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Sept. 28, 2020 - The Michael Knowles Show

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Ep. 618 - Glorious ACB

President Trump officially nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Democrats attack her children, and we may finally have a chance for a fair election. If you like The Michael Knowles Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: KNOWLES and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/knowles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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	Forget about the Supreme Court.
	The presidential race has now completely shifted, and it has shifted because of the court, because President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett.
	Now we gather in the Rose Garden to continue our never-ending task of ensuring equal justice and preserving the impartial rule of law.
	Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the Supreme Court.
	She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials, and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
	I do not know how Amy Coney Barrett is going to rule on any particular case.
	That's not the point.
	I do know that the glorious ACB is the single best chance that President Trump has being re-elected.
	And that is for two major reasons.
	I'm Michael Knowles.
	This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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	President Trump officially nominates judge Amy Coney Barron.
	Did you hear what he said there?
	When he nominated her, he didn't say, and she's going to be a fighter and she's going to rule the way we want her to rule all the time.
	And she's going to pass legislation from the bench.
	I mean, I mean, usually the left isn't that obvious about it.
	But they do say these things.
	She's a fighter.
	She's standing up for this.
	She's standing up for that.
	Talking about judges as though they're activists and politicians.
	Trump didn't do that.
	He said she's going to ensure justice.
	She's going to be impartial.
	She's going to follow the law.
	And the left is now saying, no, she won't.
	She's a threat to the Constitution.
	She could never be impartial.
	And what's funny about that line of attack that you're hearing, we'll get into a few lines of attack that they're using right now on the glorious ACB, but what's funny about that one is they're attacking her for not being impartial and for not supporting the Constitution.
	When the left doesn't believe in impartiality, and they certainly don't believe in the Constitution, but even just that idea of impartiality, they don't believe in that, right?
	They're denying the idea that you can be outside of your own interests, outside of your own biases.
	They do this on race.
	They do this on sex.
	They do this on all sorts of grievance.
	That's the point of intersectionality.
	That's the point of all this grievance mongering is saying we can't actually access justice.
	We can't actually communicate about objective reality.
	All we can do is express our own interests and desires.
	And if you're a white man, you need to shut up and you can't have your opinions anymore.
	And if you don't have this lived experience, then you can't have an opinion about it.
	So the idea of impartiality doesn't exist on the left because for the left, politics is not about using reason properly.
	With great deference to the tradition and our forefathers to understand justice and how to live together.
	For the left, politics is all about interests.
	As far as I can tell, there are four ways that they can attack Amy Coney Barrett.
	And the most beautiful thing about her nomination is all of these ultimately fall flat.
	But there are four ways.
	I've been analyzing all of the attacks on her.
	First one is to call her dangerous.
	This is the Kavanaugh.
	The Kavanaugh attack is to say that this person who seems perfectly polite and nice and milquetoast and, you know, if anything, maybe a little bit boring, you know, at dinner parties, that this person is actually a criminal, a thug, dangerous.
	They're going to attack you.
	You won't feel safe.
	This is what Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo of the squad, you know, it's AOC and the other ones.
	And then Ayanna Pressley is kind of the, not as prominent member of the squad.
	She used this line of attack.
	She said, quote, Barrett is dangerous and unfit to serve on the highest court.
	The appellate judge, mom of seven, who...
	Whose worst and most controversial vice, according to the popular culture, is that she prays too much.
	That's what they say.
	They actually say the worst thing this woman does is she prays a lot and goes to church and is part of a Christian group.
	That woman's dangerous.
	Are you afraid of that woman?
	We've all seen pictures now of Amy Coney Barrett.
	She's actually been a little bit of a political celebrity for a few years now since her name was floated last time.
	Now, obviously, she's a worldwide, well-known celebrity.
	Does she make you nervous?
	Does she look scary to you?
	to you?
	Does she look dangerous when you see her seven children, five biological, two adopted, husband, all smiling, all happy?
	Does that seem dangerous to you?
	I don't think so.
	That one's going to completely fall flat because it just so strains credulity.
	There's no way to convince anybody that this mild-mannered Midwestern mom who goes to church a lot, that she's dangerous.
	Number two attack is to attack her judicial philosophy.
	So this is one of the usual attacks.
	It was the one that they used When they first started this acrimonious Supreme Court confirmation process, going all the way back to Ted Kennedy and Judge Bork, and then moving later throughout the 80s, and really then it shifts in the 90s.
