Coronavirus IX: Evictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • @brandaugment6492
    @brandaugment6492 4 года назад +893

    When you lose your residence, you can't find work. You no longer have an address and employers consider the lack of an address as a liability. They will look for someone they perceive as "more stable". If you can't afford mobile service, you don't have a phone number either.
    But it's worse than that. There's no place to go to the bathroom. Public rest rooms are not always available and even if they are, many are locked at night. You can't shower to look decent for an interview. You can't eat healthy because you don't have a stove or refrigerator. It's difficult to get unemployment payments, welfare, food stamps or anything else if you don't have an address. If you sold your car to pay a couple a months on the mortgage or rent, now you can't get around either. Many places have limited bus service.
    The danger to women and children is significant. When you are homeless, the vulnerable become even more vulnerable-they are targeted because if something happens to them, no one knows and no one cares. If you try to sleep under a bridge or in an alley, even if you are not assaulted, you may be picked up and thrown into jail for vagrancy. In some states, you can't even sleep in your car (if you still have one)-it's against the law.
    In many cities the Food Bank (if there is one), employment security office, and the welfare agency are at opposite ends of town and, in most places, they do not provide photocopiers or paper or stamps or the other things a homeless person needs to create a résumé to look for work (these agencies are not well coordinated and do very little to aid with job hunting). It's almost as though the system is designed to KEEP the unemployed from finding honest work. Most people do not want welfare, they want a job. Most people don't want to steal... but they have to eat to survive and even if they don't steal for themselves, many will steal (if they have to) to feed their children.
    I've been saying for years that unemployment can happen to anyone... even the most industrious and the most educated. People laughed and replied that this was nonsense. Maybe now they will see how and why this can happen... to anyone.
    John Oliver, thank you for bringing people's attention to the subject of evictions. It is going to be landslide catastrophe and we need to start looking for solutions NOW. Hopefully you have opened a few eyes. As a society, we are only as good as how we treat those who are in need.

    • @jzthompson9598
      @jzthompson9598 4 года назад +98

      I got critically ill 20 years ago, and got evicted. Someone I had worked for when i was healthy gave me a car that they were about to donate to PBS, and that was my home for nearly a year, until someone else got me a place to live, because all you said was true. Three people drove me around, and four government employees helped me heal.
      I'd be dead now, otherwise.
      I couldn't do it again. I'd rather be dead. It was too hard then, It would be impossible now. I'm still disabled. I couldn't live on the street.
      Thank you for writing this.

    • @tracymetherell8744
      @tracymetherell8744 4 года назад +6

      Exactly

    • @fermitupoupon1754
      @fermitupoupon1754 4 года назад +56

      Even here in North-Western Europe things are going awry. I took in a friend who became homeless just as the crisis began. The Social Services Department at the local municipality has been closed, but every 3 months people on welfare have to fill out a Status Form, which the municipal government is supposed to mail them. And we're talking snail mail here, not email. There is no online Status Form that people can fill out, it has to be on paper.
      So you can guess where this is going. Due to the Intelligent Lockdown as they like to call it, the SSD forgot to send out the Status Forms to people. And with no current status in the system, the computer has automatically stopped the welfare payments. Yet despite the SSD admitting in writing that they messed up, their solution is to just mail people their Status Form and they'll recieve the backpay next month. It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't so damn Kafkaesque.
      Now my employer (who has been making a mint selling social distancing stickers) does still pay me. I can work from home. But I barely make enough to foot my own bills and help cover for my friend's cost of living. But the same thing happened to my neighbour, who is a single mom with 5 kids and the worst ex-husband you can imagine. Now I know that both my neighbour and my friend will repay me at the end of the month when the SSD gets their act together. But meanwhile I am sitting at nearly my maximum overdraft, just because I am not a heartless bastard who can stand idly by and watch little kids go hungry.
      It's a good thing people are getting the welfare in 9 days, because I can't afford to feed 8 people much longer on my part-time income. And I'd hate to have to dip into my long term savings and face interest penalties just because I am trying to be able to look at myself in the mirror each morning.
      I may be a bleeding heart socialist, but I can't wait for the courts to reopen so I can sue the city for the interest I had to pay on these overdrafts. It's ridiculous that I have to go into debt to fix a problem caused by some pencil pusher who can't be arsed to make half an effort it themselves.

    • @StefanReich
      @StefanReich 4 года назад +15

      > You can't even sleep in your car (if you still have one)-it's against the law.
      The laws are so good! We should all abide by them!

    • @Nightstick24
      @Nightstick24 4 года назад +19

      It's truly astonishing how short-sighted people can be. In their blind pursuit of money they justify doing the most horrendous and despicable things to people.

  • @Xergecuz
    @Xergecuz 4 года назад +1389

    This is what's going to happen, people will get evicted when they can't pay rent, landlords will lose their properties when they can't pay the mortgage, and banks will get a bailout at the end, but not before rich people buy all the cheap bank stocks after they announce bankruptcy.

    • @ElizabethGreene
      @ElizabethGreene 4 года назад +168

      Don't forget the same rich people buying up the rental properties through REITs, and then your landlord will be a soulless corporation instead of a human being.

    • @maxschmidt666
      @maxschmidt666 4 года назад +14

      Seems pretty accurate.

    • @littlegiantrobo6523
      @littlegiantrobo6523 4 года назад +69

      And all of that vacated property will be destroyed and re-developed, something that was being prevented by those low-income renters.

    • @カスカディア国人
      @カスカディア国人 4 года назад +49

      And then we get angry and introduce the super rich people to a history lesson on the French Revolution.
      Probably not but eventually people will get fed up enough to do it. How many times are they gonna spit in our eyes and we do nothing about these oligarch bastards? They’ve robbed the country and abused people repeatedly and yet people still believe in the system, that can’t last forever.

    • @humboldthammer
      @humboldthammer 4 года назад +5

      The War is part of the timetable. Every desperate nation and peoples for themselves . . . in the Name of GAUD -- Grand Architect of Ur Destruction -- Abraham's Ur. THEN, the Jubilee in Jerusalem on 09/23/26 (maybe sooner) to forgive ALL THAT DEBT, usher in the Neo Eon Currencies, and reveal Lucifer 8.0, the sentient machine with the plan to perfect humanity.
      All the people will cry out in a Shared, Worldwide Experience, "No more war. Forgive our debts. Save us. We will do Anything!"
      Hegelian Dialectic: Thesis Antithesis Synthesis
      GOD no god NEON GAUD

  • @alexialanda27
    @alexialanda27 4 года назад +496

    "The only thing worse than knowing your going to spend another day stuck under the same roof, is not knowing that." That really hit me and made me appreciate the roof I have over my head.

    • @OriLOK2
      @OriLOK2 4 года назад +14

      Boredom is a luxury these days. It has been for a while but especially now.

    • @zxp3ct3r41
      @zxp3ct3r41 4 года назад

      U better

    • @kroon1930
      @kroon1930 4 года назад +6

      Yes! Me too.... Puts it in perspective. I am sooooo lucky. Social housing, rental support, and a lovely small house with a garden for my dogs. No debts and not by far, but just enough money to live from. For which I am more and more thankfull.

    • @spritemon98
      @spritemon98 4 года назад +1

      Me too

    • @robertlockwood3277
      @robertlockwood3277 4 года назад +1

      Same. I damn near memed it. Here in rural southern KY most of us are still working and the cost of living is minimal...but we're lucky.

  • @Forscythe80
    @Forscythe80 4 года назад +202

    Michael Bowman says its horrible but it's just business. "It's just business" is the motto of organised crime.

    • @tomasgomez9925
      @tomasgomez9925 3 года назад +16

      That’s American capitalism for you. In other developed nations who are also capitalists, this wouldn’t happened. They have laws to protect this from happening and their citizens have a different way of thinking.

    • @jx51.50
      @jx51.50 2 года назад +1

      I meaaaannnnn you said it 👀 but I’m 100% agreeing with you

    • @PSI441
      @PSI441 Год назад

      ​@tomasgomez9925 Correct. People say Capitalism is the problem. No, extreme unregulated Capitalism is the problem

  • @bluesky258b6
    @bluesky258b6 4 года назад +1793

    Sorry to say this, but again a problem that I'm too European to understand.
    The problem is that people can lose their jobs so easily in the US. Here in Germany, the government funded part of people's wages so their employer doesn't have to fire them (and doesn't need to find new people and train them when this is over). As a result, unemployment rates only increased a little bit during the pandemic, nowhere near the spike the US has seen. People can still pay their rent, and neither landlords nor tenants have anything to worry about.
    But these ideas sound like communism to some Americans. This isn't communism. Germany and most European countries are capitalist, but with an added safety net that no one can slip through.
    Nobody has to worry about medical bills, housing, or their basic needs even if they are unemployed.
    This has worked out for us really well, also economically. Whatever the hell the US are doing is not sustainable.
    Edit: Here's a report saying that so far hardly anyone couldn't pay their rent due to the pandemic www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/buende/22793205_Bisher-nur-wenige-Mietausfaelle-trotz-Corona.html

    • @natecodesai
      @natecodesai 4 года назад +250

      Add to that, you can't get proper healthcare unless you pay a premium every month to private companies... you think people can afford that now as well? If you suggested to most people from the US that they should get social healthcare, they would call you a communist.
      What you might not understand as a European is that in public school in the USA, they teach children that the US is the best country in the world in everything, the only true democracy, and that socialism is basically the same thing as communism. This is why there is so much confusion. Ultimately what it ends up doing is pitting the people against ideas that would greatly help them without having to change anything about the political structure. In the US, public school is pretty much nothing more than indoctrination camps for young people, and most people can't afford private school so they send their children to be brainwashed into screwing themselves over such that the government wins and the people suffer.
      The funniest part is that in the US, we do many things that communist dictatorships also have done. For instance, the "pledge of allegiance" if you look that up you will see the full pledge, but I remember in public school, it was required that we stand and face the flag in the schoolroom every morning with our "hands over our hearts" (after WWII it was changed cause it used to be the fascist salute)... and pledge allegiance to our nation's flag. Songs like "I'm proud to be an american" and the national anthem were highly present as well.

    • @kingofpain11111
      @kingofpain11111 4 года назад +124

      I gotta learn German...

    • @AwqCutie
      @AwqCutie 4 года назад +61

      I am trapped in the US. I would not care if it was communism.

    • @OnkelBrummer
      @OnkelBrummer 4 года назад +60

      Dont forget about the law published in early Corona Virus times, that forbids to evict if you cant pay due to corona related money problems until September....

    • @ColoringKaria
      @ColoringKaria 4 года назад +202

      You are missing the point. In America a safety net is seen as a problem because some black or brown folk might get it. The entire reason trump got elected is because America would rather literally burn the whole country down and kill 120,000 Americans rather than have one black president out of 44. That’s the point. This isn’t a flaw it’s a feature. Remember Americans voted for all of this. Every politician in this clip was elected or hired by someone who was elected to do exactly what they are doing. This is about white supremacy.
      Don’t believe me: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-us-attorneys-lack-diversity-justice-department

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 4 года назад +4476

    America has finally turned out to be a worse place than my Sim City.

    • @noahgoverman448
      @noahgoverman448 4 года назад +68

      This comment needs more likes.

    • @maldoran9150
      @maldoran9150 4 года назад +67

      At this point the Dungeon Keeper would be hailed for his decisive leadership.

    • @ST-pf2jn
      @ST-pf2jn 4 года назад +32

      Or sims... oh wait they had shelter.... even if it was a shelter where i removed the doors on the room and they peed on the floor. Sorry sims family.

    • @Therabithole
      @Therabithole 4 года назад +2

      lol

    • @kimjin-hyub3413
      @kimjin-hyub3413 4 года назад +3

      LOL

  • @gid519
    @gid519 4 года назад +867

    John spits out more news in 19 min than the actual news.

    • @sonicjackalopeproductions3342
      @sonicjackalopeproductions3342 4 года назад +9

      And this is just his day job. Just imagine what happens when he gets on a tear and puts in overtime...

    • @dystopiapolitical2126
      @dystopiapolitical2126 4 года назад +4

      Hes the only corporate style media I'll watch

    • @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
      @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 4 года назад +6

      The difference being his show actually does research on the topic.

    • @vishumagar6848
      @vishumagar6848 4 года назад +1

      MotivatingIntoxicatingDD Nop, he does not, it is only produced in such a way that lazy people take it as a complete story.
      Here is what I will grant you, he makes news interesting.

    • @AmateurSpaceman
      @AmateurSpaceman 4 года назад +9

      @@toniodomene This is objectively absurd. His research and detail blows away that of any regular news reporting. Feel free to cite qualified sources that refute what he says; I would be genuinely interested to know.

  • @matthewcote9905
    @matthewcote9905 4 года назад +913

    That guy who owned the apartment complex is a goddamn hero and I hope he gets the respect he deserves

    • @cathleen6126
      @cathleen6126 4 года назад +66

      That's actually the real NYC, at least to each other. We have hated Donald Trump for decades; why didn't the rest of you listen?

    • @snakezase2998
      @snakezase2998 4 года назад +29

      Cathleen Kelly we did and he still somehow won

    • @DavidWood77
      @DavidWood77 4 года назад +11

      Mario Selarno for President 2020 #MarioSelarno2020

    • @dicknoseturdwaffle5305
      @dicknoseturdwaffle5305 4 года назад +8

      @@cathleen6126 Ah yes one apartment complex in an area still ruled by slumlords.

    • @gnuro
      @gnuro 4 года назад +6

      Is Salerno, actually a very fine city in Italy near Napoli. Mario Salerno it's the most italian name I've ever heard.

