Jon Stewart - Hot Takes and Ignorance

[Kyle]

I really don't get Stewart......he's a liberal cuck but will fight like hell for the 9/11 first responders.....I realize that there is no correlation between the two, I just don't get how he can be that passionate about something, and spend the rest of his time crapping on the people he was fighting for.

Chronic Cognitive Dissonance helps.

 

[GURPS]

Dear Jon Stewart: Yes, the Second Amendment Does Protect Freedom of Speech (VIDEO)

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How is Jon Stewart wrong? Allow us to count the ways …

Let’s start with something very basic.

Why does this author believe there is a right to bear arms in the first place? Abraham Lincoln once said that

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

And this author considers the philosophy of the Declaration to be central to our own politics. And the most basic thrust of the Declaration of Independence is that when you are oppressed, you have a God-given right to rise up in rebellion against that oppression.

We aren’t saying that we need to rebel right this minute. We personally don’t see cause for it. And even if you find yourself oppressed, you should see if you can get relief in the courts or by appealing to the public or some other peaceful means. But, for instance, we think Nat Turner was justified in attempting his rebellion here in Virginia in 1831, because back then a slave could get no relief through the courts of law or in the court of public opinion. And we will stress this is a natural, or moral right, and not a legal one.

But in order to have a rebellion, what do you need?

Well, weapons, duh. Thus, while the founders didn’t give us the legal right to rebel, they made sure the Federal Government couldn’t take away the means of rebellion, should it ever become necessary. That is why they put the Second Amendment in the Constitution.

Or to quote from a legal opinion we called the ‘Best Policy Argument for the Second Amendment:’

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

What Judge Kosinski was saying is that we might face a day where a would-be Ceaser attempts to overthrow our government, suspending elections and suppressing anyone who dares to speak against him. And on that day, we are going to be very glad the founders ratified the Second Amendment—if we are smart enough to preserve it.

And the irony of all of this is that the left constantly complains that Trump is that Ceaser. In fact, they often call him Hitler, another man who used the legal process to basically destroy his country’s Constitution and make himself a dictator. And Stewart has himself said that January 6 was an attempted coup and called Trump dangerous: