Biden & The Border: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- John Oliver discusses the things Biden has promised to fix about our southern border, what he has and hasn’t done, and a magnificent pile of gators.
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The story of the El Paso alligator statue is stranger than you think.
In the late 1800s, the city underwent a beautification project, one element of which included renovating the city park. For some wonderfully inspired reason, the city decided to put a group of young American Alligators into the newly-renovated park pond (alligators are not native to the El Paso area). The gators stayed there for many years, but as time went on, more and more problems arose. The gators weren't the problem, they were quite well-mannered, but the citizens of El Paso were not responsible enough with their alligators. The city faced numerous issues ranging from people throwing things at them, to people catching the alligators and putting them in someone's house or office as a prank, to drunk men jumping into the pond at night hoping to wrestle one. The vandalism and disrespect caused two alligators to die and one to be blinded in one eye. Eventually, in the 1960s the city decided that the alligators would go to the city zoo where they could be safe from the city's population. They tried again in the 70s, but results were soon the same. Then, in 1995, a statue was placed to honor the reptiles that we did not deserve.
that is the most texas thing i have ever heard and i love it
that's actually brilliant. there's something about the actual wild animals being more civilized than the people that is just *chef's kiss*
That's not terribly surprising, alligators are mostly just dangerous because of their size, for the most part they aren't interested in people and even in the cases where they do attack, it's a case of mistaken identity, or they get a hold of somebody's hand because they think there's food and drag the poor person to their death underwater before realizing that there's been a mistake and leaving the body uneaten.
Crocodiles though, are definitely up for eating people.
So the lesson is wherever you put alligators people start behaving like floridians
@@aldranzam3456 as a native Floridian I feel oddly attacked and complimented at the same time.
As soon as Biden started talking about family I was desperately hoping that Jon would mention Fast and Furious; and I wasn't disappointed.
I thought he was going to talk about the failed "Operation Fast and Furious" of the Biden administration to give American guns to drug cartels which resulted in the death of many people including a border patrol agent. But sure the movie reference was good too.
If John were fair, when Biden began rambling about "family", he would have mentioned the 4 year old granddaughter he won't even acknowledge, despite a genetic test proving that Hunter IS the father. China Joe hung Christmas stockings for his dog, but not his own granddaughter.
Agreed, his humour is becoming very predictable
As in the movies? Or the Obama era program where we essentially just gave millions in automatic weapons to the cartels.
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I recognize that I'm late to this, but I hope the WGA and especially the Last Week Tonight team are able to make it through this strike. It's a bummer there hasn't been any new episodes for near a full month, but getting fair treatment and compensation for the talented folks who deserve it comes first. Good luck to the Last Week Tonight team and I hope you all are managing through the strike okay
Agreed!
Fully Agree! We can't become a society full of people who just odd job (gig work) their way through life because the corporate over lords need every penny to buy trips to jerk each other off on the moon.
what has happened? can someone tell me
@@alexham7356 Right after this episode aired, the WGA (Writers Guild of America) went on strike... which led to late night talk shows (including LWT w/John Oliver) to be temporarly put on halt 'cause they rely on their writers for material!
Same. It's sad we won't see new episodes for a while. But I'm sure it will be back, and one of the new eps will be all about the strike
gonna miss the show for however long its off but good for the writers fighting for their rights. i wish workers in all sectors would realize their collective power and stick it to the ruling class.
It's going to be tough as the employers have all the power and with AI on the rise even writers could be replaced by AI collaborations that input trending concepts into an AI and then polish the messy outpouring of "raw content" into semi coherent content only to push it though the AI to further polish it.
It may sound incredibly stupid, but thanks to learning algorithms this will net cheap scripts on the fly and by small companies that are mostly just programmers utilizing AI for very cheap.
Every sector will be in danger of AI, even things like personal trainers who will find that an Ai program matched with a learning algorithm and a smart watch with a heart monitor can do everything a person who studied personal training can do and more yet for next to nothing and can be on call 24/7 with no reason to call in sick or take days off.
@@flackstar007 because movies today are such high quality and are making tons of money...
It's nothing to do with what you're saying.... Disparu did a good video on it, whether you like his other views or not, it's still true. The writers guild wants mandatory minimums of writers for example, and weeks worked. So if you're a great writer, and you wrote an amazing script, tough luck. You're a single person and the rules say you need 8 writers. So, we could pay you 5 million to write the show, but, we need to split that, so we hire additional writers that aren't needed. You did the whole script in 8 weeks, but we have to pay 13 weeks. So we have to pay the other writers too. These MANDATORY minimums end up making things worse.
@@flackstar007 writers will be replaced by people working with ai. These writers say they will NOT use ai. Fine. So 20 great writers use ai to make themselves amazing. Christopher Nolan uses ai to make more scripts than ever. Trying to be a ludite is idiotic, and that's what the writers guild wants. They don't have the power. Why aren't you advocating for type writer makers in the same fashion? Or old-school Wallstreet traders? Some jobs die. Wallstreet trading died when trading moved to computers. From thousands of traders to handfuls. Things change... Writers and movie making doesn't need so many people.
@Michael Flack that's a very real thing that needs to be addressed right away. I don't agree with most of what Elon Musk is enabling through Twitter but on the AI front I think he's absolutely right. AI needs to be paused because it's getting scary how good it can be. The job market will be massively impacted as it gets better. There has to be some kind of guidelines/laws in place to combat that.
That app makes me think of when I worked with my state's unemployment office during the pandemic. Our role was very limited (we could help with filing a weekly claim and update personal information on the account, but we could not approve an account for benefits as I believe that had to be done by a licensed adjudicator). For those needing more assistance, they required an appointment to speak with someone by phone. Appointments could only be made Sunday through Thursday after 5PM. The slots were taken within two minutes of opening and people were going months without being able to speak with someone. We were actually informed to flag a supervisor if someone made mention of committing suicide because of this.
That was just unemployment benefits, I can only imagine how much worse it is for those seeking asylum.
Yep, it's designed to fail.
Adjudicators are licensed? I take it there's no ethics exam involved, because around here they're some of the worst scum and villainy that the state can find. And I've been a state employee, I'm generally not one to badmouth state employees, the only government employees that I can think of that are worse are tax assessors and prosecutors.
Oh god, that sounds like a nightmare.
I'm just glad that I've never needed emoloyment help.
