Mondays With Jon Stewart

[Lantern7]

*sigh* Looks like the right wing media outlets defended Trump without flinching. Little Marco got to coin the phrase "Ukraine-splain." On the bright side, at least Jon's hand is doing better.

[Ottis]

Musk isn't wrong in that Steward went pretty far left during his last 5 years or so as FT host (why I stopped watching). And he has continued it in these Monday stints, though he will now take a shot at Dems/Shumer now and then. The problem is, Trump is so horrific it's a target rich environment and nothing is really funny because real life is dismally sad. TDS just feels flippant and immaterial.

That said, the last 3-4 minutes of JS's 15-minute rant about Ukraine last night were perfect and explained what is happening. Unfortunately, it followed lot more minutes using a silly wrestling analogy. I wish he would have started with those last few minutes and then expanded.

[DoctorAtomic]

I don't really care that Jon is not 'non partisan'. It's a comedy show about the news. Also, it's not entirely accurate in that the show has ripped Biden plenty. It's not late night shows' fault that the current administration is providing such a deluge of material. You're hiring a drunk womanizer to be SecDef? That's where they're going to go. 

They were correct about Zelenskyy shooting himself in the foot, but at least he held back somewhat. He wasn't yelling or anything. Sometimes I can't get over myself either, usually, I'm correct, and I have to press the point to death. Nothing he said was wrong, but look at UK and France, how they buttered him all up. There's a clear playbook here. I think Vance being there threw him off. I hope Europe can step up. 

The interview was good, but the problem was, if we were really going to recover $1 trillion per year in the uncollected taxes, all that is probably going straight to the military and not social programs. That's the real solution. The defense budget is the biggest social program there is. 

Edited Tuesday at 04:58 PM by DoctorAtomic

[Shrek]

59 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:

 

The interview was good, but the problem was, if we were really going to recover $1 trillion per year in the uncollected taxes, all that is probably going straight to the military and not social programs. That's the real solution. The defense budget is the biggest social program there is. 

They're going to need more money to pay to decommission all the obsolete armaments that were going to Ukraine, saving the USA millions in decommission costs.

And to make the unemployment payments to unemployed federal workers that Musk keeps firing.