@@fortunatecookie very sadly true...not just rural areas too :( we live just outside of Nashville and our public schools are underfunded, and it takes the surrounding community to step up and help as much as possible. Or staff members write grants or apply for grants, etc. And how does that make sense with how much $$$ is flowing all around? Ridiculous!
The US is actually fucking terrible when it comes to international cooperation aimed at making things better for people. The list of treaties and conventions the US is either not party to, hasn’t signed, or hasn’t ratified is hilariously shameful.
what's worse is that schools aren't even doing bake sales anymore in conservative states, they straight up make children work at fast food joints like Mc Donald's for a day, and somehow this doesn't ring any alarm bells for child endangerment.
Did you say the name of my rural high school in the Midwest? I remember my father complaining about my school AND complaining about a referendum to increase its funding by slightly raising taxes.
@@Viperzka HBO has to be ok with it being available here, as it is, right? As far as I know this is an official channel, so my praise is for HBO not being greedy like for example, MSNBC and NFL, which have been putting mid-roll ads in their uploads recently.
And straight up angry (as he should be). Dude's got a lot of passion. His team knows how to nail a story every time. I guess I'm sort of comforted that there are some ppl in America (even if they're not from America haha) who still believe this place can be something truly special. Not willing to give up and let it go to shit. Good on em. Clarity seems to be getting harder to find for some ppl these days
Right now, this life we are in is exhausting. It's similar to being married to a raging drunk who bellows his anger for hours and hours when sober, only to be violent when drunk on a continuous basis. But you can't get out of the marriage for some reason because the community eliminated social services and other organizations except for the police who does not "serve and protect." You can't blame Fake News for all this bad stuff because it's real. You can't blame Trump alone because his supporters are all-in on the bad stuff like blood-thirsty sharks. Right now, it seems like evil is winning. It takes a special amount of strength to defeat this tidal wave of evil, and many of us are spent.
By the way, how on earth can one man, whatever his position may be, decide that the entire nation leaves an international program? I think the US needs to thoroughly evaluate the power of its executive branch. I mean, doesn't the congress have to agree to a decision of this magnitude?
kinda frustrating seeing people say they miss the american audience that clap and laugh over everything constantly, dividing the actual amount of content by 2. It's much more watchable like this.
Honestly it just felt more personal to me. It felt like you and Johnny were the only 2 people on Earth cuz no one else was there to provide a laugh track
I thought about being a census worker this year, but the thought of dealing with rude people at their houses gave me anxiety :/ Hopefully people weren't too bad to you.
I hope that people were be less rude when someone at the door was like "Does someone in there have Small Pox? Because we would like to help them out.", because news like that should spread like wild fire. If someone comes to your door to give you something rather than wanting to have something from you, the situation is quite different.
Honestly, this whole year has felt like we're NPCs on a winning game of Plague Inc, and I've noticed the eerie similarities since Italy shut down the first time
@@dipjyotimitra186 Literally? To be fair giving European countries money so they may buy weapons in the United States and then saying Europe should use their own money to buy weapons in the USA is a racket. Straight up and down.
@@azamkhan1526 Trump’s not Obama! Obama ran out of bombs while bombing 7 Arab nations. Trump raised the budget due to an international power race with China and the tension being at an all time high in the South China Sea. Trump is the president that has bombed less Arabs nations in 20 years trying to bring all troops back home if it weren’t for congress he’d already done it. Trump’s only US president in more than 20 yrs that has not started a new war.
Remember that famous picture of Eleanor Roosevelt naked spreading her legs? Or that infamous time Jackie Kennedy took her pants off on live TV to show everyone her whoha? All the good will and dignity of being first lady gone in an instant.
If you are interested in the WHO's eradication of smallpox, "Demon in the Freezer" is a great book to read. Really puts into perspective both the devastating effects the disease had on communities as well as the monumental effort that was needed to stamp it out of existence.
We hope it IS eradicated! The current concern is the thawing of the permafrost... and the old graves that have remained frozen in it for centuries. When indigenous people in the Arctic died of smallpox their bodies immediately froze rather than begin decomposing. As the permafrost thaws and heaves, the bodies in the old graves also thaw. Those with smallpox (Variola major) may still contain live bacteria that is will be released into the environment. WHO and the CDC don't like to talk about it, but the problem remains: Will the smallpox virus survive freezing and thawing?
It might be in fact my bets on the apocalypse sometime next year if 2020 was this bad that’s basically the only way next year can trump it (pun most definitely intended)zombies another pandemic global nuclear war or economic crash you name it but I won’t be caught with my trousers down this time I’m going preper
@@enp82003 faux news you mean? Just rewatch the us timeline. Around 2016 everything shifted, msn cnn nbc became a unifrom wave of propganda. Extremely anti american. Usa has probalems but i havent see anyone actually mention one while all this BS has gone on.
This sounds like "Why should my taxes go to paying the firefighters to put how fires in my neighbors' houses? I'll just pay my own personal firefighters to only put out fires in my house."
Completely wrong analogy. Its more like paying for yours and your neighbors' while your neighbor doesnt pay anything. Would rather hire my personal one than pay for the whole damn neighborhood.
@@siddharthkumar3704 no it’s like donating to the fire department and complaining that your neighbor doesn’t when you were the one who decided that the fire department should be funded primarily by donations. Even all that aside, 400 million a year is fucking orange peels for the US government.
Better talk to a professional firefighter before hiring "a personal fire fighter (team)". He/She might have a different view about protecting your house only - surely depending on the surroudings.
America be like: "We don't like this situation, it's horrible and unfair". 5 minutes later: "What, we created the problem in the first place? LOL let's get out of here before s**t really hits the fan".
I love how things went from the early days "The WHO is telling us about this outbreak, but it's nothing, it'll be gone, no one here will get it" to the current "The WHO didn't tell us anything, it's their fault"
@@dustyrhoads9892 Yes, in the very early beginning the WHO said there was no evidence of human to human spread, but that they wouldn't rule out the possibility either. But people heard it, dumbed it down to your post and claimed it was fact. Here's the article from January www.voanews.com/science-health/who-does-not-rule-out-human-human-spread-new-coronavirus
@andrew miller And then of course there are also the people who don't understand the difference between a theory and a *scientific* theory, and attempt to use that to discredit ongoing scientific research, such as in regards to anthropogenic global warming.
@@dustyrhoads9892 its like saying 'well scientists back in the day said the world is flat so who u are to tell me its round'. Science always evolves dude, its basic understanding.
Now that I'm having an existential crisis, do you have any recommendations as to how the F*çß I'm supposed to go to sleep so I can be up in time in the mornin'?
Yep. Learned a lot this time. Pity it was a week to late... He should do a segment, on how to get rid of the mess of a mismanaged orgy. ... a friend of mine would be interested.
With each show this year he's getting angrier and angrier, I could almost see him shaking with anger there at the end. By next season he'll just get up and punch some politicians
Also: there is no way a US based WHO equivalent would cost as little as 400 million dollars. Even if it is completely under funded, ineffectual; just there to say we have it: it's still going to cost a least a billion.
It's not just about the cost anyway. And the US wouldn't make up a whole bunch of stuff about minorities to protect these minorities from rightfully being labelled as unwell, as WHO did. I'd trust a professional US version of WHO more than WHO itself.
Time for my weekly dose of "why the world is a terrible place and how there is a way to fix it but we can't because the people in charge care more for money than the people they represent"
I understand trump is an idiot but where are his advisors? Isn't the USA a democracy - how is he able to pass such declarations like a third world dictator?
@@NyanyiC By forcing allied (to him that is) representatives into every possible seat of influence in the country so that nobody can say otherwise. Our system is basically just Honor Rules at this point and the first person to decide they don't give a damn about playing fair, wins.
History book in the 22nd century: "there was a president in the 21st century, during respiratory disease pandemic, discouraged Americans to wear mask, muzzled CDC, sidelined top epidemiologists, pulled America out of WHO, mocked voices that speak the truth, told Americans this disease is god given, kept organizing super spreader gatherings, promoted unproven medicines, pulled federal fundings out of epicenter blue states....."
History books will likely remember Trump as "That one president who accelerated climate change during the last few years in which we could reverse it, dooming us all to catastrophe". All the other horrible stuff he did will be trivia, for history buffs to whip out whenever somebody mentions how they hate past generations for failing to save our planet.
you are missing out the most important part (the one behind the "....."): "..... and so, the whole world today is very thankful to that u.s. president and errected statues to him everywhere for he gave earth a wonderful gift: a giant continental land mass nowadays completly lacking of civilization. a big space for nature to thrive without intervention of any human intelligence. i biotopia unmatched to any other part of the earth where enlightment and progress took over long time ago. thank you, mr. president!"
@@robertbogan225 I bet you investigate everything yourself so you everything you know you saw with your own eyes. Not to mention that if someone is interested in a topic he obviously cant check from other sources if the info given is true...
My friends and family at my funeral: Heaven has gained another angel! T_T Me marching into hell: WHERE THE HELL IS RONALD REAGAN!!!!!!! ((Quoting a meme here))
Every new episode John Oliver gets more and more frustrated, can't even hide it behind jokes anymore, and I relate to that so freaking hard that it hurts.
But he has a lot of material to draw from. He chose to love and live in the US. It’s a country full of colour, vigour, vitriol and venom. To borrow a line from a book I really need to finish some day “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.
@@calitaliarepublic6753 Except it's a lot more complicated then that, and he points out a lot of the factors involved. You do get complixity, right? (Because you sound like you might not).
Ahhh they didn't show the end which was about the Danbury sewer plant.. For those interested... He won!! The plant is now named "John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant" 😂
I assume the metaphor matches the theme of Last Week Tonight. We need sewage plant to process all those shit. Salute to John and team for going through all the shit for us.
Fun fact about literal pipe organs and China: “After 1949, virtually all the pipe organs in China were destroyed, many during the Cultural Revolution. And for 40 years no pipe organs were installed on the Mainland. The first pipe organ installed after the Communist victory in 1949 was the 1989 III/60 Rieger-Kloss in the Beijing Concert Hall.” Vox Humana, 11/1/20
As long as it's not embryonic research that may aid treatment towards COVID, to ONLY HIS benefit, from an outside country. Research that he and people like him and in his party reject from being done here in place for squeezing grief out of mainly women to mourn and pay for situations that already take a toll on them. Max hypocrisy, max malice and max stupidity.
Be smart America. Do the right thing today. Don’t vote based on “owning” the other side. Vote based on who you judge to have your best interests in mind. At the end of the day your particular ideology/party/tribe/whatever doesn’t matter. It comes down to health, happiness and well being for yourself and your neighbour. Who do you honestly think cares more about that for you and less about themselves?
@Erik Wesley Great, so the few people that survived will still have energy and food. The points you mentioned don't help with lowering the alarmingly high infection and death rates the US is confronted with. A properly working WHO would tho. So the priorities are very off imo.
@@masterjim666 200,000 deaths. That was the best case scenario Faucci predicted at the start. But y'all forget facts as soon as they don't support your alarmingly increasing insanity.
@Erik Wesley You are not the only food & energy independent nation on Earth. You also still rely on imported food (directly or indirectly), so i'm not sure what your point is. The pandemic has already had an impact on global economy, and like every problem that effects (global) economy, it will probably be longterm. Supercarriers are useless in a pandemic. At the moment, they're only usefull for fighting in wars in countries that the USA helped fuck over. Largest navigable waterway network in the world. Okay? Two unobstructed coasts. Okay? Largest area of arable land. Again, not much use in a pandemic
When he was talking about the orgy, he forgot about the person who has to watch people's clothes and bags. Seriously important, you don't want someone seeking off and stealing everything.
