S11 E26: Election Subversion 2024 & Waffle House: 10/13/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[@TheMiyacat]

Thank you John for still saying Twitter

[@lakrids-pibe]

It used to be fun

[@Acidfrog475]

Twitter, known by Elon, and Elon alone, as X.

[@em0_tion]

"And then there was X" is the only X I'll ever recognize. 💪🔥

[@MrsMelrom]

When elon stops deadnaming their child, I might call it x.

[@rafaeloda]

​@@Acidfrog475he wanted to rebrand to distance the company from twitter identity. We should call it X-Twitter, effectively thwart his efforts. Because it is in fact Ex Twitter.

[@ronaldeliascorderocalles]

Every sunday, one part of me says: "Hurray! John Oliver made a new episode!" The other part says: "DEAR GOD, WHAT DID AMERICA DO NOW?"

[@krishnawidardjo5777]

HAHAHA so true 😂😂

[@ThisIsMyFullName]

It is difficult to put into words how strange the US seems from the outside in relation to politics.

[@Suurkii]

Hahahaha, Swede here - same!

[@akutomo9080]

@@ThisIsMyFullName It is difficult to put into words how strange the US seems from the outside in relation to ANYTHING. Deep-fried butter, wtf is that?

[@dallebull]

Nah, its mostly propaganda, delivered with Humor.

[@kyuven]

6 people submitted about 100k challenges? Charge them money for wasting the government's time.

[@BossBast1]

I don't understand why law does not protect against misuse of public information. You can ask few times, but if you see that the person is unreasonable, they loose the right to "bother" for months / years.

[@gmonz11]

Because a rule like that can be abused by a tyrannical government. As shitty as it is, it's also the best method available.

[@rkvkydqf]

@@BossBast1 Or just have them pay a small but reasonable fee for each challenge, refunded if the challenge was valid, with consistent spam resulting in a ban for a year.

[@chezmoi42]

@@rkvkydqf Good solution.

[@damiang888]

The US already has laxer election controls than Venezuela and your answer to people caring about the process is to make it harder for them?

[@ellasamuelsson]

"just over three weeks" is horrifying. Please America, don't fuck this up. I don't want to have to listen to that orange again. Kind regards from Sweden

[@ZytphenA]

I'd like to second this - Kind regards from Denmark

[@laurakontkanen5547]

As someone from Finland, I agree!

[@phuct4980]

Kind regards from Vietnam, of all the president: of the USA, this one might in danger my country if this old man say something stupid on TV again.

[@rajanlad]

Are you kidding me, he love you Nordic guys. He wants more of you blondes there over us brown plebs.

[@kobban63]

Håller med

[@mikaeki5245]

20:32 "Do they blame all lifes inconviniences on immigrants?" Yes, yes they do. And on the Democrats.

[@petmach]

It's easier than admitting they're at fault.

[@tytania3545]

Two words: Munro Doctrine.

[@medjed2511]

Same thing ran through my mind. Here too and the country was bailed out and built up by immigration- the very very proud locals cannot swallow that pill. :,)

[@zuz-ve4ro]

democrats are slowly falling in line too

[@jj-uy6qs]

don't worry when the dems lose the election, they will blame progressives, Muslims and people with a moral compass rather than themselves for enabling a genocide

[@thetrustysidekick3013]

That the race is still that close is frankly terrifying to me as a non-american. What the actual fuck is going on over there?

[@mayatara1980]

It all goes back to that time regulations on tv and news were thrown away (by republicans) and so called News no longer needed to be based on facts and opinion shows could be presented as news.

[@olivererkuk1234]

propaganda and political incompetence. Its sadly not only America, this shift is happening all over the world. It's scary times

[@Makrel94]

It’s all by Putlers design.

[@em0_tion]

Two of the worst presidential choices they've ever had, isn't it obvious? 🤷‍♂

[@ArPharazonTheGolden]

I think it's that Democrats have used the 'but compared to Trump we are not THAT terrible' as their sole argument one thousand times too many. Also, having a one and a half party system that insitutionalises bribery at the federal level just to prevent any different options means polarisation is so extended that it allows even a lunatic realistic chances to win. Oh, and also, they were never better than that.

[@alvaeliasson6996]

The pickles in “the number three position” is in the number 6 position! At least according to all analog clocks, and all reasonable people.

