Puerto Rico: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Puerto Rico is suffering a massive debt crisis. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Oliver to call for relief.
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Holy shit the pain in Miranda's voice was gut wrenching! That is a patriotic and good hearted man. What an awful situation! : (
Riley
yeah you could definitely see and feel the emotion. I still get goosebumps listening to that part
sorry to ask Beckie but that character on your picture reminds me of a anime, mind telling me?
Beckie and tyy
"If Hamilton tickets will help..." Even though it's bribery, I'll excuse it. The man's got a good heart (and reason). I'm surprised he has any tickets left.
He rapped about a figurative hurricane and then they got destroyed by a literal one.
"It's so fucking good, it's so good, we owe Puerto Rico for that man"
And we owe the UK for John Oliver
I LOVE LIN-MANUEL AND JOHN
Totally agreed!
Invade the UK?
Ikr
+Jaimie Diaz Naw, we don't owe the UK anything.
+Gary Singh dude, you even owe them your language.
I like how he gave credit to the pianist at the end. He didn’t have to, but he did. Just a nice touch.
Lin and Alex have worked together for more than a decade. For In the Heights and Hamilton fans, he's just as much a star as Lin, so it was more of a "hey, look who I brought with me!" than a simple credit.
Edit: He's also the one playing the piano in the 2009 White House clip John showed earlier
Lin is one of the nicest humans on this planet. The impact one man can have is incredible.
Pianists do SO MUCH for little to no credit, Lin’s a good guy
I know I'm late to the party, but the more I learn about this guy, the more I like him !!! A class act !
@@ebitoro4590 thanks for sharing!
As a Puerto Rican it hurts how horribly america treats us and I thank you truly for bringing this to light even if it’s both old and often ignored
Trump 2024 go back
Puerto Rico has been an anchor around our necks ever since the Spanish American war. For every dollar in tax revenue generated, Puerto Rico costs three. Puerto Ricans made this debt, don't ask Ohioans to cover your bad choices.
@@USA0645 sure, when you go back to England.
@@jacktheaviator4938 You can thank the USA for that. We didn't ask to be colonized. 🙃
@@luzortiz5225 maybe you should check your history, Puerto Rico was a colony LONG before the US came along. We just inherited it from the Spanish, and it's been a bleeding appendage ever since. The smart thing to do would be cut it loose and let it turn into the third world hell hole that it was meant to be.
Greetings from Greece Puerto Rico and welcome to our club.
+skotiskiller AMEN
+skotiskiller Greece still exists...
+Waldez da S. S. lmao
Waldez da S. S. Fortunately for me yes.
Yep. Greece is still getting fucked.
HOLY FUCK THAT WAS SOME SERIOUS RAPPING!!!
go watch Hamilton. NOW!
But I live in Brazil AND I'm poor!!!
+Maíra Maximiano Oh. well there's always youtube! It will eventually come out on DVD. So there's that. I'm waiting for that too!
+Maíra Maximiano pode comprar o soundtrack
It was AMAZING! What a talent wow!
Lin’s appeal was gut-wrenching. He seemed on the verge of tears, desperately asking for help for Puerto Rico. And I feel like the US gov has just gotten worse and worse at caring for Puerto Rico
The government has forsaken ALL of its citizens in favor of Corporations and personal profit.
Lin-Ma
I went to Puerto Rico for a day like 2 years ago... its an absolutely beautiful island. This was like 6 months after that hurricane.. there was still power out, small structures in ruin, and some large debris at the beach. The Uber guy was asking where all the mainlanders were. Puerto Rico has had so much hardship and I didn’t know how bad the government mishandled PRs wealth on top of it. I hope more tourists, immigrants and visitors come back. And we should be prepared to help them as much as we can, we have no problem sending billions to other countries, not our own territory.
"The weak will perish" said THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS when a winterstorm hit
They've gotten worse and worse in general
I know its not the biggest thing in the song at the end but I love that Lin-Manuel uses his last few seconds to shout out the key board player. Just really nice thing to do for a fellow musician .
Keyboard?!
*piano
To be clear, that "key board player" is 3 Tony Award Winning orchestrator/arranger/musical director/conductor Alex Lacamoire, whom Lin has collaborated with since his first(and only other) Broadway show In The Heights(along with co orchestrator Bill Sherman) in 2008.