Also people who will call cabs in places where alcohol is present or valet the cars. Even smaller swing houses have about 6 to 10 staff members, between servers, patrons and security, let alone on big orgy events.
You know those Transformers movies, that was literally Reagan's fault. They removed restrictions preventing corporations from advertising directly to children. The result of this was Hasbro creating the Transformers toys by taking cars and robots, two things that kids like, and mashing them up into a toy that they could sell to kids in the form of a half-hour long commercial.
"Polio was Eradicated." "Then came the Coronavirus." "Then came a threat from President Trump." Sounds like a typical headline progression template for the last 4 years....
Todd Crispin In order to claim that that an entire hospital is in on a conspiracy to lie about the test results, this requires some substantial evidence.
@@Lyxtwa Exactly... people just crave conspiracies, but never realize the implication. I don't think "governments" are smart enough to pull conspiracies like that, they all have their head stuck up each others ass looking for more money to grab for themselves. They're not going to waste money on paying off regular doctors who probably make enough money on standby, compared to what they could possibly lie about for a guy who's going to be in power for at most 8 years, their "party" at most 20? yeah such stupid conspiracies are just retarded.
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, “ Jan 2020 from The WHO 🤣
@@peterweller8583 They can go back to making fun of less dramatic issues. Sadly as the numbers of ignorant idiots grow and vote for ignorant populists it will only get worse.
That in many ways seems to be Europe's approach. Even though Europe is going through a second wave now, it's worth thinking about Europe's plans for a post-coronavirus world. Found a pretty good analysis that looks into the future prospects of the EU after the pandemic: th-cam.com/video/cWlxMBYUauI/w-d-xo.html Well worth a watch.
It's a good quote yeah. Also; who would've thought that (one of) the least prepared countries would be the US ?! But with the Orange Troll at the helm, it's no surprise.
'We,' being humanity. And 'worst prepared country,' being the United States of America. Might have been worth noting that we have more confirmed cases AND deaths than nations with 4x our population size. Literally.
While it's true that withdrawing from the WHO is a bad move, It's also true that the WHO is China's lapdog. They have been for years. The top dog of the WHO, the Director-General, was Margaret Chan, who was also the Chinese delegate from 2006 - 2017. During this period, the WHO became increasingly vocal in their endorsements of traditional chinese medicines. That's right, the traditional chinese medicines that are driving illegal wildlife trade and putting so many species in danger. The TCM that is rooted in superstition, and not scientific observation. The TCM that has repeated shown to be no more effective then placebo. Curiously, the WHO doesn't support other forms of alternative medicine, like homeotheraphy. Only TCM gets a free pass. Because China. Someone needs to wrest control of the WHO from China. Preferably someone other than the US.
It seems as if drumph is actively dismantling every organization that is put in place to save lives and or make lives better, and trying to tarnish America's already shakey image. Almost like it's a plan by some anti American dictator who wants to subvert democracy around the world (Putin).
I love how someone threw Kevin Spacey on the Sonic the Hedgehog movie poster with the subtitle "Run away...as FAST as you can." Give that person a raise! :D
I love when Trump is talking about how much the government spends on WHO when his golf outings have cost American taxpayers 140-300 million dollars. Trump playing golf has cost at least 140 million dollars in travel expenses alone in the 3.5 years he has been in office.
Think about it this way: Every penny that isn't spent on (useful) stuff, can be taken by Trump to fund his own (selfish) projects. If I was in his position I'd like to have all the money at my disposal aswell. #defundhospitalsfundgolf
@Tien Hoang Right. He is $400 million in debt! And he holds meetings at his resorts and even has military personnel staying at his hotels so he can milk money from the government.
start getting used to saying "the 2020s" instead of "2020", because no one is gonna yell "prank'd" one january 1st. this isnt a bad year. this is a bad time.
Supposedly a vaccine won't be available until summer 2021. IF that's successful, death rates go down, and businesses can open... then we're going to be dealing with the economic fallout of long-term unemployment, small business failure, evictions, etc. It's going to take a few years to economically recover from the pandemic. 2020 is just the start.
THANK YOU for the brief history lesson on WHO funding and the Reagan Administration. (I'd like to say every monologue of yours feels like a "deep dive," but really that IS how credible journalism reads! We should expect no less.) I always appreciate the reminders of the recent past, because I know my own best defense against being susceptible to faulty or propagandistic ideas depends on how well I actually know what happened before. Short attention spans provide fertile ground for the planting of falsehoods.
the WHO said that the SarsCov2 will infect about 70% of the global population and will kill about 3,5% of those infected within 2 years; til xmas 2021. *_THAT WOULD'VE BEEN 200-220 MILLION TERRANS AND WE'RE @ 1 MILLION NOW AT THE HALFTIME_*
@@Dichtsau FIRST>>>WHO actually predicted what will happen if nothing is done to prevent spread of this virus, we TERRANS actually DO HAVE some measures to slow spread of the virus and we use them...SECOND>>>>are you actually complaining because more people did not die??????????????????? You know, only psychopath will be disappointed at low numbers of dead people...
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear zoe
They are responsible though. They were the ones saying there is no human-to-human transmission while the whole of east Asia knew there is. 🤮 We’ve tried to warn the rest of the world, but it was regarded as fake news and racist.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio which paralyzed him from the waist down. He would often make public appearances being propped up by other people to show a false sense of wellness. *Now imagine if he had, during those speeches, said "We are pulling out of the World Health Organization because, as you can see from me standing here, polio is totally harmless."*
There are actually questions about polio and paralysis. The major issue is there is no historical record of childhood paralysis prior to the mid 19th century, and its emergence paralleled vast innovations in the use of insecticides such as paris green or lead arsenate. Roosevelt's paralysis when he was visiting New Brunswick, and just a few months before, calcium arsenate had been introduced into the province. It's not hard to extrapolate that there was a huge pesticide bonanza during the second world war (witness DDT - only one of many new wartime chemicals) and that coincided with the "outbreak" of child paralysis. The 1911 experiment by Flexner supposedly proving a polio virus caused paralysis is seriously lacking - and it's impossible to tell whether he was working with what was later identified as the polio virus because the electron microscope hadn't been invented (nor was it invented at the time Roosevelt came down with Polio). Let's put it this way: very powerful chemical companies and agribusiness interests with ties to the military want to use industrial products they know can but rarely causes paralysis. Suddenly everyone believes "it's a virus." Either that, or a poisoning-paralysis case is routinely and frequently misdiagnosed as being caused by a very rare virus that just happens to be in the news because there's a "March of Dimes" P/R campaign so it's the first thing on most doctor's minds. Well, now you don't have to worry about the goverment banning your product...sounds farfetched, but in 1952, one of Jonas Salk's researchers Irwin Ekswith succeeded in reversing a case of childhood "polio" paralysis with dimercaprol - a detox substance. All the work was buried by the Public Health Service ...
@@WhatACoolArrow Leaders have to show some strength and continuity, or otherwise people would lose confidence. Voters, after all, always take into consideration the health of a politician.
@Pale Alejandro The sheer stupidity let loose and now rampant in the world today is officially no longer funny. Things have become dire, we are letting our evolutionary monkey show. 10 jokes in that statement, but nothing remotely funny about it.
That last minute is LITERALLY my view on Brexit... Why shut yourself off from such an important organisation that can be massively helpful, especially during a global pandemic...
The EU’s handling of the pandemic hasn’t been brilliant. I seem to remember that there was a huge kerfuffle over the stimulus package and Poland have just recently vetoed it. Also, we are still technically involved if we get a trade deal. We’re not shutting ourselves off, we’re dealing with them from the outside instead of the inside.
@@jamiengo2343 you realise the irony in what you just said don't you? Dealing with something from the outside instead of the inside is not a good thing...
I keep noticing that anytime the Republican party has a problem with something these days the solution they put forward is never to FIX that problem, it's to just give up or destroy whatever happens to have that problem. It's like he's not a strong enough president to actually fix any of the problems he's bringing up and the only tool he has is to take his toys and go home.
He doesn't actually care about any of America's problems and cares even less about the world's issues. To Donald Trump the only issue he cares about is if he's making more money and putting in less work to do it. As long as he gets his doses of rally's where people cheer at him to keep his ego boosted he doesn't care about anything else in the entire world beyond being reelected now to keep him shielded from all the crimes he's committed in office and before he was elected. Donald only cares about himself. He only has contempt for any other human being. He only even likes his family because they share his last name and are completely loyal, but I highly doubt he's even capable of actual love.
Yep. The republicans had 12 years to come up with a healthcare plan but turned up with nothing to replace the ACA, even though they planned on repealing it.
Of course. Republicans are looking for easy wins or at least creating the illusion of winning. It's the same thing he did about Israel-Palestine as well. He single handedly took the decision about Jerusalem and then told the two countries that "Jerusalem is off the table. Now you two decide." Anything that's too complicated to understand, he just blows the whole thing up and the dumb MAGA crowd cheers because they see huge explosions. They don't realize that these explosions are their international relationships blowing up in their faces.
Fun fact: the WHO is a continuation of the health committee of the League of Nations, which was basically the only part of the League that managed to do anything.
@J LA Don't rely on a "leader", on a single figure to keep you all safe and sound. It is YOU who has the abilities to make a good life possible. It is YOU who can promote solidarity. It is YOU who can provide housing, food, education and healthcare for everyone. It is YOU - the working class people. The people that actually do the hard work. The overtime. The extra days, weeks months of work. The people that create the world you live in. The people that get robbed of the value of their work. That get treated like mere tools. That get forced into giving away most of their lifetime in exchange for never enough resources to become independent. The people that are forced to except existential threat as normal. Topple this old, rotten system and build something new - from the people for the people. You don't need any elite to tell you how little you deserve to have. You don't need to MAKE a living - you deserve to PROVIDE a living. For everyone.
@Murican Ignorance I find it absolutely hilarious and horrible at the same time. Holarious? Anyway yeah, Americas position as leader of the free world is not a gods given right (even though some people seem to think so) but a result of tireless diplomatics and it's hilarous to see all that go to waste. What is not hilarous is seeing other players like China fill that diplomacy void.
As someone who spent years working in Africa, I can tell you that we have simply replicated a standard African government here, and yet the crazy thing is, in all the shit i have seen African leaders do, not a single one can be held directly responsible for spreading disease among their own people let alone being responsible for such a large number of deaths. I am ...confused!
@@amberdeyuliis7886 ... What do you think our presidents/country was like BEFORE trump? Even John, in this very segment, talks about horrific Reagan and the CIA was.
Whenever John Oliver does a segment like this and it ends in complete silence after just shouting in frustration to the camera, theres always this really eerie vibe tht things are actually going to get worst if the ppl watching dont do something about it. Its freaky but defenitely needed.
Imagine how less impactful many of those videos would have been if they were filmed in front of a laughing audience like before. This seriousness of that grey, silent background is what this show needed.
@@larryhoover2541 It’s a global platform , the show is syndicated around the world so yes he has as much say as you and can say what he likes or don’t you believe in free speech ?
I know I will be lost among the thousands, but shout-out to the graphics department. You folx are Photoshop masters, those orgy pics were perfect. You knock it out of the irreverent graphics park everytime!
Thank you very much for including English subtitles on this video. Will you continue that trend? It's very useful for non-native English speakers who would like to enjoy Last Week Tonight's content!
