Election Subversion: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

As an American with a transgender parent I am genuinely terrified.

Yeah you constantly telling Americans “we’re laughing at you” isn’t exactly helping the situation.

@@537monster It's the truth. Republican America will be a laughingstock. No matter what you Russians post.

@@537monster Mostly just nervous laughter. If we don't laugh, we'll cry.

The US isn’t the only democracy that’s teetering on the edge of fascism. This is becoming a global phenomenon

This is what happens when the centrist party insists on perpetually splitting the difference with the conservative party who insists on perpetually pushing the envelope rightward. You end up with a situation where the now-hard-right conservative party insists that the now-center-right corporate party is "far-left" and that any election that doesn't come out in favor of the right wing is illegitimate by definition.

America is fucking terrifying...

why vote?? they're gonna win.. John said so.. no need to brave the weather or those threats at the ballot box.. because the outcome is a forgone conclusion

Won‘t happen. American progressives rather shoot a tiktok video and complain on twitter about republicans. Actually voting? Nah, too much hassle. American progressives are the real threat. Because they stay silent. Fascists gonna do fascist things. It‘s on progressives to DO something about it.

@@cannablissdreams Because if you don't they 100% will. If you don't want to stand up for you rights, don't come crying when you don't have any.

There is nothing more bigoted than saying ''i LOVE illegal immigrants invading my nation, but don't put them anywhere near my middle class, democrat voting, white surbubia''....hans, it's always been you.

My goodness....people are insane. It makes me wonder how seat belt laws got through.

That's really sad. I have lived all my life in either nwfl or Texas and the fact the government has to get involved to stop people from throwing trash in waterways is just ridiculous. Especially because everyone claims to be an outdoorsman and love nature.

Prove it

@@ranelgallardo7031oh that one was about as popular as drinking and driving g laws when they were first issued.

This is what results from generations of inbreeding

Thank you!! I've been trying to find the words to explain exactly what you just described. I need to make a note of what your professor said as I will quite likely be using it in future.

But that is exactly it. They DONT want democracy. They want a theocracy with Trump as the high priest.

Yeah. The GOP are overthrowing the government, and won't stop until the rest of us are dead. :(

Fits perfectly from 2016-2020 when some party kept crying collusion. But what do I know, just an interesting detail I noticed.

Damn, that's a really good quote and I completely agree

Why would you join something you're not willing to lose?

Yeap, it's automatically disqualifying given that it's dereliction of duty.

Of course not, he is right. Every person he meets on his republican campaigns said they mostly voted reps, way over 90%. So how comes that reps can lose? What a beautiful logic. Btw I mostly meet people with the same last name as me, so there is no chance that most people don't share my last name.

The fact that the Dems did not punish a single one of the Jan 6 coup ringleaders is insane. Even D e J o y is still in office, which is Biden's fault _alone._ This sends the message the insurrectionists did nothing wrong, that you can coup with impunity and that the Dems are scared because _they_ are in fact the wrongdoers. All of this is completely obvious. The Dems avoided punishing the ringleaders because they thought it would help them make political hay for the midterms. They even _funded_ some of the biggest HOP whackos on ballots up and down the country, obviously thinking they would be easy to defeat by the bland centrist candidates they prefer to run against them. That is the opposite of putting up a fight for democracy.

@darknightoftroy no.. WE didn't do any of those things.. WE impeached the muther phucker.. TWICE.. it's the political machine that refuses to act.. the DO NOTHING dems lament and wring their hands.. and actually DO nothing.. while the REPUBLICANS openly have a PLAN to TAKE OVER.. whether that be by INSURRECTION or winning phucked up elections.. when they ALL should be DISQUALIFIED is RIDICULOUS "WE" aren't letting anything happen.. CAPITAL HILL is allowing all this to transpire from their INACTION INSURRECTIONIST should be put to DEATH for TREASON.. full stop.. it's in the CONSTITUTION.. treason is a CAPITAL OFFENSE.. yet.. the one human who incited the violence is being held up as KING RULER how is that WE??

You can be soft hearted and kind, while being a manly badass you know. In fact, real men are kind and soft whenever they can.

