“YOU RUINED MY LIFE!” Taylor Swift Boycott, Spoiled Milk Brat Plays Victim, Google Gemini Too “Woke”
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00:00 - Australian Teen Says Life Was Ruined After Facing Consequences For Prank
02:38 - Google Suspends Gemini AI Over “Woke” & Inaccurate Historical Images
05:06 - Taylor Swift Fans Upset About Poor Merch Quality, Delays
07:06 - Landlords Try to Enforce Rules Against Having Sex
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10:43 - Hospital Sues Quadrapalegic Teen on Ventilator for Trespassing
13:24 - Two Alabama IVF Providers Freeze Services
16:14 - AZ Prosecutor Refuses to Extradite Suspect to NY
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20:08 - SCOTUS Could Limit Federal Power & Upend Essential Protections for Americans
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Produced by: Cory Ray
Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks
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Writing/Research: Philip DeFranco, Brian Espinoza, Lili Stenn, Maddie Crichton, Star Pralle, Chris Tolve
Associate Producer for SCOTUS: Lili Stenn
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"Can't believe you would do this to a minor" Someone is learning about consequences for the first time in his life.
What's with the "I'm just a kid/I'm only X years old" defense everybody is using these days when they get into trouble? People think being a minor is a do-what-I-want-and-get-away-with-it pass.
@@HarpsiFizzI saw even Kyle Rittenhouse, who has killed people, use the excuse that he's just a silly little young kid so why are people mean to him.
Reminds me of that teen years ago who got off from running people over because he was too rich to know better
@@HarpsiFizz It's literally that. They think they can do whatever they want and not face consequences, usually because that's how they're being raised.
@@HarpsiFizz It's come from the whole "People need time to grow" mindset going to the extreme. People do things when they are young and we should be understanding of people's development, but others (esp young ppl who benefit from it) think that young people can do no wrong and should be protected by everything including consequences.
Having a Supreme Court that can neither be voted in or out nor have a set time in office is crazy. This storm has been brewing for years and now the tornado is spawned. Those justices may break our country.
People like me, who have voted in every single election since I turned 18, in 2001, tried telling every left-leaning person I knew that they needed to vote, even if it was just for the persons that put federal judges and Supreme Court judges in place. No one wanted to listen to me. All I got from those people was “voting doesn’t matter…”. If it didn’t matter, you wouldn’t have conservatives trying very hard to keep people from voting and being scared if Taylor Swift would get young women to vote…
Sorry. Government overreach in recent years has reached unprecedented level. For example, in crypto, the FTC has fined & banned some crypto blockchains for being un-registered securities & at the same time the CFTC fined them & charged them for being unregistered commodities 🤦♀️ An asset cannot be a commodity & security at the same time, but the regulators have been taking advantage of old vague laws to harass others for certain agenda 😡 Supreme Court needs to intervene & limit this type of insanity 😡
@blackellegirl I couldn't agree with you more. The reason we are in this mess right now is partially because of people who didn't vote because they were mad that their guy wasn't nominated. Hell, I hated Hillary and still do, but I also understood what was at stake. And I'm afraid it's happening again. Joe needs to sit down somewhere and I hate him for what he's allowing to happen, even supporting, in Gaza. But I'm also mature enough to know trump would do worse. And so again I'm going to hold my nose and vote against trump, not really for Biden.
You act like that's a bad thing.
We need to organize, spread the word
"I don't want to start a family, this was either accidental or unwanted" -banned
"I want to start a family, but it's hard to conceive naturally" -banned
I'm placing bets on if they'll ban premarital sex or gay marriage first.
Don't forget interracial marriage eventually @@CloakedSpie
@@CloakedSpie thats a good bet to play with your friend ngl
On the bright side IVF feels like kind of a waste, as an IVF baby myself. There are so many kids out there that need good homes already.
That kind of tyrannical entitlement wouldn’t be financially feasible if it weren’t for the fact landlords stand to lose nothing by excluding any tenants they arbitrarily deem undesirable (with few exceptions) even if it leaves properties vacant.
Its just so tiresome that the government constantly prioritize businesses and their money over public safety. It should be illegal for these corporations to lobby or donate to campaigns/public officials..
It’s not the government it’s our elected officials. We see what happens when you vote in anti business politicians.
Don’t blame the government, blame the voters in the states that voted for this
@@supergamergrill7734 No. Regardless of political party, a person elected to serve in the best interest of the people, at the VERY LEAST they should not be able to profit or be swayed by personal gains. Some things shouldn't be left to moral character and should just be a law so there's none of this BS.
@@abookishmess But the people ELECTED them, it’s like saying you want Hot spicy pepper as a dipping for your fries, even though everyone, even the person serving that dipping sauce. Telling you it’s too spicy and will lead to major cramps.
And you still go through with it and blame the establishment.
We are a democracy and by voting, we vote for the person who we think is in their best interest. If the voters think their best interest is to enforce taco Tuesday and free tacos for everyone and someone gets elected to that position because they said they would follow that plan..
You partially blame the politicians but that doesn’t mean the fault doesn’t lie on the voters. They want deregulations and now it’s coming to bite them in the ass.
We aren’t in a benevolent dictatorship nor technocracy where a person or council votes to improve the lives of the people. I say again, we are a democracy. The majority who voted for will get what they elected politicians to do. They represent us, not hold our hand.
That’s why it’s important to vote.
@@abookishmess No, in a republic or democracy. The voters vote for someone they Think serves their best interests.
That’s why there’s a divide in politics in every democracy since every party thinks their way is the best. If the voters vote for lower gas prices but also don’t want to pay for more fuel efficient cars. The elected officials job is to do what he voted for. So he is gonna increase fuel production and produce more co2 its the job of the voter to be informed and vote for their candidate
Dont you just love out system of legal bribery
My apartment is no sex regardless of a lease.
I don't have sex by choice, just not mine.
Damn, that's tough, homie. Thoughts and prayers. 😂
jokes aside, i'm asexual and even i find that shit fucking grotesque. stay out of people's pants unless you're gonna suck the fuckin' thing
@@b0t123AYO 🤨
@@BringBackCyParkVendingMachinesnah nah let bro cook
I cant believe i live in a timeline where cells in icecubes are considered children
And biological men think they're women and compete in female sports. Crazy world, indeed.
It’s all about control.
Getting to decide if someone can use your body to survive? Republicans have never heard of it, now hand over that heart a rich campaign donor needs it more than you do
@@nellier3468 True that even control mennot just the women try to be a quirky guy or a gousehusband they'll hate you for not fitting a standard they want all men to have
Next step, ejaculation = murder
My first home we had a water line break. Our landlords made us call plumbers and pay for them because they were certain it was our fault for "flushing tampons down the toilet." My roommate and I didnt even have periods while we lived there. Once the plumber told them that water line broke, they had people come out to fix it, leaving our entire backyard torn up and a muddy mess. They refused to fix it as to them it was just a few patches, no matter how many photos we sent showing them otherwise. At the time, my roommate worked for a man that was in business with a real-estate lawyer. We drafted up an official complaint including rhe laws they were breaking and threats to sue. They fixed it the next day. Years later, saw the male landlord on the news. He had been arrested for molesting young girls as their gymnastics coach for decades. He was killed in prison.
A happy ending to his outcome, indeed.
And what did we learn?
😮 I call that karma.
Plumber fix water lines land scapers fix the land. The plumber should do his best job trying to fill the land back up with what's left. And take his time trying to save the patches of grass.. but that's it
That turned way uglier than I expected.
Regarding the kid getting punished for the prank: I was an RA in my dorms at college, the director would tell us to hold students responsible because THEY ARE ADULTS NOW, he would tell a story of some freshman who threw a soup can out of the dorms at a passing car. Well the passing car was a cop who immediately pulled into the dorms the staff searched and found the students and they both got prison time for attempted manslaughter (traffic laws in California are no joke). And all the directors could do was shrug as the students were cuffed and taken for booking from their parents
LA must be the exception.
I have friends in Alabama who have been having a hard time conceiving, and were so excited that they were going to be able to finally get help, only to be told now that their appointment has been canceled and won't be rescheduled thanks to this new ruling. They've been wanting children for years; they saved for years and slaved away at soul eating jobs to save the money to afford IVF and now that little glimmer of hope has been stolen from them. They're absolutely devastated, and it's absolutely atrocious that the courts can make such a ruling based on religious dogma and belief rather than fact, law, and science.
