant
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director, Pavel Wadowski. Editor and associate producer, Danny D'Amico. Audio mixer, Robin Fenderson.
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Hair and makeup, Nika Geneva. And production assistant, Ryan Love. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire
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production. Copyright Daily Wire 2020. You know, The Matt Walsh Show, it's not just another show about
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politics. I think there are enough of those already out there. We talk about culture because culture
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drives politics and it drives everything else. So my main focuses are life, family, faith. Those are
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fundamental. And that's what this show is about. I hope you'll give it a listen.