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Google fined $32,000 in Russia over Ukraine videos Hurricane Hilary could be first tropical storm to hit California in 84 years “If you have the guts to send somebody to war, then you better have the guts to take care of them when they get home,” Tester said. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) hit back at Toomey, claiming that the Republican had an issue with spending money on veterans. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) claimed that the bill would create $400 billion in discretionary spending, labeling it a “budgetary gimmick.” However, the bill fell short of the 60 votes needed in the Senate to overcome the legislative filibuster. 1st Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act. His message to GOP senators who voted against this “get this done, he tells me.” ⁦ /fBCKpY2nbV- Kellie Meyer July 28, 2022Īll 50 Democrats and eight Republicans voted for the Sgt. Perhaps a problem they could discuss around that table somewhere down the line.Jon Stewart generally stays in the background and lets vets and advocates speak but this morning he is clearly fed up that the Senate failed to pass the burn pits bill. It is worth noting that Wyatt Cenac, the only Black writer on The Daily Show for much of Stewart’s tenure and who had various run-ins with the host, had a similar show – Problem Areas with Wyatt Cenac – from 2018 to 19 and tweeted pointedly about it when Stewart’s was announced. Gags are mostly confined to the introduction and the rest largely arise organically during the wide-ranging discussion among Stewart and his guests (all targets of genuinely oppressive regimes or tactics in different countries). It is still not a funny programme – though there are many more laughs, from a much warmer audience – but it and we are now clear that it is not trying to be. It then expands outwards to look at the true threats to freedom and democracy faced by people in other countries, and the more intangible problem of how you persuade people convinced otherwise that a slight reduction in their long-held privilege does not amount to tyranny but to a tiny step towards greater equality. It begins by wrestling with the illogic of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who cannot/will not see that collective liberty sometimes requires individual sacrifice. The second episode, Freedom, finds its groove and works much better. Clearly, Stewart feels the weight of the responsibility given to him he has mastery of his brief and McDonough writhes in well-earned agony on the skewer.Īs a programme it is righteously furious about a worthy subject and, as a result, just a little dull. It is a calmer Stewart than during his famous diatribe on Crossfire in 2004, during which he tore into his rightwing blowhard interviewers Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, or his 2009 hauling over the coals of CNBC’s Jim Cramer in the wake of the financial crisis.

The wisecracking facade drops and is replaced by articulate anger, acute intelligence and a refusal to be deflected. For all his comic chops, this kind of thing may be what Stewart has always done best. Interviews and a roundtable discussion with the co-founders of the activist group Burn Pits 360 and some of the sick former personnel they represent are topped off with an interview by Stewart with Denis McDonough, veterans’ affairs secretary. Oh, come the hell on, say all those who still have breath in their bodies to say it.

It sure is, agrees the Department of Defense. What a coincidence, says the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Nearby, soldiers breathe in the smoke laden with benzene and dioxins, and go on to develop lung conditions, cancers and other incapacitating health problems at rates that far outstrip the norm. Then the whole lot is covered with jet fuel and set alight. They dig big pits – generally near bases for ease of transport – and into them go broken trucks, old uniforms, batteries, amputated limbs, nuclear waste and entire companies’ worth of excrement. Burn pits are the military’s favoured way of dealing with everything it needs to get rid of. He then narrows his focus to those who became sick after exposure to “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Stewart, a longtime advocate for healthcare for veterans and 9/11 first responders ( he testified in Congress about the latter in 2019), riffs on the inconsistency between the government’s professed admiration for “our troops” and the failure to provide anything like sufficient access to, or provision of, the many medical services they need. Matters, fortunately, do start to improve thereafter.