William Barr: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Dictators aren't elected by its people. Dictators can't be withdrawn by the Senate. Dictators wouldn't be limited by several different institutions, checks and balances and the constitution. Pro-dictatorship pundits and any independent watchdogs are fully aware that the US is a form of a representative democracy where citizens decides the outcome of who becomes the president, which senators/representatives should represent each state/city in the House/Senate and which governors should rule a decentralized state/city in the United States. If Trump was an actual dictator, I'm sure you'd notice. Because you'd probably be stuck behind a jail cell for questioning the system. A lot of issues would've been solved without having to pander to the people or Congress. BLM would've been crushed in three minutes. The police officers handling the long-term convict back in May would've been given a medal for protecting their nation from decadence (and maybe criticized for not tackling and handling the convict hard enough).

or a King/Queen, Emperor/Empress.

@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 dictators very much have been elected by the people, read a book

I could break down every sentence you wrote but this is RU-vid.

One that tells state government to run their own state? This is a dictator? You know all the previous ones, always sharing power 😂

I'd rather have dbza goku as an adult

Interesting that even Fox used the phrase. If Barr is the adult, who is the kid, right?

@@drunkensailor3736 Stop spamming your self-promotion BS without any substance. At least contribute with something worthy.

A standard that they don't even meet given Barry's "quaint" and "folksy" stories about sucking off authoritarianism and disgusting conduct to cover up Trump's many, many crimes and unmitigated corruption.

This isn't the "who is older " card in the room... scarily sobering

And especially true when Police can be Bought for the Right amount of money and used like hired Thugs!

It would be a shame if something happened to this lovely democracy you have. Perhaps you should vote for us to protect it.

Exactly

@@danielramsey6141 "Innocent until proven guilty. Guilty until proven wealthy."

Soon New York will have to bribe the cops and corruption wouldn’t be good, I bet the cops would crack down more on minorities and soon we become China

real anarchy would probably involve poor people being shot. as well as rich people black people blonde people and more generally peoplepeople doing bad thing to other people... for a while. things would settle down quickly to a sort of social equilibrium, peolple don't naturally want to just destroy others. the problem is what balance would arrise, it could be almost the same lifestyle as today with bakers continuing to bake their bread and exange it for stuff or money or a despotic asshole taking power by force... i think its something we should study more and think about, the concept is interesting in an abstrac social/philosophical way sure but more importantly that's where at least some if not most countries are going... at the end of the 21rst century the world will be much more harsh and inhabitable and nobody is planning anything

I came to the comments to mention this exact line. And the commenter above me is missing the point.

people seriously think no poor people would be shot? The working class is full of people turned against each other so why would poor people not have any quarrels

What's insane is threatening to charge protestors exorcizing their basic American right to protest with sedition..but their side has literal goddamn ACTUAL seditionists that attacked the capital to prevent the legal transition of power, which is traitorous and the right would demand they would be hanged if the left did that, and that's if they were white, if that were minority groups attacking the capital it wouldnt have gotten that far, they'd have been shot on sight as terrorists, wouldnt be painted as patriotic good ol boys but horrible un American terrorists

GOD DAMN RIGHT. My second amendment loves to hunt rich pricks.

Eventually, the 99.9% are gonna come for the .1% for a payday, or a reckoning.

Only a matter of time till someone said it

That was so based wtf

That's the best news I've heard in a long time.

"By making peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable"

Hobbes Hobbiton That’s why humans survived in societies. When we act decisively and in timely manner to work together (elect proper leadership and support them with action) we thrive. It’s always together.

"You can take our lives, you can take our freedom, but you will never take our honour. We utterly defensless, but not honourless." -Otto Wels, the last free speech in the german Reichstag of 1933

Even that's the softened version

@@herbertschulz4313 I'm sure the victims of nazi Germany are glad Otto Wels kept his honour.

That phrases doesn't matter for someone who's "lay down their lives to own libs"

Yes, exactly. Take them at their word. That is exactly what they want.

further addendum: The president is above the law and may not be charged or prosecuted for obstructing impeachment or committing election fraud. As long as Barr is there Americans do not live in a Democratic Republic. Sorry Americans but you NOW live in an Autocratic Corporatocrasy.

They just want a absolutist monarch.... First emperor of america

@@OakleyMoodie Correct, but "Emperor Dictator of the United Stats of America" would be even more apt, since Trump is the sole head of that Corporatocracy.

At the point that those become the only limits we shall start the revolution/assassination process #DownWithTyrrants

And don't forget, "secular religion"

It's an oxymoron.

Same thing when people say “communist country/state” like fuckin pardon?

@@_HuffleProud_ Exactly! communism is a state-less money-less society.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Spoken like a true chemist!

