On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart by accident sliced his hand open whereas smashing a espresso mug on his desk. The gesture was made in anger in the direction of the billions of {dollars} of federally funded pharmaceutical subsidies ignored by Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity.
For example of the U.S. authorities’s historical past of obtrusive inefficiencies, Stewart pulled a clip of former President Joe Biden celebrating negotiations to decrease the value of 10 extensively used pharmaceutical medicine. An enraged Stewart, who was pretending to “work for DOGE” with a espresso mug and calculator, deemed that hardly a purpose to rejoice.
“The businesses we subsidize with billions of {dollars} are permitting us the privilege to barter the value of 10 of their medicine,” Stewart mentioned with phony pleasure. “And ten is all of them, proper? It might be embarrassing if it was a small drop within the bucket, and that the American individuals didn’t count on that we must always negotiate for all their fucking medicine, as a result of we have now already paid for them with our subsidies! It’s fucking insane!”
Stewart then spiked the mug on his desk, shattering it to items. He shortly realized he minimize himself and moved his hand out of sight earlier than joking, “I will probably be going to the hospital quickly.”
Earlier than the incident, Stewart performed accountant and tallied up all of the wasted authorities {dollars} DOGE could possibly be saving as an alternative of focusing on the roles of “200,000” federal staff.
“How about we simply take $3 billion in subsidies we give to grease and gasoline firms that flip billions in earnings,” Stewart mentioned. “How lengthy did that take? Oh, wait! How about we simply shut down the carried curiosity loophole on hedge funds? That’s $1.3 billion a yr. Or how about we cease the $2 trillion {dollars} we’ve given to protection contractors to construct a fighter jet that blows, when everybody is aware of the following warfare goes to be fought with drones and blockchains, no matter that’s! Holy shit! I can’t imagine it! I simply saved us billions of {dollars} in 11 seconds!”
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