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Brexit Breakdown: The Daily Show - YouTube
Channel: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
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But let's move on now...
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to the big story
rocking the world right now.
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It's the news out of Britain.
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Britain, home of the Queen,
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cricket,
and the world's worst weaves.
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Last week in a referendum,
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British people voted
to leave the European Union,
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which, uh,
you're probably aware of,
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because all your friends
on Facebook
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are suddenly experts
on British politics.
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Yeah, even though the last
British event they commented on
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was the series finale
of<i> Downtown Abbey,</i> but whatever.
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Now, For those of those...
for those of you
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who don't pretend
to know what's going on, uh,
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most European countries belong
to the European Union, right?
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It's a partnership
that lets them trade freely
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with each other,
and allows citizens
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to live and work
in each others' countries.
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The EU is basically
friends with benefits,
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but instead of bodily fluids,
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they're exchanging
goods and services.
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That's what's happening.
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Now, the thing is,
in the-in the last few years,
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more and more British people
have gotten fed up
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with the EU, uh, especially
because it doesn't let Britain
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control its own
immigration policy.
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So Thursday, 52% of them
voted to leave the EU.
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What they didn't realize was,
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they were also voting for money
to leave the UK.
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It would be hard to overestimate
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both the shock and
the consequences of this vote.
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It has sent the markets
into chaos across the globe.
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WOMAN:<i> The pound has fallen
to its lowest level</i>
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<i> against the dollar since 1985.</i>
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Yeah!
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Serves you right.
(chuckles)
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Yeah, because Nationalists
are always insisting
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on chasing people
out of their country--
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forgetting that you're
also chasing the foreigner cash
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out with them.
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"I'll tell you what we don't
need in this country,
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"a lot of bloody foreigners
coming in
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"and making things worse.
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"Get out of here,
you bloody foreigners.
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"Go on. Go... oh, wait,
where's the money going?
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"Where's the money going?
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"Where's the money?
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"Oh, I didn't know your money
spoke Portuguese.
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Come back, come back,
come back!"
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-Look, now this is really a
confusing situation. -(laughter)
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Some believe that the UK
is headed for disaster.
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Some believe the economy
will stabilize over time.
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And some don't even know what
the hell they were voting for.
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The second most Googled term
inside the UK is,
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"What is the European Union?"
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-Adam, you voted to leave.
-I did.
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What are you thinking right now?
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I didn't think
that was gonna happen.
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My vote I didn't think
was gonna matter too much,
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'cause I thought
we were just gonna remain.
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I voted out.
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I don't really think
that we should have, really.
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-So maybe you're regretting your
vote now this morning? -Yeah.
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The whole family this morning,
even though the majority of us
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voted to leave, we are actually
regretting it today.
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I wish we had the opportunity
to vote again,
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simply because I would do so
many things differently.
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"Yeah, I didn't realize
that it was a real vote.
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"I just thought we were testing
if the pens worked. Yeah.
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"I didn't even know
that votes counted, yeah?
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"Wait. If voting is real,
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"then why do we have a queen
anyway, yeah?
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"Yeah, and why does she get
to live in a nice house?
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"You know what? I say we vote on
whether or not we have a queen.
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Come on, everybody!
Our votes count. Yeah!"
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(cheers and applause)
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You know what?
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I don't blame British people
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for not understanding
what they were voting for,
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'cause this is something
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that has perplexed me
for a long time.
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I mean, they called
this whole thing "Brexit."
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Who the hell came up
with that name? Brexit.
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"Brexit" does not sound like a
decision to sever economic ties
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that would have a lasting
geopolitical consequence.
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"Brexit" sounds like
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what a hipster names
their second-born son.
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-That's what Brexit is.
-(laughter)
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"Uh, this is Max
and this is Brexit.
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Brexit's the one with the beard,
yeah, yeah."
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Like, "Brexit" sounds like
brunch for people on the go.
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"Should we have bunch?"
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"I only have 20 minutes.
Let's do Brexit."
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-That's what it sounds like.
-(laughter)
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People, can we agree
on something in society?
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If we have an important issue,
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let's give it
an important-sounding name.
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For instance, back in the day,
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when Lincoln made the case
for the abolition of slavery,
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I'm not sure he would have had
the same outcome
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if he was like, "So, you guys
down for slexit?
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-Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?"
-(laughter)
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You got
to make it sound important.
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And what's really scary here is
that there were some people
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who knew exactly
what they were voting for.
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And they didn't necessarily want
Britain to leave the EU,
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but they just felt
that the vote was the only way
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that they could express
their frustration.
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What you just heard
was a protest vote,
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and there were a lot of those--
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people, you know,
who were fed up
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with the elites
telling them what to do.
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MAN:<i> Robert says he was trying
to get politicians to listen</i>
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<i> when he voted leave.</i>
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They come around scrounging
for your vote...
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(speaking indistinctly
with thick accent)
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-Exactly.
-(laughter)
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Yeah. Just think about what
that man said for a minute.
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(laughter)
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And see if it doesn't change
your perspective.
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Think about it.
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I'm sorry. I realize
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some of you might not
have understood his accent.
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Can we play that again
with subtitles please?
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(laughter)
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Ah.
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-(applause and cheering)
-Yeah.
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I know because of his accent,
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the situation seems
really funny,
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but this guy voted purposefully
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to shock the system
because he was angry.
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Either that,
or the fish is on sale.
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I don't know, but I'm going
to go with the former.
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And that man's sentiment
is not unique to the UK.
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There are many people all over
the world, including the U.S.,
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who feel disenfranchised,
they feel ignored.
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And they're willing to vote
for something completely crazy
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because they think it will be
better than what they have.
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So Britain,
I need to ask you a favor.
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If you are going to collapse
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into a scone-less,
post-apocalyptic hell-scape,
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please could you do it
before America's election day?
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(laughter)
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-Just so that...
-(applause and cheering)
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Just so that the people here
can learn from your mistakes.
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