“Each day Present” host Jon Stewart on Monday railed in opposition to not solely the “horrible violence” in Minnesota over the weekend but additionally the whole unwillingness by politicians on the precise to do something about it.
“What blows my thoughts is our resignation within the aftermath of this nonsense,” he stated.
A gunman shot and killed a state lawmaker and her husband, after which shot and wounded one other lawmaker and his spouse Saturday. The suspect, Vance Boelter, was arrested Sunday after a manhunt.
Stewart spent practically a full minute itemizing the places of different mass shootings.
“That may be a wildly incomplete checklist. We stored it to the final 25 years, and it’s nonetheless not every part,” he stated. “And what’s their response to all that?”
He performed clips of GOP figures defending weapons and accusing Democratic lawmakers of “politicizing” mass shootings.
Stewart referred to as out the hypocrisy of these on the precise who’re prepared to take costly and intrusive steps on different points, however not gun violence:
“Why is it when a foreigner, or somebody that shouldn’t be right here, kills certainly one of us, we’re gonna put $150 billion into border safety. We’re gonna militarize our cities. We’re gonna spend trillions of {dollars} to bomb and destabilize overseas international locations abroad. We’re gonna ban individuals from random international locations from ever fucking visiting right here. We’re gonna take our footwear off on the airport ceaselessly. However once we do it to ourselves: Nothing. Is it that the one acceptable deaths are these which might be made in America?”
However he saved his harshest phrases for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who posted a sequence of messages on X, previously Twitter, making gentle of the weekend’s shootings ― tweets so wildly inappropriate that some referred to as on him to resign, and at the very least one colleague confronted him within the Capitol over them.
Stewart stated he met Lee in 2019.
“He’s the very best,” he stated sarcastically, after which relayed a narrative from that assembly that exhibits Lee is the “avatar for the madness of this second.”
Stewart was in Washington with a gaggle of 9/11 first responders lobbying to make sure funding for his or her continued medical care.
When one officer spoke about being in one of many twin towers and advised of the aftermath of the assault, Lee responded with: “I wager you’ve bought lots of tales.”
“We met lots of people in Washington. Some have been hopeful, a few of these conferences. Some have been upsetting conferences,” Stewart stated. “That was the one assembly the place all of us walked out and checked out one another and went, ‘What the fuck is unsuitable with that man?’ The one one.”
See extra as he trashed Lee and the “depth of his depravity” within the Monday night time monologue: