“Tonight’s show will be brought to you by: I can’t fucking believe it. I can’t fucking believe it: For when the ‘I can’t believe it’ Edvard Munch scream emoji doesn’t quite convey how much you cannot fucking believe it.”
Remember republicans created a no win situation and were willing to burn the country down and let people starve to deny them healthcare.
gGfsF5Sz2 on
40 Dems voted against it reopening.
That’s 16% defection rate.
It’s more accurate to say Dems were undermined by a small group.
TheBugDude on
Watching the light leave his eyes when he was talking to Kamala as she missed the point again really hit home for me. Me to John, me too
acute_dilemma99 on
The theory that the Dems were afraid of the nuclear option seems to make sense. However, they’re still weak POS.
xicor on
I believe it. I called it from the start. My surprise was only that it took so long
E1M1_DOOM on
Strong words from the guy who told us not to call trump a fascist.
Jon has unwittingly become part of the one-sided media landscape that, even when it’s not being outright conservative propaganda, focuses so heavily on democrats’ failures that it gives cover to the majority republican votes that got us where to we are.
PriestofAlvis on
Democrats could smell success and it scares the shit out of them.
completelackoftalent on
Turns out he could believe it because he predicted they would fumble to good news from the election on his podcast.
LeOmeletteDuFrommage on
I can believe it. The Democratic Party has no leadership nor any coherent strategy for opposing MAGA. The best they could come up with was a fight over ONE YEAR health care subsidies, which they basically only got a pinky promise to hold a vote on possibly at some future date.
DaGreatJl612 on
Can the Fatal Eight be recalled? The fact that the traitor faux Democrats, don’t have a regular election next year, shouldn’t be safe in their job security when they betray their base. We need to initiate recall elections for those who voted to help the Republicans end their shutdown.
Quexana on
I find it hard to believe that a man who has watched as much news and Washington politics over the past 30 years as Jon Stewart has not only can’t believe it, but didn’t predict it.
thisismysffpcaccount on
I wish I couldn’t believe it.
Disastrous_Buyer_512 on
Boomers really fucked up this country
foureyedinabox on
How can everyone’s collective outrage be focused in a productive way that has the goal of new senate leadership and having every eight defects face primary challenges in their next senate election.
Mr_Meng on
I’ve always been a defender of the Democrats. I’ve always pushed back against the whole ‘controlled opposition’ bs and maintained that the best way forward is to improve the party from within instead of just trying to toss out the whole party. But man the 8 senators really fucked up by doing this.
CreativeFraud on
Chuck Schumer and the Bailey’s need to fucking go!
ReasonablyConfused on
I keep thinking that, from the perspective of wealthy democratic donors, and many leaders in the Democratic Party, the wrong democrats won.
That they’d rather cave, than see populist politicians win.
VelosterNWvlf on
Seriously, them caving rendered the whole pushback and shutdown pointless
treedemolisher on
Democrats serve corporate interests, no different than Republicans in that regard. This is proof.
Good_waves on
Its sad that he saw it coming. I think a lot of us saw it coming. Its the hope that kills you.
RedofPaw on
I thought they had ‘won’ a vote, and thought, okay… not ideal, but it’s something.
I did not realise it was actually fucking nothing. Nothing at all. It was just giving up and going home.
xc2215x on
Jon understands what is going on.
spazz720 on
I have zero idea why he was surprised. The fact that it occurred right after the elections shows everyone it was nothing but politics.
Underp0pulation on
I realize that Jon is a performer and his over the top delivery is his shtick but seriously, democracy is being broken down every day and once in a while maybe a topic should be delivered without the gags. The audience laughing at everything (once again I know that’s how the show is presented) was just wrong too. It’s like when Rome was burning and if the people laughed as every thing around them burned down.
selfhostrr on
Lol I’m almost 50, I can definitely believe it.
RamonaQ-JunieB on
It was perfect and so on point it hurt.
robrakhan1 on
I’m losing hope really fast that the democrats will ever be a viable party. Those of the 8 not retiring should be primaryed out. Hopefully there will be more 3rd party candidates.
Exact_Platypus5179 on
Maybe time to get off the bench and run Jon.
Jorgen_Pakieto on
The democrats who caved, effectively put everyone through a shutdown for literally no reason whatsoever.
We were winning because it is a Republican responsibility to compromise on their agenda from a lack of votes to pass the bill and we decided to cave for literally nothing…
whooo_me on
I swear, it’s so easy to run rings around these Democrats. Even Trump is out-manoeuvring them, with his one and only trick:
Trump: I’m going to steal your lunch money.
Dems: Lol, no you’re not.
Trump: I’m going to steal your lunch money, and kick you in the balls!
Dems: Don’t kick us in the balls, let’s make a concession so that doesn’t happen.
Trump: Fine, your concession is accepted. But I’m still stealing your lunch money.
Dems: Thank You!
Rinse and repeat.
SnollyG on
He can’t believe it?
Fucking moron.
Too much money blinds you to reality I guess.
beardofzetterberg on
I can certainly believe it. Unfortunately.
SeenItAllHeardItAll on
Instead of complaining they should get the honorary title “Sellout” so Sellout Sen. XYZ (D) and donations should be collected to celebrate their Sellout primary with well paid attendants. It is long off for them I know so there is every reason to constantly remind them of their contribution hence the title.
Awkward_Potential_ on
The thing I don’t understand is why they made Obamacare subsidies the thing here. Obamacare should probably die. People knew full well what would happen to it. I don’t know that many people who get the subsidies and those who do are Republicans.
Honestly, which party would be fine with the government shutdown being forever? I mean, we know they’d still find ways to fund the military and shit the GOP cares about. I think Chuck is the scapegoat and just had a shitty hand.
FlyOrdinary1104 on
It’s unbelievable until after the shock when you remember that the democrats in D.C. always fold like cowards when it counts, it’s just more obnoxious because there’s this whole “we’re kinda being taken over by a christo-facist party in wolves’ clothing right now, could you not”!!!!
VoodooS0ldier on
With as how long Jon has been doing political commentary, he should know by now that most democrats are controlled opposition beholden to corporate interests. This isn’t surprising. Just disappointing.
Turok7777 on
Americans stripped Democrats of their legislative and Congressional power, and are mad at them once again for not saving them from their own stupidity.
And here comes Jon pandering for clicks and views, eager to absolve the braindead public of their hand in creating this very situation.
There sure are a lot of you willing to use poor people as expendable political capital. Hm.
BasroilII on
Can I ask a question? And I want to be clear, I am asking for genuine explanation, not a barrage of downvotes and troll comments.
What’s the alternative? Let the shutdown run forever? Let more people starve, more people lose jobs, and collapse the entire airline industry? Thousands if not millions of people were suffering as a result of this shutdown, and everyone’s mad at the Dems for trying to end it. Rather than at the GOP for starting it and persisting it.
OK, I get the idea of not caving to the psychopaths in the GOP. 100%. But is letting people die to own the Conservatives the right idea?
Wootens on
I can believe it.
Soft_Internal_6775 on
What do you mean you don’t believe it?
LiluLay on
Neither can we, Jon.
OddSomewhere2003 on
Am I missing something or would Trump have just not signed an extension on healthcare subsidies had it made its way to his desk anyway? I understand that the Democrats folding sends a message and looks weak but would it even genuinely matter since Trump never would’ve signed it?
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Remember republicans created a no win situation and were willing to burn the country down and let people starve to deny them healthcare.
40 Dems voted against it reopening.
That’s 16% defection rate.
It’s more accurate to say Dems were undermined by a small group.
Watching the light leave his eyes when he was talking to Kamala as she missed the point again really hit home for me. Me to John, me too
The theory that the Dems were afraid of the nuclear option seems to make sense. However, they’re still weak POS.
I believe it. I called it from the start. My surprise was only that it took so long
Strong words from the guy who told us not to call trump a fascist.
Jon has unwittingly become part of the one-sided media landscape that, even when it’s not being outright conservative propaganda, focuses so heavily on democrats’ failures that it gives cover to the majority republican votes that got us where to we are.
Democrats could smell success and it scares the shit out of them.
Turns out he could believe it because he predicted they would fumble to good news from the election on his podcast.
I can believe it. The Democratic Party has no leadership nor any coherent strategy for opposing MAGA. The best they could come up with was a fight over ONE YEAR health care subsidies, which they basically only got a pinky promise to hold a vote on possibly at some future date.
Can the Fatal Eight be recalled? The fact that the traitor faux Democrats, don’t have a regular election next year, shouldn’t be safe in their job security when they betray their base. We need to initiate recall elections for those who voted to help the Republicans end their shutdown.
I find it hard to believe that a man who has watched as much news and Washington politics over the past 30 years as Jon Stewart has not only can’t believe it, but didn’t predict it.
I wish I couldn’t believe it.
Boomers really fucked up this country
How can everyone’s collective outrage be focused in a productive way that has the goal of new senate leadership and having every eight defects face primary challenges in their next senate election.