	But the first attack on Judge Bork, you'll remember, was not on his personal life, didn't call him a rapist, didn't call him dangerous.
	Ted Kennedy in the 80s said that Judge Bork's judicial philosophy was terrible for him.
	Black people and women and all sorts of people.
	But it was an attack on originalism, on the ideas, not on the person.
	Then you get into Clarence Thomas and Joe Biden's hearings of Clarence Thomas.
	Then it became, again, he's a rapist, he's a dangerous person, he's a terrible person.
	But before that, it was the judicial philosophy.
	So how is Amy Coney Barrett going to do?
	Leaning right into it.
	I was lucky enough to clerk for Justice Scalia, and given his incalculable influence on my life, I am very moved to have members of the Scalia family here today, including his dear wife, Maureen.
	I clerked for Justice Scalia more than 20 years ago, but the lessons I learned still resonate.
	His judicial philosophy is mine, too.
	A judge must apply the law as written.
	Judges are not policymakers, and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold.
	She's a Scalia originalist.
	I had the privilege of meeting Scalia twice when I was a student, and he described his judicial philosophy as being different than partisanship, as being different than interests.
	And the one Maybe defining feature of Scalia's originalism is when he said, if you're a really good originalist judge, you will not always be happy with the decisions that you end up with.
	I have this personal interest, I have this political preference, but if I'm actually applying originalism, then sometimes what the Constitution and the law actually say are different than what I would prefer that they say if I were a legislator, for instance.
	when Bork was up for the court, it was all too new.
	This idea of applying the law fairly, this idea of reading the constitution and figuring out what it actually means, not just what we would like it to mean.
	It was too new.
	And so they got rid of him.
	But Scalia has done such a great job of explaining originalism over the years that that is now the mainstream conservative legal philosophy.
	And so Amy Coney Barrett comes out there and says, that's my philosophy.
	That's not going to be controversial.
	It is now at least, it's at least acceptable in legal circles to say, I'm not going to push my partisan interest.
	I'm I'm not going to legislate from the bench.
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	So the judicial philosophy is out there.
	That is now mainstream.
	I'm not saying the left likes it.
	I'm not saying they're not going to still try to go after the judicial nominees.
	Actually, the judicial philosophy is ultimately what they're after.
	But they're not open about that anymore.
	So she leans right into it.
	She says, yep, I'm with Scalia.
	I'm an originalist.
	Nothing really to criticize her scaremonger over yet until she gets to her family.
	And ACB goes straight from her judicial philosophy...
	Into her family structure.
	Sounds wonderful.
	Sounds wholesome.
	How on earth could you attack her for it?
	The Democrats find a way.
	The president has asked me to become the ninth justice.
	And as it happens, I'm used to being in a group of nine.
	My family.
	Our family includes me, my husband Jesse, Emma, Vivian, Tess, Peter, Liam, Juliet, and Benjamin.
	Vivian and John Peter, as the President said, were born in Haiti and they came to us five years apart when they were very young.
	And the most revealing fact about Benjamin, our youngest, is that his brothers and sisters unreservedly identify him as their favorite sibling.
	Our children obviously make our life very full.
	While I am a judge, I'm better known back home as a room parent, carpool driver, and birthday party planner.
	When schools went remote last spring, I tried on another hat.
	Jesse and I became co-principles of the Barrett eLearning Academy.
	And yes, the list of enrolled students was a very long one.
	Our children are my greatest joy, even though they deprive me of any reasonable amount of sleep.
	So they try to attack her as dangerous.
	That's not going to work.
	They try to attack her philosophy.
	The people aren't going to buy that anymore.
	I know what you're thinking.
	You say, there's no way they're going to go after her family.
	She's got this beautiful family.
	She's got this wonderful story.
	She and her husband have apparently a very nice marriage.
	Five biological kids.
	They adopt two kids from Haiti.
	Everybody gets along.
	It's so wonderful.
	What a beautiful thing to do.
	The left is attacking her for it.
	They are.
	There is this, I guess now somewhat famous, maybe infamous, anti-racist author and diversity consultant, Ibram Kendi.
	Now, maybe you've heard this name Ibram Kendi.
	He's come up a lot in the BLM stuff.
	It should be clear, when you hear these terms, anti-racist author or diversity consultant, what that really means is con artist.
	It means fraud.
	That's all he is.
	This guy is a complete huckster who is scamming people out of money.
	He's technically a professor at Boston University's founding director of the Boston University Center for Anti-Racist Research.
	What is anti-racist research?
