The Daily Show: 'Jon Stewart Calls BS On Donald Trump & The GOP's Performative Patriotism'

Source:The Daily Show With Jon Stewart with a look at the State of the Union.

"Jon Stewart unpacks Biden’s fired-up State of the Union and Katie Britt’s disastrous GOP kitchen rebuttal, then calls bulls**t on conservatives branding themselves the party of “true American patriots” and wrapping themselves in the Constitution, while their leader Trump's rhetoric sounds more like an undemocratic king." 

From The Daily Show

As far as President Joe Biden's state of the union speech: if you were to see a preview of the speech, you might think that President Biden would've been rewarded and given credit for just showing up to the right room where the speech was given, or even getting to the right building, not tripping over his own feet as we walked through the House chamber and up to the Speaker's podium. I mean, if you watched the mainstream media pre-coverage of this speech, you might think that Joe Biden was a walking comatose patient, who was ready to have a heart attack or something. 

But instead as Donald Trump is confusing his wife with other women, or claiming that he just wants to be a dictator, but just for one day, (which would be too long) or apparently slipping on the golf course, or having an accident in his pants there, (at least from the photos I've seen) President Biden not just gives the speech of his life, but perhaps the most memorable State of the Union since President Bill Clinton's 1998 address, which was just a. month after the Monica Lewinsky affair broke out. 

As far as Senator Katie Britt's opposition response to the State of the Union: you can see what I've already said about that right here: 

"Now having said on that, either Senator Britt got some really, horrible advice, but she took it anyway, or she’s simply not ready for prime time. Donald Trump and the rest of the MAGA wing of what’s left of the Republican Party, is getting buried by Democrats when it comes to female voters. As much as MAGA wants people to think it’s still the 1950s, or they want to take us back there, the average American woman today works out of the home.

So what does Senator Britt do here? She gives her speech not just from her Alabama home, but from her kitchen. And as Olivia Troye said, who worked for Vice President Mike Pence in the Trump White House, the kitchen: “Representing exactly where many of these men in the GOP think all women belong…

As far as the performance itself: was I watching CNN, or Bravo TV? Perhaps a block of not just soap operas and reality TV shows, but that they were showing the tryouts for these shows and giving people and idea of what their cast members go through before they pick their cast.

This speech didn’t even look like good acting on Senator Britt’s part. More like a high school sophomore whose never even being in a community play, let alone a high school play, trying out for the very first time in a high school play. But instead of reading from a script on a piece of paper, she’s reading from a teleprompter. The speech just didn’t look real." 

From The New Democrat

For any MAGA people who might read this: you are welcome. And here's a chance for you to leave your national cult of misery and destruction and finally give up your addiction to Donald Trump. But, if you actually want to know what patriotism really is: 

"Patriotism, feeling of attachment and commitment to a country, nation, or political community. Patriotism (love of country) and nationalism (loyalty to one’s nation) are often taken to be synonymous, yet patriotism has its origins some 2,000 years prior to the rise of nationalism in the 19th century." 

From Britannica

Patriotism is about love of country. Not about love of people who look, talk, act, like, or believe what you believe, who share your ancestry, etc. To put in a way perhaps MAGA people would understand: it's not about loving your corner of the store, or your section of the woods. It's about loving the country as a whole and what your country stands for, the values the country holds, etc. 

MAGA people who claim to be American patriots because they're devoted to Donald Trump, are not patriots. They are cult followers. This is what a cult is: 

"1. : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious (see SPURIOUS sense 2)

also : its body of adherents

the voodoo cult

a satanic cult

2. : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (such as a film or book)

criticizing how the media promotes the cult of celebrity

especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad

3. : the object of such devotion

c

: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

the singer's cult of fans

The film has a cult following.

3

4. : a system of religious beliefs and ritual

also : its body of adherents." 

From Dictionary

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