Lmfao, fair point. Pretty much everything IS a chemical, by definition 🤣

@Steve N overall it doesn’t matter if it’s a chemical or not, violent force was used against peaceful protesters and I think he’s just knit picking to take away from that point, an awful tactic, just a way to distract the media

@@studentsforademocraticsoci9836 it may turn them into super protesters, and give them constitutional powers and maybe the government would listen to them instead of just crushing their rights and fix the problems with America

@American Nacirema A naturally occuring CHEMICAL. Chemical does not mean artifical.

Exactly I mean eventually everyone becomes an adult if they live long enough

"can't set the barr lower than that"

You cant set the barr lower than that *da bum tss*

@@OliverFlinn you’re literally copying the comment above you and adding nothing of relevance. Weak

@@zacfrancis6365 look whos talking about not adding nothing of relevance. wack

He does. He also knows that the concept of utopia is a highly subjective one. He is echoing THEIR perspective, expecting you as the self-reliant viewer that you are, to understand that THEIR utopia is not going to be yours. Hitler wanted to create a utopia for the German people (and the world, he thought). We know that, and we also understand that that doesn't make people standing in his way the bad guys.

Wrong. Everyone has their own idea of what utopia is, and imposing it on others is downright wrong and likely evil.

utopia is an imaginary perfect place, and a pun with the greek words "ou-topos" meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere' and "eu-topos" meaning 'a good place'. it was coined by Sir Thomas More (1477 - 1535) More was an English lawyer, writer, and statesman. He was at one time, one of Henry VIII's most trusted civil servants, becoming Chancellor of England in 1529. there, truth and the british library

but Utopia will be slavery and starvation. The beliefs of utopia are naive and lead to deaths. Mao killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined and now we're copying CCP China.

@@MicahMicahel Why would 'Utopia' automatically include slavery?

No need. It comes naturally, normally.

@@picklerick1104 it's basically civilians acting like kids and larping

OH NO BIDEN BROS HOW COME TRUMP WON?!

@@sorrykid8538 he didn't, so there's that.

great how people like you make wild assumptions of others without knowing what they've been through or done, and just love fantasizing about how they know everything.

Is that a v for vendetta reference?

that's my quote.

@@brandonangstman yes it is.

@@StarlahMutiny It is actually a variation of a quote from John Basil Barnhill, which is often misattributed to Thomas Jefferson. In full, it reads: "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."

Here's to wishing everybody the best of luck in all this. Either direction the election goes, I'm super worried about what's going to pop off. I want it to be ok but realistically, this is a powder keg

We’ll be holding him to it.

Same here

The fact that it’s even a possibility at all is mind boggling. After ALL he’s done??

Get ready to feel like dying for another 4 years

as a black man in 2020, this scares me

He should say "when Trump has won", because everything is pointing into this direction.

Yea, should be "when trump wins"

I'm gonna tattoo this one

/our guy/ omegalul

Poor people cant aford guns.

I’ll go get my guillotine

@@lenschwedt9646 that's why they lay in ambush ,and relieve their oppressors of their weapons after cutting their throats. Remember every revolution was fought by the oppressed people who had inferior weaponry.

Thank you. We're gonna need it!

Thanks, pal. We got this. [I hope. Dear dog, I do so hope. *continues to drink*]

Just my thoughts

Thanks everyone, hope we're okay. My state went blue as I knew it would, now to see where the swings go.

Yup ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-acyass75PTg.html

What worries me is that this suggests that he believes slavery to be just a - somewhat tolerable - restraint/limitation of freedoms instead of the totally amoral, torturous, dehumanizing, evil disenfranchisement it is. It's just not comparable. It's like comparing social distancing to the suppression of resistance during the 3rd Reich, as some right wingers do in Germany at the moment.

You mean public policy. Shooting unarmed black men could hardly be called 'a service'.

@@stevenbuck07 Oh, don’t tempt fate, they’ll find a way.

😯

"Why yes I wou-AAARGH!!!"

Technically, most tap water is a chemical. Fresh-squeezed juice is a chemical. Tea and coffee are chemicals. Table salt is a chemical. As such, obviously, pepper extract is a chemical. And of those, not one is not an irritant in certain situations, though if you only look at the eyes, nose, skin, and throat, water (usually) is not. There's a reason many countries have outlawed it, with several banning it - along with other things - under various forms of "chemical weapons" bans.

I would pay to watch that happen.

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I know it's very hard, but try not to lose all faith. I believe it's still possible (though a long road ahead) for our country to reimpose actual law and order, and resolidify the tradition of respect, honor, and integrity of both the office of the President and those of Congress, particularly the Senate. I believe Biden can begin resetting the norms back to decency, competency, and true patriotism.

@@SolidSiren you are Soo right! I ,also,believe that Biden will start bringing Americans together. Can't wait for the 36th president to be Our new beginning!

If you hear a politician "investigated the other party's headquarters" or "kept some money he was given as campaign donation" nowadays, it might not even be considered as top-of-the-hour news story, but it was literally the Watergate and Checkers scandal that rocked Nixon like 50 years ago lol

@@SolidSiren Don’t put too much faith in Biden. He’s gonna undo Trump’s nonsense and then sit on his ass for 4 years, I’d guess.

