This Military does not need any more money, I was a Tanker for the M1A2 Abram Tanks and we literally had Brand new tanks in a Desert at Fort Irwin just sitting there never used and Rusting. We had more Toys then we could Train with or ever Fucking use. If you Dont know a M1A2 Abrams tank Costs US$8.92 million and each Round we Fired was $3,000. I would Literally drive out to the Desert and Piss away 20 to 50 Rounds some Days bc we were Just Bored. You all Paid $60,000 to $150,000. They Call it Training but we literally had more Rounds then we knew what to do with and we knew we would get more. Please do not Give the Military more money you are not paying for Defense you are paying for me and my Buddy's to piss money away
@@allasar This guy just put forward a very honest and insightful story about your country's military spending, and you're looking at his grammar? No wonder America is going to shit- people like you can't focus on the main issue.
My things is, if they are gonna pour more money into the military, instead of buying equipment that’s just sitting there, why not pay these soldiers more since they are, ya know, risking their lives for fat rich people in wars they were sent to by said rich fat people. Especially for the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ soldiers risking their lives for the freedoms of said rich fat people to vote them out of the military.
Yeah I've read about that, that spending isn't really for the millitarys sake but for the towns in which the factories are located. They say its for national security but it's classic pork barell spending. I don't think a bit of cash infusing into a region is a bad thing, but atleast fund something that can potentially carry its own in the long run. There is probably also a lot of state and local rail or other infrastructure dream projects, that could potential tie outlying regions together.
But he's donating his salary. And - as of Feb 2020 - spent and estimated 300+ years of salary on his half outings, with an unknown amount going to his dick extension golf courses.
Who looks at the most bloated military budget on the planet and goes "I think that needs more money"? It is so wasteful to pour even more money into defense. We already have more than enough resources to fend off any threat. We have global warming and declining education standards to worry about, we don't need to forget about those and get 40 shiny new jets. Education should be our primary focus, especially considering 50% of our PhD candidates are foreign.
Common core is garbage and is a complete waste of money. But we have schools that can't afford things that the students need or that are cutting extra curricular activities just so that they can pay their teachers. The department of education needs to be funded and needs to funnel the money into schools. We don't need their input on the system, we need them to allocate funds where they are necessary. There's no way to look at the country's education statistics and not be concerned.
It has been relatively underfunded for years. Throwing money at the shitty organization isn't working because they aren't funding schools, they are blowing it by coming up with stupid shit like common core. It needs to be funded well, but it also needs to be restructured. It needs to be a meanings to distribute money to schools and come up with overarching changes that benefit schools. They treat education like a business and thus it is failing.
Last Week Tonight saved my grandfather from believing all the ignorant, hateful messages he hears on the radio everyday. Watching this show becoming more and more successful and reaching an increasing number of viewers makes me unbelievably happy. Working on this show is my absolute dream job
mihrjf So mothers are not allowed to dye their hair and businesses should pay their employees more? And "the establishment" wants to destroy itself because reasons? And white slavers were wonderful people because black people had slaves too? Is that what you are trying to tell us, correct? I'm curious to what are you doing to try to stop this ruination.
Don't diss boys on top of each other. that's how Dipper's clones from Gravity Falls spent the rest of their lives, and I would rather trust the country to them than Trump at this point.
It is donald trump understanding the fact that most of his supporters have the intelligence of a five year old("I love the poorly educated") so he has to talk like that.
SPACE LAZARS! Sorry, but in all seriousness, many inventions that we use every day were created for space travel originally. It would be foolish to cut it any more then we already have. That was actually one of my major gripes with the Obama administration.
Cuz NASA doesn't have the fund to lobby properly :P Well unless you are one of those ppl that for some reason thinks the military budget goes to the "military" and not the private sector lol. (protip: if you have the money to invest in some of those companies, this might be a good time to do it they are about to get an influx of money! =D)
When people hear nasa, they think space shit they don't understand. Due to ignorance they can't comprehend the advances made possible due to the challenge of space travel, nor the impact it will have on the future.
Yes, anti-intellectualism, but hey, they are incredibly efficient at it for all their Bible-thumpiness. NASA has _nothing_. NASA, itself, is a fountain of money that the best minds of the world come to drink from. The US produces little gray matter (no offense), most of the tech in the US was invented by people that were imported. Look through the greatest inventions from '50s to '80s and count the truly american names. Exactly. Look though the Nobel Prize winners and cut the people whose parents weren't Americans. Exactly. I'm not saying it's zero, I'm saying the glory days were purchased. Without the money, NASA is going away. EU now has good support for science, they have proven with the LHC and the new satellite launch suite and the new tech that they can and will fund science, and that has curbed export of gray matter _severely_. Even more, the EU has had the foresight to bring tech and research to each and every country, so no matter how poor a country is they won't have to export their very best. After US's SpaceX managed to launch at a smaller cost than Ariane 5 (ESA), EU has taken it to heart and are designing Ariane 6, due to enter service 2020, with a design budget of 3.2 billion Euro. No offense, but this isn't going to be pretty. The changes so far already turned the tide of the market toward ESA. A company can't compete with a continent. It just can't. The only thing that has a chance to compete with the EU is the US. And I mean all of it, government-funding level. China is coming too. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, they are coming too. India, too. It's a race. Everyone is running. De-funding NASA is the worst move you could ever have done. Instead of having the shining beacon of tech, where everybody goes, now the beacon is dim. Instead of recruiting from 2.5 billion people, you now recruit from 300M. Who's going to leave theit home and house and family and move across the planet to work for a regular-ass private space agency when their own home has one? Don't get me started on that self-driving-into-walls shit or that vacuum tube shit they keep trying to build. No offense, but without government oversight shit simply won't be efficient and you can't stop some dude from living out fantasies. De0funding NASA is the worst move, ever, for your future. Or, you know, the best, since I'm not American.
I always like to think it's important not just to defend a country, but to maintain the parts of it that are worth defending. Like, say... health, charity, compassion, culture... oh, and the environment. "The country that destroys its soil, destroys itself", besides which concrete and factories don't replenish oxygen so well... nor do they absorb carbon and turn it into wood that provides shade and can later be used for stuff, if necessary. Trees are neat, seriously. And how many people would want to live in a world where flowers no longer exist? Or fresh fruits and vegetables you could grow in a community plot, or your backyard if you like? Businesses take care of their bottom line, their shareholders and their directors. Everything else is either the state, or random people working for free... which, with all those "beneficial" big businesses holding the reins of a society, people won't be able to afford to do in most cases, even if they want to. Free time is for people who can't be easily replaced if they burn out! Which loops right back to keeping lots of people poor - nice, cheap source of replacements for the cynical fucks at the top to keep shoveling into the grinder.
Joe Blow What the fuck? Yea cause that completely invalidates everything he said and did (not getting into how sketchy that case was an what she says) 2Pac is a legend that’s will never burn out and has made a permanent mark on history, meanwhile you won’t even make a scratch, no wonder no one takes metoo seriously anymore, you use it for stupidity like that
Hazukichan X The corporate Oligarchy is working hard to become global instead of having to operate within different countries...its all the same entitled SOBs on the receiving end of all the money and breaks they can maneuver. Trump is making his play to become accepted into the “old” money club, and they are loving it.🖤🇨🇦
Ian Jones can you explain what part of the federal budget is a lie? The government made the announcement about how they will allocate resources, and this video is to educate Americans about it. It's fact that the government is going to increase budget for defense and take away money from valuable programs for Americans such as education, the arts, and scientific research.
Honestly if Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to the US I don't understand why he just doesn't invest in factories for solar panels, windmills etc. here in the US.
No one can bring manufacturing back. It's gone. New factories will be max automated. Service people still required yes, but not sheer numbers. It's capitalism at work. Promising jobs is not compatible with capitalism.
Because he demonizes anything that is related to green energy and he knows his people in coal country have no clue how to do those jobs and have no interest in learning. They didn't tell the Repubs "I want to switch industries and get a good paying job." They said "I want my coal mining job back." They look backward, not forward. It's the core of the entire Republican ideology. Backward momentum.
Our defense budget is already at 612 Billion dollars. We have the largest military defense budget in the world, the second largest is Russia's at 76.6 billion. We could cut our budget in half and still have the biggest defense budget in the world, why are we adding more?!
The cuts on education actually make sense, if you keep the people stupid enough they won't question your actions and won't try to do anything about them even though they're wrong. It's almost the same thing a lot of third world countries were or still are doing.
exactly. and it will help with their "cradle to cellmate" private prison industry, as well as increase military recruits as jobs dry up for the under-qualified poor and "middle class" that no longer exists.. it almost feels like they read Nineteen Eighty Four, and implementing it all as policy. We even have Newspeak, with their "alternative facts". trumpanzes must think this is Double Plus Good. Sadly, it seems like trumpanzes will gladly vote against their own interests, and do insane mental gymnastics to convince themselves that the con is good
I just want to add he cut the budget after some states like Oklahoma cut their education budget twice within 3 months. Highschools had to have paper drives in November!
That and money spent on ordinary citizens is mainly wasteful spending in terms of remaining in power, in said countries. If you want know who a government needs to have the support of, in order to remain in power, just look at their budgets.
Cutting these programs is going to cost us so much more in the long run...all of those kids falling into the bad crowd and growing up on the wrong side of the law is enough to put us back in the red on costs
We haven't been debt free since Jan. 8, 1835. Get your head out of the clouds and realize what is going on with fiat money and the cabal of big banking (federal reserve).
That's not even taking into account the human suffering. Such a cruel, crude budget. What are we even protecting with all that increased military spending?
+G Washington we're all a product of our environment. Pretending 14 year olds have the wherewithal to be successful upstanding citizens without any positive role models or productive hobbies provided for them is absolutely insane.
Tosh Outdoors I know it's so cruel and crude that people will have figure out a way ... If u want a positive role model for these young kids my suggestion is start with the fucking parents
I did a quick research on google, these departments :health and human services, department of defense, homeland security, social security administration have 3 to 8 times more budget than the dep of education. I mean better education means better health ,security, defense you name it. I wish the best for the US and all countries.
true but isn't it more reliable to produce or have the source instead of renting or buying from others? better education not only gives you better doctors and engineers but also hundreds of other fields and new ones too. Plus it drops the rate of bad things like crimes etc, and increase the quality of life in general drastically.
+SO O "The amount of views on the videos criticizing trump has been going down every month" Do you really think viewcount for one vid can go down??? how does that even make sense XD how did you think that
Give him all the Emmys for the remainder of his shows run! It’s unfortunate that the late night cable hosts have to be in the same category as him because they aren’t anywhere near his level. He needs a category of his own cuz he has taken the daily show format and evolved/revolutionized it into the stratosphere
true i never really grasped the concept of wanting more nukes than the other guy. It would only take a few to destroy the planet and us with it and taking into account how many you would need to use against the other countries i can't believe no one has enough and in the end no one wins because nuclear war would kill us all/hurt everyone. When it comes to nuclear warfare after a point the amount the enemy has is irrelevant.