  • @AMortalDefiant
    @AMortalDefiant 4 года назад +3657

    This show could go to three hours a week and still not be enough to cover what a dumpster fire the US has become.

    • @IJ72
      @IJ72 4 года назад +83

      That began in 1775

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 4 года назад +31

      140 people shot in Chicago over the weekend.....

    • @6killersfear4
      @6killersfear4 4 года назад +36

      @@IJ72 I don't think so. My guess would be 3.8.1492. That's when it all began heading towards a downward spiral.

    • @kevincorrigan1754
      @kevincorrigan1754 4 года назад +28

      Ivica Jaranovic weird way to say 2016

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 4 года назад +15

      @@6killersfear4 Columbus was never in what is now the US.

  • @pcardenas4220
    @pcardenas4220 4 года назад +296

    “Everyone deserves the basic stability of shelter”
    I love you John!!!

    • @truthseekeralways7050
      @truthseekeralways7050 4 года назад +1

      @Michael Sequerth
      Get on with your Sad Pathetic Miserable Life

    • @Erikpdx
      @Erikpdx 4 года назад

      @@truthseekeralways7050 "truth seeker" ....lol.

    • @pcardenas4220
      @pcardenas4220 4 года назад +2

      Michael Sequerth
      I can see where you’re coming from Michael. This country very much values the hard-working individuals who strive to do great things, and I hope you yourself are one of those individuals.
      A country where there are winners and losers.
      However, as a civil society I believe that it is necessary for all people to have a roof over their head. Whether it be the roof of a mansion or of a homeless shelter. Those who can’t afford the roof can be deemed (for lack of a better term) lazy, but it shouldn’t be to the point where we just let them die because they didn’t work for a roof. We shouldn’t give them a mansion but we can a least give them a roof so that they may hopefully one day work hard and earn their own mansion. It’s called affordable housing.
      Whether you’re a winner or a loser every life has value and is capable of contributing to something. It’s just more difficult for some people to recognize that this country values hard work and so we should in our own ways help those people to see their own value.
      And it all starts with a roof over that person’s head.

    • @SherrifOfNottingham
      @SherrifOfNottingham 4 года назад +1

      @Michael Sequerth problem is value is relative.
      Fact is you generate a value of 17k a year for Google with your data, and that's just Google, RUclips, Amazon, Facebook, Steam, Netflix... They all earn from the value of your data on top of that 17k for Google.
      Depending on how wide a net you have thrown your data (unknowingly) into, you could have EASILY been earning 30k+ for the companies mining your data.
      You HAVE intrinsic value by being a consumer, or rather the retail and service industries simply sell you as a product to the brands they carry.
      The idea that you have to work to be giving value to "society" is actually a joke when you realize that the hardest working people make less money than if they just sat at home being a full time "product" of data mining
      Sure, it's a bubble, but the bubble bursting will likely be more a result of over valuing of the data, the data of a homeless person with no spending money is still worth something, but if the economy crashes, so does this bubble and all the companies relying on that mechanism will crash too.

  • @ece421
    @ece421 4 года назад +282

    It’s not just hard to get housing with an eviction on their record, it’s also hard to get a job, a loan. It affects your whole life and it’s a downward spiral that’s very difficult to get out of.

    • @kamharmon2463
      @kamharmon2463 4 года назад +4

      That's right, baby. All direct consequences of the drumpf's failure to respect and respond to covid 19. ALL HAIL HIS DOWNFALL!!!!!!

    • @castor9683
      @castor9683 4 года назад +10

      Jesus, it feels like you have to be a grade A+ human in the US if you want to live a decent life.

    • @sassyviking6003
      @sassyviking6003 4 года назад +9

      @@castor9683 nope, not even that will do it. You have to be born to the right people who already have money. There is no such thing as being good enough. Upward momentum in the US is non existent.

    • @Erikpdx
      @Erikpdx 4 года назад

      @@castor9683 a little bit of discipline, education, and less entitlement goes a long way

    • @Erikpdx
      @Erikpdx 4 года назад

      @@sassyviking6003 that is as nonsense as saying hard work is all you need to be rich. You sound like an entitled baby

  • @gamerharddrive1825
    @gamerharddrive1825 3 года назад +284

    I love how confident John is when he makes his video game jokes; even though he probably had to have half of them explained to him. A++ performance!

    • @thesinaclwon
      @thesinaclwon 2 года назад +5

      I can see him playing either gta 5 or dead space 2 😂

    • @thesinaclwon
      @thesinaclwon 2 года назад +15

      As a matter of fact I think what we need is a John Oliver gaming channel 😂😂😂

    • @Sceusell
      @Sceusell 2 года назад +4

      I can imagine John loving the sims, or city skylines

    • @brianc3761
      @brianc3761 2 года назад +5

      I like the pokemon one because I think there is an opportunity to trade Magikarp for Psyduck in Red, Blue and Yellow with an NPC

    • @Banter07
      @Banter07 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@SceusellI really wanna see John Oliver playing a paradox grand strategy game ngl

  • @vvitchmist4856
    @vvitchmist4856 4 года назад +1536

    This pandemic has laid bare how broken and mismanaged America actually is

    • @IloveElsaofArendelle
      @IloveElsaofArendelle 4 года назад +20

      Not only America, but the whole world

    • @Leicht_Sinn
      @Leicht_Sinn 4 года назад +57

      @@IloveElsaofArendelle hahah nah it clearly poit to USA
      Look in Europe like Germany or Austria where you get litterly paid 80% for doing maximum 50% of your normal work (Austria)
      In Germany 60%
      The Eu itself is now discussiong to give the population credtis to overcome the pademic with 0% interrest rates

    • @Ole_Rasmussen
      @Ole_Rasmussen 4 года назад +84

      America functions like a well oiled machine when it comes to attacking something with their military. That's where the money is.

    • @bessermt
      @bessermt 4 года назад +20

      @@Ole_Rasmussen disgusting and true.

    • @robertp457
      @robertp457 4 года назад +27

      A lot of us have known this all along. Politicians just don't do anything productive in the US and the way laws are made doesn't benefit the people it benefits politicians.

  • @maryspanjers3363
    @maryspanjers3363 4 года назад +3917

    “Everybody should plan for a rainy day.” Pretty sure we’re 3 months into everyone’s 3 month emergency fund.

    • @Nihilist_Porcupine
      @Nihilist_Porcupine 4 года назад +155

      @andrew miller Lmao, yeah I still didn't get that. I'm lucky enough to not have needed it. You can bet your ass I'm donating the entire thing to the ACLU. They'll need it for all of the lawsuits they're going to be fighting on behalf of the American people in the coming months.

    • @bruhhhhh718
      @bruhhhhh718 4 года назад +25

      @@Nihilist_Porcupine donate it to the libertarian party so we can stop having shills for presidents

    • @steezuschrist2408
      @steezuschrist2408 4 года назад +31

      @andrew miller shiiit I ain't get mine either, the government's been horrible with stuff like this. I been disabled the past 3 years and never once was allowed fed or state disability, unemployment or really any type of government assistance besides EBT and that was barely

    • @Danrarbc
      @Danrarbc 4 года назад +163

      @@bruhhhhh718 yes because libertarians are well-known fans of government assistance programs and using the power of government to do something like cancel rents.

    • @JachAnen
      @JachAnen 4 года назад +81

      Even if you plan for a rainy day, how far would different people be able to plan?? 3 months might be a bit too far for some. But the same can be said for owners, they should be able to lose 3 months rent without going broke. Even if they evict, who can afford to move in??
      This isn't something only happening to their own tenants, but everyone else's too, so they could potentially lose more money and have unhappy tenants if they evict because of this, as they won't immediately have a tenant with cash flow to move in afterwards, but if they let people stay, they could let the lack of rent slide for some months and be supportive of the tenants, they might end up more than happy to pay a little extra in rent to make up for some of the loss then and pay back the generosity.

  • @darkphoenix2
    @darkphoenix2 4 года назад +723

    This is just one example of the overall larger issue - OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T WORK FOR REGULAR PEOPLE

    • @jokuvaan5175
      @jokuvaan5175 4 года назад +23

      Yea. Because the regular people aren't paying for their campaign donations. There is a website called opensecrets.org I think where you can find out who does pay them. Like Mitch McConnnell who over the past 5 years has received over 31 million in campaing donations of which he spent only over 16 million, most of which from companies like united parcel sevice

    • @RealJesseONFIRE
      @RealJesseONFIRE 4 года назад +8

      They gave the stimulus out to companies and mandated that it only be paid to employees to keep them on staff. If the money was spent on anything else, the grant became a loan they had to repay. That was the extent of their help. So they mandated businesses shut down...shamed people anxious to reopen, and now are shocked lots of people are facing eviction...since shocker...businesses can’t shut down and keep paying people. When the death rate is now .26%....26 out of every 10,000 cases and primarily old people...we should all be beside ourselves at how idiotic all of this has been because this is just the beginning of what’s coming.

    • @Erikpdx
      @Erikpdx 4 года назад +2

      @@RealJesseONFIRE they also paid people a shlt-ton to stay at home. Many were making more on unemployment.
      To argue they didn't do enough is silly. However, what happens after July is important

    • @jokuvaan5175
      @jokuvaan5175 4 года назад +18

      @@RealJesseONFIRE The virus has already killed more Americans than WW1, hospitals in several states are about to run out of hospital beds and ventilators which is going to cause even more fatalities to the virus + some other treatable injuries or deseases that are left poorly treated due to overcrowding, a lot of dead people at once sure isn't good for economy and US hasn't even hit the peek of the outbrake yet. Old people are people too. They have the right to choose if they want to get less chance of getting a deadly desease or not. Not all dead are oold people. Thousands of working age people have died and tens of thousands more have been hospitalised, unable to work for weeks and many of them have gotten permanent lung damage and other side effects. How many people do you atill want to sacrigice "for the economy"? The US politicians were and have been unable to and unwilling to implement any social security systems that would keep people healthier and the economy better afloat like the European nations have.

    • @MrGamingPhenom
      @MrGamingPhenom 4 года назад +9

      Blame Republicans. Democrats are actually trying to pass relief bills

  • @Michelle-dv3jc
    @Michelle-dv3jc 4 года назад +67

    “Happy virtual graduation now let’s get on with our miserable lives”
    Exactly how it felt for me graduating this year.

  • @chae5833
    @chae5833 4 года назад +2342

    "They call it the American Dream, because you've got to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin

    • @SuperHlinik
      @SuperHlinik 4 года назад +41

      one of the best quotes ever said out loud

    • @TheShapingSickness
      @TheShapingSickness 4 года назад +80

      "if God had given us any rights, he'd have given us a right to have a roof over your head and food over your table" George Carlin

    • @yarazooom
      @yarazooom 4 года назад +37

      if POLICE want to redeem themselves for failing the public good, , they could REFUSE TO EVICT families from their homes. now that would be a REAL REVOLUTION

    • @SuperHlinik
      @SuperHlinik 4 года назад +19

      @@yarazooom that is what you call a dream

    • @camishavilme7402
      @camishavilme7402 4 года назад +20

      Rascal police are only there for the ruling class

  • @adamamborski165
    @adamamborski165 4 года назад +2830

    George Carlin: “That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

    • @AlexDragonfire96
      @AlexDragonfire96 4 года назад +31

      OMG S O D E E P

    • @dieSpinnt
      @dieSpinnt 4 года назад +35

      That this is an issue at all is a shame for humanity

    • @martindoornebosch1403
      @martindoornebosch1403 4 года назад +8

      Funny, I posted that quote on Stephen Colbert's second part of the interview with James Corden.

    • @ahnraemenkhera7451
      @ahnraemenkhera7451 4 года назад +16

      That Georgie! Still delivering laughs from the Cosmos!! [We all know you wouldn’t find him anywhere near that ‘other place’! 😂😂😂🌷] And he was RIGHT!

    • @OrontesRM
      @OrontesRM 4 года назад +33

      “This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago."

  • @winter_s_44
    @winter_s_44 4 года назад +533

    This is precisely what I have said. All of those saying: “why didn’t you have money stashed away?” who don’t ask the corporations getting bailed out why they didn’t have several months of profits stashed away to cover all operating expenses are hypocrites. What’s their answer? That it’s not that easy? I know, right.

    • @michaelbugner7011
      @michaelbugner7011 4 года назад +65

      78% of workers live paycheck to paycheck. They can't save up for a raining day.

    • @bobbykay485
      @bobbykay485 4 года назад +13

      Agree on corporations, but not on the landlords. Landlords are often just people who have property to rent out, and the plan was to collect rent, or find new tenants to collect rent. The government coming in and saying you can't find new tenants when the others aren't paying you would be like the government telling you your job doesn't have to pay you and you can't go find another one.

    • @taradrolma2774
      @taradrolma2774 4 года назад +2

      Winter S. Still no plans by Dems or Republicans to give individuals stimulus checks

    • @omstout
      @omstout 4 года назад +1

      Corporations have stockholders/pensions to pay. If they kept the money in a "rainy day fund" the liberals would TAX it.

    • @christophermontosari8156
      @christophermontosari8156 4 года назад +2

      If you do not save any money then you are living beyond your means or made previous choices that allow you to not do this. America is the land of opportunity. You work your ass off, be creative, start a side business. Whatever it takes but crying to the GOV is not the answer because they now have even more power on your lifes. Trust me you dont want to live in that world because i came from it

  • @MrChiMasterSir
    @MrChiMasterSir 4 года назад +141

    We've been getting 2000$/month each since the pandemic started. Businesses have been getting tens of thousands depending on their situation. The whole thing is federally funded. Say what you will about our Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau, we're doing fine right now. The extra debt is not going to be anywhere near as bad as the economic fallout of not helping our citizens would have been.

