The Charlie Kirk Show - September 19, 2020


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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, and she became a cultural icon to a younger generation. She was a fierce advocate of women s rights and a fierce defender of equal pay for women.

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and we have the instant analysis here.
00:00:13.000 We are not celebrating.
00:00:15.000 We are not saying it is a good thing.
00:00:17.000 We are remembering who she is.
00:00:19.000 We are remembering her rulings, who she was, and also taking a moment to have a non-political moment in our country.
00:00:25.000 I wish this whole podcast could be not about politics, but unfortunately, just minutes after her death, there were calls for riots, called for Mitch McConnell to be murdered, and so much more.
00:00:34.000 So we cover that and also the ramifications of what the court will look like and how President Trump and how Chuck Schumer and the players that matter are reacting.
00:00:44.000 That and so much more around this breaking news item of Ruth Bader Ginsburg passing away.
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00:01:02.000 Important breaking news episode.
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00:01:37.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 on Friday evening.
00:01:41.000 You probably heard this news.
00:01:42.000 You probably got your push notifications.
00:01:44.000 I was about to go on Fox News when the news came through.
00:01:47.000 It was just hard to process as it happened.
00:01:49.000 There's only nine people on the United States Supreme Court, or nine spots, I should say.
00:01:54.000 And when any of them resign or pass away, it is absolutely earth-shattering news.
00:02:01.000 The cause for her death was complications of metastic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said.
00:02:08.000 Now, call me old school, but as soon as I saw the news come through, I thought that a woman who served on the Supreme Court should at least be held in a non-political framing for at least the weekend.
00:02:24.000 And we're going to talk about some of the political consequences later in this episode because they're real.
00:02:29.000 However, I think just talk about the human being as something that is necessary, important, and the right thing to do.
00:02:36.000 There was plenty of people on the Democrat side that were getting very nasty very quickly about the political consequences that they saw.
00:02:45.000 I did not see one person on the Republican or conservative side dive into that.
00:02:50.000 In fact, I saw more people on the conservative, Republican side on Twitter and Facebook and on television actually extend their condolences and take a moment of pause than even some of the people on the Democrat side.
00:03:02.000 But here are just some facts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg for those of you that do not know and are just new to politics. 0.83
00:03:07.000 She was the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
00:03:10.000 Sandra J. O'Connor, of course, was the first who was nominated by Reagan in 1981.
00:03:15.000 She was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993, the year I was actually born. 0.99
00:03:20.000 She's known as an advocate of women's rights. 0.99
00:03:23.000 I would disagree with some of that description, but she definitely did push forward in a belief that America was, let's say, weighted too much in the direction of what some people would call the patriarchy.
00:03:37.000 As she closed in on 90 years, she became a cultural icon to a younger generation.
00:03:44.000 She was barely five feet tall. 0.97
00:03:45.000 She was about 100 pounds.
00:03:47.000 She looked incredibly frail, especially in these last couple years.
00:03:51.000 But she was a very resilient human being.
00:03:53.000 She had beat colon cancer in 1999 and early stage pancreatic cancer 10 years later.
00:04:00.000 Justice Ginsburg received a coronary stent to clear her blocked artery in 2014.
00:04:06.000 You might remember two small tumors were found in one of her lungs in December of 2018, and this was during a follow-up scan for broken ribs that were suffered.
00:04:16.000 Famously, when she was 80 years old, so seven years ago during Obama's second term, she refused to be replaced by a sitting Democrat president.
00:04:24.000 She said, quote, as long as I could do the job full steam, there will be a president after this one, and I'm hopeful that president will be a fine president.
00:04:32.000 She was the only woman on the court for three years when Sandra Day O'Connor retired in 2006 and was not joined by another until 2009 when Obama nominated the very liberal Sonia Sotomayor and Alega Kagan in 2010.
00:04:48.000 Her star really began to rise in liberal circles and in popular imagination when she became the senior liberal justice in 2010 with the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.
00:05:01.000 It was then when she really began to write the most pointed opinions on behalf of the liberal bloc of the court.
00:05:07.000 Now, I want to be very, very clear.
00:05:09.000 I disagree with almost every single opinion that she authored in recent memory, whether it be on immigration, life, abortion, guns, the Constitution, almost every single belief that she held, I fundamentally disagree with.
