And it's peculiarly American. It was invented in 1917 so they didn't blow too much money on WW1, & it has given them grief ever since. Bizarre.

Bruh same

@@tsubadaikhan6332 americans believe that the founding fathers birthed America perfect 200 years ago.... No changes needed. (Despite those founders leaving ways for america to evolve because they knew stuff woild change)

Why can't Americans just revolt against Republicans ?

We more We need more support from our overseas friends than ever Our place might seem a little messed up but wasn' yours at 1 time?

It's the usual. Losers think they have smashed the glass ceiling and are in the elite now, so they pull the ladder up behind them. As long as their bellies are full and they can look down on someone, they're complacent.

@@mdmurray17 You are lost, congressmen are some of the most entitled people on the planet

@@Redridge07 at least they don't pay 0% on taxes plus get tax subsidies back every year for years, straight. #CorporateWelfareQueens

@@MaryAnnNytowl The median networth of US congress is $1M and much of the increased taxes on the rich would also increase taxes on themselves. ie, Mitt Romney, networth $250M, Mark Warner $215M, Rick Scott $220M, yet the right accepts the talking points from the GOP senate that increasing taxes on the rich would be bad for the average man.

“As a senator I’m entitled to plunge this country into crisis if I don’t get my way 😭😭😭” 🤦‍♂️🤪 hypocrite

Manchin is only protecting his corporate donors who make trillions while his constituents go further into poverty.

You should see how much Manchin’s daughter makes.

@@speshelme manchin isn’t even thinking of others. His entire fortune is based in a coal company he owns. We could burn natural gas for decades if it weren’t for coal plants. Coal is 20x more polluting. His own fortune is at risk. He is thinking of no one but himself.

Please, VOTE him OUT!!!!

@@easternsuneasternsun171 What she makes is important because she illegally colluded with Pfizer to inflate the cost of EpiPens which are necessary for people to prevent anaphylactic shock. She also did so white the help of legislation passed by her equally corrupt father. Any more questions?

A good democracy is strengthened by "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition." Leaving aside being a republic, it's the "loyal" (not insurrectionist) part that has *long since* departed from the GQP - ever since Gingrich.

I guarantee as climate change becomes (even more) apocalyptic some greedy corporate ghoul is going to come up with the idea to monetize air. And then their supervisor will inform them all inventions of salaried employees are the sole intellectual property of the company.

@Sparkling Cyanide. If you're responding to Greg Young, I believe he was being facetious.

@Sparkling Cyanide. chill mon, we still lovers here.

dealing with climate change, clean water, et. basic needs sounds good but why two year free community college? why do taxpayers need to fund that?

Let us eat cake!

Think of the children! You mean kids who can't eat at school? No, just the unborn ones.

@@CobaltContrast the minute they're here and annoying, we don't care anymore.

Yeah, Repubs are saying “how are you going to pay for all this (after we shrunk the tax revenue to unsustainably low levels)?

@@mikekolokowsky *ding ding ding ding* Got it in one, Mike! 2500 Internet Points for you! (Since I can only like your great comment once, that is. Sorry, the gift shop is closed for renovation, so you can't buy anything with said points. Still, really enjoyed your comment!

Please, VOTE all of them OUT!!! None are working for the benefit of their constituents!!

My dear, the USA and its government are run by the banking/finance corporations, big pharma, big tech and the military/industrial complex - all filthy rich off the back of Average Joe. They would never vote against their own interest.

manchin and sinema are down-the-middle corporatists and do not represent anyone but those that do not pay taxes. exploitation protecting its own. the french once started a revolution for far less than this oligarchic hellscape.

Thats True. Same thing happened here in Australia 20n years ago. Elected by progressives and voted conservative. Plz stay safe

The Republicans wouldn’t accept Sinema. She’s part of the LGBTQ community. That’s kryptonite to Republicans.

@@Charliefox71 Sinema's formed her own LGBTQ$ community now.

@@Charliefox71 How about Lindsey Graham?

Me too ✋

I really believe he is Original you can tell it when I retail some jokes he gets a little teared up

#yes 🎵🎼🎶

"Maybe it'll just soak up all the water" 😂

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I have to believe at this point that they do this on purpose. Who are "they"? I don't know for sure, but I bet Zuckerberg vacations with them.

She needs to be impeached!

