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New York Times national religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias and national politics correspondent Lisa Lerer joined The Daily Show temp hosts Desi Lydic and Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central on Wednesday to promote their new book, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America. It was a mournful time for all as they mused about “radicalized” Republicans and how “horrified” they are about the book's subject. Lydic claimed that, “we enjoyed your book very much and also were thoroughly horrified by all of it, obviously. But so many Americans felt, kind of, blindsided when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and yet you walk us through every step of the way. This was not an overnight, shocking decision. This was decades in the making.” She then invited them to “walk us through some of that.”     Dias summarized that “for 50 years, the anti-abortion movement tried so hard, right? They made it their life's work, generational commitment, to try to overturn Roe. This was a moral commitment for them, for them, the greatest moral calling of their lives. And they were not successful until about ten years ago, something changed. And we've taken to calling it, this was the last decade, the final decade of the Roe era in American life.” She also declared that pro-lifers “had new tactics, new strategies, and they really radicalized along with the Republican Party, and did what many Americans thought unimaginable, which was overturning Roe v. Wade.” Who radicalized? Democrats used to say they were for “safe, legal, and rare” abortions, but now they are for them anytime, anyplace, anywhere. The fact-checkers like to say that late-term abortions are rare and almost exclusively done for medical reasons, but surveys show that isn’t true. One study, from a pro-abortion professor, claimed “data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.” Nevertheless, Lydic asked, “Where do we go from here? I mean, are women going to have to run for president and have presidential immunity in order to legally have an abortion? Is that where we are?” Lerer was more neutral: Well, I mean, it is worth pointing out that many of the most prominent figures in the anti-abortion movement are women… There's no magic wand. You know, President Biden talks about restoring Roe. There's no way to do that without a margin in the Senate that feels almost impossible unless they overturn the filibuster and then all agree on what that looks like, which, as we know about the Senate, that's an extremely high bar to clear. So, there is no easy answer here. There's not some, like, thing that can snap back in place and Roe returns. I think the country is in for many more decades of wrangling over this issue.” Trying to end on an optimistic note, Lydic stated, “We so appreciate all of the work you are doing and you being on here tonight. We’re still hopeful that there will be, your next book, The Rerise of Roe.” While Lydic mourns the demise of Robe and suggests women run for president, simply to have an abortion, it should be pointed out that Lydic struggles to even define what it is that makes someone a woman. Here is a transcript for the July 10 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 7/10/2024 11:26 PM ET DESI LYDIC: We enjoyed your book very much and also were thoroughly horrified by all of it, obviously. But so many Americans felt, kind of, blindsided when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and yet you walk us through every step of the way. This was not an overnight, shocking decision. This was decades in the making.  Walk us through some of that. This was decades in the making. Walk us through some of that. ELIZABETH DIAS: You mean the secret plan to overturn Roe v. Wade? LYDIC: Yes. Yes. DIAS: There was one. For 50 years, the anti-abortion movement tried so hard, right? They made it their life's work, generational commitment, to try to overturn Roe. This was a moral commitment for them, for them, the greatest moral calling of their lives. And they were not successful until about ten years ago, something changed. And we've taken to calling it, this was the last decade, the final decade of the Roe era in American life. They had new tactics, new strategies, and they really radicalized along with the Republican Party, and did what many Americans thought unimaginable, which was overturning Roe v. Wade. … LYDIC: Where do we go from here? I mean, are women going to have to run for president and have presidential immunity in order to legally have an abortion? Is that where we are? LISA LERER: Well, I mean, it is worth pointing out that many of the most prominent figures in the anti-abortion movement are women. That there is a strategy to put women at the front of the movement. I think, you know, I've asked a lot of abortion rights activists, like, that very question. What happens now? It took 50 years for Roe to fall. How many years does it take for it to return and nobody knows.  There's no magic wand. You know, President Biden talks about restoring Roe. There's no way to do that without a margin in the Senate that feels almost impossible unless they overturn the filibuster and then all agree on what that looks like, which, as we know about the Senate, that's an extremely high bar to clear. So, there is no easy answer here. There's not some, like, thing that can snap back in place and Roe returns. I think the country is in for many more decades of wrangling over this issue. LYDIC: Well, we so appreciate all of the work you are doing and you being on here tonight. We’re still hopeful that there will be, your next book, The Rerise of Roe.

