I knew it to be true, but it's still surreal to watch this in 2024 and hear how unapologetically genocidal Netanyahu has always been

@Curt_Sampson

2 ай бұрын

Israel's far right wing has certainly been heavily aided by Netanyahu over the past few decades, but whole "we're going to grab a lot of land and kick out all the Arabs" thing far predates him. (Though his reign as head of the Likud party did get a nice start with an _Israeli_ assassinating the prime minister of Israel because the Oslo peace processes were doing too well for right-wing taste.) Sadly, they work very well in co-operation with the extremists on the other side, such as Hamas, who are apparently willing to sacrifice as many Palestinian civilians as necessary to try to wipe Israel off the map.

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

2 ай бұрын

The signs were all there. And yet. No one pumped the breaks. I wonder if things would be the same if he just tried a two state solution in the first place.

@Curt_Sampson

2 ай бұрын

@@stoodmuffinpersonal3144 I think you missed the point there. Netanyahu has _never_ wanted a two state solution, nor has Hamas. Pumping the brakes was not something he had any interest in; he was too busy pushing the accelerator. There are plenty of Israelis who would be happy with a two-state solution, and no doubt a fair number of Palestinians (and probably a lot more if Israel weren't stomping all over them with illegal settlements and the like). But this goes _way_ back; Netanyahu and Hamas are just the latest in the bloody-minded groups on both sides that put "winning" and "destroying the enemy" above civilian happiness, even that of their own side.

@Hayanomie

2 ай бұрын

It's always been a mess of contradictions and the sooner Americans realize the current position of their governments' two parties is untenable the better.

@emtoprma

2 ай бұрын

And that the US has always been open to accommodating him. Seriously the US it’s the actual World Police. But you have to take into account their idea of proper policing behavior.

To be fair the kids did learn exactly how the government works

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

Ай бұрын

😆 🤣 😂 That was my thought, too!!!

This aged extremely well. Thanks for reminding us that politicians have always been trash.

I am watching this for the first time on June 29, 2024. Back in the 90s, I was a struggling single mom, and this show brought back horrible memories. My 2nd pregnancy was rough, and I was extremely ill and put on bed rest the last 2 months, but I also had a 5 year old, so rest was hard to get. My car tags expired, and the next day, I went into labor. I called the property manager to let her know I would take care of it the moment I got out of the hospital. She said no problem. My BFF came to pick me up. As we walked out, I saw the property manager standing outside the rental office. *_She waved at us_** and said, "Good Luck!"* Apparently, *the moment we got in the car, she went inside and had my car towed.* Because it was a high-risk pregnancy and a difficult birth, I was in the hospital for 5 days. When I got out, and home with my newborn and 5 year old sons, the ticket, tow fees, and storage charges was far beyond what I could pay. I lost my car and spent the next four years on the bus with my babies while working and going to school before I was blessed with a car, and my sacrifices paid off. But I NEVER forgot how that felt. So even now, when I have the opportunity to help others, I do so. *These municipal fees and mistreatment of the poor Must Cease!!!*

I ABSOLUTELY love the falconer’s diabolical grin as he gently pushes the red-tail towards (deeply terrified) John. Absolute legend

@Gwen-em3jm

2 ай бұрын

The grin, and the conspiratorial eyebrow raise. You know this guy was having fun with Jon's nerves of steel xD

@willhennessy864

2 ай бұрын

John was only scared because he was no longer the only bird-like thing on the show. And because he wasn't at the top of that pile, bird-wise.

@piedpiper1172

Ай бұрын

@@willhennessy864Tbf, I’m pretty sure the red-tail can take a toucan.

@sonorasgirl

6 күн бұрын

The perfect man doesn’t exi….

That Netanyahu quote hits even harder today

WOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAS CHANGED

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

2 ай бұрын

And that's part of why it's getting worse. We refuse to get off the cliff as it slides down. Isn't that fun? And not at all terrifying?

@veggigoddess

2 ай бұрын

Nope, I've been re-watching all of his really old videos and every single one has been current as to what happened is happening right now beyond the ones where Trump is currently president. Otherwise, every single one could come out today and unfortunately be just as relevant

@anjelitamalik9763

2 ай бұрын

It changed to worse

@mirsch594

2 ай бұрын

@@anjelitamalik9763 true 😞

@jackster9775

2 ай бұрын

Actually due to unions, Starbucks has been forced into better treatment for its low end baristas, who are disproportionately Black, and the UN condemned Netanyahu.

