The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 615 - What Ruth Would Have Wanted

00:00:00.000 Lots of Democrat politicians are weighing in to tell us what Ruth Bader Ginsburg allegedly said

00:00:06.160 on her deathbed. What was the late justice's alleged death wish? But we actually don't need

00:00:12.380 secondhand accounts of Justice Ginsburg's death wish because she actually told us herself just a

00:00:20.240 few years ago. Take a listen. I do think that cooler heads will prevail. I hope sooner rather

00:00:28.900 than later. The president is elected for four years, not three years. So the power that he has

00:00:35.820 in year three continues into year four. And maybe some members of the Senate will

00:00:42.600 wake up and appreciate that that's how it should be. That's how it should be. The president's power

00:00:51.580 continues into his fourth year. He has the power, the right, nay, the responsibility to appoint a

00:00:58.320 justice to the Supreme Court. That's exactly what's going on. And the Democrats are promising,

00:01:02.860 quote, total war. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.340 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday comes from Jaden Van Dyke. He says that

00:01:21.600 Trump should replace Ginsburg with Biden, and that would force the left and Democrats to cancel Joe

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00:03:15.380 Back to all the tense, horrible, anxiety-inducing madness. The Democrats are promising total war

00:03:23.800 if President Trump exercises his constitutional right and duty to fill that Supreme Court seat.

00:03:32.520 Now, what do they mean by total war? They're already burning down the country. They're already

00:03:36.460 committing looting, rioting, arson. They're already attacking churches. So what does total war look like?

00:03:44.900 Are they going to use a nuclear bomb or something? No. What they mean is that, this is according to

00:03:49.660 Axios, they are considering a massive power play if, and I suppose eventually when, they get control of

00:04:01.520 the Senate or the White House. Most egregiously, you know, most, most worrisome to us, they want to add

00:04:09.520 new states to the country. So they've talked about adding Puerto Rico as a state. If Puerto Rico is

00:04:14.560 added to the country, that will fundamentally shift the balance of power, that will give Democrats

00:04:18.400 very likely a permanent majority. It will give Democrats a huge advantage in the presidential

00:04:23.280 election. Probably they'll just win the presidential election from then on out. They also want to turn

00:04:27.940 the District of Columbia, Washington, DC into a state. This is not only cynical, it's also very

00:04:36.760 stupid. The District of Columbia is a federal district on purpose. It was carved out of Maryland

00:04:42.820 and Virginia, right? So right there is plopped right in. And the reason for that is that no state should

00:04:48.240 have the seat of power for the federal government in it. So there's this federal district and no state

00:04:52.760 then has that power. Now they want to create a state out of it. Why? Because they know that they'll get

00:04:56.560 some more votes and they'll get some Democratic senators out of it. All a very bad idea.

00:05:02.700 My only question is, why do we care what they're threatening? You know, there were a couple of

00:05:07.940 the last two never Trump Republicans, probably in the entire world, came out yesterday and they said,

00:05:12.800 we need a big deal. We need to come to a wonderful compromise. We will not fill the Supreme Court seat

00:05:18.200 now. And in exchange, Democrats will be nice to us in 10 years. That was more or less what they said.

00:05:22.740 They said that we will not exercise our political power and our constitutional responsibility now

00:05:29.100 by filling the seat. And for the next 10 years, the Democrats have to promise not to pack the court,

00:05:34.420 you know, or do kind of crazy things like add states. You see the problem with that? The problem

00:05:38.340 with that is we are giving up something real right now for some Democrat promise 10 years down the line.

00:05:44.720 There's no enforcement mechanism. How are we supposed to believe that we're going to get that?

00:05:50.760 This is the exact same thing that Reagan fell for in the 80s with that big amnesty. He says,

00:05:55.820 amnesty, give amnesty now and then you'll get a border protection later. And guess what happened?

00:06:01.420 Reagan gave them amnesty and then they never got the border protection. So that's the total war that's

00:06:06.220 being threatened. I just don't even know why we care what they're threatening. There's nothing we can do

00:06:11.640 about it that they've shown that they're serious. They're willing to burn down the entire country.