@@supC_ It'll be difficult to do anything when you have the opposite party gung-ho and stopping anything and everything from happening.

@Brendan McMahon based is a newer slang term meaning “being yourself and not caring what others think of you” in this instance, John is speaking his mind and stating what we’re all thinking, despite the possible consequences of doing so.

The only person shot dead to rights on Jan 6th was Ashli B. Please do your homework the govt is lying.

@@kristielannette1070 I mean yeah, the gov't is lying constantly, just look at the coverage about Cuba rn. What's your point?

Ancom John goes off

Darth Sidious: [Triumphantly] “POWER!!!! UNLIMITED POWER!!!!”

Spending years trying to put your elected opponent in jail is a one way ticket to dictatorship. Pot, kettle, kettle, pot.

@@MACAVELLE50 That doesn't make any goddamn sense. Investigating a man for possible corruption and collusion, holding him accountable for his actions, isn't a ''one way ticker to dictatorship''. That's ridiculous.

@@MACAVELLE50 So who's the pot and who's the kettle?

@@MACAVELLE50 so you agree that they're both bad candidates for president and that they're highly corrupt and should be removed from power? Poggers bro viva la revolution!

Fauci Maybe Tiffany?

Not vocally at least. I mean, if at your job you noticed that the only people that weren't getting fired were the ones that seemed a metric ton's worth of wax short of a box a crayons you would at least PRETEND to have lost your marbles right? Not that I think they are pretending, just saying that at this stage I think it's written in the job description.

That implies that there ever was one in the first place

Possibly mike pence's rabbit but apart from that no, and we don't get to see mr bundo's tax returns so we really can't tell...

@@skysnow2495 Tiffany is just a bit dim witted but she also has no influence on anything, so I'd say that is a correct answer

Oh justice is coming

Maybe he can gaslight himself out of existence?

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Dude is done. They trying to pass thier anarchy laws in the next 30 days, the washington swamp toilet is getting flushed

He is fired

Based

Finnian Ottinger I think John is right. If there really is anarchy here, it will be a bloodbath for everyone. I think it's possible but mostly unlikely. At least that's what I hope.

the first, and perhaps only time a mainstream pundit will ever accurately describe anarchist political theory and practice

@@saoirsecameron right

yeah, if you think actual anarchy will magically bypass poor people your delusional lol.

@chris younts otherwise known as the federalist society - which is pretty close!

Exactly!!

Hogs be like: "YEEEAAHH BROTHER! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED! IMPEACH OUR FREEDOM BROTHER! YEEHAAAW"

The left is on amoral outrage with cancel culture. It’s like a cult

@@MicahMicahel the right doesn't seem to be a cult to you? Didnt they just try to overthrow a democratic election? Oh yea, they did.

@@MicahMicahel You call the left a cult when the right is in bed with televangelists? You have a warped sense of reality. Secularism means not concerning itself with religion. Personally I'm more anti Theist. Yahweh doesn't exist (we know this because he was supposed to be a God of wind and earthquakes which are caused by evaporation and plate tectonics respectively) so I think all churches, synagogues, temples, fanes,Televangelists and Mosques should be liquidated to redeem the debts of the poor which shouldn't have been allowed to get to this state of affairs even before Covid.

@@stephengrigg5988 you don't realize none of the evidence was looked at. Trump's cases were all rejected on procedural grounds , except for the two he won. Did China hack the election? The big hack was blamed on Russia but there was zero evidence it was Russia! Tell me what makes the right a cult? The left is behind cancel culture. The left wants us all to accept their moral beliefs. They are even changing language. We have to use their terms or we get cancelled. This is cult stuff. I can't say there are only two genders. I have to believe things that seem ludicrous because there's a small group of radicals that protest and riot. They are against free speech. Cults hate free expression of ideas. Cults are controlling. The right wants free speech but the left is controlling. The left wants you to stay in your house and wear masks. The left wants me unarmed. The left makes all sorts of Demands. Right wingers just want to work. They don't like P.C. you call that a cult? Don't you realize cults all want you to follow their rules? The left is very controlling! How can you not see the left is in favour of the lockdowns?

@@andrewharper1609 televangelists? Are you from the 1980s? there are Christians that are Trump supporters but that's not he focus. Are all leftists Muslims? It's kooky to have your focus, like as if you are intentionally missing the point with that cliché guiding you. Its a thought killing cliché

Chill. Biden has this in the bag.

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@@Resi1ience Please don't say that, I am superstitious and I am terrified, I don't want anything to jinx this.

100th like

Adult? Really? So what.😠

The same way forcing us to have insurance is federally "legalized" racketeering. Way to go, American't!

@@aaronjanusch6090 what

We love comrade John

Considering my company punishes vacation time by denying workers of bonuses if they take it... Yeah, I'd believe that.

