Thursday, July 28, 2022

Republicans Celebrate After Sentencing Sick Military Veterans To Death
Jon Stewart: "If This Is America First, Then America Is Fucked"

Jon Stewart's anger is welcome – and entirely justified – but why is he furious at "them" and not at the Republicans who blocked the bill, sentencing many veterans to painful deaths, and then celebrated? Stewart rips Toomey, so why not get explicit (to go along with his expletives) and tell the country exactly who the people he calls cowardly motherfuckers are?

Republicans were furious at getting outflanked by Democrats (a very rare occurrence), so they decided to take their anger out on the sick and dying men and women who were exposed to numerous toxic chemicals after being sent to fight for the US's Endless War Machine and are now suffering various ailments, including lung diseases and cancer and are asking for basic medical care. Afterwards, the Republicans – who Stewart said "haven't met a veteran they won't screw over" – celebrated their collective inhumanity by fist-bumping each other.

Democrats screw over veterans, too, of course. Since the founding of the republic, any US political party possessing enough power to fuck over veterans has done so. Indeed, Revolutionary War veterans were fucked over. Back in 1776, the Continental Congress guaranteed disability benefits to disabled soldiers, but refused to honour that promise. It's been that way ever since. It's a true American tradition.
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