Forgive Jon Stewart for holding off on pardoning Hunter Biden for so long

It’s hard to wake up in America and see the words “Hunter Biden” on the news. On days like these, if you listen closely, you can hear the frustrated wails of millions screaming, “God, who cares?” to heaven. Unfortunately, those who want to play the “completely ineffective hypocrite except for the Democrats” live for it. This evening The Daily ShowAmerica’s favorite hypocrisy finder, Jon Stewart, also weighed in on the Hunter Biden pardon, had a field day, and actually found a helpful takeaway.

It didn’t start off so well. Stewart nearly lost his audience when he went from criticizing Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, to criticizing President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his beloved son Hunter. The Daily Show The audience doesn’t want to hear about the man leaving the White House. He’s the guy who got us into this mess. However, it was Biden and the Democrat’s love affair with the “rule of law,” not Biden’s love for his children, that captivated Stewart. Well, that and the peculiarity of the pardon. Why does Hunter need an eleven-year pardon for crimes he may or may not have committed? That’s a question for conspiracy theorists, and one we’ll certainly be hearing about in the not-too-distant future.

Since Biden had spent the last few months telling people he wouldn’t pardon his son, he opened himself up to the very criticism the president and his party typically level at Republicans. Why is Hunter getting a pardon and not “the J-6 hostages,” as the president-elect asked on his own publicly traded social media site? Well, it’s a question Stewart wanted to explore. Not the question, “Why does our next president own a social media site,” but rather, why do Democrats rely on concepts like “rule of law” as if they would never bend that rule? The Biden presidency was rife with hypocrisy, presented a “purity test” that Democrats could not meet, and gave rise to tasteless defenses and justifications. Biden would make concessions on Saudi Arabia and the southern border while campaigning against Trump for doing the same thing. While this is nothing new in politics, Stewart is once again urging Democrats to exploit loopholes to help people outside the family.

“Rules, loopholes and norms,” Stewart said, repeating a monologue from a few weeks ago. “The gap between the systems Democrats claim to worship and the system they use when necessary is why people think it’s rigged. Use the rules, use the loopholes, fuck the norms. But also use it to help people. Not just those related to you.”