And man, it was oh so satisfying. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-7-2013/c--k-block-you-on-the-hurricane I can't figure out a way to embed the video, and there isn't any text to quote, so just go watch it. It's 5 minutes of him ripping hypocritical Republicans a new asshole over their actions relating to Hurricane Sandy relief. Stewart is at his best when he has real fire in his belly. (see also: the show where he highlights how 9/11 first responders are being denied medical treatment.) And lord did he have fire in that segment.
Summary; Republicans who are still asking for Hurricane Katrina relief in their own districts voted against Hurricane Sandy relief for New York and New Jersey.
Shit like this makes it so easy for me to just tell anyone that says they're Republican with a straight face to fuck the hell off.
You can get around the region restrictions. You need firefox and an addon called Modify Headers. Video walkthrough on how to do it -
Not so much Stewart but his reporter, Al Madrigal, absolutely nails the Detroit-Canada bridge and uh the trojan horse.
I was greatly relieved when the $30-40 MILLION dollars Moroun used to try to buy his 2nd bridge prohibition was shot down by the electorate. I hadn't expected that outcome, and would've greatly welcomed a Daily Show segment, I dunno, BEFORE November 7th.
The pessimist in me has been struggling for a while between believing Chris Christie is being a responsible party-neutral representative of his constituents and thinking he's just an opportunistic shitbag who had an approval rating of 48% before Sandy. Not that it makes any of this less valid, I'm just hoping New Jersey doesn't expect him to be any less of a jacktard after reelection (unless he does a party flip on us).
In Wisconsin, we have to deal with Maroun types occasionally releasing "studies," that show how we should have a privately owned and operated toll road outside Milwaukee. I do not think people who engage in that type of behavior belong in society.
Um, yeah, I actually got banned from posting on the Lansing State Journal website for calling someone in a video they posted an idiot too stupid to deserve the right to vote in the comments section. They were on video saying that we couldn't afford to pay for the bridge so everyone should vote against it. When Canada is paying for it, in entirely. And the whole movement to get the bridge blocked and spread misinformation was paid by the guy who is the sole owner of the only existing bridge - and was just trying to protect his toll income.
Do those Americans understand the reason why the Canadian governments (federal and provincial) are paying for all of the bridge is because the US is our biggest trading partner and we want exchange American-made goods for Canadian-made goods?
Yeah, I heard about that, and was absolutely flabbergasted that a disinformation campaign that stupid could actually work.
So you ADMIT that all you want is to take away the few remaining products of American industry that we have left and give us naught but shoddily-made garbage from third-world sweatshops in exchange? Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Fun fact: death panels were once a real thing in the States due to the incredible cost of dialysis and extremely limited funding available. In fact, it required a significant expansion of public funding for healthcare to change that. Moreover, death panels still exist, largely in the form of transplant committees. Bonus: if the committee rejects your request to be put on the transplant list, you can still get on it... if you're ridiculously wealthy. Fun aside: the first article mentions a Teflon shunt invented in the 60s in Seattle that let dialysis patients receive treatment indefinitely. This was developed by Doctor Belding Scribner and Wayne Quinton and is generally called the Scribner or Quinton-Scribner shunt. Before this, prolonged dialysis wasn't possible, as, each time dialysis was to be performed, a catheter would need to be inserted at a new site and then removed after treatment in order to prevent infection; after enough times, there wouldn't be suitable sites and dialysis would become impossible. As a result, end-stage renal failure was a fatal condition. Something about the Teflon prevented the insertion site from becoming infected, so the shunt could be left in. This was a revolutionary.
Waited until tonight to watch this on tv with a stiff beverage in hand. This is why I have little faith in humanity: Rich people being able to buy that type of disinformation, and really stupid people who when confronted with the facts still remain stupid. Thank goodness his prop failed.
The last election, other examples like Meg Whitman's implosion, and this prop's failure should be demonstrating the potential for diminishing returns in sinking buckets of cash to try to scam the populace at large. So it's not all bad.
Hopefully, continued blatant attempts to buy outcomes will continue to further inoculate the populace against that.
My favorite thing about that piece is that Al Madrigal does a great job of demonstrating that these people aren't ignorant; they know the facts of the case. Rather, they're incredibly stupid. When ignorant people are taken advantage of, I get angry. It's really unfair & unjust. But when stupid people are screwed over by their own stupidity that, my friends, is karma in action.
Heck, if one is inclined to fight hyperbole with hyperbole, there's no reason you can't persuasively argue that insurance companies themselves are the ultimate "death panels." But I do think you hit on the nub of the conservative objection to any sort of government-run health care system insofar as the one thing they fear the most is a system in which having the most money doesn't inherently mean obtaining the best access.
Yeah, that is a smoking hot 'Vette. I think the last decade or so Chevy has actually gone back to turning out pretty decent looking Corvettes though. My father picked one up in 2005 and it was a beautiful ride that had power to spare. Go Biden!
