Venezuelan here. 2016 was a dumpster fire of epic proportions. One time I came home from school via subway and witnessed so much poverty that I broke down crying. Thngs are looking better now, and with luck Maduro and his lackeys will be ousted from power this July 28th
Venezuela allowed very few independent international observers of the election process, and the few that were allowed universally stated that it lacked basic transparency and integrity. The result was never in doubt.
Nah, Canada is what happened when the English and the French abandoned a baby in the snow, and the baby was raised by the kind of dudes that necessitated the creation of the Geneva conventions.
I participated in the last WA state Democratic Caucus in 2016 (we’d switched to full mail-in ballots by 2020), and I’m glad I had the experience, but I would hate doing it for every presidential election! It’s chaotic, loud, and, at least for mine, in an elementary school gym that wasn’t nearly big enough!
Damn, in hindsight, I feel like Bernie would've been a FAR better candidate for the dems. Things could've turned out differently with him, though we won't ever know for sure.
@davidbodor1762 in hindsight, Bernie is quite literally as bad an option as Trump. Both are lying grifters who emboldened the worst of America to pretend to be "Patriots" for The Right and "Activists" on The Left.
@@mittensthemeow1485 The republicans are calling Biden a communist, I don't think it really matters at this point bc reps will use the same words regardless of who the candidate is.
Hillary was comfortably ahead for a majority of her time as a potential nominee. However, there *is* an obvious favored media spotlight for certain candidates - which she was given from the very beginning. We'll never know what could have been if that spot had gone to Bernie instead. Maybe he would have lost fair and square, maybe it wouldn't have mattered.. maybe he would have crushed Trump in a few debates and gone on to win. We'll never know, and that's what I personally had a problem during the 2016 election cycle.
it was also proven via leaked emails that there was unfair play in favor of Hillary against Bernie simply because Bernie's views leaned a bit _too_ far left for some of the higher up Dems liking. The fact that Trump did not win by a huge margin, and the fact that the Democratic party had to actually cheat in some ways to get Hillary as the nominee leads me to believe that it's not too hard to imagine that in an alternate timeline where morals were upheld, Bernie very well could've taken the 2016 election away from Trump, and the world would've been a _MUCH_ less shitty place to exist in during the time that has passed since those events took place.
@@nevzzzor After all the BS we had to deal with during Trump's presidency, are you honestly saying that you think Bernie, a seasoned politician that was photographed protesting during the civil rights movement decades ago, and still stands by those same values, would have been a worse president than the guy that brazenly tried to overthrow the government just because he lost?
From what I have seen, they all seem to be backing Biden 100%, much to my dismay. At this point, Biden needs to step down and they need to nominate "Generic Democrat" in his place.
Maduro could be venezuelan Saddam hussein. Anyway still no syria. Edit: we got our first shout out! 7:30 Edit 2: shout out to chechnya another example of Russian barbarism
@@bully.of.broad.st.3626 you could as an American who grew up on Friendly's, and lives in Britain, I know that he stood immediately recognize it's superiority. There is an EEL shop down the road. EELS!
comes on by default constantly if autoplay is on plus it is a pretty great way to learn stuff why to the tube makes all kinds of assumptions tho I choose to be amused
It's cute that you think that. All Trump had to do was hammer the "Communist" angle and Bernie's inability to explain his ideas as workable plans would've crushed him.
@@Kyle-xh4rn yeah, a record of doing nothing except riding the coattails of actual leaders. He'd get stomped against Trump. The plls assumed Trump and the GOP would be as lenient in running against Bernie as the DNC was.
@Kyle-xh4rn if you look at Bernie's record, you see that he's an Anti-America Socialist who praises dictators like Fidel Castro. Conservatives would've had an easy time scaring up support against Bernie and letting his natural stupidity do the rest. It's telling how Bernie had to lie to get support for his half-baked ideas, and he turned into a babbling lunatic when he had to explain his ideas beyond reductive slogans.
I can prove to you with empirical evidence that the it's impossible for any American's vote for the presidency to matter because of the electoral college if you'd like.
