I was summoned for jury duty once where the defendant was a Black man accused of possession of drug paraphernalia. I was in the front row, and several of us in the front were asked several questions about our feelings about drugs or about whether or not we thought we could be impartial. I mentioned that I had had friends that had used illegal drugs and I had had friends in law enforcement, so I thought that I could be impartial. I didn't really say anything else. Several other people to my sides expressed very strong biases against drug users. I was not selected. From what I saw, the jurors who were selected were the ones who had expressed the strongest bias against the defendant. You might wonder why the defense attorney didn't object to this. Unfortunately, there was no defense attorney. It was explained to us that the defendant was _not_ entitled to an attorney because he was not being deprived of his life or his liberty, only of his property. He was unable to afford an attorney, so he was trying to defend himself, and he was doing a very poor job of it. He declined to participate in the voir dire (jury selection) process because he was "leaving it up to God." I felt pretty bad for the defendant. Even though I have never attended law school, I felt like what little legal education I had gotten in business school and from watching legal dramas would make me a better defense attorney for him than he could be for himself, and I wished that I could have just volunteered to represent him anyway. I could have at least kept a logical eye on things and objected to anything that seemed overtly biased.
@KrakenBoot4 жыл бұрын
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of conviction
@twonumber224 жыл бұрын
Pretty much every aspect of the US criminal justice system is systematically racist. From beginning to end.
@MMuraseofSandvich4 жыл бұрын
You'd think that would be unconstitutional, but evidently the courts have interpreted "due process of law" to not include guaranteed legal counsel in the 4th amendment.
@granville74 жыл бұрын
so it wasn't a criminal case but a civil court case? what was the value of the property affected?
@agiar20004 жыл бұрын
@@granville7 I believe that it was criminal and not civil because there wasn't a plaintiff suing for damages. It was the state charging the defendant with a crime (posession of drug paraphernalia), however, the penalty they were seeking was not prison or death, only some sort of property. I guess a fine and possibly confiscation of property in question, but they didn't tell us what property was at stake or its value.
@Redkirby944 жыл бұрын
As a Danbury native, I am shocked and appalled that you'd mention our railway museum, but not the 50 ft tall monstrous Uncle Sam statue in front of it. We deserve to get thrashed for that alone.
@geertbeerens8264 жыл бұрын
Careful what you wish for ! With John Oliver's penchant for running jokes, now I feel a sequel coming :p
@MsLeigh94 жыл бұрын
I'm from Danbury too. He hates it because of the Railway museum and the falling down castle?
@frizzlethecat20844 жыл бұрын
I actually paused to go through the comments - what the hell has it done to John that he is so angry at Danbury? 😂
@XiaoGuanYin1044 жыл бұрын
@@frizzlethecat2084 are you truly unable to understand this????? Wow. Just wow.
@Arltratlo4 жыл бұрын
i dont even know where your state is!
@davidshillaker75784 жыл бұрын
John Oliver: They don't even give me free HBO and I'm actively ruining it. Me: Which is why I support you on KZfaq
@sethdaniell10712 жыл бұрын
Same, but I'm not sure KZfaq is the high ground you or I want
@finnscribner3632 жыл бұрын
Yepppp
@finnscribner3632 жыл бұрын
And it’s wicked expensive
@felixvelariusbos4 жыл бұрын
As a software developer, I feel like a broken record but I'll say it again: please please please stop putting all of your trust in software. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of smart people in the field that are doing amazing things. But it's a relatively new field compared to say medicine or architecture. We pretty much have no universally enforced standards we have to adhere to (so it's really just the honor system), lots of people get into the field thinking that it's "easy" and they can just a throw script together and call it a day, and a lot of the people hiring us don't know shit about computers nor realize you can't just hire somebody halfway through their computer science degree and expect them to know what they're doing. Software can help and do a lot of great things. But for godsake keep some goddamn humans in the loop. /endrant
@BonDieu6174 жыл бұрын
As someone in the early stages of learning Python, don't let me near anything critical. _Anything_. I can barely use command prompts, let alone knowing how a bigger system works. Shit's hard yo.
@i-evi-l4 жыл бұрын
Computer programming is only barely younger than the invention of aspirin.
@felixvelariusbos4 жыл бұрын
@@BonDieu617 good luck on your studies! Please don't take my ornery rant as discouragement; we need lots of good programmers, and you'll get there. Just takes practice:)
@andrearobyn37014 жыл бұрын
I don't know shit about computer science, but it's similar to conversations I've had with people about math, specifically those who say two calculators who have different answers to the same problem are both correct. Calculators and other machines are not infallible sources of information - it depends on who programs it. A calculator that gives you the wrong answer doesn't mean that answer is 'technically' right depending on the methodology to solve it - it's just wrong because the programmer made a mistake. Humans making the software make mistakes, some minor and others disastrous.
@leechgully3 жыл бұрын
In Australia we have a paper ballot and full chain of custody over all paper ballots. It works very efficiently. Unfortunately we have just started experimenting with on-line vote casting, which I think is retrograde for the reasons you outline.
@RichardX14 жыл бұрын
John referred to the last letter of the alphabet as "zee" and not "zed". He has truly become an American.
@anelisajustanelisa2364 жыл бұрын
My heart sank when he said that....his transformation is complete.
@allyjay22144 жыл бұрын
He pronounced zebra the American way too :(
@disdehcet4 жыл бұрын
@@allyjay2214 I didn't even notice...oh my
@angrysocialjusticewarrior4 жыл бұрын
The inventors of English declared it to be "zed". So the correct pronunciation is "zed".
@musicfreak317514 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry can someone explain?
@whateverIFeelLike4 жыл бұрын
I can guarantee 2 things whenever I watch Last Week Tonight. 1. I'm going to learn something I didn't know. 2. I'm going to be bummed about said thing.
@captaintomato54334 жыл бұрын
Have you forgotten Chitan?
@scuda1874 жыл бұрын
I like his show for reason number 1 too.
@whateverIFeelLike4 жыл бұрын
@Nice Try oh no I've been wounded by your harsh words. I'm a fad get? Heavens to betsy I don't think I could ever recover. Next time you want to insult someone make sure you don't make it evident the extent to which your life had not been burdened by education. You can't spell a six letter word. Pathetic.
@brendant194 жыл бұрын
You ought not treat a comedy show as if it's educational programming. It's not. Even educational programming provides only part of the story. You can be sure that a 10 minute comedy monologue is not entirely accurate.
@whateverIFeelLike4 жыл бұрын
@@brendant19 this isn't a strictly comedy show. If it was it wouldn't do pieces on special taxing districts. Not really going to hear a lot of 10 minute monologues about that are you? The whole point of this show is to be both educational and comedic. And of course it is meant to be funny, it's fucking hilarious, but it isn't exclusively comedy.
@jademoon79384 жыл бұрын
I really wish people would remember that Indigenous peoples exist and very much deserve to not be totally ignored. Every stat about black Americans is even more true for Indigenous Americans, and I really wish the two would join together in the fight, because they share common experiences.
@Archgeek03 жыл бұрын
Very much so, but that's an even bigger mess that they're probably holding on to for a future episode. Something like "Remember all the ways the justice system is stacked against people of colour? We focused mainly on african americans, but tonight, let's discuss just how much *worse* it all somehow is for native americans."
@Hayanomie3 жыл бұрын
@@Archgeek0 it would take way way longer... I'm Canadian and am so shocked at how little even leftists mention indigenous people in America.
@leftismtoday60723 жыл бұрын
Indigenous Americans don’t vote Democrat like black people do so nobody cares
@macnosmutano48493 жыл бұрын
So true!! The show would be a great place to discuss the issue of missing indigenous women.
@datachick20013 жыл бұрын
@Scruff Looking Nerve Hurter so you think that the 15th century Indians whipped out the 13th century Indians with guns and small pox and by killing off their food, denying them access to jobs and currency, and restricting their movements? You know we have a general idea about the populations of North and South America going back about 20,000 years right? There is no evidence of war to the scale of the Viking invasion of England . Thinks skirmishes between Scottish clans and not Braveheart.
