The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 614 - The Dying Wish Doctrine

00:00:00.000 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87, but according to several

00:00:06.580 highly reputable sources in the mainstream media, the late justice has never felt better

00:00:10.820 and fully intends to finish out the court's term. If you thought 2020 had reached peak

00:00:16.540 madness, buckle up. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:20.280 Welcome back to the show. Biggest news that could have possibly happened just about

00:00:34.380 in the 2020 election cycle has happened. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. You know,

00:00:41.180 the mainstream media have been saying now for years and years after this woman has battled all

00:00:45.200 sorts of cancers and she was obviously up there in age, they keep saying, oh, she's doing great.

00:00:49.800 She's fine. Not a worry at all. But, but of course they, they can't continue to keep making that

00:00:55.980 protestation and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has gone to her eternal rest and we have gone to our eternal

00:01:02.440 unrest in the madness that will follow. We will get into all of the many lies that are being told right

00:01:10.580 now about what, what this means for the court, what this means for the election cycle. First,

00:01:14.420 my favorite comment from Thursday. This is from GS on YouTube. I don't think China is who Hollywood 1.00

00:01:23.180 has sold its soul to. That's true. That's true. It's not just China. China is a sort of stand in. 0.77

00:01:29.620 There is also a moral and a philosophical dimension here as well. And you see that actually,

00:01:34.520 that same sort of thing at play in the Supreme court. RBG is gone and the Democrats are threatening

00:01:42.180 civil war. This from Bo Willimon. Uh, he's some show business blue check. He says, quote,

00:01:49.860 we're shutting this country down. If Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before

00:01:54.980 the election, well, jokes on you, Bo, you already shut this country down. You shut it down six months

00:02:00.880 ago over the China virus. And really just because orange man is bad. And you, you guys all thought

00:02:07.180 that by shutting down the country and driving everybody crazy and crashing the economy,

00:02:10.500 you'd have a better chance of winning the election. So now, now that you want to do it over a court

00:02:15.940 vacancy, you can't because you've already done a former CNN host and noted cannibal Reza Aslan tweets

00:02:22.840 out. If they even try to replace RBG, we burn the entire effing thing down. Once again, Mr. Aslan jokes on

00:02:33.220 you. You've already been burning the country down for six months. Listen to this madness. If they try to

00:02:39.220 fill a court vacancy, if they try to do one of the basic functions of government that the Constitution

00:02:45.220 tells the president and the Senate to do, they will burn the country down. Well, of course, they're willing

00:02:49.700 to burn the country down over anything. They're willing to burn the country down over justified use of

00:02:55.620 police force. They're willing to burn the country down over the election of a Republican president.

00:03:00.940 They're willing to burn the country down over just about anything. Many others are threatening

00:03:04.860 violence. That's a bad reaction to Justice Ginsburg's death. How about a decent reaction for that? We turn

00:03:11.420 to President Trump, who was giving a rally when the justice passed away, when the news broke. And so he

00:03:17.980 was asked, he was sort of told of this news for the first time by a reporter. Everyone is a little

00:03:24.780 nervous. You know, sometimes President Trump can speak off the cuff and it gets, it's a little

00:03:29.820 impolitic, but I have to tell you, he handled this beautifully.

00:03:36.060 She just died? Wow.

00:03:40.940 I didn't know that. I just, you're telling me now for the first time.

00:03:46.620 She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman. Whether you agreed or not,

00:03:53.820 she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear

00:04:02.380 that. Thank you very much.

00:04:08.220 Perfect response from the president of the United States. The fact that you had Elton John playing

00:04:13.340 in the background after this rally, it just makes it all the more cinematic. Hold me close. And he's

00:04:19.180 there. It gives us very empathetic, or at least sympathetic response. So that was great. How

00:04:24.460 should the rest of us react? I was actually doing a radio interview when this news broke. So I didn't

00:04:29.580 have any time to think of it either. And I was asked, breaking news, the justices died. What's your

00:04:35.660 take? First reaction is we should pray for Justice Ginsburg's soul. We should pray that she gets to go see 0.88

00:04:44.540 her old buddy Nino Scalia again. Don't forget Antonin Scalia, who we all love. His best friend

00:04:50.220 on the court was Ruth Ginsburg. And so we should pray for her because now she's gone and hopefully

00:04:55.580 she gets to see her buddy again. I don't think we need to sugarcoat this. I've seen some conservatives

00:05:00.140 come out and say, oh wow, we all need to be like Ginsburg. She was notorious. She was so wonderful.

00:05:06.380 She was so great. You don't, you don't need to say that she stood for very bad things on the court.

00:05:11.340 And we don't need to pretend that all of a sudden now we agree with those things. She, she certainly

00:05:17.180 lasted a long time and she, she certainly had some good opinions and, and she had as a matter 0.56

00:05:25.500 of judicial opinions, mostly bad opinions, but, but you know, she's still a human being and we

00:05:30.300 should pray for her when she dies. Some people are saying this is a tragedy, that it's a tragedy

00:05:36.100 that Ginsburg has died. It's not a tragedy when a woman dies at the age of 87, having a

00:05:41.240 accomplished everything in her life that she's wanted to accomplish. That's not a tragedy.

