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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Jon Stewart sorts Trump's latest barrage of bulls**t into the "OK" and "NOT OK" piles, including telling kids to cut down on dolls and pencils, calling for Alcatraz to reopen, posting AI-generated images of himself as the Pope, and shrugging off the Constitution.
Historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman sits down to unpack his latest book, “Moral Ambition,” which is a call to action for people, especially those with education and privilege, to devote their talent and resources to careers and causes that make the world a better place. He describes how the political left has often made the mistake of placing moral purity above political relevance, and what they can learn from conservatives about building small movements into a larger, results-oriented coalition. Bregman also addresses the problem of what he calls our “inverse welfare society,” in which most high-paying, high-status jobs are inessential, and how his organization, The School for Moral Ambition, aims to reverse that structure by helping people quit their corporate jobs and transition into careers of positive impact.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:06.8 | From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, |
0:10.7 | it's America's only source for news. |
0:14.0 | This is The Daily Show with your host, John Stewart. |
0:18.2 | Thank you. John Stewart. Welcome! Welcome to the daily show. |
0:44.4 | Thank you. |
0:47.2 | My name is John Stewart. |
0:48.7 | Man, do we have a show for a night? |
0:50.1 | Later on, I'm going to be joined by our guest. |
0:51.6 | Rutger Bregman. |
0:52.8 | He's my all-time, and I mean this, all-time favorite Dutch historian. |
1:00.1 | Yeah. |
1:02.8 | That's right, you heard me. |
1:05.8 | Suck on that, Herman von der Deng. |
1:10.1 | Who is another Dutch historian that we looked up backstage. But first, |
1:18.0 | and I'm so glad here with us today, let's talk about our beloved president. He's in a, he's in a, he's in, I'm sorry some respect. He's in a... He's in a... Show some respect. |
1:29.3 | He's in a bit of a tough situation right now |
1:33.3 | since he ran on fixing the economy. |
1:36.3 | And fixing the economy is very complicated. |
1:39.3 | It's very tricky. |
1:40.3 | You need professionals. |
1:41.3 | But Trump is one of those guys who's like, |
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