Welcome to the resistance.
So joked The Daily Show host Jon Stewart upon starting his post-election episode Monday night time. Urging the digital camera to zoom in in order that his complete face was dominating the body, he started: “Truly, being facetious, however OK. I promise you, for the rest of the following 4 years, I’ll solely communicate to you on this [somber] tone of voice, this near the digital camera. I might 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 rely on me — for actually about 15 hours of resistance complete.”
The comedic host then delved into unpacking Kamala Harris‘ loss towards now president-elect Donald Trump.
Taking part in 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 particular person coming again two or thrice to speak politics. Despite the fact that everybody from vacuum salesmen to Jehovah’s Witnesses know that’s a shedding technique; in truth, they’ve recognized that for many years. Let’s simply spend 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} on it. You already know 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 home-owner involves the door go, ‘What the f— Scott? I assumed we linked.’”
Nonetheless, 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 during which Harris supporters and consultants mentioned the quite a few protections in place to battle towards Trump’s fomenting of falsified election outcomes ought to he lose.
“So it’s all lined up: What are we forgetting individuals? We obtained the legal professionals, we obtained the protective the democracy, what can we obtained? 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 person 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 stated, tearing up his scratch paper to shreds.
Nonetheless, Stewart stated 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.” Notably, 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’ concept. I simply don’t recall any Democrats operating on woke sh–,” he stated, taking part in 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 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. Have you learnt how harmful it’s to wear a hunting hat around Cheneys?”
Like his colleague John Oliver, although, Stewart urged watchers to not despair, displaying a map of Ronald Reagan’s sweep in 1984, during which he gained all states however Minnesota.
“Everybody thought that’s the top 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 stated, replaying a clip of Texas Rep. Vincente Gonzalez’s (D) marketing campaign advert during which he states “You already know me, I’ve by no means pushed for intercourse modifications.”
Watch the Stewart phase beneath:
