Ep 304 ｜ RBG and the Fight for SCOTUS
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Supreme Court Justice who served as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and was a fierce advocate for women's equal pay and equal rights. She was also a fierce opponent of abortion and fought for equal pay for women. Her death has been widely hailed as a hero by the right and a villain by the left. What does this have to do with theology?
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone has had a great week so far.
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If you have not listened to Monday's episode, we covered foreign policy. So that means that
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we talked about those Middle East peace treaties that Donald Trump has recently accomplished.
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And so if you have been wondering about that, if you've been wondering what those actually mean,
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the implications, why they are important, go back and listen to that episode. Of course,
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you guys know if you have been listening to Monday's episodes that we are comparing
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the Trump ticket versus the Biden ticket on a variety of issues. And so Monday we covered
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foreign policy. So go back and listen to that if you are interested. Today, we are mostly talking
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about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her death, what this all means, why we are anticipating perhaps more chaos
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and more craziness than we have ever seen in America's political process, at least in recent
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memory. Certainly in my lifetime, I would say probably in my parents' lifetimes as well.
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It's going to be crazy, guys. And I will explain a little bit more about why today.
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She was 87 years old and she died of complications with pancreatic cancer. She has had pancreatic
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cancer for about 10 years and she has been fighting hard for the past decade, at least the
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past decade. There were several times over the past few years that she was in the hospital
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and people thought that she was going to die and she kept pushing through. And that was really
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her reputation as a fighter, as someone who pressed on. She had a very difficult life in a lot of ways.
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If you read about her story, how her husband had cancer and she was raising her daughter at the time
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while also going to school and working. And she just is a great picture of what the American dream
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looks like and what it looks like to kind of put your mind to something and determined to have
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have an impact where you want to have it. And she certainly did in the realm of equal rights for
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women. Of course, I did not agree with her on the issue of abortion and on a variety of issues and
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actually believe that she made a very negative impact on American culture and American politics
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through many of the decisions that she made and the positions that she held. Nevertheless,
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she did have a very notable life. And of course, according to the left, she has been hailed as a
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hero, which we will talk about a little bit more in just a second. The reality is, is that she has now
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met her maker, which we all will one day, the true, righteous, all-powerful judge who is Jesus Christ.
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Unfortunately, there is some theological misunderstanding that Jesus doesn't judge anyone, that he is just kind
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of this hippie hipster guy who just comes along for the ride of your life and tells you how awesome and
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beautiful you are. That is a misunderstanding that has eternal implications. Jesus Christ is the judge
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of the living and the dead, as 2 Timothy 4.1 says. And all of our destiny is to meet him one day,
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to stand before him one day. He is our only hope of redemption, our only hope of salvation,
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of being approved and found innocent, is his blood. That's it. John 14.6 says,
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I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me, Jesus.
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Acts 4.12 says, And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given
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among men by which we must be saved. So as we reflect on our own finiteness in light of this incident
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and our own fragility, let us remember Hebrews 3.15, which says, as it is said today, if you hear his
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voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. There is also no reason for us as Christians when
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someone we like or when someone notable dies to throw our theology out the window. Jen Hatmaker,
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who of course I do not agree with on most theology, she posted on Instagram that Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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has heard the words, well done, good and faithful servant, you may now enter your rest. Well, I don't
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know that. And I'm sure Jen Hatmaker doesn't know that. I hope that's true. I sincerely do. I hope
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Christ saved her before she died. I want everyone to be saved. But the fact of the matter is, we don't
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know. We don't ascribe salvation to people left or right simply because they believe in our politics
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and we align with them ideologically. Now, again, that doesn't mean that we can't honor and recognize
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the amazing life that she lived in many ways. She was the first female tenured professor at Columbia
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University. She fought for, like I said, gender equality, equality in the workplace, anti-discrimination
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against women. She also fought for abortion so-called rights. Now, she did actually disagree with the
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decision of Roe because she believed that it stymied the democratic process of deciding upon
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abortion law in a legislative way, which I agree with that it should have always been a legislative
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issue, that it shouldn't have been ruled upon by seven justices who decided that somewhere in the
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nooks and crannies and the implications and the subliminal messages of the Constitution that there is
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some newfound right to kill your unborn child. Now, she would disagree with me on that, but we do agree
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on the fact that it shouldn't have been a decision made by the court. It should have always gone to
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Congress. And that is what would happen, by the way, if Roe v. Wade were overturned. A lot of liberals are
