John Oliver devoted the primary phase of Sunday’s episode of “Final Week Tonight” to not a subject however to an individual: Vice President JD Vance.
“I do know to some Vance may look like simply one other abrasive MAGA asshole with a load-bearing beard, however to many on the proper, he’s a towering mind,” Oliver identified as he picked aside Vance’s rise to turn into Donald Trump’s right-hand man, a trajectory he mentioned was notably stunning given Vance’s former disdain for the president.
Oliver aired a video of a pre-MAGA Vance hanging a relatively nuanced tone, which he mentioned was “unusual to see” from “a man who’s since turn into such a troll.”
Then got here the damning analogy:
“It will be like discovering previous movies of your canine consuming with a fork and a knife. ‘What the fuck?!? Yesterday I watched you’re taking a shit after which eat it mouth first. How on earth did we get from this to that?’”
Oliver dissected Vance’s ambition and opportunism and urged he had turn into “the archetype of the hyperonline conservative troll, proper right down to the entire, ‘Kidding, not kidding, set off the libs shtick.’”
Oliver additionally warned viewers to not be fooled by Vance, citing what had been hailed as his “rational” efficiency in the course of the 2024 vice presidential debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
It’s “so necessary to recollect who JD Vance truly is” as a result of, mentioned Oliver: “He’ll current himself as an anti-elitist man of the folks however a lot of his profession has been bankrolled by tech billionaires, he’ll go to bat for Alex Jones, arguing we should always present grace to those that are 40% proper, however he’ll fortunately co-sign on childless folks being sociopaths and the left being un-humans. He’ll supply empathy and understanding in the case of non-conventional thinkers, however has no downside deriding immigrants as a web adverse on society.”