    • @Maxx_P0wer
      @Maxx_P0wer 4 года назад +6

      MrChiMasterSir Justin Trudeau is our *Prime Minister, not our Premier. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @Quirkyhndl
      @Quirkyhndl 4 года назад +7

      Can i move in with you? I do laundry...

    • @Canada1994
      @Canada1994 3 года назад +1

      Indeed. I'd hate to know how Harper or Scheer would've handled this with their "Balance budget no matter the cost" mentality.

    • @Canada1994
      @Canada1994 3 года назад +1

      @@Maxx_P0wer Both work. The British Prime Minister was called the British Premier in one article I read. I'm Canadian too.

    • @Maxx_P0wer
      @Maxx_P0wer 3 года назад

      @Justin Are you sure that both work just because you read it in one whole article (and that was about England’s leader, not Canada’s)? I’m not trying to be argumentative or anything at all! Just wondering why we would call our country’s leader the same thing we call our provincial leaders...? That would be both confusing and inaccurate, in my opinion.

  • @chobits0821
    @chobits0821 4 года назад +530

    "It's never fun throwing a single mother and her three kids out on the streets, it's just business"
    Can you imagine being able to say that during a crisis where a lot of people can't even work if they wanted to, and thinking you have a good point? Can you imagine saying that and NOT realizing how soulless that sounds?

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou 4 года назад +58

      can you imagine that about half the country thinks like that, so don't see anything wrong with his words.

    • @veryberry39
      @veryberry39 4 года назад +61

      Hell, there are people I've seen in this comment section who agree with him. They're actual garbage.

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 4 года назад +13

      Frank Fontaine from Bioshock said it best: "Never mix Business with friendship (or any other human emotions)"...

    • @forman208
      @forman208 4 года назад +30

      There's a serious callousness in this country, people will always put their bottom line above other human beings

    • @CardinalX
      @CardinalX 4 года назад +9

      Might help this show's case if they didn't interview someone who probably just spent $200 on their hair.
      Priorities people. If you spend your emergency fund on beauty stuff, fashion items, accessories, electronics etc etc etc... Ain't gonna be no emergency fund when the emergency hits!
      It's ok though. Someone will bail me out.

  • @chasehatchett4756
    @chasehatchett4756 4 года назад +228

    Ah I love waking up in the morning to Depression Time with Johnny-O

  • @ChrispyCulture
    @ChrispyCulture 4 года назад +449

    I just like how casually he tossed that painting aside.

    • @amertaunlebowski8683
      @amertaunlebowski8683 4 года назад +4

      Thats like with this bottle in the first coronavirus episode

    • @peterblood50
      @peterblood50 4 года назад +13

      It was an original Kudlow! Like the missing husband, totally worthless.

    • @livingcorpse5664
      @livingcorpse5664 4 года назад +1

      I came done in the comments just to say that.

    • @amyhull754
      @amyhull754 4 года назад +1

      SAME!

    • @Ancienregime8090
      @Ancienregime8090 4 года назад +14

      The fucking thud

  • @randybuttigieg6776
    @randybuttigieg6776 4 года назад +536

    In Canada's defense, there are some Americans living here too.

    • @ON-YT
      @ON-YT 4 года назад +12

      Scheer is half American.

    • @jessicazaytsoff1494
      @jessicazaytsoff1494 4 года назад +7

      @@Scutty-Snark no.
      I'm in no hurry to get away from Trudeau. I speak for the sensible. We had a vote. It was wonderful and I was chosen.

    • @logicallgaming
      @logicallgaming 4 года назад +21

      that is true. Canada should have some wiggle room in any criticism about housing. They are housing Americans which a lot of people forget. I hope all those Americans are using masks and using the precautions we have in place so both countries can stay as healthy and covid free as possible.

    • @bf5175
      @bf5175 4 года назад +12

      You don't need to blame Americans, you already have Quebec.

    • @idmann17
      @idmann17 4 года назад +7

      Canadians are also Americans, continentally speaking...

  • @z-beeblebrox
    @z-beeblebrox 4 года назад +633

    *"It's just business"*
    When the phrase your using to absolve yourself of responsibility is a cliche line hitmen use in movies, you're probably doing something bad

    • @lancethrustworthy
      @lancethrustworthy 4 года назад +5

      *YOU'RE

    • @BrianMcKee
      @BrianMcKee 4 года назад +18

      @@lancethrustworthy ur*

    • @rsuffridge1
      @rsuffridge1 4 года назад +22

      That's the phrase my new boss used when three quarters of the department I am in was laid off to give jobs to India a year and a half ago.
      And a thumbs down to the lightweight grammar troll.

    • @ToddHowar.d
      @ToddHowar.d 4 года назад +3

      spim randsley the government, as explained in this video

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 4 года назад +8

      @@lancethrustworthy I used both versions in my comment, specifically to trigger people like you

  • @isaacspencer1013
    @isaacspencer1013 4 года назад +267

    The way he throws that painting is extremely satisfying.

    • @Forchintus
      @Forchintus 4 года назад +16

      If you listen closely you can even hear it thud.

    • @thenamesr4318
      @thenamesr4318 4 года назад +2

      It straight up flew gently out of his hand

    • @rahulvirmaan
      @rahulvirmaan 4 года назад +3

      Somebody pick it up from his hand, he didn't throw it. Just watch it again carefully.

    • @Aaron_Walker_011
      @Aaron_Walker_011 4 года назад +1

      It's not thrown, more like pulled away, like on a rope.
      That's a $20000 painting! Seriously, the man isn't gonna throw it Away.
      That's a relic for him

    • @maryrosekent8223
      @maryrosekent8223 4 года назад

      Rahul Virmaan
      Yep...you nailed it.

  • @ThePandemicFlu
    @ThePandemicFlu 4 года назад +647

    "You know why they call it the American dream? Because you have to be asleep to believe it."~~George Carlin

    • @DEEPMOODYPURPLEBLUES
      @DEEPMOODYPURPLEBLUES 4 года назад +19

      People forget, nightmares are dreams too. smgdh

    • @reterbid6215
      @reterbid6215 4 года назад +7

      depressingrealization.exe

    • @mickeyg7219
      @mickeyg7219 4 года назад +7

      Don't romanticize American Dream, it's a self-destructive belief in the first place.

    • @V3ntilator
      @V3ntilator 4 года назад +2

      The American dream is only a dream.

    • @kikic4899
      @kikic4899 4 года назад +3

      I've been missing him so much lately 😣

  • @aminmian7291
    @aminmian7291 4 года назад +817

    Teacher: I dont have enough money for school resources.
    Government: sorry I dont have the money for that 😕
    Doctor/Nurses: we need PPEs to protect ourselves and patients.
    Government: sorry we dont have the money for that.
    Everyone: I need some rent/mortgage relief cuz I cant pay for this month cuz I lost my job due to this virus.
    Government: sorry
    Police: theres a bunch of mostly white people with guns storming our state Capitols calling for deaths of our governors
    Government: Ok....
    Police: now theres a bunch of mostly peaceful people protesting against racial injustice and want police accountability.
    Government: Here's a trillion dollars worth of military grade vehicles, tear gas, rubberized steal rounds and heavy armor. We'll sending national guard and our untrained, unmarked federal police. We got an AC-130 gun ship on standby....

    • @DoctorWhoKage
      @DoctorWhoKage 4 года назад +18

      True dat.

    • @randybrooks3614
      @randybrooks3614 4 года назад +18

      Oh, and here's more money for racist Israel!! Have a nice day.

    • @eveny119
      @eveny119 4 года назад +50

      You forgot building a USELESS WALL for BILLIONS of dollars, Trading foreign aide for dirt on Democrat candidates, personal vacations for 10.2 MILLION every MONTH,................... then wanting to know how Trump can get on Mt Rushmore..... while planning cuts for Soc. Security, Medicare, Veterans, and eliminating Healthcare for preexisting conditions.

    • @petermanou9083
      @petermanou9083 4 года назад +30

      @Jason H Universal healthcare could be paid for easily if the US took away the church tax-exempt status.

    • @petermanou9083
      @petermanou9083 4 года назад +6

      @Jason H Agreed, but a lot that can also be done by removing the tax-exempt status, without taking anything out of the military.

  • @SaiKrishnaVK
    @SaiKrishnaVK 4 года назад +1363

    Plot twist: Joanna's chandelier was actually a virtual background she had to use, after being evicted.

    • @kyarabarrion4523
      @kyarabarrion4523 4 года назад +15

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 funny but sad

    • @kenbee1957
      @kenbee1957 4 года назад +20

      A dark plot twist
      Even for 2020

    • @rishi_d_mango
      @rishi_d_mango 4 года назад +1

      OMG

    • @AltF-dw6lu
      @AltF-dw6lu 4 года назад +3

      thats a clever plot twist :D be proud. And scared. Its still 2020.

    • @thewriteinpresident
      @thewriteinpresident 4 года назад

      The Utter DRIVEL that makes you a FREE MASON Master…
      What once was thought to be a Noble Profession has turned out to be THE DESCENDANTS whom killed and raped and murdered our PARENTS, and that being THEM whom attend them FREE MASON Lodges be they 10 year old girls called Jobs Daughters and Rainbow Girls whom end up on all the YOUNG SEX Porno Sites where page after page we can see Child Sex has always been here, and it was always the YOUNG GIRLS that became FREE MASON Kids whom were tricked and treated into doing Sexual Acts with these FREE MASON C.O.P.S. in their FREE MASON Lodges as ALL C.O.P.S. are U.N. Troops of JADE HELM 15 continuing operations, and once you know ALL U.N. FLAGS are Satanist saying: Pay us Protection Money, or we will take your kids and kill them, then why would anyone ever say: C.O.P.S. uphold the RULE OF LAW for we nonmason.?.?.?.?
      I once thought The Shriners and their Little Cars and Clown Make Up and Children Hospitals was a thing to be RESPECTED, but once you know all FREE MASON from Shriners to EASTERN STARS have EVIL SPIRITS in their minds and thoughts, then you know why these people INVENTED Abortions to kill off our Blood Lines!!!! Not only that, we would not be sick unless FREE MASON in the Pharmaceuticals were not putting TOXINS into our Tooth Paste, so FREE MASON Dentist could Drill baby Drill on our inner heads, and we NONMASON were to always see the FREE MASON as the Champions of the world cause the UNITED NATIONS Military that U.S. FLAG said: We don’t rape and torture and kill people, we only do COLLATERAL Damage, so your FREE MASON Stocks go UP Up up!!!!
      How often I went to Church or the RELIGION of my Nation not know the FREE MASON were The Teachers, The Imam, The Rabbi, The Priest, and the Preacher for their FREE MASONIC BIBLES!!! Told that I was born defective and a sinner and that the SEXUAL ACTS that made my amazing healthy HUMAN BODY AVATAR was the vile filth called Sexual Engagement between and Male and a Female???? How many years of my life wasted cause THE CHURCH said: Do not Masturbate for you will go Blind and you will go to HELL cause GOD IS LOVE!!!!!!! You see…., I have read the Bible cover to cover, and I also read THE REPUBLIC Cover to Cover many many times, and These Religions and Banks and CORPORATION Schools of Thought all lie for the FREE MASON Lodges in your locations…
      Why anyone would let a FREE MASON live when they put out Fake Amber Alerts to steal and rape our children to death in PizzaGATE Satanic SNUFF Films is beyond me, but too become a FREE MASON no matter the age, you must take a BLOOD OATH to lie about EVERYTHING!!! And in that you develop the skill of being Crises Actors on TV for BLACK LIVES MATTER and Antifa and even them fucking Democratic Republican CNN FOX PBS Trump Rallies!!! They say (COVID19) is real??? I know no one whom has it, or died from it even though THEY LIVE these evil spirits in the minds of so many say: Billions of died, and yet NO MASS GRAVES, No Funerals, and where are these INCINERATORS Running 24/7 to dispose of the dead???????
      Johnny Exodice

  • @shahinajdary1370
    @shahinajdary1370 4 года назад +561

    Show's over, Now let's get on with our miserable lives

    • @SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1
      @SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 4 года назад +4

      That explains the contempt and aggressive attitude lately. This political side of the spectrum has problems will their mental state, leading to them acting out on the successful and civilized. All makes sense now.

    • @gigibolani4712
      @gigibolani4712 4 года назад +1

      🤹‍♂️🍺🎁🎂🎉😁

    • @occamsaturn
      @occamsaturn 4 года назад +14

      @@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 interesting what people consider civilized

    • @TheLibermania
      @TheLibermania 4 года назад

      Shows on. Let's see why our lives is even more miserable.

    • @pilotmemes
      @pilotmemes 4 года назад

      You got that right, now let's get on with our miserable lives.

  • @peterpain6625
    @peterpain6625 4 года назад +241

    "should have prepared better" is pretty rich in a country where a lot of hard working people live more or less hand to mouth every week.

    • @bell5082
      @bell5082 4 года назад +23

      Week to Week, Month to Month. WTF is a savings account?

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 4 года назад +3

      That used to be true back then but now...

    • @rjperkins365
      @rjperkins365 4 года назад +10

      @@bell5082 if you find out, let me know

    • @caroselloshow5615
      @caroselloshow5615 4 года назад +8

      Bell x if you don’t have enough money for a saving account than you live week to week and month to month

    • @Yaseotoko
      @Yaseotoko 4 года назад +12

      Until the landlords can't repay the bank and they cry for lenience. And the bank responds that they "should have prepared better".

  • @lisa-marieiorfino
    @lisa-marieiorfino 4 года назад +78

    Coming from an Australian, the affordable rent crisis has been escalating here for decades. Wages just don't keep up with landlord demands. There's no rent cap, they can charge what they like for rooms that are broom closets.

