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 night time when he ranted and raved about the polls being wrong.
Throughout a current broadcast, the Every 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 at all times good.
Transcript by way of Real Clear Politics:
JON STEWART: 2016 actually felt like a intestine punch in a means, as a result of it felt like such a fait accompli that Democrats would win, so it felt like an anomaly. This feels completely different as a result of it’s a democratic victory.
I really feel like we had been ready for all eventualities and in every a kind of eventualities it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his means again into the White Home? How is he going to make use of undemocratic rules? What measure of intimidation and underhanded shenanigans will this man use to worm his means 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’ve a staff of attorneys for that. I don’t know if we’ve a staff for that!
By the best way, I don’t ever in my life wish 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 individuals’s doesn’t get them to do what you need them to do — as, I imagine, 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 sit down again and take into consideration the post-mortem and the place you progress from there, however I feel 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 can assist them to simply accept the election outcomes.