@sixstringedthing4 жыл бұрын
What kind of "programmer" hears "randomised selection" and thinks "I'll just sort the list alphabetically and start selecting from A until we have enough names". And to think this person is out there in the world, ruining code wherever they touch it. That's really the most interesting take-away from this story, because the revelation that America's jury selection systems are often privately operated and are full of racial bias is really utterly unsurprising. I could hope that it might get fixed but let's face it, it probably won't. Can't let the Poors have too much of a say in who's running things, they might elect the wrong corrupt pollie.
@chrispettus25323 жыл бұрын
A lazy and inexperienced programmer. I think John said it was revealed the code had been written by a part time college student.
@cchoi1083 жыл бұрын
You guys are falling for the blame the programmer trap oh my God. These were deliberate actions the programmer did as he was instructed duh.
@viddork3 жыл бұрын
@@cchoi108 So many "accidental" omissions. It really is a bit hard to swallow.
@tifforo13 жыл бұрын
Yeah, there are TONS of algorithms for doing things randomly. Wind Waker ran on 2001 recreational game hardware, and its randomness was cracked, but even its randomizer would be better than that if they didn't start with the same seed value each time.
@rachelrachel91523 жыл бұрын
Ive only taken one programming class in matlab nonetheless and i could do better than that. It's hard to believe it wasn't intentional to some extent
@AggresivelyBenign4 жыл бұрын
John Oliver is the only host who has managed to cope with no audience without sounding completely awkward
@mandy97754 жыл бұрын
Same guy and I can do my own moment of laughter lol
@chefjoelcarpenter32044 жыл бұрын
Except for the fact they edit videos and are left biased. Wish we had an unbiased comedy political show
@SacredDaturaa4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, first couple of shows after the switch were a bit awkward, but since then he has really hit his stride. Not needing to pander to a live audience has made his show sharper than ever.
@marlongaines93194 жыл бұрын
Because it's the truth.
@ailish22844 жыл бұрын
Chef Joel Carpenter ok... 1) whaT does a shows political leaning have to do with the competence of its host? 2) a 100% politically unbiased comedy show would still be shitting on corruption, big corporations, and trump bc those things are objectively terrible
@thatomokoena46734 жыл бұрын
“You dont want smart people” is the most American thing I've ever heard
@ThomasLiljeruhm4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Trump: "I love the poorly educated"
@nightlightabcd4 жыл бұрын
Not having smart people on the jury, pretty much eliminates most all Trump supporting right wingers!
@DaveCM4 жыл бұрын
@@nightlightabcd you may want to read your comment again.
@antzerobooks4 жыл бұрын
no "race card" is the most american things ever
@jpistolas4 жыл бұрын
Judging by the last two elections that seems to be simply the American way.
@megamihestia40493 жыл бұрын
When the accidents so consistantly emit the same group of people, you start to doubt how much of an accident it actually is.
@alyssinwilliams4570 Жыл бұрын
Eeeeeeeexactly
@Yewtewba9 ай бұрын
I emit wind, jury duty omits black people.
@NiaSuperpinkHaley3 жыл бұрын
My very black grandmother is 78 years old and has been registered to vote longer then I’ve been alive and in the year 2021 for the very first time she was called to serve for jury duty.
@pirojfmifhghek5664 жыл бұрын
John Oliver's show is so much better without his studio audience. Late night tv hosts left and right have been struggling to pad out their shows during the pandemic, but John Oliver has used the silence to plow through the content like an angry diabetic demolishing the crab leg tray at an all you can eat buffet. It's equal parts mesmerizing and intense.
@Javier.M.4 жыл бұрын
put attention in his shows with audience, he never takes a break, he talks through the laughs
@Kirsten_is_cursed104 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful word-picture you paint...
@pirojfmifhghek5664 жыл бұрын
@@Javier.M. Definitely. Though I remember how his pacing was during the beginning, when he started doing the shows by himself. Those unnatural pauses were a byproduct of the comic's natural habit of waiting for the laughs after jokes, but he got so much better over the past few months. It's so solid and tight.
@mr.d.41754 жыл бұрын
I am diabetic but sorry, I crack the crab legs for my wife.😂😂
@ncdogg4254 жыл бұрын
It took a while for me to get pass a audience. I still love to hear the crowd reaction to his jokes and one-liners.
@jlee33614 жыл бұрын
80% of the time I watch Oliver is just me going "I didn't even know this was an issue, but wtf?"
@angelofverdun4564 жыл бұрын
Crazy, right?! I do love that the best we got is an England Native Comedian for us to point out how fucked up we are.
@RellshouldBsleep4 жыл бұрын
Same and im black
@thatfield9774 жыл бұрын
That's actually the very reason I watch his show: to laugh, of course, but also to become educated.
@flone98724 жыл бұрын
This new immigrant got it.
@HarderTime894 жыл бұрын
Dont get too involved. Scrollin through 5k comments and findin that one crazy person who knows something about some senator in my district. The rabbit holes will take you to some crazy places. Lol
@vickit71493 жыл бұрын
I was called for jury duty when I was 7 months pregnant with twins(I had been called previously too); I sent in the form with my number. A few weeks later a nervous sounding man called and said I wasn’t excluded and needed to arrive, etc. After hearing him nagging me for 10 minutes I finally told him fine, but that I needed a bathroom break every 10 minutes and a bucket because I was still fucking vomiting. Click... I haven’t been called since. The twins are 17 now..
@mksabourinable3 жыл бұрын
I've also heard that if you've ever experienced sexual violence or harassment you end up struck from juries in instances of sexual violence and/or harassment, resulting in overwhelmingly male juries, which explains the resulting rulings...
@clockworkkirlia74753 жыл бұрын
I hope that's not true, but... it does ring true. Frustratingly, infuriatingly so.
@vanilla63263 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, you do get struck, people will claim it’s to avoid retraumatization but will typically ignore certificates from medical professionals or the person in question when deciding. So yea it sucks
@relagro2 жыл бұрын
Last time I was called up, I believe I was struck for knowing rape victims.
@Resi1ience2 жыл бұрын
I can see why they'd strike victims of violence for such cases, as one does not want trauma and emotion to cloud one's better judgment. You want fairness for the accused, and to put them against people who may be blinded _by_ that trauma would be a veritable death sentence.
@rhythmandblues_alibi6 ай бұрын
@Resi1nce it's really insulting that you think people who have experienced traumatic abuse are unable to think rationally and treat people with impartiality.
@makiiavely4 жыл бұрын
It's astonishing how many episodes show private companies taking part in something the private sector should have no business in
@kristianjensen58774 жыл бұрын
You mean to say that basing the judicial and medical systems off of capitalistic principles was a bad idea and that personal gain might be a motive to corrupt said systems to create personal wealth rather than solving the problems they were supposed to solve?
@makiiavely4 жыл бұрын
@@kristianjensen5877 pretty much yeah, although in this case it's not as flagrant as in other episodes, the one that sticked with me the most was standarized testing tbh
@kristianjensen58774 жыл бұрын
@@makiiavely Huh, I wasn't aware of that particular problem. Thanks for pointing it out, I need to look into that.
@ahyan144 жыл бұрын
makiiavely capitalism kinda sucks
@kristianjensen58774 жыл бұрын
@@ahyan14 Yep, but it seems to be a better way of governing a society than anything that has come before it up until now. American capitalism seems especially anti-human though.
@jesseearly8044 жыл бұрын
My mom has a PhD, been summoned for Jury Duty several times, but guess what, never been selected to sit a trial... They don't want smart people.
@12x2richter4 жыл бұрын
America as a whole.
@rawrnicolebear4 жыл бұрын
this is why i look and seem stupid, but am actually not THAT stupid
@kidkeith88784 жыл бұрын
One side doesn't want smart people. The other side very much does want smart people.
@positivevibes97094 жыл бұрын
Just curious a PhD in what? Your mom is very educated. Glad to see a woman succeed.
