“Things are going worse than you may know” should be the official slogan of this show.

@lptomtom

Жыл бұрын

Why do you post 10 different comments under the same video?

@TS-xn1mc

Жыл бұрын

@Iptomtom because I can? I’m allowed to express multiple thoughts just like you’re allowed to scroll past them if you don’t like what I’m saying.

@jimr9499

Жыл бұрын

That should also be the official slogan of my life. Lol

@TS-xn1mc

Жыл бұрын

@Jim R hard same.

@ktsargent9231

Жыл бұрын

For real

I work in refugee resettlement in the US and for the past year, I have worked exclusively with Afghans. What a year it has been. I was talking with one of my clients today, an 18--year old girl and she said "it was one year ago the taliban took over Kabul. It was a normal school day for us. I had a math test. I still don't know how I did on the test." I couldn't help but laugh because her humor was dark but she coped with it and her, along with the hundreds other I've been working with this year, are wonderful people. Thank you for highlighting Afghanistan.

@AFGHANIDEAL

Жыл бұрын

That's just the tip of the iceberg, we Afghans who managed to come to US are the lucky ones, compared to those still stuck there with an uncertain future. I do want to thank the assistance and help of Americans like you, we really really appreciate it. Thank you !!

@BigSnipp

Жыл бұрын

Did they mention how the male Afghans deserted their post and left you to die?

@michaelcobb8398

Жыл бұрын

That’s an incredible story. I hope something swings in good fortune for them soon, far fetched as it may be.

@stonecoldsteez

Жыл бұрын

Comedian in the making

@jsmith3798

Жыл бұрын

I’m not going to pretend I have any idea what life is like for them now, but it is just heartbreaking and infuriating at the same time to think about what women and girls are going through. The thought that girls who have grown up in the last decade or so were able to go to school and grow up in a world where deciding their future and making something of their lives according to the freedom to make their own choices was a possibility for them, that they could look at their future and decide what they wanted it to be, and achieving it was a possibility, and then basically overnight having that taken from them and seeing them oppressed once again.. It’s just too much. And none of us, anywhere, who are fortunate enough to have been born in a land where we are free to determine our own lives should be ok with it. I am grateful you exist, and for what you do. I think it’s incredible. It’s important and it matters. But I will never stop hoping and waiting for the day that the rest still suffering there, having watched all future possibilities dissolve for them, to be helped and have those future possibilities rightfully returned to every one of them.

I can't express enough my appreciation for John Oliver's and his staff's work.

@fwfulton

4 ай бұрын

Is it not wonderful that in this day and times a show that actually tries it educate and inform us about what is really going on in the World; is not only entertaining and enjoyable to watch, but a big hit.

Thank you so much for being the voice of the Afghan people. Things are going worse than you may know please DO NOT forget us!🙏🙏

@batmansavage9121

8 ай бұрын

We should help

@khaterasultani

8 ай бұрын

@@batmansavage9121 Exactly, thank you.

@fuzzyapplebong328

Ай бұрын

Are we the world police or the world plunderers

@Heathcoatman

Ай бұрын

@@batmansavage9121 Every time we do help we are vilified more. At some point this can only be solved by Afghans. You cant not want us there but also want our money. As long as thugs are in power, it's no win for everyone

As an Afghanistan citizen, I really appreciate your show and showing what is going on in my country. Thank you so much

@eerfdafsdafasdfasdfa65

Жыл бұрын

You can suppress the taliban, but as soon as you stop, they are back. Biden is right for once. Arabs love to talk about islam and it´s laws all day, so you can´t force western ideas of women´s rights or blabla upon them. They did that to the native americans and ended badly. Leave the afghani people alone. They love islamic extremist, so that´s what they get. John is soros puppet anyway.

@erichancock6815

Жыл бұрын

if only the army we spent two decades building there didn't crumble in days. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink..or fight to sustain it's freedoms.

@adinitum4168

Жыл бұрын

@@erichancock6815 If only your government didn't sell out the Afghan people to the Taliban during the Doha Agreements (2020), the people there might've had a chance to build a proper country!

@alumpyhorse

Жыл бұрын

💙

@makshay

Жыл бұрын

R u still in Afghanistan?? Or you living somewhere else now.

“Yell what hurts into this bag, then leave” sounds a lot like the American healthcare system tbh… except you then get charged over $1000

@googiegress7459

Жыл бұрын

$2000 if the Yell Bag was in the same building as an MRI machine.

@jamessanders145

Жыл бұрын

Nah, you'd get charged 300 dollars for the right to scream into the bag.

@scottLEEthatsME

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@Woad25

Жыл бұрын

Oh look at Mr. Fancypants over here who has a bag that's in his network..

@HisameArtwork

Жыл бұрын

@@Woad25 ikr. I'm in Romania and we lived 5 years in USA. Took us about a moth for doctors tell my husband he ripped a knee tendon, meanwhile he walked around with a ripped ligament heavily sedated to get all the approval papers from romanian insurers. but it did not cost us thousands of $ like it would have in US. also he had to have some tooth implants and they are 1/3 or 1/5 o US prices. salaries are lower here as well, but as an immigrant in US we made less than 1/2 of citizens so our quality of life in US was not much better.

"I look like a Pokemon whose final evolution is a graphing calculator" this is now one of my all-time favorite LWT jokes. Absolutely brilliant.

I always, always learn something important, at least a few strategic facts if not a game-changer, when I watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Thanks for what you folks do! It's important.

No salaries for critical workers is definitely a really bad sign - you'll lose a whole generation of skilled workers as they turn to whatever jobs are available with no guarantee of the old infrastructure coming back. Even worse is the disillusionment that comes from that - basically a guarantee for more radicalization.

@MartiniPinball

Жыл бұрын

At the same time is the US not supposed to cut of the taliban from those funds, this show sometimes makes valid points but overlooks the reality

@perteadsf4914

Жыл бұрын

@@MartiniPinball I believe that anything that harms many innocent people should never be done without a well calculated plan in mind, which the US clearly does not have.

@OWENROTHLERNER

Жыл бұрын

They were unwilling to defend their own country. Fuck em. They develop their own Taliban against their Taliban fat cats or they die.

@aluisious

Жыл бұрын

How could it get more radicalized?

