I bet Senator Susan Collins would have seen it coming and sternly bobbled her head and warned Trumpilthinskin to not make her write a sternly written letter about learning a lesson!
We just can't seem to get a grip on domestic terrorism. It's a crime they just never quite seem to address, not even after OKC. When that happened, the first thought was it was a group from the Middle East. Nope. And they haven't really done anything to tighten up the law since.
@@cc1k435 It is an old problem. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer It is almost like we have a systemic problem that goes back to the creation of a white supremacist nation that cried for their freedom while holding a whip. Never forget the immortal words of our greatest president, "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races," Lincoln said to applause.
I love what Trevor Noah said: Trump had the ability to pardon all of those insurrectionists because he was still president after January 6 but he turned his back on them. He's only saying he'd pardon them to control his cult into protecting him and voting for him.
If he had pardoned them, the leftist propaganda outlets would be accusing him of protecting insurrectionists. You can't have it both ways. Pick a principle and stick to it.
@@spookrockcity if he had pardoned them he *would* be protecting insurrectionists. Period. They are all insurrectionists traitors. It's not "both ways." It's called truth. The only reason he didn't do it then is that he had nothing to gain from it. Now he's promised to do it because it may help him win the presidency (he thinks).
@@spookrockcity WTF kind of mental gymnastics did you need to do to arrive there? If he had pardoned them, that's exactly what he would have been doing. What do you mean both ways? In either scenario the left is anti-coup and trump is pro-coup, there isn't any hypocrisy there😂
@@spookrockcity Of course he would be protection insurrectionists if he pardon them. That would be the truth, not just an accusation. He can say: "Here ye, here ye", all he wants.
If tRump had pardoned anybody, it would have to include confessions that would include all of tRumps seditious activities to the full degree of involvement.
Trump can call his father a murderer, his wife ulgy and the Republicans would stay in lockstep for whatever he 🍊🤡 wants. Is orange boy in the mafia? What is it they are afraid of?
Then again, it's not like Pence is getting any backlash himself over this. Getting thrown under a bus has become a badge of honor for these masochistic loons.
He's being treated VERY unfairly concerning his actions on January 6th, but not in the way he thinks. The fact that he was able to hold that rally outside of a jail cell shows how unfairly he is being treated
He did say he could go out on 5th Ave and shoot someone without losing any supporters....he confesses because he has NEVER be held accountable for any of his egious crimes....
"The Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 already make it entirely clear that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes. But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them" --George Conway
If the vice-president can do that, then presumably Trump won't have a problem when Kamala Harris says "Screw the vote. I declare Joe Biden the President for 2024!"
Trumolster is the dumbest criminal. He's truly acknowledging his crimes now. He should be wishing he never was the cheating president. He knows one way or the other. He's going down for tax invasion. He's been lying about his taxes for years. I don't think he understood what a president truly did in office. 💯💯💯💯💯🎯
3:20 - “He stuns you by confessing, and hopes that we will shrug and just let it go.” Sadly, he’s been right every time too. It’s not like he’s ACTUALLY been held accountable for any of his crimes.
He can’t pardon them now, he is an ex pres., a former pres. A “was but ain’t no more” pres. A used to be pres. A bad pres. and still a shitty human.✌🏼😎
"He stuns you with confessing and then just hopes you'll shrug and let it go." Well, see, that's the problem. Way too many people (including politicians and pundits) DO just shrug and let it go. It is truly mind-boggling to watch them shrug off things that they would have absolutely screamed about if a Democratic president had done them.
@@vojake100 The problem is that in a capitalist society, if you're wealthy enough, you don't have to worry about doing those crimes... you'll never be punished for it. They have everything on him from tax evasion to asset fraud. Even the IRS won't do anything.
Has everyone gotten amnesia and forgot the almost 200 nights of violence and public burning and murders that took place all over our country simply because of the hate trump folks? How can you ignore 300- votes all for Biden from a single address that was simply ignored and never investigated? 2 thessalonians 2:11 is displayed for everyone to see today and the U.S. is in the greatest danger it has ever been.
I am afraid he did. 😆 That excuse is so going to backfire on him, when what he applied to Mike Pence one year ago can be applied to Kamala Harris now. enigma1863, you just came up with an excellent way to beat the former president at his own game.
@@gdavis5620 I am with you there, G Davis. We all know better than to abuse the power of our military and Vice President to overturn _the will of the people._ I was just making a joke about how the theoretical right of a Vice President to overturn an election could result in Donald Trump being overturned. I would also get very upset if the Republican candidate won and I on the Democratic side lost, but as long as no voter fraud is discovered from any further election audits in 2024, and everybody voted fairly, I would accept my loss as long as Donald Trump is not allowed to be a Republican candidate for president again.
The fact that Trump is not in jail LET ALONE ELIGIBLE FOR RE-ELECTION makes ALL AMERICAN LAW AND ORDER COMPLETELY ABSURD. DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT SEEMS TO BE HOW YOU CAN SUCCEED.
I looked into this last night because I was extremely bored and couldn't fall asleep. The issue is that somehow the Justice System doesn't think they have enough HARD PHYSICAL EVIDENCE to lock him away for a long period of time. Which is so confusing to me because it seems like there's plenty of hard evidence to lock him away on quite a few charges.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. - KURT VONNEGUT
I agree, but do Diane Feinstein has a $40 million mansion on the west side of Tahoe and Nancys getting into big trouble with all of her insider trading. I’m looking for PACs to get rid of the corrupt politicians! Thank you for bringing it to everyone’s attention. Most people don’t know about it!!!
What evil was done by Trump? Promoting riots? Promoting full term abortion? Job killing? Killing the economy? Forcing lockdowns and vaccines that don't work? Leaving billions of dollars of military equipment in Afghanistan? Leaving soldiers to die? War mongering? That is all Democrats. Trump, however was nominated for 2 Nobel peace prizes. Enjoy
To get the tone of Tucker just right all you have to do is imagine you're the little boy blue and your mumsie promised to serve you some berries and cream if you come home from school without your clothes all dirty.
Watching a justice system unable to handle the fact that high-profile criminals are just admitting their crimes openly is astounding. It trudges along like nothing happened.
Right!! I can't believe that Biden and son are still walking around free. What is wrong with our justice system when it allows these traitorous criminals to still be free. I so agree with you.
@@peaceandharvest2817 The BS about Biden and is son only worked on those idiots who actually believe that windmills cause cancer or that revolutionary troops took over airports.
I swear, the filthy rich, who control American justice, WANT the chaos Trump brings, while they are in the back stealing all the money. That is why Trump's criminal elected partners are also not being charged (Hawley, Gaetz, Giuliani, etc).
The mistake is thinking it is a "justice" system. It is a legal system, stacked to give rich white men a free pass while everyone else is subject to laws put in place by money donated by those same rich white men.
It's infuriating. allowing this man to erode every level of sanity, every day is terrible. Put him in prison and show all of us that there really is a law in the US that does something about this very real criminal.
@@spookrockcity This inflation has been brewing since the FICO credit score was created. It's only now getting out of hand because of the pandemic slowing sales and supply chains being clogged up. It has nothing to do with either president. A president doesn't directly set prices you know. The only thing they can do is alter the national treasury interest rates with the approval of Congress but that won't provide enough relief on a national scale.
Mr. Meyers, thank you again! I was waiting for the Mike pillow guy and chump impressions. You made me laugh so hard that I was crying! Great work, Sir!
“That’s like walking into my writer’s room and asking if anyone has coffee breath and crippling anxiety” We have to assume this joke was written by the writers, right? Are you guys okay? We’re here for you
If you give him the impression that he won't suffer consequences for his actions, he has no reason to fear admitting it. And let's not pretend like the Twitter ban has silenced him. Clearly he still is plenty capable of getting any message he wants out there. The dude needs jail time. Real, actual, not white collar crime jail time.
@@Hayday.1979 the question is: Will Trump call for VIOLENCE when they move to arrest him? No doubt in my mind they'll arrest him, it's how he responds that could destroy the country.
I love Seth's Hugh Grant impression. Recently, he also did a stoned teenager impression that nearly had me crying. Alumni from the second golden age of SNL.
He's confessing his crimes in public specifically BECAUSE he was never arrested. The dude is so good at playing mental gymnastics on himself that he probably convinced himself that he did nothing wrong. It's not like the law stepped in to suggest otherwise
This was the reason why his flunkies couldn't let him take the stand. If he isn't lying his ass off, his blurting out the truth in the form of bragging or whining.
He confessed because nothing is going to happen. Nothing has happened so far and I doubt anything will come of this, either. The legal armour your country grants to criminals when they have money is truly unbelievable
Greatest & Most Consequential line of poetry, for our time: “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President” -- U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan - Tuesday, 2021-11-09.