Almost like religion and state should be separate
I'm sorry for your friends' loss of a family. Perhaps it's time to take that money and move.
This has nothing to do with the Alabama ruling but not all ivf endeavors make babies. My wife and I spent nearly 20k in just getting the embryos made and then from all of the medications she had a stroke, is disabled for life, and now will never carry a child. We have 4 frozen embryos that will stay that way forever and it's a path we wish we had never gone down. I wish them the best of luck, I really do.
@@yannyyansen9743 Except it's literally happening....?
I feel for them, but also they should consider adopting. There’s thousands of children in the system that need a loving home and they’re already here.
its so infuriating watching people makes laws about things they know nothing about and that they just refuse to learn. its sickening
And not a single person protests against them. It's almost like you guys are letting it happen on purpose just to virtue signal online
@@Dave_of_Mordor haven't been paying attention have to you? Women around the country are suing because of these reproductive laws. Nice virtue signalling Kettle.
@@Dave_of_Mordorclassic Amerikkkans, cry and whine but never actually get anything done while they take it up the bum from their politicians lmao
@@Dave_of_Mordor Have you been watching?? There are hundreds if not thousands of protests a year. Doesn't help that most of the time cops start tear gassing/arresting/rubber bullet shooting people despite being peaceful protests and most people are living paycheck to paycheck so a lot of them will be fired or go hungry if they miss even one shift to protest.
Do not shame the victims. Shame the government and do what you can to help
You sound very intelligent and informed.
worst rent experience, I lived with my landlord’s mum, she lived in an extension to the house which had its own front door, kitchen, bedroom, garden, etc. but there were doors connecting the two houses that were no longer in use. I woke up one morning when she went on holiday for a long weekend and I smelt gas. I checked all around the house and it wasn’t coming from our side so I knew it was coming from her extension. Since she wasn’t in and we didn’t have keys we had to get a locksmith who unlocked her front door. We found not 1, not 2, not 3 but all 4 hobs on full blast and there was a towel down in front of the backdoor to her garden. So… I think she tried to kill us?
I feel like anyone can dismiss one burner being on, but all four? She was absolutely planning to kill someone. Did you report it to the cops?
Gas leak related accidents are always brutal, sometimes lethal. I am glad you guys found out and got rid of the problem safely.
Should have called the fire department. They take those things very seriously and would have rushed there.
Had a landlord who admitted he entered without premission to access his coldroom. Really felt uncomfortable knowing a stranger can just access the place you lived
That’s illegal, if you are in the US you have a good suit.
If it’s the US they have to give you notice.
“You ruined my life by making me face consequences for my shitty actions 😭”
dont for get about his shitty parents ---> "social media"
& its annoying cause you know his dumbass will be fine in the long run. he's being dramatic, but he'll just go to another expensive private school.
He’s a white Australian private school boy. He’s going to take it 100% the correct way. Mhmm. Ofc yep.
He’s going to get what he deserves. Mhmm ofc yep
Oh nooooo.... The consequences of my actions!
*Senator Armstrong:*
_"Cancel Culture strikes again!!"_
On SCOTUS - I'm so overwhelmed by the constant stream of life and world changing decisions made by people who seem to have utterly horrible goals that I can't take it, Phil. I'm starting to want to become ignorant because then I can live the few years we have left happily.
why do we only have a few years left?
#DefyTheSupremeCourt! The court has no power to enforce its rulings! So we should begin ignoring their rulings can carrying on how it has been for years!
@@3p1cand3rs0n- It’s called climate change. You may have heard of it. Capitalism is going to kill us all.
@@3p1cand3rs0n- It’s called climate change. You might have heard of it. Capitalism is going to kill us all.
@@3p1cand3rs0n- It’s called climate change. You might have heard of it. Capitalism is going to kill us all. (3rd attempt to post this comment, thanks CZcams)
Hoo boy, I'm a relocation specialist for insurance companies, meaning I work with policyholders and landlords to coordinate short term leases while the family is out of their homes. I have SO MANY stories of absolutely wild landlords/property managers. My most recent favorite is a lady near Seattle who was trying to pass off her 3 bed/2bath townhome as being worth $12,500/month. The family wanted an option like that so I tried negotiating her down to $8k (market rate for the area) and she refused. She started blowing up my phone and email saying that another family was offering to take it for $17k/month (for a 12 month lease!) and that she would be willing to work with us for $14k now. I let her sit and didn't respond for 30 minutes when all of a sudden she comes back to say $8k is fine. Folks, landlords will try to swindle you every chance they get. If they ever say someone else is willing to pay more, call them on their bluff.
Regulations are written in blood. These things aren't put into law on a whim, they're put into law because the issues they were meant to fix were impacting people and the environment. But they don't care, corporations spend a lot of money to sway the judge's minds. Which is ironic to me, they'd rather spend however many millions to sway the minds of a judge versus the relatively minor profit loss they'd experience if they just cleaned up their act.
you got it all wrong, the judge end up infinitely cheaper.
They stand to profit so much more if they can make sure that those regulations are never written again
Regulations are written in blood. They can be rewritten too. Any method should be on the table at this point in the minds of the American public
They don’t sway the judges minds, they buy their vote. Moral-less judges have no place in our judicial system but they’re everywhere. We need to end lobbying
Last month we had a cold snap in Kansas.
I rent a home and my pipes froze and broke, damaging my water heater.
This morning, when i texted my landlord to replace my broken 70 year old windows that no longer close, he said that he was pretty upset to learn that i didn't try to prevent the water pipes from freezing last month.
I said, they shouldn't have put our water heater inside of our ghetto, uninsulated, attached garage. The temperature outside of the house is always the same temperature inside the garage. It's uninsulated....
My landlord said that I'm lucky that they aren't pursuing damages against me.
I've lived here, renting, for ten years. I did the math, and I've paid them about $87,000 For my house, which, according to zillow is only worth $70,000.
I'm so sick of landlords seeing us as a nuisance, when they literally just sit on their ass collecting our hard-earned money, for what, owning a home? They don't mow my yard, they don't rake my leaves, when the city wants me to move a brush pile from 10 years of storm debris, I figure it out on my own.
Land lords are a leech on our society, doing nothing and still complaining.
@@GunCareHealthControl huh?
People with disabilities are kept in poverty and dependence by a broken system. I work with people with disabilities and the most depressing part of my job is meeting people who are 70 years old, have multiple severely limiting disabilities, who are looking for A JOB because if they don't make a certain amount per month, they get FINED from their social security fund. As if that wasn't bad or ridiculous enough, they also LOOSE their social security money if they make TOO MUCH, and by too much that means not even enough to not be considered in the POVERTY bracket... which is also set wayyy too low.
My brother loss his Social Secruity due to making too much. He works at cook/server in assisted living facility and he work talked him into working overtime during covid and the worker shortages. He has a learning disablility, but even someone with out a learning disability would of had a hard time saying no. Co workers were jumping ship or coming dow sick, and the people he served were coming down sick or dying. I 100% belive his work took advcage of him and shouldn't of even been able to ask him to work more and there might be resources out there to get his Social Securtiy back. He doesn't want to even try because he a single father who tired of dealing with the broken system. They like to over pay you, than have you pay the money back. He owe them around another 2K that he has on a payment plan.
I have disability and I'm not allowed to have $2,000 in my bank account.
Thank you for the work you do to help people like me. We need all the help we can get navigating a system intentionally created to hurt us.
@@feliciapease3912 I had the same thing happen to me but because I also was getting a review of my disability status, they took my whole monthly benefits multiple months, leading me to put myself into debt having to use a credit card to pay my rent and other bills that I'm still struggling with.
sad to see it's like that in other countries. if only they could go for the billions in unpaid taxes in fiscal paradises instead of a few millions in alleged disability fraud.
anyway, basic universal income for everybody ftw
The whole Supreme Court issues... they give me nightmares. I really don't think most of America realizes what is about to go down or the incredible amount of power those people wield.
Not just incredible, but also completely limitless barring congressional impeachment and subsequent removal from office, which has never happened.
Heres my bad renting story!