I wonder if he's ever wanted/thought to do a show on how Trump and Republicans weaponize red scare and try to more correctly represent socialism/anarchism, Perhaps Business Daddy has more control then they'd have the libs let on.

It gave me chills for real...so bloody true

I feel like anyone who actually lived in an anarchy would know that poor people getting killed is not exactly uncommon there.

And back to the same old shit. The shit that made Trump possible in the first place, mind you.

Exactly! We are days away from the vote and a disputed election scenario and the associated chaos seem increasingly likely. For a great analysis of how the election will unfold and how such a disputed election would go down check out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GtstCIIkOAI.html&ab_channel=MyTake

@Ronnie The problem is you're not gonna learn anything. Politics in the US since Reagan has been broken beyond repair. The hope was getting Trump in that office would be a disaster big enough that society collectively would get scared enough to "wake up". Instead, all that's happenned is everything's gotten even more polarized, and the DNC did everything in their power, and actually succeded, in just trying to get back to the earlier years, where everything is fucked up beyond belief all the same, just not with a complete moron at the helm. Al in all, the US is fucked to a point that's even hard to believe, something that will just keep going when the democrats are back, and meanwhile people are focusing on the last stupidity that comes out of Trumps mouths, as if what he's been doing is that much worse than the last 40 years. Sure, it's worse, but it's a matter of degrees paralel to "here are the choices. would you rather get fucked by a horse or an elephant".

More like polls can't predict frauds & cheats

@@GaudyGabriev The Mr Hands argument?

Yeah that phrase stuck with me.

i'd say bull sh*t

This doesn't really hold up well. Poor people are usually the first to "get shot" when unrest happens, unless it's specifically targeting those in power, like the French Revolution (and even then, i'd like to see how many poor people died compared to rich). Did i miss something in what he was trying to say? Was this out of context or sarcasm?

@@pills- I think (being charitable to John Oliver here) what you've missed is the difference between 'unrest' (when the status quo is disturbed) and 'real anarchy' (complete disorder, hierarchical breakdown, no government, no status quo), because Oliver was talking about the latter. The point being made imo is that without the institutions of the state (police, laws, military etc.) to protect them the rich/elite would be the first targets. Sure, the massed poor, having removed their former oppressors would then likely turn on themselves (as famously happened in Revolutionary France). But the point wasn't that 'in real anarchy the poor won't get shot', merely that they won't be shot 'first'. Of course there's more nuance in reality than can be conveyed in either a one liner on a comedy show, or a short paragraph in the comments section but I hope this made at least some sense.

I think that what he meant is that poor people dying violently is a fact of life in a so-called normal state of governance, and that the rich would lose those protections under real, actual anarchy.

Wow. Great point. Thumbs up! Good to know there are still folks who read their history. Thank you! 🤗

葛Jennifer America’s biggest shame they refuse to talk about: Japanese internment. I only know about it because I’m Japanese. I was never taught about it in school

@@skyskynomnom4674 America, like every nation on the planet, has periods of history where we made the wrong decision that negatively affects millions of our people. The strange case with the US is that we tend to deal with these past wrongs with a "sweeping under the rug" sort of denial; an embarrassed sensitivity to discuss openly *why* leaders and the sentiments of the common people were aligned in a way that ignored the civil liberties of one group in exchange for a sense of security for the nation and a sense of proactivity on the part of the govt. When a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural nation is under attack from outside forces, the members of that nation belonging to the aggressors' ethnic background are unfairly highlighted as potential agents of the enemy. It happened to (and is still happening in many cases) to Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans during and after 9/11, but also to Japanese Americans in WWII, and to communist party members in the McCarthy era. This knee jerk reaction to safeguard, punish, or cleanse the country of our "liabilities" is short-sighted, narrow-minded, and self destructive. Caused by fear, ignorance, and panic these decisions to persecute, segragate, hunt down, or marginalize a segment of our own population makes us a weaker, not a stronger, safer nation. Maybe that's why policies like segregation, Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps, communist witch-hunts, Muslim bans, and now anti Chinese or anti Trump sentiment scar us to the point that when the conflict is resolved, we like to pretend it never happened and never really discuss or heal as a nation. I believe we will be doomed to repeat this same mistake until our history text books make an honest, factual recount of those mistakes highlighting the causes, and reconciling with those marginalized groups.

葛Jennifer totally. Every country does this. I grew up thinking Japan was the most superior country because of their ethics and art and education. But then I made friends with a bunch of student from China and Korea and DAMN. I was told other Asian countries hated Japan because they were jealous, that’s not even remotely the case....

@@skyskynomnom4674 lmao even us Canadians are learning about that in school

I wonder what he’d say if the president mandated it

then i guess Biden has some massive power to execute when he gets into power.

Barr wants Trump to have his enabling act, the same power Adolf Hitler had. Which was "if Hitler said it, it is law"....

