Not only let them used it recklessly, we are aiding them by giving them intelligent information and refilling fuels on midair so the plane cans continue to bomb for a longer time. We also aid with the blocked other others from aiding Yemen with food and medicine (if i remember correctly) causing millions to die. I know that a lot of Americans are not aware of this, but there are some who doesn't care because whatever we do is always right.' Edited: ruclips.net/video/VNJBvhJEUBk/видео.html
99.9% of what Americans do kn Middle east is wrong. You should probably let that area manage itself because it's getting worse and worse because of you.
@min xiong It's good to be critical, but your argument is lost when you throw out bullshit numbers (i.e. "causing millions to die"). That's a completely false statement. I'm also pretty sure you haven't verified that the US has blocked any aid to Yemen or is actually providing midair refueling to the Saudis.
This guy hosts his own show on HBO, is a cartoon voice over actor, and is also a tenured professor of anthropology at a community college... Wow John, just wow...
Mainly do to algorithms dood in the end Oliver is propaganda. Even when I'd watch foreign new on NHK I'd see their agenda. One main thing is they want Free Trade. So hard
John provides educational information I was missing. I don't agree with the opinions in all his videos. I do agree most of the time. I'd think less of him if he were a complete sycophant to my world view.
I've watched coverage of this from most of the major news outlets. They've all been asking the same question: "How did they think this wouldn't be noticed?" John Oliver is the first to air my first thought: this is done so obviously, they're clearly sending a message. And they know/think they can get away with it. - and he's a friggin' comedian, not a news reporter. Kudos John
It's the arrogance of the powerful. The current White House occupant demonstrates it daily (often more than once in a single day). I'm also surprised yet not surprised that many (not all) in the so-called "mainstream media" haven't expressed more concentrated coverage (and editorially, outrage). As for John and Jane Doe, the "average Americans", do they even know where Saudi Arabia is, much less care? (How quickly people have forgotten that 15 of the 19 terrorists responsible for the 9/11 carnage in the USA were Saudi citizens!!!)
So it cant be a set up? Is that 100% off the table? Couldn't they just murder him away from the consulate without causing all this ruckus? How can you carrie judgments without hard evidence? Would put a man in jail based on "c'mon its was clearly you". What about "innocent till proven guilty"? Hypocritical to say the least
@@ebdey In my view all options are on the table, incl. a setup. Several could have the means and reasons to do so. Not sure if Jamal Khashoggi would be a very obvious target though. It also strikes me as a bit far fetched to then do it in that place and manner. If you want to plant evidence for a setup, this simply seems like overkill (in lack of a better word). Furthermore, the Saudi's insistence on Jamal both entering and leaving the consulate without at least trying to provide proof of the latter, seems to further underline that they don't really care that much. And if the Saudi's are indeed behind it, and they simply wanted him dead, there would be much better ways to get away with it. So sure, all options are on the table, but imo sending a strong message seems the most plausible.
The way I see it, Picking the most plausible and speak about it using words such as "clearly" and "obviously" is so close to dismissing scenarios. Lets wait and see how things play out.
Fair point. One has to be careful pointing to the obvious in these days when little is obvious. Again, it was only my first thought. Like yours might have been that it was a setup. I was mostly surprised that the main media only saw it as an incredibly poor cover up (asking how the Saudis could be so stupid), rather than considering it might be deliberately obviously executed - either by the Saudis, or as you suggest, a third party. Again, I find the Saudis' response highly suspicious. Eg. claiming that there's no video proof of him leaving coz their cameras only livestream, when there's recorded footage of him entering. And it's a consulate.. So sure, should be deemed innocent until proven otherwise, but when the whole world is pointing fingers, you'd think they'd do a bit more to claim their innocence than just referring to a Trump'ish "trust me".
Jon Krueger ...the assassination could only have happened if the trump administration agreed to it before hand. it wouldn't be the first time a conservative US president allowed the saudis to harm America for mutual strategic interests... 🤔
If you watch the clip closely you will see Trump already had the concept of one brutal murder vs $110 billion being acceptable in his head before even confirming Kashoggi was only a US permanent resident. He could have been a citizen and Trump would’ve said the same lines.
I am doing the digital nomad thing and have a Resident VISA for the country I am spending this year in. Each year I get a Resident VISA for the country I am living in that year. I am having a great and productive time and my host countries have treated me well. However, I am a citizen of the USA. If I get in trouble, I will be contacting the US Embassy. To expect any other country, besides the country that I am a citizen of to help me would be foolish.
Alexander Canella Throughout most of it, but many of the protections afforded by the constitution and bill of rights specifically says “people”. The fact that citizens is used elsewhere should only highlight the fact that they wanted protections to extend to everyone who considered America home. And I like that sentiment, honestly. If you love America and want to see it get better, and want to call it home... then even if we differ in opinion I call you brother, and would fight to protect you
There is a huge difference between having a visa to stay in a country for a year and having permanent residence status (aka. a green card in the US). Permanent residents have almost the same rights as citizens and can become citizens after a few years.
Saudi arabia- "We killed ten people brutally" USA- "We will take action against you." Saudi-"We need weapons worth 10 billion dollars to maintain peace." USA- "Here you go."
@Stark Industries well every country has blood on their arms,what matters is how much that arm is dripped in blood,we ain't anywhere close to pakistan,go search up about human right abuses in balochistan,search operation searchlight,there isn't one country in this world which hasn't done some wrong shit against humanity
@Myth Fury well in this case he blamed india of killing people but usually we got independence at the same time and we got a lot of rivalry like Israel and middle east,usa and china
“Elvis trying to remember what Versailles looks like but can’t” is literally the funniest and most accurate description of the style of Trump’s home that I have ever heard. I can’t get over how good it is.
@@dcamron46 I had a genuine question here. Saudi Arabia has enough cash to buy armour from Russia or China. So how US not trading with Saudi Arabia going to make any difference? I hope the solution isnt dropping nukes in Saudi to stop Saudi from dropping nukes.
"The population is 40,302, and their Member of Parliament is John Glen, a Conservative whose eight-year tenure has been widely viewed as a failure. [citation needed]"
I don't know why we gave a shit about Iraq invading Kuwait and bothered to defend Saudi Arabia. We could have bought oil from Saddam, and 9/11 would have never happened had Saddam invaded Saudi Arabia ten years earlier.
I wish it wasn't so, but my home country Germany is also selling lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia. Money rules the world and if innocent people in Yemen are butchered with german or american weapons, it doesn't seem to concern those people who earn money of the arms deals, in one way or another. Shame on them, shame on all of us. Increase the peace!
Love those aholes argument "If we don't do it others will. Demand and supply", and then claim moral authority at the same time. One could justify anything with that. "There is huge demand for child pornography and child prostitution, the others won't stop doing it, so why shouldn't we start with it. It's big business, think of all the tax money" And then pretend like the entire economy of the country is sitting on weapons deals. As if. Jobs will be lost, boo-hoo. It's a drop in the bucket and those involved are a super minoriy. Like the fishing industry in Britain which only has 12k people out of a population of 65 mio working for it, but destroying entire oceans, and livelyhoods of other countries.
Moos P. - yes. The so-called world leaders who are so wealthy it defies comprehension for some reason have to stir the pots constantly. The affect seems to be that we peasants, so easily manipulated to hate anyone across arbitrary borders, can be made to kill other people's kids using expensive weapons happily supplied to both sides by wealthy arms dealers. I despise our species. Most days I wish for a big ole asteroid to wipe down the planet and send us back to living in caves in small groups of about 8 people. This global shit won't ever stop. IT's especially heinous given the fact that most of these wealthy/powerful individuals have more wealth than they can use in FIFTY LIFETIMES. Yet they continue to spin the wheel. Why is that? Why can they not go home and play with their gold encrusted toys and leave the world in peace?
As a Dane I can tell you my country has firms selling surveillance technology to monitor ANY resistance within the country. The whole western world is basically in on this. Even pacifist Sweden is a huge weapon producer, Europe should develop its own security policies and stop funding dictatorships and terrorism around the world in the name of spreading western values.
John Oliver brings up a good point in regards to oppressive regimes and how much they can get away with. The answer is pretty much anything. Saudi Arabia isn’t the only example here, just look at China. China is currently facing growing criticism over its persecution of some Muslim minority groups (especially Uighur Muslims), huge numbers of whom are allegedly being held in internment camps. Even though they are facing criticism, we all know nothing’s going to happen. China has been know to have human rights violations in the past, and has publicly admitted that if any Country has a problem with its human rights issues, China doesn’t want to do business with them. In a global economy where China is the top leader in manufacturing, no other Country is going to stand up against it and its a sad realization. Oppressive regimes have and always will get away with anything and that’s not going to change unless we all come together and stand up to what we believe is the right thing to do!
Saudi did the worst in my opinion killing journalist in an Embassy. The choice of place makes it worst though all oppressive regimes are terrible. And they seem to be growing with Neanderthals right wingers coming to power.
Add Thailand and Burma onto the least of countries with oppressive regimes that can get away with it. But here its mostly because the rest of the world never hears about it.
I mean, to be fair it's because of almost 100 years of uighur separatist groups fighting various chinese governments including the current one. America did worse to ethnic Japanese, American citizens during WW2
IN THE END... it not about religion... it just those big government hiding behind "china" "saudi arabia" will do what ever they want to be in power.... it just that disgusting creature hide behind human skin abusing power..... hoping one day when times comes those people being oppress will get their justice....
Thank you so much John for spotting the light on the horrible situation in my country. Saudi Arabia never ever been a democratic country but the current crackdown on human rights is unprecedented. Jamal Khashoggi never ever opposed the regime and he has strictly refused to be labeled as a dissident yet he haven’t survived this horrific fate! I urge every free voice anywhere in the world to speak up for us We live under an unbelievable authoritarian regime which will stop at noting to stay in power. WE DESERVE TO BE FREE LIKE YOU
there is no one free in this world even them...every thing is controlled some how just chill and try to survive ur day and wait for Jesus to come back :)
this guy is a liar and a troll ! i am living in saudi arabia for over 30 years and i have seen a significant improvement in human rights and equality among people. stop spreading lies saudi arabia has improved alot
@ناصر الرشيد: You WANT democracy in KSA? Same democracy which elected Trump? A 2500 year old system ? A claim without proof is a lie. Don't allow media to mispresent the Truth.
@@Rekcoj I've watched this twice and while I still remembered the facts I didn't remember the emotions I had about the event. I am still shocked that we work with Saudi Arabia and then fear monger about China, Iran, and Russia. And those countries do deserve every inch of criticism, but to criticize Russia for killing political opponents and then turning a blind eye for the Saudis is something I hope will change. It will not during a Biden administration, and frankly I don't know if it would under any administration.
And how many political dictators using Christianity as a tool to control people and to do things which are against all the ten commandment. Religion would not be a problem, but these leaders are using it as a tool.
@Hal Jordan a pretty distorted kind of religion, when all the evil conquers the house of god. When trump holds the bible, it is just ridiculous. He don't want to work for money. Unfortunate coincidence, that many people chooses the priest as a profession, because they say, they don't want to work too. So they team up, to do something truly selfish. While many priest, who truly believes in god, feels disgusted, to see this happening. Religion should be about how to respect each other, politics should be about how to help each other, and create circumstances, where we live in a minimum level of harmony with the nature, so we can survive.
And yet the War On Terror began in Afghanistan, then went on to Iraq, and is now currently in Libya, Yemen, Pakistan and 8 other countries across North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia...
Jews are pro Saudi. John 'the Jew' Oliver is hiding the truth. USA is pro-Saudi because the Jews demand it. Jews get petroleum from Saud's Arabia.   REPLY
So according to you all ''jews'' act one way, then when you see someone in your version of that category otherwise you just pretend they are lying about how they feel. Thats some strong bias you've got there...
@@Sara3346 he's not lying, Israel and Saudi Arabia are working together. You haven't noticed how ISIS never attacks either one? Funny how that works, mmm?
Your reading comprehension sucks if what you think I'm doing is calling anyone a liar, I only said that he is biased against jews and being unfair to Jhon Oliver entirely based on that bias, what those two countries do or support or wether they work toegether or muder eachother did not and does factor into my claim that Joe is being entirely unobjective.
@@eric4681702 i have the same attitude towards the orange piece of shit president. I try to keep in mind anything he says news related is wrong...because he is a fucking idiot.
I'll call it progressive when women in Saudi Arabia no longer needs male guardians to decide on their lives. It's great that they are now allowed to drive, but at the same time it feels like a publicity stunt, let's hope it's actually a step on the way to equality. Now I'm going to take a moment to appreciate that I live in a part of the world where I can do and say almost anything I want.
I bet you did not hear about how many cars of women have been burned down by "unidentified persons". Saudi men are much more insecure than you can imagine.
To me it looks very much like a publicity stunt. I mean 'women can't drive' was one of the first things you thought about when thinking about the country. The prince ended that, but he also arrested the women he fought for it, so he didn't have to share credit.
5 years later and the guardianship laws have been severely rolled back such that women can work, live alone, travel, open a bank account, possess all their own personal documents, get divorced and much more without the need for guardianship permission. Will you call it progressive now?
Its always 4.20(AM) somewhere. @Amelia Carneiro Zhu Lets be real for a second. Irony and sarcasm really don't work well in *text-only* communication. These are pretty much exclusively spoken language attributes, and requires either very good knowledge of that writer's particular use of language and his/hers affinities, or a very clear context setup. Chatting with friends and family we know their language quirks and affinities intimately, _and_ most often use accompanying imagery to set up, contextualize or point out irony and sarcasm - and even _then_ we some times don't get it. Satire compounds all of these language tools and cues, is _heavily_ contextualized,and _always_ use specific cues to make it clear to the reader/viewer that its satire. Not every reader or viewer might pick up on them, but any half-ass-decent employ these - they _are_ there. And they *need* to be, otherwise any satirist leave themselves wide open to lawsuits and sometimes even prosecution. This one employed none of these. Its just a poor execution of an attempt at a (seemingly sarcastic) joke. I wouldn't say it failed miserably, but it definitely fell flat. That what usually happens when the sarcasm is more important than the joke. Oh well, live and learn. So what if I don't know what "Ragnarok" means. Its not the end of the world.
Andre, Hillary was a very successful lawyer with a lot of policy behind her, not to mention being Secretary of State for years. I didn’t like her and there are a lot of criticisms of her, but inexperience and “got her job through her marriage” are not good ones... in fact they’re pretty preposterous. Complain about her being uncharismatic, sure.
I like to imagine, for my own benefit, that he put a couple of 'em through a concrete wall head-first before they could subdue him. Even though I know it's not true, I have no problem idolizing fallen heroes in such a way.
True. But we can judge the leaders by their worst actions. Also, those who are not standing behind those politics, apparently have to fear getting butchered. Sooo, I'm not going to go to Saudi Arabia to enjoy the peoples hospitality anytime time soon.
tornoutlaw I’m not talking about it as a tourist attraction, but just to illustrate that people don’t like what their leaders do. The worst part to not be able to say anything. Mostly no one in the US approves of Trump, but for the meantime you have to go along with his plans and hope that cleaning his leftovers will be possible. Similarly in Brazil &China. The UK still suffers underneath Brexit and the royal family needs to have its lavish lifestyle.
Can you imagine?! A journalist murdered in Saudi's embassy in Turkey!! Not in Saudi Arabia but in their consulate in another country!! Systematic criminal activity whole a lot next level!!
@M G You're right about the territory of an embassy legally belonging to the embassy's owner, not the host country. It's why the Turkish government probably came up with that ridiculous story about Khashoggi's Apple watch recording his murder, to cover for the fact that they were illegally bugging the Saudi Arabian consulate. I do believe Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi, but Turkey's cover story about the Apple watch unfortunately gives Saudi Arabia fodder for distracting propaganda.
John Oliver!!!!! Please do a show about the Muslim internment camps in China. I am not Muslim but the fact that this is happening and not being condemned is appalling.
Not only that a commercial aired live during the Greatest Royal Rumble caused backlash for including women. The commercial was condemned by Saudi officials for violating their customs. They seriously have to censor promotion for their own product because of the sheer misogyny of the country.
A US president getting in good with MBS, Kim Jong-Un, and Vladimir Putin, but undermining and insulting Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Justin Trudeau at every turn... What?
Pretty much. The thing is the most of the people are neither Muslim (nothing bad in that) nor poor by choice. They are just regular people, born in their situation, wanting to simply put food on their table and live their life in peace.
solidussnake0079 Ok, but can you explain what slav means because Google and urban dictonairy keep telling me it's short for Slavic and I don't think that's right.
@@benbaselet2026 Right, except Obama sold more weapons than anybody. Trump took us off Saudis oil teet, now USA is a net exporter of oil because of Trump.
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The US was able to give the Saudi's a pass for their roll behind 9/11 and you think they will give a crap about some journalist who wasn't even a US citizen? Lol.
Torben Rudgaard Exactly. Bush and the US Congress (Both Democrats and Republicans) let that shit slide and the Saudi's get off scotfree just so they could continue to get money and oil flowing in. Now we are suppose to pretend that somehow this particular murder is worse then all that and some sort tipping point for bad Saudi behavior? Give me a damn break.
At least it's a start that john oliver is talking about them at all. Aside from jimmy dore, I don't see many others on the left talking about the awful governments the US has been doing business with. But for some reaon everyone gets mad at the boogeyman in the white house for being open to being freinds with russia. Very few things in life are black and white, but one of them is, either working with mass murderers is ok, or it'ls not. The party of the president making those relationships should have nothing to do with it.
It's almost comical how Trump falls in love with every world leader who looks and acts like a caricature movie villain. Severe human rights abuses? Check. Authoritarian and anti-democratic? Oh myyy... loves a good war? Yess love me some of that. Machiavellian world domination ambitions? Ai karamba let's make love [Kim/Vladimir/Mohammed/Rodrigo]
it's not just Trump though, it's the entire Trump electoral base... 30 percent of the US population... I'd be honored if some fellow John Oliver fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Phil Collins, Tom Petty, the GooGoo Dolls, Sarah McClachlan, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
That's funny, because just a few months ago, the Democrats were screaming that he was a racist Islamophobe. Which is it? That's right. Trump is whatever fits the Democrats narrative at the time. Got it.
Got to admit that MBS has a semse of humor, he is basically laughing at Donnie while Donnie is practically shoving that card in his lap (and turning his back on his audience) to point at all of the pretty pictures. On the sad side, this is probably how Donnie wants to see his brefings, big pictures, short sentences, about money.
@@edrrj5639 So people who are *Americans* that bear the *American* passport, and that live (and possibly work) in other countries and have to pay their taxes to the IRS (an *American* Government agency) who identify and ideologically align with *American* beliefs... ... Are considered _not_ American?
Thank you for discussing this important issue of the impact Saudi Arabia has had on Yemen John! It seems to me that very few people in the news media (liberal, conservative, moderate, or comedian) either sees this as an important issue or (at the very least) feels it is too controversial to discuss it in full detail. Our nation's relationship with Saudi Arabia has harmed their neighbors, resulting in war, a famine, and an immigration ban for Yemen, and yet not enough average Americans seem to know about these issues.
What about what happens in Syria? are turning a blind eye on that!? or is it because that you can't oppose Russia -who are supporting Assad regime- you won't say anything about it. I mean the situation there is literally a ruler killing his own people with internationally prohibited chemical weapons! and no body talks about it. But when Saudi Arabia decides to fire back to protect its national security you say thay it's a crime?! Did you know that the hothis in Yemen use ********children as their soldiers******* As for the war in Yemen it is similar in many ways to to the US false war against communism in Vietnam, except that this one has to do with national security of Saudi Arabia and Yemen it self. How can you say that Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians when their enemy is using innocent children as their soldiers!!!???
"how can you say that Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians" As an example: because they bombed a school bus. "Assad is killing his own people with chemical weapons" The promised proof of that hasn't been presented. It would of course be dumb to use chemical weapons in a position as that of Assad, but you know.
Money money money. I live in Spain. The Socialist government almost decided to kind of stop some bomb shipments to Saudi Arabia because of Yemen. Then the Saudis said they'd cancel a contract for some frigates being built in a Spanish shipbuilding yard if the bombs weren't delivered. Suddenly it was "never mind, we'll send you the bombs." The government even justified it by sayjng these were "smart bombs" so they wouldn't hit civilians. The USA is by far the biggest player, but everyone is selling to the Saudis and turning a blind eye at the same time.
Well, money can also buy you bot farms. Egypt is full of these bot farms where children are made click on videos & comment. Egypt = poor, many people. Saudi = rich, few people (with internet access that is).
you can't get away with BS statements like that. Sometimes, you need to be held accountable for the shit you do. And in KSA's case that shit has been piling up for decades. So no, I refuse to accept bullshit like "nobody's perfect". Arsehole !