00:05:26.000 However, I don't think that is a reason to, like some people have in a hyper-politicized moment, act gleeful when somebody dies.
00:05:34.000 Call me old school in that way.
00:05:36.000 I just think it's the right thing to do.
00:05:38.000 And in truth, her star only rose with the election of Donald Trump.
00:05:42.000 People from across the country, understanding the gravity of the court, pleaded their organs to help keep the elderly Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive.
00:05:52.000 You might know that some young women even had the image tattooed on their arms.
00:05:56.000 Some girls dressed in RBG costumes for Halloween, and some people had this tattooed on them: quote, you can't spell truth without Ruth.
00:06:06.000 There was an internet sensation and phenomenon that was created called Notorious RBG, The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:06:13.000 It was created by Erin Cameron, Erin Carmen, and Miss Kinzik, which became a bestseller the day after its publication in 2015.
00:06:25.000 And the next year, Simon Schuster brought out a Ginsburg biography for children with the title called I Dissent.
00:06:32.000 There was a documentary made of her life.
00:06:34.000 It's pretty well done.
00:06:36.000 I've seen it.
00:06:37.000 And it kind of catalogs her entire life and her fight against cancer.
00:06:42.000 What is often let out about many of the discussions about the Supreme Court is that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was very close friends with Justice Antonin Scalia.
00:06:49.000 Scalia's children, in fact, posted many touching tributes and tweets online, which was a very nice thing to see.
00:06:56.000 Justice Clarence Thomas also shared a close relationship with Ginsburg.
00:07:00.000 Justice Clarence Thomas is, of course, an American hero and does not get the credit he often deserves.
00:07:05.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that choosing her favorite opinion would be like choosing a favorite among her grandkids.
00:07:13.000 However, she said the ruling that she most regrets that she wishes could be overturned was Citizen United.
00:07:20.000 She actually ruled the way that she wanted to.
00:07:23.000 She just wishes it could be overturned.
00:07:25.000 Now, immediately after hearing the news of her death, I actually did not want to think of politics.
00:07:30.000 I just kind of just opened up social media and kind of got in a couple group text messages.
00:07:35.000 And I was curious, you know, how are people processing this?
00:07:39.000 And so it started to trend on Twitter, of course, Ruth.
00:07:43.000 And there are hundreds of tweets that I am reading here that I'm happy to kind of recount.
00:07:49.000 It says, I will riot for Ruth.
00:07:52.000 I have a bad leg and a terrible chronic illness, but I will riot.
00:07:56.000 I mean, they go on and on and on.
00:07:57.000 And these are not anonymous counts.
00:07:59.000 These are hundreds and hundreds of tweets.
00:08:02.000 As a Kentuckian, I will riot for Ruth.
00:08:05.000 I swear to you, Mitch, I will riot.
00:08:07.000 So immediately this became a very political moment.
00:08:09.000 And I just have to say that the Democrats and the leftists that immediately politicized this moment for a human being that has died is very disappointing.
00:08:18.000 However, it quickly descended into social media into an all-out political blood sport.
00:08:23.000 This is not a healthy thing for our civilization, by the way.
00:08:26.000 I tweeted very clearly, unlike most of political Twitter, I'm taking the night off.
00:08:30.000 Jesus is the answer, prayers to all.
00:08:32.000 And I mean that.
00:08:33.000 I actually think when a person dies, it's not the moment to start talking about the type of country that might exist if somebody who you disagree with might replace her.
00:08:43.000 So Reza Aslin, who I believe was best known for going after Nicholas Sandman at a different time, he said that over our dead bodies, literally, will Mitch McConnell replace this seat.
00:08:54.000 Bill Williamen, who I've never heard of before, said, we're shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.
00:09:01.000 Reza Aslin tweeted the four-letter word that many of you know that starts with F with about 22 exclamation points.
00:09:07.000 He then said, if they even try to replace RBG, we burn the entire FN thing to the ground.
00:09:14.000 Laura Bassett, who's a, these are all, by the way, these are all verified Twitter accounts.
00:09:18.000 These are real people.
00:09:19.000 She writes for GQ magazine, Washington Post, Rolling Stone and Cosmopolitan, and Huffington Post, said the following.
00:09:26.000 If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.
00:09:30.000 And then she responded by saying, more, bigger riots. 1.00
00:09:34.000 And then Fred Wellman, who I've never heard of before, said, Mitch McConnell is an evil bastard. 1.00
00:09:39.000 Burn the whole country to the ground. 1.00
00:09:40.000 The GOP is done.
