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John Stewart

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first: 2020-06-22
most recent: 2020-06-22
sittings or episodes: 1
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“It's great. So I watched it this weekend. It's about a mayor's race in rural Wisconsin that becomes nationalized when this small town is invaded by a bunch of super packs and DC consultants. So I will say you really captured the dickishness of the consultant class quite well. To what extent do you hold what you've called the industrial political complex responsible for the absolute shit show that we're living through right now?”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“June of an election year, do you want to actually end this program on a 7812 issue? Who knows? Trump's an idiot, but that's where the politics are. Okay, when we come back, I will talk to John Stewart about his new movie, Irresistible. Joining us today, the Emmy Award winning former host of the Daily Show. He's also the writer and director of the new movie Irresistible, which is out June 26th. John Stewart is here. John, welcome to Podsave America.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We don't talk about the court nearly enough in why it's so important to win in November because Trump looms so large, but it is very likely that the next president will appoint one, at least one, if not two or more Supreme Court justices that will shape whatever legislation comes out of Congress and with whatever executive orders come out of the presidency for a generation, for a generation. And I do think like we may be saved for now because Trump could have DHS turn around a memo tomorrow and try to start this process again. I do think they're sort of sending mixed signals on this. They're talking about wanting a legislative fix from Congress. Part of the reason may be the popularity of DACA by 78 to 12. This was a June 2020 poll from Politico and Morning Consult. Americans want dreamers to stay and receive legal status. That includes 68% of Republicans. So again, in”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I don't think there's any evidence from this that John Roberts is some kind of moderating force on the court at all. I think that he is an institutionalist who takes a dim view of sort of the incompetence in the Trump administration. He basically held the same view in the census case. That's why we won the census case, just because there were a bunch of incompetent buffoons. And love it, like you said. I mean, you know, cited Sotomayor. She was the only one that raised the equal protection concerns even the other liberal justices didn't. So I do think we are, I mean,”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which is build a framework for their legal arguments around originalism that gives them a kind of larger base from which to operate their arguments around the court that I think liberals have not always done a good job at.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Important equal protection argument under the Constitution. And I think that that's really important. It's really important because what I think Sodom Mayor is saying in that opinion is a more competent version of this decision is still really dangerous. And that is something that I think the conservatives are actually right about when they say that Robert sidestepped the big questions. He did. The opinion does sidestep the big questions. And it just sort of does raise the stakes of the election. I also do think, you know, We're happy with this outcome and we should be happy with this outcome. It's very important. It helps a lot of people. What Trump was trying to do is incredibly dangerous. But I do think it's worth remembering we're not happy because we have some philosophy as liberals around the administrative procedure actually liberal philosophy at stake. And I do think one thing liberals need to be thinking about more is when we talk about judges, not just talking about outcomes, but making sure we're doing what conservatives did for 30 years.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Line. So the decision, the outcome was the most important thing. I'm glad it landed where it did. It is another example of us being, as we said, saved by incompetence that is true of the first time Trump took a run at his Muslim ban that was true in the census decision in which basically the court said, you can't lie to us about your reasons because they were so ham-fisted in trying to add a citizenship question to the census. And their arguments were so obviously false on their face that the court wouldn't allow it. That happened in this case too. It's worth remembering that the Roberts court has participated in a bunch of right-wing decisions on immigration. So there's nothing stopping Trump with this court going back and figuring out how to do this. That's what they did with the Muslim ban as well. Sodomore in her dissent made the point that basically you need to look at the racial animus that propelled this decision, the rhetoric Trump uses, the rhetoric people around Trump use as one of the justifications because it raises”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Military, you've gone to school, have gotten jobs are a key part of the society. If we want to help them remain in the US, we have to win re-election because Trump will make another run at this. Love it. What was your reaction to the decision? It was incredible relief, right? I mean, this is people's lives are.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tommy, what does this decision actually mean and what can Trump do about it now? I mean, I think Love It made the point earlier that this is a week where we are just saved by incompetence. Basically this ruling doesn't weigh in on whether DACA was sound policy. It basically says that the agency didn't comply with a bunch of procedural requirements that require them to provide an explanation for their actions or think through all the ways that they might create hardship for the young people affected by this hearing. So what will likely happen is the Department of Homeland Security cooks up another memo, tries to end the DACA program all over again. It gets hung up in court for a couple years. But it does speak to the absolute necessity of winning this election if we want to protect hundreds of thousands of kids who came to the United States because their parents brought them when they were very small have never lived anywhere else, maybe don't speak the language, have served in the military.