From the shores of Lake Cohaha To the hills of Butare Across the plains of Kibungo From Brundi to Unganda From Getarama down to Cyangugu And Busoro to Nyagatare Where's pride in every Rwandan heart And it's time we stand and say That I'm proud to be a Rwandan Where some of us are free And I won't forget the genocide Who gave that right to me And I'd gladly stand up next to you And defend Her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God Bless the Rwandese!
@@luxurypetsczI was thinking the same thing! I hope the Americans to taste backfires from their foreign policy, which is the same for both candidates. The last one ( you know what it was) it was so funny to watch, and very spectacular 😅. I m not sorry for Americans, because their presidents made possible for my country to be under dictatorship for 10 years. They gave them money and armour, because they were afraid of the Communist influence.
I blame the biased media and the poor education system. And Trump himself and his high-ranking people, of course. They have manipulated a big part of the population. I feel very sorry for especially the other half of the population, who doesn't support Trump, that has to live with the consequences if he's elected as well.
Gotta love an episode that combines years long investigate journalism about a very specific silly topic capped off with them blowing HBO's budget on a very elaborate music video
I really wondered about that "silly" , since I am still imagining the people drawn from there homes, the children separated from their families, trying to keep at distance the memory of clips traumatized children seen on Sam B.'s show - it doesn't feel silly. But then it occurred to me you specifically mean the song and the copyright etc. and though I have written songs myself and gotten and earned somewhere close to 50$ for others using them (yes, it's funny, I know, it's like two cups of U.S. takeaway coffees) ... I still think that subject is silly compared to the menacingly realistic possibility of mass deportation.
@@cnj67 the issue is when you have big problems that are being dealt with in a crappy way, humor lessens the pain when they are trying to explain it. When I listened to the little girl crying because she was scared and missed her father that naturally, like most people, I feel very bad that she is stuck in the system where people are being abused by a system (we know too many don't care though). The other thing is that John was pointing out how songs like Lee Greenwood's are almost cult like (my words, not his). There are many people that don't give a 💩that there is a separation of church and state and god has NOTHING to do with our country or how it was founded. Every time they played his song I screamed because I really hate listening to it. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Sorry about the rant.
@@cnj67 I meant silly as in the absurdity of Lee Greenwood's behavior in the whole story, but yes, I agree that combining it with the immigration story gives it a slightly dark undertone to the whole thing
@@UltimatePerfection Pet skunks are fine, They don't have stink glands and they are are adorable and very similar to cats and easy to tame and manage if you raise them from birth. If a skunk vomits at the sight of Miller, than a cat and a dog is gonna do the same.
Not american here : laughed at the boeing door and "I remember the coup", but the choir salute with the Statue of Liberty was one of the most USA thing I've seen this year and I really liked it.
When I was a child, all I wanted to do was move to the US. But seeing how crazy things are over there, I'm not so sure now. But I'll admit, the last part of the song gave me goosebumps. It's so sad because America is a country built on defiance. And it's right up my ally. I'd be so proud to call it my home under better circumstances.
The party ruling Germany during WWII also wanted to mass-deport a certain group of people, and then decided it was too expensive, and then they did the other thing. It's not hard for them to choose that less expensive option after systematically dehumanizing a group of people.
Of course did not help that every other country closed their borders to these refugees, including ships turned back at New York. Big part of why we have refugee laws internationally.
Just so we're clear, this is a very biased programme. Certainly, they refer back to sources when bringing in data, but if that's all that's needed to be 'the most honest,' that would be a sad state indeed, and I doubt that's the case.
I wish John can just actually admits that he actually does Journalism... Because by God he and his team is, indeed, a golden standard for me... Then again, Trucknut Carl's Jr. Show was called "Entertainment" when it was deliberately posing as news... So yeah
HBO is who pays their wages, so by watching it on HBO Max, you'd actually be supporting it more ... almost like you're paying the ticket for others. I admit shamefully I watch it here, too, even if I have HBO, but it's because it doesn't come out on HBO where I live until the subtitles are ready in our language, and I don't have the patience. (Though they are good subtitles, I am in an FB group with the subtitler, and she is smart and funny).
Comedy shows have been some of the most serious news dealers since it was established that way by Jon Stewart. This program just does that in-depth thing and always looks into incredibly important and horribly bleak sides of society and politics.
@@DagobertX2 GOD what I wouldn't do for some Mountain Dew. I *know* it won't taste good like it did when I was in college, and I *know* I will regret drinking it, but by GODS, I want some now.
In an interview John Oliver said that he is thankful that HBO is willing to pay for "stupid things". Could be interesting to see a compilation with price tags. In the interview John was asked if he sees himself as a journalist, which he doesn't, but still, the people working on "Las Week Tonight" has more journalistic integrity than many of the US news outlets.
> , the people working on "Las Week Tonight" has more journalistic integrity than many of the US news outlets. It is literally the only US media outlet I feel I can trust to look into the real stories and truth behind it. The rest feel like anger-enducing entertainment - And the Euro news channels are starting to fall into the same deal :/
If you have worked in construction, you already know Mexican and Latin Americans are generally the most SKILLED workers on a jobsite. It's not just that they are willing to do the hardest jobs, they are the BEST workers you ever HOPE to hire.
that's because to them, your jobsite is perhaps their one hope to make something for themselves and their children. Never underestimate the human capacity to endure suffering for a cause.
Desperate, exploitable, unskilled laborers are a band-aid on the stab wounds of capitalism. Do you want an imported slave class building your homes and growing your food? Or should those very important jobs pay enough for people not under threat of deportation to actually want to do them?
@@MrEstradaG As someone from a latin american country: Generally in Latin America you work similarly long hours and you get more protections. The difference is in the US they pay you 4-6 times more for the same job.
@@andersjepsen1309 Capitalism isn't going to solve that either. Unless the US moves to a different economic system and value system, none of it will change and it's best to just make the best out of a broken system.