    • @finallyfinally9317
      @finallyfinally9317 4 года назад +2

      Yes it's out of hand here

    • @kornburg14
      @kornburg14 4 года назад

      But you have so many space 😂l
      I paid 350 aud for a room in Melbourne per Week. I shared a Kitchen and bathroom with 5 Other people
      So many greedy people therr

    • @Canada1994
      @Canada1994 3 года назад +2

      Like France before the Revolution where ONE loaf of bread was one months rent.

    • @foxtailedcritter
      @foxtailedcritter 3 года назад +2

      I live in Sydney the rent prices here are one of the highest in the world. On top of extra tax on Alchol and ciggerattes I can't afford to eat the last food days before payday even while on fkin noodles. My rent alone costs over half of my income. System is broken.

    • @-._.-KRiS-._.-
      @-._.-KRiS-._.- 3 года назад +1

      @@Canada1994 God, that would be amazing. Do you know how many Americans have bread makers? They could just bake their rent payment in the kitchen.

  • @oranha
    @oranha 4 года назад +429

    I think this pandemic has really just ended up showing how brittle the US as a country is. Everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong in the US but that’s just because people have been painting over the cracks there for years

    • @lewsee5562
      @lewsee5562 4 года назад +22

      And this problem existed even before the pandemic as well. Most US citizens have debts, live paycheck to paycheck with little to no savings left for the rainy days. This pandemic just exacerbated the issue and made it really stick out.
      I feel like if the situation doesn't get better, people will have to resort to desperate measures, even illegal, just to survive.

    • @lukaszgrzybowski
      @lukaszgrzybowski 4 года назад +1

      thank leftists

    • @AndroidAntill
      @AndroidAntill 4 года назад +3

      @@lewsee5562 People have already been resorting to desperate measures, even illegal.

    • @yousifa7354
      @yousifa7354 4 года назад +27

      Ł G Leftists have been trying to help for many years now, Republicans are the ones not willing to help their fellow americans and would rather help the 1%.

    • @williamwrobel4928
      @williamwrobel4928 4 года назад +9

      @@lukaszgrzybowski in your dreams maybe. your guys have been in charge for four years buddy, this is what you get

  • @IloveGorgeousGeorge
    @IloveGorgeousGeorge 4 года назад +606

    I can't tell if John actually plays video games and wants to play the Horizon: Zero Dawn sequel, or if his writers wrote that.
    Either way, I'm all for it, Business Daddy.

    • @ghuttsmckenzie4269
      @ghuttsmckenzie4269 4 года назад +18

      I thought he was joking but it's actually real! Holy crap.

    • @ayushkulkarni3867
      @ayushkulkarni3867 4 года назад +13

      Promotions$$

    • @GradnLordTad
      @GradnLordTad 4 года назад +16

      He seems like the type. By which I mean, he seems similar enough to me to need that game. lol

    • @AdoTbear
      @AdoTbear 4 года назад +5

      Also was impressed about the PS5/Horizon comment. I'm with him!

    • @Awsomsauce3
      @Awsomsauce3 4 года назад +15

      Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if he only became a gamer during quarantine

  • @Matok1
    @Matok1 4 года назад +205

    "It's just business."
    The most heartless and out of touch phrase anyone can possibly mutter, and they use it like a magic phrase that absolves their conscience of any feeling guilt that might flare up.

    • @mattjohnston2
      @mattjohnston2 4 года назад +22

      @@philorth4243 Then he's not a very creative property manager. It doesn't take being a cold asshole to be successful or to find resolutions that don't leave children on the fucking street.

    • @yarazooom
      @yarazooom 4 года назад +5

      @@mattjohnston2 if POLICE want to redeem themselves for failing the public good, , they could REFUSE TO EVICT families from their homes. now that would be a REAL REVOLUTION

    • @eva2k0
      @eva2k0 4 года назад +3

      If they're the sole owner and saying that , what you say is true. IF they have investors though, they have a fiduciary responsibility to the investors to do what is most profitable. If they don't do that they could get sued and lose operating control of the company.

    • @Kamexe
      @Kamexe 4 года назад +1

      its fucked... but also pretty true. :(

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing 4 года назад +5

      So is the Tobacco and Chemical Weapons industry.
      It's just business, folks. Nothing personal.

  • @benbrennan4953
    @benbrennan4953 4 года назад +234

    Every time I watch one of these John Oliver segments I am so god damn happy to not be living in the US

    • @neetwithajob
      @neetwithajob 4 года назад +4

      god i wish that was me

    • @azenkwed
      @azenkwed 4 года назад +1

      Same.

    • @rachelrachel9152
      @rachelrachel9152 4 года назад +9

      I dont mean to make any assumptions but there's a good chance theres a lot of bad things going on on your country too and just nobody talks about it that you listen to

    • @patsysadowski1546
      @patsysadowski1546 4 года назад +17

      @@rachelrachel9152 everybody is aware of their countries issues. However since Trump the US is significantly worse off. Canadians, Europeans and Australia and New Zealand have rent support/social security safety nets and universal healthcare.

    • @Mynewhandle420
      @Mynewhandle420 4 года назад

      Our country is better than yours at it's worse majority of all people that come here NEVER return to their native country because it's awesome here
      Say what you want about us but we run this world and there's no amount of complaining/whining you can do to change that😎 🇺🇸

  • @nerdlingeeksly5192
    @nerdlingeeksly5192 4 года назад +1319

    Maybe our government should have planned for a rainy day like this

    • @PinikRahman
      @PinikRahman 4 года назад +75

      specially when the experts are forecasting about it for decades

    • @jeremylee48
      @jeremylee48 4 года назад +23

      Your president held a torn umbrella.

    • @evan777evan
      @evan777evan 4 года назад +147

      @Stacy Watters most Americans cant just fucking save enough money for multiple months of rent when they feel like it, that's literally impossible for tens of millions of people. Come on

    • @SoulControlla99
      @SoulControlla99 4 года назад +57

      The government should pick themselves up by their bootstraps.

    • @Elena-er7zp
      @Elena-er7zp 4 года назад +6

      Maybe people shouldn’t rely on their government to save their ass.

  • @ismaellovera4767
    @ismaellovera4767 4 года назад +369

    I miss when follow ups to a topic were rare and weren’t as violently depressing

    • @drunkensailor3736
      @drunkensailor3736 4 года назад +7

      Yeah for a change I wanna hear John talk about foreign policy like how our policies contributed to the ongoing CIVIL WAR in Libya. Found a great explainer of the current Libyan Civil War and how the West destroyed a nation: ruclips.net/video/qivyrdkQQGA/видео.html

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 4 года назад +7

      Almost every story and follow up they do is depressing, that's kind of their thing. To make sad stories funny and accessible. Do you remember the reoccurring segment on Trump called "the dumpster fire"?

    • @OPS-Clothing
      @OPS-Clothing 4 года назад +1

      At the same time: “Coronavirus XXXVX, A New Republic”

    • @karu6111
      @karu6111 4 года назад

      we're living in a dystopia are we?

    • @huusvader
      @huusvader 4 года назад

      we miss those beautiful illusions of a peaceful and just society.

  • @OGEdger
    @OGEdger 4 года назад +1412

    _"Business is business."_
    America during the pandemic in a nutshell.

    • @jarls5890
      @jarls5890 4 года назад +122

      America does not have citizens - it has customers.

    • @ansielubbeprosser9072
      @ansielubbeprosser9072 4 года назад +6

      😢

    • @SalemArc
      @SalemArc 4 года назад +2

      Eh. You take the good with the bad.

    • @atlantiswolf
      @atlantiswolf 4 года назад +70

      Not even. Thats just Americas attitude in general. Couldn't make it to work because you had to drive your wife to the hospital because she was giving birth a few weeks early? Well you missed your shift so you're fired. Business is business.

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 года назад +11

      COVID-19 is america's black death, this country is doomed.

  • @KyrieW
    @KyrieW 4 года назад +33

    I used to laugh at John Oliver shows. Now I am close to tears

    • @mndlessdrwer
      @mndlessdrwer 3 года назад +3

      If you don't end a segment of Last Week Tonight feeling that you've learned an uncomfortable truth, then it is only because you weren't paying attention. The humor is merely to soften the blow so it doesn't emotionally cripple you.

  • @MMuraseofSandvich
    @MMuraseofSandvich 4 года назад +369

    10:50 Unfortunately, he's right: That _is_ the mindset of business: "It's nothing personal, but because you can't make rent since Grandpa died, I have to kick you out, Grandma."
    This is why we should never, _ever_ let businessmen run governments.

    • @PixelatedH2O
      @PixelatedH2O 4 года назад +22

      Especially businessmen who bankrupted multiple companies... oh wait...

    • @hectorsmith9945
      @hectorsmith9945 4 года назад +8

      The US is a corporate communism

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 4 года назад +8

      It doesn't change anything if you still let corperations run the country.

    • @akmal94ibrahim
      @akmal94ibrahim 4 года назад +4

      @@hectorsmith9945 yep. It's socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.

    • @SGGCREATIVES
      @SGGCREATIVES 4 года назад +10

      @Travis Yap In America, anything and I repeat, anything, that in anyway helps poor people directly is called communism which is considered not just evil, but also gay!

  • @AnneGoggansQHHT
    @AnneGoggansQHHT 4 года назад +262

    Why did we give big corporations bailouts without all this discussion

    • @noobgamer-cq1wm
      @noobgamer-cq1wm 4 года назад +27

      BCoz CapITaLisM

    • @TheXev
      @TheXev 4 года назад +43

      Because without the big corporations, how would those officials get reelected?

    • @qv43v
      @qv43v 4 года назад +5

      Two words: TRICKLE 👏 DOWN 👏

    • @abnormallynormal8823
      @abnormallynormal8823 4 года назад +1

      Late stage capitalism

    • @NatalieMarie917
      @NatalieMarie917 4 года назад +2

      qv43v yeah I think we all know how well that’s been working out....

  • @unknownexo
    @unknownexo 4 года назад +591

    Republicans: tax cut for the rich and bail out banks
    Also Republicans: well yeah, the people need help but we need to be fiscally responsible.
    So tired of these corrupt oligarchs.

    • @Tenrou2
      @Tenrou2 4 года назад +22

      Same

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 4 года назад +25

      It IS our fault - we let them live. Robespierre had the right idea. As did the Queen of Hearts.

    • @spicypancakeproductions5057
      @spicypancakeproductions5057 4 года назад +19

      Wanted: Conservative Politician
      Requirements:
      >Upper Middle Class WASP Status
      >Minimum Sociopathy
      >Psychotic Narcissism and Hypocrisy Preferred

    • @MJZito56
      @MJZito56 4 года назад +5

      Kilo Graham you just beautifully described every politician

    • @heavymetalredneck7973
      @heavymetalredneck7973 4 года назад

      @@J0ntt1_97 people who want to pay their own way instead of paying their way and the lazy pos next doors way also....Thats who

  • @littleneutrin0
    @littleneutrin0 4 года назад +43

    Good report, now let's get on with our miserable lives.

  • @JustSoji
    @JustSoji 4 года назад +455

    Every week it just seems like John is getting angrier and angrier. And I completely understand why

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae 4 года назад +4

      I don't know why he came to the US ? for his wife I guess ?

    • @SM-qf1nh
      @SM-qf1nh 4 года назад +20

      ​@@autohmae He wanted to warm his hands on the dumpster fire country of the world. :)

    • @katieoberst490
      @katieoberst490 4 года назад +19

      And thank God!! He's a rich man and he's angrier than most of the people who are going to be affected by this and he's doing what he can to help!! We're so lucky that he came here!!!

    • @kazoode
      @kazoode 4 года назад

      Rent is to damn high?

    • @greeleyestateslove
      @greeleyestateslove 4 года назад

      It would probably not be a good look if he was all giddy. Also, he has no laugh track/audience. So ....

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 4 года назад +111

    I’m so glad he talked about the long-term effects of evictions. It’s not just about losing your home today, but also about struggling in the future. What a cruel thing to inflict on another human being.

    • @Erikpdx
      @Erikpdx 4 года назад +3

      It's a last resort to prevent people from squatting in another person's property for free

    • @jordan11752
      @jordan11752 4 года назад +9

      Erik F housing is a human right. Landlords do nothing but buy up all the land and hold it hostage. They provide nothing for the economy.

    • @chrischeek2963
      @chrischeek2963 4 года назад +1

      It's a crappy situation all around...but who's going to pay for the house? The bank?

    • @jamescraig4425
      @jamescraig4425 4 года назад +3

      @@jordan11752 So...absolutely no rentals available. you're living with your parents until either you or they buy you a house of your own. Judging by your saltiness at the program, I'm going to guess that your parents did *not* take the steps necessary to provide you a solid foundation in life. I'm sorry your parents suck. Maybe talk to them about it?

    • @dma8657
      @dma8657 4 года назад +2

      I doubt that there are prospective tenants lining up for the rentals to replace those evicted. Certainly that market can't be very strong at present.

  • @marcwood2741
    @marcwood2741 4 года назад +296

    When he tossed her painting like it was useless trash, I almost died laughing. My brain is still severely damaged. You will hear from my attorneys, HBO.

    • @bradljr0046
      @bradljr0046 4 года назад +17

      That made me sad, she is really a very good artist. Disrespect the politician, not the spouse

    • @L013-r9y
      @L013-r9y 4 года назад +23

      For a split second I thought "there's no way he just threw that thing" and then I heard the _thunk_

    • @ericabneri903
      @ericabneri903 4 года назад +3

      Pretty sure that was CGI

    • @fastinradfordable
      @fastinradfordable 4 года назад +6

      But she married that guy.
      And supports him. ..
      He needs a smack on the back of the head

    • @JON-es4wk
      @JON-es4wk 4 года назад +2

      He also put his finger prints on the painting

  • @novajacob6683
    @novajacob6683 4 года назад +160

    As an art student, the way he tossed that painting aside physically hurt me.

