John Oliver attacks JD Vance in vice presidential debate

John Oliver argues that those who praise last week's vice-presidential debate for its “civility” are missing the point.

“The debate included discussions about how to carry out mass deportations and whether women should have control over their bodies,” she said Last week tonight the host said during Sunday's opening segment. “Etiquette is a bit out of the question. It's like reading a ransom note and saying, “This cursive is really lovely.” Look at the capital Y in “You have 24 hours before I die.” There are still some people who were raised right.'”

Incidentally, the debate – between Donald Trump's Republican candidate, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris' Democratic candidate, Tim Walz – took place at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, which also hosts Last week tonight. “In effect, this study served as a post-debate spin room, meaning you are all breathing the same air particles that were once inside the Don.” [Trump] Jr.'s nose and mouth. So if anyone in this audience wakes up tomorrow feeling like they have a sore throat and you're a total disappointment to your dad, that's probably why,” Oliver joked.

Oliver showed clips of various commentators stressing that the candidates were “civil” and “polite” and stressing that “this is what the country said it wanted most of.”

Oliver responded: “On the list of things America says it wants more of, civility is at best sixth, after affordable health care, gun control, more affordable housing, reproductive rights and leading vehicles for [Bridgerton star] Nicholas Coughlan.

Oliver then went on to note that a few days after the debate, Vance took part in an event dubbed the Courage Tour, hosted by Lance Wallnau, a self-taught evangelical preacher who is also the founder and CEO of the Dallas-based Lance Learning Group. described as “a strategic teaching and consultancy firm”. Oliver described Wallnau as “a prominent far-right Christian nationalist” who described Harris as someone who has used “witchcraft” and has an “occult spirit… working on and through her.”

Oliver jokes: “First of all, Kamala Harris is not the one who relentlessly promotes witchcraft. You're thinking of Universal's marketing department,” he joked, showing a photo of the upcoming movie musical Evil. “And this guy clearly shouldn't be commenting on elections. He is supposed to be in a tent in 1856 selling children mercury tonics which he claims will allow them to talk to ghosts.

He also criticized Wallnau for saying that God intervened to bring Vance to Pittsburgh when Hurricane Helene disrupted Vance's schedule.

“As you know, we have vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance coming up,” Wallnau said in a video shown by Oliver. “And I'll be honest with you, I take it as a direct act of God because it came out a certain way. Pittsburgh wasn't even on the map. It was supposed to be North Carolina, and God changed it so quickly.

Oliver's response: “If you believe in a God who would unleash a devastating hurricane just so JD Vance could spend an afternoon outside Pittsburgh, your God seems like an asshole.”

Oliver also played a clip of this exchange between Vance and Walz when talking about the results of the 2020 presidential election during last week's debate.

Vance: “Remember [Trump] he said demonstrators should protest peacefully on January 6. And on January 20, what happened happened: Joe Biden became president, Donald Trump left the White House.”

Walz: “Did you lose the 2020 election?”

Vance: “Tim, I'm focused on the future.”

Walz: “That's a damn non-answer.”

Oliver called Vance's response “one of the store's brand's most generic shit-boy detours.” He added: “That response was especially noticeable considering that the day after the debate, a judge opened special prosecutor Jack Smith's 165-page brief in the Trump voter fraud case, reminding us once again of the ridiculous steps he took to avoid leaving office.” In the brief, prosecutors said they spoke with a White House staffer who said he heard Trump tell family members that it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election, you still have to “fight like hell.” .

“But it's very important if you lost. That's the most important thing,” Oliver said, adding: “If he loses next month, there is every reason to believe that Trump will contest the results again. And Vance has made it clear he has no problem with that and that alone should be disqualifying. For all the talk this week about his civility during the debate, let's not forget: At heart, he's the same colossal idiot who spews right-wing hatred with distressing ease and continues to defend the big lie that the last election was stolen.

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