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If only he’d run for President
God Bless Jon Stewart
This video, along with Fred Rogers’ speech to Congress for more public funding for his show, gets me in the feels every time.
Kudos to both. Unfortunately, only one has made significant headway.
The way this is worded, it sounds like Jon Stewart is fighting Congress, and all women.
Man, there really is no one like Jon Stewart. He’s such a great speaker, and even back on The Daily Show he wasn’t afraid to call out the right, to call out the left whenever they did something dumb or hypocratic.
Did anything actually come of this
Genuine question to American Redditors; does it not infuriate you the efforts Jon Stewart had to go through to achieve this?
This is a perfect example of why I’d like Jon Stewart for President. Every politician’s primary concern is their own wealth accumulation and next election. American’s need to clear, concise unvarnished truths, even truths we don’t want to hear. Politico s is placating the masses so they’ll do your bidding. This is completely backward. They are our employees and they’re not doing their jobs.
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Republicans. Never forget how they betrayed our heroes for a political stunt.
One of the most powerful speeches I’ve ever heard.
If you don’t want to watch the entire video, skip to the end where you can see all the empty seats.
Let’s point out the empty seats from that committee on that day:
Armstrong, Kelly (R-NDAL)
Gohmert, Louie (R-TX01)
Jordan, Jim (R-OH4)
Reschenthaler, Guy (R-PA14)
Kelly Armstrong, Guy Reschenthaler, and Jim Jordan are still United States Representatives. Jim fucking Jordan, by the way, also looked the other way to cover up the sexual assault of dozens, possibly hundreds of college athletes at Ohio State. He’s been a Rep since 2007, and is now leading the charge to obstruct justice in the Georgia RICO cases regarding a full-fledged coup attempt against the United States of America.
Take a note of the things these trashbag pieces of shit continue to say and do to disrespect and denigrate this country and its citizens (unless those citizens are wealthy).
BIG EDIT: I ran with what appears to be incomplete information. My apologies. Still, fuck those four pieces of shit. They’re trash for other reasons, too.
I don’t remember this and I didn’t check the date before watching so I assumed this was sometime within 5 years of 9/11. Then he said something about 2015 and I was stunned. The fact that this was 18 years after the attack is disgusting and shameful.
I’d vote for him
Jon Stewart should run for office
Extra, extra! This just in! America still sucks balls!
Do your Republican friends or family know that Republican congressmen refused to approve medical aid specifically for 9/11 First Responders?
Thank you for your service. Now, go pay for your own heslthcare.
Armstrong, Kelly (R-NDAL)
Gohmert, Louie (R-TX01)
Jordan, Jim (R-OH4)
Reschenthaler, Guy (R-PA14)
Kelly Armstrong, Guy Reschenthaler, and Jim Jordan are still United States Representatives. They are earning tons of money.
First responders, get close to nothing.
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If this were a financial game, which players are winning? Which players are choosing the more financially rewarding profession? Maybe congressmen like Jim Jordan are making the smart choices, if we Americans are rewarding them every year??
As a Canadian, this made me cry. This goes beyond borders. This is so wrong. To treat these wonderful people like trash like that is like allowing the two towers to continue burning for 20+ years.
It’s painful to know just how WILLFULLY ignorant and hateful the party of “family values” is and its supporters.
I’m a realist, and that tends to make me look negative. I really wish I had a reason to hold a more positive outlook, but knowing that over 70,000,000 people in the US will openly support a party full of rapists, sexual predators, bigots, etc is depressing.
[There’s currently 1100+ scum fuck Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers](https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook).
Everyone deserves respect and access to food, housing, and healthcare, but the first responders for 9/11 deserve more.
For the party of “family values” and “supporting our countries troops” and such to COMPLETELY abandon the first responders of the largest terrorist attack in the history of our country is frankly unforgivable.
Every single one of the republican and democrats that didn’t attend these hearings should be removed as an absolute failure to the country. They should be barred from holding future positions as well.
The complete lack of empathy, urgency, and shame the republican party showed at the time has only gotten worse.
I wish even 1/10 of the effort these chucklefucks put into hate would go towards actually supporting the citizens of this country and especially the families who have had loved ones die while defending it.
rant over – signed, random idiot on the internet
Republicans masturbate over the idea of exploiting the 9/11 first responders for political gain. They are probably happy that many of them are dead because it makes their manipulation that much easier
There are some things in life that just seem so obvious on the face of it…things you can’t ignore and where there should only be one side of. You can’t right all of those wrongs, but you do what your can. Thank god Jon Stewart did what he did with the platform his fame afforded him.
The left has an absolute leadership vacuum of smart people that can energize an entire country… We are stuck between waiting for Biden to die and waiting for AOC to get older…
Jon Stewart might not want to be president, but I would argue the country needs him to be.
How do people speak this eloquently? How do they remember all they’re talking points? How they do it without looking like they’re reading notes? Etc… It’s such an unbelievably impressive skill.
Jon Stewart know more about being a Patriot, then ANY of these Congressmen and women that did not show up to this meeting!!!
Jon Stewart for PRESIDENT!
As a UK citizen I remember the couple of days after September 11 when the Japanese company I worked for announced that it was making a significant financial donation to a fund for survivors and I remember thinking at the time that the US being the richest country in the world doesn’t need donations but there are other countries affected by major events that would need that money better.
In the years since September 11 when I see news items like this I realise how wrong I was back then in my thinking, and that the management of that company knew a lot more about what would happen than I did.
Man I wish he would run.
Jon Stewart is the fucking GOAT.
Fucking legend.
‘Al Qaeda didn’t yell “death to Tribeca”’
Jon is a fucking Legend capital L
Op don’t do the “research yourself” argument.
1. That’s the exact same logic covid and climate deniers use.
2. It possibly allows the person to do their research and find a shit article reporting on it leading to even more disinformation.
I’d advise just giving one or two links and encouraging them to look more into it that way they at least have a few keywords like the bill name and such.
Why the empty seats? Because they don’t care.
Jon Stewart for President …. but then again the job doesn’t pay enough for such a good person.
The sad part is that first responders that are still alive is dwindling each year. Congress can drag their heel to the point that nobody will left alive eventually.
r/titlegore
So why can’t we find individuals like Jon to represent us in congress? Progress may actually be made if that were the case. True statements delivered with heart-felt emotion and conviction, this is a audio clip for the ages. Congress has forgotten the constitution, because it starts, “We the People…”
I wish he’d run for president…
Jon for President!
I wish the guy would run for President. Our country sorely needs someone under 70 years old who doesnt want to destroy democracy and has some intelligence.
Jon Stewart is a National Treasure.
Speaking the truth.
We really need a revolution.
4 years ago
Thank you for sharing that speech and reminding me of the powerful message it carried.
Can we run Jon Stewart for president? I like him better than everyone in politics.
I know he’ll never run. But this guy could be the greatest president of our lifetime. I genuinely mean that.