“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart mentioned the unrest in Los Angeles is a “predictable consequence” of heavy-handed federal techniques within the metropolis ― and that led him to at least one key query about President Donald Trump.
“What’s it meant to distract from?” he questioned, then added sarcastically: “I imply, I can’t even keep in mind, what had been we even speaking about proper earlier than the primary Waymo went up in flames?”
He rapidly answered his personal query: accusations by Trump’s former ally, Elon Musk, that the president is named in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the administration had promised to launch, then didn’t.
Stewart pointed to a curious interview final 12 months during which Trump rapidly answered “sure” when requested if he would declassify information associated to 9/11 and JFK.
However when requested about Epstein ― the late intercourse offender who was as soon as friendly with Trump ― he paused, then hemmed.
Stewart mentioned Musk is threatening to reveal Trump, and Trump is threatening to go after Musk’s authorities contracts.
“It have to be exhausting for the suitable to see how petty and petulant these two man-babies are, and the way they wield their energy in vindictive and capricious manners after they don’t get precisely their method, and the harm that that habits causes,” Stewart mentioned. “And I suppose, what I might say to the suitable is: Welcome to our fucking world. Each day. Now you understand!”
He pointed to Trump’s threats in opposition to Harvard College, regulation corporations, Canada, and media corporations, all for opposing him or standing in his method.
“You on the suitable didn’t give a shit when Godzilla and Mothra teamed as much as destroy the town,” Stewart mentioned. “You’re solely mad that now they’re preventing one another, ’cuz you simply received a style of their paper-thin, oversensitive, fragile, ego-driven nihilism.”
Stewart famous that many on the suitable see the battle as one between two “giants” or “alpha males.”
In actuality, he mentioned, it’s nothing greater than a cat struggle between “a few fucking pussies,” and rolled the footage to match.
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