ARyman D your country is not even close to perfect it’s the most evil country existing right now! Don’t you dare compare western countries to your shlt hole country, you have no freedom
well there is a difference. if you voted for the idiot that makes the mistakes, you should be held accountable. in the case of a hereditary ruler, you cant put the blame on the people of the country. ARyman D said it right
Oh good lord that would be interesting but they are probably staying away from that issue because it’s so sensitive and picking a side would look really bad
Trump supporters could at least agree that clean energy is at least useful just so we can stop sucking Middle Eastern dick to reach their oil. It's scary how they don't see that Trump only cares about himself. They bought into his anti-establishment schtick and think he is doing things for the people. Bitch please, he only cares about the money for himself.
Unbelievable that people haven't been following our relationship with the Saudis. John didn't even mention that 11/13 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Nationals...
@@BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu the troubling facts from that region of the world are alsmost too numerous to mention... I'm glad I was born here in america not that it's perfect or anything.
It’s weird that no one ever mentions how strange the name Saudi-Arabia itself is. It’s Arabia! We don’t call it Biden-USA, Putin-Russia or Windsor-England.
Well Arabia can also stand for the entire region so it kind of makes sense. Many of the smaller german nations before unification had a similar name structure.
Just to clarify, the Mohammed joke in the beginning was based on the fact that the prophet Mohammed is typically not depicted anywhere out of respect for him, right?
Prohibitions against depicting the Prophet Mohammed may mystify many non-Muslims, but it speaks to a central tenet of Islam: the worship of God alone. Nothing in the Quran, Islam's holy book, strictly bars portrayals of Mohammed. But the faith, like the Hebrew Bible's Ten Commandments, has long discouraged any graven images, scholars say, to avoid the temptation toward idol worship. [CNN news]
american media? like cnn or msnbc? this is a comedian. comedians tend to tell more truths than government sponsored media like fox and others. everything is biased in this country. nobody knows what to believe. where the hell are you from that everything they tell you is the truth...
Sadly not even actual American media. This is a news satire show. One of the things my father said after watching two of these videos was “The real punchline is how I can watch a half hour of this comedy show and feel like I learned more about a topic than if I had watched the actual news.”
you get a lot of likes for this comment and that shows a lot about what people do or dont know. it really sad my man i hope youre smart enough to understand
I think what Leon Mada meant was that John Oliver is the first American media (which even though it is a comedy show, it still is 'media' and 'American') that they saw having actual truth.. so they are saying that usual American media is usually biased
I hear people complain about what the relentless drive for profits does for peace and how it harms the planet but NOT A SINGLE PERSON talks about what the obvious solution is at this point: REVOLUTION. I mean the real shit. Not this peaceful protest/demonstration, let's vote Democrats and hope that heals everything garbage (they are complicit), I'm talking anti-capitalist die for the cause fuck shut up revolution. Everyone talks a good game on the internet, sounds all passionate and compassionate ... and the promptly goes back to feeding the capitalist machinery.
I like to consider myself a very open person and not strongly politically aligned. I love John Oliver's show. His facts are still facts even if he presents them in a "liberal" way. Republicans would be much more informed if they saw 10 minutes of John Oliver than if they saw 10 years of FoxNews.
@@exantiuse497you're absolutely right, but in this case, liberals don't even understand what they disagree with. Here's a few examples...after the 2016 election, I heard many shocked liberals exclaim "how could anybody have voted for Donald Trump?" This reveals a major lack of understanding. Even the shock itself was an expression of liberal ignorance toward conservatism. Contrarily, I didn't hear a single conservative say "how could anybody have voted for Hillary Clinton?" This is because conservatives DO understand liberalism. Another example: liberals have taken a few particularly bad elements of conservatism and have taken those things to be the whole. Thus, liberals have lumped all conservatives together into a category of racists, misogynists, homophobes, anti-immigrants, etc. Now don't get me wrong - racism, misogyny, etc. are very real and dangerous attitudes on the extreme right, but most liberals have reduced all conservatism to these undesirable things, which reveals another major lack of understanding. And make no mistake, liberal ignorance is not harmless - now we have the PC police and social justice warriors on the extreme left trying to censor what we can and can't say, which is utterly detrimental to our free society. But is conservatism as a whole racist? Of course not, but the average liberal can't even hear the word "conservative" without conjuring images of torches and white robes. This is because liberals don't understand that the heart of conservatism is not about racism but about the individual liberty that allows them to vote and engage in these arguments in the first place. On the other hand, conservatives have done a rather outstanding job at pointing out the flaws and logical holes of liberal ideology. This is why they can so easily rile up the liberals, which is their favorite form of entertainment. Unfortunately, because liberals do not understand conservative thinking, they have failed to show conservatives the holes in their conservative ideology, even though many such obvious holes exist. Instead they hammer on racism, social injustice, etc, publicly shame people on social media for being "racist," which misses the mark by a long shot. So great is liberal disdain of conservatism that their arguments are always dismissive and never appreciative of the several valuable things about conservatism that have made our country the greatest in world history. Being on the liberal side myself and wishing liberals many future electoral successes, I hope that liberals take some time to re-examine conservative ideology and see if there might be something of value after all.
@@rodblues6832 Thank you for a civilized response, I expected insults and nothing to back up your claims, as people tend to react in this channel ;-) I disagree with your first point somewhat, though, people saying "how could anyone vote for Trump" doesn't necessarily indicate lack of understanding and may be an indication of disbelief and anger: "how could this happen, I was so sure we'd win", a defence mechanism of sorts. And on the other hand someone *believing* they understand someone doesn't automatically mean they actually do, they might simply be wrong; Trump's supporters might believe every Hillary Clinton voter is an SJW and therefore voted for a candidate they believe is an SJW, but I think we both agree that not every liberal is an SJW, so the assesment would be incorrect. I don't say you're wrong 100%, I'm not American myself and I haven't spoken to American liberals or conservatives irl, and even if I had that would only be my experience and not statistical fact, so you might well be correct. I just wanted to point out what I think was a flaw in your reasoning. And I'm not denying there are no ignorant and stupid American liberals, I simply don't think the majority of them are that way. This is mainly due to my experiences dealing with Americans in the Internet; I have met many who have proclaimed themselves liberals, who, like you, have expressed a will to understand the other side and have denounced the harmful practices of the extreme left, but more rarely have I met a self-proclaimed American conservative who would express the same understanding towards liberals. Again, I understand this is my personal experience and not statistical fact, but it is why I don't believe American liberals are as ignorant as you say
@@عمرعبداللهجندالله half naked men fight in wwe. Are you bitching about that or does it only matter when women wear comfortable minimal clothing during a contact sport?
"Trump may not be the first president to make compromises about Saudi Arabia, but Trump is the first president to NOT SEE IT AS A COMPROMISE." Nailed it, John. NAILED IT.
Just a propaganda. If you think Saudi Arabia is bad because they wage war on population of neighboring states, finance terrorism, kill and torture people who expressed political views (people who proposed any change to monarchy, journalists, etc) and so on... think about Africa. USA actually supported cannibal regime during Cold War. Ambassadors and politicians negotiated deals with African dictator during dinners where literally fried children were serviced. He had personal freezer with around a hundred bodies. He promised to fight communism so USA helped to quell rebellions (people didn't want their children to get eaten among other things). I'm not joking, you can't make that shit up.
@@ImperativeGames And what ? Because the american government of that time did something (incredibly) wrong that means journalists can't talk about another country who does wrong things ?
trump has business investments in Saudi Arabia as does jared. Nobody in the family divested themselves from their business ties with anyone which is a requirement of an incoming President. I wish that trumps base would finally realize that he is conning them. He tells them at every rally what they want to hear.
Donna Porter His base is mostly made up of lower income white people. That in reality have nothing in common with him. And he is like the pied piper playing a tune that they cannot see where it is leading them until it’s too late. In general if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. And that dear Donna is what is happening here.
THE ROYAL FAMILY IN SAUDIARABIA KNEW THIS SINCE BEFORE THE CLINTONS AND THE ARE VERY CONFORTABLE WITH IT!!! TO HILLARY'S DISMAY, THE SAUDIS, UNLIKE THE CLINTONS, DO NOT CANCEL CHECKS BUT CANCEL CASH, AS HILLARY FOUND OUT WHEN SHE LOST THE ELECTIONS TO TRUMP!!! MORE IS THE PITY!!! FOR EVERY IGNORANT OUT THERE, WHICH EVERY LIBERAL IS, ANY EMBASSY AROUND THE WORLD IS AN EXTENSION OF A COUNTRY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!!! SO, WHATEVER LAWS THE PRINCE CAN DO OR VIOLATE IN HIS COUNTRY HE CAN DO OR VIOLATE IN HIS EMBASSIES!!! WHATEVER BOO BOO OUR LIBERALS CRY ABOUT SAUDI ARABIANS LAUGH ABOUT IN THEIR TVS BTETWEEN EXECUTIONS!!!
lol lets not pretend this is a Trump problem only. Saudi Arabia is like this for YEARS AND YEARS. Nobody gived a damn when they were (and are) opressing woman and killing gays. Obama made deals with them, as Bush, as Clinton. Even Canada with its ultra liberal guy made deals with them, until the relationship started to get bad like a couple of months ago. So dont be hypocrtis and pretend this is something only happening in Trumps watch.
@@gordusmaximus4990 yes.. it's a Trump problem.. mostly bc he refused to divest. When you are making government decisions about your own business partners.. it's fucked. Thank fate for nosey turkey.. or we would all be stuck pretending to believe to believe the Saudis transparent lies.. like Trump initially pushed.. before word got out about the audio.
As horrific as it sounds. John was very one sided in his argument. All the images shown of the 15 travelers had no dates in them from the airport cameras. The voice clip they said they have of him getting butchered was denied by apple experts, because his apple watch can't send data. His claimed fiancee has doubtful old tweets where she says her name is different and origin story is different. His birthday date she claims its in October and changed his Wikipedia page 24 hours ago, but in his passport it says his bday is in January. So basically there are a lot of lies being thrown at the case to make a clear decision.
I spent 15 months in Saudi. I was there on 9/11 as part of Operation Southern Watch. Saudi Arabia is not our friend. We should not be there and should not have the relationship with them that we do. Note: most Saudis are peaceful, compassionate, people who like America, but the leaders are using us.
13:44
Saudi Arabia is using air strikes recklessly?!?!? As Americans we've got to do something about that blatant appropriation of our culture!!!
Not only let them used it recklessly, we are aiding them by giving them intelligent information and refilling fuels on midair so the plane cans continue to bomb for a longer time.
