Cruelty Was The Plan: Chilling News About The Human Toll Of Trump's Child Separation Policy
After discussing the supremely unsettling footage of Rudy Giuliani in the new "Borat" movie, Stephen Colbert takes a moment to encourage Americans who might be considering keeping Donald Trump in office for four more years to remember the awful cruelties his administration has inflicted on families at the Southern border. #Colbert #Monologue #BetterKnowABallot
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545 children whose parents cannot be found. This is a crime against humanity. There needs to be a tribunal.
Wtf are you talking about
"laws" ?
Patriot.. why are you so stupid. IT'S A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
@Ext.2 Red No. just no. 44 may have built the them, but 45s use of those cages goes above and beyond whatever 44s administration ever intended. And 45 did it to be cruel, not to cope with the numbers. Children have died from neglect in those cages. If they were brought over by ‘fake parents’, then all the more reason to give them refuge and salvation instead leaving a toddler to DIE ON FUCKING CONCRETE FLOOR LIKE A STREET DOG.
It’s called child separation, they were taken away from their parents by the Trump administration. This is on them. It’s disgusting and criminal.
Nothing says Pro-Life like separating children from their families.
Not pro life- anti-abortion. There's a vast difference. They don't want to admit that. But they're actions are the evidence.
Excellent point! They are all about WHITE life
@@jessicacook5722 Not pro-life, they’re anti-choice.
@@sircrapalot9954 I can agree with that.
Not Pro-life, pro birth. Stop calling them pro-life.
As a therapist, I can tell you that most of those kids will be struggling for the rest of their lives in coping with this. The actions and consequences are appalling. I wish I had a US vote right now!
Yes. This government is scarring thousands of people for life, just because. If you watch the video of a child who WAS reunited with his mother (part of an older John Oliver segment about this policy), the trauma this tiny human has experienced, his tears, his screams and night terrors, your heart breaks and breaks again. For him and his entire family. And that's AFTER reuniting. If any of these kids grow up to hate the US and want to harm its people or institutions, I will not fault them.
Unlearning alphabets, natioonalitie, religions and other LIES made ofmere word is nealy impossible. OUR Civil WAR is proof that murder is not easy to forgive. Since the invention of WORDS and LYING to divide babies from each other, and the world , the ATTACKERS of LIFE have been CREATING the defenders of OUR LIVES and causing every war ever fought on his planet.
I’m traumatized already because of the racism and violence he has said.
Well this didn't age well 😂😂 that is what you get for listening to Colbert
@@NadiaGirl1this didn't age well either. Are you traumatized by what's happening to illegals now? Probably not.
The fact that people are finding justification for the separation of innocent children from their parents makes me sick to my stomach.
Dread Biden Separating kids from their parents is abuse.
The name being replied to wasn't highlighted, so my mistake for thinking it was a dig at Biden. Again, my apologies! Stay safe!
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@@queenmary9611 Jesus, you’re just everywhere aren’t you? I’m going to assume you’re Mary, Queen of Scots, in which case, you were a ruthless warlord who has no ethos to be talking about anything
Happy to see the child separation is being covered. It's absolutely atrocious these children have lost their parents.
It is barbaric should be like a war crime?
@poop pee Seeking asylum is legal. And even if it wasn't, it is no excuse for the Nazi level human rights violations. It's indefensible what the US government is doing at the border.
legality is just a game. a child separated from it’s parent is just plain evil at any point in history
@@jon9947 I just had the horribl e thought that some of the children might be dead (or worse) and the Trumpstapo is trying to hide it by making ALL of those children "lost in the system" to avoid a mayor scandal in the weeks before the election. Also, you assume the parents have gotten a chance to try and reunite with their kids by Trumelstiltskin.
@@jon9947 Seperation is more than just getting lost in Walmart....
These kids will have PTSD for the rest of their lives. It's shameful, horrific policy by this administration. 🥺 I voted out Trump last week. The only silver lining.
And yet Americans are confused about why people become terrorists and hate the United States....every action has a reaction
Don't forget the forced hysterectomies occurring at the border as well
Remember, some of the people we deported had legitimate asylum claims, and got killed when we sent them back.
The damage done to these human beings is irreparable, truly horrific and heartbreaking.
@M S As an attorney working with children, your statement about this being a uniquely American issue is not only incorrect, it is not based on the evidence in psychology and child development. They were taken from their primary caregivers. It stunts their growth emotionally, cognitively, and hinders their ability to trust, love, and build connection. There's plenty of proof of this and they will be forever scarred and will have trauma for the rest of their lives.
Why do they call it “separation” when it is really kidnapping? Why don’t they call it kidnapping?
Because that makes them sound bad. This is the same group that claims there are "alternative facts"
Kidnapping is legally recognized as a crime. Seperation is not. Hence their word choice.
@@morganqorishchi8181 EXACTLY!!! That is exactly the point and that is why I cannot understand how it has dragged on so long with nobody in the industry calling it out for what it is---a CRIME. They're all walking on eggshells.
Because it sounds bad and they know that what they're doing is WRONG.