Think about this for a moment. America had enough nukes to create the apocalypse for the USA in WW2, imagine what they could do with increased spending? Destroy the world?
Man, I don't live geographically close to the US and I'm really worried about its future. for the first time, you guys might have a president capable of destroying the country. And the scariest part, trump supporters will never blame him for it.
moocowisback focus on your own country because this is like me saying, "man I'm so worried for Libya because there leader could actually destroy that country." no I don't care about the country (sorry Libya) and anyone can destroy anything. At least America isn't going communist.
The worst is definitely the fact that trump supporters will refuse to acknowledge anything that's his fault. Anything that goes wrong will be blamed on obama. *Trump is president for 1 hour and a company decides to stay in the USA* = "TRUMP IS ALREADY FIXING EVERYTHING HES AMAZING YES MAKE AMERICA GREAT" *Trump is president for 3 years and world war III begins* = "LOOK AT THE MESS HE HAD TO INHERIT GOD OBAMA WAS SUCH A DISASTER!"
Well you should care about what's happening to Russia and China, China is about to become one of the most powerful country on earth, yet they'er a dictature, who may crumble in a couple of years, and Russia is an Oligarchy at this point run by a tyrant who has massive wealth and kill his politics oponents and journalits
I'm sorry but it's not WWII anymore. We don't need a big ass world-wartime military budget right now! Take that money and fix our godawful education system, godammit
the idiots in office (not one side or the other, ALL of them) are too old to think anything else. just like the russia bs they sell so hard. just crazy old people needing to retire
America acts like it’s the middle of fucking WW3 but in reality this is the longest time of peace the world as a whole has had in over a century. They use most of their money on military while the low to middle class suffer🤦♂️. I’m so happy to be Canadian
Jason M no... some bases have mini nuclear reactors or they buy energy from the civilian companies in their areas. The military is a business... they buy all the resources... nothing is given to them...
The military is allotted money by the federal government...they are by no means a business. The Nuclear reactors were developed in part with the DOE !!!!!! The DOE regulates all things nuclear power, including the military. Yes, the military relies heavily on the DOE. Without the DOE, we lose 70% of our functioning Navy. "He who controls the sea, controls everything." - mutha fucking Themistocles.
Me and my wife aren't exactly alike when it comes to choice of RUclips videos, but there are two things we can agree on: 1. Cat videos are cute 2. John Oliver is a necessity!
Ian, have you ever asked yourself why most successful internet companies (RUclips, Facebook, twitter, Apple, Uber, Amazon etc) are run by the left? That's because liberals innovate. Why don't you join us in creating things instead of conservatives, who just like to copy and/or tear things down.
Consistently red states take in way more federal aid than consistently blue states. Hence why these cuts have serious repercussions considering the states that rely more on that aid are the ones who voted for a president that's slashing that aid into oblivion.
Ian, The top 10 states that send more money to the fed than they take out are blue states. 9 of the 10 states that take the most are red states. And about 55% of Obamacare users are republicans as oppose to about 35% democrats. Anyway, back to the topic. The republican politicians have spent the last few decades convincing the poor white republicans (the working poor) that the (legal and illegal) immigrants are stealing their jobs and the blacks are lazy and collecting welfare. When confronted with the fact that they're are on welfare as well, most of them believe that they're the exception few who actually work hard but are victims of circumstance. So they vote for the party that promises to limit immigration deport illegal immigrants. They think once those people are gone, their piece of the pie gets larger. The fact of the matter is, technology is changing faster than we can create replacement jobs. Look at the numbers. Between 2000 and 2016, we lost 22% of our manufacture jobs (went from 23ish mil to 17ish mil). Yet, the manufacture output in America is at an all-time high. You can blame outsourcing all you want, but the fact of the matter is, why would manufacture companies continue to pay hourly wages for human workers when they could pay a 1 time fee for machines. Same thing with the coal sector. A 1 time fee for solar panels will eventually be cheaper than paying per watt to coal plants. Of course, some people need somebody to blame. They need a savior. Enter Trump, the outsider. He's not part of the establishment that has failed them over and over. The conman convinced them that he alone will limit new immigrants, deport illegal immigrants, cut wasteful spending that go to "lazy people." In their desperation, they didn't realize that they're in the same category as those "lazy people."
michaelatw86 You do know a lot of them are welfare unemployment, disability, social security, Medicare, the ACA and get expanded Medicaid under the ACA don't you? Education cuts don't matter because they like being stupid.
When he gutted it, he promised that he could put together the best team quickly if an outbreak happened. Too bad he's too stupid to know you have to plan in advance and contain outbreaks before they become pandemics. What a moron. Be safe!
Republicans think shows like these are "biased", yet they're supposed to criticize government. Even in the Obama administration Oliver criticized a lot. Also, if Oliver can't criticize Trump, what else would he do? This show is meant for bashing people like Trump, that's how political satire works.
How are shows like these any different than shows like Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro? Conservatives love those even though they're biased as fuck. It just shows that conservatives doesn't a have problem with bias, just everything that isn't right wing biased.
+King Brick Reality has a bias. And John Oliver criticized Obama on drones, surveillance, mass deportation, not appropriately recognizing the Armenian Genocide, etc.
I have long since stopped trying to convince people with facts. Clearly facts and provable evidence are irrelevant. If you wanna convince Republicans, you gotta just make some shit up. Tell them that Trump is currently fucking their moms on front of them. Maybe then they'll change their minds.
I can assure you that 90% of the people who disliked this watched 5 seconds, and denied everything that john said because they can't get there ass out of the clouds
NASA has such a low budget that they are forced to carpool with Russia just to get to space. We need to better educate people on how beneficial NASA can be with a large budget. Hell they went from having no idea how to get to space, to basically perfecting landing on the moon in like 10 years. Imagine where we could be today had we not given up on it after we beat Russia to the moon.
+L G. News is News. just because it's from a certain source does not change the fact that Trump did do these things. Are you going to say that this budget plan is made up? no because its not, so it doesnt matter where you get the facts, at the end of the day it did happen.
I'm not saying it's made up. But picking out programs getting cuts that are named nice things like "Super Awesome Save the Starving Children Foundation" and stating it's bad that he's cutting it without you yourself having and inkling of an idea of what the program does or the "benefits" it provides, is idiotic. And that is exactly what Oliver is doing. He lists a bunch of shit and picks out some ones that sound nice and says "Trump is dumb and evil he hates kids and moms". It's dishonest and clearly biased and that's why you shouldn't get your news from comedians who have zero journalistic integrity.
dollors1 Yes you do and its so fucking unneckessary and dumb to raise its budgets. If I would be an American citizen I would do whatever it takes to end his god damned term.
Literally the only thing American military is unprepared for is a war against Russia IN Russia. US has the most military assets, highest military funding, best technology and a huge number of allies, many very powerful. In addition US has been dragged into so many conflicts over the years that their collective military experience is unbelievably vast. You will have to look really deep to find even a single reason to justify increased military funding. However, US does have a LOT of enemies.
Sadly, that is the problem. We HAD a huge number of allies. At the rate trump is insulting not only actors, the press, union leaders, department stores,....etc., he still for some reason feels the need to attack the countries (via twitter of course) that used to back us up. The man is starting to make me worry even more than I was when he was elected. And I had so hoped that he would grow up. SAD!
Our military budget only pays for a small fraction of actual military hardware. Most of it likely goes to either paying people or paying for development programs which go nowhere, but hey, as long as the CEO of those weapon companies get their due.
For someone who doesnt live in the US .... At first it was hilarious ... Still is .... But now i kinda feel sorry for you people Have a nice 4 years assuming trump doesnt destroy america before his first term ends
Hey, if we go down, we'll probably take you with us. Or at least majorly effect the way most of the developed world runs for decades to come. And that's without even knowing where you live.
you are quite right Tripping Pug. when the fact that one fourth of the globes total wealth is located within the U.S. the complete collapse of the nation would at best cripple the worlds economy for well over a century. at worst cause a dramatic shift in the global power balance. as most of the worlds economy is tied up with the U.S. most modern powers would collapse right along with it with no economy to maintain their power status. this would result in a dramatically different group being in power a century from now. if the U.S. goes down europe will be decimated, along with the entire south american continent, australia, south africa, saudi arabia, these would all collapse right along with the U.S. simply because of the void left in the economy. the major players of 2150-2200 could be anyone. Ethiopia, north Korea, and Indonesia could be the big powers to emerge after a century dark age as the world recovers from complete economic collapse. bottom line, the U.S. falls, and it drags the whole world kicking and screaming with it. so believe me when i say, hate it or not, you want them to succeed. not just for our sake's but the sake of the next several generations.
I'm really close to just pay for HBO. This is so worth it. Btw can you make this section longer. I like them when they are 20mins or more. They are gold!
As a foreign student in agricultural engineering, making cuts in Agricultural and Environmental Departments is suicide, especially in a country which is looking for protectionism and independance. We are having trouble producing food all other the world, farmers have been witnessing the effects of climat change for a couple of years now. If the USA don't want to produce in an environmental friendly way, at least they need to go full on GMO's in order to have viable crops and survive without importing from other countries. If they continue down this path, they will starve in a couple of decades. If this budget passes, it is a long-term tragedy.
I'm talking about research. You have loads of GMO's but they are not effective to go threw the climat crises we are gonna have. You need to do more research, not cut research funds this is nonsense.
You realize not all african countries are starving right ? And you're turning in worse than an "African country", since they will have at least some sort of life in their soil.
Everything he says and everything he'll do, that general statement turns out to be much more faults than Hillary could've ever had, Trump is like George W. Bush's wet dream, when it comes to being worst modern president. Trump, so far, is on par with Nixon or Andrew Johnson. He's actually sort of a blend of those two, so we can say he's like a Andrew Nixon, a treasonous, completely incompetent, asshole, that doesn't belong anywhere near a presidency. With any luck, he'll end up the same as Andrew Johnson, impeached and branded the new "lamest of lame-duck presidents" that Johnson had earned in his time.
thebestdrummer51 "tRump is like George Bush's wet dream!" Ha haha He always wanted to be famous and he will be: 1) worst president in US history 2) quickest impeachment in US history 3) lowest popularity in US history (what is it at? 37%?) 4) most lies told in the shortest amount of time 5) most vacations taken, also in the shortest amount of time... ..... & the list goes on!!
