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Not much time left to confiscate guns or declare martial law
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https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/jon-stewart-warns-obama-little-040013443.html
“You don’t have that much time to take away Americans’ guns and declare martial law… if you’re going to do that, you better get started,” Jon Stewart advised President Obama,
“The thing that I’m most concerned about is not that it’s unfair, or too tough on government, because I think that’s what journalists and the media are supposed to be doing. But it gets distracted by shiny objects and doesn’t always focus on the big tough choices and decisions that have to be made. And, part of that is the changing nature of technology,” he said.
But, he added, “The one thing I know, as I enter into the last year of my presidency, is that the country is full of good and decent people. And there is a sense of common purpose at the neighborhood level… That dissipates because of all the money and all of the filters and all the polarizing that takes place in terms of how policies take shape.
“The only way to prevent that is by people getting involved,” Obama continued. “I guarantee you, if people feel strongly about making sure Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon, without going to war, and that is expressed to Congress…. eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists.”
“You don’t have that much time to take away Americans’ guns and declare martial law… if you’re going to do that, you better get started,” Jon Stewart advised President Obama,
“The thing that I’m most concerned about is not that it’s unfair, or too tough on government, because I think that’s what journalists and the media are supposed to be doing. But it gets distracted by shiny objects and doesn’t always focus on the big tough choices and decisions that have to be made. And, part of that is the changing nature of technology,” he said.
But, he added, “The one thing I know, as I enter into the last year of my presidency, is that the country is full of good and decent people. And there is a sense of common purpose at the neighborhood level… That dissipates because of all the money and all of the filters and all the polarizing that takes place in terms of how policies take shape.
“The only way to prevent that is by people getting involved,” Obama continued. “I guarantee you, if people feel strongly about making sure Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon, without going to war, and that is expressed to Congress…. eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists.”
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