Yeah that's nonsense it needs to be triaged ..the most vulnerable first. And that could easily be done by a human being. I always think when I am going by through some beurocratic hoops that one person with a brain could easily and quickly solve the problem...and example is my mom who broke her hip and got home help one year later....she took it cos she had broken her arm by then..she recently broke her arm again and they had delete her file so she had to go through the process again because they only hold records for five years. Now that makes sense with a young person. It does not make sense with elderly people who are acsessing elderly care because they are only going to need more care as time goes by. Not less. Its not like a young person who had an issue got over it and has 70 years of health. This is a 70 year old having their records delete at 75 when their need it. Going to be more. They should automatically go on a list of vulnerable people and actually asked if they need help not wait to apply for help. The hospital should flag these people who come in with a broken skull or injury because at that age you may not be able to fill out a form and most of them cant use a bloody website or app to save their lives they can barely use whatsapp. Yet all in person office are closed all phone lines closed and only online available and hardly anyone knows how to reach them and if you are old and just had a fall youre not even able to type cos you just broke your damn hand and are in a fog of pain. Its just a useless load of Pen pushing going on and ive literally had arguements with those people who can somehow spend an hour argueing but cant spend five minutes go something? They're worse than robots. No offence i know your hands are tied. I'd be fired in five minutes fron your job because id break the rules to help people. THe system is stupid and smart people and kind people like yourself have their hands tied and are punished for helping people. Its very wrong.
I worked with a vietnamese boat person. His brother got to America a year ahead of the rest of his family and had a car, a house, and a steel mill job waiting for them. Hard working, decent people. Of course, this was 45 years ago when an individual could, through hard work, earn his way into a house and a car in a year.
Vietnamese are true refugees. There was a war there and killing. What is going on now is pure economic migration.
We kids have it easy now days tho. /s
Ya mean before Reagan and neoliberalism?
@@bluevanga30 you're not having to drop out of school to go work on the family farm, which still happened regularly 50yrs ago & all through human history before that. So like every generation you've got advantages & disadvantages over previous generations. But on the whole you're much better off now than someone born in the mid 1900s who still had to worry about Polio or diabetes before insulin besides everything else
@@nolongerblocked6210 We're the first generation in the history of the country that will be worse off economically than our parents on average. We're the first generation since before 1920 to have faced a pandemic with the death toll as high as it was, and we're likely to have to face multiple more before we'd have reached retirement age, and we're much less likely to be able to retire ever. We're the first generation since the Great Depression to have the economy so heavily damaged and further threatened as its being literally right now in congress more than once. We're the first generation that has faced more days with mass violence being perpetrated against our peers and younger generations than without. We're the first generation to have faced all of those things at once and still be told that we ought to just bend over and take it because we don't have to do what our great grandparents did while our immediate predecessors didn't either and ended up much better off than we ever will.
On top of that, the reason why people don't quit school to work on their family farm is because that's impossible, because family farms go bankrupt by the thousands every year thanks to support for policies that leave giant corporate agricultural corporations heavily subsidized and profitable but family farms left on the wrong side of a volatile market, and because a lack of education equivalent to a high school diploma makes you effectively useless as an heir to a farm since you can't do a fraction of the things needed just to keep it running, like understanding accounting practices, negotiating contracts, reverse-engineering heavy farm equipment because the repair tech can't make it out for weeks during a harvest season, and desperately trying to make ends meet after all of that. Diabetes is still a near death sentence for anyone below the poverty line (which makes up over 10% of the population) unless they're lucky enough to get on Medicare, and then only because of a law that was passed during this administration. Polio is being detected in cities again, likely due to the anti-vax movement. Everything you listed is actually a reason anyone paying attention to those concepts knows we're not doing well.
Btw, 50 years ago was 1973, where right about 1.5% of Americans worked in agriculture. So although that may have happened "regularly," it definitely didn't happen commonly, especially since in the 1970's there was an 80% rate of high school graduation. In case you don't have a calculator handy, that's over 50 times more common than it would be possible for those people to have dropped out to work on a family farm. I live in an agricultural state, and the last admin screwed over our family farms so bad that hundreds more than expected went bankrupt during their trade war with China, who is a major importer of American agricultural products, and then subsidies for farms only came after the giant corporations bought their family farms, their equipment, and just about everything else they had of value for pennies on the dollar so they could be forced to move nearer to a city so they could work for other corporations at a loss.
I get why people are often unwilling to accept that the world has changed compared to what they are used to or what they expected, but I highly encourage you to figure it out.
The problem is we're probably gonna be right back where we started with it being Biden vs. Trump. The lack of even an alternative within the "two party" system is damning of its failure.
Unfortunately the system is deliberately made that the other parties have little chance of winning. So yeah it's just another election on which of these two idiots do you prefer even though they are both incompetent. It is not a two party system like you phrased with the quotation marks but it sort of is.
Gop has alternates. Vivek is next up after Trump. Whos after Biden? Gavin? The guy not even running that lost a debate to Florida man? Name one democrat that hasn't screwed their cred by how they are running their states?
It's one party w 2 flavors. More government or way more government
Yup. Trump was way worse, but this is far from better enough. My throw away vote won’t matter much since I’m in a deep deep blue city anyway.
@samc5794 Not sure if you've had your primary yet where you are. But consider voting "uncommited" for the democratic primary, it's one of the few tactics that seems to get a rise out of the democratic party these days.
Facial recognition IS HARDER when your skin is darker, period. I'm dark myself, and I've written this code, and it's frustrating, but there's little that can be done about it. it's because there's less contrast in my features (dark skin, dark hair, eyebrows) and if I'm not in a well-lit area, I just fade into the background. This has to do with the very physics of photography and vision -- how much light and how much difference in the light and dark areas. One solution is to remove the IR filter that's on all digital cameras, that made me look very white, gave me plenty of contrast. This means that the melanin in my skin apparently reflects, not absorbs, near infrared. That was good enough for my purposes.
Negative, it effects darker skin tones QED racism IDENTIFIED!
Physics be damned!
Fake news. This is America, where correlation is equal to or greater than causation. Computer science is racist and gravity is prejudice against fat people, I know cause Twitter said so
Ahhhhh the second he started talking about the app my thought was “wow this puts my Ticketmaster experience in perspective.” And to learn that I was not the only person who’s mind went there is both gratifying and horrifying
I remember trying to get a ticket for Radiohead! I did it working with two computers at my phone at the same time. I felt a winner even though I got the last ticket in the last raw. I can't imagine the same thing for an immigration appointment 😢
My first thought when he started mentioning facial recognition was, “You know full damn well this isn’t going to work if their skin tone is even remotely dark.” Lo and behold, I was sadly right.
While I do understand the plea of these migrants, I have some first hand experience with people who had to leave the country as legal highly skilled labor who had come into the country ”the right way”. An Indian friend of mine had been married and settled in the US. She had been working for nearly 2 decades as an H1-b worker since her permanent residence permit was still very much stuck in the process. She and her spouse were working in medicine and tech respectively, so atleast $130k plus each, and were law abiding tax paying citizens, contributing to their society and their economies. They had bought and built a house for their family and had one daughter who was a US citizen by birth. When my friend lost her job during the Covid-19 pandemic, she had a total of 3 months to find another one in exactly the same field. When she was unable to do so her family had to upend their entire lives and leave immediately along with their daughter, abandoning their house and pet.
If this is how the US government treats people who were educated in the country, contributing to the economy greatly and were overall outstanding members of their societies, I can only wonder how they treat migrants from these other countries.
much better, catch and release. work of the books, no tax, in some states you even got rights.