    • @SparkySummers
      @SparkySummers 3 года назад +5

      I mean as an art student I imagine you're pretty relieved everyone else will be in the same economic shithole you'll be in come the end of coronapocalypse.

    • @canucklehead9891
      @canucklehead9891 3 года назад +8

      @@SparkySummers As an artist nope because like, if you take commissions you need other people to have money. It's a bad situations for everyone involved.

    • @SparkySummers
      @SparkySummers 3 года назад +2

      @@canucklehead9891 What you said literally just proved what I said. Art students were already fucked - the rest of us are just down at your level now.

    • @TheScootyPuffer
      @TheScootyPuffer 3 года назад

      @@SparkySummers Just keep trying. You'll be less bad if you just keep going at it!

    • @SparkySummers
      @SparkySummers 3 года назад

      @@TheScootyPuffer Not sure what you're trying to imply, but thanks? Keep at it though, you'll be less gibberingly incoherent if you keep trying.

  • @princessbuttercup8954
    @princessbuttercup8954 4 года назад +267

    "A society that will not reform may have a revolution instead!"

    • @lutherblissett2634
      @lutherblissett2634 4 года назад +5

      @Carlos Gaytan you just need a Wladimir Iljitsch Uljanow...

    • @kazoode
      @kazoode 4 года назад +5

      Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party

    • @drewvena
      @drewvena 4 года назад +10

      Thad Stevens lmao u mad bro?

    • @thennafish
      @thennafish 4 года назад +11

      @Thad Stevens To be fair, a society which participates in a successful revolution has to be less lazy than one who doesn't. Overthrowing a government, especially one seated in the country where the revolution takes place, is a huge amount of work and an even greater risk.

    • @elbarjones4812
      @elbarjones4812 4 года назад +14

      @Thad Stevens You are exhibiting symptoms of Moronavirus, which causes delusions and lack of empathy for fellow human beings.
      Get tested before it is fatal - stay safe.

  • @Vank4o
    @Vank4o 4 года назад +143

    My boyfriend has many tenants. Some of them called him and asked "I lost my job due to the quarantine, can we pay next month or deferred somehow?" He told them "you know what, it's alright. Don't pay the rent until you figured your situation or let some of the rooms, if you need extra cash, just don't panic, we'll figure it out." I love him!

    • @Junonino
      @Junonino 4 года назад +5

      Sounds like a smart guy.

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 4 года назад +16

      But how long can /you/ last without the income from the rent? I mean, yes it's nice, but many people who rent out homes need the money, too. The problem the US has is not that people demand the rent (or the most of it, e.g. 70%) but that there's no social security, which forces people to beg for rent deferment over multiple months.

    • @TheNinthGeneration1
      @TheNinthGeneration1 4 года назад +9

      Ruhrpottpatriot that’s why the government should be sending people money every month as per of the pandemic response like literally every other western country in the world has been doing for 3 months now

    • @Ruhrpottpatriot
      @Ruhrpottpatriot 4 года назад

      @@TheNinthGeneration1 Don't tell me, I'm not from the US. And no, just sending money during the crisis is not the right way to make it less worse.

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 4 года назад +1

      probably his behavior is based on having you to show off to, usually guys with girls become surprisingly nice in life all of a sudden

  • @Bekayvd
    @Bekayvd 4 года назад +639

    Big corporations: we need money to hand out dividends!
    Government: money printer go brrrr
    Regular people: we need money to NOT LOSE THE FRIGGIN ROOF OVER OUR HEADS!
    Government: we'll maybe see in a few weeks

    • @ourshit5725
      @ourshit5725 4 года назад +16

      So true...

    • @PacesIII
      @PacesIII 4 года назад +29

      $1200 and six months later...

    • @breakingbacon658
      @breakingbacon658 4 года назад +17

      Government: I hear the outdoors is nice

    • @GMGBlackWhiteMUNGEY
      @GMGBlackWhiteMUNGEY 4 года назад +5

      Yeah... not even remotely close but whatever makes you angry and cynical , like you seem to be committed to being.

    • @Bekayvd
      @Bekayvd 4 года назад +8

      @@GMGBlackWhiteMUNGEY just a stuck up European with a superiority complex

  • @Aphelion11
    @Aphelion11 4 года назад +338

    Just a reminder to everyone that there are 6 empty homes for every homeless person. We have a problem with capitalism not a shortage in supply.

    • @montyrobertson7362
      @montyrobertson7362 4 года назад +7

      Exactly what is wrong with capitalism? If you have the gumption to start your own business or company you should be rich. Maybe people should stop asking the government to pay them to do nothing and start making their own way.

    • @eyablonovsky
      @eyablonovsky 4 года назад +59

      Monty Robertson maybe some people don’t have the funds to go to a university, or the funds to start a business, have you thought about that? Not everyone has the same opportunities as you

    • @montyrobertson7362
      @montyrobertson7362 4 года назад +1

      @@eyablonovsky Jeff Bezos started Amazon while broke out if his garage.

    • @goudattamaan2495
      @goudattamaan2495 4 года назад +49

      @@montyrobertson7362 What a stupid example. Is your expectation for all lower income people that they all just come up with some good commercial idea and then poverty will be solved? Of course not, so stop pretending like an individualistic approach would work for a widespread issue. Sure, there are people who made it out of their horrible circumstances and are now at the top of the world, and that working hard to become successful is what people should be doing, but it's beyond stupid to think that that's a good solution that would work for everyone.

    • @montyrobertson7362
      @montyrobertson7362 4 года назад +3

      @@goudattamaan2495 no. I am saying stop making excuses and asking the government to bail you out. The only thing stopping you from not being poor is you. I know what it's like. My wife and I used to live paycheck to paycheck and wonder how we would feed our children. We pawned damn near everything we owned including our cars and wedding rings to do it. But instead of ask the government to give us money and say oh poverty sucks, we did something about it. I got a better job, they are out there, and now we don't live like that anymore.

  • @EvWuzhere
    @EvWuzhere 4 года назад +232

    Its crazy how we dont mind spending billions bailing out companies but when that money needs to be spent on regular people its all "where is all that money going to come from?" And "think of the impact this could have on the economy"

    • @sonicboy678
      @sonicboy678 4 года назад +11

      That's the result of sinking into neoliberal economics...

    • @sanSDI
      @sanSDI 4 года назад +14

      @@sonicboy678 do you even know what that means?

    • @sanSDI
      @sanSDI 4 года назад +27

      The funny fact, if the folks get money they invest it in the economy, if you give it the rich, they fill their pockets!

    • @Isaac-ie9qc
      @Isaac-ie9qc 4 года назад +1

      There needs to be a balance. I would say that companies do NOT need as much as they are given, but if companies don't stay afloat those people would lose their jobs permanently. It really sucks

    • @kfitzz
      @kfitzz 4 года назад +4

      @@sonicboy678 neoliberal economics with a neo-fascist government but at least we can get on with our miserable lives.

  • @meteor22
    @meteor22 4 года назад +915

    Just save money for a rainy day? This is more like a dam breaking.

    • @LiKenun
      @LiKenun 4 года назад +7

      Pft. Dam? We’re damned by the coming Biblical flood.

    • @LindaPow
      @LindaPow 4 года назад +3

      Love thy neighbour needs to grow
      BIG TIME

    • @kazoode
      @kazoode 4 года назад +5

      Rent Is Too Damn High Party en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party

    • @carradee
      @carradee 4 года назад +14

      Saving money requires sufficient income to save money, plus even if you save, it doesn't mean you'll have enough for the rainy day.
      I myself spent over a month sick before COVID-19 hit, then right after I got over that, I got ill *again* with COVID-19 symptoms (but wasn't tested), which took over 2 months to recover from. There went my rainy-day fund.

    • @williampremo3096
      @williampremo3096 4 года назад +14

      If your using all your money for rent and food and electricity and gas what are you supposed to save.

  • @watsonwrote
    @watsonwrote 4 года назад +388

    As an American, there's never been a point in my adult life where I wasn't paying over half my income on rent. I've also always had at least one, usually several roommates--otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford a shelter at all.

    • @nolin132
      @nolin132 4 года назад +10

      You should rent a cheaper location, lmao. Seriously, even a minimum wage job can get you a place of your own if you just get out of the city.

    • @ludicrousone8706
      @ludicrousone8706 4 года назад +95

      @@nolin132 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤔🤔🤔

    • @tylerdurden6937
      @tylerdurden6937 4 года назад +10

      Then you are living somewhere too expensive...

    • @MortemInteritum
      @MortemInteritum 4 года назад +130

      @@nolin132 Hey anime avatar, there's a reason people live in the city: that's were the jobs are. It's not always (or even rarely) a feasible option to just "get out of the city" because it either means fewer available job opportunities or spending another 1-4 hours commuting every day.

    • @Reydriel
      @Reydriel 4 года назад +39

      @@nolin132 Are you daft? lmao

  • @j_lsw
    @j_lsw 4 года назад +88

    Landlords: you should save for a rainy day
    Also landlords: I see wages are up 1%, so rent is going up 2%

    • @jimsimpson2820
      @jimsimpson2820 3 года назад +5

      Again also landlords: save for your own place if you don't like your rent going up, if your allowed to that is.

    • @lucasbrantley6453
      @lucasbrantley6453 3 года назад

      While it is shitty for landlords to raise the rent out of greed sometimes it’s not really their responsibility to save since they are the ones providing a service

    • @j_lsw
      @j_lsw 3 года назад +4

      @@lucasbrantley6453 The point of my remark is that tenants usually can't save because if they had any disposable income, landlords would simply raise rents. Whether we assign tenants or landlords an abstract "responsibility to save" won't have the slightest effect on that. To put it another way, much is said about how rights come with responsibilities, but rather more should be said about how responsibilities must come with at least the rights necessary to discharge them. Giving tenants a responsibility and a right to save would radically change the rental market: rents would have to be much lower, and landlords would be taking much less so-called "risk".

    • @lewisx2055
      @lewisx2055 Год назад +1

      @@lucasbrantley6453 what service is a landlord providing ?😂majority didn’t build these homes

  • @SuperiorApostate
    @SuperiorApostate 4 года назад +424

    Anyone remembers the American dream? Well the guy who said "It's a business" is living it.

    • @Diggnuts
      @Diggnuts 4 года назад +27

      It is clear that in fact it is a nightmare.

    • @iwillroam
      @iwillroam 4 года назад +16

      He really is. I wish what you said was tongue in cheek and not really true. But... it's really true.

    • @yarnpower
      @yarnpower 4 года назад +18

      Wasn’t the American dream owning your own house, having a good job, paying your kids college bill and retiring before you are ancient?

    • @xxfire07
      @xxfire07 4 года назад +6

      yarnpower yup! And that guy is living it. I’m not a landlord but I understand that they have mortgages too. They can’t bear all of the burden. You have to start with the banks or shit rolls down hill.

    • @pizzalovingtrashpanda8604
      @pizzalovingtrashpanda8604 4 года назад +5

      Here's asleep, oblivious to the misery of others

  • @CorrectFossa
    @CorrectFossa 4 года назад +103

    My rent keeps going up every year to help with “maintenance fees of the aging property.” So essentially I pay more money every year for a shittier apartment.

    • @DoN-sf3gk
      @DoN-sf3gk 4 года назад +1

      So true!

    • @TheLofren
      @TheLofren 4 года назад +16

      If the "maintenance fees" were actually being used for maintenance you wouldnt need to pay more every year because the property is aging

    • @Ramneek22
      @Ramneek22 4 года назад +4

      Move out

    • @AmericanAppleProd
      @AmericanAppleProd 4 года назад +1

      Easier said than done, but consider buying a home

    • @d.mcelhaney1425
      @d.mcelhaney1425 4 года назад

      Same here. Oregon legislation newly introduced allowances for property owners to raise rent once a year based on a percentage of the increase of the property value. Now renters who wouldn’t normally raise your rent nearly so often or at all, are leaving money on the table if they don’t follow up yearly. Nobody leaves money on the table.

  • @jali4000
    @jali4000 4 года назад +404

    "It's never fun throwing a single mother and three kids out on the street" ah yes that relatable experience that we all just have to go through from time to time in life

    • @cleander3645
      @cleander3645 4 года назад +15

      Dude he somehow needs to make enough moned to buy his second privat island

    • @kevinheller5414
      @kevinheller5414 4 года назад +21

      If this is any part of your business model...you might want to check if you haven't accidentally joined HYDRA, COBRA or Dr Evil

    • @tycondrius23
      @tycondrius23 4 года назад +10

      @@kevinheller5414 to be fair I don't think even Cobra or Dr Evil would stoop that low ... Hydra maybe .

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 4 года назад +2

      Well with over 500k medical bankruptcies in the US each year even before Covid-19......

    • @braydencluff5252
      @braydencluff5252 4 года назад +23

      "It's just business..."
      If you find yourself justifying your actions with the go to movie villain line... congratulations, you've transcended from asshole to villain.

  • @joeeckert5128
    @joeeckert5128 4 года назад +16

    Back in the '80s I worked in Silicone Valley. When it took off the rents rose so fast that there were 2 income families that were living under bridges. We thought that was horrible. Now let's throw in a plague. Thanks Donnie. Are we tired of winning yet?

  • @maggotlord7934
    @maggotlord7934 4 года назад +1102

    "its never fun throwing a single mother and her three kids on the streets" then maybe uh, don't?

