MAGA has had its huge share of freakouts lately, and Jon Stewart has had enough.
Real things that both MAGA have crashed out over recently include Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, to the point where they scheduled their own alternative halftime show starring Kid Rock. Then there was the Team USA skier who said, “Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US” — who was then called a “real Loser” by the president himself.
“When did the right become such f***ing pussies?” Stewart asked in a recent broadcast of The Daily Show. “Remember 2017? Remember what you hated about liberals? Oh, perpetually offended, safe spaces, censoring free speech, culture of victimhood. Remind you of anyone?”
In a mocking voice, he mimicked, “I can’t go 15 minutes without listening to country music, I need a separate show. That skier triggered me, I can’t sleep.”
“This whole culture war this weekend has really demonstrated one thing. It’s that for all of MAGA’s triumphalism, it’s not a movement that seems confident in its position,” he continued.
“These people, who control every branch of government, are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they need to create their own safe space, alternative halftime show, where Trad Bunny over here is singing songs about how he can’t even enjoy sitting in a truck and drinking beer because he knows that somewhere out there, there’s a trans person,” he said.
“It’s actually f***ing pathetic, the gap between the power you all wield—” he began, before applause from the audience cut him off. “The gap between the power you all wield and the victimhood you all claim is the real offense. If you didn’t actually have the power to do so much damage in our country, I think we’d all dismiss it as a weak and pathetic pity party.”
You can watch the full monologue here.