Jon Stewart
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using those processes much faster than we're able to contain it.
I think his first term struck me as he was testing the limits of our constitution.
Where are the holes?
Where are the weaknesses?
The second term, he's just exploiting them.
And he's doing it at such a pace.
I mean, I think the real analog to that is what happened to the East Wing.
where I'm going to build a ballroom, but I'm never going to touch the East wing.
And then it's just gone.
And rather than face the consequences, he is a, he's not, you know, they always say like, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
The thing about Trump is he doesn't even ask fucking forgiveness.
He just moves on.
He's a wreck.
It's a, he is a wrecking ball that operates simultaneously with a sort of reality distortion field.
And he convinces his acolytes, like you say, through the power of narrative.
He's one of the better narrative storytellers.
But it's butting up against actual reality.
And that's what's so fascinating about the Iran situation.
It's the first time I've seen him not be able to just move on.
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