Filling in for moderator Whoopi Goldberg because she had COVID again, ABC co-host Joy Behar was close to flying the American flag upside down on Thursday’s edition of The View. She was distressed by the growing list of Democrats speaking out against President Joe Biden by revealing their experiences with his mental decline and calling for him to exist the race. “President Biden is fighting right now for his political future,” Behar lamented at the top of the show. She was particularly irritated with actor George Clooney for exercising his First Amendment right to speak out via his New York Times op-ed: George Clooney wrote an op-ed in The New York Times claiming that after he saw Biden's condition at the recent fundraiser he doesn't think he's up for the gig. George Clooney! Couldn't he tell them that in person, for God's sake? He has to write an op-ed piece? “And Obama’s former speech writer Jon Favreau claims he's not the only one. Watch!” she exclaimed ahead of clip of CNN; so angry she slapped her hand on the table (included in embedded video). “I don't think they understand what's at stake yet. I really don’t,” she vented after the clip. “When you see that these two people, Trump, the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy. The World Bank said last month that the U.S. economy under Biden is boosting up the entire global economy right now. Why doesn't George Clooney mention that in his op-ed piece?!”     A few minutes later, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) agreed with Behar’s outrage at Clooney, insisting that criticism of Biden should be done outside of public view. “I don't like that George Clooney did this. I don’t like that George Clooney aired this dirty laundry to the world,” she declared. “I think that these conversations are happening. I think they should be happening because our democracy is at stake, but they should be happening privately with the commander-in-chief, who we should have the utmost respect for.” Hostin argued that Biden deserved to have the criticism hidden because, “This is a man who saved the soul of our country and this is the man who has a record that he can stand on.” She then whined that the media supposedly wasn’t attacking Republicans enough. Behar’s temper flared in an argument versus the tag team of pretend independent Sara Haines and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin after they expressed resentment of the put-your-head-down-and-shut-up attitude of Democrats like Behar: HAINES: As a Democrat – Well, actually, as an independent who votes Democrat mostly I'm ashamed that they're telling us to put our head down and shut up. I think it's disgusting. FARAH GRIFFIN: Anti-democratic. BEHAR: Well, but there's this pile-on about the guy. Let's say he does run. They'll use all of these negative attacks on him in their stupid ads that they’re going to start running. FARAH GRIFFIN: It's democracy. He should be able to win and defend it. BEHAR: It harms the guy. It harms him a lot. “You know what people don’t understand? You're not just voting for a president; you’re voting for a Supreme Court. You're voting for an administration,” Behar shouted. “Biden is dragging the entire ticket down,” Farah Griffin warned. From there, the conversation descended into a cacophony of crosstalk and then a commercial break. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View July 11, 2024 11:02:42 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: President Biden is fighting right now for his political future. Democratic National Committee chair Jamie Harrelson ANA NAVARRO: Harrison. SUNNY HOSTIN: Harrison. BEHAR: I know. Harrison, of course. Is still in Biden’s corner but he’s losing more high-profile support. George Clooney wrote an op-ed in The New York Times claiming that after he saw Biden's condition at the recent fundraiser he doesn't think he's up for the gig. George Clooney! Couldn't he tell them that in person, for God's sake? He has to write an op-ed piece? And Obama’s former speech writer Jon Favreau claims he's not the only one. Watch! [Slaps the table in frustration] [Cuts to video] JON FAVREAU: Every single person I talk to at the fundraiser thought the same thing except people working for Joe Biden, or at least they didn’t say that. (…) 11:03:56 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: People don’t – I don't think they understand what's at stake yet. I really don’t. When you see that these two people, Trump, the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy. The World Bank said last month that the U.S. economy under Biden is boosting up the entire global economy right now. Why doesn't George Clooney mention that in his op-ed piece?! I'm mad at George Clooney right now even though we dated. I wish. (…) 11:08:30 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: I don't like that George Clooney did this. I don’t like that George Clooney aired this dirty laundry to the world. I think that these conversations are happening. I think they should be happening because our democracy is at stake, but they should be happening privately with the commander-in-chief, who we should have the utmost respect for. [Applause] BEHAR: And that goes to all of them. That goes for all of them. HOSTIN: Right. This is a man who saved the soul of our country and this is the man who has a record that he can stand on. I will also say this; what the media is not talking about is the Republican platform. (…) 11:32:48 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: As a Democrat – Well, actually, as an independent who votes Democrat mostly I'm ashamed that they're telling us to put our head down and shut up. I think it's disgusting. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Anti-democratic. BEHAR: Well, but there's this pile-on about the guy. Let's say he does run. They'll use all of these negative attacks on him in their stupid ads that they’re going to start running. FARAH GRIFFIN: It's democracy. He should be able to win and defend it. BEHAR: It harms the guy. It harms him a lot. FARAH GRIFFIN: But it's not our job to protect him. BEHAR: You know what people don’t understand? You're not just voting for a president; you’re voting for a Supreme Court. You're voting for an administration. FARAH GRIFFIN: Biden is dragging the entire ticket down. [Crosstalk] (…)