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very scared about that, that if Trump gets to nominate and the Senate confirms another judicial
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judicial nominee that Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned and they've talked about it being like
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the handmaid's tale. Well, abortion is not going to go away if Roe v. Wade is overturned. All that
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means is that it's going to be up to the states to determine whether or not they want to allow abortion
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or determine what kind of regulations and restrictions will surround abortion. There will no longer be a
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recognition of a so-called constitutional right to kill your child, which, of course, I believe
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has never actually existed. And so you are still going to be able to go to any moderate or liberal
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state to get an abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. It does not abolish abortion by any means. It just
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leaves it up to the states, which is how it should have always been. Now, I do want to clarify as well,
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it seems like a lot of people, a lot of feminists seem to think that RBG was the first female Supreme
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Court justice. She was not. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female Supreme Court justice and she
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was appointed by Ronald Reagan. By the way, Sandra Day O'Connor is still alive, like 90 years old. You
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don't hear from her, but 90 years old, still alive, never became a feminist icon because she was a
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conservative. RBG, on the other hand, was idolized. She is idolized because she, like all Democratic
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appointees, always went with whatever was trending in the Democratic Party. She mostly did not care
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what the law actually said. She was not concerned with constitutional interpretation. She was going
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to make the law say whatever she wanted it to say, whatever was popular among the left at the time,
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according to her ideology. That is the main difference between Democratic appointees and Republican
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appointees. Democrats appoint activists. They are not interested in constitutionalism. A lot of
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Democrats, especially now, see the Constitution and American institutions as actually an impediment
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to their ideology in accomplishing what they want. Republicans appoint constitutionalists because that
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is what we want to conserve. We believe in the founding ideals of our country. We believe in the
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efficacy, effectiveness, the goodness of our founding documents. And so we want justices and judges
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who are going to interpret the law according to the Constitution, which means that Democrats,
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on the one hand, are hardly ever, if ever, disappointed by the decisions of liberal judges
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and justices. But Republicans, conservatives, are disappointed a lot because we actually have
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a disagreement on the law. We have a disagreement on the interpretation of the Constitution. That is why
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Justice Gorsuch has disappointed us. That is why Justice Kavanaugh has disappointed us because
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Republican appointed justice and judges, justices and judges do not simply go along with conservative
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activism. They actually look at the law. They interpret it. Sometimes, according to the rest of us,
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they're right. Sometimes, according to the rest of us, they're wrong. But we are constantly
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disappointed by our judges and justices because of that difference in interpretation, whereas Democrats
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are not. They are interested in their ideology and what they believe to be right, even if that means
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creating a right out of thin air, like creating the right out of thin air of abortion, like they did
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in Roe v. Wade. Constitutionalists are not concerned, mostly, usually they should not be, with what they
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believe or what they want to be right, but with what the law actually says. So when Democrats panic,
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which they are right now, over RBG's death and the SCOTUS vacancy, when they say that RBG was holding
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our democracy together, what they are afraid of is constitutionalism. Like they are actually afraid of
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someone abiding by our, the law of our land, our founding document. They're afraid of lacking an
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activist. RBG, in no sense, in no sense whatsoever, was holding our democracy together. She was just
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ruling in favor of the left. That's what she continually did. This is a big difference between
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the right and the left, going down to our basic worldview. The reason the left tends to idolize
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and deify politicians and justices, and the right is continually disappointed by our politicians and
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our justices is because the right tend to believe that, or we should believe, that politicians work
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for us rather than the other way around. So we believe what the founders believed about the
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government, that it is a government of, for, and by the people, that it does not have the power or the
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authority to create rights or to give us rights, but simply to recognize the rights that were given to
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us by our creator. That is what our bill of rights does. It doesn't give or create rights. It recognizes
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rights that pre-exist the formation of any government. So we see the government as below our
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authority and below God's authority. That means we don't deify justices, although we know they're
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important. So you're not going to see us have mental breakdowns over someone like Clarence Thomas
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dying or Antonin Scalia dying when he died a few years ago, the way that we have seen breakdowns
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over Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying. You're just not going to see it. And it's not just mental breakdowns,
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like personal mental breakdowns, like you're really disappointed. Okay, that's fine. And pay homage
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to her if you even cry, you know, whatever. That's fine. She is a historic figure. I have cried
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because of American historic figures dying, but it is not hysteria because I believe our democracy
