Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Stephen Colbert mark GOP coup day with stories of violence and resolve
January 6th used to be just another day in January
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Marking the one year anniversary eve of that time the Republican Party revealed just how shaky is its commitment to American democracy, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and Stephen Colbert weren’t so much breaking out the party hats as busting some GOP chops. With a clearly furious Colbert ripping into those Republicans (essentially all of them) who are “clearly fascist-curious if not fascist themselves,” Klobuchar asserted her and the Democrats’ firm intention to make sure Thursday’s grim anniversary doesn’t pass without her spineless (at best) GOP colleagues in the Senate getting re-exposed as the accomplices to insurrection they were, and almost entirely remain.
“What they didn’t get done with bear-spray and bayonets and flagpoles, they are now trying to do with laws,” Klobuchar asserted of her Republican colleagues’ full-on assault on voting rights in preparation for the next attack on our republic. Noting the country-wide blitz by the GOP to both make it harder to vote and for Republican-held state election bodies to turn every election night into a blatantly partisan hostage situation for the ballots that actually manage to get cast, Klobuchar said that it is, indeed, time to kill the filibuster, at least when it comes to passing the Freedom To Vote Act. “When our very democracy is at risk. I think now is the time to make an exception to the filibuster,” stated Klobuchar unequivocally, noting that there are some 160 exceptions already in place for the filibuster rule.
As for Thursday’s ugly anniversary, Colbert once more went after those still-serving Republican legislators (calling out Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Lindsey Graham by name) who “will never live down their shame, but don’t care because they have none.” In response, Klobuchar once again recalled her time under siege by violent, Trump-worshipping insurrectionists on January 6, 2021, telling Colbert about her insistence on the day that, as lawmakers from both sides huddled under guard in very unsafe-seeming safe rooms, the election would be certified.
“No matter what is going on right now in that chamber, we are going back,” Klobuchar quoted herself on the night, even as armed yahoos were smearing shit all over the halls of government and assaulting Capitol Police officers with thuggish violence and racial slurs. Noting that the TVs in the room were tuned to the chaos outside their very door (at Klobuchar’s insistence, as it happens), the Senator recalled how everyone there cheered President-elect Joe Biden’s televised call for calm (Trump was watching his coup unfold in the Oval Office), while not letting those Republicans off the hook for everything they’ve done to all but guarantee a repeat of this democracy-imperiling bullshit.
“It’s not pleasant,” Klobuchar admitted about having to go to work every day with those Republicans still sowing Trump’s Big Lie. (Colbert noted that “not pleasant” is about as harsh as someone from Minnesota gets.) Calling out the GOP’s in-progress assault on the right to vote all over the country, Klobuchar stated, “This is our moment to step in.” Telling Colbert that, when state legislatures start monkeying around with the central pillar of our democracy (looking at your vote-suppressing asses, Georgia Republicans), Klobuchar asserted that it’s the role of the federal government to ensure that another gang of white supremacist fascist dipshits (not her exact words)—whether in surplus tactical gear or expensive suits—can’t overturn the will of the American people.
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We must vote in every single election. The knuckle dragging scum that make up a third of American voters should never be allowed to subject us to their fear-based need for a big ‘strong’ white fascist Daddy.I will CRAWL to the line and wait all day. (If needed).
It would help if Joe Biden and the Dems would do anything to make them remotely appealing to voters, but sure. I’ll just keep voting and hope someday they actually start implementing positive changes. Blue no matter who, right?
“anything to make them remotely appealing to voters”
Wasn’t being “not Trump” enough for ya?
Folks, this is your brain on MSNBC.
You’re soooooo brave.
And yet nothing will be done, because Democrats have no fucking spines. They’ll hee and haw until its too late to do shit.
Both parties have one thing in common: their love of corporations and “the economy”. As long as the status quo is upheld and no one is unseated from their positions of power regardless of their actions, they’ll all be for it.
They won’t do anything because it’s not in their nature at this point to actually protect their own nationality if it doesn’t earn them a profit.
I mean, they’re literally doing something about it right now, and by the book too, but go off.
They’re doing something that will have no result. They can’t even be bothered to enforce holding someone in contempt.
Not a fan of counting my chickens before they hatch.And I should know. I have a pen full of them.
Seriously, what do you think is going to come from this Jan. 6 committee? What consequences will be faced, and by whom?
Not a fan of counting my chickens before they hatch.And I should know. I have a pen full of them.What a stupid thing to say.
“What a stupid thing to say.”Settle the fuck down.
Uh, what do you want the Democrats to do exactly?
Keep calling the other side ,what you are doing .
We need to keep calling it Coup Day, because that’s what it was. And it isn’t just vote rigging to win an election now. It is laying the groundwork for a more successful next coup.
Exactly. Failed coups are often followed by successful coups.
I’m so glad to have lost the brainworms that once would have allowed me to sit through a video like this and enjoy it. Eugh.
I get that late nights shows have a different purpose and audience now but it’s amazing how far from the medium they’ve gone. Most of these clips that get posted here just seem like they could be put into any sort of news channel show. Do these shows do comedy anymore or is it all mostly somber political and cultural analysis? Yeah – Dave could be serious and Ferguson was able to bridge the gap between silly and serious as well as anyone but these current late-night shows seem to be so entrenched on somber political and cultural analysis that they barely resemble what late night TV was. For those of you that actually watch late-night TV, what do you think?
these current late-night shows seem to be so entrenched on somber political and cultural analysis
That’s what late night shows have been for a long, long time.
objectively untrue.
I am not calling them the GOP anymore. They are facists and should be called such.