00:06:15.480 They've shown that their word is no good if they're promising some concession down the line for

00:06:19.820 something that we're giving them now. So what? I mean, it's this classic, it's this classic squishy

00:06:25.320 Republican thing, which is gosh, fellas, we can't exercise our power right now, which is legitimate

00:06:32.940 because down the line, Democrats might hypothetically exert some power that we won't like, which

00:06:40.840 secretly they're already exerting. That's not an argument. You gotta, you gotta play the hand that

00:06:46.120 you were dealt. The hand we were dealt is this vacant seat and we should fill that seat. And all

00:06:51.300 of these threats that we're getting from the Democrats, by the way, are, they're trying to

00:06:56.820 position them as though they're the final wonderful wish of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. There's no evidence of

00:07:00.900 that. I do not believe for one second that Ruth Ginsburg in her dying breath said, please don't ever

00:07:06.500 let a Republican president fill my seat. I actually have more respect for her than that. I just don't

00:07:11.880 think she did it. I think that's BS concocted by exploitative democratic politicians. How about court 1.00

00:07:18.120 packing? That's the other threat they're making. They're going to add new states. They're going to

00:07:21.800 add new justices to the Supreme court. And that way the court can be permanently liberal because

00:07:28.180 they'll just always add more liberal justices if they're in a position of power. Is that RBG's

00:07:32.860 dying wish? No, we know it's not her dying wish because she said explicitly that it was a horrible

00:07:37.120 idea. There is no fixed number in the constitution. So this court has had as few as five, as many as

00:07:45.220 10. Nine seems to be a good number. And it's been that way for, for a long time. I have heard that

00:07:53.380 there are some people on the democratic side who would like to increase the number of judges.

00:08:01.820 I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. So I am

00:08:09.440 not at all in favor of that solution to what I see is a temporary situation.

00:08:23.480 It's a bad idea. And I am not at all in favor of that solution. How long before Democrats insist,

00:08:31.360 you know, RBG loved court packing. We need in the name of St. RBG, peace be upon her. We,

00:08:37.260 we need to pack the court. It's the dying wish doctrine. Well, there's no such thing as a dying

00:08:41.860 wish doctrine. And even if there were, RBG hated this stuff. I got to tell you, RBG sounds a lot more

00:08:47.820 reasonable, the more she speaks than, than all of these Democrats are making her out to be.

00:08:53.780 Now, Republicans for their part are not exploiting this death. They're exercising their constitutional

00:08:59.420 power. We hope that they're not exploiting this death. They're actually dealing with this like

00:09:03.500 gentlemen. They're saying nice things about RBG. I'm saying nice things about RBG. And even the

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00:10:48.660 the Senate. And does he launch into an invective about how Ruth Ginsburg is the worst, most terrible

00:10:54.180 person in the world? Does he launch into some political speech and downplay her accomplishments

00:10:59.540 in her personal life? No. He says nice things about her because the lady just died. 1.00

00:11:04.340 Our nation is mourning the end of an exceptional American life. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant

00:11:12.820 so much to our country. First and foremost, she was a brilliant generational legal mind who

00:11:21.380 climbed past one obstacle after another to submit the very, to summit the very pinnacle of her profession.

00:11:33.060 Justice Ginsburg was a fixture on our nation's highest court for more than a quarter of a century.

00:11:40.340 She was not just a lawyer. No, not just a lawyer, but a leader.

00:11:46.660 From majority opinions to impassioned dissents, her life's work will not only continue to shape

00:11:54.860 jurisprudence, but also enlighten scholars and students for generations.

00:12:01.940 Very nice. He went on and kept talking about her. I doubt the left would do this for Scalia.

00:12:07.380 I don't think they would. I think it's, he's a terrible, no good, awful bad man. He's evil. He's

00:12:12.020 terrible. But the right is willing to be perfectly genial to RBG and say nice things about her when

00:12:18.880 she died. And we'll probably go back to criticizing her legacy in a few days or a week or so. But

00:12:23.220 when somebody dies, you know, you just sort of be a gentleman about it. It's too bad that the left

00:12:30.140 wouldn't do this for the right and usually doesn't do this for the right. I think the reason for that

00:12:35.200 is that conservatives have more empathy. Conservatives manifestly have more empathy.

00:12:39.840 You can see it because anecdotally and even according to social scientific data and studies,

00:12:46.420 if you believe those sort of things, conservatives understand what liberals believe much better than

00:12:53.060 liberals understand what conservatives believe. Jonathan Haidt, the social scientist, came out

00:12:57.340 with that a number of years ago. And you see this on social media, right? Conservatives are much less

00:13:02.120 likely to unfriend someone on social media over politics than left-wing liberals are.

00:13:09.260 There's a, there's an empathy gap here. They, they actually don't know on the left what we believe.