18:22 Regarding the study that showed that people preferred pathway to citizenship over mass deportation. This reminded me of a TV show that ran here in Denmark a decade ago. In it, a number of people were presented with the details of a criminal case in 3 different rounds. The first round they were given the bare basics, the second a bit more information and the third they were given the full picture. After each round they had to "vote" on what punishment they think the person deserved and at the end of their 3rd vote they would also learn what punishment the courts had actually handed down. The conclusion was generally always really poignant: aside from the odd outliers most people chose to be MUCH more lenient, and become progressively more lenient, as they were given more information about the case and the human tragedies behind it. Yet at the same time politicians in Denmark are constantly running on the same platform of "tough on crime" and "tough on immigrants" as we see in the states and everywhere else. And naturally, most of the people on the show would've been among the people who voted for candidates who promised this very thing. Yet when actually confronted with the full human picture they were MUCH more likely to give second chances and apply community services and stuff like that. But ofcourse, years and years of angry rhetoric has inevitably led to the courts being simply tied down by certain laws. Human context and suffering, which we seem to want to take account of personally, becomes irrelevant the moment sentences become mandatory and sweeping.
Interesting! I'm swedish and while I think a few crimes here could use longer sentences my first thought is actually cost. It's expensive to house criminals. So the solution is rarely longer sentences, it's better to use the money for therapists, education etc.
@shadowcat311 If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what research has found as well. That peoples' sense of justice and the monetary cost to society are often in conflict. Rehabilitation, while going against many peoples' sense of justice, is actually cheaper and better for society. If the goal is to have less crime that is.
Some cities in Denmark, like Aarhus, have restorative justice programs as optional alternatives to the regular criminal justice system. These are programs where the criminal and the victim meet with a trained professional to develop a plan for how the criminal will repay their debt to the victim and the society. Restorative programs tend to be more effective at preventing recidivism AND helping victims recover psychologically. I don't see how that would work with someone who was residing in the US illegally, but restorative justice could help the US with many of the other problems LWT has covered.
And despite 5 years of this kind of rhetoric, Trump still got 40% and 37% of the Hispanic male and female vote in 2020-many of whom have parents who were literally at the border 40 years ago. A reminder that hardship and generational trauma does not necessarily inspire empathy and compassion.
or maybe there is something deeper that is the issue that nobody is facing... the right wingers dont face it either, but they have the balls/audacity(considering its pandering most of the time) to address it... its fear/safety... deny it all you want, there is a fact that immigrants bring criminality with them... its not an american thing... im greek... we have seen the same thing, with albanians mainly(but with other former eastern block countries too) in the 90s, and with pakistanis/afghans in the 10s... i dont know about america, but in greece, before the 90s people used to leave their doors open and the keys on their car engine... my grandpa in our village used to leave the truck like that... now some years before he died, we had to bar all his windows and phone him every night and morning to check if he got murdered for his pension or not... do you think we feared for other greeks murdering him? do you think the mexicans/latinos that live in poor neighborhoods dont face the same problems i described in greece? because i can bet you money they do... so here comes a guy that promises that he will kick out every "bad hombre" and for the average latino thats taking care of a problem he faces daily... SAFETY.
Well, that's exactly why he has those votes. Just like in the case of black violence and black gangs, law-abiding citizens who live next door, i.e. other blacks, are the most affected. People living among whites, in gated communities behind a tall fence and with private security, want to defund the police. The average Joe voting for Trump relies on the police to survive. Just recall the hysteria that happened when republicans sent illegals to white democratic cities. Oliver knows exactly what kind of people he supports just because his political agenda demands it. He doesn't care. He knows that the closest he'll ever be to them is when he passes them by on the streets in his luxury car. He's not going to live in a cartel-controlled suburb filled with illegals and people struggling to make their ends meet who can't leave for a gated community. These are real existential everyday problems of people who couldn't care less about mental issues of sexual deviants, spoiled celebrities, or the latest newspeak word for this or that. The orange dumbass is the only person recognizing real issues. Are his solutions any good? They are the only ones available, so it doesn't matter how good they are.
Latin Americans are still often conservative. Once their own necks are not on the line they will vote for what they feel like any other American. I know a lot of people here (I'm from latin america) who favor Trump. In *my* immediate family. Largely because they make associations with our own politics, and because they don't understand the American political landscape.
@@Altrantisvenezuelans especially are mostly haters of anything considered leftist (because a leftist destroyed our country), so we will usually vote for whatever option leans more to the right no matter what the guy says.
Reminder: *Arnold Schwarzenegger* was *an illegal immigrant.* And what did the Republicans do to teach him a lesson? They named him *Governor of California.*
As a former Californian that was in California during his tenure, they didn't name him the Governor of California, we did. There are a lot of things that can be blamed on the Republicans. This isn't one of them. Kinda wished I saved the campaign voice mail I got from Arnold Schwarzenegger though. It was kinda cool to have him on your answering machine.
@@louiea4276"Come to America! We'll welcome you with open arms! Why, you can even be a governor even if you're an illegal immigrant! Live the American Dream!....if you're white." - Republicans, apparently
Wouldn't those "1 million illegal immigrants that have commited violent crimes" that JD Vance mentions already be in jail or deported, if their crimes would have been proven legaly?
As far as i know there can be spanners in the works of that, if A. The criminal in question is from a country without extradition treaties in place or B. Keeping the terrorist in the US is of interest to the government
yeah thats what i was thinking, the criminals are already in jail so how are we supposed to tell which of the other ones are criminals that can't be proven?
Nope, many immigrants from other countries committed their crimes in their home countries and set free to come to the US. As a Hispanic US citizens I have been assaulted on several occasions but I’m lucky that I’m not only a US citizen but also a Texan. If you don’t know what that means then you’re a weak Dem
That's funny, the very first thing I thought of... He and his writers, Emmy king's"!, as well; they should win the "Peabody Awards" yearly. great segment!
