HBO’s John Oliver will occasionally use Last Week Tonight to try to educate American viewers on a subject they know little about, but the subject of Oliver’s Sunday wrath this time was not the dictatorship of Turkmenistan, but his native Britain’s Conservative Party which is down in the polls ahead of their July 4 election. Being the host of a nominal comedy show gave Oliver the impression that he could compare Conservatives to “a wild badger” and label them “cunts, fuckpigs, and weirdos” and be taken seriously.
Reacting to a man who lamented that Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has run a “dull” campaign because he believes he does not need to risk anything because of his party’s big lead in the polls, Oliver ranted, “Yeah, maybe that’s true, but after everything you’ve seen tonight, you can probably understand why people are much more…