My first apartment was only about 400 square feet, with a very tiny kitchen, and a large closet that we smooshed a full sized mattress into. We lived on the 5th floor, the view was good though and the rent was cheap. About 2 years into living there, a friend on the 3rd floor mentioned that someone got evicted from the 3rd floor and that the apartment they left was disgusting. There were literal whispers that there were bedbugs in said apartment. Nobody knew for sure. Then, 3 weeks later, we heard from someone on the 6th floor that they heard there were bed bugs. No official word from management and no idea how to protect ourselves from getting infested. It was at least another 2 months before we finally got a note on our door telling us that our apartment would be subject to treatment for bedbugs on a specific day that week. Our friends who lived on the 4th floor, had their apartment treated a few days before us. And thats when we started to see them. 🤢
The thing is.. when an apartment complex gets bedbugs you have to act FAST and you have to treat the entire building simultaneously, preferably with intense heat. The owners of this building are cheap bastards though. They gave our lone maintenance man industrial chemicals and it was up to him to spray each apartment. Meaning they went systematically, only doing a few rooms each day. This causes the bedbugs to simply run away from the chemicals and hide within the walls. The chemicals wear off after 2 weeks, at which time the bugs come back to the places which are "safe" and feed on whoever is available. The chemicals also are largely ineffective, and do not kill all bedbugs. You can treat in this manner nearly indefinitely and it will still not work because the disgusting things can survive 18 months without eating. They just go dormant.
We lived out of plastic boxes and bags in a chemically treated apartment with minimal furniture for 8 months and the bugs would not go away. We threw away our couch. Moving was a HUGE hastle. We had to pay for both apartments for overlapping months in order meticulously move all of our stuff without transfering bed bugs to a new building. The manager at the new building almost didnt let us move in because he had heard about the bedbugs, and he required a full outline of our plan. We pre-treated our new apartment with chemicals and silica gell to prevent any lone bedbugs from getting out and propagating if they did come over in the move. We continued to deep clean our stuff with steam and treat our new apartment in paranoia for a year after moving.
The old apartment though? Well they had the audacity to charge us every possible penny they could make up, out of our security deposit. We left the apartment cleaner than when we moved in, but they still charged us for things like dusting the blinds and sweeping under the fridge. Its been about 8 Years after moving out of that building- theyre charging more than double what we paid and last I saw the reviews say it STILL has a bedbug problem.🙃
Holy shit, can't you sue them for that???
If an Australian student is going to a $40,000 a year school, they're detached from actual Australian society. There's a massive class divide here, and that child is also a result of the handful of obscenely rich here. Can guarantee that kid has parents with multiple investment properties and will unironically spout the term "dole-bludgers"
he’s from melbourne but same thing applies 🫠
I gotta look up that term, no idea what it means but it sounds fun to say
@@SeerWalker My bad, edited, saw that it happened in Southbank and thought it was Brisbane.
Haha, so it basically means what I call in the states "professional potatoes" or "couch surfers" nice, imma use that one day, thx
@@therickroller2358 to be 'on the dole' is to be using Australia's frankly awesome social welfare system. Think unemployment, disability, etc.
A bludger is a lazy good-for-nothing. Basically like the term "welfare queen" in the US.
Been married to an Aussie and living here for almost a decade and one of the greatest aspects to this day is the hilarious slang I am exposed to.
I live in the UK and have never heard of this :O I once singed a tenancy that said the landlord could evict me if he had no communication with me within 24 hours, I happily signed it knowing that that clause was illegal and he had no power to enforce it, when that did go to court the judge actually laughed at him and called him a fool
Thank you for saying this! I was about to go on a rant about unenforceable clauses. Obviously a landlord can still use section 21 if you're outside of the fixed term without giving a reason, but actually trying to rely specifically on a clause like that to evict a tenant (say under section 8) would be ridiculous.
I was looking to see what my rental options are and I came across a rental which requested "quiet single female, no overnight guests, must be humble". I feel like that landlord needs to be investigated because wth.
My worst landlord used my disability to force me to leave.
Details: I have a mobility impairment. When I first moved into my duplex, the place didn't have a ramp, but I was promised a dirt path off to the side. That was fine for me. Literally, for years, they would drive over the pathway every year (to compact the soil). It took them all of 10 minutes per year.
They sold the complex to a new company.
When it was time to compact the dirt path, they instead put a barrier of sod so that I couldn't get through. I complained. They insisted that it was an essential part of improving the aesthetics of the complex. Which was COMPLETE bs, because my half of the duplex was the ONLY one with the barrier. I talked to a lawyer and was basically told that, because it wasn't in the contract & the state I was in didn't have any specific laws, I couldn't do anything.
I later found out that they forced a bunch of people out in various ways (each targeted to that tenant) because they had raised the rent on the units & could get more money from new tenants than they got from us.
"im just a kid, you ruined my life" = battle cry of the spoiled brat whose parents have failed them.
Its not always the parent’s fault
@joc2150 I have 4 kids. 3 boys and a girl and they all know they better behave in public or will lose all their fun stuff until I decide its time to give it back.. thats if I remember where I put it. 😊 and my youngest is now 16 and very well behaved like the rest. It is on the parents to correct actions before they get to this point.
@@joc2150 It's exclusively the parents fault if a child has grown up so spoiled and privileged that they think they shouldn't be met with consequences for harassing and assaulting a group of women.
@@joc2150 Totally agree, some of these kids are just straight out demons 🤣
@@joc2150
Outside of children with chemical imbalances and the like, most behavior is upstream of their parents' action or inaction.
That's not to say it's easy or that there aren't the occasional children from hell that genuinely refuse to learn any earnestly taught lessons, but they are a pretty far outlier.
The last story actually terrifies me. Now is the time where enviromental protections are needed and even needed to be strengthend to avoid a catastrophic future we're already heading towards. I am not a religious man but I pray and will pray that the courts uphold the old federal case. I am genuinely so scared.
The US is on a precipice. Republicans are trying to shove their own country over the edge to line their own pockets and have been working on this for decades.
Same, I swear the time when these wackos finally learn is not when there’s nothing left to sell and no one left to buy is but when they’ll have to eat their own money and discover that paper doesn’t taste good
Crazy terrifying…
Your prayers will fall on deaf ears; do not pray, DO, because if you do not do something then no one will
All prayer is good for is passing on the responsibility to someone else and hoping they do something about it in your place
@@ninjablade2 And what is he supposed to do?
I had a roommate who did not contribute financially and I had to pay rent myself or I would be evicted too. It wasn’t until my now husband said “this isn’t normal and you can kick them out” did I realize how messed up it was
My rental story has to do with myself and my dad. My dad's a retired Navy veteran, served during Vietnam. He's provided for me and frankly went above and beyond. When we rented out a home, I paid half he paid half.
Landlord was putting so much pressure on my dad he didn't even eat he was so anxious. This woman wanted us out of the home before Christmas, uprooting our entire lives just because of her weird and specific demands.
We did end up getting a home, but my dad was severely depressed over it. He thought he was a failure. He's not. It got a point where we had moved everything but odds and ends from the old home to the new one where he was so damned tired. He didn't have a place to sleep and he's near 80 years of age.
So I took him to a hotel nearby to sleep for the night. I told him I'd take care of him, because if his dad (my grandpa) had let either of us sleep on a cold floor he'd have both our asses.
That woman didn't even fix the problems with our old house before selling it to some poor soul.
If IVF providers decide to leave the state with the embryos is that kidnapping now? Can they drop them off at their nearest fire station or hospital like an abandoned child? It seems like a really insane situation that came out of nowhere.
technically, yes. but the feds wont go after them.
Yeah, if these IVF clinics shut-down do they have to keep the embryos alive forever? If not what do they do with them give the eggs back to parents? How far will this go…
Yeah, if these IVF clinics shut-down do they have to keep the embryos alive forever? If not what do they do with them give the eggs back to parents? How far will this go…
Oh and can a mother file for child support for embryos now?
@@cerebrumexcrementyeah until they do. That's never a good statement
“I’m just a kid.” You aren’t five years old. At 16, you should know wrong from right. Or at least, don’t be rude.
Yeah like the thing he did genuinely sounds like something a toddler would do
The final story was an amazing piece of journalism. Keep fighting the good fight, Phil ✊
I'm from the UK and had a landlord charge us for an overnight guest. We weren't allowed anyone around for more than 2 days at a time. We had to okay it with him before, if not we were charged.
