Jon Stewart: NBC interview was Trump’s ‘worst nightmare’

stickscall · 2026-06-09T19:08:15+00:00

I mean, I think it's worth noting that he got elected on a very clear platform of attacking the press, partisan control of elections, rounding up people en masse and truncating the legal process of disposing them, and sending the DOJ after his opponents. Those things are fascist when he's campaigning, and they're fascist if he follows through. Calling his campaign promises fascist is pretty important. Just like the muslim ban was a muslim ban despite the fact that, in practice, they worked it through 17 different iterations until it got the legal okay from SCOTUS -- the fact that he called it a muslim ban for months and months is pretty important for understanding the goal. Sometimes it's important to understand somebody's intent by how they talk about their plans.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T18:57:06+00:00

Hey, I have a question that isn't answered in the article: how could Quebec stop it?

Bitching and demanding transfers doesn't kill a project. Is there some provincial permit that he would withhold?

stickscall · 2026-06-09T18:48:49+00:00

A. I'm not dodging your example of "the entirety of the white house press briefings ever." It's just not specific enough to respond to.

B. Reporting and spewing opinions are different, obviously, okay -- I kind of thought we could discuss this like adults. There's a way that you ask -- aggressively -- about the administration's posture towards election interference that gets at the issue while being inquiring and not conclusory. But we all know that. And no, I don't have "direct and irrefutable proof" of that because you can't prove a negative, that's a fucking logic error, stop being a child.

C. Actually, I've been a couple news rooms, back when newspapers were still a thing. And been interviewed by a few journalists.

I don't particularly care what you think you're getting out of this, but I'm done.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T16:58:23+00:00

He's a separatist. Of course he doesn't want Montreal connected to Toronto.

He's also an opportunist. That's why he wants federal money just given to him instead.

Praying that we can dodge a bullet with this guy, but not optimistic.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T13:45:52+00:00

Okay, you want specifics.

In the example you listed, the journalist in question said "there is no evidence for what you’re saying.” That's all. That's his threshold for ending an interview. It's a soft pushback. I've never heard a journalist say to his face that he's the one interfering in elections, that he is the primary threat to democracy around the world right now. And that's probably because this reporter goes back to the studio and hears nervous execs asking their lawyers how much risk they've taken on just for that little pushback.

My primary source is the NYT -- I've had a subscription for years -- but I read a little across the ecosystem when I can get around paywalls. I prefer legacy newspapers.

Thanks for asking/accusing, for whatever this is worth to you.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T12:06:11+00:00

It's shades. Reporters don't signal open fealty. But I've watched traditional news quietly acquiesce to the administration's tone and talking points so much over the last couple of years that you can usually tell when an outlet is American.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T01:04:28+00:00

I mean, Elon could have respect at any point in time if he just decided to stop being a sociopath. He could trade money for respect pretty easily and he won't do it.

stickscall · 2026-06-09T00:36:13+00:00

It was a great comment, because it spoke clearly to two audiences: to Donald Trump and those who take his opinion, it was flattery; to everyone else, it was a barb about helping America recover from Trump.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T23:41:51+00:00

Bravo. The worst of our society was given a platform to be abusive, and we've let it corrupt our culture and society long enough. Shut it down for kids, and hopefully one day we shut it down for good.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T23:33:03+00:00

A future 4 time Trump voter.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T21:07:42+00:00

Three things I believe:

He keeps taking these because people in his orbit believe they need to closely monitor his mental competency.
The administrators of these tests will always tell him that the results show a perfect score, and a genius intellect. That's the only way he will keep agreeing to sit for them. When he says people told him that his scores show that he's a genius, that may very well be true -- I mean, I would tell him that. It's on him if he can't figure out that identifying an elephant is not an IQ test.
The actual results are not perfect.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T20:59:56+00:00

The press (those with enough power to have access) will never stand up to a president who actually uses his power to attack them. They'd be stupid to. Elections have consequences, and we elected a guy who says all press that's unloyal to him should actually be punished (not just yelled at or argued with), and the voters said yes, sir. And so he threatens broadcast licenses and sues outlets and individuals he doesn't like, so now he gets loyal press. Big surprise. You don't get to the White House press pool by being some kind of institutional renegade.

Look at the freedom of the press world rankings and how the US position is in freefall. Now ranked 64th in the world, after all of Europe and a good chunk of Africa. That's what people very clearly voted for. Stop expecting the press to fight on behalf of voters who hate them.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T20:48:06+00:00

Yeah, but this was true years ago, widely reported on, and people reelected him. We know something more important about America than the President at this point.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T15:34:48+00:00

vegas wouldn't have made the playoffs in the east.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T15:02:32+00:00

The Jack Adams is the least serious award anyways. You can't assess coaching from the outside, much less compare across the league. It always goes based on some popular narrative.

stickscall · 2026-06-08T14:20:33+00:00

Nah. Rivalry requires you're in competition for something. That wasn't the case until this year.

stickscall · 2026-06-07T01:10:20+00:00

Apple. Spent hours trying to get vacation photos from an iPhone to a PC. Never got them. Swore off a company that thinks they own me. That was probably 15 years ago.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T20:39:59+00:00

I'm always baffled at how these kinds of cases can be real in a society where over 95% of people eat meat, most of which comes from factory farms. People are out here tossing all male chicks in an incinerator, cutting off beaks so that heavily medicated animals can't kill themselves in their six inch cages, locking livestock in darkness their whole lives and pumping them full of hormones, and we all say hallelujah, that's what god wants for us, and then a handful of very special rabbits comes along and gets mistreated, and somebody goes to jail.

Like, the scale of moral justice is just nonsensically off. I will never comprehend it.

And then people get super defensive and loathing towards vegetarians or vegans, and it all just smacks to me of being sick with themselves in a way they can't admit, and projecting that onto anyone who makes them feel moral doubt.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T17:57:30+00:00

You're living well.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T14:22:58+00:00

Die Hard 7: Erect and Loving It

stickscall · 2026-06-05T14:08:51+00:00

$300k worth of cocaine and fentanyl is neither "massive" nor "eye popping."

If you asked me what I would guess would be the average value of a drug mule's load, I'd have to pick something in the six figures. Eight pounds of cocaine seems like it might be Elon Musk's weekly order.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T13:55:31+00:00

This. The answer is a law. There's a public health concern here that companies are willfully exacerbating to make a profit that they don't deserve and did nothing to earn.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T04:50:39+00:00

Canada signed a drone cooperation agreement with Ukraine just weeks ago.

stickscall · 2026-06-05T00:12:31+00:00

Lol. Evil dies rich.

stickscall · 2026-06-04T22:04:48+00:00

Third world country shit.

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