00:05:44.120 It's a tragedy when a little kid gets an illness and dies. It's not a tragedy when someone lives

00:05:50.520 their natural life and has a life that they're happy about. Really the only tragedy that Ruth

00:05:56.700 Ginsburg endured is that the Democrats were so hell bent on killing babies that they wouldn't 0.98

00:06:01.200 let this poor woman retire. That's the tragedy. This woman didn't get two seconds of retirement 1.00

00:06:06.800 because the Democrats were so intent on keeping one very bad court decision, Roe versus Wade in play

00:06:15.440 here. It shows you how weak that Roe v Wade decision is because that's what all of this is about. That's

00:06:21.320 what the whole thing is about is Roe versus Wade, which in 1973 invented the fictional constitutional right

00:06:31.140 to kill a baby in his mother's womb. And because there's obviously no constitutional basis for that

00:06:37.800 right whatsoever, the courts have become hyper politicized. This isn't about any other issues.

00:06:46.360 Obamacare, redefining marriage, even really intense issues. No, those aren't threatened at all by these

00:06:53.980 courts. It's just Roe versus Wade. When Democrats are threatening to burn down the country right now,

00:06:59.560 Reza Aslan and Bo Williman and all these people, they're threatening to burn it down if the right 0.98

00:07:06.340 to kill a baby in his mother's womb is ever even remotely threatened. Consider, that's amazing. 0.94

00:07:14.760 That's an amazing fact. That shows you that sometimes bad ideas drive people mad or maybe spiritual things

00:07:23.420 drive people mad and it leads them to bad ideas. So it's not tragic that Ruth Ginsburg died, but it is

00:07:28.520 still sad and we should still pray for her. I'm seeing some other people now come out and say,

00:07:32.500 we, who cares about Ruth Ginsburg? No, we, we should care because in the words of John Donne,

00:07:37.000 any man's death diminishes me because I am a part of mankind, right? So therefore never send for whom

00:07:43.780 the bell tolls, it tolls for me. We should pray. It's a nice thing to do. And we should move on now

00:07:50.120 and look at the political realities of this court. We've been told that Ruth Ginsburg's dying wish

00:07:56.940 was that no conservative gets to replace her. It was her dying wish. Well, I'm, I'd like to grant

00:08:05.020 people's dying wish, but that's one I don't think we can grant. We'll get to that in one second.

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00:09:24.680 Write in Knowles so they know we sent you. According to many Democrats, I don't even know if this

00:09:29.140 is true. Poor RBG has been so exploited, particularly in her latter years by the left, 0.98

00:09:36.440 that we don't even really know if this is true or not. But we're told her dying wish

00:09:40.500 is that Trump not replace her. AOC, I don't know, I guess she has some inside knowledge here,

00:09:49.180 delivers that final message. The very last dying wish of RBG was that her vacancy not be filled until

00:10:00.160 the new president takes office in January. That was her dying wish. Tonight, Mitch McConnell publicly

00:10:08.640 the night of her passing, he couldn't wait 24 hours, issued a statement saying that he was going

00:10:20.320 to give Trump a vote in violation of her dying wish. People can say how appalling, people could say this is

00:10:28.860 horrible, etc. But we know who this man is. We know who this man is. This is a man who does not care

00:10:37.940 about a dying woman's final wish. Clearly. Hashtag me too. I do not care about this dying wish. 0.96

00:10:46.720 I certainly, I certainly do not care that this justice who I'll take Scalia at his word. Maybe

00:10:54.620 she was a very nice lady, but she was hyper, hyper partisan. And I don't care that she allegedly said 1.00

00:11:01.560 this very partisan thing at the end of her life. I'll tell you what I heard. Here's just what I heard.

00:11:06.700 And who knows if it's true. I just heard it. That Antonin Scalia's dying wish was that Roe versus

00:11:11.180 Wade be overturned. So are you really going to deny the man his dying wish? Look, it's his dying wish.

00:11:18.340 He said it. It's in the constitution. It's right there in one of the penumbra's and the emanations,

00:11:23.520 the dying wish doctrine that if someone on the court wants anything at the end of their life,

00:11:29.080 you have to give it to them. So look, that's, I'm pretty sure that's what also Scalia said that

00:11:33.640 the treasury should give me at least four to $10 million. I remember, I heard it from somebody said

00:11:41.000 it and you know, it's in the penumbra's. So anyway, give me, give me my money, please. Not how our

00:11:46.240 constitution works, huh? There is lots of confusion about how our constitution works. Even some Republicans

00:11:52.860 like Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins now want to honor RBG's wish and not confirm a

00:12:00.880 judge. I will take you through in a whirlwind. I will take you through all of the ridiculous and

00:12:07.820 dishonest arguments going on right now about whether or not we should fill the court seat.

00:12:13.600 Just to give you the top line view, should we fill the vacancy? Yes,

00:12:16.940 of course we should fill the vacancy. This is going to be a very bad faith fight with a lot of

00:12:23.640 bad faith arguments, including from some people on the right. In the midst of all this political

00:12:29.360 posturing, everybody is missing the point. So the first argument, this is the first point that the

00:12:35.740 Democrats are making. Bill Clinton just made it the other day. It's that Mitch McConnell would be a

00:12:41.420 hypocrite to fill this seat in an election year after he refused to fill Antonin Scalia's seat with 0.95

00:12:48.900 Obama's appointee during 2016. We're really close to the election. And let's remember the example 0.98

00:12:59.260 Abraham Lincoln set. And let's remember the commitments and the comments Mitch McConnell made.

00:13:06.340 I think it would be good for Senator McConnell to make him feel better when he gets up in the morning.

00:13:10.860 If he if he proved that he wasn't being a hypocrite at the time and he just stuck with his position.

