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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Make Authoritarianism Great Again? with Maria Ressa

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Drawing on her frontline experience, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa joins us to examine the alarming parallels between America's political climate and the Philippines' democratic decline. We explore how digital platforms have become weapons against truth, discuss shifting global alignments, and consider strategies for resistance to protect American democracy. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more:  > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast  > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod   > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic  Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Researcher & Associate Producer – Gillian Spear Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome once again to the weekly show podcast. My name is John Stewart. I will be your

0:12.6

host. We are coming to you. What day is today? Wednesday morning? It's going to come out

0:18.3

tomorrow. I think that President Trump is still speaking.

0:22.4

He's just wrapping up now. He's just now. He's giving out some cars. And I was last night,

0:29.6

he's so much better at this than, oh, the, oh, the sweet, sweet Democrats

0:38.4

with their protest hatched

0:41.0

in some high school theater workshop

0:43.8

or wherever it is that they got.

0:45.9

Hey, man, I've got some magic markers in my locker.

0:49.3

Why don't we just write phrases on postcards?

0:53.1

And while the president is honoring people who've lost their children and Gold Star families

0:59.5

and giving people, you know, West Point commendations, I'm just going to hold up a handwritten

1:06.3

sign that says, I'm sad.

1:10.0

This isn't right.

1:12.5

Oh, we're fucked.

1:14.8

It is, it is, and that's why, here's, here's why I'm very excited about today's show.

1:20.5

The guests that we have today is someone whose spirit is indomitable, somebody who is

1:26.5

vital and working hard to create the type of world that they think is

1:31.8

fairer and more just and all those things.

1:34.2

And our guest today is doing just that.

1:36.5

And I think is absolutely outlining a coherent and very clear-eyed view of what is happening and strategies to get back to

1:49.0

a more constitutional and free and fair world.

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