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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - returns Feb 12th 2017

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By the way, is this a common thing among Republicans? I swear this is a bloody theme.

"I have 5 daughters" (not mentioning the brothers)
"I have 5 sisters" (same thing)

Is this how Republicans actually still get elected? By fucking like rabbits and spreading their ignorance as much as they can through relatives while the more sensible people are more in numbers of families but just stick with fewer children cause easier to manage?
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You usually see this sort of behaviour amongst families in nations with high child mortality rate. Is this how they prepare in the eventuality one of their children gets shot?
 
Keasar said:
By the way, is this a common thing among Republicans? I swear this is a bloody theme.

"I have 5 daughters" (not mentioning the brothers)
"I have 5 sisters" (same thing)

Is this how Republicans actually still get elected? By fucking like rabbits and spreading their ignorance as much as they can through relatives while the more sensible people are more in numbers of families but just stick with fewer children cause easier to manage?
Copy-of-romney-full-size-850x478$large.jpg

You usually see this sort of behaviour amongst families in nations with high child mortality rate. Is this how they prepare in the eventuality one of their children gets shot?
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"Traditional Family Values"
 
Keasar said:
By the way, is this a common thing among Republicans? I swear this is a bloody theme.

"I have 5 daughters" (not mentioning the brothers)
"I have 5 sisters" (same thing)

Is this how Republicans actually still get elected? By fucking like rabbits and spreading their ignorance as much as they can through relatives while the more sensible people are more in numbers of families but just stick with fewer children cause easier to manage?
Copy-of-romney-full-size-850x478$large.jpg

You usually see this sort of behaviour amongst families in nations with high child mortality rate. Is this how they prepare in the eventuality one of their children gets shot?
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Well, Christianity encourages having children. Some denominations put more emphasis on it than others though.
 
Keasar said:
By the way, is this a common thing among Republicans? I swear this is a bloody theme.

"I have 5 daughters" (not mentioning the brothers)
"I have 5 sisters" (same thing)

Is this how Republicans actually still get elected? By fucking like rabbits and spreading their ignorance as much as they can through relatives while the more sensible people are more in numbers of families but just stick with fewer children cause easier to manage?
Copy-of-romney-full-size-850x478$large.jpg

You usually see this sort of behaviour amongst families in nations with high child mortality rate. Is this how they prepare in the eventuality one of their children gets shot?
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I'm pretty sure the huge Republican families are exclusively either Mormons or those obscure Christian denominations that promote having as many children as possible.

Mitt Romney, the guy in that example you posted, is Mormon.

EDIT: I looked it up, but Mitt Romney only had 5 sons with his one and only wife. Not sure how he's related to all those kids in that photo.
 
I was really hoping he'd do two 'And now, this' segments.
The first: News casters talking around the word 'pussy'
the second: news casters saying the word 'pussy'
 
Third Parties

This week's segment was a very important one. These third party candidates are a joke. Completely irresponsible to vote for them if you only have a surface level understanding of their platforms.
 
FortuneFaded said:
I bet you're fun at parties.
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I'm actually terrible at parties. It's all fun and games until ol' Titanoboa points out the flaws in your wifi cancer conspiracies.

Htown said:
"Many would prefer to vote for Kevin Kline's character from the movie Dave, or the ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr., assuming he only said the three quotes that white people like."

I SAID GODDAMN
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I know a lot of people say that Oliver's style has gotten a little too same-y, but at least once an episode you get a line like this that makes it all worth it. I was howling.
 
"Many would prefer to vote for Kevin Kline's character from the movie Dave, or the ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr., assuming he only said the three quotes that white people like."

I SAID GODDAMN
 
Yeah, she's open to people "just asking questions" no matter how batshit they are. Basically trying to win votes by being vague.
 
The one joke that has been REALLY falling flat for me this season is:

"The 2016 election, or as its commonly know, [stupid, not funny, overly long alternative same] 2016"

Aside from that, great episode.
 
I know I shouldn't read the YT comments, but I couldn't help but notice people are accusing John of being on the take of the Clinton campaign according to a Snopes article and Wikileaks. Is there any truth to this?
 
chaobreaker said:
I know I shouldn't read the YT comments, but I couldn't help but notice people are accusing John of being on the take of the Clinton campaign according to a Snopes article and Wikileaks. Is there any truth to this?
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I mean, within this very segment he called Hilary hawkish and the embodiment of everything wrong with Wall Street mixing with politics, so I mean, no? He also said earlier in the episode that it was a shame that Trump was dominating the news when some of the wikileaks stuff has shown a lot of questionable behavior from the Clinton campaign (although I'm not sure what he's referring to, since almost all of the leaks about Clinton this month has been a lot of nothing). He's clearly anti-Trump and all, but I don't really see him as being any kind of left-wing mark either.
 
FlammableD said:
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If you look up the Snopes article, it goes into why it's bullshit, but all you need to know is it comes from InfoWars.
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Lord Frieza said:
I mean, within this very segment he called Hilary hawkish and the embodiment of everything wrong with Wall Street mixing with politics, so I mean, no? He also said earlier in the episode that it was a shame that Trump was dominating the news when some of the wikileaks stuff has shown a lot of questionable behavior from the Clinton campaign (although I'm not sure what he's referring to, since almost all of the leaks about Clinton this month has been a lot of nothing). He's clearly anti-Trump and all, but I don't really see him as being any kind of left-wing mark either.
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I know people are full of shit when they accuse John of being on the take, but I genuinely thought there was conclusive evidence if it's from Snopes. My bad.

morningbus said:
Which one are you talking about? The Snopes article here clearly says the allegations are false: http://www.snopes.com/leaked-e-mail-clinton-foundation-john-oliver/
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That just makes me question why the fuck commenters we're using it as a smoking gun in the first place.
 
The YouTube comments are amazing. People really can't face criticisms for their best candidate without screaming 'biased!'
 
chaobreaker said:
I know people are full of shit when they accuse John of being on the take, but I genuinely thought there was conclusive evidence if it's from Snopes. My bad.
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That's why they say Snopes has evidence--it's well trusted to find the truth in unbelievable claims. Plus, lots of people won't look for an article if someone just says it exists.

It's true, I saw it on CNN.
/s
 
Juan29.zapata said:
The YouTube comments are amazing. People really can't face criticisms for their best candidate without screaming 'biased!'
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They really are. Criticism of "bias" in political comedy shows is the most bizarre thing to me. Always odd seeing it.

Like, this ain't the fucking bbc, dipshits. Of course the segment is trying to sell you on a political opinion. That's literally every John Oliver segment. You just don't like the side he's biased for.
 
chaobreaker said:
I know people are full of shit when they accuse John of being on the take, but I genuinely thought there was conclusive evidence if it's from Snopes. My bad.
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It's the same method fake virus alert emails use. Say it's confirmed by Snopes and assume anyone who wants to believe it won't actually check Snopes cause they've already been told that someone confirmed their fears.
 
Htown said:
"Many would prefer to vote for Kevin Kline's character from the movie Dave, or the ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr., assuming he only said the three quotes that white people like."
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Best joke in the entire segment, surprised it didn't get a better reception than it did.
 
Boy, that Glenn Grothman sure is a sack of shit."I talked to twenty black people and they didn't care about Kwanzaa" is the SSJ3 version of "I have a black friend". Fuck that guy.
 
I feel this story about painkillers barely scratches the surface. I expcted him to bring up antibiotics. Doctors prescribe those way too much too!!

Is Heroin the only relay they take after painkillers? Is anybody tryin to qualm the addiction in other ways?
 
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