	What academic discipline is that part of?
	None.
	He's a contributor for The Atlantic and a CBS News correspondent, so he's just another leftist media hack.
	And even on the academic front, You say, okay, well, he's a professor, right?
	He's got to be a real academic, right?
	He's not.
	He has a PhD in something called African American Studies, which is a fake academic discipline, just like all the other...
	Critical studies disciplines.
	They're not real.
	They have nothing to do with actual scholarship or actual academic disciplines.
	They are ideology in the university.
	That's all they do.
	They just take a very shallow, modern, ideological view and they make an entire academic department out of it.
	But it's not academic.
	It's pseudo-academic.
	Obviously, the study of ideology has something to do in a...
	University.
	But typically you would study that through philosophy.
	That's an actual academic discipline.
	Or even history.
	How these different ideologies have cropped up.
	But the ideology itself is not an academic discipline.
	It's just too shallow.
	There's not enough scholarly meat there.
	And so this guy has a fake PhD.
	He writes for a couple hack outlets.
	He's the founding director of some fake academic center at Boston University.
	And he milks people out of money as a diversity consultant.
	He's a scam artist.
	And then he has the gall to attack this woman's family.
	He says, some white colonizers...
	Adopted black children.
	They civilized these savage children in the superior ways of white people while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.
	Adopting poor kids, orphans, from bad areas is now a bad thing.
	Now, of course it's not.
	And what he's saying, by the way, is white people shouldn't adopt black people, right?
	That's what's lying at the bottom of what he's saying.
	And he's the professor of anti-racism.
	Makes you think, huh, maybe this anti-racism thing isn't really what it sounds like.
	Maybe this anti-fascism thing isn't really what it sounds like.
	I mean, there's no reason to ever listen to this guy.
	He's a total fraud, and what he says is worth less than nothing.
	But the reason I point it out is because it's a very bad look for Democrats.
	He's saying what a lot of them are thinking, but a lot of professional Democrats, you know, elected people, operatives, they realize this is going to be a bad line of attack.
	I don't think it's going to play in Peoria.
	People are not going to like it when you attack this woman's children.
	And attack this woman for adopting children from a bad place, you know, in a bad situation, and giving them a loving home and raising them and bringing them to the land of the free.
	If you attack a woman for that, not going to be a good look in November.
	So this brings us then to the fourth attack.
	First two, they can't lob.
	The third one, they do lob, but it looks really bad.
	The fourth one is attacking her religion.
	You know, Dianne Feinstein already did this, said that the dogma lives loudly within Amy Coney Barrett because she's a Catholic.
	Same thing.
	Dick Durbin said this.
	He goes, what?
	You actually believe Catholicism?
	You're orthodox in your religion?
	That's so weird.
	What?
	I've never heard of that before.
	And then Bill Maher put it in less polite terms.
	But apparently the pick is going to be this Omi...
	Omi.
	Amy Comey.
	We'll all be saying this name a lot, I'm sure, because she's a f***ing nut.
	Religion.
	I was right about that one, too.
	Amy...
	Sorry, but...
	Amy Comey Barrett, Catholic, really Catholic.
	I mean really, really Catholic, like speaking in tongues.
	Like, she doesn't believe in condoms, which is what she has in common with Trump, because he doesn't either.
	Right.
	Also a terrible look for Democrats.
	First of all, when Bill Moore speaks, doesn't he just remind you of that smug 13-year-old you knew in middle school whose arguments for atheism were more or less, I can't see God.
	Where is he?
	I can't touch him.
	Checkmate, theists.
	Yeah.
	If God is real, then why won't he manifest himself physically when I demand it?
	Checkmate, Christians.
	It's just so shallow.
	It's as if people hadn't been thinking of these questions before.
	As if St.
	Thomas Aquinas never existed.
	As if the Summa Theologiae didn't exist.
	As if St.
	Augustine didn't exist.
	As if the great geniuses of history, the great doctors of the church, Because then Bill Maher comes and says, wait a second, I can't see God, or whatever his dumb arguments are.
	You say, oh my, okay, well, you're right, there goes my Summa Theologiae, time to set it on fire.
	Even, think about Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Maybe the greatest living theologian, a brilliant scholar who has been writing and thinking about God for his entire life.
	Who do you think has a better handle on these things?
	Who do you think has more brain cells rubbing together?
	Who do you think has spent more time in serious contemplation of this question?
	Pope Benedict or Bill Maher?
