Stephen Colbert
After a replay of Covid, which halted production for the second time in a month, Stephen Colbert returned to the late show on Monday night. “Although I am happy to be back, I can say with sadness that, as you know, the history of №1 today is not only tragic, it is tragically common,” he began. “Because the attack in Buffalo this weekend is not the first mass shooting in which this country has been openly racist in recent years.
“This is a truly horrific crime,” he continued: a shooting in which a white 18-year-old suspect headed for a supermarket in a black neighborhood, killing 10 people. “And, of course, our hearts are with the victims and their families and their community. In this case, it was mostly a black neighborhood that the suspect had targeted after clearly stating his motives in an online roar in which he referred to something called “substitution theory.”
The said theory is a conspiracy of the white race that holds white people in the United States will be replaced by people of color. “Obviously this is racist, hateful and insane,” Colbert said. “Besides, if you think white people are being replaced, then who’s shopping at Vineyard Vines?”
“Where does anyone get such a monstrous idea?” he wondered. “Well, before it was only from the most remote right-wing organizations – your Storm Fronts, your neo-Nazis. But these days, you can watch it every night on television “thanks to Fox News and host Tucker Carlson, who put forward the idea that” elite bondage wants to force demographic change through immigration “in more than 400 episodes of his show. According to the New York Times, producers sometimes found raw materials for his show from the same internet angles as the Buffalo shooter.
“That doesn’t mean Tucker is responsible for what happened,” Colbert said. “But I hope this will give someone a pause to understand that their browser history coincides with that of a mass murderer.”
Recent polls show that 50 percent of Republicans agree with, as Colbert called it, “this garbage, and not just because it’s integrated by Fox News, but because it’s integrated by high-ranking Republican officials.” Colbert named Elis Stefanik, chairwoman of the House of Representatives parliamentary conference, who posted a series of Facebook ads last year claiming that the Radical Democrats were planning to grant an amnesty to immigrants to “take down our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington. “
“Oh, and do you know what these liberals will do with their powerful standing majority?” He scoffed. “Ask Joe Manchin for paid family leave, and then, when he’s not voting for it, say, ‘Oh, well then, is there anything else we can do for you?’ What if we give coal directly to the dolphins?
Seth Myers
Late at night, Seth Myers also tore in the arms of the racist substitution theory. “It should be easy for a healthy political party in a healthy political system to condemn white nationalism, as well as the dangerous and deeply racist substitution theory that comes with it, and yet, of course, there are prominent figures on the right who insist while they spread themselves, they don’t even exist, “he said.
Myers released a video from Carlson’s August 2019 show: “If you had to compile a list, a hierarchy of concerns or problems facing this country, where would the superiority of white on the list be?” Probably right there with Russia. That’s not really a problem in America … it’s a scam. “
“First, you don’t have to be a member of a white supremacist organization to be a supreme white man,” Myers said. “This is not Costco – you can be a white fan without being an official member, just as you can watch movies without a Blockbuster card.
“But, of course, he wants to pretend it’s not a problem. Because he also openly and repeatedly promotes the theory of substitution in his show, “Myers added a few videos ago of Carlson, who worries about” obedient “” third world “immigrants pushing white Americans out.
“Prominent figures on the right have been repeating this corrupt and deeply racist ideology for years,” Myers concluded. “And besides being fanatical, dehumanizing and dangerous, he’s just breathtakingly stupid. It’s so stupid even if they can’t explain the logic. “
Jimmy Fallon
And on the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon began with the first public hearing in Congress on UFOs in more than 50 years, which will take place on Tuesday. “Now that all the problems on Earth have been solved, go to UFOs!” he joked. Since 2004, 144 people have reported UFO sightings, which means that “you have a better chance of spotting a UFO than a Home Depot employee.”
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos and the White House went viral on Twitter after Biden blamed corporations for inflation and Amazon’s chief executive blamed inflation on plans to stimulate the president. “Now Bezos will buy Twitter from Elon Musk, just to ban Biden,” Fallon said. “Things are getting intense – right now the CIA is spying on Bezos and Alexa is spying on Biden.
“That’s right, this is Amazon against the government,” he added. “Now we know how the drone war will start.”
And McDonald’s has announced it will sell its entire business in Russia in three decades. “Sad news for Russians, who are now likely to live 20 years longer,” Fallon joked. “Currently, a Russian is rushing to McDonald’s to try to buy his Monopoly stickers.
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