Jon Stewart‘s episode of The Daily Show tonight excoriated the new national “pastime” of the “left-right blame game” following mass shootings.
Before delving into his main topic of the night, the political comic also commented on president Donald Trump‘s deployment of the military to Portland, for which Oregon is currently suing the administration.
“Did I miss Vancouver attacking Portland in a fierce battle of mellow artisans? ‘Don’t shoot ’til you see the whites of their cold foam, half-caf latte art,’” Stewart joked, before adding that Trump “sends out the National Guard the same way you and I might make a late-night ShamWow purchase. ‘I saw it on TV! It was on TV!’”
Addressing the six separate mass shootings that took place over the weekend (bringing the annual total to 324), including the shooting and fire at a church in Grand Blanc, Mich. that left four dead and eight more injured, Stewart said partisanship has so thoroughly increased that folks cannot be bothered to even perform previous rituals of sympathy.
“Previously, the routine would be: We express our shock, we express our sadness, we offer our thoughts and prayers, we spend a day — maybe two — arguing about the appropriateness of bringing up guns at all, and then we do nothing until the next time,” he explained. “But as our politics becomes more polarized, even that learned cycle of helplessness has been replaced by a new post-shooting pastime. That new pastime is: Was this one of yours?”
Continuing to censure the inadequate right-left dichotomy, especially amid the proliferation of niche groups on the dark corners of the internet and the memeification of politics in online communities, Stewart said, “Who the fuck cares? These mass shootings don’t fit — who honestly cares? — neatly into our left-right paradigm. Mass shootings are probably caused by a complex fusion of mental health and access to weapons and attention-seeking, delusional nihilism married to an algorithmic underworld that sets these horrific acts in motion.”
He joked later, wishing society could hark back to a simpler digital era: “Can’t we just go back to the cinnamon challenge?”
Watch the full monologue below:
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