This is a great barometer for how my politics have changed in the last 9 years. Jon's really haven't.
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I got through about fifteen minutes of the first episode? I couldn’t stand the way they waste so much time by showing how ridiculous Trump is. We get it, guys, you’ve been doing this nonstop since 2015. The purpose, of course, is to nullify any criticism of Biden by saying that such criticisms also apply to Trump. But this doesn't work because a lot of people despise them both—from the left. But from the perspective of The Daily Show, anyone to the left of Jon Stewart is insane. They even mockingly referred to San Francisco as a People's Communist Republic—because everyone knows that communism goes against human nature and cannot possibly exist, except in the imaginations of insane people.
The show was also all about aesthetics. “If Biden had just done an interview instead of a tiktok, maybe he’d be doing better.” It’s not as though his policies are destroying the lives of millions of people. I DGAF about Biden's age or his aesthetics. If he actually did good things, he could be a literal pile of dog shit and it wouldn't bother me.
I absolutely loved The Daily Show during the W. years but it’s unbearable now. The YouTube comments are also amazing. We really are not living in the same reality as these people.
there are probably some based people who hated the daily show even in the W years, because they were already radicalized and could see how smugly making fun of republicans will accomplish nothing.
The old world order was capitalism vs communism and that created stability in the west and now you have woke vs not woke as the new emerging order
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: