Jon Stewart mocked MAGA’s criticism of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance and their decision to stage an alternative halftime show, asking: “When did the right become such fucking pussies?
During Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Stewart likened MAGA’s current cancel culture crusade to the same mindset they railed against a decade prior. “Remember 2017? Remember what you hated about liberals? Perpetually offended, safe spaces, censoring free speech, culture of victimhood. Remind you of anyone?”
“This whole culture war this weekend has really demonstrated one thing. It’s that for all of MAGA’s triumphalism, it’s not a movement that seems confident in its position,” Stewart remarked. “These people who control every branch of government are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they need to create their own safe space alternative halftime show, where Trad Bunny over here is singing songs about how he can’t even enjoy sitting in a truck and drinking beer because he knows that somewhere out there, there’s a trans person.” (“All-American Halftime Show” act Lee Brice performed a song in which he worried about getting canceled for being anti-trans.)
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“It’s actually fucking pathetic,” he continued. “The gap between the power you all wield and the victimhood you all claim is the real offense. If you didn’t actually have the power to do so much damage in our country, I think we all dismiss it as a weak and pathetic pity party. That’s what you’re throwing.”
Stewart also scoffed at the insinuation that Bad Bunny or the NFL should be responsible for uniting the country. “In what world is that their job? “Isn’t there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?” he asked, referencing President Donald Trump. “And before you get your panties in torsion — another unifying pro tip might be to tell your guy to stop tweeting out racist slop during, I don’t know, Black History Month.