Roe Leak Hunt feat. Jordan Green

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The right has achieved a decades-long goal by successfully overturning Roe v. Wade, but all they want to talk about is finding out who leaked the opinion breaking the news. Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill talk about the right’s leak-hunt and insistence that, somehow, the leaker is a terrorist. Meanwhile, Alex Jones gets some hefty bitcoin donations. Plus: this potential future congressman has bars! Will and Kelly discuss J.R. Majewski, the Ohio congressional candidate poised to become Congress’s third QAnon support — and its first rapper. Raw Story’s Jordan Green joins to talk about Jan. 6, and Will reviews “2,000 Mules,” pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s latest stab at proving the election was stolen.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer. Welcome to The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams. I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ONN called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming out later this year.
0:09.9	And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why people will believe anything. On this podcast, we're going to take you
0:21.0	on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions
0:25.4	of Americans view the world and how they vote. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,
0:30.4	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream
0:35.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:39.0	Okay, Kelly, obviously the big news this week is that this political report that the Supreme
0:43.8	Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Obviously, this is a fast-moving issue and there's a lot
0:48.7	going on with it. This is sort of the signature triumph of the conservative movement for the past
0:53.4	50 years or so.
0:54.6	What were your instant reactions when you saw that?
0:56.8	I mean, beyond just like abject horror, it's weird because we knew this was coming,
1:01.1	and yet it's such a disastrous ruling for half of the country's population.
1:08.2	It was really striking to me to see what the right-wing response was,
1:12.9	because this is something that they have been openly agitating for. And yet, overturning Roe v. Wade
1:18.8	is not a popular stance. So not many of them could take the victory lap that they wanted to.
1:25.1	And I think what we're seeing is actually a lot of conservatives not
1:28.6	celebrating this potential ruling, but instead whining about the leak of this document. Yeah, there's not a lot of,
1:37.5	at least if you're kind of like a culture war person, if you're a pundit, if you're a telegram crusader.
1:42.0	There's not a lot of like money to be had or attention to get from just being like, we did it, boys.
1:46.5	Like, yeah.
1:47.6	So you kind of have to look for the victimhood angle.
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