>> We've been waiting to find out who is Trump's pick going to be to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
and there was reason to believe that it would be Amy Coney Barrett. But in a surprising
twist, he has picked Amy Coney Barrett, sparking a chorus of outrage from Democrats and Progressive
groups who warn her confirmation could shift the court to one that would dismantle the
ACA and work to preserve the Trump agenda for decades to come.
So we know quite a bit about her because she was one of the names that was bandied about
the last time around actually. So you need to know that she's called Roe v Wade a framework
of abortion on demand. She's openly opposed the ACA. She critiqued the Supreme Court's
decision to uphold the individual mandate.
She was paid by an anti-LGBTQ hate group to deliver a lecture and on and on and on. She
is the Christian right wing's wet dream of a Supreme Court Justice who will do what they
want, overturn Roe v Wade among other things. That's who we sort of expected he was gonna
go for and that is indeed who he picked, Francesca.
>> Uh-huh, yeah, and Ruth is barely in the ground. Barely, just barely. Wow, they had
the decency to wait less than a day. And now basically her nemesis, her complete opposite,
right? A woman who I think others have said walked through the doors that Ruth Bader Ginsburg
opened, right?
A woman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who fought for equal pay. Ruth Bader Ginsburg who fought
for women to be able to own property in their name, and credit cards etc, whatever. All
the rights that now Amy Coney Barrett apparently doesn't stand for now that she's gotten to
the Supreme Court.
And according to a speech that she gave, a commencement speech. The point of her law
degree is to what does it serve the kingdom of God? Yikes. It's just biblical, creepy
stuff. And apparently her organization that she's part of is not actually the inspiration
for A Handmaid's Tail, even though they have handmaids in her organization.
What is it called? The People of Praise. I don't even wanna know.
>> Yeah, one of them's the People of Praise, one is a different one, it's something from
Dungeons and Dragons, I think. >> Yeah, so here we're getting into now, we
have opened up the right to say a-ha, you are opposed to her because we totally want
her to overturn Roe v Wade and she's going to.
And you've been opposed to that for half a century, that's not why. You're opposed to
her because you're anti-Catholic. And here's the thing. As a person who was raised half
Roman Catholic, allow me to say the Roman Catholics are crazy.
>> But the other half is Lutheran, they're crazy too.
I got news for you, I'm an atheist. I love you all, you're all crazy in different ways,
and to different degrees, it's all kind of crazy to me. The anti-Catholic sync thing
is such BS. I mean Biden, the idea that the opposition is based off of that just doesn't
make any sense whatsoever.
No, it's based on what she's going to do, what she's being picked to do. The other stuff
is like flavor text on that. >> And it's weird and it's creepy, but it
could be for any number of different religious persuasions, I don't care about that. I care
about she's actually going to do.
And so- >> I mean it's also called anti-woman, if
you criticize her. Which again, is the right's favorite game of feminism only applies to
us and not to you. What is feminism anyway? I don't understand, no, feminism is working
for equal rights and reproductive rights are absolutely part of women's' equal rights.
It's funny because we just got done talking about tax returns and Trump's crimes and crookery.
And now we go to again, this very orthodox, creepy biblical, what we've called Christian
nationalism, which is absolutely the agenda of the right right now. And I just think Russia,
I'm not trying to like, red bait or get into any of that.
It's not about anti-Russia, but look at the way that Russia has these pillars of the Orthodox
Church and kleptocracy. And these kleptocrats and oligarchs. It's like beautiful, I don't
wanna be Russia, I'm sorry, no, don't want it.
>> There's a great comment on Twitch from Trashy Place, he says it's anti-woman to call
out a woman for wanting to take rights away from women.
>> Yeah, no, I would argue that I am going to oppose her wanting to consign women to
back alley abortions. In the same way and to the same degree I would if a right wing
male was doing it. But we should also add, because we're gonna talk a little bit about
more about abortion in a bit.
The fact that they are rushing to push through a justice that will help strip health insurance
from tens of millions of Americans, as we're still in the grip of a horrendous pandemic
is just. It's perfect, it's so 2020. And in a normal democracy, in normal times, they
would pay a horrendous political cost for doing that.
We'll have to see if that happens. I don't know at this point, but it seems insane to
do that. We'll have to see. But- >> Do it, let's just try it, I want them to.
>> Yeah. >> I truly do. I want them-
>> Well, they're doing it, they're rushing through.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no. >> You're saying he tried to strip away, yeah,
well, maybe soon. >> No, repeal the ACA in the middle of a pandemic.
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, let's see what happens, go ahead, do it.
>> You're gonna be back on the show someday and we're gonna talk
about that news exactly.