Red hawks, puteketekes, Zazu. I’m getting strong bird themes from this show

@harinisridharan1188

2 ай бұрын

I mean - he is bird meat stuffed in a 6 foot human suit 🦜

Fun fact, any hawk/raptor/eagle screech you hear is actually a red-tailed hawk. They’re the only bird of prey that screeches like that.

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

Hah! Little-known fun fact!

@lambodingus6986

2 ай бұрын

Actually if I hear a raptor hawk or eagle screech then it WOULD BE THAT BIRD THAT SCREECH 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣🤣🤣 … u wipped/screeched out ur own logic lol

@Nate-.-

2 ай бұрын

​@lambodingus6986 which weighs more? 1lb of stainless steel or 1lb of feathers?

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

@@Nate-.- Here's a trickier one: which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

@zwenkwiel816

2 ай бұрын

​@@arcadiaberger9204your mom, your mom weighs more...

And people still say Netanyahu isn't deliberately attacking Palestinians to annex the West Bank and Gaza?

@ingridakerblom7577

2 ай бұрын

Who says that, except him & his minions? He managed to get even more countries to recognise Palestine as it's own state.. Sweden did it around 2015, then it's been quiet for a while, until now.

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

@@ingridakerblom7577 If Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want a two-state solution, he can look forward to the one and only state of the Federal Republic of Palestine, a democratic nation which guarantees the human rights of every citizen: Muslim Palestinians, Christian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians, even secular Palestinians...from the Iraqi border to the sea.

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if he did the two state solution, and didn't pull stunts like this... maybe he could have prevented not only these current attacks from the IDF, but maybe the October attacks. Maybe. People do shit like the horrible October attacks, in part, cause of stuff like this. I'm just saying it could be a factor. Just one. Potentially.

@jlev1028

2 ай бұрын

​@@arcadiaberger9204You're basically threatening destruction of Israel, the only prosperous and democratic country in the Middle East.

@ingridakerblom7577

2 ай бұрын

@@arcadiaberger9204 what is it with these men who aggravate war to gain some sort of points or sympathy globally & they only mange to do the exact opposite of what they wanted to. Only making sure the worst senario for them now actually happens. Just as Putin did when he drove finland into NATO & in one swoop doubled the border with nato. And now Sweden is in aswell. So the whole precious baltic sea is almost completely surrounded by nato countries. Russia has started war before with finlans/Sweden- Finland wanting to get direct access to the baltic sea. Trump is yet another example with his tariffs..

The way the senators positively BASHED the 4th graders who were watching in the SAME room.. was just.. horrific.

@elliot-sowdon

Ай бұрын

They really did say “fuck them kids!” In front of them kids…😬

@artoriapendragon3234

Ай бұрын

@@elliot-sowdon my.. god.. are you SERIOUS!? Are they DEMONS!? What in the WORLD!?

How a JUDGE can say: "It's not my problem just pay the ticket". So she pays the ticket. But it wasn't the ticket that got paid. It was JCS..... IS f$@%!ng wild and outrageous.

Omfg, those New Hampshire politicians are assholes.

@martinjrgensen8234

2 ай бұрын

Really! It made me so angry

@charliefinn8978

Ай бұрын

yeah they're like that lmao

@davidfuentes9957

Ай бұрын

@@charliefinn8978as John Oliver said it, it’s a conservative state, usually votes Republican and they have something with seatbelts. Basically Florida with foliage.

LOL I love how the falconer slowly thrust the hawk at John while smiling at the camera.. XD lmfao.

man......watching this in june of 24......is ...stomach churning.

The red-tailed hawk is now New Hampshire's official state raptor after students worked for years to bring their idea to fruition. 2019

16 years ago (in FL), I let a friend drive me to work while I was sick, she was speeding, she got stopped by the police and it turns out her license was suspended because her mother had used her license to drive and had gotten multiple tickets under her daughters license. So they took my friend to jail (who I had to bail out) and it took me 2 years to pay off a $492 fine for letting an unlicensed driver drive my vehicle. On the way to go bail my friend out of jail after she got arrested (same day), I got stopped for speeding (I wasn’t speeding) and he let me go cause he saw that I was distraught by giving me a warning for not having a seatbelt on (which I did have on). I was 19 so I finished paying at 21 just before I got married to my husband

The politicians that treated the children so rudely should be voted OUT

@Dbb27

2 ай бұрын

Don’t think for one minute they won’t forget who voted against their bill.

