Once the electorate has voted them out, what have politicians accomplished as they linger in office? And how was the term "lame duck" coined? Correspondent Mo Rocca looks at America's time-honored practice of peaceably handing over the reins of presidential power.
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"Lame ducks": A history of presidential transitions
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Transition based on theft does not deserve respect. I was waiting for the anti Trump tilt. I wasn't disappointed.
At 4:12 - Is that Will Smith in the background?!
Imagine if we had to wait until March.
Why would anyone dislike this??
i always thought it was a laying duck lmao
I've said it before and I'll say it again- Trump NEVER deserve to be president cause he does not have the integrity, competency, and common decency to be a leader!
Lincoln was kinda a lame duck cuz 7 states succeeded but at least north was United
Move over Buchanan. You just improved 1 notch.
How about a history of Congress transitions...oh wait they rarely leave. No no the President is the problem.
What problem? The President has way more power than a congress member.
what a lame duck
He doesn't care about America. He only cares about himself. Good luck Americans. Rebuild your democracy. Keep Smiling 😊🌺
USA #1. 🥇🇺🇸. You see how patriotic we can get.
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Holy crap. I never realized just how important these traditions are to the safety of our democracy... O.o
It seemed so boring, and ritualistic now they seem all so important. All so important.
Biden doesn't really need a tour from Trump, he was there for 8 years as VP after all
Lame Donald Duck 🦆
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It needs to be shorter
Donald "Duck". Get it
The money jobs land is all gone it’s all been taken, with college costs and high home prices...you don’t have a chance!
IMO Lame duck president should always consult and take advice from the newly elected president, since he’ll be out of office in a short period of time. In USA transition is still very long at 77 days. In my country (Argentina) election day usually falls on October 27 and the new president gets inaugurated on December 10th. We don’t have electoral college though
Trump still has over 75m patRiots who want him to stay as Commander in Chief even if he has to leave the White House. Some lame duck!! They don't think he's a monster. The first thing he would have to do as CinC is to disband the FBI from persecuting his supporters. From Trump Tower he can continue to run his government. He has citizens, his over 75m supporters, which is bigger base than UK or Australia's populations. He has an army and firepower comprising all the Militias and NRA members and religious fundamentalists. He has revenue from donations (tithes) from his citizens. He has TV and radio stations from the chutches. He could even set up his own social media network. Trump has issued the rallying call to his citizens, so they will march to "Zion" which could either be Florida or New York. Most of the old Confederate States would probably cede (Amerexit?) and join him. There would certainly be a strong religious element or Crusade in his government. He has all the trappings of government. Much more than Guaido or Joshua Wong. Much remains in the hands of US patRiots and their CinC.
Wow, this is the funniest thing I've ever read!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😵😜 LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Thanks for the hearty laugh. Trump wears his Hitler mustache so well.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” - John F. Kennedy
That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred. Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments. In a sense, the political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create ‘social justice,’ you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that simple fact.” The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftist intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence. The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior. No one can really understand the political left without understanding that they are about making themselves feel superior, however much they may talk piously about what they are going to do to help others. Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated. Darwinian adaptation to environment applies not only to nature but also to society. Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance. Wherever you get enough far left people in power, you can find a similar willingness to force everyone into collectivist conformity at all costs. The left is not necessarily aiming at totalitarianism. But their know-it-all mindset leads repeatedly and pervasively in that direction, even if by small steps, each of which might be called ‘micro-totalitarianism.’ What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people-like themselves-need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat. Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency. The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular. That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools many leftists themselves. No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.
It will be the 4th time, not 5th, that the out going President did not attend the inauguration. The other 3 were John Adams, John Quincey Adams, and Andrew Johnson. Trump is the 4th sore loser. You are welcome .
Trump's not going anywhere. And you better watch your mouth, or you'll end up like your friend Nancy.
Trump's fleeing to Russia. Didn't you hear?? Putin offered him asylum. Shhhhhh...... it's supposed to be a secret. 😱😏
In today's world, the past is often quickly forgotten.
Get rid of the electoral college and change Inauguration Day to January 1.
