{"id":66797,"date":"2025-07-15T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66797\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:02:09","slug":"elmo-gets-radicalized-and-maga-implodes-on-a-new-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66797\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmo gets radicalized and MAGA implodes on a new Daily Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games &amp; Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n<p>As is typically the case on Mondays, there is a lot of news\u2014way more than can fit into a single Daily Show. For instance, earlier today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/supreme-court-lets-trump-take-sledgehammer-to-education-department-for-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court decided to uphold President Trump\u2019s order to lay off 1,400 employees of the Department of Education<\/a>, clearing the way for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department. Meanwhile, less than a week after Grok\u2019s big antisemitic tear, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI company, the makers of his so-called MechaHitler, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/5400304-xi-ai-secures-200m-contract-pentagon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored a $200 million contract with the Department of Defence<\/a>. They\u2019re also making AI girlfriends for people to descend into <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/chatgpt-users-delusions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI psychosis with<\/a>. Ka-ching. Pumps fist. Cries in mirror. If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/elmo-account-hacked-x-sesame-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as The A.V. Club covered earlier today<\/a>, Sesame Street resident Elmo went rogue yesterday, as hackers took over Elmo\u2019s X account and began posting about, you guessed it, the Epstein client list and the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart hosted Elmo on tonight\u2019s show, which was initially supposed to be about the tariffs. Remember those? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/14\/business\/economy\/trump-tariff-mexican-tomatoes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump added a 17% tax to Mexican tomatoes today<\/a>. But instead, Stewart did an extended riff about Elmo getting radicalized by the manosphere because he is a victim of the Male Loneliness Epidemic. The truth does, in fact, hurt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But the crux of the show focused on the fissure in MAGA world regarding the closing of the Jeffrey Epstein case. The release of the Epstein Client list is a big deal in Trump\u2019s world, with many of the workers within his cottage industry of conspiracy theories believing it to be the linchpin toward taking down that secret cabal of pedophiles they\u2019re obsessed with. MAGA luminaries like Glenn Beck, Jesse Watters, and Lauren Ingraham have already publicly criticized the administration for its sudden about-face on the subject. So Trump decided to post through it, asking his \u201cboys\u201d and, in some cases, his \u201cgals\u201d to go back to worrying about other conspiracy theories, like Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. It didn\u2019t work, and as such, his movement is in revolt for the time being. Basking in schadenfreude, Stewart delighted in telling America\u2019s red states that his new pronouns are \u201chow does\u201d and \u201cmy ass taste?\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column\">\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/jon-stewart-daily-show-israel-iran-no-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b class=\"title\">Jon Stewart apologizes for having way too much to talk about on The Daily Show<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/elon-musk-exit-daily-show-jon-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b class=\"title\">The Daily Show tumbles down Elon Musk&#8217;s alleged K-hole<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump that you\u2019re just experiencing now, to your deep disappointment and dismay, is the dude we\u2019ve been dealing with the whole fucking time,\u201d Stewart says in tonight\u2019s show. \u201cYou just didn\u2019t realize it because he\u2019s been nice to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever you need, Daddy\u2019s here because you\u2019re the child he wanted, but we\u2019re Eric.\u201d Again, the truth hurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games &amp; Anime Site from Paste As is typically the case on Mondays,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-66797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114855735928650926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}