[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 [@EudaimoniaEsq](/creator/twitter/EudaimoniaEsq) on x 27.8K followers Created: 2025-07-18 15:07:06 UTC Colbert really accelerated what I have called the “Jon Stewart effect,” so named because Stewart was really the one who started it. You know it when you see it—the (admittedly smart) tactic of getting a FunnyGuy on camera, repeating something (totally normal) a conservative says, and then smirking at the camera or saying “hmmm really?” without much else. The audience, composed of class-conscious, uneducated yet over-schooled, professional-managerial class drones claps and barks like seals as they’re spoonfed the Right Opinions. “We’re not like those dirty conservatives,” they tell themselves. “We have bachelors degrees from Boston University!” Maybe some even have a MA from American University! Of course it’s cringe and stupid, and of course the people who get their opinions from (or have their opinions validated by) people like Stewart/Colbert and the $ behind them are in fact uneducated and stupid people. We’ve all known that. It’s why they can only repeat slogans, talking points, and even in their daily lives they ape the same tactic: “haha conservatives believe this, how stupid” without much (without any) reflection. It’s led to the average American liberal believing their opinions being the Correct ones, the enlightened ones, the only ones a sensible, “educated” (lol) person would have. It’s funny to observe, but it’s also unsettling. The fact is that this campaign, this initiative, is very effective and it rode the wave of more and more people going to college, getting a bachelors (let’s not call it “getting an education”), and remaining insecure about their position in the professional managerial class, in the urban landscape, in what they think are respectable circles. This campaign spoonfed the curated, hegemonic positions that everyone with this insecurity would be so quick and eager to lap up. It worked marvelously. It worked so well that many conservative positions are seen by this class as inherently backward, motivated by ignorance, or just plain stupid. This was not the case even a few decades ago. We can agree Stewart and Colbert are morons, but the damage they (and the $ behind them) did is unmistakable. Getting Colbert off the air, and making sure nothing or nobody replaces him, is only the start. It’s a good start! But, we have decades of damage to undo. I was going to just make a quick post about how Colbert was propped up by USAID money, but I thought this was better to lay out. XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [jon stewart](/topic/jon-stewart) [jon](/topic/jon) [Post Link](https://x.com/EudaimoniaEsq/status/1946225221746536705)
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Colbert really accelerated what I have called the “Jon Stewart effect,” so named because Stewart was really the one who started it. You know it when you see it—the (admittedly smart) tactic of getting a FunnyGuy on camera, repeating something (totally normal) a conservative says, and then smirking at the camera or saying “hmmm really?” without much else. The audience, composed of class-conscious, uneducated yet over-schooled, professional-managerial class drones claps and barks like seals as they’re spoonfed the Right Opinions. “We’re not like those dirty conservatives,” they tell themselves. “We have bachelors degrees from Boston University!” Maybe some even have a MA from American University!
Of course it’s cringe and stupid, and of course the people who get their opinions from (or have their opinions validated by) people like Stewart/Colbert and the $ behind them are in fact uneducated and stupid people. We’ve all known that. It’s why they can only repeat slogans, talking points, and even in their daily lives they ape the same tactic: “haha conservatives believe this, how stupid” without much (without any) reflection. It’s led to the average American liberal believing their opinions being the Correct ones, the enlightened ones, the only ones a sensible, “educated” (lol) person would have. It’s funny to observe, but it’s also unsettling.
The fact is that this campaign, this initiative, is very effective and it rode the wave of more and more people going to college, getting a bachelors (let’s not call it “getting an education”), and remaining insecure about their position in the professional managerial class, in the urban landscape, in what they think are respectable circles. This campaign spoonfed the curated, hegemonic positions that everyone with this insecurity would be so quick and eager to lap up. It worked marvelously. It worked so well that many conservative positions are seen by this class as inherently backward, motivated by ignorance, or just plain stupid. This was not the case even a few decades ago. We can agree Stewart and Colbert are morons, but the damage they (and the $ behind them) did is unmistakable.
Getting Colbert off the air, and making sure nothing or nobody replaces him, is only the start. It’s a good start! But, we have decades of damage to undo.
I was going to just make a quick post about how Colbert was propped up by USAID money, but I thought this was better to lay out.
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