Hey, Republicans Who Supported This President: Are We Great Again Yet? - LIVE MONOLOGUE

[Music] hey everybody welcome to an unexpectedly live late show i'm your host stephen colbert you know how uh you know it's live if i wasn't live they would edit out all this dead space i'm giving you right now but i i you know i really want to do the show we're about to do and i also really don't want to do the show we want to do because lord have mercy there are some dark subjects that we talk about on the show occasionally but i've rarely been as upset as i am tonight and i'm sure you are too hey um republicans who supported this president especially the ones in the joint session of congress today have you had enough after five years of coddling this president's fascist rhetoric guess whose followers want to burn down the reichstag because today the u.s capitol was overrun for the first time since 1814 and a woman died who could have seen this coming everyone even dummies like me this is the most shocking most tragic least surprising thing i've ever seen for years now people have been telling you cowards that if you let the president lie about our democracy over and over and then join him in that lie and say he's right when you know for a fact that he is not there will be a terrible price to pay but you just never thought you'd have to pay it too i really do hope you're enjoying those tax cuts and those judges cause those judges are really gonna be working hard they're gonna be busy throwing these idiots in jail and by idiots i include the republicans who let this happen like you senator josh hawley raising your stupid fist to the mob outside the capitol look at that it's like black power but the opposite there really should be a name for that and obviously he has to keep his fist closed because if he opened it you'd see all the blood on his hands speaking of which how about you fox news you think maybe years of peddling his conspiracy theories had anything to do with this oh but come on man you know we have our opinion side and our news side and come on we're just trying to turn a coin for uncle rupee you know sell a few lubricated catheters like those lubricated catheters you know where you can stick your excuses and you can skip the lubrication i'm sure you already know out there what i'm talking about but it's the thousands of mega protesters who stormed the capitol building it's a horrifying day that will go down in u.s history however much longer that is there's only one way to describe this law and order nope that's not it american carnage that's the one johnny tell them what they won a second civil war and a broy hill dinette set you'll be eating in style in the smoldering afterscape back to you steve you see today was the constitutionally mandated final step before a new president can get inaugurated a joint session of congress to basically rubber stamp the electoral votes except this time over a hundred gop house members and at least 13 gop senators decided to reject some state's election results over alleged voter irregularities those same supposed voter irregularities that rudy giuliani failed to prove to a single judge no matter how passionately he farted well this morning at a magger rally right outside the white house the president incited the mob to march on the capitol building we're going to the capitol and we're going to try and give the democrats are hopeless they're never voting for anything not even one vote but we're going to try and give our republicans the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help we're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country so let's walk down pennsylvania avenue we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to walk down we're going to walk down anyone you want but i think right here we're going to walk down to the capitol for the record if i said that i would be arrested for inciting a riot but of course you can't arrest the president for 15 more days and his followers did what he told them to do behave in a way that's what's the word deplorable they marched down pennsylvania avenue and stormed the barricades look at that you still think walls work frightened hill staffers were told to evacuate the madison building as well as the cannon house office building with capitol police going door by door running down the hallways that's a very upsetting paul revere remix the red hats are coming the red hats are coming staffers were told to go to underground tunnels and take escape hoods to protect them from inhaling anything dangerous well that's a bit of a surprise from the look of those riders i would have guessed that they were the ones wearing hoods and after the mob swarmed inside the building capitol police released tear gas into the rotunda a little late fellas that's like closing the barn door after the cow has tried to violently overthrow the farm a mudayta if you will and i hope you won't then these idiots broke into the senate chamber including this guy who stood at the podium remember this morning the news was all saying democrats now control the senate i'm going to say that report was a little premature the late show is ready to project senate control has passed to majority leader shirtless freak in a viking hat now again congress was in a joint session to receive the electoral college votes confirming that joseph r biden would be the next president of these united states but all of this republican generated chaos led to an evacuation of the chambers and legislators were hustled to secure locations to shelter in place oh question for the republican senators who helped foment this insurrection why'd you run away i mean these are your peeps they love you why don't you hang out with your buddies marsha blackburn kelly lefler ron johnson john not that kennedy kennedy because you can run all you want for the rest of your lives but you can never escape the responsibility of what you brought upon