Second to slavery Japanese internment?

We all know that, next time a democrat will be in office he won't be promoting total power to the president, much the contrary... GOP rules only apply when it favors the GOP

"I was tired of abusing article 2, i had to quit for my own well being" -Richard M. Nixon

"lol I'm dead" -Richard M. Nixon

Rest in piss

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Someone watched that Vanity Fair video the other day

It is weird to see the tie stripes through the reflection of the tie strips. (I'm guessing he went with solid colors after this episode, but I have not checked on that.)

Yes! His reflection wearing a different tie is a bit distracting.

Don't drag Jabba down like that. He can do that on his own.

..imagine what he would have said to us if he was alive now....

@@FlawlesSanshiro that is something I would love to have seen.

@@FlawlesSanshiro “Y’all are f*cked.” -George Carlin (in an alternate timeline)

@@blueeyedtech1234 he was so ahead of his time a real stable genius

The problem is "respect" can mean "treat them like a human being" or "treat them like an authority" and people often demand the latter for themselves while not affording the former to others

@Mustard Guy I think Amit is aware of this. The joke was solid!

@Mustard Guy Learn to read ;)

@Mustard Guy Well the only interesting part is that you think people are dumb and do not know what mustard gas is. Face it, you misfired :D You replied as first to the comment that 100% was for people who knows what mustard gas is. People who do not know would ask, something like: "is this joke? i do not understand". Or simply not react at all.

@Mustard Guy what's the best kind of Mustard. If you are the true Mustard Guy then I want proof of your superiority!

Cyclone B is good for your skin (Barr)

The drastic nature of these audience-less shows have been so heart wrenching and accurate when this information so critical to the nation right now; I do hope for his sake the blue wave is overwhelming so he can have a fun relaxing show at some point in the future though

@@halcyon_echo42 yeah I miss the audience laughter on his show.

I have got to vehemently disagree about this episode. Like, I’m not for Trump, but John Oliver and his type are not meant to be in depth.... you think 20-30 minutes is enough time to have a useful conversation? How about the fact that almost none of the things Oliver brings up have been fixed? It’s not his fault at all, but please do step back and realize the junk food reporting you’re consuming compared to full journalistic investigations

Lol I stay up late on Sundays just to get my blood boiled up

Keep it boiling because the more I look at Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, the more likely it seems that the election will be violently contested by his supporters if he loses. If you're wondering whether that could be the spark for CIVIL WAR, there's a great analysis that looks into that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EeF61LRYSKk.html&ab_channel=MyTake

@Scribbli Chheery : I'm a cynical ass who stereotypes groups frequently, but I strongly doubt your conjecture.

They uploaded two videos tonight, so if you have a weak heart, may I suggest saving the other til tomorrow.

Just go 🗳

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Still waiting for that fabricated illusion of an ongoing dictatorship turning out to be true. By independent and objective standards, there's zero such indications in reality.

@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 The president has been open to finding ways to postpone the election when it was clear he may lose, he tried to seize "emergency power" to extend his presidency, something his own party warned against doing. He refused to denounce white supremacists after the Charlottesville riots, has been openly admiring authoritarian dictators, and has tried to expand his power, disenfranchise the very electoral process, impeachment process, even basic justice process. You're right, we just need time for it to come true.

He let the states run their own state and this is a dictatorship?

War Tome He’s not letting “the states run their own state” he’s trying to force my state (Pa) to throw out the way we’ve always counted votes in order to make sure we count fewer of them. He’s brought numerous farcical lawsuits, all of which have been defeated, to actively interfere with our states ability to “run our own state.”

That is what it started sounding like to me!

I cannot recommend this comment enough!

Don't you mean "adolf in the room"?

thanks for teaching me a new word, i'm sure it will come in handy.

@chris younts rather, their vote isn't gonna get rid of a Capitalist plutocracy larping as a democracy

Those Americans love fascism, they'll say liberals call everything fascist in order to justify their behavior. Basically don't be a authoritarian prick that all the dems want

Yes, but our country in its purest form was founded with the knowledge that people are going to have different opinions and different blind spots. The pro Trumpers believe the rest of us have the blind spots while they see clearly. It is their right to think so. And we will never convince someone who needs to be right that they’re wrong (a very emotionally charged word at best) by telling them they are wrong. We have to show respect to teach respect. Nevertheless I’m glad and relieved of the outcome of this election and hoping it will not turn into a more catistrophic time for our country between now and Jan. 20th.

Not half, but they _do_ have most of the fanatics. And fundamentally, Democracy rewards the people who show up.

That is terrifying!

Man, this guy is really giving McConnell a run for his money as the most blatantly evil man in the administration.