00:13:14.440 I'm, I'm pretty certain of this now. Every so often you find a, a very intelligent leftist who

00:13:18.960 knows what a conservative believes. And usually they're the ones who are a bit calmer and they're

00:13:22.500 obviously not the ones burning down the country. But the rest of them, it's not that they disagree with

00:13:26.300 us. I don't, I don't think most of the time it's that they disagree with us. It's that they have

00:13:30.520 absolutely no clue what we're talking about. Dick Durbin, Democrat in the Senate. You saw this clip

00:13:35.760 yesterday when we were talking about Amy Coney Barrett. Dick Durbin is a very intelligent man by all

00:13:42.340 accounts. And yet he asked Amy Barrett, he said, I've heard that you've described your beliefs as

00:13:49.540 orthodox and Catholic. What is an orthodox Catholic? I've never heard of that. Like he's never heard

00:13:55.360 what the word orthodoxy means. It means you believe what you say you believe. I mean, you,

00:13:59.760 you are in line with, you're not heterodox. You're not a heretic. What is that? What is a Catholic who

00:14:04.340 believes Catholicism? I know that he actually has no idea and he's not a stupid man. He just

00:14:08.460 doesn't know. And I, I think that's what's going on here. You know, I was, I was thinking about this

00:14:13.980 with, uh, with the death of RBG, obviously, but you think about this with a lot of other leftists.

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00:14:30.620 their job is to sit and watch this show or listen to this show and then pull clips out of context and

00:14:36.580 try to get us fired. And they do it all the time. I mean, that is like 24 seven job. And I think like,

00:14:41.060 do I hate these people? Do I, why don't I go out and attack these people all the time?

00:14:44.560 Cause I usually just make sort of jokes about them and move on. The reason is these are terribly

00:14:50.860 broken people. I do it just to see when someone comes out and puts a hit on me. First thing I'll

00:14:56.680 do, I'll just go Google the person. And then you find that this person is depressed and has all these

00:15:02.440 sorts of personal problems. And clearly it's like something is not going right over there. And you

00:15:07.680 think, okay, well, I'll throw a punch if I got to throw a punch. Obviously in politics, you got to

00:15:12.480 fight back. Sometimes you got to go on the offensive. I don't need to be mean. I don't

00:15:16.740 need to be cruel. I don't need to tear down this completely broken person who has no, who has like 0.99

00:15:22.940 not, not a lot of things going for them. And I don't think the left feels that way about

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00:16:00.160 the left believes that it will. So this religious difference will come out and you're especially 0.98

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00:17:53.200 There's a religious difference here. We are aiming at something higher. When we say nice things about

00:17:57.000 Ruth Ginsburg or when we refuse to just like totally tear someone down or try to ruin their life

00:18:01.780 like the left often does to conservatives. Brett Kavanaugh is a good example in particular.

00:18:07.760 It's because we're aiming at something higher. When we talk about our, our moral aims, we're talking

00:18:15.020 about something beyond this world, outside of this world. Judge Barrett just got in trouble because

00:18:19.760 someone found out she said that she was aiming at the kingdom of God. And a lot of liberals had never

00:18:25.560 heard of the kingdom of God because they never cracked open the good book. But that's what we're

00:18:29.760 aiming at. For the left, it tends to be that they aim at a nebulous, vague humanitarianism. You know,

00:18:37.760 peace and love, man. Come on, just be good. Just be nice. It's all about people, man. And it obviously

00:18:44.940 doesn't explain why, right? If we're all just sacks of flesh walking around and all of our loves and our

00:18:51.740 dreams and our hopes are just complete illusions and we're just chemicals firing off and then we die and

00:18:57.500 take a dirt nap and turn to worm food, then why do we have to be good? What is good? Good doesn't even

00:19:02.260 exist. Just an illusion. So why would I ever inconvenience myself to help you? Why is, why is your pain

00:19:10.040 any more important than my pleasure? As the Marquis de Sade, a pornographer and philosopher who, after whom we get

00:19:17.100 the term sadism, pointed out, why does it matter? Why do I care about you? Why do I care that you're

00:19:21.840 in pain? Why not just me, me, me? That's what humanitarianism inevitably boils down to. And

00:19:28.140 none other than the great philosopher Mark Ruffalo made a humanitarian point when he was receiving his

00:19:36.380 Emmy on his couch virtually over the weekend. You know, the left, the left loves to talk a good game

00:19:43.560 on peace and love. Take a listen to this wonderful rally cry for humanitarianism.

