The Military Industrial Complexity

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Comedy

4.5 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we reflect on how the US military saved democracy from fascism. This week, as the Senate marks up next year’s defense spending bill, Jon sits down with Bill Hartung of the Quincy Institute and Roxana Tiron of Bloomberg to investigate whether our arsenal is still bolstering democracy, both abroad and at home. From the active conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza to our rivalry with China, we explore the efficacy of U.S. strategy. Plus, we dive deep into the ballooning defense budget and discuss Jon’s attempts to shine a light on it all. And you can also check out the tax tool shared with us by a resourceful listener here: https://us.abalancingact.com/2023-federal-taxpayer-receipt Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod CREDITS Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer - James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Video Editor & Engineer - Rob Vitolo Audio Editor& Engineer Nicole Boyce Researcher - Catherine Nouhan Music by Hansdle Hsu — This podcast is brought to you by: ZipRecruiter Try it for free at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ZipWeekly NetSuite For more info, head to netsuite.com/Weekly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	John Stewart is back in the host chair at the Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on the Daily Show Ears Edition podcast.
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0:33.2	Hello everybody and welcome,
0:39.2	Hello everybody and welcome once again to the weekly show with John Stewart the
0:45.6	podcast that happens once a week because of well that's that's the title.
0:53.4	Obviously, I host the Daily Show also once a week.
0:56.2	None of this makes any sense, people.
0:58.0	None of it will make any sense.
0:59.8	But I'm delighted.
1:01.1	Hopefully, we will have a lovely conversation again.
1:03.8	You remember last week we sort of talked about the soft threats to democracy rather than
1:08.8	the autocracies and the authoritarians and the demagogues.
1:12.1	Just the way that democracy functions and what role that plays in making us vulnerable.
1:17.0	And today's episode,
1:19.0	oh, are we diving into the mama bear of all soft corruption that perhaps puts our democracy at risk?
1:30.2	The military industrial complex, I was struck when I was watching all the Normandy
1:35.2	celebrations there was this you know kind of exaltation at that we had saved democracy through
1:41.9	military might and I think there's really no question that that is
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