This Is It Folks: Trump Can Wage War With No Understanding Of The Consequences
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- In his first Late Show monologue of 2020, Stephen Colbert breaks down the sequence of events that led to President Trump's strike on Iranian military general Qasem Soleimani. #Monologue #LSSC #Colbert
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So, I am finding that my desire to remain well informed is in direct conflict with my desire to remain sane.
Kai Vickers : sad that this is true. Almost afraid to watch the news here now. Some days, I just have to take a break from all this insanity.
@@slcRN1971 -- That's a wise thing to do. You get too focused on the crazy and it's easy to lose track of what's good about your own life. Breaks help me a lot.
Kai Vickers ... You are funny.
I feel the same.
The most important thing is to remain POLITICALLY ACTIVE this year. It's not enough just to vote - we have to protest, register people to vote, knock on doors, donate...it's all hands on deck or we are totally and permanently fucked.
If you lose your sanity, it'll be that much easier to deal with the information!
The generals: "We gave him that option, but we didn't think he'd be stupid enough to pick it!"
HAVE YOU ALL BEEN IN A COMA FOR THREE YEARS???
They knew, it's not like he got the job yesterday and most of them will get huge jobs at defense contractors for finally starting the war the with Iran. Trump was the idiot they've been hoping for ever since Iran liberated itself from America's puppet dictator.
Yeah, that makes no sense that they would give this man options. It's really their fault.
Shouldn’t have fucked with the Embassy.....he’s not ball less obummer.
Not surprised a lot of Americans talking about war like its some kind of a game or normal thing,they never lived in war conditions.I can tell you i wish no human being something like that,ever.
That's because The US is a better country than yours even with the craziness, better morals, better economy, better president than most etc.. Truth hurts I know. I'm an immigrant myself who also lived in war conditions and had to fight communist. But now a proud US citizen also US Army Vet , and with this great economy and thanks to God, I was able to get a house with 1.6 acres and a landscape business which I'm running myself. I'm a living proof of the American dream. Is easy to talk shait about the US when that's the only thing you can do.
@@Soulcolector7 People aren't talking shit about the USA. But are very concerned about it's current leader...
Oh ur such a good person, let’s just cancel everyone steal money so everything will be ok. I agree Americans, the people who abolished slavery and pay for everyone’s military, they only like war. God I mean, imagine freedom, there fuckin stupid.
@@Soulcolector7 bruh, he wasn't talking shit. He's really concerned , you could try it sometimes.
USA the best we never mind our own business we go into other countries and do whatever we want.
I'm always surprised by how glibly Americans dismiss lives of ppl of other countries! 😱😭
Not all of us!
@Greg_Delta Idiot
Vivek...they are doing it now,with the Corona virus.Morons! And I'm surrounded by them. It couldn't be any clearer to me now.How crass. How arrogant yet super stupid. The worst kind of arrogance!Any one who sez people are over reacting either don't watch the news, believe any news or are plain simpletons. Their noncompliance or shrugging of the shoulders could cost lives.. the ones of their loved ones. Hey, but as long as they "seem" smart coming up with a hoax idea...so gracious to even include the president as the instigator,as a "he can't b that crazy..he musta planned it all!"Much ezier to do that sittin on the couch, then to stand up n take action!! 3, now 6 feet distance?..Yeah..I wanna distance myself allright.
November 9, 2020. Look how Americans care about each other.
Dear Iran, Mar-a-Lago is the most important cultural site in the US.
Hahahaha!
😂😂😂😂😂🙊🙉🙈
It does seem so. Greetings from Europe.
😂
But please: all the intelligence of the US are there during the week end. So make us a favor we will thank you.
Remember when Trump accuses Obama he'd start a war in the Middle East to get re-elected?
Yeah, most of us watched Seth play those clips too.
Retaliation?????....where was the "retaliation" for the service member, and 2 contractors, killed in a terror attack, in Kenya, 2 days ago? Further proof that Agent Orange Adolf Twittler didn't order that attack on the Iranian General because of some embassy attack.
@901bluefox Oh god, are you serious? The "embassy was attacked"? That's a funny way of describing an angry protesting rioting mob. List the name of even ONE person who died in this "attack" of yours, I'll be waiting right here. When you're done listing out all the people who died (hint hint, it was ZERO), then explain to me how killing the head of another country's army is the appropriate and proportional response.
First of all, you should be aware that not everyone on the internet is from the US, so you can keep your narrow-minded binary rhetoric to yourself. You won't be able to catalogue my political or ethical baseline in your preciously simple dems vs reps black and white narrative.
Secondly, the civilized part of the world flips our shit because Trump is a senile egomaniac and a pathological liar that doesn't even understand the limitations of his powers as the POTUS and sidestepping the constitutional checks and his own intelligence apparatus.
Thirdly, a POTUS is openly and repeatedly threatening with actions that constitute warcrimes, yet the "leftists" are rabid. Sure honey, whatever gets you hard.
I can only assume you're going to be standing as rigidly at attention when the roll call comes in to send fresh bodies to yet another decades worth of "peace-keeping" operations in the Middle East that the US can't even afford to finance.