@@valeriedefarias Not even then. The way the electoral college works is, each state sends delegates to vote for the president. The people do not vote for the president at all, period. According to the US Constitution, the US States have the right to decide how to apportion their delegates. All states do run elections for the purpose of deciding which delegates to send. However, the laws are not consistent among states on how to treat delegates who vote against the wishes expressed during the state's election. Some states declare the faithless vote (which is what we call it when a delegate does this. And yes, this has happened. 165 times in fact. Once it even changed the outcome of an election) invalid and replace the delegate until the new delegate votes faithfully. Some states penalize faithless electors but do not declare the faithless vote invalid. And some still have no penalties or restrictions whatsoever. As the math breaks down, it's possible for a US president to be LEGALLY elected to the presidency with a grand total of 0 votes among every state election, simply through faithless electors. In a very literal sense, not a single American's vote matters in a presidential election, and the only ways this can ever change is if populations shift to the point where the majority of electoral delegates are from the extremely few states that invalidate faithless electors or if election laws are changed significantly in many states or at a federal level.
I mean, I get it is annoying, and I get that, as a politician, his "apologies" are just by the book, they are empty and meaningless, but I always find really hypocritical of people when they expect decency and maturity, but whenever that is shown, it is interpreted as annoying, goofy, and made fun of, well, you get what you hail I guess, no wonder US has so many toxic politicians.
I’m half Brazilian and half Czech and the US election system fascinates (and confuses) me. In BR we have direct votes with a second round. Voting is mandatory because we don’t see it as “a right” but more of “a duty”, and we vote on the weekend so it’s more accessible for workers. Not saying it’s perfect, far from it. But when I moved to the US and found out about electoral college I was shocked and quite confused
@@valeriedefarias Raised in the US here. Your system there sounds like a more equitable way of selecting government representatives. The schools here taught us we lived in a democratic republic (which is a bit of an oxymoron). It wasn't until the last 50 years that primary votes even mattered. Even still the party bosses still largely pick who runs in the primaries (as well as the donor class and think tank factions). We have "democratically" elect our representatives in the public (A or B). Since we don't vote on policy, it's a Republic at the national level, but local politics is sometimes still democratic (direct). It's a mess. Hopefully we can keep working on it- try to make it better for everyone.
Team Bernie Sanders! Joe would have been a boring milquetoast* Dem if it wasn't for Bernie pressuring him to adopt left leaning policies. He may not have been the president, but he is a fighter for the people.
@@treelobster6137 Just simply untrue, google is free. Just off wikipedia "In March 2015, the Obama administration imposed asset and visa sanctions against 110 Venezuelan individuals, and eight entities;[3] in August 2017, the Trump administration imposed sanctions which prohibited Venezuela's access to U.S. financial markets, and in May 2018, expanded them to block purchase of Venezuelan debt" Feel free to look up more info if you'd like
@@treelobster6137 yup that’s why I shared. You said it aired 3 years before the sanctions. That isn’t true, Obama administration passed 110 in 2015. Thus making your statement wrong 🤷♂️. I understand many more sanctions were passed after this episode but that wasn’t the point my guy.
MoistCr1TiKaL would be very upset at you mocking Moist, John. You're stepping on his turf now. Tread carefully. In the moist swamp that is TH-cam. Almost as moist a swamp as our primaries and conventions, John.
Watching these brilliant reruns is the best way to spend an afternoon, second only to paying bills and refilling my ice chest.
Oh look, its british Millhouse!
i scrolled down to the comments with exactly the right timing to hear him say these words right as i was reading them
Ok….. I tried googling it, but there hasn’t been an update and frankly this is a crime. Did that man find his cat or not??????? 👀👀💀💀💀
I was just wondering this!
Most importantly, should we still be asking him if this is his cat?
Last I heard they had *completely* lost the cat.
I would ask if this is his cat… but I’m from Eastern Europe so that’s a lil too close…
Given that the most recent article I can find was “Internet not much help finding Chechen leader's missing cat,” things don’t look good.
He looks like someone who says my parents are my best friends, who also is an orphan
Thought it was Wednesday for a second there, but guess it's just Binge Old LWT Episodes And Laugh Then Immediately Feel Bad Time.
Effin a.
mood
Series 3. 'We're about to elect a madman'. (2016). I wonder why anyone would remind us of this right now? 🤔
Venezuelan here.
2016 was a dumpster fire of epic proportions. One time I came home from school via subway and witnessed so much poverty that I broke down crying.