american democracy today and this was never some sort of peaceful protest this was charlottesville come home to roost on capitol hill look at these thugs a guy in a q anon t-shirt chasing a capital security officer up flight after flight of stairs nothing to see here folks just a crowd of angry white people chasing a black man remind me are we great again yet the justice department finally responded with a strong show of force i'm sorry no jim that's federal police tear-gassing peaceful protesters so the president could do a photo op jim do we have the actual response a photo there you go nope i'm sorry no that's during the blm protests where troops were guarding a statue of lincoln from black people now in case you were wondering what kind of americans would try to violently overthrow the government you guessed it it's this kind is it just me or does that thing always seem to show up at only the worst events you never read the confederate flag was seen today waving over free yoga in the park one of these domestic terrorists even broke into speaker pelosi's office and put his feet up on her desk another one took to the senate deus and reportedly yelled trump won that election ladies and gentlemen i present the front runners for the 2024 republican nomination over at the house chamber there was an armed standoff between police and rioters at the chamber door well thank goodness it was just a white person with a gun out there if we're a black guy with a can of iced tea it might have escalated now an hour and a half after the capital had been stormed president jefferson doofus finally weighed in tweeting i am asking for everyone at the u.s capitol to remain peaceful note the word remain he didn't say leave he's just saying stay there and remain peaceful so peaceful like this [Music] i am calling for all of the toothpaste to quietly return to the tube peacefully while he who started this could not bring himself to stop but we heard a very different message from the president-elect who issued a challenge to the traitor in chief i call on president trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the constitution and demand an end to this siege that's an interesting ploy luring the president out of hiding with the promise of national tv is like putting a little piece of cheese in a trap for a rat although you could probably catch the president with cheese too now just a few moments after biden stepped off stage the violence stoker in the white house did release a video where he was supposed to calm things down but instead he reiterated his false claim that the election was stolen from him several times and ended by saying this to the rioters so go home we love you you're very special boy that is a really weird thing to say to rioters and i'm guessing tough for eric to hear dad i'm sorry i didn't riot love me too i'm special hot tip for the riders by the way i know you guys don't like to be told to wear masks but those masks really would have come in handy when you're getting your picture taken while you're breaking the law you know the people you were doing all of this supposedly to help well those folks are out of power now they can't protect you as a matter of fact they hid in the basement from you and they will turn on you in a second because they believe in nothing but themselves speaking of believing in nothing a reminder that the president said this to you we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to walk down we're going to walk down anyone you want but i think right here we're going to walk down to the capitol he kept saying we but he didn't go with you he does not give a damn about you he went home to watch it on tv you're just entertainment for him and of course a steady stream of merchandise sales anyway this isn't how any of this works we don't decide elections on who's most upset we decide them by who gets the most votes portioned by state through a weird electoral college that was instituted to maintain the political power of slave states it's a long story but the point is the person who screams the loudest doesn't get their way that only works on family road trips and you end up having baskin robbins for dinner and sadly we should not be surprised by any of this these people who stormed the capitol today have eagerly swallowed divisive bull crap at the president's rallies for five years they now live in an alternate universe that is now collapsing in on itself it's it's it's like a black hole of whiteness now i've said before violence is the last refuge of the incompetent and if the last four years has taught us anything is that there are a lot of incompetent folks in our leadership but i would invite all these disgruntled americans to take a page out of stacy abrams book don't endanger our country's greatest legacy the peaceful transfer of power just because your guy lost get out there and focus on winning the next round come on republicans don't go up to capitol hill for a government handout pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps and just work a little harder and in 2022 when all of those republicans who make no mistake are responsible for what happened today and are running for reelection let's remember them for who they showed themselves to be today cynical cowards who believe the voters should not get to choose who governs this country let's hope the voters prove them all wrong we've got a great show for you tonight i'll be talking to senator amy klobuchar and republican congressman adam kingsinger stick around [Music] me

Channel: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Views: 12,477,832

Keywords: The Late Show, Late Show, Stephen Colbert, Steven Colbert, Colbert, celebrity, celeb, celebrities, late night, talk show, comedian, comedy, CBS, joke, jokes, funny, funny video, funny videos, humor, hollywood, famous

Id: JpUxQyLCBbk

Length: 14min 15sec (855 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 07 2021