We rolled the dice thinking how would he ever know but he had the neighbors keeping an eye out and reporting back. We then found him sat outside in his car watching the house...
This land lord was also terrible he tried to get cameras put in during our tenancy inside the house and outside, but that's another story moved out as soon as we could.
For reference this was an older guy at deaths door so probably a little senile but still it wasn't on. We had to get legal letters drafted to stop him.
That landlord sounds very scary. I’m glad you left
When judges get to make decisions on regulatory compliance without any knowledge of the subject, I picture someone in a black rob with long gray curly hair wearing a hard hat holding a clipboard saying," I don't know how to do your job, but my book says you're doing it wrong. "
They don't care. They want to force their ideology on us since no one will hold them accountable for their actions. It's the Conservative ways of doing things, they don't care about repercussions of their actions as long as they have the moral victory circlejerk.
I agree as if a judge is an expert in medicine, accounting, mechanics, engineering, computer software, marketing, agriculture, construction and much much more....
Absolutely ludicrous and very dangerous.
I guess the USA would become the United Supreme Court because legislation would mean nothing. The highest court would just decide how they feel about it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️
Rented a house. The front doorknob never worked. While working from home, on a 15 min break, i went out back to have a smoke. That doorknob breaks. I cant get into the house. Get a ladder and climb thru the 2nd story window thats unlocked.y landlord wanted me and my wife to climb thru a window for 3 days. After explaining that i had dogs, that would likely destroy the windowsill, we had a maintenance that day. Put a used knob on 1 door. Never fixed the front door. This pushed us to buy a house years earlier than we had planned. Turned out to be the best decision we ever made.
My funny (in hindsight) landlord story was when I was in college and rented a tiny one bedroom furnished apartment with my girlfriend. After we spent a week cleaning the apartment we got a ton of bogus vague charges like cleaning, new furniture, etc. So I called up this lady to ask her what's going on with this, and I wanted an itemized list of these charges. She somehow assumed I was my own father (who she never has encountered as he lived 900 miles away) and was explaining to me how bad we were as tenants with just a bunch of lies. When I started to push back she explained that I didn't know because I wasn't there... then I informed her I was her tenant which of course changed her tune to being extremely rude. When we got the itemized list weeks after it was legally due it was stuff like dust above the top of the mirror in the bathroom, new sheets because they were too dirty to use again (first thing we did was buy our own mattress cover and sheets instead of using theirs...), and because we actually forgot our silverware in the drawer among other BS. But it did decrease from $800 to just $200 so instead of fighting it we just let her keep $200 from the deposit, but I wish I wasn't a broke student at the time because I would have fought even harder.
My worst landlord experience was when an outlet in my bedroom went out. Unfortunately the heater that came with the apartment was fixed to the wall and needed to be plugged into the outlet. I had no heat in my bedroom in late January. I could literally see my breath when laying in bed. They refused to come and fix it, telling me an electrician wasn’t available for a month. After a full month of no heat during a Midwest winter I asked for a rent reduction which they refused. I had to call a city inspector to come out and when he did they very promptly sent over an “electrician” aka a family friend. I had already left for work that morning when they texted me and told me he was going to be coming over (no 24hr notice) so I didn’t have time to clean. Their friend stole a pair of underwear off my floor 😭 when I called the landlord to tell her about it she accused me of lying because I didn’t get a rental reduction.
Oh I bet even if you could prove it the police won’t help either. Different underwear stollen story but same result.
I love how landlords think they can tell people to not have sex in the apartments they’re paying for 😂
The joys of not owning anything and being happy about it.
What is with some of these landlords trying to control people's lives? It over steps boundaries.
If they don't want sex in their rentals, then they should only rent to nuns or not have rentals.
@@kingofhearts3185You misspelled a few words there. "The joys of being unable to afford anything other than renting, while forced to be grateful for just having a place to live." There you go. Fixed it for you.
@@kingofhearts3185i don't think most people r happy about being unable to own anything.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404weed I can kinda understand. The smell lingers and sinks into everything and over time it becomes saturated. But if a window is open then I don't see the problem
On SCOTUS, im starting to become really tired of living through major historical events and hearing the word unprecedented everytime i open watch the news when it comes to our Supreme Court. Ive never been so tempted to apply for asylum somewhere else in the world
Do it then, what's stopping you?
Or you can stay in this country and get your fellow Americans to vote for state officials that will start the constitutional amendment process to fix these problems. Or just vote for a President that will appoint more left leaning judges. We were able to put one liberal judge on the Supreme Court last year, because concerned citizens voted. Stop running away from the problem. Do the most important job as a citizen - vote!
The truth of the matter is everything nowadays is "unprecedented" because that gets clicks. The supreme court doing their job is being seen as some insane recent act of power when its not changed for 200 years
@aidanquiett668 it's not so much them doing their job as the Court you have now going off the rails ...
@@blackellegirl stop with this left/right foolishness and think about the advancement of the country as a whole. There's some right concepts that are good and some left ones that are also good, our forefathers and the politicians of old understood this but social media and corporate backed politicians came and fucked everything up
i once considered getting my eggs frozen but decided the risk of things going wrong was too gross despite how rare that would be. now it feels like i dodged a bullet. not being allowed to tell them to destroy my biological material is even grosser than anything i was fearing.
do you mean something going wrong with the extraction process or is there another risky aspect?
I once lived in an apartment that was cooled by a chiller system in the Midwest. I was on the top (4th) floor and I was convinced that all of the summer heat rose to the top and the "AC" effectively didn't work. The vents blew out hot air and my place often got up to 85F in the summers. My landlord refused to do anything about it - no compensation, no promise to fix/improve the system, wouldn't even give me box fans or window AC units which I knew they provided to tenants in other apartments they own. I left after a year, and although I know others face much worse temperature conditions than I do, that was approaching unlivable and I refused to waste my money with them.
My rental nightmare was when i was moving out of my apartment to my current house. Someone was firing a gun drunk as hell and went through my door and hit my kitchen wall. The landlords said i was liable for that. Cops got involved cuz 6 other ppl bitched at one of them for trying to make us liable for it.
I'm disabled and on SSI and Medicaid, and by proxy my family receives SNAP/EBT and are also covered by my Medicaid because my husband has to care for me and can't work. If SCOTUS flips that Chevron ruling.... We're screwed. My family is screwed. I'm screwed. I'll have nothing left to work with and my family would be better off without my burden... god this is absolutely soul killing.
We need to organize, spread the word
Gotta fund Ukraine and Israel somehow. They love their wars.
@@Joseph52093 so what was the excuse before that?
@@christyrodrigue6628 Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea. Israel and Ukraine are just the most recent and fresh money laundering wars.
Same. I just don’t understand why so much evil and bad is happening to us. This is so wrong. We are losing all our rights and protections everyday. I don’t know how much more I can take.
Chevron v. NRDC was litigated by the Reagan Administration (in 1984) and chiefly pushed by Anne McGill Gorsuch, SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch’s mother, who was Reagan's first EPA Administrator. It was a unanimous decision (conservatives and liberals) with the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Chevron Deference giving federal agencies the latitude to make rules enforcing Congressional laws dealing with their agencies. But now that Cons have a 6 to 3 majority and likely will have a majority for decades to come, Cons want to give the SCOTUS the last word in setting policy.
Hey Phil. At the end of January, I became homeless again because after moving into a new spot at the beginning of the year, my landlord/roommate began harassing me for additional rent and justified it through a clause she amended that allowed her to charge additional fees of her choice for “utility infrastructure upkeep”. The straw was when she and her friend literally switched out the front doorknob and texted me to pay her $2000 to get my items when I walked down the street to get a freaking breakfast sandwich. I ended up having to call the police to let me in, which I was afraid to do considering someone called the cops on me when i was moving in November and the cops seized everything i own in the uhaul i was driving because (for some reason) that is indeed Also legal where I live. I am living in a motel right now and run out of my savings in 5 days or less; i tried shelters but neither mens nor women’s shelters would accept me because i am gender noncomforming.
Looking forward to hearing your choice words for these people who take advantage of others - people who could have my situation or vice versa in a universe very close to this one..