@@Trund27 Uh, no, not now anyway. If she's removed from Office, our Republican governor will replace her (most likely with Martha McSally), and Mitch will be Majority Leader again.

she only listens to big company money

Sinema is a one-trick pony. One term.

@@Trund27 IANAL but it is my understanding that US senators can't be impeached.

Glory! ✋🏻🤣

Betty rules.

Betty rules!😁

Why right-wing so-called Christians -- especially pseudo-Christian politicians -- don't see themselves in Mrs. Betty Bowers is beyond me. .i have not yet found a single right-wing Christian nutcase who even knows who Betty Bowers is. (She flies under the radar for some folk.)

I’m a young mexican hustler trying to make it out the hood by doing reaction videos 🤒

And payment is not dependent on performance! They should get no pay for the days they didn't show up for a start, you know, like regular people!

Because while they let the working class go to hell in a handbag, they the Congress , Senate and Representative kept low-key voting themselves in for another pay raise. Nobody is watching the hen house

Pay cut? They're rich. Take away their congressional gold star government healthcare.

They'll never do that; it would be honest.

He is a Republican (with a D).

Trojan Joe

@@taelonar5973 ...I like that.

Full-on Corporate Democrat

Then my butthole is also sounding conservative... Interesting 🤓

That should have been an amendment ages ago!

But they vote for their own amendments, don't they? They'll never slash their own pay!

Let's force this on their throats and watch their reactions.

Word homi

or, bear with me, this is tv and it's mostly banter for show

​@@Vespertilio-Homo Or you could dial back on your cynicism.

Disagree. The late-night shows are becoming more and more like propaganda for certain ideological viewpoints, where the expression of contrarian ideas is not tolerated. Seth Meyers was the first and the worst offender in this regard, then Trevor Noah and John Oliver joined in, and now sadly even Colbert is starting to drift into this territory. The only late-night host that i still trust is Bill Maher.

it's not as sad as it is manufactured to be that way. You all worship your celebrities. It's called mass psychosis. You're all being brainwashed.

and i would never in a million years regard this or any other contemporary late night show as comedy and satire. satire is dead.

Back in the times of kings and queens, i think the jesters of that time did the same, pointing out things about those in power that others could never have gotten away with saying.

Ones I know in WV do not care. It would help them but they look down on others who get help. Seriously. One of the poorest states in many categories...

@@zenseed75 you beat me to it. I was just about to say that wouldn’t never happen in West Virginia. Joe Manchin is here to stay sadly. Maybe Arizona might flip but definitely not West Virginia. Wishful thinking to HumanChangeSkeptic though

@@finius.tbirdpocket3603 yeah. It sucks because it is where I'm from but I can't live there. Tried and it's too depressing.

Hey, I didn't vote for either of them. I wanted Ojeda and a couple other people who weren't crazy, gold-digging Judases.

@@leesilm.4432 Judases, huh? Explains how they got those silver pickaxes.

Is it a portmanteau of sinful enema?

Cinabun.

@@balung no, Cinnabons are actually pretty bleeping tasty. Sinema is just pure evil.

Please, VOTE all of them OUT!!! None seem to be working for the good of their constituents!!!

I’m in AZ and never again for this hot mess.

Genau!

Yes and im with your idea of stress release in Denmark...i dont like many of our politicians ,but hey. They could be absoloutely insane,like in the US

Wild.. so how are Americans suppose to destress then?

@@shoshanapemberton946these Colbert viewers will always complain about whatever Colbert tells them to complain about

Please let us move in 🤣😭

Wouldn't a Republican be the only alternative?

@@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 no... have you not heard of primarying someone? Run someone against her from her own party, someone WHO ISN'T a freaking DINO!

@@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 Arizona voted for Biden and both their senators are now democrats. She’s no longer popular with the very people who worked to get her elected.

only the core of it, not all the extra riders they added to it to bloat the bill.

Yep, zero sum. Bridge vs. Basic human dignity. You pick! Haha jk, if you got all your skin in the game, you ain't gotta say.

Pass the RECONCILIATION BILL, vote DOWN the corporate giveaway bill if It Is voted on before the Reconciliation Bill!!!

Overpass that infrastructure.

@@wearldwhouber8950 "extra riders??" There are no extra riders! Only very Necessary things, period!

Something seriously wrong with your system

Some of them are there to work and some of them are there to continue being the tramps and assholes who duck out of a school project but want the grade.

@@AmandaComeauCreates if only it were that innocent.