It makes Trump and his administration look bad!!! You're right though, that is exactly what it is!!!
I remember when they announced that they had *no intention* of reuniting babies and parents. It seems the world yawned. Where is the United Nations? Where is UNICEF? Or ANYONE who cares about vulnerable children? 😠
Thank you Stephen for doing this piece on the 500+ children. This story has needed more attention than it ever received. Who are we if we just ignore this?
Yes !
Well, mrs meechee - we now know who we are - what're we going to do about it?
500 children is nothing compared to what is happening now.
How could people be okay with ripping children away. And now they’re missing. How are people not more outraged by this??
Easy. Those kids have a skin color darker than their own.
for the magats. thier parents shouldnt have brought them.
He has given so much to be outraged about..if that's all it was people would be horrified ....
And yet these idiots are out there with signs saying " Save the children"?
It’s propaganda and how are people ok with Biden’s ties to China and his son. Stop Being a moron
Youngest child is 4 months old at the time of separation. It violates all your Asylum laws. Completely Criminal!
This should be classified as a crime against humanity. This gov knows no bounds to abuse others
You’re right, it should be a Crime Against Humanity. The problem is, who makes that judgement, and who decides what happens to the person that commits it? I agree that Trump should be exiled, or even executed for his policies, but I don’t see a way to nail him for this
It’s the Democrats who paid China to make it
@@keithhylton4631 but who used it? Who instituted a family separation policy as a rule “no matter how young?” Obama might have constructed the facilities, but he never used them as modern-day internment camps
@@keithhylton4631 mate drop the crack
Has the US ever been held to account on anything? I mean they've been called out for shit they've done. But have they ever been held to account? Like internationally?
Heart breaking what they did to these kids. How come these are not crimes against humanity.
Well there is a reason why the US, China, Russia, Israel, etc never acknowledged the International Criminal Court. Because their leaders and their military does not want to be held accountable...
They made it policy and legalized it. Trump is looking for a country that doesn’t extradite to the Hague.
They are absolutely crimes against humanity. If there is any justice they will all be headed to The Hauge within a year
People need to go to jail for this. It isn’t enough to let history judge them.
Yes. It's vital. They can't be allowed walk away.
The Giuliani story reminds me of the show “To Catch a Predator” w/ Chris Hansen. The premise of the show is an undercover female officer posing as a child and luring unsuspecting men into a situation in which they expect to have sex. Only difference: the predators in the show got arrested.
Thank you 🙏🏽
We All know what will happen if we let "History judge them". NOTHING AT ALL !! Prosecute All of them and start with the Orange Troll !
"Just following orders" isn't an excuse.
I want a boring president. That would be great after the last 4 years.
Trump insulted HIS OWN VOTERS "I wouldn't be in Erie if I wasn't doing badly" and they didn't immediately walk out
I mean they would still cheer though, it's all they know how to do; open the mouth and release a primal cry
They thrive on his abuse. Like when he said he could "shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any votes", that was the ultimate insult, - yet they cheered. (He "forgot" to add "because you're that f-ing stupid.") Byedon 2020 - and good riddance.
Because they are a special kind of stupidity
That's because the Trump cultists drank the Koolaid
They're to stupid to understand that he's insulting them.
The separation of children is something I haven't forgotten. It's why I vote for Biden. It's why I left the Republican party.
Thank you!
As swear this happened during Obama administration..this network obviously anti trump they want to flipped the stories..
The GOP is guilty of aiding and abetting Trump in this inhumane if not criminal act.
@@dborg56 The GOP is guilty of continuing an awful Obama policy. That's never a good idea. Still, the wall will help to prevent this.
@Richard Cranium lmao
I live in a small town. 545 kids is pretty much every kid in town. Just think about that: a whole town's worth of children being permanently traumatized because of the willful actions of those in charge.
That like 2 Primary schools here in the UK kids aged between 3 and 11, think about that.
God i wish politics was boring again. I miss those days
Don't we all - I just want some piece for a bit.
When you flush The Beast into the open, it’s gonna be entertaining, to say the least..
See you say that, but alot of these problems were systemic. Especially the racial and cult-like fanaticism of trump supporters. These people didn't just pop into existence 4 years ago. And the politicians who hitched their wagons to trumps shall we say "fascism inspired" train existed long before trump swaggered onto the political stage. A boring president would just mean we don't see this shit that's going on behind the scenes anymore, and I'm legit worried that's what Biden will be. Another tool to sweep the crap under the table. I'm actually a little saddened trump didn't win. I mean the man's an unmitigated monster who diserves biblical levels of punishment for his actions. But if he'd had 4 more years then the Democrats wouldn't have been able to run on "better than trump" as a selling point and actually put forward a politician preaching real change. Bernie could have got a real shot in. Because make no mistake the democratic party is as much to blame as the Republican one for Trump, maybe not his actions, but atleast his rise to power. They used political powerplays and manipulation to put Hilary up against him in 2016, they reduced poling stations and rigged the vote to make her the front runner in their primaries. Because they were "so sure" when it came down to it. That people would rather vote for her than Trump, surely trump was finished with all the scandals that had come out against him. When really, they fucked up because of one simple thing. Humans hate being lied to and manipulated. And when asked to pick between two candidates they didn't want. People are less likely to vote for the one who they felt had cheated her way to securing your vote. When the party you support who's meant to represent you and your interests goes "see we saw what you wanted, what you thought. And we dicided to go another way for our own benefit" the answer was always gonna be "fuck you, you clearly don't represent me then"
I just think about how I felt as a kid whenever I got lost in a big store or in an amusement park for 5 minutes... the desperation I felt to find my parents... I can’t imagine what these 545 children and their families must be going through... regardless of their background, this was not the way to handle the situation
It’s disgraceful! Why keep the kids? That costs money. Send them with their parents!
