Le sigh, my political education started with The Daily Show, The News Hour and eventually Colbert. My parents are radlibs and we connected on watching our country shit the bed after 9/11. Me n my bro would stay up with mom n dad to watch Stewart/Colbert and laugh at the horror.
We got America the book and I Am America for various birthdays and it was nice feeling that there were ‘adults’ pointing out and ridiculing all this fucked up shit.
Now when I visit the ‘rents they watch the newest John Oliver with me, and I sigh internally.
Le sigh, my political education started with The Daily Show, The News Hour and eventually Colbert. My parents are radlibs and we connected on watching our country shit the bed after 9/11. Me n my bro would stay up with mom n dad to watch Stewart/Colbert and laugh at the horror. We got America the book and I Am America for various birthdays and it was nice feeling that there were ‘adults’ pointing out and ridiculing all this fucked up shit. Now when I visit the ‘rents they watch the newest John Oliver with me, and I sigh internally.
Similar background, realized that their (barely rad)lib takes all kind of sum up to "the right people just need to be in office"
Makes sense when both Stewart and Colbert lost their fire when Obama entered the white house, they thought they weren't needed.
Oliver too, except be starts to scrape the edge of systemic injustice with that beak of his