Remembering RBG - A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:05.0 | It's been 41 days since Justice Ginsburg died. |
| 0:09.0 | And in that time Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed |
| 0:11.2 | of the Supreme Court and I've thrown in crack 24 cell phone screens. |
| 0:16.2 | Not all of that mine. |
| 0:19.8 | But you know what we have decades to worry about that human |
| 0:22.3 | chassis you built right now. |
| 0:24.5 | I want to talk about RBG. |
| 0:26.8 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death has hit a lot of people hard. |
| 0:29.6 | Especially women. |
| 0:32.0 | And I think it's because I think it's because |
| 0:35.6 | Mommy. |
| 0:36.6 | But it can Mommy please just have two minutes to cry in a closet. |
| 0:40.2 | Again. |
| 0:42.7 | I think it's because as American women, |
| 0:44.8 | Ruth is a big reason why we've made it this far. |
| 0:48.4 | Long before she got to spend 27 years in the middle of this |
| 0:51.4 | comeover sandwich, RBG was already changing the world for women. |
| 0:55.6 | In 1972, she co-founded the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. |
| 0:59.9 | There alongside pioneers like Dorothy Kenyon and Pauli Murray, |
| 1:03.5 | she spent years carefully laying the groundwork to force US law |
| 1:07.0 | to acknowledge something radical. |
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