@@Lindasromperroom yeah because money is definitely the important thing here. #sarcasm
Evem more, some are so young, they won't remember their parents... What have you done, America? Like George Takei said, in Japanese internment camp at least i was with my parents.
40% of those voting Trump have lost their humanity. They couldn't really care less.
@@Lindasromperroom you mean the parents who got them in this mess in the first place? The parents who risked the child’s life so they could commit crimes with them by illegally crossing the border?
Imagine your young child being stripped away, never to be seen. How sick.
Leftists have been eagerly engaging laws and legal practices that strip children away from parents for decades!! Oh, wait a minute. It doesn't count when the parent in question is a white, law abiding, tax paying father. Now I understand.
@@ThomasSDavis-mc9of what are you even talking about 😑
@@KC-wb7lq he has no idea. Just throwing out random nonsense like typical trumpers
Only Hitler did that and the world went to war because of it!
@@ThomasSDavis-mc9of I agree. Laws have favored mom's more. They need to change the laws to make things more fair but I don't think it was just liberals doing that. I think both Dem and Rep judges tend to favor the mother.
As the daughter of an immigrant myself, my heart breaks into small pieces just by the thought of losing my mom as a child. I cannot imagine the pain these parents and children are experiencing since they were separated by this monster. This a crime against humanity. What’s going to take for the Trump’s administration to be held accountable? This is beyond cruel. Poor children! They’re going to grow up hating Americans because of the horrific actions of this administration.😢🤬💔
They are going to be severely traumatized. Not a good place to be. I am 52 and still struggle with childhood abandonment
Plus, we should point out the forced hysterectomies too. This administration is purely evil.
@@thereisbeautyinthisworld7251 these ppl believe in somebody coming thru the sky to destroy non Christians..
Irony of ironies, Trump is the child of an immigrant. And 4 of his children are the children of immigrants. And the architect of his Nazi border policies, Stephen Miller’s grandparents are Jewish Russian immigrants/refugees
So heartbreaking. Those poor innocent children 💔💔☹️
When this is all over, a lot of people are going to be singing an old song..."I was just following orders."
Ours is not to question why, Ours is but to do or die!! Without thinking for themselves!!!
Over eight thousand voices, but I am so angry I need to add my two cents. Folks, if you were taking a trip and the airline lost your luggage, you would rightfully pitch a fit. You would have your ticket for the flight, the corresponding ticket for your luggage, and a system to track and trace both. THERE WAS MORE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR A DUFFLE BAG OF DIRTY CLOTHES AND TRAVEL TOILETRIES THAN A LIVING BREATHING CHILD...TIMES 2500. If they never found the bags, you could make a claim and at least see the monetary value of your possessions, at the loss of whatever sentimental value the missing items represented. The children were separated with little to no warning, scattered to the 4 winds in the middle of the night across this country, with tracking and identities lost, missing or even not bothering to register these kids into any system. What would you do? How would you find your kid? How would your little one find you? These children don't speak English; they might not even speak Spanish (many Central Americans speak indigenous languages- plural)! Then the government people won't tell you anything, and then they deport you without your kids...how much more outrageous can you get???? We can be thankful to the ACLU and other charitable organizations who have intervened and vow to find the parents of each and every child, but by now, they may only find a grave. What? Did you think these people were making the dangers up? Did you think that parents make thousand mile journeys through hostile areas just so they can buy Mickey Mouse ears at Disneyland? These parents have two choices: stay and die, or leave. So they leave for a chance at life, not merely a better financial situation. The 500 plus missing may not be alive, or may be hidden so that they can't be found. And if the idea was NOT to have hundreds of orphans who will now have to be reared and educated on the public dole and dime...well, he screwed that up too. Like Stephen Colbert, I too, refuse to believe that the American people are cruel or evil. This crap needs to stop, once and for all. VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.
This episode was particularly moving. When Colbert gets serious he really manages to incite reflection without being preachy or patronizing. Please, America, choose wisely. Greetings from a friend in Mexico.
Imagine separating children from parents and not keeping sufficient records to re-unite them. Pure stupidity and incompetence not that it should have ever happened in the first place.
Not keeping records was literally part of the order. It wasn't incompetence it was the plan. That any records were made at all is because of decent people who saw what was going to happen and did their best to make records.
