S6 E11: Green New Deal & Georgia Abortion Laws: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Season 6, episode 11. May 12th, 2019. With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Plus, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signs one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.
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[@Misstborn]

"this law won't take effect until 2020, if it ever does because it's blatantly unconstitutional" oh... oh my sweet summer child

[@PeterNatale1]

we were all sweet summer children back then

[@ImRoady]

@@PeterNatale1 Watching these old episodes has been highly disturbing and depressing

[@chilldude42001]

Oof

[@cidespecific]

I don't think I'll ever get used to hearing Bill Nye using the word "fuck."

[@anthonyfanchin1144]

This is by far my favorite episode because of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Childhood improved. I never laughed so hard like that in my life.

[@giggitygooquag]

That bill nye ending is always freaking hilarious.

[@ImBigAndImBlack]

"fucking", its john oliver you say "fucking"

[@samschmidtke5739]

It's certainly something watching these old shows of LWT and seeing everything John predicted about ANYTHING coming to fruition...

[@thatradiogeek]

Waiting for Elon Musk to invent anything at all is just a bad idea. That guy has never invented anything in his life, he just throws money at it and takes the credit.

[@moogle68]

To be fair, he _did_ invent Napster, and had a role in the birth of Paypal, which is how he became rich and started doing what you said. So it's not technically fair to say he is/was _completely_ talentless. Also, the fact that we are even at where we are at right now with the transition to electric cars is easily entirely down to his perseverance with the introduction of Tesla Model S and the Supercharger network. It sucks that all of that turned him into such a shitbag, but credit where credit is due, my friend. No one took electric cars seriously at all until the Model S came out and started shitting on supercars and hypercars for just $80k.

[@thatradiogeek]

@@moogle68 No he didn't.

[@moogle68]

@@thatradiogeek you're right, my bad. However, Elon Musk _did_ start Zip2, and the company that turned into PayPal, and while he didn't start Tesla (I never claimed that he did), he was the one running it while they were getting the Supercharger network setup, as well as when they released and developed the Model S.

[@thatradiogeek]

@@moogle68 He never started any of those. He just bought into them, took the credit, and in some cases, was tossed out of them onto his ass.

[@moogle68]

@@thatradiogeek again, I never said he started Tesla, but what he did to make the company what it is now was impressive no matter how you look at it. He may not have been the engineer inventing things, but coming up with the plan and putting in the time and effort it took to make Tesla worth billions of dollars in less than a decade is a feat that the Board members of Tesla when it was unknown thought was impossible, but he did it. And for the record, their timeline requirement for him was actually much less than a decade. His success has turned him into a POS, but you can't deny the truth, which is that what he did wasn't easy and deserves to be acknowledged. 🤷🏽

[@negydimenziosember]

21:16 correction - that guy is not going to invent anything, ever, he just buys inventors and inventions and claims them

[@kellyroper5256]

This isn't Seth Meyers

[@negydimenziosember]

@@kellyroper5256 😅

[@negydimenziosember]

@@kellyroper5256 Not even with a whole season LWT could make one corrections episode...maybe on difference of opinion or misspeaking, but that would not be corrections...they are a different beast...not better, different...Love Meyers too, and his jackals

[@ErutaniaRose]

Ugh, people who do this make me mad as someone who actually tries to invent things. Funding is the hardest part.

[@bearcubbelladonna]

A movie script of the fake falafel death John Oliver who was in love with a mafioso wife should be written

[@EDoyl]

John mentions an important thing about carbon taxes very briefly in this video: the money isn't actually needed for anything, it's purely incentive, and that means the money can be used for anything at all, and we've seen how effective giving people free money can be for improving voter approval.

[@lindaswanson9328]

Republicans in 2019: They're going to take away your hamburgers. Republicans in 2024:We are going to take away your freedom. Quite the turn of events. Don't ya think?😳

[@omgandwtf1]

Republicans have never cared about freedom in any way that actually matters, they care about the freedom for people to own military style weaponry to defend themselves against the government despite how ineffectual and stupid that would be. They care about the freedom of rich people and businesses to make as much money as possible regardless of the cost and their freedom to not pay taxes to the countries that make their business possible.