@aluisious

Жыл бұрын

@@perteadsf4914 There is a plan. "The Taliban won't do what our corporations tell them, so we are going to cut Afghans off and let them whither because they just don't matter anymore."

As an Afghan, I really appreciate John and his team for bringing up this topic yet again! Thank you ❤

@camelopardalis84

Жыл бұрын

How do you feel about his US soldier wife?

@mattroyal363

Жыл бұрын

LMAO you deserve the Taliban

@ivanmunoz4484

Жыл бұрын

I don't I think it's nice gesture but if they won't stand up to the talibán were just feeding the new generation of talibán fighters

@politehammer9714

Жыл бұрын

W🤯W! Afghanistan people who played both sides of To destabilizing their own country are able to cash 💸 💰 out here in americaKKK on the backs of u.s. taxpayers!

@ochomunna270

Жыл бұрын

I think the solution to Afghanistan's problem should come from within. The U.S poured hundreds of Billions into the country and made no significant difference. Can't be asking countries in recession for further Billions now. If ya'll don't handle it yourselves, then no one can. Heaven helps those who help themselves!

This is too heartbreaking for us to actually comprehend what's happening to this people.

That baby. 😭 Just the whole scene. The whole situation. We still need to work to get people who helped Aotearoa New Zealand out. We have let them down so hugely. And it's heart breaking.

@sdm1568

2 ай бұрын

Way to go, new Zealand! You guys suck!

I just wanna say that man who sold his kidney to feed his daughter's is an incredible father. im honestly speechless...

@DK-zu6tt

Жыл бұрын

It's appalling they pay for bodily organs. This is how an industry of "organ harvesting" against people's will or knowledge begins. That's why you can donate a kidney in the US, but you cannot legally sell one.

@SykotikShadow

Жыл бұрын

Watch her need a kidney transplant and her father was an exact match. Bum bum buuuuummmmmm

@vectoralphaAI

Жыл бұрын

Same to the mom who had to sell her daughter to feed her other children. Props to her. It must have been hard. Her kid is probably a sex slave as I type this comment but it had to be done to feed the other kids. Mad respect to her.

@heartofShinRa

Жыл бұрын

As a father it's not even a question of doing it or not. You just do it, whatever your child needs. I'm heartbroken over the pain and suffering so many children and their parents are faced with on a daily basis. Fuck.

@Mike-zf4xg

Жыл бұрын

I'd stab myself 50 times for my daughter to come back.

My company was subcontracted last year to give aid to Afghan refugees. Let me tell you that this was human suffering unlike anything I've seen in my lifetime. I'm a grown ass man and i still tear up when I think about the absolute horror stories that were shared with us. On a brighter note, i showed the afghans respect and they gave it back ten fold. Absolutely amazing people. And if you're not acquainted with Afghanistan's history and culture i highly recommend the reading. Absolutely fascinating.

@onkelpappkov2666

Жыл бұрын

I know it's not the right place for jokes but I love reading this as "I'm a grown ass-man."

@andrewdonnelly4597

Жыл бұрын

@@onkelpappkov2666 😂😂

@artemisqueen2

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for you wonderful words about the people of Afghanistan. I live in North America and it has been gut wrenching for me to see what has happened in the last few years not to mention the past 40 years to my country and people. I was born in Afghanistan when Russians invaded, things have been tough for a long time but things are extremely dire right now. People are starving, they can’t get care, it’s horrible.

@andrewdonnelly4597

Жыл бұрын

@@artemisqueen2 i feel so bad for those still trapped under Taliban rule. I have a friend who's whole family is still there.

@artemisqueen2

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, i hear you. I have family there. Aside from the concern about the future of girls and women, i am very worried about people and kids starving. Its been very hard for me to watch.

God bless you, John Oliver, for covering this. My heart breaks for them while I uselessly sit in my NYC apartment and fill my belly. May God guide us all to be just in our actions, including in our spending.

“Food, but no money to buy it with” So the Irish famine then. Or the Bengali famine. Or basically every other famine of colonial occupation.

@samprada9298

Жыл бұрын

And then you have Venezuela, "money" but no food

@jamesjackovich5886

Жыл бұрын

The country produces over 75 percent of the world's heroin maybe they should grow food instead of poppies

@arrowslinger2460

Жыл бұрын

what do you mean colonial occupation? there was no wealth being extracted from the country - resources were being brought in by the Americans and westerners. On the contrary the American occupation was part of a state building mission intended to bring stability to the region. The Afghan people themselves displayed a lack of interest in being democratic or a partner to the west and their government fell apart in mere days after the Americans left. They were happy to take our money and were dishonest in their intentions with it. Popular support was clearly with the talibs... I believe aid should be provided because fundamentally 'haves' should always help 'aggression

@bobsmith6489

Жыл бұрын

@@arrowslinger2460 you are so stupid it's actually unbelievable. Did you actually listen to the facts mentioned in this video? The united states did not attack afghanistan and take over the country by force in order to help the people. that is a laughable joke.

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like we have learned nothing

My "favorite" thing was they interviewed a Taliban member about education of girls. He contradicted that girls are allowed to continue their studies, only they're required to attend a designated schools. Then he was asked, how many of those schools there are. His answer probably won't surprise anyone: They didn't designate them yet.

@kitcoffey7194

Жыл бұрын

could you really expect anything different from a deeply misogynistic culture? they don't want to change and instead of spending billions of dollars over there we should fix our own culture and society and infrastructure

@chillphil967

Жыл бұрын

Where was this in the video? I must've missed it.

@JustinPogue

Жыл бұрын

It's not a sibling of, but is definitely a first-cousin to, the statement "Overturning Roe doesn't mean your state will outlaw ALL abortions! What nonsense! It just rightly returns that decision to your state!*" (*Which if this conversation is being had near you, you can bet your state is definitely going to try and ban all abortion) Their deeply misogynist culture wears it like clothes. Our deeply misogynist culture wears it like a tattoo and covers it with a cheap suit.

@interstellarradio

Жыл бұрын

@@kitcoffey7194 Look, I don't want to start an argument but... Are the taliban then only ones with "culture" over there? I'm pretty sure the women who have been forced out of jobs, education and any freedom they had, do not want to be a part of this misogynistic culture, and I'd be willing to bet a good amount of men would agree with them. I understand the instinct of washing ones hands and walking away from problems "over there", but many of the problems over there stem from actions of US. And even if they didn't, we are talking about people here. Everyone gets one life, and dooming thousands of lives as "not your problem" is just heartless.