@Colt-Forty54 жыл бұрын
I’m sure your mother would be thrilled to get stuck at a courthouse Monday-Friday for 3 weeks, 10 hours a day. God forbid if she gets sequestered, too. Funny thing, I’ve never once heard a story start with “This one time, I was summoned for Jury Duty and it was amazing!” Jury duty is equivalent to sitting in a DMV for 10 hours a day. After an hour you’re going to question why the hell you thought this was a good idea..
@elmeralvarado12363 жыл бұрын
I love that accepts and jokes about that he looks like an owl. I'm not saying he does but it's genuinely heart warming
@jasperdraca3 жыл бұрын
I didn't really get the whole bird comparison that he kept going on about until I realized that instead of just nodding his head, he bobs his whole upper body. That definitely reminds me of birds.😁🐦🦉🐧
@eileene.58702 жыл бұрын
He also has a large nose, which reminds people of a beak. It's hard to tell from head-on, but his profile explains why people say he's a variety of fowl. I never noticed the body-bobbing thing, but now I can't unsee it, so thanks for that! 🤣
@marnes55753 жыл бұрын
"our algorithm to select random jury members is a trade secret" lol wtf? It's a democratic process so the way it's done just cannot be a secret, and the best way to do it is pretty much just entirely randomly.
@marnes55753 жыл бұрын
@Zachary Morris depends how far you wanna drive "peers". Are they supposed to be "average, regular citizens like you" or are they supposed to be your buddies from around the corner and people from your chat groups with the same whatever trait makes you a minority (making it a jury not representing the whole of society at all)? Also, still, it should not be a secret. Making it a secret means it can be rigged.
@asneakychicken3223 жыл бұрын
@@marnes5575 I think he just means representative, so if 30% of the people in your state are one race then 30% of the jury should be that, something along those lines. Although I also hate to see how they seem to hate educated people and seem intent on it being made up of 100% less well educated/more impressionable people
@marnes55753 жыл бұрын
@@asneakychicken322 well I hope "representative" considers more factors than only ethnicity then. I suppose you'd want to have specific selection algorithms then if you want to avoid statistical outliers resulting in unrepresentative juries, since a random selection would only be representative on average. But then the algorithm still shouldn't be a secret, that's just crazy.
@kamilareeder14933 жыл бұрын
Im late to this video but you're right, itd literally be better if they did a fucking raffle lol
@ipodhty2 жыл бұрын
@@asneakychicken322 which randomness would cause most of the time to happen (with ofcourse a spread)
@sirgromith4 жыл бұрын
This show should be called "America is more racist than you think with John Oliver." It's very informative for me as a non-american.
@Lapantouflemagic04 жыл бұрын
yeah, that said this whole year being only centered on racism issues may become a bit triing. i know it's important but don't let that become the only thing you talk about.
@amauryleblanc79794 жыл бұрын
"America is EVEN more racist than you think" there you go.
@jinxterpinxter4 жыл бұрын
@@Lapantouflemagic0 Normal people dont get tired of discussing racism.
@nmarrs85394 жыл бұрын
As an American I’m always surprised by people who don’t know how racist we are.
@LucaPasini4 жыл бұрын
Saying that it is just racist is like an over-simplification: America seems like a place where poor or disadvantaged people, but even the whole population in general, are constantly and systematically exploited to various extents, with the approval of the government and the laws, who seem to defend the right of anyone to be exploited by whoever has more power and money. And they call that "freedom".
@1972LittleC4 жыл бұрын
" When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty" Norm Crosby
@RandySasquatch4 жыл бұрын
LOL , JUST what I was thinking
@XxThunderflamexX4 жыл бұрын
@Jon O That and skewed to the liberties of the rich
@1972LittleC4 жыл бұрын
@Jon O Well, the jury system makes it not a judicial thing anymore, but a "who can make the biggest song and dance act to wow the audience" thing. That's my biggest gripe with a judicial system based on jury verdicts and sentencing. Plus, they made a joke about it on TBBT about "jury of your peers", but if you're one of the smartest (or dumbest) people in the world, how can others be your peer in this matter?
@christofferrasmussen65334 жыл бұрын
@@1972LittleC "peers" refer to literally everyone, because we're all equal in the eyes of the law. That's the point mate ;)
@MegaPompoen4 жыл бұрын
@@christofferrasmussen6533 In that case, why can't people be judged by 2 or 3 people who actually studied law (and presumably ethics) and to this for a job, instead of 10-20 random people who may or may not have studied at all
@01ZombieMoses104 жыл бұрын
The saddest thing is that a desire to serve on the jury you're selected for is exactly what the prosecutor doesn't want. Typically, they want people who are shallow, impatient, uninterested and desperate to bring the trial to a quick close, relatively-speaking. Such people will be less interested in deep discussion, less willing to field controversial, uncomfortable topics and less interested quite simply, in whether justice is served.
@MartinOlminkhof4 жыл бұрын
For those of us not in the US this should be called Last Month Tonight
@DoctorWhoKage3 жыл бұрын
Where I live, it should be called, "Last 2 weeks tonight".
@nicholase28683 жыл бұрын
Or Last 200 Years Tonight
@xXGloomuraiXx3 жыл бұрын
@@nicholase2868 right 💀
@ddbtube21384 жыл бұрын
The monologue on the Race Card is a flex on storytelling John. You gifted, gifted man
@peartart4 жыл бұрын
'Show asks producer for strange thing' strikes me as a case of 'write what you know.'
@ChrisS-cs8qh4 жыл бұрын
This monologue reeks of writer Dan OBrien. So good
@neawsye4 жыл бұрын
Expounding at great length can be done well! Gotta love his delivery.
@Beiki4 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to point out that attorneys get 10 peremptory challenges. It's more like 3.
@ilyashuseen77874 жыл бұрын
It annoyed me so bad
@WhisperingIntoTheVoid4 жыл бұрын
"Private companies can be surprisingly unreliable." Its not a surprise anymore at this point, John.
@groovinhooves4 жыл бұрын
Was it ever a surprise to the truly 'woke' person?
@rpgspree4 жыл бұрын
Yep. And the point of contracting out to private companies is to make public processes and services opaque and unaccountable. They rarely ever save money either. And any lowest bid contractor that manages to do it is practically guarantied to be less reliable than the public system they replaced.
@1tonofclay4 жыл бұрын
Yet capitalism in intrinsically reliable with emphasis on private companies.
@jennifermcgoldrick63234 жыл бұрын
@AXioS TraLLö no man, no it's not. It always excluded a good portion of people and we are now seeing the ruins of capitalism in real time again (plenty of people have seen it for hundred of years and know it for many generations they actually know.) Capitalism works as a theory in a bubble the same way communism does, with almost the exact same pitfalls - just within different systems.
@DaDunge4 жыл бұрын
I think the surprisingly in there is meant to be ironic at this point.
@isaiahtaylor254 жыл бұрын
Me, about to watch a new Last Week Tonight video: Oh boy! What new thing am I going to hate today?
@Jenifer_R_4 жыл бұрын
Curtis Flowers has since been exonerated and freed. The prosecutor had to recuse himself from the impending seventh trial due to his relentless pursuit becoming a conflict of interest. No other prosecutor believed Flowers was guilty, and the "evidence" was highly questionable.
@ViciousDogAustria4 жыл бұрын
Society: There is something society needs to function USA: caN wE oUtSoUrCe ThAt
@TheGoofy19324 жыл бұрын
Should be, USA: How can we make the biggest profit from it?
@artemisfowldragon4 жыл бұрын
You misspelled “what’s the lowest amount we can pay someone overseas to do this job for us and then complain that they’re stealing our jobs”
@pyrotechnick4204 жыл бұрын
Last Week Tonight in a nutshell
@Opcode_4 жыл бұрын
@@EverythingWilsonMalone I believe there once was an experiment in Texas where they privatized the fire department and people had to have "fire insurance" or the FD wouldn't come. The problem with it was, houses were built so close together that the fire would spread to neighboring buildings and cause a much bigger disaster.
@kimjin-hyub34134 жыл бұрын
@Scott Wilhelms crony ??