@@coleengoodell7523 so being held in isolation for 6 months only to be brought out and asked what did you do and then being put back in because you didn't answer the way they wanted Which under the pow law is illegal and counts a a form of torture Yes yes oh please Furthermore I will point out that is what is currently happened to people of you dont wish to look around your nation and see it burning by a administration that has fucked your country more than trump ever did has had more death by covid in the last year than trump in 4 and has FUCKED Afghanistan to the point were 20 years 20 years of military service around the globe had been made useless and worthless ....but orange man bad
I honestly have no faith in the republican party or that of the justice system to hold Trump accountable. Trumps best hope it to drag this out, hope he wins and then he would just pardon everyone and himself. I don't actually believe he will pardon anyone. That is a lie to win their votes.
i concur with your pardon assessment: Trump will only pardon himself, and probably, because he is above all else a con-man, extort millions from those who desperately want to be pardoned for stuff they did at his behest! There are times when I think Trump received his education from the so-called snake-oil salesmen of the 1800's.
🖐Raise your hand if you would like to see Donald TRUMP testify under oath in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain how 4 people ended up dead at the US Capitol
Legally, treason in the US is very narrow, basically just aiding a state at war with the US; the more colloquial use of treason, acting against the nation, is covered under the charge of sedition.
Treason is only in an act of war. Sedition isn't. But don't worry. They want a civil war and they will not get one. They will simply get 4 or 6 nations.
Is it an admission of guilt when there's no one there to punish him for it, or stop people like him to do it again in the future? He is bragging and he knows it.
Have you ever heard a guy from Queens brag on & on about all the 'tail' he (dreams he) got last weekend ? Yes, you have but this time it's all about a Coup d'etat he alllmost got away with.
plus, there was no preliminary warning about having the right to keep silent ... I am not a lawyer, but I would think that the absence of a warning probably means that the statement could not be used in an actual trial. Not that Trump has EVER kept silent! The ultimate grifter, he tallks and talks, and then talks some more ... and people still come out in numbers to listen to him talk! It's as if he is their chosen narcotic.
*Trump:* "If _you_ commit crimes to stop _me_ being prosecuted for the crimes _I_ committed, _I_ will then pardon _you_ for the crimes _you_ committed to stop _me_ paying for _my_ crimes."
Secret service should just arrest him & we ,the taxpayers, shouldn't have to pay another cent to protect this grifting, orange POS or his grifting, evil spawned ADULT children 🤬
Thank you, Seth, for presenting the insane times we live in with substance and humor. I start my mornings with coffee and an episode of Closer Look and now I don’t want to die.
Neither do I. If I die in this decade, I will not live long enough to make America much better than Trump wanted to make it "great again" or give the Democrats more power to decide things over the Republicans. I want what Bernie Sanders wants, to redistribute the US military budget to solve homelessness, climate change, and universal healthcare. The universe does not revolve around profits or Donald Trump, and neither should this country. February 2, 2022, 5:22pm
@@Puschit1 Yeah, I heard. And there is *no excuse* for our government to be as selfish and irresponsible as they are and not have social safety nets for the general public like other developed nations have and be very inhumane humans. Of all the alternative facts/lies/propaganda that the GOP likes to spread, the one most obvious to us is the lie that they are the only people in this country who matter. When the older, richer generation act like only they matter and the younger, richer generation does not, they can not hold that power for the rest of time unless the most selfish, power-hungry elitists know how to live forever just to make their tyranny endless; we should be thankful it has not gotten to that yet because I know they would try to live forever if they knew how to do that and stop aging. The VeggieTale King George and the Ducky is an excellent reminder that when you run a kingdom or a country, you can not run it by selfishly dictating what everyone else does, and making it all about what you want all the time. I dare you to tell me how this nation would fall apart or how the world would end if the military industrial complex Raytheon & Boeing did not keep making profiting off of wars for eternity, or if any powerful people or businesses who got away with ripping people off or police brutality were finally held accountable. Terrorism is still terrorism when the United States or the CIA does it. You can be a human and still act inhuman at the same time. February 5, 2022, 4:15pm
@@Puschit1 Our governors should not be allowed to get away with disobeying the constitution any longer! It was bad enough when they did not care about promoting the general welfare and treated rich people they gave the money to as immortals who would keep giving jobs forever instead of giving tax refunds to workers who actually deserve it, but it got worse now because they want to stop free and fair elections because they are that petty, and that hungry for absolute power to act as if having another Supreme Court Justice who knows better than them will be the end of this world. Barack Obama and I can hardly believe these grown-ups would be so immature about losing authority, since they act like petulant kids who change the rules to make the game easier for themselves. They need to grow up and learn to accept failure sometimes. I do not know why the GOP is so afraid of losing Donald Trump, as if their whole likelihood depends on him becoming the 47th president of the United States, but I do know one thing for sure: If they believe in an alternate universe where Joe Biden's supporters committed voter fraud and Antifa was responsible for 1/6 instead of MAGA, they need to use their rich science to actually find that alternate reality instead of pretending this reality is like that other reality they wish they had. Do you have an answer for why the US revolves more around profit motive than any other developed nation? I think selfish politicians act like they are made of money simply just by caring more about money than people. February 5, 2022, 4:27pm
@@adampkalb Well, some of them will certainly believe their own lies but the vast majority of them still support Trump simply because at this point they a) would lose their job (see recent censure of Kinzinger and Cheney) b) would have to admit they made so many mistakes and c) might get into legal trouble. Trump himself HAS to become the next president simply to stop all the investigations and legal problems that are amounting. And that is also true for his inner circle. And this inner circle pressures their underlings and so on. It's like a gigantic mafia syndicate and it runs under "too big to fail" - and as long as they all cling to it, it might hold true. I mean, Trump just promised to pardon anybody that got indicted for the insurrection. So yeah - they need to win to erase their past, looming and future criminal records and to change laws in a way that their crimes become legal. What astounds me is that so many americans are not able to see this. Those politicians and senators profit from these alternate realities but those folks that vote for them and support them don't - that tax cut for the rich should have been the wake up call. I am from germany and the last time that happened, the party responsible for it (the FDP) suffered heavy losses in the next election. How can the GOP pull that off unscathed? Gerrymandering alone can't explain that. We already know that Trump & Company forged false election certificates and wanted to send fake electors - why are these people still free? How can their supporters still buy into the lie that the election was rigged by the other side? I mean, even their own biased sham auditors "CyberNinjas" results came out in favor of Biden. Every country will have crooked politicians and greedy bastards trying to rip their citienzens off. But they can only pull that off this blatantly because more than 70 million (!) people believe everything they say.
Don't forget presidents who commit bribery in office, commit adultery and pay off Porn Stars to hide it with campaign funds, and show up the colour of Orange like that's somehow normal skin colour.
i suspect there could be an "attempted robbery" charge, but US laws definitely are different from my judicial jurisdiction within a neighbouring country.
The funny thing is that he didn't even promise to pardon them, he just promised to think about it... maybe. But I bet that they heard it as I'll pardon everyone of em.
Mike Pence's family made their fortune operating a chain of gas stations and convenience stores in Indiana. They wouldn't even trust him to be night manager at one of their qwik-e-marts
*SETH!!!!* we love Seth, don't we? We love Seth. One of da *great comedians*... of our country. Seth Mayahhs. Sethie-Boy; I call him Sethie-Boy. One of the great comedians... *So* funny; a lot of people have been saying it, way more funny than Sad... Jimmy Fallon... Are we allowed to say it? Much funnier than Fallon. Funnier than Fallon. Failin' Fallon. *[Uproarious applause]* Once elected, I will throw Sad Little Jimmy into a pit of snakes. A pit of snakes... *VIPERS!* Do we have the vipers? Do we.. did we... that's okay, we'll get the vipers. Very poisonous, the most poisonous probably ever seen by a country. And Jay Leno will pay for it!! It will be one of the Great Deals we've ever seen in our country. Nancy Pelosi doesn't want any deals, it's one of the Great Disasters. *[Crowd boos, chants "USA"]*
Amazingly, even though they were extremely fashionable at the time, several of the leading founding fathers did not wear powdered wigs. Jefferson wore his own natural hair plaited in a queue for a lot of his life, Washington powdered his own hair, And Franklin (always a fascinating outlier who also knew how to charm) never wore them in the US, but did wear them when petitioning in London or dressing for formal occasions as Ambassador-- Though he also famously branded himself as ambassador in France by sometimes wearing a rustic fur cap instead (and the ladies loved him) Thank you, Seth and staff, for (probably deliberately) leaving me this low hanging nerd-fruit for corrections 💜
Why wouldn't Trump publicly admit and brag about his crimes? He's been doing it for five years with impunity and there's nothing to suggest that will change.
Exactly. He doesn't care. He knows he won't be prosecuted, and will never see a jail in his life. Too many republicans have too much to lose, so they will cover him even if costs the lives of their own kids.
Who is this guy? It's like I don't know him anymore. The old/real Trump would never say this, he would rather suggest that we shouldn't let them steal the win. This guy on stage must be a Antifa or FBI imposter disguised as Trump. Let's check with Q to be sure though, cause this could be one of Trumps hidden messages..