Please, VOTE all of them OUT!!! None are working for the benefit of their constituents!!!

Just like with the ACA! Started out a great program, then got butchered by the Republicans and DINOs, then by the end it was so gutted it hardly did anything, and not a single Republican ended up voting for it.

What is a conservative democrat? I mean is it basically not spending enough money to actually address climate change? I mean you literally realize they are all bribed legally by corporations except the progressives?

it's all to scare you. there's no way Joe Biden is going to be allowed to tank the economy. at the current state we're in the handlers would just have to pony up. there are things he can do to pass the budget reconciliation Bill all on his own. I forget what it is, but he will probably get impeached for it if he has to. someone that knows more about this would be better able to explain it cuz I'm doing a really bad job. 😂

@@intuitionz1198 , Biden isn't the problem. The problem is people who think holding the country at gunpoint in order to torpedo a Democratic bill is a good idea. (Meanwhile, when they added $2T to deficit via reconciliation for *already* rich people, Dems did no such thing). In other words, it's the same problem plaguing the nation all over: Republicans.

@@gladtravis How dare you. Republicans have been trying to take America back to the 1870s for years now. They haven't succeeded because of the Democrats. Democrats wanting women and people of color voting. Democrats wanting bridges that won't collapse. Democrats wanting people to get free community college. I really don't understand why people vote for Republicans when they don't actually support what the people want.

2017

The US government has shut down 21 times since the early 1970's. Rich entitled snots having a fit, holding their breath til the country turns blue (no, not a political reference). Great system you got there, USA.

So true. It wouldn't surprise me if he switched party after the next election. He walks and talks like a republican, so why not?

The turtle needs splinter

Manchin could probably win the presidency if he runs as an independent in '024... he'd pull a lot of support in the middle of the spectrum from both parties.

It is more likely that he will be like a trojan horse in the Dems

What Manchin really really wants is plenty of dark money without the need to declare it

Unless you’re Linda Ronstadt. Oh yeah, most famous of all.

@@davidls45 She was in it for being a singer/songwriter.

He’s right, tho. We can’t settle for a step above shit.

You must be out of your mind if you think last four years nothing was done. Biden managed to destroy this country in just few months being in the office. Border is a disaster, inflation is through the roof and Americans are stuck in Afghanistan because of the disastrous pull out.... thanks to Biden. Not to mention defund the police movement. Crime is rampant in democratic run cities.

​@ThoughtCrime This country was destroyed after World War II. Watch the 1942 USDA film *Hemp For Victory* and ask yourself why you've never heard of it before. No one knows how important this is. While everyone is arguing over insane internet conspiracy theories, there's a government video online from World War II that tells Americans to grow "Marihuana" to defend our country. That's video proof of an actual government conspiracy that has lasted for 75 years. The war on drugs has turned our police, Federal agents and even our military against us, and this information is not secret anymore. *Hemp For Victory* has been public since 1990. It's just that no one cares. Not even legalization activists have made a real point about this. There was even a bill in Congress titled the *Hemp For Victory Act of 2019,* but no one noticed because no one knows what *Hemp For Victory* is. This 14-minute government video changes everything. This plan is how to defund the war on drugs, reform the criminal justice system, reduce unemployment, reduce poverty, reduce homelessness, reduce world hunger, reduce crime, reduce pollution, replace fossil fuels, end deforestation, provide for our common defense, and stop climate change.

I love the thought of "Minimum Wage". What is the very Least amount we can pay you.?? Minimum amounts of money, no matter how well you perform your job. It is that kind of thinking that really gets to me.😳

@@Marijuanifornia So who was in charge for that? Sounds like a great "plan". What happened???

We didn't pay our bill, though. Paying the nation's bill means that the national debt stops increasing. It didn't do that. It hasn't done that since Clinton was in office.

Unfortunately they wouldn't care because their 'owner donor' money far exceeds that amount.

@@PDXMILO Then they should give up that too.

And kill the filibuster.

Outlaw and abolish the Republican party as a terrorist group.

Nice catch 👍🏻

Just made a comment about that. He does that kind of thing all the time.

Oh wow I didn't catch that until now, that was really neat.

@@torreanjohnson1050 Jon Batiste has encyclopedic knowledge of music. He's an effing legend to me.

I counter that it is also another alien's "Indeed".

The ship.. out of danger..? Do not grieve, Admiral.. It was totally logical.

