Like many of us, Oliver is still reeling from this weekend's back to back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio
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with a brief, sobering monologue addressing these devastating attacks, the first of which is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism, and slamming President“When it comes to gun control, I know it can feel like everything’s been said before,” Oliver began, quipping that evenis a rote statement nowadays—but adding that it’s important not to stay numb. “Unless something hurts as much as it’s supposed to, nothing gets done about it—and something has got to be done here.
Oliver then played footage of a Trump rally in Florida this past May, where the president laughed at and encouraged an attendee who yelled “shoot them!” after Trump mentioned immigrants who journey to the U.S. border. “That’s only in the panhandle you can get away with that statement,” Trump said at the time.
“Here is the thing about that: It is not ‘only in the panhandle’ where you can get away with that statement,” Oliver said. “You can now get away with it all over the country, and as he just made painfully clear, in any room the actual president is in. Which is absolutely appalling, and that is something we cannot afford to get numb to.”
“If that ever, for even a moment, feels like it’s become normal, we are completely fucked,” he continued.More Great Stories from
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