@@GoGreen1977 No I do not. I admit that sometimes patience isn't my best virtue. But it does irritate me that only capitol rioters have been publicly acknowledged as being arrested and judged, but yet not one sitting member the republican senators have been brought to justice. They worked with Trump, behind the scenes, and also publicly, to try to overturn the election, but no word of anything.
Kinda like how the police has an Internal Affairs division to suppoosedly help police the police. We have may, or may not, have congress investigating their own. But they will not say either to the public.
People then have to admit they were wrong and that “certain” things influence justice! Dude has made a deal with Satan is the only other logical answer!
Are from around the NY area? If not, than you are right with all of us. I knew who he was my whole life, before apprentice. He has always be a major joke. That people take this seriously pretty much still astounds me!
they don't see strength and wisdom, they attribute it. Their ideas and claims stopped being supported by academia a while back now and are getting more and more fringe. When they find someone repeating their bullshit in a grander stage, they cling on to them and offer showers of compliments.
@@mehdisilini7296 Yes, and then like a cult, he begins to repeat the same phrases in the same tone over and over; they are convinced they are the facts. When the fringe becomes the one- third of the people, we may me closer to the wiser of the people becoming the fringe. (But I will get out of here before that!).
I love how they cheered for him saying he would pardon them, as if they believe him. Did they already forget that he promised that to get them pardons if they did the insurrection
How he promised them that Covid would end after the election. How he promised them a wall. How he promised he was going to divest himself from his holdings when he became president... I'm sensing a pattern here...
I've loved this show since it began. But with its self-referential, meta-silliness (and Corrections!) it has become my favorite late-night show of all time.
Ditto. This also became my most favorite late-night show after those three episodes in 2020 where Amber Ruffin tells us all the bad things Donald Trump did for her mom - people who are Black Americans, Women, The Military, or all of the above. February 3, 2022, 3:34am
The dude talks about having a separate backpack *for his ammo* and the right *STILL* claims no one was armed. It's around now that they'll switch from "No one was armed" to "So what if they were armed! What about her emails!?"
"He stuns you by confessing, and then just shrugs and hopes you'll let it go." Fat chance, Trump! Who do you think we are? 40% of Americans, 51% of congress, and 100% of the Department of Justice?
During legal preparations for the Mueller investigation, White house lawyers quickly realized that Donald Trump was not capable of *_not_* perjuring himself under oath.
Confessing to what?! justice and fairness while the demoncraps simply ignored 200 nights of public riiots and murders and deaths of police nationwide in cities across the country that the media knows the liberals only have the brain memory of a preschooler apparently.
If nothing is done to turd then the US Justice system is done, if such actions can be allowed than I say no one should be held to any standard of accountability.
Everyone ignored the almost 200 nights of death, riots and mayhem across our country in democrat run cities. Were you in a coma during that time and can't remember or on drugs? What a hypocrite. Democrats held no one accountable for the billions in property damage and death in Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis among many other cities.
@@billmeeker774 The local govt. I’m those cities sent the national guard…also nobody who was rioting were trying to kill United States legislators so Trump could stay in office!
@@billmeeker774 No protest that gets out of hand or violent/destructive is ever ok… but I didn’t see anyone beat on officers with American and Blue Lives flags, erect a gallows and chant for the hanging of the VP + the death of congressmen and women at the behest of the president, in any of other circumstances.
You know what really pisses me off? None of this matters. His diehard loyalists will defend him to the end. No one will take the steps necessary to get him persecuted for this, or even prevent him from running again. We'll literally just find ourselves in the same situation during the next election unless by some miracle people start developing consciences and a desire to keep our democracy intact again.
Yet, despite all the lies that Trump and his gerbils have told which led to last year's January 6th Riot. Collins still thinks that he has learned his lesson.🤦🏿♂️🤦♀️🤦🙄
HOW did the DC security forces NOT see this coming? All this crossing the wires... being spoken of. I'm just a Grandmother from another State.. and I had worries. They had had bigger and bigger Rallies every other week going into January.
Biden = highest inflation in 40 years and you're still obsessing over Trump. He lives rent free in your head because he actually got results. Stay pathetic.
@@spookrockcity I’m pathetic ? You idiots believe that Mexico will pay for the wall. Not my fault you lack critical thinking. “I’m censoring myself by screaming Let’s Go Brandon like a middle schooler who’s afraid of swearing like a big boy.”
@@spookrockcity do you seriously think inflation just wakes up one day and says yup it's a democrat we gotta raise it up. Prices are high because global supply chains are messed up beyond recognition. My company used to pay $10K for a ship container and now they are paying $30-40K. How do you think our company will offset the costs?
@@Cloud-zb8lw Biden is quietly building that same wall right now. Legitimately the only successful thing he's done this entire presidency and he ripped it off from Trump. Hey remember when leftcucks shut down the government over that same wall? LMFAO
If you want democracy, it is your duty to be anti-fascist, since fascism is the opposite of democracy. The only role people play in fascism is to follow a leader without questioning anything. While democracy requires questioning everything and, most importantly, asking other people, citizens, for their opinion on whether or not they agree or not with your proposal, and then counting those votes.
Logic is clearly not strength of the GQP...Why would lefties block the counting of votes to confirm their guy???? Why was everyone filmed wearing Trump gear and carrying Trump FLAGS? Why are the defendants claiming in court the they were on orders of their President? Why are all the guys that have plead GUILTY to Seditious Conspiracy has pledged their allegiance to Trump? MY pug is smarter than the Republicans and he eats his own $hit.
Are you kidding me ? Look at Biden! He has the worst approval raising in history lol. The administration now is a complete joke and disgrace to America. Open your eyes fool
Dude TDS is incurable , Trump did accomplish a lot but you've been duped by CNN , fake news . You know very well he will win again . Dementia brain is failure on day one .
That Jefferson story is particularly funny because in Jefferson's time, it was considered suspicious, if not outright disqualifying, to actively seek the presidency. The founding fathers were terrified of "ambitious" men, men who sought power. That is why they did clandestine underhanded things like pay off journalists to write slanderous news stories, as VP Jefferson did against President John Adams. Jefferson NEVER EVER publicly sought out the presidency, and would have steered away from any public activity that might indicate he wanted the job, because it would have meant he was "ambitious" and thus dangerous. Presidential candidates didn't campaign actively until almost the 20th century. In the election in question, Jefferson's rival, Hamilton, put up his candidate, Pinckney, against Jefferson and Adams, and Jefferson made the fix with Aaron Burr in which one of the Democratic-Republican Electors (called Republicans for short) was supposed to throw away his electoral vote to make Jefferson President and Burr VP, but no one did and the two men were tied, though of the same unofficial party. Burr refused to back down. Hamilton.. sent advice, after the votes kept deadlocking in the Electoral College, to the House (who got to decide based upon Article 2 of the Constitution) to vote for Jefferson, since Hamilton considered him a man of principles, even if the "wrong" ones, and he considered Aaron Burr to be a man of dangerous ambition. There was no popular vote, and it was the House of Representatives where VP Jefferson had no office that made him President. Hamilton did not want a popular vote, because he was worried that too many Americans were too uneducated, or selfish or whatever and they might fall for the sweet promises of a demagogue, rather than vote for a man of reason and principle.... Jefferson meanwhile, just tried to shape public opinion through his pet journalists, but also, more "idealistically" by promoting education for the white men he considered the only fit people for voting rights and full citizenship. (The book "Founding Brothers" is one of several excellent books that covers these shenanigans in the early Republic)
@@lyndaweister9984 Gordon Wood's "Empire of Liberty" is another good one covering events like this, and also Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.
Bravo! Anyone worth their weight in political knowledge knows this. Sadly, most Americans do not know their own country's history yet all too often profess to "know the truth" (aka GOP pundits and Freedom Caucus politicians).
great history lesson! And how apt a description, near the end, of being wary of uneducated voters who might make unwise decisions; I see red caps waving in a sea of ignorance and idolatry; most among them claiming to be "Christian" while Christianity teaches that thou shalt have no idols before me, and that thou shalt NOT lie!
I have to make a confession. Right at the beginning of this pandemic I didn't know what tomorrow would bring. However since I been watching Seth, I didn't even care anymore. All I know back then, like I know now is, I can't go to sleep completely comfortably without seeing him do a Closor Look. Thank God for a little blessing of non-stop laughing till it hurts. Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
It's stuff like this that makes me realize that either we have never secretly met aliens or the US president is kept out of that loop. He wouldn't have been able to keep it a secret.
What should make you realize we haven't met aliens is the near impossibility of it - sure, I agree somewhere in the universe there has _been_ intelligent life - the HUGE problem is time. In the 13.8 BILLION years the universe has existed we've existed for less than 1 100th of a BILLION percent of that time - thousands if not literally billions of civilizations could have risen and died by now, the odds they would exist right now AND be able to cross the incredibly vast distances of the universe make us meeting aliens all but impossible. Life on other planets in our solar system, sure - but microbial life. Show me evidence for intelligent aliens that have or can visit us and I'm TRILLED - until then it's silly speculation that the facts of reality all but rule out.