00:13:19.940 And I think all the other Republicans could should be asked to do the same. But, you know,

00:13:28.400 you can't keep a democracy if there's one set of rules for one group and another set for everybody else.

00:13:36.120 You heard it from old Bubba himself, who definitely would never play by a different set of rules than

00:13:41.120 his political opponents, right? No, not Bill Clinton. You kidding me? The Clintons?

00:13:46.080 They could never be hypocritical. But that's the that's the point they're making. I don't even 0.98

00:13:49.460 I'm not even going to get into the Clintons today. The point they're making is Mitch McConnell's a

00:13:53.220 hypocrite because he wouldn't he wouldn't fill the seat in 2016, but he wants to fill it now. 0.94

00:13:56.520 Well, OK, what did Mitch McConnell say? What precisely is the McConnell rule from 2016? 0.95

00:14:03.520 It's campaign season. We're right in the middle of it.

00:14:07.600 Been more than 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy arose and was filled in a presidential election year.

00:14:15.620 It will not be hearings or votes. The next president, whoever that may be,

00:14:25.320 is going to be the person who chooses the next Supreme Court justice.

00:14:29.580 Boom. He's a hypocrite. He's a hypocrite, right? He has to be because he wouldn't fill the seat in 2016, 1.00

00:14:34.120 but he wants to fill it now. That's the McConnell rule, except is that the eternal McConnell rule

00:14:40.320 that you can't ever fill a court seat during an election year? Or was that a rule specific to that

00:14:45.420 time? Well, it gets a little more complicated because at the time in 2016, Democrats were

00:14:51.600 lambasting McConnell for not filling that seat, except do you know where McConnell got that rule

00:14:56.580 from? He got that rule from Joe Biden, the current Democratic nominee. We'll get to that in one second.

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00:16:37.020 right? Because he wouldn't fill the seat then and he wants to fill the seat now. 0.99

00:16:41.200 But he was evil then. Remember, they were all upset that he wouldn't fill the seat then. So

00:16:44.860 then by their logic, shouldn't, shouldn't they be excited that we're going to fill the seat now?

00:16:48.640 Well, I don't know because the McConnell rule actually comes from the Biden rule, which was given

00:16:51.960 back in 1992, where Joe Biden said, absolutely not under no circumstances should the president put

00:16:59.100 forth the nominee. Now, why did he say that? Because there was a Republican president who

00:17:02.520 would be picking the nominee. It is my view that if a Supreme Court justice resigns tomorrow or within

00:17:09.500 the next several weeks or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following

00:17:18.000 the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not, and not name a nominee until after the

00:17:27.900 November election is completed, the Senate too, Mr. President, must consider how it would respond

00:17:35.360 to a Supreme Court vacancy that would occur in the full throes of an election year. It is my view

00:17:43.520 that if the president goes the way of Presidents Fillmore and Johnson and presses an election year

00:17:50.580 nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation

00:17:58.540 hearings on the nomination until ever, until after the political campaign season is over.

00:18:06.060 Okay, now this is getting really complicated because it turns out that that McConnell rule in 2016

00:18:11.320 that the Democrats were so upset about was actually invented by Joe Biden, who's the guy that they just

00:18:16.020 picked to be their nominee for president this year. So to put it into perspective, you've got on the

00:18:21.640 side of do not appoint a judge nominee in an election year, you've got Biden in 92 and McConnell in 2016.

00:18:31.600 And then on the side of appoint a judge in an election year, you've got McConnell in 2020. But it gets

00:18:37.920 even more complicated than that because it turns out that Joe Biden after 2016, Joe Biden in 2020 is

00:18:45.840 for confirming a judge in an election year. Here is, here is Joe, I guess not Joe Biden in 2020 because Joe

00:18:52.780 Biden's changed his tune again, but this is now Joe Biden, not in 1992, after the Merrick Garland fiasco

00:19:01.880 saying, yes, they should have confirmed a judge.

00:19:05.900 I made it absolutely clear that I would go forward with the confirmation progress process as chairman, even a few months

00:19:13.960 before presidential election. If the nominee were chosen with the advice and not merely the consent

00:19:21.400 of the Senate, just as the constitution requires, just as the constitution requires president can put

00:19:29.920 forth a nominee and that's great. We'll have him. So I'm sorry to keep you spinning in a whirlwind

00:19:35.120 of changing opinions. Biden 92, don't put a judge on the court. Biden 2016, 2017, yes, put a judge on

00:19:45.340 the court. McConnell back in 2016, do not put the judge on the court. McConnell 2020, put the judge

00:19:52.560 on the court. Democrats now saying, absolutely, you cannot put the judge on the court in an election

00:19:58.980 year. Democrats in 2016, all of the top Democrats in 2016, you must put the judge on the court.