00:19:49.300 So get out and vote, make a plan and vote for love and compassion and kindness. I love you all. Thank

00:19:56.600 you so much. And God bless you. Vote for love and compassion and kindness. So we're making this

00:20:04.720 explicit claim that you've, he's a Democrat, obviously you vote for Democrats. You are voting

00:20:10.620 for love and compassion and kindness. If you vote for Republicans, you are voting for, I don't know,

00:20:17.660 presumably cruelty and hatred and all sorts of other things. Love and compassion and kindness. Vote

00:20:24.900 for love and compassion and kindness pleads the man whose political party has spent six months

00:20:32.300 burning down the country, looting private property, tearing down national symbols,

00:20:40.620 of unity. And now we're threatening even more violence in the streets. If the president exercises

00:20:49.940 his constitutional right to fill a court vacancy that might in any way threaten their ability to

00:20:57.300 kill a million babies a year, because that's what it's all about. That's what the whole court fight 0.99

00:21:03.060 is about. That's what the court fights have always been about since Roe versus Wade was wrongly decided.

00:21:07.840 Since then, you've had these bitter, bitter, ridiculous court fights. What's it all about?

00:21:14.300 It's all about protecting the fictional legal right to kill one million babies per year.

00:21:24.620 Love and compassion. That's the party of love and compassion. I'm not saying that Republicans can't do

00:21:31.720 rotten things every now and again. I'm not saying that Republicans are always on the money. I'm not

00:21:38.140 saying that they always have the purest, most lily white of intentions. And I'm not saying that the

00:21:44.360 Democrats don't ever have decent intentions. They're just, they usually, because they start with bad

00:21:49.020 premises, they have a bad vision of the world and human nature. They usually almost always end up in

00:21:53.180 a bad place. But just the party of love and compassion, the fight that is defining, or the

00:22:01.260 issue rather, that is defining the fight between the two parties right now is, should we preserve a

00:22:07.300 fictional legal right to kill a million babies a year? Should we respect the constitution and

00:22:13.560 acknowledge that there's no constitutional right to kill a million babies a year? On an issue of love

00:22:19.000 and compassion, it seems Mark Ruffalo has it flipped. Not that very many people heard what he said,

00:22:23.580 because the Emmys ratings were way, way down, way, way down. They went to an all-time low. They keep

00:22:28.780 falling almost every year. They only had 6.1 million viewers total. That was the whole thing.

00:22:36.300 Last year's show was 6.9 million viewers. So that's way down. You're into 800,000 people when you're

00:22:42.660 starting at 6.9, way, way down. To put that into perspective, in the year 2000, almost

00:22:48.900 22 million people watched the Emmys. I mean, I remember I would watch all those award shows when

00:22:52.520 I was a kid. Now, you know, it was 2000, it was almost 22 million. 2010, it drops down to like 13

00:22:59.080 and a half million. Now, another 10 years later, it's down more than half over that. And then even

00:23:05.060 year over year down, 800,000. This is a good thing. You'll notice it's Tuesday and I'm only talking

00:23:11.720 about the Emmys in earnest now. Why? Because I didn't watch it. Usually they make me watch these awful

00:23:17.820 things just to, to comment on them. That one, it doesn't even matter. It's not even something

00:23:23.920 people are really talking about. Twitter keeps trying to make it trend as a big issue, but

00:23:28.040 very few people were watching this as, as you can see from the numbers. That's good because

00:23:33.340 as long as you are talking about these Hollywood types, as long as you're talking about the

00:23:38.760 mainstream media, you are giving them credibility. Even if you're talking about how much you hate them,

00:23:42.720 you still are giving them credibility and conservatives, because we want to, we want to

00:23:47.380 make sure we keep an eye on them and track what their lies are. You know, we end up talking about

00:23:53.120 them a lot. And so that gives them a little bit of credibility, but that's just around the edges.

00:23:56.980 The real question is, are the people who do not work in politics for a living, are they paying

00:24:02.220 attention to this? Are the people who are not commenting on cultural events for a living

00:24:07.300 paying attention? And the answer obviously is not. And they're not in part, in part it's

00:24:13.960 technological, right? Because people don't watch network TV as much anymore, though that is now

00:24:18.560 shifted and you can, you can watch these things anywhere on YouTube. They stream them, they stream

00:24:23.000 them all over the place. So it's not hard to find them. That, that, that technological shift does not

00:24:28.240 explain the decline in numbers. What largely explains it is that the award shows are awful. They're not

00:24:34.640 funny. They're extraordinarily hyper-partisan and political, and they're just not popular, including

00:24:40.240 one of the most pathetic and creepy displays I've ever seen where Jimmy Kimmel was forced, humiliated