Tell me about it. I've been on r/The_Donald's Discord as an active member and they were FUCKING HAPPY with the cuts. They don't fucking care about most of the organizations that would go away; they think they're useless. And they defended the military spending real hard. I even encountered one user who questioned the constitutionality of public education. Nuts!
Don't get me wrong, I think the government can be wasteful but spending another 53 billion on our military is so stupid. And when he's cutting programs for the homeless and single mothers, I really can't stand how people stand up for him.
Eh I have been seeing less and less of actual Trump supporters in the comments. Most of the people I see defending him are obvious troll accounts with usernames like "Liberals suck"
I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...
What puts me on the curious side of all this is that. I am just waiting for Alex Jones to start defending this "Budget" then once more, call John Oliver "a [insert offensive immigrant name here] leftist"
+Ian Jones Except Steve Crowder doesn't show all the facts if anything he's has a tendency to pull things out of his ass and cite unreliable sources. John Oliver on the other hand cites his sources that are generally fairly reliable.
Oh, this one is easy! Let me handle it, and, since both sides tend to do it, it's the simplest maneuver to identify in the world! ----- This person doesn't agree with me. My positions are well considered and thought out (which I know because they are my positions). Therefore someone who does not agree with me is not thinking through their positions properly. Smart people think through their positions properly. Therefore people who do not agree with me are not smart. ---- Granted, most people don't really bother to realize that that's the thought process they're using, but generally speaking, if someone jumps in and just calls someone "not smart" or "stupid" with the divine art of no evidence and/or just with the presumption that their lack of intelligence is self evident is likely to be using just this great logical progression! It even is internally logically consistent! Of course, points 2 or 3 are likely not to be true, so the entire chain is inapplicable to reality, but has that ever stopped anyone? (Rhetorical question: No it hasn't) And, of course, some groups are worse about it than others, but watch for easy buzzwords like "Sheep," (an easy way to disregard entire groups of people who don't agree with you. Not bothering to understand others has never been so easy!) and other terms suggesting that the person doesn't have enough mental acuity to form their own decisions and therefore are just mindlessly following a leader those individuals find charismatic. And, obviously, since *you* don't find those leaders charismatic, it further demonstrates just how inferior they are to you! And, obviously, not everyone does this. And if you don't, that's great! I love people who try to actually understand other people's thought processes rather than rely on lazy labels so you don't have to. And if anyone finds themselves offended because they totally do these things and I'm insulting them, well, I have something to say about that. *Ahem.* I find your disregard for the potential for you to be mistaken, or the potential of others to have good ideas you haven't realized yet, unhealthy both for society and your personal intellectual growth. Please consider no longer behaving in such a self destructive manner. Thanks!
Oh, as I said, I hardly apply it to everyone, if I insisted it was universal, or even a constant for every single person, I would be doing the exact thing I'm objecting to, and I try to avoid recursive self shaming. And I, further, have no objections, really, to someone saying "I don't like what group X is trying to do/pushing for." Objecting to the actions of a group of people is entirely reasonable. I tend to get testy if, say, one declares that everyone in the group must be, in some way, mentally deficient. I'll admit, I don't understand how other people think a lot of the time, but unless I can really get them to lay out their logic or thought processes for me, it's hard to check for flaws there. Though I will say, Trump is actually an easy target because he's inconsistent in small enough time frames that it's not particularly reasonable to expect he's sincerely changed his mind in that period of time, or, alternatively, if he has, that he actually cares much about the issue if he changes his mind so easily and ambivalently. Does that, strictly, in and of itself make him "stupid?" I don't think so, but it does make me feel he's not the sort of person who should be running a country as that level of ambivalence, or lack of competence, or political shilling, or whatever (I'm not going to state I know what leads to it, but there does seem to be a finite set of options!) does not lead to an effective leader who makes consistently good quality decisions. Or, to make it short: I don't know if he's stupid, but whatever qualities lead to his actions, I certainly agree he shouldn't be running a country, nevermind the US.
+Ian Jones Most his arguments are based of his feelings rather than facts. More often than not he usually make things up and when he does cite his sources they usually very unreliable/biased.
I think that's part of the plan, Mars station in 25 years. Meanwhile everyone here can starve, or be poisoned by environmental messes, or die from no medcare, and the rich can all move to Mars. SAD.
*O'Neill cylinders!* _O'Neill cylinders!_ ... *_O'Neill cylinders._* Seriously though, colonies in orbit are way more practical than ones on another planet, make it happen NASA~
I think of NASA as a worst case scenario safety net Say some ego maniac fucks up the environment, causes social unrest and provokes nuclear war Maybe just maybe if it was funded adequately could it save us then...
Or perhaps many of his subscribers put the artist before the art, and automatically know that they like John Oliver and they hate Donald Trump, and that John Oliver is going to criticize Donald Trump and don't care how good the video is.
He wont get impeached and god help us all, the giant cheetoh will probably get re-elected >.> We will have to see how the 2018 stuff goes but he will probably get re-elected.
The only way he will be impeached is if his brand becomes so toxic the GoP feels they need to remove him. Right now they are getting what they want from his presidency, at least short term, and are not too worried about how associating with them will impact their reelection since their main competition is from the alt-right and tea party, not moderate republicans or democrats.
The GOP's favorite tactic right now is pounding the Dems for being in shambles. They can't afford disunity right now. Pence would probably a better candidate in terms of pushing the conservative agenda, though.
I can definitely support giving the VA more money. Our nuclear arsenal does need upgrades, since most of it runs on floppy disks and is manned by people working in 36-hour shifts. Other than that, the military has more than enough money as it is. I also see no point is defunding miniscule programs when there is so much corporate welfare to do away with.
Well, nukes running on ancient technology is a Good Thing. Those are virtually non-hackable. The more "intelligent" a weapons system is, the more points you have to place the virtual crowbar, so to speak.
Anthony LiPira we don't need nuclear upgrades, we need to dismantle our nuclear system. We're never going to use it, every major country has grown up the point where we no longer need these weapons of mass destruction.
I agree with you, we do need to improve the technology behind the nuclear Arsenal but we don't need more of them. those things are extremely dangerous, and we don't need to add more nuclear waste to the world when the uranium depletes.
Liddle Linkin They defend everything he does, even now. Whenever you ask questions about Trump, they just bring up the Clintons, even though they do not even matter anymore. It is immensely frustrating. I think there is literally nothing Trump could do that would sway his supporters.
Everyone with a little insight knows that the support from Trump supporters isnt based on "facts". To assume people voted for him based on real instead of imaginary issues ignores how human psychology from primitive people works. Your baseline trump supporter doesnt care about corruption, employment, social security. He/she only cares about restricting immigration even to the their detriment, lower taxation, god and religion, and of course screwing over the other half of the population, liberals. They arent even bad financially, so they can afforid it. This has absolutetly nothing to do with "See 'Trump did this or that". They dont care. They are the deplorables. Only a tiny minority really cares about these issues, and that minority lost hillary the election, which she lost because she didnt care about these people.
I watched this earlier on a different RUclips channel after you uploaded the dancing zebra and let me tell u, I was so relieved that it was an joke Also I watched all of the zebra video
Last Week Tonight uploads two videos relatively close to each other. One is a detailed numbers-driven analysis and criticism of the proposed US federal budget, the other is twenty three minutes of footage of a man in a zebra costume in front of a green screen.
We have 4,804, far more nuclear weapons than the entire world needs. Our military spending is roughly 4-5 times what Russia is. WE DONT NEED A BIGGER MILITARY BUDGET! What happened to getting along with Putin? He talked so much about getting along with Putin, then why would we need to compete with him in military might? Especially considering we're already the world superior in military strength. If he's cutting the state department budget because they don't see involvement in future conflicts (Which lets face it is complete BS) then why the $54 billion dollar increase to our military spending alone? None of his fiscal plans make any reasonable sense in practice or in explanation...
Some perspective on US military spending: The US, with only *4.5* *percent* of the world population spends *almost* *half* of all world military spending... Does that seem excessive, especially if it means we're going to cut spending on other equally important things like food for poor people, education for children, and protection for our environment? 2015, the latest year the world bank has an estimate on the Global World Product (i.e. the sum of all goods and services that the world produces) and how much of it was spent on military spending (all converted to nominal US dollars): GWP (2015): *78.28* *trillion* *USD* World spending as % of GWP: *2.269* *percent* World military spending (2015): *1.776* *trillion* *USD* Converting world military spending to billions of dollars: *1776* *billion* *USD* US military spending in (2015): DoD: *631.3* *billion* *USD* VA: *158.5* *billion* *USD* Foreign military aid: *14.1* *billion* *USD* (i.e. giving weapons or equipment as direct transfer) Foreign economic aid: *34.4* *billion* *USD* (i.e. giving money the recipient nation will use to buy military weapons or equipment) Total US military spending in 2015: *839.9* *billion* *USD* Percentage of world military spending done by the US in 2015: *47.29* *percent!!!* These numbers (percentage of world spending) are generally consistent from year-to-year. And *half* isn't enough? Really? And to increase our military spending we're going to cut programs like the corporation for public broadcasting? The national endowment for the arts and humanities? The State Department and USAID? The Environmental Protection Agency? Everything but "Defense" spending and immigration and border control? All so we can increase our over spending on the military? In 2015 the US amounted to only *4.52* *percent* of the worlds population... So why are we spending almost half of the worlds military spending? Oh, and notice this is just federal military spending. Each of the states have spending obligations towards the National Guard that isn't captured in the federal budget. So we're probably well over half of the worlds spending for military purposes. How much is enough? When is this just some crazy form of paranoia, not a legitimate and reasonable concern about national defense?
Old customs, USA expected ww3 to be pretty much like this Ussr kills Europe in less than a month China kills its neighbors in less than a month Us now has to protect 50% of the world without powerful militaries, The problem they still behave like this even though the cold war has already ended a long ago
It was pointless to make those laws. Once a new recession hits the US, not even weasels will want to be in a bankrupt country. You are not even a country, its just a bunch of oligarchs running the show. The USA is a joke.
