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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, |
0:04.6 | it's Stephen Colbert! |
0:07.6 | I'm gonna call seven. Hey! Lovely! Hey! Hey y'all! |
0:37.4 | Hi! Hello! Hello, everybody! Up there, down there! |
0:48.4 | Woo! You want to love the crowd? We're a lovely group of people speaking to the lovely group of people. |
0:53.4 | Yeah, this amazing group of people right over there. |
0:56.4 | So, welcome! Welcome everybody in here, out there, to the Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. |
1:03.4 | Now, anyone who's been paying close attention to the news over the last couple years might have noticed American democracies looking a little rickety. |
1:14.4 | Tell you who noticed, Joe Biden. That's why today he hosted something called the Summit for Democracy. |
1:22.4 | It's a democracy convention, it's demcon, armies of nerds descending on Washington, |
1:28.4 | and one of the panels being hosted by a guy cosplaying a sexy Magna Carta. |
1:34.4 | I think it's a fine idea, but I'm not sure where the country to be hosting it. |
1:39.4 | These days at US President lecturing the world about stable democracy, |
1:43.4 | it's like Andy Cohen hosting the rational discourse among sober housewives Summit. |
1:50.4 | Biden kicked off the virtual summit early this morning. |
1:54.4 | Democracy, government of the people, by the people, for the people. |
1:58.4 | Can a time be fragile, but it also is inherently resilient. |
2:03.4 | It's capable of self-correction and it's capable of self-improvement. |
2:06.4 | And yes, democracy's hard, we all know that. |
2:09.4 | Do we, though, Joe? |
2:12.4 | It's like he's saying all the right things, but he kind of seems like the kind grandpa |
2:16.4 | who's moved in because mom and dad have gone away for a while |
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