    • @Junonino
      @Junonino 4 года назад +116

      Dominik Es or no children at all. Maybe you wouldn’t have been born. 🤔

    • @vairse53
      @vairse53 4 года назад +172

      @@dominick6131 I wasn't aware divorce had been outlawed, and women can only support their children with the help of a man.

    • @name_0
      @name_0 4 года назад +61

      Dominik Es
      I mean, what if they were triplets?
      What if the woman had all three childern *and then* her partener left?
      What if she never wanted children and the condom broke?
      What if something happened to whatever she was taking for birth control?
      What if the mother was raped and couldn't get an abortion?
      I'm just saying, things can happen that are (for the most part) out of your control.
      Although I do agree with you on that if the woman being thrown out was being neglectful and kept making bad choices when she could have picked better options, that would be on her. But the children don't deserve to go through thay though.

    • @callmeswivelhips8229
      @callmeswivelhips8229 4 года назад +17

      In that case, I bet it's "never fun" for him to do anything. It's just business!!
      Holy crap this guy's game room has got to be nothing but 4 blank walls with a couch and some nasty rug.

    • @Hellmark
      @Hellmark 4 года назад +57

      @@name_0 this. Shit happens. My dad died when I was a kid, and my mom. didn't have the same resources afterwards. Was it her fault that my dad got terminal cancer? Fuck no.

  • @salehnasser1280
    @salehnasser1280 4 года назад +273

    I have tenants that I have reduced the rents for, also I have requested them to NOT pay any rent until the situation gets better and they are back on their feet. It saddens me to see how landlords think of "business" and forget about humanity! We are all in this together.

    • @seanastro5549
      @seanastro5549 4 года назад +26

      Good job ! Hope good Karma follows you.

    • @UniversalMysticsOfChrist
      @UniversalMysticsOfChrist 4 года назад +8

      God bless you!! I'm dealing with this situation right now and very scared.

    • @charlierichardson3169
      @charlierichardson3169 4 года назад +13

      You’re one of the good ones, your tenants will appreciate your kindness and you will gain their respect in turn. Thank god their are still people like you out there, but for all of the landlords like you out there, there are still single mothers being evicted.

    • @dominiquecamara3089
      @dominiquecamara3089 4 года назад +17

      Not every landlord can afford to do this, though, and not every landlord is turning a profit and/or owns multiple properties.-- I rent out my home, but have always only charged my tenants the same amount as the mortgage. I can't offer any other relief because the mortgage still has to be paid.

    • @m.3.3.w
      @m.3.3.w 4 года назад +2

      You deserve an upvote and good karma.

  • @YukitsuTimes
    @YukitsuTimes 4 года назад +1185

    "Why don't I have chandelier money?"
    You spent it all on wax presidents, remember?

    • @Ihavetohave1ofthese
      @Ihavetohave1ofthese 4 года назад +11

      *reads comments and continues slow smoulder from Moscow Mitch* ... reads comment ... LMFAO!! Thank you, I really needed that laugh!

    • @Sullaban
      @Sullaban 4 года назад +1

      Yukitsu Times "Just pay the rent or move out," That is what our landlords are telling us. O brother. Boy I could use ( on an empty stomach) a 4-LOCO. And I need to stay awake from that. What if the four people to be evicted were 1) baby Hitler, 2) baby Stalin, 3) Donald Trump jr. and that Maxwell woman? Those four could use time on the street. Especially Donald Trump jr. Yukitsu Times hey give my videos a quick one here are the links ruclips.net/video/QrWfAr0NcvQ/видео.html&authuser=0ruclips.net/video/LIiWTo-wKCg/видео.html&authuser=0

    • @FinchAshwood
      @FinchAshwood 4 года назад +5

      at this point they've spent so much it's insane to think about. all those dumb skits probably cost more than I have in my bank account

    • @kirkdillabaugh8739
      @kirkdillabaugh8739 4 года назад +4

      ...and a Ludlow painting.

    • @veganarchistcommunist3051
      @veganarchistcommunist3051 4 года назад +3

      Wax presidents, world record cake, pyrotechnics, etc.

  • @thehighnoonsaloon7794
    @thehighnoonsaloon7794 4 года назад +69

    That guy who excused rent is a hell of a comrade.

    • @paulpietschinski3282
      @paulpietschinski3282 4 года назад

      He is a mobster....he will be ok

    • @edhale6528
      @edhale6528 4 года назад

      B- pay them for 40 hrs a week? You expect them to pay YOUR utilities plus YOUR insurance plus the mortgage on the building YOU'RE living in off that? Not to mention repairing the holes you punch in the walls and Windows you break and copper pipes you cut out for scrap metal? What about paying his own bills and mortgage? Your right- it's his risk and he has the legal right to act on that risk by getting rid of deadbeats and trouble makers.

    • @thehighnoonsaloon7794
      @thehighnoonsaloon7794 4 года назад +4

      @@black_forest_ Well, any landlord who owns property without actually working for it is a parasite anyway, so, yeah.

    • @thehighnoonsaloon7794
      @thehighnoonsaloon7794 4 года назад

      @@paulpietschinski3282 *Good Fellas theme plays*

    • @thehighnoonsaloon7794
      @thehighnoonsaloon7794 4 года назад +3

      @@edhale6528 Unfortunately, when we give people that right "deadbeats and troublemakers" tends to simply become "people of color."

  • @PenWinter
    @PenWinter 4 года назад +309

    Meanwhile in Germany: The government introduced new measures to protect tenants unable to pay their rent as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Renters will not be evicted from April 1st to September 30th for failure to pay rents.
    And a social system that catches you if you still lose your job.
    America needs to finally act and realize that some social systems just work better. (not perfect, but better) The funds are there, but the red scare is still so ingrained.

    • @abcfreakKGS
      @abcfreakKGS 4 года назад +101

      @@dakotablust1814 enlighten me how that pertains to this topic in any way

    • @DEATHxD3ALER
      @DEATHxD3ALER 4 года назад +61

      @@dakotablust1814 Wow so much stupid in that comment I dont even know where to start.............smfh

    • @DuhSinfulDemon
      @DuhSinfulDemon 4 года назад +36

      @@dakotablust1814 you really had to go there huh?

    • @BodyDestruction
      @BodyDestruction 4 года назад +86

      @@dakotablust1814 crazy how much positive change happened, right?
      Too bad we can't say the same about the US, sometimes it looks like they're 80 years in the past.

    • @Animaniac-vd5st
      @Animaniac-vd5st 4 года назад +9

      "Renters will not be evicted from April 1st to September 30th "
      And then add that evicting an uncooperative tenant isn't that easy in Germany and barely possible in the winter, this could also just be until April 2021.

  • @JeffPeak
    @JeffPeak 4 года назад +123

    I owe my building three months but they said they're not going to evict anyone and have been very helpful.

    • @10parth10
      @10parth10 4 года назад +8

      I'm paying for student accommodation for university while being stuck at home 200km away for over 3 months. Still expected to pay😭

    • @randomname3174
      @randomname3174 4 года назад +2

      @@10parth10 you can probably get your money back. Talk to a lawyer or look up your contract with them.

  • @jbufffunk7537
    @jbufffunk7537 4 года назад +635

    "As if things weren't already bad enough..." should just be John Oliver's new show name.

    • @hiphopesq
      @hiphopesq 4 года назад +17

      Or "it gets worse"

    • @JP-rp2lh
      @JP-rp2lh 4 года назад +1

      “Now we can all get on with our miserable lives.” should be his new sign-off.

    • @anetatube
      @anetatube 4 года назад +3

      James Collier Really? They talk about his show??

    • @markhaywood5771
      @markhaywood5771 4 года назад

      LOL! It really should be. I think John Oliver would like that.

    • @chomo54andbabyaisha97
      @chomo54andbabyaisha97 4 года назад

      Democrats... the party of KKK™️ and Bubba Smollett™️

  • @GiveMeFive-GMF
    @GiveMeFive-GMF 4 года назад +116

    The "its business" argument is so obnoxious. I hope that guy needs urgent medical assistance on the street someday, and people just keep walking on past and say "sorry buddy, its walking". You can't just compartmentalise life to suit your selfish behaviour. Its not business, its society!

    • @shanez1215
      @shanez1215 4 года назад +8

      They should just say "Sorry, as a free and rational agent trying to maximize my expected utility, I would rather not spend my time and money taking you to the hospital."
      Or you could impersonate US healthcare: "That'll be 10,000 dollars. If the market is willing to pay that price, that's what the price should be."

    • @LeeerroyJenkins
      @LeeerroyJenkins 4 года назад +5

      For real! I would like to be able to afford to rent out a place one day, but by "afford" I mean that should a situation like this happen again, I can afford to own the place I live and also the rental. I find it crazy that people become landlords and are pretty much banking on someone else paying for it to be able to afford it. Obviously tenants need to be responsible and be able to pay under normal circumstances, and I would always be open to negotiating, but we are not in normal circumstances.

    • @RollerDerbyHigh
      @RollerDerbyHigh 4 года назад +3

      This guy would definitely support slavery saying "it's just busineas" or "it's the law"

    • @davidtryon1205
      @davidtryon1205 3 года назад +1

      And why wouldn't landlords count as a "small business" that qualifies for 1 of those govt loans? I get that it's a loan, but hopefully u can work with people in the bad spots, they get back to work, pay 25-50 bucks extra each month after, then he turns and pays the govt 25-50 each month per person that he helped keep a roof. I know it's not perfect. But u hear of all these weird businesses that got sooo much in the small business loans. But I'm sure the govt wouldn't put up with small payments each month too. They'll just keep tax returns. Its gonna be a whole mess of fallout.

  • @EarlyToRiseLateToBed
    @EarlyToRiseLateToBed 4 года назад +146

    I was evicted this last Monday due to the fact we missed court, even though we went to the actual court house, instead of the web. Though our papers were stamped, they wouldn't give us another court date. Our landlord still took a partial payment, and we had been living in the home without a working stove nor refrigerator. I am now homeless. My fiance and I are both employed, however due to Corona it caused our hours to be cut. So tomorrow I head to the shelter, hoping to qualify to not stay in population, but rather a dorm. I survived a fire back in November, burning 3% of my body (my whole left foot) and after 2 skin grafts, a bum knee on the same left side, along with no transportation, limping around from place to place with our bags, I'm scared shitless! Here in Ogden Utah, the hotel we've used all our funds on, is FULL of evictees.

    • @FriedrichHerschel
      @FriedrichHerschel 4 года назад +7

      IANAL, but isn't this against "due process"? Not that it seems you'd have the money to fight it.

    • @pimp963
      @pimp963 4 года назад +13

      @@FriedrichHerschel no if you miss your appearance you miss it, the courts are so backed up in general its just a conveyor belt they don't care

    • @spritemon98
      @spritemon98 4 года назад +13

      That's just horrible 😢. No one should go through that

    • @carolynslist6118
      @carolynslist6118 4 года назад +21

      This is why republicans are so hell bent in filling judicial seats. They get pro-Corp judges who’ll always rule based on who’s got the most money.

    • @andersonstevie904
      @andersonstevie904 4 года назад +11

      I can send you some money. I don't have much but I can help. Let me know how I can get you some money. Peace

  • @spongeintheshoe
    @spongeintheshoe 4 года назад +470

    I think the worst part of this has been realizing that if an actual zombie plague ever happens, our response to it will be infinitely more horrifying than the zombies themselves could ever hope to be.

    • @Alfred_the_IV
      @Alfred_the_IV 4 года назад +35

      the point of Walking Dead

    • @ryanbarthel5352
      @ryanbarthel5352 4 года назад +24

      Isn't the underlying theme to every zombie movie tho? lol

    • @bP-yr3po
      @bP-yr3po 4 года назад +25

      No doubt! Zombies are so much better than people. They work together selflessly and although they're greedy eaters it's not cutthroat competitive because what's going to happen if you don't eat? Are you going to die? No.
      If anything it's a sort of enlightenment.

    • @ryanx9700
      @ryanx9700 4 года назад +3

      the zombie apocalypse is just an analogy for people like you who watch way too much TV and become political tools. Free your programmed brains, read some history books and think for yourselves

    • @theoptimisticmetalhead7787
      @theoptimisticmetalhead7787 4 года назад +4

      All the best zombie fiction is about exactly this.

  • @Jaysusitsme
    @Jaysusitsme 4 года назад +149

    Respect to Mario the Landlord who is actively helping his tenants!!!

    • @huma474
      @huma474 4 года назад +11

      He can probably only do that for a month or two before he's gonna run out of money. I can guarantee the city and the state aren't pausing his tax payments and fees required for that same period of time.

    • @ronburgundy244
      @ronburgundy244 4 года назад +2

      @@huma474 and I can guarantee that when he does finally start collecting rent again, he's not going to be asking for the normal amount.

    • @Elratauru
      @Elratauru 4 года назад +16

      @@ronburgundy244 Even if that's the case, this still makes him a life saver to pretty much all of his tenants. Props to the guy for helping however he can.

    • @truthseekeralways7050
      @truthseekeralways7050 4 года назад

      @@huma474 Hater 1

    • @truthseekeralways7050
      @truthseekeralways7050 4 года назад

      @@ronburgundy244 hater 2

  • @JimmyLeg
    @JimmyLeg 4 года назад +74

    "...who lives in Canada", not, "who is Canadian".
    That is an American, for sure.

    • @utoobviewer8
      @utoobviewer8 4 года назад +3

      or just your average Albertan...

    • @diegohidafl
      @diegohidafl 4 года назад

      @@utoobviewer8 Pause de video and read both e-mails at 8:57 and 9:53

    • @Brian-tn4cd
      @Brian-tn4cd 4 года назад

      Half-American actually

  • @Breuger
    @Breuger 4 года назад +451

    You can hear the clunk after he yeets the painting off camera. Majestic.

