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  1. “Well, I mean, it's a pandemic, and I'm in that demographic where they tell you to stay in the basement. Other than that, life is good individually and life is heartbreaking. We are in a terribly anguished time. And my hope is that Joe Biden, because he has experienced loss, because he has experienced grief, that hopefully those experience humble him enough that he can connect with people who are experiencing their own anguish and grief because right now almost more than anything I think we need a leader who knows humility who understands their imperfections who doesn't believe that learning curves are for pussies and who can move forward with grace and if that's what he does I will be delighted”

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  2. “It's enough. Like, believe me, after a week of all this, you know, it was five minutes after that Times article came out that the Daily Beast already had up a who gives a shit what John Stewart has to say about policing. I was like, all right, I don't necessarily disagree with that. And it's true I'm still and very fortunate to have this, but I'm still good copy for the internet economy. And so a lot of these things that I'll be saying will go out there, not because necessarily people think they're interesting or smart or anything other than they think it will get engagement. And isn't that the name of the game? And so being out of that economy is wonderful.”

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  3. “Well, two things one, ubiquity is overrated. And unfortunately, look, be barely frank, and you know this, if I didn't have a movie that I wanted people to see, I wouldn't be out talking to anybody anyway because I don't particularly feel the need to. But this whole publicity run is going to go very quickly from, we haven't heard from John Stewart in five years to, can you please shut the fuck up already?”

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  4. “Only thing standing between America and socialism That's nonsense. And the only thing that's actually standing between America and socialism is an inability to properly reform the collateral damage that can be done by capitalism, especially as we practice it today. That's what will cause socialism because people will get to a point where the inequality is so great, there will be a cataclysm. I get wound up. David, I get wound up”

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  5. “Everyone on the right going, this big mistake, Iraq, you do not want to erase your history. And the Confederate statues are not accurate portrayals of our history. They're leftover totems of segregation. They were built by people during the Jim Crow era trying to remind black people that they had something to fear. The plaques on them don't say this motherfucker tried to fight a war so that he could have slaves and we just put this up to remind you of that. You know, they don't, if you don't, like everyone's talking about these statues have just come out. They've been begging for Confederate flags and statues to come down for years. And they've always been told no. And so now they're surprised that it's happening in a cataclysm. It's like, what's his name? George P. Bush tweets out, because everybody's coming out like, I don't really support Donald Trump. I'm going to support Donald Trump because Donald Trump is the...”

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  6. “See how he feels about that? That's not the left You know, this is nonsense that people aren't allowed to say there's more speech in this country than I've ever seen in the history of this country. It's everywhere. But speech doesn't mean freedom from pushback. And political correctness isn't just people that are tired of taking your shit pulling back. Like, what did Eric Trump say at the thing? We're going to say Merry Christmas again. Merry Christmas is the most used phrase in America other than with cheese. Like, come on, man. And how is that not... I'll end with it. They're working hard. The right is working really hard to make themselves the victims of this moment. Oh, the statues are all coming down. What a terrible thing our country forgetting its history. Well, I don't remember when Saddam Hussein's statue came down in Iraq.”

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  7. “But what does he love about it? He seems to hate like fifty percent of the people living in it or 55%, depending on the poll. So what is it about America he loves? And they'll always say the freedom, the Constitution. But if it's not freedom for everyone, then it's not real. Too many people in this country right now don't have freedom. And I know that they always talk about that somehow political correctness is the end of freedom or that if you're more concerned about language policing right now that's a problem, but they continue to paint themselves as the victims of tyranny, but they've redefined that tyranny is the exercise of power not for them because they don't mind Donald Trump exercising power. And they don't mind executive action when it's in their service. And by the way, they don't mind language policing when it's in their service. Ask Mitt Romney about cancel culture.”

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  8. “Seeing it. You know, again, I've always said Donald Trump's going to make America great again, just not in the way that he thought he would. I think you're going to see real grassroots engagement from people who are working. You know, look, what's the one thing they always say about Donald Trump? Well, you know, I don't like the way he is, but he loves America. How are you measuring?”

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  9. “Correct. But I think the government goes out of its way to basically say you go shop and we'll take care of this. They benefit by darkness. They benefit by the noise machine. And so I think my biggest issue with the news media and all those things is it is one of our greatest tools to help us recapture the spirit of American exceptionalism. And if it doesn't work with us towards that goal, we suffer from it.”