00:09:43.000 And he's an advisor to the Lincoln Project, which is the Republican effort to try to destroy Donald Trump.
00:09:49.000 Other instant reaction from Twitter, which, by the way, there have been glowing tributes, and we'll get to this in a second from the president, from Scalia's family, from many different people that have been talking very fondly and affectionately of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:10:04.000 That is how we opened our program here.
00:10:06.000 That is how anyone should be remembered when they pass away.
00:10:09.000 However, someone who writes for the New York Times by the name of Lydia Kissling says, quote, how come the person who dies is never Mitch McConnell?
00:10:19.000 Nicole on Twitter, who looks like a liberal fan account, says, F you, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:10:25.000 F you for not retiring under Obama. 0.95
00:10:27.000 F you for dying under Trump. 1.00
00:10:29.000 F you, F you, F you. 1.00
00:10:31.000 Here's Chuck Schumer. 0.99
00:10:33.000 And before he even remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg, his first tweet is political.
00:10:39.000 Chuck Schumer goes, the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice.
00:10:44.000 Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
00:10:48.000 And then eight minutes later, he realized he immediately politicized it and said, oh, by the way, tonight we mourn the passing of a giant in American history, a champion for justice and a trailblazer for women. 0.62
00:10:56.000 She would want us all to fight as hard as we can to preserve her legacy.
00:11:00.000 So politics first, condolences second.
00:11:03.000 That's Chuck Schumer's priority.
00:11:06.000 And again, I'm not trying to politicize this.
00:11:08.000 I'm just showing you that in a moment where we all could have just remembered a human being and took a night off, which should have been kind of a moment of national unity, even though this person has overseen more court decisions that have allowed a million abortions a year, anti-gun measures, things that I so fundamentally disagree with from the seismoscope of government to the regulatory state to executive action to you name it.
00:11:31.000 There's a time where you just say, let's allow the family to mourn about this turning into a political gladiator match.
00:11:38.000 Adele Scalia, who is the daughter, I believe, daughter-in-law of Antonin Scalia, said, Justice Ginsburg was more than a seat on the Supreme Court.
00:11:46.000 Tweet accordingly.
00:11:47.000 She's right.
00:11:48.000 So the most interesting part of the entire evening was that right as President Trump exited Air Force One in Bemidji, Minnesota, great part of the world, to go to a rally, I kid you not, as he was walking down the stairs, all of a sudden I got a push notification that Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.
00:12:07.000 And so he took the stage immediately.
00:12:09.000 The way these new rallies work is you get off the plane, you go right into an airplane hangar, and you give the speech.
00:12:14.000 So the president gave an hour and a half long speech.
00:12:18.000 He did mention the Supreme Court a couple times and then came off of the speech.
00:12:24.000 And all this was happening, by the way, Mitch McConnell's reaction, Chuck Schumer's reaction, Twitter was melting down, and the president did not know.
00:12:32.000 So we actually have a tape right here of when President Trump learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away and Elton John was playing in the background.
00:12:43.000 You couldn't have designed a better moment.
00:12:46.000 Now, play tape.
00:13:01.000 She just died.
00:13:03.000 Wow.
00:13:06.000 I didn't know that.
00:13:07.000 I just, you're telling me now for the first time.
00:13:11.000 She led an amazing life.
00:13:14.000 What else can you say?
00:13:15.000 She was an amazing woman.
00:13:17.000 Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life.
00:13:25.000 I'm actually sad to hear that.
00:13:26.000 I have said, David, that.
00:13:28.000 Thank you very much.
00:13:40.000 Now, to give a little bit of, let's say, credence to two theories that are out there, it is very possible that the president knew on Air Force One and came down and did the rally and then was asked a question and he knew because he's the president.
00:13:56.000 He had the information first.
00:13:58.000 I think that is very unlikely.
00:13:59.000 I do not think that the president would have gone down off of Air Force One, done a complete rally, not mentioned it at all.
00:14:06.000 I think that the risk of that being leaked, I think that is classless.
00:14:09.000 I don't think that is what happened at all for the president of the United States.
