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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adrian Horton

Colbert: the filibuster, like Kyrsten Sinema, is an anti-democratic tool

Stephen Colbert: “The 50 senators who are currently filibustering the voting rights bill represent 41 million fewer Americans than the senators who support it. Stop acting like the filibuster is anything other than an anti-democratic tool.”
Stephen Colbert: ‘The 50 senators who are currently filibustering the voting rights bill represent 41 million fewer Americans than the senators who support it.’ Photograph: YouTube

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert observed the federal holiday for Martin Luther King on Monday evening, “a day in which we all celebrate Dr King’s legacy by taking his words out of context to make it look like he agrees with whatever we’re saying”.

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