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TDS writers seem to be a one-trick pony


It seems half of every episode seems to be about how racist Trump and the other republicans are. Why do they keep going to this particular well so often? Do they really have nothing else in the toolbox?

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Maybe they are shouting about it because... TRUMP IS RACIST!!!
Let's see what happens when the nazi style Muslim checks start.
At least Trump isn't only racist, he can add sexist too.
How many more reports of abuse against people due to sex and or race since you let the madman in the White House?
And you wonder why people keep mentioning it lol

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Your post is more proof for my point.

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Trump is a walking parody of himself, but the Hillary loving writers on the show have beat the Trump thing to death. Every DS writer who voted for Hillary MUST be purged. The Daily Show has to cleansed of Stewartism, and its going to take some drastic messages to free itself of Stewart's ugly "legacy".


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You think Johnson, Nixon, Reagan or Bush sat around the White House discussing their favourite unicorns? You don't think they ever expressed questionable opinions about blacks?

You think Kennedy and Clinton weren't molesting naive, young interns at the drop of a hat?

Trump says it out loud and doesn't give a shït what you think. He is an affront to political correctness (which is exactly what we need right now).

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I just finished reading the new book about the show, "The Daily Show (The Book)", and quite honestly I came away with the impression that most of the writers were not really behind what made The Daily Show With Jon Stewart as good as it was. They just benefited from how good Jon and the correspondents made the show. The writers that were really worth anything on the show were, with maybe a couple of exceptions, Jon Stewart, his head writer, and all of the correspondents who seemed to be largely left on their own to create. So with that in mind it's no surprise to me that the writing staff has ended up looking significantly less talented once they were away from Jon and company.

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