You know he actually is extremely manly and a big softie. He’s really a master woodworker

Manly men are soft hearted and kind and not afraid to show emotion! 🙌🏼

And a huuuuuge liberal

It's hard to escape the incredible roll of Ron...but also he does it so well..I've never felt so entranced by a man blowing up a trash can

I'm surprised that he didn't make a 'Shrimp Po' Boy' joke when he was talking about roasting Po. Also, no reference to Po from Kung Fu Panda, either.

LOL I loved that because I was thinking it just as he said it (the 'look like him' bit)

operative word: YOUR

2016: 'dems lost get over it' 2020: 'boohooo cope cope'

Dems denied the 2016 election for 4 years lmao

@@michaelleenen2634 I don't think you understand the format of this joke. You're supposed to use quotes from the same side for both. 2016: "dems lost get over it" 2020: "the election was RIGGED!!! WAH WAH WAH!!!" Fixed it for you.

2016 - 2020 Dems: "NO RIGGED ELECTION!!! RUSSIA!!" Bit hypocritical to act like the Dems and Liberals have NEVER done this.

If only he had any idea what irony was, even the Alanis Morrissette kind.

People who deliberately vote for such nutjobs DO deserve those nutjobs governing them.

He already has the vote His campaign video could have been 85 minutes of him on the toilet and he'd still have been voted in So he decided to have fun with it

@@kenbee1957 i mean, the election hasn't even happened yet, so i would not count my chickens... But also: if you blow up all the ballot boxes, how are you going to count the votes? The people voting for this man should really take the time to consider what that actually means, you know?

I think the trashcan dressed up as a ballot box refers to the rumors (fake storys) of ballots ending up dumped in trash cans or otherwise going missing? And he sees himself taking care of that problem, removing the fake ballot box or metaphorically all that led to the "tampering" with the election. Maybe I'm wrong but it kind of seems like the Last Week Tonight show either didn't understand it or found their interpretation to be funnier lol

Thank you for your service

What a terrible person you are 😉

@@maxwellvandenberg2977 that;s really nice.

Good job!!

I was a mule. I dropped ballots from my grandma and grandpa, both of whom have trouble walking and hardly leave the house. I also dropped a couple from my aunts. If I did it in today's Muhrica - I would get shot by some fascist virgin. Land of the free my ass !

Yes. Another word for feelings could be "perceptions" in this context. Just like Kampf said in this video. They are utter hypocrites, through and through. Nothing more.

Nothing but projection from white conservatives. They tell you exactly what they’re about.

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Projection is their #1 talent. It's what they're best at.

Sadly, it's nearly a million dead in the US too late for that to be funny anymore.

They're the same people who say the other side is lying while being the ones who actually make fake news. Why does this suprise you?

As an immigrant from a politically awful country, I had the same thought. Going even further back... As soon as the orange man called President of Ukraine? That should have been the trigger to impeach, remove, and bar him from ever holding public office. Sure, things might have been worse under president Pence... But we'd still have a democracy for a few more years.

he is rich and powerful, id be suprised if he ever laid foot on a prison

@@DiaryOfaCell So the grand jury is just interviewing people for the donuts? Lol

That was a pretty big part of his second impeachment... But almost every Republican in Congress decided, once again, to chose party over country.

@@DiaryOfaCell hahahahahaha

They don't care. Making sure your vote doesn't count is the goal.

We vote early at the country board of elections building. It's easier than our voting location and way more accessible and the only nuts with guns standing around are law enforcement.

Honestly, while probably not in their explicit intention, preventing people like you from voting is a side-effect they welcome happily. Hope it works for you and your assistant.

And it's legal to have someone drop it off for you.

brain damaged veteran here with similar issues. i am also trans, so my name (which has yet to be changed) does not currently "match" my appearance. i no longer live in a deep red state, so i have less concerns about being harassed or attacked , but if I still lived near my family in MS or LA... well. i'm glad you have your assistant to help.

That's because it's impossible. No matter how many demonstrable facts you show a MAGA, anything that doesn't show Trump, or loyal Trump supporters in government, in the best possible light, has a built in excuse that Trump worked hard to create for these people before he left office - FAKE NEWS!!! And, they'll quote the same news organization in the next breath as the most credible news outlet known to man, but only in the case where it has a story which positively portrays their guy. They claim that during Trump's term there was no war and peace in the middle east, and when you confront them with the fact that we were literally engaged in a war in the middle east for the entirety of trump's presidency, they lose their shit, call you a communist, and start screaming about hunter Biden's laptop. It's hopeless

I only disagree with that last part: SO MANY PEOPLE are trying to correct them on their perception, they just refuse to listen, and have demonstrated that they will fight to make their perceptions reality. There really isn't much more anyone can do other than persist in resisting them, and call for their arrest when their actions are unlawful

I don't find the quote problematic on its own. In fact it is quite accurate. However that doesn't you should support their wrong perception but instead try to change it.

when the full breadth and width of their perception is fox news and stephen kevin bannon, it's impossible to correct.