@mikiqex

Жыл бұрын

@@chillphil967 It wasn't in this video, it was some interview I saw god knows where and when. My bet would be CNN in the first week of Taliban's new reign.

I never miss "depressing story hour" with Giles the limey toucan.

@samuela-aegisdottir

Жыл бұрын

I never miss "I just wanted to see a comedy show and now I am sad with Johny Joy-killer"

@Glasstable2011

Жыл бұрын

I never miss “I came here for a giggle and left crushed by the horrors of humanity” with Dr Xenon Bloom

Great, great piece, John. Brilliant summing up of this horrifying, heartbreaking and heinous situation. Thank you.

13:49 you can hear the sound of tears accumulating in John’s eyes.

"This is a grim topic, but it's also an important one" - John Oliver, every week

@bzuidgeest

Жыл бұрын

And anyways true

@TySama0

Жыл бұрын

It's the state of the world.

@CaptianTwug

Жыл бұрын

I think the fact that he actually had to say it out loud this time is very telling.

@rohitkhanna

Жыл бұрын

Are you being sarcastic ? That's what John does.... bring up important yet troubling topics. So what's your point ?

I know Last Week Tonight won't read it, but for us Europeans, this video coming out JUST in time for Monday morning 9 AM starters, this serves as a GREAT start to the week, while sifiting emails and enjoying that cuppa of coffee and prepping meetings. I have it running on a 2nd screen and just pause it when I need to focus hard or talk. Thanks again for this wonderful release time here in European time zones.

@tessiepinkman

Жыл бұрын

I agree, sitting here in Norway drinking my morning cup of tea. It's a perfect start!

@JerjerB

Жыл бұрын

This comment! Perfect! My Mondays start with this show!

@nanucit

Жыл бұрын

Yepp, the depressed toucan is the best way to start my Spanish work week.

@michaelschmidt432

Жыл бұрын

You want a cookie you dreamer - greetings from Switzerland

@angryvoices177

Жыл бұрын

trully , greatings from greece

Rewatching this I forgot about the rat Hitler joke and I choked on my drink lol

@HOTD108_

Жыл бұрын

It's so nice to see Rat Hitler bringing so mu much joy to the world.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

Жыл бұрын

@@HOTD108_ Sind nicht Amerika und die westlichen Barbaren, laut den Römern, die Bösen?

Thank you John and all those who have a heart to care for humanity ❤

I'm glad that the show is doing follow-ups of the crisis in Afghanistan, to remind people that the problems do not end just because we turn away from it. Also, I am glad I am not the only one upset about the Baby-Sitters Club being cancelled. I loved that adaptation and the heart that went into making the show.

@veramae4098

Жыл бұрын

From the minute President Trump announced our withdrawal, I thought this was going to be a disaster ... for the Taliban. The world will see who they really are, how cruel, senseless, unreliable, unrealistic, incapable of running a country.

@carterfrvr

Жыл бұрын

@@veramae4098 But at what cost?

@theextraordinarypants4909

Жыл бұрын

The way Netflix pays for the production of exclusive shows leads to high cancellation or cessation rates of even popular and good shows after one or 2 seasons. They pay a small amount for the first season, slightly larger for season 2, then it balloons for a season 3 and beyond. Since they produce an entire season at once, and keep such strict metrics of viewership, they know when a show does well, but cancel it anyway to fund a lot of cheaper garbage or seasons 1/2 of other shows (filler for the platform). It's a pretty indefensible position by their leadership considering their revenue and profits. Netflix may have been the original leader in the streaming industry, but they threw it away. I'm well aware what the greedy corporate monopolies that own a lot of classics did by denying intellectual property to Netflix and also disapprove: everyone was making money with streaming services as distributors and customers were happy. Now it's nickel and diming unhappy customers and a real creativity drain with the endless churn of 98% bingable garbage. I would never pitch a show to Netflix. Or Fox. Surprised Spielberg signed on to do ten movies.

@cottoncandy7122

Жыл бұрын

It would be great if the US government would work on their own government, homelessness and poverty in their own country vs meddling with other countries problems and leaving it in a mess they cannot culturally or religiously understand. Stop the financial criminals who sit behind a laptop at home first.

@n8zog584

Жыл бұрын

I am glad that they are looking back at afghanistan, but I wish they had covered it when it happened. Also, I really wish they would cover the crisis in Ukraine

So glad you brought up what the US is doing in Eastern Congo. Y'all really should do a segment on that sometime soon

@richardspillers6282

Жыл бұрын

a few years from now we'll find out we found a reason to train and arm a new enemy.

@brendonaldson8056

Жыл бұрын

Americans refuse to talk about how fucking evil we have become. But we love pointing fingers as we drone strike everyone and anyone

@JaysSavvy

Жыл бұрын

How about what the US is doing to the US? 500k jobs. 1.5 million new people. It's not sustainable.

@brendonaldson8056

Жыл бұрын

@@JaysSavvy what new people? I see No masses of people moving in. Turn off Fox News

@johnydmarsh9435

Жыл бұрын

@@JaysSavvy it's the dam republicans

Wow that was so powerful. John you are giving voice to the... I was going to say voiceless / unrepresented but it's even worst than that... The misrepresented. Amazing, you and team should be proud of yourselves to cover so much of these important topics

JOHN OLIVER FOR PRESIDENT!!!

@tamarbeker1701

Жыл бұрын

YES PLEASE

@marianjones8358

Ай бұрын

I would be down for that! But, I would not want John to be at risk of sacrificing the admirable moral fiber he has displayed. Being a politician seems to be inherently corrupting. And even if he did make it I can see congress blocking him at every turn. Maybe if he could keep some good advisors around him and stay grounded. I would be more optimistic of his impact if congressional terms shortened to at least 10 yrs and same with Supreme Court judges.

I found it extremely insulting to compare Trump intelligence to the intelligence of a Crow. It is well known that Crows exhibit extraordinary intelligence. The Crow community deserve an apology from John Oliver.

@vice.nor.virtue

Жыл бұрын

Hear! Hear!

@shasmi93

Жыл бұрын

I think if we put trump and crows through similar obstacles and tests you would see how correct this statement really is…. Crows BLOW my mind with what they are capable of…. The latter. Not so much.

