Seth Meyers has never been one to mince words in his "Closer Look" segments, always opening and closing it with succinct, clear summations of Where Things Are At Right Now. On Monday night, he opened thusly: "The sitting President of the United States is the leader of a violent insurrectionist movement who incited a seditious mob of right wing terrorists to ransack the Capitol and overthrow American democracy, and every day that he remains in office, he's a threat to continue inciting violence and breaking the law, including possibly pardoning himself and others. Impeachment and removal are the bare minimum we should expect from our elected leaders."
Meyers went on trace exactly how those elected leaders have comported themselves in the days since the attack on the Capitol building, which has resulted in multiple domestic terrorism charges. Specifically, how Republicans pivoted from egging on the mob — or, with few exceptions, refusing to condemn colleagues who did so — to bitching about losing their Twitter followers in the platform's sweeping QAnon bans and deflecting questions about what consequences there should be for a president who incited insurrection with platitudes about "healing" and "unity". At this point, he addressed those "leaders" directly with warranted venom.
"Let me begin by doing my part to begin the healing process, bring down the temperature, and tone down the rhetoric by saying this:... Fuck you, you cretinous insurrectionist gargoyles," spat Meyers. "Of course you guys want to move on! The kid who shit himself at prom is the one who always wants to shift the conversation to everyone's summer plans.
"You incited a violent mob that rampaged across the Capitol trying to overthrow the government and now you want us to seek unity and healing. I'd call you craven, soulless ghouls, but in the case of these seditionist dipshits, they're more like soul-devouring ghouls."
He summed it up most succinctly as he brought up the now-infamous photo of a Trump supporter parading that racist red flag through the Capitol: "How can we find unity with people who literally want a Confederacy?"