[@dreaminginjapan]

I'm also confused. So confused I literally looked over at the clock like "what is the number 3 position"

[@arthurvasconcellos8823]

I think they probably use only 4 positions, with the top one being 1 Then "3 position" would be 6 in sane people language

[@anttikalpio4577]

I bet they have a code how to read a clock so all waffle houses are on same time zone globally 😂

[@PerBonomi]

Thank you!

[@johnoss3987]

You'll have to define "reasonable"

[@angeluscorpius]

Georgia should pass a law that if ballot count does not tally, the ballots should be counted by Waffle House wait staff and their decision is final. Because those people are fucking geniuses!

[@TheGreatAscent]

German (for now) living in Sweden. My partner is American and gets to vote in Pennsylvania. She has good reason to not like the US but the ballot went out last week to hopefully help to not have trump win. Side-Note since people mention they are from Sweden in the comments: I recently migrated to Sweden from Germany and the full episodes are not available on KZbin in Germany. That was an additional perk i did not see coming when we migrated here :D Free Full Episodes from Last Week Tonight!

[@JediMB]

Welcome to Sweden! Hope it's/we're treating you well.

[@TheGreatAscent]

@@JediMB The Swedes have been great and very welcoming

[@ChristianRanum-w9m]

I like your profile picture. Swede here

[@smuller8988]

Yes, the standard: This video is not available in your country. Oh Germany. tststs so far behind on everything

[@EwokPanda]

The US is so f*cked. It's insanely depressing.

[@ThisIsMyFullName]

It is not that bad. Trump can cause a lot of harm on his words alone, but it takes a long time to actually change laws, and Trump has to abide by the law.

[@kamal_jab]

The possibility that f*cked up america drags other nations down with them is even fu*ked

[@kelva1304]

@@ThisIsMyFullName not anymore he doesn't

[@lovewatchingyoutube2467]

So true, the Jan 6th wouldn't have happened if he did...

[@SundraTanakoh]

@@kelva1304 CORRECT! Neither does Biden for that matter, something tRump and More American Gulible A-Holes seem to forget.

[@mateuszkuzma8029]

Challenging the votes sounds illegal to me as an European, in my country it is simple- you’re citizen with public rights -> you vote, and no one can take that right away from you . WTF USA, where are your freedom and rights? Please do better 🙏🏻

[@Henrik_Holst]

that is because they have no national ID register in the US (remember that they have to carry their birth certificate around, something that we in Europe haven't used in centuries) combined with the fact that they have laws by state on how you can loose your right to vote (yes you can loose your right to vote in the US, e.g in some state if you are ever convicted of a crime).

[@riffrff]

@@Henrik_Holst you can lose the right to vote in some EU states too (Italy and Greece for example) or voting rights are lost if you're not resident (Denmark, Malta). There's a host of variations, but yeah, nobody realistically believes fake votes are an issue.

[@mateuszkuzma8029]

​@@Henrik_Holst thank you very much for this informative answer 🙏 It still seems insane for me, even more when you've explained it😮

[@Erlewyn]

@@Henrik_Holst In France, you can also lose your right to vote (among other things) when you're convicted of a crime. It's temporary (up to 10 years), and you can be good-behavior'd , but it's there.

[@Henrik_Holst]

@@Erlewyn wow, didn't know that. Here in Sweden you can never loose any of your citizen rights, parties even visit prisons to gain votes.

[@ThalesWell]

"Voter challenges" sounds like a thing that shouldn't exist. It sounds like false alarm calls to 911, and maybe it should result in similar criminal liability?

[@sueyourself5413]

No, because those two things aren't at all the same. I thought that the Republican voters sounded stupid, then I started interacting with the other side... Choose whoever brings down American Imperialism the quickest.

[@damiang888]

Can't challenge votes, can't ask for an Id, can't ask for a vote recount, can't insist on paper ballots and can't mention that voting machines can be hacked... It looks like democrats get angry whenever someone wants an election that doesn't rely on the "trust me bro" honor system

[@enigma6682]

⁠@@sueyourself5413American imperialism? Now I want to know about your opinion on Russia and China, are they imperialist for you sir.