We also aid with the blocked other others from aiding Yemen with food and medicine (if i remember correctly) causing millions to die.
I know that a lot of Americans are not aware of this, but there are some who doesn't care because whatever we do is always right.'
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99.9% of what Americans do kn Middle east is wrong.
You should probably let that area manage itself because it's getting worse and worse because of you.
Whooosh!
America Always find new ways to fuckup the Middle east
@min xiong
It's good to be critical, but your argument is lost when you throw out bullshit numbers (i.e. "causing millions to die"). That's a completely false statement. I'm also pretty sure you haven't verified that the US has blocked any aid to Yemen or is actually providing midair refueling to the Saudis.
From how many countries will John be banned this year?
stephane dumont John might get assassinated for this one :(
He still has plenty to go.
Definitely getting banned by the Saudis 😂
@@theehhhnd5708 the fact you realise and accept that we are all slaves is hilarious.
John’s gonna get lots of death threats
This guy hosts his own show on HBO, is a cartoon voice over actor, and is also a tenured professor of anthropology at a community college... Wow John, just wow...
Thanks for the information.
I hate how no one got the tenured professor of anthropology reference :( love seeing fellow community fans around youtube
He might be underperforming in the community college one.
anthropology ?? he looks more like an accountant professor or history hehe
@@fardiachowdhury9758 because he was a Psychology professor, not Anthropology.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar; you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
-Tyrion Lannister
Oh geez
That’s a powerful quote
@@trinityolusola394 first 4 seasons of Game of Thrones was a masterpiece due to the books.
Found the pseudointellectual nerd with nothing real or important to say.
@@finnicpatriot6399 You are so projecting lol. . How come everybody that calls themselves a patriot comes off as an asshole?
@@steverogers6572 cause nationalism does that lol
John Oliver is a national treasure. Glad this show gets so many views.
Yet his british
@Lee David it's called satire
Mainly do to algorithms dood in the end Oliver is propaganda. Even when I'd watch foreign new on NHK I'd see their agenda. One main thing is they want Free Trade. So hard
French gave us the Statue of Liberty and the English gave us John Oliver.
John provides educational information I was missing. I don't agree with the opinions in all his videos. I do agree most of the time. I'd think less of him if he were a complete sycophant to my world view.
I've watched coverage of this from most of the major news outlets. They've all been asking the same question: "How did they think this wouldn't be noticed?"
John Oliver is the first to air my first thought: this is done so obviously, they're clearly sending a message. And they know/think they can get away with it.
- and he's a friggin' comedian, not a news reporter.
Kudos John
It's the arrogance of the powerful. The current White House occupant demonstrates it daily (often more than once in a single day). I'm also surprised yet not surprised that many (not all) in the so-called "mainstream media" haven't expressed more concentrated coverage (and editorially, outrage). As for John and Jane Doe, the "average Americans", do they even know where Saudi Arabia is, much less care? (How quickly people have forgotten that 15 of the 19 terrorists responsible for the 9/11 carnage in the USA were Saudi citizens!!!)
So it cant be a set up? Is that 100% off the table?
Couldn't they just murder him away from the consulate without causing all this ruckus?
How can you carrie judgments without hard evidence? Would put a man in jail based on "c'mon its was clearly you".
What about "innocent till proven guilty"?
Hypocritical to say the least
@@ebdey In my view all options are on the table, incl. a setup. Several could have the means and reasons to do so. Not sure if Jamal Khashoggi would be a very obvious target though. It also strikes me as a bit far fetched to then do it in that place and manner. If you want to plant evidence for a setup, this simply seems like overkill (in lack of a better word).
Furthermore, the Saudi's insistence on Jamal both entering and leaving the consulate without at least trying to provide proof of the latter, seems to further underline that they don't really care that much.
And if the Saudi's are indeed behind it, and they simply wanted him dead, there would be much better ways to get away with it.
So sure, all options are on the table, but imo sending a strong message seems the most plausible.
The way I see it, Picking the most plausible and speak about it using words such as "clearly" and "obviously" is so close to dismissing scenarios.
Lets wait and see how things play out.
Fair point. One has to be careful pointing to the obvious in these days when little is obvious.
Again, it was only my first thought. Like yours might have been that it was a setup.
I was mostly surprised that the main media only saw it as an incredibly poor cover up (asking how the Saudis could be so stupid), rather than considering it might be deliberately obviously executed - either by the Saudis, or as you suggest, a third party.
Again, I find the Saudis' response highly suspicious. Eg. claiming that there's no video proof of him leaving coz their cameras only livestream, when there's recorded footage of him entering. And it's a consulate..
So sure, should be deemed innocent until proven otherwise, but when the whole world is pointing fingers, you'd think they'd do a bit more to claim their innocence than just referring to a Trump'ish "trust me".
1 Year Later
I miss John Oliver! It sucks that he went missing when he did that segment on the Prince of Saudi Arabia.
shit! stop that now!
Look let's calculate cost benefits. John Oliver wasn't even funny, we can't allow 100 billion dissappear just because a comedian.
He's probably been Fatwa'd at least 20 times by now. But this might be the straw...
He'll be fine as long as he stays away from the embassy.
Jon Krueger ...the assassination could only have happened if the trump administration agreed to it before hand.
it wouldn't be the first time a conservative US president allowed the saudis to harm America for mutual strategic interests...
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“that critic was jamal khashoggi” gives me chills every time
The fact that he doubled checked if the journalist was an american citizen to calculate how much compassion to give is really disgusting
To be fair if he was an American citizen it could probably be considered an act of war against the US.
If you watch the clip closely you will see Trump already had the concept of one brutal murder vs $110 billion being acceptable in his head before even confirming Kashoggi was only a US permanent resident. He could have been a citizen and Trump would’ve said the same lines.
Trump neither did nor said anything relevant after Erdoğan's goons attacked American citizens in Washington, DC.
I highly doubtful Trump cares even if he was a American citizen.
if he was a us citizen, the price that MBS will pay, would be hugeer... it's a matter of money...
I am glad becoming a resident and pledging my allegiance to the united states does not guarantee the country will have my back.
It’s also stupid because the constitution refers to the “people” of the United States as being worthy of its protections, not the “citizens”.
@@JB-xl2jc it actually uses the word citizens and not people most of the time.
I am doing the digital nomad thing and have a Resident VISA for the country I am spending this year in. Each year I get a Resident VISA for the country I am living in that year. I am having a great and productive time and my host countries have treated me well. However, I am a citizen of the USA. If I get in trouble, I will be contacting the US Embassy. To expect any other country, besides the country that I am a citizen of to help me would be foolish.
Alexander Canella Throughout most of it, but many of the protections afforded by the constitution and bill of rights specifically says “people”. The fact that citizens is used elsewhere should only highlight the fact that they wanted protections to extend to everyone who considered America home. And I like that sentiment, honestly. If you love America and want to see it get better, and want to call it home... then even if we differ in opinion I call you brother, and would fight to protect you
There is a huge difference between having a visa to stay in a country for a year and having permanent residence status (aka. a green card in the US). Permanent residents have almost the same rights as citizens and can become citizens after a few years.
John Oliver: The only hotel where you expect to be murdered is a:
Me: Days Inn! Days Inn! Days In-
John Oliver: Days Inn.
Me: YEEESSS!!!!!
I'm not familiar with Days Inn, could you provide some context for me?
PuzzleMessage yeah if you find yourself in a Days inn and you’re by yourself, it’s too late for you.
Motel 6 would be my go-to for murder, if motels still count. They design the rooms so they can be pressure washed clean. That's enough for me.
I would have thought Motel 6. Good to know about Days Inn. 😆
I'm going to a days inn alone now
Saudi arabia- "We killed ten people brutally"
USA- "We will take action against you."
Saudi-"We need weapons worth 10 billion dollars to maintain peace."
USA- "Here you go."
@Stark Industries WHATABOUTISM
Is a logical fallacy
you logical fallacier.
Sadly true 😔
@Stark Industries
Absolutely true
@Stark Industries well every country has blood on their arms,what matters is how much that arm is dripped in blood,we ain't anywhere close to pakistan,go search up about human right abuses in balochistan,search operation searchlight,there isn't one country in this world which hasn't done some wrong shit against humanity
@Myth Fury well in this case he blamed india of killing people but usually we got independence at the same time and we got a lot of rivalry like Israel and middle east,usa and china
“Elvis trying to remember what Versailles looks like but can’t” is literally the funniest and most accurate description of the style of Trump’s home that I have ever heard. I can’t get over how good it is.
Lol that robot's smile looks like Ted Cruz feels.
#tedcruzisameatwhistle
uncanny valley
"I can display over 7 human emotions, please vote for me", Ted Cruz.
Well, both are something that's certainly not human trying to pass as a person.
Vote Beto!
You don't see these human rights abuses right here ~ John Cena
"You don't see these human rights abuses right here." -- Obiwan Kenobi
Lmao I laughed so hard at that part 😂😂
As n iranian who knows Arabic, I admire the fact that John actually does his best pronouncing the names of prominent figures on the news
...how well does he do?
@@lukeskywalker8223 almost perfectly
This ranks pretty low on the list of things i admire about John. But you do you.
@@dcamron46 I had a genuine question here. Saudi Arabia has enough cash to buy armour from Russia or China. So how US not trading with Saudi Arabia going to make any difference? I hope the solution isnt dropping nukes in Saudi to stop Saudi from dropping nukes.
@@utsgotnoguts saudi arabia will probably never attain nuclear technology on their own
"The population is 40,302, and their Member of Parliament is John Glen, a Conservative whose eight-year tenure has been widely viewed as a failure. [citation needed]"
And now we can cite this video!
@@Trismegustis No.....that's not how proper fact checking works...
John Chessant is a BOT
Funny meme.
“A bone saw in any context is an immediate red flag.”
Tell that to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man
Oooooooo yeeeuh!
“That’s a cute outfit. Did your husband make it for you?”
RabRac The cream of the crop himself
@@B.A.G.Studios "You're going nowhere! I gotcha' for three minutes! Three minutes of playtime!"
Ze medic
I can say America's relationship with Saudi Arabia is quite... OILY
Dang Itshere That's a slick pun.
It's been clearly greased up.
Okay, that's just crude. Just totally black. You need an oil change before you have a spill on this rig. I'm really drilling for these puns.
And the Military Industrial Complex is there too. We sell them weapons. We buy their oil.