@901bluefox and they attacked the embassy because the US bombed various sites in Syria.
Ppl that never in life had to face consequences, more than likely, think that consequences do not apply to them.
The Hebrew Widow so true.
thats trump* just don't care anything too deflect from trump* IMPEACHMENT.
The Hebrew Widow Yes. That’s The Clintons in a nutshell. Good observation.
I was born at 2003 in Iraq and I don't want to live the events that happened then and sure don't want the older ones to RElive those events
I mean, this do seem to be the days to release a whole bunch of remakes of older works
Anonymous 1
America free you from sadam. you better thank GOD JESUS for America
@@josejose-sw6uf blah blah blah ... BULLSHIT.
Maybe saved us from Sadam but they didn't do it to "save" us, they did it for the oil in the area and they gave us to Iran which is worse than Sadam.
So it's bullshit
@@mclovin9165 not really.
If you live in Iraq you'll know that even if you tried to build a house, a home, you'll get threatened AND killed and no one can protect you.
As a young Iranian student, I'm really tired of this situation. this is no joke. hope it never ends in War! Love from Iran
Iran/Persian culture is beautiful too, you shouldn't have to even entertain the types of things being discussed right now! It's just insane! My thoughts are with you & wishing you the best! I really hope this madman is dealt with!
I had the pleasure of visiting Iran 15 years ago. I marvelled at the amazing arquitecture, persepolis and the kind people so my blood boils to think that this bufoon and his cronnies could damage this world heritage and potentially cause the death of thousands (of any nationality) . He thinks this is all a game he´s watching on a TV screen.
@@shivgrib
Can you blame him (Trump). He has so much time to twitter, definitely he thinks killing people is a game after all.
Shiv Grib pretty much. And Iran does have have some really interesting Architecture
Most Americans are against this bullshit. This is the result of an idiot elected by a broken system sucking up to his overzealous followers so he'll be perceived as "tough." Regardless of our two countries' differences, I don't hold anything against the Iranian people and am sorry things turned out this way.
It hasn’t even been a week and already the world is falling apart.
I don't think I'll know a day of peace all of 2020
you don't need calendars and New Years for that, it's an ongoing process
Haha shut up, nothing has fell apart
@@iamthepotato4312 australia is on fire, flint still does not have clean water, the president is trying to start a pointless war, authoritarianism is on the rise, the climate is going downhill, the president is going back on many of his promises, the president attempted to interfere in the election, modern medicine is being increasingly questioned. What exacly is going right in your mind?
@@liamhunt1373 Don't bother! Idiots like him refuse to care or act until shit directly affects them.
Never mind that until very recently, Soleimani was literally our ally in the fight against ISIS and that's why he was so beloved by his people, and when he was killed, he was on a peace mission to reduce tensions between Iran and Saudi-Arabia. Also, the same intelligence agencies that claimed that Soleimani was allegedly planning an attack on the US, are the agencies that lied to us at every step of the way during the war in Afghanistan, as we learned on that report by the New York Times a few weeks ago, and no evidence to of the such claims have never been presented to anybody.
To be honest neither Soliemoni nor Iran were ever US allies, they just happen to have a shared enemy whom they hate at least as much as the USA. Basically Iran and the USA stayed out of each-other's way while fighting ISIS, there wasn't any coordination or formal cooperation beyond that.
You better male go sit down, u must resent you mama
A peace mission?
We fought with Russia against the Nazis and the long cold war followed including a very tense Cuban Missile Crises in 1962. We fought and destroyed the Germans and Japanese in WW2 and they are our allies today. What point are you making that hasn't been made before?
Oh Stephen, we've missed you these last 3 weeks or so..
Merry Christmas, Happy new year, and thank you for all that you do.
Y'all heard about the Roaring 20's, get ready for the Screaming 20's.
Sigh...guess I better start preparing for that imminent economic crash
@@ExorcistX999 Time to move out to Antarctica and chill with the penguins...
@@aramccrimmon7579 hey at least there would be no property taxes and shit there
The Warring 20s.
Meaning what Sara you idiot?
New Years 2020: Remaining hopeful
January 1st: Australia is on fire
January 2nd: World War 3
That escalated quickly.
I know right
My personal life 2020 is following pretty much the same path! Shit.
January 3: memes about a pluage
Australia has actually been on fire since late October last year. It just didn't get major recognition until now.
There is no world war though and there won't be any time soon, nothing but scare mongering from snowflakes.
I just feel like crying. I am so frustrated by all of this hatred and violence!
Typical woman. Emotional. Lmao war is normal
I feel you. This shit is sad. :(
Sorry to hear. I recommend you turn off the TV and turn off the internet. Hatred and violence is what sells so that's what the media will deliver.
Wait, so they only put that incredibly risque option just to make the other options look sensible?
Have, have they not read his Twitter feed for the past four years?! "Sensibility" is not a word he could even SPELL correctly, let alone understood the meaning and application thereof!
Gods help us! We might be going to war!