Isn't that for all Vulcans? Tuvak did it too lol

🖖 🤨

They can share

I thought it was representing "It's so hot in here that I'm melting", which is how we will feel more and more every year.

Goodness. I can see the advantages In a situation like this, but it could also be dangerous if the party was corrupt and the MP not.

@@mikeharrison1868 most parliamentary democracies get round this by larger legislative assemblies per head of population, and spending limits on campaigning. No system is free of corruption, but in most the law acts to prevent this by making donations transparent; or state funding of parties.

@@DocRobAC mmm, yes. As treasurer for my local party (in the UK), I have to report any donations over £500. For better or worse, this is something that I've only had to do once, as far as I recall! I hate how much money there is in politics in the USA. Totally stuffs the idea of government of the people, for the people, by the people.

In New Zealand you can be arrested for smuggling KFC i to Auckland. Sounds great….

@@JasonDelodovici Yeah, they're actually taking COVID seriously. Government aims to have zero cases - and hence zero hospitalisations and deaths. Unlike the UK, where Boris is "happy" to tolerate up to one thousand deaths a week. :-(

You are upset 😭 about her not answering questions? Biden hides from reporters. Par for Dem party 🎈

@Juragan Muda stop posting your damned link on EVERY comment! It's RUDE and SPAMMING the comment section!

@@MaryAnnNytowl Just report it. Venting makes no difference to the bots.

Work and pay for yourself like the rest of us have. I shouldn’t have to pay for myself then pay for you. This isn’t progressive. This is stupid. Looks like we need Republicans back. If they get rid of trump, they will get my vote.

Minor correction: replace the word progressive with "bare minimum". The 3.5T is hardly enough

@@patty2943 You don't currently work for yourself first as it is, you work for big government first who pretends to do things while they sit and collect millions in taxpayer dollars, and they tell you how much of your money you get to keep, then you pay all the other people that want a slice of your pie. It's all designed to keep us all poor or if you're middle class, barely having enough to at least take care of things without too much worry unless shit hits the fan.

Any more they do, since the GOP, er now the GQP, lost their collective minds.

Since the 90s.

So Linda McCartney wasn't inducted? Shocking.

Colbert's on his game tonight Bryan. 🤣🤣🤣

Then they put Joe on the tambourine right after

@@willritter4076 What's with all the spam today?

But wouldn't the infrastructure bill have the government spend trillions to companies building infrastructure? It's a huge economic boost. Which company benefits from national financial collapse?

@armia krajova and yet, they are supporting this bill.

These corporations hate the USA!

@@Hornswroggle The Devil's in the Details... The bill provides for substantial investment in renewable energy and a shift away from fossil fuels. The fossil fuel lobby is one of the most powerful right after the Military Contractors. Not to mention Joe Manchin's personal ownership of a large portfolio of stocks in coal. Delving even deeper into this, he actually paid for his yacht he currently with returns he received on his coal investments. So yes, on the face of it it's definitely a massive boost for the economy, but that's painting in very broad strokes and not appreciating the individual players in this space. 😎👍🏼

@@marvinmartion1178 They actually *_LOVE THE US_* cos there aren't any other developed nations on the planet that allow politicians to be held hostage by corporations in this manner...

Nah, there needs to be some substitution of "corporations" for "people" in Abe's speech.

You're back at 'taxation without representation' - if you pay tax, (most) politicians are not representing you.

It would mean pulling out the Lobbyists and the money out of Government and paying it what it is really worth. Lets see, a couple of hundred decision makers just sitting on chairs....a dollar a day sounds about right for doing no work. I think the U.S. taxpayer can afford 1/10th of a cent in taxes. Obviously we do not have the "Brightest minds there" We have Leeches.

@HeyMildred I agree that that is how the constitution was set up, for precisely those reasons. Things change, though. There was fear of a kleptocratic government, and that is still a reasonable fear. However, we now also need to fear a kleptocratic business sector, with big corporations preying on people's misery. Also, the simple fact is that the country does need infrastructure. I think it's unreasonable to expect citizens to pool their money to hire contractors to plan and build new roads, etc. Even anarcho-syndicalism posits the need for higher-order syndicates to take care of things at appropriate levels. Unless you're going to make yourself truly self-sufficient - truly, deeply, madly self-sufficient - you need to use infrastructure, and to depend on other people and corporations to do their chosen tasks. And those others also depend on others, etc. We live in a big, complex web now, and unfortunately need big, complex solutions to our problems. My very best wishes to you and all.