I don't know why we gave a shit about Iraq invading Kuwait and bothered to defend Saudi Arabia. We could have bought oil from Saddam, and 9/11 would have never happened had Saddam invaded Saudi Arabia ten years earlier.
That robot's smile looks exactly like Ivanka Trump's smile.
If I was John Oliver I’d avoid Saudi embassies
Flywing guy that’s fucked up. Not that you made that joke, but that it’s entirely accurate, and there is precedent.
I think anyone with a brain should avoid saudi embassies unarmed
I think most of us would avoid Saudi embassies period!
You gotta live on the *edge* a sometimes
Marcus Balearius Also armed. You're less likely to survive bringing in a weapon.
9:18 It's not a war, it's a genocide.
Those things aren't mutually exclusive
Did Germany have a war with the Jews or was it a genocide? Genocides can come out of wars. However they are two very different things.
Jordan it seems what you read was "They are the same thing" but what krillin6 actually wrote was "Those things aren't mutually exclusive"
my mistake
It's 100000% a genocide and people need to specifically say that word as well.
I wish it wasn't so, but my home country Germany is also selling lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia. Money rules the world and if innocent people in Yemen are butchered with german or american weapons, it doesn't seem to concern those people who earn money of the arms deals, in one way or another. Shame on them, shame on all of us. Increase the peace!
Love those aholes argument "If we don't do it others will. Demand and supply", and then claim moral authority at the same time. One could justify anything with that. "There is huge demand for child pornography and child prostitution, the others won't stop doing it, so why shouldn't we start with it. It's big business, think of all the tax money"
And then pretend like the entire economy of the country is sitting on weapons deals. As if. Jobs will be lost, boo-hoo. It's a drop in the bucket and those involved are a super minoriy. Like the fishing industry in Britain which only has 12k people out of a population of 65 mio working for it, but destroying entire oceans, and livelyhoods of other countries.
I was with you until you said that last sentence. That was cringey
Same with Sweden =(
Moos P. - yes. The so-called world leaders who are so wealthy it defies comprehension for some reason have to stir the pots constantly. The affect seems to be that we peasants, so easily manipulated to hate anyone across arbitrary borders, can be made to kill other people's kids using expensive weapons happily supplied to both sides by wealthy arms dealers. I despise our species. Most days I wish for a big ole asteroid to wipe down the planet and send us back to living in caves in small groups of about 8 people. This global shit won't ever stop. IT's especially heinous given the fact that most of these wealthy/powerful individuals have more wealth than they can use in FIFTY LIFETIMES. Yet they continue to spin the wheel. Why is that? Why can they not go home and play with their gold encrusted toys and leave the world in peace?
As a Dane I can tell you my country has firms selling surveillance technology to monitor ANY resistance within the country. The whole western world is basically in on this. Even pacifist Sweden is a huge weapon producer,
Europe should develop its own security policies and stop funding dictatorships and terrorism around the world in the name of spreading western values.
"he has emancipated women" this is exactly what emancipation DOESN'T mean
John Oliver is a light shining in darkness, always a well thought out voice of reason. God bless him.
Reason for the left, with hardly any criticism of it.
He's a cunt's puppet
Except when it comes to Trump
Dog kiss him
He hits the nail on the head like nobody else on TV.
John Oliver brings up a good point in regards to oppressive regimes and how much they can get away with. The answer is pretty much anything. Saudi Arabia isn’t the only example here, just look at China. China is currently facing growing criticism over its persecution of some Muslim minority groups (especially Uighur Muslims), huge numbers of whom are allegedly being held in internment camps. Even though they are facing criticism, we all know nothing’s going to happen. China has been know to have human rights violations in the past, and has publicly admitted that if any Country has a problem with its human rights issues, China doesn’t want to do business with them. In a global economy where China is the top leader in manufacturing, no other Country is going to stand up against it and its a sad realization. Oppressive regimes have and always will get away with anything and that’s not going to change unless we all come together and stand up to what we believe is the right thing to do!
Saudi did the worst in my opinion killing journalist in an Embassy. The choice of place makes it worst though all oppressive regimes are terrible. And they seem to be growing with Neanderthals right wingers coming to power.
Lol don’t forget how oppressive the US is too
Add Thailand and Burma onto the least of countries with oppressive regimes that can get away with it. But here its mostly because the rest of the world never hears about it.
I mean, to be fair it's because of almost 100 years of uighur separatist groups fighting various chinese governments including the current one. America did worse to ethnic Japanese, American citizens during WW2
IN THE END... it not about religion... it just those big government hiding behind "china" "saudi arabia" will do what ever they want to be in power.... it just that disgusting creature hide behind human skin abusing power..... hoping one day when times comes those people being oppress will get their justice....
Thank you so much John for spotting the light on the horrible situation in my country. Saudi Arabia never ever been a democratic country but the current crackdown on human rights is unprecedented. Jamal Khashoggi never ever opposed the regime and he has strictly refused to be labeled as a dissident yet he haven’t survived this horrific fate!
I urge every free voice anywhere in the world to speak up for us
We live under an unbelievable authoritarian regime which will stop at noting to stay in power.
WE DESERVE TO BE FREE LIKE YOU
Your not a Saudi
there is no one free in this world even them...every thing is controlled some how just chill and try to survive ur day and wait for Jesus to come back :)
or get an education and be someone useful instead of waiting for mr. angel man to save your ass.
this guy is a liar and a troll ! i am living in saudi arabia for over 30 years and i have seen a significant improvement in human rights and equality among people. stop spreading lies saudi arabia has improved alot
@ناصر الرشيد: You WANT democracy in KSA?
Same democracy which elected Trump?
A 2500 year old system ?
A claim without proof is a lie.
Don't allow media to mispresent the Truth.
Remember how we all swore this wouldn't get swept under the rug, and yet more or less business as usual continues.
I was just going to write that comment.
how about now, still remember it?
i honestly forgot about it until i rewatched this episode just now.
@@Rekcoj I've watched this twice and while I still remembered the facts I didn't remember the emotions I had about the event.
I am still shocked that we work with Saudi Arabia and then fear monger about China, Iran, and Russia. And those countries do deserve every inch of criticism, but to criticize Russia for killing political opponents and then turning a blind eye for the Saudis is something I hope will change. It will not during a Biden administration, and frankly I don't know if it would under any administration.
"I want to see Istanbul, but only for a few hours, mostly at night, and I need to bring muh bone saw." Lmao 😂😂😂
😂😂
I’m a Muslim and disgusted that the Saudis have our most sacred words on their flag while blatantly going against everything we are taught as Muslims.
The prophet predicted this
And how many political dictators using Christianity as a tool to control people and to do things which are against all the ten commandment.
Religion would not be a problem, but these leaders are using it as a tool.
@@andrasdudas8226 and there it is right there. Right on the nose, my dude.
@Hal Jordan a pretty distorted kind of religion, when all the evil conquers the house of god.
When trump holds the bible, it is just ridiculous. He don't want to work for money.
Unfortunate coincidence, that many people chooses the priest as a profession, because they say, they don't want to work too.
So they team up, to do something truly selfish.
While many priest, who truly believes in god, feels disgusted, to see this happening.
Religion should be about how to respect each other, politics should be about how to help each other, and create circumstances, where we live in a minimum level of harmony with the nature, so we can survive.
@@syntheticteapot right here in Hungary, for example.
Most of the people involved in 9/11 were Saudi nationals yet we invaded Iraq and threatened Iran.
Jose Aguirre politics
Most retarded statement ever in the history of statements.
Zack Smith true story "muslom"
And yet the War On Terror began in Afghanistan, then went on to Iraq, and is now currently in Libya, Yemen, Pakistan and 8 other countries across North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia...
@@aneural
It's only retarded if you're not willing to acknowledge facts.
John you have my respect. It needs courage to stand up for something
It's not a complicated relationship, it's a bad one.
Jews are pro Saudi. John 'the Jew' Oliver is hiding the truth. USA is pro-Saudi because the Jews demand it. Jews get petroleum from Saud's Arabia.


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So according to you all ''jews'' act one way, then when you see someone in your version of that category otherwise you just pretend they are lying about how they feel. Thats some strong bias you've got there...
@@Sara3346 stfu Sara, that didn't even make sense.
@@Sara3346 he's not lying, Israel and Saudi Arabia are working together. You haven't noticed how ISIS never attacks either one? Funny how that works, mmm?
Your reading comprehension sucks if what you think I'm doing is calling anyone a liar, I only said that he is biased against jews and being unfair to Jhon Oliver entirely based on that bias, what those two countries do or support or wether they work toegether or muder eachother did not and does factor into my claim that Joe is being entirely unobjective.
I am terrified of how good this show is...
I am more terrified that all the other news media are ignoring those topics...
I am fairly intelligent and live in the Middle East, but he still schools me with this fantastic content... How smart is he and those he works with!!!
As long as you keep in mind it is a comedy show based on news, and not a news broadcast then it is fine.
Considering that the comedy shows are doing a better job of reporting the news than the news, I'll keep whatever the fuck I want in mind.
@@eric4681702 i have the same attitude towards the orange piece of shit president. I try to keep in mind anything he says news related is wrong...because he is a fucking idiot.
I'll call it progressive when women in Saudi Arabia no longer needs male guardians to decide on their lives. It's great that they are now allowed to drive, but at the same time it feels like a publicity stunt, let's hope it's actually a step on the way to equality. Now I'm going to take a moment to appreciate that I live in a part of the world where I can do and say almost anything I want.
Good luck doing that under islam.
I bet you did not hear about how many cars of women have been burned down by "unidentified persons".
Saudi men are much more insecure than you can imagine.
To me it looks very much like a publicity stunt. I mean 'women can't drive' was one of the first things you thought about when thinking about the country. The prince ended that, but he also arrested the women he fought for it, so he didn't have to share credit.
5 years later and the guardianship laws have been severely rolled back such that women can work, live alone, travel, open a bank account, possess all their own personal documents, get divorced and much more without the need for guardianship permission. Will you call it progressive now?
2020: The peak of the era when comedians were the voice of reason!
March 2022: say it once more
Get ready boys, this one is going to be a good video
Video 15 minutes old.
Your post...16 minutes 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Ok fanboy.. im ready..
triggered Russian trolls posting as Brazilians, er, Saudis in 3...2...1...
Maybe he watched it on TV? You all remember that some things are shown in other places BEFORE ending up on RUclips, right?
John’s gonna get lots of death threats
Last time I was this early, the US was still selling guns to Saudi Arabia.... wait...
it still is
E G G Z do you have ANY evidence of what you just said?