My Mom used to always say people like that have the mantra, "Don't try to confuse me with facts". It's scary how many people will no longer listen to reason because they've been fed the lie that they can't trust media. A friend of mine who studied national security told me once, years ago, that the first thing a dictator does when they are trying to usurp a government is to get people not to trust reporters.

Hollywood has criminally wasted his talent

@@milesroy9564 Thank God his is also a writer

And one of the few progressive people popular among conservatives. They should be making more use of him.

@@pashok28 And a wood worker. That part of him is real.

The same comment. Over and over and over again.

Dungeon masters

@@Nothingtoseehere-eo7zq let's be real, more people know it because of Mythbusters by a landslide.

@@Nothingtoseehere-eo7zq Perhaps you'd know it under the title "Ragewar: The Challenges of Excalibrate"?

These replies just unintentionally referenced SAO Abridged and that makes me happy.

My mom's last boyfriend was like this. Now half the country has the same affliction 😣

Oh but Republicans sure do love to support our veterans and active service members! Except when they don't.

@@jodinsan Which is all the time

@@jodinsan YUP

by the looks of it you don't have to worry about all that for much longer. the US won't be the same the day after tomorrow and chances are future voting will take place in some sort of dystopia - if at all

Yeah but those Oath Keeper fascists are the ones who think they are patriots lol...

thank you for adding this. this is why my lazy ass goes to the comments

Well….ALMOST all of them. J.D. Vance is now a senator in Ohio.

they got danny devito to sow himself into a sofa naked its going to be a fun ride to see if they will go to that level

I wouldn’t be surprised if they revealed that Dan O’Brien wrote all those bits. It seems like his kind of humor.

Lol I was wondering, is this a running bit?

The joke is, he never will say no

@@Blaurot I was thinking that, and then I thought maybe the challenge is from John to come up with something he won't say

BuT wHeRe Is GlObAl WaRmInG?!?!1?11!!! /s in case it's needed...

If republican wins I feel like they'll try their best to fix this "problem". Hello coal

when i was in the third grade there was a teacher in my school who would rub his hands together when it was cold...i was sure he was always up to something evil 😆

@@nerrickk9024 it’s definitely less cold than it used to be in our life times.

It's been 70 degrees in NY for the past few days, 2nd summer

Too late. Most of us are desensitized to crazy and expect it regularly. So they can be crazier beyond reform by the time most do anything meaningful to stop it. I think we are beyond voting being an effective stop for these clowns.

Because America is slowly falling into that trap like you said after World War 1 that some countries started shifting the right wing started taking over. But that doesn't happen in one day it happens over time which the media and Democratic Leadership is not realizing. If those deniers win in this midterms who knows what will happen during the presidential election

Agreed, the left is definitely on the path of facism.

I've been saying this for years now... the similarities between late 1920s - early 1930s Germany and the US today are absolutely terrifying... what makes it worse is that we have the world's biggest, most technologically advanced military in the history of humanity... WITH nukes... if we collapse into fascism, non-existent God help us all on this planet...

Yup, horrifying.

Even John admits HBO Max sucks, also If I'm paying a subscription I want to see all the Seasons of LWT

In 2000 dems denied election results. Denied 2016 and today they said flat-out they will deny 2022 if they lose.

@@hectorduenassanchez1208 wait they don't allow you to watch all the episodes? That's bs

It gets made available before they make it available on HBO

If it wasn't on RU-vid for free, who would actually watch it???

Bruh I had this exact thought

😂😂😂

Or dudes hunting for bigfoot and the only evidence they have is a bunch of branches rustling.

I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's very accurate 😂.

Did you watch the movie or just hear leftist takes on it?

estou vendo isso e estou embasbacado hahaah. A gente copiou tudo das EUA das eleições de 2016, maldito seja o Steve Bannon. Vejo direto esse programa.

