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Sept. 19, 2020 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg 00:01:37
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Hey, everybody, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and we have the instant analysis here.
We are not celebrating.
We are not saying it is a good thing.
We are remembering who she is.
We are remembering her rulings, who she was, and also taking a moment to have a non-political moment in our country.
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.
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.
That and so much more around this breaking news item of Ruth Bader Ginsburg passing away.
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A Non-Political Moment of Pause 00:04:57
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 on Friday evening.
You probably heard this news.
You probably got your push notifications.
I was about to go on Fox News when the news came through.
It was just hard to process as it happened.
There's only nine people on the United States Supreme Court, or nine spots, I should say.
And when any of them resign or pass away, it is absolutely earth-shattering news.
The cause for her death was complications of metastic pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court said.
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.
And we're going to talk about some of the political consequences later in this episode because they're real.
However, I think just talk about the human being as something that is necessary, important, and the right thing to do.
There was plenty of people on the Democrat side that were getting very nasty very quickly about the political consequences that they saw.
I did not see one person on the Republican or conservative side dive into that.
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.
But here are just some facts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg for those of you that do not know and are just new to politics.
She was the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sandra J. O'Connor, of course, was the first who was nominated by Reagan in 1981.
She was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1993, the year I was actually born.
She's known as an advocate of women's rights.
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.
As she closed in on 90 years, she became a cultural icon to a younger generation.
She was barely five feet tall.
She was about 100 pounds.
She looked incredibly frail, especially in these last couple years.
But she was a very resilient human being.
She had beat colon cancer in 1999 and early stage pancreatic cancer 10 years later.
Justice Ginsburg received a coronary stent to clear her blocked artery in 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It was then when she really began to write the most pointed opinions on behalf of the liberal bloc of the court.
Now, I want to be very, very clear.
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.
However, I don't think that is a reason to, like some people have in a hyper-politicized moment, act gleeful when somebody dies.
Call me old school in that way.
I just think it's the right thing to do.
And in truth, her star only rose with the election of Donald Trump.
People from across the country, understanding the gravity of the court, pleaded their organs to help keep the elderly Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive.
You might know that some young women even had the image tattooed on their arms.
Some girls dressed in RBG costumes for Halloween, and some people had this tattooed on them: quote, you can't spell truth without Ruth.
There was an internet sensation and phenomenon that was created called Notorious RBG, The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
It was created by Erin Cameron, Erin Carmen, and Miss Kinzik, which became a bestseller the day after its publication in 2015.
And the next year, Simon Schuster brought out a Ginsburg biography for children with the title called I Dissent.
There was a documentary made of her life.
Turning Mourning Into Politics 00:08:16
It's pretty well done.
I've seen it.
And it kind of catalogs her entire life and her fight against cancer.
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.
Scalia's children, in fact, posted many touching tributes and tweets online, which was a very nice thing to see.
Justice Clarence Thomas also shared a close relationship with Ginsburg.
Justice Clarence Thomas is, of course, an American hero and does not get the credit he often deserves.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that choosing her favorite opinion would be like choosing a favorite among her grandkids.
However, she said the ruling that she most regrets that she wishes could be overturned was Citizen United.
She actually ruled the way that she wanted to.
She just wishes it could be overturned.
Now, immediately after hearing the news of her death, I actually did not want to think of politics.
I just kind of just opened up social media and kind of got in a couple group text messages.
And I was curious, you know, how are people processing this?
And so it started to trend on Twitter, of course, Ruth.
And there are hundreds of tweets that I am reading here that I'm happy to kind of recount.
It says, I will riot for Ruth.
I have a bad leg and a terrible chronic illness, but I will riot.
I mean, they go on and on and on.
And these are not anonymous counts.
These are hundreds and hundreds of tweets.
As a Kentuckian, I will riot for Ruth.
I swear to you, Mitch, I will riot.
So immediately this became a very political moment.
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.
However, it quickly descended into social media into an all-out political blood sport.
This is not a healthy thing for our civilization, by the way.
I tweeted very clearly, unlike most of political Twitter, I'm taking the night off.
Jesus is the answer, prayers to all.
And I mean that.
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.
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.
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.
Reza Aslin tweeted the four-letter word that many of you know that starts with F with about 22 exclamation points.
He then said, if they even try to replace RBG, we burn the entire FN thing to the ground.
