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CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Monday’s taping of The Late Show in an attempt to help him reverse his collapse in the polls by labeling his Conservative Party opponent, Pierre Poilievre, “Canada’s Trump,” which naturally means he is, in Colbert’s eyes, a fascist, nativist-xenophobe. Trudeau was in town for the United Nations General Assembly, and Colbert observed, “Here is one thing, you know, it's something that I am sure comes, you know, quite clearly at the U.N. General Assembly is that the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader, your opponent there, has been called Canada's Trump, and I’m sorry about that and, but I am curious why at least some form of nativism or far-right xenophobia might grow in a country even as polite as Canada. Why do you think this is getting a foothold even in your country?     Since almost all of Colbert’s audience knows nothing about Poilievre, including his name because Colbert wouldn’t mention it, it should be noted that this alleged leader of “nativism” and “far-right xenophobia” has a Venezuelan-born wife and two mixed-race children. He insists Trudeau broke the “multigenerational consensus” in the country and would tie immigration levels to new home construction and move to a more merit-based system. As for Trudeau, he took the opportunity to give a stump speech: That phrase “even in Canada,” I mean, we’re not some magical place of unicorns and rainbows all the time. We got more than our fair share, but the things that we have managed to do, we've had to work really hard at. I mean, universal health care was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen. We moved forward on world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution.  We’re moving forward with dental care for low income Canadians, we’re moving forward with $10 a day child care, these are things we have to fight for and that are really hard to do, but you can bring people together around thoughtful ideas and you can also lose those things too. I mean, there's a big argument right now about whether or dental care even exists. We delivered it to 700,000 people across the country and my opponent is gaslighting us and saying ‘oh, dental care doesn’t even exist yet.’ Whatever one thinks of Canada’s dental care debate, Trudeau, or Poilievre, a smaller role for government is hardly “fascism.” Here is a transcript for the September-24 taped show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 9/24/2024 12:08 AM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: Here is one thing, you know, it's something that I am sure comes, you know, quite clearly at the U.N. General Assembly is that the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader, your opponent there, has been called Canada's Trump, and I’m sorry about that and, but I am curious why at least some form of nativism or far-right xenophobia might grow in a country even as polite as Canada. Why do you think this is getting a foothold even in your country? JUSTIN TRUDEAU: That phrase “even in Canada,” I mean, we’re not some magical place of unicorns and rainbows all the time. We got more than our fair share, but the things that we have managed to do, we've had to work really hard at. I mean, universal health care was, you know, decades of trying to bring people together and make it happen. We moved forward on world-leading fight against climate change with a price on pollution. We’re moving forward with dental care for low income Canadians, we’re moving forward with $10 a day child care, these are things we have to fight for and that are really hard to do, but you can bring people together around thoughtful ideas and you can also lose those things too. I mean, there's a big argument right now about whether or dental care even exists. We delivered it to 700,000 people across the country and my opponent is gaslighting us and saying “oh, dental care doesn’t even exist yet.”