Thngs are looking better now, and with luck Maduro and his lackeys will be ousted from power this July 28th
i wish y'all luck!!
😢
It's only been three weeks, and this comment already hasn't aged well sadly
looks like he won?
Venezuela allowed very few independent international observers of the election process, and the few that were allowed universally stated that it lacked basic transparency and integrity. The result was never in doubt.
15:18 is probably my favourite joke ever from the show xD
Trudeau doing the "most Canadian" thing ever
Man. Trudeau was still popular back then. Simpler times. 😅😢
haha way way simpler. At least he got us legal weed, about the only good thing he did
3:26 That's straight up Canadas history simplified
So, uh, did Kadyrov ever find his cat?
Did you write him about it?
He needs to know that you have not seen his cat.
Nah, Canada is what happened when the English and the French abandoned a baby in the snow, and the baby was raised by the kind of dudes that necessitated the creation of the Geneva conventions.
What do you get when you mix sewage with champagne?
Sewage!
I kept saying “molest moist” over and over. It made me chuckle 🎸
I participated in the last WA state Democratic Caucus in 2016 (we’d switched to full mail-in ballots by 2020), and I’m glad I had the experience, but I would hate doing it for every presidential election! It’s chaotic, loud, and, at least for mine, in an elementary school gym that wasn’t nearly big enough!
Did he ever find his cat 🐈?
Damn, in hindsight, I feel like Bernie would've been a FAR better candidate for the dems. Things could've turned out differently with him, though we won't ever know for sure.
I agree 👍
@davidbodor1762 in hindsight, Bernie is quite literally as bad an option as Trump. Both are lying grifters who emboldened the worst of America to pretend to be "Patriots" for The Right and "Activists" on The Left.
Hard disagree, the word socialist alone is enough to scare away more than half of all voters.
@@mittensthemeow1485 The republicans are calling Biden a communist, I don't think it really matters at this point bc reps will use the same words regardless of who the candidate is.
@@davidbodor1762 what? I’m talking about Bernie, he’s a self described democratic socialist. The word socialist scares people on both sides.
I cannot be the only person who heard oboegate.
"party activist" sound so fun....
Hillary was comfortably ahead for a majority of her time as a potential nominee.
However, there *is* an obvious favored media spotlight for certain candidates - which she was given from the very beginning. We'll never know what could have been if that spot had gone to Bernie instead.
Maybe he would have lost fair and square, maybe it wouldn't have mattered.. maybe he would have crushed Trump in a few debates and gone on to win.
We'll never know, and that's what I personally had a problem during the 2016 election cycle.
it was also proven via leaked emails that there was unfair play in favor of Hillary against Bernie simply because Bernie's views leaned a bit _too_ far left for some of the higher up Dems liking. The fact that Trump did not win by a huge margin, and the fact that the Democratic party had to actually cheat in some ways to get Hillary as the nominee leads me to believe that it's not too hard to imagine that in an alternate timeline where morals were upheld, Bernie very well could've taken the 2016 election away from Trump, and the world would've been a _MUCH_ less shitty place to exist in during the time that has passed since those events took place.
Same here. They did Bernie dirty.
Sanders was WAAAAAAAAAAY more liked then hillary. He would have probably won against Trump after winning against Hillary, if given the opportunity
Would you like a socialist Sanders? Do you like the ultra-left?
@@nevzzzor After all the BS we had to deal with during Trump's presidency, are you honestly saying that you think Bernie, a seasoned politician that was photographed protesting during the civil rights movement decades ago, and still stands by those same values, would have been a worse president than the guy that brazenly tried to overthrow the government just because he lost?
Wonder what will happen at the DNC convention this year
Gonna be another Aliens Vs Predator.
Whoever wins. We lose.
From what I have seen, they all seem to be backing Biden 100%, much to my dismay. At this point, Biden needs to step down and they need to nominate "Generic Democrat" in his place.
@@Enjoyurbleand @agiar2000 check again! A breath of fresh air!
Maduro could be venezuelan Saddam hussein. Anyway still no syria.