Citizens get much the same... 🤕🤕🤕
those politicians dont want decent people becoming their constituents, they want americans to be dumb so that they can fuck up the country with less opposition lol
the only people they let in are crazy rich and crazy poor people. middle class people only make their lives harder lol
God, that's disgusting. Absolutely f*cking deplorable. Holy shit
And because it's H1-B, yeah, they need to have a job to retain the visa...
I seriously question the morality of that Visa... Those who worked under H1-B should have access to better citizenship access after certain amount of time of application.
Like seriously, these people pay taxes and worked for the economy. They are just a document short of a proper Citizen. And throwing them away just because they can't find a new job IN 3 MONTHS after their years of contribution is disgusting
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You can tell John is still new to America because he’s still expecting Presidents to honor their promises
Maybe we should all become like John, because we're now so jaded and apathetic (myself included) we expect them to renege on their promises.
To be fair, even if they want to honor their promises we live in a democratic republic with three supposedly co-equal branches of government so unlike a dictatorship they can't just declare that something will happen and magically make it so. I wish candidates would be more honest about that, be more accurate for them to describe their promises as their wish list of items.
The president is only responding to the needs of the people.
Americans don't want refugees, but they want vanity.
Trump tells the truth, stops refugees;
Biden lies, and stops refugees, the same.
So Biden is more in line with the needs of the people.
Once they show us otherwise, we will remain jaded and apathetic. Biden is using this rhetoric solely to gain Latino support behind his presidential run. He had 4 years and has not done shit for Latinos. All these politicians are disgusting.
@@bleach219 they could try a little harder though
Even entering legally is incredibly difficult. My aunts and uncles, who are middle class in Mexico, and can afford an attorney to handle the process, have been waiting for 24 years for their green cards to be approved.
My uncle in South America waited 15 years and once he was approved, he was already married with kids and he was like, no thanks.
A friend of mine, born in the US, has been waiting for years (married in 2019 and only started to see some progress by late 2022) for his WIFE to be allowed to immigrate. Something tells me that if he was white and/or she was European, he wouldn't be waiting, but he's Asian, and she's from Laos.
Why would they event want to go to the US right now? Where you get shot by asking your neighbor not to wake up your baby with their shooting noise?
Yeesh
@@paulahik211 mine was 10 years and i lost a wife and happy life
Seeing Stephen Miller after all these years is like vampire seeing sun for the first time
I had blissfully removed him from my memory... but now I shudder to think what god-awful things he's been doing out of sight. 😳
It Hurts!!
@@JillKnapp
As long as Miller draws breath, others will suffer.
look up “evil” and you just get Stephen Miller’s photo
He made many appearances on the late Tucker Carlson's show.
Stand with the WGA & SAG! Give artists their worth and the security they deserve!
We miss you, LWT, but we’re supporting you 100%!
Hollywood is dead and the streaming wars killed it
Dear god, let them stay on strike forever. People are actually getting smarter now that they aren't getting their political opinions from late night tv hosts.
Replace these writers with AI.
I'm genuinely really excited for this show to come back - whenever that may be. I hope WGA gets their demands soon too. This has been a wild month as soon as theyve gone off air. I wish everyone on the LWT team good luck with this strike!
Just because things could be worse, doesn't mean they couldn't be better. Just because you love your country, doesn't meant you can't wish better for it. It's our duty to guide our country towards a better state.
Omg. This. 🎉🎉🎉
@what’s there to explain? Seriously, he’s said it about s simply as can be expected. If you want it dumbed down even further, best I can give you is “don’t get complacent,” which is only part of the sentiment
you americans should have voted for Bernie.
@TheFishOwnsYou we did. It was totally rigged against him. The dems do it, the repubs do it. They're all afraid of people like Bernie who threaten their hegemony. I was on the ground level, starting at the local elections and watched him systematically be edged out by the establishment dems.
yes by saying Biden isnt left ENOUGH? When the right already thinks hes too far left. Wouldnt mind him criticizing someone or something for being too left.... at least once a year
Even applying for a tourist visa is hard. In Costa Rica people wait up to a year for an appointment to apply for a visa to go to Disneyworld. And the fee is really expensive for most people. You pay, you wait and you can still be refused.
The $160 application fee is not refundable. And 50% of applicants in Nicaragua before 2018 were getting rejected. Can’t apply at the border anymore, have to apply at the US consulate. Most get two year parole entry visas, at least in Nicaragua.
Come to Europe. We have Disneyland. I'm sure there is public transport from Paris to Disneyland.
That is nuts! I thought we were the home of the free and brave. I was so wrong.
I have a friend who is Indonesian and lives here in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband, in the house that they own. They wanted to go to her sister's wedding in the US. But because she has family in the US, her visa was denied instantly, they deemed she might want to stay.
@@moniqueengleman873 American tourist visa is notoriously one of the most batshit insane visa interviews all around. While the process itself isn't that much harsher than many others (Japanese tourist visa comes to mind, they want an actual document listing everything you intend to do in the country), most countries have very clear requirements and recommendations that basically guarantee the tourist visa after the interview. The USA not only doesn't really have as such, it often denies visa for basically no discernible reason whatsoever. The interview process is straight up a gamble. If the interviewer is on a bad day they can and will blanket deny anyone that day.
As a Scot that grew up in the Lone Star state, I went through the immigration process. I eventually held a green card. The amazing people don’t realise is if someone is arrested as an illegal immigrate, they sent to an immigration jail to do time before they deported! So there are thousands of people in prison waiting to be sent back to their country.
But the thing is that they will return. So they're being tortured by immigration officials
@@BiggusDickus_ usually they return bc their family are in the US. So they take the risks over and over. America used to be a land of opportunity. But now it’s rejecting the very concept that it was founded upon.
It's almost like breaking and entering a country illegally is a crime, or something?
Weird.
i mean, tourists get arrested and do time when they commit crimes in foreign countries too
so why would immigrants be a different case?
it's been a long time since it's been founded and now. there are plenty of changes to the opportunities that there were at the founding of the nation. @@ryanchristophergavan80
I'm German, and I was in a LDR with an American girl. At one point, I looked into ways to stay in the US for a longer time. She couldn't believe how hard it is to get into the country, maybe she thought I was too stupid to find the right approach. I'm a software developer with a degree, and it would be so incredible difficult to come with a work visa, and then you are on the mercy of the company hiring you. Also marrying wouldn't be all rainbows and unicorn puke. Things didn't work out between us, and to be honest, I prefer the employee rights and protections I have in Germany very much over the American nightmare. After we broke up, she accused me to be anti-american. That's not true, I like your country, but that means even more that I have to criticize it if it becomes a shit show of a dumpsterfire on an erupting volcano. Get your shit together, and immigration would be a good starting point.
I'm an American and I am openly critical of our country. It is a dumpster fire here. As bad as you think it is, it's worse.
High US salaries lead to an immigration demand-supply imbalance. US laws are primary created to help special interest, not the majority.