    • @JustinKemmling
      @JustinKemmling 4 года назад +16

      I laughed hard at that. Reminded me of classic comedy like Monty python.

    • @FinalFina
      @FinalFina 4 года назад +3

      One of my favorite moments of this program. lmao

    • @therealjeeves
      @therealjeeves 4 года назад +5

      With so much grace too. 😂

    • @growingmelancholy8374
      @growingmelancholy8374 4 года назад +7

      Yeah , it's very disrespectful... to the floor or whatever it landed on.

    • @sl3d255
      @sl3d255 4 года назад +4

      all i can imagine is her watching this knowing full well she spent 10+ hours on that painting LMAO

  • @egrace3738
    @egrace3738 4 года назад +188

    In addition to stopping evictions, there must NOT be credit damage to renters and homeowners who have lost their income. Salt in the wound. This situation is horrible. Amassing (rent/mortgage) debt with no foreseeable way to pay is morbidly depressing.

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 4 года назад +12

      The US is one giant debt-domino row waiting to drop. About 80% of the US national debt is owed to US corporations and persons and the same goes for all kinds of other debts in the US. Once any group starts defaulting on the debt(-payments) then the next domino drops and needs to default too.

    • @leoarzola4791
      @leoarzola4791 4 года назад

      Sadly the small people will lose. The big corporations will then buy those homes at a deep discount when foreclosed. Once those big corporations own everything rent will rise. So its a lose lose situation

  • @bumblebee898
    @bumblebee898 4 года назад +70

    How great was the first landlord?? What a gentle soul. Nobody is talking enough about him!

    • @samapple5390
      @samapple5390 4 года назад +9

      I know and it fuckin sucks bc his attitude is discouraged, while being ruthless and unforgiving is encouraged. Bc the guy that had empathy now has to eat the cost of the rent for that month. when the government should be helping. I'm sure that landlord could afford it, but many couldn't. The landlords aren't always the bad guy (though the other one in this video seems terrible), in this situation it's the government that's to blame.

    • @VemiX1000
      @VemiX1000 4 года назад +2

      You can't put him on the news! The hosts would paint him as a...what do they call them again....AAAH yes, a "filthy Communist".

  • @marciaa.parker9122
    @marciaa.parker9122 4 года назад +38

    Trying not to panic but..."JOHN, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!?!"
    We all require our weekly fix. When the world needed him most...

    • @thegreatkingofevilganondor1500
      @thegreatkingofevilganondor1500 4 года назад +5

      He vanished...

    • @ninjaked1265
      @ninjaked1265 4 года назад +2

      A hundred years later my brother and I found a new talk show host. A youtuber named Pewdiepie.
      And although he has a lot to learn, I believe that Pewdiepie will save the world.

  • @docravikumarjha
    @docravikumarjha 4 года назад +276

    "The only thing worse than knowing you're gonna be stuck for another day under the roof is not knowing that."

    • @rodshop5897
      @rodshop5897 4 года назад +11

      @Treena Jobe Why do you keep posting this link that almost no one will follow?

    • @stephenwalton1411
      @stephenwalton1411 4 года назад +2

      The best thing he said this entire video.

  • @Camperlife4ever
    @Camperlife4ever 4 года назад +653

    So when mobs attack rich people can they say, "It's not personal, it's just business?"

    • @ourshit5725
      @ourshit5725 4 года назад +42

      EXACTLY! Just WAIT for the riots that are to come July 31, 2020! Those senate Republicans are going to shit their pants when 40million march to their doorstep !

    • @michaelblasius7705
      @michaelblasius7705 4 года назад +9

      Attacking people is not the same as eviction.,

    • @Tamales21
      @Tamales21 4 года назад +6

      I cannot wait

    • @Burn3r10
      @Burn3r10 4 года назад +59

      @@michaelblasius7705 You're right. When you get attacked, you can go home after.

    • @ZENN0SUKE
      @ZENN0SUKE 4 года назад +6

      Only the landlords are just asking what they are owed and mobs are stealing.

  • @SimbaSeven.
    @SimbaSeven. 4 года назад +455

    "Throwing a single mother and her three children out on the street isn’t fun, but it’s business”
    That, in one sentence, is how screwed this country is. Greed and more Greed.

    • @ryanbarthel5352
      @ryanbarthel5352 4 года назад +34

      That guy seems like an ass and a bad businessman to me, but when he says "its business" what he means is "we have a mortgage, taxes, insurance, employees, and vendors to pay, if we don't collect rent we will have to foreclose". Its a lot more complicated than you think.

    • @Imactuallynighthawk
      @Imactuallynighthawk 4 года назад +53

      Ryan Barthel but see here’s why it’s different for tenants, I didn’t chose to require shelter. It’s just something that I inherently require in order to live. Landlords made a conscious decision to own an extra home. Owning and renting out an extra home for profit is not required for you to live whereas having shelter is required for tenants to live. I didn’t choose to need shelter but you chose to profit off of those who inherently need shelter. Landlords and the banks are parasitic leeches who’s ‘work’ contributes nothing at all and only serves to siphon money from people. I will never feel bad for people who made an investment and didn’t get the return on investment that they were looking for. that goes for landlords and the landlords landlord, the bank.

    • @GaryVolts
      @GaryVolts 4 года назад +13

      The guy has no property to rent out if he can't pay his mortgage.

    • @SimbaSeven.
      @SimbaSeven. 4 года назад +56

      @@GaryVolts We own several properties in OK, and we worked with our tenants. Even spreading out the missed rent over a few years. Being a greedy ass in the middle of this only makes your tenants look at you as an a**hole.. and word spreads fast.
      But hey, if you're willing to kick out a good tenant because of missed rent. Fine. But how much does it cost to find a new tenant? Remember, you have to clean the place thoroughly and make sure it's COVID free before you can even allow anyone in the dwelling. Not to mention is the new tenant reliable? Good history? Only time will tell.
      Us, we'd rather keep our tenants since most, if not all, of them have been solid and reliable.

    • @ryanbarthel5352
      @ryanbarthel5352 4 года назад +12

      @@Imactuallynighthawk Here's where you're wrong, you don't NEED to live in a house for shelter, you CHOSE to. You can live on the street for free, yet you CHOSE to rent from a landlord, in a house build by someone who got paid to build it, and bought by someone who decided to make a living with it. A landlord chooses to make a profit with a house like you choose to work for a company, to pay your expenses and buy things you want. A bank keeps your money safe and lends you money to purchase things you otherwise couldn't afford. You can CHOOSE not to use a bank, you can operate solely in cash and hoard it, buying things out-rite. Trying to spin things like landlords and banks aren't offering you services that you, with many options, of your own will choose to take, is a simpleton point of view. Try using your head a little.

  • @saga2964
    @saga2964 4 года назад +24

    I very much appreciate how John points out the landlords are waiting in the wings to pounce the moment protections are lifted. Lenders for homeowners are doing the same.
    I've been extremely blessed to not have to need any forbearance (hold on my house pymt) during this time, but being in a job that helps homeowners navigate loan recovery options, I work closely with banks.
    Lenders are doing one step up: taking advantage of people's hard times to actually make even MORE money. (And ironically, Wells Fargo is one of only banks I'm seeing doing the right thing for the people I work with!)
    I literally have shed tears because it makes me so sad that somewhere along the line, "business" has lost all interest in caring for those who even make their existence possible.

    • @Mopsey
      @Mopsey 4 года назад

      Exactly.

  • @Resi1ience
    @Resi1ience 4 года назад +191

    "It's never fun throwing a single mother and her three kids out on the streets. It's not fun, but it's business."
    I think I can name, like, 58-ish movie villains who said that exact same thing

    • @mzaite
      @mzaite 4 года назад +22

      And Movies are Escapism because unlike in real life, those villains actually get punished for their behavior. In the real world that attitude is rewarded.

    • @howardbonds5106
      @howardbonds5106 4 года назад +4

      It is screwed up...but don't assume because he is mouthy he is actually good at business. Most likely if people don't pay, he loses those units and no one gets to live there anyway. I had a crappy landlord, when he threw in the towel everyone was kicked out within 60 days by the new masters...it should have been 90 days but they had the building condemned...We have to do something other than compete against one another, because that is a losing game.

    • @vodkasour8385
      @vodkasour8385 4 года назад

      @@howardbonds5106 suggestions?

    • @christianknuchel
      @christianknuchel 4 года назад +5

      ​@@vodkasour8385 Adopt a mindset of social and political solidarity. It's something you can do *now* , no question-marked steps before that. Every single person who does it makes the world a better place, bit by bit. What does it mean? It means to stop invalidating other people's pain, even if you don't understand it. The ability to take yourself back at times to the benefit of others. To be affirmative of the idea to give *and* to receive, that you don't have to take care of yourself, but that it's okay if you take care of others, and they take care of you, instead of everyone fending for themselves.
      Now, that's a whole load of abstract talk. Besides everyday stuff where elements of that can be practiced, politically speaking, it translates to affirming universal education, universal healthcare and universal welfare (I can see how that one especially can be challenging to wrap their heads around for many) and more egalitarian and democratic economic structures (e.g. worker cooperatives). It also means abandoning arbitrary divisions, such as racial ones. A good test as to how successful you are at this is to check your stance on immigration: Are you willing to help people in need, or are you prone to use convenient excuses such as "not born here" to weasel out?
      It also translates to foreign policy: How much do you care if your vote translates to people half across the world getting bombed, in comparison to how much you'd care if it translated to people inside your country getting bombed?

    • @micmccond7
      @micmccond7 4 года назад +1

      imagine the criminals that raid that guys bank account...oof.

  • @Laf631
    @Laf631 4 года назад +470

    I love whoever sold John their Larry-less painting.

    • @PeachesCourage
      @PeachesCourage 4 года назад +8

      Dr Scott Jensen and Tony Roberts June 5 2020

    • @riggidybang
      @riggidybang 4 года назад +6

      It's actually a nice painting, especially if you didn't know what the context was - I'd fly off the shelves at all the farmers markets

    • @ZestyAqua
      @ZestyAqua 4 года назад +4

      They had to buy it in the first place. That's what you took away from this episode?
      Anyhow, still sending you out love....

    • @quintenlokhorst2812
      @quintenlokhorst2812 4 года назад

      @@PeachesCourage a and

    • @awonderfulway
      @awonderfulway 4 года назад +1

      It's so Larry-less

  • @MsYolost
    @MsYolost 4 года назад +206

    I thought the US already had a homelessness crisis... I really don't want to see the next level of it

    • @AprilGabrielle
      @AprilGabrielle 4 года назад +18

      SERIOUSLY! The homeless crisis in America is already bad enough, and now it gets worse. Just what we need.

    • @JTMaster
      @JTMaster 4 года назад +11

      It is pretty bad even before this. Back in 2017 there was a count of about 550K people on the streets without a home. That's about the same number of people living in the entire state of Wyoming.

    • @occamsaturn
      @occamsaturn 4 года назад +8

      @@JTMaster and those are the people they could count

    • @occamsaturn
      @occamsaturn 4 года назад +1

      @Luís Filipe Andrade cheaper to the government, but more expensive for the wealthy class, due to the implication that we could actually provide for everyone

    • @overk1llz
      @overk1llz 4 года назад

      This is scary

  • @DoctorWhoKage
    @DoctorWhoKage 4 года назад +71

    Three months later: *millions of homeless people dead in the streets*
    Rich people: why are there so many dead homeless people on our streets?!

    • @-._.-KRiS-._.-
      @-._.-KRiS-._.- 3 года назад +5

      And then suddenly there are no more people buying their products. "Why isn't anyone buying my product? How am I going to afford ten mansions, now?!"

  • @theradioman5182
    @theradioman5182 4 года назад +330

    "This isn't a rainy day, it's the great flood. And one reason no one has an umbrella is because it's not safe to open the f*cking umbrella factory yet!"
    Damn, that's one seriously good analogy for 2020.

    • @Whitewing89
      @Whitewing89 4 года назад +1

      Also trump dismantled the nations stockpile of emergency umbrellas and cut umbrella funding from the government while cutting his own taxes.

    • @jasonlyons1575
      @jasonlyons1575 4 года назад +2

      wait until the landlord's realize they can't make money being a landlord anymore so they kick everyone out so they can sell the places and the next people who buy them won't rent them out because they won't be able to make money

    • @Masanumi
      @Masanumi 4 года назад +3

      I got the impression that a lot of people in the USA preparing for a catastrophy anyway all the time. Now it's there and noone want to know about it because it is invisible and you can't shoot it.
      I hope you are safe and sound greetings from Germany.

    • @staritayo
      @staritayo 4 года назад +1

      @@jasonlyons1575 maybe they'll start living in the houses they buy, like in Europe and the civilised parts of the world

  • @thexplosifbrosif8031
    @thexplosifbrosif8031 4 года назад +88

    I haven't seen humanity so disconnected from each other since my last phone call using AT&T...

  • @XeranDereth
    @XeranDereth 4 года назад +687

    I have a feeling that John’s current script writer really likes video games.

    • @Ragnarok2kx
      @Ragnarok2kx 4 года назад +63

      If I remember right, a chunk of his writers used to write for Cracked

    • @DuranmanX
      @DuranmanX 4 года назад +31

      missed the chance to make a Super Mario Bros joke when discussing Mario Salerno

    • @3llenseg60
      @3llenseg60 4 года назад +9

      @@Ragnarok2kx like the Notorious D. O. B.

    • @goashas7423
      @goashas7423 4 года назад +19

      Daniel O'Brian is formerly of Cracked. Don't know of anyone else, but you can definitely feel his influence.