I assume they will as long as theyre able to. At this point accessibility is becoming normal. Only issue is, youtube as a platform is dicussing removing the feature because fuck us with disabilities/non native speakers. According to yt only 3% of users use it... therefore... they wanna remove it even though its volunteer user work.
@@jenniferhundley148 Every human being has an accent, why do Americans always say this especially when it comes to English when the English originated the language, it just sounds dumb.
@@unamartin3640 look up the history of the English language accents it's fascinating. Basically English people change the way they spoke because of royalty and wanting to sound like them and Americans didn't change it
"The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is the fundamental right of every human being" -Opening paragraph of the WHO charter. The United States was a signatory on that document, in 1946
@Zuma Zuma I mean, changing last names upon coming to America is fairly common. My history from senior year once told us how he got his last name, Elsaesser. Apparently his ancestor came to the US, and when asked about his name, the US official couldn’t understand it and just asked him where he was from. He responded with “I’m from Alsace” (a region at the Franco-German border which changed hands many times, written “Elsass” in German), to which the official told him that his name would be Elsaess from now on. Oh, and of course there’s a certain family, not sure if you’ve heard of them, who came to the US around the beginning of the 20th century and changed their original family name of “Drumpf” to smg else...
@@snuffeldjuret Yes, because at this point human rights, healthcare, and stopping the spread of deadly viruses is a partisan issue now. Why are you even here?
@@Sivah_AkashIndia is a huge part of WHO with soumya swaminathan on the top seat. but i feel it gets more challenging with the economics vs population when dealing with a pandemic.
@@sriramsankar8958, yup. So are you saying India has difficulty contributing much to WHO because of its economic situation. Sorry if I misunderstood you.
I just had a mental image of the poor graphics guy who did the squirrel pic's GF walking into the room when he was working on it, and him having to say "It's for work! Honest!"
Now, THAT is one disturbing mental image... It is true, but still disturbing. Please excuse me while I go laugh hysterically at that awesome observation!
I was thinking about how like...there are countries right now not being tormented by constantly escalating madness every single day. I literally have a hard time imagining it right now. Partially because I miss that so much.
Trump is merely the face of the most evil aspects of America and they won’t go away with Biden in office. The only way to stop this country from further descent into madness is to kill it at the source (The GOP).
Tucker Carlson having a segment called "Propaganda Machine" is one of the most ironic things I've seen all year. Are you trying to tell us something, Tucker?
Tucker carlson is nothing but a angry little puppet. He looks like he'd be driving around in a van with Trump, Steven miller with Eric driving hunched over the wheel and looking for kids to give candy to. All of them with creepy smiles on their worn out faces.... Whitehouse full of idiots that don't care about the majority of the country.
You think tucker Carlson and fox news has the same power as big tech and about 5 other main stream media stations. Getting banned off twitter for wrong think is the easiest thing ever. Twitter and Facebook are both lefty lovers. And some of fox news is even starting to lean a little left.
@@deathstarwontsaveyou9892 You kidding? Facebook facilitates far-right groups and allows them to organize meetups that have led to people being killed.
To be fair, that's basically how politics work. Trump's merely got his own special extra-vocal brand of it. And it works, in a way: his fans adore it, and his opponents can't do any real work because they've got their hands full discrediting the junk Trump smears all over the place.
@@zJoriz Kinda true. Maybe I'm still stuck in some kind of dated idealism which does no longer exist in politics, which would go for something like "let's find a solution together". Or it's because I'm an engineer: Problem->find solution. Politics: Problem? first Ignore, then blame someone else, someone else finds a solution: take credit for it. Trump brought the art of expressing this paradigm to a new peak. In a way, he reached perfection lol
@@sonowa-unreal I mean here in Europe it is closer to that (I’m not saying that our politics is perfect, but the current state of US politics is absolutely horrifying to me).
@@sonowa-unreal It's cause you're an engineer. As someone who's in school to become one and thinks in that way constantly, partisan politics is incredibly annoying. Just the other day, my doctor said I should get some blood testing done to figure out a health issue I've been having, but since I'm in college and my parent's insurance likely doesn't reach all the way to me, my options are no testing or drive 4 hours round trip for some simple tests that could prove to be very important. All this while our political climate grinds everything to a halt, and it would be so much easier and probably cheaper if healthcare was a unified, government-run program that can work around the country. Nobody should have to consider cost with medical care, but here we are
You're thinking in the right direction. But to compare the "walking away" from supporting and profiting from the WHO against Brexit is like comparing an itching after a mosquito bite to feeling the organ failure after infecting with ebola virus. I find it kind of sad and funny (not living in the US and done with being worried of gov.-shit), how the US gov. is very good at digging the economical or medical graves for their people... ...but as he said... if the US doesn't catch up to other countries in fighting Corona (US has much more struggle in fighting it than EU if you look at the death statistics) they will become kind of the global version of the "disease super spreader kid in school, whos parents don't vaccinate their children, because they read something on twitter or facebook. So everyone wants to isolate from their stupidity, that they themselves don't acknowledge (in terms of health care). But look at their health care system xD They are so fucking greedy, that they don't get it. Only if everyone has health care to get help, when they have an contagious disease, you get saver. It's not like you can built a wall around poor people to isolate from them. or can you ? (kappa)
You have a brain use it, start with looking at the head of WHO and what China is doing in his country then look at the last head of WHO and do the rabbit hole you go. And I will not even start with what the EU have been doing to the UK
@@sarahwilliams755 Entertain me .. what has the EU done to your country? You really MUST be able to name a huge amount if it sounds like such a big deal..
It's amazing that in a world where murder is universally seen as a criminal act, that a man who is openly trying to kill an entire country isn't in jail?
Hearing the complaints "we pay so much money to this international organisation - let's use that to fund our own health institution" sounded awfully familiar to me.
@@taflo1981 Not to mention using that money to fund anything health related in the US is a complete joke when a single hospital can have a budget into the billions of dollars price range.
Hi, I'm the CIA You may remember me from such films as "Who's this guy governing people on top of our oil?" "Snack Wars: Revenge of the fruit company" "Arming afghans to fight russia? What could go wrong?" "Hey, Where is all this cocaine coming from?" "A dictator still has the weapons that we gave him" "Moderate rebels: A confusing love story"
Snack wars... when we literally invaded Guatemala because of Big Fruit Company... the people now know as Chiquita banana... and before that we put pro America dictator in charge of Cuba in another coup...
Yeah, he's not having to pause for reactions, and I think he tends to speed up the angrier he gets (who doesn't?) and since he records these alone, there's no one to tell him to slow down and he may not watch back before sending the recordings onto the editors.
I really dig the no audience thing-- there are more jokes, the pace is faster and you aren't prompted to laugh by an audience since the jokes all have to stand up by themselves. Hopefully they never bring the audience back.
Oh good, it’s my favorite show, sad bad news with constipated British man For real though I get hyped for this to come out on TH-cam every week. Since I’m not paying for HBO Max lol
This guy should've stayed in Britain instead of going to the country he hates the most to thrash and destroy it like a traitor. Defending despicable groups such as BLM. Berating every footstep taken by Trump. These sort of individuals would do better off jailed.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 I don't like the fact that Oliver is lying about the WHO and it's involvement in the CCP, but the fact of the matter is that we should try to work with them to make things better instead of running away every time something doesn't go our way... China is flooding poor countries with debt and communist ideologies and we need to do something to stop it, while protecting the health of the world, not just letting those evil sons of bitches, get away with it
now wait.. are you figuratively sick of it or literally sick of it? My English prof said the definition of a word is based on how actual people use it, not what the dictionary says. Does 2+2=5 yet or is math immune to this reasoning?
I've been binge watching this show for the pass week now, and I can't even tell if John is reading from a teleprompter or its just him just really expressing himself.
It's incredible how the reputation of the US has gone down the drain over the decades. I still remember the stories from my dad and how the US soldiers brought chocolate after WW2 (I'm from Germany). So even though they just fought a friggin' war against us (where they ultimately saved us from a crazy dictator) they still brought some chocolate afterwards! I mean, sure - the US did a lot wrong over the years - but at some point in time they at least were considered the good guys. And now everyone is just laughing, cringing or flinching when they hear about the US (at least for all the non-US people I know from around the world) - in the worst case scenario they are even very afraid. So Trump is by no means responsible for all or even most of this ... but he made sure that the already bad image of the US is now set in stone and tainted for decades to come. He is the pinnacle of the development the US has gone through over the years. And he made sure that the US will probably go down in the history books as the most stupid nation. And all of this is so sad. Despite all my prejudices I meet so many nice people from there. But aside from that - politically I'd argue that the US is pretty much dead to the world from this point forward. No leadership, no help and especially no trust anymore. And all of this is made visible by stupid decisions like this: Basically defunding the WHO for some imaginary political gain, losing the last bits of credibility the US had left in the world. This will go down in the history books for sure. But I'd rather not and instead get the trust for the US back up. But quite frankly I don't see how this could happen. This is a bleak future and I feel very depressed. Thanks John for making this episode!
Ye Im an American living in Florida myself, we either have a fascist(trump) or a corporate puppet(biden) who believes he can bring us back to brunch. Either way, the american people are being raked over the coals here and theres really nothing we can do here. Neither wants to do any kind of reform that would at the very their citizens and their quality of life here. So believe me when I say this country is fucked and theres not a goddamm I or any of us Americans can do stop it.
@@silverybound dont forget that the CIA is cause of the crack/cocaine epidemic in America, buying tons and tons of the shit and dispersing it into the country.
@@frankpoposojo lol, how is Trump fascist? By defunding a corrupt coorpoeate organization? Is that what fascists do? It would seem to me that John loves that sweet Dem funding love that all the other corporate media loves sucking on... whatever Trumps doing, doesnt seem like something a fascist would do
Frankly, Trump is the president the American people deserve. They lie in a bed of their own making, and were it not for how dangerous they are to the rest of the world, I'd have no thoughts to spare for their plight.
Why take the fire engines away in the middle of fighting the fire? Because the fire chief has an ego as fragile as an egg and one of the houses burning belongs to a neighbor he suspects borrowed his weed whacker and never actually returned it. That's pretty much it and it's depressing that the rest of the world sees half the country cheering that man on.
Though it's much MUCH _MUCH_ worse! He is taking them away, because he failed to respond to the fire (because that would have been work) and now needs someone else to blame and act strong and distract from the fact that he didn't do anything of substance for the last year fighting the pandemic, the last 4 years of being POTUS and technically his entire life.
While I agree with most of what was said about how to handle WHO's apparent biases towards China, there's two very important, and very big things Oliver did not mention that I feel need mentioned: 1. WHO did know the extent of the virus much earlier than they when they started providing recommendations. It's not a coincidence that they knew weeks before Chinese New Year, where literally hundreds of millions of people travel in China, and waited until AFTER Chinese New Year to raise the alert. 2. WHO's lack of willingness to acknowledge Taiwan has gone so far as when asked about whether or not they would recommend using the measurers in Taiwan (which has had 0 local cases for months now), the representative stated that he "already discussed China". When corrected that they were asking about Taiwan, hung up the call, then called back, then pretended to not hear it, then ended the call again. This is WHO acting like a child, because instead of creating recommendations that are proven to work, they would rather protect China's feelings (who as Oliver has shown CAN'T EVEN LEAVE WHO),
Like the tiny Marshall Islands who now has to take care of all the nuclear wasteland the U.S. military testing left behind in their tiny budget country
@@derphysiker1757 To be honest, ever since the Sikes-Picot agreement, it has been a mess there, so I would say Britain and France started it and the US just took over
@darknightoftroy dark, nobody here has mentioned the citizenry in particular, foreigners mentioning the united states usually refer to the government or military. That said, you may choose to distance yourself from the concept of the USA as a broad term (nobody can blame you for being born anywhere) but you can't chose to distance yourself from the ugly and still keep being a "proud american". People who are "proud americans" but chose to turn a blind eye to all the atrocities are just hypocrites.
“Underfunding a public school and expecting a bake sale to make up the difference” Yikes that one got me in the rural America.
Yeah that’s not a metaphor, that’s just what happens 😂 😅
@@fortunatecookie very sadly true...not just rural areas too :( we live just outside of Nashville and our public schools are underfunded, and it takes the surrounding community to step up and help as much as possible. Or staff members write grants or apply for grants, etc. And how does that make sense with how much $$$ is flowing all around? Ridiculous!
The US is actually fucking terrible when it comes to international cooperation aimed at making things better for people. The list of treaties and conventions the US is either not party to, hasn’t signed, or hasn’t ratified is hilariously shameful.
what's worse is that schools aren't even doing bake sales anymore in conservative states, they straight up make children work at fast food joints like Mc Donald's for a day, and somehow this doesn't ring any alarm bells for child endangerment.
Did you say the name of my rural high school in the Midwest? I remember my father complaining about my school AND complaining about a referendum to increase its funding by slightly raising taxes.
Can we appreciate getting these segments in full, uninterrupted by ads?
Damn straight.
@@Viperzka HBO has to be ok with it being available here, as it is, right?
As far as I know this is an official channel, so my praise is for HBO not being greedy like for example, MSNBC and NFL, which have been putting mid-roll ads in their uploads recently.
@@staomruel Yea, Sorry, I misread you. I hadn't noticed the lack of ads. NVM, you're right.
I delete my comment in shame.
@@Viperzka no worries dude, I didn't take your comment as an attack.
@E Z noone said they weren't, just expressing appreciation for not grabbing every possible penny.
Ah I look forward to my weekly bad news
Me too
shoo, checkmark
yes
Its my favorite thing in this bad bad world
@@calabiyau9269 lmao I was just thinking that
"this whole mess is almost entirely america's fault. back in the 1980's the reagan administration-" yeah that sounds about right
Exactly what they’ll say about the trump administration down the road 😬 love it
@@rachelbelanger4726 optimistic to think Trump will leave a world after
@@venom_colada1512 I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe lol because it’s true
I heard that and actually groaned out loud. I said "thanks for fucking it up for the rest of us America".
I heard that and actually groaned out loud. I said "thanks for fucking it up for the rest of us America".
Poor John Oliver, for a while now, at the end of each episode he looks and sounds quite exhausted, thank you Lastweektonight team.
Seems like it's directly proportional to the number of times he drops the F bomb
And straight up angry (as he should be). Dude's got a lot of passion. His team knows how to nail a story every time. I guess I'm sort of comforted that there are some ppl in America (even if they're not from America haha) who still believe this place can be something truly special. Not willing to give up and let it go to shit. Good on em. Clarity seems to be getting harder to find for some ppl these days
Right now, this life we are in is exhausting. It's similar to being married to a raging drunk who bellows his anger for hours and hours when sober, only to be violent when drunk on a continuous basis. But you can't get out of the marriage for some reason because the community eliminated social services and other organizations except for the police who does not "serve and protect." You can't blame Fake News for all this bad stuff because it's real. You can't blame Trump alone because his supporters are all-in on the bad stuff like blood-thirsty sharks. Right now, it seems like evil is winning. It takes a special amount of strength to defeat this tidal wave of evil, and many of us are spent.
@@conorobrien1025 well said. I look forward to John's shows every week. I, sometimes, go back and listen again.
“And I mean that... fucking literally.”
Gotta give John Oliver props for holding this show together without an audience.
And he does so better than anyone else. John doesn't need an audience.
👍
Holding it together. Bro he's literally the goat.
Forgot there was ever an audience
Honestly, It's better without the "wooooo" and "hahhahah" in the background
By the way, how on earth can one man, whatever his position may be, decide that the entire nation leaves an international program? I think the US needs to thoroughly evaluate the power of its executive branch. I mean, doesn't the congress have to agree to a decision of this magnitude?
We really should have an amendment that decrees that violating international agreements is _immediate_ grounds for dismissal, AT LEAST impeachment.
I thought congress is in charge of funding. If they say "give 400m to WHO", what basis does the president have to say "nope"!?
@@CrippldCrip
Low energy? Like someone who has to ride a golf cart nearly everywhere?
@@FriedrichHerschel All the right, apparently, if Congress abdicates that power to live out their authoritarian fantasy camp.
@@kurisu7885 it's bait
This show is 10x more serious without an audience
I agree. The lack of a laughing audience makes it super unnerving.
makes me sad
kinda frustrating seeing people say they miss the american audience that clap and laugh over everything constantly, dividing the actual amount of content by 2. It's much more watchable like this.
the void has that power
Honestly it just felt more personal to me. It felt like you and Johnny were the only 2 people on Earth cuz no one else was there to provide a laugh track
As a census worker, I cannot tell you how much work it takes to visit every house. Especially if some people don’t want you to visit...
I thought about being a census worker this year, but the thought of dealing with rude people at their houses gave me anxiety :/ Hopefully people weren't too bad to you.
Emily B. I would actually enjoy being a census work, I enjoy pissing people off
I hope that people were be less rude when someone at the door was like "Does someone in there have Small Pox? Because we would like to help them out.", because news like that should spread like wild fire. If someone comes to your door to give you something rather than wanting to have something from you, the situation is quite different.
But if you are well paid by the people who actually wants you to then you do it right?
A job that took work? What kinda upside down world is this
“America leaves WHO” sounds like a news broadcast form Plague Inc.
I think it is one.
Plague Inc. showed where the Pandemic would start in their release trailer.
it's almost sad that so many different tv shows (streaming now on everything) have predicted this a long time ago, like if was just all a joke then..
Honestly, this whole year has felt like we're NPCs on a winning game of Plague Inc, and I've noticed the eerie similarities since Italy shut down the first time
PLAGUE INC LIED TO ME, IT SAID INFECTION WOULD SPREAD SLOWLY IN USA
I want my money back
John: “There’s no provision for a member to leave...”
Me: Oh good.
John: “With one exception, that being the United States.”
Me: OH FOR FU-
Weird that no one's ever brought that up...
Same.
Well expected, this just one of the perks of USA.
None of you can do this, I am an exception though!
Wonder why other countries are pissed off?
@@yuurishibuya4797 The US is chauvanistic.
United States in general has a leadership issue, starting with unlimited term limits
The US Military uses up $2 Billion a day- its total budget, $740 Billion.
wow... most of that money goes to bomb and destabilise d muslim world
That's one of the good ways of spending money as promotes general peace
Although, US literally subsidises European defense. Europe should do more.
@@dipjyotimitra186 Literally? To be fair giving European countries money so they may buy weapons in the United States and then saying Europe should use their own money to buy weapons in the USA is a racket. Straight up and down.
Most of that is just a front to funnel funds out of the treasury to the hands of the military industrial complex.
@@azamkhan1526 Trump’s not Obama! Obama ran out of bombs while bombing 7 Arab nations. Trump raised the budget due to an international power race with China and the tension being at an all time high in the South China Sea. Trump is the president that has bombed less Arabs nations in 20 years trying to bring all troops back home if it weren’t for congress he’d already done it. Trump’s only US president in more than 20 yrs that has not started a new war.
Glad that John is highlighting that Melania is not ‘innocent’ and actually is complicit.
m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/9/dan-savage-anti-bullying-activist-slams-melania-tr/
th-cam.com/video/KYUHihDAYBw/w-d-xo.html
Of course that clay faced woman is complicit.
Remember that famous picture of Eleanor Roosevelt naked spreading her legs? Or that infamous time Jackie Kennedy took her pants off on live TV to show everyone her whoha? All the good will and dignity of being first lady gone in an instant.
It's a long-established tenant of chauvinism to blame wives for their husband's Behavior.
Is it just me or does his theme song now cause some level of anxiety? Every time I hear it I think "what new fresh horrors will we discuss today?"
L I T E R A L L Y
lets find a funny person maybe?
Hehehehhe! Going back several seasons it used to be my ringtone. Now I'm like oh what now... Another dictatorship? Another genocide..
You're almost there. Keep asking questions.
@@nmarbletoe8210 try Benny Hill, I bet he's right up your alley,
If you are interested in the WHO's eradication of smallpox, "Demon in the Freezer" is a great book to read. Really puts into perspective both the devastating effects the disease had on communities as well as the monumental effort that was needed to stamp it out of existence.
Remember the debates over destroying remaining samples at the hot labs at CDC Atlanta and Vestra Moscow.
Richard Preston's whole oeuvre is well worth the time. Great books all.
great book!
We hope it IS eradicated!
The current concern is the thawing of the permafrost... and the old graves that have remained frozen in it for centuries. When indigenous people in the Arctic died of smallpox their bodies immediately froze rather than begin decomposing. As the permafrost thaws and heaves, the bodies in the old graves also thaw. Those with smallpox (Variola major) may still contain live bacteria that is will be released into the environment.
WHO and the CDC don't like to talk about it, but the problem remains: Will the smallpox virus survive freezing and thawing?
@@krisaaron5771 Finally someone mentioned that. Given the global warming, it's a bigger deal by the year.
If this year doesn’t end soon, John will just punch the camera.
Lmao
We’re almost there guys the clocks ticking
What makes you think 2021 won't be worse?
Let's not forget, we thought 2016 was bad.
It might be in fact my bets on the apocalypse sometime next year if 2020 was this bad that’s basically the only way next year can trump it (pun most definitely intended)zombies another pandemic global nuclear war or economic crash you name it but I won’t be caught with my trousers down this time I’m going preper
He didn't punched the camera, he blew up 2020
I love how John let's us watch the most important part of his show online for free. Many thanks!
You cant miss your dose of propaganda.
@@robertbogan225 Yeah but I don't watch fox news much.
@@enp82003 faux news you mean? Just rewatch the us timeline. Around 2016 everything shifted, msn cnn nbc became a unifrom wave of propganda. Extremely anti american. Usa has probalems but i havent see anyone actually mention one while all this BS has gone on.
@@robertbogan225 There's something wrong with your brain.
@@robertbogan225 k
I’m calling it, by the end of 2020 we will have somehow left the EU
And probably Earth.
@@aurtisanminer2827 No, that would require funding NASA.
@@phin422 dam son
🤣
@@phin422 BRUH
This sounds like "Why should my taxes go to paying the firefighters to put how fires in my neighbors' houses? I'll just pay my own personal firefighters to only put out fires in my house."
The terrible thing is that I could see that argument being used.
Completely wrong analogy. Its more like paying for yours and your neighbors' while your neighbor doesnt pay anything. Would rather hire my personal one than pay for the whole damn neighborhood.
@@imperatormaximus8952 it already is. By libertarians
@@siddharthkumar3704 no it’s like donating to the fire department and complaining that your neighbor doesn’t when you were the one who decided that the fire department should be funded primarily by donations. Even all that aside, 400 million a year is fucking orange peels for the US government.
Better talk to a professional firefighter before hiring "a personal fire fighter (team)". He/She might have a different view about protecting your house only - surely depending on the surroudings.
America be like: "We don't like this situation, it's horrible and unfair".
5 minutes later: "What, we created the problem in the first place? LOL let's get out of here before s**t really hits the fan".