@crazykhespar8487

Жыл бұрын

On the contrary, Trumps decisions also blow my mind. With his amazing, bigly stupidity.

@colmbrady6614

Жыл бұрын

How come Biden isn’t made fun of in the same way?, he’s literally brain dead

@karanaher5030

Жыл бұрын

Incorrect. It would take crows millions of years to evolve to the level where their intelligence could match Trump's. This is sarcasm. I thought y'all would get it.

I just want to say I know that there's a lot of shake up's going on at HBO MAX and there canceling alot of shows 📺 right now but I hope this show keeps going on for many years because nobody else is talking about the things he's talking about God Bless him

@drunkpaulocosta9301

Жыл бұрын

And as an Air-Bud fan i also appreciate the hard work John and his team did exposing the horrible treatment of Norman Snively at the hands of the Fernfield Police Department. #FreeNormSnively

@lunchtreyy

Жыл бұрын

He brings in many many MANY viewers, I think he's fine

@Theelby33

Жыл бұрын

I feel this show has lost its form for a while now and I think it's on its last season or 2

@kalen1702

Жыл бұрын

@@Theelby33 Seems about as funny, informative, and interesting as all the previous seasons. That's just me, I'm not sure of the viewership. Sure, the quality suffered due to covid, but I feel that it's in full form now.

@rustyshackleford6035

Жыл бұрын

@@kalen1702 Me too but I'm still in shock 😲 over Trevor Noah leaving Comedy Central I didn't know that his ratings were bad 😞 maybe 🤔 he can do show on Hulu or Netflix seems like more fellow Democrats are doing streaming now

97% that just blows my mind, and breaks my heart

This episode was filled with regrettable laughs and smiles. I wish I had the power to help

I'm Vietnamese and to be honest, not even surprised that U.S-backed Afghan government fell so it quickly when it happened. It's like watching the Fall of Saigon all over again...

@bitstreamintercept7272

Жыл бұрын

america fails to learn from its mistakes and we all pay the price, and i say that as an american.

@aurynvrvilo6683

Жыл бұрын

Anyone paying attention even a little wasn't surprised at what happened. We were there incompetently for 20 years. Getting out was never going to go smoothly, and could have gone much worse. Sadly, this is another Astro-Turf segment.

@richardm5448

Жыл бұрын

@@bitstreamintercept7272 "learn from" is way too much credit, that should really just be changed to "makes" cause we don't learn shit (we being the government and the people that vote these idiots and incompetent assholes in)

@freetolook3727

Жыл бұрын

History: More people should read it.

@IvanSN

Жыл бұрын

Only difference is that the communist Vietnamese were good while the Taliban suck almost more than the US.

John's team should have dug a little further into the amusement park bit. The Taliban burned it down after they were done using it for their own enjoyment. There were several video clips on it. It would have been a great metaphor for them being happy they took over the country only to watch it collapse under their rule.

@maudbrewster9413

Жыл бұрын

I’m speechless. That is what I meant with egoistical children of the war, they don’t look or behave like adult men in my eyes. I was watching so many interviews with them but the impression remained.

@commenter4898

Жыл бұрын

It's sort of expected from rural illiterates who's spent most of their life fighting an insurgency. Their brain have been tuned to survival mode for so long that they no longer comprehend fairness, compassion, long term planning, etc.

Oh man this was a particularly tuff one to watch! I love how John is still up there cracking jokes, I need to take a page from his book on keeping it light!

I love how John says “we” even though he grew up in Britain. Glad he feels welcome

@Lord_Foxy13

Жыл бұрын

He's a UK-US Dual citizen,

I have friends who were training the Afghan army. They were already talking of extreme corruption, entire nonexistent units whose salaries were pocketed by high ranking officials, equipment theft, infiltration by Taliban, being fired at by the soldiers they were training. And NATO high ranking officers refusing to hear the truth.

@mikemorenilla7444

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a shitty place full of awful people.

@Seth9809

Жыл бұрын

A lot of that sounds like the same problems that are in Russia. Iraq is certainly in a better place than Afghanistan.

@galenibble

Жыл бұрын

@@Seth9809 «A lot of that sounds like the same problems that are in Russia» This.

@benbattiste1041

Жыл бұрын

I did a year over there training the Afghan army, and that was the exact problem. The only thing that seemed to help was our very presence. It seemed as though there was no hope of training a military and standing up a legitimate government.

@codacreator6162

Жыл бұрын

Can’t teach morality in a few weeks. Corruption, get all I can as fast as possible, then bail, is the American way. Why would a regime we created be any different?

From a purely military viewpoint, the result in Afghanistan was kind of as bad as it gets. Too much achieved to leave, too much screwed up to stay. It's a refrain you can hear from many who served there - that they felt like going back there, do something, save what was built, and at the same time, knowing that it was senseless at this point.

@cosmojenkins3020

Жыл бұрын

2.4 million Iraqi people were killed in the illegal Iraq invasion, and millions more combining Afghanistan with all the others and the sanctions and destruction of hospitals and cities, etc. It was genocidal. Especially when the government got support after making it about killing “Muslims” because Muslims are “evil terrorists and a threat to white western Christianity and morality” and whatever they meant by “democracy.” The USA shouldnt have ever been there. It ruined those nations for decades and decades to come because all America knows is destruction, and it has no idea how to build and mend.

@Dranzerk8908

Жыл бұрын

Then they are just brainwashed into going in the first place. The idea that you think firstly as "purely a military viewpoint" shows the wrong kind of thinking in the first place. lol

@RaveYoda

Жыл бұрын

"Too much achieved to leave, too much screwed up to stay." Just so true. But, the Afghans gave up in 15 days to the Taliban. The Russian's vichy government held out longer than ours did by 3 years.

@mightymystery9204

Жыл бұрын

@@RaveYoda But the schemer in chief at the time, who had four years to produce a gradual withdrawal, got terrorists released, negotiated only with the Taliban and not the central government, and pretty much guaranteed a disaster, just to sabotage the incoming President, one of the last poison pills of an ousted mogul who has lost what he got through hostile takeover. This is straight out of the late-nineties profiteering playbook.

@LordElfa

Жыл бұрын

We were unwilling to do what we needed to do to defeat the Taliban because we aren't cartoon villian evil and that's what it would have taken.

