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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: kzhead.info/sun/d7KxpsimsGOkq6s/bejne.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.
"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...
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
hearing Oliver talk about black haircare in such a casual yet well-informed way threw me for a loop. i've never felt so seen and it's disorienting.
The show has a team of writers. Diverse writers based on jokes like that
@@LaCheeserie Of course they’re diverse. It would be a disservice to the general policies he supports to do otherwise.
Same with how impressively knowledgeable and accurately he discusses things like trans issues. Most people not in these communities have no idea.
@@VioletEmerald YES! also, I literally can't thank him enough for making an analogy that can explain to cis people why it's not okay to ask trans people about their genitals 😭
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"
“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.
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.
"When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat." Crime. This is how crime happens.
Maybe even committing unemployment fraud
Honestly, I think if someone gets caught stealing food because they have to eat, the community should be helping said person be able to at the very least get daily warm, healthy meals, and clean water to drink
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.
"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
every week I come here, wondering how the US is still a thing
I live here and I wonder that every day.
Just a matter of time.
you are so entitled ... you can complain why you wont get paid even when you arent working... in what other country could people ask that.. thats why ur country is great, you are allowed to hate on ur own country even with a questionable reason... I wish we could trade places, i wish you see there are other countries and how horrible life treats them,, you want free healthcare, free colleges, get paid even when you are not working... i hope the gov't wouldn't listen cause someone will pay for it and for that they will ruin some other country
Good doggie
@@fitsum9229 why do americans compare themselves with third world countries all the time lol. Must be some self esteem issues.
I’m adding “Black hair positivity” to the LONG list of reasons this is a tremendous show. Thank you!
"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
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.
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.
You gotta give John credit. If he's still able to do this without an audience, he's a real trooper.
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)
"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?
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
That Elmo's mom's hair joke is life What sistah hooked you up John??
Exactly!!!!! :D Hilarious!!
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.
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.
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?
"Slenderman's understudy " - had me almost laughing harder then when John called Tucker Carlson's face, the embodiment of the word thud.
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:
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 😂🤣
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 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
John absolutely nailed it as "we all feel.better when we clap." So many more things make sense now.
''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
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
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 had a hunger for a different lifestyle (one that involved eating more than ramen every night) so I took a job that I hate. It causes stress and depression and because of that my employers offer free counseling so now I don't feel like I can leave this job because I need counseling because I'm so stressed and depressed and oh yeah, I still need to keep a roof over my head. Only people who have never been poor think poverty is a choice.
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.
@@googiegress7459 (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
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
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.
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 invest, you're buying a day you don't have to work
@Dr Robert You're right Sir, it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance, it's better to take risks and make sacrifices than to remain poor
@@mbalimaka6393 It's not ignorance but due to some unprofessional broker in the market
I recently got into forex trading and im already marveling over the profits I'm making, I'm like " how the hell have i been sleeping on this
@@lovecricket6736 Same here, I wish I knew about this Bitcoin trading earlier, brace up and get yourself some Bitcoin before it's too late
Obviously trading in bitcoin is very volatile and risky to trade that's the reason most traders trade with a company
"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.
"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
"Hunger, uh, brings drive" is like the Capitalist hellworld version of "Life, uh, finds a way."
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?
"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.
“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."
Let them eat cake
0:27 "Is it because Elmo has too many toys" Bro, Elmo that's so relatable.
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
"You'll find a way to eat." She's only half wrong there. When the French were hungry they decided to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and wipe out the autocracy.
So, eat the rich? (Hannibal Lecter style if you're hungry enough?)
It’s weird that American elites always try to claim the “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps” narrative, even though it doesn’t matter; Americans will still lick their shoes clean without realizing they weren’t boots in the first place.
@@morriganbermejo4042 bourgeoisie (I totally didn't have to google that)
So blame Nancy Pelosi for sitting on the second stimulus until after the election. Blame congress for giving more money to special interests than citizens. Plenty of blame to go around.