Edit: we got our first shout out! 7:30
Edit 2: shout out to chechnya another example of Russian barbarism
it'll be a cold day in hell before i let someone raised on British food talk shit about Friendly's
@@bully.of.broad.st.3626 you could as an American who grew up on Friendly's, and lives in Britain, I know that he stood immediately recognize it's superiority. There is an EEL shop down the road. EELS!
Did someone just 'Benjamin Button' Henry Kissinger?
And the cat is still lost
12:55 Dan Gurewitch sighting
the angry grape looks like a classical american witch. he only needs a pointy hat and a wart to pull it all together x''D
Revisiting this from 2024 and I can't help but wonder how stuff might have turned out if Bernie Sanders had run against Trump instead
Unfortunately he couldn't quite get the votes the both times he tried.
8:28 this looked like the pro-Bernie protests in my hometown after the DNC had Hillary as the nominee
25:58 is that a shirt of Putin dressed as Jotaro Kujo???
3:30
Wild now with him being the most hated PM of my lifetime . By a lot lol
Did they ever find the cat?
Any chance we can get season 7?
Depends on if he bought the rights for it or not like he has with 1 - 3
From what I've read, he bought the rights all the way up to Season 8.
@@diapason89 oh brilliant, look forward to when he uploads them if that's the case
9:40 oh boy that clip did NOT age well
nothing to complain about if you're watching for free on youtube. we all know they're on break right now anyway
He’s so young!!!
Who else is here in 2024?
Watching these and thinking “simpler times… still dumpster fire but simpler dumpster fires”
comes on by default constantly if autoplay is on plus it is a pretty great way to learn stuff
why to the tube makes all kinds of assumptions tho
I choose to be amused
i have not seen your cat!
RIP Friendlys
the most Canadian chain of events to ever happen?
Bernie would've destroyed trump. Would have embarrassed the hell out of him.
It's cute that you think that. All Trump had to do was hammer the "Communist" angle and Bernie's inability to explain his ideas as workable plans would've crushed him.
@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez not everyone is shook by that dog whistle as they used to be. His record speaks for itself
@@Kyle-xh4rn yeah, a record of doing nothing except riding the coattails of actual leaders. He'd get stomped against Trump. The plls assumed Trump and the GOP would be as lenient in running against Bernie as the DNC was.
@Kyle-xh4rn if you look at Bernie's record, you see that he's an Anti-America Socialist who praises dictators like Fidel Castro. Conservatives would've had an easy time scaring up support against Bernie and letting his natural stupidity do the rest. It's telling how Bernie had to lie to get support for his half-baked ideas, and he turned into a babbling lunatic when he had to explain his ideas beyond reductive slogans.
@@Kyle-xh4rn I feel sorry for you. His record is a joke.
This broadcast of Last Week Tonight came out 7 days ago, And they're talking about the 2016 election I'm all sorts of confused.
They're putting all the old episodes up on TH-cam
Nose
Glasses 😊
Maduro and Trump should start a band. They could call it "The Losers."
Crack that whip John. Ty for the common sense.
Wait Jon don't say mois.... NOoooo!!! I'm too late!!!!!
Prove to me with empirical evidence that with the electoral college's existence, my vote means anything at all.
I guess it’d only really matter if you’re in a swing state right? (Genuinely asking, American voting is confusing to me)
I can prove to you with empirical evidence that the it's impossible for any American's vote for the presidency to matter because of the electoral college if you'd like.
@@valeriedefarias Not even then. The way the electoral college works is, each state sends delegates to vote for the president. The people do not vote for the president at all, period. According to the US Constitution, the US States have the right to decide how to apportion their delegates. All states do run elections for the purpose of deciding which delegates to send. However, the laws are not consistent among states on how to treat delegates who vote against the wishes expressed during the state's election. Some states declare the faithless vote (which is what we call it when a delegate does this. And yes, this has happened. 165 times in fact. Once it even changed the outcome of an election) invalid and replace the delegate until the new delegate votes faithfully. Some states penalize faithless electors but do not declare the faithless vote invalid. And some still have no penalties or restrictions whatsoever. As the math breaks down, it's possible for a US president to be LEGALLY elected to the presidency with a grand total of 0 votes among every state election, simply through faithless electors.
In a very literal sense, not a single American's vote matters in a presidential election, and the only ways this can ever change is if populations shift to the point where the majority of electoral delegates are from the extremely few states that invalidate faithless electors or if election laws are changed significantly in many states or at a federal level.