Maybe the US also sold them their bone saws?
laser325 and ignore the fact that who Killed millions in irag were Americans.. opss
Its always 4.20(AM) somewhere.
@Amelia Carneiro Zhu Lets be real for a second. Irony and sarcasm really don't work well in *text-only* communication. These are pretty much exclusively spoken language attributes, and requires either very good knowledge of that writer's particular use of language and his/hers affinities, or a very clear context setup. Chatting with friends and family we know their language quirks and affinities intimately, _and_ most often use accompanying imagery to set up, contextualize or point out irony and sarcasm - and even _then_ we some times don't get it. Satire compounds all of these language tools and cues, is _heavily_ contextualized,and _always_ use specific cues to make it clear to the reader/viewer that its satire. Not every reader or viewer might pick up on them, but any half-ass-decent employ these - they _are_ there. And they *need* to be, otherwise any satirist leave themselves wide open to lawsuits and sometimes even prosecution.
This one employed none of these. Its just a poor execution of an attempt at a (seemingly sarcastic) joke. I wouldn't say it failed miserably, but it definitely fell flat. That what usually happens when the sarcasm is more important than the joke. Oh well, live and learn. So what if I don't know what "Ragnarok" means. Its not the end of the world.
“Through hitler and beyond” sound like a great movie title
@@grungelyzard8789
Beat me to it
From makers of Shaving Ryan's Privates and Shindler's Fist...
i was thinking book title or dissertation.
Am I the only one to think of “Major Bullshit” when I hear MBS
*cue Robin and Ted saluting* "Major Bullshit!"
Haha okay you obedient dog. We Saudi’s, Bahrainis, Emiratis & Qataris laughed during Paris attacks & Charlie Hebdo attacks - it was beautiful :). Hey
@@sufimuslimlion4114 Jesus Christ it was a joke about how mbs looks kinda funny it's not that serious
@@sufimuslimlion4114 Oh I know, this is why I freaking hate your entire mentality.
@@oliviaz.3309 I guess if you're coming from a narcissistic, over-masculinized culture, you can't take jokes very well.
Imagine if Obama places his daughter’s husband who’s never been in politics as the head of relations between countries.
Exactly
Would be alot better as she is an intellectual woman...
spacetime Would’ve also been problematic because they were barely teenagers when he was in, but I agree
@@user-vg8mc8yv4n bwahahaha... how so?
Please explain
Andre, Hillary was a very successful lawyer with a lot of policy behind her, not to mention being Secretary of State for years. I didn’t like her and there are a lot of criticisms of her, but inexperience and “got her job through her marriage” are not good ones... in fact they’re pretty preposterous. Complain about her being uncharismatic, sure.
It took 15 men to murder him? He must have been a super-strong journalist!
They hear that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Probably, too of them do the dirty, two of them supervise and the rest do the clean up...
Getting rid of evidence, read body, is very labor intensive.
Plus, they repainted the whole room...that level of cleanup must take a while.
I like to imagine, for my own benefit, that he put a couple of 'em through a concrete wall head-first before they could subdue him. Even though I know it's not true, I have no problem idolizing fallen heroes in such a way.
I just want to remind everyone not to judge people by the worst actions of their leaders.
True. But we can judge the leaders by their worst actions. Also, those who are not standing behind those politics, apparently have to fear getting butchered. Sooo, I'm not going to go to Saudi Arabia to enjoy the peoples hospitality anytime time soon.
tornoutlaw I’m not talking about it as a tourist attraction, but just to illustrate that people don’t like what their leaders do. The worst part to not be able to say anything. Mostly no one in the US approves of Trump, but for the meantime you have to go along with his plans and hope that cleaning his leftovers will be possible. Similarly in Brazil &China. The UK still suffers underneath Brexit and the royal family needs to have its lavish lifestyle.
Publius Scipio Do you really think that applies to dictatorships, where the rulers are not elected by the people?
Who voted for those leaders?
But it is people who chose the leader
the Queen"s joke was brilliant (: (:
Can you imagine?! A journalist murdered in Saudi's embassy in Turkey!! Not in Saudi Arabia but in their consulate in another country!! Systematic criminal activity whole a lot next level!!
Hmm US resident. Turkish territory. Isn't that....a NATO Article 5 Defense case?
Turkey is actually mad about it. Saudi vs Turkey anyone?
P.S. On a second thought, that... may not be a great thing.
Technically an embassy of a country x is considered to be x's "territory".
Dear Mr. _-isaiah-__ deringer;_ Damn is that true?? Someone sue the administration for lack of action!!
@M G You're right about the territory of an embassy legally belonging to the embassy's owner, not the host country. It's why the Turkish government probably came up with that ridiculous story about Khashoggi's Apple watch recording his murder, to cover for the fact that they were illegally bugging the Saudi Arabian consulate. I do believe Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi, but Turkey's cover story about the Apple watch unfortunately gives Saudi Arabia fodder for distracting propaganda.
You know, I have classes in a few hours but I knew it was worth it
@@theaussie6526 To quote Jon Oliver, "...cool"
the aussie lit 🔥
What time does your class start?
@@theaussie6526 nice........
Wtf its 11pm here in the US. Where do you live?
So step one: shift from oil to green energy, step 2: shift away from the M.I.C.
M.I.C.?
Step -1 the first country you visit is Saudi Arabia
Step -2 cut regulations
Step -3 leave the Paris climate agreement
Etc.
Military Industrial Complex
@@trulyUnAssuming no no no, not Trumps checklist! Im, joking of course
"Along with being under 25 with a size 32 DD"
Me: *laughs* I'm in danger
🤣👍
Beware of Indians then?
John Oliver!!!!! Please do a show about the Muslim internment camps in China. I am not Muslim but the fact that this is happening and not being condemned is appalling.
Or maybe Muslims should stay away from China. That way everyone gets what they want.
Tabileighann non sense
Don't feel special, China suppress all religion not only Islam
@Doc M Well that happens to be the Turkic nomads' land. How about Chinese communists leaving that land?
TheZardark
It is their home you stupid
Islam been in china since the beginning of Islam
12:50 Not going to lie, bin Salman's face through that entire interaction was just perfect. A genuine "is this guy for fucking real?" look.
Lets not forget that the women wrestlers of WWE cant perform in saudi-arabia because it would be against their laws.
I assumed that 3 seconds in.
Not only that a commercial aired live during the Greatest Royal Rumble caused backlash for including women. The commercial was condemned by Saudi officials for violating their customs. They seriously have to censor promotion for their own product because of the sheer misogyny of the country.
Lobossumi a
I did not know that. Thanks.
Shit, women wrestlers should be against all laws
A US president getting in good with MBS, Kim Jong-Un, and Vladimir Putin, but undermining and insulting Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Justin Trudeau at every turn... What?
Whats happening in Yemen today will forever be seen as a disgrace by the generations to come. So much destruction while the world stood by
They are muslims and poor. The part of the world that could do something, does not care.
Pretty much. The thing is the most of the people are neither Muslim (nothing bad in that) nor poor by choice. They are just regular people, born in their situation, wanting to simply put food on their table and live their life in peace.
Flav *agen*
You mean like Rwanda.
The world always stands by. What did you expect? You didn't do anything, but complain on the internet, why would anyone else?
As someone who is Muslim I may have laughed a bit too hard at "image not found"
IslamicReich Countinue to belive in fantasys
fuckoff slav
solidussnake0079 Are you talking to me? Because I looked up the meaning of slav and I don't know if that's an insult or not?
haha i wasn't insulting you...you didn't say anything wrong...i was talking to IslamicReich
solidussnake0079 Ok, but can you explain what slav means because Google and urban dictonairy keep telling me it's short for Slavic and I don't think that's right.
Bravo John Oliver for speaking against the tyrants.
Israel?
You're going to have to be more specific. There aren't many countries you can't hang that title on.
Kzizzles
Fuck off, what did Isreal do to you?
Dam, first time I've seen John Cena visibly scared in a wrestling ring and he wasn't even fighting.
Is it me or is at the 12:30 mark MBS is laughing at Trump and his middle school poster?
Trump worked on that poster all night.
luckly Trump didn´t had to colour the american flag on his poster! :) And yes MBS is laughting about him:)
@@benbaselet2026 Right, except Obama sold more weapons than anybody. Trump took us off Saudis oil teet, now USA is a net exporter of oil because of Trump.
His expression during that whole clip is just bemused, "is this guy really that stupid" smiles and laughter
@Rob_Bader We've been a net exporter since 2011. Who was president then? Oh, that's right...
Those Russian dudes are so guilty. Wow
they dont even care
Prove it!! /s
You would think that a russian spy would a bit better at lying.
Thats because Putin is your president. you just dont give a fuck
I seriously believe them. That's the thing with russians, they can lie outright or say the stupidest of truths with the same look on their faces.
That's not true. Bonesaw is perfect in Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.
There is that small hiccup called IRL...
I'm glad somebody made this comment before I did
That's a nice outfit. Did your boyfriend make it for you?
-Spider Man
This is too perfect. Well done.
Thank you for your contributions in the Great War. This is correct & Bonesaw is rrrrreeeady.
that prophet Muhammad joke at the start got me good 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You think a Days Inn is dangerous? Clearly you've never been to a motel 6.
or a bates motel.
Days Inn is for when you expect a good night's rest, but may get something else entirely.
Motel 6 is for when you are looking for trouble or STD in the first place.
I once stayed in a motel 6 and the elevator looked like it was falling apart. Also, the air conditioning unit had fallen off the wall
Motel 6 is so cheap, they left the other two 6's off the sign. But they'll leave the light on for ya
Stay at the super 8 in KC 😱🤮
Open brackets citation needed closed brackets.
😂😂😂🤣
K G Me writing my essay last minute high key copying from Wikipedia.
The US was able to give the Saudi's a pass for their roll behind 9/11 and you think they will give a crap about some journalist who wasn't even a US citizen? Lol.
Did you know that 15 of the 19 terrorists from the 9/11 attack were citizens of Saudi Arabia? And US sells weapons to them?? Ehh... WHY?
Torben Rudgaard
Exactly. Bush and the US Congress (Both Democrats and Republicans) let that shit slide and the Saudi's get off scotfree just so they could continue to get money and oil flowing in. Now we are suppose to pretend that somehow this particular murder is worse then all that and some sort tipping point for bad Saudi behavior? Give me a damn break.
Because, money. If Saudis withdraw their stocks from USA, US economy would collapse within a day.
They were from Saudi Arabia, but the attacks were made on behalf of Al Qaeda. So I get why this is a different situation.
At least it's a start that john oliver is talking about them at all. Aside from jimmy dore, I don't see many others on the left talking about the awful governments the US has been doing business with. But for some reaon everyone gets mad at the boogeyman in the white house for being open to being freinds with russia.
Very few things in life are black and white, but one of them is, either working with mass murderers is ok, or it'ls not. The party of the president making those relationships should have nothing to do with it.
"Elvis tries to remember Versailles but can't" is the absolute best description I've ever heard of Trump taste.
What does this joke mean?
It's almost comical how Trump falls in love with every world leader who looks and acts like a caricature movie villain. Severe human rights abuses? Check. Authoritarian and anti-democratic? Oh myyy... loves a good war? Yess love me some of that. Machiavellian world domination ambitions? Ai karamba let's make love [Kim/Vladimir/Mohammed/Rodrigo]
it's not just Trump though, it's the entire Trump electoral base... 30 percent of the US population... I'd be honored if some fellow John Oliver fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal covers of 80s/90s classic songs on my channel. Covers include Sting, Prince, George Michael, Radiohead, Phil Collins, Tom Petty, the GooGoo Dolls, Sarah McClachlan, Billy Joel, Earth Wind & Fire, plus a couple of '010s classics from Bruno Mars and Coldplay. Live acoustic with no autotune. Thanks and peace.
He has Dr. Evil, Ernst Blofeld, and Lex Luthor over for Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers.
IT's sadly predictable, but in my opinion, far from comical. It's heinous. Terrifying.
That's funny, because just a few months ago, the Democrats were screaming that he was a racist Islamophobe. Which is it? That's right. Trump is whatever fits the Democrats narrative at the time. Got it.
444434year is a the bestest 5of I've seen since
much much respect and love for this show all the way from sudan
+Caribbean Football Technically speaking, you're right. He is a slave, of God, much like the rest of us Muslims. Not sure about you tho...
Thank you for watching! It helps keep Americans from totally losing sanity…
هلا
@DESERT STORM War put down the cocaine.
This show is propaganda Mo.
Got to admit that MBS has a semse of humor, he is basically laughing at Donnie while Donnie is practically shoving that card in his lap (and turning his back on his audience) to point at all of the pretty pictures.
On the sad side, this is probably how Donnie wants to see his brefings, big pictures, short sentences, about money.
He was even annoyed at some point, because he's not used to being grabbed at with a big paper card.
It was an uncomfortable laugh that translates to (Fuck you trump)
MBS is clearly thinking, this is surreal and this guy is an imbecile.
When Trump was talking to the King, the king looked like me when I’m having an uncomfortable conversation with my racist
uncle
Khashoggi's kids are American citizens by the way.
scfilming but the live in KSA BTW
@@edrrj5639 So people who are *Americans* that bear the *American* passport, and that live (and possibly work) in other countries and have to pay their taxes to the IRS (an *American* Government agency) who identify and ideologically align with *American* beliefs...
... Are considered _not_ American?
It's been confirmed John Cena refuses to perform in Crown Jewel. Word is that Daniel Bryant is also pulling out.
Thank you for discussing this important issue of the impact Saudi Arabia has had on Yemen John! It seems to me that very few people in the news media (liberal, conservative, moderate, or comedian) either sees this as an important issue or (at the very least) feels it is too controversial to discuss it in full detail. Our nation's relationship with Saudi Arabia has harmed their neighbors, resulting in war, a famine, and an immigration ban for Yemen, and yet not enough average Americans seem to know about these issues.
ikr? Trumps businesses, the Clinton's Clinton Foundation, the military industrial complex, etc, etc.
What about what happens in Syria? are turning a blind eye on that!? or is it because that you can't oppose Russia -who are supporting Assad regime- you won't say anything about it.
I mean the situation there is literally a ruler killing his own people with internationally prohibited chemical weapons!
and no body talks about it. But when Saudi Arabia decides to fire back to protect its national security you say thay it's a crime?!
Did you know that the hothis in Yemen use ********children as their soldiers*******
As for the war in Yemen it is similar in many ways to to the US false war against communism in Vietnam, except that this one has to do with national security of Saudi Arabia and Yemen it self.
How can you say that Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians when their enemy is using innocent children as their soldiers!!!???
I guess it is not relevant anymore that Saudi Arabia did 9/11...
"how can you say that Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians"
As an example: because they bombed a school bus.
"Assad is killing his own people with chemical weapons"
The promised proof of that hasn't been presented. It would of course be dumb to use chemical weapons in a position as that of Assad, but you know.
Money money money. I live in Spain. The Socialist government almost decided to kind of stop some bomb shipments to Saudi Arabia because of Yemen. Then the Saudis said they'd cancel a contract for some frigates being built in a Spanish shipbuilding yard if the bombs weren't delivered. Suddenly it was "never mind, we'll send you the bombs." The government even justified it by sayjng these were "smart bombs" so they wouldn't hit civilians. The USA is by far the biggest player, but everyone is selling to the Saudis and turning a blind eye at the same time.
"Mikey Boom-Burp" is so much funnier now lmao
11к people dislike this video. Just imagine how wrong this world is.
but there are also 101k likes.
Well, the antivaxxers have no idea why there’s a measles outbreak, so there’s that.
Heather Wade 😂😂😂
Yup. The video on modi has 50k+ dislikes. This world is just bad. But on the bright side it has 210k+ likes also
Well, money can also buy you bot farms. Egypt is full of these bot farms where children are made click on videos & comment. Egypt = poor, many people. Saudi = rich, few people (with internet access that is).
Always remember, a state policy doesn’t define the people, same case in the US. It doesn’t define the heart
Much love, from Saudi Arabia💙
Plus, remember nobody’s perfect neither is Saudi Arabia.
you can't get away with BS statements like that. Sometimes, you need to be held accountable for the shit you do. And in KSA's case that shit has been piling up for decades. So no, I refuse to accept bullshit like "nobody's perfect". Arsehole !
ARyman D your country is not even close to perfect it’s the most evil country existing right now! Don’t you dare compare western countries to your shlt hole country, you have no freedom
+mad cobra Well then you must be a piece of shit
well there is a difference. if you voted for the idiot that makes the mistakes, you should be held accountable. in the case of a hereditary ruler, you cant put the blame on the people of the country. ARyman D said it right
Steve Mnuchin is definitely the long lost evil twin of John Oliver.😂
i'd love to see John's take on Israel-Palestine issue
Oh good lord that would be interesting but they are probably staying away from that issue because it’s so sensitive and picking a side would look really bad
@@MrHistory269 you need to pick a side out of the lot, this is where it gets down to
@@MrHistory269 Just take both sides, can't be wrong if you're on both sides.
@A Cult Leader agree
Well i, for one, am thoroughly disgusted.
Trump supporters could at least agree that clean energy is at least useful just so we can stop sucking Middle Eastern dick to reach their oil.
It's scary how they don't see that Trump only cares about himself. They bought into his anti-establishment schtick and think he is doing things for the people. Bitch please, he only cares about the money for himself.
Whatcha disgusted with buddy?
Unbelievable that people haven't been following our relationship with the Saudis. John didn't even mention that 11/13 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Nationals...
@@BeezyNgeezY-ul1nu the troubling facts from that region of the world are alsmost too numerous to mention... I'm glad I was born here in america not that it's perfect or anything.
John, John, I have to stop you there! The president isn't bending over BACKWARDS for Saudi Arabia, he's definitely in the FORWARD bend.
Yes I agree with funny media man. Orange man bad.
No, there's another way to look at it, trump's rewarded IN two ways when Bended Over for Putin, for MBS, for other strong "willed dick-tators.
Brett
Right, see my below.
Now it's above. 8
Yes, Obama bent for KSA. You have a problem with that?
12:50
Trump: "That's peanuts for you."
MBS: "Yes. It is."
It’s weird that no one ever mentions how strange the name Saudi-Arabia itself is.
It’s Arabia! We don’t call it Biden-USA,
Putin-Russia or Windsor-England.
Well Arabia can also stand for the entire region so it kind of makes sense. Many of the smaller german nations before unification had a similar name structure.
Saudi stands for the royal family al-saud
^this was the point being made right lol
Should’ve kept United Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd smh
game of thrones came early this year
That Trump costs analysis was terrifying
Aye. He'd sell his own mother so long as he could flip her for a profit.
Remember kids:
Bloodlust against barbers results in Sweeney Todd.
Just to clarify, the Mohammed joke in the beginning was based on the fact that the prophet Mohammed is typically not depicted anywhere out of respect for him, right?
Prohibitions against depicting the Prophet Mohammed may mystify many non-Muslims, but it speaks to a central tenet of Islam: the worship of God alone.
Nothing in the Quran, Islam's holy book, strictly bars portrayals of Mohammed. But the faith, like the Hebrew Bible's Ten Commandments, has long discouraged any graven images, scholars say, to avoid the temptation toward idol worship. [CNN news]
Apparently it's prohibited so that people don't start worshipping him
And last time somebody did make a
Depiction a terrorist attacked them
Most likely more out of, "we don't need more fucking trouble..."
Plus doing it this way is a funnier way at poking fun at the fact anyway.
@@mrmustangman Then surely you wouldn't care if John, a non-believer, posted it.
"We turned a blind eye to a lot of things" good to see american media finally saying some truth
american media? like cnn or msnbc? this is a comedian. comedians tend to tell more truths than government sponsored media like fox and others. everything is biased in this country. nobody knows what to believe. where the hell are you from that everything they tell you is the truth...
Sadly not even actual American media. This is a news satire show. One of the things my father said after watching two of these videos was “The real punchline is how I can watch a half hour of this comedy show and feel like I learned more about a topic than if I had watched the actual news.”
you get a lot of likes for this comment and that shows a lot about what people do or dont know. it really sad my man i hope youre smart enough to understand
I think what Leon Mada meant was that John Oliver is the first American media (which even though it is a comedy show, it still is 'media' and 'American') that they saw having actual truth.. so they are saying that usual American media is usually biased
americans did not turn a blind eye, they are directly responsible. dumbfuck.
No one with power cares. Because Money is power. Saudi Arabia has Money. Lots and lots of Money!
And oil don't forget a shit ton of of oil.
Large Soda Fire can't buy you your number 9s
I hear people complain about what the relentless drive for profits does for peace and how it harms the planet but NOT A SINGLE PERSON talks about what the obvious solution is at this point: REVOLUTION.
I mean the real shit. Not this peaceful protest/demonstration, let's vote Democrats and hope that heals everything garbage (they are complicit), I'm talking anti-capitalist die for the cause fuck shut up revolution.