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is falling apart. And that is what we're seeing right now in relation to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's
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death. Reza Aslan, he is a liberal TV personality. He tweeted this, if they even try to replace RBG,
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we burn the entire effing thing down. Someone who goes by the name of Charlotte Clymer is a liberal
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activist, said we are walking to Mitch McConnell's house to protest. Bo Williamson says this. It's
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another liberal blue checkmark. We're shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ramp
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through an appointment before the election. Laura Bassett, another liberal journalist, said if McConnell
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rams someone through, there will be riots. She clarifies with a second tweet that there will be
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more and bigger riots because she knows the left has been rioting and looting and burning down
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buildings and cities for the past three months. And so the rest of us are like, okay, so just like
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more of the same, right? Just more temper tantrums. And here is AOC saying that Mitch McConnell is playing
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with fire. And to Mitch McConnell, we need to tell him that he is playing with fire. Richard Blumenthal,
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Democratic congressman, says if Republicans recklessly and reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote
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before the election, nothing is off the table. Nothing's off the table. Okay. That's, you know,
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an interesting statement to make when you consider the fact that their base has literally been using
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violence to try to get their way for the past few months. But they know what they're doing. They're
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not ignorant of the implications of their rhetoric. Nancy Pelosi said to George Stephanopoulos that she
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has arrows in her quiver. He suggests impeachment of the president and she doesn't deny it. So now
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we're talking about impeaching the president, not actually because he has done anything wrong,
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but just because they do not want him to abide by his constitutional duty to appoint a Supreme Court
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nominee. Listen to this viral TikTok of this girl freaking, freaking out. There are cuss words,
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but we will bleep it out. Holy s***, you guys! I'm driving your car, but I just got a notification
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that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died! F***! Could this year get any f***ing worse? Ruth, you just had to make
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it to 2021! Guys, none of this is healthy. This is not normal. This is not normal behavior. This is
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not a normal mentality. I'm telling you, I'm not saying that there aren't crazy people who consider
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themselves on the right. I'm not saying that there aren't people, by the way, who idolize Donald
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Trump because I think that there are, and I think that is also very unhealthy. I'm telling you, you
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would not see this kind of reaction if Clarence Thomas, Justice Gorsuch, any of the conservative
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justices died. You would not see it. You didn't see this reaction when Antonin Scalia died. It was very
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sad. It did present somewhat of a constitutional crisis, and he was someone that we very much
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respected, and we agreed as conservatives with the majority of his decisions. But you didn't see
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this kind of absolute freakout and the threat to tear down American institutions or to burn down the
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country because we might not get our way. You just didn't see it. You won't see it. It's a divergence
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of worldviews. We see the world completely differently. We think about politicians,
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and we think about the government completely differently. I would argue that one is healthy
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and one is not. They are also worried about Trump nominating and the Senate confirming a new justice
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because, well, A, they're afraid that it's going to take away their freedom, which it won't. Listen,
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your life will not change. I promise it will not change for the worse. You will have someone who
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cares about the Constitution. Like I said, Roe v. Wade is probably not going to be overturned. If it
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is, your life is not going to change, especially if you live in a liberal state. So you just let the
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legislative process play out like it should have in the first place. Your life is not going to change,
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okay? If Trump nominates and or if he appoints a judge and then he or she is confirmed by the Senate.
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So our democracy is not going to crumble. Our republic is not going to go away. You have nothing to be
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scared of. Like you have nothing to worry about. That's number one. But they are also saying that
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this, they're worried about this because this is hypocrisy. They're saying that in 2016, which this is
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true, which McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said, look, after Antonin Scalia died in 2016,
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and Barack Obama appointed Merrick Garland, the Republican Senate said, no, we're not going to
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try to confirm it. We're not even going to entertain this. We're just not. We're not going to do it.
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And the argument that Mitch McConnell made, I wish he hadn't made because now it does put him in a
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pickle. He said, you know, you're a lame duck president. We're not going to do this right
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before the election, which makes it seem like now he's a huge hypocrite because he is saying and
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Republicans are saying now that, look, yeah, we're going to do it. President Trump is still
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president. He's president. As RBG said, he is president for four years, not three years. He
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has the constitutional authority and responsibility to do this. The Senate has the constitutional
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authority and ability to confirm his nominee. And so we're going to go ahead and do it. That's
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absolutely true. But they seem like hypocrites for not even entertaining that in 2016, when Barack
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Obama was president, because their argument was that, oh, well, he's just a lame duck president.