I wish stupidity and incompetence were to blame, but it was deliberate and malicious.
Living in Canada is great, physically. Mentally? I’ve had several anxiety attacks just listening to American news. And it’s not like I can do jack shit about any of it.
Imagine actually living in the country where it’s happening. Horror show going on
Many of us here in the US have had anxiety attacks in the last 4 years. And there's nothing we can do about it either. Amazes me how many ignorant people live here and how easily they are fooled. Well I guess that's how most cult leaders and dictators have risen to power. Be afraid, be very afraid.
If he wins can I move with you in Canada
You Canadians need to build a wall . To keep out all the Americans crossing the border.😂
@@luckylibra6131 No. Canada is viciously racist and xenophobic. They have a secure border and very strict immigration laws that prevent people from moving into their country just because they feel like it. They also completely locked down their border and foreign travel at the outset of the corona virus just like that racist pos Trump suggested doing. Based on everything I’ve learned from Stephen Colbert and my other media heroes about the evils of having border security, Canada is worse than Nazi Germany and North Korea combined.
Just a friendly reminder: A few days after Halloween is the best time to throw away the orange pumkin(g)! VOTE!!!
My man you sound rascist against orange people
Don't worry, the trumpkin is already rotten to the core.
We Flush the Turd on November 3rd...
@@Joe_J-MT_Boy YES!!! PERFECTLY PUT!!! That belongs on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and yard signs! Thank you.
My heart breaks for the children and their parents. Prayers to them❤️
This is... just so disheartening that not even children are free from their inhumane depravity
Cruel Design Courtesy of Stephen Miller, Consulting Racist. They don't even let that guy go on TV any more as he is just a horror to listen to . . . he was removed from the studio in the middle of his last interview. kzhead.info/sun/qblwppl5bIJudYU/bejne.html
The policies of this depraved administration have always targeted the most vulnerable. No one is more vulnerable than children fleeing danger, drugs, and violence. That's why 45 zeroed in on them early.
Easily the most disillusioning moment of my life. I kinda thought we'd left this conduct behind with Japanese internment. It made me angry in ways I didn't know I could be.
@@rahcollier7006 we still have the war on drugs still going on.... This is so inhumane
Racists and bigots hate children the most, because children are the future.
Crimes against humanity. That is what separating the children from their parents are.
Human Rights Violations!!!
This is beyond sad!😢 can u imagine how crazy the parents are going not knowing how their children are doing or where they really are. The kids are prolly even more scared & devastated! I’m sure those border patrols they’re abusing the kids in every way also😢😢😢😢🙏🏾
Some children died in those cages, and are never going home.
@@davidbaughman6323 Do some research QAnon. Obama had a policy where it was a possibility, but was never really used unless there were extenuating circumstances. Trump and his minions ACTIVELY enforced it. You guys love being lied to.
@@davidbaughman6323 Oh hi Mark
@@davidbaughman6323 even if half of the children where ripped from their parents and put into concentration camps by Berry himself. Noone put a Gun to thrump head a forced him to do the same. Just because someone else kills children, dos not make it ok for you to do the same - The brain washing was you thinking it was.
@@davidbaughman6323 Wrong. The child separation began during the Trump administration.
@@CliffSturgeon wait, those cages were built under the Obama administration? I doubt it
Good to see Stephen remind everyone about the 545 children tonight.
Who accompanied the children to the border? Not their parents. Thanks for highlighting the child trafficking problem supported by open border Democrats
@@toddhellyar4167 their parents brought them, and the Trump administration took them away from the parents
@James Miller it was started by Trump. And seeking asylum is not against the law. Read the whole page in that link I sent you.
@James Miller On Fox or Q-anon? When did you receive your lobotomy and did Trump pay for it?
@James Miller You truly are an uninformed imbecile
Anybody need more on this? Google "The Cruelty Is the Point", and you will better understand both the policy... and Trump's followers.
These people and Trump don't care about any one other than themselves!!! Selfish and stupid, these people and Trump aren't the only people living here in America!!!
This is devastating. All those children are likely to never see their parents' faces again. What a nightmare
Good take them into your house
@@belahorvath1134 ?? Lol what a weirdo. No empathy, nothing
@@laurendilaurentis6467 they are here illegally period
@@belahorvath1134 So above everything, they're here illegally- that's it. How could you not care at all that these are children?? I don't even want to begin to know what caused you to become such an empty, soulless person.
@@laurendilaurentis6467 I’m a republican.i work hard for my money.i need to give my tax for illegal immigrants.you want sympathy look in the dictionary,it’s between stupid and syphalis
My god. Yeah, sometimes you just cannot laugh at things. I cannot bring myself to think too deeply about separating babies from their mothers. Somthing will break completely. This is just desperately sad. The rest of the world has been laughing at the USA. Maybe it’s time for UN sanctions. Vote.Him.Out.
Separate the kids from the parents???!!! Sounds like history repeating itself😭pls get rid of this evil person leading your country! If u don't think of the evil that is still to come!
We will!
