Not wanting to spend more of his June Last week tonight episodes of presidential failures, John Oliver instead ended the month chasing Trump’s porcelain vice-pack Mike Pence, who claimed last week that the administration “successfully crushed the curve” of the coronavirus and was able to “defend the resources” to prevent more widespread. Oliver, and his basic scientific knowledge, have to disagree. “The United States is now setting records for new daily cases as the virus increases across the country, making it surprising, and frankly, irritating, that the vice president made this statement on Friday,” he said of the comments by Pence. “What ?! That’s such an open and stupid lie. It’s like saying, rather than saying, ‘Your dog is on a farm in the north of the state,’ said your father, ‘your dog has a farm in the Northern state that has the marketplace cornered in wholesale wheat and grain supplies for all of Saratoga County. “That’s not true. The dog is dead, and by the way, there are more than 120,000 Americans.”
“In addition to that, Pence also visibly omitted wearing a mask because of the advice he gave to delay the spread of the virus,” Oliver continued, although the vice president has now overcome his fear of covering his face and advocates its use. “And I will never understand why, or how, Republicans have made ‘disease non-spread’ a culture war problem.” It is particularly surprising to Oliver, given that he thinks there was a “missed opportunity” for the party to perform. “You could have printed ‘Make America Great Again’ on a billion red masks and pulled them off the helicopters,” he explained. People would have used them! They’re not even taking advantage of a national disaster properly, you fucking idiots! Just think of all those advertising-seeking plastic gloves. Or bottles of hand sanitizer. Or hazardous materials suits! This must be exactly how Don Draper felt at the end of Crazy men.
