Unemployment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- John Oliver details the many obstacles that impede access to unemployment benefits - often by design - and why the entire system needs to be rethought.
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Here in Ohio, if you didn't make a certain amount of money per week when you had a job, you won't qualify for unemployment. Imagine being told that you're too poor for public assistance.
That is bullshit.
Same here in Missouri!
Worst part is the people who are pretty much shit outta luck and need to work several part time jobs because that's all that's available yet they still aren't eligible for assistance programs because they don't have a full time job.
same in Germany.... except you of course still get the minimal income that everyone gets no matter why they need it :)
living in Europe is nice sometimes
I hope he also tackles international topics like the jailing of Alexei Navalny in Russia. Great explainer on how Putin maintains his power and the situation there: ruclips.net/video/DNxvdny1nxs/видео.html&ab_channel=MyTake
When I was starving, it wasn't a motivator. I slept 16 hours a day and couldn't get out of bed without my vision going black. Trying to get from my building to the next building was impossible without passing out. Withholding basic needs just means more people die.
I think that's the point, unfortunately.
They know. They don't care.
That's also me, 2 years ago. Seriously, you can't think straight when you're hungry. Let alone doing your job correctly.
At the very least, we're all should be eglible for fucking basic needs. Do not make people die out of hunger! If we let that happen, then we're all living in a shit hole country.
Yeah she speaks as a person who has never been hungry a day in her life.
Someone handed me bootstraps once. They looked confused when I ate the bootstraps.
"when you're hungry, you'll figure something out"... does she not understand that's a very common reason people turn to crime??
No, she doesn't. Economic inequality became so rampant in America that the really rich don't even know what poverty looks like
She has a bigoted segment about tgat also I'm sure.
🤨exactly
“Beg, borrow, or STEAL.”
I mean, in prison you get 3 square meals right?
LI: "When you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat."
ME: "Yeah, that's why poverty creates crime."
LI: *shocked Pikachu face*
omg the USA is turning to feudalism
@@fiachuAnimation3537
"is turning to"??
For a very long time now, it seems to me that americans desperately want to live in some sort of monarchy. They behave as though they want a King, rather than a president. I mean, you guys have made it apparently impossible for a President to be "fired." In Australia, we haven't had a Prime Minister serve a full term of office since the year 2000. John Howard was the last PM to serve a full term and since then, every PM we've had has been "fired" in one way or another, with none managing to last the full four years (though Scott Morrison, the current PM, looks like he's going to go the distance). Every other developed nation is the same. If a head of state is deeply unpopular and thus unwanted (as head of state) it's relatively easy for him/ her to be replaced. But for some reason, this is almost impossible in the usa. It's as though you want a King, who's above the law and answerable to no one.
Additionally, you guys really seem to like electing dynasties (Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, etc). So it really seems like you guys WANT to have a monarchy, or at least to be ruled by a monarch, provided that some of you have a say in determining who that monarch is. By which, I mean, it seems like there's a *significant* proportion of americans who would prefer that black people not be able to vote, that criminals should similarly be ineligible to vote and so forth... So it seems that you guys don't want EVERYONE to have a vote, but for those lucky few who are allowed to vote, it seems like they want to elect a King to rule. If the King's son (the son of a former president) runs for election, those same people seem to love electing him to be the next King...
So, "Yeah," to an unbiased, outside observer such as myself, it really DOES seem like the usa is turning to feudalism and monarchy.
@@Raz.C dude I was joking, I also live in Canada xD
@@fiachuAnimation3537
Ok, my response was a bit long, but I was agreeing with you, you know? Kinda...
I mean, I was agreeing with the idea. Americans really DO seem to want live in a monarchy. I was only objecting to the "turning into" part, as it seems it's already turned into it.
capitalism is essentially feudalism in a trench-coat pretending to be democracy ^^
"When you're hungry you find a way to eat". Ya, laura, its called crime. Aladin made that connection pretty clear
He stole only what he couldn't afford, and that was everything.
Exactly! And she's the type of person to then turn around and throw the book at someone stealing bread to feed their family.
An unemployed, 20 year-old boy named me got very, very good at smart-talking to grocery store employees, then walking out with a cart full of free food
Or a job
@@KarlinhosMarx If you're starving to death, just buy some pop-tarts.
𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘇𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀,
cuz _every single one_ of those little *abominations* can go burn in a slowly smoldering dumpster-fire behind a rundown Blockbusters, unable to hurt anyone ever again.
“When you’re hungry, you’ll find a way to eat.” God if that isn’t one of the most privileged statements I’ve ever heard. It’s actually infuriating, and fact that so many people have that mindset makes me want to walk into the sea.
Fuck that...chase all of them into the sea.
Eat.. the rich??
we could hold hand and go together
With "them" in front of you, until they're submerged. ------------- Then, walk back for more.
Why walk into the sea when you can eat those rich fucks
The people saying "you'll find a way to eat" are the people who made it illegal for food service workers to give leftovers to homeless people and are making food banks harder to find.
Saying "you'll find a way to eat" is genuinely somewhat accurate, not being able to eat will push you to steal if you're hungry and your only option is to steal you will
@@berkleygentol5805 you're right. Stealing food, selling drugs-she didn't say they would necessarily find a moral way.
@@berkleygentol5805 yeah but if you have the opportunity to help someone you should do so. Making it harder for someone to survive for your own selfish purposes isn't a good thing.
I know it's a liability thing but I would 100% smuggle food we were going to throw away out of my job if it meant I would help feed someone even if I lost my job.
@@leolunchbox4543 illegally smuggling food out of my job was one of the ways I used to eat when I wasn't making enough to live.
When I worked at popeyes, we were told not to feed the homeless, as someone has choked on a bone and sued Popeyes. So it's a liability.
"There's a reason that famines aren't generally referred to as a lack of can-do attitude" Don't give them ideas.
Famines historicly have been great economy boosters.... s/
The 0.1% literally believe that we're mice and if you give us all cookies, we're gonna run out of milk...
"When you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat" is a statement only made by someone who's never dealt with poverty or starvation.
it's the old 'each on their own' trope the have-it-all shove down the throats of the have-nots via the media for decades. any attempt at solidarity with weaker parts of society is labeled 'socialism' or worse and this thinking is most prevalent in the US and other anglo-saxon countries.
This!
Yeah. I grew up with kids that just didn't eat. That's reality. You learn about interesting things tho. Dipping toast in chocolate milk, and a butter n sugar sandwich is tasty. Tomato and mcdonald's ketchup sandwich is not.
oh, believe me, people say that right up until they lose their job, then yell real loud for the help ~they~ "deserve".
The illegal immigrants aren't having a problem.
This country has degraded so far that I was actually impressed by a politician who acknowledged and apologized for a mistake even though he made no mention of correcting the problem.
It would've been a lesson in snap judgements. Like how we use juries to consider all facts & not the newspaper or a talk show to make a major decision.
Right, but this is DeSantis we're talking about. He fired the state's chief scientist who kept reporting discrepancies between Florida's official Covid numbers and what was the actual number then used state police to raid said scientist's house and took her computer.
@@uncreative5766 I think the original commenter was talking about the Kentucky governor.
@@SiddharthJaggavarapu You're right. My bad.