@poop pee absolutely unjustifiable. People trying to flee to a better country isnt an excuse for the government to put innocent children into trafficking, total human rights violation
@@klickety4487 you have to look at the situation from a different perspective, the parents come into this country illegally, and dump their kids off, what are we as Americans supposed to do, we have to send the parents back, and they get the choice to bring there kids with them or leave them in America for a better life. The narrative that kids are being stripped away from there parents is highly exaggerated. And the kids arn't caged like animals, they are usually put in some type of foster home for these types of situations, believe what you want, these are the facts they dont tell you, do your research and stop acting purely on emotions from what you hear first hand, thank you and god bless
The kids. That’s just wrong on so many levels. Yes I do feel guilty.
Remember how big the Women's March in Washington was the day after his inauguration? The women knew what was coming...
This guy doesn't report the whole truth... a quick internet search shows that some parents don't want the children back, knowing they will have a much better life, despite not having their parents with them. Now we can understand the desperation of some people to get to American and the terrible life they have in Mexico. Trying to use children to come over the border had to be stopped...what is Steve Colberts answer to the problem...I doubt he has any, just gobbing off about people who have to make painful difficult decisions to protect the border and American people, while he swans around all day, in a big mansion I should imagine, before he is driven to "WORK" which consists of slagging off trump.
@@sharonrichardson3568 The asylum seekers were not Mexican. They came from South America, Argentina, Columbia, Guatemala, Ecuador, where their families were in life threatening danger from the gangs. Imagine how frightening your life would have to be to leave all the belongings that you could not carry and your home behind, and walk hundreds of miles sometimes with small children to get to safety. Then you are treated like a criminal and your children are stolen from you in this "safe" place. This is Trump's way of "Making America Great Again."
@@thegoodkelly What's your solution then...just let everyone over the border and into America ?
@@sharonrichardson3568 Dismantle ICE and use the funds to create motel like housing to house asylum seeking families. Open more courts to review the cases and immigration law attorneys to represent the asylum seekers . Have a translator for every language/dialect spoken.For those put on the path to citizenship, have organizations at the ready to assist them. No one wanted your relatives when they arrived on these shores. We are are a diverse nation of many nationalities, religions, and races. It is what makes us stronger.
I love the moments when one of these hosts let genuine anger and emotion slip through the jokes.
This administration and every person in it responsible for these separations needs to be criminally held responsible for this action and their paychecks and pensions need to be used for the children’s care until every child and parent are reunited.
I agree.
You mean the democrats in the 1950s
@@nastybedazzler Amen.
My comment is to locking those responsible for this up.
Completely unjustified and needless suffering put upon these children and their parents for no reason other than the color of their skin, lock the Keebler elf Sessions up along with the rest of the criminals in this corrupt administration. What an absolute disgrace on America.
I went to school to do humanitarian medical work. I never thought I would need to do it in my own country.
Get on down with your truth-tellin' self, Stephen! Thank you -- and your writers and staff -- always!
If my kids are out of my eyesight for a minute at the grocery store, it takes everything I have to stay calm and not scream their names. 545 parents don't know where their kids are now. Vote. Vote like your life depends on it.
4:42 Boredom. Boredom... you can't imagine how alluring that word sounds. Man I could do with a few years of complete political boredom right now. Just... just 4 years to recover...
Thank you Stephen for staying on the kids separated from their parents. I haven’t been the same since that policy happened and I’ve been so saddened the way the media let go of it as soon as possible. All of these guys who made that happen need to rot in The Hague.
The media let it go so soon after it was found that it was obeyme that ordered this. If it was trump, do you really believe it wouldn't be a rally cry for the dems and they would be PROVING it? People should ask for proof and not just accept what some dipshit entertainer tells you.
But it's OK to rip an unborn child from its mother's womb? Shameful double standards!!!
@@jmanynames7410 One of Trump's security people reported it today in person, saw it in the news, Ratcliffe? proof enough for you?
@@nancysexton545 Obeyme started the whole thing...Did you see the debate when trump asked joe "who built the cages joe?" Many of the parents DON'T want the kids anymore because of the local issues of their home!
@@jmanynames7410 I see you like to throw up the "who started it" BS, but were any families actually separated then? And what exactly was the policy at that time? Was it to separate children from their parents "no matter how young"? Hey, you're demanding proof that Trump's administration acted on this; show proof that anything happened under Obama. Show proof that it was even the same program. (And BTW, just referring to Obama by any old thing that starts with an "O" doesn't make it clever or funny or even relatable.)
Does anyone else feel the "calm before the storm"? Be safe, be strong everyone !
Yes.
So concerned....either way.
Great job, Stephen. Rumplestiltskin is a perfect image to bring forth to illustrate the despicable cruelty our government used to turn the offspring of those "huddled masses yearning to be free" into orphans kept alone in metal cages like rabid badgers. Thank you for your heroic voice. The knowledge of those orphaned children fills me with a great and painful sadness.
"That's not a child on a milk carton. That's the whole dairy aisle." In several stores.
Yeah! When he said that I was like how *big is that dairy aisle???
Only a few more weeks of utter insanity. Hang in there Stephen!