I didn't understand why will the number of countries matter in the first place. And then I remember the episodio when Jhon make a long list of "country's you have never heard before" And hope we get a new list of made-up country names. 😂
I guarantee that government office that kept e-mailing about the song is talking about this episode tomorrow and that brings me joy. Maybe this Thursday when the episode comes out proper on youtube there
The United States are a crazy place. I live in one of the more right-leaning states in Brazil, where healthcare workers have learned a few phrases to assist people from Haiti. Initially, I witnessed some prejudice, but people quickly adapted and began to do the right thing." Now, only in my city, there are people from Haiti, Senegal, Bolivia and Venezuela. No one here wants to kick ‘em out.
I mean, they complain about immigrants and drugs from South America and they're the ones who crashed the economies there and got them growing drugs in the first place so...😅
It just that time again. Last time a dictator tried to remove an entire ethnic and religious group, everyone also said he would never get the power and he would never do anything that insane. And here we are again, now 85 years since last attempt.
@@poulhennewell I see your point but Trump is not a dictator (yet at least), these kind of stretched comparisons don’t help anyone, same as calling people naz!s just because.
@@hectito982 _"but Trump is not a dictator (yet at least), these kind of stretched comparisons don’t help anyone"_ Get transcripts of his speeches and read them. Don't listen to people saying what they think he meant, because those are his PR teams trying to tone the message down for you to accept. Read his actual words. Don't listen to the vids because that has all the propaganda machines working in them. Just read his plain words. And yes, it is propaganda. I spent 8+ years and a war in US Army Psychological Operations learning to identify it in all its forms.
Thanks for making my day! You are the best news caster without trying to be! Now I'm waiting for the miracle next Tuesday, to make America sane again! Slava Ukraini!
Dear MAGA weirdos, "Black and brown." The words you're looking for are "black and brown", not "illegal." Because Charlie Chaplin, John Lennon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox were once illegal immigrants, and y'all didn't see a problem of letting them stay.
@@Damitche024 can't speak to all the examples , but musk literally worked while illegal to do so ...is a law a law or are we playing favorites ? Got it . But good point in the end it's just meaningless paperwork for all .
That ‘let him cook?’ was super funny and also please DO NOT let him do that. Americans, please do vote for Kamala Harris so Trump does not get into office again😥
not really, I've been following the show since it started but I'm getting tired of the Trump based episodes, so far this season there have been 2? 3? and how many times we heard the jokes about Vance? meanwhile the democrats are running an installed candidate with no base, no clear policy and no hope to get a snigle interview right, and we never get jokes about that.
not only is this the most humorojs show on television, it is also the most insightful, and the most entertaining. I would say "God bless Last Week Tonight" but there is no god, and I'm no fool.
that clip with the young girl whose parents were taken during the raid at work made me cry. and i daresay John was, too, if not restraining himself from punching someone/something.
Watching this video in Japan, a country where I lived as a foreigner for almost ten years. The number of racist languages from mainstream politicians has increased drastically in the recent two decades beyond anyone's imagination. What surprises me most is that the logic behind those attacks against "unlawful" immigrants are strikingly similar in both countries, given the different cultural and social contexts.
American and Japanese conservatism are extremely similar due to cultural parallels and historical reasons. Far too much historical involvement to list, and a lot of overlapping cultural elements such as xenophobic nationalism, honor culture, toxic ultra-capitalist work ethic...
There're economical Nexus between the japanese and american far right groups . Japanese politicians have been in the GOP conventions and donated money.
Well, it's a universal behavior with only USA (commendably) trying to accept and welcome everyone into their country, reinforced by their constitution and values. That's not how it's done elsewhere in the world where generational culture and ancestry form your identity, linked to the land they live on. You will always be a foreigner and can easily be blamed for issues because you're an outsider.
Oh my god that song is absolutely amazing !!! I'm not even American and it made me feel patriotic for the USA I badly want a legend my own country to write something in that vein
I lived in England immediately pre-Brexit, so the BBC did a documentary about how will we find menial workers once the Eastern European immigrants are thrown out. So they sent a bunch of the pro-Brexit people to work on a farm for a day. Easy, right? Wrong. After the end of the day the owner of said farm went on camera to say that this bunch was about eight times slower than the Bulgarians and Romanians that the British hard right wanted to get rid of. Immigrants do work, generally on position no of the locals want. So good luck with deporting 13 million people from your workforce.
I would like to a Danish vision of the green-wood-song too. 😂😂😂 And it should have cities like Bonderup, Nyrup, Odense, Christianshavn and Årup in it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Orahime-sama I've heard of him and I kinda knew he's a musician (without knowing any details), but I can't think of any song I'd know from him and I didn't know the one talked about in this segment was his. Also, the song is absolute crap, he wishes he was Prince 😂
@@Orahime-sama Hell I'm American and a combat veteran of the US Army and I didn't recognize the guy's name. Sure know the song though - damn did they ever play it too much.
And I'm proud to be from the Philippines, Where my heart and soul are free. And I won’t forget the love and pride Of my homeland by the sea. So I'll stand up strong, and hold my ground, For this land so dear to me. God bless the Philippines, Our home of liberty.
@@blechtic well being that I emigrated from Canada, and heard the Canadian version of the song, yes. Even as a kid hearing that song, I thought it sucked. I honestly would have preferred the theme song to Team America: World Police
ANYONE that cannot admit to making a mistake SHOULD NOT BE ON THE BALLOT .... (Never forget that he said he "never needed to ask God for forgiveness").
Okay im not remotely American and merely follow along in the crazy reality how that is the us but i got chills from that song in the end for some reason
I just learned that not only is Dan Gurewitch writing for this show Daniel O'Brien has been for a while also. Good job you guys I am proud to be an internet citizen and see people succeeding.
OMG i loved that ONE.... is there a way to make a petition or somewhat democratic thing to make "started today you're american" the official immigration song from now on? :D I'll be applying to be an american citizen just to hear it again :D
I’m an America living in Japan and it saddens me to see my country torn apart. I’m so proud to be an American, but I wish Americans would think for themselves instead of listening to a dictator worshipping buffoon.
