The world may be on the brink of another Cold War – but don’t worry, @JonStewart went to Europe in Season 2 to find out who will be on America’s team. It went... great.
“Republicans are the first to pounce on crime spikes while never acknowledging that it’s their dismantling of reasonable gun regulation that’s enabled the fucking thing in the first place.” @JonStewart back in Season 2 on why the right’s rhetoric on guns is so cynical.
Some of America’s biggest industries – including health care and pharma – wouldn’t exist without government subsidies, but what are taxpayers getting in return? We investigated in our Taxes episode in Season 2.
“For the last half century, our economic policy has just been a flow chart where no matter what the input is, the answer is the worker must pay the price.” - @JonStewart took on America’s approach to fighting inflation in Season 2.
A new Pediatrics study says gun deaths among children are at an all-time high. In Season 2, Jon Stewart spoke with Okla. State Sen. Nathan Dahm on why he supports banning drag show readings to protect children but opposes regulating guns.
It’s been 2 years since the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghans who served with us there are still trying desperately to escape Taliban persecution and find the safety we promised them. It's time to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act.
“Trump is not fighting for you. You are his human shields, and you always have been.” – @jonstewart, from our season finale in April, on the way Trump’s supporters try to turn him into a freedom-fighting folk hero.
TRUMP: “The people of our country get it. As far as I’m concerned, I consider it a badge of honor. To be indicted, I would consider a badge because I am doing it for the country and I am doing it for the people.” hannity.com/media-room/badge…
“This is going to cause a mass migration crisis.” -@JonStewart talked to @dwallacewells last year about just how much global instability we can expect climate change to unleash by 2050.
“It’s a rigged game.” - @JonStewart spoke to @StrictScrutiny_ on the podcast last June about what the Supreme Court has done to protect minority rule. It’s happening at the state level too – like in Ohio where people are voting in a special election today.
Ohio voters will decide Tuesday whether or not to make it harder to amend the state constitution in a special election that has tremendous implications for the fate of abortion rights in the state.
For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the state constitution with a simple majority. The measure up for a vote would change that threshold to 60 percent. wapo.st/45lbiUq
ALT Headline reads: Ohio voters head to the polls to decide Issue 1. Subhead text reads: Ahead of a November vote on abortion rights, Republican lawmakers want voters to make it more difficult to amend the state constitution