As someone who works in the solid waste industry and has plenty of critique of how there aren't enough laws/enforcement of them, this is absolutely terrifying to hear about the potential supreme court regulation. There are already too many people without the proper scientific backgrounds making decisions requiring scientific knowledge- we absolutely do not need the judges doing this.
No matter what happens nobody you elect will ever get to change the law. If the Supreme Court gets what they want and unelected judge will get to do the changing. If it stays the way it currently is it is done by a bureaucrat that you also don’t get to vote for. And as we have seen in the past voting for the people who pick them really isn’t a good solution or very much more democratic. Because politicians are never going to do what you put them in there to do only what Other rich people want them to do. American democracy is a farce and a failed project
They're gonna shoehorn their way into it though, it seems. Vile tbf. I'm completely with you on this matter
yes, the answer is always more government reach..... open up a history book please.... last time we gave a gave a government al the power was only 80 years ago.....
@@rogerelzenga4465yes because letting corporations self regulate things that cost them money has worked well in the past...
There are plenty of negative things to say about the government but if you genuinely think letting a capitalist market self regulate anything related to environmental/safety that costs money then you really are delusional beyond the point of being saved.
@@rogerelzenga4465what does that have to do with putting people who know what the fuck their on about in charge of deciding these laws
I've known kids like that Australian teen. Not a single one of them ever learned their lesson, and they genuinely test my theory that all human beings have at least some good in them.
We do. But it’s *how we are raised & taught* that affects us mentally.
I had a neighbor who had 3 children. One was a monster. My husband stopped him once when he was chasing 2 girls with a gas can and a bic lighter. The parents just ignored it. He was finally removed from the regular school (not for that reason) and sent to the school for the last damned. He was picked up each day in a Lincoln Continental. He ended up in prison. We were thrilled when they moved. He came back to the neighborhood to brag about prison, and totaling a vehicle, and severely injuring the passenger. The internet confirmed his stories. Meanwhile, his ignored older brother was the nicest boy you can imagine. His "dad" didn't want to listen when he came home after pitching a no hit baseball game. We, the neighbors, wanted to hear. Sad.
I live in Ontario Canada and there are a lot of tenancy rights in law that protect us, like certain lease clauses being unenforceable despite both LL and TT signing. The problem is that a lot of LLs are either unaware of and/or blatantly disregard the actual responsibilities it takes to be a LL and often prey on international students or other naive tenants who wouldn’t know their rights. This also hasn’t helped with the crap housing market where LLs who took a risky investment in properties since 2020 are now facing incredibly high mortgage prices that they pawn off to their tenants despite illegally raising rental prices by the astronomical amounts (I’m talking $1200/month to upwards of $3000/month often with less than 2 months notice). My last landlord, though having the intent to move into the property after our lease, did a lot of illegal things like use up our co-tenants’ livable space as storage, and turning off our water and installing outdoor security cams without telling us, even being on the property without any notice, and so much more. All because they, like the UK LL, felt entitled that “it’s still my property”. Like no, the mortgage may be under your name but for as long as you’re renting it out, it’s the tenants’ property/home.
If I pull nothing else...it will be the new smack talk...'You think it's the shit? It's not even the fart." - Philip DeFranco 2024 All jokes aside thank you for these and many other moments amid your delivery of news. I watch you daily, and have for over 10 years now I want to say and not only do I value your channel for news, but also for comfort, for nostalgia. Without sounding creepy, lol, you've pretty much become a fixture in my mornings and I just want to genuinely thank you for doing this, and continuing to build and grow.
"You think it's the shit? It's not even the fart!"
Own that line bro it's a goodin
This is actually in an icespice song surprisingly
Ice spice reference
The idea that SCOTUS could and would willing overturn Chevron is a chilling thought. Especially with overwhelming impact it would have across the board. To realize the reason isn't that there's something wrong with it but because of greed and power. It truly the most pathetic part of it. It shows how truly little conservative politicians, SCOTUS and Republicans care about Americans. It's insane to that SCOTUS would even consider such a thing but unfortunately I felt the same about Roe v Wade we all know what happened with that.
Vote Republicans out! Otherwise, we are completely doomed.
@@blackellegirlYup. Don’t get me wrong Democrats do have some issues, but fuck me republicans make it so damn easy to disregard them.
Swftiz have brndmg
I’m excited to see it 🥰
I do NOT an unqualified judge issuing a ruling on nuclear waste disposal or drug regulation. Leave it to the experts
I'm American and looking for an apartment a couple years ago, the rental agreement pushed me from a pretty decent house. No overnight stay rules was the weirdest, but also had strict rules on people visiting at all, on when to mow the lawn... I could tell it would be miserable dealing with this landlord.
I've had nerve damage in my left arm for 15+ years now. I've been unemployed for 4 years because my arm will stop working or I'll have chest pain that takes me down to the ground.
I have so many collections accounts from hospitals/doctor offices. I was kicked out of a clinic when I could barely stand and my father had to help me walk. "You owe us some money that has a warning not to serve you." Something like that.
When the collections agencies call they say "can you borrow money from your family or friends?"
"I already moved back in with my parents."
"Can they loan you money? Your credit score is going to be affected if you don't take action."
When I tried to get on disability I was told because I don't use a two-handed walker I can find something.
I told her I can't use one arm so of course I can't use a two handed anything.
I was told it didn't matter what the excuse was, I could get a job as a receptionist since one arm works.
Disability in this country is a joke. I’ve had brain cancer for seven years (after initial surgery on a tennis ball sized tumor) and they told me I can’t receive disability unless I get brain surgery AGAIN because they need a biopsy. And my own conservative parents still think it’s only used by scammers to leech off the government. Smh.
The scotus chevron case is wild. I've been told all my life that america is democratic, and that the peoples vote matters. And yet as time goes on it only seems to backslide farther and farther away from that.
What a time to be alive.
Your 2A is precisely for this exact situation, do something about it then. You have the literal right to
thats actually first amendment, 2a is different.
Besides go and do what is essentially a domestic terrorism on the government and see how much they like it. @@frankcaggiano8282
Well, unfortunately, most people in this country don’t vote and the ones that do, very consistently, are conservatives. That’s why you have the courts you have now.
part of the reason we have such a bad turnout is because voting is such a nightmare. Politics is so much fun. @@blackellegirl
@@blackellegirl So, in the past 20 years since Bush no republican president has won the popular vote for their first time in office. While gerrymandering happens on both sides it tends to be Republican states that use gerrymandering to keep control, this is through data, and examples like Wisconsin where 66 of 99 seats a republican while only 50+% vote Democrat. Currently the super majority is the supreme court can be found from Mitch McConnel and him not allowing Obama to put in a supreme court justice in his last 6 months while allowing Trump to place in someone in his last month, giving the party 2 seats, instead of just one.
My story - Lived on the third floor of a four floor building. One night a TON of water starting to pour through the ceiling above my bedroom door. Called emergency maintenance, who didn't come until the next day when it wasn't pouring anymore just leaking down the wall. He sprayed some anti-mildew on the ceiling and left. No one even bothered to turn off the water to the unit above me until I called the front office during office hours to let them know water was leaking out of my outlets. Two days after it started.
My daughters are teenagers now, when my youngest one was a newborn, I lived in an apartment on the second floor. We had people upstairs above us. They were two bedroom apartments, and the people who lived above us were cheerleaders, two guys and two girls sharing a four bedroom. That’s no problem, but they liked to get drunk and practice their routines all night long on the weekends, I almost went to jail because I tried to kick their door in one night when neither the apartment complex nor the police would do anything at all about it. I didn’t actually go in, but I was kicking the shit out of their door until they opened it at three in the morning after waking my baby up for the hundredth time, and I had to go to work in an hour.
In re: Taylor Swift merch, I can add my voice to the number of people in the fandom that have been complaining about a significant drop in the quality of merch since she signed with UMG (who, as I understand it, require artists to use their in house merch teams. Not only has the quality gone down on the actual items (flimsy fabric, weak seams, misprinted graphics) but the designs themselves have gotten way worse. Plus, the transparency around where the merch is made has vanished since it was brought under control of UMG. What sucks is that newer fans may not even realize that they're getting a sub-par product and would be less likely to join a boycott even though they deserve a better experience. It's a niche problem but with the level of focus on Taylor right now it could be an interesting view on how fandom can or cannot influence large business decisions.