Too be fair as someone who lives in the state of Kentucky he has been probably one of the better governors we’ve had. Plus he is does update what is going on in and with unemployment pretty regularly during the pandemic. I’m sure he did correct the problem.
"When you give [poor people] money, they tend not to hoard it offshore in the Caymans. They spend it on shit they need."
-John Oliver, verbally suplexing Reagonomics into the ground.
That is also the reason why the 15$ minimum wage would works.
Yep. And the rich will only spend money if there is a need for them to spend money, otherwise they'll just horde it. I'm not rich but I'm financially fine. When I got my stimulus checks, all I did with it was put it in the stock market because I don't "need" anything.
@@Jezzebel1313 If you keep out the surplus of labor. Countries with work visa systems don't need a minimum wage. It happens naturally.
Artificial wage increase will get many jobs replaced by robots and screens.
@@rolandwoltman7835 sorry to break this to ya but they are already replacing people with robots and screens and begging to be paid less than the job is worth will not stop this
@@monkeyking9863 it's not going to stop it, but it's also not going to speed it up
Conservatives: "When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat."
*criminality skyrockets*
Conservatives: *surprised Pikachu face*
Yeah funnily enough the starving don't really care that much about the status quo
If having enough money to buy food is bad because it causes people to not work as hard, we *definitely* shouldn't allow people to be rich.
@@andrewj22 Ain't that the truth, though.
Conservatives, two seconds later: "oh wait that just means we have more poor people to ensla- er, imprison"
I gotta give John Oliver props for being such a masochist. He *willingly* became a citizen of this country.
Lmao
This is a SUPER underrated comment.
So did I. Oy.
thank you... just, thank you *golf clap*
Being a millionaire numbs that sting significantly. I agree with most of what he has to say but let's not pretend he's shacked up in a one-room efficiency struggling to put food on the table. He has the luxury to be mad at America for what it does to other people instead of being mad at America for what it does to him.
My grandmother used to say, "The rich don't know what it means to be full because they've never been hungry."
Your grandmother was a wise woman.
Wise
They sure as hell are full though...
Full of shit.
Now that is a WORD.
It’s brainfood like this that makes me wish YT let us bookmark comments.
“Hunger makes people work harder” No, hunger makes you pass out
Some Stakhanovite shite...
It really makes one creative with cooking though. Gotta conserve those nutrients and carbs, so you may be goddamn sure I'm cooking as fast as possible, with minimal effort, at the same time doing stuff to food, Gordon Ramsay would pass out after seeing... that at the same time actually taste like food and cost per month as much as my water bill.
Good side, I'm finally losing weight. Bad side, I gonna run out of extra weight soon, and start getting rid of the weight I need. If someone told me to handle his 'meat', I'd probably excitedly go for my iron skillet that is lying unused for a year, before realizing what he meant. And even then, it'd probably go back to calculating how many meals I can get per handling.
Apparently feeding the homeless also makes them lazy bums now....
Makes people angry, depressed and desperate.
I can confirm hunger makes you pass out. I have cut myself to one meal per day so my son can have three. I had no spare weight to lose prior to losing my job and suffer from an illness that causes chronic pain and inability to regulate my heart rate, blood pressure and temperature among other things. I passed out and required an ambulance twice in two years at my last job, so you can guess who the first one cut was when it was time for my employer to conserve money. It is a real treat to apply for jobs as required by unemployment, get a rare response, and have to see the look of disappointment hit the face of the interviewer when I have to use a walker just to get to the chair.
I applied for unemployment exactly a year ago and my unemployment office just ghosted me for months, and then sent me an email months later assuming I had just sorted it out. Never received unemployment.
"I talked to him on the phone, and I apologized"
But did he get the unemployment benefits??
Who cares? It's more important that politicians save face than save lives... (sarcasm, wish I didn't have to say this, but you know how the internet can be)
@@Fractangle as a person who can't read tone. The line between sarcasm and not is very thin. Some people agree with your original statement even though we know you're joking, someone who believes in it will take it serious.
Not trying to say this about you. Just providing an explanation.
@@Tues48 He didn't save face. He apologized. A rare thing these days
@@AngelWest58 fractangle was the o e to say "save face". Sorry if you didn't mean to reply to me
He called Tupac and they had a rap battle. Those were the only benefits benefits state could provide to him.
In the Netherlands the entire cabinet stept down because a few thousand people were wrongly accused of benefit fraud. Somehow I don’t see them doing that in the US
Oh man, if you subject the US to the same standard as in the Netherlands, the government would've risen and fallen like an elevator
@@adrielsebastian5216 you mean roller coaster right?
@@haoxinlinying5278 that works too
Well, a few thousand people is not nothing, and they really had their lives ruined. Also, the cabinet stepped down, but is eligible for reelection. I don’t think the Netherlands are doing that great, either. I hope the elections lead to better results.
@@haoxinlinying5278 that made me 😂🤣
*drops Laura Ingraham in the middle of the Arctic*: you’ll figure out a way to survive
Freezing to death really creates a *drive*, y'know?
@@HellaGust yeah and I mean you’ll really be driven if you’re being chased by a bear
Gambit did it.
"See that polar bear over there? Looks like a pushover. Why don't you try killing it so you can eat? Yeah, I know, you don't have any weapons. Hunger will give you the drive you need. Good luck."
I say they make that reality show. I would watch it.
"When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat."
Crime. This is how crime happens.
Maybe even committing unemployment fraud
@DeafEars5723you are correct in my opinion but some people call that socialism for some reason
I was unemployed for about 4 months recently in Switzerland. Even though the unemployment insurance covered 80% of my salary, I was extremely motivated to find a job to make sure that my career doesn't suffer.
I'm sure the RAV had nothing to do with your motivation. But maybe it's just the RAV in Zurich that's so bad. After I got fired last year I had to write a letter (3 pages) to the RAV why I got fired. I worked at that place for 2 months. Apparently the old Employee wrote the worst things about me to the RAV and they had to make sure that I don't "misuse" them.
@@Leenapanther I understand the difficulty and dealing with ORP in Lausanne was also not the easiest thing in the world either. The point I was trying the make however is that getting a large check in the mail does not stop a person's motivation to find work. On the contrary, it helps a lot as you can focus on the next thing instead of worrying about how to feed your family.
Exactly, the idea that a government not letting their citizens starve somehow demotivates people to take care of their lives is ridiculous.
@Hawk Anonymous You are right to be angry. Perhaps who you should angry with is your government?
In europe they do pay you a good unemployment benefit but they make you feel like shit when you apply to deter you. I know people who needed the money for their family but couldn't deal with the humiliation although they had paid into the system for over 30 years.
"You'll find a way to eat" is the modern equivalent of "Let them eat cake"
@Daniel Padmore...lol this analogy is gold!!😂😂
@Daniel Padmore: Actually, it's much worse. At least Mme. Antoinette was offering something to the poor. Today's gop is all "Fuck you, unwashed masses, you're on your own!"
At least Marie Antoinette actually offered something.
@@sdfkjgh It worse because this chick said that, whereas Marie Antoinette never said anything like "let them eat brioche."
@@BlakLite15 Only it was not an offering.
“When you’re hungry, you’ll find a way to eat.”
~a person who has never experienced hunger in her life.
Nor read nor seen Les Miz...
