If we weren’t wakeful that U.S. roads, bridges and dams are in critical state of disrepair, concede John Oliver to put it plainly: “We aren’t only flirting with disaster, we’re rounding third bottom and seeking if disaster has any condoms.”
On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver pennyless down a contemptible state of America’s neglected infrastructure, including “hold your breath” bridges, torpedo potholes, a serious miss of inspectors and intensity floods from a half-century aged dams.
“Much like many Botox recipients and rival cloggers, a normal dam is 52 years aged and has something deeply damaged inside of it,” pronounced Oliver.
As Oliver explains, The White House is counting on a closure of corporate taxation loopholes, no one wants to lift a gas taxation and House Speaker John Boehner has his possess ideas about regulating a problem that involves dual years of not doing anything followed by ignoring Oliver’s phone calls, emails and Vines.
During a montage of politicians slicing ribbons with oversized scissors, Oliver also points out that repair infrastructure isn’t as “sexy” as building anew, and backs it adult with a ideal Legos analogy.
“Infrastructure is like Legos,” he said. “Building is fun, destroying is fun, though a Lego upkeep set would be a many tedious fucking fondle in a world.”
To tip it off, Oliver presents a trailer for a new kind of summer blockbuster movie, one that’s some-more about regulating cracks and reduction about explosions.
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