Banning sex… BANNING SEX!? Does this also mean self-pleasure is banned?? I remember hearing a story on Reddit about a girl who ran out her roommate because she was uncomfortable with having the boyfriend over, but the sex thing screams of those laws that have been passed that bans anal sex. That’s toeing the line of human rights abuses.
Masturbation is already a sin in the eyes of the religious wackjobs.
The myth of consent:
Adult 1: “I consent”
Adult 2: “I consent”
Landlord: “I don’t”
Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?
No. I have a sex ban because I don't want to listen to it, self pleasure isn't as noisy.
These landlords are loser who want to control women also the generation that have the most sex are the boomer the younger gen aren't having them as much and most women are doing only fans or pronhub stuff same with men and the boomer want us to age more kids when they made it very difficult to have them it's all so pathetic
Wait so do I have to turn the volume down?
I work in Cyber security for the USAF. Thinking of the HUNDREDS of directives instructions and manuals that the department of defense has issued just in my small area of expertise it is absolutely terrifying what overturning the Chevron doctrine would do for national security alone.
the first place i rented in a college town was a bedroom in a big unkempt seven bedroom house. i never saw the actual property manager in person, as he lived in san francisco (BIG red flag), had a local guy show me around instead. it wasn't clean, there was still trash and a whole ass bike in my room. he told us there is only one meter in the whole house (didn't think this was an issue) and that everyone has to agree on who will collect the money for the electric bill and have it under their name. keep in mind, every room could be rented to a random student, so we were all complete strangers. surprise surprise, the girl that agreed to collect ended up keeping all of the money we sent her and left us without power for more than a week in fucking December. never got my security deposit back after i moved out. moral of the story, there are some sharks you have to look out for when you're renting. also had a roommate who kept stealing my food out of our fridge.
As a swiftie, one of my big complaints is the different album versions she's releasing for her new record. Each edition has 1 unique song and I think that is outrageously greedy because she knows her fans will buy it. Just put the songs on the album instead of making people by multiple versions of your record in order to get all the songs. It's a gross tactic IMO.
but she is also releasing it ,right?
In my state the landlord can just choose to not renew your lease, thus effectively kicking you out. No reason is needed. This happened to every resident in my 24 plex building over one year after a new rental company took over management. There is nothing you can do. Unless you are wealthy enough to afford a legal battle, or educated enough in the laws to do it yourself you are always at the mercy of whomever you are renting from. Renting companies are also getting much larger so you are dealing with a gigantic company making it more difficult to find reason and common sense.
Also it becomes difficult to actually talk to a "landlord" because once it goes through a large company; the name of the owner of the building is safe guarded so you can't have a conversation or send an email, and finding the correct email to send a message to can get you evicted in many cases. its wild.
Why tf are we capitulating to these scumbags in the first place
I do year contract with my 1 (house) rental. They are refugees and I get paid by the govt for them. It's has its good and bad. If I don't renew the year contract it then becomes a periodic tenancy and I could then kick them out any time. But the year contract does mean we both have to see out the year. (Unless shit when real bad and I had to find ways to get rid of them)
Having "have sex with me" in a contract is crazy 😂😂
Lmao facts 💯
It's disturbing, is what it is.
Men ☕️
unpopular opinion: depends on the landlord.
If a Hemsworth is my landlord the answer is "yesssir"
That landlord story is wild. In my home country we have insane amounts of protections on (crude translation) "home-peace". If you're renting it's your home, and the landlord doesn't have much of a say in what's going on in there, as long as you're not damaging the structure or disturbing the neighbours.
I was 24, Had a 4 year old and 6 month old. I had already spent hundreds of my own money fixing a floor in my living room that literally fell through due to the age of the house. Thankfully the hundreds was on material cost since my brother fixed the floor free of charge just so we had a good house. We had no central air and just a gas heater in the living room which we would pull a mattress in front of during the winter just so we and the babies would stay warm. Still, it was a house and we tried our best to fix it up and make it good. Even though my health went down the drain and couldn't work. Then, we were confronted by the landlord (and family friend) who told us we had 6 weeks to get out. Come to find out her daughter sold her house so they could build their own place and wanted to move into that house rent free until the build was done. Afterwards they sold the house as "recently renovated". Yeah, by me and my family. Just left a bad taste in our mouths and an ache in our heart.
In my first year of uni in the UK, I lived in student housing with six other people and I have so many stories about how awful it was, it's insane.
From two of them just never doing washing up and leaving dirty plates on the side for literal months to one guy sleeping on the sofa naked or walking from the bathroom to his room naked without warning any of us to some of them knocking a hole in the wall and putting it on their snapchat story to just stealing other people's food as well as using crockery and cutlery without asking to breaking the stair rail and also putting it on their snapchat story to breaking the sofa to straight up just stealing one of my baking trays to responding to a request from someone in the dorm next door to turn the music down because it was 2am and she had an exam at 8am with turning to the music up to five out of six flatmates suddenly not knowing how to talk to me once they found out I was queer.
There was also my bank rejecting the first installment for student housing because it was a "very large transaction" which yeah, it was labelled as an installment for student housing and it was being paid to my university and it was coming out of a _student_ account. Oh and also, someone in a different dorm set off the fire alarm making toast (no, I don't know either) at 6am, and so the alarm went off for every dorm in our half of the housing block even though our building wasn't even connected to the actual dorm that set it off. I slept through it at first, somehow. Anyway, that's when we learned that part of the process of resetting the system involved the alarm going off another five times. Why? I would love to know. One of my flatmates went up to his room to get his duvet and pillow and slept on one of the wooden benches in the courtyard, and I just made cereal and sat in the kitchen eating it, with a fire alarm blaring above my head. A surrealist masterpiece.
I didn't realise it at the time, but the worst story is, without doubt, when one of my flatmates left an open tupperware box full of some kind of minced meat on the side in the kitchen. I was confused when I first saw it, but assumed that whoevers it was had just popped out for a few minutes and would put it away when they got back. Then it was there the next morning, and the one after that, and the other after that, and the one after that, and the other after that, etc. You get the point. It was there for a month and a half. Never found out whose it was, and despite three of us asking in the group chat about it, no one ever said "oh yeah, it's mine". It just sat there on the kitchen counter, going mouldy like some kind of poorly thought out science experiment. It got to a point where I just ate cereeal or sandwiches in my room rather than preparing food in the kitchen because it felt unsafe, but by that point, I wasn't on the best terms with them because they (wrongly) believed I'd called the RA on them for being too loud, so I didn't want to make it worse by throwing it away just in case. I still had to live with them for several months.
Ironically, I was considering calling the RA about the damn meat box, because it felt like an actual hazard to our health. I had mental images of growing legs and morphing into the not-zombie zombies from The Last of Us. But then, just as soon as it had appeared, it was gone one morning. I don't know what happened to it; I don't know whose it was; I don't know why it was there; I wish that was the end of it. Unfortunately, it - like cordyceps - infected my brain and now my intrusive thoughts are often themed around mouldy food.
On a lighter note, one of my favourite moments was when I overheard one of my flatmates, who studied law, trying to impress-flirt another flatmate with all his Legal FactsTM, and he just said "legally, it's not considered murder if you kill an animal." Fantastic, 10/10, no notes.
This one was my favourite. Thanks for the chuckles xx
I’ve been living in my current apartment for nearly 13 years now. It’s a house and it’s separated into 4 units. In 2018, I had the unfortunate luck to be “reunited” with someone I went to high school with. She was tolerable to a degree, but she has never known how to respect boundaries. In our super early 20s, we went to a gig in NYC after she won some tickets on the radio and even let her stay that weekend with me and my then fiancé at his place. I was to stay the week and we’d bring her to the train station. She knew this and still wanted ME to come back to PA with her when she went back. When I told her no, that that wasn’t the plan and she already knew that, she threw in my face that my fiancé - who was from Ireland - was probably just using me for a green card anyway. I hadn’t spoken to her in a little over a decade because of that extremely hurtful and insensitive comment.
Fast forward to me living in my current place, surprise surprise, she’s moving in and now has a child of her own. Bear in mind, my landlord disclosed to her that I was living here. I never wanted nor allowed that. I never even knew it happened until this continuous problem person came knocking on my door to “reconnect”. I never wanted that either, I was doing just fine without her loudness, hitting my arm to get my attention and as an anemic person (hi, yes this is your resident sickle cell anemia gal 👋🏽) she’d leave me in bruises and my Mother would be fuming every time I came home from school riddled with them. Telling her to not do it would do fuck all, so.