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  10. “That's remarkable. And 10 years later, it enshrined that black people were going to count as three-fifths of citizens. And by the way, that was a northern conceit because the South wanted them to count as a whole person just not to have any rights of a person, not to be a person at all, but to count as one, even though we had just fought a war that was all about taxation without representation. So what we fight a war for a revolution, right? for this high-minded ideal and then 10 years later We compromise on the ideal by suggesting that the creation of the union was more important than the principle behind the creation of the union. So we're immediately in like a weird mathematical position one equals one well actually one equals three fifths for them and those people so American exceptionalism is the work that needed”

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  11. “Well, so that's the election. Donald Trump has said we're going to make America great again. The question is, what is the greatness? What is American exceptionalism? In my mind, it's not a title like Miss America, that you win and then you get a sash and it exists. American exceptionalism to me is the willingness of the American system to do the work necessary to improve and advance the lives of its citizens and the creed by which it was founded. You know, America began with an incredible experiment. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that it was going to be a representative republic and that the consent of the governed was going to be a guiding principle.”

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  12. “That's not the business model, and that's not what gets accentuated. And the problem with that is if you have a factory that produces noise and pollution, it doesn't matter that the factory next to it is solar powered and has no carbon footprint and makes things right because it's all subsumed in the fog”

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  13. “And then those most controversial or urgent moments are then aggregated by an internet that is also searching for an economic model. So those get elevated. So the 24-7 cycle creates the material, mediaite grabs its most egregious examples. That gets propagated. The right-wing websites create their model and they put that out there. And it creates this cyclonic system.”

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  14. “And it's got to be producible. Like when you're producing television at that speed, it's very hard to make that television thoughtful or analytic. You set up templates. Anybody who's a producer understands that. My template is person at desk, person on right, person on left, one person who functions as expert. And whatever comes through, we filter through that. Those people also are, those are jobs. And so their well-being and their finances revolve around their ability to stay on camera. And staying on camera means saying things that are at times inflammation, sometimes insightful, sometimes smart, but also representing.”

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  15. “You know, I think it depends. It's very tough because when you talk about the media landscape, there's sort of this idea that it's the borg and it's not made up of individuals. And there are many individuals within it who are swimming against the tide and doing great work or in print or in thing, but the dominant economic cycle and the dominant salient cycle in news is 24-hour news networks. And then the internet ecosystem that has grown up around it that serves to amplify the 24 hour cycles most controversial and egregious moments. So you have this 24-hour factory that is creating what it wants you to engage with its content. And so there has to be an urgency to it. And so it is...”

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  16. “Not as much as I wish it were. Now you're in it, and now we're getting back to the other thing, which is. The defensiveness of the participants in a system that needs to change. And we go back to that story that I told about not having enough women writers, right? I understand that I might not have been necessarily responsible for sexism and television. I understand that I reacted badly to that portrayal of me, and that I didn't feel it was just But what I had to grapple with is that my actions were contributing To that system perpetuating something negative and unjust.”

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  17. “I think it's an undercurrent that gets to an idea of Sometimes it doesn't matter who you are or what you are when you swim. In a toxic mud, it can't help but get on you to some extent.”

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  18. “Constituents of the people. And so that's the starting point. And it's how do you design a story that could maybe in some small measure get at that?”

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  19. “NFL makes a lot of money. And so, what do the owners always want to do? Play more games. They want them, hey, what if we do 18? How about 20? And the players are always going, it hurts my brain. I actually get brain damage from that. And they're like, okay, 17. But their desire is to increase revenue. Whenever you have a system that's incentivized where revenues and money gets that large, It's going to start making decisions sort of on its own to self-propagate. So, after being a weatherman for a long time, I thought, is there a way to step back and look at it from a climate perspective? Is there something about this system that is increasingly giving us these corroded outcomes and hurting our ability to solve problems rather than what it's ostensibly for, which is to respond to the needs and well-being of”

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  20. “I think I'd spent a lot of time commenting on the day-to-day happenings of the political system, of the media system, and watching it increase in Speed and lack of introspection and sort of incestuousness that the media and the political complex kind of started to meld and become kind of this larger cyclonic complex, like a political industrial complex, where the money was becoming outrageous, the accountability was becoming non-existent, maybe it never was. And the outcomes were becoming increasingly corrupted and never ending. It was a cycle that, think about it in terms of the NFL.”