Great talk Stephen Colbert, thank you for making it clear to the trumpers. God bless the children and parents.
I actually walk into that situation at a job interview for a disabled guy. Came through front door couldn't find him. On bed in room jeans undone. He got mad at me when I genuinely asked "Do you need help putting your pants on?" He thought I was mean. Of course I can put my pants on. It was clear he was intending a sexual favor for his shitty job. He kept his dog on the floor next to the toilet . Nice Golden Lab never allowed to be anywhere but next to the toilet alone in the dark. I realized he was sadistic. I wish in home support workers could be protected.
Oh Mr. Colbert, there are no words for how important you have been throughout this pandemic and this president. Thank you is so inadequate.
Cobert, Noah, Meyers, all three have been very fundamental and positive about the terrifying news in America throught this year. As a europpean, i salute all teams from Late Night Shows for their Great Work!
OMG, are you kidding me!!!
Karras Bommer - I agree 110%! You stated it best - There are no words to describe the compassion and humanity that Colbert shows.. Same goes for folks like Noah and Myers and Kimmel - comedians with a conscience.. In these dark times, these fine folks are a ray of light, a beam of sunshine that shows us the end of the tunnel.. Peace.
@@grungil7570 -Well stated, Sir!!
Shut up
"Dragged in manacles before The Hague" - YES! Why aren't more people saying this?
Because - like Russia, China and N.Korea - America refuses to cooperate with any international court of human rights, or indeed any foreign court that tries to bring an American citizen to justice. Ask the Brits who lost a son to a diplomat's joyriding wife...
@Brutal Noodle There won't be, though, will there, because the game's about to start and I "need" to try this new menu item from *random fast food outlet*.
@Brutal Noodle Like he said, nah there won`t be, though. Harley was spot on Because, as he said, something very trivial will distract peoples` attention from the real issue and things will get forgotten about and pardons will be issued like confetti. does it make sense now ?!!!
mini "genocide"
@Brutal Noodle I disagree my friend. Its true trump will be discussed in history as the worst president ever. However, the corrupt system he and the republicans are busy shoring up with barrett coney will allow them all to walk . He and they are vile but they will not face justice. the best that can happen is that they face political oblivion. vote them all out.
Thank you, Stephen Colbert and co., for the laughs and the solemn reminders.
Thank you so much for talking about what’s happening to children and their parents. Thank you.
Where are the "save the children" people on this? hmmmm
Well the pope has commented on it as awful.
Only their own children
QANON hasn't reported on it.
Now that isn’t true, there are true pro-lifers who fight hard against the death penalty and poverty and do everything they can to make life good enough that abortion is reduced and are horrified by the separation of families and protested on site against it. They also adopt children. When we demonize each other we lose every chance to find common ground. Now excuse me while I go back to believing certain republican senators are the devil personified. :-) And reblacking my pot!. Not holy, just hoping we can someday join again on what holds us together.
@@ginafrench7546 I guess the silver lining is that we're never really separated because we're all the same species. "They" are "us".
"No matter how young..." I'm horrified, it made me sick to my stomach. This cannot go on
Democrats didn't have a problem with it during the OBAMA administration where it was first instituted.
@@ThomasSDavis-mc9of except during the Obama administration it only happened if it was suspected the adults who brought the children in were traffickers or otherwise didn't have the child's best interests in mind. but continue trying to make excuses for a failed regime.
If you watch the video of the kids crying for their dad, mom, or aunt, it's heartbreaking. 😭
@@ThomasSDavis-mc9of He only housed children if they were sent alone or of it was suspected it was a human trafficker that was with them and not their parent. It was very few. Trump on the other hand, did it across the board to all children even if they were with their parent. Jeff Sessions announced Trump's Zero Tolerance policy for the sole purpose of causing psychological and emotional abuse. May he rot in hell! Sessions, Trump, Rosenstein, and Stephen Miller who was the brains of the operation. May they burn in the pits of hell for all eternity!
C'mon, let's create political unrest and depose the elected president of Venezuela, supplant him with a dictator (calling him a president) and torture the countriy's people fleeing this ugly breed of American imperialism abroad, separate them from their children while sending these folks away at the border. Let's do this in the name of American Protectionism while stealing and burning that country's resorces and making huge profits. FOUR MORE YEARS! (sorry, Toni, this was supposed to be sarcasm at the end. I'm as sick about this as you are.)
You know who separated children from their parents?!....The Nazis 💔😢
"You still can't fix stupid, but the hats make it easier to count..." -Anon
Thank you for focusing on the separated kids at the Boarder, as it is the most heartless thing Trump et al have done.
People, even if those children were brought over illegally, the US government needs to be held accountable for how they handle the whole situation. I'm so tired of hearing people say it's only the parents fault and trying justify and completely excuse how the US dropped the ball and have traumatized hundreds of children.
These people were fleeing as refugees and seeking asylum, which is a legal human right, written into our US Constitution, which has been purposely & cruelly ignored by the Trump Administration.