[@felipecouto1102]

​@@sueyourself5413Useful idiots on the other side are not gonna elect a disastrous economic system nor threaten the democratic process 😂

[@julianmueller3787]

In any sane country you don't need to register to vote

[@yunzensal5466]

How can this election be even close man.

[@t.s.adrian8785]

The Right sees Trump as the embodiment of their fear and hate. They despise liberals and immigrants. They are terrified that their country is "being taken away from them." They are so in love with the illusion of Trump, they can be sitting in the dark--sick and unemployed--and still love Trump. Their hate keeps them warm while their limbs turn gangrenous.

[@ermining1]

Because the alternative is equally as bad... You have a candidate that no one voted for that has support of war criminals and in the other side you have a corrupt child

[@KeepOnRecord]

A right wing propaganda slide in all sorts of social media groups. One minute you laugh at a meme from your hobby FB group, the next you're sharing something half true about Joe Biden, and really soon you're in a rabbit hole with thousands of right leaning voters who only wanted to share something about their hobby on FB. There's a science to getting people hooked to it.

[@Woodthorn]

From what I've seen any goodwill the Harris campaign had at the beginning has started to fade with the handling of Israel and their assurances of bipartisanship with people they've called a threat to democracy. The democrat base lacks the fervour and blind loyalty possessed by the republican cult of personality.

[@joseluisalc]

Maybe because both candidates support Genocide?

[@frankosp]

7:47 "It looks like dinner at the Fyre Festival" Brilliant 🤣🤣

[@intiorozco5063]

Legit laughed out loud

[@gamepapa1211]

That Waffle House order code is even more complex than secret signals spies use to communicate with each other, like WTF!?

[@AndoresuPeresu]

I think I found a spy

[@philsanders9625]

Lots of places are like this. Think about old school grocery shops 500 types of fruit and vegetables. Everyone has a unique code Iceberg lettuce 1061 Jazz apples 1621 Brazil nits 3332 If your new you'll get a small manual organised in numeric order. Goodluck

[@olenhol2przez4]

They are codes. CODES. NOT SOME IRL PICTOGRAPHS BUT RANDOM

[@sormiliha]

Tolkien: Invents a new language for his books. Waffle House: I'm a bit of a linguist my self.

[@Dmol8]

It works without any power or any technology so it is fit to purpose for keeping the Waffle House as open as possible.

[@carloszenteno]

Charge $40 dollars per challenge. If the challenge goes thru, you get your money back. If it doesn't, you lose the money. Problem solved.

[@forgiveman]

There would be some people financing those claims in order to damage the image of the voters/elections. Even if they lose money, they win by wreaking havoc.

[@lovewatchingyoutube2467]

Brilliant 💡

[@t45tt4tr]

Lose*❤

[@100Parey]

Then billionaires will just pay people to do it, no ?

Or, if the challenge is legitimate, you get 400.

[@leucduykiet8757]

OK, what insanity is happening in America this time?

[@Feefa99]

RAAAAAISINS

[@leucduykiet8757]

@@Feefa99 TOAAAAAAAAST

[@elicioember9231]

America is a whole continent with two subcontinents. There are a lot of people on America that do not live in the United States. Not even Northamerican is a good term. Its USA citizen, I am Mexican, and I am both an American and a North-American, and thanks the gods I am not an USA citizen. As things are in the USA right now I rather mark a clear difference.

[@DenyseLRoss]

can't read a clock at waffle house 🤣

[@Patbol59]

So scary ! As a citizen of the world, I hope Kamala Harris is your next president. Best greetings from France ! 💙

[@ermining1]

They're both equally bad. Trump is just not an establishment criminal like the people behind Harris such as Cheney

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Yeah, France with the current percentage of certain group is also scary, unfortunately :/

[@Patbol59]

@@marikothecheetah9342 unfortunately you are right... 😕

[@niccolomanahan7775]

I am looking forward to more of John’s “valley girl by way of Werner Herzog” impressions.

[@guiramos3733]

There’s literally NO ONE capable of making a monologue on Waffle House interesting like John! 😆

[@mwagaha3343]

I could

[@ojj75]

Can I just say that tonight's audience is spectacular? 😄

[@drakonyanazkar]

Had the same impression. It's like they gave good snacks on set.