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  21. “Okay, I wasn't very good. Performing themselves. I've always found that hard. And not good. I feel much more comfortable writing and producing and things like that. And two, I spent so much time on a topical show that the ability to work on something and collaborate with people that are expert in there, whether it's Grace Yoon who did the production design or Bobby Bukowski did cinematography, Alex Bove on wardrobe. Calibrating and collaborating with people to be able to consider each bit of the frame is really a fun process for somebody who was just throwing egg salad against the wall every day. Feels more considered, and I enjoy that part of the process.”

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  22. “We need their lives not to be built on sand. When ours are built on granite. And I think that's the whole issue. And it shouldn't be so fragile and tenuous. You know what they need that we oftentimes have a margin of error. That's it.”

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  23. “There is a phalanx there to say That's okay. You do what you guys are doing. You can't do it here And so by placing police, and by the way, I think we do the same thing to teachers. We ask police and we ask teachers to cure a problem not of their making. But to be a proxy for us, to distance us. From the problems that have been created by policy, you know, The inner city wasn't created by accident. It was created by government fiat. The federal housing administration, we've had chances. Federal housing administration wouldn't loan to black people. They redlined districts, zoning covenants. Black people couldn't build equity.”

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  24. “That there is a deep desire amongst them to help. Be valuable in the communities and to it. Because they want to be of service. Understanding that that is not the relationship that other communities have with the police is I have to accept that and understand it and try and find out. Disconnect is and where that morphs. And to my mind some of it is a function of the untenable position that we have put the police in. We have used them from early on in this country as in my mind a border patrol between the black community and the white community, the poor community and the rich community. And we ask them to police that border. And what goes on inside of that, as a matter of fact, if you watch the OJ Simpson documentary, you will see the literal moment that the riots try to cross over into Beverly Hills and Kant.”

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  25. “Everything is. It's, you know, look, this is a complicated moment, as they always are. Unfortunately, we're presented for the most part with false choices and black and white solutions. But these aren't problems that are going to be solved in all caps in 120 characters. I have worked alongside police officers every 9-11. I visit with a woman who is friends of ours whose brother was a port authority police officer who died in 9-11 and we go and we visit precincts and firehouses and we bring food and we just spend the day and we talk. I have great love for that community and great respect. I also understand that that's my experience. And while my experience is true, Others have a different experience that also carries relevance, weight, and truth I am hopeful because my experience in that community is”

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  26. “We're enamored of supply-side economics. We're enamored of tricky since the 80s. That's been the way. And we have to get out of that.”

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  27. “Whether it was redlining or federal housing administration laws or covenants or zoning or whatever it is, if you do those two things at once, and we have the money for it, clearly, I think you'll stimulate the economy, you'll grow middle class, you'll remove people from welfare and food stamps, you'll ease things on the working poor, you'll create a more dignified and equal, like it just feels like an answer to so many of our problems.”

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  28. “So, what I would suggest is, and this encompasses everything. That we get out of this fantasy of trickle-down economics, every president is going to try and stimulate the economy, right? But instead of doing 1.5 trillion To mostly The shift that we've made to valuing the investor class over the working class, I think is the core of the damage. And if we could put whatever trillions into a kind of Marshall Plan. A to rebuild infrastructure and equity In the black community Run by the black community, not a white people saying, all right, we'll give you an opportunity zone. Like not that. Also, pour money into the white working class communities so that they understand that they're not paying the price for our trying to rebuild equity in a community that we've not ever allowed to build equity by government fiat.”

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  29. “That's a good point. We're shut out of the media But I think there's two drawbacks, two things that need to be rectified through an honest conversation. One is, I think a large percentage of white people believe that black people are in the position they are in because of their own fault. They believe black poverty is because of a lack of virtue and that it's a cultural issue and not a systemic issue. The second is resource guarding that a lot of people who are white, their lives aren't easy either. They may have privilege but their lives are not easy. And they believe that any resources shifted to that community are naturally resources that come from them. So there's a resentment, there's a feeling of We didn't do anything wrong, I didn't have slaves, pull your pants up, and why am I always giving you money when I still struggle?”

