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John Oliver took a detailed take a look at the outcomes of the 2024 presidential election on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight, diving proper in to look at how Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris.
Clearly, that was not an final result Oliver had hoped for, having spent the top of final week’s present arguing for undecided viewers to vote for Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee.
“(O)n Tuesday, Trump gained re-election,” he mentioned originally of Sunday’s present, to boos from the viewers, “which is, to place it mildly, not what I used to be personally hoping would occur. And truthfully, in Trump’s victory speech, he could not appear to consider it both.”
The HBO host then confirmed a clip of Trump’s speech, by which the previous president and present president-elect mentioned: “We overcame obstacles that no person thought potential, and it’s now clear that we have achieved probably the most unbelievable political factor,” he mentioned, including incredulously: “Look what occurred. Is that this loopy?”
Stated Oliver: “Yeah, it is loopy. It is actually fucking loopy. He is mainly one sentence away from saying, ‘I imply, you guys noticed what I did, proper? And you continue to voted for this. That does not make any sense.'”
Oliver continued: “I do know being a shambling verbal mess is a part of Trump’s model, however it’s nonetheless unbelievable to see an incoming president ad-lib a victory speech with the identical vitality as one of the best man who did not notice he needed to give a toast: ‘What a ravishing day. What, what a ravishing magnificence in the present day. My brother and his girlfriend — spouse, sorry — in the present day they… they did the factor you all noticed it. I assumed my half was finished with the bachelor social gathering, however right here we go. Marriage is loopy, proper? It is loopy.’”
Oliver went on to notice the way it’s been a “tough week” by which “the tiniest moments this week, the place the world was occurring like nothing had occurred may very well be out of the blue enraging.” He cited examples reminiscent of textual content from a relative extending an invite to Thanksgiving, The New York Occasions sending an alert a few recipe for roast hen, and the Hi there Kitty model posting on X a phrase search puzzle with the caption, “Checking in … What are you trying ahead to this month?”
“Hey, Hi there Kitty — not fucking now,” Oliver mentioned. “I’d like to let you know what I am trying ahead to, however I can’t appear to seek out ‘consuming my lights out and (having) some grief mac and cheese’ in your silly puzzle. Get the fuck out of right here.”
He famous that X customers additionally acquired mad at a video teaser for Tyla’s new tune by which a derriere carrying jean shorts was being buffed. The teaser was posted the day after the election and elicited responses like “not now woman. not now” and “Tyla studying the room” with a gif of Lea Michelle. Nevertheless, many others identified that the singer is South African, with one noting: “She is actually South African. … No one’s comfortable that Trump gained, together with me, however she’s actually not an American. What do y’all need from her?”
“Which is truthful,” Oliver famous. “Folks in different nations are allowed to buff their jean shorts. They did not put us on this state of affairs. We all know.”
He went on: “And, and truthfully, if you’re watching this proper now and considering, you already know what, I am not truly prepared for this both, I completely get it. It’s comprehensible to not need yet one more man in a doom go well with squawking at you. So if you’re too indignant, depressed or anxious to observe the remainder of this present, no drawback. I’ve been in every of these locations this week, and they’re all an accurate response as a result of look, we did a present like this after the election in 2016 when nobody anticipated Trump to win. This time, although, his profitable felt like an actual chance all 12 months lengthy, a lot of individuals mobilized to cease it, but it surely occurred anyway, which feels by some means worse.”
Later, Oliver gave some recommendation to his viewers who’re struggling to come back to phrases with the outcomes of the election.
“(O)n Jan. 20, Trump is getting sworn again into workplace and that’s very miserable. So what’s going to the remainder of us do subsequent? Nicely, for the subsequent few days, I would say no matter you need,” he mentioned. “I’m not gonna decide you for a way you get by way of the subsequent week for 2 causes. One, I am not gonna see it. I’m on the TV. That is far-off from the place you truly are.
“And two, as a result of there isn’t any proper response proper now; a lot of us are grieving and grief has phases. We take completely different quantities of time for various individuals. The stage I am at present locked in is anger. I’m mad for trans individuals who have been threatened. I am disgusted on the prospect of mass deportation. I am livid at Biden for not dropping out earlier, and that the egos and inaction of two males (Trump and Biden) older than bank cards themselves have led us thus far. I am mad that girls have to listen to ‘your physique, my selection’ from right-wing dipshits. I am mad that Elon Musk is seemingly sitting in on conferences with the president of Ukraine. I am mad concerning the myriad of harm Trump will do that can’t simply be undone like setting again efforts to struggle local weather change and appointing extra Supreme Court docket justices. And I am mad on the prospect of 4 extra years of individuals saying, ‘So is your job like a lot simpler with Trump as president?’ No, it’s not! No, it fucking is not! Fuck you a lot!”