Hans Mustermann and you're just ignorant harsher immigration is a good thing. We should be getting in people who are likely to succeed and not end up on government welfare or taking more low skill jobs that people already in America need. Y'all use racist so much it lost its meaning like the boy who cry wolf
"In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society" Trump for Emperor 2020 LOL
I'm really not sure why President Trump's supporters are surprised, it was obvious he was going to govern this way... I didn't think it would be responsible to let that happen and that's why I didn't vote for him. I didn't much care for Secretary Clinton but the real choice we had of Clinton or Trump really did seem to have a "wrong answer" - and I suspect it's increasingly clear which candidate that was. I get the sense that a lot of the people that did vote for President Trump did so because they thought it would upset the Clinton supporters; I saw this a lot during the campaign and shortly after the election: the idea that Trump supporters didn't feel "respected" enough and now maybe the "liberal snowflakes" or "cucks" or "libtards" (etc...) will "just get over it" because "they lost" and the Trump supporter's "won" - etc... I really hope this experiment you all set in motion works out okay... But I'd like you to keep in mind you own the terrible outcomes that are inevitably going to happen. When those terrible things were only supposed to effect others you were okay with it, but now that it's going to begin effecting you too - that's when you'll find your outrage? I wonder if galling hypocrisy will be covered once the ACA is repealed? Having our entrenched two party system, with one party now controlled by the most selfish and myopic electorate in modern history, has led us to this point. The only way out is to have informed voters make objective decisions about what's best for the country. And it requires a more understanding about how our government works than being able to recite talking points. I don't intend this to be an insult, but it would be great if the people that voted for President Trump spent some time learning about how our government functions and what we collectively spend our tax money on before they make any more decisions about which elected official is best to run that government. The bottom line is the average conservative supporter that voted for President Trump has been conned, in much the same way that progressive voters were conned when they voted for President Obama. In Obama's case they thought they had elected a change agent that would lead a progressive revival - didn't happen... But at least we got a moderate out of it... In Trump's case conservatives thought they would get someone that wasn't like all of the other Republicans, and then once he gets into office he surrounds himself with the exact people the conservative voters rejected... But I don't want to hear about Clinton or Obama - the slow motion car wreck we're about to spend four years having is entirely the responsibility of Trump's supporters...
Yea John was usually spot on about his Trump predictions like he predicted what he would do leading up to the 2020 elections and that if he was winning early he would claim victory before the mail in votes were counted and then deny the results and refuse to concede. And that all of it could lead to something very dark. Which was spot on predictions for all of that. Yet the base he has right now will never catch on. So pathetic that a good chunk of this country would idolize any political figure to the same level as any dictator. But 10x more pathetic that it's Trump they idolize. They are so brain dead that literal facts no longer matter. Like the indictment for stealing top secret documents. His entire base somehow thing it's a Witch Hunt that The DEMS set him up. Like how can you be that dumb when we have countless pictures of the documents being kept by him. That you tapes of him showing people the documents and that plenty of the people testifying against him are from his inner circle. Yet somehow they think the Democrats who are a shit show when it comes to being organized and having a plan. Have somehow been able to be so organized and smart that they were able to steal an election. And then frame Trump for 3 different Indictments.
This Military does not need any more money, I was a Tanker for the M1A2 Abram Tanks and we literally had Brand new tanks in a Desert at Fort Irwin just sitting there never used and Rusting. We had more Toys then we could Train with or ever Fucking use. If you Dont know a M1A2 Abrams tank Costs US$8.92 million and each Round we Fired was $3,000. I would Literally drive out to the Desert and Piss away 20 to 50 Rounds some Days bc we were Just Bored. You all Paid $60,000 to $150,000. They Call it Training but we literally had more Rounds then we knew what to do with and we knew we would get more. Please do not Give the Military more money you are not paying for Defense you are paying for me and my Buddy's to piss money away
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We should cannibalizes unused or “poorly designed” planes and other wasted military hardware.
@@allasar This guy just put forward a very honest and insightful story about your country's military spending, and you're looking at his grammar? No wonder America is going to shit- people like you can't focus on the main issue.
My things is, if they are gonna pour more money into the military, instead of buying equipment that’s just sitting there, why not pay these soldiers more since they are, ya know, risking their lives for fat rich people in wars they were sent to by said rich fat people. Especially for the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ soldiers risking their lives for the freedoms of said rich fat people to vote them out of the military.
Yeah I've read about that, that spending isn't really for the millitarys sake but for the towns in which the factories are located.
They say its for national security but it's classic pork barell spending.
I don't think a bit of cash infusing into a region is a bad thing, but atleast fund something that can potentially carry its own in the long run.
There is probably also a lot of state and local rail or other infrastructure dream projects, that could potential tie outlying regions together.
Ueah lets look at the nam war.
Budget cut: Pandemic Department. We definitely won’t need that one
Ya that worked out sooooooooooooooo well for the states. Genius move right there :/
Yeah we are fucked
Thanks Trump
lmao
@sheldon pereira kinda racist of u ngl
As an Irish person living in England, that little Mick Mulvaney joke was much funnier than the audience realised
They're not from the UK so they wouldn't understand
can you maybe explain? i want to laugh too :-)
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@@pennyporta9347 so true bestie
Not an American here. But I think they should cut the budget for 'President's Weekend Golf Sessions'
UPDATE:
45 bankrupted DC for his Fourth of July dick waving parade.
Fucking "stable genius".
Americans have zero control of there politics, anything alluding otherwise is an illusion or someone lying to himself.
@@pumba16b Not really arguing but it seems like the peoples' control of politics all over is slipping somehow. Scary shit man.
Glenn Peterson so true. It feels kinda ominous around anything political.
But he's donating his salary.
And - as of Feb 2020 - spent and estimated 300+ years of salary on his half outings, with an unknown amount going to his dick extension golf courses.
Who looks at the most bloated military budget on the planet and goes "I think that needs more money"?
It is so wasteful to pour even more money into defense. We already have more than enough resources to fend off any threat. We have global warming and declining education standards to worry about, we don't need to forget about those and get 40 shiny new jets. Education should be our primary focus, especially considering 50% of our PhD candidates are foreign.
If you got 10 more people with those guns then you're safer but no one to use them then nah. Unless ones a better gun.
Common core is garbage and is a complete waste of money. But we have schools that can't afford things that the students need or that are cutting extra curricular activities just so that they can pay their teachers. The department of education needs to be funded and needs to funnel the money into schools. We don't need their input on the system, we need them to allocate funds where they are necessary.
There's no way to look at the country's education statistics and not be concerned.
Strongside When will it be enough because just throwing money at it isn't working.. our schools are terrible
It has been relatively underfunded for years. Throwing money at the shitty organization isn't working because they aren't funding schools, they are blowing it by coming up with stupid shit like common core. It needs to be funded well, but it also needs to be restructured. It needs to be a meanings to distribute money to schools and come up with overarching changes that benefit schools. They treat education like a business and thus it is failing.
I am quoting someone who said, the US military budget is low compared to what? The Death Star!
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Won't accomplish that dream with the dirty mold rag on your head
You are really good at troling
mihrjf So mothers are not allowed to dye their hair and businesses should pay their employees more? And "the establishment" wants to destroy itself because reasons? And white slavers were wonderful people because black people had slaves too? Is that what you are trying to tell us, correct?
I'm curious to what are you doing to try to stop this ruination.
"Our nuclear is old and tired, his nuclear is tippy-top..."
WTF IS THAT?? A 5-YR OLD TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS???
"Security! A little kid managed to sneak into the White House and give a press conference!" *Then it dawned on him*
Donald Trump is 3 little boys on top of each other in a suit. That also explains why he has so small hands.
Carewolf Omg, that actually explains everything! How did we miss it! He's Vincent Adultman!
Don't diss boys on top of each other. that's how Dipper's clones from Gravity Falls spent the rest of their lives, and I would rather trust the country to them than Trump at this point.
It is donald trump understanding the fact that most of his supporters have the intelligence of a five year old("I love the poorly educated") so he has to talk like that.
I laughed for over two minutes at Oliver's Quote: "I don't Speak toddler psychopath." Hilarious but also quite scary.
He might speak toddler, because he has two young children but psychopathic toddler dont think so.
@@NightridewithNikki the guy was a damn fool, however you wanna slice it. I cant believe anybody still supports the monster
@@rucksoclown7696 B....but hEs nOt a cArEeR PolOtIciAN
NASA is going to be cut as well?!?! Fuckin hell...
Anyone reminded of Interstellar? What with the agricultural and environmental disaster and Nasa being practically dead and buried...
Hopefully we have a secret underground NASA base like that movie then...
Hi30911 exactly right my friend
You know Bill Clinton cut NASA's budget, so you democrats are just as stupid.
Marcantoni M And yet President 💩 wants us to get to Mars.
Why do people always cut nasa? They give you all the cool military tech
SPACE LAZARS! Sorry, but in all seriousness, many inventions that we use every day were created for space travel originally. It would be foolish to cut it any more then we already have. That was actually one of my major gripes with the Obama administration.
Enderchangling Because they're idiots. Anti-Intellectual greedy bastards. They have no vision.
Cuz NASA doesn't have the fund to lobby properly :P Well unless you are one of those ppl that for some reason thinks the military budget goes to the "military" and not the private sector lol. (protip: if you have the money to invest in some of those companies, this might be a good time to do it they are about to get an influx of money! =D)
When people hear nasa, they think space shit they don't understand. Due to ignorance they can't comprehend the advances made possible due to the challenge of space travel, nor the impact it will have on the future.
Yes, anti-intellectualism, but hey, they are incredibly efficient at it for all their Bible-thumpiness.
NASA has _nothing_. NASA, itself, is a fountain of money that the best minds of the world come to drink from. The US produces little gray matter (no offense), most of the tech in the US was invented by people that were imported. Look through the greatest inventions from '50s to '80s and count the truly american names. Exactly. Look though the Nobel Prize winners and cut the people whose parents weren't Americans. Exactly. I'm not saying it's zero, I'm saying the glory days were purchased.
Without the money, NASA is going away.
EU now has good support for science, they have proven with the LHC and the new satellite launch suite and the new tech that they can and will fund science, and that has curbed export of gray matter _severely_. Even more, the EU has had the foresight to bring tech and research to each and every country, so no matter how poor a country is they won't have to export their very best. After US's SpaceX managed to launch at a smaller cost than Ariane 5 (ESA), EU has taken it to heart and are designing Ariane 6, due to enter service 2020, with a design budget of 3.2 billion Euro. No offense, but this isn't going to be pretty. The changes so far already turned the tide of the market toward ESA. A company can't compete with a continent. It just can't. The only thing that has a chance to compete with the EU is the US. And I mean all of it, government-funding level.
China is coming too. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, they are coming too. India, too. It's a race. Everyone is running.
De-funding NASA is the worst move you could ever have done. Instead of having the shining beacon of tech, where everybody goes, now the beacon is dim. Instead of recruiting from 2.5 billion people, you now recruit from 300M. Who's going to leave theit home and house and family and move across the planet to work for a regular-ass private space agency when their own home has one?
Don't get me started on that self-driving-into-walls shit or that vacuum tube shit they keep trying to build. No offense, but without government oversight shit simply won't be efficient and you can't stop some dude from living out fantasies.
De0funding NASA is the worst move, ever, for your future. Or, you know, the best, since I'm not American.
I didn't know NASA had a budget to be cut anymore...