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  30. “That isn't being seated. It's right in the declaration. We hold these chairs to be silent. All men are created equal with inalienable rights endowed by their creator. So we're not the bouncers of this club, but that's the position that they've had to, you know, it's Oliver. Please, sir, may I have some more? But we're not and shouldn't be the ladlers of gruel. And I think part of the issue is They've had to fight so long and so hard for equality. And while that was happening, we were building equity. And so the equity continues to place things on an unequal footing. So they're still negotiating from a place of lesser. And I would think that the real solution here is And this delves into reparations, and this is a whole other thing. And you and I probably shouldn't even be talking about it. Nobody needs to hear from two old Jews. But”

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  31. “We've had all right you can eat with us All right you can okay you can vote Like it's all those things and it builds this idea in your head of what how much more look I know that they were racist and they made you slaves but hey I was the one who said you can go to our schools now There's going to be some people out front of it yelling at you, but you know Come on, we're doing it, we're doing something. So as you give that up, it makes it feel as though their march to equality comes with a loss from the other side that something is being seeded”

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  32. “Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the trigger point is for empathy and understanding. But what I do know is that... It can't just be about. Policing that this is a much deeper issue that has a lot to do with the way that I think black people have had to negotiate for their own equality from a subservient position. And so each give, so to speak, of equality feels like In the negotiation that the people who hold the power, but we don't hold the power of equality, but that's how it's played out.”

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  33. “You know, I don't know. And you and I probably aren't the best arbiters of whether or not it feels different because we're still coming at it from a place of observation as opposed to experience. It's a broader swath. It seems to be more focused. I think in some ways the pandemic... In the way that people, you know, life sort of stopped, right? And so maybe it's given people a moment to stop and smell the racism. You know, there's a lot of people out of work. A lot of people aren't. And so when something like this happens, you're not as distracted by. So much of the other things in your life that maybe used to go on and you have a moment to reflect.”

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  34. “So all these systems are corrupted at their source, and you have to go through and find the source of that corruption and try and rectify it. So now we start paying interns. And all of a sudden, the people that come in are from a much more diverse background. And we're starting to identify. Now, this is a glacial process. It comes to making those changes. And over the 16 years, Changes were made, and things were better because a more diverse that is not a political correct staff. There's less groupthink. There's more a wider variety. We had conservative Christians. We had Mormon. But you start to find that that makes for a better product.”

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  35. “Inertia can be as propagating of systems that have barriers than anything that's more pernicious. I didn't feel like we were actively pernicious, but our inaction propagated a system that was not fair. Now, it's not just gender. It was also race, and it was also socioeconomics show, you know, television and the media industry and the political consultant industry and all that are still ostensibly in the halls of power run by well-to-do white people. Now for television. Where do we hire from? But we have internship programs. And generally, when you need somebody new for a real job, you'll dip back into the internship programs that you had when you identified people you thought were good. Who were the only people who could afford to do internships? Generally well to do white people.”

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  36. “Well, what you didn't realize is, you know, first of all, systems tend to propagate themselves. And second of all, where are we getting the submissions from? I mean, we're a bunch of white dudes, some from the Ivy League, but we're getting them from agencies. Well, who's running the agencies? Bunch of white dudes, some from Ivy League schools. And who are they submitting? So what you forget is the tributaries that are feeding the Your pond are also polluted. And so we said. Only send us women, and all the sudden those submissions we were like wow, women sure got funny suddenly. But even then, so what you realize is”

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  37. “I was embarrassed. I was somewhat ashamed of myself. For my defensiveness, but B For it being correct, for us not having, because years before that. We had instituted a policy for some of these very reasons. Our show was like almost all late night shows, almost all white nails. And so we had instituted a policy a few years back for writing samples to make all writing submissions blind. In other words, all the names would be taken off it and they would all be formatted the same. So you wouldn't have any idea. And yet, even in that time, The writers that we ended up hiring ended up being male. I guess the The implication being, hey man, fair process is what it is. We're not sexist, they're just funnier.”

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  38. “Well, that was We had, there was a website called Jezebel which wrote an article accusing me of being sexist, running a sexist operation. And I went into high dudgeon, very defensive. How dare they? I was raised by a single mother. When I was growing up, and by the way, this was in the early 70s before single motherhood took off as a fad. She was a pioneer in single motherhood, and she wore a shirt that said a woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle. So I knew I was a piece of shit from early on. So how dare you accuse me of being sexist? And this is outrageous. And I went back to the writer's room and I said, can you believe this shit, Steve? Rory, Kevin, Mike, Ray? You believe this shit? Dan, what do you think, Dan? You believe this shit? Elliot? Graig, Darren, anybody? Anybody believe this shit? So In that moment”

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  39. “Who's been in charge? None of this makes any sense, but I don't think it's supposed to. Because I think it's supposed to appeal to a more reptilian feeling.”

