There has been a lot of news since then Last week tonight with John Oliver last aired in November, such as the launch of the vaccine vaccination, Wall Street’s Game Stop extravaganza and a week-long obsession with sea shorts – whatever it’s about. That said, Oliver has decided to kick off season 8 with one of the most urgent news reports of last week: Donald Trump’s indictment.
‘Democrats are leading a compelling forensic case over Trump’s clear role as instigator of the January 6 riots, and in response his lawyers have issued a defense that can be lovingly characterized as’ incoherent’ with low lights, ranges from one lawyer reminiscent of his collection of child records. to another who submits the Senate to an 11-minute video of Democrats simply using the word ‘fight,’ “Oliver said. It seemed like they weren’t trying very hard, but it could because they really shouldn’t. He pointed out that Ted Cruz even met with Trump’s lawyers while the case was still going on to tell them that the outcome had already been determined in practice and that they had already won.
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“The thing is, he was right,” Oliver admitted. He added that Republicans would acquit the former Famous apprentice no matter what a “depressing sign” of how deep Trumpism runs in their party. At the state level, however, it is even worse.
More than a dozen state legislators took part in the “Stop the Steal” protest ahead of the riots, and one of them, Derrick Evans, a newly elected lawmaker in West Virginia, came in and claimed to be a member of the media was in the “movie history”. , the footage he filmed apparently spoke differently because he saw how he ‘Trump!’ and gloriously participate in the revolt.
Evans has since resigned – but there is more.
Oregon’s GOP issued a statement saying the riots were a “false flag” operation aimed at discrediting Trump, while Michigan’s top-elected Republican Mike Shirkey went on a rampage to spread false allegations, saying that the deadly riots were a joke and that it was predetermined by someone funding it even though Trump who repeatedly tweeted about the January 6 protest said things like “Be there, will be wild”.
Meanwhile, Arizona’s Republican Party condemned three members for not adequately supporting Trump, including Cindy McCain. They also tweeted again and tweeted messages that fueled the fire that would later erupt on January 6, including a quote from 2008 Rambo film that reads: “This is what we do, who we are. Live for nothing, or die for something ”regarding the Stop the Steal campaign.
In addition, Republican senators in Arizona have also tried to disregard the board of supervisors in Maricopa County for refusing to hand over ballot papers and machines for inspection. A GOP legislator in Arizona has also filed a bill that would allow the legislature to revoke election certification. In other words, if it had been a law in November, the state would have given Trump the election votes.
Republicans across the country have continued to respond to what has been called the “safest election in American history” by enacting laws that will hamper voting. Arizona has submitted 19 restrictive bills to suffrage, while 33 states have introduced more than 165 restrictive bills this year.
Fortunately, there is HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that can curb all this oppression of the electorate, but there is a catch. These accounts have a good chance of being enacted if it ends the filibuster. To do that, all Democrats need to be on board – Joe Manchin does not want to kill the filibuster. It makes things difficult.
‘It’s bad enough [he’s] the defense of the filibuster to defend the legacy of Robert C. Byrd, a man who literally tried to block the original suffrage in 1964, ‘Oliver said. Byrd used the thing Manchin advocated in the worst possible way.
“It’s like promoting Zoom by reminding everyone that Jeffrey Toobin used it,” Oliver said.
In addition to Manchin, Oliver points out that Democrats like Kyrsten Sinema and Dianne Feinstein defended the filibuster, while President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris remained ‘lukewarm’ about the issue.
“Democrats simply can not afford to rest on their laurels now – Republicans certainly are!” he insisted. “They made it clear that they were prepared to take things drastically and that the Democrats were just not prepared to face the threat at the moment.”
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