@@couragekarnga8735 we are not going to war because that would be bad for business. That's one of the good thing of the modern capitalism: far too many people depends on the world being at peace so that they can continue doing business that war is just unappetizing for them.
It showed that he really knows more than his Generals cause they could only be idiots
I’m so happy Colbert is back! We’ve missed you!!
No we dont, but since he’s back, we can all laugh when he triggers.
Same.
E Lo Ehhhh Lo
@@noirrain6005 you mad bro?
@@noirrain6005 you're messed up
What a rough year this week has been...
This so sums up this week perfectly.
#facts
@Cliff Moore True, the top1% are living their best lives.
@Cliff Moore that is not true. If you are listening
@@phniedwn not that is not true at all.
I can see trump closing his eyes and picking an option by saying inee miney moe
raptor 1-2 don’t talk rubbish this doesn’t even compare
Same thing Obama did when He invaded Libya and Syria?? Are you Democrats only in favor of war when its your side pulling thr trigger?
Where have you been, that was already done for 16 years. Bushy and Obama blew up the middle east. There will be no war with this administration.
You see what you've been conditioned to see. It's you who have your eyes closed. You don't even pick an option. Your options are decided for you.
TDS much?
People were joking about him declaring war via tweet, so he actually did it
@Random UA-cam Idiot it wasn't a deescalation, Iran already responded. You're delusional if you think this was a deescalation
@Random UA-cam Idiot Your name suits you well. Iran is not finished yet. By killing that general Trump opened up Pandora's box. Russia and China and Iran are now doing joint navy drills. Ask yourself why that is.
Let's see how Trump responds when in the next attacks from Iran, Americans are killed. I doubt he will respond with "all is well" when that happens. More likely it's gonna be more "fire and fury" where it will actually happen this time...
So you guys really think there will be another war? Too much drama from the Dems, the News and this kind of talkshow that only knows how to make fun of the situation.
He declared war? When? In what tweet did he say it?
@@oldmoney1022 Russia's navy? You mean the one with only one aircraft carrier that happens to be broken?
Let it forever be known as 'the Impeachment War'.
Because that's what it is.
Lol impeachment means nothing, do you not understand how it works? The democrats were never getting the votes in the Senate. Stop being delusional
@@danielporter4568 they're not the delusional ones here :)
@@danielporter4568 he *is* impeached. The senate only votes if the impeachment should result in removal from office.
@@stephanweinberger And therefore it means nothing. Maybe try alleging a crime next time?
@@face2wake Withholding aid to get dirt on a rival is illegal. And that's just one of thousands of examples. So is using taxpayer money to golf at his own courses, and holding meetings of state at his for-profit resort.
You Know Trump never heard of suleiemani before that recent meeting with the generals.
SAD, Isn't it? Please American Allies.....stay away. Let the Moron fix it by himself with Pompeo & Moscow Mitch.
@Big Ern Dog I don't think those missing limbs he lost them while defending Texas or NY or California. He was somewhere in the desert (spoiler - not Nevada). Were those roadside bombs on the 5th Ave? What was your esteemed hero doing with a weapon in country's roads? Hunting deer?
Of course he knew. You didn't. Stop being intentionally stupid.
Sheena345 M If you had even the most basic understanding of the administration of the nation you would know that he obviously knew who Soleimani was since before.
@@bnap3221 fake news.
Colbert killed this one. Bravo!!
"Hope 2020 in off to a great start." Oh you poor bastard, if only you knew.
If any questioned why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied
Kipling
Wow. The full 1919 poem, after WWI:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57409/epitaphs-of-the-war
That section is the "Common Form" and it absolutely is. There are good notes that discuss certain sections at:
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_epitaphs1.htm
On the poet:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rudyard-kipling
If anyone questions how we died
Tell them that our leaders lied
Sold us out by the riverside
Whose side are you on
-Chumbawamba
A DEAD STATESMAN:
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
If he was telling people about the attack days in advance, this undermines the pretext that it was in response to an "imminent threat."
He meant 'imminent' in the sense that the universe is infinite, and that if you go far enough every single possible event will happen inevitably. Duh.
Sure does.
Montesama, you NAILED IT!
"imminent" in response to the Iran hostage situation 40+ years ago.
Or the fact that he was presented with "options". An imminent attack would not result in having choices to respond.
Trump is so desperate to deflect from impeachment hearings he's willing to risk World War 3.
I'm confused? How would world war 3 break from this? You must not know what started ww1 or ww2. because Iran alone is hardly a threat to a world war. Let alone the reason another world war never happened after ww2 is because now the top 3 most powerful nation's United States of America-russia-china in that order all have nukes along with a few other small nation's. Iran is like bugs to the American military more annoying than anything. If the United States said fuck it we could shut all that shit down in a week without even using a nuke. But innocent people would die and of course we as a nation wanna try to minimize that. PS I don't like Trump not defending him just saying ww3 will not happen because of weak ass Iran they are running around with weapons the United States bought them.
lowkey An assassination started WWI.