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And it's right before the election. We should allow the new president to decide that, which is
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the argument that now Democrats are making. Here's the difference. And I wish that they just would
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have been more upfront about this in 2016. The difference is, is that Republicans controlled the
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Senate. Democrats controlled the White House. Plain and simple, Republicans did not want to
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confirm Barack Obama's nominee because they didn't want Barack Obama's nominee. They just didn't want
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it. Like they didn't want a liberal justice on the Supreme Court. And that's why they decided that they
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were not going to go through with the confirmation process. And they said, hey, if Hillary Clinton gets
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elected and she wants to nominate Merrick Garland, OK, that's fine. We'll confirm. But we want to have the
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opportunity to not have to confirm another liberal justice. That was that was it. Plain and simple.
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And now because Republicans have the White House and Republicans have the Senate, they say, yeah,
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we want to confirm a justice that is nominated by a Republican president because we are going to like
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that justice. It's just about politics. It's just about nominated and confirming someone that they
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want to confirm. That's it. Plain and simple. Democrats would do the exact same thing in this position.
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The only thing that I would change is that Mitch McConnell should have been honest about that back
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then. Democrats should have said, you know what, we would have done the same thing. They should
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realize that now everyone should have been a little bit more forthright, a little bit more honest and
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recognize that the Senate does have the ability, does have the power to make those kinds of decisions.
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There have only been Ted Cruz said this the other day. There have only been 10 situations in 10
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similar situations in which the White House and the Senate were controlled by two different parties.
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And right before an election, the Senate had to confirm the White House's judicial nominee.
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And only two in two of those 10 situations did they actually move to confirm the justice. And so
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it's very rare that it happens. It is even more rare. Only two times in American history
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has the separate party controlled Senate actually confirmed the judicial nominee before the election
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when the White House is controlled by the opposing party. So it is not unprecedented to do what Mitch
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McConnell is doing right now. Both sides in some ways are being hypocritical. Here is a montage
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of 2016 Democrats saying, look, the Senate run by Mitch McConnell needs to go ahead and confirm
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Merrick Garland or at least go through the process to possibly confirm Merrick Garland.
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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 to 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 III 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 president.
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The American people expect the president's nominee to be given a fair hearing and a timely vote in the
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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. I say to you, do your job. Vote for a Supreme Court nominee.
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Democrats in 2016 were right. The Senate didn't want to, like I said, because the Senate didn't want
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Obama's nominee. It really is that simple. They do want Trump's nominee. Like I said, Democrats would do
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the exact same thing. Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid in 2013 got rid of the Senate filibuster
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for judicial nominees, making it easier for senators to confirm judges and justices. And so Democrats got
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themselves into this mess. That was Harry Reid's rule. He decided to make that change. And so what he has
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allowed for is Mitch McConnell making sure that Trump has as many judicial nominees confirmed as humanly
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possible, including the Supreme Court nominee that is going to be confirmed by the Senate. Yes, Democrats
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might threaten to burn the country down. They might threaten to riot. They might protest outside of Mitch
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McConnell's and Lindsey Graham's house, which is what they've done. But they are ultimately powerless,
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I believe, in stopping this from happening. I mean, we already know some of the so-called arrows in their
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quiver, like Nancy Pelosi has described. By the way, she's in the House. I'm not really sure how many
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arrows she actually has. This is a Senate process. She thinks she's going to impeach the president. I think
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that is absolutely crazy. If I were a Democratic strategist, which thank the Lord I'm not, I would
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be saying that is an absolutely crazy decision before the election. I think that that is just
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that would not be effective. That would not be effective to win more votes for Joe Biden,
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especially those moderate votes that he is trying so hard to get. But we already know some of the other
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arrows in their quiver because we saw it with Kavanaugh. I mean, they accused this man openly,
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Kamala Harris being probably the cruelest of them all. They accused this man not just of sexual assault
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when he was 17 based on no corroboration and no verifiable evidence whatsoever. They accused him of
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gang rape, gang rape when he was in college. Now, the woman, Julie Swetnick, who came out and accused
