In this week’s episode of “Daily Show,” Jon Stewart accidentally opened his hand when he smashed his coffee cup on the table. The gesture was to get angry at the federally funded drug subsidy that the billion-dollar Elon Musk administration’s efficiency ministry ignored.
As an example of the history of inefficiency in the U.S. government, Stewart pulled up clips of former President Joe Biden celebrating the negotiations to reduce the prices of 10 widely used drugs. An angry Stewart pretended to “work for Doge” with a coffee cup and calculator, deeming that it was hardly a reason to celebrate.
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“We subsidized companies for billions of dollars to give us the privilege to negotiate the price of 10 drugs,” Stewart said excitedly. “The ten are all of them, right? If this is a small portion of the bucket, that would It’s embarrassing and Americans didn’t expect that we should negotiate for all the fucking drugs because we’ve paid for their subsidies! That’s crazy! ”
Stewart then stabs the cup on his table and breaks it to pieces. He quickly realized that he had cut his hands open and joked, “I’ll go to the hospital soon.”
Before the incident, Stewart played an accountant and mastered all the wasted government funds that could be saved instead of targeting the “200,000” federal employees.
“We only received $3 billion in subsidies, and we made billions of dollars in profits to oil and gas companies,” Stewart said. “How long did that take? Oh, wait! We just closed the carrying of hedge funds How about interest loopholes? That’s $1.3 billion a year. Or how do we stop the $2 trillion offered to defense contractors to build a fighter jet when everyone knows the next war will be with drones and zones When the blockchain fights, whatever that is! Oh my god! I can’t believe it! I saved us billions in 11 seconds!”
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