[@aribantala]

19:55 Because... They're trying to get... A driver's license? So they can legally drive a vehicle? Huh?

[@zoznammic]

This is what happens when you put home-schooling on the same level as being taught by someone who actually graduated.

[@JediMB]

This is what happens when you've allowed Fox News to exist since the mid-90s.

[@zoznammic]

@@JediMB Also true

[@ilkka9385]

The Waffle House system is ahead of it's time. You don't even have to know how to read or write to work there.

[@chancingproductions4453]

True honestly. Idiocracy is one hell of a movie

[@shiroganepartas5835]

Wait… that may be why it’s used.

[@blechtic]

Child labour FTW.

[@ggwp638BC]

@@shiroganepartas5835 100%. Power is down? The system works. Cook/server can't read? The system works. Cook/server is an immigrant, refugee, can't spell a word of English? The system works. Web system is down, no internet? The system works. You run out of paper, no pencils, everything is soaked in water? The system still works. In theory the Waffle house could be demolished and so long as they have a make-shift kitchen they could still use that code. Also, if you want to bring employees from other locations, there is no worrying about training and making sure every waffles house is using the same software and the same version. The system is universal.

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

If I were to be hired in Waffle House, I'd be fired in an hour. Who came up with that convoluted system of relaying orders and thought it makes sense? I'm sure people are bound to misplace those things on the plate.

[@nadiahassan5307]

Maybe they are secretly founded by Mensa searching for new candidates. Being smart is not enough, you must have a photographic memory!

[@sodernaut]

Definitively the intended takeaway of the episode

[@Brian-tn4cd]

Seems to me like the sort of thing no one person decided, in high strees high movement situations people always makes shorthands to move understand what's needed quickly, two people then made a system that worked them, then another got in and added something on top, then someone on high changed something they adapted and so on and on until there's essentially whole language for the shorthand and then it becomes standardized

[@LeonNFG]

Probably started with somebody doing it for one thing that got ordered a lot, then expanded, then a boss saw it and ran with it, and now thousands if not tens of thousands of people have to live with it.

[@ClassicEber]

Who are these damn people who are just itching to snitch on their fellow citizens? Truly dystopian.

[@JediMB]

People whose primary hobby is fearing and dehumanizing those who are superficially different from them.

[@quietreason8679]

These same people will claim to love the US constitution, even while they're trying to deprive their fellow citizens of the constitutionally protected right to vote. It really is newspeak and doublethink. Give it a few more years of Trumpism and you'll have thoughtcrime and Trump's face on huge posters all over America.

[@Elkator955]

Just your average national socialists. Snitching on your parents was common practice with those guys. They didn't need to be high ranking officers to do this cruelty.

[@felipecouto1102]

And then if they got what they wanted, they'd start doing it to each other.

[@DifferentCorner42]

I don't understand America and voting. Where I live if you have an identity certificate and are over 18 you vote if not you don't. It's that simple. Implement that and then no need for all this circus.

[@Pecisk]

USA and UK has no official identity documents. Citizenship proof would do and I wonder why they don't use any of that.

[@ifeoluwaadeoye6557]

They know that, the Republicans know that, which is why they've made it difficult to get those documents. There's a reason the DMV is notorious for being slow.

[@Darknamja]

My wife received a text message reminding her the polls were going to close and that she needed to come and vote. Registration is automatic if you are a citizen.

[@konradmostek1311]

the dont have ids They have documents that can function as an id for example driving license I never learned how to drive so i would probably be never allowed to vote in the us

[@Darknamja]

@@konradmostek1311 My daughter went to university in the States and got a non-driver ID from the DMV. As a US citizen, she was eligible to vote if registered.

[@miguelladinodevera614]

@23:00 that's an 87 year old abuela?! With respect, Señora Martinez could be mistaken for being 10 or 20 years younger than she looks! Whoever gave the order to raid, harass and intimidate that poor woman must eventually rot in the darkest level of hell.

[@quietreason8679]

Ken Paxton is well on his way there. If you have 20 minutes to spare, I'd go look up the Hysteria Podcast's episode on him. Paxton is way worse than Oliver lets on here, from his racism and misogyny to outright abuse of power and fraud, the guy is a legal nightmare for the state of Texas.