Our country is a raging hell. Ik there are worst countries, but there are much better ones too. I wish usa would get its shit together, but a large portion of our population doesn't want that. 🤦♀
Why would you move to the US from Germany? You guys have health care, paid time off, non exploding trains, and a stable political structure.
@@rlundquest I can see why you would think that. And maybe you're right. But I also think there are well-funded corporate interests who are very good at keeping the dumpster fire going.
Even entering legally into USA is difficult, I was offered with a research internship in Florida, but the last changes in the process turn out impossible to me to apply essentially for the waste of time that trying to apply will represent. Currently I'm applying to a PHD in Europe.
You’re better off in Europe where most universities have time limits on the PhD. In the USA you can be held hostage by a PI for years if they don’t want to let you submit your thesis. I am Canadian and did my PhD in Europe. I was paid better, had less time wasted in rotations and course work and didn’t need to teach in order to have enough money to eat! Good luck!
@@davidheard8015
What is a PI? Thank you.
Honestly, this is the better option anyway. Dodged a bullet, probably literally.
That isn't surprising....lot's of countries have strict/difficult immigration policies. Many of the Norwegian countries, for instance.
@@selah71 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
My husband should have had his green card over a year ago, they haven't even interviewed him. He is a highly skilled worker with a good job, married to a citizen (me) and a father to 2 citizens.
There are 6 million people wanting a green card renewal. Its a long line.
im not gunna lie, this show is really intriguing, and it's funny, but i think it's also severely bringing my mood down. I don't think i've ever been this combination of angry depressed and hopeless.
'Title 42' sounds like the working title of a Hitchhiker's Guide Netflix adaptation.
Ooh! An apt Douglas Adams burn.
How many roads must a man walk down..?
"We apologize for the inconvenience"
@@Tonyhouse1168 They all lead to Milliways.
Shhh!!!
Don't give Netflix any ideas...! You know how that would turn out and we don't need them to carelessly produce more manure out of beloved properties.
As an immigration lawyer whose main practice area is asylum, you are spot on. I'm so disappointed in the Biden administration, and I thank you for bringing this important issue to light.
This problem has been around for generations this is not Bidens fault, wow what a clown @user-dz5ok1tq9u🤡
Blame yourself 🤡 this is not his fault, and for you to say it is well shame on you, you absolutely know this has been a problem for a long time it’s not one person’s fault get that through your thick stupid head
Sorry you have to go through the official proccess. Mexico is safe, you cant seek asylum here.
Why are they coming. They will keep coming so when do you say enough. NYC is a shit show. My taxes and everyone else here is paying for this. Lots of them look down to black people and there's a shit ton of us here.... Who pay taxes. How many is enough sir. Most are uneducated, speak mo English and don't want to learn English and will be wards of the state their entire life. The mothers ride the subway with 6 and 7 kids. You think this is ok? Why are we responsible for the failure of their government. I am a legal immigration immigrant. My mom waited. They will never stop coming until we stop them. Did Jon Oliver show up at the border. As you can see..... This situation pisses off. It's ride.
So you guys are responsible for America's downfall.
I know the show has covered it before, but I think this segment would’ve been helped by a very very brief recap on the right to asylum internationally and under US law. Most people are not familiar/ may not remember what exactly asylum is. Also, a piece missing from this discussion is: what is the long term solution? With the climate crisis, refugees and asylum seekers will exponentially rise- is the U.S. supposed to accept all of these people?
Please make one on how rental car companies are notoriously scammy. We all hate them. We all get frustrated by them.
the asylum app was clearly about some contractor getting a huge contract for developing it not to provide any value
...and also the fact that the tech industry is overwhelmingly run by white men who give lip service to equality while developing tools of systemic racism.
That's 100% on point
Right on!
Government at its greatest 👍
John Oliver needs to do a part 2 of this video
I constantly keep saying this in all of his videos to bring up the bigger issue John or your part of the problem. I used to really like this guy I'm starting to have my doubts.
This segment did NOT age well. Wow
Sometimes I genuinely forget that John Oliver has been around for 10 years. Like he was excited longer than in the 80s.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ idk where you think you're going with your little youtube ministry but i promise you it's nowhere good
rewatching old videos because I need to hear John's voice at least once a week :D
I hope the studios agree to a better contract for writers soon!
Seconded !
I'm 'jonesing' for my 'comedy/news fixes', and it ain't pretty.
And it's frankly scary to see videos half a decade old still somehow being more relevant to today.
@@AloisAgos
Ain't THAT the truth !
And what's even MORE SCARY, is to see 'clips' or hear songs going all the way back to the 60s, 70s, 80's, etc. that seem that they were done 'yesterday' !
Boggles the Sane mind !
It's been two months. This strike deserves to get clowned on. Like every writer's strike
Certain late night hosts are treating their staff like shit. And though i miss my last week tonight fix. Nothing but respect for John Oliver standing with his staff
What late night host are you referring to?
@@OZbibaO Google Jimmy Fallon writers strike for the whole story. It's pretty shitty
@burningflag3679 i googled it and all i saw was that he and Meyers are paying out of pocket for their staff??? was there something else that he did?
@@leeh4669 I could be wrong but I think Stephen Colbert did too.
Just finished up an existential crisis and this is just what I need to recover even if it is midnight. Thanks, John!
ayyy nice pfp comrade
The crisis.. is not over yet
You have Karl Marx as your PFP, this is the least of your problems
@@tobiasmeerdink5023 I guess you like Antisemites too
Haha, you thought we were out of a crisis at any point since 2016? xD
I am a US citizen born here, wife is from Brazil we have been waiting for a year to get her visa, it literally puts our life on pause we have done all the paperwork had to pay over 4k in fees and they lost our paperwork 3 times. it is a complete shit process. The reason why a lot of people enter illegally is because even doing it the legal way takes years and is not a guarantee. I have a friend who was seeking asylum from Venezuela and its been over 3 years for him to get his Visa.
Serious question…No ill will.
Is everyone who seeks a visa entitled to one?
oh thats BS. Youre whold story is a lie.
@@freeman7079 When white people literally stole this country and forced humans to build everything yes you are. Families are dying because of what Regan,North and Bush started.
@@freeman7079 dude yes they are, you can't work in the country, drive, get a license or anything without a visa.
@@freeman7079 No. But it would be fair if you get your answer quickly. I don't know about USA, but for EU countries you can read the requirements on the embassy website and then apply for the category that suits you (work, marriage, study, travel...). If you are refused, you have few weeks to make a formal complaint.
It's a hot mess in NY with migrants. Not sustainable to pay for hotels.
Hello, can we be friends, I live in Austin Texas, what about you dear!!!!
Also, how does someone reserve an appointment if they don't have a cell phone?
Who the f thought a phone app was anything resembling a solution?!? What's next? Letting them eat cake?