Was that Crypto Dan?
Shoulda been bernie
Please date all postings!
The date is in the description.
Is it just me or does Maduro sound exactly like Trump?
I mean, I get it is annoying, and I get that, as a politician, his "apologies" are just by the book, they are empty and meaningless, but I always find really hypocritical of people when they expect decency and maturity, but whenever that is shown, it is interpreted as annoying, goofy, and made fun of, well, you get what you hail I guess, no wonder US has so many toxic politicians.
I don’t think he was mocking the apology it self, more the amount of apology. If you apologize constantly, it looses its meaning.
Yup, we don't live in a democracy... not really.
I’m half Brazilian and half Czech and the US election system fascinates (and confuses) me. In BR we have direct votes with a second round. Voting is mandatory because we don’t see it as “a right” but more of “a duty”, and we vote on the weekend so it’s more accessible for workers. Not saying it’s perfect, far from it. But when I moved to the US and found out about electoral college I was shocked and quite confused
@@valeriedefarias Raised in the US here. Your system there sounds like a more equitable way of selecting government representatives.
The schools here taught us we lived in a democratic republic (which is a bit of an oxymoron). It wasn't until the last 50 years that primary votes even mattered. Even still the party bosses still largely pick who runs in the primaries (as well as the donor class and think tank factions). We have "democratically" elect our representatives in the public (A or B). Since we don't vote on policy, it's a Republic at the national level, but local politics is sometimes still democratic (direct).
It's a mess. Hopefully we can keep working on it- try to make it better for everyone.
This episode didn’t age well
Cool
Omigosh! I just got a bengal cat from the humane society. I hope it’s not this guys cat.
We all know Bernie should have won.
Bernie 2024!!! Or basically anyone other than Biden or Trump!!!
Ask and ye shall receive!
This comment aged interestingly hahah
Team Bernie Sanders! Joe would have been a boring milquetoast* Dem if it wasn't for Bernie pressuring him to adopt left leaning policies. He may not have been the president, but he is a fighter for the people.
Milquetoast
@@HerrCron thanks
First election I can vote in and well… fuck
funny how the british man doesn´t mention us embargoe in venezuelas crisis...
This episode aired three years before the sanctions, my dude.
@@treelobster6137 Just simply untrue, google is free. Just off wikipedia "In March 2015, the Obama administration imposed asset and visa sanctions against 110 Venezuelan individuals, and eight entities;[3] in August 2017, the Trump administration imposed sanctions which prohibited Venezuela's access to U.S. financial markets, and in May 2018, expanded them to block purchase of Venezuelan debt" Feel free to look up more info if you'd like
@@ryanrogers52 okay, now check the air date on the episode. Only one of the dates you provided would even be relevant here.
@@treelobster6137 yup that’s why I shared. You said it aired 3 years before the sanctions. That isn’t true, Obama administration passed 110 in 2015. Thus making your statement wrong 🤷♂️. I understand many more sanctions were passed after this episode but that wasn’t the point my guy.
80% of venezuelan imports are ilegal, the sanction didn't even cover 20% on the legal part. ❤ So no worries.
You should do a story on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
8/4/2024 - Mission Accomplished, sir...!
MoistCr1TiKaL would be very upset at you mocking Moist, John. You're stepping on his turf now. Tread carefully.
In the moist swamp that is TH-cam. Almost as moist a swamp as our primaries and conventions, John.
I don't know everything about Charlie but isn't he just as aware of how uncomfortable the word makes people? 😅 Thought it was part of the joke
Is Maduro the Venezuelan trump?
He is like, if a drug dealer and a nazi had a baby, and then dropped them on purpose ❤ (Yes, I am Venezuelan)
I'm an angry toucan funded by shillary.
#FindingKadyrovsCat #IsThisYourCat
Damm kinda sad
American politics is cauced-up.
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sup
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Moist.
Bo Burnham has thoughts.
John that bs at 23.46 This is canine propaganda.
RIP Meatloaf
You've got 9.5 million subs, but you only got 12k views in a day? That doesn't add up.
That's what happens when you mass release 35 episodes from 8 years ago all in the same minute.
bernie sanders 4 president!