This is the guy who provided the multi-sound patches and string arrangements that won him the Tony Award for Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen, and (during the time of this episode) was the First Keyboard/Conductor during the premiere and first few months of Hamilton on Broadway!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lacamoire
Furthermore, he was also the pianist who played for Lin's performance of the early drafts of Hamilton(consisting of "Alexander Hamilton" and "Hurricane") at the White House in 2009!
Man... that hurricane line hurts so much more in 2017...
WiseSageBum foreshadowing :(
Trump idiotic comments about PR's debt now makes more sense. I remember having seen this episode a while back, and watching it again to remind myself how much the country have been f***ed, by the US and now by Nature
th-cam.com/video/FBna_oHXetc/w-d-xo.html
WiseSageBum ikr
I thought the same thing.
Rewatching this clip after the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The USA should be ashamed of the way it has treated and continues to treat Puerto Rico. This European's heart goes out to all Puerto Ricans in this time of crisis.
t'rump hates the non-whites. Sad.
So much foreshadowing. Wow. :(
You are morons. US send tons of help there.
+Anon ymous
In case you haven't noticed, this video isn't about "sending help" - while help IS important at the moment and the hardworking people in FEMA is undoubtly doing what they can trying to manage several disaster areas at the same time, (leaves a question open on to which extend they are sufficiently funded), this video tackles a whole different topic that also needs to be adressed!
But due to rich lobbyists paying politicians for their vote, attempts to do anything about the legislative issues has failed!
Now I don't know if it's Dems or Reps or both who are guilty here, but it shouldn't be hard to condemn them no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on!
+Sir Psycho Sexy
Feel the exact same way here!
Jesus, the desperation in Lin's voice, I'm crying
4 years later: 2 hurricanes, tons of earthquakes, corrupt government officials. How does America respond? Let's throw toilet paper at them. "American Citizens"
How does Trump respond*
That was paper towels
Future here. Can we get some of those precious, precious paper goods back?
Yet the US government are lecturing other countries about human rights and democracy. The other countries might failed at human rights but US is the biggest hypocrite.
Trump responds as usual tossing paper towel like he was shooting hoood something which he probably never done in his life . Trump supporters will drink the kool aid without a second thought . Lmao it’s good let them be the crash dummies for the first time . Come on trumpist Cyanide cures Covid -19 but only for trump supporters. If you don’t believe in trump don’t take it may cause instant death 💀.
Lin-Manuel got bars bruh 🔥
ayy lmao
+Victor Ornelas ayy
Rare air
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Lin-Manuel Miranda just gave me chills
Anounymouse omar sarif
Yes He's chilling wonderful who deserves credit!!!
Gave me chills back in 2009 playing Alvie on House. The man is pure talent.
Ariadni
Right???
The USA needs to either make Puerto Rico a state or let it become a fully independent country.
No. That doesn't fix the problem
I say we should accept it as a state. We shouldn't let a xenophobic orange in a toupee keep them from becoming the 51st state, no matter how many paper towels he throws with his sub-atomic hands
@@cloaker7237 It's more than just him. Republicans have been blocking it for years, mostly because it would be a Democrat state.
@@charlieputzel7735 so they are only still a territory because political bs.
@@cloaker7237 Mostly. There have been some questions raised over the results of the most recent poll about statehood. But mostly yeah, mostly political bs.
Watching that commercial made to entice businessmen to move to P.R hurt... I’m Puerto Rican and when I lived there, I didn’t feel safe. The power and water are always going out, even when there’s seemingly no reason, and during New Years, you have to duck and stay indoors cause you sometimes can’t tell the gunshots apart from the fireworks. And the school system usually doesn’t include English unless the school is private, despite us being a U.S territory. The island is not ok, especially not after Hurricane Maria.
Also, I absolutely hate the fact that many Americans don’t actually know that Puerto Ricans are also Americans. I’ve had people ask me if I have two citizenships: One for P.R and one for the U.S. How can our Island expect help when most mainland-Americans aren’t even aware of us being part of the U.S?
@eric sosa must have lived in a nice part. We had are power to out like twice a week.
@eric sosa I hear you. Pero, Puerto Rico can become an independent country. Stop the tax haven for the rich, stop the private pharmaceutical companies from bulling, buying, and misplacing the residents, start the agricultural revolution that PR can, will, and did sustain for 400 years. En Puerto Rico tu escupe, y te sale un árbol de agua, como que no se puede mantener sola la Isla.
