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House Democrats Stage a Sit-In: The Daily Show - YouTube
Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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But, first up, breaking news,
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"sit" just got real.
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CHARLIE ROSE:<i> Chaos in Congress
as House Democrats</i>
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<i> stage an all-night sit-in to
push for a vote on gun control.</i>
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This was dramatic, like nothing
we have ever seen before.
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MAN:<i> We're in uncharted
territory now.</i>
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<i> We certainly have
not had members, uh,</i>
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<i> sleeping overnight in protest.</i>
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This historic protest that
lasted for more than 24 hours...
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Yes. It turns out the best way
to get something done
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in Congress
is by sitting on your ass.
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But jokes aside, what happened
yesterday was unprecedented.
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House Democrats, so frustrated
with their inability
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to even get a vote
on two gun reform bills, uh,
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including one supported
by 90% of the population,
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staged a sit-in of a magnitude
unseen in modern history.
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Yeah. But that didn't mean
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that they couldn't have a little
fun while they were doing it.
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JONATHAN KARL:<i> It went on
throughout the night,</i>
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<i> the House floor
sometimes looking like</i>
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<i> a rowdy slumber party.</i>
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WOMAN:<i> Lawmakers bringing
in pizza, late night snacks,</i>
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<i> cell phone chargers,
even blankets and pillows</i>
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<i> and giving each other
neck massages.</i>
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(cheering)
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MAN:<i> Representative Cleaver
of Missouri,</i>
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<i> he had a large pink and white
striped pillow</i>
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<i> and he said that he was
prepared to spend the night.</i>
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You know that congressman has
been saving that pillow, right?
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You know he's been having
that pillow.
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You can't just pop out and buy a
pink and white striped pillow.
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That's not how it works.
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The guy's been waiting forever
for this moment.
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Every time he's been in
Congress, like, "And now?
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"No? Okay, okay. Okay.
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"How about now?
Oh, no, no, no.
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"Obamacare...
No? Oh, man, looks like it's...
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"Sit-in! Finally!
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"Yeah! Now I get to use
my pillow
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and my matching blazer."
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(laughter)
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Why does it match?
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Man, 25 hours.
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Can you imagine 25 hours
just sitting there together?
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And I'm sure the first couple of
hours were cordial, you know.
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But after, like, hour five,
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people probably started
to let loose.
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You know, let a fart slip
here and there. Yeah.
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It's 25 hours.
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And someone's like,
"What is that smell?"
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"Republican (bleep)!"
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(laughter)
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Now...
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Now the congressman leading
yesterday's sit-in
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was none other than
Georgia representative
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and famed Civil Rights protester
John Lewis.
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MAN:<i> John Lewis, uh,
the congressman,</i>
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<i> the Civil Rights icon who
helped lead the sit-in.</i>
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Best known, uh,
for the work he did
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during the Civil Rights era,
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leading the march over the
Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
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WOMAN:<i> In the 1960s, he led
sit-ins demanding an end</i>
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<i> to segregation.</i>
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That's right, that's right.
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This is what John Lewis does.
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He's been sitting in
for decades.
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Now, he knows that when you want
something, you sit in for it.
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Gun control vote-- you sit in.
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Civil Rights-- you sit in.
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Opening night tickets
for<i> Star Wars: Episode VII--</i>
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<i> you sit in.</i>
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(laughter)
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(imitating Yoda):<i>
Hmm!</i>
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<i> Marched with King, I have.</i>
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Overcome, we shall.
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(laughter)
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(normal voice): Now, for me,
uh, the biggest winner
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of all last night, was C-SPAN
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because, you see,
a big part of the story
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is that the Speaker
of the House, Paul Ryan,
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ordered C-SPAN's cameras
turned off
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which meant the world couldn't
see the Democrats' protest.
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But it seems Paul Ryan forgot
what year it is.
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There are no cameras inside
and there are no microphones
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because the House
is not officially in session,
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so C-SPAN cannot be on.
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MAN:<i> Members of Congress
are capturing live video</i>
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<i> on Periscope
and other social media outlets</i>
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<i> and now C-SPAN,
the cable channel,</i>
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<i> is actually broadcasting
those Periscope streams.</i>
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(laughter)
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This is so insane.
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C-SPAN was broadcasting
Periscope.
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I haven't seen old and young
work that well together
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since the first<i> Karate Kid.</i>
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I don't even know... what...
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Broadcast on, broadcast off.
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(laughter)
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I mean, cable TV
promoting technology
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that will someday replace it.
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That's like candles being like,
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"Hey, have you heard
about lightbulbs?
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Wow. Wow."
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And, by the way, uh, Periscope
wasn't the representatives
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first choice, but Snapchat,
unfortunately,
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didn't have the same
gravitas for them.
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-It just didn't work...
-Debate it and vote.
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And people can be free to vote
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whatever way they choose to.
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But our Constitution says...
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They should've used
the protest filter.
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So the Democrats won out
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and were able to broadcast
the sit-in,
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uh, you know, to the American
people and, as we all know,
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with great power comes a handful
of representatives
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who don't know what the hell
Periscope is.
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(laughter)
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Oh, man.
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Oh, that guy is so cute.
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And... and impressive.
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How many people can say they've
used Periscope, the app,
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and an actual periscope?
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How many people can say that?
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But he's right, though.
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He is right.
I will say this.
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You see, the reason
the NRA has so much influence
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in Congress is not just because
of their money,
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but it's because their most
vocal members
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call Congress all the time
and right now,
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you're probably, like,
that's a good idea.
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I'll tweet them.
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No, no,
that's not going to work.
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E-mails don't work.
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Look, see that phone
that you probably have
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in your hand right now...
maybe you didn't even know this,
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but there's actually
a phone app on it...
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(laughter)
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...and if you move the phone
from here to here,
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you can call your congressperson
with your voice.
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And maybe you're, like,
"(scoffs) Trevor,
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that's something only
old people would do."
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Yeah, your congressperson
is old.
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That's why it's the only thing
that works.
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So, basically last night,
Congress had a slumber party
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and as with any slumber party,
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<i> it was only a matter of time
before lame Dad breaks it up.</i>
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The chair would hope
that the business of the House
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could be conducted
in a fashion that represe...
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-that respects positively
-(chanting): No bill, no break!
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on the dignity and the decorum
of this institution
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-to which we all belong.
-(chanting continues)
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-Poor Dad.
-(laughter)
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That's a man who was like,
"Yeah, sure, honey, uh,
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"you can have a slumber party.
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"What is it, 20, 25 girls?
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How crazy can it get?"
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(forced laughing)
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"I'm going to kill myself."
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Now, many people saw this
as an act of protest,
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you know, civil disobedience,
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a plea to do something
about guns in America.
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Paul Ryan, well, um,
he saw it another way.
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This isn't trying to come up
with a solution to a problem,
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this is trying to get attention.
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This is nothing more than
a publicity stunt.
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Uh, yeah.
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That's exactly
what a political protest is.
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That's what they are--
they're publicity stunts.
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When the colonists threw all
the tea in the Boston Harbor,
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no one said "That's just
a publicity stunt.
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You can't have a tea party
without cucumber sandwiches."
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But if anything,
if anything, the one place
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you can criticize the Democrats
is using the sit-in
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as an opportunity to fundraise
for their campaigns.
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Which, to be honest,
is pretty (bleep).
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You know? When you're up
on the moral high ground,
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it's not cool to be looking
for money. That's not the time.
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You know? That's like
Martin Luther King going,
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"I have a dream, I have a dream"
and someone else is like,
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"Yes, Dr. King
has a dream, and for $500
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you can turn that dream
into a reality."
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So, af... over 24 hours,
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the Democrats
finally stood down.
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Paul Ryan and the Republicans,
uh, never did allow a vote
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on the gun reform measures.
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And the reason why, as one
Republican congressman put it
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last night,
is that they didn't want
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to surrender
to legislative blackmail.
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But essentially,
their argument is this.
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And that is: this isn't how
the House works. All right?
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In the House, the majority party
decides what bills
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come up for a vote, and if they
gave in just because Democrats
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were causing a scene, it would
set a dangerous precedent.
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Yeah. You'd have random congress
people doing sit ins,
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you know, all the time
for every little vote
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that they wanted,
which is ridiculous.
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The seats of their pants
would start to wear out
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from all the sitting,
and you'd end up
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with a bunch of old white dudes
in assless pants.
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Nobody wants that.
I get it. I get it.
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Although I do wonder-- if
Republicans say a loud minority
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shouldn't be allowed
to control Congress,
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then why do they
let the NRA do it?
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And let's not forget...
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let's not forget in 2008,
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when Republicans were in the
minority,
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they pulled a similar stunt.
Because they wanted a vote
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on expanded oil drilling
and then Democrats blocked it,
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so they also staged a protest.
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And that's fine, people, because
protesting is a valid way
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to make an important point.
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For Democrats, the point was
that Americans
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don't want over 32,000 people
to die every year
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of gun violence.
And for Republicans is that
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we want to drill more holes
in the ground.
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Both equally valid issues.
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And look, Republicans
do have a point, though.
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Responding to this pressure
by allowing a vote
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could break the system.
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But let's face it,
the system is already broken.
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The people elect congressmen
to represent their will.
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And right now, by refusing
to hold votes on a bill
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that's supported by 90%
of the American people,
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the GOP is ignoring that will.
And so the Democrats
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are just trying to shock
the system back into working.
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You know? It's sort of like,
like what you do
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if you-you put a dollar
into a vending machine
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and you're trying to get a
Kit Kat and then your Kit Kat
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gets stuck in the coil thing.
You are well within your rights
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to smack the (bleep)
out of that machine.
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Yeah. You get in there
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and you smack the (bleep)
out of that machine.
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And if Paul Ryan comes along
and says, "Uh, excuse me,
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that's rather uncalled for,
uh..." You'd be like,
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"Yeah, who gives a (bleep)?
That's my (bleep) Kit Kat
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in there
and I'm gonna get it out."
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(cheering, applause)
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And if I may-- one more thing
about Paul Ryan himself--
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the problem with Paul Ryan...
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Hey, guys. So, it looks like,
uh, Paul Ryan
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managed to shut our cameras off,
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so I'm coming to you live
from Periscope,
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and I encourage
every one of you to join me
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and let your voices be heard.
Thank you so much.
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Because that's what democracy
is all about, people.
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That's what it's all about,
and... Thank you.
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I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
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Democracy is supposed to
represent
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the will of the people, right?
And... Wh...
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That's true, that's true--
pandas are indeed soft.
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Thanks for chiming in.
Anyway, it's designed
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to represent the will
of the people.
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I-I don't know...
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I don't where
your garlic bread is,
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and please don't call me
"betch." That's not cool.
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Any... When a democratic
government
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fails to listen
to what the peop...
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Guys, garlic bread and banana
bread are both delicious.
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You don't have to choose one.
It's not a choice.
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Any... When a government fails
to step up,
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the responsibility
falls on the rest of us
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and what the peop...
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First of all,
I am not your daddy.
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And even if I was,
I wouldn't fist you
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because that would be weird.
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Now, what was I saying?
Oh, right, right, right.
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The will of the people--
all right. Wh... What?
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Who doesn't have the...
What does that even mean?
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Look, I'm trying to-to...
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Well, thank you,
but I am not John Legend.
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Um, look-look...
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Look, asshole, I don't know
where your garlic bread is.
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I don't know... Why do you
people... I'm trying to tell...
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You know what, Paul Ryan
was right-- cut the feed!
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Just cut the feed!
I'm sick of this. Cut it!
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We'll be right back.
Cut the feed!
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