Also not realizing that sometimes, it's her that's going to be eaten by the hungry.
And ableist AF
In the same breath she would likely condemn theft, which is how most people would end up finding as ' a way to eat' once things got desperate. Ingram is a fucking loon.
People that have never actually gone hungry, will never understand. When it comes to basic survival needs laws and morals go out the window quick. Especially if their children are going hungry, people will do things they never would have out of pure desperation.
I’m adding “Black hair positivity” to the LONG list of reasons this is a tremendous show. Thank you!
"If you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat"
-A person that's never been hungry
Not fully related, but this sort of makes me think of this line from the show The Boys. This woman was trying to convince a co-worker to speak out against the evil doings of their employer and when she threatened to jeapordize his job, she said "It's not all about the money." He replied back, "The only people who say that are those who've never known what it's like not to have it."
All Ingram has to do is look to impoverished nations to know this isn't true. Hungry people all over the world, but if they only got a job....
And hey I’m willing to bet she’d claim she has. The right loves a good victim complex.
Famous last words of person eaten by hungry people.
@@Rhewin All of them. All the TV talking heads especially the ones on right wing TV have NEVER known poverty. Tucker is ultra rich and so is his wife! How these people somehow became the spokespeople for rural America is still beyond my comprehension. Wait....Yeah I know why. Never mind.
Laura Ingraham rich types: "Give a man a fish..."
Real people: YOU OWN THE FUCKIN LAKE!
That is as depressing as it is true...
Who is laura Ingram rich
with signage "Trespaser will be shoot, survivor will be shoot again"
But keep a man from fishing by making him jump through prejudiced hoops, and you'll never have to fish again.
Give a man a fish? More like take a $500 seminar on *how* to fish.
I would suggest eating Ingraham but she's mostly bile, gristle and shoe leather and if Covid has taught us anything, you never want to eat an old bat.
This is genius. Congratulations
Perfect funny comment!
Perfect!! LOL!!!!
Perfect!!
Thank you
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
It's like that meme with the strong-jawed dude , sweating in front of two buttons saying "Helping corporations make more money" and "Helping actual people survive"
It's more like that template, one button is red one is blue and then cut to Jim Carrey Eggman pushing the red button with gusto (red being give corporations more money)
Where is that from, anyway?
“You’ll find a way to eat.”
The Poor: Lets eat the Rich!
The Rich: Wait, that’s cheating!
sounds like gamestop stonks
Hear hear
the rich : "we will be leaving now, off to our islands to remote control the US"
never works, it always ends up being the poor eating the middle class while the rich escape to a different country and then the entire place turns into a shit hole
@@chitahitsu4743
*shit knowledge of stocks and know when a stock is shorted*
FUCK YEA
"Hunger brings drive."
Actually, it brings depression, anxiety, and desperation.
Desperation leads to crime.
Laura Ingraham would like poor people to become criminals.
Of course she does. More criminals means more prisoners, means more profits for private prisons and the corporations that use prisoners as modern day slave labor. Oh and of course it will be disproportionately minorities which is just the cherry on top of the disgusting nazi cake that is Laura Ingraham. The systemic racism, the oppression, the exploitation, the poverty, misery, suffering and massive inequality, these are not bugs in the system, they are its core features.
Well how else are we going to keep the prisons full of slaves?
@@transsylvanian9100 It's basically just an informal debtors prison, probably wont be long until they become an actual thing.
No, Laura Ingram would NOT like poor people to become criminals. Rather, Laura ingraham believes that poor people ARE criminals and therefore deserve less than nothing.
Worse, the Laura Ingrams of this world want to see the criminal lower class live as servants of the Well-To-Do or just plain dying of hunger - just don't stand in front of a store she's walking into looking needy, homeless, hungry or ill.
@@woodmanbrown3114 Exactly, because in her worldview, everyone who has money must have worked hard for it. Therefore everyone who is poor must be inherently lazy, which means any poor person who finds a way to make money must have cheated to get it, because lazy people don't know how to work hard. Therefore, we must criminalise being poor to stop the lazy poors from stealing money from their betters. Maybe force them to work in some form of camp or a plantation and teach them the meaning of hard work, and because they clearly can't be trusted with money, maybe we should just supply them with food stamps only.
Capitalism at this point in America is starting to turn into stealth slavery, where the poorest in our society are forced to work multiple jobs from dawn till dusk for money that doesn't even cover rent, and then at best they get food stamps because the rich don't want them to be able to buy their freedom.
I'm not saying this refers to ALL capitalism, but it is the logical endpoint of a system designed to concentrate wealth and power amongst an ever shrinking de facto aristocracy, and we are 100% seeing the signs of it. Just because businesses claim to have stopped using sweatshops, doesn't mean they weren't profitable - they were EXTREMELY profitable. They stopped (publicly) because humanitarians and progressives saw them for what they were - modern slavery - and threatened sanctions on the companies that used them. Capitalism isn't an inherently good system; it is at best amoral. I can't deny that it has led to significant progress, but equally, it CANNOT be the best system we will ever devise because if our goal is to further humanity and create a peaceful, safe, and happy world, then it is clearly, inherently flawed, because market forces are a large driver behind resource wars, climate change, monopolies, poverty, etc. We address these problems not by using capitalism, but by limiting its destruction. Trying to use capitalism to fix the problems it has caused is like trying to use a hammer to unbreak a bone - not gonna fucking happen unless you dismantle the thing and use it as a splint to hold your arm together while you come up with a better solution.
She is right about, "You'll find a way to eat."
However, that "way" might be theft, selling drugs, prostitution; or when taken literally, cannibalism.
Wow, over 1000 likes and 69 replies in the first hour. I really hit a nerve.
Eating the rich is always an option.
"You'll find a way to eat. And then those ways will be demonized by people who instead could be making it so you don't have to but they won't cause they don't give a fuck." basically.
Legalize drugs and prostitution! We must stop filling prisons w addicts and sex workers!
@@jessicawhitmore5350 I want to upvote twice
Carjackings and dogknappings have been up in Chicago if that's what the bitch means.
You gotta give John credit. If he's still able to do this without an audience, he's a real trooper.
The system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as designed, and that’s the problem.
Unemployment is designed to be a pain, so going back to work seems more appealing than jumping through hoops for a modest amount of money.
@@badluck5647 and it doesn't work.
Yep! Keep people hungry and needy so they will vote Democrat. Feed them (small) fish instead of teaching them HOW to fish.
@@jerrodshack7610 It did until jobs dried up when the government locked down the economy. As states open the economy, employment will be available for those who want to work.
@@badluck5647 And still not be able to make a decent living because your minimum wages are a joke.
As someone who has actually gone hungry, I can say "hunger makes it hard to concentrate. Hunger makes it difficult to sleep at night. Hunger leads to desperation." And then they ask why those people don't just work harder, do better in school, not accept low paying jobs ugh
It is common sense that hunger turns into poorly thinking (due to lack of energy in the body...)
Yet we need to live with people that think Hunger creates innovation/opportunities...
WTF!
I know. I felt like I was going to die. I was enraged when I saw people eating through restaurant windows or on the street, not because there was anything wrong with that but because my whole system was in a desperate agony.
I’m glad I didn’t do what raced through my mind.
How to fix that?