@eric sosa I understand what you saying, and much more. Como Boricua, si tu crees que Puerto Rico no puede ser independiente, el problema eres tú.
@eric sosa Ja. Porque no te educas en la verdadera historia de Puerto Rico. Tu dices que hablando no se hace nada y mírate ati, tirando insultos porque te crees que sabes.
@@deep5468, I took 4 years of Spanish in the US and can't understand a goddamn word of it when spoken, and I live in SoCal and people speak it all the time. I even worked as a busboy at a mexican restaurant when i was younger for 3 years between high school and college.
For some reason, I can read your Spanglish. I wonder why...you probably learned english first, right? It's funny, you used all the classic words, conjugations, and annoying subjunctive tense that I remember.
Puerto Rico needs Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption.
+Bobby G praise be
praise be
+Mr. Belt The Space Marine Dreadnought Praise be.
Amen, praise be.
+Mr. Belt The Space Marine Dreadnought Praise be!
So basically Puerto Rico is the example of catering to the whims of unrestrained capitalism where all financial malfeasance are allow to happen.
+BioCapsule pretty much, we basicly live at the mercy of buisnessmen who got enough money to say fuck you we do what we want
+BioCapsule From what I've heard, isn't that exactly what Trump means when he says "make America great again"?
Now I'm not from America so I don't know the ins and outs of his platform, but that seems like an awfully bad idea lol
Here you go:
berniesanders.com/issues/puerto-rico/
Axis I am not from America either... it just seem shortsighted & suicidal to think such policies are sustainable... and the mainland seem to be suffering from a softer version of this. Huge debts and the financial market basically unchallenged. The differences is only the mainland still have enough assets to waste away for now, and they actually have the power to directly confront this but lack willingness to do so.
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It’s amazing how you can learn more from a comedian than in a classroom in a formal setting. LWT is a treasure for the average American
I just explained this situation to my coworker, and the racist respond with "they shouldn't get any support, America should cut them off. They aren't American citizens." I hate this place.
Welcome to our world bro,, you can't argue with a racist view point.. it's who they are.
That's how racists are man until the day they are in need of a helping hand they will never hold out there's for someone else.
Me too 🇵🇷 i feel you.
Americans literally accepted us ;-; we didnt wanna be part of yall
Maybe you want to enlight your friends with this information:
US monies to Puerto Rico
1. $2.7 Billion for roads, and Title I programs.
2. $1.9 Billion for food stamps, Medicaid, section 8, WIC, and so on.
3. $13 Billion for veteran pension, regular government pension, unemployment, and so on
This adds up to 17.6 billion
Puerto Rico Monies to the US
1. $22.6 Billion for the biggest joke in the world every imported product to Puerto Rico has to come through Jacksonville, and that is how much the US makes on it. We don't have a free port.
2. $34 Billion for major corporation's capital gains paid to the US government and not kept by the PR government
there are other ones but just these two is over $56 million. REALLY how many states give that to the US government.
That audience will never come closer to actually seeing Hamilton than right there.
I'd like to but probably never will
I know, I tried to get tickets back in December and it was already sold out, plus so expensive
bruh xD
+Brenda Just curious does anyone here know who hamilton actually is or just trying to go to the show because everyone else is?
+Victor Thomas It's both. Everyone knows who Alexander Hamilton is, he's one of the founding fathers, but no one is going to the show because they actually care about Hamilton
I've never really cared about politics but the state of PR is kinda forcing me to care. Thanks for this informative video. As a Puerto Rican citizen, I need to be aware of the situation.
Somos un territorio no un estado
+Gabriel Morales Yo dije state como el estado en que estado y la situación en que estamos no como estadidad.
Ahh Ok
+Golden-Leaf i live half a globe away and i know more about american politics than my own country's thanks to jon stewart and john oliver :D
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The last bit still gives me shivers. Much love for Puerto Rico even in 2022
This video introduced me to Hamilton. Thanks for improving my life John Oliver.
I like how the image he used for "Everything happens for a reason" was Dan Gerwitch and he said "No Dan"
Nice to know he went from Collegehumor to this, I always wondered what happened to him
+Eridan Ampora Danny Boy!!!
+Frank Garibay Also Owen from Collegehumor is writing for the Daily Show
The horny award do his career well.
+Eridan Ampora recognized him too hahaha BEEF GUREWITCH!
Ok, now I'm wondering if John Oliver did this entire segment for Hamilton tickets. :)
same
+Bryan D Really? That's your takeaway message?