She claims she left her home because her grandparents were undermining her parenting, that her child is wild and never listens. However, over time, it’s become clear that the problem is her. The sheer amount of abuse this little girl goes through is both appalling and angering. I’ve called CPS twice, nothing has been done. What’s more is that the landlord who is also a mandated reporter due to running a daycare, KNOWS about this, and also does nothing. Problem neighbor has run out a sweet and kind couple after they were here for 9 days (NINE) because she confronted them about calling CPS on her when they didn’t, it was ME. We shouldn’t have to hear her screaming at this girl _in her car through my ring camera_ because she left an empty water bottle in the backseat. We shouldn’t have to hear this little girl begging for her mother to talk to her for hours on end when she gets mad at her. We shouldn’t have to hear her crying for hours while her mother bullies and berates her. It’s just an all around sad and infuriating situation. In a 4-unit house that’s filled with women, me being the only one without a child, none of us in the house likes her. She blatantly talks about us to others when she’s on the phone and we can hear her telling to whoever listens nothing but half truths, which she’s told the landlord the same. The landlord never comes to speak to us, only talks to her, so the landlord has a warped and broken view of what’s actually happening under this roof despite knowing how she treats her daughter. It’s a mess and I feel like without CPS not doing anything, we have no one else to turn to who’ll listen/help. The newest neighbor who we also went to high school with (can you tell this is a small town yet?) has formed a relationship with the 10 year old daughter as the girl has played with her toddler son, she runs there when she needs to escape her monster of a mother.
One incident that happened recently, new neighbor told the girl she was going to call the cops if this continues, and the girl begged her not to because “She’s all I have!”. Monster mother has MADE it that way, unfortunately. After a falling out with myself and the other upstairs neighbor above me, she constantly told the girl we hated her. We don’t. And at least she now knows that after being able to secretly speak to her and clear some very glaring misunderstandings. I’d never hate a child, the problems we have don’t involve her, it’s all adult stuff she should never have to worry about. All because her mother doesn’t know how to respect the privacy of others that live here. Her mother listens in through her apple watch to everything she does, so the child has no sense of privacy for herself either. Does anyone know of any legal routes, advice (if qualified to do so) because things are coming to a head here and I as well as the others in this place can lose our homes because of this person and the beliefs the landlord (who has also trash talked me and upstairs neighbor) holds against us due to problem neighbor spreading lies. She’s _always_ the victim, everyone else is the problem, never her. And THAT IS the problem.
Report the landlord, record what you can (check for single or 2 party consent to recording first), and do not confront the mother. Take everything to CPS when you've done this. No results? Repeat.
@@Kahli21 That’s the thing, though. The landlord and her family happen to be prominent people in this town, unfortunately. And I’ve recorded numerous times actually, shit that I’ve saved on my phone. I actually have checked if the state of PA is a two party state and sadly it is. However, I’ve found nothing that tells me if I’d be in the wrong about those saved recordings or any other future recording if they happen to contain the abuse taking place or even crimes for that matter.
There is so much more to this story than I could’ve ever fit in my already long ass comment, so that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We never confront the mother. Ever. No reason to talk to her because we all know she’ll twist it into something that it wasn’t. For example, the whole reason there was a falling out between her, upstairs neighbor and myself, was because we had convened in what’s now new neighbor’s apartment as 2 years ago it was empty. We’d use it as a hang out spot for us all to be in, and we asked her to remove her access to the ring camera she installed on upstairs neighbor and mine’s entrance when we’d both told her not to bother. Because unknown to me, upstairs neighbor was going to get one and she didn’t know I was gonna get one as well. Problem neighbor got it because some guy showed up at the front of the house which is where her entrance is, having mistook where he needed to go since the place that literally touches our house was apartments back then. It was a common and honest mistake, but she goes overboard and thinks everyone who used to accidentally come here was a bad person looking to get inside. And while I, too have a healthy wariness of others, she tends to go to extreme lengths. We both asked her not to get the camera, that we would get it, but she did it and installed it on our side anyway with her having access to it. So she’d be able to see whoever we’d bring home, hear conversations we’d have with others outside on our side and everything. Keep in mind that we _did not_ have access to her ring camera on her side of the house. And I’ve caught her a few times peeping in on me through her camera when I’d go out and walk my dog as well as her trying to converse with me through it, making my dog go nuts hearing sounds yet not seeing anyone. Told her to stop with that but, again, she doesn’t know the meaning of someone’s boundaries, so that never happened. She even eavesdropped on a convo I had with my aunt over the phone and the only reason I know about that was because she gave herself away and mentioned something in passing to me that I had only spoken about with my aunt. She tried to backpedal but I called her out on it and told her to stop and mind her business, that that wasn’t what the camera was for.
We asked her, as grown mature women, without our voices raised because there was absolutely no reason to, to remove her access and that we’d both pay her $50 each for the money she spent on it. Forget it. You’d think we’d just insulted her whole ancestral line. She flew off the handle at us, claiming we were “attacking” her and ganging up on her and accusing her of being nosy. Uhhh… 👀 yeah, she is, but we didn’t say that. We just said we weren’t comfortable with it and that we’d like our privacy, especially when bringing people home for a link. There was no getting through to her, even though we were calm about it, she wasn’t and I had a family emergency to attend to, so I said that we should put a pin in it and resolve it in a day or so. She continued to yell about it to her daughter, called others about it and was yelling so loudly, when I walked my dog, I could hear her yelling about it even outside. The next day, I was sent a Facebook post she made about us. And the only reason I know this month made the 2 year mark since that happened, was because she had said “I guess it really is 2-22-2two-faced Tuesday because the people I thought were my friends, clearly aren’t” and she made another post that got sent to me about how she has her own life to worry about and doesn’t care about what we do before promptly blocking us as well as my Mom and Sister so they couldn’t see what she’d say and send it to me. So if anything else was said, which I’m sure she said more because she loves pointing out how she’s a victim all the time, we don’t know about it. We never replied and never made posts of our own because that’s just fucking childish. We’re done with high school for a reason.
She’s crazy, she’s pushed most people away due to her own actions and behavior and fails to see how she’s the common denominator in all this. This is the person who’s literally cried to us, including my Mom and Sister, literally asking, “Why me? Why my life?” before asking for help and resources. When given those very things, even by my Mom who’s a medical professional as is upstairs neighbor, even when we’d find things to the best of our ability, it was never ever good enough. Beggars can’t be choosers and it got tired after a while. Even my Mom and Sister don’t want anything to do with her, especially after the way she’s talked about them after all they’ve done for her. I even helped her initially when she first moved in so she wouldn’t get in trouble with CPS, I helped her twice with them. Of course, this was _before_ the picture became clear about what was really going on with her and her daughter. I almost regret it now. And while it took me some real deep digging on if I should contact them because I thought if they took the girl, “what if she ended up in an even worse situation?”, I buckled down and did it. It’s not something I take lightly, I know there are people out there who call CPS out of spite towards others, make false claims, but this _IS NOT_ that. You said not to speak to her, however, I did ask her recently to stop moving my garbage bin. I’m disabled and I can’t access my trash bin outside because she hordes them. As a disabled person, I’m granted the right to have clear access to my bin. When I asked her to stop (once again, calmly on my part) she flew off the handle at me that the old bins can’t be used and that we need to to use these new ones. Well, why didn’t you say that then? “BECAUSE IT’S NOT MY JOB TO, THAT’S WHY!” No one has even alerted us about this supposed change. I also don’t see anyone else using these bins when they take their trash out. There’s supposed to be 3 bins put out per household, last week there was 4 of them out, none of which was anyone else in the house. I don’t know how 1 adult and 1 child make so much garbage, I don’t even fault the girl for that either. I was so angry after her screaming at me, I was shaking. I needed to remove myself from the situation and I did. I’m risking slipping and falling and with the things going on with my bones right now, if I do and get hurt, someone’s getting sued. I promise you that.
Thank you Phil for these extended shows. Appreciate you watching and condensing all the news into a form I can get caught up with quickly. I also find when I do dig into stories that interest me you do a remarkable job of being objective. Very much appreciated!