@@phillyrocks3847 Not here to stick up for Pelosi more than she deserves, but they tried passing several bills in the months before the election. The house did pass them. Mitch McConnell refused to bring them to the floor. That is, until near the election, where the idea of giving people money might have made people more amicable to keepings a republican majority. I don't agree with playing politics with people's lives, but the idea that The House passed several bills to try and solve a problem, but senate GOP hated the idea of giving assistance, so they refused to put it to the floor for a vote/discussion because them being against helping the needy during a pandemic would make them look bad and they might not win at the polls, for them to reevaluate at the last possible minute because they it didn't seem like they would win, and the president decided to hype up the idea so that he could get reelected, seems a bit like they aren't arguing in good faith. And the idea that they wanted to cut out everything except for the stuff that gave immediate benefits right before the election, rather than solving the inherent problems in the system solidifies their intentions. The Senate GOP had many opportunities to try and mitigate the suffering of the American people, but they chose not to, and they did so because they thought their seats were safe. Only when they thought it would cost them did they decide to care. The only GOP cared when they thought they would lose their majority, and at that point they turned the suffering citizens into hostages to try to use the Democrats purported kindness towards the needy as a bargaining chip to save their seats. "Can't let them starve, right? You wanted us st the table, so now we are here and you're not passing our bill. It's the Dems making you suffer!" If I were Nancy pelosi, I probably would have done what she did. Let them get voted out for their bad decision making. It causes people to suffer unnecessarily but the same people had continued to suffer for months when the GOP chose to do nothing. the way you limit suffering is by making sure that they get out if they aren't going to work on solutions for the problems that are plaguing our society. Now I don't trust or praise pretty much any politician, but I also don't blame people when they choose not to lose a corrupt game when you tried to play fairly, and the other team chose not to.
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.
You jerk, unemployed German. I get only 60% of my salary. The swiss are doing so mich better than we are.
@@hawkanonymous2610 You are right to be angry. Perhaps who you should angry with is your government?
This makes me so happy I live in Canada. I've always paid taxes to cover Employment insurance and the only time I ever needed it was for 6 months last year during the pandemic. Received it immediately and found a job in Sept. EI isn't free, you fund it with your taxes, and the government just doesn't want to help you, of all the entities in the economy, I firmly believe the US government are the most incompetent and I feel bad for its citizens.
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
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?
"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
"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?
"You'll find a way to eat" Sounds like it's time to eat the rich.
Also might he time to rob them 👌
Aye, comrade.
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
“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.
“When you’re hungry you’ll figure out a way to eat” -Laura Ingram How does that work for children Laura? Oh that’s right you don’t have empathy for anyone who isn’t exactly like you.
Get it on...
Low key the part about Elmo had me in tears. I hate how much Elmo can make me feel.
“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
"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 figure out a way to eat.” To only fans, it is!!! Oh wait, you find that morally reprehensible? Gotcha.
"You know what my mom used to say-God rest her soul-When you're hungry, you'll figure out a way to eat" based on that quote I don't think she's in heaven Laura 😂
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.
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: kzhead.info/sun/d7KxpsimsGOkq6s/bejne.html&ab_channel=MyTake
@@drunkensailor3736 Homophobic oligarchs fighting for power. What to tell about?
18:46 As a software developer I am horrified to see "Server Error in '/' Application." from a production website. The message is intended for the development team - this website is wailing for its mommy.
My local unemployment office closed its doors and stopped answering the phones. I had to leave messages for weeks and emailing twice a day to get a response. It took over a month.
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 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.
I honestly believe John should drop the whole comedy thing and just tell us how screwed we are.
the edges bit im screaminggg, this is why john oliver is my fave he is so real and culturally competent.
what black woman writer over at last week tonight wrote the bit about elmo's mom's natural hair because she deserves a raise
Lol i was wondering abt that.
I noticed that too! Hilarious! 😂
That's what I'm wondering 💀
Care to explain that bit? As a non-American, that went completely over my head (I only got that he was talking about black hair care from reading the comments).
I said the same thing. And his delivery was priceless.
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.
so weird we need to talk about such problems... in 2021 we have so many problems, and so much work to do, but the important things do not get paid or funded
I actually met the "Tupac Shakur" guy and received his mixtape in a very weird bathroom incident at a club that is now closed in Cininnati. Dude, you wrote some bangers, and I'm sorry I wasn't the record mogul you thought I was.
Europeans: "This insurance is a social thing". Americans: "Noooooo, it´s a socialist thing and socialism is the same like communism and we don´t want communism".