Waiting for a time traveler to come back and explain how Starbucks ends racism. ;)

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

Ай бұрын

😆 🤣 😂 😹

and all these ticket fees so that they don't have to raise taxes on rich people

@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460

Ай бұрын

🎯 🎯 🎯

I was under sentinel in Georgia. I was told I could move to Michigan for a job, then they stopped answering my calls to check in . So I had a warrant out. I had to go back to Georgia and spend 6 months in Cobb county jail because I couldn't afford to pay the fee .

I would love to see a 5 seconds clip added to the end of each of these, to let John tell me if any of these problems were fixed since. I recon 5 seconds would be enough for him to say "Nope, no improvements whatsoever".

@unfortunatalie1413

29 күн бұрын

Apparantley, the kids took that shit personally and took those politicians to task! I'd definietly call that an improvement @mariadelpilar1590 1 month ago The red-tailed hawk is now New Hampshire's official state raptor after students worked for years to bring their idea to fruition. 2019

8:53 seeing how nervous Oliver was around the hawk was hilarious

They should be sued for traumatizing the children!!!!

The other day a red tailed hawk decided to help themselves to a snack from our bird feeder. That bird didn't stand a chance, but the hawk's gotta eat, too! I know some people hate that this happens, but it is a BIRD feeder.

3 weeks ago, watched all of season 1 over the course of a few days while at work. Currently watching all of season 2 while at work Thank you for the uploads, even though it's terrifying how relevant most of this information is to this day.

That new Hampshire peice. Wtf man 😵

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

2 ай бұрын

It's so awful yet so funny. I mean. Those poor kids got a real lesson in how government works, alright. Lol. Honestly? Hope the kids grow up and be the candidates to replace these b*stards, lol

It's been 9 years and I've never forgotten the HAWK FACTS

Hello person tasked with uploading these videos, hope you’re doing well.

@vulcanfeline

2 ай бұрын

you'd think it might have been better to upload 1-3 per day instead of 32767. i probably would have felt like watching more of them

@TheRealSkeletor

Ай бұрын

The funny part is KZread allows you to schedule when videos go live while you upload them, so it's not like the uploader would even have had to log in multiple days in a row to stagger their release like that. They could upload them all at once and schedule them to release 1-3 per day, so out sub feeds wouldn't have been bombarded like this.

And less than 9 years later, the Red-tailed hawk was overthrown as the official bird of LWT by the Puteketeke

@beth12svist

2 ай бұрын

No, no, the red-tailed hawk is the official RAPTOR of Last Week Tonight! Pay attention!

One of the birds in that video was an osprey and another was a Harris hawk. Someone in the research department did not check his bird IDs.

This segment was made unavailable in my region so I'm glad the full episode is up and viewable for me now!

@CptPurpleHero

2 ай бұрын

just curious, generally where do you live?

@bobjones2959

2 ай бұрын

@@CptPurpleHeroAustralia

@JackLalane-yt4iu

2 ай бұрын

​@@CptPurpleHero generally, i be livin on Earf.

@CptPurpleHero

2 ай бұрын

@@JackLalane-yt4iu no way, me too :D

I've paid the city of Minneapolis at least $1,000 trying to catch up on parking tickets. Some I paid but was 10 minutes late, others I didn't have the money but I still had to be at work!

@rnewland89

2 ай бұрын

Were you parking illegally on purpose, or was there unclear signage? The reason there are fines is so that you will follow the rules, not so the government can charge you a fine.

Am I the only one watching this for the first time?

@runlikebettis3677

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the rest of us pay for HBO Max

@Fuzzycuffsqt

2 ай бұрын

Nope! This is a new episode set in the year 2015.

@danielharmsen826

2 ай бұрын

Welcome, hope you learned something from the episode! Consider sending the bitesized topics to others to improve overall awareness.

@ericshrader8073

2 ай бұрын

"You are not alonnnnne/ I am here with youuuuu"

@Mike-ds4ht

2 ай бұрын

Why would you be?

Welcome to another segment of, “Being poor is a crime in the US.”

