• rigatti@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m not sure Trump would have won if John was on the Daily Show in 2016. No one is better at cutting through right wing bullshit.

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      5 months ago

      Jon Stewart was on the air prior to Bush II’s election, and throughout his reign. This didn’t prevent B II from getting re-elected, and he remained a highly popular president until his final year in office. Our lionization of entertainers is nothing short of bizarre

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        6 months ago

        I mean, he has a great moral compass, and he’s smart. But he might be better at driving public opinion while he’s on the air. And he definitely doesn’t want to do it.

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          6 months ago

          Also if he ran in the very next election, he’d be 66 at his inauguration. Not exactly achieving our goal of injecting some youth into the presidency!