Everyone talks a good game on the internet, sounds all passionate and compassionate ... and the promptly goes back to feeding the capitalist machinery.
Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly
but don't take a slice of my pie.
I'm pretty sick of trump's relatives working in our govt.... I thought there were rules against this type of nepotism....
You are a business now America, get used to that. The romance is gone, welcome to the real world.
There were never any written rules, it was just until now other presidents were honorable enough to not do it despite that.
There is only congress to keep in check those hiring. And ofcourse Republicans would hire a mentally damaged dog, if it somehow supports their agenda.
@@Shuizid hiring? Wtf? You mean, electing. Goddamn you kids are dumb.
@@Kirillow lol it was always a business, you stupid fuck. It's not self funding.
I'm watching this from Saudi Arabia.
Awesome. Greetings to Saudi Arabia from America.
Our country has gone insane, if you hadn't noticed.
I like to consider myself a very open person and not strongly politically aligned. I love John Oliver's show. His facts are still facts even if he presents them in a "liberal" way. Republicans would be much more informed if they saw 10 minutes of John Oliver than if they saw 10 years of FoxNews.
conservatives understand liberals far better than liberals understand conservatives.
@@rodblues6832 On what do you base this assumption? Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they don't understand you
@@exantiuse497you're absolutely right, but in this case, liberals don't even understand what they disagree with. Here's a few examples...after the 2016 election, I heard many shocked liberals exclaim "how could anybody have voted for Donald Trump?" This reveals a major lack of understanding. Even the shock itself was an expression of liberal ignorance toward conservatism. Contrarily, I didn't hear a single conservative say "how could anybody have voted for Hillary Clinton?" This is because conservatives DO understand liberalism.
Another example: liberals have taken a few particularly bad elements of conservatism and have taken those things to be the whole. Thus, liberals have lumped all conservatives together into a category of racists, misogynists, homophobes, anti-immigrants, etc. Now don't get me wrong - racism, misogyny, etc. are very real and dangerous attitudes on the extreme right, but most liberals have reduced all conservatism to these undesirable things, which reveals another major lack of understanding. And make no mistake, liberal ignorance is not harmless - now we have the PC police and social justice warriors on the extreme left trying to censor what we can and can't say, which is utterly detrimental to our free society. But is conservatism as a whole racist? Of course not, but the average liberal can't even hear the word "conservative" without conjuring images of torches and white robes. This is because liberals don't understand that the heart of conservatism is not about racism but about the individual liberty that allows them to vote and engage in these arguments in the first place.
On the other hand, conservatives have done a rather outstanding job at pointing out the flaws and logical holes of liberal ideology. This is why they can so easily rile up the liberals, which is their favorite form of entertainment. Unfortunately, because liberals do not understand conservative thinking, they have failed to show conservatives the holes in their conservative ideology, even though many such obvious holes exist. Instead they hammer on racism, social injustice, etc, publicly shame people on social media for being "racist," which misses the mark by a long shot. So great is liberal disdain of conservatism that their arguments are always dismissive and never appreciative of the several valuable things about conservatism that have made our country the greatest in world history. Being on the liberal side myself and wishing liberals many future electoral successes, I hope that liberals take some time to re-examine conservative ideology and see if there might be something of value after all.
@@rodblues6832 Thank you for a civilized response, I expected insults and nothing to back up your claims, as people tend to react in this channel ;-) I disagree with your first point somewhat, though, people saying "how could anyone vote for Trump" doesn't necessarily indicate lack of understanding and may be an indication of disbelief and anger: "how could this happen, I was so sure we'd win", a defence mechanism of sorts. And on the other hand someone *believing* they understand someone doesn't automatically mean they actually do, they might simply be wrong; Trump's supporters might believe every Hillary Clinton voter is an SJW and therefore voted for a candidate they believe is an SJW, but I think we both agree that not every liberal is an SJW, so the assesment would be incorrect.
I don't say you're wrong 100%, I'm not American myself and I haven't spoken to American liberals or conservatives irl, and even if I had that would only be my experience and not statistical fact, so you might well be correct. I just wanted to point out what I think was a flaw in your reasoning.
And I'm not denying there are no ignorant and stupid American liberals, I simply don't think the majority of them are that way. This is mainly due to my experiences dealing with Americans in the Internet; I have met many who have proclaimed themselves liberals, who, like you, have expressed a will to understand the other side and have denounced the harmful practices of the extreme left, but more rarely have I met a self-proclaimed American conservative who would express the same understanding towards liberals. Again, I understand this is my personal experience and not statistical fact, but it is why I don't believe American liberals are as ignorant as you say
Chaos
Facts overwhelmingly tend to BE liberal in nature.
HAHAHAH as a Muslim, touche on the first joke. Well played
so, no fatwa? that's mighty moderate of ya.
Marla not all of us hate the West and some of us likes comedy
fear of what?
bouya harumichi So I can draw cartoons of muhammed and put them on the internet?
yes you can many do actually
Trump’s first reaction to MBS’ silencing of Khashoggi was probably “Wish I could do that with the journalists here”
Ah yes, the "vibrant, progressive city"...where women superstars can't even show up to wrestle at a WWE event.
the arabian falcon WE WUZ KANGZ What the hell is wrong with you?
Prizefighter Productions just some sick fuck brainwashed idiot
I'd prefer a bras and panties match there /s
Imagine thinking watching half naked women fight in a cage for your entertainment progressive 😂😂😂
@@عمرعبداللهجندالله half naked men fight in wwe. Are you bitching about that or does it only matter when women wear comfortable minimal clothing during a contact sport?
We need the clones of John Oliver in India....
We tried to with AIB on hotstar but it got fucked lol thanks to perverts some of them are😅
Da......... Arnab gowswamy lol
Umais Siraj everybody has some fetish. It’s their hypocrisy is what fucked them.
Scroll.in -- Morning Fix
Need to take permission from 'bhakts' first😅
What a positive day for one of us
DONT TOUCH ANYTHING 😂
Trump would sell Alaska to the saudi's if they paid enough
Alaska has oil though.
Guess that just means the price went up.
So would your beloved Obama you dumb fuck. Do you know anything about politics?
@@robinlee6566Obama protected our national parks. Trump has been selling them off. you are the dumb fuck..
We sold ourselves to the Saudis years ago...
That oval office moment was so bad that Im completely... Speechless. I have no solution.
"Trump may not be the first president to make compromises about Saudi Arabia, but Trump is the first president to NOT SEE IT AS A COMPROMISE." Nailed it, John. NAILED IT.
Just a propaganda. If you think Saudi Arabia is bad because they wage war on population of neighboring states, finance terrorism, kill and torture people who expressed political views (people who proposed any change to monarchy, journalists, etc) and so on... think about Africa.
USA actually supported cannibal regime during Cold War. Ambassadors and politicians negotiated deals with African dictator during dinners where literally fried children were serviced. He had personal freezer with around a hundred bodies.
He promised to fight communism so USA helped to quell rebellions (people didn't want their children to get eaten among other things).
I'm not joking, you can't make that shit up.
Africa is a continent.
Ofc Africa is continent. The country - Central African Republic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bédel_Bokassa
@@ImperativeGames And what ? Because the american government of that time did something (incredibly) wrong that means journalists can't talk about another country who does wrong things ?
I'm not sure if that's the case. The other guy was given a Nobel peace prize and he didn't refuse to give the saudis a nice fellatio.
trump has business investments in Saudi Arabia as does jared. Nobody in the family divested themselves from their business ties with anyone which is a requirement of an incoming President. I wish that trumps base would finally realize that he is conning them. He tells them at every rally what they want to hear.
Donna Porter
His base is mostly made up of lower income white people. That in reality have nothing in common with him. And he is like the pied piper playing a tune that they cannot see where it is leading them until it’s too late.
In general if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. And that dear Donna is what is happening here.
THE ROYAL FAMILY IN SAUDIARABIA KNEW THIS SINCE BEFORE THE CLINTONS AND THE ARE VERY CONFORTABLE WITH IT!!! TO HILLARY'S DISMAY, THE SAUDIS, UNLIKE THE CLINTONS, DO NOT CANCEL CHECKS BUT CANCEL CASH, AS HILLARY FOUND OUT WHEN SHE LOST THE ELECTIONS TO TRUMP!!! MORE IS THE PITY!!! FOR EVERY IGNORANT OUT THERE, WHICH EVERY LIBERAL IS, ANY EMBASSY AROUND THE WORLD IS AN EXTENSION OF A COUNTRY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY!!! SO, WHATEVER LAWS THE PRINCE CAN DO OR VIOLATE IN HIS COUNTRY HE CAN DO OR VIOLATE IN HIS EMBASSIES!!! WHATEVER BOO BOO OUR LIBERALS CRY ABOUT SAUDI ARABIANS LAUGH ABOUT IN THEIR TVS BTETWEEN EXECUTIONS!!!
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lol lets not pretend this is a Trump problem only. Saudi Arabia is like this for YEARS AND YEARS. Nobody gived a damn when they were (and are) opressing woman and killing gays. Obama made deals with them, as Bush, as Clinton. Even Canada with its ultra liberal guy made deals with them, until the relationship started to get bad like a couple of months ago. So dont be hypocrtis and pretend this is something only happening in Trumps watch.
@@gordusmaximus4990 yes.. it's a Trump problem.. mostly bc he refused to divest. When you are making government decisions about your own business partners.. it's fucked. Thank fate for nosey turkey.. or we would all be stuck pretending to believe to believe the Saudis transparent lies.. like Trump initially pushed.. before word got out about the audio.
This story is so horrific. I feel so sad for his fiancé & family.
Hey korea :)
I really, really want a classic focused on funny video from this channel, ever time I see their post I prepare for sadness of late.
As horrific as it sounds. John was very one sided in his argument. All the images shown of the 15 travelers had no dates in them from the airport cameras. The voice clip they said they have of him getting butchered was denied by apple experts, because his apple watch can't send data. His claimed fiancee has doubtful old tweets where she says her name is different and origin story is different. His birthday date she claims its in October and changed his Wikipedia page 24 hours ago, but in his passport it says his bday is in January. So basically there are a lot of lies being thrown at the case to make a clear decision.
I spent 15 months in Saudi. I was there on 9/11 as part of Operation Southern Watch. Saudi Arabia is not our friend. We should not be there and should not have the relationship with them that we do.
Note: most Saudis are peaceful, compassionate, people who like America, but the leaders are using us.
My bf is Saudi-Iranian
Well you are benefiting as well. They buy your weapons .