I love how things went from the early days "The WHO is telling us about this outbreak, but it's nothing, it'll be gone, no one here will get it" to the current "The WHO didn't tell us anything, it's their fault"
They literally said it wasn’t able to transmit between humans lol
@@dustyrhoads9892 Yes, in the very early beginning the WHO said there was no evidence of human to human spread, but that they wouldn't rule out the possibility either. But people heard it, dumbed it down to your post and claimed it was fact.
Here's the article from January www.voanews.com/science-health/who-does-not-rule-out-human-human-spread-new-coronavirus
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8199719/Dr-Tedros-Ghebreyesus-career-politician-running-China-centric-WHO.html
@andrew miller And then of course there are also the people who don't understand the difference between a theory and a *scientific* theory, and attempt to use that to discredit ongoing scientific research, such as in regards to anthropogenic global warming.
@@dustyrhoads9892 its like saying 'well scientists back in the day said the world is flat so who u are to tell me its round'. Science always evolves dude, its basic understanding.
I was gonna go to bed, now I’m gonna stay up and have an existential crisis
That seems reasonable, considering that our president is a clear and present danger to our existence. Sweet dreams;-)
You and Biden both after the laptop got revealed😼🇺🇸💜💰
You too?!
Same
Now that I'm having an existential crisis, do you have any recommendations as to how the F*çß I'm supposed to go to sleep so I can be up in time in the mornin'?
I miss the days when John was happy and made jokes and broadcast his thirst for Adam Driver.
He started being thirsty for Adam Driver when the pandemic started so as far as I'm concerned it's all Adam Driver's fault
Waxed Squirrel Nuts felt like a callback to Mr. Nutter Butter
@@TorreFernand he definitely gets that done...
For squirrel porn probably. It pays the bills. Unlike working for Bob Murray
@@gkm2928 Which is ironic, considering a lot of squirrel-porn is made on direct behalf of Mr. Murray.
The Adam Driver thing was a bit too sexual-harassmenty.
God I love this guy. He explains complex issues with humor and intellect and you come out of it understanding so much more.
I love how educational Last Week Tonight is.
I never knew orgy management was such a complicated issue.
Truly enlightening, right? Gotta appreciate the orgy managers more.
Yep. Learned a lot this time.
Pity it was a week to late...
He should do a segment, on how to get rid of the mess of a mismanaged orgy.
... a friend of mine would be interested.
@@robertnett9793 Hope everyone was using protection.
Wouldn't want to attend a social gathering without your facemask.
By educational you mean propaganda mind control
@@huntercrook7306 you seem to be talking about yourself. Get a reality check
With each show this year he's getting angrier and angrier, I could almost see him shaking with anger there at the end.
By next season he'll just get up and punch some politicians
Id pay extra to watch that.
I'm getting angrier just watching this
acting
Yes. I would pay for that...
Many are. Seth Meyers gets really steamed.
Also: there is no way a US based WHO equivalent would cost as little as 400 million dollars. Even if it is completely under funded, ineffectual; just there to say we have it: it's still going to cost a least a billion.
This was my very first thought as well. However, I suspect that your billion estimate is probably very very low.
Honestly the idea to get advice about health stuff from the US made me laugh. Thanks but no thanks!
It's not just about the cost anyway. And the US wouldn't make up a whole bunch of stuff about minorities to protect these minorities from rightfully being labelled as unwell, as WHO did. I'd trust a professional US version of WHO more than WHO itself.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 What are you even trying to say. 🤨
And given that a single hospital in the US runs at about 2.4B per year, I'd say this US based thing would cost nothing south of 5B
I'm continually surprised by how often I can get reliable information from an owl in a suit.
Time for my weekly dose of "why the world is a terrible place and how there is a way to fix it but we can't because the people in charge care more for money than the people they represent"
Accurate title, but a bit wordy.
I understand trump is an idiot but where are his advisors? Isn't the USA a democracy - how is he able to pass such declarations like a third world dictator?
Sounds about right yeah. 😒😒😠🤬
@@NyanyiC Oh, he has advisors, but just like his sons Don Jr. and Eric, he doesn’t particularly care about them.
@@NyanyiC By forcing allied (to him that is) representatives into every possible seat of influence in the country so that nobody can say otherwise. Our system is basically just Honor Rules at this point and the first person to decide they don't give a damn about playing fair, wins.
History book in the 22nd century: "there was a president in the 21st century, during respiratory disease pandemic, discouraged Americans to wear mask, muzzled CDC, sidelined top epidemiologists, pulled America out of WHO, mocked voices that speak the truth, told Americans this disease is god given, kept organizing super spreader gatherings, promoted unproven medicines, pulled federal fundings out of epicenter blue states....."
#agenda21
“This was the beginning of the end for the United States”
History books will likely remember Trump as "That one president who accelerated climate change during the last few years in which we could reverse it, dooming us all to catastrophe". All the other horrible stuff he did will be trivia, for history buffs to whip out whenever somebody mentions how they hate past generations for failing to save our planet.
It's adorable that you think we'll actually manage to survive that long with how things seem to be going.
you are missing out the most important part (the one behind the "....."): "..... and so, the whole world today is very thankful to that u.s. president and errected statues to him everywhere for he gave earth a wonderful gift: a giant continental land mass nowadays completly lacking of civilization. a big space for nature to thrive without intervention of any human intelligence. i biotopia unmatched to any other part of the earth where enlightment and progress took over long time ago. thank you, mr. president!"
He needs to change the title of the show to, "Things I Didn't Know I Cared About Until John Oliver Taught Me About Them with John Oliver."
Npc man gets disinfo from npc boss.
👍🏼👍🏼
Perfect!
@@robertbogan225 I bet you investigate everything yourself so you everything you know you saw with your own eyes. Not to mention that if someone is interested in a topic he obviously cant check from other sources if the info given is true...
My friends and family at my funeral: Heaven has gained another angel! T_T
Me marching into hell: WHERE THE HELL IS RONALD REAGAN!!!!!!!
((Quoting a meme here))
*cue the doom music*
I JUST GOT HOME FROM VOTING
GO VOTE
VOTE EARLY
I posted my absentee ballot from Aix-en-Provence, France, this morning #GoVote
Last week
@@hueybrown3238 👏👏👏 heck yeah
@@aprylzarfosanderson7237 sweet! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
...and vote often 😁
Every new episode John Oliver gets more and more frustrated, can't even hide it behind jokes anymore, and I relate to that so freaking hard that it hurts.
The last couple of episodes you can really see his frustration, rage and heartbreak - the futility of it all.
There's always truth behind jokes huh?
👍👍
But he has a lot of material to draw from. He chose to love and live in the US. It’s a country full of colour, vigour, vitriol and venom. To borrow a line from a book I really need to finish some day “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.
The US government is shit. Which is why he is mad.
@@calitaliarepublic6753 Except it's a lot more complicated then that, and he points out a lot of the factors involved. You do get complixity, right? (Because you sound like you might not).
Ahhh they didn't show the end which was about the Danbury sewer plant..
For those interested... He won!! The plant is now named "John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant" 😂
Which episode is it?
I assume the metaphor matches the theme of Last Week Tonight. We need sewage plant to process all those shit.
Salute to John and team for going through all the shit for us.
@@chengkuoklee5734 I see what you did there. ;)
@@jenniferhuff4895 Watch the whole episode. This is sliced from the original one.
Ok th-cam.com/video/x85KuCILAGU/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact about literal pipe organs and China:
“After 1949, virtually all the pipe organs in China were destroyed, many during the Cultural Revolution. And for 40 years no pipe organs were installed on the Mainland. The first pipe organ installed after the Communist victory in 1949 was the 1989 III/60 Rieger-Kloss in the Beijing Concert Hall.”
Vox Humana, 11/1/20
When you understand that Trump is actively trying to isolate the US while personally profiting from his own policies, his actions make more sense.
As long as it's not embryonic research that may aid treatment towards COVID, to ONLY HIS benefit, from an outside country. Research that he and people like him and in his party reject from being done here in place for squeezing grief out of mainly women to mourn and pay for situations that already take a toll on them.
Max hypocrisy, max malice and max stupidity.
@@SabrinaRina and max misogyny
I like that screen name
Also trying to scapegoat at absolutely any cost
Same as other presidents of US.
Daily show in 2015: some random thing that happened
Daily show 2020: another reason we are all gonna die
Huh. I wonder if there's a correlation there.
Can't wait for 2025.
@@raptorpettingzoo5310 Hell Nah
This isn't...the Daily Show...
@@emilyb.8219 I think they know that
Be smart America. Do the right thing today. Don’t vote based on “owning” the other side. Vote based on who you judge to have your best interests in mind. At the end of the day your particular ideology/party/tribe/whatever doesn’t matter. It comes down to health, happiness and well being for yourself and your neighbour. Who do you honestly think cares more about that for you and less about themselves?
"We're only as strong as our worst prepared country" wise words John
@Erik Wesley Doesn't help with a worldwide pandemic unfortunately.
Ah, so China?
@Erik Wesley Great, so the few people that survived will still have energy and food.
The points you mentioned don't help with lowering the alarmingly high infection and death rates the US is confronted with. A properly working WHO would tho. So the priorities are very off imo.
@@masterjim666 200,000 deaths. That was the best case scenario Faucci predicted at the start. But y'all forget facts as soon as they don't support your alarmingly increasing insanity.
@Erik Wesley You are not the only food & energy independent nation on Earth. You also still rely on imported food (directly or indirectly), so i'm not sure what your point is. The pandemic has already had an impact on global economy, and like every problem that effects (global) economy, it will probably be longterm.
Supercarriers are useless in a pandemic. At the moment, they're only usefull for fighting in wars in countries that the USA helped fuck over.
Largest navigable waterway network in the world. Okay?
Two unobstructed coasts. Okay?
Largest area of arable land. Again, not much use in a pandemic
When he was talking about the orgy, he forgot about the person who has to watch people's clothes and bags. Seriously important, you don't want someone seeking off and stealing everything.
Also people who will call cabs in places where alcohol is present or valet the cars. Even smaller swing houses have about 6 to 10 staff members, between servers, patrons and security, let alone on big orgy events.
@@sorayaimperial People need to do their research before talking about these things.
#Censored th-cam.com/video/BP6w3QrlpMY/w-d-xo.html
Seems like you have experience. Invite me next time! 🤣
Yes, the "Virtuous Voyeur" looks after ppl's things.
Today on, “More things you didn’t know were Reagan’s fault...”
Wait until you find out what he did to the mental health system in California while governor.
It’s crazy, but this is what happens when you vote republican: even the best republican will create permanent damage!
You know those Transformers movies, that was literally Reagan's fault. They removed restrictions preventing corporations from advertising directly to children. The result of this was Hasbro creating the Transformers toys by taking cars and robots, two things that kids like, and mashing them up into a toy that they could sell to kids in the form of a half-hour long commercial.
@@Deathonater so now everything a kid sees on screen come out with a toy?
@@Deathonater Holy shit, that would mean Reagan made bronies to exist!
"Polio was Eradicated."
"Then came the Coronavirus."
"Then came a threat from President Trump."
Sounds like a typical headline progression template for the last 4 years....
Remember when Trump had corona virus? It feels like it was months ago already.
That’s assuming he actually had it to begin with.
@@MsGrapeNehi He did. This isn't up to debate.
@Todd Crispin wag the dog :)
Todd Crispin In order to claim that that an entire hospital is in on a conspiracy to lie about the test results, this requires some substantial evidence.
@@Lyxtwa Exactly... people just crave conspiracies, but never realize the implication.
I don't think "governments" are smart enough to pull conspiracies like that, they all have their head stuck up each others ass looking for more money to grab for themselves.