This is what I've been saying I KNOW ALOT of people who agreed with this and all said the same "it's the parents fault they shouldn't have come here". This administration has brought out a lot of ugly behavior in people and needless to say I've lost a lot of friends and family who agreed with it cause this is inexcusable and it is just flat out wrong and cruel
I've seen people say that the people being held on the border should be harvested for organs for the "real citizens" currently on the waiting list. People are disgusting.
@John Griffith no maybes about it.
@@B1nGo81 It's just like the pandemic. His followers say it's China's fault but I say for either one, trump''s not responsible for the virus or for the parents coming here but he sure is hell responsible for how he handled it once they were here and kidnapping is against the law.
Where is your heart America? Please vote your HEART.
Once again, thank you for the laughs. Very much needed, Stephen. Stay safe everyone. Best wishes from Oz.
Another sword through my heart. May God forgive you, every one of you who voted for this administration.
"If you vote for sleepy Joe Biden things will get boring". Sign me up for boring, because Trump's America is infuriating, nauseating, & just plane scary, but definitely not boring.
Bring it on !!!- I can't wait ! No stress, no worry, no headaches, no sick feeling when theTrump name is heard .. out had so much going for it ... BRING ON BIDEN !!! 💙👍🇦🇺
@SW Graveyard o get some intelligence.. Hunter isn't the candidate.. Trump is bat-crazy ! Donny Junior & Trump are druggies !!
Another stupid comments from non college brainwashed voters ... this is the America u want ???? Look at the streets .. Dang
Here Here!
I don't want to have to be preoccupied with what the president is doing, or tweeting, or threatening. And yes we're tired of the pandemic! Sick and tired! I'll take boring politics in a heartbeat. I want to enjoy my life with my friends and family and go on vacations and not have to worry if I'm going to catch an deadly virus the next time I got work or go get groceries! Yes! I want boring politics! Sick n Tired of Trump's voice and his stupid face already!
Thanks Stephen for your ability to still help us all laugh.
I love you, Stephen Colbert, but I love your wife's laughter in the background even more.
Vote Blue! 13 days and counting. Let's leave no doubt. He's out.
Great way to bring it home Stephen. I couldn't imagine not raising my baby. Not knowing where my kid was.
60 minutes is my favorite for the las 30 years and now I love it even more!
Love you brother!!!
"It's 'Hope' and 'Change,' versus 'Grope' and 'Strange.' " _HAH!_ That's a perfect analogy for this entire presidential election. 👏👏👏👏
I have been begging for boredom for the last 4 years. Biden's slogan ought to be "Make America boring again"
PLEASE WE ALL KNOW DRAMA SHOWS JUST HAVE BAD THINGS HAPPEN AGAIN AND AGAIN..I MISS BORING AMERICA
Excellent job, Stephen!!!
giuliani is lying. He sounds nervous and struggling to formulate lies.
So they're cheering for someone who literally told them he didn't really want to be there?! Ummm..🤔
Trump: "I don't wanna be in this useless, awful, podunk town in the middle of nowhere, it's horrible, but I have to do it, apparently!" Idiots: "Wooo, he said words from his mouth hole!"
Mindless drones.
Yep
Looks like another episode of Squidbillies. 😂🤣
Trump supporters must be a special kind of masochist to be cheering a guy who has, since his 2016 campaign, given them so many backhanded "compliments" 😆
Great monologue about the kids! I salute you Sir!
When a parent says they would murder for their child, it's seen as a brilliant demonstration of the strength of bond between parent and child and shows how much the parent loves the child. But if a parent crosses borders for their child, apparently that's too much and they should be separated.
The question is How Hard Are They Trying to Reunite these families???
When did we get a president who has no idea that the press is SUPPOSED to ask hard questions to keep him accountable? He's so ridiculously offended by this extremely important function of the press.
Nono, the press is supposed to ask what his favourite ice cream flavour is, or how great he is, nothing harder than that. Why else would the rulers of the nation have allowed them to exist? #NotSerious #Sarcasm
December 2016 is the answer. That's when.
When your ego is that huge and your emotional quotient is that of an adolescent, and you want to be Mr Big, the dictator, even someone asking you if you are having a nice day is an offence. Let alone real adults adulting.
That's the rightwing-doctrine: Hard things should only happen to others. They want an A+ simply for being there and participating - which as you might know, is ofcourse something they heavily attack the left for, even though the left isn't doing anything like it.
He does know; but the 'outrage' resonates with his base. He goes on the show as free media exposure.
If Sleepy Joe is boredom, I prefer to be bored than constantly oscillating between being terrified and outraged. I need to catch up on sleep. I know that Joe won't do much, but it's kinda reassuring.
He's playing with you, he helped pass the Bankruptcy bill when His boy was a lawyer/ lobbyist for MBNA. He's been in politics for 50 years, he'll shaft you quicker than Trump did.
@@chrisoliver4757 wow 50 years? So Biden is also a well qualified candidate with decades of experience under his belt?
You're not suggesting Trump did much (good), are you? Because DJT continues being an abysmal failure, whether as a failed POTUS or as a failed businessman.
