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Jon Stewart Calls BS on Trump & the GOP's Performative Patriotism | The Daily Show

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Jon Stewart unpacks Biden’s fired-up State of the Union and Katie Britt’s disastrous GOP kitchen rebuttal, then calls bulls**t on conservatives branding themselves the party of “true American patriots” and wrapping themselves in the Constitution, while their leader Trump's rhetoric sounds more like ...

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I'm not sure Trump would have won if John was on the Daily Show in 2016. No one is better at cutting through right wing bullshit.

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- Jon needs to run.
  
  The ones who don't want it are often the ones we need to do it.
  
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  I mean, he has a great moral compass, and he's smart. But he might be better at driving public opinion while he's on the air. And he definitely doesn't want to do it.
  
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- Jon Stewart was on the air prior to Bush II's election, and throughout his reign. This didn't prevent B II from getting re-elected, and he remained a highly popular president until his final year in office. Our lionization of entertainers is nothing short of bizarre
  
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  Bush and Trump are entirely different beasts. Bush had the Bush name to give him legitimacy initially and the Iraq war fervor to keep him going. Trump has been publicly a buffoon his entire life and the media failed to properly call him out. We needed a strong media presence to tear him down, and Stewart could have been that.
  
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Pro tip: someone who supports your country's biggest enemy is not a patriot.

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The creepiness of that Alabama senator, holy crap dude. 😂

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- Later, she was spotted holding a seance trying to contact Carolanne.
  
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Family Guy?

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