John Oliver has a refreshingly simple action plan for Tuesday's midterms

Still, Oliver cautioned anyone foolish enough to even think about sitting this election out that the administration is doing everything possible to undermine the seemingly inevitable Democratic midterms victory. Trump’s administration may be 0-27 in court cases attempting to obtain state voter rolls for nefarious purposes, sure, but as Oliver notes, a bit of legal rat-fuckery in Alaska involving two candidates with the same name is being floated as reason for the GOP to nullify that election, Trump’s DOJ is raiding the homes of prominent elected critics like Ilhan Omar, and Trump himself has been less than definitive when asked point blank if he’ll accept the election results. 

Still, Oliver had plenty of clips at the ready to show how the GOP’s usual scare tactics and “middle school level” homophobia and bigotry just aren’t that effective this time around. At least not with a president openly sundowning in public as he repeatedly moons over taut Republican buttocks and “sausage-like” fingers, as he keeps doing with Ohio Republican John Husted. (“Is that even good?,” Oliver asked, “‘God, he’s so hot—his fingers look like ground meat bursting out of fake skin!'”) 

A lot of Oliver’s Late Week Tonight stories end with the exasperated and exhausted host wearily explaining that viewers can’t do much at present about the night’s spotlighted outrage, but with the most important election in most people’s lifetimes just hours away, the host offered up a simple, for once timely action plan. “You can probably safely assume that if things don’t go Trump’s way, he’ll claim the election was rigged and do everything he can to undermine the result. Which is a strong argument for you turning up to vote this year. Even in districts where you think your candidates are safe… the bigger the results are for Democrats on Tuesday, the harder they’ll be for Trump to litigate or deny.”