Bingo

@@blinkohama5516 technically McConnell is not in the administration, but his wife is.. Btw, Mrs.McConnell, Elaine Chao, is the daughter of China's biggest shipping magnate, and despite the 'trade war' .. her dad's company gets a free pass on any tariffs and fees any competition gets hit by shipping to/from China So, yeah still pretty fucked up

@@blinkohama5516 there is no good man in his administration except Anthony fouchi

@@drunkensailor3736 We WILL take to the streets. I promise you, he will NOT stage a coup uncontested. He is no Pinochet.

US government: do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down

@@wantse-rita25y.oopenmycana50 I have no idea what you are trying to communicate, sorry.

Snowden is pretty much a traitor. He turned the american people against surveillance and anti-terror campaigns by releasing what he did for no reason. No innocent person has been targeted by the surveillance tactics. Snowden released a bunch of info that jeopardized US national security and NSA's way of conducting scrutiny and examination. In a way, he deserves to be punished.

Apparently Japanese internment was just a nice little vacation. Not to mention the "Patriot Act," Its funny how back in the 2000's the conservatives were all "I'd gladly give up my liberty to protect my freedom" when a couple thousand people died to terrorist attacks, but 200,000+ people die from a pandemic and they're all "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH".

Glad there's at least a comment about it!

Barr is awful, but I'm glad he said it. Trump is really scrambling around now. He know's he's lost.

@@quizzabella Barr probably saw what was going on with the lawyers and went "I am not touching that crazy."

Oof. Has that started already? The trump supporters have started eating their own?

@@pills- theres are to be a divide... or maybe there already is one. the diehard trump loyalists republicans who are shouting "fraud!" an the other republicans saying "ok... thas enough.... cut the crap dude"

Seriously I hope this is the start of him doing this every week!

Yeah, I'm a little confused about it honestly. Was one of these from another week?

@@TheMangomelon789 pretty sure it's done to try and have some impact on the elections this week.

I was thrilled for a second and then I rememebered what tomorrow is and immediately became horrified

Heh. I like bagpipes, though. My favorite metal bands use bagpipes in their music.

Made my chuckle, good on you sir. I will be remembering this one.

Seems apt

He was talking about the church and god.

Religious nutters like Barr are the worst. They like to burn witches. Literally.

@@bkolumban Applicable nonetheless.

Sounds kinda dictatorship apologist. Implying that robber barron's cruelty EVER rests. As if they could ever be satiated. If they could be statieted, they wouldn't own banks

Well, there goes Christianity...

Good eye

thanks for giving me a brief respite from the terrible reality of the world by calling my attending to the tie reflection.

@@newflesh666 Glad to contribute to getting you through the day!

Can somebody explain why this happens?

@@Jollyjewel94 you are seeing the reflection as well as the actual tie through the transparent glass table

It's the perpetual hypocrisy for me

Then vote to lower our taxes

@Bruce Gruetzmacher T-that's what the government is for. The government provides services like roads, schools, fire departments, police, military, social security, Medicaid, food stamps, etc. Services to shore up the weaknesses of capitalism. An advocate for the people. That's what it's supposed to be anyway. It's not supposed to be a dog-eat-dog world. The purpose of government is supposed to be the ability to sleep at night without looking over your shoulder. I mean, if you want to play out your Walking Dead wet dream, go to rural Alaska and have fun. But don't drag civilization down with you.

I swear this sentiment scares the fuck out of me. I'm an Indian citizen (currently living in Ireland). One of our elected ministers (equivalent to an US state senator), running for re-election, effectively told her constituents, "If I am still a minister after this election, and I find out your province did not vote for me, do not expect any help from me." It was.... Disturbing.

OH NO BIDEN BROS HOW COME TRUMP WON?!

it's really telling that they describe UTOPIA as a BAD THING. "these radical lefties want to design a UTOPIA for us all, we can't let them get away with it!"

They're scared because they hear about the radical far left and assume all liberals are like that instead of realizing it's something like 0.01%, just like how racist white nationalists are a small fringe 0.01% or less of conservatives.

@@dietotaku One man's utopia is another man's dystopia. The government should be focused on protecting our freedom to choose, not building what some view as a utopia.

@@rgderen88 A perfect society is impossible, But striving to improve society should not be Dismissed or Villainized And the issue is, while its true one man's utopia is another's dystopia, we shouldn't treat them as equivalent, a Conservatives Dystopia is a world where we force Billionares to help Fix poverty, capitalism and Nationalism are frowned upon, and Bigotry is seen as undebatably horrible as opposed to just seen as a different opinion. And all of those things would be greatly beneficial to society.

@@erickamakeeaina1649 That's part of the problem though, for every conservative that refuses to recognize the flaws in our system there's a liberal that insists they know what's best for us and we should let them build a utopia for us even if we don't want it. People and politicians on both sides need to start drawing back towards the middle.

"Just told the Men to get it done while eating Meth-chocolate, i'm clearly innocent your honor"

"The eugenics movement became associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when the defense of many of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials of 1945 to 1946 attempted to justify their human-rights abuses by claiming there was little difference between the Nazi eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs." Just reminded me of this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Eugenics_and_racism_in_the_United_States

Not very original of him

USSR!