It’s heartbreaking. I’m truly devastated by the sadness and anger around this transition. I was gobsmacked by trumps win four years ago but I would have never, ever have been behind a less than peaceful transition. This is a stain we will never wash out. The people have spoken. 74 million are rocked. But 82 million have chosen.
Trump has sunk into mental illness
You all have one hand in it
Sabatoge
Stand by your president in all good n bad weak country thanks media
The media makes me sick sick
because they are explaining how it wasn't a smooth transition?
I uninstalled duck duck go and this was recommended to me...
I like the painting at the end...
The Out going President doesn't care about the Countries loses to History, Traditions, World Views or Lives. Maybe we can move Forward as a Country, rather than be Divided as individual States (of opinions & Beliefs).
Republicans put a NARCISSISTIC, PATHOLOGICAL PSYCO BULLIER TRUMP ALL GREEDY FOR ENRICHMENT, MONEY LAUNDERING, CRIMINALS ASSOCIATION TO DELINQUENCY, FELON PROTECTION TO PARDON CRIMINALS, IMPEACHED HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING YET, MORE LIES AND LIES, FALSEHOODS !
@CBS Sunday Morning... This is sad and it really does not have to be this way.
nothing traditional anymore with trump
ASTROLOGICAL CONFIGURATION: Independence 🔼 Election 🔼 and Inauguration 🔼 days, Originally, the inauguration was scheduled exactly, 4 months (early March) to fill in a grand trine of the 3 water signs: US Birthday, July 4th (Sun in early Cancer), Election day, November 4th (Sun in early Scorpio), and Inauguration Day, March 4th (Sun in early Pisces). Trines are angles of ease and harmony. Several of our country’s founding fathers practiced Astrology and arranged those dates with the purpose of strengthening the fledgling democracy.
Hahah lame duck? Karma is coming for you and the others.. WE LOVE TRUMP!!! 17!!!!
1:19 This woman's blouse burned my corneas.
Hoover should have been REMOVED from history. Why do we still have the Dam? Of course 78 days is needed for Sleepy Joe to get from Delaware to DC unless someone can provide Presidential walker.
Well, you said he should be removed from history. No...we shouldn't. He is way bigger than the Depression. I met some folks from Belgium a few years ago and he is beloved there, as well he should be. His whole story should be known, so he's NOT just associated with the Depression.
Hoover was one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Perhaps not the best president, but one of the greatest Americans ever.
What a sore loser...smh
Something to think about. When you get out of the service with your discharge you get a lapel pin called the "Ruptured Duck." It would be interesting if, when a President leaves office he could get a lapel pin called the "Lame Duck."
Biden administration will destroy whatever you have left
"But we still control FOXNEWS" ~ KINGCHEETO IS FINITO>>>>>>>>>>>>
No one better to tell this story than the mighty Mo Rocca.
What a sore looser. Embarrsing to think about him.
DC police let them in and was ordered to stand down with no provision. Antifa was there and there is film of them breaking the windows and supporters getting in front of the attacks. The police officer killed the 14yr vet as if he was playing a zombie game with no remorse and was highly likely ordered to take the shot. I dont like trump. Im just about policies. Bidden killed thousands of south americans flopping OP fast and furious, 900 USA citizens killed by drone strikes (obama even said "where was his dad" about one of them. Kids in cages started with Biden and so did the muslim bans. ULTIMATLY TO THIS DATE slavery in Libya was reestablished by Biden and he is enabling concentration camps world wide. What did trump do? Pay his taxes early and peace in the middle east. We are doomed. "The worst is ahead of us" -Biden 2020
We should change the transition to the first week in January.
Catherine Austin Fitts covid the economic war, amget.info/have/iIhnsWiLqHqejJY/video.html
I cooked Lame Duck L'Orange after the election! 🦆
Yum!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
78 days is so inefficient for current age. As if a US president would still need to get to DC by horseback. Forget about DC, he could visit every single state in the US and still have over a month to spare. No other country in the world has such an extended and outdated system/period.
Perfectly done - thank you!!! Charles would be so very proud
Hands age so does the mind.
Governor Schwarzenegger's Message Following this Week's Attack on the Capitol.