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00:26:26.160 BLM at the Emmys. They were, they were referring to the pandemys. You've heard of the, the, the pandemys. 1.00

00:26:32.880 That was Jimmy Kimmel's lame line that he said to a laugh track for the broadcast. Well, I think it

00:26:38.220 actually was the BLMys where an actor, I actually, I don't, I don't even know who this actor is. I don't

00:26:44.660 know who most of the actors at the Emmys are. I'm sure they're going to call me racist though,

00:26:48.240 because I don't know who this one is. Uh, and I'm being told by the producers, it's Anthony

00:26:53.440 Anderson. Never heard of him. Never seen any of his stuff. Actually, I haven't seen anything Jimmy

00:26:56.980 Kimmel's done in the last recent years since he was wearing blackface on his old comedy central show.

00:27:02.240 But I guess that that gets washed away, doesn't it? When you turn liberal in Hollywood, all your

00:27:07.120 past sins that they would harangue you for get washed away. So this fellow, Anthony Anderson gets up

00:27:12.540 there and, uh, he's standing next to the MC Jimmy Kimmel and he goes on, I guess it was a scripted

00:27:19.500 comedy bit. It just didn't feel all that funny. We announced the nominees. You know, I have a few

00:27:25.940 things that, uh, I'd like to say. You do. Yes, I do. Because in rehearsal, I thought we decided that

00:27:31.940 we're just going to, you know, we have a record number of black Emmy nominees this year, which is

00:27:36.280 great. This is the part where the white people start to applaud. Oh, and nod. Oh, thank you,

00:27:46.620 Jimmy. This isn't what it should have been, Jimmy, but, but you know what? I'm still rooting for

00:27:52.480 everybody black because black stories, black performances, and black lives matter. Say it with

00:27:59.960 me, Jimmy. Black lives matter. Louder, Jimmy. Black lives matter. Louder, Jimmy. Say it so that 1.00

00:28:07.880 Mike Pence can hear it. Black lives matter.

00:28:13.460 Ah, what's the joke? Joke is white people, bad black people, good white people, oppressive black 1.00

00:28:22.040 people, oppressed. Uh, Mike Pence is a racist. Never heard that Mike Pence was a racist, but I guess

00:28:28.780 Mike Pence is a racist. And we all need to scream our support for an avowedly Marxist organization,

00:28:37.980 black lives matter, which by the way, black lives matter just took down their what we believe page.

00:28:42.660 They had this, what we believe page that talked about how they support the destruction of the

00:28:46.400 Western prescribed nuclear family, how they support queer fostering affirmative networks that destroy 1.00

00:28:51.440 cisgender privilege, all this kind of crazy leftist radical jargon and claptrap. So it was up for a long

00:28:57.220 time. And whenever people would say black lives matter, it just means black lives matter. It just 1.00

00:29:00.460 means you like black people and you're not a terrible, awful racist like all the other white 0.98

00:29:03.800 people. And you say, I don't think that's what it means. I think it's a Marxist organization. I think

00:29:08.940 actually all the founders of black lives matter are Marxists like Patrice Colors and Alicia Garza and

00:29:15.780 Opel Tometi. I can name them. I can, Opel Tometi smiling with pictures with, uh, Venezuela's communist

00:29:21.100 dictator. And then Patrice Colors just openly said that she and Alicia are trained Marxists. I,

00:29:28.420 do I need to, why do I need to say my support? Why do I need to scream that? Ha ha. What's the joke?

00:29:35.440 What is the joke? There is no joke. There's no joke to that at all. Cause they believe that if they

00:29:41.700 didn't believe that, then it would be a joke, but they do believe that they, they believe on the left

00:29:45.400 that white people are bad because of the color of their skin. They believe that black people are

00:29:52.260 good because of the color of their skin. They believe that America is a white supremacist

00:29:57.780 country. That's why, that's why we're putting this stuff up at the Emmys, right? Because of how

00:30:01.580 white supremacist we are. That's why the only racial discrimination we have as a matter of law

00:30:05.840 is called affirmative action that benefits applicants who are black or Hispanic and disadvantages

00:30:11.080 applicants who are white or, or Asian because of our white supremacy, right? But they,

00:30:15.100 they believe that they believe that that's real and they don't like the country for it. And that's

00:30:19.640 why they're presently burning it all down. Whether it's Antifa, whether it's BLM or whether it's the

00:30:26.680 democratic politicians who are encouraging them all the time. You know, though, there is one

00:30:31.660 former democratic politician, late democratic politician, more of a judge, a leftist icon

00:30:40.180 who is not such a big fan of BLM. Another, another belief of hers that we can intuit from beyond the

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00:32:03.480 Yes, there is one leftist icon who does not seem so thrilled with BLM and the BLM leaders and the

00:32:13.340 anti-Americanism that they foment. Who would that icon be? I think I've already given it away.

