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Dalai Lama On 'last Week Tonight With John Oliver

... the side of head and pointed his two fingers toward the sky, imitating a child's depiction of Lucifer and said “Yes. I’m demon. With horn!”. John Oliver talking to the Dalai Lama. China pulled the original video, check out this link before it's gone too: __link__/vh Sd ESxv 3 M. — Christian Jelen (@Jayceee Film Vfx) March 8, 2017. The Dalai Lama continued on to say he has no negative feelings towards the Chinese , but laughs at their actions. He said that he practices taking others' distrust, anger and suspicion and giving back compassion, patience and tolerance. Oliver then broached the subject of China controversially appointing a Beijing backed “Panchen Lama,” an important figure having a deep influence in Tibetan Buddhism. The principal role of the Panchen Lama is to find new Dalai Lama when His Holiness will end his last breath. This move was done clearly to control the monks following Tibetan Buddhism. A number of other important issues were also discussed by the Briton. The list included Chinese involvement inside Tibet, ...

Watch John Oliver Compare Obamacare Replacement To Thong Underwear

... professions like air-traffic controllers, taxi cab drivers and scuba divers." Oliver cut to a hilarious/depressing news segment about a baby who was denied coverage at four months old because of a pre-existing condition: being too fat. Obamacare, Oliver explained, was an attempt to solve these obvious issues: "It made it illegal to deny people coverage because of pre-existing conditions," he said. "It let people stay on their parents' plans until age 26. It made preventive screenings free for everyone and created marketplaces where people could shop for insurance with potential subsidies. And between all that and Medicaid expansion, more than 20 million people gained coverage, putting our uninsured rate at a historic low.". Oliver admitted there have been major issues with the ACA, including an unreliable website, skyrocketing premiums, massive deductibles and Obama failing to keep his "empty promise" that customers could keep both their preferred doctors and health care plans. But Republicans haven't come up with any solutions yet. Suggested proposals include "high-risk pools ("which sound like something you'd find at ...

John Oliver Criticized Obama On 'last Week Tonight' & You Might Have Missed It

... Obama. Toward the beginning of the Obamacare segment, Oliver showed clips of initial opposition to the ACA. These 2009 clips showed opponents referring to Obama as a Marxist, comparing him to Hitler, and expressing general anguish. But one man went even further. Presumably addressing Obama as he looked at the camera, he yelled: "You want to kill my grandparents? You come through me first!". Oliver used this as an opportunity to take a discrete jab at the former president. In a response to that particular clip, Oliver pointed out that Obama would have gone a different route if he had actually wanted to kill someone's grandparents. Look, relax. President Obama did not want to kill that guy's grandparents. And if he did, he wouldn't have used health insurance. He would have just ordered a drone strike and then declared them enemy combatants. That was his style. Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images. This is not the first time Oliver has ...

John Oliver Says He Got More Ad Time To School Trump On American Health Care Act

... Post to Facebook. John Oliver says he got more ad time to school Trump on American Health Care Act Oliver said the ad featuring Catheter Cowboy will air in the D. C. area during 'Fox & Friends.' Check out this story on __link__: __link__ m Cj 88 p. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. John Oliver says he got more ad time to school Trump on American Health Care Act. Erin Jensen, USA TODAY 11:08 a.m. ET March 13, 2017. 54 Shares. John Oliver tackled the American Health Care Act on his show Sunday. (Photo: John P. Johnson, HBO). John Oliver showed a montage of political commentators professing their belief that the GOP's bill to replace the Affordable Health Care act is "dead on arrival" on Last Week Tonight Sunday. Even so, the host wanted to dissect the American Health Care Act, which he calls "the Ted Cruz of health care legislation," on the chance it does become law. "You may not have wanted it," Oliver said to the camera. "It looks awful, but it's here anyway. Try and think of it as the legislative equivalent of Pirates of the Caribbean 5: The Curse of ...

John Oliver's Transgender Student Rant On 'last Week Tonight' Speaks Truth To Trump

... himself barging in on women and teenagers who competed in his pageants while they changed." The allegations Oliver makes came from a Buzz Feed piece published in October. Trump's presidential campaign released a statement denying the charges at the time. Bustle has reached out to the White House for comment. It's impossible to know, of course, what actually happened at the pageants, but as Oliver points out, "In characteristic style, [Trump] has both denied and been recorded on tape bragging about." So, here's what Trump told Howard Stern on the matter. I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. "Is everybody okay?" And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. "Ya, you ...

John Oliver Welcomes 'original Woke Bae' Dalai Lama To 'last Week Tonight

... about the Dalai Lama, then reminded everyone that the Chinese government has the exact opposite feelings. "Now the Chinese government, however, have a very different view," Oliver said. "Instead of vaguely loving the Dalai Lama, they very specifically hate him." That hate, Oliver said, is due to the dispute over Tibet. "The Chinese government's hatred of the Dalai Lama stems from its desire to maintain control of Tibet, a region in southwest China," Oliver explained, describing the region as the "Willem Dafoe's dick of planet Earth" due to its surprisingly large size. When asked about the Chinese government's depiction of him as an "evil wolf," the Dalai Lama kept his response reliably enlightened. "They describe me as a demon," the Dalai Lama said, mocking that description by putting his hands up as makeshift horns. "Whatever they want to say, that's their freedom. I have no negative ...

Artist' Trump, 'madam Ghostbuster' Sean Spicer

... think about what he’s actually alleging there: he is suggesting a U. S. president enlisted a foreign intelligence service to spy on a political adversary. That is an explosive charge. Perhaps that is why the NSA’s deputy director told the BBC it was ‘arrant nonsense’ revealing ‘a complete lack of understanding in how the relationship works.’ And for their part, GCHQ called the accusations ‘utterly ridiculous.’ And yet, rather than distancing himself from Spicer, Trump decided to back him up.”. Oliver then played a clip of Trump telling journalists last week Spicer merely repeated what Judge Napolitano said. “All we did was quote a certain, very talented legal mind, who was the one responsible for saying that on television. That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox. So you shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox.”. “No, we should be talking to you about it because you’re the f—ing president, and you’re repeating it,” Oliver said in response to the audio. “‘He said it because he heard it on television’ is barely an acceptable excuse for why your parrot said a racial slur. ‘No, no, no, no, we’ve ...

Students Should Watch John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight

... like cherries that hate you. Cranberries taste like what a raspberry drinks before a colonoscopy”  — his jibes are funny and poignant. His brand of humor is singularly original and his takedowns are as slick as a whistle. Democracy, he once quipped, “is like a tambourine: not everyone can be trusted with it.”. Furthermore, Last Week Tonight has gained a reputation for embracing an unorthodox and endearing type of advocacy. For example, Oliver established a legally recognized church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, in order to expose and ridicule televangelists who preach the “prosperity gospel” to embezzle money from unsuspecting followers. Later, he donated all money raised by the church to Doctors Without Borders. More recently, following a segment about Trump and his relationship with the truth, or lack thereof, ...