Make sure EVERYONE gets enough to eat. I was hungry because I couldn’t get work and had no safe family to go to. It was horrible and that long time pushed me back for a long time, possibly always.
Though I know. When you know hunger real
hunger, you know that those who deny others enough to live are the real evil, the destroyers of all forms of life. They are nurtured by entitlement and arrogance every single day
@@andre7417 who are the people that think hunger breeds innovation?
True that...
Being hungry isn't a solution...
It's part of the problem
Hungry people are not productive workers, they're desperate workers...
If u understand the difference btw the 2 terms, you'll understand what's wrong with the logic...
@Scott H I'm talking about literal hunger not ambition. Nobody believes that starvation is a good driving force for innovation. Nobody but psychopaths.
John Oliver completely ignored the fact that he is advocating for more state rights to enact laws such as the ones enacted in the past. Which contradicts his narrative for a federal government with a broader reach to impede on state rights.
I don't know what happened to the old John Oliver that didn't have a political agenda and exposed government corruption rather than debatable economic models.
The sad thing about Elmo's response to his mom losing her job is how accurate it is for real children.
What was his response I totally missed it
No kidding! When I was little and my mom lost her job and was begging her friends for money, this was what I was thinking!
@@voodoowizard5542 you know that youtube videos are rewatchable...
@@yonyosef ....meh
@@voodoowizard5542 he asked his mom if it was because he has too many toys, implying it's somehow his fault for the amount of money spent on him. Heartbreaking and wholesome at the same time.
When you're unemployed life basically stops, you can't pay for a date, can't buy a house, your fiance dumps you, can't buy a car. I once heard an economist say that it's serves a purpose in the economy... preventing the economy from "overheating". I got hit with unemployment back in the mid-80s oil crisis depression in Texas. My heart goes out to people that are unemployed. It's not easy but I survived it and you can too.
Lol, "overheating"....
It serves a function though. Cruelty and the need for people to dominate over others.
There is no economic reason for leaving people that poor, it actually is a burden on the economy.
Sure you need to keep work attractive so unlimited money is also not a good thing, but that is far from leaving people without the ability to find new work. That is just economic torture.
"When you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat" gives those "Let them eat cake" vibes.
*Do you hear the people sing plays in the background*
It gives me "eat the rich" vibes
@@richardbraakman7469 yes! Emma Gold quote
For me, it gave me Irish famine vibes. Mostly because that was the British attitude that caused the famine.
Gives those "get the guillotine" vibes.
This show should always has a segment "the systemic racism aspect of this story that really should surprise you but won't"
Would you all be against investing in a company that will help thousands of people get benefits?
Meanwhile in Germany, even people who don't qualify for normal unemployment benefits get more than the average US citizen plus rent. Yet unemployment rates are lower here, too. Funny how that works.
😏interesting
So am I wrong to assess that Germany is a capitalist state with way better socialist understanding?
Wait, treating citizens like human beings and not criminals helps society? Just wait till they hear about how they treat criminals in Sweden!
@@OsssV social democracy is what the state calls itself.
Benefits are a core pillar of it - but if that's good or not gets discussed regularely
Why Germany have so much eastern European employees that make the shity jobs? Unemployment Germany citizens don't want to do those jobs, or German patrons(in the meat processing industry for example) don't want to trait their employees like are humans too?
"When you're hungry you'll figure out a way to eat."
"If there is no more bread then let them eat cake."
If having enough money to buy food is bad because it causes people to not work as hard, we *definitely* shouldn't allow people to be rich.
Except Marie Antionette never said that. The French freaking monarchy knew better than to say the crap republicans do.
Yes Laura, and sometimes those “hungry people” will brake into your home and kill your family for money and food but we won’t call that murder but “motivation”.
"When the poor have nothing to eat, they will eat the rich."
Hence what happened to lady Gaga's dogs
@gr8 b8 m8 yeah, and I'm doing my best to make sure no one has to, you friggin sociopath.
@gr8 b8 m8 🤦🏾♀️ People are struggling but I'm sure they're so sorry that it doesn't meet your definition of struggle. 🙄😒
@gr8 b8 m8 I'm confused, you automatically assume that he is a white guy who is also in a wealthy land, somewhere like america? You have no idea what he is like, but you are so pissed about your situation and the unfairness of your life compared to other peoples situation (which, it definitely isn't fair at all.) are spewing venom to anyone slightly higher even if their situation isn't good either. Instead of hating others because they are slightly better (if you are going to be disliking people who are in a better situation to the lottery that is birth) why don't you hate the people that are better than everyone else and will always be? There are much, much richer people than just some average white guy who happens to live in a first world country
"You'll find a way to eat"
Yes, crime.
There's a reason that places with a universal basic income (as low as it may be) see a drop in crime. If you're guaranteed to have, at very least, money for rent and food you're much less likely to be driven to crime in hard times.
Andrew Yang is listening
But if there's no crime...how will the government come up with ways to siphon money out of the law enforcement systems?
People whose needs are met don't commit crimes. Pass it on.
If you have good enough self- defense laws, you won't have to worry about those people ever eating again, and the world will be a much better place without them.
The fact that a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of people, only turn to crime out of desperation is something a lot of people just don't understand, but need to
Laura Ingraham being described as a "Sentient Plantation Wedding" is quite possibly the most brilliant accurate analogy of a person that I have ever heard. Well played sir, well played.
Yes, it was awesome.
That Elmo's mom's hair joke is life
What sistah hooked you up John??
Exactly!!!!! :D Hilarious!!
Yes! When he mentioned Shea Moisture I DIED!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Laura: "When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat."
Alex Jones a few years later: Making plans to eat his neighbors to feed his family.
Jesus, when I first saw that I thought it was funny and it was just "Crazy ol Alex Jones being Alex Jones" but that's something that may start happening.
Sounds like "Let them eat cake"... should have the same result as well.
Laura Ingram lets meet Marie Antoinette, Tsar Nicolas II and his family and ask them what the poor people did to them.
Laura Ingraham: Mom used to say "when you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat."
What her mom didn't say was that, for a lot of people, "you'll figure out a way to eat" means becoming a thief, bootlegger, drug dealer, and/or sex worker.
Conservatives often get lost on nuance.
🤷🏻♂️. Actually pretend conservatives play that game to hilarious results
or Fox Personality (much worse than all you described)
There’s nothing wrong with sex work. Sex work is work. To have it listed alongside being a thief shows that ancient puritanical poison still runs through the veins of this society.
@@Tustin2121 amen. Objectively it’s just work. It’s a capitalist society. Sex is a commodity. Is there demand? Definitely. Is there supply? Yep. There you go. Free market at work.
Legalize prostitution, regulate it, tax it
I was 20 seconds late, since I’m on AT&T I’m gonna blame them. Screw you big daddy AT&T
I was 14 seconds late, I have AT&T
Current year
Wait till they reply to you in a year.
I hope he also tackles international topics like the jailing of Alexei Navalny in Russia. Great explainer on how Putin maintains his power and the situation there: ruclips.net/video/DNxvdny1nxs/видео.html&ab_channel=MyTake
@@drunkensailor3736 Homophobic oligarchs fighting for power. What to tell about?
"Slenderman's understudy " - had me almost laughing harder then when John called Tucker Carlson's face, the embodiment of the word thud.