    • @phxnigtmare
      @phxnigtmare 4 года назад +11

      It just pandering

  • @talkingheads705
    @talkingheads705 4 года назад +3

    I'm from Canada, and I'm so sorry for what that horrible man said and did, in such dire circumstances

  • @Skilschot
    @Skilschot 4 года назад +328

    I dont believe Johns playstation joke until he starts his lets play channel

    • @mheermance
      @mheermance 4 года назад +13

      Joke? I thought it was a product placement.

    • @justmonika1
      @justmonika1 4 года назад +3

      @@mheermance as a fan of the franchise, I dont mind :p

    • @Shalalacls
      @Shalalacls 4 года назад +7

      Yet it's somehow even funnier that one of his writers is so hyped up he made his boss say that on television.

    • @fostena
      @fostena 4 года назад +1

      @@justmonika1 I don't mind it either. And I am not a fan of the franchise. It was a good product placement

    • @thewriteinpresident
      @thewriteinpresident 4 года назад +1

      The Utter DRIVEL that makes you a FREE MASON Master…
      What once was thought to be a Noble Profession has turned out to be THE DESCENDANTS whom killed and raped and murdered our PARENTS, and that being THEM whom attend them FREE MASON Lodges be they 10 year old girls called Jobs Daughters and Rainbow Girls whom end up on all the YOUNG SEX Porno Sites where page after page we can see Child Sex has always been here, and it was always the YOUNG GIRLS that became FREE MASON Kids whom were tricked and treated into doing Sexual Acts with these FREE MASON C.O.P.S. in their FREE MASON Lodges as ALL C.O.P.S. are U.N. Troops of JADE HELM 15 continuing operations, and once you know ALL U.N. FLAGS are Satanist saying: Pay us Protection Money, or we will take your kids and kill them, then why would anyone ever say: C.O.P.S. uphold the RULE OF LAW for we The nonmason.?.?.?.?
      I once thought The Shriners and their Little Cars and Clown Make Up and Children Hospitals was a thing to be RESPECTED, but once you know all FREE MASON from Shriners to EASTERN STARS have EVIL SPIRITS in their minds and thoughts, then you know why these people INVENTED Abortions to kill off our Blood Lines!!!! Not only that, we would not be sick unless FREE MASON in the Pharmaceuticals were not putting TOXINS into our Tooth Paste, so FREE MASON Dentist could Drill baby Drill on our inner heads, and we NONMASON were to always see the FREE MASON as the Champions of the world cause the UNITED NATIONS Military that U.S. FLAG said: We don’t rape and torture and kill people, we only do COLLATERAL Damage, so your FREE MASON Stocks go UP Up up!!!!
      How often I went to Church……., or the RELIGION of my Nation not “too know” the FREE MASON were The Teachers, The Imam, The Rabbi, The Priest, and the Preacher for their FREE MASONIC BIBLES!!! Told that I was born defective, and a sinner, and that the SEXUAL ACTS that made my amazing healthy HUMAN BODY AVATAR was the [vile filth] /_\ called THE Sexual Engagement between A Male and A Female???? How many years of my life wasted cause THE CHURCH said: Do not Masturbate for you will go Blind….., and you will go to HELL cause GOD IS LOVE!!!!!!! You see…., I have read the Bible cover to cover, and I also read THE REPUBLIC Cover to Cover many many times, and These Religions, and Banks, and CORPORATION {Schools of Thought} all lie for the FREE MASON / * \ Lodges in your locations…
      Why anyone would let a FREE MASON live when they put out Fake Amber Alerts to steal and rape our children to death in PizzaGATE Satanic SNUFF Films is beyond me, but too become a FREE MASON no matter the age, you must take a BLOOD OATH to lie about EVERYTHING!!! And in that` you develop the skill of being (Crises Actors) /-\ on TV for BLACK LIVES MATTER and Antifa and even them fucking Democratic Republican CNN FOX PBS Trump The Chump Rallies of Joe Biden!!! They say (COVID19) is real??? I know no one whom has it, or died from it even though THEY LIVE these evil spirits in the minds of so many say: Billions have died, and yet NO MASS GRAVES, No Funerals, and “where are” these INCINERATORS Running 24/7 to dispose of the dead human bodies???????
      Johnny Exodice
      ruclips.net/video/R652nwUcJRA/видео.html
      EVERYONE ON TV IS A FREE MASON no matter what U.N. FLAG your CORPORATION nation FLIES!!!
      www.thefreedictionary.com/furbelow
      The Rag Tag Rebellion “of and for” OUR WORLD REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION Coalition goes on…
      ruclips.net/video/ZjxmunPB9Cs/видео.html
      Sense You know how EVIL SPIRITS run this “Celestial Sphere” SIMULATION called our Home World of PURGATORY, then look at these “Images” of the STOCKS, and ask yourself this??? HOW CAN STOCKS be going up Up UP when SO MANY ARE DEAD Dead dead, and all WE THE PEOPLE are on Furbelow???? FREE MASON Run the Religions, The Schools you are Born Into, and The GOVERNMENT of each and every FAKE SPACE U.N. Flag……., and yet…, These PEOPLE only get their way because WE PAY THEM to be our Employees…. TAXES TAXES +=+ Tithes and Tithing to be told and taught how to “bow down” to Their FAKE and False Gods!!!!
      videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/P4GnKvv9xTDRfvh
      You better WAKE UP now, or you will NEVER leave PURGATORY, and you [will be sent] [{**}] to A Worse Place once THE GAME is over…
      We Are Revelation… We do not forgive… WE DO NOT COMPLY!!!! [{*}] Game Over~
      [///|||\\\]
      ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  • @RoyalKnightVIII
    @RoyalKnightVIII 4 года назад +362

    Unrelated billionaires have doubled their money while the country is plunging into poverty
    I'm sure these two things are just coincidentally happening at the same time.

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith 4 года назад +5

      The same day mark zuckerberg lost $7 billion

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith 4 года назад +12

      You deleted Facebook and all social media right? Don't want them getting any richer now.

    • @free22
      @free22 4 года назад +5

      Joe Smith & Friends Network Actually yes.

    • @CapeSIX
      @CapeSIX 4 года назад +4

      Well all these people are complain that they have not money because they are out of work... but they blew their $900 week unemployment checks even tho when they work they they only make $500 at work.

    • @purplemamba5510
      @purplemamba5510 4 года назад +16

      @@SgtJoeSmith Standing for billionaires? Huh odd...

  • @dragonmandestructinator2847
    @dragonmandestructinator2847 4 года назад +488

    Economy: in shambles
    Social unrest: at a peak
    Homelessness crisis: imminent
    Oh yeah, its revolution time.

    • @ZackFairSOLDIER1stCl
      @ZackFairSOLDIER1stCl 4 года назад +50

      Hotel? Trivago.

    • @jackkahn2532
      @jackkahn2532 4 года назад +8

      i'll fight

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 4 года назад +6

      @@akshittuli1211 Here's hoping. And THIS time, get it RIGHT - take out THE OLIGARCHS!

    • @thesoundsmith
      @thesoundsmith 4 года назад +9

      @@dazestr88 Well "God" is as big a myth as Trickle-Down Economics, so we're in deep feces...

    • @stevebell4906
      @stevebell4906 4 года назад +1

      @@dazestr88 Thank your God for this and all the other Plagues .....Famines and endless Wars....He got this too!

  • @ccsballazdre
    @ccsballazdre 4 года назад +19

    Coronavirus X: Schools.
    Incase you needed ideas. Haven’t seen you post in a minute...

  • @lou123654
    @lou123654 4 года назад +461

    America - The land of the free and homeless.

    • @TheBlubberKing
      @TheBlubberKing 4 года назад +11

      Free = not taking responsibilities

    • @dennis141288
      @dennis141288 4 года назад +11

      It's a disgrace. I feel so sorry for people that are caught up in this cluster fuck that is the United States.

    • @Questchaun
      @Questchaun 4 года назад +3

      I anit wearing no masks.

    • @rma2110
      @rma2110 4 года назад +12

      Only if free = country with the largest prison population

    • @deido256
      @deido256 4 года назад +7

      Well they are free, free to live in nature

  • @spidey3471
    @spidey3471 4 года назад +176

    Our apt complex sent out an email when this all started with a “we’re here to help in this uncertain time!” and then followed it with “if you need to pay your rent on a credit card we will waive the $3 fee.” Lol what grand hearts

    • @rockyork7941
      @rockyork7941 4 года назад +18

      Our landlord sent us a letter back in February as this pandemic started and all it said was to make sure to pay our rent or there would be legal consequences. We still pay the tent, but we laughed at gis bullshitery legal consequences comment.

    • @Impotantmink
      @Impotantmink 4 года назад +11

      Ours went through her paperwork to tell us we were kate in November so we owe an extra 55 dollars this month. Because why not wait several month to do more your homework.

    • @tubs6199
      @tubs6199 4 года назад +8

      Same few months ago I got a letter saying "We understand everyone is going through tough times right now and hope you're doing well. As a reminder you're still under a legally binding contact and you can pay your rent online or by check.

    • @joshmedici
      @joshmedici 4 года назад +6

      Yeah, my credit card company sent me an email because their app didn't process online payment on time: "You are late in your payment. Struggling with COVID-19? Please remember that late payments negatively impact your credit score". Gee, thanks!

    • @nweeezy
      @nweeezy 4 года назад +2

      @@joshmedici how sweet of them to remind you!(*blowhards)

  • @Elspacemexican
    @Elspacemexican 4 года назад +550

    Yall laughed at the guy from "The rent is too damn high" Party but look where yall at now

    • @PeachesCourage
      @PeachesCourage 4 года назад +1

      Dr Scott Jensen and Tony Robert June 5 2020

    • @fkbi01
      @fkbi01 4 года назад +5

      Right on spot with that.

    • @HK-db4uv
      @HK-db4uv 4 года назад +7

      He looks funny af, we were supposed to ignore that?

    • @Harambre
      @Harambre 4 года назад +14

      He still has my vote. The rent is too damn high.

    • @customerguy8581
      @customerguy8581 4 года назад +8

      @@HK-db4uv I mean... look who the nation picked instead

  • @TeamBTC17
    @TeamBTC17 3 года назад +5

    My heart breaks for the young woman and her young son. Life is so bloody cruel

  • @len322
    @len322 4 года назад +546

    Doesn't the American constitution start by "We the people" instead of "My sweet sweet economy"

    • @Thumbsupurbum
      @Thumbsupurbum 4 года назад +33

      "We the people" was never meant to include all people. When the founding fathers wrote those words, they were not including black people or women.

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 4 года назад

      ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear happy

    • @Ckat24
      @Ckat24 4 года назад +6

      Well, since Citizens United was passed, and corporations are people now....I guess it still fits.

    • @meh757
      @meh757 4 года назад +5

      @@AxxLAfriku are you having a brain aneurysm.... It sounds like it.. you should call 911 and get some help....

    • @jbarker2160
      @jbarker2160 4 года назад +4

      Too bad that the economy provides the people with things like food. It doesn't matter if you have a house or not if you've got no food to eat. Only children see the world in black and white and everything as standalone and unrelated. The main problem with the US is dumb people taking sides on issues that shouldn't have sides and complaining about issues that affect maybe 9 or 10 people a year instead of joining together to avoid the influence of the wealthiest individuals and largest corporations.

  • @jackbuckley1919
    @jackbuckley1919 4 года назад +459

    The “Rent is too damn high!” guy was way ahead of his time

    • @user-hf2dr7sh4y
      @user-hf2dr7sh4y 4 года назад +1

      michaelatw86 not really. That’s what painkillers and alcohol are for. Maybe even cheaper

    • @LIBERALGUNSMOKER
      @LIBERALGUNSMOKER 4 года назад

      RIP TO HIM

    • @jerredjones9900
      @jerredjones9900 4 года назад +30

      @michaelatw86 that has gotta be one the worst takes ive seen in my life. God damn. Rampant capitalism, foreign investment, monopolistic price fixing. Naaah those are fine, women just need to stop moving to cities? Jesus man.. think.

    • @AxelQC
      @AxelQC 4 года назад

      There is a housing shortage. It's supply and demand.

    • @elchapeau
      @elchapeau 4 года назад +1

      rent's always been too high

  • @scoobyskreep3518
    @scoobyskreep3518 4 года назад +95

    John Oliver's writers actually killed it with the relatability to the young audience today. I mean, they always kill it, but an extra good job today.

    • @TXbird007
      @TXbird007 4 года назад +6

      Admittedly the PS5 joke kinda came off as an ad more then a joke but yah know what you gonna do

    • @shadoninja
      @shadoninja 4 года назад +1

      As someone who grew up playing Pokemon on my Gameboy, I find those youth-pandering jokes to be very painful.

    • @ravynneheart
      @ravynneheart 4 года назад +2

      @@scoobyskreep3518 he probably does play it. Quite a few actors and comedians do.

    • @tylerhackner9731
      @tylerhackner9731 4 года назад +3

      As Gen Z, yes he gets us

  • @TheTechovision
    @TheTechovision 4 года назад +48

    On behalf of all Canadians, there's only one thing I can say: Sorry...

    • @philliesphan334
      @philliesphan334 4 года назад +6

      Thank you, while Canada is a better society at large, they still brought us Ted Cruz, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Crowder, Laura Southern, Lauren Chen. It seems we normalize your crazies

    • @neojc128
      @neojc128 4 года назад +6

      @@philliesphan334 There are crazies everywhere, that's human. We are judged by what we do with em. Some of us give them healthcare a mental health support system, others elect them president and senators.

    • @edwardday6805
      @edwardday6805 4 года назад

      Don’t worry I am sure this bell end is an American citizen living in Canada.