https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Jon_Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7PgaHnup3o
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/pxxdwp/the_problem_with_jon_stewart_series_premiere/
oh my fucking god it's all about the DoD not doing enough for US troops exposed to burn pits with benzene and dioxin
FUCK THE TROOPS YOU FUCKING SHITLIB AND FUCK YOU
It turns out he was just deeply and exclusively concerned with respiratory illness all along.
Treating war criminals like shit is literally the only good thing the DoD has ever done
Millions of dead civilians - nbd, get over it
War criminals own themselves - THIS IS LITERALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE CENTURY
Oh good, because we definitely need a less funny Last Week Tonight that is even more Liberal.
After his appearance on Colbert's show where he spread misinformation about the origins of Covid (lab leak) whole speaking in a silly voice, I'd go so far as to call him a fed.
I was still too much of a lib back then to have read Parenti or even Chomsky 😥 But I felt a lot of cognitive dissonance and stopped watching him after I realized they didn't care about the wars the US was still involved in once Obama was elected.
If I had seen a leftist criticism of US media back then, I wouldn't have been a lib for nearly as long.
Stephen Colbert was doing everything in his power to shut him up. He broke all the sacred rules of comedy doing it. That's why Jon got up and addressed the camera directly, to stop Colbert from fucking up what he had to say.
oh god this is awful, it's not even funny
so they just put him on TV for propoganda right
me: remembering The Daily Show
reality: "It's time to kill the last hero from your childhood."
colbert actually looks good in that clip compared to stewart, and it's been awhile since i had anything positive to say about colbert....:agony-shivering:
I can't watch this shit. He's easily the more psychopathic of the late night libs. What's the TLDR of what he dribbled out? Just China bad?
Is the next episode of The Foundation going to have means testing?
I can't wait for "The problem with the problem with jogn stewart" to show up in my youtube feed.
I mean, as much fun as it is to see troops get their comeuppance, it is kinda a problem that the VA is so shit. Call me a lib but I'd rather the trained killers we're dropping back into society not be denied their meds. I've also seen the shittiness of the VA used as an argument against broader government healthcare.
That said, it's definitely not like, the biggest issue, and it's not really that obscure or controversial. I guess he just wanted an easy target to dunk on. Really just feels like society has progressed beyond the need for Jon Stewart. He made the right call getting out when he did, don't really get why he's back.
Imagine how those troops must feel seeing the CIA get extra healthcare money for their made up disease though lol.
It always traces back to class. Most troops come from the working class, most spooks don't.
There's certainly an argument to be made that many military are working-class "Economic Conscripts" who are deeply scarred from the experience, and prime candidates for communist radicalisation and absorption into (outer) cadre. After a lot of deprogramming and doing the work of political education on their part.
I feel that Jon Stewart is going to be more "Toorp protect freedooomz! We need to treat them right!"
I'm not really saying that. While I see utility in getting troops on our side when possible, I wouldn't call them prime candidates for radicalization. But even though many of them are reactionary scum, it doesn't make it a good thing for them to not have access to decent healthcare, because untreated problems can make them desperate and unstable, and they're already prone to violence. Its not a question of whether they're redeemable or whether they deserve it, but rather how to address the public health concerns they present.
The problem is that his audience that watched him experience two collapses in society, pre and post his tenure, where made to see failure of the Democrats to change anything about the brave new world that Bush created and saw Trump strip everything down to bone while and prevented anyone from doing anything while 700k Americans died. Now what. He's come back while a democrat is in office, to do what, be a champion of our imperialist state because it's neo liberal blue and not fascist red.
The problem, dear Horatio, is not in our Jons Stewart, but in ourselves.