Laura Bassett, who's a, these are all, by the way, these are all verified Twitter accounts.
These are real people.
She writes for GQ magazine, Washington Post, Rolling Stone and Cosmopolitan, and Huffington Post, said the following.
If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.
And then she responded by saying, more, bigger riots.
And then Fred Wellman, who I've never heard of before, said, Mitch McConnell is an evil bastard.
Burn the whole country to the ground.
The GOP is done.
And he's an advisor to the Lincoln Project, which is the Republican effort to try to destroy Donald Trump.
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.
That is how we opened our program here.
That is how anyone should be remembered when they pass away.
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?
Nicole on Twitter, who looks like a liberal fan account, says, F you, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
F you for not retiring under Obama.
F you for dying under Trump.
F you, F you, F you.
Here's Chuck Schumer.
And before he even remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg, his first tweet is political.
Chuck Schumer goes, the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice.
Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
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.
She would want us all to fight as hard as we can to preserve her legacy.
So politics first, condolences second.
That's Chuck Schumer's priority.
And again, I'm not trying to politicize this.
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.
There's a time where you just say, let's allow the family to mourn about this turning into a political gladiator match.
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.
Tweet accordingly.
She's right.
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.
And so he took the stage immediately.
The way these new rallies work is you get off the plane, you go right into an airplane hangar, and you give the speech.
So the president gave an hour and a half long speech.
He did mention the Supreme Court a couple times and then came off of the speech.
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.
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.
You couldn't have designed a better moment.
Now, play tape.
She just died.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
I just, you're telling me now for the first time.
She led an amazing life.
What else can you say?
She was an amazing woman.
Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life.
I'm actually sad to hear that.
I have said, David, that.
Thank you very much.
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.
He had the information first.
I think that is very unlikely.
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.
I think that the risk of that being leaked, I think that is classless.
I don't think that is what happened at all for the president of the United States.
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.
All of these theories are floating out there.
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.
The Supreme Court Tie Breaker 00:15:58
Some people are saying, I want to know the time of her death and all that.
I don't really care, okay?
All I know is that I know the president.
I know that the president would have waited on Air Force One.
He would have not gone and do a rally if he knew that Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.
I think that he found out at the same time that everybody else knew.
You could tell by his eyes and his body language, he looked a lot like he found out when the press told him.
And so I think all these theories that are floating out there does not make any sense to me.
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.
And so the president's official statement is right on point.
I'll read a part of it here, is a fighter to the end.
Justice Ginsburg battled cancer and other very long odds.
Throughout her remarkable life, our thoughts and prayers are with the Ginsburg family and their loved ones during this difficult time.
May her memory be a great and magnificent blessing to the world.
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.
I mean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she believed that abortion was okay.
She thought it was good to have a million abortions a year.
She did not think that owning a firearm was a right.
She believed in a strong federal government.
She did not believe in a federalist model.
She believed that illegals should have the right to vote eventually, probably.
She definitely believed in the DACA ruling.
She was a revisionist judge.
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.
However, she fought hard.
She never wavered to conservatives.
She never gave an inch.
And I think that we as conservatives can learn a lot from Ruth Bader Ginsburg of how she fought for what she believed in.
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.
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.
And we were just going to do basically just remembering who she was and the reaction, and that was it.
But unfortunately, this has now gotten straight into the political arena.
So we're going to give you political analysis because now it is political news.
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.
This is now Mitch McConnell's decision and it could benefit Mitch McConnell and we'll get to that in just one second.
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.
To clarify, I don't want him to die.
I just want him to be brain dead.
I'm not a monster.
So this is how the left has reacted to this.
This is a pattern of behavior.
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.
Interesting double standard how that works.
All eyes are on Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell got us to the Kavanaugh hearing brilliantly.
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.
U.S. Senate Majority Mitch McConnell made the following statement on the passing of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.
Justice Ginsburg overcame one personal challenge and professional barrier after another.
She climbed from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to a seat on the nation's highest court and into the pages of American history.
Justice Ginsburg was thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession and to her 27 years of service on the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
We kept our promises.
Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president's Supreme Court nominee in the presidential election.
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.
In particular, his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary, once again, we will keep our promise.
President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.
Do you hear that?
Listen carefully.
Those are the war drums of a culture war that if you think it was intense before this, it hasn't even started yet.