00:20:06.320 The American people deserve a fully staffed court of nine. The president nominates and then the Senate

00:20:12.540 advises and consents or not, but they go forward with the process. What we're seeing here, and I hope

00:20:19.200 this is temporary, is a disrespect for the constitution. The constitution is 100% clear. The president of the

00:20:27.340 United States has the right to nominate someone to be a justice of the Supreme Court. Senate's function

00:20:33.620 is to hold hearings and to vote. The blockade on filling a naturally occurring vacancy, in my view,

00:20:40.220 is harmful to the independence of the article three branch. You cannot keep a seat on the Supreme Court,

00:20:46.680 which represents all of us. You cannot keep it vacant against the constitution. Do pretty much

00:20:52.740 everything they can to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of our democratically elected

00:20:59.200 president. The American people expect the president's nominee to be given a fair hearing and a timely vote

00:21:05.400 in the Senate. Every day that goes by without a ninth justice is another day the American people's

00:21:10.720 business is not getting done. Oh, I love that symphony. I love that symphony because you have every top

00:21:16.560 Democrat in 2016 making the opposite argument than they are making right now. And sure, maybe McConnell's

00:21:24.560 doing that a little bit too, and Joe Biden's done it multiple times, totally swinging from side to side. 0.93

00:21:29.920 Does this mean that they're hypocrites? No, it means they're very funny. It means they're very funny 0.88

00:21:34.000 people, and it means that some of them are unserious people, but it does not actually mean that 0.54

00:21:38.760 they're hypocrites. At least McConnell's not a hypocrite. The people trying to make the eternal 0.97

00:21:43.080 arguments, universal, here's the rule for all time. There's a little hypocrisy there, but the people

00:21:48.220 making the argument, no, in this election year, we shouldn't put up a judge. In this election year,

00:21:53.020 maybe we should put up a judge. That's not hypocritical. That is about power. This is a very

00:21:59.840 simple issue. The constitution says that the president has the right to put forward a judge nominee.

00:22:07.500 The Senate has the right to advise and consent to or reject that nominee. And then when they

00:22:13.080 consent to it, the judge is put on the court. Very simple. There is nothing complicated about

00:22:19.860 that. There is nothing controversial about that. Anybody who is trying to tell you that this is

00:22:24.320 complicated or controversial is deceiving you or deceiving themselves. So what changes? Well,

00:22:30.480 what changes is power. Right now, we have a Republican president and a Republican Senate.

00:22:37.600 So we can probably, maybe, except the Republicans are so useless, but we can maybe get a judge nominee 0.87

00:22:42.840 through. Good. 2016, you had a Democrat president, a Republican Senate. They weren't going to get a 0.96

00:22:49.700 judge nominee through. Okay, cool. Great. That's power. That's how it works. There's nothing

00:22:54.600 hypocritical about elected politicians using the power entrusted in them by the people according to

00:23:01.040 the constitution. Nothing hypocritical at all. All about power. There is a kind of funny coincidence here,

00:23:08.000 which is that this brutal confirmation process for the Supreme court was a very modern thing.

00:23:13.360 And it is in part, Joe Biden's legacy. It's Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden, Joe Biden with Clarence

00:23:20.120 Thomas, Ted Kennedy with judge Borg. And it's all about Roe v. Wade. It's all about abortion. This 0.54

00:23:24.920 started when conservative judge Borg was being put up for the court in the 1980s. And Kennedy used in

00:23:30.740 particular, the issue of abortion to demagogue the issue. In Robert Borg's America, there is no room

00:23:36.860 at the end for blacks and no place in the constitution for women. And in our America, 1.00

00:23:43.240 there should be no seat on the Supreme court for Robert Borg. Mr. Borg has been equally extreme in his

00:23:50.380 opposition to the right to privacy. In an article in 1971, he said in effect that a husband and wife

00:23:57.780 have no greater right to privacy under the constitution than a smokestack has to pollute

00:24:04.440 the air. This was unprecedented in Supreme court nominations where you have this, this murderer,

00:24:10.400 Ted Kennedy. That's not, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable, right? That Ted Kennedy, this womanizing 1.00

00:24:15.440 drunk killer of his mistress comes out and calls a judge Borg, an absolutely upright man, 0.99

00:24:21.960 some sort of a sexist. That's a beautiful thing in that it's so hilarious. It's so outrageous.

00:24:28.520 That, you know, it, it strains credulity. He calls him a racist too. Of course, you're going to call

00:24:33.520 him all these things. And he shoots down the nomination of a qualified guy. These judges used

00:24:38.940 to sail through. They'd be confirmed unanimously. But because in particular, the issue of Roe v. Wade

00:24:44.580 was decided on such preposterous constitutional grounds, they now need to have their own hyper-partisans

00:24:50.980 in the mold of Breyer or Ginsburg or any of these other people to be put on the bench to protect

00:24:57.360 that fictional right. And they do it and they do it. And instead of Borg, we got Kennedy and Kennedy

00:25:02.260 became a liberal and threw our jurisprudence into absolute madness. Biden tried to do this

00:25:09.360 to Clarence Thomas when, when he was nominated by George H.W. Bush. He tried to do it to Thomas.

00:25:15.180 Fortunately, Thomas was a bit quicker on his feet. He was a little more clever, totally shut it down.

00:25:20.760 The committee will please come to order. Judge, it's a tough day and tough night for you, I

00:25:31.640 know. Let me ask, do you have anything you'd like to say before we begin?

