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Celebrity Jon Stewart Has Harsh Message for ‘Regretful’ Trump Voters

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Jon Stewart Has Harsh Message for ‘Regretful’ Trump Voters
The Daily Beast
Jon Stewart Has Harsh Message for ‘Regretful’ Trump Voters
Stewart explained he finds “most frustrating” about people who’ve only now flip-flopped on Trump.

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yrotsihfoedisgnorw Apr 1, 2026 +1
Trump has never not been a piece of shit of a person. It took little more than a basic glance to see, at the very least, that he was nobody special although it was easy to see beyond that. His past, from long before he came down the escalator, very clearly shows a person who cares about nothing more than themself. Someone who will lie and punch down to get what he wants. Someone who has zero interest in acting for the benefit of others. Someone who is a malignant narcissist to the core. Regret all you want but if you aren't on board for ridding our government of MAGA then you are still a trump supporter.
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Shadpool Apr 1, 2026 +1
People knew he was a piece of shit ages ago. People knew he was a sexual assaulter ages ago. Case in point, Veronica Mars, season 2, in one of the later episodes, released in 2006, Keith and Veronica are discussing a trip to New York, and Veronica mentions that she has pepper spray in case she runs into that Trump character.
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Ask most New Yorkers who lived in the city during 80s to early 00s. Those that knew him best hate him the most. Just like his wife.
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OrthogonalThoughts Apr 1, 2026 +1
Wives*
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InvestigatorChance28 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Epstein
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Even epstein said he had no redeeming qualities.
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HomeAliveIn45 Apr 1, 2026 +1
In another life, I worked for BIC (the Business Integrity Commission) which regulates out organized crime in NYC. Everyone in that office *knew* how mobbed up he was/is. It was basically an open secret that none of the attorneys wanted to mess with because he had money and powerful friends
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I heard he used to bribe judges with campaign contributions and probably more. There's so many businesses and contractors in NYC area that he's ruined.
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lurkinglestr Apr 1, 2026 +1
You mean like how he bribed the current Attorney General, and then-current Florida Attorney General with a campaign donation to drop the case against Turmp U?
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lordfrijoles Apr 1, 2026 +1
The same attorney general that gave Epstein a sweet heart deal? Say it ain’t so!
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datpiffss Apr 1, 2026 +1
*cough* Pam *cough* Bondi. Jesus allergies are terrible
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plum_stupid Apr 1, 2026 +1
What's the point of that commission then
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HomeAliveIn45 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Mostly to ensure that recent immigrants have proper business plates on their vans/trucks. Originally it was a Giuliani era anti-mafia thing, but nowadays they mostly prosecute people who just don’t know better. Once we took some Polish guy to court because under NY law he was technically not allowed to haul away trash. Then he cried through the administrative court proceedings. I found him on the street after and gave him a hug and some cash (which I know was totally improper but he was a good guy with a wife and kids, just trying to make a living.)
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50yoWhiteGuy Apr 1, 2026 +1
Grew up on Long Island, everyone in NY knows he's an ahole. Been a laughing stock for decades. That's why Howard used to have him on. For every other politician, their home state is known to be a POSITIVE for their campaign, a friendly state. NY ran him out.
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aznsk8s87 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yeah my uncle a few years ago said "look, I'm a Republican, but I'm also a New Yorker. We've known Trump's a piece of shit since the 80s. Why on earth would people vote for him?!"
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BarRegular2684 Apr 1, 2026 +1
My husband’s whole family is the same. Staunchly conservative but couldn’t make themselves vote for him.
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Congrats on coming from a line of people with brain cells and a spine! Not sure if your uncle still qualifies as 'republican' enough nowadays when all that's required is bootlicking and hate.
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Oro_Outcast Apr 1, 2026 +1
IIRC, Leona Helmsley had a higher "favorable" than his before her passing.
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throwtheclownaway20 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The van driver at a hotel I once worked at was a club owner in NYC back in the 80s and ever since Trump's first campaign, he was just constantly talking about what an a****** he was and how literally everyone in the high-roller scene back then just despised him. He was a registered Republican, too, but even he didn't vote for Trump
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cautiously-curious65 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Like the time he took out multiple full page ads in multiple news papers..that called for the death penalty for 5 Black children aged 12-16… for a crime they served time for, and then were exonerated on? Like, that time?
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mgoflash Apr 1, 2026 +1
Ask me I grew up there in the 70s and even we average kids knew it then.
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GrumpyKaeKae Apr 1, 2026 +1
He is loved by all the ex-Italian mob people. Let that sink in. Sammy the Bull loves Trump. That is all you need to hear to know how much of a POS Trump is.
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brokenarrow Apr 1, 2026 +1
We hated him upstate, too
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chunkerton_chunksley Apr 1, 2026 +1
They were dunking on trump in Golden Girls Dorothy lists a bunch of quality characteristics that Merv Griffin had, then she called him the “anti-trump”. That was in February of 1992
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PeptoBismark Apr 1, 2026 +1
He was a laughing stock in Bloom County and on Sesame Street.
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mallio Apr 1, 2026 +1
The mega a****** Rich Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II is a Trump parody. In 1989.
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Butcher_Ben Apr 1, 2026 +1
They talked shit about him on Gilden Girls! Barbara Walters does a great job of not letting him bullshit in their interview.
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RorschachMeThis Apr 1, 2026 +1
Veronica Mars reference, deep cut. Nice
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ikesbutt Apr 1, 2026 +1
How about Melania? Where do think he found her? Now all her family are supposed citizens
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Amateurlapse Apr 1, 2026 +1
He was the villain in back to the future
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DigNitty Apr 1, 2026 +1
I still see people in my parents’ face groups shocked that anyone could say he’s not a good person. They wrote with their whole character behind their words that Trump IS a good person to the core and he’s leading with them all in mind. It’s baffling. The guy defrauded a children’s cancer charity. I just don’t know where we go from there.
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Those people are disgusting and deserve to be snubbed by their children.
