Jon Stewart trolls Fox News live on air and assures them Hunter Biden didn't tamper with vets bill - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
By: Brad Reed (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
republicans: "we support the military and the veterans"... bwah ha ha ha, yeah right...
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Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart stayed on the warpath on Friday in his efforts to get a bill passed that would secure health benefits for veterans who are suffering due to their exposure to toxic burn pits.
To make his case, Stewart went on the conservative Fox News to make a direct plea to its viewers that the legislation was worth passing even as Republican members of the Senate blocked it earlier this week.
During an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer, Stewart directly debunked what he described as "misinformation" about the legislation.
"No spending that is not related to veterans has been added to this bill," Stewart began. "No last-minute budget gimmicks have been added to this bill. This bill is purely based on toxic exposure health care and benefits to veterans."
He then encouraged viewers to read the bill at Congress.gov and see for themselves that there is no hidden agenda inside the legislation.
"Hunter Biden didn't sneak in and add unrelated spending in the middle of the night," he said. "This bill is exactly as it was, with the removal of one sentence that had to do with taxation and rural medical facilities!"
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looks like senate republicans think dead veterans are a lot cheaper in the long run...
Absolutely disgusting example of what they think of vets.
I love Jon Stewart.
So do the Veterans who he fights for.
Not the republicans/alleged conservatives/gop/gap who don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves
I wish Jon Stewart would run for president. He would be a breath of fresh air rarely seen in American politics. He is slightly liberal on most issues, but most accurately described as a centrist.
He has already said he is not interested in running for office though, but if things continue deteriorating in this country at the rate they are now maybe he could be persuaded.
With Stephen Colbert for VP.
I'd vote for that ticket
"He has already said he is not interested in running for office though, but if things continue deteriorating in this country at the rate they are now maybe he could be persuaded"
He would lose big time.....too liberal. A better choice would be Mike Rowe
He would win big time. Jon that is
I think Rowe's a closet trumpturd supporter.
nah, rowe has been up front in his support of trumpster fascism for years.
I stand corrected. He's been out of the public eye the last couple years and I never really followed him.
The Repubs say there objection isn't the funding for veterans suffering illnesses caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, but rather the reclassification of about $400B in unrelated VA spending from discretionary to mandatory accounts. Mandatory spending doesn't require an annual appropriation by Congress.
Mandatory spending has grown around two-thirds of the total federal budget in most years, and more in some years. It was $5.2T or 72,9% in 2021. Interest on the debt 4.3% leaving $1.6T or 22.8% that Congress voted on.
On the Senate floor last Wed, Toomey recommended to get rid of this mandatory funding shift by unanimous consent. "We can fix this tonight… once that’s done, this bill sails through this chamber."
Jon Stewart says Toomey is wrong. I think I'll believe Stewart.
We should know in a few days.
I believe Jon over those scum always
As usual the scum repubkicans/gop/gqp/alleged conservatives prove they don't give a fuck about Veterans. Only themselves and the almighty lining their own pockets
add another segment of americans trumpster's are happy to throw under the bus...
The Senate, with overwhelming Republican support, already passed the PACT bill. The House altered the bill to add 400 billion in additional spending, and the Republicans object to that.
Another example of how in the pocket of the Democrats partisan hacks like Stewart are. They Democrats change a bill to add pork, refuse to pass the original bill solving the problem, and the lapdog media blame Republicans.
If Democrats actually cared about helping veterans, and not capitalizing on the PR the fake narrative professional liars like Stewart generate, they could have passed the bill already.
Additional spending? Can you provide the text on that as I cannot find it. All I can find is that the Senate Republicans voted against it when the House bill came back with an amendment where the why the money for the bill would come from.
I don't think that it identifies additional spending. The way Toomey explained it on the Senate floor, it shifts around $400 B from current discretionary accounts to mandatory entitlements. That provides room for future additional spending without bumping against the debt ceiling.
I've looked for the specific legislative language, but haven't found it.
Thanks. That's what I understood it to be also.
“…the fake narrative professional liars like Stewart.”
And what does the ‘professional liar like Stewart’ have to gain here. His bona fides on this topic appear beyond reproach…unless of course one is short-sightedly and singularly focused on the messenger.
What additional spending?
meh, he likes the idea that funding for sick vets can be used as a GOP blackmail tool every year into perpetuity...
Exactly, why should Congress vote and approve the annual spending, that’s just crazy talk.
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“Just can’t handle the relevant truth?”
Ha! This could preface every single comment of yours.
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Exactly, we don’t need no stinking appropriation bills, put the rest of the budget on mandatory spending and be done with it.
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Exactly, debating and voting on Appropriation Bills is so last century.
One track mind.
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Bunch of deleted shit, but what spending?
Vets are just another group the GOP despises it seems. But of course I have been calling them out on their bullshit lipservice to vets for over a decade.
“Vets…”
Need to be delicate here.
While we appreciate the service, that service does not give anyone an automatic pass or make their views any more relevant. If that be the case, their service is diminished by the views they take, ignoring what they were actually fighting for.
Oh I never said that, I have also said many times that a lot of the dumbest people and biggest assholes I know are people I served with. That being said, I have called out the GOP, even before my enlistment ended, for using vets as stage props and then promptly fucking us over every chance they get.
... every vet that still supported trump after 1/6/21.
Exactly, they can’t be very bright or they wouldn’t be Vets to begin with, right?
Agreeing with you has turned into trolling.
Fuck off.
GOP playing retribution politix me the fck off. The bill was a DONE DEAL, till Turtle boy got played by Manchin who has been playing the Dems since the election Trump claims he won, and the Republicans, of which there are120 + who refuse to admit as much, were playing payback for them getting played at the cost of Hedalthcare for our Veterans. Nice job Dickheads.
Women, Children, Sick Veterans, and gullible suckers are all being played and used by the G uttless O ffensive P ricks
The bill will likely pass before recess, especially if amended.
The bill WOULD have been passed before story time, if Manchin had stayed his mainly Republican coarse, too many find fine, and THAT is WHY the GOP voted AGAINST OUR VETERANS ! Our Veterans, as U r quite aware, do not need to be used as political pawns by pols, as they suffer daily, these PRICKS are about to take a month long recess. Perhaps they should be suspended for the suspension of vets care and detained in detention in detention centers for multiplying the division in math classless acts by classless actors in DRAMA Schooling for controlling the ignorant and fooling, no fooling...?
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Totally agree, Iggy. Well said.
There is some irony in so many deletions for trolling in a seed entitled “Jon Stewart trolls…”
No, more like the word "Troll" in a title triggers trolls.
Actually, the Trolls here on NT really don't need any specific word(s to 'Trigger' them, as that is all they are here for to start with.
Need? No, it is relentless unpleasantness.
What my Mama would call, "Charm Free"...
Your Mama is right. A great term and fits perfectly.
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Several Retrumplicans celebrated fucking over the sick veterans after they blocked the healthcare bill.
Here is Ted Cruz (who avoided military service) fist bumping Steve Daines (another chicken hawk) after they successfully filibustered the bill. Daines pretends to be a huge supporter of veterans which, of course, is a fucking lie.