Border Patrol holding centers in the San Diego area remain over capacity despite the Biden administration’s claim that it is clamping down on the influx of illegal crossings at the southern border, the New York Post reported.The news outlet revealed that holding facilities in the region are at 150% capacity as of Tuesday morning. Based on internal agency data leaked to the Post, the centers are equipped to detain only 1,000 individuals but are currently supporting 1,500 illegal immigrants.Meanwhile, the administration announced that it plans to shut down ICE’s largest detention center in Dilley, Texas, which can hold 2,400 criminal illegal aliens. According to the administration, Biden’s June 4 executive order was designed to crack down on illegal crossings; however, the action includes many exemptions. One of the biggest loopholes is that the White House announced separate directives for the San Diego sector. Just days after the executive order was slated to take effect, Border Patrol agents in Southern California were told to release illegal aliens from most Eastern Hemisphere countries into the interior of the U.S., a memo obtained by the Washington Examiner revealed. Foreign nationals from more than 100 countries, except for Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan, are to be issued a notice to appear and released on their own recognizance. Individuals from the more than 100 Eastern Hemisphere countries are more difficult to deport because their governments do not typically cooperate with U.S. deportation flights.Manny Bayon, National Border Patrol Council president for the San Diego sector, told the Post that San Diego’s holding centers are still over capacity because illegal aliens who cross unlawfully into the region have a better chance of being allowed to stay in the country.One Border Patrol agent told the news outlet that agents are seeing illegal aliens from “all over the world.”“China, India — there’s a lot of Indians, there’s just like a s***-ton — and Central Americans,” the agent stated.Since Biden’s executive order took effect, the administration has allowed more than 30,000 illegal immigrants to enter the U.S., according to a report from the Post.“Thousands are still released by the day,” a source told the news outlet. “They get their [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] appointment and they’re gone in the wind. You think they’re going to show up when they know they don’t have a legitimate claim? Of course not.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A federal judge’s renewed order to monitor Jan. 6 probationer Daniel Goodwyn’s computers for alleged “disinformation” — already struck down once in 2024 — is headed back to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Senior Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on July 10 denied an emergency stay of his order to monitor Goodwyn’s computer, claiming his new mandate addresses the objections originally made by the Court of Appeals. Defense attorney Carolyn Stewart filed an appeal a short time later with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, saying Judge Walton’s ruling does not follow the law and violates Goodwyn’s constitutionally protected right to free speech. “The judge's reasons don’t meet the standard required of computer use in or directly related to the crime, and particularly the Appeals Court's order for ‘least restrictive means’ and constitutional protections,” Stewart told Blaze News. Walton’s new monitoring order is the latest salvo in a war first triggered by Goodwyn’s March 2023 appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News. The judge accused Goodwyn of going on national television and spreading false information about Jan. 6 and minimizing his conduct that day. Goodwyn, 35, of San Francisco, drew Walton’s ire at his sentencing hearing several months later when he tried to correct the judge’s own misstatements about Jan. 6. “… To suggest that the only people who died that day were Trump supporters, that is just not true,” Walton said, according to the official court transcript. Goodwyn tried to interject but was quickly slapped down. “You are digging a hole for yourself,” Walton told him. “Keep on digging.” In fact, the only people who died at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were Trump supporters. Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego, was shot and killed by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd as she climbed through a broken window at the entrance to the House Speaker’s Lobby. Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, was beaten in the head and ribs with a hardened walking stick wielded by Metropolitan Police Department Officer Lila Morris, minutes after she collapsed at the mouth of the Lower West Terrace Tunnel. Her cause of death is hotly disputed between the medical examiner — who said acute amphetamine intoxication — and the Boyland family’s forensic pathologist — who said the death was from manual asphyxia. Benjamin Philips, 50, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, died after collapsing from a stroke just after 1 p.m. Kevin Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama, died from a heart attack, although some claim he was struck by a police munition before collapsing. Goodwyn was charged in a superseding indictment on Nov. 10, 2021, with felony obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. Security video shows Goodwyn entered the building through the Senate Wing Door at 3:32 p.m. and spent 36 seconds inside the Capitol. On Jan. 31, 2023, Goodwyn accepted a plea bargain for one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of one year in prison. Judge Walton sentenced Goodwyn to 60 days behind bars followed by a year of supervised release. In his formal judgment issued June 15, 2023, Walton made monitoring of Goodwyn’s computer a special condition