Vc realmente acredita que a democracia venceu? Vive onde? Nárnia? Acorda! Censura tá rolando solta e antes de comemorar, lembre-se que pau q bate em Chico, bate em Francisco. Ah, virou idiota por assistir apenas esse tipo de programa. Poor you.

How many lies can one tell???

@@alecrim888 pior que eu assisto algumas coisas da JovemPan e me dou o trabalho de ver o surrealismo de Jornal da Cidade Online e Brasil Paralelo. Não tem censura. O que tem é combate a mentiras veiculadas na internet. E muitas delas amplamente veiculadas desde 2018 pra corroborar com o governo do Jair. Alan dos Santos mesmo era e provavelmente ainda é muito bem pago para realizar esse trabalho. A democratizacão da internet fez isso ai mesmo, qualquer um se torna uma midia que produz conteúdo. Deu visibilidade pra vários surrealismos e infelizmente mentiras são mais clicáveis e mais fáceis de serem produzidas que fatos e noticias reais. Isso precisa estar sendo combatido mesmo. Reinaldo Azevendo, Frota, Dória e ate Moro (voltou atrás aos 45) ja entenderam a criminalidade do governo bolsonaro. Que é negacinista de ciência, vacina, e negacionista da realidade mesmo. Lula foi eleito, aos poucos a galera vai saindo do fundo da caverna de plutão.

I dream of the day when John Oliver will mention the patriota do caminhão

It looks the same to about half of us on the inside. We're trying...

Yep. History repeating itself while we witness it.

Yeah. We know. Unfortunately a lot of our history books have been tampered with so I think many just are unaware.

People keep saying that we shouldn't compare our situation to fascism in 1930s Germany, but I think there are too many similarities to ignore. It's frightening that there is such a high level of blind and ignorant loyalty to a hateful, corrupt, incompetent group of people.

Ugh yeah it's really upsetting and frustrating.

You ready for the Aldhani raid? Part of what makes Andor a little unnerving is that it’s a fair portrayal of what a rebellion looks like from within. People in Russia that don’t support Putin would probably see it as all too familiar.

Star Wars quote! Well played!

THIS is what these morons get wrong and call fraud? For gods sake!

And it isn’t illegal. So just don’t go by yourself to the drop box. Report any challenges!

It *is* illegal in some places, like where I am. So if you're thinking of doing this check first to see if it is. I would hate to see a bunch of ballots get invalidated and thrown out just because someone was trying to be helpful.

@@rathertiredofthemess2841 I feel your name!

Agreed but be careful.. The new ballots stipulate, at least here in ohio, who is legally allowed to drop off you ballot. And with all these nutjob ballot box watchers just be aware. I know I saw spouse as being allowed, but I don't recall if immediate family was on there or not. Just look it up to be sure for your state is all I am saying.

Becca Raines Good for you! Keep up the good vote!

Way to go,Becca! I'm proud of you!

In europe convicts can vote too. My oppinion is that they shouldn't be allowed to. Its nothing against your dad I just want to emphasize that democracy here in europe is a bit exaggerated.

@@lucycan6363 could you explain what do you mean by that? That democrats are criminals? Or that blacks are convicted to decrease votes for democrats? Anyway correlation does not imply causation so although if most felons are black and black are voting mostly democrats there does not have to be any link directly between criminality and voting democrats.

From one stranger to another, you did a great thing. I to voted my first time at 18, and I’m 36 now and haven’t missed an election. Keep going…your democracy needs you

What happened to the days when voters facing physical challenges were given extra assistance? 😢

I'm so sorry to hear all the ableism y

Very strange and ableist. Glad your friend help, but of course no need to take over entirely for you. People could just mind their business when they see you are all set

Holy cow man, those idiots would have just trampled over your right to vote, that is so messed up, I hope you have some means of reporting and punishment their obvious misbehavior. This is so messed up. Hope your leg recovers soon!

"and tried to pull me out of line" ~I would have glared at her and said "STOP TRYING TO KIDNAP ME... HELP POLICE, ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING IN PROGRESS, STOP THIS WOMAN" ...because that is LITERALLY what she did. I'm >>>DONE>LOCK THEM UP AND DISENFRANCHISE THEM> IF THEY WANT TO ACT LIKE VOTING IS A PRIVILEGE, THEN TAKE THAT PRIVILEGE AWAY FROM THEM FOR COMMITTING A F'ING FELONY.