@roid15104 жыл бұрын
“You dont want smart people”. I see a historical trend here.
@wombataldebaran96864 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most American sentences of all time
@kenudice98414 жыл бұрын
@RoD It’s worst than that. They don’t want educated black people, which implicitly means they don’t want smart black people.
@shadowsonicsilver64 жыл бұрын
Kenudice they don’t want smart people period. Not even smart white people.
@ch4.hayabusa4 жыл бұрын
A certain Austrian warlord was okay with smart people, as long as they were smart enough to play ball. Lawyers don't like Engineers in engineering cases because they have too much sway and are more likely to go outside the facts of the case.
@FreedomForever20104 жыл бұрын
Big shocker that they are avoiding people who have a better understanding of an evidence based approach to answering questions. I am in my late 30s with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Forget being dismissed from a jury pool, I have never even been called to one, and I have had a car registered in my name and been registered to vote my entire adult life. Until I saw this segment today, I had kind of forgotten that jury duty was even a thing I could potentially be called for.
@sneaks91502 жыл бұрын
I not only live in one of those cities in Connecticut where they weren't registered for jury duty, but the amount of shade he threw at Danbury cemented him as my favorite talk show personality.
@spacediva5 ай бұрын
😂I'd LoVe An explanation as to why the Danbury Shade was So satisfying... if ya care to share?🫖🍵😂
@Hexstream4 жыл бұрын
12:44 This "Race Card" bit is one of the best John Oliver moments ever! LOL!!
@frankied.roosevelt62323 жыл бұрын
I wish he wouldve realized the then reporter now runs head at CourtTV as lead anchor. 🤣
@eleahflockhart4 жыл бұрын
My mother was once on a jury for a trial where they were trying to convict a woman of "assault with a deadly weapon" for throwing a lit cigarette at a cop, and there was an advocate for police officers on the jury, they ended up with a hung jury because the police advocate insisted the defendant was guilty of assault with a deadly weapon
@IsabellaFrank24 жыл бұрын
I'm glad they weren't convicted!
@TimoRutanen4 жыл бұрын
Poor job by the defending attorney not to exclude that person from the jury I'd say.
@eleahflockhart4 жыл бұрын
@@TimoRutanen we're pretty sure that person just carefully didn't mention their profession to the defense attorney, because technically no one asked if they were a police advocate, though they may have been asked if they were a police officer or related to a police officer
@TimoRutanen4 жыл бұрын
@@eleahflockhart Certainly. But I'd think it's within the attorney's skillset to detect weaselry. Things do fall through the cracks too of course.
@alexcrosstic53724 жыл бұрын
Can do you one better with one of my jury times. Defendant had the deadly weapon assault charge because cop stood in the middle of street yelling "stop" and the defendant kept marching forward with his wheelbarrow. Cop: big, beefy guy. Defendant: scrawny, old 95lb weakling. Verdict: not guilty. Jury not at all happy having to go through 3 days of hearings on a bogus charge.
@ioanavasile99704 жыл бұрын
"they don't even give me free HBO, even though I'm actively ruining it." No, John, you're carrying it.
@kmakumane2584 жыл бұрын
i mean, hbo actually makes some great content in general. ive lately come to trust it more than netflix for quality shows
@DarkLorddReviews4 жыл бұрын
That's why he's so swole. After Game of Thrones ended badly, John is doing all the heavy lifting.
@BeeaReyoU.4 жыл бұрын
@@DarkLorddReviews game of what, now?
@badvideosto4 жыл бұрын
Him an the shows excellent writers
@TheKueiJin4 жыл бұрын
@@badvideosto Well said, man. John Oliver himself keeps saying the writers deserve all/most of the credit.
@switchbladekid13654 жыл бұрын
I once spent three days debating guilt or innocence in an intent-to-sell case. I couldn't figure out why it was taking so long until I found that a fellow juror didn't know what the charges were.
@piedpiper11853 жыл бұрын
If anyone remembers the CBS show Becker, there was an episode where Becker gets called for jury duty and keeps getting rejected from trials because he came off as too smart.
@thrawncaedusl7174 жыл бұрын
I did “mock trial” in high school, and while we did not actually perform jury selection, I was taught by a judge (white woman) that the prosecutors goal in jury selection is to weed out those who are most demographically and idealistically similar to the defendant (oh, and it is true that seeming smart or knowing how court works is considered disqualifying. I was told that if I’m ever summoned for jury duty, just mentioning that I did mock trial would immediately get me dismissed). The whole experience taught me that our court system really is “pay-to-win” currently and needs to be completely re-worked (I think there is even a reasonable argument that it is violating the “equal protection under the law” clause).
@hankhillsnrrwurethra4 жыл бұрын
My experience is anecdotal of course but, I was on a capital murder death penalty jury in Georgia. That didn't keep me off an armed robbery jury in California.
@QueenErrr4 жыл бұрын
@@hankhillsnrrwurethra Yeah, I served in a jury for a white collar crime and the only people who were dismissed were those who could have had a bias in some way, either by knowing someone involved in the case (one guy was dismissed because it turned out his brother-in-law was one of the witnesses) or having been a victim of a similar crime and were self-admittedly unable to be impartial because of that. They did ask if we had served on a jury before but nothing about mock trials, and one of the jurors who served with me had served in a jury previously so idk if that really factored in. So while I wouldn't be surprised if this happens sometimes it was not my experience at all either.
@chucklebutt44704 жыл бұрын
Don't ever talk about Jury Nullification inside or directly outside of a courthouse. They're magic words.
@doglady93344 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@dylanhunt38554 жыл бұрын
It is well known among those with a degree that having a degree is disqualifying.
@DE_JOTT4 жыл бұрын
Seriously, even jury duty is privatized in the US? Carlin was right, these people don't own their country...
@supersonicx014 жыл бұрын
This land was bought and paid for a long time ago. And in this country, it's an exclusive club house. And guess what? 99% of us, are not in this club house nor will get that special invite. Words from George himself. Smart people are no good to these corporations / governments. It's not in their best interests.
@yeevita4 жыл бұрын
Peasants can overthrow kings, IF peasants want to.
@corbeau-_-4 жыл бұрын
you doubted Carlin? Blasphemy! xD
@corbeau-_-4 жыл бұрын
@@yeevita the problem is to find the next git to be king, or how to do it better, without falling into total chaos. 'member them dark ages? Or the Bronze age? Or closer, the arab spring? Basically the atmosphere you might've had when you were a kid (fight, fight, fight!).
@realitycheck59024 жыл бұрын
D. Jay, The "Privitaziation" of the US government by corporate entities/titans of industry; have unfettered influence over the political arena. Citizens United v Fed Election Com (2010); SCOTUS conservative decision: A private corp. is an entity with a right to free political speech/unrestricted funding to influence public opinion. Corporations bought Trump the WH/tax cuts for the rich/>170k dead.
@scottmactavish97163 жыл бұрын
With a college degree, I've not been selected in 30 years. Way to go Floriduh!
@jcn913 жыл бұрын
Maybe because you think that you having a college degree means you should have been chosen over or instead of the people who have been picked for the last thirty years is a good reason that you haven't been picked.
@scottmactavish97163 жыл бұрын
@@jcn91 That was merely an observation adding to the credibility of the argument that ppl with a degree are avoided in the search for potential jurors. it's not better or worse thing, it's a 3-decades of personal experience thing.
@jeffreym683 жыл бұрын
Another issue- in the 30+ years I've been eligible, I've never been selected for a jury, nor have my friends. We're teachers, professors, and doctors, and were told we could go home because we were "too educated." What does that even mean?
@fandomguy80253 жыл бұрын
Well, again, no smart people.
@chrispettus25323 жыл бұрын
That was actually stated? I suppose that could be an argument from the defense requesting a jury of their peers, although, possibly not encouraging for the fate of democracy. If that argument came from the prosecution, that's evil.