He's a great mime, 👍too

His Bernie Sanders' impression is spot on!!!

@@caroljo420 Only rivaled by Conan's Nixon impression.

His melty face and Mitch McConnell impression are the same thing though

His timing is exquisite.

I guess they took away the "Colbert" emoji because they didn't want to pay him the loyalties. lol

I'm going to procrastinate on paying my federal taxes.

As a chronic high school slacker, who didn't turn in a single homework assignment for any class my junior year (but still passed), they make young me look hard working and diligent by comparison

Combined.

@@jenniferjuniper97 no no, straight to jail for that.

@@willritter4076 thirsty much

Round of applause baby make the gov go on

That's what a difficult child do to parents. Ah what do good parents do to deal with such a child?

I wish I could remember who this was but heard a comedian doing Herzog leaving a Yelp review of the crappy hotel he was staying in. It was great.

I think he was doing Mike Myers as Dieter in Sprockets from SNL.

@@christophermerlot3366 That was Paul F. Tompkins.

Seth Meyers has been doing one throughout the pandemic!

@@carlwilson6235 Thanks mate.

Thanks, totally missed it the first time 'round.

Er, why bother crossing and returning with chicken only? I’m sure you meant to say, “take chicken and grain across; leave grain, return with chicken; leave chicken, cross with fox; return and collect chicken”.

And on the way back on the last trip, Manchin sinks the boat again...

@@irenemax3574 I suck at writing and simplify speech 🤣

The problem is impossible to solve because the chicken can only cross the river by itself, which is pointless since for the fox and grain to get across, you need to return the boat back with the chicken, resetting the problem. So your only 2 options is to either bring the fox across, or bring the fox across with the grain. The first option is again pointless because your only option is to bring the fox back with the boat. The second option has a similar problem, since the grain is an inanimate object, it can only be brought to either side with the fox, so the fox is left to sail with the grain back and forth with no desirable outcome. If by magic however the grain could go back by itself to the chicken, the chicken could then ride to the other side by itself, the fox could then go across to collect the grain and then go back to the chicken.

@@irenemax3574 I think one of the rules given is that you can only take one thing/animal at a time. Otherwise you could obviously just bring fox and grain as your first load and the chicken as your second.

Brilliant

Nice one! 👍😂They're not even willing to bridge the gap!

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Yeah. Vote them out!

Volunteer for the campaign of whoever is going to be running against Manchin * Sinema, which can even include long distance stuff like texting & cold calls in their states!

No I think it’s time to defund the government give them twice as much as we pay our teachers every year and no one will want to be in Congress so therefore we will probably get rid of all the money grubbing assholes

It’s worse than that, we jeer at clean water.

We have so much clean water we literally shit in it. You must not be very well traveled if you think 3rd world countries have it better...

@@redxvllwarmbrodt9390 Note I said “MY” third world country…I know some places have it bad, but even Afghanistan has better labour laws than the US

@@redxvllwarmbrodt9390 why don’t you ask the people in Michigan? There are constant boil water advisory all over the state. Fine for the toilet I guess. North America is not famous for providing fresh, clean drinking water.

You're in good company. When I pay off my last loan payment, I'm still going to be sanitizing my empty jelly jars to use as glasses because I can't afford to waste anything. These out-of-touch politicians make me feel completely forgotten about.

I thought it was pizza tonight

Maybe your should read some history on where the "Progressives" come from?

Yes, insightful observation - conservatives use "progressive" as a pejorative or "bogeyman" type of expression to scare voters. Perhaps the Dems should fight fire with fire and start using the term "regressive" as a pejorative for the far right. Let's see how the far right would like that.

@@joycliffe266 oooh I love this!! I remember when the Republican machine made liberal a dirty word. Regressive BIG YES

"Conservative" is an outdated term. What we are dealing with here are radical reactionaries: those who want to undo every single bit of progress made over the last century or more, and to reduce this country to servitude under a wealthy 'aristocracy'.

@@Lucius1958 yes I say too. But I think they claim conservative, so you gotta tell them to educate themselves. They don know a conservative. Truly is conservationist and matching the only take what is needed and work to replenish. AND THEY KNOW: all resources are limited and enough. What I don’t get?! Conservatives true should indicate BIG government. Seems like it’s never been that way