@@ross-carlson the problem with the math on extraterrestrial intelligence is. It's all speculation. We simply cannot know without at the very least sending probes to nearby solar systems. While the liklyhood of aliens being in current or recent contact with humans is very unlikely it is never zero.
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Oath keepers leader shoots himself in the eye. Gives the blind leading the blind a whole new meaning.
The blind leading the blindly stupid.
He heard that in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And assumed it literally.
He didn't even do it in a gunfight...he was at the shooting range. He dropped it while at a shooting range...
Wow. It's almost as if facing basically ZERO consequences whatsoever has emboldened him.
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
You took the words out of my mouth!! 😆😅🤣😂
I bet Senator Susan Collins would have seen it coming and sternly bobbled her head and warned Trumpilthinskin to not make her write a sternly written letter about learning a lesson!
Not Susan fucking Collin’s.
Satan!
Serious answer? Approximately half of Americans, and almost all of the rest of the world.
Remember in America when admitting to a crime on camera used to get you arrested?🤦🏿♂️
Normal people still get arrested, but not cult leaders/politicians!
We just can't seem to get a grip on domestic terrorism. It's a crime they just never quite seem to address, not even after OKC. When that happened, the first thought was it was a group from the Middle East. Nope. And they haven't really done anything to tighten up the law since.
@@cc1k435 It is an old problem.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer
It is almost like we have a systemic problem that goes back to the creation of a white supremacist nation that cried for their freedom while holding a whip.
Never forget the immortal words of our greatest president,
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races," Lincoln said to applause.
on camera is fine, just dont rap about it and you are golden.
I am 37 years old. No. I dont.
I love what Trevor Noah said: Trump had the ability to pardon all of those insurrectionists because he was still president after January 6 but he turned his back on them. He's only saying he'd pardon them to control his cult into protecting him and voting for him.
If he had pardoned them, the leftist propaganda outlets would be accusing him of protecting insurrectionists. You can't have it both ways. Pick a principle and stick to it.
@@spookrockcity if he had pardoned them he *would* be protecting insurrectionists. Period. They are all insurrectionists traitors. It's not "both ways." It's called truth. The only reason he didn't do it then is that he had nothing to gain from it. Now he's promised to do it because it may help him win the presidency (he thinks).
@@spookrockcity WTF kind of mental gymnastics did you need to do to arrive there? If he had pardoned them, that's exactly what he would have been doing. What do you mean both ways? In either scenario the left is anti-coup and trump is pro-coup, there isn't any hypocrisy there😂
@@spookrockcity Of course he would be protection insurrectionists if he pardon them. That would be the truth, not just an accusation. He can say: "Here ye, here ye", all he wants.
If tRump had pardoned anybody, it would have to include confessions that would include all of tRumps seditious activities to the full degree of involvement.
Wow. Mike Pence really must be a robot. How else could he survive being thrown under a bus so many times?
Pence is a Republican sex doll. They have to be built tough to take all those scr*wings.
He’s a coward in real life that’s how! People like him pick on people from afar!
Trump can call his father a murderer, his wife ulgy and the Republicans would stay in lockstep for whatever he 🍊🤡 wants. Is orange boy in the mafia? What is it they are afraid of?
Pence has never had a backbone. Never.
Then again, it's not like Pence is getting any backlash himself over this. Getting thrown under a bus has become a badge of honor for these masochistic loons.
and by "those people from january sixth are being treated SO unfairly", he means exactly one person: himself.
I actually said that out loud when he spewed that crap...it's crazy!!
He's being treated VERY unfairly concerning his actions on January 6th, but not in the way he thinks. The fact that he was able to hold that rally outside of a jail cell shows how unfairly he is being treated
Because the defence of "just doing what Trump said to do" isn't holding it's own in court, and that's why it's personal for Trump
He did say he could go out on 5th Ave and shoot someone without losing any supporters....he confesses because he has NEVER be held accountable for any of his egious crimes....
He never will be.
No matter now depressed or terrified I am by all of this, Seth never fails to make me laugh out loud.
why is this man even still being taken srsly after spending a fifth of his term at his golf course
... And forcing America to drink a fifth per week throughout his Term in office
Everyone is happy that he didn't do all the mess-ups he was planning.
Haha, I can't wait to tour his Presidential Library..... he'll probably have a casino/hotel/souvenir shop attached.. and maybe a gun range.
"The Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 already make it entirely clear that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes. But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them"
--George Conway
-husband of semiliterate psychopath's senior counselor and campaign manager
If the vice-president can do that, then presumably Trump won't have a problem when Kamala Harris says "Screw the vote. I declare Joe Biden the President for 2024!"
Trumolster is the dumbest criminal. He's truly acknowledging his crimes now. He should be wishing he never was the cheating president. He knows one way or the other. He's going down for tax invasion. He's been lying about his taxes for years. I don't think he understood what a president truly did in office. 💯💯💯💯💯🎯
@@diannehogan7605 , That IS a great point!
"Good for the Goose..."
Yes, enough is enough...
3:20 - “He stuns you by confessing, and hopes that we will shrug and just let it go.”
Sadly, he’s been right every time too. It’s not like he’s ACTUALLY been held accountable for any of his crimes.
but, buuuut hasn't he learned his lesson after the second impeachment?!
Remember: trump will never spend a day in prison because America has a two-tiered Justice System
Money money money.
Also, he kept firing the people who could hold him accountable at the time
Does it right out in the open. Nothing says Orwell as much as this time in history
You can thank Republicans for that.
If he didn't pardon them when he was president, do they really think he is going to do it now?
He can’t pardon them now, he is an ex pres., a former pres. A “was but ain’t no more” pres. A used to be pres. A bad pres. and still a shitty human.✌🏼😎
Many of them do believe that shitty will indeed pardon them. Funny.
"He stuns you with confessing and then just hopes you'll shrug and let it go." Well, see, that's the problem. Way too many people (including politicians and pundits) DO just shrug and let it go. It is truly mind-boggling to watch them shrug off things that they would have absolutely screamed about if a Democratic president had done them.
It's all in the Fascist playbook. Repeat lies over and over, they become truth. (to the weak-minded).
That's the thing, everyday he commits a new crime so people move on to that one and so on and on...
@@vojake100 The problem is that in a capitalist society, if you're wealthy enough, you don't have to worry about doing those crimes... you'll never be punished for it. They have everything on him from tax evasion to asset fraud. Even the IRS won't do anything.
thatjillgirl Yes I keep expecting to hear him confess to shooting someone on Fifth Ave.
Has everyone gotten amnesia and forgot the almost 200 nights of violence and public burning and murders that took place all over our country simply because of the hate trump folks? How can you ignore 300- votes all for Biden from a single address that was simply ignored and never investigated? 2 thessalonians 2:11 is displayed for everyone to see today and the U.S. is in the greatest danger it has ever been.
Did Trump just give an argument for Kamala Harris to overturn the election in January 2025?
For better or for worse, Democrats are constrained by good faith.
Yup! So no Republican will ever win another Presidential election, because from now on the Democrat vice prez can choose the winner!
I am afraid he did. 😆 That excuse is so going to backfire on him, when what he applied to Mike Pence one year ago can be applied to Kamala Harris now. enigma1863, you just came up with an excellent way to beat the former president at his own game.
@ Doug Randall
Nope. Democrats don’t play the dirty game that republicans play. We’re trying to prevent this from ever happening
@@gdavis5620 I am with you there, G Davis. We all know better than to abuse the power of our military and Vice President to overturn _the will of the people._ I was just making a joke about how the theoretical right of a Vice President to overturn an election could result in Donald Trump being overturned. I would also get very upset if the Republican candidate won and I on the Democratic side lost, but as long as no voter fraud is discovered from any further election audits in 2024, and everybody voted fairly, I would accept my loss as long as Donald Trump is not allowed to be a Republican candidate for president again.
The fact that Trump is not in jail LET ALONE ELIGIBLE FOR RE-ELECTION makes ALL AMERICAN LAW AND ORDER COMPLETELY ABSURD. DO WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT SEEMS TO BE HOW YOU CAN SUCCEED.
As long as you have money. You and i couldn't do one millionth of what trump has and continues to do
I looked into this last night because I was extremely bored and couldn't fall asleep. The issue is that somehow the Justice System doesn't think they have enough HARD PHYSICAL EVIDENCE to lock him away for a long period of time. Which is so confusing to me because it seems like there's plenty of hard evidence to lock him away on quite a few charges.
He's rich,he's white and he's millions of followers.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. - KURT VONNEGUT
This explodes my mind and heart. Why is justice letting this seditionist inciter roam free. They are helping his base.