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Overtilted Apr 1, 2026 +1
>The guy defrauded a children’s cancer charity. I just don’t know where we go from there. And now he bombed 12 year olds. And there's some stuff in between as well.
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Defiant_Tomatillo907 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Defrauded children, raped children, trafficked children, bombed children. See a pattern?
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dragon_bacon Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yes, he's the perfect Republican.
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77NorthCambridge Apr 1, 2026 +1
When you point out the bombing of innocents they start screaming that Obama bombed innocent people too. If you then point out that they think Obama is an awful person for doing it they just stare at you blankly and walk away...if you're lucky.
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WalterIAmYourFather Apr 1, 2026 +1
Also I think Obama is a good person - likely the best person in terms of personal character and integrity in the presidential role. But he was also an American president - a job that virtually requires you to make decisions that are morally questionable even if strategically or geopolitically logical. I can admire Obama the man without admiring Obama the president who ramped up the drone strikes.
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77NorthCambridge Apr 1, 2026 +1
He also ramped up the drone strikes in response to a "war" he inherited.
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Skeptical_Lemur Apr 1, 2026 +1
Ramped up drones is always silly to me.. of course drones ramped up in Obamas term, they werent a big feature in 2004 Bush era.... so obviously there's be more Also, ramped drones meant less soldier interaction, so less possibilities for American casualties, which the American people wanted. Like drones sucked, but it wasn't this purely evil black and white thing.
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WalterIAmYourFather Apr 1, 2026 +1
Agreed. And I don’t blame him for making that geopolitical choice. Americans didn’t want anymore casualties, and drone warfare was the best solution. I resent and dislike the drone warfare decision because it’s American policy not specifically because it’s Obama’s responsibility.
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bhoss06 Apr 1, 2026 +1
*banged 12 year olds
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sleepymeowth052 Apr 1, 2026 +1
That implies consent
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PlzbuffRakiThenNerf Apr 1, 2026 +1
The day after 9/11 when the ENTIRE COUNTRY CAME TOGETHER, my #1 guy Trump called into the news to incoherently brag that now maybe he has the tallest building in NYC. He didn’t of course.
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Caraes_Naur Apr 1, 2026 +1
That wasn't the day after, it was that night.
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mishma2005 Apr 1, 2026 +1
He also got state funds for cleaning up Trump Tower even though it was nowhere near the Twin Towers and his building was unaffected
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MayorOfBluthton Apr 1, 2026 +1
I’d be willing to bet that anyone who lived through the 80’s and 90’s thought of Trump as a spoiled piece of shit conman and adulterer. They just conveniently forgot all of that when he started making racism, crudeness, and hate great again.
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mishma2005 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I grew up in the 70s/80s. I would visit my grandmother and her retirement community had a rec center/laundry that always a stack of tabloids on the table. I'd take them back to read for something to do. Every single one had Trump on the cover doing something salacious/illegal. Then my grandma would watch "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and yup, there's that smug jowl faced puckermouth preening on his yacht with a bunch of very young women in bikinis. I thought he was trash then. I think I was 8-10 at the time
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50yoWhiteGuy Apr 1, 2026 +1
Honestly, all you have to do is re-listen to what REPUBLICANS said about Trump during the 2016 campaign; Rubio, Cruz, Graham...they all knew what a POS of he is. 2016 JD Vance: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a–hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler".
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talix71 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'd also like to note they aren't actually shocked, none of them are. These people have just gone through life utilizing lies and fake outrage or bewilderment as their most essential tools. And right now, they are broadly lying to you too. Anyone that has ever heard the name Trump has always known the type of man he is. There was no one in 2016 that didn't know him as a sleazy cheat. There was no one in 2012, when he was just a punchline in a sea of republican candidates who hadn't yet captured the interest of Fox News, that didn't know him as a sleazy cheat. There was no one in the 2000's, when he ran his sleazy reality TV show, that didn't know him as a sleazy cheat. There was no one in 1980, when he was the failed c***** and the "sue me for not paying you" real estate guy, that didn't know him as a sleazy cheat. The people that admired him and talked him up liked him BECAUSE he was a sleazy cheat. These people are adults, they made their own informed decisions, we don't need to treat them like naive children just because they vehemently lie to our faces screaming "don't blame me for my actions!" We as a community need to acknowledge that these people will say anything, aren't to be trusted, and should be removed from political discourse for anything other than public disgracing. Don't talk to them, talk around them, talk about them, but talking to them enables more lies.
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csonny2 Apr 1, 2026 +1
It makes sense when you consider that MAGA is a cult. Their leader is infallible to them, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
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necroreefer Apr 1, 2026 +1
They are either not real or the worst people you could ever meet.
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inkcannerygirl Apr 1, 2026 +1
Propaganda has been aimed squarely at them for years Many people get more fearful of change as they get older and that has been thoroughly exploited
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FifteenthPen Apr 1, 2026 +1
Seriously. Back to the Future Part 2 came out in 1989, and Trump was the inspiration for the *villain* of that movie. He's always been a vile piece of shit, and people have known it ever since he became a public figure decades ago.
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sweethometalibama Apr 1, 2026 +1
Never knew that
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Ceorl_Lounge Apr 1, 2026 +1
Of all the things Biff Tannen could open... he opened a c*****. Then paid for Loraine's absurd fake b**** AND there's the hair. All these years later and I guarantee even "nice" Biff was a full-on MAGA guy.
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Leather_Prior7106 Apr 1, 2026 +1
It used to be a cliche that real estate developers were absolute villains that would do things like pretend to be a ghost and 4 teenagers and their dog would have to reveal ghosts aren't real and it's just a scumbag. I think the old Super Mario Bros. movie also did it, and if you ever wonder why Pumpkin Spice Palpatine has a hateboner for PBS, google "ronald grump".
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corvina760 Apr 1, 2026 +1
This, plus the fact that he had no prior government experience, tells you that he was unwilling to make the sacrifice, necessary, to be a good servant of our government. If he really loved this country, he would have been involved in government much earlier. But we all know that he only ran for President to increase his wealth. He's much worse than Nixon. He's a despicable parasite, opportunist, traitor, and rapist. He should be stripped of his citizenship after all the damage he's done. And anyone else who supported him in Congress should also be kicked out of government (any kind of government) indefinitely.
