‘I Cannot F*cking Believe It!’ Jon Stewart Loses It on Democratic Senators Who Caved to Republicans

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into eight Democratic and Independent senators who voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown on Monday, despite previously stating they would not back down.

“I can’t f*cking believe it!” Stewart shouted during his monologue. “And what, you ask, is ‘it’? Well, ‘it’ is the Democrats. You remember the Democrats? They shut down the government last month.”

Stewart then played a compilation of Democratic senators vowing not to back down over the government shutdown, before playing a news report of Democrats voting to end the shutdown.

“They f*cking caved on the shutdown, not even a full week removed from the best election night results they’ve had in years,” Stewart protested. “Seven Democratic senators and an independent voted with their Republican counterparts to end the shutdown and reopen the government, and did they get their extended healthcare subsidies?”

Displaying a news report which stated that Democrats were given a promise to “vote on it at a later date,” Stewart reacted, “I cannot f*cking believe it!”

“Democrats, you sold out the entire shutdown not to get what you wanted, but for a promise to not get what you wanted later,” he continued. “And by the way, what good does a promise of a Senate vote even do for you, Democrats? You don’t control the Senate. Do you even know how this sh*t works? Let’s just say that you managed to win a vote in the Senate, which you haven’t done in years. Do you know what happens then? […] You go to the House of Representatives, but they don’t vote on it because Democrats don’t control the House of Representatives either. ”

Stewart went on, “Let’s say you somehow convince old Cowlick McBabyFace to hold that House of Representatives vote and you win that one as well. Guess what happens then? […] The president. Yeah. Yeah. You get it past the Senate, you get it past the House, and then the president of the United States.

He mocked:

Yeah, that f*cking guy. The “ObamaCare is a disaster” guy. The guy who spent the weekend posting about how Barack Obama is collecting millions of dollars in royalties from ObamaCare, a fact that Trump picked up from an eight-year-old satire article. Democrats, you gave up the only leverage you had without getting commitments from Trump or Mike Johnson. I cannot f*cking believe it! Surely someone in the party understands that offering a vote in the Senate without a commitment that it would pass or that the House would even take it up is an empty offer?

Stewart then played a clip of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) arguing, “Offering a vote in the Senate without a commitment that it would pass, without a commitment that the House would even take it up is an empty offer.”

“This guy gets it. Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine. You don’t see him as one of the eight voting yes,” mocked Stewart.

After revealing that Kaine was, in fact, one of the eight who voted yes, Stewart shouted, “I can’t f*cking believe it!”

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