They're not going to waste money on paying off regular doctors who probably make enough money on standby, compared to what they could possibly lie about for a guy who's going to be in power for at most 8 years, their "party" at most 20? yeah such stupid conspiracies are just retarded.
Trump: "I've gotten very much involved...."
At this point, it's just insulting to everyone's intelligence.
The Dumpster fire in chief is mainly appealing to his cult. Everyone else doesn't believe anything he says.
@@hawkeye5955 mainly = ONLY
Hearing Drumpf say "I've gotten very much involved" makes me think "What did your gropey little hands ruin this time?"
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8199719/Dr-Tedros-Ghebreyesus-career-politician-running-China-centric-WHO.html
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, “ Jan 2020 from The WHO 🤣
I really appreciate John's using his show to try to make a difference.
The only way to make a difference is to VOTE
@@peterweller8583 inform voters too
Then what will John do for work?
Or Rachel Maddow and Seth Meyer, add infinitem
@@peterweller8583 They can go back to making fun of less dramatic issues. Sadly as the numbers of ignorant idiots grow and vote for ignorant populists it will only get worse.
Me too. And I mean that fucking literally :)
That reporter sounds so dead inside “in the middle of a pandemic... trump is pulling America out of the world health organization.”
"We're only as strong as our worst prepared country is" - Jonh Oliver 2020... Imma steal that for an essay ^^
That in many ways seems to be Europe's approach. Even though Europe is going through a second wave now, it's worth thinking about Europe's plans for a post-coronavirus world. Found a pretty good analysis that looks into the future prospects of the EU after the pandemic: th-cam.com/video/cWlxMBYUauI/w-d-xo.html
Well worth a watch.
It's a good quote yeah. Also; who would've thought that (one of) the least prepared countries would be the US ?! But with the Orange Troll at the helm, it's no surprise.
'We,' being humanity. And 'worst prepared country,' being the United States of America. Might have been worth noting that we have more confirmed cases AND deaths than nations with 4x our population size.
Literally.
John***
"Like a miracle, it will disappear" - Donald Trump, 2020
John Oliver: "That would be the dumbest, most ill-advised thing."
Trump: "Don't mind if I do."
While it's true that withdrawing from the WHO is a bad move, It's also true that the WHO is China's lapdog. They have been for years. The top dog of the WHO, the Director-General, was Margaret Chan, who was also the Chinese delegate from 2006 - 2017. During this period, the WHO became increasingly vocal in their endorsements of traditional chinese medicines. That's right, the traditional chinese medicines that are driving illegal wildlife trade and putting so many species in danger. The TCM that is rooted in superstition, and not scientific observation. The TCM that has repeated shown to be no more effective then placebo. Curiously, the WHO doesn't support other forms of alternative medicine, like homeotheraphy. Only TCM gets a free pass. Because China.
Someone needs to wrest control of the WHO from China. Preferably someone other than the US.
*Look at who owns HBO & its networks. That will explain this pro WHO video.*
@@limcheehao679 homeopathy is a fucking sham and degrades your entire rhetoric by being mentioned.
It seems as if drumph is actively dismantling every organization that is put in place to save lives and or make lives better, and trying to tarnish America's already shakey image. Almost like it's a plan by some anti American dictator who wants to subvert democracy around the world (Putin).
@@NA-nb7fi Exactly. Homeopathy is a fucking sham, same as TCM. So why is WHO endorsing TCM?
I love how someone threw Kevin Spacey on the Sonic the Hedgehog movie poster with the subtitle "Run away...as FAST as you can." Give that person a raise! :D
Oh thank heavens. I'm so glad I didn't watch this until after Biden won
Agreeeed
Same! Cheers to rejoining the WHO and getting rid of polio
Seriously... especially since it took so long to get and confirm the election results 😭
Yes if I was watching it beforehand I would be screaming and I don’t even live in America (but some friends do)
Yep. Thanks for doing the right thing America, and sending that giant orange cancer cell packing. You've saved billions of lives.
I love when Trump is talking about how much the government spends on WHO when his golf outings have cost American taxpayers 140-300 million dollars. Trump playing golf has cost at least 140 million dollars in travel expenses alone in the 3.5 years he has been in office.
Think about it this way: Every penny that isn't spent on (useful) stuff, can be taken by Trump to fund his own (selfish) projects. If I was in his position I'd like to have all the money at my disposal aswell.
#defundhospitalsfundgolf
Bingo!
@Tien Hoang 🤣 he does it so he can take it out on taxes
@Tien Hoang Right. He is $400 million in debt! And he holds meetings at his resorts and even has military personnel staying at his hotels so he can milk money from the government.
@Tien Hoang 141,000,000.00 spent on golf is over 300 years of presidential pay
start getting used to saying "the 2020s" instead of "2020", because no one is gonna yell "prank'd" one january 1st. this isnt a bad year. this is a bad time.
It's not a bad year, it's the worst possible timeline.
Sans was right. We were gonna have a bad time...
Ironically poetic.
It’s the Darkest Timeline
Supposedly a vaccine won't be available until summer 2021. IF that's successful, death rates go down, and businesses can open... then we're going to be dealing with the economic fallout of long-term unemployment, small business failure, evictions, etc. It's going to take a few years to economically recover from the pandemic. 2020 is just the start.
THANK YOU for the brief history lesson on WHO funding and the Reagan Administration. (I'd like to say every monologue of yours feels like a "deep dive," but really that IS how credible journalism reads! We should expect no less.) I always appreciate the reminders of the recent past, because I know my own best defense against being susceptible to faulty or propagandistic ideas depends on how well I actually know what happened before. Short attention spans provide fertile ground for the planting of falsehoods.
the WHO said that the SarsCov2 will infect about 70% of the global population and will kill about 3,5% of those infected within 2 years; til xmas 2021.
*_THAT WOULD'VE BEEN 200-220 MILLION TERRANS AND WE'RE @ 1 MILLION NOW AT THE HALFTIME_*
@@Dichtsau FIRST>>>WHO actually predicted what will happen if nothing is done to prevent spread of this virus, we TERRANS actually DO HAVE some measures to slow spread of the virus and we use them...SECOND>>>>are you actually complaining because more people did not die??????????????????? You know, only psychopath will be disappointed at low numbers of dead people...
Day 2 of the Biden Presidency and America has rejoined the WHO!
Hoorray :-D
And the Paris Climate Accord
@@jake862944 Hooray indeed
Hip hip whoray indeed
@@jake862944 Yeah, as Teddy told us, Biden cares more about Paris than Pittsburgh. lol
Yay!
Trump: I need someone to blame this whole pandemic thing on...
Advisor: Who?
Trump: YES! Thank you, that’s perfect!
Trump never thanks anyone other than Trump unless the teleprompter tells him to.
@@jfolz a birdie on my shoulder once said that every time he tries to show genuine appreciation he breaks into a cold sweat
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear zoe
Fake news, Trump never says Thank You or acknowledges the work of his underlings unless it's at a political rally.
They are responsible though. They were the ones saying there is no human-to-human transmission while the whole of east Asia knew there is. 🤮 We’ve tried to warn the rest of the world, but it was regarded as fake news and racist.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio which paralyzed him from the waist down. He would often make public appearances being propped up by other people to show a false sense of wellness.
*Now imagine if he had, during those speeches, said "We are pulling out of the World Health Organization because, as you can see from me standing here, polio is totally harmless."*
Except FDR had been dead for three years when WHO was formed, but other than that, a good analogy.☺
A false sense of wellness? I think he was less trying to trick the American people so much as showing courage in face of hardship.
There are actually questions about polio and paralysis. The major issue is there is no historical record of childhood paralysis prior to the mid 19th century, and its emergence paralleled vast innovations in the use of insecticides such as paris green or lead arsenate. Roosevelt's paralysis when he was visiting New Brunswick, and just a few months before, calcium arsenate had been introduced into the province. It's not hard to extrapolate that there was a huge pesticide bonanza during the second world war (witness DDT - only one of many new wartime chemicals) and that coincided with the "outbreak" of child paralysis. The 1911 experiment by Flexner supposedly proving a polio virus caused paralysis is seriously lacking - and it's impossible to tell whether he was working with what was later identified as the polio virus because the electron microscope hadn't been invented (nor was it invented at the time Roosevelt came down with Polio). Let's put it this way: very powerful chemical companies and agribusiness interests with ties to the military want to use industrial products they know can but rarely causes paralysis. Suddenly everyone believes "it's a virus." Either that, or a poisoning-paralysis case is routinely and frequently misdiagnosed as being caused by a very rare virus that just happens to be in the news because there's a "March of Dimes" P/R campaign so it's the first thing on most doctor's minds. Well, now you don't have to worry about the goverment banning your product...sounds farfetched, but in 1952, one of Jonas Salk's researchers Irwin Ekswith succeeded in reversing a case of childhood "polio" paralysis with dimercaprol - a detox substance. All the work was buried by the Public Health Service ...
@@WhatACoolArrow Leaders have to show some strength and continuity, or otherwise people would lose confidence. Voters, after all, always take into consideration the health of a politician.
@@WhatACoolArrow bonespurs has no courage he hid in a bunker because he was scared of kids with firecrackers LMFAO
5 years ago this show always left me feeling hopeful. Will we ever get back to that?
Thats not on the market anymore.
Maybe if you, I, and others vote out the Moron in Chief.
I wonder what changed from five years ago... maybe the executive leadership...
I sure hope so. Look how far down we have gone in 4 years. Our country cannot take 4 more years of this
@Pale Alejandro The sheer stupidity let loose and now rampant in the world today is officially no longer funny. Things have become dire, we are letting our evolutionary monkey show. 10 jokes in that statement, but nothing remotely funny about it.
That last minute is LITERALLY my view on Brexit... Why shut yourself off from such an important organisation that can be massively helpful, especially during a global pandemic...
The EU’s handling of the pandemic hasn’t been brilliant. I seem to remember that there was a huge kerfuffle over the stimulus package and Poland have just recently vetoed it. Also, we are still technically involved if we get a trade deal. We’re not shutting ourselves off, we’re dealing with them from the outside instead of the inside.
@@jamiengo2343 you realise the irony in what you just said don't you? Dealing with something from the outside instead of the inside is not a good thing...
@@ljaproductions07 but we’re not shut off. That’s what I’m responding to
@@jamiengo2343 During this whole pandemic our government has been trying to negotiate a no deal brexit...
@@ljaproductions07 umm... No they haven’t they’ve been trying to negotiate a Brexit Trade deal.
my question is why is Jon Oliver so knowledgeable about Orgy logistics
Maybe he finally got his way with that tall dude he's always going on about.
Of course he knows about orgy logistics.. The man's a freaking sex machine! He ACTUALLY climbs Adam Driver like a giant redwood.
Look at him....
what? I am still mesmerized with the squirrel pubic hair shaving that I might have missed it.
Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to
...
Is also the former title of this show
Hey, there are still some people who miss Circuit City. There are dozens of us, DOZENS!!
I miss CompUSA.
Best Buy sucks! Circuit City was way better!
Circuit City didn’t have shit for sale
@@megavolt67 i totally forgot about compusa for like the past 10 years, until i saw this message. yeah it was pretty decent right
I loved going to Circuit City. Don't think I ever bought anything though. Wish Fry's had disappeared instead of Circuit City!
I keep noticing that anytime the Republican party has a problem with something these days the solution they put forward is never to FIX that problem, it's to just give up or destroy whatever happens to have that problem. It's like he's not a strong enough president to actually fix any of the problems he's bringing up and the only tool he has is to take his toys and go home.