It's very skillful maneuvering by Senator Mitch McConnell.
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.
Mitch McConnell has said that he wants to make sure that President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court gets a fair hearing.
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.
Now, I'm going to be honest with you.
I actually wrestled with this at first.
I thought to myself, well, should we do it?
It's this close to an election.
Is it the right thing to do?
And I didn't come to a complete answer on that.
Then I independently thought, I said, what would Democrats do?
And I thought the Democrats would absolutely fill the seat if they had the same power majorities that Republicans had.
But then I thought to myself, just because Democrats would do it does not mean we should do it.
That's never a good argument.
I mean, the Democrats support abortion.
They also support judging people on the color of their skin.
I'm not justifying Machiavellian tactics at all costs.
I'm not trying to have a moral relativist argument.
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.
So here is the best reason why this must be filled.
This is the number one reason.
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.
You go back to the highly contentious 40 days where we waited for a president of the United States to be chosen.
This is before the left really got into the streets with riots.
This is before a lot of their violent infrastructure was created.
It ended up being the United States Supreme Court that determined the winner of Bush versus Gore.
And it was by a thin margin, by the way.
And so if we allow the court to stay as is with five conservatives and three liberal.
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.
This is a national security threat to our country.
That's right.
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.
Who will determine the president then?
There is no precedent for that.
It could go down to the lower courts.
It could get drawn out again to another Supreme Court decision.
It would be irresponsible for the president to leave that position vacant.
It's that simple.
If it comes down to Arizona, it goes to the Ninth Circuit.
If it comes down to Maine, it goes to the Northeastern Southern District Circuit.
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.
It's called a coup against President Trump.
Listen to our sister episode.
It's very, very important.
We did two episodes on the Saturday because it is so important.
And that only adds more into the intrigue of this.
And so if I were to make the argument, it is not my preference.
I don't care about 1880 or any of that.
I don't like having to fill a Supreme Court seat this close to an election.
I don't, but I think it's necessary.
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.
The Supreme Court will take the case, and you have a 4-4 tie, that could break the back of our country.
It would be so irresponsible, especially where that position could be filled.
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.
But even according to the Biden rule, we should move forward.
We have a Senate and an executive.
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.
That moment is now.
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.
We are in the midst of something that very well could get chaotically out of control.
That's one of the reasons why I did not want to dive into politics as I'm recording this episode.
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.
But the left has now taken the gloves off.
This is now a political moment.
I'm not going to get into accusing the left of all this and all these sorts of things.
There'll be future episodes on that because I still want to keep the tone that I started this episode on consistent.
But I do know this: the one thing that truly united conservatives in the era of Trump is Kavanaugh.
I believe our muscle memory will ultimately prevail.
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.
So, what are the electoral ramifications of this?
I see it both ways.
It could be very positive for President Trump.
I also think it could energize now that early voting has started in states all across the country.
People are voting right now in Virginia, all across the country.
Early voting sites are opening.
That it could energize younger female and minority voters to go out and vote against Donald Trump and vote for Joe Biden.
So, Mitch McConnell might be doing the right thing here.
He might be.
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.
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.
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.
But quite honestly, let's put all of the politics aside.
It's the right thing to do to fill this seat.
Because if Joe Biden wins this election, truly and honestly, I want the Supreme Court to certify that election.
I do.
I do not want the person who wins this election to have to go in front of the Supreme Court and have a tie.
That's how a civilization unravels very quickly.
It would be irresponsible to leave it open.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the right thing in this case is to put a conservative on the U.S. Supreme Court before the election.
So what does that look like?
Hearings, character assassination.
The left will be mobilized.
As I'm recording this episode, I look at 3,000 people outside of the Supreme Court building right now gathered.
And they're mourning RBG right now.
They are remembering her legacy for now.
However, I want to read you an email from NARAL, which is the National Association for Pro-Choice League.
Elise Hoag, who is the head of NARAL.
This is her subject line: quote: Tonight we mourn RBG.
Tomorrow we fight.
Team, this is to the pro-choice activists across America.
Yes, I do sign up for pro-choice action alerts so I can get an understanding of what the opposition is planning.
Team, devastation just doesn't cover it.
Earlier tonight, we received the news we hoped would never come.
Supreme Court Justice Utheria Ginsburg passed away from complications related to pancreatic cancer.