	And yet Bill Maher, with the arrogance that only a true leftist can muster, It's so ridiculous.
	I don't even need to consider this question.
	I know sometimes Bill Maher says things we like, so we say he's not on the left, but he is on the left.
	He likes telling dirty jokes, too, so he's not totally politically correct.
	But that's not a good argument.
	Do you remember about A week ago, when Democrats were saying that Joe Biden is a devout Catholic and how wonderful it is to be a devout Catholic, we said, no, he's not.
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	So he actually, he's not in good standing right now with the Catholic Church.
	They say, he's devout, how dare you?
	But now you get an actual Catholic, an actual practicing Catholic, and they say she's an effing nut.
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	Can't call her dangerous.
	Can't go after her judicial philosophy.
	They are going after her family and it doesn't look good.
	They are going after her religion and it doesn't look good.
	There's one thing left they can do and that is retreat.
	They can retreat.
	They can run away from this because there's no way that this works well for Democrats attacking Amy Coney Barrett.
	Hearings tentatively scheduled for October 12th.
	The Democrats are planning to boycott.
	At least some.
	Democrats are planning to boycott.
	Two senators, Maisie Hirono and Richard Blumenthal, say that they will not meet with Amy Coney Barrett beforehand.
	They haven't said that they won't meet with her if the hearings take place, but they're saying they're not even going to sit down with her beforehand because it would, quote, legitimize President Trump's decision to nominate the glorious ACB. I think this is Democrats' best chance is to just not show up to the hearings.
	It's Do you remember what Kavanaugh did to the Democrats?
	Do you remember what that did?
	It gave us such a boost.
	It so helped Republicans.
	And it will do that again in November.
	And I'm even willing to give this free advice to Democrats.
	One, because I like to call it like I see it, even if I don't want to let the secrets out for the Democrats.
	But two, they're not going to be able to resist.
	Democratic senators, senators of any kind, cannot resist a TV camera.
	They always say this about Chuck Schumer.
	The most dangerous place in New York is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.
	They can't resist the cameras.
	They're going to have to do it.
	And it's going to look really bad because, as we've pointed out, every line of attack they have on this woman is going to hurt them.
	Now, Amy Coney Barrett is not just changing up the Democrats' election strategy with regard to, say, hearings or public appearances.
	She's completely changing their electoral strategy in November.
	The nomination is changing everything.
	Nobody's talking about this.
	So the strategy previously was promote mail-in ballots, hire a lot of lawyers, challenge the results of the election on election night.
	There's going to be a red mirage.
	Trump is going to win on election night, but then you're going to get enough lawyers to challenge the results and wait for the mail-ins and maybe find a few boxes of mail-ins.
	I don't know, hate hiding out somewhere and then bring it all the way up to the courts.
	And then at the Supreme Court, they're going to give it to the Democrats.
	That was the strategy.
	But now, they can't rely on the Supreme Court because the most stalwart, partisan, democratic judge in the Supreme Court is no longer there.
	They cannot rely on Ruth Ginsburg.
	So, now, they've got to change their strategy.
	They've got to pull the election back out of the courts.
	And if they're going to pull the election back out of the courts and actually try to win it fair and square at the ballot box, then they're going to have to back down on pushing for widespread mail-in, and they're going to have to back down on refusing to concede the election.
	This is not some wild, crazy conspiracy theory, okay?
	They actually told us they were going to do this.
	Do you remember a couple weeks ago when Hillary Clinton said...
	Joe Biden should not, under any circumstances, concede the election.
	Do you remember that?
	And then they attacked Donald Trump for not respecting the results of the election.
	They did this in 2016, too.
	Hillary said, Trump's not respecting the results of the election.
	And then what happened?
	She loses and she doesn't respect the results of the election.
	So she comes out and says it.
	And a lot of Democrats cheered her on.
	Well, now they're realizing, goodness gracious, if we can't even rely on the court to steal this election for us...
	Maybe we should back off that plan.
	Dick Durbin, second highest ranking Democratic senator, Senate minority whip, came out on ABC talking to George Stephanopoulos, who is a former employee of the Clintons, and said, I disagree with Hillary.
	I disagree with Hillary Clinton.
	I respect her, I like her, but I think she's just flat out wrong.
	The election itself is going to be announced.
	The winner will be announced at some point.
	It'll take longer with all the paper ballots that are being cast.
	But at some point, I hope my choice, Joe Biden, is elected president.
	But if we are going to maintain a democracy, peaceful transition through an election is the only way to do it.