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Bad_Idea_Hat Apr 1, 2026 +1
My dad was a long-time republican, and he *despised* trump for years. I'm talking going back into the 80's and 90's. He saw through the bullshit a long time ago.
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No_Philosopher_1870 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Ask anyone from New Jersey or New York in the eighties and nineties. The people who didn't laugh at Trump were few and far between.
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blaqsupaman Apr 1, 2026 +1
My dad basically voted for him because Republican, but admitted he didn't think Trump was a good person.
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starliteburnsbrite Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'm gonna bet the vast majority of people who have a positive opinion of him only know of his existence because of shitty network reality TV and the edit.
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airinato Apr 1, 2026 +1
Well mostly faux news now but I guess that really is shitty network reality TV.
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zaccus Apr 1, 2026 +1
My grandmother (1930-2013) was the kindest, sweetest lady you could ever meet. Never raised her voice or had an unkind word to say about anyone. Except she *despised* Donald Trump. Did an impression of him and wasted no opportunity to be absolutely savage to him. We weren't New Yorkers. This was in the 90s when he was just a tabloid diva. Honestly at the time I didn't understand all the hate for this particular individual. I thought she was being a little ridiculous. I get it now.
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Realistic_Mousse_673 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Remarkably lucid...
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Professr_Chaos Apr 1, 2026 +1
I work in casinos. I had a co-worker who worked at a Trump property in AC and they said during his original campaign “everything the media has said about him is 100% a fact!”
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Overtilted Apr 1, 2026 +1
Does he shit his pants?
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Professr_Chaos Apr 1, 2026 +1
Idk if that was talked about back in 2016.
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IcySubstance7814 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The reality is those voters only regret being negatively effected by Trump's decisions. They thought they would be immune from it. They still hold the same values for their initial vote (anti LGBTQI+, racist, pro-Palestine, etc). They are just as selfish as they were, and they're not real patriots. They just hate that they were negatively impacted by Trump.
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Fauxreigner_ Apr 1, 2026 +1
I assume you meant either pro-Israel or anti-Palestine.
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HeinousAnus_22 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I even knew this as a kid in the 90’s pre-internet. Boggles my mind that grown ass adults can’t see this.
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skcusawn Apr 1, 2026 +1
Triple trumpers that are pissed about gas prices right now will be right back on the team when prices go down or when someone insults them for lack of patriotism. They are not seeing the real issues.
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JagmeetSingh2 Apr 1, 2026 +1
1000% this
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MarginalMeaning Apr 1, 2026 +1
What should have sealed the deal was the whole access hollywood hot mic situation. Like dude outright bragged about being heinous and somehow people still played the mental gymnastics to vote for him.
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throwtheclownaway20 Apr 1, 2026 +1
In 2015, one of my biggest arguments against him is that there's no excuse to not know how shitty he is because he's the first POTUS candidate that we know a LOT about. Prior to Trump, unless you were a total politics nerd, you basically just took the candidates at their word about who they were and any further information about them had to come from the media. But Trump has spent his entire adult life thirsting for public adoration and he thinks all his worst qualities are actually his best, so he's shamelessly exposed himself to the world as much as possible for *decades*. That's why we have clips from 20 years ago of him talking about his daughter's b****, and it's why Hollywood has used him as shorthand for "rich white guy villain" since at least the 1980s. Hell, there's been many times where they don't even hide behind parody characters - The Simpsons has referenced "President Trump" at least twice in their flash-forward episodes as being the reason why Future-President Lisa Simpson has a huge mess to clean up. So, anyone who says they didn't know Trump was bad is either saying they've never seen any movies or TV shows their whole life or they're just trying to avoid social consequences for being a huge piece of shit themselves
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LabyrinthineChef Apr 1, 2026 +1
The problem isn’t that they didn’t know, it’s that they didn’t care. They heard him say all the horrible things they thought but were afraid to say out loud. He embraced cruelty towards others like they could only wish and it made them feel better about themselves. Then he lied to them about all he was going to do: build the wall, lock her up, and take the US back to the glory days when gays, minorities, and women knew to shut up and stay out of sight or else. They don’t care if he hurts people because he’s hurting others, not them. Now suddenly they realize it wasn’t about him fighting for them, it was just him being for him. A lot of them still don’t care. MAGA was all about US first, no new wars and most of them are suddenly like, oh well I guess they not that bad after all, I just wish gas didn’t go up. 🙄
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KhayonElt Apr 1, 2026 +1
That's what infuriates me about my mom and grandma supporting this a******. I grew up in the 80s. Trump was a well-known piece of shit back then. Why is he suddenly taken seriously as a political candidate now?
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stitchface66 Apr 1, 2026 +1
these people will turn out in droves to vote for the next cruel, amoral piece of shit running for president, senate, and everything down. theyre upset things are expensive, not that they voted for trump. but they cant connect the dots between the people who say the things they like and simultaneously being the most upfront about acting against their own interests (not just the people they demonize).
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StevenMC19 Apr 1, 2026 +1
>“He doesn’t have the stamina to sit through the whole movie,” the host said. “He’s just the trailers. And right now, the Iran War: ‘Hey, the trailer’s done. Now what do I do? So now I just gotta leave.’ This line hits extra hard today, given that he skipped out midway through the birthright citizenship talks.
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__MeatyClackers__ Apr 1, 2026 +1
Midway is being generous.
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Wolfman01a Apr 1, 2026 +1
13 minutes in. 13.
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Instameat Apr 1, 2026 +1
Well he did stay longer than Melania stayed at her Fostering the Future Together global summit. She only lasted 7 minutes. These Trumps are so stupid.
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Matazat Apr 1, 2026 +1
Is it that they're stupid or is it that they know their disgusting freakish worshippers will keep cheering for them no matter what?