Because you’re not just seeing the reflection. It’s a glass table, so you can still see the tie below the glass, while the top part of his tie is seen reflection

@@toughtittypdiddy4634 ooooh this is why!! Thank you. I was also wondering about this apparent magic trick XD

@@toughtittypdiddy4634 this this is what I've been looking for, thank you

I thought it was from the trump collection😆

Dope!

* Henry II (supposedly).

We're luffing WE'RE LUFFING!

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Puts a smirk on my face because there is 100% truth to that statement. Could you imagine seeing a wave of people running toward trump and his secret service. Sure the servant service would likely kill many but then they would run out of bullets and then they crash down upon them all including trump just like how the crowds did with Saudia leader sadaam Hussain? It wasn't pretty but man I bet it felt nice to the people

the communist mindset (i'm saying this as a positive thing, if you haven't read anything on the subject)

Yeah, right... that’s the biggest load of BS I’ve ever heard. When things go wrong, it’s ALWAYS poor people who die and suffer more. I mean... the lack of historical context to that statement....

I learned that from Justice League XD. Apparently, their true purpose is sinister.

Phineas and Ferb made a song about them. It's pretty catchy!

A-G-L-E-T

@@gauravsaluja3833 Don't forget it!

holy shit, you saved me from a google search! well played internet stranger. well played.

Ya sure about that? Cause the rich people will have armored cars and armed bodyguards. The poor people? Neither. I still see "the poor people getting shot." Anarchy is the _ultimate_ "Might makes right" situation.

Army is pretty brainwashed, they will have no qualms walking street by street shooting anything that moves.

@@NEPAAlchey the military is beaten down to remove any sense of self and reeducated to follow orders. They won't help us. You're right.

Have you ever heard of Afghanistan? Both of the world's mightiest powers failed to conquer a bunch of sheep hearderders.

@Donald Drumpf sure thing, I bet people in Hong Kong said the same thing.

If you seriously believe that, I pity you

@Beat me pretty sure they're a Russian troll lol they prob don't give a fuck about who is the US president they just want to create division

@Beat me probably some demented sap with ocd

fun fact: that's not true

​@@rickross9829 - Everything is a bunch of atoms and empty space.

@Goth Vaush - Jedi Master Engineer did you just.... motivate me?

@@rickross9829 yes. Literally everything is chemicals.

John Oliver needs a break from all these depressing and infuriating stuff to send time with his family and act miserably British... What am I saying? Anyway, John doesn't need to keep doing this daily. We his fans wouldn't mind if he took a One month leave... So long as he let's us know he's still alive and okay... Anyway

I think these shows are too elaborate to do them every day… not all of them of course but often he has a lot of really famous people and/or extremely elaborate stages and stuff like that, they arrange collaborations with people all over the world and research these shows really carefully. I would love to see more of these shows but for them to be this high quality I don’t think it would be possible 😬 so I prefer that they stay this well researched and written but just once a week over them decreasing in quality but being more often🥲

@@neleh2377 Yeah, I didn't mean that in a serious way, more just that the last couple of weeks at the time (I believe this was right around the 2020 elections? Or something else similarly intense) would have been interesting to see his takes on on a daily basis.

Must have been a writer’s room bet

It's true though. Anarchism is taking down of power, not building up the Police

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I couldn't disagree more. If this tinder box ignites it will be the poor and disenfranchised that suffer the most. Who do you think controls the military? I'm not saying we should cower in fear in front of these wannabe tyrants, or even that sometimes violence is the answer, but we're not there yet. A class/race/civil war (whatever that looks like) will be hell on earth for all and can't be the answer. Right now I believe it will take only a small spark to ignite this bomb. This next week is inevitably gonna be crazy. We should try to use our heads, look past our anger, and make our voices heard. Everything is at stake right (I don't just mean the election, but how we handle it). And if shit goes south I guarantee it will be the "have-nots" who pay the higher price.

“A moral order by force”, is in itself, immoral!

@@St.Maliki Maybe so, but who knows, Trump's already screwed over the military by making them abandon allies, he's pimped them out to Saudi royalty, and he's called fallen soldiers losers and suckers. Lastly and most importantly, deployed military *have* to mail their ballots, let's see how the military feels about getting getting their votes screwed with by Republicans trying to cheat by voter suppression. Many military units recognize *the fact* their oath is to the country, not the president.

OH NO BIDEN BROS HOW COME TRUMP WON?!

@@sorrykid8538 this aged terribly

@@sorrykid8538 oh really? Are you still alive? Or has it become too much?

@@davidyang6074 He silently imploded...