@@lowkey3820 b r u h. The great war started because of one assassination, as the world was in crisis at the time, and people were angry. I'm sure you see that the lessons of the past, if not learnt, will bring us back full circle to similar times, with deadlier weapons. I know that the US defence forces, especially USAF, is strong, but there will be no war in these times without civilian casualties, and with nuclear weapons in abundance, the number of civilian casualties can bring us to extinction in the worst case scenario. The least that can happen if things escalate is that American economy, already indebted to the world bank more than the whole of EU, can crash, and dollar supremacy can crash the already stumbling global economy for at least a few year. People aren't investing enough, as they no longer trust their governments, and money used up in war leaves countries cash strapped for infrastructure development, healthcare and education.
Tl,Dr;
Peace time means good time, war time means bad time.
Thats why iran need to chill and the us needs to kick this orange joker out of the office asap
@@lowkey3820 here is another delusional american, come here kid let us explain why you're confused, iran is allied to russia and china, two of those countries are bound to enter war against anyone (and I mean ANYONE) that goes to war with any of these countries, this is called protection pack deal, if the us declares war on iran, it is by default accepting to declare war on russia and china, thus nato is bound by protection pack with america, so you see here; this is what a world war is, the world, at war
WW1 started because of a student that assasinated a political leading figure, dont underestimate assasinations and their capabilites to start wars
Note to Generals: never put the option you don't want him to pick on the list of options to pick.
@Snork Town That's the most brain dead way of looking at it. We can have stupid culture and law. At the end of day you want to make the RIGHT decision. Was it a good idea to have given him the option?. Of course fucking not.
To understand Trump, just do what you know he would hate.
@Snork Town no, it would not be treason. "Treason" is working for the enemy. Not killing someone because it would cause way worse problems than it would solve is not working for the enemy, it's being smart. Giving Israeli intelligence to Russia is way closer to treason.
Those generals that worked with him need to be held accountable by Congress. None of this makes sense and they are required to make sense!
@Evil Rev That's a pretty evil comment, Evil. They don't hate pre-US 15th century "America" but they are dedicated to the post "American" RIGHTS and LAWS as instituted by the founding fathers just like every other true patriot. The senate circumvents this as does the president. If you are in the US,. you need to get onboard.
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have been diagnosed with Bone Spurs and are unavailable for the impending military draft
They probably wouldn't have been able to pass the ASVAB Test anyway. They are far from the sharpest knife in the drawer. Had they not been born into money and gifted with a career, they probably couldn't hold down a fast food job.
And Melania just filed a lawsuit agaist Trump for Vaginal bone spurs residual. Taking him to the cleaners to get clean.
@@ellamone9998 oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiii
True story!!!
They’re too old anyways.
As an Aussie I love our US friends. Without you coming when we needed you we couldn't survived WWII. However, we followed the USA into Vietnam which was a disaster. We then followed into Afghanistan and that also turned into a long quagmire. And we were also one of the few nations to follow into Iraq to get rid of Saddam, which also just created disaster after disaster. If President Trump creates another unnecessary Middle-Eastern war for his own ego... I hope our leaders pull back from the US alliance until a more stable person becomes president of the USA once more.
@Adam Brady Rupert Murdoch wouldn't be happy if Canberra didn't jump when he said jump.
Don’t you realize that going to war with and bombing the crap out of Iran is the only way to fight the horrific fires ravaging your country? I mean what do you have, common sense?
If you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic. I am in no way trying to make light of the issues that are happening in Australia at this time.
A Shaken American
BulletTheEnforcer Hahaha, that is a good one! I actually do appreciate a bit of clever sarcasm :) Thanks for your sentiments regarding our fires. I’m thinking of you all as well. I know you have bigger state/national issues you’d rather fix, than wondering if your president is going to get you involved in another war.
NATO members certainly won't go in a war decided by Trump alone on Twitter. I don't know for Australia, but we are not there yet. For the time being, the international community is trying to cool things down, and Trump won't have congress approval. And Soleimani fought Daesh so I have a hard time understanding Trump's logic. His asked his counsellors : Can we go at war without releasing too much CO2 ? Yes, mr president, if we use nuclear weapons, absolutly !
aw.. you really poor thing... dont you realise...
There is no stable person is USA.
kids these generation gonna have fun in history class lol
less it's rewritten.
most hated why they never teach history there
Yeah, if there even is a history.
“Kids these generation”? Sounds like you need an English class
Too bad Trump's generation is trying to squeeze in one more war before they die
How the hell can drump threaten war with a country and not get banned from Twitter?!?!?
Look how many years it took to get rid of Alex Jones after his vile words about Sandy Hook. And who's to say Alex isnt back on Twitter, just under another name?
Twitter claims that the President's tweets are "newsworthy". Are they? He's certainly running the country with them. He's getting very little other work done if he has to go to the potty everytime to announce new sh#t all the time.
You officially have no common sense
Because Twitter is a major part of the problem. From the beginning.
@@pamelacass9642 Itvmames you feel bad but it doesn't change your outcomes
@@pamelacass9642 Because the anti-Trump noise in the media is so loud, Trump smartly uses Twitter to get his messages out. You have something against free speech?