Now I’m imagining Slenderman chasing someone, but they manage to injure him, and then this guy comes out to resume the chase.
You know, Laura Ingraham, you can give a man a fish and THEN teach him how to fish. It doesn't have to be an either-or. And people learn better when they aren't starving.
^So much this
Well said. Food and home need to come first.
THIS 💯💯💯
Yeah, they have learned how to create an artificial fish shortage... they eat steak now.
hehe awesome
"When you are hungry, you figure out a way to eat". Yes, Laura, that's the origin of the "eat the rich" movement. Guess who will be the first meal.
first course you mean
@@Genesis23OPB there could be leftovers
Fortunately for her she wouldn't make much of a meal. But as someone else said...a starter course 🤷
@@sisu4134 If you eat the rich then you’ll really have no jobs. Good luck with that
@@aslapofreality1444 What’s nice is that it is possible to then create the jobs again under a new company
“When you’re hungry, you’ll find a way to eat” - inadvertently calling out the reason for most crime.
Indeed :)
"Work or starve" - Laura Ingraham
@@shanez1215 "Work or starve" - also the Third Reich.
"You starving? Just work harder, snowflake."
It’s a kind of self serving contemptous statement. These yuppies see themselves as superior because they were able to overcome their own life struggles, ignoring the support they had when they were young like having a stable home, or coming from a wealthy background, having connections, being in a good neighborhood, not having tow worry about food, not having to worry about violence near or towards them, etc.
They are ignorant of how much harder it actually can be for people outside of their own experience to make it, they just have no frame of reference.
0:27 "Is it because Elmo has too many toys" Bro, Elmo that's so relatable.
The same people that say “you’ll find away to eat” clutch their pearls when people result to prostitution, drug dealing, and property crimes. That’s people finding a way to eat.
They’re not even human at this point. Money and power seems to strip what little humanity they have left.
Exactly, and who can blame them? ... Ah... things are so messed up in the US. Here in The Netherlands I have been on unemployment a couple of times in the last 10 years. You get paid within days and only have to do 1 work searching activity per week. It is also a set to 70% of your last income (75% in the first two months), so you can keep your house and your kids can still enjoy their normal life.
I think I read this book. Les Miserables.
@Jocelyn My absolute first thought. You can literally track areas that are poor to areas with higher crime because there is some truth to what she is saying. Then the people who had to commit those crimes and get punished find getting money even harder and the descent continues.
@@ShezMarvalouz Funny how everyone has their own hot take on the definition of humanity. The true traits of humanity are our most primal desires that are suppressed via indoctrination. Greed is more synonymous with humanity than empathy. Humanity isn't what society molds you into, humanity is what exists BEFORE society molds you into your current state of being. When a child pushes another to the ground and takes his candy, that is humanity.
"When you're hungry you'll figure out a way to eat" - or, rephrased, "When you have nothing, you'll do anything (because you have nothing to lose)"
"A man has three things in this life. His job, his possessions, and his name. Take away those three things, and any man will kill."
"These 'civilized' people? They'll eat each other."
She kind of said let them eat cake.
Sure.... But will it be legal? Laura clearly never struggled a day in her life
Crime happens, not from lack of prisons, but from lack of decent jobs.
When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to break into Laura Ingraham's Mcmansion!
Right!!! Desperation also creates thugs and drug dealers
i'm from a socialist country and got essentially free money for 2 years. i was being a loser for 2 years, only playing games, eating pizza and not dating at all, becoming a fat slob, lived unhygienically and so on, because i knew i didnt have to impress anybody, i didnt have to perform and i wouldnt have to starve if i lived like that. after two years the money stopped because even socialist governments know when enough is enough so after another few months of lazing around, borrowing money, asking for food and so on i finally got my shit together, got myself a job and am supporting myself and my fiancée that i found soon after eversince.
you know what's the worst part in my cv? not that i lost my job, because my boss gave me excellent references. it's that i didnt do shit in my life for 2 years and didnt have a single recent flattering photo of myself. it was considerably harder to go to job interviews like that, instead of right after losing my job, still fit, still full of drive, not fat, still well fitting clothes and all that.
government benefits and my shitty attitude stole 2 years of my life. luckily my parents didnt support this.
ps: 2-5 applications a week is a lot for john oliver? he has no clue because he probably never had this issue. my city asked for TWELVE a week, which i did, but shittily because i knew i'd get money anyway. you know what i changed after those 2 years when i ACTUALLY wanted to get a job? i wrote 12 applications a DAY and i wrote decent ones, which as said, eventually landed me a job.
@@onetwothreefour3957 so you - a single white man - think is everybody is like you? Btw which "socialist" country are you from and when you describe yourself as unhygienic: might you have been depressed?
Yeah Laura Ingraham is that type of person that thinks banana republics are just clothing lines not a result of businesses overthrowing governments for profit.
@@onetwothreefour3957 Pics, or it didn't happen.
John absolutely nailed it as "we all feel.better when we clap." So many more things make sense now.
You'll figure out a way to eat?
Try getting between a starving man and his meal lady. Hunger creates desperation, not motivation.
People get desperate enough to do literally _anything_ to eat, no matter their morals.
Point out to these people that the countries with the most effective economic safety nets have the lowest violent crime rates and you might as well be speaking a foreign language.
Literally how Victor Hugo's Les Miserables kicks off. Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread.
She’s never been that hungry or desperate in her life. Hell, I haven’t and I remember my parent struggling to make ends meet. Her statement is the ultimate definition of privilege.
@@Rhewin And falsehood
I've been saying this for a year now, if you don't adequately support the people during this pandemic, you are going to see a massive influx in crime, it's common sense. And the financial support with forced business closures and limitations has been far below adequate.
"Gotta eat to live. Gotta steal to eat. Otherwise we'd get along" - Aladdin
Bro, no need to get the middle east involved in this.
@@tendertuna9157 if there’s one good thing about (not saying the real name of this) “middle eastern culture,” it’s that believers are supposed to give 1/3rd of their food/wealth to the needy...
But most will only give to the needy fellow believers.
@@tendertuna9157 Let's not be too hasty
Disney radicalizing millennials lol
"They will find a way"
**crime rises**
Wealthy people: shocked_pikachu.jpg
They want high crime numbers so they can pretend to be the law and order party
@@Jartran72 also cant forget the cheap labor in prisons!
Crime rises while they hide behind secured gated communities.
@@brittanybertolin8859 there's some voter disenfranchisement in there as well!
“WHY ARE THEY STEALING FOOD?!?” Oh yes. They will find a way to eat.
If you told me at the beginning 2019 that I would have been thankful to work in a grocery store, I would have thought you were lying. But man, I’ve been so fortunate to not have lost my job during the pandemic:
you can’t have a “Rainy-Day Fund” when you live paycheck to paycheck.
@@mcloathin3354 that makes too much sense.
exactly, I used up my rainy-day fund in the first month of the pandemic because my previous job didn't pay enough for me to really save, and that job only paid $12k a year
@@mcloathin3354 sounds like you never been to college.
@@mcloathin3354 sounds like you should do a little research on how hard it is for some people to break out of those paycheck to paycheck lifestyles when they've been put there based on things they can't control
@@mcloathin3354 You are really proud of being housebroken slave dont you.