of his release from custody. Attorney Stewart filed an appeal of the computer monitoring provision on June 30. On Feb. 1, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed Walton’s order, vacating the computer monitoring provision. In the court’s per curiam ruling, Judges Gregory Katsas, Naomi Rao, and Bradley Garcia said Walton “plainly erred” by not considering whether the monitoring “was ‘reasonably related’ to the relevant sentencing factors and involved ‘no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary’ to achieve the purposes behind sentencing.” The Court of Appeals sent the case back to Walton for “further proceedings.” It warned that if he sought again to impose computer monitoring on Goodwyn, he would need to explain his reasoning, develop the record in support of the decision, and ensure it is in accordance with sentencing guidelines and constitutional protections. Stewart argued that computer use would have had to be a part of the trespassing crime of which Goodwyn was convicted. He “did not use a computer to do anything illegal before, on, or after January 6,” she said. Stewart said the ongoing battle is really about suppressing constitutionally protected speech. Goodwyn was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 on behalf of the news website StopHate.com. He has contributed to several Jan. 6 documentaries that Walton and the U.S. Department of Justice have classified as “extremist media.” In a May filing with the court, Stewart included an attachment with examples of police use of force on Jan. 6 to counter Walton’s stated belief that no police used excessive force on protesters that day. “I have seen no evidence that would indicate to me — and I have seen hours and hours of the videos of what took place that day — I have seen nothing that would indicate that the police did anything that would indicate they were acting excessively,” Walton said at Goodwyn’s 2023 sentencing. In her filing, Stewart cited the vicious beating of Victoria C. White, 42, of Rochester, Minnesota, who was struck in the head and face more than 40 times with a steel riot stick and fists by MPD inspector Jason Bagshaw and other police officers. She is suing MPD for $2 million for what the lawsuit describes as illegal deadly force. Stewart also detailed the case of Derrick J. Vargo, 34, of Greenbrier, Tennessee, who was pushed from a high ledge on the Northwest Steps by a U.S. Capitol Police officer when he tried to unfurl a Trump flag just after 2 p.m. that day. Vargo fell some 20 feet, shattering his ankle and leaving him unable to do favorite activities such as skydiving. He is suing the U.S. Capitol Police. She featured protester Joshua M. Black, 48, of Leeds, Alabama, who was shot in the face with a Capitol Police projectile at 1:06 p.m. after the deputy police chief bellowed into the radio for grenadiers to “launch, launch, launch!” Black bled profusely onto the concrete. Anger over the shooting resonated through the West Plaza crowd the rest of the afternoon. “The Court wanted to add itself as a content and viewpoint censor for Mr. Goodwyn without legal cause, while only hearing the misinformation and partial truths that the DOJ and legacy media disseminate,” Stewart wrote in a May court filing. Stewart has referred to Judge Walton as the “Ministry of Truth.” Walton’s new monitoring order largely repeats his previous statements accusing Goodwyn of using social media to push “false narratives” and continuing to “deny responsibility for his actions.” The order is imposed “to ensure that he does not traffic in any content that inspired the conduct that he and others engaged in on January 6, 2021,” the judge wrote. Walton also asserted that Goodwyn “has been treated for mental health issues in the past that appear to have contributed to his decision to engage in criminal conduct.” Stewart said that statement is false. Goodwyn has high-functioning autism, which is not a mental illness, she said. “Our sentencing memo addressed his autism and relying on social cues and signals, such as police allowing building entry,” Stewart told Blaze News. “The memo made clear it is not a mental illness.”

It’s no secret to those paying attention that the economy is not doing well. While it’s clear that recent changes to policy under the current administration have had a negative effect, Dave Rubin wonders whether there’s a little more to the story. “Do you sense that partly, it was all set up to build a giant system that kind of didn’t work and kept people confused about things?” Rubin asks Robert Breedlove, who hosts the “What Is Money?” podcast. “This is one of those things, I guess, guys like us in this corner of the internet probably get — well, they call us conspiracy theorists, right?” Breedlove says, adding, “the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact is, like, three months.” While he agrees that there’s something terribly wrong with the economy, he tells Rubin that he gets “a little skeptical” when he hears that particular version of this conspiracy theory. “You know, you get this sort of James Bond villain-esque bunch of guys in a room plotting world domination,” Breedlove says. “I try to look at it a little more practically. I think it’s just incentives.” In a recent conversation he had with Ed Dowd, Breedlove recalls Dowd’s use of the “meta fraud.” “He’s saying even the plandemic, like, although there are top-down elements of it, there’s also just broken incentives that sort of create pathological outcomes in a way,” he explains. “So, although I think you could read a book like ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ about the inception of the Federal Reserve, which is the Central Bank of the United States, there was clearly a small group of people that were very interested in getting a central bank implemented into the United States.”“However,” he continues, “I don’t think even they could foresee all of the problems that it would create over the subsequent 100-plus years.” Want more from Dave Rubin? To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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