I think only the rich are scared of socialism.. I'm all for anything that helps me get out of poverty
Trust the organization that created this mass increase un unemployment? The government is who destroyed your job.
@@Yukosan13 Social (security) and socialism are 2 very different things. Nobody wants socialism.
Thanks to Fox News.
@@josecuervo8487 well they didn't do too much to stop it, but the dam break was definitely covid haha
*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.
This show has gone from light hearted joking about news stories to John screaming into the camera
I wish there was 400% recuperation for mistakes the government officials and police do.
"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.
"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.
Man, I don't know what's wrong with me, but for some reason, that clip about Elmo asking if it was his fault for having too many toys has me tearing up a little. I just can't but think how many little kids must feel the same way. Someone made that clip because they felt some kids felt that they were the reason they're parents were struggling. Idk, it just...its making feel things I'm not equipped to handle tonight.
In Australia, when you are on unemployment they give out a lot of menial tasks. One time I was told I needed to apply for 20 jobs a week, and guess what happened? I ran out of jobs that I was qualified for, so I just applied to everything. Saturating the market in a way that made it infuriating for employers to actually find people qualified. One time they put me to work for $4 an hour for someone who would sexually assult me almost everyday, and when I complained about it they said I would need to try harder than that to get out of this, and if I did anything out of line they would stop my payments. This went on for 6 months. They told me that I need to get my license and I told them that I couldn't do that. I was shouted at in an office of people who didn't even flinch, talking about how lazy I am, how I will never get anywhere in life, I was told that I would probably die in the streets. I then explained to the unemployment agent that I cant see out of one eye and I only have half of my vision in my other eye and that I legally can't drive.they didn't like that answer. That was when my payments were stopped. I lived off of my mum and sister while I tried to find a job. I now have an amazing job that I love, but I am forever trumatized by what happened while I was in the unemployment system.
Holy crap that’s horrible, so good you finally got out of that. I was about to suggest move to Narre Warren, their centerlink is way nicer but I’m glad you had family to support you though it. That is so messed up, I hope you heal from this trauma.
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.
"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.
The underlying, flawed mentality is, unfortunately, far too prevalent these days. Once, as I was handing some change to a homeless person, a lady walking by said to me "why are you giving him money? You know he'll spend it on beer!" My instinctive reply was "God will not ask me about how he spent his money, but he'll ask me how I spent mine." Many folks are more worried about helping the wrong person than not helping right person, which is tragic.
Makes Universal Credit look benevolent now
since the pandemic started UC is a much better version of itself- they've shifted gears into assuming that every claim is real rather than every claim is false... ofc it's still the same system designed to deny claims, but it's being used like a better system for now. the moment the emergency is over however, it'll need fixing.
@@sjs9698 the system is bot designed to deny claims, clearly you have no knowledge of the system itself. It is yes in a better place than it was before and all claims are treated as legitimate though naturally they need to check information to ensure that people access it lawfully but then I dare say you would hope they are ensuring it's going to correct and legitimate claoms
"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.
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.
"Hunger brings drive", "When you're hungry you find a way to eat" Thats a good argument for asylum seekers and refugees maam
I work in tech and have though about moving to the US many times but issues like this and the overall political polarization are keeping me away. Also, I'd just like to say that I've listened to Macklemore a few times and I have no idea how he is a problem. Did he commit some sort of crime that I'm a bad person for not knowing about? Telling the audience that if they don't know about something that they're the problem is a good way to get people to tune out. If you ever want to reach people and convince them of a new viewpoint don't start out by insulting them.
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!!!
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.
During the pandemic an employee of ours felt ill and we decided should stay home. They applied for relief online and had funds later that day. Canadian BTW.
Y’all remember when yang wanted to give everyone a check for 1000 before covid even happened and everyone called him crazy
Umm it is...
@@XtechnoPOLAKX You're a towel
It was crazy. It still is crazy.
Inflation isn't the issue, it's that we currently have no control over medical bills, cost of rent, cost of education, etc. The prices there will keep getting cranked up as high as possible (because what else are you going to do, go die?). That 1000 bucks will get eaten up pretty quickly without M4A/NHS and Rent Control and Free Higher Education.
@@XtechnoPOLAKX it's called a UBI and it would've helped immensely during this pandemic