In Sunday’s New York Times, reporter Katie Glueck, who covers the Democratic Party for the paper, cynically hyped up a hypocritical new way for Democrats to smear Republicans: “Trump’s Opponents See New Ways to Cast the G.O.P. as ‘Team Misogyny.’” It’s hard to imagine a more slanted Team Kamala lead sentence than the one Glueck came up with. In a race between a Democrat who could be America’s first female president and a Republican who has been found liable for sexual abuse, the issue of gender was always going to be inescapable. But this week, the subject surged to the forefront of the fall contest in new and vivid ways, as Democrats found fresh fuel for their argument that today’s Republican Party is disrespectful of women and their autonomy -- sometimes with dangerous consequences. On Monday and Wednesday, the deaths of two mothers in Georgia were linked to the state’s far-reaching abortion ban in new reports from ProPublica. ProPublica’s abortion death story has been discredited, but the Times used the phony story as an example, with no evidence, of the “dangerous consequences” of Republican policies. On Thursday, the deeply conservative Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina scrambled to deny that he had made graphic and incendiary remarks on a pornographic forum, including about women. Honestly? North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s remarks about women are probably the least inflammatory detail in that sordid case. But the boomlet of anti-Robinson stories bring hope and vibes to Kamala's campaign. And on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris took to a stage in Atlanta to argue with new urgency that the Republican Party was infringing on some of the most personal decisions a woman can make. “It’s clear that they just don’t trust women,” said Ms. Harris, speaking a day after joining a livestreamed event with Oprah Winfrey that attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. “Well, we trust women.” But not enough to trust them to make their own decisions on vaccines? For years, Democrats have tried to paint their Republican opponents as anti-woman, with mixed results. In 2012, they effectively highlighted Republican comments, like the use of the term “legitimate rape” by Todd Akin, a Senate candidate in Missouri, to press their claims of a G.O.P. “war on women.” Four years later, however, Mr. Trump defeated another would-be first female president, Hillary Clinton, despite being caught on a recording bragging about sexually assaulting women. And in plenty of races before and after, many Americans simply did not buy the Democratic argument that Republicans would take away abortion rights if given the chance. Amazingly, Glueck failed to mention Hillary’s husband -- former Democratic President Bill Clinton, who spoke at the 2024 Democratic convention -- who settled Paula Jones’ sexual harassment charge, and was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick, Then came the Liz Cheney types: “This is ‘War on Women’ on steroids,” said former Representative Barbara Comstock, a Virginia Republican who is voting this year for Ms. Harris, the first Democratic presidential candidate to ever earn her vote, she said. Compared with Mr. Akin’s remarks, Ms. Comstock said, this moment is “exponentially politically toxic because there’s nothing worse than being a hypocrite, particularly on these things that are so toxic with women.” “It is Team Misogyny with Trump,” she added. The Times clearly liked Comstock's line, recycling it for the headline.. Glueck reveled that the Democrats’ anti-Republican “misogynist” message would be even stronger than in 2012. “Back then, that’s what the Democrats had: They had outrageous statements” from their opponents to discuss, said Christine Matthews, a pollster who has worked with Republicans but opposes Mr. Trump, citing the 2012 races. “Now,” she said, “they can point to policies.”

Parodies are everywhere this election season, and many of them are quite funny — especially when it comes to Kamala Harris. One video circulating on social media shows the vice president seemingly exposing herself as an incompetent candidate for president. Elon Musk, who’s a fan of a good joke, decided to retweet this video on his own X account, which apparently made Gavin Newsom mad. “I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California. You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communication that contains materially deceptive content — including deepfakes,” the California governor wrote in a post on X. The post was a quote tweet of an earlier post Newsom had written complaining about the fake ad. In the original post he wrote, “Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal. I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.” “If they think that a law is somehow going to stop what is coming via AI and editing and everything else, they’re just completely crazy,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” says to his guests, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Karol Markowicz. “Satire is covered by the First Amendment. That’s been established,” Markowicz comments. “I’m glad he solved all the other problems in California, obviously, and it’s finally got to this,” she adds, laughing. All jokes aside, Markowicz isn’t pleased that Newsom’s set his sights on this issue. “It is scary that he’s attempting it. It’s attempting to shut down speech with which he disagrees. And that speech you know, again, covered by the First Amendment, is satire,” she says. However, Newsom’s fight against AI ads isn’t really working in his favor, as the Babylon Bee made an AI ad of the California governor explaining how incompetent he is. “My policies were so effective, that almost one million people are now fleeing the state every year,” Newsom’s AI voice says. The voice also relayed that “bigots shouldn’t be allowed to have kids” and that Kamala will “do to the country everything I did in California.” The video finishes with the sign off, “Thank you, and science bless America.” “Putting aside the fact that it’s actually just like the Kamala video, there’s more truth in that than a real Gavin Newsom ad,” Rubin comments. 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.