00:32:19.720 It would be the notorious RBG. Justice Ginsburg, how do you feel about San Francisco 49ers player

00:32:27.800 Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who have basically refused to stand for the national anthem?

00:32:38.500 What do I think? I think it's really dumb of them. Would I arrest them for doing it? No. I think

00:32:44.680 it's dumb and disrespectful. The same, I would have the same answer if you asked me about flag burning.

00:32:53.540 I said, I think it's a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn't lock a person up for doing it.

00:33:01.380 I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act.

00:33:10.080 I got to tell you, the more I hear about this RBG lady, the more I like her, the more reasonable she 0.99

00:33:15.600 sounds. Gosh, I totally agree. Burning the flag is a horrible, terrible thing to do and disrespecting

00:33:22.300 the flag in the way that Colin Kaepernick and BLM have done are very stupid, very disrespectful.

00:33:29.200 How many left-wingers presently invoking the sainted RBG would be willing to acknowledge all of

00:33:35.560 that? Probably very few. But the reason for that is that RBG is giving a liberal political view of

00:33:44.980 flag burning and the kneeling at the flag and disrespecting the anthem. That's a liberal political

00:33:51.160 view. Namely, I don't like it, but I wouldn't arrest you for it. It's not that big a deal,

00:33:55.940 but you still, you shouldn't do it. The difference is that BLM is not merely political, but it has taken

00:34:03.420 on the tone and the form of a religious liturgy. Very clearly the kneeling, the kneeling is a

00:34:10.780 religious action. The, the BLM supporters are genuflecting, but it's an inverse religious liturgy.

00:34:17.520 So they're not genuflecting on their knee to show respect. They're genuflecting to show disrespect

00:34:22.580 for the flag because America is a hateful place and the cops are racist and whatever other nonsense

00:34:27.340 they want to spew. So it's a sort of inverse religious liturgy rather than being edifying in

00:34:34.440 community. Obviously it's divisive and tears the country down rather than being salvific. It's

00:34:41.220 destructive. But that is the religious liturgy. It's why you can't argue with them. It's why they have

00:34:47.480 all these kind of cockamamie theories about human nature, like white people bad or black people 0.82

00:34:52.320 good, or that there's this superstructure of oppression in the world that they call white

00:34:57.420 supremacy. The, the actual superstructure of oppression in the world is Satan. This fallen

00:35:04.660 world, the prince of darkness, principalities and powers, spiritual wickedness in high places.

00:35:08.840 That's the actual spiritual oppression that we have. But because the left is vaguely materialistic,

00:35:17.780 vaguely anti-Christian or anti-religious, sometimes explicitly so, that they can't make sense of

00:35:24.640 that. So it has to be physical. It can't be a spiritual darkness. It has to be a physical problem,

00:35:30.420 namely skin color or sex, right? I mean, we're focusing on the racial aspects, but it could be sex,

00:35:34.360 men bad, women good, straight people bad, non-straight people good, you know, LGBT, LMNOP.

00:35:43.240 Or in the BLM, what we believe section, when they say we're here to disrupt the Western prescribed

00:35:48.320 nuclear family, right? They want to destroy the nuclear family for that reason, because 1.00

00:35:52.700 all of the structures of society are oppressive. Karl Marx famously called for the ruthless criticism

00:35:57.780 of all that exists. And his acolytes in the cultural spheres then took up that crusade. And

00:36:05.000 that's what we're seeing. Not merely political, certainly also religious. Speaking of religious

00:36:09.480 people, the president, Donald J. Trump, met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday and reportedly,

00:36:17.260 quote, is moving toward nominating her to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is not exactly a surprise.

00:36:22.880 Because Judge Barrett was apparently up for the seat last time around, and she's been considered

00:36:29.140 the favorite this time around. So, you know, you don't want to assume that it's going to be her

00:36:33.880 necessarily. There are some other names that are being floated, but we are getting even more

00:36:38.200 information now that looks like it's moving in her direction. And whoever leaked this, that Trump is

00:36:44.720 moving toward nominating her, very well may have come out of the White House. We just don't know.