[@RachelBortot]

“Nancy sends me something every single day” 💀

[@umjackd]

I'm and American who lives and works in Poland, and sent my ballot to TX last week. Hope it gets there, and I hope there aren't any shenanigans to try and disqualify me, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Hey, hope you have a good life here. :)

[@leeman1525]

Does Texas has a site that shows if the ballot is approved for counting? I live in Austria but vote in Ohio. They send us a site to track the ballot to make sure it’s been received and if there were any issues, so I know there isn’t an issue with mine,

[@gamepapa1211]

Trivia: Trump famously said he is the same person that he was when he's five years old. When you listen to his limited vocabulary and his "heads I win tails you lose" philosophy, it actually makes sense.

[@faarsight]

He's the kind of person that thinks they are perfect and never change. They don't listen to advice, they don't make any effort to improve or learn things.

[@Sanmibor]

French here, and finding it so baffling how the election process in the USA can be THAT bad. Like here in France, as soon as you are 18, you are automatically registered to vote in the town you live. Voting happens on Sunday, when most people are free. If you aren't, you can ask another people to vote for you by proxy, and for that you just have to go to a police station to verify your identity. And then after voting, any citizen can take part of ballot counting, which takes like 2h AT MOST at any ballot station. Really, how can the USA fuck this bad a simple thing like voting?

[@FloatingSunfish]

Wishing for a landslide victory for the good guys from the Philippines!

[@phrophetsamgames]

Well there was a landslide...

[@andrechen2617]

I'm not even American and I had to pause this video halfway to go tell my dogs I love them before I could continue watching

[@Phoca_Vitulina]

Yes!! Doggos deserve all the love and reassurance

[@castform57]

What a sad and undemocratic state of affairs if an inconsequential amount of votes can be denied by only a few people and then that will affect the entire country's election result. 300 million people say yes, but these 20 thousand people said no, so therefore the winning end result is no.

[@quietreason8679]

That's a good point. None of these election shenanigans Republicans are trying would be effective if there was no electoral college. If the winner was simply the candidate with the most votes, ditching even hundreds of thousands of votes in several states would likely make no difference, as most presidential electinos are millions of votes apart. The reason it gets down to these really tight margins is that getting a few thousand ballots declared invalid in a swing state can result in all the electoral college votes going to one candidate.

[@phrophetsamgames]

​@quietreason8679 Considering that Trump won the Popular vote, these practices and the Electoral College are not the be-all-end all of why the Democrats did so badly.

[@KaDaJxClonE]

Not at-home CoVID TESTS, but TESTING MACHINES, like the ones used by CVS at their little "drive through" outside shacks. Which are reusable hundreds of times.

[@juango500]

Last Week Tonight's Intro is the song "Go" by Valley Lodge, the instrumental version.

[@adamdaniel8909]

Waffle House, their motto... "Order and Chaos, no. We're Organized Chaos."

[@PobortzaPl]

Chaos Undivided.

[@Frazzled_Chameleon]

Brave words from the 911 operator. Most of the time they ask the dumbest questions known to mankind. I remember one call from one of those compilations on KZbin. A man was calling to say he’d found his sister decapitated in the kitchen. The operator kept asking if the child was breathing, if she had a pulse. And then man finally had to scream at the operator “Her head is no longer attached to her body!”

[@benjaminmadrigalperez9010]

It's by design. It helps ground the person calling. Most of the times the caller gets worked up.

[@kyuven]

Most of those questions are designed to keep the person on the other end talking until help arrives. And some callers can be rather distraught and unaware of what they're saying too. Since the operator cannot physically see the scene, it's possible that the caller may have mistook "cut to the neck" with "decapitated" English speakers also love hyperbole. Better the caller get angry at being asked to do something that makes no sense than to not ask and have nothing done at all.

[@joakimmillen4585]

19:45 I love how her eyebrows and her glasses just kind of create a circle, amazing

[@StewChicken42]

🎶Strong-stra-strong-strong-strong is WILD. 🎶 😂

[@juusan8078]

Its really weird how Republicans keeps spouting non sense about immigration as if white people aren’t all immigrants in the Americas

[@ZenMunk]

you should look up the definition of immigrants. Do you think there is any nation in the world in currently on land that belongs to them? Everyone alive today is a descendent of a group of people that killed another group of people and took their shit. Its human nature to say "look at them, THEY are weird". you just did it. just because native americans were here first, doesn't mean the land is theirs. The land belongs to whoever can take it and hold it. They who win wars makes the rules and writes the history. this is life.