@jeffreym683 жыл бұрын
@@chrispettus2532 Yes, I was surprised and confused. The two PoliSci profs I asked said it's a common bias, because the strategies used in court often hinge on jurors following the lawyer's logic, rather than analyzing everything from their own. In addition, prosecutors don't want anyone on a jury that knows you don't have to find someone guilty if you don't agree that the act should be illegal. Makes sense. Even though you aren't allowed to tell other jurors, that's one guilty vote.
@CrowSkvlls4 жыл бұрын
"They don't even give me free HBO and I'm actively ruining it."
@OrigamiMarie4 жыл бұрын
And here we watch this show's continued slide into a new form. A couple weeks ago, they used the quip "like calling this a comedy show" as a type of inaccurate statement. I definitely won't complain, it's an interesting and informative show, and moreso all the time.
@cpli77834 жыл бұрын
yes, he did in fact say that sentence.
@jss6364 жыл бұрын
Good job. He said that.
@tyrongkojy3 жыл бұрын
Funny part is until now with the Snyder Cut he was the only reason to stay subscribed.
@walrider80734 жыл бұрын
The entire jury system sounds so weird to me. Juries have not even studied the law and are allowed to make life changing decisions - sounds rly risky.
@BlitzsieLDiscoLSnow4 жыл бұрын
Yeah exactly. I'm from the Netherlands, and when I heard shows talk about "jury dury" I always expected it to be people who had at least studied law. But apparently not. It feels very weird to me, I mean, why would you need to have a law degree then? Just get the smoothest talkers as lawyers and the most gullible people as jurors, and then boooom racist prejudiced system.
@hittingyouoverthehead4 жыл бұрын
The whole jury duty actually seems weird to me too. I get that the intention is to have a representation of the community that the defendant lives in but they probably don't have the legal expertise to judge things like this, especially white collar crimes where they pull off elaborate cons. Here in India, we have one judge (or multiple judges) who passes the judgement but from the looks of it, it seems like in American courts, the judge is simply there to tell people what the jury agreed on.
@zxp3ct3r414 жыл бұрын
That's... actually a solid ass point
@JamesGalloway274 жыл бұрын
Another silly requirement of jurors is that they are not familiar with the case, or the person, or anything about it. So that means you want people who so don't read the news, or are so poorly acclimated to culture as to not even know who Bill Cosby is, for example, or Michael Jackson, or OJ Simpson, or to have NEVER heard about the Casey Anthony case, which dominated every news channel in America for months before any trial dates were set. It ensures you get the real cream of the persuadable crop. These uncontacted people would probably join the Jehovah's Witnesses if they came to their door.
@pierreblaise94334 жыл бұрын
Add an elected judge who didn't have study law either a prosecutor push to jail as many people for as long as he could regardless of the crime and a public defender who have to work 100 case a week and you have the US "justice" system
@zednott6884 жыл бұрын
I'm liking this new "end with concrete solutions" thing. it's like a sexy little to-do list. thanks king
@heyysimone3 жыл бұрын
When that kid said "i got jury duty" i cracked up
@jodybourgeois88134 жыл бұрын
I've been called, but never selected. I've been told that they don't like scientists, we tend to follow facts rather than laws.
@S489_20mg4 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@robcrawford66034 жыл бұрын
Called twice, Jody. Dismissed both times. Had a friend tell me that when presenting DNA evidence they don’t like having jurors that understand the tech. Friend was assistant DA... I am a published molecular biologist. System is run by a-holes.
@penttihirsus4 жыл бұрын
Who benefits from this crazy system? Or is just a playground for prosecutors and defenders to measure their dicks? There is better justice systems around the world, cant understand why modern america keeps this old and corrupt system. And I don't mean to diss americans, just sometimes wonder why they are so stubborn with their old ways
@rakninja4 жыл бұрын
@@penttihirsus because we often have the attitude "if it was good enough for grandpa, it's good enough for me!" or they were told "this is the one true system" from someone they respect to the point of taking everything they say unquestioned.
@Mourtzouphlos2404 жыл бұрын
@@penttihirsus What happens to a person convicted by an all white jury? They go to prison. Who is restricted from voting? Convicted felons.
@aarachus4 жыл бұрын
John Oliver makes me laugh harder than anyone else while providing education. He's my fav tv personality
@txlish4 жыл бұрын
And hence they took down Hasan Minaz - Duh, The Race Card proven .
@clioalexandra64853 жыл бұрын
18:13 It's sad how most people hate jury duty and avoid it at all costs and yet this woman was perfectly willing and excited for it
@stevegoof99054 жыл бұрын
Sooooo, you haven't objectified Adam Driver in a while.
@chrispham87053 жыл бұрын
👀 (🎥: Holidate)
@Gorbgorbenson4 жыл бұрын
I got summoned for jury duty and when I realized I got paid 20$ a day I had to postpone because I couldn't miss that much work for such terrible pay. It's ridiculous that the pay isn't more. I understand that's not what this piece is about, and that black Americans have been disproportionately effected, but I just wanted to share my experience as well
@webbowser88344 жыл бұрын
I mean, that was one of the points that was brought up.
@everwhat0134 жыл бұрын
i was on a jury for 2 weeks and our pay was just $12.50 a day, we had to buy/bring our own food and pay $7.00 to park.
@AlexFlodder4 жыл бұрын
For wellfare cheecks, does that lower your wellfare?
@bridgittemoon76134 жыл бұрын
@@everwhat013 that's crazy! Pretty much paying to be a civil servant. :(
@Gorbgorbenson4 жыл бұрын
@@webbowser8834 Sure, but it wasn't the main issue he was addressing in a majority of it.
@tatecore4 жыл бұрын
"Algorithms are a trade secret" yeah because the execution of our constitutional rights should always be a secret.
@jschuler534 жыл бұрын
Tate Beavers yes this really startled me. How can this be? this is probably the most egregious form of censorship I have yet to encounter when looking into the context of how we get our info through big tech. The trade secret argument is absurd because that argument only really applies when there is true competition. Digital media is completely a conglomerate. Five media companies own all outlets. There is no real competition, so who is it a secret from? The trade secret is an exemption allowing nondisclosure to help keep a business competitive. It all sounds very wrong.
@clumsiii4 жыл бұрын
annnnnnnd Voting too. repubs wanted to privatize everything since Reagan. This is what we got. private prisons too. private security forces. "vouchers" for private schools... time for them to get fucked and pay up * Transparency is the goal to help the real goal
@tatecore4 жыл бұрын
@@jschuler53 I really don't even think it's because of competition. Companies just don't want to admit how much they've screwed it all up through negligece or outright intentional design.
@Philogy4 жыл бұрын
it seems so absolutely ridiculous that the government isn't using open source software for crucial tasks such as voting machines, jury selection and more
@bennyton25604 жыл бұрын
proves that capitalism is an enemy to democracy
@aaronhamos5925 Жыл бұрын
John Oliver should do a bonus episode for people he said he could do a whole episode on.
@Juanita50 Жыл бұрын
Another excellent addition by John Oliver about our criminal "justice." A system with almost no justice 😢😢😢
@sebihaidler96454 жыл бұрын
There is an overarching theme to all these stories: in the USA private companies are somehow called up to manage and oversee all these programs/systems. Spoiler alert: they do it for profit, not for the greater good
@Hotspur374 жыл бұрын
You really meant to say they do it for as much profit as possible and who cares if its an absolute crap program resolts
@proudpapaprick4 жыл бұрын
Yeah... Alberta, Canada is similar with a lot of things. Not as wild and unregulated but the private sector handles most things.
@tjrockett89854 жыл бұрын
Let me be clear...do you think a country founded by slave owners are "good" people? Jesus H Christ. Stop being dumb and get with the program that American HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS way. We simply hid it with our "exceptionalism" and media environment.
@justincoleman38054 жыл бұрын
It’s called capitalism.
@josiegoransson34424 жыл бұрын
Keenan Thomas a lot of countries don’t let private companies run prisons for profit, or pay doctors to prescribe a certain drug, or handle jury summoning. The USA for some reason allows all of these things. Sure there’s corruption everywhere, but I’ve never seen it as bad anywhere else.
