Welcome to the resistance.
So joked The Each 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: “Really, 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 will probably be relentless, or, effectively, they are going to — I’m right here Mondays. Actually not even that many, there’s some darkish weeks, holidays and trip; the purpose is that this: You may depend on me — for actually about 15 hours of resistance complete.”
The comedic host then delved into unpacking Kamala Harris‘ loss in opposition to 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 individuals love, greater than somebody showing randomly at their door as soon as, it’s that very same f—ing individual coming again two or 3 times to speak politics. Though everybody from vacuum salesmen to Jehovah’s Witnesses know that’s a dropping technique; actually, they’ve recognized that for many years. Let’s simply spend 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} on it. You recognize what Democrats ought to do? No matter cash is left over, ship those self same individuals again to these voters’ doorways and simply knock once more throughout dinner and when the house owner involves the door go, ‘What the f— Scott? I assumed we linked.’”
Nevertheless, Stewart did concede that Democrats fought valiantly, campaigning on large-scale points like defending democracy. Sadly, he mentioned, they did so for the opposite aspect. He then performed a spotlight reel wherein Harris supporters and consultants mentioned the quite a few protections in place to battle in opposition to Trump’s fomenting of falsified election outcomes ought to he lose.
“So it’s all lined up: What are we forgetting individuals? We bought the attorneys, we bought the protective the democracy, what will we bought? Oh, Jimmy, did you carry the voters? Oh, I assumed you had been bringing the voters. I introduced the ‘Hate has no house right here’ posters. No one introduced the voters? The place are the f—ing voters? It seems the election was stolen — by extra individuals voting for Donald Trump. It’s fairly a caper: Ocean’s 74 Million,” Stewart mentioned, tearing up his scratch paper to shreds.
Nonetheless, Stewart mentioned all the post-election evaluation is basically “a delight,” since he will get to “hear about why it occurred from so many individuals who had been so mistaken about what was going to occur.” Significantly, Stewart took difficulty with the evaluation that Democrats truly went “too woke” or far left of their insurance policies.
“I solely have one drawback with the ‘woke’ principle. I simply don’t recall any Democrats working on woke sh–,” he mentioned, enjoying a compilation of advert campaigns from Democratic candidates for political workplace, all of which advocated conservative stances like being powerful on crime, securing the border and shying away from supporting trans rights.
“These are the Democrats!” he mentioned, hitting his paper in opposition to the desk. “The Democrats! ‘I gave the police extra money than they even needed. I gave them canes and tanks! I constructed a moat across the nation and stuffed 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 searching hat round Cheneys?”
Like his colleague John Oliver, although, Stewart urged watchers to not despair, displaying a map of Ronald Reagan’s sweep in 1984, wherein he received all states however Minnesota.
“Everybody thought that’s the tip of the Democrats. However eight years later, there was a Democrat again in workplace. We don’t know what’s gonna occur in 4 years, in any respect. The one factor that’s sure is that this,” he mentioned, replaying a clip of Texas Rep. Vincente Gonzalez’s (D) marketing campaign advert wherein he states “You recognize me, I’ve by no means pushed for intercourse modifications.”
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