Yeah, my husband was on unemployment in Utah a couple of years ago. They have that same "5 contacts per week" rule, but you have to submit the application on the state department of workforce services website. Somebody posted a fake job opening and got a bunch of personal info and stole his identity. We went to the state, and they basically admitted there is no background check to post a job listing--they don't even make sure the company exists. We asked what we were supposed to do about the identity theft, and they said, not our problem.
Unacceptable!
He should sue them for damages.
@@tracylove3937 With what money?
@@john.d.rockefeller2538 There are "contingency" lawyers who don't get paid, unless you win your case. Then of course they take 35-50%.
@@tracylove3937 what do you think the cause of action would be-- no government would assume any responsibility for anything fake from the pblic such as fake job posting.
@@rd264 Yet they required the applicamts to apply to postings they maintained. They had am obligation to get the legitimacy of the jobs posted.
"When you are hungry you'll figure out a way to eat." Sure, but then don't be surprised at skyrocketing crime rates. Desperate people figure out desperate ways to get by.
Yep. When you need help right now and your program benefits are weeks or months away, you can't wait.
so robbing her is ok then!? because that's a way out. right!? and it's legal because she just told us it was.
Exactly!
The thing about civilization is that it keeps people civil.
I agree, hence we should close the border.
"You'll find a way to eat."
Isnt that basically what they said in the Irish Potato Famine? And they really didnt.
not quite, pretty sure they just wanted the irish to be starving so they'd be less effective at overthrowing their colonisers.
ofc, churchill be churchill.
@@sjs9698 you arent wrong, but the Irish were portrayed by lazy and unwilling to work. The implication is that they could find a way to feed themselves if they were willing to work.
I'll admit, I don't know a quote that says that "they will find a way to eat," but I wouldn't be very surprised if I could fine one.
@@noahgray543 oh no doubt they'll have sold it to the english that way (if many english folk knew & cared, which back then'd be less likely i suppose- not such high literacy or access to news &c)
it's a standard line the rich use to justify driving people into poverty: it's *their* fault, they deserve it for being lazy, if they weren't lazy they wouldn't be starving.
all the while ofc hiring private security firms to fix padlocks to bins so the poor can't even get to rotting food...
keeping some of us at rock-bottom poverty is necessary to put the fear of that into the rest of us & give them someone to scapegoat for all societies problems. someone they tell us to scorn & look down on, so we don't look up & see what those fuckers are doing to us all.
@@sjs9698 watch alfred dolittle talk about being the undeserving poor. Not much changed since 1964
@@sjs9698 greed is evil. Share with others Hebrews 13:16
Hearing Elmo's parents talk to him I definitely was like, "His parents are black!" So the fact that John brought up Elmo's mom's hair, it's styling, and her hair products really touched me 😊
So is Elmo’s voice actor, at least since the last time I checked!
@@shawnhale9034 His original voice actor (Kevin Clash) was, but he left and was replaced by Elmo's then understudy, I think, Ryan Dillon, who I don't think is black?
Haha I knew it , I used to think that as a kid lol. But one time I saw a live elmo show as a kid and I know the original puppeteer was a black man
@@citrusella-nomorecraptions correct. Dillon is _super_ white
"When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich!" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Andrew Yang said similar.
-Motorhead
- Marvin the Martian probably
When There is No More Room in Hell,
The Dead SHALL WALK THE EARTH.
lol, they'll be full of Botox and other garbage.
“Ask for work, and if they do not give you work. Ask for bread, and if they won’t give you bread. Take the bread”
- Emma Goldman
"Hunger, uh, brings drive" is like the Capitalist hellworld version of "Life, uh, finds a way."
I was on unemployment and had a baby. They said I couldn't collect until my doctor released me since I couldn't technically start a job immediately after birth. In a pro-life state, I was punished for having a baby. My expenses did not go down after losing insurance and adding a dependent.
I feel you... I went on unemployment when I was seven months pregnant. This was 24 yrs ago, but in MO, you had to apply for a job at least 5 times a week, and you were limited to 1 year of benefits. The social worker who processed me literally asked me, "what the hell are you going to do??"
“You’ll find a way to eat”
Me: “got it” *puts on ski mask
You know she has a shoplifting charge
Exactly. One day there really will be nothing but the rich to eat, and rob. I’m definitely robbing the rich in a vicious and violent manner lol
Time for The Purge!
America: unemployment rate is high!!!📈📊
Third world country: first time!!!
@@SmootherThanSilk except even in the Purge, it was the poor that suffered. the rich were able to have fully stocked bunkers and stuff
That tangent about Elmo’s mom’s hair care 🤣🤣 there is diversity in their writer’s room and they aren’t afraid to show it!
I love it!
That was great! 😂
I loveeeeeeedddddd it
Yes Stella. That was so cute!
I came here looking for this comment. Love ❤️ it!!!
Hunger won't motivate you to work. It will motivate you to just give up though. How do you start a job if you can literally, barely physically stand up on your legs due to said hunger. 🙄
Never mind that your first paycheck is two weeks after you started working and only for the time you worked two weeks before that.
It's truly spoken like someone who has never gone hungry for one day in their life.
@@hedgehog3180 I don't know, I've been hungry and poor this year - I don't live in the US and did receive social security - just enough to get by. It was no treat, it made me feel very crappy, 1 for taking money from the government - other people. 2 because I was still hungry and ate mostly potatoes, butter and milk, with some knock-off fruits and vegetables, or big quantities of frozen pees.
It did motivate me. But there's a difference between letting someone starve because you simply don't care, or helping someone out, just to get by. I made use of the social security for 4 months. In that time I found a new job. If I would've gotten more money, the incentive to find work would've been less (though my morals are pretty high and I wouldn't want to be that opportunistic, feeding off of other peoples' tax: I know people who would). I've had a few crummy jobs that paid very little and required much physical labour, calling me in on a weekly basis (DHL): I still wasn't that happy. I started working in healthcare now, I've always worked in production where you are just a number... Making cookies, medical supplies, freaking garage doors/docks/levelers for trucks (operating a machine in most cases).
Done this work now for three months, I make less than I did before I got layed off. But I'm a lot more happy. I get to take care of people and help them out, all day.
It's not a great job - it requires a lot of attention to feces and the like, but it is very rewarding in a non-financial way. My presence is very important to others. I don't need money when I matter to others. Laura should have a little talk with some ancient carpenter.
On a similar note: I don't think Laura is very happy...
It worked for me so idk. I work two jobs clocking about an average of 65 hours each week. I got a mortgage and kids over my head living in California. You just gotta do what you gotta do.
@@jamespage7924 did you start from the street without a pot to piss in though? Be honest.
"When you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat" oh, what a nice quote from her mother. Let's add another quote to that: "people often take the road of least resistance." If you put those two together, you see how her mentality fosters crime :)
Where I grew up people that were hungry did find a way to eat, and hopefully we don't go where they went
That quote gives me "if I had to suffer, so do you" vibes.
When I’m hungry I’ll find a way to eat?? We really are at the same point France was during the revolution. I’m about ready to eat some people
Or revolution.
@@nathanmckenzie904 when enough people are hungry moral becomes negotiable
So, clearly John has a Black woman on the writing staff and sis said we gon use a Muppet moment to represent for Black hair care 😂. I'm here for it!