Despite it being humanities best hope for collective immortality.
William Henning I think they brought back the half penny so they could cut NASA's budget even more
How did you reach that interpretation? The OP was obviously referring to oxymoron behind cutting NASA's already pitifully small budget
Kevin Jones 0 to 100 real quick...
They will split it to the atom
"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." - 2pac
I always like to think it's important not just to defend a country, but to maintain the parts of it that are worth defending. Like, say... health, charity, compassion, culture... oh, and the environment. "The country that destroys its soil, destroys itself", besides which concrete and factories don't replenish oxygen so well... nor do they absorb carbon and turn it into wood that provides shade and can later be used for stuff, if necessary. Trees are neat, seriously. And how many people would want to live in a world where flowers no longer exist? Or fresh fruits and vegetables you could grow in a community plot, or your backyard if you like?
Businesses take care of their bottom line, their shareholders and their directors. Everything else is either the state, or random people working for free... which, with all those "beneficial" big businesses holding the reins of a society, people won't be able to afford to do in most cases, even if they want to. Free time is for people who can't be easily replaced if they burn out! Which loops right back to keeping lots of people poor - nice, cheap source of replacements for the cynical fucks at the top to keep shoveling into the grinder.
America right?
Maybe so but 2Pac was convicted of sex assault so I wouldn't exactly trust his word
Joe Blow What the fuck? Yea cause that completely invalidates everything he said and did (not getting into how sketchy that case was an what she says)
2Pac is a legend that’s will never burn out and has made a permanent mark on history, meanwhile you won’t even make a scratch, no wonder no one takes metoo seriously anymore, you use it for stupidity like that
Hazukichan X The corporate Oligarchy is working hard to become global instead of having to operate within different countries...its all the same entitled SOBs on the receiving end of all the money and breaks they can maneuver. Trump is making his play to become accepted into the “old” money club, and they are loving it.🖤🇨🇦
this video needs more views. It is extremely important that every American watches this.
Ian Jones What here is a lie?
Ian Jones can you explain what part of the federal budget is a lie? The government made the announcement about how they will allocate resources, and this video is to educate Americans about it. It's fact that the government is going to increase budget for defense and take away money from valuable programs for Americans such as education, the arts, and scientific research.
this bias one sided comedy skit?
Ian Jones what's the truth then? That Trump *does* care about education and the well-being of people more than military? Because that's not the case.
Penske Material they don't even need to try to make it comedy. It's not one-sided if they're simply just stating facts.
Honestly if Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to the US I don't understand why he just doesn't invest in factories for solar panels, windmills etc. here in the US.
No one can bring manufacturing back. It's gone. New factories will be max automated. Service people still required yes, but not sheer numbers.
It's capitalism at work. Promising jobs is not compatible with capitalism.
I don't know if you've noticed but capitalism has been dead/dying in the US for a long while. Laissez faire is a myth.
He can if your workers are willing to make 10% their original income. That's what the Chinese worker income are at because they are less developed.
Pure automation is expensive.
Because he demonizes anything that is related to green energy and he knows his people in coal country have no clue how to do those jobs and have no interest in learning. They didn't tell the Repubs "I want to switch industries and get a good paying job." They said "I want my coal mining job back." They look backward, not forward. It's the core of the entire Republican ideology. Backward momentum.
GOOD GRIEF WHERE IS LORD BUCKETHEAD WHEN HE IS NEEDED
Charles Green Probably producing his 900th album or something
Charles Green he's off planet
Buckethead for World President! =D
jamming with brain.
@An Vode actually he's intergalactic
I'd just like to express my appreciation for The Daily Show, Jon Steward, his correspondents and his predecessor. John Oliver is gold.
Our defense budget is already at 612 Billion dollars. We have the largest military defense budget in the world, the second largest is Russia's at 76.6 billion. We could cut our budget in half and still have the biggest defense budget in the world, why are we adding more?!
Amanda Johnson more jobs
Exactly. That money is better spent on the Department of Transportation
you could even quarter the budget and it’d still he double the budget pt russia.
I really do not know apparently.
Amanda Johnson dude you have 10 times the GDP of russia
This show is so informative and a pleasure to watch. Thank you John Oliver
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Hermann Vöge your life is futile
He might not be a living person.
shawn devol I understand what you’re saying, but that makes it sound like he’s dead lol
6 more seasons and a movie
The cuts on education actually make sense, if you keep the people stupid enough they won't question your actions and won't try to do anything about them even though they're wrong. It's almost the same thing a lot of third world countries were or still are doing.
exactly. and it will help with their "cradle to cellmate" private prison industry, as well as increase military recruits as jobs dry up for the under-qualified poor and "middle class" that no longer exists..
it almost feels like they read Nineteen Eighty Four, and implementing it all as policy. We even have Newspeak, with their "alternative facts". trumpanzes must think this is Double Plus Good. Sadly, it seems like trumpanzes will gladly vote against their own interests, and do insane mental gymnastics to convince themselves that the con is good
Ehhh, I mean, in Jakarta for the most part, 12 years of public schools are provided by the government, so... Yeah.
I just want to add he cut the budget after some states like Oklahoma cut their education budget twice within 3 months. Highschools had to have paper drives in November!
That and money spent on ordinary citizens is mainly wasteful spending in terms of remaining in power, in said countries. If you want know who a government needs to have the support of, in order to remain in power, just look at their budgets.
Celine Ha, you couldn't be more correct. This is one unfortunate reality that the people need to give a serious reboot.
As someone who lives in Utah, I'm pretty stoked too keep that crabgrass!
did you mean crabs?
Crabgrass is a thing
Cutting these programs is going to cost us so much more in the long run...all of those kids falling into the bad crowd and growing up on the wrong side of the law is enough to put us back in the red on costs
We haven't been debt free since Jan. 8, 1835. Get your head out of the clouds and realize what is going on with fiat money and the cabal of big banking (federal reserve).
G Washington it sure isn't a thing for the president
That's not even taking into account the human suffering. Such a cruel, crude budget. What are we even protecting with all that increased military spending?
+G Washington we're all a product of our environment. Pretending 14 year olds have the wherewithal to be successful upstanding citizens without any positive role models or productive hobbies provided for them is absolutely insane.
Tosh Outdoors I know it's so cruel and crude that people will have figure out a way ... If u want a positive role model for these young kids my suggestion is start with the fucking parents
no wonder education isn't on the increasing budget list, listen to how Trump talks...
you mean *money? yes I know.
Ouch.
I did a quick research on google, these departments :health and human services, department of defense, homeland security, social security administration have 3 to 8 times more budget than the dep of education. I mean better education means better health ,security, defense you name it. I wish the best for the US and all countries.
But we can just get our engineers and doctors from other countries right?
true but isn't it more reliable to produce or have the source instead of renting or buying from others? better education not only gives you better doctors and engineers but also hundreds of other fields and new ones too. Plus it drops the rate of bad things like crimes etc, and increase the quality of life in general drastically.
The amount of dislikes on the videos criticizing trump has been going down every month
yea same with the viewcount
Rumford Chimpenstein 3.6 M views after one day is going down?
+SO O "The amount of views on the videos criticizing trump has been going down every month"
Do you really think viewcount for one vid can go down??? how does that even make sense XD how did you think that
Dislikes. Not views.
Rumford - Excellent alternative facts. People are finally starting to wake up the disaster that is President Cheeto-dipshit.
Give him all the Emmys for the remainder of his shows run!
It’s unfortunate that the late night cable hosts have to be in the same category as him because they aren’t anywhere near his level. He needs a category of his own cuz he has taken the daily show format and evolved/revolutionized it into the stratosphere
LMAO cutting on NASA so that people can't leave the USA and escape this hell.
Democrats who supported Clinton in the primary elections have only themselves to blame
oldmanmike89 Yep. all three of them.
Sheryl Yaseen Elon Musk has already got that covered
That's a way of putting it
Oldmanmike89 - yup, bernie would've destroyed trump in the general
Yes, let's make more fuckin nukes that we won't use because, you know, humanity would end if we ever did!
Christian Lamey
10/10
perfect plan
IGN
Yep! Boy, I need a drink.
true i never really grasped the concept of wanting more nukes than the other guy. It would only take a few to destroy the planet and us with it and taking into account how many you would need to use against the other countries i can't believe no one has enough and in the end no one wins because nuclear war would kill us all/hurt everyone. When it comes to nuclear warfare after a point the amount the enemy has is irrelevant.
Think about this for a moment. America had enough nukes to create the apocalypse for the USA in WW2, imagine what they could do with increased spending? Destroy the world?
I'm actually collecting caps. If tweeter in chief pisses off the wrong country, I bet fallout GO will be YUUUUGE
Man, I don't live geographically close to the US and I'm really worried about its future.
for the first time, you guys might have a president capable of destroying the country. And the scariest part, trump supporters will never blame him for it.
moocowisback focus on your own country because this is like me saying, "man I'm so worried for Libya because there leader could actually destroy that country." no I don't care about the country (sorry Libya) and anyone can destroy anything. At least America isn't going communist.
The only problem is a the US is a global power unlike Libya, so if something is going wrong in the US, a large part of the world can be concerned
nicolas44991 ok than that's like me caring about Russia or China or Germany.
The worst is definitely the fact that trump supporters will refuse to acknowledge anything that's his fault. Anything that goes wrong will be blamed on obama.
*Trump is president for 1 hour and a company decides to stay in the USA* = "TRUMP IS ALREADY FIXING EVERYTHING HES AMAZING YES MAKE AMERICA GREAT"
*Trump is president for 3 years and world war III begins* = "LOOK AT THE MESS HE HAD TO INHERIT GOD OBAMA WAS SUCH A DISASTER!"
Well you should care about what's happening to Russia and China, China is about to become one of the most powerful country on earth, yet they'er a dictature, who may crumble in a couple of years, and Russia is an Oligarchy at this point run by a tyrant who has massive wealth and kill his politics oponents and journalits
I'm sorry but it's not WWII anymore. We don't need a big ass world-wartime military budget right now! Take that money and fix our godawful education system, godammit
the idiots in office (not one side or the other, ALL of them) are too old to think anything else. just like the russia bs they sell so hard. just crazy old people needing to retire
America acts like it’s the middle of fucking WW3 but in reality this is the longest time of peace the world as a whole has had in over a century.
They use most of their money on military while the low to middle class suffer🤦♂️.
I’m so happy to be Canadian
Depressed breakfast I wonder how much it’d increase if there was a ww3 and if it proves that all the money was uselessly spent.
It hasn't even been 3 months, it's going to be a loooong 4 years.
*If we make it that long*
I have some Jack Daniels if you want some, it may make things easier.
I don't think you'll have a functioning liver by 2020 though at this rate.