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Team-CCP Apr 1, 2026 +1
No, it was longer. 13 minutes into the ACLUs argument who went second. He stayed for sauers arguments which started the case.
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Current_Focus2668 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The erosion of truth and facts in civil society is one of the biggest catastrophes of the modern era. We have got to a point in which irrefutable facts and the God's honest truth mean less than someone's opinions or propaganda.  People that are pro MAGA don't even fully understand the full ramifications of supporting MAGA nonsense.  The justice system is supposed to work on facts and evidence. If you have a system that now makes those things irrelevant because the system is full of sycophants then you will have no more fair trials or count rulings. Your freedom and life exists at the whim of a Authoritarian president and his lackies.
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Public_Cartographer Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yep. The moment "alternative facts" was accepted instead of being absolutely eviscerated is when Idiocracy became a documentary.
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wahwahwashbear Apr 1, 2026 +1
I was watching spicer's interview and laughed outloud when he said "alternate facts" And then despaired as nobody pushed back on that, ever. Edit: auto correct corrections 
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Left-Soup-4931 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Propaganda is an incredibly effective tool being used by the ultra rich
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ArCovino Apr 1, 2026 +1
Precisely. Discourse has died. If you didn’t express something in the most emotionally charged way possible, if you attempted to provide nuance, if you disagree with definitions of the same words we have used for ages, then you’ve already lost the argument.
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emu4you Apr 1, 2026 +1
Unfortunately we are in the timeline of "do your own research" so anyone with an Instagram, Facebook, or Tiktok account is an equivalent source of information next to a doctor, scientist, or other expert with decades of experience.
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whatizitman Apr 1, 2026 +1
God can’t tell the truth. God is too busy not existing. But yes to everything else.
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IndecisiveRattle Apr 1, 2026 +1
These are the same "regretful" people in 2021 that saw the shitty COVID and Jan 6 stuff then still voted the way they did in the next election. It was already obviously going to be a disaster and they happily ushered it in. They don't regret shit, or at least will forget about it in a few months when a Democrat does something a miniscule fraction as bad.
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Repulsive-Month4831 Apr 1, 2026 +1
No one cared until gas prices went up. This is all you need to know about those complete wastes of humanity.
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No_Fairweathers Apr 1, 2026 +1
Which they will still blame on Biden.
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WacoWednesday Apr 1, 2026 +1
Their morals boil down to about $10 every few weeks at the pump
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Prior_Coyote_4376 Apr 1, 2026 +1
After Reconstruction 2029 I don’t want to see Republicans become relevant for another century. I want them to sit in time out while we cut out the Confederate tumors that have festered into a completely cancerous America. I want them begging for the taxpayer dollars blue states were so generously giving them. You bit the hand that fed you one too many times. Now, you starve. Maybe after the entire current voting bloc has lived their lives and we have a whole new set of generations (not just one generation, a *set* of generations) then we can consider whether conservatives have useful criticisms of the 100-year project to make a New America by the left. If they don’t accept the time out, we reset the clock to another set of generations. Since conservatives only care about issues when it impacts them, let them feel the impact of marginalization. There’s no other way to get them to even pretend to have empathy long enough to govern a country. EDIT: Well the President would be sworn in 2029, so I guess it’s Reconstruction 2029
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bejammin075 Apr 1, 2026 +1
>After Reconstruction 2028 I don’t want to see Republicans become relevant for another century. The lesson after the progression from GWB to Obama to Trump is that even if the GOP has the worst president in history, ending with an economy in flames, we still have to be vigilant. The lack of long term memory, the propaganda edge that GOP has, the ratfuckery, all works in their favor. There's always going to be a significant portion of the population that thinks a simple minded strongman is the solution to everything.
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ahdidi413 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yeah, until the left can somehow level the information playing field to compete with conservative media in a meaningful way, the pendulum will continue to swing back no matter how awful the GOP is. Conservative media serves no real news purpose - it is a complete propaganda arm to advance the goals of the right. Thus far the left simply has no good answer to combat this.
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TheBalzy Apr 1, 2026 +1
The left needs to figure out how to message, and control the messaging. That's their major problem. Like true academics or intellectuals, they want to get bogged down in the much of nuance. No. Be forceful. Be loud. Be concise. Be direct. And issues that you can't be that on, while you still hold deference towards them in POLICY, you put them on the back burner for forward-facing campaigning.
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jemappellejimbo Apr 1, 2026 +1
You can’t outmaneuver with words or messaging if 77 million voted for “theyre eating cats and dogs”. Its a lost cause.
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Wretched_Gourd Apr 1, 2026 +1
Citizens United must be overturned so propagandists can finally receive the sharp end of justice
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Tschmelz Apr 1, 2026 +1
I mean, we had issues with the propagandists even before Citizens United. Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck, and half a dozen other personalities were still selling nonsense to dumbasses. While overturning CU would be a good start, we need to figure out how to kill Fox style TV and radio/podcast shows too.
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Natural_Error_7286 Apr 1, 2026 +1
That's part of it sure, but no matter how good the messaging is, it won't matter if half the country never hears it. Right wing media simply does not air this stuff, and fox is the most viewed "news" network in the country. It plays at most gyms, hotel lobbies, army bases, etc. It's inescapable. Additionally people's algorithms are keeping them in a bubble.
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Resident-Writing850 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I understand this approach but I don't love it. For me, who rump is, what he wants and represents has been hit-you-in-the-face obvious for years. A message that's simple, loud, concise and forceful: maga. A four word slogan. Imo the dumbing down of messaging, and the propaganda that follows that, encourages citizens to not be critical or vigilant. Instead I think we need vigilance, skepticism, empathy, and critical thinking. These are all traits that maga highly discourages.
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alaphamale Apr 1, 2026 +1
We’re decades from even considering that approach. First step is to get the majority of adults able to read at a higher than 5th grade level. Not a joke, that’s where we are. 20% are functionally illiterate. Reading is fundamental to everything.
