The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Memorial Day
Mon, 26 May
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Celebrate Memorial Day with The Daily Show as we look back at previous coverage, and issues currently affecting veterans and the military. President Bush speaks to Memorial Day and D-Day remembrance crowds, as Hollywood marks the occasions with promotion of blockbuster Pearl Harbor and HBO's Band of Brothers. Michael Kosta unpacks Trump's military trans ban. Ronny Chieng sits down with Senator Tammy Duckworth to hear her thoughts on Trump's treatment of veterans. Jon Stewart checks receipts on Trump's proposed birthday military parade, and Jordan Klepper is joined by trans military members to discuss how they've become so politicized. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the significance of Memorial Day?
Okay, and... So I'm pissed. Okay, can anyone stop this?
Well, we can try to stop them. We are fighting them every step of the way. In my case, I've been able to get some veterans their jobs back. They fired veterans from the Veterans Crisis Hotline. These are people who answered the phone when a veteran is contemplating suicide. They pick up the phone and they get an answer within eight seconds, or at least they used to.
And so some of the folks who work in that hotline were fired and they reached out to me and we were able to get them their jobs back. So we are fighting back. Like, one at a time? Literally one at a time. So there's jobs. There's jobs that were lost, but then there's overall just, like, veteran health care, right?
Yeah, they've had to cancel operations. The spouses, the family members of disabled veterans are not getting support through their hotline.
appointments are being canceled or now they're having to wait even longer we would just turn in the corner we were actually reducing the number of homeless veterans we were just adding more veterans getting more benefits but remember this is a president who says people who are wounded or died for this country in uniform are all losers and suckers he doesn't care about us okay so
Just to put it out there, this is also a guy who arguably a lot of veterans would also vote for at the time. So how do you reconcile that? I mean... Well, I think what they bought was this rhetoric from him that he was going to, you know, he was going to make America great, strong, and powerful, and yet all he's done is made us weaker, sicker, and less secure.
Okay. So... So, I mean, I guess the relevant question is, do you think it's changing the opinion of the people who voted for him?
Oh, definitely. Have you seen what's been happening at these Republican town halls where people across the country are showing up in town halls and saying, what are you doing to our veterans? I'm a veteran. Why did you cut my benefits? I had a veteran reach out to me from Tennessee because he was declared dead and didn't get his regular checks. Was he dead?
He didn't reach out to me through a Ouija board.
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Chapter 2: How did President Bush honor veterans?
Yeah. Wait, they're colonels now? They're now colonels. Oh, way to go. Yeah, right? They're now sergeants majors. You know, they're now higher ranking.
No, you say this, but then it's like... But they... They... He kind of said what he was going to do before he ran. Pete Hegseth was Pete Hegseth before he got appointed against women in military. They still won. So my question is, is anything that's happened changing the sentiment?
It is because I think a lot of them didn't believe that that was what was going to happen. And they saw the reality of the fact that the military cannot do its job without women in service. The military cannot truly do its job without diversity in the force where people can speak different languages around the world. You want soldiers who can speak Swahili without forces in Africa.
You want soldiers that can speak all the different languages. And so the millennials have only ever been in a military where there was equal service with women and LGBTQ. Are you saying that white people can't speak Swahili?
Well, you know. But you want native speakers, right? You want more diversity. Diversity and inclusion is a good thing. You want people who have those backgrounds. You want somebody like me who speaks Thai and Indonesian to be able to go in and speak those local languages.
And we also have people in charge of the military now, the millennial generation, who have only ever served equally without Don't Ask, Don't Tell. So they know the lie behind, oh, LGBTQ people are not good for the military. Well, no, they know that we've always served equally and we can't go to war without each other. Okay.
At least we're finally getting to address, in a substantive manner, Trump's chaotic stewardship of what was the world's most stable economy and how Americans are going to have to sacrifice financially and tamp down their consumerist impulse. And that is what has driven so much of our economy, and I guess our waste.
And I'm sure the president will use this interview with Welker to cheerlead the effort to a more financially responsible future for all of us. We're going to have a big, beautiful parade. A military parade? Yeah, sure. We're going to celebrate our military. We have the greatest military in the world. What's the price tag? Do you know? Peanuts compared to the value of doing it.
We can't afford not to do it! Why don't you believe in me? If you hadn't spent so much on dolls and pencils, we weren't even talking about this. And see. But this is the brilliance of Trump. In the same interview where he says to Americans, sorry about your Christmas, suck it up, he talks about a $90 million parade that just so happens to fall on his birthday and is totally worth it.
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