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I honestly think Stewart's refusal to pretend Biden was still ok was instrumental in getting him to step down
All the "serious" news closed ranks for him, and even cable late shows like Colbert cracked a few jokes but still backed him.
Stewart was one of the few with the balls to say the bus was headed off a cliff and we needed to slam the brakes now instead of hoping we could land the jump.
Stewart stepping back from the Daily Show is also probably a big reason why Trump got elected in 2016.
That may be true but it's unfair to put so much on one man.
It is, though I think it was just a perfect shitstorm of Stewarts way of eviscerating trump was missing, disillusionment in the obama era (mainly die to republican obstructionism), disillusionment in Hillary as a candidate, some people wanting revenge for Bernie and ofc, reddit+facebook+twitter disinformation campaigns being new and highly effective at manipulating voters
Yeah, I agree. I'm mostly just wondering why we can't clone him?
Whether it’s true or not it has definitely crossed Jon’s mind a time or two I’m sure.