@James Miller is 4 years of ripping off taxpayers any better? How about abject pandemic response failure? What about forgetting the the word "United" in United States of America actually means something? Is that a better qualifying factor?
@@jorfice which also means he knows which wheels to grease to get legislation like the crime bill, the bankruptcy bill, future wars, fracking bills, any other bill designed to benefit his supplicants passed quicker.
Well said Stephen.
Poor Lassie! No good deed goes unpunished.
That's heartbreaking. The moment they started separating children from their parents, I knew many would never find their parents again.
And, they were doing it secretly before the policy was official.
True..that was the point i decided to vote for first time ever. Enough was enough. He and his administration are monsters and some i hear are pedos.
We are going to find some of the teenage girls were trafficked. Will never be found.
The parents that would do this to their Children. This assumes they are their children.
@@maejune2179 The parents didn't do this to their children. If the parents wanted their children kidnapped and used for whatever nefarious purposes by strangers, they would have stayed in their home countries. They came looking for asylum to provide a better life for their kids. The ones who did this to the children were American border enforcement officials and Trump (and possibly Obama because he's the one who started this policy).
The Giuliani story reminds me of the show “To Catch a Predator” w/ Chris Hansen. The premise of the show is an undercover female officer posing as a child and luring unsuspecting men into a situation in which they expect to have sex. Only difference: the predators in the show got arrested.
(Walking into the room from behind a curtain) "Hi Rudy. Why don't you have a seat... I'm Chris Hansen."
I'm not surprised by his actions. Just another man who is used to power and is used to getting his rocks off inappropriately without getting caught and paying the price.
@@fairwitness7473 ...and also totally totally selling out to anyone necessary in order to do so. I can't believe he's the same guy that rallied NYC after 9/11... :(
Oh My God!!!!!!! I think we all are worn out and tired of this trump mess. Everyday everyday and everyday......I simply can't take anymore. Those children could have been one of mines. SHAKING MY HEAD in tears. This whole administration .......no words.
545 children is only a *fraction* of the total number of children separated from their parents by the Trump admin (and *all* of these children and their families will face a *lifetime* of psychological issues because of those separations). It's also *twice* the number of children as were taken by the Boko Haram six years ago...remember how incensed we *all* were about *that* ?
Thank you so much for talking about this. There hasn't been a lot of talk about the New York Times/Washington Post articles on Child Separation and I was worried it would be forgotten in all of the chaos. You and your staff are doing a lot of good by talking about it.
Related from today: www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html
“60 Minutes...not one of the greatest shows...” Yes. Yes it is literally one of the greatest shows.
It’s just... heartbreaking 😞
Is this how they legalize child trafficking? I am disgusted.....Smh🤦♂️
Thank you Stephen for calling it what it is, stealing children from their parents aka KIDNAPPING THEM
Without documentation, how is one to know which children are with their actual parents?
@@MrPartegas real parents would want their children back. Barry made the cages
The light laughter in the background is the best part. It will be weird to look back at these videos in 5 years. Some of Colbert's best work
I love your passion for human decency
"Take babies from their parents, never reunite them or even attempt to, mistreat the children while they're in captivity and put them in cages!" - The Republican Party. "We're the party of family values!" - also, somehow, the Republican Party
I already voted for Biden/Harris, I won't have to endure to "debate". Watching the Donald talking, gestures, body language, is revolting, The last four years are so strange as to qualify for theater of the grotesque.
@jdjdjdbjd jdidjdjd No, she voted for old and rather incompetence guy. But if you look at the opponent, I would choose for an old weird incompetence guy than a criminal monster.
"The last four years are so strange as to qualify for theater of the grotesque." I totally agree - I am from Australia and have never been so interested in US politics before. On one hand, Trump is such an obscene loon he somehow managed to continually do and say stupid and appalling things, it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion that I just can't look away from. On the other hand, I desperately want to see Trump out of government (and the Dems in) for the sake of the various Americans that I know. Please get out there and vote so that Trump loses by a landslide and the US can start to heal.
@@RevYars It's like a train wreck in which half the people on the train have been convinced they will benefit from it, and are also aroused by the idea of the other 50% suffering from it...
His facial expressions....ugh can we mute him ? Completely?
@@RevYars I'm Australian as well and your views perfectly mirror my own. "A train wreck in slow motion" is the exact same expression I've used to describe the last four years in the U.S. I have friends and relatives who live in the States and I am deeply concerned for them. I dread to think what will become of that country if Trump gets another term.
I'm not excited, I'm f'ng terrified, and I am Australian. Vote this world war three wannabe out please. Save yourselves and the rest of us.
Canadian here...absolutely agree!
The world worries. Putin already messes with Syria and drives refugees to Europe’s borders. It created divisions between eu countries. He is doing this to America and your border is linked
Trump is anti war. That's why the Democrats hate him. See through the bs.
@@travis1043 he may have said it but he is a liar. i would not trust a liar. neither should you.
@@mujkocka Then why has he been pulling all of our troops out of other countries where weve been for more or less ten years? Democrats want war.
Ah, yes the party of family values.
Well done