	Great.
	I'm so glad to hear that you've changed your mind, Dick.
	I'm so glad to hear, after hearing Democrats tell me for weeks that they were not going to concede at all, even if Trump won, I'm so pleased to hear that now you'll respect the results of this election.
	But it's not just that.
	They're also backing off of the widespread mail-in votes.
	So you remember, Democrats had been pushing for everybody to use mail-in, almost every single person.
	They were expecting 80 to 100 million mail-in votes this election.
	That was in part because they said COVID is so dangerous.
	You can't possibly show up to the polls on Election Day.
	It's outrageous to expect people to show up to the polls.
	They can and should show up to BLM riots all over the country, but that's okay because COVID doesn't spread there.
	They just can't go to the polls because that's where you get COVID. We know that mail-in voting is rife with fraud.
	How do we know this?
	Well, there was an experiment done by a news affiliate in Philadelphia.
	They mailed in 100 mail-in ballots, dummy mail-in ballots.
	They mailed it to a P.O. box.
	What happened?
	They got two birthday cards in the mailbox.
	Somewhere the wires got crossed.
	They took days and days, so much longer than anyone expected to get the mail.
	And then by the end of it, three of them were missing.
	Three percent.
	Guess what sways an election?
	Three percent.
	3%.
	We know that.
	We've seen examples of voter fraud going on in New Jersey, in particular, recently.
	We saw news reports coming out of Texas.
	Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary, gave us examples of voting fraud and voting irregularities just last week.
	The president wants to get rid of mass mail-out voting, and that's not because he said clearly that that could go either way.
	It could damage either candidate's chances because it's a system that's subject to fraud.
	In fact, in the last 24 hours, police in Greenville, Wisconsin found mail in a ditch, and it included absentee ballots.
	And also, I can confirm for you that Trump ballots, ballots for the president, were found in Pennsylvania.
	And I believe you should be getting more information on that shortly.
	Here in the last 24 hours, they were found cast aside.
	So weird, because we're being told by everybody that there is no problem with mail-in ballots.
	There's no problem with widespread mail-in.
	There's no evidence that widespread mail-in in any way leads to fraud.
	Now, first of all, that statement is...
	In a sense, a truism because we've never had widespread mail-in ballots like this.
	So, of course, there's no prior evidence.
	This is a new political strategy.
	But moreover, what do you say about the Trump ballots that were found to have gone missing and showed up a little bit later?
	What do you say about that in Pennsylvania?
	Whoopsie-daisy.
	Well, that's undeniable.
	What do you say about the box of ballots that was found in a ditch somewhere?
	What do you say about that?
	And what's going to happen in all of the counties and all of the states around the country?
	So, what changed?
	Why are they now completely shifting their argument on mail-in?
	Is it COVID? Did something change with COVID? Did the virus mutate?
	I don't think so.
	They just know that they can no longer rely on the Supreme Court to give them the election.
	There is one way.
	There is one way that the Democrats are trying now to sway public opinion on Amy Coney Barrett.
	It's not necessarily an attack on her.
	It's not talking about the big issue that we're all talking about, Roe versus Wade and abortion.
	It's not talking about that.
	There is one way that the Democrats are going to try to do it.
	It's a traditional election strategy.
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	The issue that Democrats always demagogue is healthcare.
	That's the one they keep coming back to.
	And they keep coming back to healthcare because there's no answer to it.
	There's no answer.
	It's obviously disingenuous and ridiculous.
	Do you remember how Obamacare was supposed to solve our healthcare problems once and for all?
	That's how it was sold to us.
	They said, look, one big fix.
	It's going to be very expensive.
	It's going to totally change the healthcare system.
	But then we'll have fixed healthcare in America, and it's all good.
	Except it wasn't.
	Because we got Obamacare, and then they still complained about it, and the uninsured, and the this, and the that, and the this, and the that.
	And the promises of Obamacare were lies.
	If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
	I think that was the PolitiFact lie of the year that year.
	And it was a rare occasion where PolitiFact actually hit a Democrat.
	So that one was out.
	How about premiums will go down?
	They didn't go down.
	They went up.
	It was a total lie.
	But they always demagogue it because Democrats can always push a bigger and bigger plan to take more and more power over the fundamental question of life and death from people.
	That's why the Democrats always move into healthcare.
	That's why they move into education, too.
	If you control education, you're shaping the future of the country.
	If you control healthcare, then you control questions of life and death.
	So they push for healthcare.
	And what's the Republican answer?