"Excellent they have some sort of solution to this bullshit. Let's see what it is... What the fuck? I abruptly stopped what I was doing and ran from the cartels. Telling me to use an app is as useful as telling me to form a summoning circle!" -- Asylum seeker that lost everything
They are not our responsibility
@@konigstiger3252 they're on your soil? They're your responsibility
@@belhariry - No, they aren’t. If they entered illegally, they should be immediately deported to where they have citizenship.
Nobody! That was the point
If anyone actually travels down to Mexico and tries to come into the US, you will see an entire spectrum of people from all over the world standing in lines waiting for help across. Nobody talks about this. Its not just South Americans. It’s a mix.
Same reason they miss the number of 'illegal migrants' that are actually overstayed EU citizens. For the same eggshell skin tone shaded reason.
And every single one who crosses illegally is a worthless criminal that needs to be rounded up like cattle and shipped back.
@@xanderLudahl Fighting tooth and nail, using all their life savings, seeking help from relatives and strangers, and a heaping dose of hope... but none of these things last under dire conditions
But why? I’m always wondering why so many people would want to risk so much to come when there lives aren’t going to be much better at all. I understand if they’re coming from especially violent areas, but that leaves the question of why can’t they settle someone where closer by that’s also pretty safe compared to where they’re coming from.
50% of illegal immigrants into the United States come from Mexico.
25% come from the rest of latin America.
That means only 25% of illegal immigrants in America come from non-latin American countries.
Also, these countries have high rates of asylum seekers.
So, the most illegal immigrants come from countries with the worst crimes.
In other words, we are recreating conditions that people risk their lives to escape!
Rewatching all the episodes now.
Thank you John for being both fair to Biden, not diminishing his accomplishments or falling into "both sides" false equivalency, while also not engaging in partisan apologism and brushing aside his failures and betrayals on this issue. That is a fine needle to thread, and most commentary fails to do so. This feels like a very even-handed report.
gd, I'll have whatever he's smokin'!
@@tylr3669 Reported and blocked.
@@antonbrakhage490 4?
“Stephen Miller. A student’s answer to “‘Draw Squidward from memory’.” 😂😂
He also answers the question "what would a real-life penis look like?"
If an alien chest burster hated Mexicans
You will never convince me Steven Miller isn't an alien reptile sent here to destroy earth, who struggles daily to maintain his human form.
And people said Trump didn't have a pet in the white house.
@@davidguelette7036 🎯🎯Well Done!
ok Alex jones
and eats children.
@@davidguelette7036 and people say Biden & Kamala are competent😢
You need to do a show on The Friend of the Court and Child Support. I guarantee a 2 part episode. It is a crazy system that needs to be brought to light for what it really is. A "people wrecking machine" is a great way to explain it.
Divorce courts also ruin lives. Once the writers strike ends, John should also talk about them.
A politician not keeping his campaign promises?!
Inconceivable
You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Nobody is safe from these people who lived in one part of the world and now want to live in this part!"
You can't bring there to here without here becoming there.
I will never forgive Fast X for not using the tagline "FasTEN your seatbelts."
Fast X: Your Seatbelts
As an American who has lived in other countries (applied for residency, some denied, some accepted)... I've seen how Asian, African, European countries handle their own migrant issues. I've seen the US too. What seems to be missing from all of them is a clear understanding of what they want their immigration rules to be. We're all missing the mark. But maybe we should decide where the mark actually is.
Read the statue of liberty.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
beyyyy
You said nothing you must be taking lessons from Kamala Harris
@@drewmannMcGee Wasn't the Statue of Liberty a gift from the French? Rich of them to expect Americans to meet a standard they couldn't themselves.
@@drewmannMcGee Too bad that was written by people who stole this country from its inhabitants.
@@deus_ex_machina_ American author Emma Lazarus wrote the poem to help fundraise for the Statue's pedestal. The plaque was installed almost two decades after the statue had been dedicated in 1886. The provenance of the poem is entirely American.
As ALWAYS, besides enjoying your wicked humor, I learn so many things about just about everything while watching your show, that it DOES NOT appear in any news programs 🤔🧐 So, for that, I thank you and look forward to watching your shows, although not always write a comment; it would just be repeating myself and express my OUTRAGE time and time again. You go, John Oliver ❤
Underplaying immigration issue. Bravo..
The American Dream? Yeah, there's an app for that.
Dusty Rhodes?
I hope it’s not tiktok
Nah there’s a fico score for that
America is a joke and always has been
I don't know of an app who's motto is "I got mine, fuck you.".
I really appreciate that because Biden was supported doesn’t mean that he cannot be criticized. I like how the Tonight’s work seems honest.
Thats only because its close to election time so now its time they pretend to be honest again
You think that this is ‘honest’?
@Natdl - yeah, I really can’t get into a ‘debate’ with a loser who can only ‘strawman’ and / or smear . . . you people are literally energy vampires ay? 👍
@Natdl you mean biden administration?
WTF has he done he hasn't fu¢ked up PERFECTLY?! Man you people are really brainwashed!
Biggest problem is our homeless. The US can't even figure out how to get its own people housing let alone migrants. Shipping them to states is only making things worse.😢
The US isnt willing to put money towards homeless programs that have seen efficacy elsewhere. Theres a difference. They know what to do they just dont want to
"It's about family." Says a man that wouldn't recognize his own grandchild. When in doubt, blame Trump.
When Biden dropped the family line I knew there's a Fast&Furious joke coming...
yea I thought the same
Cuz the Buster kept me out of chains!
I still can’t believe someone dated Stephen Miller and was like, “yup, I’ll marry him”.
Some chicks have a weird fetish
Money
Amazing that someone hasn't produced a horror movie with Miller as a nazi vampire.
Just the sight of him puts him on the internalized "FBI watchlist" to be entirely wary of him at all times. I don't see how anyone can stand near him and feel comfortable.
Steven Miller looks like he can dislocate his jaw when swallowing his prey whole like a reptile. I imagine there's an entire circle of Hell where the only torment is having to have sex with him.
I’m definitely going to try these setups. Thanks for the vid!
Can someone explain to the writers that the fate of people doesn't hang in the balance because this is done via an app but because there is a limited number of admissions allocated randomly. The app is only the medium, if it was done in person or via a website or a call it wouldn't make it better.
You really got my hopes up with the bit about Trumps accidental haiku
Person, woman, man
I know words; have the best words.
Camera, TV.
Never get your hopes up about any haiku. That's a good rule of thumb. They're all disappointing. They are the Ruve Goldberg machines of poetry. Hard to craft but utterly useless.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7lwith all the artful periods you have in your comment, i was really hoping it would be a haiku. it was not. ive learned so much about keeping my haiku hopes low today
@@kerenk Nope that's just me failing at basic grammar. I try to keep my sentences shorter now, to avoid most of punctuation pitfalls. I gave up on grammar in my native language so English is not getting extra effort.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l i respect that
I died. "Incel Kayou" and "draw squidward from memory" killed me 😂😂😂
Caillou kinda sucked, didn’t he?