@benwasserman82234 жыл бұрын
John Oliver: that guy who manages to make political topics clear in under 20 minutes when cable news makes it crosseyed for a full hour.
@julianilsson87864 жыл бұрын
A national treasure
@CptTotalWaffle4 жыл бұрын
24 hour news coverage sounds sensible, but due to their business model, they end up in the business of keeping you watching for as long as possible, rather than as long as it takes to comprehend the news. They are disposed towards raising questions instead of answering them, so that people watch in the vain hope of at some point finding answers that never come. It's very bad journalism and kinda cruel too.
@user-fv6km9ey2w4 жыл бұрын
And needlessly overly obsessed with race.
@Velmoret4 жыл бұрын
@@user-fv6km9ey2w Only because the American justice system is overly obsessed with race
@CountBifford4 жыл бұрын
John Oliver is not 24/7 news, and he often takes months-long breaks. He doesn't need to do padding.
@VanillaVillain83 жыл бұрын
*Greg: "My goals are beyond your understanding."*
@kylecrozier56454 жыл бұрын
Not only is this one of the greatest topics for him to talk about, such a fantastic issue, and the icing on the cake is his mention that it was technically a Race Card Card. So good. So happy.
@imangiomo3 жыл бұрын
I love this comment!! ♡♥︎♡
@snehasowmy72264 жыл бұрын
The whole “90% of African American neighborhoods were accidentally left out” can’t possibly be an accident. I would understand a few percentage points but over 90% is definitely deliberate
@raymondfields35624 жыл бұрын
#ADOS are a group with a specific justice claim. The #ADOS movement demands a specific agenda with policy prescriptions that address the losses stemming from the institution of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, convict leasing, mass incarceration and immigration. Without specific measures being instituted, #ADOS are locked out of the country our ancestors built during chattel slavery. Without reforms through transformative government, we will be left to continue living a third world life in a first world country. #ADOS #Reparations2020 #LineageMatters #DataMatters ADOS101.com
@Charlie_Rowe4 жыл бұрын
90% of African American neighborhoods? So neighborhoods where blacks are predominate? Like say a Bronx Jury. Let's not mention that segregation of races is the issue, because I'm sure there would be none that would be against predominantly white, or Asian, or Middle Eastern neighborhoods that have a problem with diverse juries
@michaelvenezia96734 жыл бұрын
I know.... It's almost like there is systematic means in place to keep afri. Amer. Struggling in several different ways
@mizinoinovermyhead.75234 жыл бұрын
The issue at play here is simple and it has far less to do with race than you might think and than he makes out. Lets take a look at a sample county: I'm more familiar with Broward county in Florida than anywhere else so I'll use that to prevent a massive man hunt of research. Broward county is 30% African american. There is a population distribution map that places the vast majority of African Americans in a city called sunrise (google [sad as this sounds] "Where do blacks live" and zoom in on the map I don't even want to know why that is called that but thats another fight, broward is just north of miami). Sunrise is described by 6 zip codes that while not consecutive are, save for one, all within ten ish of each other going from 33313 through 33326 with an outlier of 33351. So basically a bad bit of code that skipped 33320 through 33326, would drastically reduce the number of African american selectmen. Thats 6 zip codes out of 53, and its incredibly easy to do accidentally. For instance Sunrise is comprised of 6 non sequential zip codes: 33313, 33322, 33323, 33325, 33326, 33351. Anyone selected in those zips gets sent to sunrise courts. So you build in a filter that builds that out so that they get assigned the right court house and so on. Well you can't select the zips sequentially 33313-33351 you'll send people who are in other cities to the wrong place. So you tell it for zips with 333 and either 1 (and 3) or 2 (and 2 or 3 or 5 or 6) or 5 (and 1) send to sunrise. Then you forget to close a parenthesis or add a digit, or you get the logic backwards and subtract that set from it, and suddenly everyone in that area isn't being summoned for jury duty. Its a common mistake to make and remember this is an under paid coder in the basement of the building somewhere tasked with debugging hundreds of thousands of lines of code just for this simple selection. I'm not saying it wasn't deliberate, but I am saying that its a farther stretch to think it was rather than to think it was a ghost in the machine that resulted in a grievous wrong.
@Charlie_Rowe4 жыл бұрын
@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 Then he has never been on a jury in San Antonio. It was 70% Hispanic with about 10% who didn't speak English. I know because I had to translate for them to fill out their paperwork. Again, my point is racial makes up changes in different areas. You're more likely to have more black jurors in Baltimore than you would say Fargo. That's not racism, that's geographical.
@Eternitycomplex4 жыл бұрын
Honestly, John Oliver's segments on the criminal justice system should be required viewing. I always knew that it was corrupt and biased, but am consistently floored by just how bad it is.
@julietardos50444 жыл бұрын
He should do a segment on getting divorced in America.
@JJ-nu8qi4 жыл бұрын
Maybe if he was 100 percent truthful instead of trying to make jokes and biased journalusm.
@Eternitycomplex4 жыл бұрын
@@JJ-nu8qi Well he is a comedian, not a journalist. But I haven't noted anything in this segment or any segment related to the criminal justice system that was poorly researched or deceptive. Biased maybe, but untruthful? No. If you know otherwise, you are welcome to offer specific statements he's made that were false.
@JJ-nu8qi4 жыл бұрын
@@Eternitycomplex How about the fact that not one mention of how a lot of minorities wont show up show for jury duty or try to get out of it. Its actually a big joke in these communities how stupid or how your a sucker for getting picked for jury duty.
@Eternitycomplex4 жыл бұрын
@@JJ-nu8qi First, even if that were true it is not evidence that John Oliver is untruthful. At best, you presented additional information not contradictory. It would be like saying a real estate agent who was selling you a 3-bedroom 2-bath house with an external 2-car garage and an acre of ground was lying to you because he didn't tell you the house was made of brick. One has no bearing on the other. Likewise, minorities skipping jury duty has nothing to do with systemic abuses that block minorities from the jury pool. Second, are you suggesting that minorities are the only ones who skip out on jury duty and that white people always show up? Or even that minorities are more likely to skip jury duty? If so, do you have statistical evidence to back up your claim? Because I've known tons of people who've been called to jury duty and looked for was to get out of it, and the vast majority were white.
@QuidamByMoonlight3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Thank you John Oliver for covering this!
@jakeybby85273 жыл бұрын
18:12 Honestly, hearing her say she was looking forward to serving and knowing she wont get the chance BC We know that the system will not ever let her honestly kind of hurts my heart man.
@lazyperfectionist14 жыл бұрын
The more I learn about all the nuanced ways the US is racist, the more depressed I get.
@imbk4 жыл бұрын
There there. I feel the same, America so glorified but it is a balloon full of shit about to explode... except that a lot of people already live inside that baloon
@j_scumbag17624 жыл бұрын
Ditto. It hurts to learn the truth of America. But let the sadness and anger fuel you to make change
@maximeteppe76274 жыл бұрын
You could try to get angry instead.
@FamilyRoyalty4 жыл бұрын
Don't get depressed. Get involved! 💪
@zenebean4 жыл бұрын
Yes, life here is full of increasing anger and disappointment, augmented by exasperation with people that believe our country is an absolute good and always has been. I just want yell, "the Hell! We're responsible for the genocide of native Americans, and half of the states fought a war with the rest so they could keep owning people!"
@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control4 жыл бұрын
My aunt has done jury duty 5 times. Her last name starts with an E. I'm 40 and I've never been called up. My last name starts with a W.
@thefallenone17184 жыл бұрын
Whoa your aunt is the famous rapper E40?
@PerthTowne4 жыл бұрын
That's a problem. I have a friend whose name begins with "S" and he got a jury summons, but they filled the number of jurors they wanted during his week of service before they got to "S".
@raywhite71794 жыл бұрын
I'm almost 40 and I've been called up for like 3 or 4 times and my last name starts with W. =/
@armisg56644 жыл бұрын
@@raywhite7179 Well, sure, but you're White! (ba-dum-tss)
@artemismoon76554 жыл бұрын
My last name starts with A and I got called for the first time last year. And I am 38. My other family members have all served, but somehow I was completely left out of the system for years until they announced they retooled the system to make it more fair.
