The Thanksgiving weekend has been dominated by news of President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter — who was due to face imminent sentencing for federal gun violations and tax charges — after saying repeatedly that he wouldn't do it. Needless to say, Jon Stewart had thoughts.
"Look man, the Democrats made this case an example of why Americans should believe in our system," the Daily Show host says in the monologue above. "And it's hard — Democrats have the tougher road of defending our institutions and systems as being flawed but still valuable; Republicans just run on blowing this shit up. But at every turn, Democrats keep getting caught creating a purity test for a system they can't seem to pass themselves."
Stewart goes on to run through some quick examples of this, from Biden having classified documents in his garage after condemning Donald Trump for doing something similar to Biden fist-bumping Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after condemning him over the killing of journalist Jamal Kashoggi.
"Rules, loopholes, and norms — the difference between the systems Democrats say they are revering and the one that they're using when they need to is why people think it's rigged," says Stewart. "Use the rules, use the loopholes, f*** the norms, but also use it to help the people. Not just those people related to you."