What a great and historic episode! As far as I know, no other show has an official raptor and I'm so glad to know that out of all of the awful stuff he has talked about, John was able to do at least one meaningful thing to fix a problem on air so that we could go along for the ride. Those politicians deserved to lose elections for such conduct, especially that Planned Parenthood guy, I honestly don't know how they could be so awful and tactless with those poor students in the room. Also, I can't help but think of cops as road pirates because that has what they've generally been to me. One officer was great and let me off with a warning one night even though I misjudged a red light in a work zone while speeding a bit. Beyond that, another officer was kind enough to overlook not having current insurance cards on me, but I didn't appreciate getting an open container ticket in the process of getting told I had a tail light out. The one in Clinton, MO, though, was conducting a speed trap because the highway drops from like 70 to 40 and then back again over the course of like 4 speed zones as you go through town and he was chilling at like the second speed change. Oddly enough, that was also about the last time that town ever got any money from me.

its soo sad to see people suffer due to other peoples greed

I was homeless for over a year in the early 2000’s before VanLife was a thing… in 2022 I had 3000$ in parking tickets to pay BEFORE I could buy a car to get to a new job… no one gave a F*CK it had been 15 years since ai was homeless and I was trying to do better… it was a constant amount of Shame every-time I went to the DMV to try and fix it…

Forgot to add union busting to Starbucks list of talents.

really hit us with the we alrady covered it.

10 years out, this is what a failing societal report card feels like

@ingridakerblom7577

2 ай бұрын

Then you elected trump & madness reins..

@timmeeow

2 ай бұрын

@@ingridakerblom7577 trump is but a tree is the forrest of garbage.

No kidding. Minnesota has a state muffin over what I think was a third grade class…I’m not super sure about that, but yay blueberry muffin!

Holy shit. Bibi knew what he was going to do years ago. He just needed a reason.

"Of course your boy been drunk in public baby!" lol, charming

I was on indefinite probation for being unable to pay my fines and violated probation many timez for civil tickets and did major jail time for the violations.

I’m alternating between amused and distressed at how little has changed.

having seen enough of these videos a theme starts to emerge, government try to save money or other reason, outsource a government service to private companies, end up costing the government more because private companies try to squeeze more profit

200$ of taxes on a 35$ fine. Holy shit

Thank you for another full episode from the back catalogue from an active HBO customer. 🧡💛🧡

For a sec i thought this was recent, then he started talking about starbucks race together thing. 😬

I find it such a mindfuck how many issues I didn’t know about growing up that were actively hidden in my education. Gods I’m so glad I am at least learning about it now, but wow it’s so concerning to have not ever heard about issues going on since before I was born. Even tho adults in my life knew about it.

This episode is a DECADE old! From 2015 when Eric Holder was Obama's Attorney General! Who dug this up? Plus it's back when Oliver wore checked shirts.

@gerardconheeny5009

2 ай бұрын

But it's not 2025 yet.

@k-isfor-kristina

2 ай бұрын

They're uploading full archival episodes to KZread now which is great

@robertbritt6134

2 ай бұрын

Yeah dude, that’s the point. The history of recent idiocy. Perspective is its own reward.

@ChunkySoupfortheSoul

2 ай бұрын

The ornithologists

I love how the Irish are totally fine with everyone celebrating their holiday. Then you have everyone else

Thank you team!

Thank you for sharing this.

Those lawmakers are lunatics

SEASON 2 BABEYYYYY !!!

I had tickets that I couldn’t pay, none of them were moving violations they were things like a muffler, a headlight, little things like that which came from being extremely broke. I was so broke that I couldn’t pay rent and eat every day and so the tickets, though not very big, might as well been 10,000 to me. I paid the first one, but when the second one came, for a problem I was already frantically trying to fix on my car with almost no money just made me so defeated. I think I just “forgot about it.” Then my tickets got fines, then my fines went up, then I was on a payment plan but got stuck in a loop of paying fines I could t afford to pay. Then I got picked up and brought to jail but, this is the surprising part - the fact that I was unable to pay my tickets was not helped by spending the day in lock up. Then my fines went up. Then finally the fines were so big that I’d have better luck running for president and winning than paying them, so They took my license away. the fees were about 3500 dollars, which is half as much as I made a year. Obviously then I became homeless. That was all Hudson New York, 2007. I’m still extremely angry about it all. BUT! I moved to nyc where there’s good transport and I could get to work without a car and also have a lot of fun and make my life better than those small town cops’ life’s ever could be. But… basically what I mean to say is I’m finding this episode extremely triggering.

This one pains me because I was in this boat for most of 2023. 😓 I had outstanding traffic tickets from 2017 that I forgot about. The reason they were outstanding was because I couldn’t afford them. ONE was for speeding (

17:37 It's uncanny how much that guy's face is actually shaped like The Grinch's. LMAO

Careful in Leesville Lousyana folks or Brookside, Alabama. Just saying......

Y'all numbered these backwards and it's making me crazy.

So, being poor in America is a crime.

@dontmisunderstand6041

2 ай бұрын

Always has been. Very literally.