It just at this point feels like I can't even laugh about any of it anymore
At this point, at least in my social circles, it's laugh about it and meme it because the only other option is sobbing in fear
I'm with you
Agreed!
yeah, Colbert hasnt been funny since the Colbert Report.
Totally off topic... Lemonie Lala is a most adorable name!!!😘
If this becomes a war can we just give Trump to them and say "no need to return it"
Great plan. Where is the petition?
Broduts Wtf are your videos man? ...🤮👍
Lets just tell trump that its an award ceremony
@@dr.gregorious9336 looks like some old school youtube? 😃 Kinda cheers me up actually
@@jojijoestar7950 yeah or kfc
Missed you so much Mr. Colbert. Hope you had a great holiday season. Thanks for getting back to our lives...
I'm a bit confused. How can someone be "caught ... in the act" of an "imminent threat"?
Then again, this is Trump talking, so I guess confusion is an appropriate response.
Then explain what made bush and Obama go to the middle east?
@@williewilson2250 Oil.
@@TheDrKnives exactly
My mental health isn’t the same when Colbert is on vacation. So glad he’s back.
Wow... mental health indeed
co sign
u need to have a life
Noah Mo fuck off
They gave a psychopath a list of options that included killing the target, and they're surprised the psychopath picked that option.
Exactly!
7:45
@Christopher Manella Even if you're trolling, you're encouraging psychopathy with a deadly potential war with thousand of dead and wounded as a result. Get help.
@Christopher Manella sounds like your the one sucking it all up.
big daddy orange man makes you feel all safe and fuzzy inside.
feelings over facts eh?
@@stylis666 Youd rather our military men have been slaughtered? We took out a threat. Thank goodness we have a president that will actually act on these threats. The rest of you cowards can go kiss ass to the Iranians all you want.
Literally every president ever. Stop your whining .
Remember the Halcyon days when the worst thing a president could do was wear a brown suit, ask for Dijon mustard, and want everyone to have affordable health care?
"Very" "stable" "genius."
Your in denial., or just as stupid as Trump if you associate those words with Trump because he lacks all.
@@anitagorr2106 16 missiles from Iran - 0 casualties, seems Iran wanted to maintain their powerful imagine without provoking the mighty States because everyone in the world knows they'd be deleted from existence. Iran warned the US and the word was given to evacuate all buildings targeted. Trump's not as dumb as you think, the media makes him out to be a moron
The stable is where they keep the horses ass.
So glad you’re back Colbert. I haven’t laughed since 2019. You’ve been missed
Alright. That was a good one.
Hi USA this is Australia - ermmm count us out of this war. We have been the ONLY nation to fight with you in EVERY. SINGLE. war since WWI (I think from before actually). But ya know - our country is on fire and we don't really want to get into another.........."Just War"....with you again.
Thanks tho. Anyhow, better go back out and put the shed out. It is on fire again.
Eco, so deeply sorry for your national tragedy. .. It is frightening to me to think about what you are all suffering. God be with you all.
Good luck with your shed and your home.
And we respect your decision to sit this out. No one should join a group with a clown in charge. Wish I could change countries right now.
You know what? I am sure they will get it, you're busy.
I just hope us Canadians decide to help out YOU before we go to war with THEM 😅
But in all seriousness, I hope you're okay and they can do something to at least make those fires less severe, at LEAST. And evacuate everyone. 💖
Worry not about us. If anything, we need to help YOU. NOW.
We sent our firefighters to help you! It's horrible what's happening to you.
Just imagine..... the numbers at 3:10, were the exact launch codes.... Just imagine.😂😂😂😂
Beautiful monolog! Thanks you!!
"It's worth remembering that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy egomaniac and his government was an absolute clown show.
In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people.
Why did the elites of Germany so consistently underestimate Hitler? Possibly because they weren't actually wrong in their assessment of his competency-they just failed to realise that this wasn't enough to stand in the way of his ambition. As it would turn out, Hitler was really bad at running a government. As his own press chief Otto Dietrich later wrote in his memoir The Hitler I Knew, "In the twelve years of his rule in Germany Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilized state."
His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day.
There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos-and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country.
Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich.
He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish-he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea."
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things.
We tend to assume that when something awful happens there must have been some great controlling intelligence behind it. It's understandable: how could things have gone so wrong, we think, if there wasn't an evil genius pulling the strings? The downside of this is that we tend to assume that if we can't immediately spot an evil genius, then we can all chill out a bit because everything will be fine.
But history suggests that's a mistake, and it's one that we make over and over again. Many of the worst man-made events that ever occurred were not the product of evil geniuses. Instead they were the product of a parade of idiots and lunatics, incoherently flailing their way through events, helped along the way by overconfident people who thought they could control them."
From HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up by Tom Phillips
I encourage you to submit this as opinion to publications where it can be more widely read. Really nice summary of an important and misunderstood aspect of this situation. Thank you.
I can't believe that Americans are not able to see the similarity..... but i suppose that's the outcome of a school system that is raising historical and geographical morons......
