Goddamn did I not expect that. So many moments I was literally laughing. Like, actually. Not a huff of air from my nose. Or a recognition of “oh yeah, that was a joke. Good job, funny man.” Like, actually had to stop cooking and set down the knife and laugh.
Agreed, that seems to be Jon Stewart’s entire point…
I think you would be hard-pressed to get a positive course of action out of his ideology beyond merely saying things. If it’s not obvious, that is not a good way to handle the problem that is neoliberal bourgeois “democracy”, which is content to let you say whatever you want because it will still have the last word and a monopoly on violence.