00:14:13.000 Another theory that is out there, which is possible, is that the Supreme Court or the people that were responsible for making that information public, for example, the Ginsburg family was waiting for President Trump to get off Air Force One immediately, right after he got Air Force One to the rally, so that someone might come and whisper in his ear, he might say it, and the crowd might mistakenly cheer in a moment of confusion.
00:14:38.000 All of these theories are floating out there.
00:14:40.000 However, what we do know is this, is that when the president found out on camera, which I believe is the actual most believable story, and again, I'm not going to dive too much into this.
00:14:51.000 Some people are saying, I want to know the time of her death and all that.
00:14:53.000 I don't really care, okay?
00:14:54.000 All I know is that I know the president.
00:14:57.000 I know that the president would have waited on Air Force One.
00:15:00.000 He would have not gone and do a rally if he knew that Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.
00:15:05.000 I think that he found out at the same time that everybody else knew.
00:15:09.000 You could tell by his eyes and his body language, he looked a lot like he found out when the press told him.
00:15:16.000 And so I think all these theories that are floating out there does not make any sense to me.
00:15:19.000 I believe that the tape we just played is action when the president found out and it was genuine and it was full of humanity.
00:15:26.000 And so the president's official statement is right on point.
00:15:29.000 I'll read a part of it here, is a fighter to the end.
00:15:32.000 Justice Ginsburg battled cancer and other very long odds.
00:15:35.000 Throughout her remarkable life, our thoughts and prayers are with the Ginsburg family and their loved ones during this difficult time.
00:15:42.000 May her memory be a great and magnificent blessing to the world.
00:15:44.000 And by the way, if every conservative fought as hard as Ruth Bader Ginsburg did for what she believed in, our country would be a much better place.
00:15:51.000 I mean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she believed that abortion was okay. 0.99
00:15:55.000 She thought it was good to have a million abortions a year. 0.93
00:15:58.000 She did not think that owning a firearm was a right.
00:16:00.000 She believed in a strong federal government.
00:16:02.000 She did not believe in a federalist model.
00:16:04.000 She believed that illegals should have the right to vote eventually, probably.
00:16:07.000 She definitely believed in the DACA ruling.
00:16:10.000 She was a revisionist judge.
00:16:11.000 She did not believe that the law and the Constitution should be written as is and said she thought it should conform to the times.
00:16:17.000 However, she fought hard.
00:16:19.000 She never wavered to conservatives.
00:16:21.000 She never gave an inch.
00:16:22.000 And I think that we as conservatives can learn a lot from Ruth Bader Ginsburg of how she fought for what she believed in.
00:16:27.000 I think a lot of us Republicans on our side, I shouldn't say us, but too many Republicans waver far too often to the kind of the latest trend or whatever they think is the most fashionable thing to believe in.
00:16:42.000 So I didn't actually want to get into the politics of this when we first decided to do this podcast instant analysis of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.
00:16:51.000 And we were just going to do basically just remembering who she was and the reaction, and that was it.
00:16:55.000 But unfortunately, this has now gotten straight into the political arena.
00:16:59.000 So we're going to give you political analysis because now it is political news.
00:17:03.000 One more tweet from a left-wing podcast that I think is a segue to how Mitch McConnell reacted because now all eyes are on Mitch McConnell.
00:17:11.000 This is now Mitch McConnell's decision and it could benefit Mitch McConnell and we'll get to that in just one second.
00:17:16.000 But Katie Herzog, who's the host of a left-wing podcast, said, all we can hope for in times like these is that Mitch McConnell has a stroke from laughing too hard.
00:17:25.000 To clarify, I don't want him to die. 0.98
00:17:27.000 I just want him to be brain dead. 0.99
00:17:28.000 I'm not a monster. 0.99
00:17:30.000 So this is how the left has reacted to this.
00:17:32.000 This is a pattern of behavior.
00:17:34.000 I have yet to see one conservative, one person on the right celebrate the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but I do now have dozens, if not countless examples of people on the left hoping Mitch McConnell will die.
00:17:45.000 Interesting double standard how that works.
00:17:47.000 All eyes are on Mitch McConnell.
00:17:48.000 Mitch McConnell got us to the Kavanaugh hearing brilliantly.
00:17:51.000 And now Mitch McConnell, who is the head of the Senate, can single-handedly decide whether or not to proceed with the president's replacement for the Supreme Court or not to proceed.
00:18:03.000 U.S. Senate Majority Mitch McConnell made the following statement on the passing of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
00:18:10.000 The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.
