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John Oliver kicked off his first Final Week Tonight episode since this previous week’s midterm elections by highlighting the very fact that Democrats did “unexpectedly effectively” and have left Fox Information pundits “scrambling for solutions” within the aftermath.
After sharing a montage of figures like Jesse Watters complaining that single ladies voted for Democrats by enormous margins and Laura Ingraham sidekick Raymond Arroyo chalking the outcomes as much as the left providing younger individuals “leisure medication, abortion, paid-off scholar loans, actionable insurance policies that they had been promising to advance—and likewise local weather change,” Oliver was appropriately baffled.
“We simply don’t have time to enter all of the ways in which they're telling on themselves there, from being appalled that younger individuals had been voting to admitting that they've zero actionable insurance policies,” the host mentioned. “And including local weather change as an entire afterthought is a fairly enjoyable approach to finish that. A pleasant little cherry on high of a what-the-fuck-have-we-done sundae.”
From there, Oliver moved on to the one one that has acquired the brunt of the blame for GOP losses this week: Donald Trump. “Even some on Fox made it clear that they've a brand new favourite Republican,” he mentioned, taking part in a clip of Fox Enterprise host Stuart Varney giddily agreeing that Ron DeSantis is “DeFuture” of the celebration.
“The prospect of a President DeSantis is simply one of many many worrying issues that got here beneath the entire excellent news on Tuesday,” he mentioned, including that Democrats “nonetheless have a number of work to do.”
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