Last Week Tonight (season 7)
{5/5} “Time simply does not function the same way for Mitch McConnell as it does for everyone else. For instance, for us today is June 28th. But for him — based on the way that he generally thinks, speaks, and behaves — the current date is somewhere around May 12th, 1853.”
Last Week Tonight season 7, aired in 2020
This year John Oliver discusses:
- coronavirus (several times)
- Medicare for all
- Narendra Modi, prime minister of India
- US Postal Service
- voting by mail
- police
- evictions
- conspiracy theories
- confinement of Uyghurs to re-education camps in China
- how history is taught in the US
- the World Health Organization
- US election
He also had some fun that culminated in a city called Danbury naming its sewer plant after him.
One more quotation: “What happens next is up to all of us. It’s going to depend on how willing we are to fight, how well we learned from what’s happened, and how much we’re able to care about each other.”
I previously reviewed season 6.