+nukestrom chill out man. it's a joke
+Bryan D After listening to Hamiltons opening song i can proudly say that i would do the same.
+Bryan D He probably got ones anyway, as most big musicals give out "press tickets" seperately from the normal ones.
"If you are massively in debt, but can't declare bankruptcy, you are stuck." Yeah, welcome to student loan hell.
Yeah but you got presidential candidates saying left and right that they'll solve that for you, Puerto Rico has no votes and as such no one offering them things.
@@anemicpeasantry7698 By now yes.
Call yourself American, just like Mexico/California, they want your island...1984 amendment guarantee loosing P.R to developer... don't feel bad, Venezuela will likely be the next Commonwealth to America unless the border wall come up 1st...think about it!!!
Manny California is a US state, they are no longer part of Mexico you fucking xenophobe
@@TheNinthGenerarion thank for history lesson... I'm a lot smarter now... the topic is Puerto Rico, not Mexico, Idiota...take your 9th generation of sheer stupidity and hate elsewhere. mamaculo
Thanks John for taking the time to actually educate people on the debt crisis suffocating Puerto Rico. This is even more relevant now than it was then.
You know that John Oliver is important when Lin-Manuel Miranda wears a full suit for the show but wore jeans for the White House performance.
As a mainland American it pisses me off that one of our territories could be treated so poorly. It's honestly an embarrassment.
but this happens precisely because we are a territory! So... takes us or leave us please.
+Caleb Howard Just imagine how Europe feels. "Hi, we're Europe, a progressive continent that tries to better the life of our citizens. Who's that you ask? Oh, that's America, our increasingly retarded friend. We're kind of stuck with them since they helped us with a war but now are basically an empty shell representing that happens when you give capitalist British-men free reign over nearly an entire continent for too long."
+Caleb Howard Thank you, Caleb.
+Caleb Howard it is an embarrassment on how they treat everyone. Your gov is shit and has been so for a long time.
Caleb Howard all of the territory's where treated like shit that's how the hole Cuban misled crises happened
Rewatching with horror as Puerto Rican Govenor protests going on Right Now. My heart cries for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Man you have gave us the history of our Island in a few minutes, you are great. Lin Manuel good lyric.
There’s something wholesome and pure about John Oliver geeking over Lin Manuel.
look at john obsessing over hamilton
he's one of us.
O N E O F U S
Gooba-Gobble, Gooba-Gobble...
Emma Mackenzie The amount of people who love Hamilton is just NON-STOP!
The A.G. Productions Gentleman I'm curious, bear with me, are you aware we're making history?
😂😂
Thanks JOHN OLIVER for your support for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!👏🏾👋♥️🌺
This was the first time I ever heard Lin rap. It gave me chills. I'm revisiting this now that I know like half of Hamilton by heart. It gave me chills again
"This is an island, 100 miles across. A hurricane is coming, and were runnin' up a loss."
Prophecies by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Shout out to all the Puerto Ricans commenting, I really hope things improve for you guys.
thanks man, i hope it does, 6 months after finishing university, still no job, to much people looking for jobs, some go to the US, but some stay. Almost 10k in student loan... and im playing now to part time jobs... as nothing appears to be opening on my concentration here. Looking to also go to US.
+Joel Sanchez - Hang in there, Joel, & best wishes for your future. Wherever you end up, may you prosper.
Thanks. I'm moving out of the US if Trump wins.
So sad, I too hope things get better. Just sounded like the powers that be shat on the everyday people there...SMH
Thanks :^)
I thought Hamilton was just gonna be a stupid broadway things I'd never watch ever. But Lin-Manuel Miranda's energy on this made me watch Hamilton. I must say this, I loved it. The man is extremely talented.
Felt the same way! Boy did the musical prove me wrong.
I didn't think I could respect John Oliver more. Then I realized he was a Hamilton fanboy
Ikr, also. Lin wore a fancier outfit here than at the white house.
@@arre314 I prefer John Oliver over a good number of people in the White House, either administration.
@@konraadse9923 He's not a clown like those in the White House, yet he makes us laugh. He doesn't call himself a journalist, yet he shows us the truth. He's an Englishman, yet he's there for the United States.
A man of irony, and greatness.
We can not help them. This is America, we do not help our own.
+Stickler ForBricks who do we help then?
+wafeman17 the ones with money and power to get more money and power?
