{"id":2341995,"date":"2026-03-23T12:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2341995"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:53:19","slug":"fk-those-fkers-john-oliver-stunned-by-utterly-despicable-atf-sting-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fk-those-fkers-john-oliver-stunned-by-utterly-despicable-atf-sting-tactic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018F**k Those F**kers&#8230;&#8217;: John Oliver Stunned By \u2018Utterly Despicable&#8217; ATF Sting Tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Undercover cops and government agents and controversial sting operations were the focus of John Oliver\u2019s deep dive on Sunday\u2019s episode of \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Oliver examined how stings have become a major part of policing over the past four decades as he highlighted some of the \u201cpretty shitty\u201d tactics used to catch people and pointed to how some operations disproportionately target certain ethnic groups and people with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But one example, in particular, drew his strongest reaction:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIn one case, [ATF] agents set up a fake smoke shop in Portland and paid a 19-year-old who was mentally disabled, and his friend, to promote their store by, and this is true, getting a large tattoo on their necks of the fake shop\u2019s emblem, which was a giant squid smoking a joint, which is utterly despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Oliver slammed a judge for mildly saying it was \u201cnot a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cNot a good idea? Look, there is a time to be polite, but finding out agents just used taxpayer money to tattoo a teen with mental disabilities is not it. In fact, I looked up that exact situation in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/emilypost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Emily Post\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c0fdc0e4b0838d9663dc6c\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/emilypost.com\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Emily Post<\/a>\u2019s book of etiquette and her advice just says, \u2018Fuck those fuckers sideways with a rusty fork.\u2019 I didn\u2019t say that. Emily Post did, so you know it\u2019s official.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undercover cops and government agents and controversial sting operations were the focus of John Oliver\u2019s deep dive on Sunday\u2019s episode of \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d Oliver examined how stings have become a major part of policing over the past four decades as he highlighted some of the \u201cpretty shitty\u201d tactics used to catch people and pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,310365],"class_list":["post-2341995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-oliver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Fk-Those-Fkers-John-Oliver-Stunned-By-\u2018Utterly-Despicable-ATF.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341997,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341995\/revisions\/2341997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}