So how many people should we allow into the country every year? And how much money should we spend handling asylum seekers? Because these important questions were never mentioned, not surprising coming from those who exploit low wage workers.
Agree I think people don´t realise just how many people are coming if it was only 1.000 per year it wouldn't be a problem
Even if you think we can take care of everyone that has already come over, you have to realize there is a breaking point. This isn’t sustainable.
Democrats don't care about that though. They think the US is capable of doing everything when it comes to the world's problems.
OR
They say America has an obligation to help around the world because of history.
They don't know that immigrants will make money here in the US and then send that money home to their families. Where $1 is like 1000 in their currency. That's money leaving our economy not being put back in.
Liberals are dumb.
I'm confused are you fighting FOR the asylum rules to be kept as they are, or do you want them to change?
If number 2, what changes do you want to see and yes I realize I'm asking this like a high school test question
@Borealis109 I think what kylekoch7200 is saying is we need a new system cause the way its being run currently is not gonna work long term
Im honestly surprised Haiku's are still being taught to students. I could see Marjorie Taylor Greene ranting about Haiku's not being American enough for our children.
Haha,😂
Why, yes of course. The strongest, swollest culture of the bestest country ever falls to pieces when merely exposed to other cultures. That's some weak shit, but that's how we know our frightened bigots, our European iterations are no less sad and concerning. MTG is an embarassment but i'd never lay her at America's feet, just Republican feet, especially those in Baldwin County. Oh, and the conservative shmews media cheerleading for ghouls like her.
Trump did say a Haiku in that clip.
You can do good but
you can do a lot better
if you had good laws.
@@Juddyfresh Damn, you're right
She would call them “woke” and “funded by George Soros”.
The pile of gators is magnificent. Alligators are in general, magnificent.
The lesser crocodile
@@jeremydyar7566 i prefer to think of crocodiles as ugly alligators
he’s rapping more like hosting😭 i cant keep up lmao
That introduction! I almost spat out my coffee
"Fuck em".. Man it's nice to hear it being said without being bleeped. I love this channel for it. And the fact that it is used only on special occasions to really drive a point home makes it just the better.
Yeah that felt good.
@@panchonelson3573 How?
@@panchonelson3573 lol shut up
@@panchonelson3573 You poor deluded fool.
7 families including mine were give a work visa in USA, in IT. All of us professionals with over 15 years of experience. After 3 years there, we learned (the hard way) that the written law is very, very different from the implementation. We all left, never coming back. Europe is much more suited for us all at this moment, and the taxes we pay seem to have some real purpose here. What is stagering, is that we work as contractors for US based companies. So your system is OK with that...
Good
@@felixfungle-bung4688 could not agree more. Looking into perspective, after 1.5 years leaving US, that was the best decision I made in a decade.
At least we treat educated people well in europe but if you are a refugee that crosses the mediteranian sea or come through balkan its also a terrible situation... But not even the most far right countries here seem to be anywhere as cold as the US who knowingly let people die and get kidnapped
It is either USA or Europe huh? The world is bigger than those two
Nothing about that surprises me.
Sort by new, and watch the salt pour out the mouths of people who have no clue what they're talking about
Please give writers what they want, it's been 4 weeks and I'm losing my mind. I need John Oliver to tell me what's been wrong with the USA last week!
If you need him to point it out, then it probably isn't nearly as problematic than you think.
@@TopTwom terrible logic:
1. I could be very affected by it but not know the full details of the problem which he explains very well.
2. I could not be affected by it because of my circumstances and therefore not know of it, but that wouldn't mean it's not a huge problem for many other people.
3. I'm not even american.
I don't think it's coming back
2,175,196 case backlog, at 740 appointments per day and 250 court days per year is almost a 12 year backlog. During which time, just as many people or more will get in line. They are falling even further behind ecru day. Also, that 12 years assumes each case will take just one court appointment, which seems pretty optimistic.
The backlog is they don't have enough government workers. Why not apply for a federal job to assist with the issue if you're interested especially if you're an attorney.
@@9395gb And that's another problem when trying to get the jobs.
Sounds like the public housing backlogs as well. When public infrastructure is not supported and international aide is demonized this is what happens
And they have the audacity to complain about a labor shortage and population replacement shortage 🌚
@@PhoenixAngel429 there is no problem with trying to get the jobs. People have to apply for federal jobs and have the necessary credentials and be professional. It's not that deep but Americans don't want to do it. Countries can only function properly and work if we have citizenship participating in the right way.
Most citizens want to complain or try to overthrow the government, but do not want to participate in the realistic solution by doing public service jobs or getting an college education and caring about the country or people.
I'm not a super fan of JFK, but he was correct in saying ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country. He was right on that one.
‘Tweedle-Dum & Tweedle-De-portation’
Oliver you’re a savage and legend!
If you Think Mr Strong's nameplate is sarcastic, you are clearly unaware of James Cleverley
1:03 boy does that sound genuine. Absolutely positively convinced that he wasn’t reading off a script.
How on earth is the pile of gators statue not in New Orleans? I DEMAND we get a copy. Preferably in the center of Jackson Square
You could do something yourself besides demanding
@@rasimbot Doing something himself to get such a statue over there would probably be as successful as demanding it on RUclips.
I thought it was Florida's mascot 🤔
@@kingjamos2422
Yeah ...
HOA will tear it down, as soon as it's build.
:3 I’m from El Paso and it’s mines!
My wife has been waiting for almost 1.5 years for her greencard renewal. We've been married for 25 years, it should be a rubber stamp at this point. Her first renewal took a few months. Everything related to immigration is backlogged right now.
She should be a citizen by this point. Then you don’t have to deal with the stamp
I agree with the other commenter - it's going to be long and painful, but get working on her citizenship. Some of the backlog you are seeing today tracks back to the drastic immigration measures implemented after 9/11. Criminal background checks were lengthened, number of documents had increased, all the forms got longer with additional questions, and the "are you a terrorist" interview has been extended as well. So, the whole thing exponentially blew up.
Amazingly, not everyone wants to be a citizen. Have you seen this country?
@@RM_VFX Yes. Trust me - I get it. As I mentioned in another comment, the way it's gotten over the last 10 years or so, had I been alone, I would have taken my chances and tried to get out. So.... no, I am not surprised at all. I mean - look at people commenting at this post here with ZERO compassion for the immigrants at the border or those trying to help them. What the hell happened to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"? Forget that!
My wife and I are going through the process for the first time. Just got married last year. It has been frustrating and honestly dehuminizing. We have been waiting to even get our interview. Even still, she has it better than the rest of our friends that are here on other types of visas. It isn't just slow, they make the process miserable.
(And to others, not everyone wants to be a US citizen. My wife also plans to keep her current citizenship. Plenty of reasons to.)
Thanks John, gee I've missed watching your show, I've just binged 3 in a row, Rj in Oz
Ticketmaster was legit the exact first thing I thought of when they described the app.
I like how your show addresses issues regardless of party. We need to hold our politicians accountable equally.