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Uhhh_what555476384 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The problem is that our system mixes up policy and political individuals because the party structures are weak and the individual politicians are strong.   (This is in comparison to say the Westminster system.) The result being that the people that want to do policy get those jobs by campaigning.  So you either get people that care honestly about policy but campaigns are a just the barrier to entry (Democrats), or people that couldn't give a F* about policy because they want power and campaigns are the whole point (Republicans).
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gramathy Apr 1, 2026 +1
The real problem is the liberals would rather compromise with the fascists than the left.
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soho_12 Apr 1, 2026 +1
mamdani has done something really smart (that the left hasn't traditionally done) in keeping his digital campaign apparatus in place after he won the election. could prove to be a very fruitful strategy that dems can easily adopt to maintain and improve their favorables. another issue that dems need to reckon with is that the American political press by-and-large love republicans, simply for the fact that they give reporters access and leak stories to them often while dems typically stay tight lipped. If they want more positive coverage and help in getting their message out come election time, Dems would do well to make better allies of the fourth estate
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Prior_Coyote_4376 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Agreed, though we also should be optimistic since they work this hard to spread their narrative and the best they can do is minority rule by capturing a small highly motivated group to temporarily share an agenda. They literally spend billions on lies and acquire entire social media platforms, yet the majority still disapproves of them. We don’t need to always convince the majority to join us, we just need to make sure the right doesn’t rig the system by allying with oligarchs, terrorists, and foreign countries. If we can do that, we can usually keep down the impulses that bring down a nation. It would be a blessing if the biggest political controversies were about whether a candidate supports a public option vs M4A again and the public takes time deciding.
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JohnKerry2028 Apr 1, 2026 +1
After Reconstruction 2028, I don’t want the Republican Party to exist.
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Prior_Coyote_4376 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Unfortunately I can’t think of a way to ban any organization from calling itself “Republican” without breaking the First Amendment, but certainly we can react to that by marginalizing them. It’s just like Nazis, you can’t really eliminate them for good but you can push them to become the losers of society.
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Vegetable-Error-2068 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The Trump admin didn't care about rules and they got almost everything they wanted. I want any future Democratic admins to behave accordingly.
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Prior_Coyote_4376 Apr 1, 2026 +1
What makes us different from Republicans though is that we care about stability over spite in the end. We absolutely must punish Republicans, but not to the point that we lose the ability to reinforce the rule of law. Everything I’m saying is absolutely doable under the Constitutional framework we had even before Trump by just doing what Republicans did against them instead of taking the high ground.
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sudi- Apr 1, 2026 +1
It likely won’t. Not in any currently recognizable form, anyway. The implosion of the party after Trump will be insanity. The power vacuum will consume them all. No one is poised to lead MAGA or sane-ish Republicans afterwards. I think that’s MTGs angle, but she’ll be swept up in the leopard face eating frenzy like the rest of them. They will effectively be rudderless if they cannot pull off the self coup that they’re attempting. That is why it is so insanely important to them that they retain power this year. It is over for them if they don’t.
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Natural_Error_7286 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I've been saying this for years but they just keep holding on
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andyraylan Apr 1, 2026 +1
I’ve often wondered how we could have handled the confederates differently, so as to have avoided the public statues and flags being held as sacred and necessary all these years later. (It’s funny how the same people who claim that those statues are important because of history are the same people who want to erase slavery and all reminders of slavery from our national parks, history books, etc. I can’t square those two arguments.) I know that Germany was able to turn things around in such a way that there aren’t statues of Hitler and company that people fight to keep up. I just don’t know exactly how they did it. Maybe that says a lot.
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Gay_Giraffe_1773 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Go back in time and assassinate Andrew Johnson before he succeeded Lincoln.
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Yinisyang Apr 1, 2026 +1
Sherman never should've stopped
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SwimmingPrice1544 Apr 1, 2026 +1
They don't have a 1st amendment.
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andyraylan Apr 1, 2026 +1
I know they don’t have the first amendment, as it has its own constitution that, I thought, included free speech. They must’ve carved out exceptions to it, like Nazi-speech?
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Positive-Ring-5172 Apr 1, 2026 +1
>After Reconstruction 2028 I don’t want to see Republicans become relevant for another century. That's generous. I want them to join the WHIGS. The entire party should be brought up on racketeering and espionage charges - more than half their funding comes from Russian sources. Hundreds of them need to face the death penalty - pardons make it so that any lesser punishment cannot work. Now if we get an amendment to greatly curtail or remove the pardon I'll back off that stance as I hate capital punishment. But I don't want hundreds of them going through courts, getting sentenced to 30 year or longer terms and then being let out the next time a conservative wins an election.
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Cock--Robin Apr 1, 2026 +1
I remember Nixon and I remember the Watergate hearings. I remember Nixon being pardoned by Ford and the outrage that followed. After Nixon, I was 1000% positive that we would never have another republican president nor another republican majority Congress. But all it took was one amiable senile old actor who could act presidential and who was photogenic and we had that f****** cancer back at the top of our country.
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jizzlevania Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'll need a Make Treason Punishable Again hat for the election 
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DigNitty Apr 1, 2026 +1
They will never beg, they will never understand. There will be no sobering moment. We will live with MAGA the rest of our lives and they will continue to support and reminisce him until they die. So much of this was caused by Reagan. And his speeches are still played on my local radio nostalgically. The unfortunate truth is simply that they will never see the light. We will have to govern while they obstruct and complain and work against a communal solution.
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LSF604 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Well it will be more like 2-4 years 
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CoconutBangerzBaller Apr 1, 2026 +1
Anyone shameless enough to still call themselves a Republican is inelegible for office in my eyes. If it was an uncontested race, I'd write my dog in before I voted for a Republican at this point
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Preeng Apr 1, 2026 +1
You have to separate Republicans from Conservatives. Conservatives can move parties and still be the same pieces of shit they are now. The world needs to stop compromising with right wingers. Better to just ignore them outright. Not a single one of their ideas is backed by any data or science.
