Jon Stewart Reacts to Trump’s Assassination Attempt: “We Dodged a Catastrophe”

Hard to say what would have been better.

There's no doubt removing a Hitler from the US elections would benefit everyone.

But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed? And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?

OK, but if it did trigger a civil war, it'd be better to do that now than after they hold the government.
But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed?

His cult will (and already does) do damage if gets in, so it doesn't matter if they might if he doesn't.

And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?

The current one already is a fascist person, at that point it doesn't matter if they're more or less, any fascist needs to go.
- There are levels of fascism. A fascist like Trump is dangerous, but given his lack of intelligence, he's less dangerous than a fascist that's smart. You don't want a smart Trump.
  
  Edit: typo
Trump embodies fascism on an instinctive bedrock level. By the time he saw the democracy, he was already a man, and it was nothing to him but stupid.

It’s unlikely that the person that replaces him will be as spiritually aligned with fascism. On the other hand, just like with Hitler, Trump’s pure stupidity and laziness is the one bright spot in what would otherwise be an unbroken landscape of horror that we’re currently driving into.

I think replacing him, atop the machinery that’s been created at this point, with someone who really knew what to do with it and could apply themselves to getting it done, would be probably the worst catastrophe possible out a set of possible futures that doesn’t have any shortage of catastrophes.
You remove Hitler and you get Chancellor Göring. As you suggest, it's just not that simple.
- Then remove the Chancellor too, and then the next one, and the next one too until they learn that fucking with humanity is not possible anymore. As it should be.
  
  I mean, it works for the mexican narcos down here. We don't have guns to defend ourselves, but they do to threaten us and control us. We fear them because they can happily kill us whenever they want.
  
  Why can't that fear be flipped instead already? Have them fear the people, so they cease to exist. Educating people for that shouldn't be hard either, either you care about every single human being in the world, or you're simply not a human. If you only care about yourself, or your family and friends only, you are not human. As simple as it gets, politics and everything else is just a waste of time, excuses for evil people to hide the fact that it is that simple, just so that they can continue being assholes.
There level of martyrdom would be insane
- They're already delusional and obsessed about their new prophet, what difference would it make.
Who gives a fuck about their violent cuiltists? We'd just deal with them properly and that's it.

You rather instead allow them to grow more in power, until it literally becomes impossible to beat them.

You have to be a MAGA supporter or russian bot to not change your mind on something as basic as that. If I was Putin, this is what I'd do, fill social medias with comments like yours in the hopes it kills the americans' will to fight evil, so that they crumble more quickly, get destabilized and whatever for me to attack you and conquer you more easily. It's already happening, more than half of the Internet are apparently bots, this whole hysteria and stress the media is provoking on people with henious comments, fake news, exageratted bs is not random, they're not dumb or ignorant about it either as much as we love to believe people are better than that, that there's good in everyone when in fact that's not true. There are a lot of mentally ill sociopaths and psychopaths that only care about social acceptance, money and power, you just haven't met one personally in your life yet, probably never will.

As a mexican, a lot of us are already falling so, so bad for russian propaganda thanks to Trump and his supporters. We are starting to openly welcome China and Russia to come here and do whatever they want, because you refuse to change, to stop being so racist towards us. Seeing you say this shit, "no, leave the poor racist MAGAs alone, they can harm us, but we can't harm them" is just pathetic. We are dying because of people like you. Maybe the only way you understand and finally take some action is when something as big happens to your country as well. It's sadly the only way
- You really can't see how a smart Trump would be the worst possible scenario? Trump is dumb. A person as evil as him but with half a functional brain would make the world tremble. Of course the world is better without Trump but do we want an alternative that could be more dangerous than him just by the fact of being smarter (something really easy at this point)?
An organic cause would play out different than an assassin's bullet. Both candidates have the best Healthcare available, so I dunno that organic is likely tho.
- Him dying of an illness or simply old age would remove a good portion of the followers ire (not 100% because I'm sure there would be an interesting portion thinking the cause is fake and someone killed him; and of course some nutjob would try to capitalize it). The problem of a potentially worse successor remains.
  
  The solution is by no means simple and, to do it well, you need a long term plan that includes not only defeating him but also a shock plan for anyone trying to copy him until they return to being a moderate right party.
  
  The solution must include too opening the elections to a more complex system with more than 2 parties and actual alternatives that make people able of voting for something that's not just "the lesser evil".

I think we'd be better off dealing with the illegal actions of some unhinged Trump mourners than dealing with a legal second Trump administration for 4 (or more?) years.

I disagree with this completely. I believe if he had been killed his supporters would massively ramp up the division that exists now, which would be bad. Revenge, and Retribution are terms used by trump and his followers. I think under that reality it would have triggered some awful things.
- They're doing that anyway, the only difference is that their martyr is still alive to lead them.
- Bring it on, get it over with. The Civil War would have been much worse if Jefferson Davis was president instead of Lincoln.
And on the other hand, DeSantis vs Biden? Uh ohhh
- DeSantis is a massive loser, even Joe Biden could kill that guy with his own hands

Why do people act like Trump supporters are even tangentially connected to reality? They're not.

If they want to do some awful thing, and the reason doesn't exist, they'll make up a reason. They'll shoot up a pizza restaurant over a basement that doesn't exist. They'll storm the capital to deny the reality of an election. They do not give a fuck about reality.

They are already doing every single awful thing they want to do. Refusing to resist them because they might continue to be the exact same people they already are is so fucking stupid and infuriating.

Direct video: https://youtu.be/u8yL3I_6Oco

He's not wrong. If you thought the last debate was bad for Biden imagine if there was a DeSantis or Haley up there to really hammer the age difference and speak in complete sentences. That person also gets to carry out Trump's vision and honor his memory. Once they won the election, they also get the opportunity to pass legislation that was Trump's dieing wish.

Nah, if Trump got killed, the chances of Joe Biden getting replaced by someone even better than DeSantis and whoever that whore is would increase, and even someone like Joe Biden would shit on someone like DeSantis
- That's wishful thinking, Biden already flopped against Trump he's not going to crush someone that's not equally demented.

I'm just glad he decided not to go in person to the RNC.

Because he dodged a catastrophe.

Jon is completely right.

Nah, he's wrong. The country and the entire world would be better without Trump and his supporters
- The supporters aren't going anywhere though, even if the bullet hit. And JD Vance has essentially inherited the MAGA base now such that the movement doesn't die with Trump anymore. Pence was never going to really do that when he was VP. But Vance could carry the torch as running mate and gave the party a more clear view of what succession looks like.
- I didn't realize that all of Trumps supporters were psychically linked and would fall like dominoes once the Great Orange One falls.
The (unhinged, dumb as a rock, self absorbed) devil you know is better then the (smarter, psychopath) devil you don't.