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  40. “That's the story of his presidency. He is the insurgent incumbent. I mean the pandemic from the beginning. He has a press conference with all the leaders, the health experts, the CDC experts, Dr. Fauci. The recommendations that America needs to take and how we have to shelter in place and all these things. And then he goes back and tweets out liberate Michigan. Liberate Virginia. It's everything that he says. I am in complete control. I take no responsibility. And that's the message of his presidency, cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is what he should run on. He's running. The signs are make America great again. That's a sign that's running against the incumbent. What it's saying is America is not great right now. We got to make it great again.”

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  41. “Not only is this the emperor's new clothes, but the story ended. The emperor was called out for being naked, the crowd laughed, and then the crowd left, and the GOP establishment still turns to him. After that's been exposed and says, seriously though, that is a beautiful coat. There's no moving them off of that.”

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  42. “You know, as though literally tear gassing protesters You more on the side of Jesus when it actually puts you more on the side of Pontius Pilate, but that's besides the point. The point is after it ended and this thing is a debacle, Scott Walker, who is supposedly One of the more competent and respected members of the GOP establishment. tweets out I just so admire the guts of this man I can't imagine any other president having the guts to make that walk and of course the internet does what the internet does which is goes back and finds a bunch of images of every president since you know Eisenhower making that walk but without a phalanx of riot police next to them but what it said to me was”

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  43. “Like seven minutes a week where they might push back a little bit. And even that, there's no bar of worship you can raise to. Even when his, whatever the photo stunt was, he basically tear gasses peaceful protesters and then holds up a Bible. My favorite thing is the look on his face when he holds up the Bible is so stern it looks like he's saying, who wrote this? Everybody's staying late until I find out who wrote this. You're in a lot of trouble, Mr.”

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  44. “Coddle that, you know, there's so many myths about this man. You know, they'll say, he's a fighter, he's a counterpuncher. But he's not a counterpuncher. A counterpuncher is a strategic move to parry an attack with precision. Donald Trump is a tantrumer. Donald Trump doesn't, he just hits back. He can't discern the difference between an attack. Personal attack A constructive criticism or even praise that's not worshipful enough. They all get the same treatment. He attacks Fox News. That's not counterpunching. Fox News is a nuclear reactor for a rim job machine. Like all that thing does is coddle infiltrate that man.”

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  45. “What you project, like look, there's an easier task for the Republicans. Well, I shouldn't even say the Republicans. There is no Republican Party. It's a fully owned subsidiary of the Trump organization. And there's no real principle to it. If there were every criticism that they leveled against Obama for eight years would raise their hackles. I mean, When Trump does it, literally down to the amount of time he plays golf. I mean, as they say, there's always a tweet, but I mean, Donald Trump's presidency is a failed presidency by the metrics laid out by Donald Trump. The things that he criticized, you know, he made his bones as a troll. And now that he's in office, the chickens come home to roost, but he lives in an entirely... Different universe of his own making And his minions”

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  46. “Again, like, even when the country wasn't in this situation, I would have thought grabbing by the pussy wouldn't have been a winning slogan, but apparently it was. And I don't know that it's even about...”

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  47. “To have him up there be glib was, I think, for me one of the most shocking aspects of it. To see somebody pantomime in the way that he pantomimes. Seems so Devoid of understanding of the pain and fear that so many people are going through. Like it was bonkers and expected.”

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  48. “Okay. It's the day after Juneteenth. He's in Tulsa, the site of one of the most horrific racial massacres in our nation's history. It's the 99th anniversary of it. And he does 20 minutes on how incredibly steep ramps are. And it just shows this is someone who is utterly removed from it. Everything is just to his own rhythms. He's incapable of rising to a moment and we'll just see if playing that same song is what they wanted to hear. Even the idea that you talk about material, like the idea that we're talking about a president developing material for his vaudeville show is like, oh my God. I mean, And this is in this terrible moment of anguish. When so many people are suffering from a variety of economic or systemic ills.”

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  49. “And if that's enough to get you another four years, so be it. I mean, but that's, I've been shocked to be like, wow, he's not really writing any new material. Kung Flu, really? That's what you're going to go with?”

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  50. “Out. Nobody likes to throw a party where everything starts to fall apart. I think I probably would have covered it from the perspective of 2015 to see like, oh, he's just, he really only knows one song. And he's just going to keep playing it. And it's sort of like watching dice. You know, if he were to like play the garden now and all he did was hickory dickory dock. And you're like, I'm not sure that that joke's still going to work. And, you know, obviously a guy like Dice doesn't do that anymore and he's evolved into a great actor. Trump doesn't seem capable of evolving the shtick and whether or not that's worn. His appeal at this point seems to be in his ability as a troll.”

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