What??? Lol this is one of the most liberal biased shows out their. Just listen to how he’s constantly throwing shade at Republicans and only cherry picking clips that allow him to make a joke about them. Like he just assumes all sane people are on the left and the Republicans are the enemy and getting in the way
Agree. When it comes to making immigrants a target, though, there is one party 🤷♀️ that works to create hatred, not two, not three. FOX did a huge amount 👀 of it and should be accountable, too. Free speech does not allow for that; people forget to read what it does not cover and assume. Government? 😶 Let's start with 6 SCOTUS who have committed to an agenda that violates their oaths and puts it ahead of constitutional law and ALL 6 are involved in a specific organization that pushes against any women's rights, human rights ⚖ overall, and injects religion, corporate control, and authoritarianism into government, the Federalist society. Fair begins at the top, unlike trickle down 🙄 economics.
That's why Republicans have to stop calling this guy a democratic shill. He has burned both sides before.
The Democrat party line (which Biden does not follow) is there should be a low bar for asylum. The GOP partly line is asylum should only be used in special cases, like political prisoners. The GOP wants everyone to have the same chance of immigration regardless of race, whereas the Dems want to keep the per nationality limits. There was no mention of drawbacks to the expansion of asylum definition. So yes, he is a shill.
He essentially attacked the entire government. However as heartless as it sounds, the border needs to be completely shutdown. Do you people see how broken this country is currently? How are we to ever make a dent in homelessness, poverty, crime, and most importantly taking care of our military veterans if we're also tackling this endless stream of migrants flooding across the border????
They are destroying border towns and that's not fair to the residents who live there and it's not fair to the governments who control those towns and states either.
How did he not make a joke about the guy looking down at his paper five times to read three 3-4 word sentences
I was waiting for that, too (LOL!)
Simple, we didn't need John to tell it to us to get the joke. Some people are only good for a laugh, and you don't need anybody to point it out to tell.
Tweedle De-portation
HAHAHAHA
So much for
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"
We already take in more than any other country. We can't take in everyone
We are proud about America's values, just not those! What, those are what America is for the rest of the world? I am not interested in the rest of the world, I am American!!!
Only of they're white apparently
We take a lot of migrant but can’t take all. We aren’t the only country that has an asylum program. Why isn’t Russia taking in asylum seekers to the extent the U.S./West is? The asylum seeker program is for ppl who’s lives r in danger by someone or their government for pro-democracy activism and can prove it, not for ppl who just want a better life.
The tired, poor and the huddled masses have been used as cheap labor throughout our history.
I don't believe this is an example of our shining light on the hill.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
And give them what you gave the Europeans - welfare and housing!
As an European having almost no way to immigrant legally I'm perplexed by how people expect to be taken in just by showing up at the border.
These are much different situations. Europe is much more tight knit and has a lot of regulations. The US has a MASSIVE border it shares with Canada and Mexico so it needs to make immigration easy or else people will just enter illegally. It's the common concept that if you make something legal you can regulate it. Make it illegal and it is out of your control
Immigrants from south of the border know the democrats would accept them because they fear being called racist. According to the far-left, it is racist to advocate for tightening the border and restricting illegal immigration.
@@VitaeLibraThose reasons listed have absolutely nothing to do with or explain why situational awareness from a Europe perspective is different. And here begins the problem with any rational dialogue about immigration because legality and reality are steam-rolled for bleeding-heart idealism or basic nonsense like you just explained as if it was factual.
@@eongoosm I mean... You're very welcome to explain what I got wrong rather than sit there and insult me... You aren't off to a great start if you don't provide anything of value and instead just call me dumb tho :/
What's your take? How does it work, what's our end goal and how should we go about achieving it? Problems, solutions, and explanations. I'd love to hear them. As long as it's not just one party's buzzword talking points as you accused me of doing of course. And if they are because they're right, you better find some very good data to back it up cause I'm tired of seeing them repeated without any evidence lol
That's just straight up not true. European countries were signatories on the same international laws guaranteeing seeking asylum as the United States.
why am i paying for this on Max?
Ticketmaster: There are 6,500 people ahead of you in the queue. 🚶♂
Asylum Ticketmaster: There are 3,000,000 people ahead of you in the queue. 🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂🚶♂
So anyone just seek for asylum even without a case and will stay legal for years in US just waiting for a reply, piece of cake. While the legal ways for honest ppl abroad are harder and harder
@@XBarajasX actually, yes. It’s an actual human right to be able to seek asylum.
And second thought, we should be better at going through these requests for public safety. Imagine if we could get through them with months. That would mean people who will be granted asylum get the safety they need fast and the bad people trying to game the system get out quickly.
But with the mindset you have, it actually makes things worse for Americans and worse for them. But that’s what the Dems want. They WANT these people to be in danger and they WANT their families to be at risk. Because they don’t care about their basic human rights.
@@XBarajasX There's lots of room in the nearly-empty west. Anyone willing to resettle there should be given a boost in line.
@@Styphon Why should they get special treatment simply because they are willing to live someplace there is no employment capacity? That's kinda stupid.
@@nobodyspecial4702 there is *enornous* demand for rural agricultural labor. but I guess you xenophobes love food price inflation resulting from the labor shortage.
One problem is a severe lack of immigration courts
Its not a problem. Its on purpose. Its a stall tactic to prevent immigration. Do you really think that the US government couldn't create enough courts to hear every pending case by the end of the month if they wanted to?
I'm sure that is by design, you can 'thank' a republican today.
Not just courts - although, that too. Immigration personnel in general - across all the stages of the immigration process. Whenever I talk to other immigrants about just... coming to any of the locations across the country, we all share the same experience: every processing location has a waiting room and at least five, if not ten, windows for officials to work with. However, of those, only two or three are usually opened, and at least one of the opened ones is working on something lengthy so, it might as well be unavailable. I get WHY no one wants to work at the Department of Homeland Security - like the IRS, the institution is one of the most despised in America. I think it has to be a two-fold effort - simplify the process on one hand, make it make sense and reasonable to navigate AND employ more people to attend to the process.
It is bound to take a LONG time, but maybe, with a simpler process, the immigration representatives will be less despised, and more will be willing to work for the department.
The problem is the people that legally need those courts can't get to them because their full of people that decided to come illegally. If someone wants to come here they can go through the actual process instead of just coming here and then getting caught and deported. I can't just move to Mexico or any other country..
Or... too many illegals?
Hey just wanted to say I loved you in the Kingsman. When you sang John Denver’s “country roads” and then blew up on that land mine - it was super inspiring. Much love from America 🇺🇸 🦅
The lies are free -- the truth, lies behind a paywall !
By that logic major publications are the truth
It's amazing to me that they failed to realize that the app for creating asylum appointments would never work simply do to the fact that bots can take up all of the appointments, using the exact same methods they use to buy up all of the Nvidia graphics cards every time they release. All it takes is one right-wing group with some technology and they can cancel everybody's ability to use the app.