[@katjaniemela7273]

Can we just talk about that cylindrical Earth image? The background had shooting stars - in space - even though those are caused by small meteorites hitting the atmosphere! And I know what you're thinking: "they must've been comets, though?" Well, no. A comet's tail faces away from the Sun, these were facing away from the direction the object was moving. It's a travesty, and everyone at the LWT graphics department should be ashamed!

[@jessehammer123]

A fellow jackal?

[@johngrayatkinson1214]

But that all goes out the window because of the magnetic gravity caused by a Cyndrical Earth...duh . 😉

[@ShanePatSmith]

Oh those weren’t shooting stars- those are actually alien spaceships 👽

[@louisbullock5672]

Neil?

[@ErutaniaRose]

I love this rant.

[@PeterNatale1]

Anyone ever tell the LWT writers room that cheesecake, despite being called a cake, is actually a pie?

[@lisahenry20]

I'd love for just one person who's supposedly pro life to support mandatory organ donation when people die and mandatory blood, bone marrow, and liver donation while people are alive as much as they support bans for abortion. After all, the right to life apparently should trump bodily autonomy.

[@Uruz2012]

Pretty sure pro life people usually say that you should use your bodily autonomy to avoid becoming pregnant in the first place. If you're going to argue against something, you generally ought to avoid setting up easy versions of that belief.

[@lisahenry20]

@Uruz2012 I've never seen anyone even try that argument before. The thing is, I could stab you and you could need a blood transfusion, and even if I was the reason you need one, I don't have to donate blood. Yet if I had sex and got pregnant, I can't get an abortion. The differences between the two scenarios are that stabbing someone is illegal while (consensual) sex isn't, and you need two people to get pregnant but only one is forced to give up their bodily autonomy. A couple could have sex, the woman gets pregnant and is unable to get an abortion, the child is born but then needs a kidney transplant, and then the father could refuse to donate one of his compatible kidneys. Because it's not about saving lives, it's about punishing women for being sexually active.

[@laestrella9727]

​@@lisahenry20 Fantastic argument

[@rvdb7363]

​@@Uruz2012and they completely ignore that abortions are also used when the fetus has defects that are incompatible with life (like having no kidneys) or when a woman is having a natural miscarriage, but the body isn't expelling the fetus fast enough (risking sepsis). And when you point to very specific cases of women being denied medical help (abortions) and in some cases even dying, they deny that their deaths have anything to do with these abortion bans and claim that women should just not have sex.

[@SoupEaterExtraordinaire]

Canadian here, I got my carbon tax rebate about a week before this video was released! I got $225 which is the amount I receive 4 times a year for a total of $900/year. Trudeau's still the prime minister and things are not looking good for him, but the carbon tax is fine.

[@emilymartinko720]

thanks john for explaining to me what that 'carbon rebate' payment ive gotten every once in a while for the last few years is!

[@CarlitoDeSantaMaria]

Watching this piece featuring how “the Green New Deal wants to get rid of farting cows” is still being pushed with trump saying “there wont be any cows…Kamala wants to take away cows” The Republican party used to have such refinement…at least they *buried* the stupid stuff with some relatively “plausible” stuff 😭 love this show so much

[@mboatrightED300]

I mean, the meat industry *is* the second largest source of green house gasses, and to stop global warning we will either have to (1) eat a lot less meat or (2) develop synthetic meat faster than we are right now. Or both.

[@CELERITAS-BONITAS]

Omg its really Bill Nigh hahaha. He's so real for those skits!! I wish yall made shorts out of these episodes, so I can share snippets to people.

[@MadMaulkin]

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[@MadMaulkin]

There you go

[@Xikiea]

him bouncing up and down after that bill nye clip is keeping me going. what a silly little guy

[@kayapope6064]

As someone rewatching these episodes the only thing I remembered was the cow burps. I’m sorry John Oliver. 😅 17:39

[@Megan-nt7dm]

"Laughs in 2024 Georgia abortion laws"

[@TheSquishiRex]

We need a new fan mail episode

[@melindawise4289]

Women are now dying horrific and painful deaths because of Georgia's abortion laws. And i don't think that's the only state.

[@patrickblakethesaint]

16:05 that sounds eerily like Auther Knights trajectory. Minus the SA.