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Bodycount9 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Im still mad at that lady who regretted her vote three times for Trump because of high gas prices. I mean she picked the worst thing to regret her vote on. She was fine with him assaulting girls? She was fine with him leading an assault on our capital building?
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gtjacket09 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I’m willing to give people a pass for 2016. I will never trust anyone who lived through version 1.0 and voted for him again
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sdvneuro Apr 1, 2026 +1
Why? You’re okay with sexually assaulting women, mocking handicapped people, and a history of running scams?
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MCpoopcicle Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'm glad they clarified it was "celebrity" Jon Stewart, as opposed to some random dude named Jon Stewart.
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DeadPeanutSociety Apr 1, 2026 +1
As opposed to The Green Lantern
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filthysize Apr 1, 2026 +1
That's John.
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mnemy Apr 1, 2026 +1
Right? This isn't some random "celebrity" commenting on politics. This is someone who has been doing hard hitting political news anchoring, softened by comedy, for f****** decades. That title is intentionally downplaying his political status to liken him to outspoken celebrities weighing in where they don't belong.
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Extreme-Sense-2411 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I have zero empathy for people that are crying that they were conned. If someone was dumb/naive/blind enough to be conned by him of all people, they truly deserve whatever negative repercussions come their way, and let’s be real, the few people claiming they were fooled, weren’t really fooled, they were just racist/sexist/homophobic and worship money/cruelty, but saying that doesn’t bring in sympathy the same way as saying “I was conned by a con man!”
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Natural_Error_7286 Apr 1, 2026 +1
To some extent many of them really were conned (propaganda is a hell of a drug) but yeah, I'd like to see more accountability and remorse when (if) they finally realize they've been had.
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Phloppy_ Apr 1, 2026 +1
The deal with musk created a propaganda vector for the masses. This is the danger of consolidated control of social media and AI manifest. When everything in your feed tells you to believe a certain way, it's hard not to. Listnook is no different. We have different perspectives of reality based on the different streams of digital content that we intake.
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CrispyTarantula117 Apr 1, 2026 +1
The most telling thing about Trump voters was that it took gas prices, not literal child r***, to sway them. They’ve always been selfish uneducated pieces of shit and they always will be.
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ThaPhantom07 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Trump has been a piece of shit since the 70s. There is no excuse for him getting elected even the first time. If you kept supporting after that you were already an idiot but now youre complicit in everything that has occurred and you will never be forgiven.
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globalvarsonly Apr 1, 2026 +1
F****** SESAME STREET viciously lampooned him! You have to be a real a****** for the Childrens Television Workshop to start dunking on you.
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artwarrior Apr 1, 2026 +1
I had to start journalling, as per request from my therapist in 2016 to work through some things and the one topic that I had was a page of two on your new Pres. It was me venting on how stupid the convos got around me from family and coworkers concerning Trump's starting his first term. I listed how I thought the people around me are stupid as f*** and hateful with no critical thinking skills. Thanks Dr for giving me the tools to know I'm not crazy and cutting people out of your life is like a surgeon excising a cyst.
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Noiserawker Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yeah good on you...it really isn't worth having people like that in your life anyway
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RipErRiley Apr 1, 2026 +1
They are scum and they always will be.
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RLewis8888 Apr 1, 2026 +1
People know he's a bully and authoritarian. That's what they like about him. They feel powerless in their daily lives and think it's a show of strength when he treats people like shit. They see him wielding power with his Sharpie and think "I wish I could do that". A few might eventually see it's all smoke and mirrors - but most will just see him (and themselves) as the victim.
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SvenLorenz Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'm from Germany and even we knew Trump was a pathetic loser even before he ran for president.
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CMG30 Apr 1, 2026 +1
MAGA liked the cruelty. They all knew what he was. They didn't care because he promised to hurt people. They were willing to compromise any principal as long as he kept hurting other people. The only thing that's bothering some of them now, is that they're suddenly the getting hurt too.
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Bob_Van_Goff Apr 1, 2026 +1
Trump supporters aren't mad about Iran. They are mad because Iran made them realize they are the idiots their friends and family have been saying they they are for the last decade.
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colddeadhands_ Apr 1, 2026 +1
There should be no forgiveness to Trump's idiot voters even if they are now "regretful." F*** you all MAGA!
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Remarkable_Gain6430 Apr 1, 2026 +1
No forgiveness EVER
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availablelol Apr 1, 2026 +1
You are completely incompetent if you voted for Trump three times.
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rodimusprime119 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yep kind of with Stewart here. Trump voters complaining now my answer to them was you got what you f****** voted for. This was all warned clearly before hand. The Trump voters who had their spouses deported and complained about it. Don’t care as you voted for it. I wil not lift a finger to help a Trump voter suffering. I have to keep my limited resources for my self in this shit they caused.
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Made_Human_Music Apr 1, 2026 +1
The only thing I have to say to everyone who voted for Trump in 2024 is "F*** you you treasonous scumbags!" And for the ones who didn't vote at all to protest Kamala not being perfect just a shorter "f*** you" Sure, the Democrats could have done better but that still doesn't justify what the non-voters did. They helped enable the fascism we're seeing today
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Shinjetsu01 Apr 1, 2026 +1
They are also desperate to distance themselves from this fact, but it's true. If you didn't vote Blue, you let this happen.
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Natural_Error_7286 Apr 1, 2026 +1
From what I see they're still doubling down on how Harris had no policies and democrats need to give them something to vote FOR not just against trump. Yadda yadda corporate dems blah blah controlled opposition etc.
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ArCovino Apr 1, 2026 +1
Bingo. Traitors all of them
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dakotanorth8 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I never saw that Ann Coulter tweet. Very surprising, borderline shocking
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strings_bells Apr 1, 2026 +1
Majority of American conservatives politicians, leaders, online people or people in my life never argued or discussed anything in good faith. Its mostly double standards etc.. I take their act of "I'm tired of Trump" bs with a bag of salt.. they almost always are doing political theater... They are a small inconvenience from a brown/black/liberal person or some imaginary trans invasion away from turning around and voting for Trump again.