I was also thinking - WHY are they so convinced all the immigrants have smartphones? Talk about privilege talking! Come on! I get that they are ubiquitous, even in the poorest nation, but they are not a given. Wouldn't it be AWESOME if they formed a thinktank made up of immigrants who have been through the current process to design a new one? I bet you the first thing they would do is ditch the stupid app.
@@angryhobbit5919 You're not just talking about immigrants, but asylum seekers. These people have been forced to flee, they didn't make a decision, so it's even crazier to just assume they have everything they need
@@angryhobbit5919 The app is just another hurdle, which is of course on purpose.
I recommend deleting this and not giving them any ideas :\
@@twonumber22 100%
In 1985 or 86 former UN Ambassador Andrew Young spoke at my school. One of the things I remember best is him saying that the US needed to deal with Mexico & Central America then because it was going to affect us & it wasn't going to get better on its own. Almost 40 years later & it's still true.
40 years ago, the USA was dealing with said nations just fine via regime change, sanctions, covert cia destabalzing operations, etc that CREATED the situation we have now.
Immigrants from VNZ do NOT want to WALK thousands of miles, leaving thier country to come here just for the excersise. They left because of a domestic situation we, the USA, at least in part, had a significant influence in.
Imagine how different our southern border would be right now, if we didn't regime change / sanction / invade 90% of central and south america.
But because we despise their way of life, (socialism, / communism via their democratically elected leaders) our country made it a policy to destroy / undermine them. And now we are reaping what we sow.
@@Timekeeper20239 Don't forget manipulating global markets through legislation to control commodities markets like crops & such making it impossible for farmers to compete in this part of the world outside our border.
I've also found it amusing how the 'pro-war' far right who supported us invading distant desert lands over political lies resulting in decades-long failed wars feel the solution to a REAL long-term problem on our southern border is a 'wall': the same party whose showbiz has-been icon promoted tearing down walls. Then again, he also began work on what became NAFTA which is what primarily helped destroy the middle class & we can't forget his "trickle-down economics" that also contributed with the demise of the middle class but also helped create & expand the wealth gap, as well as our national debt.
@@Timekeeper20239 sounds like they need to fix there issues at home and stop blaming the US for something that happened 40 years ago
@@arbyjack2552 kinda hard to do when the u.s destabilizes the country .
@@arbyjack2552 Every time they try to fix an issue guess who comes swooping by to "preserve their assets", the last time they did it was just 10 years ago, HIllary Clinton in Honduras.
a situation that neither party wants to make right unfortunately
The border and the lack of security in our country is a serious issue. It shouldn’t be joked about.
Unfortunately the vast majority of media and even politicians use border security as a form of manipulation to control who people vote for. Almost nobody is presenting the reality of the situation because of their agenda.
By presenting this in comedic form LWT can get more people to watch, allowing for more awareness to be spread about the reality of the situation. What’s being done here is a great thing, even if because of the effectiveness of the aforementioned manipulations this piece will ultimately have little effect.
The US border situation is also making “criminals at the border” worse: “When migrants arrive in these Mexican cities near the border, they’re the targets of a vicious criminal business that kidnaps them and can torture them for weeks, extorting thousands of dollars of ransom from their relatives over the phone. Those who are kidnapped know that if they don’t pay, the outstanding balances can end in death.”
I read an article last week that said the Biden administration is setting up asylum application centers in Guatemala and some of the other countries. That would help keep asylum seekers safe from the Mexican street thugs.
Which is why the borders need closing for a few
He mentioned that, over 13k crimes have been reported including rape n murder.
No one realizes a big part of these migrants are also criminals fleeing from their countries because they have capture orders and arrive as poor inocent humans. No one applies for asylum, they are all just economic migrants and are mostly uneducated trash people, they even publish vids of how to thief in retail stores. If not even the permisive democrats are tolerating it, its for a reason, US can't allow unlimited anyone who just want to come
@@XBarajasX jesus christ dude, way to out yourself as a total asshole for no reason whatsoever
For clarity, I am a native born American. But my wife who is Colombian has gone through the immigration process and a lot of her family is also trying to apply and get visas and it’s not much better, and in many cases, worse than what you seem to talk about at the border. It’s almost like there are millions of people trying to get into the United States every year.
And conservatives simply cut funding and slow downs the process when they can’t outright ban “scary dirty invading entitled foreigners coming for your jobs”. Which funnily enough ALSO makes the job harder for the people who background check people for terrorism or actual crimes
@@kevinjensen2071 🤡
They could just stay at home, no? I mean seriously...why would you try and live in a country you hate? I wouldn't, and that's why I don't live in America...it's like they aren't committed to their own worldview. In my experience, when your actions don't reflect your words, it is because you are lying. Weird as heck
As someone who is in the same boat as your wife family, it seems that it’s easier to try and get asylum at the border than to stay at the legal system
If you get paid per day less than what you’d be paid per hour in the US, the incentive is there.
I support the writers strike. Writers at your show or in Hollywood are in fact super privileged people but everyone should be able to unionize and fight for a better work environment. Your country needs all the true democratic participation it can get anyway.
I don't know weather they are or not at John Oliver's show but to say that all writers in Hollywood is privileged is just wrong. Many writers have to work multiple jobs and can't afford to eat.
Just because many people in Hollywood are privileged doesn't mean they all are.
Nah screw those writers. They do nothing but churn out woke garbage that fails so I'm all for AI replacing them because humans suck at writing.
That Haiku joke got a genuine snort chuckle out of me.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the full episode I HIGHLY recommend you do. Radiant Plumbing responded to the commercial proposal from a few weeks back and it is GLORIOUS.
Humanity’s indifference to humanity is heartbreaking
Sorry, gringos aren't humans so there is no humanity in them.
I think that the word "humanity" as a descriptive noun, is an abstract term with undefined boundaries. Technically, the average human determines the definition of humanity. So where do you look for the "average human" certainly not north america.
@@alltheusernameswastaken8936 I would love to say México and Canadá might have some but I really don't trust any of the three countries in North América.
The US can’t take in everyone. If everyone dissatisfied w/their crappy government leaves, how does that crappy government ever get fired, overthrown, or the gangs/drug cartels r brought down? The US had a revolution to gain independence and a civil war to free the slaves. If everyone dissatisfied just left, we’d still have those problems. Migrants should work together to make this country better, not run to another country creating problems in that other country.
Elites inhumanity to the lower classes is cruelly expected
THANK YOU
This video is only 10 months old and already it didn't age well.
"Tear down this wall."
-- some guy in the 80s
"I've been looking for freedom" -- some guy there at the same time
Oh yeah the same guy who wrecked our economy, destroyed the middle class, and blew up any chance the US has of staying a super power. He fully sold us to corporations and they *will* bleed us dry until the country implodes.
Stop making false equivalencys
Also Ronald Reagan probably: "Gay people are dying? Fuck 'em"
@@corruptsociety9146 Prove it's false.