“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”
I’d vote for John Stewart if I was American. Look up how he supported the 911 firemen. He is the right mix of popular to be a viable candidate and obviously principled enough to be a second Obama.
Jon Stewart pushed hard for ~$10 billion for roughly 90,000 9/11 responders/survivors - about $110,000 per person.
Using that same math for all 330 million Americans, - that’d be roughly $36 trillion (more than entire GDP).
I dunno - something about that deal is, - feels a bit populist.
I support universal healthcare. That’s exactly why this bothers me. America refuses to build a rational universal system, but will absolutely create gold-plated exception systems for emotionally untouchable groups because the politics are driven by symbolism and emotion instead of coherent policy.
It should be noted that those people had significant health risks, far beyond the average American. This is basically masonry, likely including asbestos, where the survivors had no capacity for ppe, and many responders forwent it pursuing immediate life saving over waiting to try to get ppe that wasn’t readily available.
This is best thought of as disaster relief in the form of healthcare.
Jon Stewart was pretty positive on Trump bombing Iran. He is not the guy.
Lol, no he wasn’t.
Source: See any of his shows.
https://lemmy.world/post/43875820
Yeah…you’d have to be pretty dense to think that’s him condoning the war on Iran. He makes jokes about every leader. Just because you took offense to them doesn’t mean he’s supporting the war.
Bullshit.
Where did you see that?
Daily show made some jokes about it, and I have heard people alternatively claim that he is either pro Trump or pro Iran. People just looking for an excuse to hate Jon I guess
That’s kinda what I figured. Anyone claiming he’s pro trump either hasn’t seen him talk about anything or is severely misunderstanding his sarcasm and/or satire.
I suspect that the more strident you are politically, the less likely it is that you can understand satire and nuance.
Right, they are taking everything as a flat statement devoid of all other context. You can make damn near anything sound bad if you do that.
They are misunderstanding what they linked so hard though that it’s absolutely someone purposely mischaracterizing the entire material to push an agenda.
https://lemmy.world/post/43875820
I see you sending this to more than just me. Seeing this and your other posts, you’ve got an agenda of some kind. Stewart doesn’t condone the invasion at all in this, in fact he criticizes it.