Thank you for sharing this-a sobering reminder that as we continue to laugh, Trump and the GOP continue to destroy our democracy and the rest of the world along with it. Who is the real buffoon here?
thank you, really interesting, I didn´t know that and I am German, and it is really really frightening, as you can put in Mr. Trump at any of this passages without difficulty.... is this real information about Mr Hitler or a little Propaganda to open up the eyes of the Trump supporters?
Ok that scared the shit out of me...that is Trump to a T.
I love old, out of harm’s way men, sending millions of young men with lives ahead of them to die on foreign soil, seemingly just because.
Men and women
That's what I keep thinking. The people pushing for this don't have to die for this. Other faceless people will. This is where "Ok Boomer" come from.
The fact that wars have "rules" and weapons deemed illegal to use, is proof that it's like a game of chess to them, and we are the pawns.
Put them in a room with a knife and let them 1v1. Save millions of lives, money, and time👍
@@TeamLegacyFTW
Those rules in war were an attempt to lower the casualties in war, generally.
But like so many other things they got twisted and turned in time
I lost it laughing when he brought Jenny Jenny who can I turn to into this!
Tommy Tutone
HYSTERICAL!!
I REALLY needed this.
😆😊
I feel pity for American soldiers, and equally for their targets.
ya, pure unjustified death just because of some crazy polticians who have no respect for human life
can troops not go on a strike?
@@waladoopa2667 there are laws that force them to I think.. if those are the orders.
Nathaniel Miller you’re an idiot
@@nathanielmiller907 can you elaborate on the "alot" going into this?
I love how one of the Trump camp's arguments back in 2016 was that *_Hillary Clinton_* would spark a Middle-Eastern war....
yet again, Trump transferred his own misbehavior and flaws onto someone else.
Perhaps, but let's not pretend that it wouldn't have happened anyway.
@@ryanbrown4053 I've no doubt some sort of conflict was coming -- but I doubt any other leader, of any party, would have been quite so abrasive and horrible about it as Trump has been. Who the hell threatens to destroy cultural sites? That's some ISIS-level behavior, right there. See: Palmyra, Mosul, and many, many other sites of Muslim and Christian import. ( www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/09/150901-isis-destruction-looting-ancient-sites-iraq-syria-archaeology/ )
Highly recommend watching Trevor Noah's 7 min clip about the assassination. At 6;15 is a 2011 clip of Trump predicting his own actions. It's unbelievable! ua-cam.com/video/SXARDOeSDyg/v-deo.html
@@HayTatsuko why are you linking me proof of ISIS being terrible as if anyone is on the other side of that issue
@Adam Brady i really dont care about your political views i just hate how you said lol twice in a sentance
it's so cute and hilarious when Stephen just can't help laughing LOL
Well said
I bet that those "imminent threats" were just as "real" as Iraq's WMDs.
me too. unless you consider that they just attacked our embassy in another country so it wouldn't be so hard to imagine that there might be more to come.
@@actontreadway1168 imagine if the roles were in reverse how do you think Trump supoters and the country would react
@Crom they admire the guy over there and Trump gave the order to kill. if people are shocked that Trump did it this way why wouldn't he he's probably not gonna be in office for another term hopefully
The president should be able to read off the teleprompter as a requirement for the job and able to formulate a full coherent sentence not just repeat the same thing over and over also have the basics human emotion such as empathy and honestly just be a complete opposite of Trump
The threats are imminent now.
Damn in the first week the decade Trump did something stupid already.
Well to be fair I don't think there has been a week he hasn't done something insane so I guess it was to be expected. The scale of the stupidity surprised me this time though. 🙄
*Bernie 2020! The original anti-war candidate!*
This is how a real president sounds.
m.ua-cam.com/video/GxyXrezEfL0/v-deo.html
m.ua-cam.com/video/Ahv4nYd6fLI/v-deo.html
Why should any other decade of his life be any different?
So true wth smh
Trump: All is well...
US troop:brain injuries😂
My wife got me tickets to see Stephen Colbert... this was the one he performed. He did this in one take with no mistakes. What a fucking professional! We had Laura Dern, Larry David, and Ke$ha. Larry David went on for like 30 mins, it was hilarious.
Came here for jokes, realising the seriousness of the moment, left with depression. Lol
Try Saturday night live next..
@@Trollmaster08 I love it. I have to catch up on it. Last I watched Will Ferrell host it.
I understand your sadness, but depression is not the way. Time to get serious. We have a terrorist in power in our country, and unless we rise up and imprison him, the next Hitler will start the next world war to get more power.
@@shanefiddle I think it's late. If you see everywhere is unrest. In some ways or other there's already people against people. Weapons and mass products of destruction, nature being destroyed. We can say no to hate, but it's hard enough to stop. Hatred breeds unrest and unrest leads to insecurities, and insecurities leads to retaliation.
Its been like this for 4 years.
They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor
2Pac ✌🏾♥️
Ca house and feed illegal immigrants. Free medical too. You can't see the libtard agenda?
