{"id":17019,"date":"2020-11-23T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17019"},"modified":"2020-11-24T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:33:57","slug":"last-week-tonight-season-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/last-week-tonight-season-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week Tonight (season 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;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 &#8212; based on the way that he generally thinks, speaks, and behaves &#8212; the current date is somewhere around May 12th, 1853.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week Tonight<\/strong> season 7, aired in 2020<\/p>\n<p>This year John Oliver discusses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>coronavirus (several times)<\/li>\n<li>Medicare for all<\/li>\n<li>Narendra Modi, prime minister of India<\/li>\n<li>US Postal Service<\/li>\n<li>voting by mail<\/li>\n<li>police<\/li>\n<li>evictions<\/li>\n<li>conspiracy theories<\/li>\n<li>confinement of Uyghurs to re-education camps in China<\/li>\n<li>how history is taught in the US<\/li>\n<li>the World Health Organization<\/li>\n<li>US election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He also had some fun that culminated in a city called Danbury naming its sewer plant after him.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;What happens next is up to all of us. It&#8217;s going to depend on how willing we are to fight, how well we learned from what&#8217;s happened, and how much we&#8217;re able to care about each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/last-week-tonight-season-6\/\">season 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;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 &#8212; based on the way that he generally thinks, speaks, and behaves &#8212; the current date is somewhere around May 12th, 1853.&#8221; Last Week Tonight season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,5,11],"class_list":["post-17019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy-news","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17022,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions\/17022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}