30:49 onwards is also a pretty good quote out of context

Tucker Carlson is a human wedgie.

Most watched news show on TV. Cope and seethe

@@bedwinkawliga9897 wait, people still watch "news shows" on TV?

That's why your life is sad

Not that it matters, but in the Netherlands, we use trashcans as votingballots. Some of the ballots are a meter wide, so we need a large bin for them.

Hey Lori how are you doing?and how's the weather over there??

Doesn't matter how many times you say it's "perfectly legal"... if there was surveillance footage of you dropping off the ballots, either D'Souza himself or someone who took his "documentary" as gospel would've claimed otherwise.

@@gregoryklaus7120 Hay Gregory!!!! how are you doing? and how's the weather over there??

@@Profoundimpact2 Hey Impact! How you doin'? And how's the weather over there??

As long as the marked and signed it.

We're looking to you, having just elected a democratic leader, to hopefully signal that American democracy can still be saved.

@@couragekarnga8735 Lula ain't perfect as he went to prison for corruption charges which were later overruled but when it comes to democracy, the Amazon, poverty, economic and trade issues, foreign policy, and indigenous rights, we have seen the results from his previous time as president as he successfully helped Brazil during hard times in the early 2000s recession and reduced poverty and deforestation of the Amazon while seeing high economic growth and approval ratings at over 80%. But with a divided Congress and Senate under right-wing parties and the lack of a commodities boom which helped his popularity in Brazil, it's going to be difficult for him going ahead.

​@@couragekarnga8735 and their side is looking to Americans to imitate, armed militias and everything, it's a circus, they're so obviously doing the exact same thing trump did in 2020.. even with Lula's win, bolsonarism won't die, people here absolutely would vote for Hitler himself to be protected from "cOmMuNiSm" and many other politicians will exploit that for years to come. rewriting reality is hard to combat, they thrive in cognitive biases and falacies, so there really is no arguing, they simply don't care about democracy, they care about gay people having rights and women having control over their own bodies, if the devil himself was running on a conservative agenda, they'd vote for him. I mean, 58M people in Brazil still did, so i mean that quite literally.

Americans* Canada and Mexico got naught to do with this, and no N. and S. America are two different crustal plates. Stay salty. Edit: ...and we are the only nation with America in our name (barring American Samoa, a US territory), so we get to use Americans. Sorry-not-sorry.

You got a socialist.... not a Trump.

But if you watch it in slow motion, it's basically just a remote detonation. He doesn't actually appear to be aiming at the trash. Aaaand the little puff of smoke/vapor (like from an CO2/Airgun) does not have the usual flash you would get from a live round. Please appreciate your 2nd amendment rights the same way you appreciate your right to vote. Also I like Offerman and Oliver, I'm not biased against either.

@@bohdan1997 You DO realize the republican guy in the video they were parodying also didn't actually shoot the can, right? It's a sloppy jump cut to detonation. That was the point of the parody.

@@bohdan1997 There is no reason why we should appreciate the 2nd amendment "the same way" we appreciate the right to vote. The latter is the fundamental pillar of a democracy, the former is not.

@@Palin3 The only reason you have the latter, is because of the former.

@@Xeroki41 That's hilariously wrong. But go off

Haha nice. Only 1999 miles to go. 😂

And we should believe you, why? Some bobble head doll on the interwebs? Funny how prosecuted violations are so rare, are almost all accidental, but the biggest intentional ones are Republicans. Like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HR8yf70-U_8.html&ab_channel=CBSEveningNews

🤣🤣🤣

lmao amazing! good work (also clever 🤣)

You maniac!

he's taking the lead to both direct and star in that one

The perfect ending. Icing on the cake.

That spot was brilliant. I absolutely do thank Nick for his unwavering support for every decent and true. He's a good American.

That was a delightful end to a very bleak piece.

Doggie!

For real. Can we somehow turn "one shot, no cuts" into a rallying cry?

"Safe and effective!"

@@TheSundayShooter spewing right wing garbage with a name like "sunday shooter" is a bit on the nose even for y'all, isn't it?