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him of that, actually said, well, I don't think that Kavanaugh was a part of it. I don't, I'm not
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really sure if he was there. Actually, I don't really remember. So she actually came out and said,
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oh, the original testimony that I gave was phony. It wasn't real. And yet Democrats ran with that
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anyway. I mean, they tried to ruin this man's life based on totally unsubstantiated allegations
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in front of his wife and kids, in front of his family. They tried to humiliate him and drag him
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through the mud. They did not care one bit how his life ended up, did not care one bit about his
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reputation. They did not care one bit about the truth. And you know what? I was just reading in
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Proverbs. This just came to mind. I don't remember. I think it's Proverbs 6 talking about what the Lord
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hates, the seven things the Lord hates, or I think it's the six things the Lord hates and the seven
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things that he calls an abomination. And one of them is a false witness. The Lord hates a false
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witness. He hates slander. He hates deliberate lying. He hates deceit. And Democrats, I think many
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of them knowingly bared false witness when it came to Kavanaugh. And if there is one event over the past
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few years that I think radicalized a lot of conservatives, and what I mean by radicalized is
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simply that we saw that there is a party in the United States that is willing to stop at
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absolutely nothing to gain power and to get what they want. And we've certainly seen that
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manifested in violent ways over the past few months. I think that opened the eyes of a lot
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of conservatives, including me, to see, okay, what we are up against as far as a party. I'm not saying
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all Democrats are like that at all. I'm not saying everyone on the left is like that. But the people
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that we saw in power and what they were willing to do to Brett Kavanaugh, based on no evidence
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whatsoever, simply because they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to kill enough babies via
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Roe v. Wade, it just showed me. It showed me that they will stop at nothing. They do not care about
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you. They do not care about your family. They don't care about the truth. They don't care about your
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reputation whatsoever. I will never forget watching. First, I watched Ford's testimony, which I thought
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was emotionally compelling. And, you know, I don't have anything bad to say about her. But then I
00:26:41.960
watched Brett Kavanaugh's and I will never forget what I felt when I watched him give his testimony.
00:26:48.300
And I knew right there, that was the moment I think that my eyes opened up and I realized, okay,
00:26:54.980
so they're really not, they're not afraid. They're not afraid to ruin a man's life in front of his family
00:27:00.160
for the sake of power. Okay. So that's, that's what we're dealing with. And the fact that there are
00:27:04.140
some conservatives now saying that, okay, so if we don't confirm a nominee, um, maybe if we just
00:27:10.680
play nice and, and we listen to the threats of the Democrats to, they're saying that they're going
00:27:15.500
to burn everything down, that they're going to tear down our institutions, they're going to pack
00:27:19.320
the courts. Maybe if we just listen to their threats and we say, okay, we won't nominate and
00:27:23.960
we won't confirm anyone, then, then they won't pack the courts and they won't do all of these things.
00:27:28.320
Are you kidding me? Like that is the most naive argument that I have ever heard. If you've ever
00:27:33.380
witnessed the democratic party, like if you saw what they did during the Kavanaugh hearings,
00:27:37.620
do you think that these people care about fairness? Not saying that there aren't any corrupt and evil
00:27:42.860
people in the Republican party, that there aren't any hypocrites in the Republican party because there
00:27:47.760
are, but let's not pretend like the people in power in the democratic party care one flying flip
00:27:53.340
about fairness. That's not what this is about. This is about power. This is about being able to push
00:28:00.880
their ideology as far as they possibly can. And you know how I know that we, that it's not going to
00:28:06.780
matter whether or not we confirm this nominee. It's not going to make a difference on what the
00:28:15.060
Democrats decide to do because they have been talking about packing the court for a long time.
00:28:20.280
So packing the court would mean that if they get power in the Senate and Joe Biden went to the
00:28:26.580
presidency, that they would try to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to say 13,
00:28:33.460
and they would pack those vacant seats with liberal activist judges, justices, so that they would be
00:28:42.960
able to do more of what they want to do, not according to the constitution, but according to their left
00:28:48.180
wing activism, as far left as they can possibly go to make it impossible for conservatives to have a
00:28:54.700
voice on the Supreme Court. So that, that is what they're threatening. That is what they're talking
00:29:00.180
about. And they're trying to say, Oh, we will do this. If you confirm a nominee and Joe Biden wins,
00:29:06.800
no, no, no. You guys have been talking about this for a long time. You have been talking about packing
00:29:11.580
the courts long before this situation. You've been talking about abolishing the electoral college
00:29:16.020
because they don't like how much power and how much say it gives to the middle of the country
00:29:21.540
states that they just don't like. They've talked about reconfiguring the Senate. They don't like
00:29:25.640
that somewhere like Wyoming has two senators and California has two senators, even though their
00:29:30.720
population is so disparate. I guess not understanding that that was deliberate, that you have a number of
00:29:38.060
representatives in the House of Representatives in D.C. based on population size, but every state has
00:29:44.180
two senators. It's supposed to be that way to give more weight to the less populous states. They want to
00:29:50.080
reconfigure the Senate. So that's no longer the case. They've talked about giving statehood to
00:29:54.680
Puerto Rico and Guam to get rid of the filibuster all without the consent of the governed so they can
00:30:00.360
have power and keep power. And there are no longer any systems in place to check their power or to
00:30:05.260
challenge their power. That is what they want. They see American institutions and the American
00:30:11.020
constitution and the will of a large portion of the American people as an impediment to their ideology.
00:30:17.280
And because they believe that government is God, that is the worldview of leftism, not everyone
00:30:22.340
on the left, but that is the worldview of leftism, whether you believe it or not.
00:30:27.440
Because they believe that the government is God, they believe that they have the right to exert that
00:30:32.400
power over the people by whatever means possible. They mean literally burning things down and
00:30:38.420
metaphorically burning things down and building things according to their choosing.
00:30:41.780
And at the same time, they want to call people on the right fascists. Ibram X. Kendi had the audacity
00:30:49.300
to say that the GOP are the fascists and that they will do anything to maintain power. How can you
00:30:56.300
project that much? Like, how is it possible to describe a party like that and actually be exactly
00:31:02.200
describing your own party and your own ideology? Like, have we not seen over the past few months that
00:31:08.740
these people will do absolutely anything for power, including burning down businesses, burning down
00:31:15.780
cities? They are not concerned. They're not concerned with the rule of law. They're not concerned with
00:31:21.820
American institutions. They see these things, as I've said, as an impediment to their ideology,
00:31:28.460
which they believe they should be able to force upon everyone else because they know best,
00:31:32.520
because, again, the government is God. Is it the GOP that's burning down buildings and burning down
00:31:39.460
cities? Is it the GOP that is saying we don't care about the Constitution? We don't want the
00:31:43.940
Electoral College. We don't want certain states to have a say. We don't think that certain states
00:31:49.180
should be evenly represented in the Senate. Is it the GOP that is saying, hey, we're going to pack
00:31:54.940
the courts? Is it the GOP that's harassing random diners in Washington, D.C., making them raise their
00:32:01.140
fist in black power and chant whatever chance they want to? Is it the GOP that's stopping civilian
00:32:07.260
vehicles in the streets, harassing them, assaulting them, trying to make them say the things they want
00:32:12.740
them to say? No. Those are all people on the left. The anarchy, the harassment, the fascism is coming
00:32:20.180
from the left, and it's all projection. It's all a tactic. Accus the other side of that of which you
00:32:26.740
are guilty. President Trump has said that he wants to nominate a woman, and I think that's probably
00:32:34.600
wise. Now, I wish that we didn't have to play this intersectionality game on the right. I think that we
00:32:40.760
should just nominate the most qualified candidate. That is something that is now foreign on the left.
00:32:48.680
It is a lot about intersectionality and your different identity groups and things like that.
00:32:56.680
It's unfortunately the idea of just merit has become, has gone out of fashion among a lot of
00:33:04.380
liberal activists, but I think that that's something that we should hold to. Now, that said,
00:33:09.620
the female options for the nominee are all extremely qualified. I just don't think we should pick
00:33:15.680
someone because they're a woman. At the same time, though, I understand that strategy because
00:33:20.620
we saw what the Democrats did to Kavanaugh, and it's going to be harder to do to someone like Amy
00:33:29.140
Coney Barrett. You're probably not going to be able to find a guy that's going to come out and say,
00:33:36.400
yeah, when I was 17, Amy Coney Barrett assaulted me at a party. You're probably not going to be able
00:33:41.920
to find a bunch of accusers, real or not, toward a woman. It's going to be much harder to do.
00:33:48.420
Amy Coney Barrett seems to be at the top of the list. We know that she visited the White House.
00:33:53.860
She's got a great record as a judge. She is a mom, I believe, of seven. She is a Catholic
00:33:59.840
from New Orleans, and she has a very illustrious career. And she was on the short list a few,
00:34:06.860
a couple of years ago, when Brett Kavanaugh was nominated. And she already has attacks coming her
00:34:15.540
way. And we have a taste of what those attacks are going to look like. This is from Ron Charles
00:34:20.540
at The Washington Post. He tweeted this. Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump's
00:34:24.940
list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has said we should always remember that a legal career,
00:34:29.420
that a, quote, legal career is but a means to an end. And that end is building the kingdom of God.