Lulakan stuff it down with brown #itsalwayssunnyinphiladephia
You can't even see the sky today
We'll be fine.
I know how we balance the federal budget: Chris Christie on one side, and all the gold the US owns on the other.
And if we run out of Chris Christies we can just use the same method trump uses to make money: bars of lead colored with gold sharpie.
Or maybe Trump can put the west wing of the whitehouse on airbnb?
Chris Christie is one ButterFinger away from losing a foot.
I believe Chris Christie started as a 6 legged man, he lost 4 legs so far.
We don't have near enough gold.
doesnt the military heavily rely on the department of energy
Jason M no... some bases have mini nuclear reactors or they buy energy from the civilian companies in their areas. The military is a business... they buy all the resources... nothing is given to them...
The military is allotted money by the federal government...they are by no means a business. The Nuclear reactors were developed in part with the DOE !!!!!!
The DOE regulates all things nuclear power, including the military. Yes, the military relies heavily on the DOE. Without the DOE, we lose 70% of our functioning Navy. "He who controls the sea, controls everything." - mutha fucking Themistocles.
but Themistocles didn't account for he who controls the air can ram the tip of their jet up those who control the sea
New Violence
True
The Department of Energy manages all of our nuclear weapons, so yes.
Me and my wife aren't exactly alike when it comes to choice of RUclips videos, but there are two things we can agree on:
1. Cat videos are cute
2. John Oliver is a necessity!
What about a dozen baby puppies piling onto a guy sitting on a couch? Let's be honest here.... one of you is a monster.
Last Week Tonight trending every week wow
Rightfully so.
Ian Jones owned*
Ian, have you ever asked yourself why most successful internet companies (RUclips, Facebook, twitter, Apple, Uber, Amazon etc) are run by the left? That's because liberals innovate. Why don't you join us in creating things instead of conservatives, who just like to copy and/or tear things down.
and less dislikes too with more views.
you're right, i'll just read Breitbart now and go get me some 'alternative facts.' Thanks man!
I find it ironic that Trump's policies are affecting the people who literally voted for him.
Consistently red states take in way more federal aid than consistently blue states. Hence why these cuts have serious repercussions considering the states that rely more on that aid are the ones who voted for a president that's slashing that aid into oblivion.
Ian, The top 10 states that send more money to the fed than they take out are blue states. 9 of the 10 states that take the most are red states. And about 55% of Obamacare users are republicans as oppose to about 35% democrats.
Anyway, back to the topic. The republican politicians have spent the last few decades convincing the poor white republicans (the working poor) that the (legal and illegal) immigrants are stealing their jobs and the blacks are lazy and collecting welfare. When confronted with the fact that they're are on welfare as well, most of them believe that they're the exception few who actually work hard but are victims of circumstance. So they vote for the party that promises to limit immigration deport illegal immigrants. They think once those people are gone, their piece of the pie gets larger. The fact of the matter is, technology is changing faster than we can create replacement jobs.
Look at the numbers. Between 2000 and 2016, we lost 22% of our manufacture jobs (went from 23ish mil to 17ish mil). Yet, the manufacture output in America is at an all-time high. You can blame outsourcing all you want, but the fact of the matter is, why would manufacture companies continue to pay hourly wages for human workers when they could pay a 1 time fee for machines. Same thing with the coal sector. A 1 time fee for solar panels will eventually be cheaper than paying per watt to coal plants.
Of course, some people need somebody to blame. They need a savior. Enter Trump, the outsider. He's not part of the establishment that has failed them over and over. The conman convinced them that he alone will limit new immigrants, deport illegal immigrants, cut wasteful spending that go to "lazy people." In their desperation, they didn't realize that they're in the same category as those "lazy people."
I relish in that.
+Khalid Hussain I made a video about it, check it out, it debunks what you are saying
michaelatw86 You do know a lot of them are welfare unemployment, disability, social security, Medicare, the ACA and get expanded Medicaid under the ACA don't you? Education cuts don't matter because they like being stupid.
hi there, I’m here during the 2020 coronavirus outbreak where we are very intimately feeling the affects of trump cutting the pandemic team :-)
When he gutted it, he promised that he could put together the best team quickly if an outbreak happened. Too bad he's too stupid to know you have to plan in advance and contain outbreaks before they become pandemics. What a moron. Be safe!
Republicans think shows like these are "biased", yet they're supposed to criticize government. Even in the Obama administration Oliver criticized a lot. Also, if Oliver can't criticize Trump, what else would he do? This show is meant for bashing people like Trump, that's how political satire works.
Gavin Herrera I like this show, but you can't deny that shows like these tend to have biases.
How are shows like these any different than shows like Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro? Conservatives love those even though they're biased as fuck. It just shows that conservatives doesn't a have problem with bias, just everything that isn't right wing biased.
+King Brick Reality has a bias. And John Oliver criticized Obama on drones, surveillance, mass deportation, not appropriately recognizing the Armenian Genocide, etc.
I have long since stopped trying to convince people with facts. Clearly facts and provable evidence are irrelevant. If you wanna convince Republicans, you gotta just make some shit up. Tell them that Trump is currently fucking their moms on front of them. Maybe then they'll change their minds.
No one bashed Obama this much because Obama didn't do stupid ass things as often.
I can assure you that 90% of the people who disliked this watched 5 seconds, and denied everything that john said because they can't get there ass out of the clouds
I don't think they watched for 5 seconds at all. Just instant dislike and then comment bashing.
Ok now tell me why did you dislike this
I agree 100%
People just will keeping rejecting the facts it's going to comeback one day
how do i get my ass IN the clouds?
wow wow wow he is cutting NASA's budget? that is simply unacceptable!
Genesis David Don't worry, NASA obviously has way too much funding. I mean, military spending is a mere, a miniscule, a microscopic trillion dollars.
I like to imagine NASA having the US military budget. Now that would be very badass!
Boogster Su screw mission to mars, NASA is probably going to colonize multiple planets
NASA has such a low budget that they are forced to carpool with Russia just to get to space.
We need to better educate people on how beneficial NASA can be with a large budget. Hell they went from having no idea how to get to space, to basically perfecting landing on the moon in like 10 years. Imagine where we could be today had we not given up on it after we beat Russia to the moon.
Genesis David Yeah didn't NASA used to have no-partisan support?
I just want all of this to be over.
me too fam. things still arent looking up and it feels endless
Unfortunately it will be over soon. The world, that is.
Update from 3 years in the future: it's worse.
It will end when Trump does and not before then.
Hey, are you doing okay?
So why do we want to have better nukes again?
So we don't use them, and never will.
Traveel nuclear deterrence my friend... it is what nukes prevent what's important...
A_2the_dam Seitz you clearly don't know how the nuclear defense system works.
we only need 3-4 to literally end the world. it's funny how every country feels the need to stockpile them
Andy Lam Funny......And absolutely f***ing terrifying.
I feel like our country is going to hell and I'm not very political
How so? If you got your news from places other than biased comedians on RUclips you probably wouldn't have that viewpoint.
L G. so...only twitter?
+L G. News is News. just because it's from a certain source does not change the fact that Trump did do these things. Are you going to say that this budget plan is made up? no because its not, so it doesnt matter where you get the facts, at the end of the day it did happen.
I'm not saying it's made up. But picking out programs getting cuts that are named nice things like "Super Awesome Save the Starving Children Foundation" and stating it's bad that he's cutting it without you yourself having and inkling of an idea of what the program does or the "benefits" it provides, is idiotic. And that is exactly what Oliver is doing. He lists a bunch of shit and picks out some ones that sound nice and says "Trump is dumb and evil he hates kids and moms". It's dishonest and clearly biased and that's why you shouldn't get your news from comedians who have zero journalistic integrity.
Nice straw man you built there.
Don't we spend like 10 times as much on our military as much as the next country?
dollors1 Yes you do and its so fucking unneckessary and dumb to raise its budgets. If I would be an American citizen I would do whatever it takes to end his god damned term.
Literally the only thing American military is unprepared for is a war against Russia IN Russia. US has the most military assets, highest military funding, best technology and a huge number of allies, many very powerful. In addition US has been dragged into so many conflicts over the years that their collective military experience is unbelievably vast. You will have to look really deep to find even a single reason to justify increased military funding.
However, US does have a LOT of enemies.
dollors1 Pax Americana
Sadly, that is the problem. We HAD a huge number of allies. At the rate trump is insulting not only actors, the press, union leaders, department stores,....etc., he still for some reason feels the need to attack the countries (via twitter of course) that used to back us up. The man is starting to make me worry even more than I was when he was elected. And I had so hoped that he would grow up. SAD!
Our military budget only pays for a small fraction of actual military hardware. Most of it likely goes to either paying people or paying for development programs which go nowhere, but hey, as long as the CEO of those weapon companies get their due.
The writing for this show is absolutely top notch.
Thank god it wasn't just the zebra this week.
For someone who doesnt live in the US .... At first it was hilarious ...
Still is .... But now i kinda feel sorry for you people
Have a nice 4 years assuming trump doesnt destroy america before his first term ends
Hey, if we go down, we'll probably take you with us. Or at least majorly effect the way most of the developed world runs for decades to come. And that's without even knowing where you live.
We got impeachment. Well trump is already peached amirite
Sieht aus als würdest du aus Deutschland kommen ;)
you are quite right Tripping Pug. when the fact that one fourth of the globes total wealth is located within the U.S. the complete collapse of the nation would at best cripple the worlds economy for well over a century. at worst cause a dramatic shift in the global power balance. as most of the worlds economy is tied up with the U.S. most modern powers would collapse right along with it with no economy to maintain their power status. this would result in a dramatically different group being in power a century from now. if the U.S. goes down europe will be decimated, along with the entire south american continent, australia, south africa, saudi arabia, these would all collapse right along with the U.S. simply because of the void left in the economy. the major players of 2150-2200 could be anyone. Ethiopia, north Korea, and Indonesia could be the big powers to emerge after a century dark age as the world recovers from complete economic collapse.
bottom line, the U.S. falls, and it drags the whole world kicking and screaming with it. so believe me when i say, hate it or not, you want them to succeed. not just for our sake's but the sake of the next several generations.
Aws Zaza thnks .. it's so funny people outside this country can tell we are fuck!
And the award for best use of tippy-fucking-top in a commercial broadcast goes to
I'm really close to just pay for HBO. This is so worth it. Btw can you make this section longer. I like them when they are 20mins or more. They are gold!
Yay a new video, I KNEW rejecting sleep was a good idea.
Same dude!
Now I'm going to bed, it is a school night after all...
Dr. Dank Isn't it spring break in America?
+Dr. Dank haha my spring break ends on Tuesday.....