@@curvingfyre6810 My username is a litmus test for hoplophobes as _y'all_ construe it to mean anything other than weekend visits to the range and the only thing _on the nose_ is your surgical mask, which is no substitute for an N95

@@TheSundayShooter Oh, I have an n95 thank you very much, got it for house maintenance, scraping old lead paint off a half finished basement so it can be redone proper. Sounds like you could have used one growing up. As for "hoplophobe", I believe that "Under no pretence should the working class be disarmed", and am a personal enthusiast of bows, though I intend to branch out into firearms as soon as I'm financially stable. Ammo costs are steep, but you can reuse the same 12 arrows for years. As for you, you are larping, to the point of glowing. If the day ever comes that you're called to fight our movement, you will piss yourself at the thought of facing people who actually don't have anything to lose but their chains.

@@curvingfyre6810 Marx Legolas calling _anyone_ a LARPer and referencing Terry A. Davis in the same breath, that's rich. Truth is the most revolutionary thing your movement has done is vote for Bernie "Blue No Matter Who" Sanders and maybe a few race riots

authoritarianism is a mental illness and today's Republicans are uncomfortably aligned with authoritarianism

“Andy Bernard does not lose contests. He wins or he quits because they’re unfair.” The Office

@@robertolmstead1346 “because they’re unfair…” lol that was literally my first reaction. The republican party is Andy Bernard, except 1000x more unlikeable.

All political parties do that

@@eightthoughts4457 Not even close to true.

Take it from us over in Europe:- Nick Offerman is a Gott-damn UNESCO world heritage site of significant cultural importance and its forever to our shame that when he was in London in the guise of Ron Swanson that we didn’t make a special diplomatic allowance for him to be able to purchase things with “the most wonderful piece of paper in the world” 😳

No matter the role, Nick Offerman radiates a commanding and prestigious aura that makes me listen to everything he ever says. If he had a TV show where he taught people about the history of wood craftsmanship, it would be the number one rated show on the planet

I'm 31 and I wish he'd take me for my first drink. It won't be my first, but I think it'll still be magical.

Came here to say this.

He looks weird without a mustache tho

Same, my folks don't use the car much, so I dropped their ballets off while I was out. It's all grasping at straws

And thats what any sane human being assumes when seeing someone dropping multiple ballots in the middle of the day.

I explained this to someone a wk or 2 ago & their response was that was voter fraud.🤣

@@mustbtrouble Their brain is 'thinking fraud'.

@@mustbtrouble at this point, voting for anyone they don't like is considered voter fraud.

True. Both parties do it.

What does that have to do with the fact that one of your Senate candidates lacks basic cognitive function? Vote for that guy that can't complete a sentence because there are crazy people out there who pitch a fit when they don't get their way? Only one side regularly excuses and covers for political violence, and it's the Dems.

@@mdale814 he's had a stroke. Remove that from the way you're speaking about him. A stroke can affect literally anyone on planet earth. I'm also not saying that the left is a great option, just the better of the two evils.

@@justmytw0cents The reason for his cognitive impairment is not relevant to its existence. I will not remove that from the way I speak of him. It's not mean or ablist to recognize the simple fact that he has not shown he has the capacity to perform the duties of the job. Add in the fact that he and his campaign are clearly being dishonest about his recovery, and there's no way you can argue he's the better option. They keep saying his only issue is an inability to comprehend audible speech (already a disqualifier, in my mind), but he can't make it through sentences, even when provided written questions, or worse, when reading prepared speeches from note cards or a teleprompter. I'm sorry that makes you uncomfortable, but he is not cognitively-equipped for the job. It sucks that he had a stroke, especially when he was on the cusp of achieving a lofty goal, but reality doesn't always conform to our wishes and desires.

@@mdale814 if he is not a conservative, he is the better choice for the job. I would vote for a blue balloon before I ever gave a conservative one ounce of power again. One man is recovering from a stroke, the other is the enemy of decency. I'll take the stroke victim every time.

@@mdale814 ​ Trump and many/most of his lie-generating/propagating minions are not cognitively equipped for public office. Are people who push conspiracy delusions, hate crimes, and coups for political gain “equipped” for public office in a purported democracy? Your side is a sick joke.

He's only funny to those with low IQ.

Having a good laugh at the Titanic comedy show while the ship is sinking?

@@johndoe6032 might as well :)

I’m starting to believe we should stop laughing. Laughing at it trivializes it and causes learned helplessness to set in.

seriously?

