Lefty hero Jon Stewart seems to be coming to phrases with the end result of the 2024 election. He’s a lot calmer now than he was on election evening when he ranted and raved about the polls being wrong.
Throughout a latest broadcast, the Each day Present host admitted that Trump received the election cleanly, utilizing our electoral course of, which he admits he didn’t see coming.
He additionally affirms his love for our nation, which is all the time good.
Transcript through Real Clear Politics:
JON STEWART: 2016 actually felt like a intestine punch in a approach, as a result of it felt like such a fait accompli that Democrats would win, so it felt like an anomaly. This feels totally different as a result of it’s a democratic victory.
I really feel like we have been ready for all situations and in every a type of situations it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his approach again into the White Home? How is he going to make use of undemocratic ideas? What measure of intimidation and underhanded shenanigans will this man use to worm his approach again into the Oval Workplace?
And it turned out he used our electoral system, as it’s designed. And in that second, I assumed, properly, “F*ck.” I’m undecided we now have a crew of attorneys for that. I don’t know if we now have a crew for that!
By the way in which, I don’t ever in my life need to hear about “our vaunted floor recreation will put us excessive.” It’s a 50/50 tossup race, we’re certain of it, however the vaunted floor recreation — seems that folks knocking on different folks’s doesn’t get them to do what you need them to do — as, I consider, vacuum and Bible salesmen have most likely identified for a lot of, many centuries.
F*ck us, f*ck me, I used to be incorrect, will proceed to be incorrect. I’d love to take a seat again and take into consideration the post-mortem and the place you progress from there, however I believe I nonetheless really feel as if I’m in that second of vertigo to some extent.
Right here’s the video (sturdy language warning):
Welcome to season 2 of “America Presents: The Shit Present.” Jon’s post-election ideas and extra on tomorrow’s podcast with @HC_Richardson. #TheWeeklyShow #JonStewart #Trump pic.twitter.com/2KU8FJxgot
— The Weekly Present with Jon Stewart (@weeklyshowpod) November 7, 2024
Stewart’s message is one which many individuals on the left want to listen to. It would assist them to just accept the election outcomes.
