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Over two months after the siege of the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, injuring 100 officers and killing one, the House voted on Wednesday to award congressional gold medals to Capitol police who defended the building and the lawmakers inside. “It was a rare bipartisan vote to honor the men and women who protected our democracy,” explained
Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “Nobody could ever oppose that – except for the 12 Republicans who opposed that.”
Colbert referred to the oppositional group – 11 white men and QAnon follower Marjorie Taylor Greene of Florida – who objected to the use of the term “insurrectionists” to describe the rioters as the “legion of dumb”.
“Ok, you don’t like insurrectionist — how about ‘neck-beard fascist neo-Confederate tiny penis treason-humpers?’ he fumed. “These congressmen are a bunch of cowards. The mob came to kill them, and now they’re worried that calling them insurrectionists might hurt their feelings?”
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