He doesn't actually care about any of America's problems and cares even less about the world's issues. To Donald Trump the only issue he cares about is if he's making more money and putting in less work to do it. As long as he gets his doses of rally's where people cheer at him to keep his ego boosted he doesn't care about anything else in the entire world beyond being reelected now to keep him shielded from all the crimes he's committed in office and before he was elected. Donald only cares about himself. He only has contempt for any other human being. He only even likes his family because they share his last name and are completely loyal, but I highly doubt he's even capable of actual love.
Thank God our people were smart enough not to vote for a con man in the era of WWII.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Yep. The republicans had 12 years to come up with a healthcare plan but turned up with nothing to replace the ACA, even though they planned on repealing it.
Of course. Republicans are looking for easy wins or at least creating the illusion of winning. It's the same thing he did about Israel-Palestine as well. He single handedly took the decision about Jerusalem and then told the two countries that "Jerusalem is off the table. Now you two decide." Anything that's too complicated to understand, he just blows the whole thing up and the dumb MAGA crowd cheers because they see huge explosions. They don't realize that these explosions are their international relationships blowing up in their faces.
Fun fact: the WHO is a continuation of the health committee of the League of Nations, which was basically the only part of the League that managed to do anything.
Watching the American politics and news as a foreigner, is like watching a sketch by office
😖 image living here...
You are not wrong. As an American, life here feels like a really bad fever dream and I'm still hoping I'll wake up soon.
@J LA
Don't rely on a "leader", on a single figure to keep you all safe and sound.
It is YOU who has the abilities to make a good life possible. It is YOU who can promote solidarity. It is YOU who can provide housing, food, education and healthcare for everyone.
It is YOU - the working class people.
The people that actually do the hard work. The overtime. The extra days, weeks months of work. The people that create the world you live in.
The people that get robbed of the value of their work. That get treated like mere tools. That get forced into giving away most of their lifetime in exchange for never enough resources to become independent. The people that are forced to except existential threat as normal.
Topple this old, rotten system and build something new - from the people for the people.
You don't need any elite to tell you how little you deserve to have.
You don't need to MAKE a living - you deserve to PROVIDE a living. For everyone.
@Murican Ignorance I find it absolutely hilarious and horrible at the same time. Holarious?
Anyway yeah, Americas position as leader of the free world is not a gods given right (even though some people seem to think so) but a result of tireless diplomatics and it's hilarous to see all that go to waste. What is not hilarous is seeing other players like China fill that diplomacy void.
As someone who spent years working in Africa, I can tell you that we have simply replicated a standard African government here, and yet the crazy thing is, in all the shit i have seen African leaders do, not a single one can be held directly responsible for spreading disease among their own people let alone being responsible for such a large number of deaths. I am ...confused!
How the US sees itself: Superman, saving the world. How it really is:The Homelander.
As an american I don't see myself as superman I see myself as spiderman after thanos snapped if our "president" is thanos
Isn't that the whole idea of Homelander?
@Fate I know I know...
@@amberdeyuliis7886 ... What do you think our presidents/country was like BEFORE trump? Even John, in this very segment, talks about horrific Reagan and the CIA was.
@@thepants1450 I don't really know much about what Reagan did though America was better before trump even if it was by a tiny bit
Whenever John Oliver does a segment like this and it ends in complete silence after just shouting in frustration to the camera, theres always this really eerie vibe tht things are actually going to get worst if the ppl watching dont do something about it.
Its freaky but defenitely needed.
Imagine how less impactful many of those videos would have been if they were filmed in front of a laughing audience like before. This seriousness of that grey, silent background is what this show needed.
Crucial. God help the US
@@BEERBOMB113 God Damn the US. we are the Second Temple. "let his blood be on our heads and the heads of our children!" (for Bernie)
This entire year has put an odd tone to everything.
Everything feels so wrapped up in insanity that it's exhausting.
John oliver finally went to Danbury and finished it😊
I know John wasn't born in the US, but he's a national treasure regardless.
He’s an international treasure
If you weren't born here in the US, you shouldn't have a say.
@@larryhoover2541
It’s a global platform , the show is syndicated around the world so yes he has as much say as you and can say what he likes or don’t you believe in free speech ?
@@patrickchilds2987 Poopy butthole!
@@larryhoover2541 impressive response
I know I will be lost among the thousands, but shout-out to the graphics department. You folx are Photoshop masters, those orgy pics were perfect. You knock it out of the irreverent graphics park everytime!
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Thank you very much for including English subtitles on this video. Will you continue that trend? It's very useful for non-native English speakers who would like to enjoy Last Week Tonight's content!
Even some of us native speakers appreciate closed captioning 😊 - I mean he talks really fast and has an accent 🤣
I assume they will as long as theyre able to. At this point accessibility is becoming normal. Only issue is, youtube as a platform is dicussing removing the feature because fuck us with disabilities/non native speakers. According to yt only 3% of users use it... therefore... they wanna remove it even though its volunteer user work.
@@jenniferhundley148 Every human being has an accent, why do Americans always say this especially when it comes to English when the English originated the language, it just sounds dumb.
@@unamartin3640 look up the history of the English language accents it's fascinating. Basically English people change the way they spoke because of royalty and wanting to sound like them and Americans didn't change it
"The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is the fundamental right of every human being" -Opening paragraph of the WHO charter. The United States was a signatory on that document, in 1946
The USA has a record of failing to recognize "right" and "every human being(or similar phrasing)"in the same sentence for some time now.
@@Tachdelan A China and Russia are awful at huan rights. Superpowers tend to be bad.
@@nmarbletoe8210 True! But to people in the western part of the world, it's the USA that keeps shouting it's #1 and has the most freedom, etc.
@@Tachdelan Yup! we need to be humbler.
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The US should adopt Bhutan's concept of Gross National Happiness.
I'm genuinely impressed with John's knowledge of Orgy Management, brings a nice nuance to "open house" days.
"Basic Orgy Management" is something I didn't expect to hear about in a video about WHO, but I should've known better.
This is what LWT does best🌟
Very few colleges offer the course anymore, so it’s important information to share.
Your unfamiliar with BOM? What are they teaching these days! lol
Would it be possible to take an online course on it?
@@devonwilliams5738 There is probably a coach for that somewhere if you look hard enough
Can we take a second to appreciate that that smallpox doctor's name is legit Larry Brilliant.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Brilliant
@Zuma Zuma I mean, changing last names upon coming to America is fairly common. My history from senior year once told us how he got his last name, Elsaesser. Apparently his ancestor came to the US, and when asked about his name, the US official couldn’t understand it and just asked him where he was from. He responded with “I’m from Alsace” (a region at the Franco-German border which changed hands many times, written “Elsass” in German), to which the official told him that his name would be Elsaess from now on.
Oh, and of course there’s a certain family, not sure if you’ve heard of them, who came to the US around the beginning of the 20th century and changed their original family name of “Drumpf” to smg else...
It’s legit terrifying how this has gone from a comedy show to a very serious rant with a few jokes thrown in
yea, it was genuinely good back then, not it is just partisan trash.
@@snuffeldjuret Yes, because at this point human rights, healthcare, and stopping the spread of deadly viruses is a partisan issue now. Why are you even here?
@@nonalolagirl all those things are great, but the dishonesty and the lies doesn't make the actual program good.
@@snuffeldjuret Do make a list of all of the lies. I'll wait.
@@nonalolagirl I don't keep track of them. Why should I?
Thank God they eradicated smallpox when they did. I don't think it would be possible in today's world.
Spot on. The worlds gonna burn and its for the best
"... something that involves shared sacrifice, tradeoffs and complexities..." Well said and summed up!
Tamizha, nee India va paaru pa...
@@sriramsankar8958, what do you mean? India is also a part of WHO and would have made its own sacrifices.
@@Sivah_AkashIndia is a huge part of WHO with soumya swaminathan on the top seat. but i feel it gets more challenging with the economics vs population when dealing with a pandemic.
@@sriramsankar8958, yup. So are you saying India has difficulty contributing much to WHO because of its economic situation. Sorry if I misunderstood you.
@@Sivah_Akash contribution as well as safekeeping our own people who lost their lives due to the pandemic. Peace be to you brother, and take care ❤️
I just had a mental image of the poor graphics guy who did the squirrel pic's GF walking into the room when he was working on it, and him having to say "It's for work! Honest!"
😆😆👍
Now, THAT is one disturbing mental image... It is true, but still disturbing. Please excuse me while I go laugh hysterically at that awesome observation!
Not unless the graphics guy is full time with the show. Then the girlfriend would be, "Work, huh?"
"I can explain! No please don't leave!! IT'S FOR WORK *sobbing*"
If she's aware he works for LWT and has seen the past images they've used she'd believe him on the spot
Trump-We’re pulling out of the WHO.
John Oliver- *Brexit PTSD flashbacks*
Why would he have Brexit flashbacks? He was already living here full time before that happened.
@@bigbundle3223 mostly just to make a joke how he can’t catch a break. His British countrymen are doing brexit and America is doing this.
If only Fred Trump would've pulled out.
Lol
"This whole mess is almost entirely America's fault." what an apt tagline when talking about historical and ongoing mismanagement of deadly pandemics!
It is fitting for most global issues sadly enough.
I swear, if Trump stays president, we’re going to be pulled out of the UN at this rate.
Not a bad thing.
Wait they haven't kicked us out yet?! Well 2020 still has 2 months yet it can still happen.
Well, USA *is* the naughtiest member of the UN, anyway.
Pulled out? No, we'll be KICKED out.
I mean, withdrawal from the UN means no more US veto in the Security Council, which could be good news for Palestine...
The last 4 years have made me increasingly embarrassed to be an American. So sick of this dumpster fire.
I agree. Embarrassed and increasingly alarmed.
VOTE!
I was thinking about how like...there are countries right now not being tormented by constantly escalating madness every single day. I literally have a hard time imagining it right now. Partially because I miss that so much.
Trump is merely the face of the most evil aspects of America and they won’t go away with Biden in office. The only way to stop this country from further descent into madness is to kill it at the source (The GOP).
@@mikemartin8432 for who? Biden isn't going to fix anything either.
Tucker Carlson having a segment called "Propaganda Machine" is one of the most ironic things I've seen all year. Are you trying to tell us something, Tucker?
Classic projection.
Tucker carlson is nothing but a angry little puppet. He looks like he'd be driving around in a van with Trump, Steven miller with Eric driving hunched over the wheel and looking for kids to give candy to. All of them with creepy smiles on their worn out faces....
Whitehouse full of idiots that don't care about the majority of the country.
Blink twice if you need to be rescued, Tucker!
You think tucker Carlson and fox news has the same power as big tech and about 5 other main stream media stations. Getting banned off twitter for wrong think is the easiest thing ever. Twitter and Facebook are both lefty lovers. And some of fox news is even starting to lean a little left.
@@deathstarwontsaveyou9892 You kidding? Facebook facilitates far-right groups and allows them to organize meetups that have led to people being killed.
John Oliver is the true meaning of laugh and learn.
Everything bad: someone else
Everything good: me.
Make narcissism great again
To be fair, that's basically how politics work. Trump's merely got his own special extra-vocal brand of it. And it works, in a way: his fans adore it, and his opponents can't do any real work because they've got their hands full discrediting the junk Trump smears all over the place.
@@zJoriz Kinda true.
Maybe I'm still stuck in some kind of dated idealism which does no longer exist in politics, which would go for something like "let's find a solution together".
Or it's because I'm an engineer: Problem->find solution.
Politics: Problem? first Ignore, then blame someone else, someone else finds a solution: take credit for it.