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N3wAfrikanN0body Apr 1, 2026 +1
They only regrett hat they're now getting hurt. If thwy teuly sorry, they'll shut upmand do the work necessary to change; which what they never wanted to do in the firat fu king place. The rest will soend their remaining days lpoking over their shoulder , bwing paranoid about thwir food and the deafwning ailence of ondifference from those they have wronged. The chose to witness hell now they can live it.
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Votcha Apr 1, 2026 +1
I really hope that the ex trump supporters aren't looking for sympathy from people. "Oh I have been tricked.. he conned me" Yeah nah, we told you what he was and yet here we are you dragged everyone on this planet into his mess.
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Mmphska Apr 1, 2026 +1
Donald Trump being a sleaze was the punchline of a joke in the fricking GOLDEN GIRLS. That's how long he's been known as a creep in the cultural zeitgeist, comically so apparently. There is no excuse for anyone to not be aware of the nature of his character S7e17 if anyone wants to see it
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ThisIsAWeapon Apr 1, 2026 +1
I grew up with a Trump-hating Grandma, every word she ever said was true. He’s a scum bag, always has been.
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GatorNator83 Apr 1, 2026 +1
He is a piece of shit, and anyone who voted him is one too. Sorry doesn’t change anything. Anyone who voted for him will remain a piece of shit.
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Immolation_E Apr 1, 2026 +1
All of us that didn't vote for him regret they did it too.
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Velo214 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Remember the forgive and forget Democrats after W. And everyone that voted for W pretending they never voted for W
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theBigDaddio Apr 1, 2026 +1
I never feel anything but contempt for regretful Trump voters. for no Kamala types over her stance on Palestine. They are all f****** jerks. Idiots.
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6beerkdawg Apr 1, 2026 +1
It’s entirely by design. America has been lowering the quality of education all over the place and it’s more challenging than ever for a human to develop or even have access to educational institutions that allow them to develop critical thinking skills. You are either living too rural or don’t have enough money to pay for said education anymore. Gen Z isn’t a gung ho about college as Millenials were and look which generation happened to be more conservative. If you grow up and are raised to be dumb you’re going to make tons of dumb choices and hold onto misinformation to make you think you’re right. I’ve talked with these regretful Trump voters and they still make a misinformation filled excuse as to why they voted how they did. We need to make Americans well rounded in education nationwide and we will pretty much end this c*** for good. It will only work if we vote out corporate politicians whenever we can.
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vrsick06 Apr 1, 2026 +1
150 years from now, the same type of racist losers who fly the confederate flag will wear maga gear and call it “their heritage”
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SpicyChanged Apr 1, 2026 +1
Mentions the video but posts a different video. The f***?!
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frank1934 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Sure would be nice to know what he said
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mishma2005 Apr 1, 2026 +1
They voted for racism, not to be poor, damnit!
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shadowbethesda Apr 1, 2026 +1
“When people say, like, ‘Well, I’m upset with him now, and I regret my vote ‘cause he lied.’ He lied the minute he came down the escalator, through, ‘Oh, it’s the largest inauguration that’s ever been seen throughout history.’ There is nothing fundamentally different about his decision-making process or about the manner in which his ADD pushes him from lurching from one endeavor to another.” Stewart and his producers had just been discussing MAGA’s fissuring over Trump’s war. Stewart said steadfast MAGA supporters have had to “write the narrative” of the war for Trump: “It’s not his fault.” The host added sarcastically, “Of course, the man who has the greatest agency that has ever been promoted from the Oval Office is suddenly at a whim.”
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Sea-Rip3902 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Part of our country yearned for a guy like trump to hurt the people they dislike. Once trump is gone that feeling won't go away. This group of people will look for his replacement.
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Llonkrednaxela Apr 1, 2026 +1
Oh THIS is too much, but everything else was fine. Goooot it. So you’re for the concentration camps for American citizens, just not for gas prices going up. Got it.
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tonylouis1337 Apr 1, 2026 +1
How is any of that "harsh?"
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SoulPossum Apr 1, 2026 +1
There have only been 2 reasons to vote for Trump. Bigotry and/or stupidity. Bigotry because they voted specifically for his hateful rhetoric around minorities, women, LGBT people, poor people, disabled people, etc. They were happy to tumble off the cliff if they got to see someone else they didn't like hit the ground first. Stupidity because they believed he'd be good at the job at all. Like if you watched a dude say he had concepts of a plan when asked about health care and thought he was the guy to support, you can't not fall into one of these two categories. But at this point, I don't care about them realizing they got played. I care about what they're going to do about it. Like if a disgruntled Trump voter is just gonna sit and sulk while waiting for the rest of the country to bail them out this realization means nothing. They're going to have to actively show up in the polls and in society to help undo some of this damage.
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UpperLeftOriginal Apr 1, 2026 +1
There’s a 3rd reason - greed (if you’re in a higher income bracket).
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SoulPossum Apr 1, 2026 +1
The only reason I don't include greed is because there are always people who vote greed and there usually aren't enough people in that tax bracket to matter. Also, those people are reaping the benefits of their vote in DJT's case. The issues surrounding housing, cost of living, health care, etc. don't really apply to most of them. They aren't sending their kids to war. And they get access to a suggestible president, tax breaks, corporate bailouts, etc. So voting Trump plays in their favor. I don't think it's right, but I can't really expect a greedy person to not be greedy. The stupid/bigot thing is more about the sea of people who supported him while he was actively saying he was going to make their lives worse because they were too dumb to realize what was happening or too mesmerized by his problematic behavior towards others to care.
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Chaemyerelis Apr 1, 2026 +1
Most people i know who voted for him voted out of stupidity. Most assumed he'd be better for the economy since that's how republicans sell themselves and people believe it. Others are single issue voters who say theyre against illegal immigration without acknowledging the ramifications of how anti immigration politicies to remove people who've lived here for years would hurt our own society. Most of the economy people i know have seen their error, but sadly some of the anti immigration people still haven't realized the damage recent actions have caused.
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Kat_Schrodinger1 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Now do the regretful third party and non voters.