The slipper bit had me in tears 😭 💀
What this evil man has done to this country is heinous...put this clown in prison 😡
I agree, but do Diane Feinstein has a $40 million mansion on the west side of Tahoe and Nancys getting into big trouble with all of her insider trading. I’m looking for PACs to get rid of the corrupt politicians! Thank you for bringing it to everyone’s attention. Most people don’t know about it!!!
What evil was done by Trump?
Promoting riots?
Promoting full term abortion?
Job killing?
Killing the economy?
Forcing lockdowns and vaccines that don't work?
Leaving billions of dollars of military equipment in Afghanistan?
Leaving soldiers to die?
War mongering?
That is all Democrats.
Trump, however was nominated for 2 Nobel peace prizes.
Enjoy
Every. Single. Leader we have deserves prison including trump.
Tucker impressions are good. He nails the tone and head movements without really changing his voice. Which makes it even funnier.
To get the tone of Tucker just right all you have to do is imagine you're the little boy blue and your mumsie promised to serve you some berries and cream if you come home from school without your clothes all dirty.
The "no-I-don't-need-glasses-to-read-my-teleprompter-why-do-you-ask" gaze could use a little work, though.
I love it when a Tucker Carson clip comes on. Seth's Tucker impression is brilliant and it makes me so happy. Thank you Seth.
P
He has to be careful not to go full Tucker though; you never go full Tucker.
Watching a justice system unable to handle the fact that high-profile criminals are just admitting their crimes openly is astounding. It trudges along like nothing happened.
Right!! I can't believe that Biden and son are still walking around free. What is wrong with our justice system when it allows these traitorous criminals to still be free. I so agree with you.
@@peaceandharvest2817 The BS about Biden and is son only worked on those idiots who actually believe that windmills cause cancer or that revolutionary troops took over airports.
I swear, the filthy rich, who control American justice, WANT the chaos Trump brings, while they are in the back stealing all the money. That is why Trump's criminal elected partners are also not being charged (Hawley, Gaetz, Giuliani, etc).
The mistake is thinking it is a "justice" system. It is a legal system, stacked to give rich white men a free pass while everyone else is subject to laws put in place by money donated by those same rich white men.
I know it is wild, the United States used to be a country to count on, now it is just a good joke for the rest of the world.
Seth, I love you and A Closer Look, but this one was particularly tingling. My thanks to all.
I spit out my drink hearing Trump.
“Here-ye hear-ye!” I’m dying.
That and his whole story was pretty great! And then Seth saying, Trump never read a book and only knows they said, " Here ye, here-ye!!
Hear ye! Hear ye! Trump has confessed to attempting to overthrow a legitimate election.
I though it was just easier to drink more
It's infuriating. allowing this man to erode every level of sanity, every day is terrible. Put him in prison and show all of us that there really is a law in the US that does something about this very real criminal.
Enjoy your inflation NPC sheep.
Thank uuuuuuu👏👏👏
He’s rich, white and an ex-president. He is not going to prison. Ever.
@@spookrockcity This inflation has been brewing since the FICO credit score was created. It's only now getting out of hand because of the pandemic slowing sales and supply chains being clogged up. It has nothing to do with either president. A president doesn't directly set prices you know. The only thing they can do is alter the national treasury interest rates with the approval of Congress but that won't provide enough relief on a national scale.
I'll sign up for the streaming service that airs the reality show "Showertime at Leavenworth". Hell, I'll even produce it.
These guys were trying to think of a way to get heavy weapons past the Pentagon via boat to get into the Capitol. Maybe that's actually a crime.
Mr. Meyers, thank you again! I was waiting for the Mike pillow guy and chump impressions. You made me laugh so hard that I was crying! Great work, Sir!
Lock him up? I mean NOW.
“That’s like walking into my writer’s room and asking if anyone has coffee breath and crippling anxiety”
We have to assume this joke was written by the writers, right? Are you guys okay? We’re here for you
From one writer to the writing team of Late Night with Seth Meyers I can confirm that no. We're not okay.
@@InfinityKrompt /*Slides some cookies and milk over*/ Take a breather dear, ya need it.
@@maddii34u i definitely read this with a Fargo accent 😂 ❤
I was thinking, “damn, I didn’t realize how much Seth’s writers and I had in common.”
You've seen the SNL skits with the three new writers and Pete Davidson, right?
4:09 The amusing thing about that leader of the Oath Keepers is he is a living, breathing testament to the oxymoron that is “gun safety”.
Lol...rumor has it he has raised $80 of a $250,000 go fund me for his legal fees.
You mean the guy who wears an eye patch because he shot himself in the face while giving a class about gun safety?
What did everybody tell little Ralphie: "you will shoot your eye out".
Like any of you haven't shot yourself through the eye.
Good job Seth!! Love watching a closer Look. 😍
If you let him talk long enough. He’ll just admit it.
@darknightoftroy If he wasn't born in a rich family he'd either be in jail or dead before he hit 30.
Every time I hear tRump's voice, I automatically conclude, *"Ok, the lies, bullshit and whining are about to begin. What will it be this time??"*
@darknightoftroy at least he isn't president now so the probability of him suffering the consequences is increased but still not holding my breathe.
If you give him the impression that he won't suffer consequences for his actions, he has no reason to fear admitting it.
And let's not pretend like the Twitter ban has silenced him. Clearly he still is plenty capable of getting any message he wants out there. The dude needs jail time. Real, actual, not white collar crime jail time.
He doesn't even have this talk that long. But so far, I'm getting the strong impression that not much really is going to be done about it.
It's like watching a 6 year long episode of "America's Dumbest Criminals"
Yet in this episode, every.single.fukkin.time the criminals get no consequences 🙄😡
And the real cringe is the fact they get away with it.
@@Hayday.1979 I don't know Sarah, he got indicted in New York and he's under 12 criminal investigations. He'll get what he has coming to him
@@Hayday.1979 the question is: Will Trump call for VIOLENCE when they move to arrest him?
No doubt in my mind they'll arrest him, it's how he responds that could destroy the country.
"Criminals in Dumbest America"
Seth's impersonation of Tucker Carlson was secretly how he passed his Impressions Camp final.
It was so good I momentarily *hated* Seth and wanted him to shut up (the Lindell impression was Golden, tho, Impression Camp FTW!)
His Mike Lindell is the best!
graduated with high distinction
His Tucker Carslon is so good
His Bernie Sanders is still the best in his repertoire
As a native Non-Mormon Utahn, I literally sqwaked a laugh at the Oath Keepers joke! Whoever wrote it knows this place very well.🤣❤❤❤
I love Seth's Hugh Grant impression. Recently, he also did a stoned teenager impression that nearly had me crying. Alumni from the second golden age of SNL.
Second? More like third.
Arrest him already. He's confessing his crimes in public now.
He’s going to do it again unfortunately. 🤷🏽♀️
@@mommasitayoung148 I know. He said he will.
He's been doing that since the first year he was elected, lol.
He's confessing his crimes in public specifically BECAUSE he was never arrested. The dude is so good at playing mental gymnastics on himself that he probably convinced himself that he did nothing wrong. It's not like the law stepped in to suggest otherwise
Thank u
I knew that all we had to do was let Donnie talk, and he'd blurt it out, with a complete lack of self awareness.
More proof he isn't very bright.
Now you understand the real fear his lawyers had in case he had to testify in the Mueller probe.He'd talk too much and incriminate himself.
This was the reason why his flunkies couldn't let him take the stand. If he isn't lying his ass off, his blurting out the truth in the form of bragging or whining.
He confessed because nothing is going to happen. Nothing has happened so far and I doubt anything will come of this, either. The legal armour your country grants to criminals when they have money is truly unbelievable
🤔did he bump into too many of Jackie O's trees?
Greatest & Most Consequential
line of poetry, for our time:
“Presidents are not kings, and
Plaintiff is not President” -- U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan -
Tuesday, 2021-11-09.
Translation, "I'm being treated unfairly, very unfairly, and should be pardoned for my attempted coup."
What a schmuck he is. 🤣
The only former casino owner that still tries to have a deck with more than 52... 🤢
Yes being held in a state worse than pow is not being treated unfairly ok
@@KillerPotato8529 Oh Please!
@@coleengoodell7523 so being held in isolation for 6 months only to be brought out and asked what did you do and then being put back in because you didn't answer the way they wanted
Which under the pow law is illegal and counts a a form of torture
Yes yes oh please Furthermore I will point out that is what is currently happened to people of you dont wish to look around your nation and see it burning by a administration that has fucked your country more than trump ever did has had more death by covid in the last year than trump in 4 and has FUCKED Afghanistan to the point were 20 years 20 years of military service around the globe had been made useless and worthless
....but orange man bad
I honestly have no faith in the republican party or that of the justice system to hold Trump accountable. Trumps best hope it to drag this out, hope he wins and then he would just pardon everyone and himself. I don't actually believe he will pardon anyone. That is a lie to win their votes.
i concur with your pardon assessment: Trump will only pardon himself, and probably, because he is above all else a con-man, extort millions from those who desperately want to be pardoned for stuff they did at his behest! There are times when I think Trump received his education from the so-called snake-oil salesmen of the 1800's.