“Feel badly” is acceptable in spoken English, and arguably in formal written English as well. You can “feel bad” and “feel badly,” just like you can “feel good” and “feel well.” Now, granted, “feel badly” (much like “feel poorly”) mostly has connotations of _physical_ discomfort rather than emotional, but its use in English is acceptable-even in the context of emotional feelings

So much respect to Oliver for talking about this

"Doing nothing" isn't "A swing and a miss." It's "Watching a strike go by."

@cam4636

Жыл бұрын

This was more like swinging, hitting a bunch of innocent bystanders in the skull, and still missing the ball

I've known the lady that sells ice cream around my neighborhood for years. She's from Afghanistan and still has family there. My mom and I always try to give her extra money to send to her family there. At first she refused, but when we told her that it was specifically for her family she took it and broke down into tears. She said it's really bad there and if it wasn't for her, her family would probably starve. It's really sad. But I'm glad to help and at least I know where the money is going and not to some organization that uses the money to send you a bunch of crap in the mail to get you to send more.

@patternrecon5271

Жыл бұрын

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@EricLinstone

Жыл бұрын

@@Venom-uw4nv Thanks. I wrote it late at night and I was going to say "The ice cream lady I've known for years" But decided to change it at the last minute.

@Monie71793

Жыл бұрын

👏🏽👏🏽🥰

@MarcillaSmith

Жыл бұрын

Sounds as if you're doing more good than Mr. Oliver, who, I must point out, essentially said the root problem is that Afghanistan can't print its own currency, didn't bother to explain how that is, convinced us that we have to invest in persistent infrastructure rather than short term bandaids, and didn't include currency infrastructure. I mean, I'm not saying the State Department just dropped off a script...

@nfrl-hs2ly

Жыл бұрын

@@MarcillaSmith The response of the International Community to the Afghan situation reminds me of the response of the epidemiological community to First covid-19 and now monkey pox. Self-inflicted wounds everywhere.

Thank you guys so much!

Except under rare conditions, people don't starve because there's no food- they starve because they can't afford the food there is

When even John Oliver goes "and I will admit, this is a grim topic" maybe this shouldn't be in my morning routine

"The math doesn't work" line described the situation perfectly. Also the woman saying "your sanctions will kill us faster than the Taliban restrictions"

@maudbrewster9413

Жыл бұрын

I still side with the decision of giving as little funding as possible and only under certain conditions like girls education and that it goes into healthcare too. But there is no coherent government in Afghanistan so how to even do that? It’s cruel to withhold funding but if everything would stay kind of the same apart from women’s rights being cut off more men will believe that the Taliban is actually not that bad after all. There were no real fights against them and that means that in heart people are somewhat comfortable with the idea of their ruling if it means peace. Very understandable but it comes with a very high price for all future generations and more suffering overall. The Taliban men are not real adults there are the egoistical children of war and will remain in that state because in their eyes they have fulfilled their deeds and expect now the reward. They are not educated people either. A retreat by the US was maybe necessary but the speed at which it was done was utterly irresponsible and the terrorism will not stop regardless. The Taliban needs a common enemy to justify their existence. I hope I’m wrong though.

@bobbyboy1797

Жыл бұрын

When Russia invaded Ukraine we shouldn't have put sanctions on them?

@miroslavhoudek7085

Жыл бұрын

This is the obviously the point of those conservative politicians, not some kind of mistake that you can correct by a proper analogy or clever quip. If Afghans are dead, they can't be a threat, or continue to be Muslims (which is the same thing in republican/democrat right-wing heads). Especially a child that is dead will not grow into a terrorist or into a Muslim. Can't argue with that. If you think about it, American, Russian, Chinese, Israeli or other conservative politicians always chose this approach and it's working. So why are people expecting any change?

@gho5trun3r68

Жыл бұрын

And yet people always want to go with embargoes, sanctions, or blockades over a lot of other measures. This is somehow seen as a compromise to be tough, but not as aggressive as something like war. It's a tough balance to make and I don't envy anyone whose job it is to weigh these decisions between an evil government or the fate of millions of lives.

@kushastea3961

Жыл бұрын

@@miroslavhoudek7085 lmfao look at Americans trying to slander other countries. own your own genocides and global military f*ck ups ok? china hasn't been in war for decades and the prc isn't even a century old.

When I lived in a very small t own in the middle of nowhere, there was a cash shortage too. We had a simple solution: Barter and social credit. Items like food can be traded for other items or services. If you don't have anything right now, agree how much of a debt is owed, and pay back later. Even our utilities were firewood, and well access, so we bartered that too. It wasn't a problem (except at tax time, or when you wanted to travel to a bigger town that expected cash).

@correctionguy7632

Жыл бұрын

There was a somewhat similar situation in Ireland in the 1970s. There were strikes leading to banks being closed for over half a year and they paid using cheques. Once they ran out of official cheques they made their own ones out of any paper or cigarette cartons and slapped on postage stamps to "legitimize" them. There was ofcourse the risk that a cheques wouldnt clear, so businesses (like bars) had to rely a lot on trust and relations with their customers.

@Shinkajo

Жыл бұрын

We had the same thing in the Soviet Union. People had money, but often there wasn't anything to buy with it. Vodka was the best currency you could have, as every adult got an allotment, which for many wasn't enough. Not drinking had it's perks.

Thank you Marion.

"And the world's richest man is a ventriloquist dummy from hell." - I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

@LoveAvalanche

Жыл бұрын

absolutely a highlight

@retroquest3579

Жыл бұрын

Hmm. Thought Bezos was the richest man on earth? Did Musk pass him?

@leadpaintchips9461

Жыл бұрын

@@retroquest3579 Even if he didn't, that statement rings true.

@thatjillgirl

Жыл бұрын

@@retroquest3579 Yes, Musk passed him, but their net worth is very much tied up in how much their companies are currently valued at. Many think Tesla is overvalued.

This is not how I thought I would find out the babysitters club was canceled and I am devastated atop the clusterfuck that is the US actions with Afghanistan

@charlottewheeler8393

Жыл бұрын

Its been my favorite show since I found it. Ive watched it so many time and showed so many other full grown adults and they all loved it. Wanting to see the babysitters club is why I kept a Netflix subscription

You know I see the Afghan withdrawal to that of the Bay of Pigs. The President (Biden and Kennedy) had to finish what the previous administration (Eisenhower and Trump) started, and they had to take the blame for how badly it went.