Intellect and academic credentials. How about maturity? How about circumspect? How about altruism? This male, (he's not qualified to be regarded as a man), is as opportunistic as the virus the world is trying to fend off. He is merely the latest variant of the virus of partisanship which has gripped this country and much of the world. If we allow it to continue our demise is certain. You want to see these two parties united? Just the mention of a third party would have democrats and republicans united, screaming at the top of their lungs, 'NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Term limits, the same unity would have them seeming conjoined but actually just holding on for dear life. Somethings are going give, of that there is no question. Some of these politicians are going to have to go, ( on both sides), and they will be voted out. Bank on it. Maybe they all will look deeply into the fogged mirror and see what their part was in creating this atmosphere of division. We can only hope.
Trump is definitely LAME!
For present time, we could dispense with “duck”
@Ted St. John. Yes, lame.
Buy a constant?
It is kind of stupefying to hear these old-timers so afraid of a fight, and Republican-enablers, and the Trumpublicans keep suggesting that there isn't enough time. Not enough time for Justice! So their unstated implication is, as long as an elected official waits until the last days of their legal tenure it is okay to commit crimes! It is okay to organize insurrections, call state election officials and threaten them if they won't change the vote counts in the Loser's favor, and on, and on the list of Trump's crimes goes. One word: Murdoch.
Donald's LAME.
I believe the last time an outgoing President did not attend his successor's inauguration was in 1920 when Woodrow Wilson did not attend Warren G. Harding's swearing in. But Wilson had a good excuse. He was very ill and never fully recovered from his stroke. As opposed to Trump's refusal due to his being mentally ill.
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WHAT ABOUT MASSSIVE VOTER RIOTS IN HISTORY? YOU KNOW LIKE THE ONE THAT IS COMING?
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Watching Mo Rocca makes me fondly remenisce on the days when he would do similar reports for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
If you haven't, you should check out Mobituaries - www.mobituaries.com/the-podcast/ - 'Mo Rocca’s long love of obituaries has him led to create Mobituaries, an irreverent but deeply researched appreciation of the people (and things) of the past who have long intrigued him-from an unsung Founding Father to the first Chinese-American superstar, from Neanderthals to the station wagon.'
Narcissist punk has poisoned our nation.
trump LEAVING has made America GREAT AGAIN!!!
trump is worst in history!!! he lost House Senate AND White House in 4 years!!!
Pence can ride with Biden!!!
Donald Trump will go down as the worst president in US History!!
It’s going to be a smooth transition to another Trump Presidency.
The photo of the Bush twins with the Obama girls and Laura was so sweet. I really admired how those two young women were with the girls. They seemed to have such a sincere empathy for the life they were about to be leading and they seemed to really want to extend support to them if they needed it. It was very kind. I don’t know if they meant it but from all we’ve seen from Jenna since, I think they did.
They did I think. I know Michele and George are great friends. That’s how I always saw us. I hope we find our way back.
It's been a long four years. We have watched the man in the White House prey on the mentally challenged in this country with predicable results. When someone is not dealing from a full deck, you do not tell them up is down. Most well adjusted adults can cope but those who cannot will need professional help. Let's hope they can get it for their family's and society sake. Because we still have a long way to go.
im dutch and i saw this coming years ago ......why didnt all americans see it ?
Many of us did and have been saying so for 5 years but we're called alarmists. Repubs kept saying that he's kidding or he'd change and be presidential while using him to further their agenda of making the rich richer. But many believed three lie, my own Dad argued in favour of rich people governing because "They'll make me rich too!". He never did became rich (but at least he's not voting anymore).
“Duck on Nuclear Steroids with Greedy Intentions” would be better to describe the worst President in American history, Donald Trump. - Signed, a Naval Academy grad and veteran
Worst by a wide margin
Thank you for your service!👏🇺🇸👏🇺🇸
👏👏👏Agreed! Thank you for your service.
Mainstream media has got so many of you completely brainwashed. In this case the American people didn't get to make the decision.
He's always been lame donald duck
I'm curious, will the child rapist or Kameltoe Whoreus - or whoever is "President" in 2024 - attend the second Inauguration for President Trump? If they don't, will dolts in the media - like the clowns on CBS Sunday Morning - lament or call it heroic?
President Trump, could have won his reelection without a scandal that jeopardized it.
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Bill Clinton was a lame duck president ever since he lied to the people about his sexual relationship with the other woman.
