In 24 hours, Americans will head to the polls for the the last election ever. And if worst comes to worst, they're going to need someone to blame for their impending orange-hued doom.
Someone like John Oliver.
Why not? If The Daily Show's dystopian, near-future fiction is to be believed, Oliver is going to be arrested by Overlord Trump, anyway. So, making Oliver and his "boring and low energy" show the perfect scapegoat for their crumbling democracy makes sense.
Conveniently, Oliver might very well be to blame for Trump's inexplicable rise to power, as he reminded us on Last Week Tonight on Sunday. Three years ago—back when a Trump presidency seemed like a joke and not an Orwellian nightmare—Oliver guest hosted The Daily Show, where he made the following statement:
"Do it," the sweet, naive Oliver of 2013 told Trump of his ambitions to run for president. "I will personally write you a campaign check now, on behalf of your country, which does not want you to be president, but badly wants you to run."
Alas, the only thing they can actually do is vote.
"You do have to vote, even if you live in a state where you think it won't matter," Oliver said. "There is a lot to consider on Tuesday and then, barring recounts, this nightmare of a campaign will be over—which is good, because this election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them '6s at best."
Certainly, there's a 50/50 chance that on Wednesday we could wake up to President-Elect Donald Trump's smug, squinty face yelling something about himself. But at least the election will be over, right?