+wafeman17 We kill ourselves (soldiers) and spend all our earnings to bring democracy to foreign counties🇮🇶
yes.
+Stickler ForBricks thats right they have to help themselves no matter the situation even if its out of their control
"That level of colonialism makes *me* cringe and I'm English!"
I'm Aussie and I felt that too much
As a European I can only ask; What colonial goods does this place export mayhap? Cotton? Sugar? Sadness? Whot whot!
@Magnus Johanson advanced society???😁😁😁
@Magnus Johanson kagame
@Magnus Johanson Jesus Christ, that's a new level of racism. I didn't expect this in a John Oliver youtube comment section.
Also, you speak as though white people don't have a long history of fucking over their citizens and destroying the economy. Or does shit like the 2008 recession not exist in your fantasy world?
The performance at the end was incredibly moving.
my heart goes out to all the people in puerto rico and all the boricuas in america who miss their island but had to leave it behind for opportunity, like my father and uncle
I'm a Puerto Rican who lives here in the Island. I love my island, I love my history, my people, my language, my roots. But I also love the fact that we are also U.S. Citizens. We've fought in every single war since WWI under the Stars and Stripes. We've contributed to American modern culture. We are everywhere in the states. We are your teachers, lawyers, doctors, judges, lawmakers, mayors...
I want Congress to recognize that we, Puerto Ricans have the right to decide whether we want to be a state of the Union or not.
Personally I favor statehood, but I know some other people favor independence, or free association (Ex. Palau, Micronesia).
I know that we don't have a good economy, but many, MANY of us are professionals and we want to contribute as much as we can.
We just need to force all people living on the Caserios and living of the Tarjeta de la familia to work.
U are too naive if u think gringos will fully include and accept latinos or any other outsider colony equally as themselves. The famous citizenship has this cost, is not for free.
XBarajasX tu ères ignorante is tu piensas que los Estados Unidos sólo está lleno de los blanco, esta nación está echa por inmigrantes y para inmigrantes aye inmigrantes de múltiples culturas y naciones. El PIP nunca va a ganar
From a fellow Boricua
Corrección, el gringo caucásico ha usado a los imigrantes y negros, mas q todo latinos, para construir su propio imperio país, a cambio de solamente vivir en él. Son los q tienen el poder económico y político, acaso no ves quienes son los candidatos, los gobernadores, senadores y los empresarios más exitosos?
XBarajasX
And who are you to jugde are you some god or shit im puerto rican and i will always be puerto rican and the difference between us and you gringos its that at least we know how to earn a space in the U.S and in the world you think just because you were born in the U.S you are something in the world come one your just a stupid man and you think your making a difference by talking shit bro just shut up and move on......
Just stupid people everywhere your so ignorant
"A hurricane is coming and we're running up a loss."
Given what's going on in Puerto Rico right now that line made me shiver.
I'm not even an American, I didn't know about this strange not-state state situation with Puerto Rico... And I'm crying at that appeal in the end... Wtf USA?? You guys spent billions trying to "save" Iraq and Afghanistan but you can't take care of your own??
It's fucking complicated. Puerto Ricans themselves don't even know what the hell they want (to be a state, stay a territory, be independent, etc...)
You can't really make true, significant change if you don't even know/can agree on what you want the outcome to be on even a basic level.
@@MRXYZ1ER That vote was bullshit. A huge proportion of the population boycotted it (aka most of those against statehood).
John, please do another program talking of Puerto Rico situation adding a year after the desaster of hurricane Irma and Maria.
I WAS going to go sleep.... guess i'll have to put off sleep for 21 minutes then
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It's a very good piece, I think you'll enjoy the ending 😊
+Brenda it was a great! I love this guy!
+OneLoudNinja You're are so stupid , Not only is your comment creepy .... Pathetic.
+Aaron Hernandez Canadian!
Oh and btw I learned more about PR's economy with this video than 12 years of public education on this FUCKING ISLAND.
Jan doubt you'll see this,but yiu should look up the United Shades of America episode on PR
fuck yourself Jan
Same here !
I thought PR didn't have power?
therock343 -- This segment was posted on youtube a year before the hurricanes. It's very current again because it explains why Puerto Rico needs help even more than Houston and southwest Florida.
Trump is refusing to lift the Jones Act to let them get international help, and babbling about how PR has to repay its debts to Wall Street -- as if he ever did! -- instead of sending help to over 3 million Americans without power.
