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Welcome to the resistance.
So joked The Day by day Present host Jon Stewart upon starting his post-election episode Monday evening. Urging the digital camera to zoom in in order that his entire face was dominating the body, he started: “Truly, being facetious, however OK. I promise you, for the rest of the subsequent 4 years, I’ll solely converse to you on this (somber) tone of voice, this near the digital camera. I might be relentless, or, properly, they’ll — I am right here Mondays. Actually not even that many, there’s some darkish weeks, holidays and holidays; the purpose is that this: You’ll be able to rely on me — for really about 15 hours of complete resistance.”
The comedic host then delved into unpacking Kamala Harris’ loss towards now president-elect Donald Trump.
Enjoying a clip of a information broadcast that confirmed door-to-door efforts by Harris volunteers in essential swing state Pennsylvania, he joked, “If there’s one factor folks love, greater than somebody showing randomly at their door as soon as, it is that very same f— ing individual coming again two or 3 times to speak politics. Regardless that everybody from vacuum salesmen to Jehovah’s Witnesses know that is a shedding technique; actually, they’ve recognized that for many years. Let’s simply spend 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} on it. what Democrats ought to do? No matter cash is left over, ship those self same folks again to these voters’ doorways and simply knock once more throughout dinner and when the home-owner involves the door go, ‘What the f— Scott? I believed we linked.'”
Nevertheless, Stewart did concede that Democrats fought valiantly, campaigning on large-scale points like defending democracy. Sadly, he stated, they did so for the opposite aspect. He then performed a spotlight reel by which Harris supporters and consultants mentioned the quite a few protections in place to combat towards Trump’s fomenting of falsified election outcomes ought to he lose.
“So it is all lined up: What are we forgetting folks? We acquired the legal professionals, we acquired these defending the democracy, what will we get? Oh, Jimmy, did you carry the voters? Oh, I believed you had been bringing the voters. I introduced the ‘Hate has no residence right here’ posters. No one introduced the voters? The place are the f—ing voters? It seems the election was stolen — by extra folks voting for Donald Trump. It is fairly a caper: Ocean’s 74 Million,” Stewart stated, tearing up his scratch paper to shreds.
Nonetheless, Stewart stated the entire post-election evaluation is admittedly “a delight,” since he will get to “hear about why it occurred from so many individuals who had been so unsuitable about what was going to occur.” Significantly, Stewart took situation with the evaluation that Democrats really went “too woke” or far left of their insurance policies.
“I solely have one downside with the ‘woke’ principle. I simply do not recall any Democrats operating on woke sh–,” he stated, enjoying a compilation of advert campaigns from Democratic candidates for political workplace, all of which advocated conservative stances like being robust on crime, securing the border and shying away from supporting trans rights.
“These are the Democrats!” he stated, hitting his paper towards the desk. “The Democrats! I gave the police extra money than they even wished. I gave them canes and tanks! I constructed a moat across the nation and crammed it with alligators and chlamydia.'”
He continued, “They acted like Republicans for the final 4 months, they wore camo hats and went to Cheney household reunions. Are you aware how harmful it’s to put on a looking hat round Cheneys?”
Like his colleague John Oliver, although, Stewart urged watchers to not despair, exhibiting a map of Ronald Reagan’s sweep in 1984, by which he gained all states however Minnesota.
“Everybody thought that is the top of the Democrats. However eight years later, there was a Democrat again in workplace. We do not know what’s gonna occur in 4 years, in any respect. The one factor that’s sure is that this,” he stated, replaying a clip of Texas Rep. Vincente Gonzalez’s (D) marketing campaign advert by which he states ” me, I’ve by no means pushed for intercourse adjustments.”
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