[@erinangel9452]

Anyone in Canada complaining about the carbon tax just means that their province couldn't figure out their own plan. Like Quebec has a cap and trade system and don't pay a carbon tax. Conservatives😒🙄

[@BobSmith-uc5js]

Thankfully here in Canada, we have gotten used to the carbon tax. *Turns on television* Oh.....yeah...

[@kellyroper5256]

Underrated. I know he's one a ton of Emmys, I know what I said.

[@necrocomicon8]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, they need to keep the birthrate high to keep the schools at the replacement level.

[@kevinz3905]

Wait...I thought cheesecake was pie....it has a crust! Not like the cylindrical crust of our planet, but usually made of graham cracker.

[@ErutaniaRose]

As someone aspiring to be a scientist, specifically a marine biologist to help coral and discover new creatures in the deep sea, I wish people would listen to scientists…

[@HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV]

9:33 The various marks and seasons of the Civ Battle Royale were right all along

[@tiffanymarie9750]

Been five years and we're still very doomed. But at least I got this basket 🎉

[@alaudedrenxta5823]

Hey, I've seen Suits from start to finish 3 times.

[@corycru8442]

How did he not see the red carpet on the ice 😂😂😂😂😂

[@buzzed_light_beer]

Wilford Brimley voice: "Bay-be Feet-us"

[@angelowentzler9961]

Ugh what is it with people deliberately chewing gum when they are being filmed... it's not cool, it's disgusting.

[@Chaun1998]

Excuse me, when I was 12 Mr. Wizard was explaining photosynthesis to me, and I was 40 when this aired. Bill Nye needs to stop Mr. Wizard erasure. /s

[@aabu4995]

His brain is now completely pudding 🙄

[@MichaelStephen1]

Cattle was forced, forced to aquire methane gas for barn heat, so they forced farmers into a steady diet of just grain and rain water for 24/7 diarrhea, the farm family diet

[@victoriaeads6126]

Bill Nye ❤❤😂😂

[@babydadoo]

I live in the province that slam poet MP is from….and I hate it here. It’s like Alabama Part 2

[@Levyathyn]

12:38 Senator Kamala spotted

[@ErutaniaRose]

10:08 honestly looks like a stable basket.

[@acmooncannabisinventorinfu7566]

omg i so love this clip of bill nuy he is such a legend

[@michaelwicklund]

I only remembered that cows belch not fart when I watched this the first time and the many times after that as well

[@jackprice4959]

I would also give up hamburgers if it meant I get a planet to live on.

[@aveuch]

7:40 I think this is what one calls a pregnant silence

[@naluzoniro]

Ugh, don't even try John, we're all fucked

[@lynnrunningdeerB4]

23:15 There's Barron's father😅.

[@MrMatteNWk]

11:06 Well once piece of Dobbs related news that's good (even if he says he only died in 2024)

[@iyeetsecurity922]

Hello. *I am a baby fetus, named Fetus.* Now feed us.

[@negydimenziosember]

7:00 Oh, boy.

[@davidfuentes9957]

And it did happen. The Supreme Court now is Tony Montana on coke yelling at all corners of the world, that they’re the last bastion of conservativism (aka Confederacy).

[@a.m.buycks5311]

Help! I voted

[@GiarkReleos]

9:21 ah cylindrical, nice. but you didn't account for the sky falling on your head. try again

[@Rad9000]

Punk Rock Bill Nye is the Best!

[@rebgates]

Watching this after Trump won again hits in a way I didn't want

[@erinangel9452]

2040... yeah, about that.

[@Antonia-oz6gi]

He predicated the future. 😢

[@johnchessant3012]

S6 E11

[@iamdorito]

FIRST :D

[@LapiKurkaar]

It's ironic that episode 10 is about condemning executions and in episode 11 you've spent the first part of the segment talking about how they're actually okay.

[@Maskmaker99]

Can we just talk about that cylindrical Earth image? The background had shooting stars - in space - even though those are caused by small meteorites hitting the atmosphere! And I know what you're thinking: "they must've been comets, though?" Well, no. A comet's tail faces away from the Sun, these were facing away from the direction the object was moving. It's a travesty, and everyone at the LWT graphics department should be ashamed!

[@zannabondesson2544]

i think if we can suspend disbelief such that gravity can create a massive cylindrical body then the notion that in the cylindrical earth model nothing works the same as it does here shouldn’t be too much more of a leap