@TheOldHippiebilly2 жыл бұрын
John nails it once again. I am so proud to claim him as a fellow American citizen. Dude, keep up the good work!
@GabrielGosselin4 жыл бұрын
John: Do you like rakes? Geralt: Only broken ones.
@sweepingtime4 жыл бұрын
Oops! We 'misplaced' the lists of all the black and latino people living in the area.
@Blutwind4 жыл бұрын
Ranked 2nd most used excuse just after:"The Dog ate my Homework."
@misterpractical4 жыл бұрын
In every town, in every district, in every county, in every state... Just a _minor_ glitch in the system 😉
@petertaylor49804 жыл бұрын
What makes me scoff is the use of "proprietary" to protect the code. This is stuff at the level of a first year undergraduate. The data sources are where the value is, not the shuffling of a list.
@coyotedomino4 жыл бұрын
Oops! All Whites
@Rexwar314 жыл бұрын
OOPSY POOPSY! Guess I went and forgot all the minorities but that’s okay right? We still have all these fine people wearing MAGA hats who are staring with hate and vitriol at the black defendant. This should still be okay to do!
@lelandshennett4 жыл бұрын
Me: “Those in power want to dumb us down” Friends: “that’s a crazy conspiracy” People in power: “You don’t want smart ones”
@rexblack81704 жыл бұрын
they just want to win the case, everything they said was proven to be true by experiments and john oliver just want to push his Political agendas exactly like everyone else on TV, u shouldn't get ur facts from him. I am sure they try to exclude white women when the suspect is white
@kristyanne7194 жыл бұрын
@@rexblack8170 At least Jhon can spell is damn name. Idiot.
@aoeu2564 жыл бұрын
What about Trump's "I love the uneducated"
@darthparallax52074 жыл бұрын
I am going to be open and honest: I want people less smart than me so I can outsmart but I do intend to actually frequently talk to them so I can calm them down, And in order for ME to be calm, they need to be at least smart enough for that conversation to not cause me to lose my temper. Further more I always want to get smarter and that makes me need other people to get smarter than they used to be. I want to be the smartest one in the room, but I genuinely want people to get smart enough to have complicated jobs that are fun for the first year and terrible after that when problems start. I want the people working for me to be astrophysics smart. But yes, I do want to be smarter than that too. But you can still probably be Happy if you are allowed to have a whole lot of schooling. Oh they also need to be smart enough to know when I do not want to talk to them. I will personally ask them to their faces which is their favorite panem et circensis they like to enjoy when they're bored that I can make them go away with. As long as I sometimes plan to blow them off, I really, really, really want them happy enough to not want to riot. If they can say "sure we want more, but we do have a lot of what we want and our children will get the rest of the way", then I feel like my conscience is clear for wanting to be #1 over them all. It's impossible to rule unhappy people. I have ZERO desire to be ruler of unhappy people. Approval ratings are really really really important, and I Respect that. I do worry that it's impossible to make some people happy, but I promise to make everyone except the really really really unpopular people, basically pretty much happy enough.
@glengorbl1n2274 жыл бұрын
@@darthparallax5207 you sound like a fantastic person to be around, definitely no concerning personality disorders lurking there. There is a lovely subreddit dedicated to people like you, r/iamverysmart maybe check it out and chill the ego.
@tinfoilslacks3750 Жыл бұрын
"you can't do X for Y reason, but you can do X without a reason" is such a fundamentally self defeating system the US chooses to use over and over again
@jasperdraca3 жыл бұрын
The "don't want smart people" part probably explains why I was struck from jury duty. I was summoned a while ago, but was never chosen. I just remember the way the lawyer perked up when I mentioned that I worked at a fast food restaurant, then his face went blank when I used words that contained more than three syllables in my answers to later questions. It was an interesting experience...
@CranesNotSkyHooks4 жыл бұрын
Who's here after the announcement of the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant in Danbury?
@Jan_Strzelecki4 жыл бұрын
I am :) But it seems like it's just a tongue-in-cheek plug-in on Oliver's part.
@richardsantost4 жыл бұрын
If you are here because of this, min 06:05 😂😂😂😂
@bsing2u4 жыл бұрын
Yepper
@StBurkeINC4 жыл бұрын
@@Jan_Strzelecki Yeah, a bunch of people not realizing the joke is that hes going nuclear on a quaint, peaceful small town
@WalkingRoscoe4 жыл бұрын
Yup.
@thebigshep4 жыл бұрын
The quantity of equine-related bestiality jokes that John has made over the last year is beginning to be a cause for concern.
@hermaeusmora48744 жыл бұрын
Yoooo I've notice the same 👀😂😂
@Greg_tha_rushin4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing.
@emeraldviqueen4 жыл бұрын
I was juuuuuuuuuust thinking that Equines and Adam Driver, I’m not seeing a relation but you do you John XD
@Deopunk4 жыл бұрын
Quarantine hasn't been easy for him it seems.....
@caldwell9-04 жыл бұрын
Lazarus Cain I’m your 100 like
@m_g_khatravinsky3 жыл бұрын
John Oliver nitpicking on the "Race Card" presentation is amongst the best things I've seen in a while
@january14943 жыл бұрын
“Danbury, Connecticut can eat my whole ass” might be my next tattoo lmao
@anon_92214 жыл бұрын
I can't believe he said that Z got all the hotties, completely ignoring Adam Driver right there at the start of the alphabet.
@soulkarver9564 жыл бұрын
I was surprised as well.
@doctormo4 жыл бұрын
I think it's actually "Zadam Xriver", they changed it to Adam Driver for their earth disguise.
@NobodyNowhereKnowhow4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but have you ever seen a zonkey?
@RmcBlueSky4 жыл бұрын
He might be weaning off Adam Driver 😔
@lenkacfk71554 жыл бұрын
Blue Sky , or Adam Driver got a restraining order...
@daanwilmer4 жыл бұрын
As a non-American, this show is my weekly dose of "WTF is wrong with your country?"
@davidzz43074 жыл бұрын
As an American this show is a weekly dose of”WTF” is wrong with “my” country
@lenkacfk71554 жыл бұрын
I wish we had a John Oliver in Germany - there is plenty of stuff going wrong here, too.
@BossmodePictures4 жыл бұрын
@@lenkacfk7155 We had Böhmermann who did things like that once in a while...
@358itachi4 жыл бұрын
As a non-American temporarily living in Germany, I watch this to see 'WTF wrong with America' and then etrapolate it to relate to 'Can this happen in my country of origin'. Some of the stuff from JO like authoritarianism, bitcoins, multilevel marketing , vaccines etc are applicable to India too, especially when one of my friends (who holds a PhD in a scientific field) recently raised a question on requirements of vaccines.
@AkireraStraberri34 жыл бұрын
I get to sit here and say “WTF is wrong with my country?” and “When can I leave? I need a break!”
@justjay0013 жыл бұрын
I just discovered John and I have been binging all the videos and learning so much!! Thank you
@thenobalnacho3 жыл бұрын
That Danbury bit kills me every time, "children included" holy shit hahahaha
@UnbornHeretic4 жыл бұрын
"Private companies can be surprisingly unreliable." Private companies being unreliable is almost the hallmark of this show.
@eyyy22714 жыл бұрын
And the hallmark of this country
@sgr81714 жыл бұрын
eyyy no lie here
@TheSassi144 жыл бұрын
John: "How do you ask anyone so many questions about anything" Me: Remembering the questions about the "race card" card...
@bostonharmon65404 жыл бұрын
23
@TheSassi144 жыл бұрын
@@bostonharmon6540 I only counted 18, but it was hard to tell where one question ended and the next started
@kalyka984 жыл бұрын
Yes but it is a race card how many race cards do you ever see in your lifetime?