Only stupid Trumptards reject sleep.
For a moment, I thought you said "rejecting SHEEP" and was utterly confused. Then again, I just woke up and only got like, 1 hour of sleep.
Just when you thought US society could not get any worse..
Oh boy,
As a foreign student in agricultural engineering, making cuts in Agricultural and Environmental Departments is suicide, especially in a country which is looking for protectionism and independance. We are having trouble producing food all other the world, farmers have been witnessing the effects of climat change for a couple of years now. If the USA don't want to produce in an environmental friendly way, at least they need to go full on GMO's in order to have viable crops and survive without importing from other countries. If they continue down this path, they will starve in a couple of decades. If this budget passes, it is a long-term tragedy.
Elie what country u from
France but I've been studying in Thailand for a month ^^
We have loads of GMO's
I'm talking about research. You have loads of GMO's but they are not effective to go threw the climat crises we are gonna have. You need to do more research, not cut research funds this is nonsense.
You realize not all african countries are starving right ? And you're turning in worse than an "African country", since they will have at least some sort of life in their soil.
2020 here: his base and the GOP never caught on, and nobody was surprised by their continuing support. Disgusted, disappointed, but not surprised.
Hey I'm from 2021 and
HE'S GONE BOISSSS
Hillary's faults were many-
Trump has but 2:
Everything he says
AND
Everything he'll do!!
Cammy O everything he'll do? Just spitballing some ideas here that would rhyme and be coherent.
William Taylor Payne
Perfect, thanks!
(however it's probably coherent to trumputins; their education level doesn't seem very high).
Everything he says and everything he'll do, that general statement turns out to be much more faults than Hillary could've ever had, Trump is like George W. Bush's wet dream, when it comes to being worst modern president. Trump, so far, is on par with Nixon or Andrew Johnson. He's actually sort of a blend of those two, so we can say he's like a Andrew Nixon, a treasonous, completely incompetent, asshole, that doesn't belong anywhere near a presidency. With any luck, he'll end up the same as Andrew Johnson, impeached and branded the new "lamest of lame-duck presidents" that Johnson had earned in his time.
thebestdrummer51
"tRump is like George Bush's wet dream!" Ha haha
He always wanted to be famous and he will be:
1) worst president in US history
2) quickest impeachment in US history
3) lowest popularity in US history (what is it at? 37%?)
4) most lies told in the shortest amount of time
5) most vacations taken, also in the shortest amount of time...
..... & the list goes on!!
stop making sense
8) inclined to interfere in rights to marry
Trump supporters will continue to follow blindly no matter what happens.
Tell me about it. I've been on r/The_Donald's Discord as an active member and they were FUCKING HAPPY with the cuts. They don't fucking care about most of the organizations that would go away; they think they're useless. And they defended the military spending real hard. I even encountered one user who questioned the constitutionality of public education. Nuts!
Don't get me wrong, I think the government can be wasteful but spending another 53 billion on our military is so stupid. And when he's cutting programs for the homeless and single mothers, I really can't stand how people stand up for him.
CYIPRO Exactly. Even the DoD themselves don't want that much money.
Eh I have been seeing less and less of actual Trump supporters in the comments. Most of the people I see defending him are obvious troll accounts with usernames like "Liberals suck"
even the parts that hurt their dumbasses they cheer for
I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...
"The cookies will be thrown away and the grandmothers will be put down" sounds like a WTNV quote.
I was really hoping for an explanation for the dancing zebras
I am disappointed too
they are a bolivian group that helps control the horrific road traffic conditions in the country. Everithing is better with dancing zebras!
there are videos of the full segment elsewhere on youtube
in the last 20 minutes or so they explain
and its awesome
#Betterwithzebras
What puts me on the curious side of all this is that.
I am just waiting for Alex Jones to start defending this "Budget" then once more, call John Oliver "a [insert offensive immigrant name here] leftist"
+Ian Jones Except Steve Crowder doesn't show all the facts if anything he's has a tendency to pull things out of his ass and cite unreliable sources. John Oliver on the other hand cites his sources that are generally fairly reliable.
+Ian Jones, how does "not that smart" even apply? Like, what are you looking at to make that judgement?
Oh, this one is easy! Let me handle it, and, since both sides tend to do it, it's the simplest maneuver to identify in the world!
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This person doesn't agree with me.
My positions are well considered and thought out (which I know because they are my positions).
Therefore someone who does not agree with me is not thinking through their positions properly.
Smart people think through their positions properly.
Therefore people who do not agree with me are not smart.
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Granted, most people don't really bother to realize that that's the thought process they're using, but generally speaking, if someone jumps in and just calls someone "not smart" or "stupid" with the divine art of no evidence and/or just with the presumption that their lack of intelligence is self evident is likely to be using just this great logical progression! It even is internally logically consistent! Of course, points 2 or 3 are likely not to be true, so the entire chain is inapplicable to reality, but has that ever stopped anyone?
(Rhetorical question: No it hasn't)
And, of course, some groups are worse about it than others, but watch for easy buzzwords like "Sheep," (an easy way to disregard entire groups of people who don't agree with you. Not bothering to understand others has never been so easy!) and other terms suggesting that the person doesn't have enough mental acuity to form their own decisions and therefore are just mindlessly following a leader those individuals find charismatic. And, obviously, since *you* don't find those leaders charismatic, it further demonstrates just how inferior they are to you!
And, obviously, not everyone does this. And if you don't, that's great! I love people who try to actually understand other people's thought processes rather than rely on lazy labels so you don't have to. And if anyone finds themselves offended because they totally do these things and I'm insulting them, well, I have something to say about that.
*Ahem.*
I find your disregard for the potential for you to be mistaken, or the potential of others to have good ideas you haven't realized yet, unhealthy both for society and your personal intellectual growth. Please consider no longer behaving in such a self destructive manner. Thanks!
Oh, as I said, I hardly apply it to everyone, if I insisted it was universal, or even a constant for every single person, I would be doing the exact thing I'm objecting to, and I try to avoid recursive self shaming.
And I, further, have no objections, really, to someone saying "I don't like what group X is trying to do/pushing for." Objecting to the actions of a group of people is entirely reasonable. I tend to get testy if, say, one declares that everyone in the group must be, in some way, mentally deficient. I'll admit, I don't understand how other people think a lot of the time, but unless I can really get them to lay out their logic or thought processes for me, it's hard to check for flaws there.
Though I will say, Trump is actually an easy target because he's inconsistent in small enough time frames that it's not particularly reasonable to expect he's sincerely changed his mind in that period of time, or, alternatively, if he has, that he actually cares much about the issue if he changes his mind so easily and ambivalently. Does that, strictly, in and of itself make him "stupid?" I don't think so, but it does make me feel he's not the sort of person who should be running a country as that level of ambivalence, or lack of competence, or political shilling, or whatever (I'm not going to state I know what leads to it, but there does seem to be a finite set of options!) does not lead to an effective leader who makes consistently good quality decisions.
Or, to make it short: I don't know if he's stupid, but whatever qualities lead to his actions, I certainly agree he shouldn't be running a country, nevermind the US.
+Ian Jones Most his arguments are based of his feelings rather than facts. More often than not he usually make things up and when he does cite his sources they usually very unreliable/biased.
Give the 50 billion to NASA and watch wonders happen
I think that's part of the plan, Mars station in 25 years. Meanwhile everyone here can starve, or be poisoned by environmental messes, or die from no medcare, and the rich can all move to Mars. SAD.
Anthony Cupero True. We should focus more on Earth BUT if we continue the way we are WE won't have a planet anymore.
Chris F You watch too many movies lol
*O'Neill cylinders!*
_O'Neill cylinders!_
... *_O'Neill cylinders._*
Seriously though, colonies in orbit are way more practical than ones on another planet, make it happen NASA~
I think of NASA as a worst case scenario safety net
Say some ego maniac fucks up the environment, causes social unrest and provokes nuclear war
Maybe just maybe if it was funded adequately could it save us then...
I lost it when he said “don’t get attached, one on the right” 😂
I hope John referring to his old hair is a new regular thing for this show!
I'll take anything that isn't a thong...
Tyler Jenkins My respect for you went through the roof.
All these people frustrated with environmentalists need to visit a city without environmental regulations like Beijing.
there have been so many likes before it is even possible to see the entire video... John Oliver is that reliable on delivering excellent content
Abhijato Sensarma A lot of people probably watched it on HBO and then liked the video as soon as it went up. That's how I do it, normally.
Or perhaps many of his subscribers put the artist before the art, and automatically know that they like John Oliver and they hate Donald Trump, and that John Oliver is going to criticize Donald Trump and don't care how good the video is.
Abhijato Sensarma for the most part.
There's nothing stopping anyone from changing their click during or after watching. And the likes stay lit. :)
John, you're my hero. Thank you for giving voice to reason in the best way possible : with intelligent humour.
This budget is a mess. We aren't winning anymore with budgets. Make budgets great again.
The roads are shitty enough nice to know they are getting less funding down
Now*
Donald Trump didn't write The Art of the Deal.
No, but he absolutely loves to claim that he did.
I often wonder if I'm actually smarter than Trump.
I don't know who you are, but based apon the fact that you managed to spell everything in your comment correctly, I can already tell you are smarter.
Your basic ability to form a sentence proves that you are, love.
Aww 😶😚
I know your smarter because, Donald Trump
The structure of this sentence (and all statistical probability) suggests that you are.
Hearing trump talk makes my head in a serious pain.
*BING BING BONG BING*
11:11 "make him eat an apple, it will make him look even more like an asshole"
(DING!)
Archibald Belanus Everything Wrong with America: in 5 years or less: Spoilers (Duh!)
I love this entire thread, thank you all.
I'm waiting for the Impeachment. Though I doubt his Vice would be any better.
Asmodeus Harbinger extremely true
He wont get impeached and god help us all, the giant cheetoh will probably get re-elected >.> We will have to see how the 2018 stuff goes but he will probably get re-elected.
The only way he will be impeached is if his brand becomes so toxic the GoP feels they need to remove him. Right now they are getting what they want from his presidency, at least short term, and are not too worried about how associating with them will impact their reelection since their main competition is from the alt-right and tea party, not moderate republicans or democrats.
We should've impeached the last guy.
The GOP's favorite tactic right now is pounding the Dems for being in shambles. They can't afford disunity right now. Pence would probably a better candidate in terms of pushing the conservative agenda, though.
The end credits for america so funny but so true at the sane time rip america
More money to the military? The Navy is probably gonna beat NASA to mars
8:45 My heart is breaking for that woman. I can't even imagine how single mothers must feel right now with so much uncertainty in the country
I can definitely support giving the VA more money. Our nuclear arsenal does need upgrades, since most of it runs on floppy disks and is manned by people working in 36-hour shifts. Other than that, the military has more than enough money as it is. I also see no point is defunding miniscule programs when there is so much corporate welfare to do away with.
