Jon Stewart returned to hosting The Daily Show on Monday night, and then waded into the potential “October Flashes” that could affect the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
Stewart began the episode by taking a brief look at last October’s surprises, including the less famous ones Come to Hollywood tape, as well as the media running through a selection of natural disasters and wars that could be a frightening experience for blacks in the closing days of the campaign.
“Why are October’s miracles always so bad?” Why do we never get the wonderful October surprise that brings our country together? ” Stewart laughed, adding that he hoped internet stars Pesto, the perfect part of a baby penguin, and Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo, might start dating.
Stewart elaborated on the wonders of October, by suggesting that they always favor Republicans, who capitalize on death and misery to gain electoral points. “If the monkey attacks, I don’t see how we can lose!” Stewart said mockingly. “What does it really mean for the party that wars, strikes, and natural disasters support them? Sir, the elections are near, but if we just make people panic and despair, we can do it. ”
Turning his attention to recent events, Stewart said that October’s surprise for him was seeing Elon Musk, bare stomach and all, at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “[Musk’s] What was surprising in October was that MAGA came out. ”
“Now, you would think that one of the richest men in the world who controls one of the most powerful platforms in the world would be a way of what some people think is election interference,” Stewart said, before laughing at the audience, “You stupid, stupid people.”
Stewart called a return to the 2016 and 2020 elections, when Trump accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of election fraud and redoubled his anger that Musk, the owner of the X platform, came out in support of the former president. The episode delved into Trump’s threats to punish and arrest people he believed were meddling in the election against him, including the team behind the biopic. Teacher.
“Mr. Trump has threatened almost everyone with arrest, lawsuits, or prosecution, which is why this part of the weekend rally in Pennsylvania, when Elon Musk discussed why he supports Donald Trump,” Stewart said, coming. the main purpose of the section.
A portion of Musk’s speech from Trump’s rally was then played: “One side wants to take away your freedom of speech. You have to be free to speak to have a democracy. That’s why it’s the First Amendment.”
Stewart responded: “Elon, haven’t you been watching another show? A movie that Trump doesn’t like is going to be sued. A tech mogul he doesn’t like, he wants to be put in jail. It’s not free speech if only Trump admirers do it without consequences. That’s not how it works. It doesn’t work that way. I don’t see how it works. I don’t like his support for the freedom to talk about “baring the stomach”.
Part of Musk’s speech was then played: “But the Constitution remains strong and is there to make sure we have the First Amendment. The Second Amendment is there to make sure we have the First Amendment.”
Stewart clearly went for the jugular: Guns don’t protect our free speech. Our free speech is protected by constitutional rights. It is not based on threats of violence. It depends on elections, organizing referendums, administrative processes. Our social contract provides many, many ways to resolve these issues and allows the parties to be heard and judged. Guns, as far as I can tell, seem to be the most effective deterrents to the speech of people holding guns. It is a tool of intimidation. “…
Met with applause, Stewart silenced the audience as he wasn’t done yet.
“It’s a tool of intimidation and one that I think is being done recklessly and recklessly. Because some people in your crowd thought they might as well be banned by Facebook. I mean, for God’s sake, you guys are in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whole reason you’re there is because some crazy person has an AR- 15 tried to completely undermine his vision of free speech in this country,” Stewart said, referring to the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump. “That’s why you’re here. The whole point of society is that guns don’t choose. I would choose at this time not to trade with a government that provides me with many remedies for my concerns, legal or illegal, for a situation where my rights are determined by a majority of members of the military who agree with me. ”
Softening his voice, Stewart concluded by addressing Musk directly. “The world is not perfect, and there are many issues we disagree on: elections, immigration, the end of snack chips, the unholy marriage of a penguin and a hippopotamus. But, really, friends, a country that can manage these difficult issues through sometimes depressing, extreme constitutional systems and precedents and transfer power peacefully is the only kind of country I want the children of Pesto and Moo Deng to grow up in. up inside.”
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