Four years later and Puerto Rico still needs help. The pure emotion in Miranda's voice has me in tears.
Iraq and Afghanistan are just so we have experienced soldiers to be the sergeants in the next war(s). It’s on the job training.
Just a hundred miles across... so impactful!
@19:50 "A hurricane is coming..."
Man, you have no fucking idea....
As usual, the comedians are the only ones telling the truth, and by proxy, the future.
#SavePuertoRico
THEN A HURRICANE CAME AND DEVASTATION RAINED
What truth what future? Dafuq you smoking
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 kush.
@@heartbreaktimemachine ?
so happy these are on TH-cam ❤❤
+Eleanor Tull both
+Chase Reddington whoa
Truth. Can't get HBO and this show is amazing.
+Eleanor Tull RIP the TH-cam edit comment feature...
+Stormtrooper is one word pls respect hi is this a reference to john green
I want your line about "everything happens for a reason" to be made into a hallmark condolences card 😂
this video was my legit first encounter with both john oliver and lin manuel
*i'm lovin it*
Lin-Manuel was right, the hurricane came...
Florida was right, they came with anti-flood pumps and working infrastructure
And how the flying fladoodle flapjack do you expect them to "have working infrastructure" when they're 70 billion in debt thanks to us mainlanders? You can't steal someone's money then be like "Well, you should have had insurance. I won't help you." when their house gets flooded.
... and devastation reigned. The island saw its future drip, dripping down the drain. :'(
asdfghyter put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
ThePotatoGamer And when their prayers to God were met with indifference, Lin picked up a pen and wrote his own deliverance
You want to know something interesting about the whole round-ice-cube thing? It's not actually entirely pretentious, there actually _is_ a scientific advantage to them. Say you take a sphere of a one-inch radius, the volume calculates to about 4.2 cubic inches. A cube of the same volume would be about 1.6 inches on a side. (There's some slight rounding variance here, I'm just doing quickie math.) However, the surface area is the key. The cube would have a surface area of 15.36 square inches; the sphere would have a surface area of 12.57 square inches. By exposing less surface area of the frozen ice to the liquid drink, the ice melts slower, resulting in your drink not being watered down as fast. ...Of course, it can still be _presented_ pretentiously, but it's at least a mathematically sound concept.
Damn!
+SomniRespiratory Flux Pretty much what you said.The sphere is the 3D geometrical shape that packs the most volume for a given surface.
+SomniRespiratory Flux Hooray for science !! : )
+SomniRespiratory Flux Sure, but it super super doesnt matter
I was about to do the math. Thanks
Lin Manuel Miranda is a treasure of this time.
Please Oliver we need a part 2.! As Puerto Rican!! I Beg You!!
What about Puerto Rican hero Ray Narvez Jr.?
Ju Blay
Brownman!
my main may ray!
Thats a wierd way to write angry joe
+Tyler Smith RIP RAY! D:
As for somebody who is have Puerto Rican, this is a very, we'll informative video.
Since my Grandparents live in Puerto Rico.
Lin Manuel Miranda is an insanely talented performer and writer as evidenced by a little performance like this you might forget he ever even did.
Dios Bendiga Puerto Rico. God bless our enchanting island.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It's sad that John Oliver cares more about the pain and lives of us citizens than most of the mainstream media. I know he isn't a journalist, but journalists could learn something from him and start covering important stories that don't get enough attention
Juliet Deane
There are a multitude of journalists who cover a lot of stories that aren't considered mainstream. However, we as people are bombarded with so much information on a daily basis it's getting hard to keep up.
I'm sure that if you Googled "Puerto Rico crisis" you'll get a ton of results.
Plus, there are plenty of people who file the island's problems under the "not my problem" category in their drawers. You think that they'll care enough to read up on anything written by journalists?
You are both right. There are other journalists who can do an in-depth story but they don't have the audience and platform that John does, and many don't have his story-telling knack. He can make things easy to understand without dumbing it down too far to please the producers. Which is a huge problem with so many American shows.
When I watch American shows on history and science, I think, holy fuck, do the producers believe that their viewers lose their memory every time they get up during a commercial to pee or get a snack? They stretch 15 minutes of information into 45 minutes with overly dramatic music. John crams a two-week course into 20 minutes with jokes and a song!
The only show worth watching at this point imo
I'm from Puerto Rico and the shit here is really, really bad. I don't even know if my mom will have her job by the end of the summer.