Well, nukes running on ancient technology is a Good Thing. Those are virtually non-hackable. The more "intelligent" a weapons system is, the more points you have to place the virtual crowbar, so to speak.
Not a bad point. They should get more guys working the silos, though. The long hours, sleep deprivation, and isolation literally drives them insane.
Oh, definitely. Maybe rotate personnel more, too. Being stuck in one of these bases is like picking sentry duty for years.
Anthony LiPira we don't need nuclear upgrades, we need to dismantle our nuclear system. We're never going to use it, every major country has grown up the point where we no longer need these weapons of mass destruction.
I agree with you, we do need to improve the technology behind the nuclear Arsenal but we don't need more of them. those things are extremely dangerous, and we don't need to add more nuclear waste to the world when the uranium depletes.
I want a special in which John Oliver goes to pubs in The UK and calls random Irish people Mick Mulvaney.
So in essence you're calling for his brutal murder
Nah, we need him alive, Fitzgerald O'Leprechaun!
I'm actually genuinely curious to what Trump supporters have to say to defend this .
Liddle Linkin They defend everything he does, even now. Whenever you ask questions about Trump, they just bring up the Clintons, even though they do not even matter anymore. It is immensely frustrating. I think there is literally nothing Trump could do that would sway his supporters.
Alyssa Wolfe There is no need to demonise Trump supporters. It would be interesting to hear the arguments from the other side
Joe Wolf I'm not "demonizing" them. This is literally the argument they have used when I debate them in real life.
lock her up? build that wall? what other dumbass catch phrases did he coin?
Everyone with a little insight knows that the support from Trump supporters isnt based on "facts". To assume people voted for him based on real instead of imaginary issues ignores how human psychology from primitive people works.
Your baseline trump supporter doesnt care about corruption, employment, social security.
He/she only cares about restricting immigration even to the their detriment, lower taxation, god and religion, and of course screwing over the other half of the population, liberals.
They arent even bad financially, so they can afforid it.
This has absolutetly nothing to do with "See 'Trump did this or that".
They dont care. They are the deplorables.
Only a tiny minority really cares about these issues, and that minority lost hillary the election, which she lost because she didnt care about these people.
I watched this earlier on a different RUclips channel after you uploaded the dancing zebra and let me tell u, I was so relieved that it was an joke
Also I watched all of the zebra video
Jasmine la *a joke
Last Week Tonight uploads two videos relatively close to each other. One is a detailed numbers-driven analysis and criticism of the proposed US federal budget, the other is twenty three minutes of footage of a man in a zebra costume in front of a green screen.
People didn't catch on nearly as much as they should have :(
Well at least it's better than a zebra dancing for over 23 minutes
except it's related to the episode lol
Actually, if y'all watch the entire episode, you would understand why
RedTailedDolphin not my proudest fap
RedTailedDolphin lol ikr
It was for a segment on the dancing zebras in La Paz, Bolivia. It helped curb down traffic accidents in the city.
We have 4,804, far more nuclear weapons than the entire world needs. Our military spending is roughly 4-5 times what Russia is. WE DONT NEED A BIGGER MILITARY BUDGET! What happened to getting along with Putin? He talked so much about getting along with Putin, then why would we need to compete with him in military might? Especially considering we're already the world superior in military strength. If he's cutting the state department budget because they don't see involvement in future conflicts (Which lets face it is complete BS) then why the $54 billion dollar increase to our military spending alone? None of his fiscal plans make any reasonable sense in practice or in explanation...
HE FUCKING SAID HE WAS GOING TO GIVE MONEY TO NASA, THAT WAS THE ONE! THING I LIKED ABOUT HIM
It made me upset too, I was actually excited about the possibility.
in all honesty though, he probably thought NASA was something else entirely :P "wait you mean NASA isn't lockheed martin?"
Maybe he pronounced NSA as NASA
NASA is when the lady with the oil taps you on the back, right?
Alex Vicaire National Anal Sex Association?
The phrase "boom boom budget" should really become a part of the common lexicon. It's just too good.
This is actually really scary.
Just passing through looking at the comment section.
Same
im going down more, wish me luck...
😎🍹 Ah, another beautiful day...
dennie erham same😂
Last time I was this early, a reality show star wasn't president.
John Oliver: you and your staff are killing it. Keep up the good work
Thank you for the actually segment & not the zebra dancing 😂
Some perspective on US military spending:
The US, with only *4.5* *percent* of the world population spends *almost* *half* of all world military spending...
Does that seem excessive, especially if it means we're going to cut spending on other equally important things like food for poor people, education for children, and protection for our environment?
2015, the latest year the world bank has an estimate on the Global World Product (i.e. the sum of all goods and services that the world produces) and how much of it was spent on military spending (all converted to nominal US dollars):
GWP (2015): *78.28* *trillion* *USD*
World spending as % of GWP: *2.269* *percent*
World military spending (2015): *1.776* *trillion* *USD*
Converting world military spending to billions of dollars: *1776* *billion* *USD*
US military spending in (2015):
DoD: *631.3* *billion* *USD*
VA: *158.5* *billion* *USD*
Foreign military aid: *14.1* *billion* *USD* (i.e. giving weapons or equipment as direct transfer)
Foreign economic aid: *34.4* *billion* *USD* (i.e. giving money the recipient nation will use to buy military weapons or equipment)
Total US military spending in 2015: *839.9* *billion* *USD*
Percentage of world military spending done by the US in 2015: *47.29* *percent!!!*
These numbers (percentage of world spending) are generally consistent from year-to-year.
And *half* isn't enough?
Really?
And to increase our military spending we're going to cut programs like the corporation for public broadcasting? The national endowment for the arts and humanities? The State Department and USAID? The Environmental Protection Agency? Everything but "Defense" spending and immigration and border control?
All so we can increase our over spending on the military?
In 2015 the US amounted to only *4.52* *percent* of the worlds population...
So why are we spending almost half of the worlds military spending?
Oh, and notice this is just federal military spending. Each of the states have spending obligations towards the National Guard that isn't captured in the federal budget. So we're probably well over half of the worlds spending for military purposes.
How much is enough?
When is this just some crazy form of paranoia, not a legitimate and reasonable concern about national defense?
Old customs, USA expected ww3 to be pretty much like this
Ussr kills Europe in less than a month
China kills its neighbors in less than a month
Us now has to protect 50% of the world without powerful militaries,
The problem they still behave like this even though the cold war has already ended a long ago
I seriously thought for a few hours that John actually showed the American public a zebra green screen for 30 minutes.
Weren't a lot of people saying the media was taking Trump literally but not seriously? Looks like his cabinet members take him literally....
Thank GOD that the zebra dancing wasn't today's Episode
Can someone please tell me 1 good thing Trump has done so far? Just 1?
Meep Ster enforced our immigration laws
YOUR A FUCKING RACIST!!!!!
Dont be silly, those laws dont make any sense
It was pointless to make those laws. Once a new recession hits the US, not even weasels will want to be in a bankrupt country.
You are not even a country, its just a bunch of oligarchs running the show. The USA is a joke.
Hans Mustermann and you're just ignorant harsher immigration is a good thing. We should be getting in people who are likely to succeed and not end up on government welfare or taking more low skill jobs that people already in America need. Y'all use racist so much it lost its meaning like the boy who cry wolf
10:02 "I never imagined the leopards would eat MY face after I voted for the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party!"
"In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society" Trump for Emperor 2020 LOL
I'm really not sure why President Trump's supporters are surprised, it was obvious he was going to govern this way...
I didn't think it would be responsible to let that happen and that's why I didn't vote for him.
I didn't much care for Secretary Clinton but the real choice we had of Clinton or Trump really did seem to have a "wrong answer" - and I suspect it's increasingly clear which candidate that was.
I get the sense that a lot of the people that did vote for President Trump did so because they thought it would upset the Clinton supporters; I saw this a lot during the campaign and shortly after the election: the idea that Trump supporters didn't feel "respected" enough and now maybe the "liberal snowflakes" or "cucks" or "libtards" (etc...) will "just get over it" because "they lost" and the Trump supporter's "won" - etc...
I really hope this experiment you all set in motion works out okay... But I'd like you to keep in mind you own the terrible outcomes that are inevitably going to happen. When those terrible things were only supposed to effect others you were okay with it, but now that it's going to begin effecting you too - that's when you'll find your outrage? I wonder if galling hypocrisy will be covered once the ACA is repealed?
Having our entrenched two party system, with one party now controlled by the most selfish and myopic electorate in modern history, has led us to this point. The only way out is to have informed voters make objective decisions about what's best for the country. And it requires a more understanding about how our government works than being able to recite talking points.
I don't intend this to be an insult, but it would be great if the people that voted for President Trump spent some time learning about how our government functions and what we collectively spend our tax money on before they make any more decisions about which elected official is best to run that government.
The bottom line is the average conservative supporter that voted for President Trump has been conned, in much the same way that progressive voters were conned when they voted for President Obama. In Obama's case they thought they had elected a change agent that would lead a progressive revival - didn't happen... But at least we got a moderate out of it... In Trump's case conservatives thought they would get someone that wasn't like all of the other Republicans, and then once he gets into office he surrounds himself with the exact people the conservative voters rejected... But I don't want to hear about Clinton or Obama - the slow motion car wreck we're about to spend four years having is entirely the responsibility of Trump's supporters...
Oh thank goodness it wasn't just the zebra dancing
Hold this L Trump
RealYoungIke that DOLE L
RealYoungIke America be graduating from the university of L soon 😂😂😂
Sadly, six years later, his followers still have not caught on
Yea John was usually spot on about his Trump predictions like he predicted what he would do leading up to the 2020 elections and that if he was winning early he would claim victory before the mail in votes were counted and then deny the results and refuse to concede. And that all of it could lead to something very dark. Which was spot on predictions for all of that. Yet the base he has right now will never catch on. So pathetic that a good chunk of this country would idolize any political figure to the same level as any dictator. But 10x more pathetic that it's Trump they idolize. They are so brain dead that literal facts no longer matter. Like the indictment for stealing top secret documents. His entire base somehow thing it's a Witch Hunt that The DEMS set him up. Like how can you be that dumb when we have countless pictures of the documents being kept by him. That you tapes of him showing people the documents and that plenty of the people testifying against him are from his inner circle. Yet somehow they think the Democrats who are a shit show when it comes to being organized and having a plan. Have somehow been able to be so organized and smart that they were able to steal an election. And then frame Trump for 3 different Indictments.
Oof “you really think we won’t have any armed conflicts under trump?!” That aged like milk.