00:18:17.000 Justice Ginsburg overcame one personal challenge and professional barrier after another.
00:18:21.000 She climbed from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to a seat on the nation's highest court and into the pages of American history.
00:18:27.000 Justice Ginsburg was thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession and to her 27 years of service on the Supreme Court.
00:18:32.000 Her intelligence and determination earned her respect and admiration throughout the legal world and indeed throughout the entire nation, which now grieves alongside her family, friends, and colleagues.
00:18:41.000 In the last midterm election, Justice Scalia's death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of lame duck president's terms.
00:18:50.000 We kept our promises.
00:18:51.000 Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president's Supreme Court nominee in the presidential election.
00:18:57.000 By contrast, Americans re-elected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda.
00:19:05.000 In particular, his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary, once again, we will keep our promise.
00:19:10.000 President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.
00:19:18.000 Do you hear that?
00:19:20.000 Listen carefully.
00:19:23.000 Those are the war drums of a culture war that if you think it was intense before this, it hasn't even started yet.
00:19:31.000 It's very skillful maneuvering by Senator Mitch McConnell.
00:19:36.000 But however nasty you think politics were before this, if you think Brett Kavanaugh was as disgusting American politics can get, this will be the most drawn out, nasty, personal fight that I think any of us will ever live through when it comes to the Supreme Court.
00:20:00.000 Mitch McConnell has said that he wants to make sure that President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court gets a fair hearing.
00:20:06.000 Now, this is now debated whether or not this should happen because it's an election year and it's so close to an election.
00:20:14.000 Now, I'm going to be honest with you.
00:20:15.000 I actually wrestled with this at first.
00:20:17.000 I thought to myself, well, should we do it?
00:20:20.000 It's this close to an election.
00:20:21.000 Is it the right thing to do?
00:20:23.000 And I didn't come to a complete answer on that.
00:20:25.000 Then I independently thought, I said, what would Democrats do?
00:20:28.000 And I thought the Democrats would absolutely fill the seat if they had the same power majorities that Republicans had.
00:20:33.000 But then I thought to myself, just because Democrats would do it does not mean we should do it.
00:20:38.000 That's never a good argument.
00:20:39.000 I mean, the Democrats support abortion.
00:20:41.000 They also support judging people on the color of their skin.
00:20:45.000 I'm not justifying Machiavellian tactics at all costs.
00:20:50.000 I'm not trying to have a moral relativist argument.
00:20:52.000 I think that if you do not have a good reason to do something that is rooted in truth and morality, then don't do it.
00:20:59.000 So here is the best reason why this must be filled.
00:21:04.000 This is the number one reason.
00:21:07.000 When we are heading into an election year where Hillary Clinton said that Joe Biden should not concede at any cost, where Democrats are talking about the lawfare to tie up this entire election in the courts, you go back to the election year 2000 of Bush versus Gore.
00:21:24.000 You go back to the highly contentious 40 days where we waited for a president of the United States to be chosen.
00:21:30.000 This is before the left really got into the streets with riots.
00:21:34.000 This is before a lot of their violent infrastructure was created.
00:21:38.000 It ended up being the United States Supreme Court that determined the winner of Bush versus Gore.
00:21:47.000 And it was by a thin margin, by the way.
00:21:50.000 And so if we allow the court to stay as is with five conservatives and three liberal.
00:21:56.000 Now, if you put Roberts in the probably will do the thing that he is told by some sort of architect of chaos, Roberts could very well side against President Trump, therefore making the Supreme Court a drawn-out tie.
00:22:11.000 This is a national security threat to our country.
00:22:15.000 That's right.
00:22:16.000 If we do not have a full court, nine seats, so that you can have a tie-breaking vote, and this election, the most important election since 1860, goes up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, by the way, Biden has an army of 600-plus lawyers, and the Supreme Court ties, you'll have bedlam.
00:22:39.000 Who will determine the president then?
00:22:40.000 There is no precedent for that.
00:22:42.000 It could go down to the lower courts.
00:22:44.000 It could get drawn out again to another Supreme Court decision.
00:22:46.000 It would be irresponsible for the president to leave that position vacant.
00:22:51.000 It's that simple.
00:22:53.000 If it comes down to Arizona, it goes to the Ninth Circuit.
00:22:56.000 If it comes down to Maine, it goes to the Northeastern Southern District Circuit.