The Republican Party is the new American Nazi Party!!!!!!!!!!
I think he will pardon the criminals.
Breaking: Trump is still guilty of everything
Yeah but why is he still not in prison?
“Too much” money?
And still suffers ZERO consequences. 😡
🖐Raise your hand if you would like to see Donald TRUMP testify under oath in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain how 4 people ended up dead at the US Capitol
@@scph321 Hear-ye Hear-ye!
Meyers handles his audience so well, even when the jokes aren't all 100... not saying the writing wasn't more than 85 here tho
I genuinely don't understand why these ppl haven't been charged with treason. What is treason for if not this?
"I think he learned his lesson." -Susan Collins
Trump belongs to the gov. Elite!
Legally, treason in the US is very narrow, basically just aiding a state at war with the US; the more colloquial use of treason, acting against the nation, is covered under the charge of sedition.
Treason is only in an act of war. Sedition isn't. But don't worry. They want a civil war and they will not get one. They will simply get 4 or 6 nations.
@@braingame007 You're right! How about we lock them _and_ Trump up? Will that satisfy your arbitrary moral boundaries?
Is it an admission of guilt when there's no one there to punish him for it, or stop people like him to do it again in the future? He is bragging and he knows it.
Have you ever heard a guy from Queens brag on & on about all the 'tail' he (dreams he) got last weekend ?
Yes, you have but this time it's all about a Coup d'etat he alllmost got away with.
Yeah, I thought there were Laws against this. Into the Slammer he goes.
plus, there was no preliminary warning about having the right to keep silent ... I am not a lawyer, but I would think that the absence of a warning probably means that the statement could not be used in an actual trial. Not that Trump has EVER kept silent! The ultimate grifter, he tallks and talks, and then talks some more ... and people still come out in numbers to listen to him talk! It's as if he is their chosen narcotic.
YES! THERE ARE, PEOPLE TO STOP HIM AND THIS EVIL EUROPEAN COLONY. COME NEXT YEAR THE SIX NATIONS INVADES THIS EVIL EUROPEAN COLONY TO END IT.
Republicans stop being afraid of him....help put him behind bars
Republicans are not afraid of trump
Republicans want him as dictator.
Republicans are spineless and greedy pigs
They're not afraid, they just want his money that he gets from stupid people
They could do so much better. (But, then we have to worry about de santis)
"The Comfortable Slippers" play was hilarious! 😂
*Trump:* "If _you_ commit crimes to stop _me_ being prosecuted for the crimes _I_ committed, _I_ will then pardon _you_ for the crimes _you_ committed to stop _me_ paying for _my_ crimes."
Succinct and accurate!
"And then we'll all walk to the Capitol together. Really, I mean it this time. "
@@sherinameless1618 it’s about 2 miles from the White House to Congress. Do you think Trump could make it?
Can't he atleast get fingerprinted for that? He might not have fingerprints.
@@robertencarnacao6377 , I bet they're greasy!
He’s a private citizen encouraging violence, he needs to be held without bail and answer to his crimes.
Secret service should just arrest him & we ,the taxpayers, shouldn't have to pay another cent to protect this grifting, orange POS or his grifting, evil spawned ADULT children 🤬
ok hitler
@@april4769 ALL them insider traders should be locked up with him, in that case
@@april4769 We should give him more secret service considering how many deranged NPC's like yourself there are running around.
AMEN
Thank you, Seth, for presenting the insane times we live in with substance and humor. I start my mornings with coffee and an episode of Closer Look and now I don’t want to die.
Neither do I. If I die in this decade, I will not live long enough to make America much better than Trump wanted to make it "great again" or give the Democrats more power to decide things over the Republicans. I want what Bernie Sanders wants, to redistribute the US military budget to solve homelessness, climate change, and universal healthcare. The universe does not revolve around profits or Donald Trump, and neither should this country. February 2, 2022, 5:22pm
@@adampkalb The sad truth is that in the USA, everything DOES revolve around profits. It's in the very fabric of basically everything.
@@Puschit1 Yeah, I heard. And there is *no excuse* for our government to be as selfish and irresponsible as they are and not have social safety nets for the general public like other developed nations have and be very inhumane humans. Of all the alternative facts/lies/propaganda that the GOP likes to spread, the one most obvious to us is the lie that they are the only people in this country who matter. When the older, richer generation act like only they matter and the younger, richer generation does not, they can not hold that power for the rest of time unless the most selfish, power-hungry elitists know how to live forever just to make their tyranny endless; we should be thankful it has not gotten to that yet because I know they would try to live forever if they knew how to do that and stop aging.
The VeggieTale King George and the Ducky is an excellent reminder that when you run a kingdom or a country, you can not run it by selfishly dictating what everyone else does, and making it all about what you want all the time. I dare you to tell me how this nation would fall apart or how the world would end if the military industrial complex Raytheon & Boeing did not keep making profiting off of wars for eternity, or if any powerful people or businesses who got away with ripping people off or police brutality were finally held accountable. Terrorism is still terrorism when the United States or the CIA does it. You can be a human and still act inhuman at the same time. February 5, 2022, 4:15pm
@@Puschit1 Our governors should not be allowed to get away with disobeying the constitution any longer! It was bad enough when they did not care about promoting the general welfare and treated rich people they gave the money to as immortals who would keep giving jobs forever instead of giving tax refunds to workers who actually deserve it, but it got worse now because they want to stop free and fair elections because they are that petty, and that hungry for absolute power to act as if having another Supreme Court Justice who knows better than them will be the end of this world. Barack Obama and I can hardly believe these grown-ups would be so immature about losing authority, since they act like petulant kids who change the rules to make the game easier for themselves. They need to grow up and learn to accept failure sometimes.
I do not know why the GOP is so afraid of losing Donald Trump, as if their whole likelihood depends on him becoming the 47th president of the United States, but I do know one thing for sure: If they believe in an alternate universe where Joe Biden's supporters committed voter fraud and Antifa was responsible for 1/6 instead of MAGA, they need to use their rich science to actually find that alternate reality instead of pretending this reality is like that other reality they wish they had. Do you have an answer for why the US revolves more around profit motive than any other developed nation? I think selfish politicians act like they are made of money simply just by caring more about money than people. February 5, 2022, 4:27pm
@@adampkalb Well, some of them will certainly believe their own lies but the vast majority of them still support Trump simply because at this point they a) would lose their job (see recent censure of Kinzinger and Cheney) b) would have to admit they made so many mistakes and c) might get into legal trouble. Trump himself HAS to become the next president simply to stop all the investigations and legal problems that are amounting. And that is also true for his inner circle. And this inner circle pressures their underlings and so on. It's like a gigantic mafia syndicate and it runs under "too big to fail" - and as long as they all cling to it, it might hold true. I mean, Trump just promised to pardon anybody that got indicted for the insurrection. So yeah - they need to win to erase their past, looming and future criminal records and to change laws in a way that their crimes become legal.
What astounds me is that so many americans are not able to see this. Those politicians and senators profit from these alternate realities but those folks that vote for them and support them don't - that tax cut for the rich should have been the wake up call. I am from germany and the last time that happened, the party responsible for it (the FDP) suffered heavy losses in the next election. How can the GOP pull that off unscathed? Gerrymandering alone can't explain that.
We already know that Trump & Company forged false election certificates and wanted to send fake electors - why are these people still free? How can their supporters still buy into the lie that the election was rigged by the other side? I mean, even their own biased sham auditors "CyberNinjas" results came out in favor of Biden.
Every country will have crooked politicians and greedy bastards trying to rip their citienzens off. But they can only pull that off this blatantly because more than 70 million (!) people believe everything they say.
Fox News needs to be held accountable for all the misinformation
If he admits it, are we going to accept this as normal?
we should NOT
Bingo!… I feel like I’ve been yelling that at the tv for years
Leftist sheep won't do anything but keep swallowing down spunk loads from their corporate masters.
@@spookrockcity ...But Trump _is_ a corporate master?
😄so you DO see how Trump was priming and grooming while President... GOOD!
Don't accept it!
I like a President that isn't a traitor.
Biden gets 10 PERCENT is that good enough to call him a TRAITOR !
@@dannychambers8076 Not even close to Trumps 100 percent of being a traitor.
Don't forget presidents who commit bribery in office, commit adultery and pay off Porn Stars to hide it with campaign funds, and show up the colour of Orange like that's somehow normal skin colour.
@@SirStanleytheStumbler YOUR NAME PUTTING SIR LIKE THAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL ! I DON'T THINK SO SWAMP RAT !
@@dannychambers8076 "is that your best?"
So a bank robber walks into a bank and says -- "GIVE ALL THE MONEY!" But leaves without getting what he came for, does that mean he's "not" guilty?
David Frost's argument to Richard Nixon.
i suspect there could be an "attempted robbery" charge, but US laws definitely are different from my judicial jurisdiction within a neighbouring country.