00:36:48.520 It does seem to affirm what we've been hearing before. And according to Bloomberg News,

00:36:54.700 Trump has told allies that he thinks Barrett, 48, is a smart, hard-nosed conservative jurist

00:36:59.060 who would also come across well during televised confirmation hearings. Trump also believes Barrett

00:37:03.660 won't be wobbly on major issues for conservatives, including abortion, gun rights, and health care

00:37:08.020 when they come before the court. So that quote given to Bloomberg News, to me, sounds like a real quote

00:37:12.940 because it sounds like the sort of thing that someone pushing Amy Barrett would say and the way

00:37:18.500 that they would say it. So looks like at the moment we're moving toward Judge Barrett. Fine by me.

00:37:25.840 I don't know very much about her jurisprudence, but she seems, for what we know about her, she seems

00:37:30.120 great. But there's this big problem. Big, big problem. Not just Dick Durbin trying to figure out

00:37:37.940 what Catholicism is, but an even bigger problem. Ron Charles at the Washington Post. This is one of our

00:37:44.740 elite journalists in this country. Ron Charles tweets out this shocking quote from a piece

00:37:51.320 explaining who Amy Barrett is. Amy Coney Barrett, the judge at the top of Trump's list to replace

00:37:57.200 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has said we should always remember that a legal career is but a means to

00:38:03.260 an end. And that end is building the kingdom of God. Oh no, the horror, the horror. She believes

00:38:13.540 that thing that Christians believe. She is, she is a Christian. That's okay. That's what it is. That's

00:38:22.420 the big shocking. I guess he used all these words that were scary, but I guess the tweet is she is a

00:38:27.180 Christian. Oh no. That's what Christians believe, right? That this world is not an end unto itself, 0.96

00:38:32.740 but this world is aimed toward the kingdom of God. Our salvation to know God and enjoy him forever.

00:38:43.980 That is the end of this world. It's funny now because in this postmodern culture, people joke

00:38:48.620 about, oh, what's the meaning of life? As though you could never know the meaning. You can know the

00:38:51.660 meaning of life. The meaning of life is to know God and enjoy him forever. Simple. There you go.

00:38:55.020 Move on to the next question now. Like algebra or calculus or something. That seems, that is much

00:39:00.420 more complicated to figure out than these sorts of things. At least if you are religious. Specifically 0.99

00:39:07.140 in this case, if you're a Christian. And this guy doesn't understand it. I think most of the left

00:39:13.120 does not understand this at all. And it's why they are losing their freaking minds. Because this is all

00:39:20.300 that there is. I don't know why. I mean, if it were me, if I really believe this is all that there is,

00:39:25.860 I'd probably just sit on my couch and watch like old episodes of the Waltons or something. I don't,

00:39:32.680 I don't think, but that says one thing you can do. Or because you just say, oh, well, it's all

00:39:37.980 meaningless, whatever. This'll be just kind of pleasant. I'll sit here, have a drink, have a cigar,

00:39:41.260 watch, watch, watch good TV and then, and then die someday. But the alternative is you're just so,

00:39:46.820 you're so anxious. You're, you're so shocked and horrified at the reality that you're staring into

00:39:52.840 the abyss that you, you just go crazy. And that is what's happened with the left. You, you know,

00:39:58.660 I always try to reason with the left, try to engage with their arguments, but there's no argument

00:40:02.460 in, ah, that's not, no, that's, that's not an argument. That's a childish temper tantrum.

00:40:11.660 These, these protests, you know, these violent riots that are going on, there's no arguing with

00:40:17.500 that because there's no reason in it. There's no logic in it. It's just a threat. It's just an

00:40:22.060 explosion of violence. And, and they continue even to this day. There was a protest, quote unquote,

00:40:29.460 that took place in the middle of the night, two nights ago, outside of Senator Lindsey Graham's

00:40:34.760 home. Take a listen to this peaceful, wonderful, subdued, reasonable protest.

00:40:51.180 You see the cops show up, thankfully. And then there are these really nice, peaceful,

00:40:55.760 orderly protesters trying to break onto his property. Some doughy sort of millennial looking

00:41:04.240 fellow just gets pushed back by the cops. Cameras, lights, banging, noise. Those clappers,

00:41:12.940 that noise that you're hearing there, that is the left's argument in these protests. The air horn

00:41:19.000 and the, and the banging, that is the argument. You know, in a self-governing republic, speech is

00:41:26.500 politics and politics is speech. Meaning that when you can convey meaning through your words,

00:41:33.680 through these sounds and symbols, we emit from our mouths. And then someone else can hear that

00:41:38.000 and have some idea of what you're talking about because you're referring to something in objective

00:41:41.380 reality, that is speech. And the way we govern ourselves is we persuade our fellow citizens of things.

