On a recent episode of his podcast.
The problem with John Stewart, former daily show host John Stewart compared the United
States Supreme court to Fox news in one of the most intelligent takedowns that I think
I've ever seen.
So here is what John Stewart had to say about our current Supreme court.
And of course this was after, after the Roe reversal, after reversing our Miranda rights,
after saying the EPA can't actually regulate the things that the law says they can regulate
after, you know, expanding the rights of guns, curtailing the rights of women and everybody
else.
But here is what John Stewart had to say in my mind, the idea that this was based in any
kind of reason, debate or philosophical education, the Supreme court is now the Fox news of justice.
In my mind, it is a cynical pursuit in the same way that Fox news would come out with
we're fair and balanced under the patina of what would be a high status pursuit to the
betterment of society.
Journalism.
They're a cynical political arm.
When you look at the ridiculous Kabuki theater now of justice confirmation, where they can
just go out there and just effing lie, like if this were about debate, then they would've
understood what perjury meant, but they're now the Fox news of justice.
I mean, there is no consistency states can't regulate guns, but they can regulate uteruses.
You know, um, here's the thing, everything he said is correct.
And I wanna build upon that a little bit, because we are looking at a Supreme court
with their recent rulings that through logic aside, through reason, aside through law,
aside through precedent aside, and in some cases just straight up effing lied to us about
why they ruled the way that they ruled, you know, the, uh, uh, prayer and school thing
is a great example.
They said, oh no, it was just a coach praying quietly by himself.
And then the dissent had to put the picture in the dissent saying you're frigging lying,
which is exactly what Fox news would do.
We have a Supreme court that is no different than Sean Han's Fox news program.
I mean, at this point, honestly, we would get the same kind of rulings and the same
kind of logic.
If Sean Hannity were sitting on the court, if Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram were up
there too, we would have these exact same rulings, probably with the exact same written
words in the majority opinions.
That's how bad this Supreme court has become.
And of course that's why, you know, fewer than a quarter, people in this country view
it with any legitimacy, but it doesn't matter if people view the Supreme court as legitimate
or illegitimate, that has no bearing whatsoever on the law.
Oh, I don't like them.
Fantastic.
Nothing we can do about it.
The Biden administration has made it clear.
They're not gonna expand
The, you know, oh now suddenly I am in favor of getting rid of the filibuster codify row.
Okay.
Well, Kirsten cinema literally killed that within 24 hours of you making that announcement
so that ain't gonna happen and it's not gonna happen because one, you can't get any Republicans.
And two, you've got at least two cinema and mansion Democrats that refuse to do anything
to actually help American people with the exception of their donors.
Sure.
Yeah.
But beyond that, what do we have?
We are being run by this theocratic Supreme court that is using their religion, or at
least their interpretation of religion, which is a bastardized Virgin, uh, version of, uh,
Christianity to impose their will upon us to tell us that we have no rights.
Unless of course you want a gun, then buy God here, come pick a gun out the gun drawer.
But if you want the freedom to do what your own, do what you want with your own body,
nah, it's gone.
You want the freedom to breathe clean air here in the United States.
No, I'm sorry.
That's gone.
You want the freedom to not have your tax dollars pay for religious schools?
Eh, sorry.
That's gone.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You want Miranda rights?
No, those are gone too.
All of that folks within the last two weeks from this Supreme court that as John Stewart
correctly put, it is nothing more than the Fox news of justice.
I wish we still had John Stewart on the daily show.
I know he has his podcast.
His podcast clearly doesn't get the same reach as the daily show did the daily show viewers
when John Stewart was hosting, it were consistently the most informed news consumers in the country
poll after poll year after year proved it.
The guy is intelligent.
I agree with a lot of what he says, not a hundred percent, but a lot.
And we needed that voice.
We needed somebody like him that could explain things, kind of like he did with this Fox
news comparison in such a simple way that everybody can understand what's happening.
That was the power of John Stewart.
And that is of course why I end up praising people like, you know, uh, uh, Seth Myers
and Jimmy Kimmel when they talk about these issues too, because they do the same thing,
but their shows are not, you know, a hundred percent political.
So they're not doing it every single day, but the comedians like this that come out,
they're smart.
They've got great writers too.
They actually can shape public opinion because they can make things sound as absurd as they
really are in a much better way than politicians and pundits could ever dream of John Stewart's
voice definitely missed.
And it's because of things like what he said about the Supreme court here, why we miss
him so much, he was able to explain things humorously clearly and concisely.
And we just don't have enough of that these days.