00:23:03.000 Please listen to our sister episode about the color revolution of what the Democrats are planning to try to usurp authority and try to launch a coup against the president of the United States.
00:23:12.000 It's called a coup against President Trump.
00:23:15.000 Listen to our sister episode.
00:23:16.000 It's very, very important.
00:23:18.000 We did two episodes on the Saturday because it is so important.
00:23:22.000 And that only adds more into the intrigue of this.
00:23:25.000 And so if I were to make the argument, it is not my preference.
00:23:28.000 I don't care about 1880 or any of that.
00:23:30.000 I don't like having to fill a Supreme Court seat this close to an election.
00:23:37.000 I don't, but I think it's necessary.
00:23:40.000 The Republicans were given these majorities, and if we do not fill it, and this election, as promised by Hillary Clinton and many others, gets tied up into the courts and gets quickly put to the United States Supreme Court, which it will end up because no circuit court is going to want to decide it because it can get appealed, eventually kicked up.
00:24:00.000 The Supreme Court will take the case, and you have a 4-4 tie, that could break the back of our country.
00:24:06.000 It would be so irresponsible, especially where that position could be filled.
00:24:10.000 Now, even going by Joe Biden's own rule, though, the Biden rule, is that if you have different parties in the executive and the Senate, when you have an open Supreme Court seat, then you wait for the election.
00:24:20.000 But even according to the Biden rule, we should move forward.
00:24:23.000 We have a Senate and an executive.
00:24:26.000 And so I have long said that if you think you've seen the left get nasty, they have been saving a whole new level of viciousness for when Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat gets open.
00:24:36.000 That moment is now.
00:24:38.000 You put that mixed with the hatred of President Donald Trump, with BLM Incorporated, a nationwide shutdown, a pandemic, tens of millions of people out of work.
00:24:49.000 We are in the midst of something that very well could get chaotically out of control.
00:24:56.000 That's one of the reasons why I did not want to dive into politics as I'm recording this episode.
00:25:00.000 It's one of the reasons why I wanted to just look at somebody as a human being and then deliberately come to this conclusion.
00:25:07.000 But the left has now taken the gloves off.
00:25:10.000 This is now a political moment.
00:25:12.000 I'm not going to get into accusing the left of all this and all these sorts of things.
00:25:16.000 There'll be future episodes on that because I still want to keep the tone that I started this episode on consistent.
00:25:22.000 But I do know this: the one thing that truly united conservatives in the era of Trump is Kavanaugh.
00:25:28.000 I believe our muscle memory will ultimately prevail.
00:25:31.000 I think one of the reasons why we expanded seats in the U.S. Senate in the fall of 2018, in November 2018, is because of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:25:43.000 So, what are the electoral ramifications of this?
00:25:45.000 I see it both ways.
00:25:47.000 It could be very positive for President Trump.
00:25:49.000 I also think it could energize now that early voting has started in states all across the country.
00:25:54.000 People are voting right now in Virginia, all across the country.
00:25:58.000 Early voting sites are opening.
00:26:00.000 That it could energize younger female and minority voters to go out and vote against Donald Trump and vote for Joe Biden.
00:26:07.000 So, Mitch McConnell might be doing the right thing here.
00:26:09.000 He might be.
00:26:11.000 However, if riots start taking place, and if the left shows us who they really are, and they start marginalizing decent people and accusing decent people based on their religious beliefs, for example, if President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, which I don't even want to get into the speculation or the conjecture, we'll have an episode ready for you next week on that.
00:26:32.000 That I can guarantee you, is all of a sudden, if they attack her for being Catholic, not exactly a good way to win Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin, very heavily Catholic states.
00:26:44.000 And so, if the Democrats and their activist enforcement wing, Antifa, start to demand nationwide riots, which is not an unfounded thing because I just read you dozens of tweets of blue check journalists that are already calling for riots in the streets, that could very well help the president electorally and politically.
00:27:02.000 But quite honestly, let's put all of the politics aside.
00:27:07.000 It's the right thing to do to fill this seat.
00:27:10.000 Because if Joe Biden wins this election, truly and honestly, I want the Supreme Court to certify that election.
00:27:17.000 I do.
00:27:18.000 I do not want the person who wins this election to have to go in front of the Supreme Court and have a tie.
00:27:24.000 That's how a civilization unravels very quickly.