@LlyleHunter

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! As they said in the report they we outlawed debtor’s prisons in the 1800 yet the legal system has done everything they can to find workarounds to reinforce poverty as a crime.

This is important.

Absolute legend! This guy never misses

So the Red Tailed Hawks position was usurped by the Puteketeke?! 😉

is John Oliver just telling the future or history just keeps repeating and rhyming with itself?

Thank you GZA 🙏🏾

Kathy Lee looks like she's having a stroke 😮 Don't punk on St Patrick! 🍀

For people from 2015 rewatching this video: Netanyahu did escape this

@arcadiaberger9204

2 ай бұрын

Pain.

…this did not age well but it’s important to know the slow escalation. Thanks for uploading.

🤦 Me just realizing that Jamaican accents sound the way they do because they were British colonies. I had never really thought about it, like a lot of things, obviously. What did I think originally? Idk man, probably that the Islands were just so chill and enough AMERICANS had come over to hang out that Jamaica got their speech from us and an easygoing beachlife. Don't mind me.

This is proof that the prison industrial complex is real.

People go to jail for tickets in the USA but not attempted murder in Canada

Red Tail Hawk vid is worth its weight in PlatinuM!!!!!!

I'd rather watch & listen to John Oliver's rants any day as he makes so much more sense than Neil Oliver on @KZread!

why are you guys trying to read intention off a guy blatantly contradicting himself to pander to more people. the show specifically calls attention to how completely he walked back on that statement. he is doing the politician thing of being vague so people can read him however they want and you are 100% doing that

I think showing these kids that you can blow a bunch of hot air about shit that doesn't matter, grandstand about abortion in talks about unrelated topics, and get nothing accomplished is a pretty accurate depiction of government

It would be good to know whether anything changed after the big issues featured in these earlier episodes

Who would have thought a Business name sentinel would be evil???

That one dudes nostrils were crazy

Viciously distracted by the Harris' Hawk at 9:05 smdh are all hawks the same to you? Journalistic standards have fallen so low (9 years ago)

Problem is there we are not, many of us honest people

Those American politicians voting against the 4th graders’ bill are a laughable disgrace to intelligence 😂

255 DOLLARS for a speeding ticket is the more PRESSING CRIME here, like wtf

Yeah, fines should not lead to losing job, house and life.

Many think those %-based fines are to punish the rich the same (which they do), but they also punish the poor the same too (not perfectly but more than a $250 fine does).

I mean… those New Hampshire people were right that the bill was silly and unnecessary. A good lesson for the kids to learn since Gov is full of such bills and more are always pouring in. Yes, teach those kids to not submit such things and to get rid of those that already exist, it will be better for everyone.

Speeding under 25 MPH is $255.50. Speeding over 25 MPH is $275.50. So for an extra $20 you can just haul ass? AWESOME!

Omg that's CRAZY...he said it years ago

How prophetic😮😢

This is what happens when you let the profit motive dictate everything.

What?? That's straight-up debt peonage, no?

I remember when parents were trying to use scouts as the gay, and trans conversion therapy because they didn't allow gays or trans people in scouts that was the parents thought process. That you can't be this because I forced you into a program that has a bunch of "cis straight heterosexual Christian males" in it who are also likely being forced into it. Except I have a few DSD's, and several people I knew were on testrone for various reasons, and people did make out in the woods after dark quite commonly. It didn't make people less gay, it didn't define people's genders, it didn't do anything the phobes wanted forced on us, if anything it did the opposite.

@tfpnation6925

Ай бұрын

What is this have anything to do with this episode? Seriously what the hell are you talking about?

@willowtree5949

3 күн бұрын

@@tfpnation6925 The episode includes an extended joke about "gay conversion camps" making people more gay. This personal experience relates.

I'm gonna be honest and blunt, we have enough useless *beep* on the books, so I agree with striking down the bill. Legal research is becoming more difficult by the bill, and you know we have a shortage of legal resources. Don't make it worse.

Has any body heard about the bird? Bird bird bird bird is the word….

The red-tailed hawk after meeting the Puteketeke:

Starbucks - just another cafe where your phone can swap air spit, or electric outlet spit with the neighbor who is next to every cafe by coincidence.

Well, this one starts with something still happening

I'd say those New Hampshire kids actually got the authentic legislative experience: self-aggrandizing assholes arguing over petty shit. I think a similar story featured on The Daily Show (maybe?). If I recall, it was in NY, and was a proposal to make yogurt the official state snack.