[@parthenonx2697]

The whole reaction to the goal post theft and destruction versus when other people do it says everything.

[@murdoch9106]

I feel like I'm 4 years old and some is trying to explain algebra to me watching the ordering system from hell!

[@schwiftygamer9037]

What in the kryptos is this Waffle House ordering process 😂 the amount of laughter I let out at this rant I damn near fainted when he compared it to a Fyre festival meal

[@crashmad3319]

Watching you from France. We do have our issues down here, but, hell yours seems to be a hell of a lot. To my fellow americans buddies, plz stay focus . 4 more Trump years are not affordable

[@mostlynothing8130]

If you file an voting eligibility challenge and it is refuted, you should pay for the expenses that person suffered. In fact it should be a requirement that you put down a $1,000 security deposit for each challenge, to make sure you will pay those expenses

[@-Big_Big]

yes let money be the limiter. bad idea. just not let such stupid things possible to begin with

[@heather-ks8st]

thank you for uploading these episodes on KZbin!!!

[@The_Sleepiest_Socialist]

Well, if my body won’t let me sleep for more than three minutes tonight, I might as well start my morning (?) with some good ol’ John Oliver comedy news reporting.

[@danski.bryans]

Filipino here, published at 11am, so that's nice

[@ichiro.g]

Pinoy!!!

[@shirerocks9782]

hooray! hi!

[@tarielkaroldan4106]

What are you talking about, man? It's only 9:26 pm JK, greetings from the land of tacos and burritos

[@jinwu9423]

​@@ichiro.gYou've never seen another before?

[@jinwu9423]

No one asked.

[@warriorcid]

saludos desde TJ México, les doy gracias a J. Oliver y a todo el equipo que está detrás que hacen posible estas obras maestras.

[@TJSports]

Tijuasssssss 🎉

[@dace8030]

The fact that he will get even 1 vote shows the utterly poor situation of American Education.

[@kajakjohlopi7843]

It tells more about how pervasive and effective brainwashing methods and tools have become.

[@belliwatching]

I fucking love you, Last Week Tonight team

[@luma4902]

19:32 Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo(endangered species btw) not a normal hippo/river hippo. A pygmy hippo could still hurt a person if they feel threaten whoever they are reported to be less agressive than normal hippos and the deaths statistics seem to be associated with the normal hippos.

[@adrianodrika]

I STILL can't understand why US didn't adopted automated elections. Here in Brazil, 5pm the ballots close, and at the latest 9pm the results are done.

[@Kleyguerth]

You think they wouldn't pull the same crap that the ex president did in Brazil?

[@adrianodrika]

@@Kleyguerth most certainly, considering who financed that, but by then the electoral process would be way easier to verify and faster. I'm still not very sure about the indirect vote thing US uses, though. That works fine because we use direct elections.

[@Kleyguerth]

@@adrianodrika It doesn't matter if it's easier to verify, it's also easier to just point at it and say the illegals hacked into it.... In fact they did exactly that last time with machines that printed ballots.

[@felipeb.9321]

you can't rig an air-gapped electronic voting machine, unless you can hack the original software code before it gets loaded onto the machine. even then, each machine is tested on the day of voting, before any voters are permitted to vote, and any non-conformity invalidates a voting machine. however, every state choosing its own system of paper ballots, and how these are counted, enables room for manipulation, as the ridiculous 2000 Florida chads bullshit proved in George Bush Jr versus Al Gore. that election was decided by a few judges, not by US citizens. but besides the potential for vote rigging, you have to look at how virtually every other country chooses a leader based on the popular vote -- you get the most votes, you win -- whereas the US election is decided by a 200-year old anachronism called the electoral college -- each state decides who gets the electoral college votes, not US citizens. this makes it clear that the US voting system was never about fair elections -- one person, one vote -- it was always about a powerful minority owning the election system, which they then laughingly call "democracy".

[@dmk_games]

Why is the number 3 position at the 6 o'clock position.

[@olenhol2przez4]

My wife just left America to live with me in Europe. If things will go how we are worried they will IDK if we ever will come back

[@faarsight]

If America goes fascist the whole world may be fucked. Might not be safe in Europe tbh.