Tim Stanton ah, it’s almost like they are people and aren’t just seen as “illegal immigrants”. It’s almost like they believe in help thy neighbor as thyself. You are such a sheep to trump it’s stupid
Don’t worry tax payers have everyone covered including illegals and their US citizen children.
After Obama gave them the money we bombed their banks.
That would be against Capitalism, right?
was waiting diligently to see Steve upload something about this, wasn't disappointed 👍
Love your shows❤️
Australia: Please send help, shit's getting real! We're desperate!
Trump: What does this big red button do?
Living here in Australia at the moment, it certainly looks and feels like he's already pressed it.
@@xen0g3n My hopes are with you. We get fires here but what you're experiencing is like something out of a nightmare. I can't even imagine. You guys are the first prayer I've made in over a year.
xenOg3n: "Living here in Australia at the moment, it certainly looks and feels like he's already pressed it."
Maybe Trump wants to make sure that "On the Beach" isn't fiction anymore.
Omg you killed me with that one. No pun intended.
@@philipclayberg4928 "World doesn't end with a bang, but with a whimper". Terrifyingly with what's happening in Australia, with the loss of human and animal life, it's beginning to look like that was a prescient prophecy! Have to hope that it's not so.
Ever get that feeling that this is all a smokescreen to make us look the other way from what's really happening....🤔
What, you mean that Jeffrey Epstein is back on his private island?
Or that Extraterrestrials are real?
Orrr that the wealthiest people In the world run everything and we cant know that?
Didn't that used to be called "bait and switch"? Or "smoke and mirrors"? Or both, maybe?
Uhh-Huh.😒
@@alecnolastname4362 I can't find any news about Epstein. Do you have an article I can read?
Impeachment?
The Ted Bundy comparison is soooo accurate 😂😂😂
@3:07 Trump: Dang! Colbert figured out the launch code numbers I picked!
I missed that:
'Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot... "
🤣😂👍🏼
I literally say this out loud now
Hang on, dot dot dot dot 😂😂😂
I can't help laughing, every time he says it! Missed you Stephen and all!!!
I love how you put dots at the end! lol
That's my "new text message" tone on my phone... ;-)
The UK ( with all of its issues and failings) looks on and despairs. A once great nation brought to this. My heart goes out to America.
Thanks. We despair with you.
Still feels pretty great over here. Keep your despair my friend. The sun will rise again tomorrow
@@marionpaige8949 you must be one of the 1% whose children aren't in danger of being drafted into a war started by a guilty fake president.
Connie Bailey Dramaticism and hysteria solves zilch. And no, the 1% doesn’t spend their days in UA-cam comment sections
Not on topic but I love seeing how much fun Stephen seems to have with this show
Stephen is back, baby! I’ve missed this guy & his inimitable entourage!
He was probably told obama chose not to kill him, so he said, “Hold my burger”
Jones Factor Bwahaha!!! Almost died choking on my covfefe dude, 🤣🤣🤣☕️⚰️
You mean hamberder.
EPIC! I love this comment! 🎯
"and my Mcnuggets"
Jones Factor. 👌😂😂😂. "You said Obama or Bush didn't do it."
Hold my burger. 😂😂 No doubt. Best counter intelligence Trump use. My hero.🎤 drop.😂😂
Hear me out: we arrest him, and then give him to Iran.
Throw in his entire cabinet and you've got yourself a deal.
But would they want him?
Hear me out: we should never arrest a sitting president and ship him of to hostile countries to be executed because we don’t agree with them politically
Butternuggets There’s an $80m bounty for him by Iran, they definitely do want him.
markmac Trump has been harder on Russia than are past president
he did sound like trump, good acting there.
This is truely a cursed time line. I'm now curious if Trump picked the most extreme option out of stupidity.
Well....the man is not famous for his impulse control...
"Stupidity"? The Orange Lump has nowhere else to pick from!
ixiahj you’re just now curious about his stupidity. Example. “Just grab them by the pu$$y”
Back on 8-31-13 Trump made this prediction: "Be prepared, there's a chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into WWIII." Looks like Nostradumbass might have been right...🤷🏼♀️
At least he was honest....he always lie.
Just not in the way he advertised
And now his gonna send other people’s son to die, but not his!
These sons did not know what joining to army means? Life is optional, not serving in army makes it longer.
Mika Korhonen st total fu, you pos
They inherited his bone spurs and his stupidity....
Bet their bone spurs are kicking in right about now all they want to shoot is tame animals in a canned hunt like the snivelling cowards they are.
You sound like you've got no brain ,they didn't get drafted they signed up for it
This was great!
'And vitamin D deficient Shrek' YO I CHOKED ON MY APPLE
I have a feeling this is going to be a better year than last year.
Wait, Trump did WHAT?
killed a known guy who funded and organized terrorist groups?
@@joesmith701 Kicked a hornet's nest that had previously been contained.
