On Tuesday, Jon Stewart returned to his particular terminology for Senate Democrats and Republicans, with “dumbassery” in one corner and “fuckery” in the other.
Stewart picked up where he left off last week: The GOP had refused to confirm attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch until Democrats stopped blocking a sex-trafficking bill into which the GOP had injected anti-abortion language.
“The GOP boosted its fuckery score” in refusing to confirm Lynch, Stewart said, but he actually sounded optimistic about some legislative compromise from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
Cornyn propsed that the anti-sex trafficking bill could be passed with the language the GOP wanted, while making sure the bill stuck to federal anti-abortion rules that Democrats have accepted for decades.
“Is it everything Democrats want? No. But it’s the best they’re gonna get, because they lost the election in the midterms, and they’re playing second fiddle in the Senate now,” he said.
“It’s being player two in a game of Super Mario Bros. You get to play, but you’re gonna have to play as Luigi,” Stewart said. “I know it sucks to be Luigi!”
Stewart was disappointed to find that Democrats opted not to join Congress as player two.
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Here’s the problem John.
The Republicans won the mid terms by explicitly refusing to talk about abortion.
I don’t know what else you do with an opponent that never wants to talk about abortion during the campaign, but then wants to enact all kinds of legislation once the election is over.
The only tactic that works to my mind, is to block anything to do with abortion until the Republicans actually CAMPAIGN on it.
Keep stroking that false equivalency, John.
Both sides!
Is Stewart considering a career at a cable news channel after The Daily Show? There’s always been a little bit of both-siderism in Stewart’s comedy, but lately he seems to have really upped the ratio.
Also, Jon? For future reference, a trolling vs. racism joke really doesn’t work that well when it consists of a white male employer asking a black female employee to agree with him, and she does. It might have worked if Williams disagreed, but, particularly in this context, it’s hard to tell if she agrees because she actually agrees, or because she wants to keep her job.
Yes, and it’s one of the reasons I’m becoming increasingly OK with his departure. Sometimes his attempts to blame “both sides” come across as almost desperate. One side wants to force rape victims to have their rapist’s child, the other side is trying to protect rape victims from being forced to have their rapist’s child.
Sorry Jonny, The Dems may have lost the last election round, but that doesn’t mean they have to give up all their possible advantage in the rules of the Senate and House. Have you been watching Congress these last years?