“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart by chance sliced his hand throughout his opening monologue on Monday night time. The incident occurred as Stewart labored himself up over the horse manure being tossed about by Elon Musk, his Division of Authorities Effectivity, and the GOP.
“We’re not paying millions and millions of dead people Social Security money,” Stewart stated, after strolling by means of a number of the many debunked conservative claims of waste, together with the repeated lie that the U.S. is paying out tens of millions of {dollars} to lifeless individuals and people who find themselves 150 years outdated and older. “And even if there was a 200-year-old man walking around, he wouldn’t need Social Security—he’d still be in Congress.”
Stewart then crammed his desk with a bunch of things he known as his “wannabe-an-accountant starter equipment,” as a way to assist DOGE discover actual waste in our authorities. He listed how a lot could possibly be saved by nixing oil and fuel subsidies and the carried-interest loophole on hedge funds, which advantages the ultrawealthy.
“I can’t believe it. I just saved us billions of dollars in 11 seconds,” Stewart stated. “Just call me big balls.”
Stewart known as out reasonable Democrats for not demanding that pharmaceutical firms—already closely sponsored by our authorities—negotiate all of their drug costs with us, not simply 10. Livid, Stewart slammed a mug, chopping his hand. He glanced at his hand, then promptly hid beneath his desk. “I’ll be going to the hospital soon,” he stated, with a smirk.
Undeterred by the harm, Stewart completed the phase by detailing how massive companies depend on authorities help for his or her employees, thereby avoiding paying them a residing wage. He additionally highlighted how the airline trade used the U.S. authorities’s bailout to inflate their earnings by means of inventory buybacks.
“We are subsidizing the very system that makes workers’ lives harder in the first place, all in the name of freedom and liberty” Stewart stated. “But the greatest restriction of freedom in this country isn’t DEI and pronoun pressure. It’s fucking poverty and struggle.”
Shortly earlier than the episode aired, Stewart gave a preview of the harm on X, writing, “We’re back! New Daily Show tonight! It’s a bloody good episode…emphasis on bloody…I’m an idiot…”
