Jon Stewart weighs in on America’s mass shooting blame game, Republican criticisms of Democrats’ “violent rhetoric” and the president escalating tensions by announcing plans to deploy troops to Portland.
Before delving into his main topic of the night, the political comic also commented on president Donald Trump‘s deployment of the military to Portland, for which Oregon is currently suing the administration.
Addressing the six separate mass shootings that took place over the weekend (bringing the annual total to 324), including the shooting and fire at a church in Grand Blanc, Mich. that left four dead and eight more injured, Stewart said partisanship has so thoroughly increased that folks cannot be bothered to even perform previous rituals of sympathy.