Dang:( didn't know how bad it really was, people really don't talk about it at all, people really do treat Puerto Rico as some other country
If Puerto Rico becomes independent the country will fall. End of story. *****
That's fine. You can just sit around on welfare like the rest of the population there.
Are you making fun of my situation? scabies
+Gabriel Lago Not making fun. Just stating the reality of the situation. These are consequences that you have to deal with when a whole country decides who to vote for based on how much "free" stuff they can offer.
Lin Miranda's performance gave me goosebumps.
I am from Puerto Rico so is my mom and dad and I am happy some kids who live in Puerto Rico can look up to Lin- Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel has Puerto Rican parents? That's good enough reason for me to want to help Puerto Rico out, tbh.
+Kakashi Hatake just used your mangekyo sharingan to make the debt... disappear
100% agree. I am terribly sorry for everything we've done to your country. Honestly, I don't have too much national pride right now, we mess up so often and yet we still think we are better than everyone else and we are entitled to whatever we want. Some of the things in this country are great, and some of the people are great to, but that is not to say that we are better than everyone else or anyone else is lesser. I don't know how much I can do individually for your country, but I will try to spread the word. Again, I'm sorry
+Kakashi Hatake as a puerto rican id prefer statehood as there are almost 300 thousand puerto ricans in the us
If you truly want to help then write your congressman/women and Senators.
***** what economy?
"...a hurricane is coming..." Wow.
GlamMusicLuvr if only they knew
It's spooky how Lin-Manuel has inadvertently forecasted the future with his piece.
GlamMusicLuvr cgg
California here! Puerto Rico are my I should say OUR American Brothers and Sisters. If you don't know.....now you do.
Perhaps more of our young ones would stay in school in America and continue their education with more animus if they were taught this way. I have to admit, I learned so much listening to John Oliver talking about this topic than any teacher, book, or even internet site or documentary.Good show! I guess certain people don’t want you to know these things that are really going on in our country and territories abroad. Amazing!!!
I am proud to call myself a Puerto Rican!
+Beamer Believer me 2
+Beamer Believer Nothing to be proud of. In fact, you should be ashamed.
SWOgottaGO My 15 year old dad moved from Puerto Rico to find a better life in 1978 with his family. They moved to California. My dad and his 7 siblings and his mom thought that with hard work they can make a good living for themselves. They thought wrong. They found out that this country is extremely corrupt and the people here are extremely racist. My dad didn't know what the word Niger meant or what spick meant he soon found out the hard way. Because in Puerto Rico there is no racism and against anybody, Americans brought that to Puerto Rico. I am proud to call myself a Puerto Rican if you're not you're not a true Puerto Rican!
Beamer Believer
Yo soy Puertorriqueno papa. Te creias que era un gringo? La verdad es la verdad. No tenenmos NADA para estar orgullosos. NADA. Ahora mismo somos el hazme reir mundialmente por que estamos jodios fiscalmente. Se nos mira como corruptos y es la fking verdad. Sacate la cabeza del culo y mira la realidad.
+Beamer Believer if you don't like it, THEN DON'T LIVE HERE.
I see Lin-Manuel Miranda. I hit like.
+NerdSync lol, what are you doing here?
COMIC MISCONCEPTIONS!!!
Holy shit NerdSync is here....did not see that coming..
+NerdSync I Lee-sin
Oh shit it's nerd sync! I love your videos!
John you should do a follow up on Puerto Rico. Hit by huge storms has devastated most of the island. They thought it could not get worse.
I was laughing but now I’m crying. My island is dying. Won’t someone help us? John Oliver thank you for not lying
Okay so I was gonna watch this eventually anyway, but I came here now for Lin
Good news: I was NOT disappointed
Same
+simplyTHATNerdGirl now, before I thought that it was simply Hamilton that was good, but I've been thinking and I've realized that everything Lin makes us good. So yeah
+pearlwing2001 is*
Holy shit his performance at the White House got me hooooked
Man... all the feels in that last song. choked me up a bit...
Please do a follow up on Puerto Rico. A lot of crazy shit has happen in the last few years. Its worth a look!
to this day i still get chills listening to lin manuel’s song...
As a theatre kid, watching John Oliver fangirling so hard over Lin-Manuel Miranda is life
Dude shout out to BrownMan, my favorite Puerto Rican!
yes!!
Roy from Challenge Finders?