I’ve always been a defender of the Democrats. I’ve always pushed back against the whole ‘controlled opposition’ bs and maintained that the best way forward is to improve the party from within instead of just trying to toss out the whole party. But man the 8 senators really fucked up by doing this.
Chuck Schumer and the Bailey’s need to fucking go!
I keep thinking that, from the perspective of wealthy democratic donors, and many leaders in the Democratic Party, the wrong democrats won.
That they’d rather cave, than see populist politicians win.
Seriously, them caving rendered the whole pushback and shutdown pointless
Democrats serve corporate interests, no different than Republicans in that regard. This is proof.
Its sad that he saw it coming. I think a lot of us saw it coming. Its the hope that kills you.
I thought they had ‘won’ a vote, and thought, okay… not ideal, but it’s something.
I did not realise it was actually fucking nothing. Nothing at all. It was just giving up and going home.
Jon understands what is going on.
I have zero idea why he was surprised. The fact that it occurred right after the elections shows everyone it was nothing but politics.
I realize that Jon is a performer and his over the top delivery is his shtick but seriously, democracy is being broken down every day and once in a while maybe a topic should be delivered without the gags. The audience laughing at everything (once again I know that’s how the show is presented) was just wrong too. It’s like when Rome was burning and if the people laughed as every thing around them burned down.
Lol I’m almost 50, I can definitely believe it.
It was perfect and so on point it hurt.
I’m losing hope really fast that the democrats will ever be a viable party. Those of the 8 not retiring should be primaryed out. Hopefully there will be more 3rd party candidates.
Maybe time to get off the bench and run Jon.
The democrats who caved, effectively put everyone through a shutdown for literally no reason whatsoever.
We were winning because it is a Republican responsibility to compromise on their agenda from a lack of votes to pass the bill and we decided to cave for literally nothing…
I swear, it’s so easy to run rings around these Democrats. Even Trump is out-manoeuvring them, with his one and only trick:
Trump: I’m going to steal your lunch money.
Dems: Lol, no you’re not.
Trump: I’m going to steal your lunch money, and kick you in the balls!
Dems: Don’t kick us in the balls, let’s make a concession so that doesn’t happen.
Trump: Fine, your concession is accepted. But I’m still stealing your lunch money.
Dems: Thank You!
Rinse and repeat.
He can’t believe it?
Fucking moron.
Too much money blinds you to reality I guess.
I can certainly believe it. Unfortunately.
Instead of complaining they should get the honorary title “Sellout” so Sellout Sen. XYZ (D) and donations should be collected to celebrate their Sellout primary with well paid attendants. It is long off for them I know so there is every reason to constantly remind them of their contribution hence the title.
The thing I don’t understand is why they made Obamacare subsidies the thing here. Obamacare should probably die. People knew full well what would happen to it. I don’t know that many people who get the subsidies and those who do are Republicans.
Honestly, which party would be fine with the government shutdown being forever? I mean, we know they’d still find ways to fund the military and shit the GOP cares about. I think Chuck is the scapegoat and just had a shitty hand.
It’s unbelievable until after the shock when you remember that the democrats in D.C. always fold like cowards when it counts, it’s just more obnoxious because there’s this whole “we’re kinda being taken over by a christo-facist party in wolves’ clothing right now, could you not”!!!!
With as how long Jon has been doing political commentary, he should know by now that most democrats are controlled opposition beholden to corporate interests. This isn’t surprising. Just disappointing.
Americans stripped Democrats of their legislative and Congressional power, and are mad at them once again for not saving them from their own stupidity.
And here comes Jon pandering for clicks and views, eager to absolve the braindead public of their hand in creating this very situation.
There sure are a lot of you willing to use poor people as expendable political capital. Hm.
Can I ask a question? And I want to be clear, I am asking for genuine explanation, not a barrage of downvotes and troll comments.
What’s the alternative? Let the shutdown run forever? Let more people starve, more people lose jobs, and collapse the entire airline industry? Thousands if not millions of people were suffering as a result of this shutdown, and everyone’s mad at the Dems for trying to end it. Rather than at the GOP for starting it and persisting it.
OK, I get the idea of not caving to the psychopaths in the GOP. 100%. But is letting people die to own the Conservatives the right idea?
I can believe it.
What do you mean you don’t believe it?
Neither can we, Jon.
Am I missing something or would Trump have just not signed an extension on healthcare subsidies had it made its way to his desk anyway? I understand that the Democrats folding sends a message and looks weak but would it even genuinely matter since Trump never would’ve signed it?