The funny thing is that he didn't even promise to pardon them, he just promised to think about it... maybe. But I bet that they heard it as I'll pardon everyone of em.
Seth is my favorite late nite host. He is a gifted comic, not to mention his impressions. Uncontrollable belly laughs.
The impressions are great! Al Pacino is my favorite.
Craig Ferguson will always be my favorite (God, I miss him 😞).
He’s not funny at all
💕🐺 My uncontrollable laughter triggers asthma coughing so bad I can’t breathe sometimes and I love him 😍🐺🤣
Seth is also my favorite especially because, unlike Noah, Colbert, Samantha Bee and Maher, he isn't an establishment hack.
That crowd was so unusually quiet behind him, that they were probably paid for to be there, and they still hated every moment...
I read some time ago, almost every single rally is approximately 2000 paid supporters.
Or as confused as the rest of us with what the heck the orange blowhole was talking about
It’s outrageous how Mike Pence has not fixed every unsatisfactory thing in my life. When will he just do the right thing?
Mike Pence's family made their fortune operating a chain of gas stations and convenience stores in Indiana. They wouldn't even trust him to be night manager at one of their qwik-e-marts
Seth's Mike Lindell impersonation is hysterical.
When can we see him locked up??? Please!!!!!!
We love "A Closer Look", don't we folks?
Hear ye, hear ye
*SETH!!!!* we love Seth, don't we? We love Seth. One of da *great comedians*... of our country. Seth Mayahhs. Sethie-Boy; I call him Sethie-Boy. One of the great comedians... *So* funny; a lot of people have been saying it, way more funny than Sad... Jimmy Fallon... Are we allowed to say it? Much funnier than Fallon. Funnier than Fallon. Failin' Fallon.
*[Uproarious applause]*
Once elected, I will throw Sad Little Jimmy into a pit of snakes. A pit of snakes... *VIPERS!* Do we have the vipers? Do we.. did we... that's okay, we'll get the vipers. Very poisonous, the most poisonous probably ever seen by a country. And Jay Leno will pay for it!! It will be one of the Great Deals we've ever seen in our country. Nancy Pelosi doesn't want any deals, it's one of the Great Disasters.
*[Crowd boos, chants "USA"]*
@@baumhauser I typically hate myself for reading TH-cam comments but THIS!
Your comment may find it’s way framed and on a wall in my home. Excellent.
Indeed we do
@@baumhauser that's perfect Trump rant. Reading it in his voice it fits perfectly xD
I watch your show every night, and it always leaves me feeling excited & disgusted.
Thank you for making life complicated.
Amazingly, even though they were extremely fashionable at the time, several of the leading founding fathers did not wear powdered wigs.
Jefferson wore his own natural hair plaited in a queue for a lot of his life,
Washington powdered his own hair,
And Franklin (always a fascinating outlier who also knew how to charm) never wore them in the US, but did wear them when petitioning in London or dressing for formal occasions as Ambassador--
Though he also famously branded himself as ambassador in France by sometimes wearing a rustic fur cap instead (and the ladies loved him)
Thank you, Seth and staff, for (probably deliberately) leaving me this low hanging nerd-fruit for corrections 💜
Well, there were a whole lot more boats until half of them sank in that boat rally a while back.
Why wouldn't Trump publicly admit and brag about his crimes? He's been doing it for five years with impunity and there's nothing to suggest that will change.
Exactly. He doesn't care. He knows he won't be prosecuted, and will never see a jail in his life. Too many republicans have too much to lose, so they will cover him even if costs the lives of their own kids.
What crimes
Trump 4ever 🤣
@@TuyenLe-wu6lv they never have an answer just lies.
More like his whole life. He's just had a higher profile for the last 5 years.
"If I run and IF I WIN...". Wait! Did he just admit he lost in 2020?
Who is this guy? It's like I don't know him anymore. The old/real Trump would never say this, he would rather suggest that we shouldn't let them steal the win. This guy on stage must be a Antifa or FBI imposter disguised as Trump. Let's check with Q to be sure though, cause this could be one of Trumps hidden messages..
Nope
Ten bucks says he walks it back and "explains" how it was just like metaphor...
I enjoyed this thoroughly. If I personally knew a "oath keeper" I'd be utterly embarrassed.
And still the U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, stands by and do nothing.
Do you work for the DOJ?
Patience, Young Patawan.. Patience...
@@GoGreen1977 No I do not. I admit that sometimes patience isn't my best virtue. But it does irritate me that only capitol rioters have been publicly acknowledged as being arrested and judged, but yet not one sitting member the republican senators have been brought to justice. They worked with Trump, behind the scenes, and also publicly, to try to overturn the election, but no word of anything.
Kinda like how the police has an Internal Affairs division to suppoosedly help police the police. We have may, or may not, have congress investigating their own. But they will not say either to the public.
I really wish people would start openly questioning why he is still eligible to run. This should be a slam-dunk. What am I not understanding here?
He's a scammer. They share characteristics with cult leaders.
People then have to admit they were wrong and that “certain” things influence justice! Dude has made a deal with Satan is the only other logical answer!
Uhh,the justice system I guess. I'm baffled too.
Money. Cults.
I love how Trump makes up history as he goes along... no script, no references... amazing :D
He just says whatever pops into his head
Late nite CBS Colbert has trump vids contradicting trump vids! Classic no brain trump !
The OJ 'gloves' comparison made me 😂😂🤣🤣
I've never understood how people can look at addled old man trump and see strength and wisdom. And he's only getting worse.
Are from around the NY area? If not, than you are right with all of us. I knew who he was my whole life, before apprentice. He has always be a major joke. That people take this seriously pretty much still astounds me!
they don't see strength and wisdom, they attribute it. Their ideas and claims stopped being supported by academia a while back now and are getting more and more fringe. When they find someone repeating their bullshit in a grander stage, they cling on to them and offer showers of compliments.
@@mehdisilini7296 And Donald does like showers.
@@mehdisilini7296 Yes, and then like a cult, he begins to repeat the same phrases in the same tone over and over; they are convinced they are the facts. When the fringe becomes the one- third of the people, we may me closer to the wiser of the people becoming the fringe. (But I will get out of here before that!).
I seriously think he has mental issues.🤪
I love how I know the news but somehow still want to hear you and your writers viewpoint
“I think that qualifies as a play, I think I did a play” Seth cracks me up! 😂 I think that your play deserves a tony nomination. 🐾
Plus a Best Foley Art Tony for the Slippers! 💐
@@S.Pociecha yeah whoever is doing the sound is doing a great job. There was the insurrectionist bit fan boat too.
No, it's not a play, it was a skit.
We all know what Trump was really saying.. he was saying he would pardon anyone who helped him this next time.
“I think I just did a play!” 😂😂😂😂
I love how they cheered for him saying he would pardon them, as if they believe him. Did they already forget that he promised that to get them pardons if they did the insurrection
They just cheer whenever he says anything. It's like when old comedy shows would have "LAUGH" signs for the audience
A PARDON IS AN ADMISSION OF GUILT. EVEN RUMP THOUGHT HE COULD PARDON HIMSELF. SCHEESH
They always smile like baboons at whatever he says.
How he promised them that Covid would end after the election. How he promised them a wall. How he promised he was going to divest himself from his holdings when he became president... I'm sensing a pattern here...
@@mikelldaley9078 I mean, he just admitted right here, so why not? [in his mind...]
I've loved this show since it began. But with its self-referential, meta-silliness (and Corrections!) it has become my favorite late-night show of all time.
Ditto. This also became my most favorite late-night show after those three episodes in 2020 where Amber Ruffin tells us all the bad things Donald Trump did for her mom - people who are Black Americans, Women, The Military, or all of the above. February 3, 2022, 3:34am
The dude talks about having a separate backpack *for his ammo* and the right *STILL* claims no one was armed. It's around now that they'll switch from "No one was armed" to "So what if they were armed! What about her emails!?"
"He stuns you by confessing, and then just shrugs and hopes you'll let it go." Fat chance, Trump! Who do you think we are? 40% of Americans, 51% of congress, and 100% of the Department of Justice?
During legal preparations for the Mueller investigation, White house lawyers quickly realized that Donald Trump was not capable of *_not_* perjuring himself under oath.
25%, tops. Dont elevate these sociopaths.
Confessing to what?! justice and fairness while the demoncraps simply ignored 200 nights of public riiots and murders and deaths of police nationwide in cities across the country that the media knows the liberals only have the brain memory of a preschooler apparently.
@@billmeeker774 Wonderful whataboutism, my friend. A sure sign of a lost argument from the start.
@@billmeeker774 Projection and deflection are dead giveaways of Reich-wing fallacy.
Excellent, Seth! Thank you!!👍👍👏👏🙏🙏💯
If nothing is done to turd then the US Justice system is done, if such actions can be allowed than I say no one should be held to any standard of accountability.