	There isn't one, because the Republican answer is, I think we should have more of a decentralized system with a little more consumer choice and focus on quality and make sure we take care of the people who are in need, which we already have, by the way.
	Nobody is told that they have to die in the street in the United States.
	This idea, they say, what about the poor?
	We already have so many healthcare programs for the poor.
	Medicare for elderly people.
	Medicaid for poor people.
	We've got the children's health insurance plan.
	We've got this health insurance plan.
	We've got that health insurance plan.
	It's never enough, though.
	Because they always say, what?
	You want people to die?
	So it's a good one to demagogue on.
	And that's the only way they're going to try to sway public opinion about Amy Coney Barrett.
	Now, how are they going to relate Amy Coney Barrett to health care?
	Hillary Clinton, speaking with Joy Reid at the Texas Tribune Festival with MSNBC, made the public relations pitch.
	And she did it in exactly those terms.
	She was saying, these are the talking points that we need to be on.
	Ultimately, this fight, it seems to me, is about healthcare.
	Remember, healthcare is literally before the court.
	Trump and the Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, have been trying to get rid of healthcare for years, ever since President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act.
	For reasons that escape me, they want to strip away the rights of people with pre-existing conditions, about 130 million Americans, from getting affordable health care.
	They want to totally take away the coverage for 22 million Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act.
	They want to take away all the protections that were passed by the Congress, like being 26 and still being able to stay on your parents' policy, and the list goes on.
	So let's be sure we understand that what the Republicans are doing is rushing an appointment to the court to repeal the Affordable Care Act and strip away health care from many millions of Americans.
	That's the issue, is it, Hillary?
	Now, of course, she gives away the game in that language there.
	She says they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
	Courts don't repeal things.
	They can overturn decisions.
	They can rule that certain laws are unconstitutional.
	And that's always been the issue with Obamacare.
	The issue with Obamacare in the courts is not whether the courts like Obamacare or not.
	It's not whether they like that particular health care plan or this particular health care plan.
	It's, is the plan constitutional?
	Can the federal government force you to buy a product from a private company?
	And in the original Obamacare decision, John Roberts, the chief justice decided that he was going to try to have his cake and eat it too and say, well, the individual mandate of Obamacare is a tax for, for this reason, but it's a penalty for this reason.
	And therefore it's constitutional It was so ridiculous, Scalia made mincemeat of his stupid opinion, but he was just doing it, basically, to give the libs a win because he felt that people would revolt and burn down the Supreme Court if he overturned and deemed unconstitutional Obamacare.
	But that's the issue.
	It's not about legislation.
	And do Republicans really want to take health care away from millions and millions of people?
	Is that really what you believe, Hillary?
	No, of course not.
	But they are making that pitch because they think that they can tie health care to abortion.
	Really what this Amy Coney Barrett thing is about is what all of the Supreme Court nominations have been about, going all the way back to Judge Bork, and it's what that one was about, too.
	Abortion.
	Because of this stupid decision, Roe vs.
	Wade, that invented a fictional constitutional right to abortion.
	Get your magnifying glass out.
	Look at the Constitution.
	Find me the right to an abortion.
	You won't find it.
	It's nowhere.
	And the people who wrote that stupid decision, Roe vs.
	Wade, didn't even pretend.
	They didn't even try to say they found it.
	They said there were penumbras and emanations and this and that.
	And if you look secretly in the invisible ink, it's all BS. They felt that they needed there for the social upheaval of the country.
	They just wanted there to be a right to an abortion.
	And so they made it up out of whole cloth.
	And they know it's indefensible.
	And honest liberal jurists will tell you that it's indefensible.
	And that's why all of these decisions have been so contentious.
	That's why all these confirmations have been so contentious.
	Hillary admits it.
	She says, look, without mentioning abortion, she says, this health care issue, that's the case we've got to make if we want to hold up this nomination.
	There is no mistake about that.
	You know, there are other issues that we'll look at down the road, but right now the Democrats need to make that case.
	There are other issues that we'll look out down the road.
	Sure.
	But right now the case the Democrats have to make is about healthcare.
	Why?
	Because you know that if you, if you hold up this woman who's very attractive, she's very attractive in her resume.
	She's, she's physically attractive.
	She's attractive as a nominee.
	She's attractive constitutionally.
	If you hold up this nominee over your maniacal sociopathic obsession with killing babies, that's not going to look great for the 2020 presidential election.
	So you've got to pretend that this is all about health care when it's actually about the opposite of health care.