By the end of the clip I am in tears

I love how he’s always funny while still being informative, sensitive, and fair. It never feels like he’s making light of a serious issue or mocking those in need.

@fenseti3793

Жыл бұрын

I barely laugh watching john oliver, i found trevor noah is way more witty

@skechij5856

Жыл бұрын

More often than not it feels like he’s helping the audience come up for air before the next dive into the shit. I love that it lands pretty much every time but fuck me, things look grim.

@TS-xn1mc

Жыл бұрын

@Fen Seti ok? It’s so weird to me when people comment under other people’s comments just to say they don’t agree with them lmao.

@bongoblast9831

Жыл бұрын

@@TS-xn1mc you think it's weird when people express their opinion that's related to your opinion?

@TS-xn1mc

Жыл бұрын

@Bongo Blast if you said “I love hamburgers” and a random stranger came up to you just to tell you they don’t like hamburgers and they prefer hot dogs you would think it’s weird too because You weren’t talking to them to begin with and you weren’t looking to engage in a conversation.

"A mind-blowing fck up that will take years to fully comprehend." -- describes so many events these days.

@murlocmaster6192

Жыл бұрын

not for me, i know exactly where we go wrong every time. Honestly its not hard to make good choices.

@phillyphilly1076

Жыл бұрын

@@murlocmaster6192 right? It’s almost like it’s on purpose?

@10:10; Amazing delivery: no notes.

Thank you for keeping the focus on Afghanistan John Oliver. This is absolutely horrific.

I'd recommend everyone go watch the documentary "This is What Winning Looks Like". Released in 2013, it manages to spell out exactly why the US was always doomed to fail in Afghanistan.

@232pk

Жыл бұрын

Everyone knew. We were keeping a corps on life support.

@dannydandaniel8040

Жыл бұрын

On the nose with this recommendation

@sailaab

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm

@hatinacat4328

Жыл бұрын

Lololol. Just watched it today somehow. Funny timing

@1995abv

Жыл бұрын

The general saying they had the wrong info is a joke and after watching that documentary

I was not expecting to be up at 2:30 in the morning and see John Oliver talking about Afghanistan

@phillipreed1325

Жыл бұрын

5

@amandadadesky5192

Жыл бұрын

Same, Al. Same.

@freshgarbage1492

Жыл бұрын

Same, but its 3:30 and I'm eating graham crackers.

@yourmomsaccount69

Жыл бұрын

Bro it's 3:42 am. I'm here doing dabs and eating cereal. 🤣😂💙

@bushka087

Жыл бұрын

I also have the Cheerios munchies, but you're all wrong, it's only 1:38 am

Thanks John Oliver for this video. The people of the US need to know that Afghans need help and the US is responsible in one way or another.

that Matt Damon joke was amazing.

I cant help but wonder what happened to some of the afghans that I served beside back in 2010 and 2012. Not just the ANA guys we trained and who fought alongside of us, but the terps who risked their lives (and their family's lives) to help us. The visa program was/is an absolute mess, a bureaucratic nightmare of a process. I'm sure they didn't all get out beforehand. One of our biggest fuck ups, in my opinion, was the fact that we left a bunch of our HIDE (biometric scanners) devices behind, giving Taliban access to the private info of pretty much EVERY single Afghan citizen who assisted ISAF and American forces in the last 2 decades. There is a 100% chance the Taliban have used that information to punish these people, if not kill them. It breaks my heart.

@MarceloRamos-uk8cd

Жыл бұрын

Why do they let the scanners?

@HokiePitcher22

Жыл бұрын

@@MarceloRamos-uk8cd well we left those scanners for the ANA to continue using bc it had useful intelligence on not just the Taliban and AL Qaeda database but also those who worked alongside us...from terps...to informants...to the people that simply worked on base in clerical duties. But when the ANA fled the Taliban they left behind hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth American gear that we gave them...that's just one of the crucial things the left for the taliban...they encrypted but I imagine it wouldn't take the Taliban long to decrypt...possibly with the help of other nations hostile to the US.

@testaccount5159

9 ай бұрын

Oh, my god. That is AWFUL. Wow….

The laughter in the background did a good job of keeping me from slipping into complete despair, so thanks for that.

@bradleysmith292

Жыл бұрын

It was infectious lol

@thewildcardperson

Жыл бұрын

you know it's fake

@TheHylianBatman

Жыл бұрын

@@thewildcardperson Eh, sure, whatever. It's still part of the video.

When even fellow Tailiban members are speaking out against the violation against women's rights, like. Holy shit.

Good take

It's too bad John didn't mention that right after the Taliban rode those bumper cars, they burned the entire thing to the ground.

@edwardsnowden8821

Жыл бұрын

Stay away from radical Islam

@RobinaB530

Жыл бұрын

@clyde_1 I didn't.

@annarae2396

Жыл бұрын

Did they really?

@mkvenner2

Жыл бұрын

I’m not surprised

@JuMiKu

Жыл бұрын

@@annarae2396 They did. Disgusting.

Using a Zoo to portray how everyone can live free in the own country is so absurd

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

It can be absurd because you can't do shit about whatever nonsense he is using to justify Murican imperialism

@amberkat8147

Жыл бұрын

Especially when it's only a bunch of men who are allowed to go.

@fumarc4501

Жыл бұрын

The irony was not lost on me.

@theBear89451

Жыл бұрын

From the perspective that freedom is morally good, we can see the irony, but from the perspective that freedom is evil, there is no hypocrisy.

@cat_city2009

Жыл бұрын

"freely" Haha are you serious?

Having written and edited thousands of pages in my life, I thrilled John used linking verb.

After the video of that guy selling his kidney to feed his daughters, laughing at john's jokes became impossible for me

As a veteran of the Afghanistan conflict I can assure you that aid doesn't reach the poor you are trying to help. $$ always goes to those who control the area. Also, I built a hospital and trained the staff. The morning we left, the Taliban bombed everyone there.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

Жыл бұрын

Well shit...

@hawkeye5955

Жыл бұрын

I remember reading a report stating the money mostly went to Afghan government officials instead. It wasn't surprising that government fell when US forces left because they were heavily reliant on those forces and were unable sustain their own security. What was shocking was how fast the government collapsed.