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and one more point that should encourage you all to go register some voters and donate to some candidates. William Barr tried to do this in June of an election year. Imagine what's going to happen if Donald Trump does not have to face the voters in a second term, what Bill Barr and other people like that are going to do in this mission.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very frustrating because DC people treat bar and Mike Pompeo with respect because they're viewed as competent. But this was wildly incompetent, right? You don't want to create a massive public fight with your own U.S. attorney and lift up these cases. He's just a right-wing hack. Bill Barr is as dangerous a person in this administration as we can find. And this was, I think, a very scary, very fraught moment for several hours over the weekend. Love it. It does seem like in the ongoing battle between incompetence and malevolence in the Trump administration, incompetence won this round, which is unusual for Bill Barr because, like Tommy said, he is, I believe he's the most dangerous person in the administration. Yeah.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pretty clearly, the fix was in here, and we know that Berman wasn't getting fired because he was bad at his job because Barr floated a promotion for him. He said you could lead DOJ's Civil Rights Division, right? So this was about protecting Trump. And so it was an attempted Saturday night massacre, which was a moment in the Nixon administration. People can Google. It shows me that this ongoing effort to punish enemies is still happening. It shows that Barr is willing to lie repeatedly and publicly. It shows that DOJ is just fully a tool for Trump to wage war personally and politically against what he doesn't like. And they're trying to make it impossible for SDNY to operate independently, which it historically has done. The good news for those who care about law and order, as John said, like his Berman's deputy is going to take over. It's not the person Barr wanted, so hopefully she can protect some of these investigations. But it's just.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To this job temporarily. He's a registered Republican. He gave money to Trump. And I think the obvious tie here, the reason Bill Barr went after him, is that SDNY has been investigating a bunch of sensitive cases that are linked to Trump, right? He went after Michael Cohen in Berman's office named Trump as individual one in that document. They've been looking into Rudy Giuliani. SDNY issued an indictment last year of a state-owned bank in Turkey for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. And according to John Bolton's book, which is very exciting, Trump promised President Erdogan of Turkey that he would shut down that investigation, but he couldn't immediately do it because the SDNY folks were not his people. So that brings us to today, right? So that gets us like this bizarre moment over the weekend where the Attorney General, at best, was just brazenly lying in a press release saying that Berman had resigned and literally naming Trump's golf buddy from like two weekends ago to replace.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Alright, so the law and order president also had quite a few legal issues over the last week. On Friday night, there was somewhat of a botched attempt to replace a prosecutor who's been investigating Trump's allies with Trump's SEC chairman. First, Attorney General Bill Barr announced the resignation of Jeff Berman, who's the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He managed the Michael Cohen investigation and has reportedly been investigating Rudy Giuliani. Berman announced he wasn't going anywhere. So legally the only option was for Trump himself to fire Berman. But that meant that Berman's deputy, Audrey Strauss, will take over instead of SEC chairman Jay Clayton, who bar and Trump initially wanted. Tommy, what did you make of this debacle and how big of a deal is it? I mean, we had a little mini constitutional crisis on our hands for a few hours. It was quite exciting. I think people should know, like, Berman's not some deep stater, right? Like Yosemite, Sam, Jeff Sessions named him.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He doesn't present him like mental acuity is not really the issue that Donald Trump should be seizing on when talking about Joe Biden. Chief just threw the water cooler through the window and you ran out after him. Like that was the vibe I took from that speech. And it was not well. And, like, it just looks a hard thing to. You're right. Like, it could with misleading videos, misleadingly edited videos, right? You can make an issue of this. It doesn't work well if Joe Biden just shows up and acts like a normal politician. That's where the strategy falls apart”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's exactly what you said. I think you tweeted this, Tommy. It was very funny. Calling your opponent senile or saying that he's suffering from dementia when you sound like a fucking, you know, old guy who just left the escape from the retirement home telling the stories.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's just, you know, if radical leftists were in charge, Biden wouldn't be the nominee. So that's sort of confused. Like they did a control F for Biden and replaced it in their like Bernie message they had at one point. And, you know, there's a more potent message in there somewhere that was, you know, Biden's been in DC for decades, but he hasn't fixed all these problems we're talking about. And that's why you need me. I could see that maybe working. I do worry about the smear campaign of calling Biden old and infirm just because it's simple and it can get in your head with like misleadingly edited videos that Facebook giddily allows you to run on their platform. But again, he did a 15 minute bit about how hard it is to walk down a ramp. Like that's not the contrast I would have drawn if I were Donald Trump in that moment.