RFK Jr.: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

I know for a fact someone on John's team was absolutely seething that the road kill bear story came out after the episode was published

"anti-depressants make people depressed because everyone who takes them is depressed" - Flawless facebook scientists

RFK Jr: "I found a dead bear cub on the road, picked it up to skin it and later eat it, but then forgot it was in my van when I was busy eating at a Michelin rated steakhouse, so I dumped it in Central Park as a joke." Also RFK Jr: "Trust me and my common sense to be President of the United States."

"Switzerland's last shooting was 21 years ago" Yeah. Because they DID something about it. Switzerland has a high rate of gun ownership, BUT: -You have to prove you are not a threat to others or yourself -You cannot have a criminal record indicating violent disposition or pose danger to others. -Background checks are mandatory and thorough. -You have to register any gun you buy, including private sales -You have to prove safe storage -You need a permit or hunting license to carry a gun in public -You cannot carry a loaded gun in public -You need a REASON to transport a gun, not just carry it around because you're paranoid -You cannot have concealed carry -ammo is not sold where guns are and goes through the same process including background checks -loss of a weapon must be reported immediately There's a lot more but yes, that's the difference: Switzerland enacted gun laws in response to the shooting while still allowing citizens to have them. We just brush it off because it's always too soon after the last one to talk about it.

RFK Jr's the type of guy to get interogated as a witness and immediately admit to 5 crimes

I love how this is even before knowing about the story of RFK Jr. dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park.

I’m 3rd generation Autistic with a Grandmother who had Polio. I publicly speak and advocate in Neurodiversity space and before Covid I had people after a talk with the first question to me be, “Were you vaccinated?” The source RFK Jr. I’ve never since believed RFK Jr is anything but an anti-vaxxer which has only continued to be confirmed and reconfirmed since.

I was almost sold on the milk theory because I consumed a lot of diary in public schools only to find out as an adult I was lactose intolerant. I also had a large amount of pinned up aggression as an adolescent. So I was really leaning into his theory until he pulled the rug from underneath it, clever.

"that looks less like a campaign ad and more like dating profile of guy who lost custody" Oliver's humor is golden

To quote a former favorite rapper: if you see Robert Kennedy in the forest fighting a bear, help the bear!

For the first time I am glad that my auditory processing disorder is preventing me from understanding most of what a person is saying, RFK Jr is raising my blood pressure as it is.

Thank you for including an autistic person when you were talking about autism. Super refreshing to feel included in the conversation!

Having heard the backstory of RFK Jr. on Behind the Bastards and then seeing a chance to "Win a Day of Falcontry with RFK Jr" feels like a threat

I have been so badly burned by celebrities oddly foreshadowing their misdeeds that I am dreading a day where it is revealed that John really did do something to a horse.

the fact that they recorded this like ONE DAY before RFK Jr admitted to dump a dead bear cub on central park is so damn funny

17:29 - Yeah, so that bear joke really aged well here. 🐻

One thing I appreciate about Last Week Tonight videos is that there are no YT ads on them.

I actually met Ethel Kennedy a few times as a kid when my father worked as Ted Kennedy's legal aide - she was such a lovely person, so gentle and down to earth, loved to ask visiting kids what songs they knew and sing with them. How her son turned out this way I just cannot fathom.

There was an article written by an MIT graduate returning for a 20 yr school reunion. His son had been diagnosed w highly functioning autism. He wrote how many of his classmates now would be diagnosed w highly functioning autism.

Since when is "former BlackRock fund manager" a better medical qualification than an M.D./Ph.D.?