Trump brought the art of expressing this paradigm to a new peak. In a way, he reached perfection lol
@@sonowa-unreal I mean here in Europe it is closer to that (I’m not saying that our politics is perfect, but the current state of US politics is absolutely horrifying to me).
@@sonowa-unreal It's cause you're an engineer. As someone who's in school to become one and thinks in that way constantly, partisan politics is incredibly annoying. Just the other day, my doctor said I should get some blood testing done to figure out a health issue I've been having, but since I'm in college and my parent's insurance likely doesn't reach all the way to me, my options are no testing or drive 4 hours round trip for some simple tests that could prove to be very important. All this while our political climate grinds everything to a halt, and it would be so much easier and probably cheaper if healthcare was a unified, government-run program that can work around the country. Nobody should have to consider cost with medical care, but here we are
“Bad News Tonight” with John Oliver
Yes he is a great political activist go John!!
Its like Brexit .. walking away and still expecting to play a leadership role (but proving to fail with every step forward)
You're thinking in the right direction. But to compare the "walking away" from supporting and profiting from the WHO against Brexit is like comparing an itching after a mosquito bite to feeling the organ failure after infecting with ebola virus.
I find it kind of sad and funny (not living in the US and done with being worried of gov.-shit), how the US gov. is very good at digging the economical or medical graves for their people...
...but as he said...
if the US doesn't catch up to other countries in fighting Corona (US has much more struggle in fighting it than EU if you look at the death statistics) they will become kind of the global version of the "disease super spreader kid in school, whos parents don't vaccinate their children, because they read something on twitter or facebook.
So everyone wants to isolate from their stupidity, that they themselves don't acknowledge (in terms of health care).
But look at their health care system xD
They are so fucking greedy, that they don't get it. Only if everyone has health care to get help, when they have an contagious disease, you get saver.
It's not like you can built a wall around poor people to isolate from them. or can you ? (kappa)
We shall see!
You have a brain use it, start with looking at the head of WHO and what China is doing in his country then look at the last head of WHO and do the rabbit hole you go. And I will not even start with what the EU have been doing to the UK
@@sarahwilliams755 no please do, the world needs more of your uninformed, pious idiocy
@@sarahwilliams755 Entertain me .. what has the EU done to your country? You really MUST be able to name a huge amount if it sounds like such a big deal..
It's amazing that in a world where murder is universally seen as a criminal act,
that a man who is openly trying to kill an entire country isn't in jail?
Grand theft auto is illegal too, yet the guy who was clearly trying to take an entire country for a ride is free as a bird
"This Might Sound Tedious Because It Is But It's Also Kind Of Important" does flow better off the tongue though...
same
UK: WE'RE PULLING OUT THE EU!!!!
USA: hold my beer
Hearing the complaints "we pay so much money to this international organisation - let's use that to fund our own health institution" sounded awfully familiar to me.
@@taflo1981 Not to mention using that money to fund anything health related in the US is a complete joke when a single hospital can have a budget into the billions of dollars price range.
Hows the UK by the way?
Should WHO Head Resign Over Coronavirus Coverup?
m.th-cam.com/video/ZON-07xnPZs/w-d-xo.html
Channel is called china unsensored
@@vgamesx1 a large US hospital has a bigger budget than the WHO.
Hi, I'm the CIA
You may remember me from such films as
"Who's this guy governing people on top of our oil?"
"Snack Wars: Revenge of the fruit company"
"Arming afghans to fight russia? What could go wrong?"
"Hey, Where is all this cocaine coming from?"
"A dictator still has the weapons that we gave him"
"Moderate rebels: A confusing love story"
You were also pretty good in "JFK's BOGUS Car ride Journey"
My favorite is film was let’s make a cat a spy
😂😂
Not to forget the aborted lets give him an explodey cigar plan.
Snack wars... when we literally invaded Guatemala because of Big Fruit Company... the people now know as Chiquita banana... and before that we put pro America dictator in charge of Cuba in another coup...
Love watching the clips from "This Might Sound Tedious Because It Is But It's Also Kind Of Important with John Oliver" xD
Not having people in the studio, has John Oliver started to speak faster?
That was a lot of words.
Yeah, he's not having to pause for reactions, and I think he tends to speed up the angrier he gets (who doesn't?) and since he records these alone, there's no one to tell him to slow down and he may not watch back before sending the recordings onto the editors.
He also tends to anger-whisper, has anyone else noticed all the angry whispering he's been doing in these past months?
I’m just happy he’s not being as smug and insulting as usual. Better to change minds
I had to double.check in case I accidentally messed with the audio speed lol.
I really dig the no audience thing-- there are more jokes, the pace is faster and you aren't prompted to laugh by an audience since the jokes all have to stand up by themselves. Hopefully they never bring the audience back.
Oh good, it’s my favorite show, sad bad news with constipated British man
For real though I get hyped for this to come out on TH-cam every week. Since I’m not paying for HBO Max lol
Wtf is hbo max tho? I only know about hbo go
This guy should've stayed in Britain instead of going to the country he hates the most to thrash and destroy it like a traitor. Defending despicable groups such as BLM. Berating every footstep taken by Trump. These sort of individuals would do better off jailed.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 I don't like the fact that Oliver is lying about the WHO and it's involvement in the CCP, but the fact of the matter is that we should try to work with them to make things better instead of running away every time something doesn't go our way... China is flooding poor countries with debt and communist ideologies and we need to do something to stop it, while protecting the health of the world, not just letting those evil sons of bitches, get away with it
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 its satire
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 get a life and don’t comment on every compliment someone states regarding John
I’m so SICK of EVERYONE overusing the word “LITERALLY” THANK YOU JOHN. For pointing it out.
now wait.. are you figuratively sick of it or literally sick of it? My English prof said the definition of a word is based on how actual people use it, not what the dictionary says. Does 2+2=5 yet or is math immune to this reasoning?
Math is immune to relavatism
I still think "UNDERRATED" beats it.
I've been binge watching this show for the pass week now, and I can't even tell if John is reading from a teleprompter or its just him just really expressing himself.
@@TheRatsintheWalls now that's passionate reporting
It's incredible how the reputation of the US has gone down the drain over the decades.
I still remember the stories from my dad and how the US soldiers brought chocolate after WW2 (I'm from Germany). So even though they just fought a friggin' war against us (where they ultimately saved us from a crazy dictator) they still brought some chocolate afterwards! I mean, sure - the US did a lot wrong over the years - but at some point in time they at least were considered the good guys. And now everyone is just laughing, cringing or flinching when they hear about the US (at least for all the non-US people I know from around the world) - in the worst case scenario they are even very afraid. So Trump is by no means responsible for all or even most of this ... but he made sure that the already bad image of the US is now set in stone and tainted for decades to come. He is the pinnacle of the development the US has gone through over the years. And he made sure that the US will probably go down in the history books as the most stupid nation. And all of this is so sad. Despite all my prejudices I meet so many nice people from there. But aside from that - politically I'd argue that the US is pretty much dead to the world from this point forward. No leadership, no help and especially no trust anymore. And all of this is made visible by stupid decisions like this: Basically defunding the WHO for some imaginary political gain, losing the last bits of credibility the US had left in the world. This will go down in the history books for sure. But I'd rather not and instead get the trust for the US back up. But quite frankly I don't see how this could happen. This is a bleak future and I feel very depressed.
Thanks John for making this episode!
Ye Im an American living in Florida myself, we either have a fascist(trump) or a corporate puppet(biden) who believes he can bring us back to brunch. Either way, the american people are being raked over the coals here and theres really nothing we can do here. Neither wants to do any kind of reform that would at the very their citizens and their quality of life here. So believe me when I say this country is fucked and theres not a goddamm I or any of us Americans can do stop it.
This is just how the US always been.
Not really surprising to the countless countries being the victim of US aggression and CIA operations. 😂
@@silverybound dont forget that the CIA is cause of the crack/cocaine epidemic in America, buying tons and tons of the shit and dispersing it into the country.
@@frankpoposojo lol, how is Trump fascist? By defunding a corrupt coorpoeate organization? Is that what fascists do? It would seem to me that John loves that sweet Dem funding love that all the other corporate media loves sucking on... whatever Trumps doing, doesnt seem like something a fascist would do
Frankly, Trump is the president the American people deserve. They lie in a bed of their own making, and were it not for how dangerous they are to the rest of the world, I'd have no thoughts to spare for their plight.
Why take the fire engines away in the middle of fighting the fire? Because the fire chief has an ego as fragile as an egg and one of the houses burning belongs to a neighbor he suspects borrowed his weed whacker and never actually returned it. That's pretty much it and it's depressing that the rest of the world sees half the country cheering that man on.
🤔 perfect analogy.
Almost... One of the houses on fire belongs to someone he believes is conspiring to make him look bad.
More like one of the houses on fire belongs to someone abusing the neighbors kid.
@@Megalomaniakaal more like one of the houses belongs to that abused neighbor's kid.
Though it's much MUCH _MUCH_ worse!
He is taking them away, because he failed to respond to the fire (because that would have been work) and now needs someone else to blame and act strong and distract from the fact that he didn't do anything of substance for the last year fighting the pandemic, the last 4 years of being POTUS and technically his entire life.
"It was because of something stupid the US did" should be the motto of this show.
Kinda has been the motto for planet Earth the last 60 or so years.
@@jessehenderson2967 LOL ikr
lets hope it wont be written on the imaginary gravestone of our species.
@@takaetono6773 I can just imagine the confusion
The world: wait, it wasn't the US!?
US: I'm as shocked as you guys
@@jeffreysian-salas1689 Don’t be surprised when, instead of the US destroying a meteor heading for earth, it simply redirects it to another country.
While I agree with most of what was said about how to handle WHO's apparent biases towards China, there's two very important, and very big things Oliver did not mention that I feel need mentioned:
1. WHO did know the extent of the virus much earlier than they when they started providing recommendations. It's not a coincidence that they knew weeks before Chinese New Year, where literally hundreds of millions of people travel in China, and waited until AFTER Chinese New Year to raise the alert.
2. WHO's lack of willingness to acknowledge Taiwan has gone so far as when asked about whether or not they would recommend using the measurers in Taiwan (which has had 0 local cases for months now), the representative stated that he "already discussed China". When corrected that they were asking about Taiwan, hung up the call, then called back, then pretended to not hear it, then ended the call again. This is WHO acting like a child, because instead of creating recommendations that are proven to work, they would rather protect China's feelings (who as Oliver has shown CAN'T EVEN LEAVE WHO),
Further, not discussing the corruption issues with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus feels like an intentional decision to minimize the WHO's issues
The US is the one that likes to “go in”, but leave behind a “mess”, so it runs away.
So the other person becomes a single parent in need of help.
Like the tiny Marshall Islands who now has to take care of all the nuclear wasteland the U.S. military testing left behind in their tiny budget country
or the middle east, which suffers from instability caused by the gulf wars and the US diplomacy leading to them. Just saying...
@@derphysiker1757 To be honest, ever since the Sikes-Picot agreement, it has been a mess there, so I would say Britain and France started it and the US just took over
@darknightoftroy dark, nobody here has mentioned the citizenry in particular, foreigners mentioning the united states usually refer to the government or military. That said, you may choose to distance yourself from the concept of the USA as a broad term (nobody can blame you for being born anywhere) but you can't chose to distance yourself from the ugly and still keep being a "proud american". People who are "proud americans" but chose to turn a blind eye to all the atrocities are just hypocrites.
Ähm yes. They inherited their mother land. The British are the masters of this style.