00:25:36.880 This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American,

00:25:45.480 as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think 1.00

00:25:53.260 for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas. And it is a message that unless 0.96

00:26:01.120 you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, 0.98

00:26:09.620 caricatured by a committee of the U.S., U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree. 0.69

00:26:20.220 You know, you can't see it in that particular clip, but you can see it in others. The minute

00:26:25.020 that Clarence Thomas brings this point up, the high-tech lynching point, Joe Biden, who's

00:26:31.840 chairing the committee, his head goes right down and goes, oh, shoot. We're the only ones who are

00:26:36.040 supposed to play the race card. The race card's for Democrats. Republicans can't play the race

00:26:39.600 card. Ah, darn. Guess we're going to have to let this guy through, huh? It's a beautiful, 1.00

00:26:45.260 you should watch the entire statement that Clarence Thomas gives. At that point there at

00:26:49.820 the end, he goes, this is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think 1.00

00:26:52.600 for themselves. And they'll be lynched by a committee of the Senate rather than hung from 0.99

00:26:56.800 a tree. Guess what happened? Then they confirmed him. Didn't work. This was the moment that Andrew 0.98

00:27:01.520 Breitbart says made him conservative. It radicalized him because he saw that even more than the

00:27:09.000 borking what they would do to any conservative who threatened the liberal regime of completely

00:27:16.380 imaginary constitutional rights that was subverting our constitution. So Democrats did this. Joe 0.94

00:27:22.580 Biden in particular did this. They've been doing it for over 40 years. Republicans have

00:27:26.180 never done this. We've never done this to any Democratic judicial nominee. Part of me is

00:27:32.360 hoping that Trump will nominate Merrick Garland just so that the Democrats will be forced to 0.68

00:27:38.100 call him a rapist because that's the new thing. Now, if you, if you're put up for the Supreme

00:27:41.700 Court, you're called a rapist. That's the rule. They'll do it to any, they'll probably do it to 1.00

00:27:46.200 Amy Barrett. Amy Barrett is now considered to be the leading contender to replace Ruth Ginsburg. 0.96

00:27:52.840 We'll get into that in one second. We'll get into who and how we should fill this vacancy.

00:27:57.880 Lots of, lots of takes from the left that are actually the opposite of, of the reality. It tells us a lot

00:28:04.200 more about the left-wing view of women and the judiciary than the conservative view, which we'll 0.56

00:28:10.200 get into in one second. But first, if you watch this podcast on YouTube, you got to know that on

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00:29:01.640 Should we fill the vacancy? Absolutely. Should we get rid of the filibuster to do it? Absolutely.

00:29:12.640 One issue now is that we have this rule called the filibuster, which means you need 60 votes to

00:29:16.500 get anything done, not a simple majority. Should we get rid of it? Yes. The filibuster is not part

00:29:21.520 of the constitution. It's only been theoretically possible since 1806. It's only been used since the

00:29:27.460 mid 18th, 19th century. It's only really been used in earnest since the 1970s. And Harry Reid and the

00:29:34.400 Democrats got rid of it for most appointees, executive and judicial back in 2013. And McConnell

00:29:39.280 warned him. He said, don't do this. You're going to regret it. Well, now's the time for it to be

00:29:43.500 regretted by the Democrats. They're already promising to get rid of it. If they come to power,

00:29:47.120 we won't get any cookies or brownie points for maintaining this tradition and, and tying one arm

00:29:52.280 behind our back. So yeah, absolutely. A hundred percent fill the post. Question is who should it

00:29:57.440 be? The leading contender right now, Amy Coney Barrett. Three words that strike fear under the

00:30:05.140 heart of the liberals. Who is Amy Barrett? She's an appeals court judge. She's a mother of seven,

00:30:10.540 five biological children, two adopted children from Haiti. She's a law professor, obviously qualified.

00:30:16.140 We don't know much about her judicial philosophy, actually. We know she clerked for Scalia, but you know,

00:30:20.920 she's young. She's been on the bench not too long. Still the left hates her guts. Why? Two big reasons.

00:30:26.400 First one, they hate her primarily because she's Catholic. Here is Senator Democrat Dianne Feinstein

00:30:32.880 lambasting her because the Catholic dogma lives loudly within her. When you read your speeches,

00:30:41.180 the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.

00:30:50.920 And that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for

00:31:00.180 for years in this country.

00:31:02.880 It's a big concern because Catholics aren't allowed on the Supreme Court because our constitution

00:31:09.120 establishes a religious test for president and you need to belong to the religion of secular 0.55

00:31:13.700 liberalism. You can't possibly be a Christian. That would be un-American. 1.00

00:31:17.500 That's the argument she's making. Luckily, Dianne Feinstein is far too ignorant to know that that's 1.00

00:31:23.900 the argument that she's making, but it's a deeply anti-American argument. The things she's saying 1.00

00:31:29.300 right there violate the constitution. Even asking those questions is a violation of the constitution.

00:31:37.260 Dick Durbin, another leading Democrat, a little bit quicker on his feet than Dianne Feinstein,

00:31:41.600 falls into precisely the same trap.

00:31:44.600 You use a term in that article, or you both use a term in that article I'd never seen before.

00:31:49.320 You refer to Orthodox Catholics. What's an Orthodox Catholic?

00:31:53.020 As I recall, that term, we said something like, for lack of a better term, we're using the term

00:32:00.900 Orthodox Catholic, and there was a long footnote saying that that was an imperfect term. It could

00:32:07.260 refer to Orthodox Judaism, Greek Orthodox, and so we kind of cast about, but what that term was designed

00:32:13.880 to capture, because we were talking about conscientious objection, was a judge who accepted the church's

00:32:22.040 teaching that the death penalty would be impermissible in that case.

00:32:25.140 Do you consider yourself an Orthodox Catholic?