[@ermining1]

​@@faarsightwait it wasn't already facist? Sorry I was confused with the illegal endless wars and coorporitism

[@faarsight]

@@ermining1 It's not a Fascist dictatorship. More like a mix between Oligarchy and Democracy. Of course there are Fascist elements in US society. That's why they are close to electing a Fascist Dictator.

[@faarsight]

@@ermining1 I replied but it seems youtube auto-deleted the comment (I can only assume) just so you know. Won't bother re-typing the comment. It'll probably just be deleted again.

[@ermining1]

@@faarsight yeah I've been having this issue a fair amount lately. The algorithm gods aren't happy 🤣. Shame I would have been interested in reading your pov... because I'd like to think I'm wrong but haven't seen any proof of it so far.

[@gusstavv]

In public vehicles like subways and such, there is an emergency stop lever, which if used incorrectly (or in this case abused) you will be punished. I don't get why there isn't something similar for submitting fkin 100k false challenges. Not only they are wasting peoples time, they are wasting government money

[@aish125]

As an old person in Japan, kinda understand Vanderbilt fans. (Hansin Tigers fans threw away Colonel Sanders into Dotonbori river when they won in 1980's)

[@nurulwidyaningrum1204]

I thought John Oliver was going to insult cats. I am glad he didn't.

[@HienLeGia]

Almost time to say goodbye to this season, hopefully nothing bad for everyone by November

[@GabrielEtinzon]

Squirrel jumping at 27:37. Amazing

[@jaungiga]

The production needs to find that man laughing at 23:25 and hire him permanently

[@LionHeartSamy]

27:55 So relatable, getting constant busywork from someone at work that you cringe every time you hear her name

[@coleabraham4350]

7:51 I FUCKING SCREAMED LAUGHING

[@boffo63]

You should have shown a waitress calling out the order. That's the wildest part of the whole machinery.

[@MouseDenton]

Gotta give a shoutout to the Waffle House employees: they're overworked, underpaid, and an indispensable lifeline to the military bases they are located near. If you've been stationed in the South, you know that sign is like a light from the heavens descending upon an oasis in the swirling darkness of your drunken stupor.

[@em0_tion]

"Real Mayonnaise"? 👀 Only in America... 🤣

[@dantetre]

As European for me the American voting system/logic is so outdated, so dumb and so laughable...

[@azizs7604]

I love the names Thomas and Ryan!

[@hanasikova8634]

Can someone explain to my European mind, why is voter registration even a thing? In my country everyone is automatically put on the voter roll in the place are registered to live at (people without permanent housing can register at the municipality). I just show up the day of election with my ID (obligatory document). I have never heard fear-mongering about non-citizens voting and we do have a lot of fear-mongering about foreigners.

[@nddragoon]

it's a roadblock to make people not vote, because republicans win when turnout is low

[@Kleyguerth]

The official answer is that in the US people do not have a country wide ID. There's no single document that everyone has that could be used, so a voter registry is needed. The real answer is that the US is not, and has never been, a real democracy and constantly finds ways to keep "undsirables" from voting. In the 1800s it was simply written into law, in the 1980s it was by jailing them (and having in the law that people with a prison record lose their right to vote) and now in the 2020s it is by doing what's depicted in this video.

[@krishnawidardjo5777]

Thank you for the Rafa's tribute! #HastaLaRafa 🙏🙏

[@morbid1.]

dude with Anarchy tattoo explains big chain restaurant in house ordering system base on position of the jelly packages on empty plate... - florida

[@jasonblalock4429]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I just feel compelled to mention that Waffle House Records has its own Spotify Channel. With over 3K monthly listeners. This is the world we live in.

[@witchdoctor6502]

The wafflehouse code is just like that episode in star trek where they talked in stories :D and second thing - it seems that many americans think that everyone wants to live there, to be honest there were times when I thought USA was great state, now I wouldn't live there even if someone was paying me...

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

The Wafflehouse code is not like Sokath, his eyes uncovered. It's more like Shaka, when the walls fell.