Everyone ignored the almost 200 nights of death, riots and mayhem across our country in democrat run cities. Were you in a coma during that time and can't remember or on drugs? What a hypocrite. Democrats held no one accountable for the billions in property damage and death in Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis among many other cities.
@@billmeeker774 The local govt. I’m those cities sent the national guard…also nobody who was rioting were trying to kill United States legislators so Trump could stay in office!
Like "weapons of mass destruction" Bush? *KICK THE CAN*
@@billmeeker774 No protest that gets out of hand or violent/destructive is ever ok… but I didn’t see anyone beat on officers with American and Blue Lives flags, erect a gallows and chant for the hanging of the VP + the death of congressmen and women at the behest of the president, in any of other circumstances.
@@billmeeker774 Yeah - and all that happened on the defeated-former-guy's watch.
You know what really pisses me off? None of this matters. His diehard loyalists will defend him to the end. No one will take the steps necessary to get him persecuted for this, or even prevent him from running again. We'll literally just find ourselves in the same situation during the next election unless by some miracle people start developing consciences and a desire to keep our democracy intact again.
Me: I’m not sure anyone can make trump’s dangerous insanity funny…
Seth: hold my beer
right i appreciate the chuckles because IRL......... sheesh
nothing here is "funny"
Mango Mussolini is becoming more unhinged and fascistic by the day.
@@DgurlSunshine He makes it sad funny. But you are right, really it's heartbreaking..
"WHY'D I PULL THE PIN ON A KIND BAR??" The writers did well tonight!
He called out Susan Collins … she must be "very concerned".
Yet, despite all the lies that Trump and his gerbils have told which led to last year's January 6th Riot. Collins still thinks that he has learned his lesson.🤦🏿♂️🤦♀️🤦🙄
HOW did the DC security forces NOT see this coming? All this crossing the wires... being spoken of.
I'm just a Grandmother from another State.. and I had worries. They had had bigger and bigger Rallies every other week
going into January.
It’s sad to know that his supporters are STILL chanting “lock her up” 6 years later. They’re just marks man.
Biden = highest inflation in 40 years and you're still obsessing over Trump.
He lives rent free in your head because he actually got results. Stay pathetic.
@@spookrockcity I’m pathetic ? You idiots believe that Mexico will pay for the wall. Not my fault you lack critical thinking. “I’m censoring myself by screaming Let’s Go Brandon like a middle schooler who’s afraid of swearing like a big boy.”
@@spookrockcity do you seriously think inflation just wakes up one day and says yup it's a democrat we gotta raise it up. Prices are high because global supply chains are messed up beyond recognition. My company used to pay $10K for a ship container and now they are paying $30-40K. How do you think our company will offset the costs?
@@spookrockcity You know who else lives rent free in our heads? Hitler and Charles Manson. They, too, got "results." Stay evil
@@Cloud-zb8lw Biden is quietly building that same wall right now. Legitimately the only successful thing he's done this entire presidency and he ripped it off from Trump. Hey remember when leftcucks shut down the government over that same wall?
LMFAO
If you want democracy, it is your duty to be anti-fascist, since fascism is the opposite of democracy. The only role people play in fascism is to follow a leader without questioning anything. While democracy requires questioning everything and, most importantly, asking other people, citizens, for their opinion on whether or not they agree or not with your proposal, and then counting those votes.
2:53 - He’s no longer allowed to tweet, yet he still capitalizes random letters.
“I think that qualifies as a play?” When the tangent is so off the rails... I love it.
What kind of clock does Trump like best?
A Coup Coup Clock!
A Coup Clocks Clan
I often say i wouldn't believe trump if he told me the time of the day in a room full of clocks.
Even if it doesn't work, it should wake you up.
@@AccidentalNinja nice
So the UK PM is under police investigation for parties, meanwhile the US President admits to a coup and still faces no charges
aah, 'tis a strange old world, what, my son!
One of the funniest Closer Looks in ages. Thanks Seth! 😂😂😂
Logic is clearly not strength of the GQP...Why would lefties block the counting of votes to confirm their guy???? Why was everyone filmed wearing Trump gear and carrying Trump FLAGS? Why are the defendants claiming in court the they were on orders of their President? Why are all the guys that have plead GUILTY to Seditious Conspiracy has pledged their allegiance to Trump? MY pug is smarter than the Republicans and he eats his own $hit.
You had me in stitches with the slippers and pillow sounds
Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that that guy was actually president. Of a country. Of this country.
Are you kidding me ? Look at Biden! He has the worst approval raising in history lol. The administration now is a complete joke and disgrace to America. Open your eyes fool
Dude TDS is incurable , Trump did accomplish a lot but you've been duped by CNN , fake news . You know very well he will win again . Dementia brain is failure on day one .
People tend to remember the bad more than the good.
That and Trump is a failed business man.
He never matched the requirements of a real President. More like an office caretaker, but without care.
@@erwinsm10 List three
That Jefferson story is particularly funny because in Jefferson's time, it was considered suspicious, if not outright disqualifying, to actively seek the presidency. The founding fathers were terrified of "ambitious" men, men who sought power. That is why they did clandestine underhanded things like pay off journalists to write slanderous news stories, as VP Jefferson did against President John Adams. Jefferson NEVER EVER publicly sought out the presidency, and would have steered away from any public activity that might indicate he wanted the job, because it would have meant he was "ambitious" and thus dangerous. Presidential candidates didn't campaign actively until almost the 20th century.
In the election in question, Jefferson's rival, Hamilton, put up his candidate, Pinckney, against Jefferson and Adams, and Jefferson made the fix with Aaron Burr in which one of the Democratic-Republican Electors (called Republicans for short) was supposed to throw away his electoral vote to make Jefferson President and Burr VP, but no one did and the two men were tied, though of the same unofficial party. Burr refused to back down. Hamilton.. sent advice, after the votes kept deadlocking in the Electoral College, to the House (who got to decide based upon Article 2 of the Constitution) to vote for Jefferson, since Hamilton considered him a man of principles, even if the "wrong" ones, and he considered Aaron Burr to be a man of dangerous ambition. There was no popular vote, and it was the House of Representatives where VP Jefferson had no office that made him President.
Hamilton did not want a popular vote, because he was worried that too many Americans were too uneducated, or selfish or whatever and they might fall for the sweet promises of a demagogue, rather than vote for a man of reason and principle....
Jefferson meanwhile, just tried to shape public opinion through his pet journalists, but also, more "idealistically" by promoting education for the white men he considered the only fit people for voting rights and full citizenship.
(The book "Founding Brothers" is one of several excellent books that covers these shenanigans in the early Republic)
What you just stated is history! Not allowed in a Republican World.
WOW! UNBELIEVABLE! I'm going 2 Research this more! Never learned this in my History class! 😱🤔🗽🇺🇲🙏
@@lyndaweister9984 Gordon Wood's "Empire of Liberty" is another good one covering events like this, and also Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln.
Bravo! Anyone worth their weight in political knowledge knows this. Sadly, most Americans do not know their own country's history yet all too often profess to "know the truth" (aka GOP pundits and Freedom Caucus politicians).
great history lesson! And how apt a description, near the end, of being wary of uneducated voters who might make unwise decisions; I see red caps waving in a sea of ignorance and idolatry; most among them claiming to be "Christian" while Christianity teaches that thou shalt have no idols before me, and that thou shalt NOT lie!
I have to make a confession. Right at the beginning of this pandemic I didn't know what tomorrow would bring. However since I been watching Seth, I didn't even care anymore. All I know back then, like I know now is, I can't go to sleep completely comfortably without seeing him do a Closor Look. Thank God for a little blessing of non-stop laughing till it hurts. Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
The world is looking and collectively asking "wtf?"
It's stuff like this that makes me realize that either we have never secretly met aliens or the US president is kept out of that loop. He wouldn't have been able to keep it a secret.
It might not be all presidents that are kept out of the loop. Those in the know might have specifically not told Trump.
What should make you realize we haven't met aliens is the near impossibility of it - sure, I agree somewhere in the universe there has _been_ intelligent life - the HUGE problem is time. In the 13.8 BILLION years the universe has existed we've existed for less than 1 100th of a BILLION percent of that time - thousands if not literally billions of civilizations could have risen and died by now, the odds they would exist right now AND be able to cross the incredibly vast distances of the universe make us meeting aliens all but impossible.
Life on other planets in our solar system, sure - but microbial life. Show me evidence for intelligent aliens that have or can visit us and I'm TRILLED - until then it's silly speculation that the facts of reality all but rule out.
"former"
The judges will also accept "single-term loser"
@@ross-carlson the problem with the math on extraterrestrial intelligence is. It's all speculation. We simply cannot know without at the very least sending probes to nearby solar systems. While the liklyhood of aliens being in current or recent contact with humans is very unlikely it is never zero.
I just love Seth's closer look, he nails that whiny baby with hilarious facts, it's brilliant commentating.
Need to charge them with state charges as well.
The play joke and the shack in the bus lane joke really got me. Great show LNSM team!