It is going to be a shitshow. If people don't show up in numbers. And just vote.

it is truly terrifying. i didn't laugh once during this entire episode ... just frowned in solemn recognition that this shit is legitimately scary. we should be figuring out how to live sustainably on this planet, not trying to figure out how to deal with half a population who believe in conspiracy theories and take part in politics like it's a sport. it's so sickening to be an american at this point.

I don't think there will be much solace in living in the EU when the US devolves into civil war

*glances at Sweden's and Italy's election results* Yes, Europe is definitely not having its own crisis with rise of fascism. We definitely didn't shoot our own leg by promoting neoliberal markets as the ultimate antidote for War. *tries not to look at Russia and Ukrine* At least we aren't US.

@@ainumahtar Not to forget that we also have our nut-job political parties raising in popularity and conspiracy theories becoming more and more mainstream.

most governments in the EU are not much better imo

Yeah... If the leading economy of the world will be fucked up, the waves will hit everyone in the world, as there is almost no country that is not codependent on some economic relations with the US or even just US currency. Like Turkey for example, which local currency's value is directly attached to the US dollar's. Or China, who's third of economy is directly dependent on US markets, and most of the state money are stored in dollars.

George Orwell could have a field day with this era!

Cognitive dissonance

underrated insightful comment

Unfortunately, that goes for both parties… but to your point, the MAGA base’s perceived “facts” about the election are particularly dangerous. I’m a Libertarian, so I vote left and right, but these conspiracy theorists who are subverting voting itself are a threat to EVERY civil right.

Jas das ist good ;)

I always thank the poll workers when I vote.

Probably because Germans already know fascism doesn’t work out well.

Yes cause a good amount of people in America are gullible to conspiracy and dumb

Please take me in when this place falls.

you guys have some county-sized compounds and echo chambers getting built in ID. Stay safe. Let us know what you're hearing. Out them ... but, uhm, maybe keep your account private, eh?

YT likes politics from Oliver's perspective. Fox News doesn't receive the same treatment, I assure you.

@@paulshallbetter1080 Monetization is up to the poster. HBO is okay not getting revenue from these clips. If Fox was okay with that, they'd turn off monetization as well. The fact that you saw a conspiracy against the right in all this rhymes with the vague sense of corruption that's led to the problems described in the video. That's pretty funny, isn't it?

@@adambuchbinder2791 I don't see a "conspiracy" here, except that YT and other media companies have demonstrated bias against the Right; they admit it, so there's really no argument. BTW, my channel is monetized, but I receive no income from it, as YT is doing something to "compensate" a record company for using a classical piece of music... Monetization is often more complicated than one might think. And again I say that it is not unpatriotic to question election results. Maintaining a free and honest election process is a responsibility of every voting citizen. I am not an "election denier," but I think looking at the process is valid. In fact, I believe it to be patriotic in the truest sense of the word.

@@paulshallbetter1080 Okay, but you do see how the difference in "treatment" of Last Week Tonight and Fox News that you described doesn't actually exist, and then you smoothly moved on to another, entirely different claim? Is it because it's not really about monetization, it's about a vibe you have that conservatism is being suppressed by Big Tech? Nobody here, or in the show, is saying that it's unpatriotic to question election results. But when you spend a great deal of time looking for malfeasance, completely fail to find it, and then keep pushing a narrative that the entire election was somehow undetectably stolen, that's something else entirely.

@@paulshallbetter1080 As Adam pointed out your first thought was to say there was a conspiracy before even looking up the facts. I think you should see that as a wake up call to ask what else you do that for.

I had a bad day and decided to make me feel better by watching a comedy show and this is what I got. John Oliver delivered a piece where Mitch McConnell was the most positive thing.

As someone who has endured family gatherings like that, you have my deepest sympathies ☹️

That's just so sad

Wow, just wow. Moscow as atlanta? You could even google that in two seconds... oof

That's scary and sad... we're so screwed.

Yeah. Gotta love when the old-timers get called out on their bullshit, and they just default back to, "Well I'm older so of course I have more experience and knowledge than you despite you getting your knowledge from dozens of other people just as old and even more experienced than me." 9.9

Early and mail-in voting is meant for people like you, not for healthy young individuals who are perfectly capable of showing up to vote. That said, I'm glad you trust USPS with your vote.