00:32:27.660 I am a Catholic, Senator Durbin. I don't, well, Orthodox Catholic, we kind of, as I said in that

00:32:33.800 article, we just kind of use that as a proxy. It is not, to my knowledge, you know, a term

00:32:39.300 Curlian used, but if you're asking whether I take my faith seriously and I'm a faithful Catholic,

00:32:43.600 I am, although I would stress that my personal church affiliation or my religious belief would

00:32:49.740 not bear on the discharge of my duties as a judge. She gave a very long judicial sort of 0.70

00:32:56.320 judicious answer here, but a simpler answer is, what do you mean you've never heard of Orthodox

00:33:03.500 Catholic? Dick Durbin is not a stupid man. He said, I've never heard that Orthodox Catholic. 1.00

00:33:09.840 Well, let me spell it out for you, Senator Durbin. Orthodox, meaning you actually believe the things

00:33:15.520 that you say that you believe. Catholic, meaning you're a Catholic. You're part of the Catholic

00:33:20.680 Church. You could be a heterodox Catholic, meaning you consider yourself a Catholic, but you don't

00:33:26.080 believe the things that the Catholic Church believes. You could be a heretic, a heretical

00:33:30.640 Catholic. You could openly preach things against what the Catholic Church teaches, even though you

00:33:35.200 consider yourself a Catholic, or you can be an Orthodox Catholic and actually believe the things that

00:33:39.280 the Catholic Church teaches. And that's the issue here, because when Democrats use the term

00:33:43.940 Catholic, they say, I'm a devout Catholic. My Catholic faith is important to me. What they

00:33:48.100 really mean is, I have Christmas dinner. I maybe go to mass sometimes if I want to.

00:33:57.240 That's what they mean. Joe Biden's a devout Catholic. He thinks that taxpayers should, should pay to kill

00:34:02.840 babies in the womb up until the moment of birth, but he's a, which, which Catholics are not permitted 1.00

00:34:07.280 to believe, but you know, he's a devout Catholic. Some Democrats say, yeah, I support socialism,

00:34:12.780 but I'm a devout Catholic. You're not allowed to be a socialist if you're a Catholic. So what they

00:34:17.920 mean by devout Catholic is they think that religion is this kind of little ornament and it's the sweet

00:34:23.060 little thing that maybe you do in the privacy of your own home because you're afraid of the dark and

00:34:26.940 it's a little superstition like knocking on wood or, or any other superstition, but you don't take it

00:34:32.620 seriously. You don't think it means anything. You certainly don't believe all that crazy stuff that

00:34:38.040 those churches say. And the Democrats are shocked to find a woman who is intelligent, who is articulate,

00:34:45.220 who is accomplished, who actually thinks it's true. And now there are a lot of Catholics and, 0.53

00:34:53.260 and, and Christians and people who think this way, but the Democrats don't meet them. They're always

00:34:58.900 shocked. They say, you don't, you couldn't possibly believe that stuff. So that's the first reason they

00:35:02.940 hate her. Second reason they hate her is because she disproves all their stupid theories about how 1.00

00:35:08.040 to be. On paper, she is everything a woman should be or could be. The left always says women can have 1.00

00:35:17.340 it all. Right. And usually what that means is that women should go and delay getting married and delay 1.00

00:35:23.360 having children and just work for the widget factory. And you know, they should go cut their hair and they

00:35:29.280 should go only vote for Democrats and they should have lots of abortions and they should, uh, I don't 1.00

00:35:34.700 know what are all the, I'm trying to mix the high and the low, you know, you should get like stupid, 1.00

00:35:39.140 like really like ugly haircuts. Like, do you remember that thing that the Democrats were doing 0.99

00:35:43.500 years ago? The feminist women were doing, it's like, it is very unpleasant. And the very important 1.00

00:35:49.380 things like they should engage in abortion or they should form families in a certain way or this or that

00:35:55.380 or this or that. That's what the Democrats say. You can, you can have it all. That's the promise

00:36:01.660 that you can have a career, have a family, have kids, do all these things you want. Usually it

00:36:09.000 doesn't work out that way. So you have to fall into one, one camp or the other. But for Amy Barrett,

00:36:14.100 it did work out that way. She had five biological kids. She then adopted two children from Haiti.

00:36:19.980 They'll find some way to call her a racist. I'm sure she found a way to have this incredibly 1.00

00:36:23.820 incredibly successful legal career. And yet they still hate her. How do they hate her?

00:36:30.780 She did what most of them never could do. She had it all. Well, it's because she doesn't think the

00:36:36.400 way that they do. New York times runs a piece to conservatives. Barrett has perfect combination

00:36:41.880 of attributes for the Supreme court. Maybe that's true for conservatives, but actually it's more true

00:36:48.380 for liberals. The headline should read to liberals. Barrett has the perfect combination of attributes for

00:36:53.080 the Supreme court. She is a woman and they think that a woman needs to replace Ruth Ginsburg. 1.00

00:36:58.560 She's has it all. She has had this great career, but she hasn't had to sacrifice in her personal life

00:37:04.180 or not at least that we can see. She checks all of these kinds of boxes, right? I don't care that

00:37:12.300 Amy Barrett's a woman. I don't think a woman needs to replace RBG on the Supreme court. I don't think a 1.00

00:37:17.720 woman needs to have it all, you know, needs to have this very intense career and have a total family 1.00

00:37:22.320 life. I don't, I don't think you have to do that, but they do. And she did it, but she doesn't think

00:37:29.020 the way that they think. So now all of a sudden they hate her. They're going to try to kick her out.