00:41:46.980 And then ultimately, if we're persuasive enough, hopefully we win elections and then get to

00:41:51.120 govern ourselves. That's at least how it's supposed to work. That is what freedom of speech is,

00:41:55.500 is to protect. That is what the first amendment is to protect. Freedom of speech, quote unquote,

00:42:01.780 is not there to protect screaming and clapping and yelling and blowing air horns outside of a

00:42:09.380 senator's home at night. That's not speech. The ah and the woo and the, these kind of animalistic,

00:42:17.600 bestial sounds that these, that these people are making outside of Lindsey Graham's home.

00:42:23.440 That's not speech. Speech has to have meaning to it. It has to have substance. Animals who grunt and

00:42:29.980 scream like these Democrats do, do not have speech. That isn't speech. That's sound. That's noise.

00:42:36.460 And that's what we're getting. We're getting a whole lot of noise and we're getting a whole lot

00:42:41.920 of noise because this is ultimately a religious expression for eternal questions that politics

00:42:49.740 are certainly not fit to solve or can only touch around the surface of. This is the protest now is

00:42:56.740 the, is part of the liturgy of liberalism. Anytime there's a police shooting, for instance, even if it's

00:43:02.340 a completely justified police shooting, 100% justified, it doesn't matter. That's the signal

00:43:08.160 then to go out and do this liturgy like the church bells in medieval Europe. The, the kneeling down and

00:43:14.460 disrespecting the flag. That's part of the liturgy of secular liberalism as well. What did Lindsey

00:43:19.880 Graham do? Did Lindsey Graham do anything? No, but they just show up and they start screaming because 1.00

00:43:24.420 that's their version of church. Cause I bet none of those people go to church on Sunday and they feel

00:43:28.100 like they need some community and they feel like they need some meaning in their life. And so instead

00:43:31.520 of going and getting salvation and being in fellowship with the mystical body of Christ and

00:43:36.720 ensuring your own salvation, what do they do? They go yell and scream in the middle of the night

00:43:40.140 like a bunch of banshees and idiots. But that's what that is. You know, Mara Gay over at the New York

00:43:47.300 Times, Mara Gay over the New York Times, she showed probably the most conspicuous symbol of the 0.76

00:43:54.420 secular liturgy the other day. She was describing the masks or what I refer to as a secular mantia.

00:44:00.500 She tweets out, quote, one thing I love about New York right now, how people pull up their masks as

00:44:05.120 they approach strangers on the street. It's a sign of respect, community, and common sense. Just call

00:44:10.060 us the heartland. Now, of course it's not a sign of any of that. It's a sign of neurosis and stupidity,

00:44:13.940 but that I'm not even making a point about the masks scientifically right now. I'm making a point

00:44:20.540 about her love for the masks. She doesn't say that the masks are a great way to stop the spread of

00:44:27.380 the virus. The masks are a wonderful way to stay healthy. The masks are 99% effective, because they're

00:44:33.940 not. But the masks are, she's not speaking in scientific terms. She says it's a sign of respect,

00:44:40.520 community, and common sense. That's the kind of thing you actually would say about wearing a

00:44:48.400 mantia at church. You know, the veil that people wear at church. That's the sort of thing you would

00:44:53.020 say in, in civil society or ultimately in the center of civil society, religious life. It's about

00:45:00.880 respect. It's about community. It's about common sense. The sort of sense that we all share, the

00:45:08.020 logic, the reason that we all share by virtue of being people, that human solidarity. That's what it's

00:45:14.660 about. And that's what they're looking for with the masks. And that's what they're looking for

00:45:18.020 with every other mania and hysteria that blows through secular liberalism. And they're not going

00:45:23.340 to be satisfied there, my friends. Bad news for you. Bad news. If you make saints out of lawyers,

00:45:30.100 if you venerate icons of deceased lawyers, if you make idols out of medical masks,

00:45:38.440 if you make liturgies out of screaming and yelling and tearing your hair out and disrespecting your

00:45:43.180 country, you will not be satisfied. You will keep looking for something beyond that in your

00:45:48.000 religious confusion that you might share with Dick Durbin or you might share with the Washington

00:45:52.020 Post. You will look for something beyond that, but you might not have a country left in which to

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 22, 2020

Ep. 615 - What Ruth Would Have Wanted

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