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Jon Stewart to return to The Daily Show through 2024 US election season
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Absolutely. You know when Bush Junior was President, we called that crazy too, when he was elected for a 2nd term we basically lost all hope for the American people and USA as a nation. That was just too stupid in so many ways.
That USA was able to top that with Trump, makes you lose hope in humanity. USA was EDIT: (among) the first democracies in the world, but can't do democracy even remotely well.
There is still hope, but it's vanishing ever more over time. Nixon would be a hero of competence and integrity today, compared to Bush and Trump.
This is NOT just a one time off, this is now a pattern.
Some sources claim USA is the oldest democracy, apparently oldest doesn't mean first?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-worlds-oldest-democracies/
Uh, no it wasn't.
American Jesus invented democracy back in 1775 and then cast a spell to hide its origins in history so the other countries won't be as jealous of us.
OK it's the oldest. HUGE mistake.
That is a big difference.
Off by a few thousand years there bud. Even if you want to limit it to "modern" democracies, Britain has the US beat by a hundred years.
I read that and I was like "Is that what Americans learn in school???"
I can't speak for all 300 million, but that certainly isn't what I learned in school.
they definitely teach "oldest constitution" where i am.
Oldest still actively used (and I don't think it's something to be proud of) but older constitutional documents exist
The Magna Carta still has a couple statues left in Britain. But they repealed a lot of it as it became irrelevant or outdated.
That’s what needs to happen in the US too, but the country is set up to basically prevent changes in the constitution at this point because the founding fathers couldn’t foresee the size the country became and the spread of population and technologies across it.
Also the racism, so much racism.
Except I'm not American, but you just go ahead and misjudge things you know nothing about, you are quite good at it.
Well then there's something wrong with what you were taught in school!
The constitutional monarchy?
Republics and constitutional monarchies are both forms of democracy.
i mean britain only switched from a full monarchy to a parliamentary system in 1832
Bullshit.
Not the first democracy, debatably the first representative democracy out of a liberal revolution, by a couple of years. One of the first written constitutions.
But you know the big difference in how the US handles democracy? It has sacralized its foundational moment. France got there at the same time, and they're on the fifth full refresh. There are vanishingly few examples in the world of liberal democracies that haven't updated their systems in a major overhaul at least once. The same exceptionalism that leads to the debatable-at-best "first democracy" factoid makes it impossible to fix the very obvious flaws in the system.
I do agree that it's weird to have lived through Bush and 9-11 and Iraq and now think of it as a quaint fun little thing. We all protested and felt righteous and Stweart was on TV when it was cool and fresh to do political comedy that way and it seemed like rock bottom.
Good times.
Thanks, Interesting.
John Stewart was amazing on Daily Show IMO, but I don't think he will have similar impact today.
I agree. Everybody is doing his shtick today and there's no more common water cooler TV anymore, so it's impossible to have the impact he had (if any, which itself is debatable).
If one needs proof, there's always the pretty obvious fact that he already had a show until very recently and it's not like anybody cared. I bet he'll do great for TDS' ratings, though. I'll probably watch.
Tbf, I hate Apple more than I like Stewart, so that had an impact on why I didnt add to his view count, and even if I did, it wouldnt have been in a way that added to his sucess metrics (Aka yohoho)