He started talking about twists and I had to pause the video. I am here for it.
I came looking for this comment 😂😂😂😂 that part killed me 🤣
I KNOW!!!! I screamed when he said that in the beginning. So funny and cute 🤣🤣🤣
@@CRIZZIEE I heard two strand twist and I lost it🤣🤣🤣 ok John, I see you
Omg! I had to rewind to hear John talk about the Muppets...I luv it!
Laura Ingraham advocating for actual hunger, wow. I'm not exactly surprised, but it still kinda disorienting actually hearing it out loud.
i would love to drag her to central america and have her work on the fields... i'd give her five minutes and she'd break down in tears "i need a manicure!"
Cruelty is the point. Conservatism is built on fearmongering that society will collapse if it enables 'decadence' - which I've pretty sure is any value other than the pursuit of power.
I felt like I was watching her explain why people turn to crime
@@XxThunderflamexX Conservatism is cruelty? Why aren't Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg or any other multi billion dollars social tech giants highering more people or paying better wages? Conservativism has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, isn't that how the French Revolution started?
''when you are Hungry, you'll find a way to eat'', Wow, the Marie Antoinette vibe is strong here, i guess someone didn't listened much in history classes.
Is the wood chipper the new gilotteen
“If you are hungry, you’ll find a way to eat” are the words of one who has never been hungry
When people are hungry enough, we'll just have to eat the rich.
Or it's a warning about how far people can be pushed when desperation gets severe enough
Or the words of someone who wants more crime. When people are hungry and can't get food through legitimate means either they starve, get sick, die, or leads to crime. And it is the broken systems fault when many people are put in that situation. A system that tells them commit crimes or die. Then they get put in for profit prisons, where in the U.S.A. slavery is legal in prison.
“If you’re hungry, you’ll find a way to eat.” - and y’all wonder why we chant “eat the rich.”
I am so cheerful whenever someone besides myself observes what's what
“If you’re hungry, you find a way to eat,” said Laura’s late mother. Does that mean Laura’s Mom was okay with Laura cannibalizing her if Laura got hungry?
We can't "eat the rich"...they have no taste!
@@markfoster1520 But they're organic and grain fed.
I wonder how many nights these right wing pricks have gone hungry?
"The rich don't know what it means to be full because they've never been hungry." -=-=-=- Must be the truest statement I have ever heard.
As a person who has been heartbreakingly hungry on the streets before, I can tell you from experience that knowing that feeling does not change the feeling of being full. It does temporarily change the feeling of having something/anything in your stomach, though.
The stupidity coming from the people's mouths who have never been hungry, who can't find work, or... It's just too much to bare for me. Just shut up. Bad mouthing and ridiculing doesn't help. 😪
@@bobbieaustin425 Agreed, but telling me (who does have experience) to shut up probably isn't going to help.
@@keld101 i dont think they were talking about you but i dunno
@@yuriwhymeme4718 I know, but even if that news host is just an arrogant person who has never faced real hunger it doesn't make her point any less true.
Listening to Laura Ingraham is the audio version of giving yourself a lobotomy. And yes, I did find a way to pay my rent, food, cable and Internet, Laura. It's called being a criminal. No regrets.
Uh... you're joking, right?
If not, wouldn't you rather be able to do all that and NOT "be a criminal"? --J
@@jeyruff429 I think the Canadian Bosmer is saying if they could go back and choose again between becoming homeless, starving, etc. and getting by illegally, they'd still choose crime.
Of course almost everyone would rather survive without crime instead.
@@googiegress (Googie Monster in da house 😁🍪)
I hope you're right that Bosmer isn't encouraging criminal behavior. I hope (s)he's joking, perhaps being sarcastic. Even better, implying that Ms. Laura might as well consider poorer folks as criminals by her comments! --J
JeyRuff it’s called mocking Laura Ingraham for being an insensitive and inhumane person. Even me I’d say that in her face as well.
@@marloyorkrodriguez9975 (It's-a-me, Mario -- Comprende? 🙂 [Or with that "York", maybe that should be "Capisce?" 😉])
Remember, LOVE means wanting the BEST for someone; therefore, wanting the worst for someone is HATRED! That's why....
I just hope in criticizing the hatred of Ingram and other far-right folks, you don't IMITATE it ... nor even DUPLICATE it!
Yes, it IS possible to severely dislike what someone does/says WITHOUT hatred. Yes, you can even love such a person! --J
For me in Europe: good morning and let's see what's f'd up about die US of A, today.
*poses and enunciates dramatically*
Are you not entertained?!
Hi Russia 🇷🇺🙋♂️ From Ireland 🇮🇪
🤣🤣🤣 ikr
Yeah but we shouldnt make fun of devoloping countries . We here in the eu where once as barbaric as America.
immer wieder schön
"When you're hungry, you find a way to eat," is today's: "Let them eat cake."
And it can easily be responded to with another line someone said around the same time as the 'let them eat cake' line: "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
There’s always stealing
“And when they get hungry, it ain’t shit funny” -MF DOOM
@@baconspaceman4094 "Hate to interfere with how brother get his money"
You can really tell that she has never once in her life had to think about how she'd get her next meal.
“You can’t be unemployed if you never had a job”
-Every full-time college student ever
It’s a good thing I had a chitty job to qualify
I had full time jobs before college, worked part-time while in college, knew people with similar backgrounds while I attended college.
Any other bits of "wisdom"-that you want to share?
I worked during college. 2/10 sanity not intact would not recommend.
Except poor college students who weren't lucky enough to spawn with well off parents and have to work to pay for that overpriced shit.
@@arcanondrum6543 why are you so insulted by this
I live in FL and I can agree that my family almost starved because of the lack of unemployment benefits after we got laid off after working for 11 years #thanksRickScott
Welp, time for another episode of “everything’s fucked and now we’re sad” tonight
I hate to say it but it's only going to get worse. I hope I'm wrong.
@@AnthonyGoodley you are. plummeting covid deaths. rising economic activity. quit consuming fear porn as your only media.
I'm honestly finding it hard to watch the show now. ITs just 30mins of concentrated depression
Except I always make the mistake of watching it first thing in the morning. Sometimes, it's a good idea
@@asdfasdf7199 Not so fast. COVID variants, high unemployment, lingering effects of COVID infection & lockdown and chronic childhood hunger. We're not out of the woods yet.
Was about to get off for the night but thank you John Oliver, I can procrastinate college further.
Amen
Amen
Hell yes
I agree
Sup fellow students how many of us are heading into dead week tomorrow? 👋
"You'll find a way to eat"
*stealing ensues*
The rich: Now put them in jail so we can make more money!
Looks like slavery's back on the menu, boys!
Yeah, then they get to make money on their For Profit Prison investments, so it's Win-Win for them.
When I'm hungry, I'll just take Laura Ingraham's food.
That would be funny if it was not so sickeningly accurate
@@DarklyYours skip the middle man and just eat Laura Ingraham
Weekly reminder that *social* *security* is a *human* *right* !!! and thanks to Last Week Tonight for using sources everywhere and therefore helping me out with the paper I have to write
I would rather a few people cheat the system than hundreds get denied.
