Ron DeSantis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ladies, do not hesitate to (politely) correct a man on your date. If he disappears/avoids you after that, know that you've dodged a rotten meatball.

1:43 “Ask your kids about BDE” is a heck of a line for a party that loses its mind every time that a kid’s book mentions LGBT issues.

Using whether or not a girl corrects you on your mispronunciation of 'thai food' said as 'thigh food' on a first date as a litmus test has to be one of the most alarmingly psychotic attributes ive ever heard. That's so specific, it feels like it probably is true.

And 100% of school libraries do NOT have "hard core" porn. I would speculate that close to 100% of PUBLIC libraries do not have hard core porn, by definition. As a former public library director, we represent our community as a whole, not the narrow views of an autocrat.

It's fascinating how a nation can be so obsessed with freedom and do everything to kill it at the same time.

So they don’t mind their kids being asked about “BDE” but think being told that homosexuality exists is inappropriate at any age under 18? Man, we are in the worst timeline.

I cannot imagine bragging about pissing off the UN. It's like claiming to be a pro NASCAR driver because you're driving backwards through multi-lane traffic.

Some updates. Desantis has had: Parts of his election laws blocked by a Florida Judge, The drag show law has been blocked, Has striken down Medicaid ban on gender care, Florida's ban on gender-affirming care blocked.

DeSantis writing a book about freedom makes as little sense as Trump writing a book about running a successful business.

“Our kids CANNOT learn about gay couples but you should ask them to explain BDE” lmao

Several school districts have outright banned any books with black protagonists, calling them woke. NPR did an interview with one of the authors who attested that the book had no objectionable content. It was about a black kid going to school, having a happy time, and going back to his happy home and loving family. The author wanted positive, happy books for a black audience and that not every book with black heroes had to be about struggle or historical trauma. The NPR interviewer and the author came to the conclusion that the book was banned for being "woke" simply by having a black protagonist. That same story is repeated for other heroes of different ethnicity, religions, and LGBT characters. We are facing academic erasure.

Once again, a politician invents problems to avoid doing anything they were actually elected to do, like efficiently run the country.

When you make peaceful protest illegal, you make violent protest inevitable.

That “thigh food” tactic is REAL. I had a date walk out on me for saying the word “ostensibly”, saying he couldn’t have a girlfriend who “used language like that”. Turns out he just didn’t know what it means. edit: I still dated him for the worst 4 months of my life. Never again.

He’s genuinely one of the most dangerous politicians to ever come through the US political system

John your efforts to explain these political nightmares.. is appreciated. Of course your addition of humor. Is always a treat…

Okay, but can we talk about how for the whole "anti-woke" bill, they had to legally define what "woke" means, and what they came up with boils down to "progressive activism".... so... they want to make activism illegal? Interesting.

"I don't like women correcting me." Well that explains a lot .

I sure do love it when politicians thinking that removing a book from a library will stop kids from finding smut. Like they have no access to the internet

Watching this 10 months later, it’s great to know he’s basically out of it, but John, you’re still spot on. Love you dude. Excellent Work