Feeling proud of being part of a country that did so much bad stuff in the world is one of the problems. The president candidates use that feeling to make people vote for them without tackling the reals problems of the country. Many US citizens are very similar to German people in the 3rd Reich, but they didn't have as much information available as Americans today. So the US nationalism is even worse :(
With so many distractions and dissatisfactions, many people don't want to think or invest time to be empathetic or have compassion, many just want to blame easy targets like immigrants, especially immigrants.
From the shores of Lake Cohaha
To the hills of Butare
Across the plains of Kibungo
From Brundi to Unganda
From Getarama down to Cyangugu
And Busoro to Nyagatare
Where's pride in every Rwandan heart
And it's time we stand and say
That I'm proud to be a Rwandan
Where some of us are free
And I won't forget the genocide
Who gave that right to me
And I'd gladly stand up next to you
And defend Her still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt
I love this land
God Bless the Rwandese!
Yours is already better than Lee's knockoff.
Let's enjoy the poetry of it and not sing it so that Lee doesn't get any dime on it. Very nice writing ❤
😂🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Bravo! Best reply I've seen.
"Where some of us are free" made me chuckle when I was singing it
Dear America,
Please don't be stupid.
Thank you,
- Rest of the world
Dear America,
Please do be stupid, we're bored.
Regards,
The more pessimistic part of the rest of the world
half of the country support trump, the "don't be stupid" ship has already sailed, now it should be, "please, redeem yourselves"
Unfortunately they don't have access to this video so they will be stupid.
@@luxurypetsczI was thinking the same thing! I hope the Americans to taste backfires from their foreign policy, which is the same for both candidates. The last one ( you know what it was) it was so funny to watch, and very spectacular 😅. I m not sorry for Americans, because their presidents made possible for my country to be under dictatorship for 10 years. They gave them money and armour, because they were afraid of the Communist influence.
I blame the biased media and the poor education system. And Trump himself and his high-ranking people, of course. They have manipulated a big part of the population. I feel very sorry for especially the other half of the population, who doesn't support Trump, that has to live with the consequences if he's elected as well.
What an epic song, really proud of you for that one America, Can't wait for the Canadian version of that song to come out :)
imagine if they get Celine Dion to do it 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gotta love an episode that combines years long investigate journalism about a very specific silly topic capped off with them blowing HBO's budget on a very elaborate music video
I really wondered about that "silly" , since I am still imagining the people drawn from there homes, the children separated from their families, trying to keep at distance the memory of clips traumatized children seen on Sam B.'s show - it doesn't feel silly. But then it occurred to me you specifically mean the song and the copyright etc. and though I have written songs myself and gotten and earned somewhere close to 50$ for others using them (yes, it's funny, I know, it's like two cups of U.S. takeaway coffees) ... I still think that subject is silly compared to the menacingly realistic possibility of mass deportation.
@@cnj67 the issue is when you have big problems that are being dealt with in a crappy way, humor lessens the pain when they are trying to explain it. When I listened to the little girl crying because she was scared and missed her father that naturally, like most people, I feel very bad that she is stuck in the system where people are being abused by a system (we know too many don't care though).
The other thing is that John was pointing out how songs like Lee Greenwood's are almost cult like (my words, not his). There are many people that don't give a 💩that there is a separation of church and state and god has NOTHING to do with our country or how it was founded. Every time they played his song I screamed because I really hate listening to it. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Sorry about the rant.
@@cnj67 I meant silly as in the absurdity of Lee Greenwood's behavior in the whole story, but yes, I agree that combining it with the immigration story gives it a slightly dark undertone to the whole thing
Hey! DO NOT SHOW STEPHEN MILLER without warning! My pet skunk was on the couch with us and started vomiting
Wasn't trump calling miller an idiot in the Rogan podcast?
That's on you for having a pet skunk.
@@UltimatePerfectionNo, it's definitely on the GOP for having a pet Stephen Miller.
Lol get out get out lol i cant 😂😂😂😂
@@UltimatePerfection Pet skunks are fine, They don't have stink glands and they are are adorable and very similar to cats and easy to tame and manage if you raise them from birth. If a skunk vomits at the sight of Miller, than a cat and a dog is gonna do the same.
That closing song needs to be played at, like, ALL THE THINGS 🇺🇲 😎 🤘 ✨
Yeah and I want the name of that song, so I can add it to my playlist.
Not american here : laughed at the boeing door and "I remember the coup", but the choir salute with the Statue of Liberty was one of the most USA thing I've seen this year and I really liked it.
@@TheTeccala The Boeing door, in particular, got me too
@@gametheorymedia The Boeing door also got all the whistleblowers too
When I was a child, all I wanted to do was move to the US. But seeing how crazy things are over there, I'm not so sure now. But I'll admit, the last part of the song gave me goosebumps. It's so sad because America is a country built on defiance. And it's right up my ally. I'd be so proud to call it my home under better circumstances.
The party ruling Germany during WWII also wanted to mass-deport a certain group of people, and then decided it was too expensive, and then they did the other thing. It's not hard for them to choose that less expensive option after systematically dehumanizing a group of people.
Of course did not help that every other country closed their borders to these refugees, including ships turned back at New York.
Big part of why we have refugee laws internationally.
And of course, it would be uniformly ruinous and expensive regardless because there is simply no good reason to ever do this.
yea to madagascar
As he said, some of them are not people...thats how it starts
Yeah yeah and orange man will grow a mustache sooner than you'll be able to grow up
I have HBO Max., but still watch it here to support the show being available for everyone.
It's the most honest news show in the entire West.
Why are you gei?
Just so we're clear, this is a very biased programme. Certainly, they refer back to sources when bringing in data, but if that's all that's needed to be 'the most honest,' that would be a sad state indeed, and I doubt that's the case.
I wish John can just actually admits that he actually does Journalism... Because by God he and his team is, indeed, a golden standard for me...
Then again, Trucknut Carl's Jr. Show was called "Entertainment" when it was deliberately posing as news... So yeah
HBO is who pays their wages, so by watching it on HBO Max, you'd actually be supporting it more ... almost like you're paying the ticket for others.
I admit shamefully I watch it here, too, even if I have HBO, but it's because it doesn't come out on HBO where I live until the subtitles are ready in our language, and I don't have the patience. (Though they are good subtitles, I am in an FB group with the subtitler, and she is smart and funny).
Comedy shows have been some of the most serious news dealers since it was established that way by Jon Stewart. This program just does that in-depth thing and always looks into incredibly important and horribly bleak sides of society and politics.
I can't lie - that song made my heart grow three sizes. Bravo to the LWT team!
That was the Mountain Dew you just drank. 😉
@@DagobertX2 GOD what I wouldn't do for some Mountain Dew. I *know* it won't taste good like it did when I was in college, and I *know* I will regret drinking it, but by GODS, I want some now.
Go to the doctor asap
@@aleksandrakowalczyk6043 I'll make an appointment.
@@aleksandrakowalczyk6043 I did, and that weird gilded x-ray picture frame thing they use to look at your heart? Just busted right there and then.
"Holy Sh*t, I just remembered the Coup!" 😂😅😆
Great show! Classic Grand Ending worthy of a Season Finale!
Time for my weekly dose of losing my faith in humanity! Take me away, Human Zazu!
Oh, you still losing it? That's cute...
@@ssenssel Everytime i listen to "Eat shit bob" i regain it
This is the morning report
Gives you the long and the short
Every grunt, roar, and snort
Not a tale I distort
On the morning report
@@AammaK Dickens?
Rowan Atkinson is the better Zazu
In an interview John Oliver said that he is thankful that HBO is willing to pay for "stupid things". Could be interesting to see a compilation with price tags. In the interview John was asked if he sees himself as a journalist, which he doesn't, but still, the people working on "Las Week Tonight" has more journalistic integrity than many of the US news outlets.
I think it's this one: John Oliver Is Still Working Through the Rage (ua-cam.com/video/Q9kNMJ8SguQ/v-deo.html)
> , the people working on "Las Week Tonight" has more journalistic integrity than many of the US news outlets.
It is literally the only US media outlet I feel I can trust to look into the real stories and truth behind it.
The rest feel like anger-enducing entertainment - And the Euro news channels are starting to fall into the same deal :/
If you have worked in construction, you already know Mexican and Latin Americans are generally the most SKILLED workers on a jobsite. It's not just that they are willing to do the hardest jobs, they are the BEST workers you ever HOPE to hire.
that's because to them, your jobsite is perhaps their one hope to make something for themselves and their children. Never underestimate the human capacity to endure suffering for a cause.
Also hard labor in the US is like a child's play in Latin America for them
Desperate, exploitable, unskilled laborers are a band-aid on the stab wounds of capitalism. Do you want an imported slave class building your homes and growing your food? Or should those very important jobs pay enough for people not under threat of deportation to actually want to do them?
@@MrEstradaG As someone from a latin american country: Generally in Latin America you work similarly long hours and you get more protections. The difference is in the US they pay you 4-6 times more for the same job.
@@andersjepsen1309 Capitalism isn't going to solve that either. Unless the US moves to a different economic system and value system, none of it will change and it's best to just make the best out of a broken system.
18:22 Regarding the study that showed that people preferred pathway to citizenship over mass deportation. This reminded me of a TV show that ran here in Denmark a decade ago. In it, a number of people were presented with the details of a criminal case in 3 different rounds. The first round they were given the bare basics, the second a bit more information and the third they were given the full picture. After each round they had to "vote" on what punishment they think the person deserved and at the end of their 3rd vote they would also learn what punishment the courts had actually handed down. The conclusion was generally always really poignant: aside from the odd outliers most people chose to be MUCH more lenient, and become progressively more lenient, as they were given more information about the case and the human tragedies behind it. Yet at the same time politicians in Denmark are constantly running on the same platform of "tough on crime" and "tough on immigrants" as we see in the states and everywhere else. And naturally, most of the people on the show would've been among the people who voted for candidates who promised this very thing. Yet when actually confronted with the full human picture they were MUCH more likely to give second chances and apply community services and stuff like that. But ofcourse, years and years of angry rhetoric has inevitably led to the courts being simply tied down by certain laws. Human context and suffering, which we seem to want to take account of personally, becomes irrelevant the moment sentences become mandatory and sweeping.
Interesting! I'm swedish and while I think a few crimes here could use longer sentences my first thought is actually cost. It's expensive to house criminals. So the solution is rarely longer sentences, it's better to use the money for therapists, education etc.
Hvad hed det program?
@shadowcat311 If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what research has found as well. That peoples' sense of justice and the monetary cost to society are often in conflict. Rehabilitation, while going against many peoples' sense of justice, is actually cheaper and better for society. If the goal is to have less crime that is.
Some cities in Denmark, like Aarhus, have restorative justice programs as optional alternatives to the regular criminal justice system. These are programs where the criminal and the victim meet with a trained professional to develop a plan for how the criminal will repay their debt to the victim and the society. Restorative programs tend to be more effective at preventing recidivism AND helping victims recover psychologically. I don't see how that would work with someone who was residing in the US illegally, but restorative justice could help the US with many of the other problems LWT has covered.
@@phrinlas oh a 100%. I'm a big fan of those kinds of projects!
We need this twice a week some weeks.
That last song absolutely slapped ngl
I need a separate video of just that so I can't send it to americans I know with no context
And despite 5 years of this kind of rhetoric, Trump still got 40% and 37% of the Hispanic male and female vote in 2020-many of whom have parents who were literally at the border 40 years ago. A reminder that hardship and generational trauma does not necessarily inspire empathy and compassion.
or maybe there is something deeper that is the issue that nobody is facing... the right wingers dont face it either, but they have the balls/audacity(considering its pandering most of the time) to address it... its fear/safety... deny it all you want, there is a fact that immigrants bring criminality with them... its not an american thing... im greek... we have seen the same thing, with albanians mainly(but with other former eastern block countries too) in the 90s, and with pakistanis/afghans in the 10s... i dont know about america, but in greece, before the 90s people used to leave their doors open and the keys on their car engine... my grandpa in our village used to leave the truck like that... now some years before he died, we had to bar all his windows and phone him every night and morning to check if he got murdered for his pension or not... do you think we feared for other greeks murdering him? do you think the mexicans/latinos that live in poor neighborhoods dont face the same problems i described in greece? because i can bet you money they do... so here comes a guy that promises that he will kick out every "bad hombre" and for the average latino thats taking care of a problem he faces daily... SAFETY.
Well, that's exactly why he has those votes. Just like in the case of black violence and black gangs, law-abiding citizens who live next door, i.e. other blacks, are the most affected. People living among whites, in gated communities behind a tall fence and with private security, want to defund the police. The average Joe voting for Trump relies on the police to survive. Just recall the hysteria that happened when republicans sent illegals to white democratic cities. Oliver knows exactly what kind of people he supports just because his political agenda demands it. He doesn't care. He knows that the closest he'll ever be to them is when he passes them by on the streets in his luxury car. He's not going to live in a cartel-controlled suburb filled with illegals and people struggling to make their ends meet who can't leave for a gated community. These are real existential everyday problems of people who couldn't care less about mental issues of sexual deviants, spoiled celebrities, or the latest newspeak word for this or that. The orange dumbass is the only person recognizing real issues. Are his solutions any good? They are the only ones available, so it doesn't matter how good they are.
Latin Americans are still often conservative. Once their own necks are not on the line they will vote for what they feel like any other American. I know a lot of people here (I'm from latin america) who favor Trump. In *my* immediate family. Largely because they make associations with our own politics, and because they don't understand the American political landscape.
Or brains.
@@Altrantisvenezuelans especially are mostly haters of anything considered leftist (because a leftist destroyed our country), so we will usually vote for whatever option leans more to the right no matter what the guy says.
Reminder: *Arnold Schwarzenegger* was *an illegal immigrant.* And what did the Republicans do to teach him a lesson? They named him *Governor of California.*
Also Michael J. Fox, Salma Hayek, and Melania Trump broke immigration law (pretty briefly for all of them, but still).
Everyone knows he's not the shade of immigrant these people object to
As a former Californian that was in California during his tenure, they didn't name him the Governor of California, we did. There are a lot of things that can be blamed on the Republicans. This isn't one of them.
Kinda wished I saved the campaign voice mail I got from Arnold Schwarzenegger though. It was kinda cool to have him on your answering machine.
@@louiea4276"Come to America! We'll welcome you with open arms! Why, you can even be a governor even if you're an illegal immigrant! Live the American Dream!....if you're white." - Republicans, apparently
And not a single one of y'all raised an objection over his status as an illegal immigrant. That's kinda the point, ain't it?
Wouldn't those "1 million illegal immigrants that have commited violent crimes" that JD Vance mentions already be in jail or deported, if their crimes would have been proven legaly?
yes, illegal immigrants avoid crime and the law for this very reason. Even legal immigrants can be easily deported if they get into trouble.
As far as i know there can be spanners in the works of that, if A. The criminal in question is from a country without extradition treaties in place or B. Keeping the terrorist in the US is of interest to the government
@@Brian-tn4cd ... neither of which Trumpty Dumpty could do anything constructive about.
yeah thats what i was thinking, the criminals are already in jail so how are we supposed to tell which of the other ones are criminals that can't be proven?
Nope, many immigrants from other countries committed their crimes in their home countries and set free to come to the US. As a Hispanic US citizens I have been assaulted on several occasions but I’m lucky that I’m not only a US citizen but also a Texan. If you don’t know what that means then you’re a weak Dem
Get ready for another Emmy, John and crew!
That's funny, the very first thing I thought of... He and his writers, Emmy king's"!, as well; they should win the "Peabody Awards" yearly. great segment!
They're coming from 181 countries.... oh right I'm sure people from Tuvalu or Monaco are coming illegally to the US.
Vatican? Lichtenstein?
people from Monaco only…travel, they have no reason to leave😂
HOLY CRAP. a MAGAT has learned how to lookup small countries on in the internet. whaaaaaaaa?
I didn't understand why will the number of countries matter in the first place. And then I remember the episodio when Jhon make a long list of "country's you have never heard before"
And hope we get a new list of made-up country names. 😂
Ah yes, people from Bhutan is flooding the US
God I love you John... And I'm french, so it's saying a lot...
That’s okay, you’re not the only one!
On est trois !
@@veroniquepasquereau9801 4!
🤣🤣🤣
Bisous de Paris!!!
I guarantee that government office that kept e-mailing about the song is talking about this episode tomorrow and that brings me joy. Maybe this Thursday when the episode comes out proper on youtube there
The song made me feel extremely proud to be an American. And I'm not even an American.
Same. I'm apparently a proud Swedish-american.
Ikr! It made me wanna immigrate there. But I'm a white Slav so Trump might marry me and I don't wanna risk that.
that's the thing Americans do than everyone else... they know how to sell ideas, stuff, and even the idea of themselves.
John... You did it again... What a production
America's a crazy place.
The United States are a crazy place. I live in one of the more right-leaning states in Brazil, where healthcare workers have learned a few phrases to assist people from Haiti. Initially, I witnessed some prejudice, but people quickly adapted and began to do the right thing." Now, only in my city, there are people from Haiti, Senegal, Bolivia and Venezuela. No one here wants to kick ‘em out.
You should see what’s happening in Africa, Middle East, Latin America… you want me to continue?
The final video was one of the best things I’ve watched. What a national treasure, now that he’s a citizen, John Oliver is!
The lyric should have been "god bless Canada, eh?"
Good point, eh?
One thing that will always baffle me is seeing conservative Americans complain about immigrants from countries US military has ravaged in the past
I mean, they complain about immigrants and drugs from South America and they're the ones who crashed the economies there and got them growing drugs in the first place so...😅
They actually think they are helping, when they are invading and stealing all the ressources.
I mean... they can't have those folks coming there... they might be upset about all the bombing and unaliving that the US military did...
They're conservative, so they're not very bright. Enough critical thinking tends to make people not conservative.
Exactly imigration flooding usa is a direct effect of the usa foreign policy. So watch that.
I'm semi-convinced I've been in a coma for 10 years and this is all some wild fever dream.
It just that time again. Last time a dictator tried to remove an entire ethnic and religious group, everyone also said he would never get the power and he would never do anything that insane.
And here we are again, now 85 years since last attempt.
@@poulhennewell I see your point but Trump is not a dictator (yet at least), these kind of stretched comparisons don’t help anyone, same as calling people naz!s just because.
@@hectito982 No that's exactly what he wants to be and what they are. Stop pretending otherwise and playing these dumb games
@@hectito982 _"but Trump is not a dictator (yet at least), these kind of stretched comparisons don’t help anyone"_
Get transcripts of his speeches and read them. Don't listen to people saying what they think he meant, because those are his PR teams trying to tone the message down for you to accept. Read his actual words. Don't listen to the vids because that has all the propaganda machines working in them. Just read his plain words.
And yes, it is propaganda. I spent 8+ years and a war in US Army Psychological Operations learning to identify it in all its forms.
@@hectito982 My man, Project 2025 is gonna make him a dictator.
I've always liked how Oliver continues through the applause. He doesn't soak it up like other hosts
Thanks for making my day! You are the best news caster without trying to be! Now I'm waiting for the miracle next Tuesday, to make America sane again! Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine is nearly in the ground 😊
@@theshadowman1398 Best for you to stay in the shadow, man. Ar 26 you are still wet behind your ears. Back to bed with your mamma!
I want a URL to John's closing song.
I just used your song to put my 1y.o. to sleep... In Crete, Greece.
Hey John, I watch you from Cuba since some years now. Would love a program about my country some day. You better be good at it... Get nosy😂😂😂
S1E18 and S2E09 are about Cuba
Dear MAGA weirdos,
"Black and brown." The words you're looking for are "black and brown", not "illegal." Because Charlie Chaplin, John Lennon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox were once illegal immigrants, and y'all didn't see a problem of letting them stay.
But they entered the country legally. The term illegal is correct. Come live in a border town and see if you can survive 1 hour past dark
Don't forget his new buddy Elon Musk!
@@eca7773 + Melania and her family.
Hipocrity I hate passsionatly.
Overstaying your visa as a professional is the same as entering into a country illegally? Got it.
@@Damitche024 can't speak to all the examples , but musk literally worked while illegal to do so ...is a law a law or are we playing favorites ? Got it . But good point in the end it's just meaningless paperwork for all .
and it's so easy to make God Bless Canada rhyme...
add the "eh?" behind
I can not believe that I actually want to come to America now. What a hymn! So proud!!
I got some bad news for you my friend
Oh man I wasn't prepared to see this particular legend sing for the show. It's a true sight for sore eyes.
Brilliant. Well done Mr Oliver. A super grand stand against madness. It may fail, but what a stand!
Props to the always fantastic Will Ferrek also.
Omg, funniest thing on TV!
All the while highlighting things that'll make a _real_ difference too. No wonder it wins so many awards...
I was not prepared for how emotional that last video would make me. Thank you so much for making this!
Brilliant show! Thank you John Oliver.
I am not American nor I wanna be but I cried with the song 😢❤. Another great episode with sad news
That ‘let him cook?’ was super funny and also please DO NOT let him do that. Americans, please do vote for Kamala Harris so Trump does not get into office again😥
Without a doubt, this is the single best episode of Last Week Tonight 🎯
congratulations on nailing it yet again....!! wow that was great.
This show deserves all the awards🎉🎉
And it gets them, lol
not really, I've been following the show since it started but I'm getting tired of the Trump based episodes, so far this season there have been 2? 3? and how many times we heard the jokes about Vance? meanwhile the democrats are running an installed candidate with no base, no clear policy and no hope to get a snigle interview right, and we never get jokes about that.
@@damiang888no one forces you to watch-like with all content creators, you can stop watching if their content no longer resonates with you
@@damiang888"but both sides!!!" Reehhhhh!!!!!!
@@benjaminmadrigalperez9010 that's the best you could do? Go to sleep
Deep deep bow, this show is a national treasure by now. Hot damn!
A national treasure hosted by an immigrant… I think he proved his point just by being there
Fuck … that girl tore my heart open.
Please America, DO THE RIGHT THING 🙏🏽
not only is this the most humorojs show on television, it is also the most insightful, and the most entertaining. I would say "God bless Last Week Tonight" but there is no god, and I'm no fool.
Amen to that!
that clip with the young girl whose parents were taken during the raid at work made me cry. and i daresay John was, too, if not restraining himself from punching someone/something.
Watching this video in Japan, a country where I lived as a foreigner for almost ten years. The number of racist languages from mainstream politicians has increased drastically in the recent two decades beyond anyone's imagination. What surprises me most is that the logic behind those attacks against "unlawful" immigrants are strikingly similar in both countries, given the different cultural and social contexts.
American and Japanese conservatism are extremely similar due to cultural parallels and historical reasons. Far too much historical involvement to list, and a lot of overlapping cultural elements such as xenophobic nationalism, honor culture, toxic ultra-capitalist work ethic...
Shocking isn’t it. That some people like us legal immigrants are against illegal immigration.
There're economical Nexus between the japanese and american far right groups .
Japanese politicians have been in the GOP conventions and donated money.
Well, it's a universal behavior with only USA (commendably) trying to accept and welcome everyone into their country, reinforced by their constitution and values. That's not how it's done elsewhere in the world where generational culture and ancestry form your identity, linked to the land they live on. You will always be a foreigner and can easily be blamed for issues because you're an outsider.
Absolutely one of your best.
The song is such a banger!!! Catchy melody and Will just delivers it perfectly!😂
Now THAT was a good song!
