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Jon Stewart takes MIA lawmakers to task at 9/11 victim fund hearing
- Thread starter Sibersk Esto
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That episode absolutely destroyed me.
The richest country in the world can't afford healthcare for people that ran into hell to save others. Never forget, unless they are alive I guess. Fucking pathetic.
The whole 2016 experience really was horrible. Started with Stewart leaving and ended with Trump being elected.
Considering it's been damn near two decades since 9/11 and he still has to come back and fight for Healthcare for first responders I'd say he has every right to be angry. We seem to always be able to easily find money to go kill people but apparently saving American lives isn't worth it.
5 years
So let me get clarification so I can be properly pissed off. Are the three folks that were there in 2010 dead from succumbing to complications from being First Responders back in 2001?
This remains one of the most powerful images I've ever seen. Few things have stuck with me the way this has.5 years
And we suddenly remember why The Daily Show was so awesome
John did too in that speech, although tongue in cheek
'Support Our Troops' has never meant anything other than 'Support Our Wars'. The military industrial complex doesn't give a shit about the lives it consumes.
If it doesn't extend to vets, then the entire phrase is an outright lie.
I think he and his show were very formative for a lot of my generation coming into political consciousness. Took no bullshit but I think at the end of the day there was an optimism that it was worth it to fight and call out bullshit because there was something worth fighting for at the end of the day.
Some shitheel Republican from Oklahoma or Tennessee or Ohio doesn't give a shit about 9/11 first responders. They only care about 9/11 to the extent it gives the US a reason to kill Muslims.
5 years
Did all three die? I know that, at the time, two of the three missing were ill (the third had passed away).
Did anyone watch Chernobyl, where the head miner asks if his men will be taken care of, and Scherbina responds with "I don't know"?
More honest than the platitudes of Congress right now
More honest than the platitudes of Congress right now
It's a Democratic controlled House and Committee
Powerful stuff, I hope Stewart gets more involved in politics
Yeah, he talks specifically about how what they are sending to the Senate sucks. Democrats and Republicans are failing these people.
Jon Stewart is what a patriot actually looks like.
The dude is literally too good for America. Fuck I miss him, but he deserves his freedom. He's a goddamn hero (though he'd be the first to admit the real heroes were the people in the room with him).
The dude is literally too good for America. Fuck I miss him, but he deserves his freedom. He's a goddamn hero (though he'd be the first to admit the real heroes were the people in the room with him).
In actuality it's "Support What We Do With The Troops". They don't actually give a fuck about people in the military, unless there's a way to use them for a campaign.
This. It is much more than oh he had a line about how the seats were empty, it had much more to do with the fact that Congress as a whole are missing in action on taking care of these individuals.
From: https://www.renew911health.org/take-action/take-action-contact-your-members-of-congress/
Current Support in Congress for S. 546/H.R. 1327
Senate:
39/100 cosponsors
House:
305/435 cosponsors
Shock, not shock...take a guess of the 305 how many are Dem vs Rep...
Click the link above, that shows the people who are not co-sponsoring the bill i.e not gonna vote for it.
I'm sorry, I feel dumb. I'm not seeing those numbers. :\
Just eyeballing the list, in the House there's about 120 GOP against it (of 198 total) and 10 Dem against it. So that's about 60% of the GOP against it. Fucking hypocrites. Though as mentioned before, they can find money to bail out farmers from a trade war started by Trump, or to enrich corporations and Trump with tax cuts they didn't need, or to over-fund the military so much they can pull funds from it to build a wall with no outrage, but they can't look after the first responders.
P.S. Check the two blue buttons near the top right of the page saying House & Senate.
For a country that really hammers in the shit about "Support our troops!", "Support our police!", "Support our firemen!", "Support the emergency responders!", America really just doesn't give a shit to take care of any of those people once they are done with their service. Then it's just to the garbage bin with those people and pick up a new batch of young, teary eyed, patriotic fools to ruin.
The only thing that probably bothers republicans is that those former servicemen don't die/commit suicide fast enough, so they gotta pretend to care.
The only thing that probably bothers republicans is that those former servicemen don't die/commit suicide fast enough, so they gotta pretend to care.
It's wild. Government and especially Congress will evoke 9/11 at every opportunity; on the muslim ban, TSA, DoD spending, attacking islamic religion, etc.
As soon as comes to the people there and taking care of them, silence. They're not even there.
Fuck them all.
As soon as comes to the people there and taking care of them, silence. They're not even there.
Fuck them all.