Teary-Eyed John Oliver Begs Reluctant Voters to Back Harris
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The late-night host sent an emotional message to viewers in a passionate monologue days before the election.

Summary

In an emotional monologue, John Oliver urged undecided and reluctant voters to support Kamala Harris, emphasizing her policies on Medicare, reproductive rights, and poverty reduction.

Addressing frustrations over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, he acknowledged the struggle for many voters yet cited voices like Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, who supports Harris despite reservations.

Oliver warned of the lasting consequences of a second Trump term, including potential Supreme Court shifts.

Oliver said voting for Harris would mean the world could laugh at this past week’s photo of an orange, gaping-mouthed Trump in a fluorescent vest and allow Americans to carry on with life without worrying about what he might do next.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    13 days ago

    All due respect, you didn’t answer the question.

    Pyrrhic victories are meaningless. In the end, who actually followed through with change?

    Obama himself, the first black President, sympathized with you that change never seems to come quickly enough. Partly because people like Trump are so damaging and disruptive to progress. In their absence, we’d be far more free to advance more quickly. Alas, that’s just dreaming.

    So in the end, it was those liberals in Congress who passed the monumental change. And without question, MLK had more allies among them than he did the Confederate successors in the KKK, obviously.

    In the end, some change is better than no change is better than regression through entropy.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      219·
      13 days ago

      there is no objective answer to your question; only responses that align with our world view and in my world view neither biden nor harris represent progress based on my experiences.

      MLK jr was successful because of the portrayals of racially motivated violence in the media galvanized the voting public into passing the civil rights acts and our leaders have since taken efforts; spent money; and have repealed several civil rights related acts to ensure that it doesn’t happen again; this isn’t progress.

      • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        13 days ago

        If you believe we haven’t made progress since Emmett Till and Stonewall, then you’re looking at the arc of history through a drinking straw.

        • eldavi@lemmy.ml
          213·
          13 days ago

          that’s the last time we made progress and those too come from the same generation of civil rights pushes.

          similarly to MLK jr, our leaders have also taken efforts, spend money and legislated away rights to ensure that they never happen again; yes we did progress at those times, but haven’t since then.

          • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            13 days ago

            And if Trump gets to appoint Thomas and Alito’s replacements, we never will again.

            • eldavi@lemmy.ml
              212·
              13 days ago

              yes and the vast majority who only have that “shallow understanding” and the people who have worked ensure that they do have sealed our fate.

                • eldavi@lemmy.ml
                  111·
                  13 days ago

                  i’m never that lucky and this is clearly hitting close to home for you as it does for me based on your comments.

                  i have the benefit of doing this for about 50 years so i have my own ways of coping and i hope you have your own version of touching grass too.