Jon Stewart fights a fire tornado of conservative callousness on The Daily Show

One week into the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires, Republicans are already testing out new ways to torture vulnerable Americans. We don’t know why they hate Americans so much, but they do, and they want to turn that hatred into “Trump Was Right” hats. Far be it from us to criticize the President-elect, who spent the weekend determining the best ways to be unrelentingly spiteful about a natural disaster that has killed 24 people so far and burned down more than 12,000 homes, businesses, schools, and other structures. Thankfully, it’s Monday, and on tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart could barely contain his rage, ranting at the right-wing “psychos” developing new forms of abject cruelty as they shoehorn culture war issues into the discourse.

Stewart didn’t start from an angry place. When the show began, he focused on the outpouring of generosity and goodwill from all corners of the globe. Firecrews came in from Mexico and Canada to help California despite the frequent attacks from our future president. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to send 150 Ukrainian first responders. “We’re so fucked that a country that has been relentlessly bombed for almost three years was like, ‘You poor bastards,'” Stewart said. It was a kind gesture of Zelenskyy. If only American politicians were like him. Instead, Republican members of Congress teased conditions for disaster relief and argued that this was all due to poor forest management, a lack of water, and, you guessed it, DEI. Megyn Kelly, in particular, was flabbergasted that there are lesbian firefighters, while others suggested using water to fight the fire. There is nothing like fire on water. Even better, heterosexual water.