The Daily Show tries to keep up with developments in the Republican race. It is not easy to do and Trevor Noah tries to figure out how the party got to this point where the race has descended to the almost surreal and comes to the conclusion that Donald Trump is really the candidate they have long been waiting for, their messiah.
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The comedian died today at the age of 66. He was a very funny guy, playing a neurotic personality. I used to watch his early TV show It’s Garry Shandling’s Show where he frequently broke the fourth wall. His opening theme prepared you for a zany experience.
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The Daily Show correspondent Adam Lovitt looks at the rise of anti-Semitic events at the rallies for Donald Trump. One has to wonder at the rapidly decreasing number of groups that have not been disparaged at Trump and GOP events.
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This should be a warning to everyone that the idea that tax cuts produce jobs and increased revenue was always magical thinking. Not that the supply-siders will pay attention because for them this is a religious belief.
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David Silverman is the president of American Atheists and is a person who was born to wear the label of ‘militant atheist’. CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of some of the most extreme conservatives in the country, many of whom are extremely religious. Samantha Bee sent one of her producers to see what happened when Silverman attended CPAC three weeks ago.
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President Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, to replace Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court. Garland seems to be a well-respected jurist, by all accounts not particularly ideological in any clearly identifiable way but instead someone who will bring a proper degree of thoughtfulness to the weighty matters the court deals with.
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There was always something phony about Marco Rubio. He had the ingratiating smile of a person who tried hard to make you like him and yet that very effort on his part was what turned you off, like the person who keeps wanting to be friends with you and yet the more he or she tries, the less you want to. He also had some of the most extreme positions on issues and a steely-eyed certainty in his own rightness and the support of god for them even when they were utterly abhorrent. I am truly glad to see him get the boot.
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This is an old clip, harkening back to the hilarious failure of Ben Carson to get on stage during the Republican debate just before the New Hampshire primary. If you missed it, here is what actually happened at the debate. It never gets old for me.
Cleveland makes every effort to shake off its image as just another decaying rust-belt city with nothing to offer and the city takes every chance it gets to improve its image. So when it snagged the Republican convention this year, it was hailed as a great coup because you would have media from all over the world coming to cover it and the city would get to show its good side.
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Randy Rainbow graces Marco Rubio with a not-so-fond farewell song.