00:27:27.000 It would be irresponsible to leave it open.
00:27:30.000 If you have a contested election that gets kicked all the way up to the highest levels of our court, and then all of a sudden you cannot have that court rule correctly, that would be a tragedy.
00:27:40.000 And finally, if President Trump is looking at his legacy, getting three conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court is more than most people will do in two terms.
00:27:51.000 And President Trump has always said he would rather do the right thing and lose than do the thing that compromises his values and get another four years.
00:27:58.000 Mind you, I'm not saying that the president should do this and not get reelected, but it is never the wrong time to do the right thing.
00:28:06.000 And the right thing in this case is to put a conservative on the U.S. Supreme Court before the election.
00:28:12.000 So what does that look like?
00:28:13.000 Hearings, character assassination.
00:28:16.000 The left will be mobilized.
00:28:17.000 As I'm recording this episode, I look at 3,000 people outside of the Supreme Court building right now gathered.
00:28:24.000 And they're mourning RBG right now.
00:28:27.000 They are remembering her legacy for now.
00:28:30.000 However, I want to read you an email from NARAL, which is the National Association for Pro-Choice League.
00:28:38.000 Elise Hoag, who is the head of NARAL.
00:28:41.000 This is her subject line: quote: Tonight we mourn RBG.
00:28:45.000 Tomorrow we fight.
00:28:48.000 Team, this is to the pro-choice activists across America.
00:28:52.000 Yes, I do sign up for pro-choice action alerts so I can get an understanding of what the opposition is planning.
00:28:58.000 Team, devastation just doesn't cover it.
00:29:00.000 Earlier tonight, we received the news we hoped would never come.
00:29:02.000 Supreme Court Justice Utheria Ginsburg passed away from complications related to pancreatic cancer.
00:29:08.000 She continues by saying, the world is a much, much worse place without her presence, her integrity, and her grit.
00:29:14.000 A brilliant legal scholar.
00:29:16.000 She served for 27 years as a titler's defender of reproductive freedom on the Supreme Court, also known as terminating unborn human beings. 0.56
00:29:25.000 She continues by saying, tonight we mourn, tomorrow we fight.
00:29:31.000 I'll be in touch soon about what the fight will look like and how you can take part.
00:29:34.000 Keep your eyes peeled.
00:29:36.000 They're already drawing their battle lines, everybody.
00:29:39.000 So if you think for just a minute that the left is going to want a unifying moment here, no way.
00:29:48.000 Mitch McConnell has singled that this gets a vote.
00:29:51.000 Therefore, eyes are on Mitt Romney.
00:29:53.000 Murkowski said she will not confirm a Supreme Court justice before the inauguration.
00:29:57.000 That's fine.
00:29:58.000 She's a write-off anyway.
00:29:59.000 Mitt Romney said he would not do it allegedly and then came out.
00:30:02.000 His spokesman said it is not true.
00:30:04.000 Romney will consider it.
00:30:06.000 And I am Mitt Romney's number one critic.
00:30:10.000 I spoke out against him at CPAC vocally and loudly and publicly.
00:30:16.000 But if Mitt Romney votes to confirm a conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court, I will be the first one to applaud.
00:30:24.000 I will be the first one to compliment him.
00:30:26.000 Same goes for Democrat Manchin.
00:30:28.000 We also have Doug Jones from Alabama, who might want to save his Senate seat.
00:30:31.000 Corey Gardner from Colorado is in a tough race.
00:30:33.000 There's a lot of questions.
00:30:35.000 And guess who else might have to show up to the Senate Judiciary Committee? 0.86
00:30:38.000 Yes, Lindsey Graham, who is the chairman, but also the vice presidential nominee, Senator Harris, who made her name for character assassinating an innocent man, Brett Kavanaugh.
00:30:50.000 If you think that this 2020 race was interesting before this, this has completely reset the landscape, and this will help President Trump.
00:30:58.000 It will, especially in key battleground states.
00:31:00.000 It'll hurt him in California and New York.
00:31:02.000 Speaker Pelosi will probably continue to be Speaker.
00:31:05.000 Martha McSally, who is down in the polls in Arizona, said, quote, the U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump's next nominee for the United States Supreme Court.
00:31:13.000 Rick Scott from Florida said, quote, it would be irresponsible to allow an extended vacancy on the Supreme Court.
00:31:19.000 I believe that President Trump's nominee should get a vote in the U.S. Senate.
00:31:22.000 You're already seeing Senate Republicans signal that way.
00:31:25.000 This is all at Mitch McConnell's direction.
00:31:27.000 I criticize Mitch McConnell for being far too kind to corporate interests at times, but I got to give Mitch McConnell credit.
00:31:34.000 He is the best operator when it comes to confirming Supreme Court justices.
00:31:38.000 I've said that once.
00:31:39.000 I will say it again.
00:31:40.000 He's terrific at it.
00:31:41.000 He knows what he's doing.
00:31:42.000 He's a brilliant tactician when it comes to winning the courts for future generations.
00:31:47.000 So when Senator Harris is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that takes her off the campaign trail.
00:31:54.000 And it leaves Biden alone and lost to wander out of his basement. 0.83
00:31:58.000 Senator Harris will now have to contend for this Supreme Court nominee against Vice President Pence, who might be the tiebreaker in the vice presidential debate.
00:32:10.000 I always say buckle up, everybody, at the beginning of every episode.
00:32:14.000 But if there's ever been a time to get focused, be clear, hold on, and get active, this is the moment we've been waiting for.
00:32:23.000 Because I'm telling you, the Republic will be decided based on whether or not this Supreme Court justice gets confirmed, whether or not President Trump wins re-election.
00:32:33.000 Never been a more important time to get engaged and do something for our country.
00:32:38.000 So in closing, I want to say Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived a full life. 0.59
00:32:41.000 She truly was a rags to riches story.
00:32:44.000 Not that she was very wealthy, but she got to the U.S. Supreme Court. 0.98
00:32:46.000 Only in America is something like that possible.
00:32:49.000 I think I've made it abundantly clear through this podcast that her views I found to be immoral on abortion, guns, the Constitution, and many other issues.
00:32:58.000 But I am not someone who thinks that when somebody dies, it should be relished as a smiling, gleeful political opportunity.
00:33:07.000 I encourage all of you to have that same sort of spirit this weekend.
00:33:11.000 And whenever this comes up, just take pause and say, she was a human being.
00:33:15.000 All human beings are made in the image of God, and all of them deserve some form of remembrance when they pass away.
00:33:22.000 And so as we move forward, this kind of humanity I'm trying to establish will never happen with the Democrats.
00:33:30.000 Let's just be very clear.
00:33:32.000 They now see this as a threat to their power.
00:33:35.000 They now see this as whatever level that they reached previously, they're going to find a new one.
00:33:39.000 Trending on Twitter, as I conclude this episode, is get Mitch or die trying, basically saying, let's try to murder Mitch McConnell.
00:33:49.000 Crooked media says it's get Mitch or Die Trying fund, which has been raising money to flip the Senate and replace Mitch McConnell as majority leader, has raised $600,000 in the last two hours.
00:34:01.000 I'm sure.
00:34:02.000 So who's the one raising money off of tragedy?
00:34:04.000 Who's the one politicizing?
00:34:06.000 Of course the left is.
00:34:07.000 There'll be a time for that.
00:34:09.000 I see this very clearly, that President Trump is most likely going to get his third Supreme Court justice.
00:34:15.000 For those of us that know the generational significance of the Supreme Court, this means everything.
00:34:21.000 However, that's not the reason why I'm saying he should do it.
00:34:23.000 I'll go back to my original thesis.
00:34:25.000 It would be irresponsible to leave a vacancy when a contested election because of mail-in voting being prevalent because of the pandemic is imminent.
00:34:32.000 The seat must be filled.
00:34:35.000 Stay close and tuned to our podcast, everybody, because I've been through a Supreme Court nomination before on the front lines.
00:34:41.000 I was there when Brett Kavanaugh was under duress. 0.63
00:34:44.000 I was there being screamed at by leftist lunatics and activists.
00:34:47.000 I know what it takes to get this future nominee that we don't know confirmed.
00:34:54.000 It's not going to be easy.
00:34:56.000 It's going to take persistence.
00:34:58.000 It's going to take focus.
00:35:00.000 It's going to take facts.
00:35:02.000 It's going to take organization.
00:35:03.000 And it's going to take you guys continue listening to the Charlie Kirk show here.
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00:35:23.000 It's about to ramp up, everybody.
00:35:25.000 The temperature in the room is about to increase.
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