It’s INSANE that it’s a tie at 48%!!!! WTF!!!
Oh my god that song is absolutely amazing !!!
I'm not even American and it made me feel patriotic for the USA
I badly want a legend my own country to write something in that vein
I lived in England immediately pre-Brexit, so the BBC did a documentary about how will we find menial workers once the Eastern European immigrants are thrown out. So they sent a bunch of the pro-Brexit people to work on a farm for a day. Easy, right?
Wrong.
After the end of the day the owner of said farm went on camera to say that this bunch was about eight times slower than the Bulgarians and Romanians that the British hard right wanted to get rid of.
Immigrants do work, generally on position no of the locals want. So good luck with deporting 13 million people from your workforce.
UK has suffered serious workers' shortages since Brexit.
OUTSTANDING! My kind of patriotism ❤ America!
I would like to a Danish vision of the green-wood-song too. 😂😂😂
And it should have cities like Bonderup, Nyrup, Odense, Christianshavn and Årup in it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Husk Ârsballe og Tarm. 😂😂😂
@@johmyh14 god ide😍😍😍
I am 90% sure some of his staff must have come across Ted & Eddy's video about Margaritaville and that feels me with joy
I didn't think I would feel angry, heartbroken, happy and patriotic (when I'm not American) in the same video.
Gotta love the great content!
24:18 Ok thats just bad taste Mr. Greenwood, Purple Rain is inmortal.
He's just jealous. If you ask people in Zambia who Prince is they'll tell you, but if the same is asked about Lee Greenwood the answer is "who?"
@@zombilady8633I'm from Poland and it's the first time I've heard about this greenwood guy...
@Orahime-sama I've heard of him and I kinda knew he's a musician (without knowing any details), but I can't think of any song I'd know from him and I didn't know the one talked about in this segment was his. Also, the song is absolute crap, he wishes he was Prince 😂
@@zombilady8633 right? The Prince thing was so random. You wish fella, you wish
@@Orahime-sama Hell I'm American and a combat veteran of the US Army and I didn't recognize the guy's name. Sure know the song though - damn did they ever play it too much.
You are so great! Greetings from Argentina. You are so funny, so smart. Love U so much! Thank you for letting us enjoy your show.
I agree!
Greeting from Mexico! 🇲🇽
Pienso igual. Saludos de Chile.
Great choice of tractor in the music video 😊
And I'm proud to be from the Philippines,
Where my heart and soul are free.
And I won’t forget the love and pride
Of my homeland by the sea.
So I'll stand up strong, and hold my ground,
For this land so dear to me.
God bless the Philippines,
Our home of liberty.
That song is objectively very good.
30:33 "Subject: RE: Pride is one of the Seven Deathly Sins" I'm so curious to how that email started
That song was awesome!
I unironically kinda like the closing song
I'm not exactly the most patriotic citizen, but I legit got a little choked up at the end of that song, dang.
As someone who had to listen to this song during his citizenship ceremony, I feel his rage.
Would 'Merican have been better?
@@blechtic well being that I emigrated from Canada, and heard the Canadian version of the song, yes. Even as a kid hearing that song, I thought it sucked. I honestly would have preferred the theme song to Team America: World Police
Thank you
Thank you so much for this all American song 😂😬🤦🏻♀️😊🤣
God bless you Canada!
ANYONE that cannot admit to making a mistake SHOULD NOT BE ON THE BALLOT .... (Never forget that he said he "never needed to ask God for forgiveness").
John Oliver never disappoints!
If this song doesn't end up in the top charts I'm gonna be real sad America!
John Oliver nails it, as always. Love him
16:12 onwards is just heartbreaking.
It's easy to forget how hypothetical politics and laws affect REAL people. We need more humanity in our approach
@@prashannashrestha5550 how about it?
I’m not American but I love this show!!!! 😅
32:28 The way he's wheezing here may lead to another song called "God Bless Private Medical Insurance"
That song was freaking Gold 😆😆👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Please can we have the final song clip in a stand alone video when you publish the main stories as stand alones as well later this week ?
I mean, 'Party in the USA' is RIGHT THERE folks
Okay im not remotely American and merely follow along in the crazy reality how that is the us but i got chills from that song in the end for some reason
This is one of the greatest last week tonight episodes in recent memory
I don't plan on moving to the USA but if I ever do and become naturalized, I'm leaving the ceremony if they don't play this amazing new song for it
I just learned that not only is Dan Gurewitch writing for this show Daniel O'Brien has been for a while also. Good job you guys I am proud to be an internet citizen and see people succeeding.
The song at the end is so fucking good...
Your country is insane (-ly fun to watch through your show, I have to admit 😅)
OMG i loved that ONE.... is there a way to make a petition or somewhat democratic thing to make "started today you're american" the official immigration song from now on? :D I'll be applying to be an american citizen just to hear it again :D
I gotta say, I kinda liked that song at the end!
I think it’s unfair to compare Trump to Tywin Lanister; unfair to Tywin, that is!
Indeed, Tywin was a mastermind
What can we even say any more? You're awesome!
I’m an America living in Japan and it saddens me to see my country torn apart. I’m so proud to be an American, but I wish Americans would think for themselves instead of listening to a dictator worshipping buffoon.
Biggest issue is that both candidates are incompetent. There are few “leaders” left in US politics
@@badwrongbadong _"both candidates are incompetent"_
You may not like either, but Kamala is FAR from anything near her opponent's incompetency.
@@badwrongbadong It's not so much their incompetence that worries me, it's that they're both evil people.
Feeling proud of being part of a country that did so much bad stuff in the world is one of the problems. The president candidates use that feeling to make people vote for them without tackling the reals problems of the country. Many US citizens are very similar to German people in the 3rd Reich, but they didn't have as much information available as Americans today. So the US nationalism is even worse :(
Thanks for advocating for those who don't have a choice 🙌
With so many distractions and dissatisfactions, many people don't want to think or invest time to be empathetic or have compassion, many just want to blame easy targets like immigrants, especially immigrants.