00:37:38.940 We absolutely should push her through if for no other reason than to trigger the libs. It'll be very,

00:37:43.500 very funny. Also, the reason we need to push her through, I think we should all get on board. If

00:37:48.680 it's her, it might be, so there are a couple other people who are being talked about. She's the leading

00:37:51.340 contender right now, but the reason we need to push through this nominee, if the nominee is in

00:37:56.160 any way acceptable to conservatives is because we're in a bare knuckle moment of politics right

00:38:00.240 now. We're not in a nice deliberative moment of politics where all these judicial nominees get

00:38:05.140 unanimously confirmed. That's gone. And the Democrats ruin that. And so we've got to play.

00:38:09.700 We've got to participate in the politics that we actually have. This is bare knuckle stuff. Right

00:38:16.100 now there's a poll out that just, just 22% of Americans believe that this year's presidential

00:38:21.900 election will be free and fair. This according to Yahoo News and YouGov. 22%, little over one in five

00:38:27.520 Americans think the election will be free and fair. Half of Trump supporters say the election will not be

00:38:33.840 free and fair. More than a third of Biden supporters agree it will not be free and fair.

00:38:38.420 It's about 46% say that the election will not be free and fair, which is more than twice the

00:38:46.580 percentage of Americans who say that it will be. You're now at a place where a small number of

00:38:54.980 Americans have faith in that institution of our free elections. So now you've got to exercise power in

00:39:02.220 a way that's a little less subtle than perhaps you would in the past, in the past. Part of the reason

00:39:07.480 why I think Americans don't believe all this stuff is that everything seems fake right now. The lockdown

00:39:15.020 has really contributed to this. There are a lot of reasons why we don't have faith in our institutions

00:39:18.380 anymore. But one reason I haven't heard people talk about, and it does come from COVID, is the degree

00:39:24.140 to which now everything is virtual. Everything is digital. The Emmys were last night. I know that nobody

00:39:28.960 watched it. But what was so weird about the Emmys is that the Emmys didn't really take place.

00:39:35.920 It looked like they took place, but they didn't. What happened was the Emmys used Jimmy Kimmel on a

00:39:44.100 green screen to host the thing and then cut to footage from past years to make it seem like people

00:39:49.740 were laughing at the jokes he made. The jokes weren't that funny. The way you knew there was a

00:39:53.680 laugh track is that people were laughing at it. It sounded like people were laughing at them. So,

00:39:57.260 you know, that couldn't possibly have happened. The whole thing was just a weird virtual award show.

00:40:04.420 Take a listen.

00:40:14.440 Well, hello and welcome to the pandemys. Wow. It's great to finally see people again. Thank you for

00:40:23.780 risking everything to be here. Thank me for risking everything to be here. You know what they say?

00:40:29.640 You can't have a virus without a host. The big question that I guess we should answer is,

00:40:36.200 why would you have an award show in the middle of a pandemic? No, seriously, I'm asking,

00:40:42.580 why are we having an award show in the middle of a pandemic?

00:40:44.880 And what the hell am I doing here? This is the year they decide they have to have a host?

00:40:54.500 A lot of groaners in Jimmy's monologue was not very good. And then you're looking out in the

00:40:59.020 crowd, you say, wait, none of them are wearing masks. Wait, they're all together. Wait,

00:41:01.420 they're laughing at those dumb jokes. Oh, because it's all fake. The whole thing is fake. And so 1.00

00:41:05.940 this is a problem. It's not Jimmy Kimmel's fault necessarily, or the Emmys. This is one that has

00:41:10.640 grown over time. And it's not even our politicians' fault. It's actually a technological problem.

00:41:19.260 I was reading an article about deep fakes the other day, deep fake photos and videos where it

00:41:24.880 looks like someone is saying something that they aren't actually saying. And part of me actually

00:41:29.640 welcomes this into politics because now we live in such a gotcha moment of politics that I think it

00:41:34.760 would actually maybe help our politics if we can't trust video as much. Video footage, you know,

00:41:40.860 and just say like, I don't know, maybe that's real, maybe that's not real. We'd have to start

00:41:43.940 actually listening to the arguments that our politicians are making and looking at their

00:41:47.540 actual records rather than just these kind of silly gotcha moments. But one effect of this

00:41:54.360 technology is we don't trust reality anymore. We don't trust even things that we see with our own

00:42:02.500 eyes because we know that they can be manipulated like the Emmys or even like our politicians,

00:42:05.900 because it's not just the Emmys that was glitching out. It's Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi was giving an 0.95

00:42:11.140 interview on ABC News and halfway through the interview, it seems like her brain just melted

00:42:16.680 and she didn't know what to say. And she kind of glitched out for a second. Then they got the

00:42:19.860 wires working again and she continued. Ten states, as I said, on Friday, I started their early

00:42:26.700 voting the day that we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But to be clear, you're not taking any arrows

00:42:32.400 out of your quiver. You're not ruling anything out.

00:42:36.800 Good morning. Sunday morning. We have a responsibility. We take an oath to protect

00:42:45.320 and defend the Constitution of the United States. You're going to look at George Stephanopoulos

00:42:50.580 doing the interview. He's obviously a Clinton spokesman. He's a Democrat flack. And even he's

00:42:57.020 looking at her, he's like, what did I just witness? What happened to you? She just kind of totally

00:43:05.080 glitches out for about 10 seconds in there and then gets back into it. So we think, okay, I can't trust

00:43:10.520 what I see on video. I can't trust that these politicians are at all with it. They're completely,

00:43:15.860 it's like they're, they're not even alive. It's like they're just, we're relying on these people who

00:43:23.600 have been in public life now for 750 years, who, who seem to have a very tenuous grasp on reality.

