And, yes, thats an unarmed protester in a cage. But in my defense, he was resisting, and delicious. Remember, only you are responsible for what i do with dr. Stick here. Im just following orders. Now, if youll excuse me, curfews coming up, and i need to go season a few protesters. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight more quiet than riot. Plus, stephen welcomes congresswoman karen bass Andrew Ross Sorkin and musical guests grace potter with Jackson Browne marcus king and lucius featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen you ready over there . Yeah. Stephen what, are you ordering dinner . I was just checking me email. Stephen youre checking your emails. Were doing a show. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Its friday. America made it to the end of the week. So, tgif, by which, of course, now stands for this government is fascist. Im kidding, obviously. It really stands for, tell god im furiou
Definitely not what the doctor ordered madagascars president and the herbal remedy that could put his people at risk. To suspected members of the syrian president s Security Forces go on trial in germany on torture charges. Hello thanks for joining us new figures released in the u. S. Paint a picture of an economy devastated by the coronavirus in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wiped out so take a look at the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits its the 3rd week that number of new claims has declined a sign the worst of the shock may be over but this is what it means a record 26400000 americans have now lost their job since the end of march thats when lockdowns shut down production and led to mass stuff for a lowes thats more than 15 percent of the entire u. S. Workforce are White House Correspondent kimberly begins our coverage record highs and expected to keep climbing because the reason we dont be
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
Government is contemplating isnt going to just let facebook off the hook for policing free free speech its its going to possibly wipe out free on line speech entirely you see on wednesday this week u. S. Attorney william barr convened a workshop featuring many of the Tech Companies critics to explore potential changes to section 230 of the Communications Decency act which was passed back in 1996 and that is a long time critic of section 230. 00 attorney general barsa could instruct his Justice Department to explore ways to limit the provision which per tax on Line Companies from liability for User Generated Content meanwhile the kings of Silicon Valley are quickly realizing that all is now well with their worker bees as this week we also saw these circus storm the ramparts one that workers at the crowdfunding platform kickstarter made history on tuesday when they voted to unionize making them the 1st in the industry to do so. What a day what a week in Silicon Valley online free speech
Shading other individuals on your platform i think thats a very different thing and it also opens up a brand new can of worms because there are people who are literally using their twitter and facebook niggers every day to attack other people and it may be wrong in and of itself and nothing to stop individuals from suing those who pay me their names or she would think that they shouldnt be sharing but you also have to also be able to come after the company is a problem in and of itself i dont agree with that oh yeah thats where i feel like theres advocates for this on the democratic side of the republican side you know within the u. S. Government like saying look section 230 which essentially if you didnt understand you know if we didnt understand if the web scrub it earlier is basically like it prevents average citizen from suing somebody if i say your mission youre a terrible human being on facebook you can sue me and say like tell your lying im a wonderful human being which you are