She continues by saying, the world is a much, much worse place without her presence, her integrity, and her grit.
A brilliant legal scholar.
She served for 27 years as a titler's defender of reproductive freedom on the Supreme Court, also known as terminating unborn human beings.
She continues by saying, tonight we mourn, tomorrow we fight.
I'll be in touch soon about what the fight will look like and how you can take part.
Keep your eyes peeled.
They're already drawing their battle lines, everybody.
So if you think for just a minute that the left is going to want a unifying moment here, no way.
Mitch McConnell has singled that this gets a vote.
Therefore, eyes are on Mitt Romney.
Murkowski said she will not confirm a Supreme Court justice before the inauguration.
That's fine.
She's a write-off anyway.
Mitt Romney said he would not do it allegedly and then came out.
His spokesman said it is not true.
Romney will consider it.
And I am Mitt Romney's number one critic.
I spoke out against him at CPAC vocally and loudly and publicly.
But if Mitt Romney votes to confirm a conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court, I will be the first one to applaud.
I will be the first one to compliment him.
Same goes for Democrat Manchin.
We also have Doug Jones from Alabama, who might want to save his Senate seat.
Corey Gardner from Colorado is in a tough race.
There's a lot of questions.
And guess who else might have to show up to the Senate Judiciary Committee?
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.
Senate Votes and Political Signals 00:05:09
If you think that this 2020 race was interesting before this, this has completely reset the landscape, and this will help President Trump.
It will, especially in key battleground states.
It'll hurt him in California and New York.
Speaker Pelosi will probably continue to be Speaker.
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.
Rick Scott from Florida said, quote, it would be irresponsible to allow an extended vacancy on the Supreme Court.
I believe that President Trump's nominee should get a vote in the U.S. Senate.
You're already seeing Senate Republicans signal that way.
This is all at Mitch McConnell's direction.
I criticize Mitch McConnell for being far too kind to corporate interests at times, but I got to give Mitch McConnell credit.
He is the best operator when it comes to confirming Supreme Court justices.
I've said that once.
I will say it again.
He's terrific at it.
He knows what he's doing.
He's a brilliant tactician when it comes to winning the courts for future generations.
So when Senator Harris is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that takes her off the campaign trail.
And it leaves Biden alone and lost to wander out of his basement.
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.
I always say buckle up, everybody, at the beginning of every episode.
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.
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.
Never been a more important time to get engaged and do something for our country.
So in closing, I want to say Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived a full life.
She truly was a rags to riches story.
Not that she was very wealthy, but she got to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Only in America is something like that possible.
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.
But I am not someone who thinks that when somebody dies, it should be relished as a smiling, gleeful political opportunity.
I encourage all of you to have that same sort of spirit this weekend.
And whenever this comes up, just take pause and say, she was a human being.
All human beings are made in the image of God, and all of them deserve some form of remembrance when they pass away.
And so as we move forward, this kind of humanity I'm trying to establish will never happen with the Democrats.
Let's just be very clear.
They now see this as a threat to their power.
They now see this as whatever level that they reached previously, they're going to find a new one.
Trending on Twitter, as I conclude this episode, is get Mitch or die trying, basically saying, let's try to murder Mitch McConnell.
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.
I'm sure.
So who's the one raising money off of tragedy?
Who's the one politicizing?
Of course the left is.
There'll be a time for that.
I see this very clearly, that President Trump is most likely going to get his third Supreme Court justice.
For those of us that know the generational significance of the Supreme Court, this means everything.
However, that's not the reason why I'm saying he should do it.
I'll go back to my original thesis.
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.
The seat must be filled.
Stay close and tuned to our podcast, everybody, because I've been through a Supreme Court nomination before on the front lines.
I was there when Brett Kavanaugh was under duress.
I was there being screamed at by leftist lunatics and activists.
I know what it takes to get this future nominee that we don't know confirmed.
It's not going to be easy.
It's going to take persistence.
It's going to take focus.
It's going to take facts.
It's going to take organization.
And it's going to take you guys continue listening to the Charlie Kirk show here.
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It's about to ramp up, everybody.
The temperature in the room is about to increase.
Stay focused, stay clear, stay prayerful, and we'll be back with more this weekend and, of course, next week.
And please listen to our sister episode against the coup mounting against President Trump.
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