[@AcidicOrpheus73]

28:34 I was not expecting the ammount of people making the challenges to be one single digit, Holy sh*t

[@tarmotyyri6733]

The U.S. is a corrupt autocratic plutocracy masquerading as a democracy, but unfortunately: "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know -and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” - H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

[@lindathalman3506]

John Oliver -- you have earned every award you've won in the past, present and future. Thank you for teaching and not preaching.

[@defenem73]

Trump and his cult whining that the Dems are cheaters is like angry gamers that call their opponents cheaters even though they lost because they just really suck.

[@gamepapa1211]

They've gone beyond that and closing in on domestic terror. I'm surprised the MAGA weirdos haven't been labeled a domestic terror group after Jan.6th.

[@benjaminmadrigalperez9010]

Or incels that call women that turn them down wh*res because they have boyfriends or husbands.

[@Gillsing]

They don't suck! They're the greatest voters! The best voters! You take that back! No, really. What cult _wouldn't_ think like that? Of course they can't have lost because they're in any way _lacking._

[@Alpha23TV]

I have MAX… but I don’t know why I prefer to watch this on KZbin! Wait… lol… I just figured it out! COMMENTS 😆

[@demogorghon]

Watching it from Europe. It's slowly getting less and less funny. I don't mean the show. I mean the situation in USA

[@faithypus]

0:21 Gracias, Rafa! ❤️

[@Zedster88]

Let's be clear "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions is not hair metal

[@tarsilaalbuquerque7259]

The fact that this kind of information is open to the public and that normal people can just open administrative process based on it is beyond me. The US is such a strange place.

[@moonboy9861]

Learnt from sam'onella how reliable waffle house is. You know shit is about to go down when its closed

[@princememphis7726]

Ayyyye I love sam!

[@revinaque1342]

Bamboo in the paper? C'mon, leave us Southeast Asians out of it 😅

[@klapsvin]

Using food for coding orders is kinda genius, hard to learn the code, but when learned it should be a lot faster to communicate what the order is. I love it, would'nt wan't to learn it though.

[@qllams]

I'm confused about why everyone is so against it: you can see at a glance what's needed, and you always have a reminder until you're done with that order. There is no need to squint at a tiny print or jumbled handwriting, no need to scratch out anything. Genius! We humans recognize visual information much easier than anything more modern, like writing or speech, so it actually uses less of your brain power, and you are going to be less mentally tired in the end of the day.

[@pvrhye]

I had no idea Waffle House line cooks knew jelly semaphore.

[@thailandretromods]

I laugh with John.... But I cry for America... Absolutely teetering on the precipice of collapse.....

[@dckjnsn]

cheers to this show's writers. awesome

[@StewChicken42]

I'm paused at 7:33. I've now accepted that you need an advanced degree in nucleaar physics to work at Waffle House. 👍🏽

[@Fowl-wy2nq]

As someone who has a degree in nuclear physics... I believe i wouldn't be able to handle that job :o

[@mk__cyanheron1154]

It's a different species of a Hippo. Moo Deng is a pygmy hippo, and hippos most responsible for human deaths are Nile hippos.

[@rajabuta]

Just give moo deng a chance 😂

[@vzheyko]

Imagine reporting about throwing goal post in a river… You lot never been to Europe and its football games 😂 Believe me, our fans are way wilder, particularly in Italy or Balkans.

[@Fenrisson]

5:50 - I've watched this part more times than I can count.

[@strathyreinn8124]

Re waffle house: it’s probably because not everyone reads or writes too well but can still do an excellent job

[@rhyestripes6059]

educations that bad there?

[@faarsight]

The fact that "not everyone reads or writes too well" seriously makes me question if the US is really a developed nation

[@animus_vox_a]

@@faarsight I would imagine that has more practical usage for multilingual areas, where not everyone is good with English. They found universal language to communicate quickly and efficiently, however crazy it seems to us, outside viewers

[@faarsight]

@@animus_vox_a Yeah yeah. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the appalling state of the US education system.

[@ThatSpoox]

dinner at fire festival cracked me up :D

[@puddingpack1277]

Thanks Waffle House I guess

[@franciscomena6024]

America please do the right thing!

[@robertlelkes]

Frankie has the best delivery 😂😂😂

[@methos_fisto]

"the signs were in spanish" "they don't even speak english" Ok English is the most spoken but legally I thought the US didn't have a national official language