I think you mean "several thousand get denied."
the hair joke about elmo's mom made me realize yall have black writers lmaoo
I love it!
It was giving "Tell me you're black without saying you're black". We see y'all!
I was like hold up hold up ⏸ did he say two strand twists and edges?! 😂😂😂😂
@@ninabeena83 Right, and what he know about Pink Oil and Jam?
Oh damn, I literally thought he meant jam, like strawberry jam...lmao what is it?
"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
Eleanor Roosevelt
*stuff a big wad of chew in cheek
Thert sounds an awful lot like COMMUNISM, Elenor
*spits
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread." - Emma Goldman
Second Bill of Rights from Franklin D. Roosevelt. There is film of him reading the suggested amendment (seriously, it's on youtube) but unfortunately he passed away before it could be put forward. That was the divider. Had that Bill of Rights passed, USA could now be a country that others look up to. Instead, US is a dumpster fire that drives people off and makes them dry heave. Laughing stock for others and an example of how not to do things.
It's time to give the economic bill of rights a second look. America will collapse without it.
Give me your gold! You people over there! Yeah you Japanese Americans your going to jail!
FDR
I am unemployed in FL...I eat ramon every night and my bills are on the brink of disconnection....I worked 25 years in the restaurant business...40 hours a week my entire adult life...I managed the kitchen in my last job...why am I now starving?
"When you're hungry, you'll find a way to eat." Sure, then stop punishing people for stealing food? Or livestock? Or money in order to eat?
Release cattle into the streets, pass out spears, and let nature take it's course. don't actually follow this advice
Exactly what I was thinking..you think a dad is gonna let their kids starve? Don't be surprised when crime skyrockets
@@librarianseth5572 maybe we can use those spears on the rich?
@@liraven7676 This. If it comes down to my kids going hungry, or me breaking into Laura's house and stealing all her trashy jewelry, I'll let you guess which one it's going to be.
Houses, cars, clothes, food, medicine, fuel, paper and plastic can all be made from Cannabis Sativa.
Watch the 1942 USDA film, Hemp For Victory, and pass the Hemp For Victory Act of 2019.
This will also reduce pollution, end deforestation, and stop climate change.
I do truly appreciate how he says "our" and "we." He's a better American patriot than several elected officials.
Potter Gray is no patriot.
@Potter Gray Blind loyalty to a flawed system isn't patriotism. You can love a country and still critique its flaws and call for important changes. When you love something, it's good to want to make it even better.
He is an american citizen now
several? MOST.
@Potter Gray It really isn't. Like, at all. And we want fix America, so we're calling out its problems. I'd say that makes us WAY more patriotic than you'll ever be.
That part about Elmo’s mom’s hair. I know it was written for him but it was hilarious hearing John talk about black hair care.
picturing some writer walking him through that bit made me smile
He mentioned Shea Moisture and I burst out laughing. Loved it.
fr it caught me so off guard lol it was so funny
Versus the Canada system. I got laid off, and within a week I was able to apply for EI online and had my first 'paycheck' within 3 days. Took me under ten minutes to have everything set up.
Haha three days, here you goes get a week in the hole then you get it next week. Good ole USA
the fact that my first thought when seeing this comment was "Lucky" just shows how jacked the American system is. they should call it the land of the capitalistically enslaved. its absolutely ridiculous.
“When you’re hungry, you’ll figure out a way to eat.”
-Someone who’s clearly never been hungry in her entire life, 2014.
She's not wrong though. You're not going to willingly starve to death in the street. The problem the solution outside of the system here is anarchy and lawlessness. Stealing food or robbing those better off so you can get food are the two most obvious ways of getting food when you can't legitimately, and obviously most Americans would never want to see their fellow americans reduced to forced lawlessness. So while it's true that when you're hungry you'll find a way to eat, I don't think ms laura would want this either, as if it came to it I assume she'd be one of the first to experience the repercussions after remarks like that.
@@fisharepeopletoo9653 She'd be the first person to denounce the starving person stealing as degenerate and thuggish.
@@fisharepeopletoo9653 But it is not true, it's a confirmation biased blanket statement that only takes into account the people that survive and find a way to eat. But how about the ones that don't? There are a lot of people that don't make it, and that statement doesn't take them into account. It's the same as believing that hard work begets wealth, it does for the ones that for many reasons (geography, socioeconomic conditions, etc) can make it, but that doesn't mean that there aren't equally hard-working people that don't (especially if they're a minority).
@@LucianoLongo I guess I'm just referring to myself. I'm not going to willingly starve in the streets. I'm going to steal from those who aren't starving if that's what I have to do. I've been homeless and I've been hungry, I know what it's like to not know if you'll get to eat on any given day, and what type of mindset that puts me into. Probably not everyone is the same as me, but enough desperate people and her dystopia of people doing what they must to eat can come to life.
@@fisharepeopletoo9653 yea, and I totally agree with that, just wanted to share why I didn't think it's "true" as in universally true. It is true individually in some cases, but it can't be applied to all and certainly cannot be used as a basis for any policy. She was basically admitting that she's ok coercing people into accepting any work/pay under the threat of homelessness and/or death.
Imagine being so intellectually bankrupt that you think hunger will make people spontaneously find those mythical bootstraps to pull themselves up with.
Nothing made me take a minimum wage job faster than being denied unemployment. It worked while I found a better job. I have a college degree and I’ll scrub toilets because I am not above any wage or any work. This is only 5 years ago and now I have a great job. Her point although poorly worded, is that providing everything to people does not motivate them to do better. It makes them complacent.
@@BB-ed4om Congrats on your work status! Now if only there were enough povert...minimum wage jobs to go around. But there aren't. People don't choose to go hungry because they don't want to scrub toilets. People go hungry because there are not opportunities to make money to buy bread. There are no toilets for them to scrub.
@@BB-ed4om and what happens when there's a job shortage? like, for instance, at the beginning of a pandemic when workplaces were forced to lay people off in order to keep working conditions safe. if you watched this video, you already heard about the amount of proof somebody has to have that they are trying to look for a job. they have to be actively searching for work every week.
and this would not be "providing everything" to people, it would be giving out a small, temporary, wage so that people can hopefully afford the basic necessities, like food water and shelter while they are searching for work. it is not enough to live on in the long term, and in a lot of cases, unemployment doesn't even cover the basic necessities, let alone a healthy lifestyle. and again, if you watched the vid, you know that providing unemployment to those that need it HELPS the economy.
Hear here.
Fun fact: The phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" refers to the act of lifting yourself into the air by pulling on your bootstraps, which is why it used to mean "do something completely absurd."
You can tell Laura ingraham has never had to face any kind of financial struggle
or ANY kind of struggle.
"When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat" -- remember this energy when someone is robbing you at gunpoint for some cash Laura. Fact is, yes, people do try to figure out a way but when every door of opportunity is slammed in their face because they don't qualify based on a system that was designed to make them ineligible, they tend to get desperate and we know what happens when people get desperate
Its called keep some money for a rainy day and go look for another job. Sell some stuff off. Keep a pantry of rations you rotate on a regular basis. Being resourceful is a skill that should be learned. You can live off rice and frozen veggies for $20 a month. Lower your standards
@@joelduffin7996 Homelessness? Living in wartorn countries? Where do you draw the line on who deserves to be helped?