Goddamn did I not expect that. So many moments I was literally laughing. Like, actually. Not a huff of air from my nose. Or a recognition of “oh yeah, that was a joke. Good job, funny man.” Like, actually had to stop cooking and set down the knife and laugh.
Couple of thoughts, in no particular order:
The difference between him and every other modern talk show host whose clips I sometimes watch is so fucking stark lol.
I was too young to catch his show back then. I’ve since gone and watched some clips but they obviously don’t hit the same.
And the lib shit you mentioned becomes even starker when you watch some other videos from this episode. On YouTube they put up an interview with a lady from the Economist and allows her to spew her economic ideology.
She’s talks positively about how different European liberalism is than American “lefty” liberalism. It starts with her saying it’s about small governments and individualism and bs and compares it, favourably, to Thatcher, Reagan, and Clinton - all while Stewart sits there agreeing.
Then she talks of the real threat being this liberalism being taken over in the mainstream by “big government” and social conservative type of people like Trump, Orban etc.
And how this segment of conservatives support Putin becuase he’s also anti-woke and that is why we must support Ukraine and NATO.
All while I’m sitting here thinking how is this different from any CNN anchor bringing on a “moderate” conservative who’s anti-Trump? It’s the same policies!
Oh yeah, during the woke segment, Jon says the old war between Capitalism and Communism is replaced by Woke and Anti-Woke.
Give me a break.
These ghouls are all the same. Doesn’t matter if they call lthemselves liberals or “European liberals” or social conservatives or whatever the fuck. They are all capitalists.
It’s fun to laugh sometimes, tho. He’s only going to be hosting once a week. The rest of the time it’s some other white dude.
I didn't watch the interviews, I only had the stomach for the cold open.
What you said about being too young to experience the show when Stewart was originally on shook some more thoughts and feelings loose in me. I really think that, fundamentally Stewart hasn't changed.
It is absolutely the point of bringing him back onto the show, and he killed it. It was the Daily Show of 2005. It's back.
It's me that has changed.
He interviewed the editor of the fucking economist 🤮
I'm out of touch with what libs think. Is China anti-woke? Isn't that literally the same as what some shitbag like Maher opines about?
He's only going to be hosting on Monday's, I assume they're still doing guest hosts the rest of the time but I haven't watched it in like a decade.
What's the alternative to putting in the work before or after the election? Your alternative is to just give up to nihilistic hopelessness?
My policy preferences are not reflected in the current two party system, nor are they wanted by the current system, and I benefit far beyond what should be allowed by the current system due to my outward physical characteristics.
I tried very hard to help build dual power but it didn't really work out
So honestly I don't know what your point is, because electoralism doesn't work.
Lol I assume this is SRA related I recognize all of that.
Keep trying friend.
Yup. SRA.
I don't think Stewart's point implies electorialism. I think his point is inclusive of it but it seems he pretty clearly is calling for direct action in people's lives over relying on politicians.
I'd like a candidate born sometime after the Jackson administration
Agreed? And? I don't think Stewart is advocating for electoralism here.
Do you feel like politicians in the U.S. really give a shit what people think? There seems to be a growing consensus that aiding and abetting genocide is bad but the only thing Butcher Biden's admin is concerned with is that it looks bad and they need to rethink their PR strategy, not you know, stopping the aiding and abetting of a genocide because they're little Zionist freaks.
Stewart isn't advocating for electorialism here. Of anything he's arguing for direct action.
Execute the entire political class of the US empire and make the corporations tremble?
That sounds like putting in work...
Democracy is not a cycle of biannual elections separated by periods of hibernation
Agreed, that seems to be Jon Stewart's entire point...
I think you would be hard-pressed to get a positive course of action out of his ideology beyond merely saying things. If it's not obvious, that is not a good way to handle the problem that is neoliberal bourgeois "democracy", which is content to let you say whatever you want because it will still have the last word and a monopoly on violence.