	It's actually about killing people.
	It couldn't be more opposite for health care.
	And Hillary Clinton describes the Republican efforts to do what the Constitution requires and appoint a judge.
	She describes them in religious terms, but not the good religion.
	Not in the bright, light, heavenly terms.
	She describes it in hellish terms.
	This could not be more diabolical.
	And I think that Democrats need to be absolutely clear at the federal level in this fight with McConnell and Trump, but also in the Senate races, that any vote for any Republican is literally a vote to cost you money, to make your health care more expensive, and maybe to eliminate the possibility you'll be able to afford it at all.
	Anyone else notice how happy Hillary Clinton looked when she said the word diabolical?
	She goes, yes, it's really, it's diabolical.
	She's sort of stirring whatever is in her cauldron.
	Yeah, Hillary Clinton certainly gets a thrill by that word, diabolical.
	But diabolical is a good word to use, not for what the Republicans are doing, but for what the Democrats are doing.
	You don't need to take my word for it.
	Take the word of the Huffington Post.
	Woman writing for the Huffington Post, Jamie Smith, writes, The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pushed me to join the Satanic Temple.
	There's a picture of like Baphomet or something, some kind of satanic symbol.
	I'm a 40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls.
	I'm not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times.
	Are they not?
	Are they not normal?
	I actually think these are normal times.
	We always say we're living in such crazy times.
	I mean, they're interesting times.
	But the times are interesting generally.
	Life is...
	The world is very interesting.
	And I have to disagree with this woman.
	I think that she's exactly the type of person who would become a Satanist.
	The type of person who...
	Thinks she doesn't really have strong religious views.
	She actually says here that the Satanic Temple, they're atheists.
	It's not like they're believing in some spiritual thing.
	They're actually atheists.
	They don't think God exists.
	They don't think the spiritual world exists, okay?
	But they just think these damn Republicans are so crazy.
	They're theocrats.
	They're...
	They're awful, and we should all be afraid.
	She says, I fear that American citizens are inching closer to living in a theocracy or a dictatorship, and that the checks meant to prevent this from happening are close to eroding fundamental despair.
	And the Satanic Temple, they just believe in fundamental tenets, such as the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions, and that one's body is inviolable, subject to one's will alone.
	And you know, these are things that we believe, plenty of people believe in them.
	This is exactly how Satanism operates.
	You think a Satanist is just like scary people in robes doing all sorts of things?
	No.
	No, the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing people that he does not exist.
	That's always how the devil has operated.
	The greatest trick that the devil has up his sleeve, the greatest temptation, is to distract you with the things of this world.
	Don't need to take my word for it.
	That's the gospel truth.
	To distract you, to tempt you with things, such as power, which is what this woman is talking about, or filling your physical desires, or indulging your appetites.
	Christ's temptation by the devil in the wilderness is that.
	Right?
	That is how it operates.
	And when we use these terms, diabolical, they really are getting at something.
	Don't you think it's a little weird that all of these people Who are, who come from, I guess, different backgrounds, different geographical backgrounds, different political backgrounds.
	All the political issues on the table, the one that is holding them up, The one that is going to create this chaos for the Supreme Court nomination is whether or not we have the right to kill a million babies.
	This is not a complicated issue.
	The issue of abortion is not complicated.
	We pretend it's complicated.
	There's a new movie out on HBO Max called Unpregnant.
	I'll do a review of it coming up.
	But it's like a buddy trip about going out and killing a bunch of babies.
	This is not a complicated issue.
	Do you think a country should allow its citizens to kill a million babies a year?
	No.
	Nobody thinks so.
	And then there are all these tricks.
	They say, well, it's not really a baby.
	It's not really human.
	Not really alive.
	Yeah, it's all of those things.
	It's very clearly all of them.
	I have a sonogram.
	I can show you.
	I can show you that it's all of those things.
	Forget about even the philosophical arguments, which are all very clear.
	Don't you think that's a weird coincidence?
	Don't you think that's like an odd thing?
	Shouldn't we be arguing about taxes or foreign policy or actual health care?
	No.
	No.
	Because these diabolical influences, these diabolical people, these people actually joining the Satanic Temple, they know not what they do.
	There's a big political endorsement that just came up.
	Big meaning that the person who endorsed is very big.
	He's one of the biggest, most muscular people in the world.
	His name is The Rock.
	The Rock, who I always heard was a kind of moderate Republican, he's endorsing Joe Biden.