00:43:30.220 So we can't trust them to make persuasive arguments more and more. This is just a

00:43:35.100 bare knuckle brawl for interests. And then you have the democratic nominee for president who probably 0.56

00:43:39.320 has the least solid grasp on reality. Just gave a speech about the coronavirus in which he said that

00:43:46.520 two-thirds of the country was about to die. It's estimated that 200 million people have died

00:43:52.580 probably by the time I finish this talk. The complication of COVID-19, like lung scarring and heart

00:44:02.100 damage, could become the next deniable pre-existing condition for over 6 million Americans.

00:44:11.540 200 millions are going to die before Joe Biden finishes speaking. That's two-thirds of the

00:44:16.980 country. I've got a 67% chance of dying. Goodbye, cruel world. Goodbye. I thought that I had a 99.7%

00:44:23.860 chance of survival, even if I got the virus, but turns out just a regular Joe on the street

00:44:29.100 has a two-thirds chance of dying. Of course, that is not true. Joe Biden was off by several numbers,

00:44:35.740 mathematics, critical thought, economics never has been the Democrats' strong suit.

00:44:41.540 Obviously, he's not with it either. So you look around and you just say, gosh, nobody

00:44:45.880 is even capable of making arguments right now that could allow us to use reason and use prudence

00:44:55.020 to govern ourselves as our constitution was intended. And there's a deeper problem too

00:45:00.340 that goes to Trevor Noah. A lot of problems go to Trevor Noah. He's the guy who took over the Daily

00:45:06.160 Show after John Stewart and then everybody stopped watching him. Trevor Noah said something on his show.

00:45:10.880 A few weeks ago. And all this RBG court talk has brought it back to me, which is Trevor Noah was

00:45:22.200 talking about the wildfires and how the wildfires in the West were started by a gender reveal party. 0.73

00:45:27.300 And he made a joke about the gender reveal party. But what was so weird about it was

00:45:31.500 the basis of the joke was not common sense. Usually, usually what would happen is you're making

00:45:39.100 a joke and the joke is something bizarre and fantastical. That's what the setup is. And then

00:45:44.620 the punchline brings you back to common sense. But with Trevor Noah's joke, the punchline was

00:45:49.560 that gender is socially constructed and we won't know somebody's gender until they're 18 or so.

00:45:55.580 The premise of the joke, the setup was actually the common sense and the punchline was bizarro world.

00:46:02.160 It was an inversion of a normal joke. Take a listen.

00:46:05.120 Guys, this has to stop, right? Or at least if you insist on a gender reveal, 1.00

00:46:09.580 you should do something that helps the situation. The water's pink. It's a girl. 1.00

00:46:14.860 And aside from all the damage it can cause, celebrating a baby's genitalia is starting to 0.80

00:46:19.520 feel very outdated. Like, given everything we're learning about gender, gender reveal parties

00:46:25.240 should only happen when the child is old enough to know their actual gender and to pitch in some

00:46:31.300 cash for the fire damage. So he gets that little, like, little jokey bit in at the very end, which

00:46:38.060 is, yeah, and they've got to be able to pitch in cash too. But he's dead serious when he says we

00:46:42.240 should hold off on gender reveals until the kid is old enough to choose his own gender.

00:46:46.320 So you're now flipping a joke, but not to him, because to him, that's common sense to a lot of

00:46:53.360 people in the country. Maybe not a lot, maybe not half the country, but let's say a third or so

00:46:57.080 of these hardened left wingers seriously believe that you can't tell if a baby is a boy or a girl

00:47:03.760 at birth, that you have to wait until they decide whether they're boys or girls and maybe they're

00:47:08.320 boys and they become girls or vice versa. And what that shows you is the country is more divided

00:47:15.800 than we have ever been more divided than we were at the time of slavery, more divided than we were

00:47:22.140 at the time of the civil war. The issue of slavery was practically a much tougher issue than the issue

00:47:29.800 of gender or whatever, right? Because you're actually talking about all of these Americans

00:47:33.560 held in bondage. But the division over slavery was, it was a division over a group of people.

00:47:40.180 It wasn't, it was a division basically over if someone is a man or not a man, but it wasn't a

00:47:45.800 division over essentially what a man is or is not. The, the, the issue of, of the civil war,

00:47:55.600 the issue of whether or not a certain group of people qualifies into humanity is a specific

00:48:02.420 problem because some people didn't recognize humanity in a, in a whole swath of the earth's

00:48:06.140 population. But now what we're talking about is people don't recognize humanity at all. They

00:48:11.800 don't recognize human nature at all. That's a much deeper divide. So I don't see any way to bridge

00:48:17.360 that. Now, if you, if you've got a huge number of political activists saying they're going to burn

00:48:22.480 the country down if you in any way threaten their right to kill a baby in the womb, that's not

00:48:27.260 recognizing human nature. That's not, that's, that's not recognizing humanity at all. If you've got

00:48:34.020 people in this country who don't believe that there's such a thing as sex, so fundamental to

00:48:38.100 our human nature, how do you bridge that? Who, how do you have a self-governing republic? How do you

00:48:42.320 make persuasive arguments when you preclude the possibility of logical argument? Then you just have

00:48:47.880 a bare knuckle brawl. And that's what we've been seeing for the past six months in this country.

00:48:52.460 Something tells me it's only going to get crazier at least through election day, probably afterward as

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 21, 2020

Ep. 614 - The Dying Wish Doctrine

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