Jon Stewart gets in his last few swipes at the GOP before the midterm elections. And while conservative fear-mongering ads are certainly laughable, the commercials aren’t even the most ludicrous part of Republicans’ campaigns this year.

Sadly, as Stewart put it Monday night, no matter what we do or whom we vote for, it seems we’ll end up with “buttheads.”

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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