@Rafael Uryayev, your comment makes it sound like you have some contempt for those who use early/mail in voting...since election day is not a national holiday where businesses are closed, you know many Americans don't have several free hours on a Tuesday? They have to work multiple jobs to feed their families and survive, surely they are able to put everything on hold, and stand in super long lines and cast their votes...think about more than just yourself when it comes to how people choose to vote.

​@@eldiablo1000 wait, you telling me the US doesn't give a national day off at election day? that's insane...

@@blaze4111 That's correct. And yet there's still contempt for people who can't or don't want to spend a couple of hours on a work day voting, even though there's literally no reason to insist on them voting in person when there's a perfectly valid alternate way to do so. They always act paranoid about 'voter fraud' even though it would be incredibly difficult to cast fraudulent votes by mail since there are multiple ways they verify the vote. (For example, the ballot number is keyed to a specific voter, and you need to give multiple forms of identification with your mail in ballot. It would also be instantly flagged if one person voted more than once, so any voter fraud would be uncovered if the real person also attempted to vote.)

@@blaze4111 Nope. It's a normal working day just like any other. There has been some push to add it as one, such as replacing Columbus Day as a national holiday with Election Day, but it hasn't really gone anywhere.

Bonus: Offerman is also manlier than most of the right wing, making them all look like wimps and p-words.

I love the celebrity cameos he's ben doing.

I think I just had a sexual awakening at 38 😉

There's something about him that's pretty great that's for sure.

There was a cut in the video, though. When they pan back from the dog, the shadow on the trash can is way longer than it was. We just do cuts better than republicans.

I was just about to say that is there anything bad that he does on telly? If I was American this would make me definitely vote!

Also he is looking good sans beard! Lucky Megan Mullally........also lucky him, she's awesome

These people are actually all the way nuts!

And what those clips from Vice that weren't shown explain was that the police didn't take those threats to the people running the elections as a "threat". Mainly because they couldn't put on all their fancy body armor, then stand around waiting to figure out who would be first into the house during the raid.

Yeah, definitely a psycho

That's no different than what I hear from my neighbors in regards to transgender people and the LGBT community. In passing conversations I was caught off guard. My neighbor said the regret he had about LGBT violence was that the shooter " good boy" didn't have more of them to take out. Murder of trans people is at an all time high this year. Republicans like DeSantis and Youngkin don't care how their lies harm people. They don't care if it causes fools to kill someone. Just like Trump didn't care about his lies what they led to. The evangelicals like my cousins they're so filled with hate and ignorance toward LGBT people toward abortion, they'll vote for the devi. l as long as the devil tells them he hates abortion and LGBT people they my cousins will claim they're doing God's work. I don't know what's wrong with people life's too short to be hating people you don't never know. sadly some people do know LGBT people and don't even realize it. My neighbors are a good example and some of my relatives cuz none of them know that I'm transgender.

seriously that voicemail was a straight up terroristic threat, i very much hope that something was done about it...

Italy is probably farther along in this madness than the US is, unfortunately. Trump just seems like more Berlusconi. Who would have been surprised at some bunga bunga?

It would be especially bad for Ukranians. I suspect Putin is watching the results.

As Americans my family is frightened. These maniacs would do anything to gain power. Even police forces have been flooded with these maniacs too. It’s nerve wracking to think people like that have power.

Screaming "fascism" , "Authoritarianism" is hilarious when most of you same npc's supported COVID lockdowns and opposed bodily autonomy (in the form of COVID vaccines) on top of your obese , Queen of Colour, Stacy Abrams denying the results of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election to this vary day! Get recked, drones!

CPL Weeks, does "election denial" apply to Hillary Clinton, Stacy Abrams, etc?

This is so true. The cult mentality has given them literal superpowers while democrats just depend on logic and sanity of these people to figure the truth out and do the right thing 😒 America is beyond that, everyone from outside can see that

I now suspect that the SCOTUS Roe decision leak was a conservative strategy -- not just to celebrate the win but to have the rage about it peak and ebb before the election.

It's because Republicans have literally nothing else to do in their lives. Their existences are so pathetic that all they can do with it is spend 100% of their attention on watching Fox News and being angry about "realities" that don't even really exist.

cult mentality will do that

Yes, they are and they have a lot of money.