@@wordforger um? Not really? What was contained with Iran? Even prior to Trump backing out of the Nuclear deal Iran did and still does fund terrorist organizations all the deal did was allow more money to flow to Iran to fund more of it >.>
I seriously doubt (just like with NK) they would've ever held their end of the deal as for years and years they have said "Death to America" ect
@@wordforger as far as that General goes chances are if he stayed in Iran he would've been fine but he was in Iraq training and funding groups of which I'm pretty sure they were the ones that tried to take down the US Embassy in Iraq as his name was painted on the side of one of the buildings.
Really how my year started. But also I need to get my own shit together
He left out the part about the Iraqi Prime Minister mentioning that the Iranian General was there for talks aimed at reducing tensions....
Only so much bad news at once.
Prog Nosis
You left the part that his Iranian puppet
And we kicked him out
That general is will known terrorist here
Am iraqi
That's like baiting a deer stand with corn so you can sit there and wait for the deer to come eat and you can watch them chew while you shoot them. The will just stand there and look in your eyes while you pull the trigger.
@@revealingserendipity9840 That's like taking your AR-15 to walmart and culling diabetic americans because the only good yank is a corpse.
Sure, right after giving more funding to Hamas and Hezbollah.
Remember when the joke was he was less likely to press the war button?
He hasn't yet.
Still killin' it
The White House is like a nuthouse being run by it’s most deranged patient
Maybe it should be re-named "Arkham Insane Asylum".
or like a Circus run by a Clown
LITERALLY
@@philipclayberg4928 Run by Cletus Cassidy
Deranged is a good adjective to describe the clown in chief.
"Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot"......it's so hilarious when Steve does this XD
Trump, sounds like he learned to read as an adult
Somebody needs to tell him that those hooked on phonics tapes have a side "b"...🤔😂😂😂
He stopped learning age 8
Can wage war with no understanding of foreign policy.
Winning war is the part that requires understanding. Any imbecile can wage war.
Colbert is pretty much the only thing keeping me sane right now
Wow you really ate pathetic.
Paul Cunnane and Jozef Zadel: At least I can f*cking spell😉
I can't even bring myself to laugh at this.
@Twoofer Derper "Twoofer": You're as stupid as your screen-name sounds.
Man the line about a break up and a threesome choice was kinda funny.. but I feel you
Nafisa Tabassum I hear ya. I remember when Colbert was funny
@@alexpaynter5176 I remember when we looked at comedians for laughs and elected officials for the truth instead of the other way around.
I have been stunned in abject horror, unable to enjoy late night talk shows, ever since 2016. This entire administration isn't just a disaster, it's an affront to a human being's sanity.
Imagine that celebrities thinking they know anything about world affairs...stephen Colbert is on the Epstiens list by the way.
I live in South Africa but I am still terrified for this war that could commence
It won't. You'll be fine. Stop getting your chain yanked by the media.
Please! SAVE US GOD FROM THIS SHOCKINGLY AWFUL AND CORRUPT PRESIDENT 🙏
Ameen
Orange man bad!
That's what you would say if, God help us, "Creepy" joe biden ever gets elected.
Or maybe instead of praying, more voting would help.
Educate yourself. You’ll be considerably less confused
He just wanders the halls of of his hotels telling state secrets and planning world war three. We really are doomed
Not me, you though, definitely doomed
He’s gonna go full Lear isn’t he
SW627 Well, he was doing that, so yes
dear, if he was at least really PLANNING something. It's not even scheming, it's his knee jerk reactions to anything coming his way.
He's like the world's most terrible ghost.
Thank god ur back! !!! ♡☆♡☆
I missed you, Stephen!
My entire life we have been at war in the middle east.
The Republicans started the wars, the Democrats bit their tongues and supported them. When you can vote, vote socialist.
J Baron because socialism is a great thing to replicate... Igmo
We will always be at war. Always have since the beginning of time nothing new
@@Heybuditsme The rich and powerful starts the wars, irrespective of political affiliation. That's the way it's always been.
@@nicp7454 We are all going to die, whats the point of living.
“They’re allowed to torture and maim our people.” I guess Our Beloved Fooey conveniently forgot about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib...
Pretty sure he doesn't know what either of those are
We elected Dirty Harry, I'm proud of him. 🇺🇸
@@thomashumphries7859 And yet somehow I don't think you'd appreciate it if your family was brutally abducted, tortured and murdered for no reason at all. I somehow don't think you'd like it if your loved ones were put through Abu Graibh or a CIA black site. Here's to hoping you never get to experience the same blood crazed lunacy you support.
@@leahsander5490 I support peace, and if someone messes with our peace we should f*ck 'em up so we can have some damn peace
And the whole Iraq war . Again for internal political brownie points.
Exactly.
Dude you gotta go supreme on everything. Even the tacos!
I've missed you like you have no idea!!! 😭🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭
Oh I am so glad that Stephen is back, needed a laugh to cheer up these gloomy times,
greetings and thanks from Germany
Dass die Amis ihre Drohnen über Ramstein steuern, wird echt unbequem mittlerweile...
Same here except from Australia
@Steffen Tuna that's untrue... How would you have Normandy without Germany? Without German help that would've never happened...
The beginning of the chaos of the 2020s decade.
I remember my first New Years midnight