Rip in pepperoni Roy
JUST BLAZE
+SoraMarch juhblay
THAT's a GOOD poetry-slam! the piano makes it really likeable!
That ending actually took my breath away. I’ve seen that guy in lots of stuff, but i never knew he wrote Hamilton!
When I was younger, I was really fascinated by Puerto Rico. It was the first U.S. territory that I learned about. I thought it was a kind of cool/strange way of doing things. I still enjoy learning about Puerto Rico a decade or so later. It astounds me that people forget or dont know they're American citizens. It bothers me that they're not included when government officials talk about how something will help American citizens.
They don't pay into the system
Lauren Abbott there are those who can't figure the word immigrants especially the racist
Sean yes we do.
SeanP7195 they in fact do. They have their own tax systems that they have to pay AND they have to pay most US federal taxes. They are however exempt form paying the federal personal income tax, but I’d say that that’s fine sense they also don’t have any representation in the United States congress and don’t have an electoral vote..
3/4 of their country lives in NY and Fl...
Thank you John Oliver for your solidarity. Bless you, Lin-Manuel. Bless you both!!
Whoa, I got chills at the end.
4 years later, I’m still addicted to Hamilton and I just discovered this
It got a down vote before anyone could even finish the episode. Trump supporters confirmed
make America great again!
Stfu there are 5 dislikes
berniesanders.com/issues/puerto-rico/
+doughnut090 Do....Do you not understand how likes and dislikes change with time?
Drumpf supporters hate John Oliver which I love seeing happen!
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a National treasure and what ever he want he should get! #HelpPuertoRico
I couldn't love you more John Oliver. Also this was what my PhD dissertation was about! In my research, I proposed the establishment of a normative framework to regulate vulture funds!!!!!
I'm indifferent to DC statehood, but Puerto Rico needs to be #51
that song gives me chills every time.
That performance brought tears to my eyes. I could hear his voice tremble with passion.
Well time for China to start building stuff in Puerto Rico so the US can Freak out.
SilvanaDil WTF? Republitard alert!
+revampted china is our landlord so its possible lool.
+Jarred Richards I don't see how that statement makes him a republitard? If China started heavily investing there the US would get worried, I'm not right wing or anything and I can see that
I remember that , don't forget about John DeLorean wanted to built his cars in P.R, but the more he tried to look into it, the more frustrated he got and then he decided to built them in Ireland. P.R always have a lot of countries wanting to invest in P.R, but that's not good for the U.S interest.
+Cristobal Ortiz Every week? My car brakes every day, and I'm damn glad it does!
Love to Puerto Rico from Delaware
Thank you Lin ❤️
Holy fuck! I live nowhere near US. I have no agenda at all when it comes to Puerto Rico but God damn, that performance on top of John Olivers introduction brought tears to my eyes. I hope they played this this clip to congress. Damn, I was not expecting this performance in the end. It took me by surprise and it rocked everything inside me. What a man! I wish I was filthy rich at this point just so I could say "here Puerto Rico, here's the money, name a street after me or something if you please but here, take the funds and get out of this mess". What a man!
+Worros While paying their debt would be a fine gift, that alone wouldn't solve the problem the of getting PR back in financial shape again. That would be solved by closing the loopholes and amending the laws that allow Big Business to operate there for free, (tax-wise) in addition to a whole host of other matters. Business and Gov't treated the PR like a tax haven, but now the people (as always) are the ones footing the bill. What John described reminds me of the unequal treaties that Imperialist nations, such as the US and England, foisted on China in the 1800s- the Chinese response was the Boxer Rebellion.
Jean Gentry
I know man. I know. However, as you said, it's again people who are hit the hardest (as it is always the case in these situations). It is people I would be looking to help (if possible). How things would need to be done in the future in order to maintain stability is certainly a larger issue and one that I am not really qualified to address. I agree with you 100% but if I had the power to do something about it right now you can bet your life that I would.
you have a kind and noble heart. Never lose that :-)
+Worros Here in Puerto Rico we name streets after literally anyone (who made some sort of an impact) so you're welcome to make us proud, stranger person! Our biggest concern is education, but I haven't heard this mentioned yet. Everything seems to be about the economic crisis, but our highlights in education aren't brought up.
Lin Manuel Miranda rocks. That was an amazing heart felt appeal.
God bless Puerto Rico!
“And they are currently facing a horror greater than a Slipknot coconut mask” 😂😂😂. Next member of Slipknot needs to wear this as there mask