	And he's endorsing Joe Biden in the stupidest political endorsement I have ever heard.
	Take a listen to The Rock's reasoning.
	You know, look, I've got friends in all parties, but the one thing that we can always agree on is the conversation and the dialogue and where that conversation lands is always the most critical part.
	Now, this is something that I've certainly not done in the past.
	So I'm gonna go big.
	You guys know me.
	If I go, I go big.
	So, guys, I had the opportunity to sit down with Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris to talk about a number of important issues that we're facing as a country.
	I thought it was a great and extremely productive conversation that we had.
	And as a registered independent for years now with centrist ideologies, I do feel that Vice President Biden and Senator Harris are the best choice to lead our country, and I am endorsing them to become president and vice president of our United States.
	The Rock is endorsing Biden and Harris because he likes conversation.
	Now, first of all, which party right now do you think is encouraging conversation, dialogue, civil discourse?
	Is it the one nominating a Supreme Court justice and calling for hearings and debate over that?
	Or is it the one burning down the country?
	Burning, rioting, looting, killing people, encouraging all of that?
	Which one do you think it is?
	The Democrats are not permitting conversation of any kind.
	They are censoring people.
	They are deplatforming people.
	They are physically intimidating people with violence if they say things that they don't like or don't say things that they do like.
	That image of that mob screaming, say Black Lives Matter, say BLM, say it, screaming at that woman in the restaurant.
	You remember that a few weeks ago?
	They don't even believe the conversation can exist because the left is now saying, That we can't, getting right back to the top of the show, we can't be impartial.
	There's no such thing as objective justice, objective reality.
	There's just subjective experience.
	My lived experience, which you can't talk about, and I can't talk about your lived experience.
	So you've got to shut up.
	And politics is not about the rational pursuit of truth that is outside of ourselves, which is essential to communication, because when we communicate, we're just using symbols, which are called words, and I say one symbol, and you hear that symbol, and if there's not something outside of both of us to which that symbol refers, then it can't mean anything.
	They're saying, yeah, none of that can exist.
	It's just my interests.
	It's just my feeling.
	The only thing I can know is real is my suffering, and you can't know anything about that.
	So just on the philosophical point, not that I think that the rock is the greatest living philosopher, what he's saying doesn't make any sense.
	But secondly, enough conversation.
	I like conversation as much as the next guy.
	I like it a lot more than the left does.
	Conversation is not an end unto itself.
	Conversation is a means to an end.
	We don't engage in conversation without a purpose.
	Idle chatter is not conversation.
	Grunting and noise is not conversation.
	The purpose of conversation is to get a little closer to the truth, to dust off The truth.
	To see things more clearly.
	To come to an understanding of something.
	There is a purpose.
	There is an end to conversation.
	In a civil society, conversation is about dusting off the truth a little bit, persuading our fellow citizens to see the truth as we see it, and then governing ourselves.
	That's the purpose of it.
	If you're not doing that, if you're writing off half the country as deplorable and irredeemable, if you're writing off the possibility of conversation, the possibility of justice, the possibility of impartiality and objective truth, Then there's no purpose to that conversation.
	We hear that sort of nonsense so much from the left-wingers.
	They don't believe it themselves.
	They don't believe in the ability to persuade one another, to have reason, to converse.
	And so without that...
	And even with that, we have to pursue discrete ends.
	It's not just about the form of politics.
	We have to have substance.
	It's not just about the form of having the judge.
	The judge has to be able to read the Constitution.
	And when we're talking about substantive moral claims, we have to realize that killing a million babies a year is bad.
	You'd think you'd be able to say that in a country.
	There's a difference between notorious RGB and glorious ACB. There's a difference between those things.
	I love, by the way, they're very upset that now conservatives are using the phrase notorious ACB, or we've changed it to glorious ACB, because they're saying that we stole that from RBG. As if Biggie Smalls didn't exist.
	Do you remember?
	She took that from...
	Regardless, there's a difference.
	Do we want to be notorious?
	Do we want to be glorious?
	Do we want to kill a million babies a year?
	Do we want to not kill a million babies a year?
	Do we want to live in a country where our governance is defined by rioting and looting and violence?
	Or do we want to live in a country with civility?
	Do we want to live in a country where we are civilized people and can discuss and govern ourselves?
	That's the choice.
	The Rock made the wrong choice for the wrong reasons.
	The rest of the choice is up to us.
	And I have to tell you, The outlook as we look at the next two months has just become much more glorious.
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