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- politicalvideos
Jon Stewart dives into Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE, and how the Elon Musk-led project masks its allegiance to corporate overlords and negligence to the American people under the guise of slashing the government’s budget.
Just because he doesn’t speak for me, doesn’t mean I don’t respect him. He’s a voice that is desperately needed in the mainstream for sure. But when he pals around with Bill Oreilly on his show it pisses me right off.
Yeah, he sure is a big piece of shit. Back when white cops were killing black people on the street, and basically always getting away with it, he was relentless about covering it, in detail, and making pointed arguments to a massive audience of average Americans about how it was (a) systemic, not a series of individual one-off incidents (b) a massive fucking problem. Basically 0 of the other news at the time wanted to cover it in any way even resembling that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_98ojjIZDI
It’s kind of wild going back and watching some of the old footage, and watching “no indictment” “not guilty” “internal investigation” and so on, and I remember at the time watching Stewart getting increasingly pointed and increasing furious about it. And, on TV, he was the only one. For years he was the only one. He basically created the conversation in the mainsteam about how it was a problem. Everyone who knew what was what (especially in the non-white community) knew it was a problem, of course, but he brought it to people who simply would never have heard of it otherwise. He brought it from a fringe idea to a mainstream American consensus. He did that for a bunch of things.
But yeah, he’s a big piece of shit because he had O’Reilly on and debated him. He did Tucker Carlson too, and was so effective in taking him down that they cancelled Carlson’s show.
I asked before: Who passes your purity test?
Dude, you’re too invested in this. I don’t like Jon Stewart.
Ha, you caught me before I felt bad and edited out the “Go fuck yourself.”
Yes, I care about people who tell the truth on TV. It’s fine if you don’t like Jon Stewart or anybody else, obviously. You chose to come into the comments and say weird bullshit about him, and it irritated me. Absolutely.
Here’s another good one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwy7pWvO3p0
That’s fair. It’s just my opinion from the few times I’ve tried to give him a chance. It’s cool that you’re big fan, he just doesn’t speak for me, that’s all.