Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-delivers-fiery-address-to-president-trump-we-will-prevail
EDIT: Video's up on Youtube.
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Jon Stewart: We Will Prevail
- Thread starter Caz
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EDIT: Video's up on Youtube.
I love Stewart and all... it's just sad that people need to turn to talk show hosts for passion and leadership while Democratic leaders urge civility towards tyrants and besmirch Maxine Waters.
Pretty much,
Talk show hosts have more backbone than these supposed "leaders"
Everything is pretty fucked honestly.
Stewart and colbert. I miss the days of back to back daily show and colbert report. Those were the good days.
Here's the Youtube video of Jon's latest segment on Colbert.
He is pretty much on point with what he says. As tiring as it has been and will always be during Trump's presidency, people can't just give in and say what he's doing is normal and just.
He is pretty much on point with what he says. As tiring as it has been and will always be during Trump's presidency, people can't just give in and say what he's doing is normal and just.
Something that upsets me is how the left needs to "fall in love" with someone. Someone very specific. Regarding Waters, I had someone explain to me today that the problem was that someone more well known did not deliver her message regarding political confrontation. I mean... she's a 79 year old black woman. She's the genuine article and understands bigotry. It's the white leadership's problem if they don't get her point. Why do you need a white leader or talk show host to explain this to you, especially in these times? I feel like I know the answer and it's disappointing.
Edit: I do love and miss Jon, of course.
God, I've missed Angry Jon Stewart so fucking much.
And props to him for calling out the pathetic leaders of the Democratic Party at the end. Jon knows what's up.
And props to him for calling out the pathetic leaders of the Democratic Party at the end. Jon knows what's up.
Just finished watching the video, wow. Totally on point. Now I really miss his regular tv appearances.
He's a Jew, like me. Like me, some people hate him for merely being a Semite. No amount of poverty or riches will ever allow us Jews not to be hated for being semites. Saying "easy for a rich white man" is a form of erasure of my people, and implies that you can be rich enough to escape being hated on race, when that is not the case. To the bigoted pieces of crap out there we're just 2 more Jews to blame for the world's problems.
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You can't escape the hate, but you can escape the consequences of most of the damage being inflicted on America today.
Obviously I wasn't implying my statement as an erasure of the plight of the Jewish people. That's a stretch to even think that.
You called him a "rich white man". That ignores his own Jewish plight, plight which he has talked about to some degree before.
I'm not going to argue with someone going out of their way to find a reason to be offended.
He's a rich, straight white man, plain and simple. He has it easier than 99% of Americans that are actually suffering under Trump.
Ok but did you actually watch the video? Because this isn't a "stay strong everything will be ok" speech, it's "don't let them go out and pretend like these assholes are saints" and how the majority of Democrats are being "feckless".
I mean.. he's kinda trying to keep the energy up. Hard to blame him for that.
Oh I guess we should pack up the thread. Case dismissed in the court of holier than thou bullshit.
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I didn't watch it, Jon Stewart's brand of cynicism from his time on the Daily Show is part of what caused the mess we're in right now.
https://www.npr.org/documents/2006/jul/dailyshow.pdf
And this is why the bastards are going to win. We're too damn busy fighting among ourselves to believe in anything.
"The Daily Show turned people into Nazis" might be the dumbest thing i've heard in the "why Trump won" discourse.
Is that what I implied? No, I'm saying cynicism is what makes people stay home on Election Day.
My point is backed up by the article I linked, which you may want to check out because you obviously need to work on your reading comprehension.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...verybody_who_voted_for_trump_is_a_racist.html
Mr Stewart can sit back down.
Mr Stewart can sit back down.
Glad you know my beliefs. Mind telling me what you think they are?
Hey mods can we get some ground rules set so this thread doesn't become a total derail shitshow? I really need a feel good thread right and I was hoping this would be it...
Hillary got more votes than anyone in history other than Obama in 2012. Trump got more votes than any Republican ever. People did not stay home on election day, and those who did certainly didn't do so because of cynicism. Trump won the election by a hilariously thin sliver of votes in three or four key states that would barely fill a baseball stadium combined. Stewart, in the video you refuse to watch, calls this playing of the electoral college out specifically.
You need to work on perceiving reality correctly, because if you're blaming Trump on the fucking Daily Show you are off in la la land.
Clearly it's the fault of the Daily Show's (cynical) brand of comedy and not, say, voter suppression that makes it more difficult for people to vote in the first place.
P.S. Voter turnout was higher in 2016 than in 2012.
Caz and ramiosisdeae, thanks for the thread and the video. Stewart's words genuinely moved me, especially the end with the Lincoln thing. I don't feel comfortable in this thread anymore, but I wanted to thank you guys for posting about it. I hope more people get to see it, there is some true wisdom there.
I don't think I've ever seen someone literally have logic so bad that it got them banned before. Kudos.
Amen dude.
Amen dude.
It is an interesting notion about how one side of the media is trying to make the extremes of Trump as a normal or (even worse) needed type of discourse. While I imagine the 2020 election will be even more out of hand and extreme, it really makes you wonder what 2024 will look like.
This stuff is just so tired at this point. It's empty of any sort of actual content. Just standard center left stuff. This is the guy who made fun of striking union members in Wisconson and made shitty trans jokes to try and frame a legit platform as crazy. Forgive me if I find this less than appealing.
You probably should have read your own fucking link, because NPR's conclusion is that the Daily Show would impact voters. Hillary won the popular vote, so NPR's theory went to the bin.
Wow, Jon's parting shot to the democratic party is on point. We need more Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez and Welder and less centrist dipshits like Pelosi and Schumer. The opposition can't be Republican-light, they need to be true leftists.