00:34:36.460
And of course, they tweeted this as if it was a bad thing. Well, let me break this to you. For
00:34:43.120
people who aren't Christians, all Christians believe this. In every endeavor in life, we believe
00:34:48.560
that that is our goal to advance the kingdom of God. That's our goal in life. Like, that is our aim.
00:34:56.760
And guys, Christians have been running a lot of things in this country for a very long time.
00:35:01.540
Whether you believe it or not, they've done a heck of a good job and a heck of a good job securing your
00:35:09.220
rights and your liberty. That doesn't mean the church has never been wrong. That doesn't mean
00:35:12.620
that the majority of the church or the Roman Catholic Church has never been on the wrong side
00:35:16.940
of issues. Because unfortunately, of course, that has happened. But the idea that this is novel,
00:35:22.360
that all of a sudden we are worried about the Christian faith in regards to someone's ability
00:35:28.300
to be able to judge rightly, that's crazy. Like, Christians have been on the Supreme Court. They
00:35:34.120
have been federal judges for as long as America has existed, as long as we have had federal judges
00:35:40.600
in the Supreme Court. So the only thing that has changed is the increase in anti-Christian bigotry
00:35:47.680
on the left. The influence of Christianity certainly has not increased over the past few decades. But
00:35:55.540
anti-Christian sentiment certainly has, especially on the left. And so you're going to see these kinds
00:36:01.700
of attacks on her faith. What's interesting is that at the same time that they say, oh, Nancy Pelosi
00:36:07.340
and Joe Biden, they are such good Catholics. They are such devout Catholics. And, you know,
00:36:13.960
that's a really good thing because, look, Donald Trump is so ungodly. But Joe Biden, he is this
00:36:18.840
great Catholic and that's going to help him be a great president. But when Amy Coney Barrett is
00:36:24.460
actually a devout Catholic, all of a sudden that's an impediment to her being able to discern and judge
00:36:30.560
rightly. So what is it? Is faith a good thing or is it a bad thing? This is from Beth Reinhard at
00:36:37.180
Washington Post. She tweeted, potential Trump's SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett wrote an influential
00:36:43.600
decision, making it easier for students accused of sexual assault to challenge universities
00:36:48.360
handling of their cases. And of course, again, they're saying that this is a bad thing. What this
00:36:53.360
tells me is that Amy Coney Barrett cares about due process. We should care about due process for
00:36:58.940
accusers and the accused. I talked about with Monique Dusan a few weeks ago. I did an interview with her
00:37:05.460
that I highly recommend if you haven't listened to it, leaving, I think it was called Critical Race
00:37:09.800
Theory for Biblical Unity. And she talked about her journey from believing in critical theory to
00:37:16.000
understanding scripture rightly and how she had to reconcile with the idea that God actually very
00:37:22.440
much cares about how the accused or the accuser is treated. There is a right and righteous way
00:37:29.020
to treat both the accuser and the accused. The accused also has to be treated fairly. God invented due
00:37:37.860
process. He invented the necessity of two or three witnesses. If you read his laws and how he describes
00:37:48.400
the due process in the court that judged Israel, you will see God's heart and God's definition of
00:37:55.940
justice that still should be binding on our ideas today. And it actually is binding. It was binding for
00:38:01.720
the founders. That is where they got their inspiration for what justice should look like. And so Amy Coney
00:38:07.040
Barrett is simply saying, yeah, there is a fair and right and righteous way to treat both the accused
00:38:12.340
and the accuser. And just because of the Me Too movement and just because of a particular ideology
00:38:18.300
that says that we have to believe all women no matter what, that doesn't mean that we throw due
00:38:22.420
process out the window. So I'm very encouraged by the fact that Amy Coney Barrett cares about due process
00:38:28.500
as a potential justice on the highest court in our land. And I'm very troubled that there apparently are
00:38:36.580
people on the left who would be okay if their justice doesn't care about due process at all.