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JeffSteinMusic Apr 1, 2026 +1
I get that it’s not a popular sentiment, but I remain quite peeved at the both-sidesing Jon Stewart did throughout 2024. Dude started the political part of his career by calling out disingenuous both-sidesing on CNN’s Crossfire 20+ years ago, and then basically made it his brand during the 2024 campaign. Not saying he made a difference either way, but it wasn’t helpful, and I thought he was better than pandering to our laziest ‘D***** v. Turd’ instincts.
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DeadPeanutSociety Apr 1, 2026 +1
I liked Jon Stewart a lot growing up and his show was important for my political progression. But now I'm an adult and he is far to the right of me and seems extremely naive. We are living in the future promised by the Rally To Restore Sanity. The media did exactly what he wanted, taking Trump seriously, reaching across the aisle, not using inflammatory language to describe conservatives. It turned out that the alarmists were right and it was not at all difficult to see coming.
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dylanholmes222 Apr 1, 2026 +1
What did he both sides? He’s pretty firmly talked shit on Trump all the way. He’s also a retired comedian/entertainer not a politician
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Due_Debate_1877 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Stewart did an episode in January of 2025 attacking democrats for saying Trump is going to be a dictator. Most of the episode he makes fun of democrats for panicking about Trump. On YouTube the episode is titled “Jon Stewart On Whether Dems' "Trump Is a Fascist" Accusations Are Warranted | The Daily Show”
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CSAtWitsEnd Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yikes, that's a uh...awful watch. Genuinely moronic take to basically assert that "small abuses" are unimportant and distract from "important abuses of power" as if the entire goal is not to do dozens / hundreds of small cuts to our institutions. These things don't happen in one giant moment, but small moments combining over time.
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ailish Apr 1, 2026 +1
Jon Stewart Actually Defends Trump From ‘Fascism’ Freak-Out https://www.yahoo.com/news/jon-stewart-actually-defends-trump-051214226.html
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Purify5 Apr 1, 2026 +1
He did' both-sidesing' when it came to the age issue. He equated Biden's age related struggles with Trump's controversies. This helped Republicans because it weakened the argument that a vote for Biden was a necessary defence against the threat of Trump. Instead, it suggested that both choices were fundamentally flawed.
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Adorable_Raccoon Apr 1, 2026 +1
they are referring to this episode [Jon Stewart On Whether Dems' "Trump Is a Fascist" Accusations Are Warranted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byg8VZdKK88). He basically argues that Trump isn't a dictator and the left should stop talking about i & small abuses distract from more important issues. Fascism rarely announces itself. It creeps in through policy and normalization.
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dingusmingus2222 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I will give OP the benefit of the doubt here. Stewart very much started off this second term sane washing the hysteria coming from the left, claiming they were over reacting and it wouldn't be as bad as they feared.
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sthetic Apr 1, 2026 +1
As well as sane-washing, he kind of comedy-washes Trump. Someone pointed out on Listnook how the late-night hosts do criticize Trump's administration, but they mainly point out their ridiculousness to comedic effect. This has the effect of making them seem clownish (which they are) and harmless in a way. Like, "Can you BELIEVE what outrageous shit Trump just said?" followed by an exaggerated expression of shocked despair. I know that comedy is part of resistance or whatever people tell themselves. And that these are entertainment figures, not leaders or politicians. But there is a sort of catharsis in pointing out the ridiculousness of these leaders, that makes it feel like you're doing something just by treating them as a ridiculous aberration, not a threat.
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getmybehindsatan Apr 1, 2026 +1
He certainly criticized both sides, but he also made it abundantly clear which side was significantly worse.
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Hey_HaveAGreatDay Apr 1, 2026 +1
I wish this man would run for president. He won’t, I know that, but we need someone like him so badly
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7figureipo Apr 1, 2026 +1
Yep. And this is why I don’t take even one of them seriously. Only now do they realize how f****** dumb he is, and they were for supporting him. Their contrition isn’t genuine, it’s embarrassment they’re trying to whitewash
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CatCatchingABird Apr 1, 2026 +1
I'm still open to forgiving people that accept their fault in voting for this guy and actually doing something about it to fix the wrongs that have been committed, but I'm less inclined to do so for people that voted for him in 2024 and those that did so all three times. In 2024 we already had so, so much evidence of not only how terrible of a person he was, but how bad he is at governing. While I get that people get desperate in financial turmoil (affordability voters), you did so at the expense of not just everyone else's civil rights, but also MY rights. You put your own concerns above me and millions of other people. To hit a home run on this one here, you didn't just put your concerns above the people in this country. No, you put your concerns over SO MANY F****** PEOPLE in the world. There are literally people dying because you didn't like the price of eggs. To the people that voted for him all three times and just suddenly had an epiphany, I highly doubt that. What I think it is could be one of two things: you still support his presidency and you know there are societal consequences for openly doing so, or you just suddenly changed your mind because you reap what you sow. Maybe you got laid off, or your retirement account is not looking so hot. You thought it would happen to them and not to you. Either way, I think you should f*** off and do hard community service until this is all over. I hope you all get screamed at mercilessly.
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dk325 Apr 1, 2026 +1
What is with this framing? “Celebrity Jon Stewart” ?
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TanAllOvaJanAllOva Apr 1, 2026 +1
I’ve never agreed with a person more. “He lied” is such a BS excuse. Joe Rogan called him a conman then pretends surprised that ‘he lied’ to his supporters. F*** outta here
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Lucky_Development359 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I know he won't run. Get it, got it, good. BUT! Can he participate in the debates? OR Can he moderate them🤔
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Unique-Coffee5087 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Is there a direct link to the video?
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Chaerea37 Apr 1, 2026 +1
He remember when John Stewart was mad about people calling trump a facist?
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Complex-Exchange6381 Apr 1, 2026 +1
That’s not what he said. He said you can’t call everything he does “fascist” because it waters down the moves he makes that are actually fascist.
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PatReady Apr 1, 2026 +1
Hes right.
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