@tori2dles

Жыл бұрын

*doesn’t ALWAYS reach Often it does. You just have to have oversight and effective partnerships with trustworthy people. Not always easy, but it is do-able. I worked there, too, with a few NGOs. Were you at Bagram & when?

@gemelwalters2942

Жыл бұрын

It's almost impossible for the Taliban to not benefit when they are the ruling government. There is no easy solution and I don't know what the answer is but I understand the hesitation because you don't want them using that money to commit more terror and then we'll be here talking about how we funded all these bad things that are happening.

@chessenthusiast

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I guess that absolves the US of moral culpability then?

Was a student in a diplomacy Masters for three months last year and became so disheartened about the apathy surrounding me when it came to see U.S. positions on various human atrocities around the globe and how diplomacy didn't seem to solve anything that I left (there were other logistical reasons to but that was a factor as well); I'd watched the mental health and monkeypox videos posted from two weeks and last week but wasn't so sure if I liked this show enough to keep watching. To see the fervor that John has in resolving issues - as incremental as it may be to fully solving them - has made me a fan for life of his show. So long as you keep posting, I'll keep watching! Take care until next week, John and the HBO staff

@smtv6295

Жыл бұрын

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@sean5534

Жыл бұрын

Go back and watch some of the older stuff too. Some are more time specific like corona virus or certain elections. Many are important information that is worth being talked about like lethal injection, prison systems, and such.

Difference between Crows and Trump is that Crows are smart

John is hilarious with logic, bravo mate

"They don't like dogs" is actually a really good way to dehumanize a group of people

@robgriffin4801

Жыл бұрын

Dogs don't like dogs either

@Hermititis

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that felt intentional.

@mkucstars1

Жыл бұрын

I'd say they dehumanized themselves.

@firstlast8258

Жыл бұрын

Trump is not a dog owner either

@LennyNero2019

Жыл бұрын

They stone cats too. I've lived in those 'stan' countries. I truly don't care if the whole 38 million die.

I just want to thank the whole Last Week Tonight Team for keeping an eye on the whole afghanistan situation, because everyone is currently talking about ukraine. Sadly there are multiple conflicts worldwide and we should not forget every other conflict while focusing on one. Love your work. Keep it up!

@firstmkb

Жыл бұрын

ADOS - Attention Deficit… Ooh, Shiny!

@spacemanx9595

Жыл бұрын

Because Russia pushing in Ukraine causes more global instability and food shortages via grain than Afghanistan which is just suffering under their own Taliban rule. Apples and grapes my dude

@ivancorey7389

Жыл бұрын

Is Afghanistan really a conflict anymore? I would say not.. People are willing to forget about Afghanistan because we spent 20 years and far too many lives in the hopes that their people would embrace a functioning democracy. They didn’t. It’s much easier to have sympathy for Ukraine, as it’s population has the will to fight.

@asksalottle220

Жыл бұрын

@@ivancorey7389 hard to do when we also set up shit leader and then train the locals to overthrow it rinse and repeat for 30+ years

@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

Жыл бұрын

@@asksalottle220 At the end of the day, the Afghan fighters were 5 times the size of the Taliban and had the best US weaponry in the world, but they literally laid down their arms and didn't fire a single shot against Afghanistan in defense of their country. In fact, we learned afterward that they were always secretly loyal to the Taliban, so no matter how long we stayed, when we left they were just going to let the Taliban in.

The clip of the henchmen riding a bumper kart with a smile on his face.

It's only as good as the integrity of information

I like how these geniuses think. "No man shall treat women in hospitals" Okay... "Also, no girl shall go to school anymore" Umm, wait, doesn't that mean there won't be female doctors anymore? Stellar reasoning there, Captain Tally! What we should be arguing about is how the taliban is forcing all it's women to become doctors and nurses and midwives. There aren't a lot of movie villain plots worse than this

@Rikku147

Жыл бұрын

This is how female and maternal mortality rates skyrocket and the country goes into fucking crisis because half their population is dying at catastrophic rates. Idiots.

@bagallah

Жыл бұрын

Neat way to divert the subject. They'd starve before we begin to argue about that. You watched the entire video and learned nothing. "Education is meaningless when you're dying of hunger". Cutting aids would kill them faster than the taliban will.

@jamesmcintyre9119

Жыл бұрын

The nurses and midwifes were installed before the taliban take over. Women aren’t allowed to go to school anymore meaning there won’t be anyone to replace them once they’re gone/retire. How was that not obvious to you? The point they’re making is that the Taliban will soon realize that their radical thinking isn’t a viable long term solution. Exceptions or complete reversals of restrictions on women will need to be made.

@Armendicus

Жыл бұрын

That’s religion for you. If we let the Christian Taliban over here take over that’s exactly the type of shit that’ll go down.

@joshDammmit

Жыл бұрын

Literally what the GOP is trying to do to America

Taliban: Are you copying my test answers? Evangelicals: What? Me? Nawh!

@firstlast8258

Жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself

Those images from Afghanistan still make me want to cry... I still wonder what happened to that baby and if it's ok...

@savesheikhjarrah1480

Жыл бұрын

Baby was reunited with relatives

We managed to work with the Viet Cong after they took over Vietnam, and now Vietnam is an economic powerhouse, a great place to live, and a friend of America. It seems to me we already have a model we can follow here.

@lencolby4605

Жыл бұрын

That took a few years.

That guy sold his kidney to meet his kid’s needs what a legend

@elisabethscott20

Жыл бұрын

Especially when he could have just sold the kids :/

@utezahn3174

Жыл бұрын

Nobody should have to.

@Squidwardsangryface

Жыл бұрын

It’s unfortunate he had to sale kidney, but all I could think is he could have gotten way more money for that kidney. 🤦🏿‍♀️

@vectoralphaAI

Жыл бұрын

Even more legend is the mom who sold her daughter to feed the other kids.

@chenzen1578

Жыл бұрын

@@elisabethscott20 You're - sadly -abolutely correct.

Did you really think that the aid is just not going to the pockets of Talibán? Just like it did with the Militar Junta during the Ethiopia Famine of the 80s? If there's no way to deliver it directly, then that's just exactly what is going to happen, again.