Interesting read! "First is the force, fervor, and comprehensiveness of the assault on religion we are experiencing today. This is not decay; it is organized destruction. Secularists, and their allies among the “progressives,” have marshaled all the force of mass communications, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional values." I'm not saying religion is inherently bad - personally I believe we all have to believe *something*, because it's what our brain is programmed to do, and at least many strings and varieties of religion have some useful reminders for living that, indeed, help the society at large - but whenever he mentions "traditional values" I can't help wondering, "You mean the past times when a pastor could have his way with the kids under his care because his power was absolute? The good ol' times when the concept of marital rape hadn't been invented yet? That one economy - among many at the time - that was built on the backs of slaves?" All that aside, it reads like a good speech. Makes a clear point with many emotionally heavy statements, a lot of moral high ground and righteousness, a declaration of The Threat, The Enemy and a strongly worded declaration of Resistance against this enemy. Probably sounded like music to his listeners' ears.

Barr's assertion completely ignores the apostle Paul's statement that if his religious beliefs in Jesus and the afterlife were false, the religious strictures he and other Christians followed were folly - "If only in this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men." (1 Corinthians 15:19). Jesus' ministry and sacrifice were about the fact that no one could achieve sufficient righteousness on their own; one could strive to follow all of the Commandments but still end up unredeemed. For Barr to tack even further in the opposite direction and claim that Christian moral standards are *perfectly utilitarian* is questionable under a charitable reading of his statement. Utilitarianism is not a compatible philosophy with Christianity, but an ethical framework that empowers the strong and wealthy to oppress the poor and weak. As much as Barr likes to weasel out of things by playing at semantics, I think his use of the term "utilitarian" here is indicative of his true feelings and motives, which are not for the benefit of the public.

Yeah everybody knows it was John Mulaney

@@marycoffelt3041 I'm a John Mulaney fan and I don't get this reference??? Was it from one of his specials???

@@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308 im pretty sure its in his "New in town" special

@@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308 listen to Oh, Hello: the P’dcast and you’ll see why

Funny, but educational is a perfect Discription of john

Where was it used here?

@@darthknightwingphoenix2081 "licking boot so hard he shits aglets for a week" or something

I loved that! I love all the little thing words, like "bezel."

Ohhh do I have an animated show for you! Congrats on going this far without mention of Phineas and Ferb, but I'm afraid it ends here.

I remember hearing it in Justice League Unlimited during the final stretch of the First season.

The main thing anyone smart enough to chew should learn from studying even a little history is: it is infinitely easier and cheaper, in both blood and treasure, for the government to hand out bread than it is to collect pitchforks.

If there's no bread then we eat the rich.

I am

YES! Holy crap, I am so ready for that ugly toad to be gone

He backstabbed Trump. He’s really on the Democrats side. Trump supporters hate him. He’s establishment

@@MicahMicahel he... He was always establishment. Trump knew this. Everyone knew this.

the algorithm has brought us together

he was just standing by.. I mean standing down! 😂

I need bleach to wash my brain after that mental picture, lol.

I cannot unsee that now.

That is assuming that either of those can even feel love

Considering what Scaramucci said about Bannon, it might have been a solo act that spawned AG Headspread.

That's actually a good comparison.

Henry II and Thomas Becket. I hadn't even thought of it that way

If ignorance is bliss, then being lied to must feel like a balm.

Yep, even dihydrogen monoxide is a chemical.

Forms of energy, such as light and heat, are not matter, and are thus not chemicals ;)

It's really weird coming from the guy that is driving home the definition of "corruption". Do you care about the meaning of words or not, Bill?

​@@jthawks4040 and?....''every thing'' ...thing = object, light/ heat = not objects.

Forgetting jeff sessions’ existence is one of the upsides of this century.

It's a glass table, so you're seeing both the tie through the table and the reflection of the table, hence criss-cross, not diagonals

Sure, but you shouldn’t start at a position of disrespect. Police are individual human beings. They don’t deserve to be disrespected simply for choosing a career in law enforcement. That would be bigotry.

The Bull is looking mighty fine in the #BahrainGP night lights 😍🇧🇭

@@myguykaikai9215 not so much. it really depends how legitimate the laws are. sure: respecting humans is a good start-point, but ones who have dedicated their lives to the enforcement of injustice - not so much.

@@sjs9698 and who’s to judge which laws are unjust?? Average citizens? Hardly. They’re not even smart enough to spell, let alone understand legal issues. It’s not the job of law enforcement to decide which laws to ignore and which to uphold.

@@myguykaikai9215 indeed it's not. if it were they might do a better job of NOT enforcing unjust laws. judging what is just isn't so much a legal issue as an ethical/philosophical one. laws only define what is *legal* rather than what's right/wrong, after all. the center of my point here is that though police are not innately vile, they are not innately good, either. in an unjust system (like most/all on earth) they become a tool of perpetuating injustice. in a better world they'd be better. ofc given the current reality what that boils down to is that anyone who chooses to spend their lives enforcing for an unjust system has made a bad choice, misled perhaps by a belief that the world is better than it is. it's an understandable mistake, most people want to believe that justice usually happens, when ofc it very rarely does.