00:38:43.060
I think that's all I'm going to cover today. There are a few more things. Well, you know,
00:38:47.320
let me say one thing, because so many of you guys have asked about this. This is a completely
00:38:51.360
different subject. And so some of you guys might have seen that there is a story going around that
00:38:55.880
there was a whistleblower out of an immigration center in Georgia about women getting hysterectomies,
00:39:02.680
getting forced hysterectomies. Actually, the headlines were mass forced hysterectomies are
00:39:07.340
happening at this ICE detention center. And it was one whistleblower who came out and said that. And
00:39:13.800
now they are investigating this. I believe that it was announced last week that this is now being
00:39:22.680
investigated, which I think is good. The fact is right now we don't have evidence of this. We have
00:39:28.240
one person's testimony. I think it's great that she came forward and that she said this is happening.
00:39:35.620
If this is something that's actually happening, then I think it's wonderful that this nurse stepped
00:39:40.480
forward and said, hey, this is going on. We should at least look into it. I agree. We should look into
00:39:46.640
this. This should be a nonpartisan issue. If women in these detention centers are being forced
00:39:52.740
into hysterectomies, then everyone everywhere should be outraged. You should be outraged by that.
00:39:59.880
I will go out and protest with you over that. That is insane. That is communist China stuff.
00:40:05.840
If that is happening, I don't know that that is happening. And let me clarify some things too.
00:40:11.720
If that is happening, that does not mean that is a Donald Trump policy. Like that does not mean
00:40:17.140
that's a Republican policy by any means. Now, if it is, that would be mind-blowing and that would be
00:40:24.420
enough for me not to vote for Donald Trump. If that was a Donald Trump policy that there should
00:40:29.200
be forced mass hysterectomies in ICE detention centers of immigrant women, then yeah, then that
00:40:35.940
would be enough for me. We have no evidence whatsoever that this is a Trumpian policy. If this
00:40:41.180
is happening, if these are forced hysterectomies, mass forced hysterectomies, it could be a rogue evil
00:40:48.640
doctor that needs to be put in jail for a very, very long time. There could be a group of evil
00:40:55.820
doctors or an evil medical team there that is doing this without the knowledge of any administration,
00:41:01.460
without the knowledge of any politicians, without the knowledge of their boss. We don't know. So to
00:41:05.960
automatically say that this is a Trumpian policy, that this is coming from the top, that this is
00:41:10.740
somehow the fault of Republicans. If this is truly happening, that is making leaps that we do not
00:41:16.680
have the evidence for whatsoever. It is enough if this is happening for us to be outraged. Like I said,
00:41:21.980
I think everyone across the aisle should absolutely be outraged about this. If this is happening,
00:41:28.380
I don't know if it's happening. I do think that there is enough. One testimony to me is enough to
00:41:33.320
look into something like this. I don't know if they're forced. I don't know if it's a rogue doctor.
00:41:38.040
I don't know if there is a policy. I don't know. And until then, I am going to reserve my judgment
00:41:43.260
on any particular politician. And by the way, how long has this been happening? Was this happening
00:41:49.500
under Obama? Has this been happening for a very long time? Has it only been happening for a few
00:41:54.040
months? Why? So there are a lot of questions that we need to ask before we say, this is Donald Trump's
00:41:59.160
America. And Donald Trump did this. I have a very, very strong feeling that Donald Trump, if this is
00:42:05.260
happening, has no idea that this is happening. That doesn't mean that he shouldn't be held
00:42:08.980
accountable and that politicians shouldn't be held accountable because I believe they should.
00:42:12.760
That doesn't mean that they were knowingly contriving this situation. So again, I don't know
00:42:18.300
what is true there. We're going to dig into it. And there's going to be an official investigation
00:42:23.320
I now read. And so that's a very good thing. And this should absolutely come to an end.
00:42:27.840
And I will reach across the aisle with whoever to try to get this to stop. That is a moral
00:42:32.380
travesty. If I care about that happening in communist China, forced abortions, forced
00:42:37.200
sterilizations, then you can bet that I care about it happening here in Georgia.
00:42:43.180
Okay, there's so much more we could talk about, but I think I'm going to end right there. On Friday,
00:42:48.300
I am going to talk to Christopher Rufo, which I'm really excited about. He has exposed how these
00:42:55.500
damaging critical race theory ideologies have actually infiltrated our highest federal
00:43:02.060
agencies and how they're wreaking havoc there and what we can do, what the president should do,
00:43:09.380
what politicians should do, and people in these agencies should do to stop it. What are the
00:43:13.960
implications of all of this? And I'm just really excited for him to kind of unveil the goings on
00:43:19.360
there. So make sure you tune into that conversation. I will see you back here on Friday.