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's going to be in Arizona The whole event, like it flailed around. Right? I mean, clearly Suggesting that Joe Biden Totally with that I don't think you draw a great contrast. A 12”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Problem. Scandal. I mean, this is When COVID re Wu The government tested all Residents. That's how you effectively handle an And hide from it Like instead of”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At some point, you're deciding how fully trumpy am I going in this race, and you're looking at that event and thinking, oh, shit, maybe it's time to cut this guy loose, right? Like he had a whole parade of sycophants with him, like Elise Stefanik, right, who became famous because of her garbage at the impeachment hearings. And she's got to be looking around thinking, oh my God, 6,200 people, what does this translate to in a sort of moderate-ish. District. This ain't good for me.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I do think the crowd size thing can be overstated, but I think for Trump, big rallies are his whole strategy. It's the thing he enjoys the most. It's the thing he points to as his proof point. And if they can't pull big crowds because of COVID, they're going to need to fundamentally rethink how they run this campaign, which is not ideal in June. I also think like the press loves a good comeback narrative, right? And if Trump had packed the box center and then spoke to 40,000 people in the overflow, it could have driven that narrative that the base is still there. He's coming back. People want to see him. Bad polls are a blip. Instead, this turned out shows that things are even more dire than we thought. And like, yes, there's a lifetime until the election, right? We're basically at the midpoint between the Iowa caucuses and election day, which is unbelievable if you think about where our brains were in the Iowa caucuses. But like John said, like every day counts, people want to support a winner. And then, you know, if you're an at-risk Senate candidate, like a Joni Ernst right now.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By falsely registering, if that is true, you guys are heroes. I love you. But regardless, 6,200 people showing up in a Trump plus 36 state is terrible. And, you know, Brad Parscal is blaming the Tulsa Police Department for making it too hard to get in. They're trying to blame like.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To make it look small and then make a show of putting down more chairs right before the event starts and the press is watching. Instead, the Trump campaign was hyping the fact that they would have 19,000 people inside the venue and then 40,000 at a special outside stage. And then they were saying that a million people had registered for tickets. And like that on its face should have told them that maybe something weird was happening, right? Like why would a million people register for something that they can't go to? It turns out that it could be because K-pop fans, like prominent tickets. Users helped inflate”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know this guy. He is one third of the dumbest anchor desk on television, Fox and Friends. He said this morning, like, who thought it was a good idea to put 20,000 people in a room with masks optional? He's overselling there. So, you know, the pathetic turnout is a sign that people are worried about getting sick and that Trump's momentum problems are probably real. It also shows to me that the campaign staff, especially Brad Parscal, the campaign manager, are bad at their jobs. An ironclad rule of politics is you underpromise and you over-deliver, right? That's why politicians always Events in small venues, or they like cut off”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, let me count the ways, John. So, you know, to Trump's point that you've never seen anything like that kind of crowd in Oklahoma, somebody did a nice list of all the other artists and acts that had bigger crowds in the same exact venue. And it included John Tesh. So you would have seen something like that crowd if you had been early to the John Tesh show before it actually filled up. But I really would start with two numbers. One is 2.32 million. The other is 122,000. That's the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths. And so Trump has decided to restart the campaign and pretend the coronavirus is over and that we're all moving on. But people are scared about getting sick. They're scared about going into an enclosed arena with no social distancing or mask requirements. And they should be, right? Because six Trump staff members working on this event got COVID in the process and it came out that morning so people were nervous. Even Steve Ducey, who if you don't know.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, sir, he's in my yard. One of the scary things, though, is that this is going to be a test for whether states and municipalities can get it together to do vote by mail in time and was a little concerned right now that New York State has not gotten everybody their absentee ballots, so we'll be watching that closely. We need to get this right, everyone. Come on, be competent here.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, look, I know, I think this is a cool race that's worth watching. I mean, Elliot Engel is a nice guy. He's been a rep for that district for, I think, 16 terms. But this really has become a generational fight. I also think people are concerned that Engel has been a little too conservative on foreign policy. He heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He voted against the Iran nuclear agreement and it really hasn't pressed the Trump administration hard enough at a lot of things. So a lot of people are excited about Jamal Bowman. He's young. He's an educator. He's exciting. Some people have called him the next AOC. So, you know, check out that campaign. Go to BowmanforCongress.com. You can still get involved. You can still donate money. You can still help them with turnout efforts. It's an exciting race. He is the kind of person I think we need in Congress. So check it out.”
2020-06-22 · Pod Save America · “Live, from the Tulsa overflow” (with Jon Stewart!) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source