I know electoralism is tired, anyhow I’d like to hear your opinion on this guy. Is he sincere?

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    42 years ago

    He’s done a great service exposing the bullshit of the empire and our corrupt AF elections. He’s held public offical’s feet to the fire better than our own self serving media. He did the work hammering congress to get national-mourning-period first responders health care. Over and over and over. Exposing a lot of horrible rot in congress while firefighters were dying of cancer or other terrible ailments.

    His exposure of the money in elections was probably his One Good Shot against the establishment. They usually turn people or burn people at that point.

    That awarding a Nazi at Disneyland was cringe

    Respect a lot of his work, but I understand the One Good Shot rule, and President Stewart would not be The Daily Show Prime Stewart. I really would love to see him in the debates though. That would be hilarious.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Remember the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and how they built up way too much support and momentum with it and had to tone it down and let it fizzle out? At least that’s how I remember it. Stewart was is a very weird mood that day like he was totally over the whole thing.

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    142 years ago

    lol, he has certainly built a brand, he should do a throwback era where he does the leather jacket dennis leary wannabe like in the 90s

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    372 years ago

    He’s sincere. A lot of people my age have fond memories of the Daily Show during some really dark times during the Bush Administration. But at the end of the day, he’s a left liberal and really doesn’t pretend to be anything else. I don’t really think there’s much of a market for liberal snark and civility of that sort as material conditions continue to deteriorate.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    192 years ago

    I got off the bandwagon when they did that “Rally to Restore Sanity”, because even my liberal ass thought it was fucking stupid

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    232 years ago

    He’s a living relic of the Bush Administration and the cultural atmosphere at the time. He kind of burned out during the Obama administration and had brief nostalgic surge in popularity during the Trump years from people who wanted yet another liberal voice ripping into Trump.

    I’ll admit that I didn’t think much of him during the Bush years but appreciated how he at least pushed back on Obama on some issues during his presidency. Every other liberal pundit just wouldn’t do that and instead praised him for things Bush had been doing.

    Nowadays he’s kind of worn out his welcome and is only really beloved by Millennials that grew up with him during the 2000’s. I don’t think GenZ is as enamored with him but I could by wrong.