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Jon Stewart Rips Congress During House Hearing on 9/11 Victims Fund, Gets Standing Ovation

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Space_Time, Jun 11, 2019.

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  1. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    Correct, Jon Stewart has been advocating the 9/11 1st responders for at least a decade and has been the front man for their cause. These simple facts always ellude such posters.
     
    mdrobster, Jun 16, 2019
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    kazenatsu, Jun 16, 2019
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    Who is denying that Stewart has been advocating for them?
     
    chris155au, Jun 16, 2019
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    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    Do you know why it required a celebrity for them to do the right thing?
     
    chris155au, Jun 16, 2019
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  5. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    The poster Spooky specifically stated Stewart was doing it for autographs. I presume you read that.
     
    mdrobster, Jun 17, 2019
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    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    Your reply was to @Eleuthera.
     
    chris155au, Jun 17, 2019
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  7. mdrobster

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    So what.
     
    mdrobster, Jun 17, 2019
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    When have they not passed funding for the victims fund? As McConnell just said on Fox this morning of course this will be passed just as it always is, why Stewert is all upset is questionable.
     
    Bluesguy, Jun 17, 2019
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    IMO, the answer is obvious: yes, Congress is mostly a useless organization. Certainly it is a corrupt organization, perhaps useful for perpetual war and the bottom line of the corporations that are the benefactors of Congress.
     
    Eleuthera, Jun 17, 2019
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    Bottom line?
     
    chris155au, Jun 17, 2019
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    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    The way that I saw it was that Congress acted immediately after he spoke. Isn't this the case?
     
    chris155au, Jun 17, 2019
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    It has always been funded and always will be, just no necessarily on Stewart's schedule.
     
    Bluesguy, Jun 17, 2019
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    With all due respect for first responders, but millions of people all over this nation suffer every kind of grievous affliction, day in and out. What makes first responders more valuable? it's not like they are conscripts. They are free men and women who've chosen their careers because it's honorable, full time work, with great early and retirement benefits, as well as good insurance. I'm not immune to anyones suffering. But why make poster children out of these?
     
    Injeun, Jun 17, 2019
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    You will never hear it discussed on mainstream media, but the cancers found in so many of those at Ground Zero are very much like, identical to in many cases, the cancers found among the survivors of nuclear events at Hiroshima and Chernobyl.

    At WTC, the age of those effected was quite young, and the cancers found were cancers usually found only in older people.

    There is a reason that molten iron was observed and reported for 90 days--there was a nuclear event at WTC, probably 3 given the hot spots recorded from satellite.
     
    Eleuthera, Jun 17, 2019
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    Well wasn't it "on Stewart's schedule" considering that Congress approved it immediately following his speech?
     
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    Bottom line?
     
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    So then why would you presume that I read Spooky's post?
     
    chris155au, Jun 18, 2019
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    There are many bottom lines. Give me something to work with.
     
    Eleuthera, Jun 18, 2019
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    when hell freezes over. lol.
     
    Gorgeous George, Jun 18, 2019
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    yes they do.
     
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    because congress is rife with corruption and it sucks big time.
     
    Gorgeous George, Jun 18, 2019
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    It was part of the thread and that is what I responded to.
     
    mdrobster, Jun 18, 2019
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    It would have been reauthorized as it has been every year it comes up and will be in the future regardless of Stewert
     
    Bluesguy, Jun 18, 2019
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