'What the Fuck Is Happening in This Country?' Jon Stewart

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‘What the Fuck Is Happening in This Country?’

January 13, 2026 at 10:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/01/13/what-the-fuck-is-happening-in-this-country/

Jon Stewart said last night it feels like the United States is on the “Donald Trump gravitron,” Variety reports.

Said Stewart: “We don’t know what up or down is. We just know it feels like we are all going to vomit.”

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[choie]

1. Oh have you awakened from your stupor, Jonny?

[Boomerproud]

2. It's worse than needing to vomit.

Speaking only for myself of course. My physical and mental health have suffered.

[displacedvermoter]

3. Joe Biden is still old, Jon.

[wiggs]

4. There's nothing funny about Trump, IMHO. When TSF gets skewered on SNL or by Stewart it feels to me

as though it is making light of the evil or the corruption or the sociopathy or the incompetence. I don't watch.

Exception: Last Week Tonight. He is funny but also clear-eyed, brutal, honest, scared, and outraged.

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5. You have to be wary of getting tunnel vision when

you are being attacked by a manipulative cabal. You have to laugh at yourself and your situation to keep your humanity alive. You need a wide scope, not a narrow one....
to experience things other than being persecuted. That way you are less manipulated as you take in more than just the bad people's garbage. You have more balance. You have hope for a life outside of trauma. IMHO

[W_HAMILTON]

6. What is happening is what we told you would happen, but you were too busy both sides'ing Trump back into office.