This is his Only consistency ....It gas Always been about him
Keep waiting for trump to say this in next 9 lives 😂😀😎😭😭😭
He doesn't care about legacy, DT wants to get his way. Because he hasn't won, he's sulking and behaving like a spoiled brat, as he's done in business.
@greg m you’re a snowflake ❄️ if you were not so blindly brainwashed you could open your eyes and see that
Sure that explains the Radical Lefts 25th Amendment, and the 2nd Impeachment threat... Dems are cowards.
Please contact your Congress members Trump's 2024 run promises four more years of violence and vitriolic disinformation fundraising rallies if he isn't impeached and disqualified from holding office.
This transition was never ever going to be a good thing. Because T***p has never been a good president.
I feel Veterans involved in the attempted coup should be reviewed and dishonorably discharged .
@The Common Sense Conservative316 no, whataboutism is an excuse please make when called out on their own actions.
@TheDizzleHawke Oh yes the old whataboutism rebuttal. Have you ever heard of what's right is right? So what you are saying is it is only right when it benefits your political bias instead of what is right. Good for you. I am glad so many people value human life and the law based on how it affects their political views.
@greg m whataboutism is not a strong argument.
One Man Brand Productions, what branch of the military did you serve in?
@greg m this is all trump zero Antifa but nice try.
Yeah a lame duck from day one...thats Biden
What about if all the senators that are defending trump where on it. thats why they are defending trump because if not he will throw them under the bus and everyone know that.
Yes it to long to wait for the next administration to take over
How apropos to now having a lame donald duck.
That’s a meme waiting to happen
Cute. I like it.
The BS the POS con man in the WH has caused we should change it to 2 weeks not two mos!
ONLY TEN [ 10 ] DAY'S UNTIL REAL CHANGE HAPPEN'S LIKE MORE COVID VACCINE,TRUMP COULD CARELESS ABOUT ANYONE,TAKE THAT IDIOT OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY,PUT THAT NUT IN A JAIL CELL............................................
It's a damn shame that we have to reference the civil war to have anything to remotely close to what happened here! May the one who cited this insurection and those who carried it out go to prison for their crimes against our democracy!!!
Anyone who has been complicit. That would clean the Congress.
@💥 make that plural. Trumps. Multiples.
Gulianni, trump and the republicans.
When the final vote is in it should only take a few days to change to the new president not 74 days .
That forces an incoming administration to fill a Cabinet and key appointments in a matter of days. Thousands of people are essentially employed at the will of a President; DC would implode if tons of people suddenly had to vacate and thousands more moved in. It makes sense to have a transition period, but not one that takes this much time.
I love america *you gave a LUNATIC TWO MONTHS FOR A COUP* ... thanks that's how your stupid traditions LITERALLY set this land on fire... god, grow up america
Trump was a sore winner 4 years ago.... Why would anyone be so surprised at how this BOY president has been acting now?
Like Joe Biden will be any better, man can’t remember what he ran for
@greg m newsflash: rally size(or tiny hand size) doesn't count towards who is elected president. You've got some propaganda on your chin, Greg...and some bronzer.
@goo guwl Why must you act up? Every four years one person wins, one person doesn’t. If you want to act up get busy, work in your area, call out the people to vote and do better next time. Why do you want to tear us all apart? You called us snowflakes last time just because we were disappointed and shocked. This was a fair election. But you lost this time. If you want to rise up, do better next time.
@greg m WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC!!!!! HE IS BEING RESPONSIBLE
spot on
I agree with Scott Adams that the lack of a cooperative transition is a failure of politicians, mass media, and social media of big tech. The failure began long ago as each gave up their duty to fairly represent and perform in good faith to We the People. Apparently, CBS has no intention of building bridges between the parties, agencies, or people. It's a grave mistake on their part and our part for not paying attention. I once quipped that people would pay attention to politics when it was as exciting as a football game. Congratulations, you did it; the game has come into the house. You have our attention and disrespect. Now what? PAY ATTENTION: You back violent, disrespectful movies, magnify the voices of celebrities then claiming care and concern, while you starve the movies such as those on Pureflix.com that show multicultural, real-issue, & peaceful movies showing paths to reconciliation and peace. Ewww...I want to cuss.