@QuaseVingativa4 жыл бұрын
love the legwork the word accidentally is doing in this episode
@cosmosofinfinity2 жыл бұрын
Somebody show this to Ben Shapiro, who thinks systemic racism doesn't exist anymore
@aidalubuulwa75774 жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in Danbury: I was not prepared for that flaming 😭
@sethwakeman90314 жыл бұрын
And doesn't it have the highest Spanish immigrant population per capita in the state too? He really should have picked Wilton or New Canaan 🙄😂
@13zounds4 жыл бұрын
Hi neighbor.
@shanemichaels1244 жыл бұрын
"When the Jury is all white, things can go SOUTH really fast!" Aaaaah, I see what you did there, John... even if you didn't, lol
@jenniferdrake48874 жыл бұрын
🤣
@ashleydoss98914 жыл бұрын
My husband was DYING at this comment
@twigabor4 жыл бұрын
9
@TheReverendPaqo3 жыл бұрын
6:20 - the infamous moment that lead to the beef and realization that John wanted a sewage plant named after him. I love this show.
@scottydog67134 ай бұрын
coming back to these episodes makes me think about how john oliver is charismatic enough to just make a youtube channel if his show fell through, man doesnt need an audience to carry the comedy
@milagilbert33804 жыл бұрын
Oh, how I love the "I'm so glad I'm European show"...
@vicmartone4 жыл бұрын
For Canadians is "what the crazy downstairs neighbours are up to this week?"
@penname84414 жыл бұрын
Y'all still have a bunch of Nazis over there, I wouldn't get too comfortable if I were you
@cousinjake79864 жыл бұрын
PREAAAAAACH ....but also I fucking live here now and I just....I made a mistake
@clovelikethespice4 жыл бұрын
Please save me from this country. I really don’t want to live here anymore
@writer57904 жыл бұрын
@@penname8441 just let them feel good. Do you desire others to be sad?
@carlosmiguelteixeiraott36434 жыл бұрын
John: "Private companies can be surprisingly unreliable." Me: "How is THAT surprising?"
@Gehzandersmeckz4 жыл бұрын
In relative terms, if something is more unreliable than most people would expect, then I think it's fair to call it surprising.
@Rudyelf14 жыл бұрын
So in all white towns where the government is all white, you want the white government to be in charge of jury selection?
@582094 жыл бұрын
@@Rudyelf1 if you're concerned about under-representation of people of color in the governing bodies making decisions that impact people of color, i've some got alarming news for you about the racial makeup of the leadership of the for-profit companies governments contract to do that same work
@barrycullen5984 жыл бұрын
He was being sarcastic
@Rudyelf14 жыл бұрын
First Last aren’t companies faster to respond to boycotts and cancel culture and change as compared to entrenched politicians in secure districts?
@yacobz4 жыл бұрын
Omg the Race Card bit was his funniest I've seen in a while. I'm weak lol
@ordinaryaverageguy54403 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sir John for all you do.
@berkpick4 жыл бұрын
I feel like "ya don want the smart ones" has been America's policy in general recently.
@whitneynelson91244 жыл бұрын
Say that again for the people in the back.
@maipai1014 жыл бұрын
It was always that way
@scyllacat4 жыл бұрын
as a smart person, they put me on a jury once, and I ended up being the foreman. Dang right they don't want me. i take over.
@jnyerere4 жыл бұрын
"recently" should be switched to "since its inception."
@theinternet9114 жыл бұрын
Oh so that's why Donald Trump's mother didn't get abortion
@houdinimachine46724 жыл бұрын
A lot of minorities "accidentally" not included in jury pools. At some point, you have to admit it's on purpose.
@kylestubbs88674 жыл бұрын
We're well beyond that point. Now it's a question of "Whose purpose?"
@jimstim45604 жыл бұрын
Now think about the even scarier idea that its not on purpose and they really consider them that little.
@PrawnAddiction2 жыл бұрын
I'm sensing a theme in American law enforcement: prosecutors measure their success on how many people they prosecute, police officers measure their success on how many people they arrest or how many tickets they write, and judges measure their success on how many people they convict.
@gloriagottlieb69084 жыл бұрын
John Oliver is very funny and very smart! I learn a lot and laugh at the same time!
@majorasmask55234 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised he hasn’t covered the foster care system, yet. Jesu Christi! 1.1k likes! My Biggus Dickus comment, ever!
@kimjin-hyub34134 жыл бұрын
65 % of Americans are born out of wedlock .
@dancasale89004 жыл бұрын
One clusterf**k at a time...
@justinbowman21264 жыл бұрын
Stephanie Logan as someone who works for CPS, I wholeheartedly agree
@MyMonsterguy4 жыл бұрын
Queen Diomedes of Thrace Apparently the people who aren’t married.
@chaotic_jinks1214 жыл бұрын
@Queen Diomedes of Thrace people who don't understand what real societal problems are
@aaronself24114 жыл бұрын
The most shocking thing about this, is the fact that John doesn't get free HBO. Definitely would've put that in my own contract for sure.
@benedictifye4 жыл бұрын
They would pay him $15 less per month
@robertm40504 жыл бұрын
"Hey daddy company, can you put free HBO in my contract?" No because we don't own your local cable provider and that would be stupid to open a cable account for one channel. How about we give you $5 million per year and you pay for your own bills?
@drunkin12Many4 жыл бұрын
no one wants HBO.
@aaronself24114 жыл бұрын
@@robertm4050 HBO go is a paid service. So is HBO..... Like dude... I got free HBO from HBO. My service provider wasn't even apart of the conversation...
@coreysue34514 жыл бұрын
It was offered and politely declined.
@renaycunningham56562 жыл бұрын
I love this guy!!!!Thank You so much for educating all of us You really have a gift
@yngprafit25862 жыл бұрын
I thought that was the actual plot of “How to get away with murder” 🤷🏿♂️🤣
@erlandson90744 жыл бұрын
The mayor of Danbury CT named it’s sewage plant after you, because of this piece. Now you’re truly famous.
@lachronic78214 жыл бұрын
Why does he hate Danbury?
@mdickinson4 жыл бұрын
@@lachronic7821 I, too, was taken aback. I've always been a big fan of John Oliver but the way he lashed out at a town of 80,000 people who (at least as mentioned in the episode) haven't done anything to merit a "fuck you" made me wonder. I would assume if he's going to go off on a town like that, it would be because it had passed some discriminatory law, or its police force was doing something shady, or it had re-elected a convicted criminal as its mayor. All these things have happened in certain towns - but to my knowledge not in Danbury.
@Branflakes1434 жыл бұрын
@@mdickinson It's definitely just friendly banter. The mayor of Danbury wouldn't name a building after Oliver if it was serious. I can imagine John Oliver/his staff talking to officials from Danbury and saying "Hey, is it cool if we trash talk your town in our skit?" and them responding with "Only if we get to do something funny in return" And thus, Danbury named its new sewage plant after John Oliver. Not everything about 2020 needs to be doom-and-gloom, sometimes we just need to have some fun.
@sighduck97894 жыл бұрын
@@mdickinson it's a joke? Like come on, he only listed positive qualities about it?
@pedroportillo15854 жыл бұрын
That’s how you know he’s doing something right!
@SebastianVazquezFerrero4 жыл бұрын
So... Gerrymandering and red lining in jury duty. Not a surprise, honestly.
@bridgittemoon76134 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly.
@dcDOC194 жыл бұрын
Yep
@ayo19594 жыл бұрын
Everything is made to held the black man down in this country. I just came to the conclusion that it’s never going to change they just going to find anothers evil ways to do it.
@angelvaldez30064 жыл бұрын
@@ayo1959 They may never change their minds or are forever stuck in their ways, but they can still be beat, voted out, and/or be made irrelevant by them being removed from power or positions of influence. They will age out and eventually all die and it will then be up to us to fix or just completely redo our entire bigoted system.
@bijuu_boy14824 жыл бұрын
Angel Valdez hopefully but I don’t think anytime soon
@69TheGG3 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how Oliver figures everything out
@Viking_Luchador3 жыл бұрын
"You have been chosen to join the Justice Squadron. 8 AM at the Municipal Fortress of Justice"