In a prolonged episode for The Each day Present, Jon Stewart waded via the sheer slog of violence over the weekend, together with Israel’s strike in opposition to Iran and the capturing of two Minnesota lawmakers.
“However let me simply say this to begin off: F—! Simply to begin off,” the host started. “This weekend — horrible! Once more. I’m so sorry.”
Addressing the wildly differing responses by ultra-right-wing pundits in opposition to U.S. involvement within the Center East and professional the “invasion” of Los Angeles within the wake of (largely gentle) anti-ICE protests, Stewart famous, “The one drawback with their posture — that I see with it — is their reluctance to commit the American navy to preventing drawn-out and sometimes pointless wars doesn’t appear to increase to America.”
He added, “The MAGA mindset seems to be: We didn’t vote for overseas wars, we voted for civil warfare.”
“They’re in search of any pretense to sic their robotic canine on Democrats, and the technique that they’re utilizing is to inflate the risk that this nation now faces, to so rile up their base as to make the left on this nation — represented by over 75 million votes prior to now presidential election — as a professional navy goal for the USA of America. It’s a method that’s been used earlier than to gin up navy battle,” Steward continued.
The present then performed clips of the likes of George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and John McCain utilizing militarized language to justify the Iraq Warfare, which a majority of Individuals now view as a mistake, and their eerie similarity to these presently advocating for the “liberation” of L.A.
“We should invade Los Angeles. We can’t have the world’s most harmful individuals, consuming the world’s most scrumptious tacos,” he stated in faux-seriousness.
In the course of the section, Stewart proceeded to “break type” by taking an intermission. He pulled out a lunchbox, unveiling the usual fare of a sandwich and bag of chips — and 6 miniature bottles of alcohol, considered one of which he swiftly chugged and spit again out. After two seconds of mini stretches, the host packed up his half-eaten lunch and received again all the way down to brass tacks.
Whereas making a degree concerning the disproportionate response by the GOP in opposition to crimes by undocumented immigrants versus homegrown gun violence, Stewart took a minute to listing out the latest mass shootings which have left their indelible mark on U.S. historical past.
“Violence ought to by no means be accepted, it ought to by no means be tolerated — however that’s for his or her difficulty,” he stated. “Within the wake of Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, and Parkland, and El Paso, and Lewiston, and Aurora, and Buffalo, and Boulder, and Binghamton, and Highland Park, and Monterey Park, and San Bernardino, and San Jose, and San Francisco, and the Pulse nightclub, and the Colorado Springs nightclub, and the Little Rock nightclub, and the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, and the Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton, and the Waffle Home in Nashville, and Virginia Tech, and UVA, and MSU, and UCSB, and FSU, and NIU, and SMC, and the Sutherland Springs Church, and the Mom Emanuel Church in Charleston, and the Dwelling Church of God, and the Tree of Life Synagogue, and the Allen Mall, and the Westroads Mall, and Fort Hood, and Lockheed Martin, and — what are we f—ing doing? What are we doing? By the best way, that may be a wildly incomplete listing. We stored it to the final 25 years, and it’s nonetheless not every thing.”
He concluded, “Why is it when a foreigner, or somebody that shouldn’t be right here, kills considered one of us, we’re gonna put $150 billion into border safety, we’re gonna militarize our cities, we’re gonna spend trillions to bomb and destabilize overseas international locations abroad, we’re gonna ban individuals from random international locations from ever f—ing visiting right here, we’re gonna take our sneakers off on the airport endlessly — however once we do it to ourselves, nothing? Is it that the one acceptable deaths are these which might be made in America? Our solely response now could be to tally-up the psycho scoreboard on whose aspect the perp belongs to?”
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