@bearshark5941

Жыл бұрын

They're the uncontested government of the country. Even if you 100% prevented them from just pocketing the money that would have gone to a power plant or an irrigation system, you can't stop them from taxing the sale of that power or those crops, that's how a government works. So what? Ask the Afghan people to fight another war? Who's going to fight when *half* the population of the country is malnourished children?

@BigSnipp

Жыл бұрын

Who is you?

@puppypi9668

Жыл бұрын

I agree but wasn't the International Rescue person one of the people who _can_ deliver it directly? Don't send money; just buy the stuff next door and send that! What will the Taliban do? Steal peoples' food and sell it? (I mean I wouldn't be surprised but surely that would spark an uprising if they did)

@Jose04537

Жыл бұрын

@@puppypi9668 That's actually what usually happens, unless the blue helmet of UN are involved. I suggest the video of "The problem with Foreign Aid" by Polymatter.

This is what the 'Hawks' of War left behind

As Patreus put it. " we can give you weapons, we can give you training, but we can't give you the Will to fight." While we're at it, one more quote: " Only when the last tree has been cut down, and the last river ran dry will we realize that you can't eat money."

"Yell what hurts into this paper bag and leave" STOP! Don't give US Healthcare companies any more ideas

@turkicnomad5632

Жыл бұрын

You clearly have never seen the inside of a psychiatric hospital.

@hangcai

Жыл бұрын

not funny at all, as if these plights are jokes to you

Thank you John for finding such a brilliant way to wake us up. You are and always will be a TRUE Humanitarian Hero for me.

Up until the 14 minute mark I was thinking ok, that's pretty horrid but im sure they can weather the worst of the storm. Then he started talking about the guy selling his kidney and I realised just how absolutely fucked that is. How can anyone survive that when those are your choices

Truss is Comedy gold , so is Oliver

I’m so glad they’re doing a follow up on this. It’s easy to just think about something for 20 minutes and then move on, so I’m glad that he’s coming back to remind us that Afghanistan still needs our help.

@IAmTheBugInsideYou

Жыл бұрын

Nice pfp lol. But yes, the humanitarian crisis didn't go anywhere, it's just been made worse in certain regards without critical support propping it up.

@stephanbaehr6566

Жыл бұрын

I am with Biden on this one. Afghanistan had 20 years to grow up and stand on their own feet. They reap what they sow. Its not the US who failed Afghanistan, but the Afghan people.

@AlleyCryptid

Жыл бұрын

why do the rest of us have to suffer for something some old white guy decided? my family needs help, should we take a back seat or should we focus on ourselves (The US) before we (yet again) go stomping into someone else's back yard and start acting like we're the good guys while simultaneously trying to fight the dick heads that will (inevitably) start shit cause OIL? we need to start working on us, the USA, before we start worrying about everyone else. everyone says 'we have so much! give to others!' blah blah. if that's true, start giving it to OUR people to make us stronger, more efficient and better working! the better WE do together, the better WE do for the world.

@botanicalitus4194

Жыл бұрын

bot

@joshjansen86

Жыл бұрын

​@@stephanbaehr6566 Same logic. Throwing money at the country (on top of the hundreds of millions we already are and billions we did in attempt to build their infrastructure) is not the solution.

Wild how people think the Taliban would be progressive enough to actually give women rights… like they are the Taliban

@kylezo

Жыл бұрын

They're nearly as bad as the GOP now

@pugachevskobra5636

Жыл бұрын

No one actually thought that; Jesus Christ.

@FlyingDwarfman

Жыл бұрын

@@pugachevskobra5636 They certainly convinced some people who chose to follow them. That's evidenced at 7:26 when John's mentions how Taliban members were among the widespread criticism against banning young women from secondary ed.

@mekullag9787

Жыл бұрын

@@pugachevskobra5636 there was a chance that they feared waning public support if they rolled back too many popular policies. Hindsight is 20/20, but anyone who says they knew exactly what the Taliban were going to do after taking the country is lying, I highly doubt even the Taliban had decided what to do at that point.

@NotAPacifist825

Жыл бұрын

If we care, maybe release the $9 billion we stole from their central bank. 95 percent of afghan people are going hungry many families single mother led.

Does bring some sadness and i a bit of tears seeing how parents are willing to give up their baby to American soldiers so that their child may have a better future elsewhere. Goes to show how valuable our democracy is 🇺🇸 and how far people are willing to go to get it.

And dank Kush!

Finally someone corrects "feeling BADLY"! This drives me nutly!

I had to pause this video while I caught up on the history of Dave Coulier. It's about what you'd expect. Carry on Mr. Oliver.

@ichijofestival2576

Жыл бұрын

Well, having not looked anything up yet, I'm not exactly sure what to expect from the star of a 90's sitcom who has since faded into obscurity. Probably just an IMDb page full of obscure appearances in B- and C-level entertainment. Maybe a drug problem. (That expectation is likely influenced by the fact that news tabloids wouldn't consider anything less 'news-worthy' and we'd just hear nothing. "No news is good news.") [Edit: Turns out ol' Dave's career has been surprisingly prolific, particularly in children's entertainment. Good on him. Also, apparently he dated Alanis Morissette and there was some drama there, which was the basis for the reference. Couldn't bring myself to care enough to actually read any of it in-depth.]

Don't forget these are the people who once ruled the world, and produced some of the brightest scholars in history. They invented algebra, postal service, modern medicine, etc. So sad seeing them in this condition.

keep giving up voice to people who need to be heard ........more power to you...

The most shocking thing is that our officials found it so shocking. Everybody with common sense knew that whenever we finally left it was gonna be a clusterfuck. Just proves there was no reason to stay as long as we did.

@davidanspach1624

Жыл бұрын

They weren't shocked. They feigned that shit to try absolving themselves of direct responsibility.

@fatbgmanbg975

Жыл бұрын

@@davidanspach1624 Hurray! Another one with common sense!!✊✊

@andreasottohansen7338

Жыл бұрын

And it is still not as unsurprising as the Irish response to a hard border coming with Brexit

@couragekarnga8735

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That's what happens when you go to war on false pretenses.

@arcturionblade1077

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Kicking the can down the road for twenty years.

Good morning to all europeans, starting their monday morning with Johnny Sadglasses

John Oliver looks like what would happen if bad luck brian grew up to be a math teacher.

as someone who works with Afghan refugees, this brought me to tears. thank you for bringing this to people’s attention.