I had a landlady who tried to break my lease months early simply because she wanted to sell. I printed the state laws (clearly stating her illegal request) and presented them to her, she insisted her lawyer said she was in the right. I was in the military and was working on moving my stuff within the month of my station change (the last month of my lease). She tried bribing me with extra money just to have me out early. We came to an agreement, I got all of my military stuff scheduled as early as possible, and she still shorted me hundreds of dollars.
Criticizing 'tenancies allow things that the tenant agrees to' as bad is peak entitlement.
I really appreciate your coverage on Chevron deference -- you straight couldn't undersell how important this decision is. I think (hope) that this will ultimately come out in favor of deference doctrine, but if it doesn't we're in for an even worse year than we thought (with the election).
Well that last story was terrifying. I’m not even American, but the far reaching consequences of overturning or weakening the Chevron decision would impact everyone around the world.
Had a toilet clogged in an apartment I was in. It overflowed and some of it soaked into the carpet. The landlord came in with his maintenance guy and they were going to "fix it." My roommate and I decided to go out to eat while they worked and when we came back, the maintenance and landlord had tracked shit all over the rest of the building and the water spread throughout the entire apartment. We came back just as the landlord was leaving. He looked at all the crap smeared on the carpet and walls and then to us and said, "Clean this up." and then he left, charging us extra for rent that month for maintenance.
😊 had one place that had 4 separate rooms/roomates in college. The girls' room next to mine was leaking and causing the carpet in her room to get really wet and moldy. this was the start of covid, so she went home and i was the only one in the apartment. I knew something was off so i went in her room and it was literally walking on wet carpet. We called maintenance and they tell us that there was no leak and everything was fine. We send them a legal notice and broke the new lease we signed. It happened right when the new lease was going to start again.
I've dealt with a few slumlords but the worst one more that we rented from decided to do some impromptu plumbing. They added a hot tub to the basement when running the lines outside they pulled up the septic tank.... why I still do not know. Mind you, we lived on the other side of what used to be their home...these diy'ers fliped into a duplex. So when the messed up the septic all the waste? Instead of going outside to the septic, it backed up through our ONLY TOLIET ON OUR SIDE OF THE UNIT!
Then they refused to call a plumber. But because of the laws in our County and our state as renters we couldn't hire a plumber for serious plumbing problems like that. At least not without the express written or verbal approval of the landlord. Which neither of them even though they literally lived the next door would give!!!
So we essentially went almost a whole month unable to go to the bathroom unable to shower in our own home. And they're at the end me and my mom had two regularly go in and clean out the human waste that was essentially making our rental unlivable. And then after all of that these assholes expected us to pay them rent!
So we refused until they actually did anything, their solution? Lie to a judge in the next county where the wife worked as a court clerk...Say it was a storage unit so they could evict us faster than a typical actually lawful eviction. We could have fought it...instead we let the court figure it out when those greedy slimballs tried to sue us for "damaged plumbing" and the end result clean up when we didn't remind them how their literal shit was flooding their rental after we left.
She was fired after an investigation by the judge who over saw that second case found out what monsters they were. That county & ours fined them. And the eviction? Dropped off my parents record. Sometimes karma is a bitch. But I'll never live in a literal shithole like that ever again. We had zero options at the time. But being homeless would have been better on my soul, I swear.
They also, called my dad a Nword which was rude and nasty. But also confusing because he's Filipino and looks like a egghead version of Mr.
Miyagi.
Tldr: Slumlord pigs swim in their own shit after karna hits them.
I was living in a home for about 5 years until one day we came home to find our driveway had been fenced off with barbed wire and a bobcap in our back yard, and over the next few months we had house completely surrounded by construction workers building a 2 storie apartment block in our backyard... Even taking away chunks of our house (such as our laundry room) to make way for 2 drive ways leading up to the apartment block that was once our back yard. All this came with no warning, no notice, nothing but a vague justification that the previous tenants from 5 years previously made a verbale agreement with our landlord.
When I first moved out of my mum‘s house and moved to another city to go to university I found an apartment pretty quickly. The landlord seemed nice enough. We asked him if he could help me put up my curtain poles and hang the curtains at some point in the near future and he agreed.
What we didn’t know was that he still had a key to the apartment (illegal) even though I was supposed to live there by myself.
So one night I got home from class to find my apartment door open.
He was in my bedroom with a drill putting up the curtain poles. I’d had no idea he was gonna be there and he acted like this was totally normal.
I didn’t say anything because I was a little scared and this was my first time on my own and I didn’t really know how to deal with the situation. So I just helped him finish the work and afterwards said something about being glad to have more privacy now that the curtains were up and the neighbors couldn’t look into my room at night to which he replied “But why? You’re an attractive girl. You have nothing to hide.” 🤮
I was 19. He was in his 50s.
Thankfully he left after that.
And I never saw him again… Turns out he was massively in debt to Germany’s largest bank so he fled to France. Some company took over the apartment building. And when I moved out I didn’t get my security deposit back because no one could find him.
A positive about the milk kid story (besides the fact that he’s getting punished for being stupid) is that no one got hurt. Ya, getting milk sprayed on you can’t be pleasant, but this could have easily ended up being another story where someone did something dumb and another person got harmed or killed. Also the fact that he went out of his way to do this and then cried when the consequences showed up probably says a lot about him as a person.
That kid in the first story crying is truly beautiful
As a UK citizen, it's not that easy to evict people using the no fault eviction, even if they aren't paying rent it can be hard to get rid of them. This is in part due to a 2 year wait list (approx) for court hearing and also some laws a couple years ago that have tenants more powers over landlords in the UK. I'm sure there are other factors and the law, unfortunately doesn't prevent people being horrible (landlords and tenants).
I love that you called him "Spoiled milk brat" - points for accuracy lmao
It's almost 5 am and I'm cry laughing at "you think it's the shit, but it's not even the fart." Thanks Phil! 😆
Thanks for informing us about the last story. It's heartbreaking but overall it's better to know.
My landlord charged $100 on the second of the month you were late plus $10 per day, and if you couldn't cover the 1100+late fees by the next month, then it repeats until the fees total over $1000 dollars, and they evicted you for unpaid rent.
Oh Phil, don't ask about my worst rental. The landlords weren't that bad, their only issue is that they refused to evict my duplex neighbor. I lived downstairs, she lived upstairs with several kids (the number of kids varied depending on which ones had run away from home at that time, etc). She also had a boyfriend living with her, who wasn't supposed to be there because adults have to be included in the lease. And for awhile, she had an adult son who lived there, again, against the lease. Anyway, this neighbor and her boyfriend were so bad that my new definition of "Good Neighbor" is "anyone who doesn't set people on fire, on purpose, more than once". The boyfriend was the one who set fires. The lady was a (word that is probably banned by the algorithm but starts with a and means she wasn't nice to her kids) and one or more of the kids flooded my apartment. I could go on and on about these people, but yeah. A good neighbor doesn't set people on fire, more than once, on purpose. And these were bad neighbors.
Our landlord sold the house we lived in out from under us, no notice or warning- which is a grey legal thing to do. HOW we found out-? I was home alone at 13 and some stranger comes BANGING on our door telling us he's here to see the house they just bought. I was terrified and told him to go away because "It's my house-" I called my parents; Mom who was out shopping, and Dad was at work-- They were stunned and called the landlord to find out what happened and that's when they told us.
Later I sat in my room and watched this man creep into my room and look around with a look of distain at me and my stuff like I was a cockroach- obviously we had to leave as they were gonna tear it down and build a new mega-home. I felt bad for the crop of raspberry bushes and maple trees in the back and front yard...
I felt so uncomfortable when he walks around poking at things. I get my room was now **his** now, but it felt so humiliating during his *inspection.*
The Alabama ruling is literally the premise of the handmaid's tale. We're literally walking in to the handmaid's tale
I used to work for that hospital system, from the same city. There are plenty of people that use the hospital as an extended stay type place but this young lady is not one of them, she actually needs it
I had a landlord who lived out of state, inherited the building, and did no work to maintain the property. Drafty, cold, falling apart, massive hornet colony next to the door, reeked of cigarettes, and had a fence in the yard made of broken windows. It even said in our lease that she would handle yard work, but that never happened. She used to strongarm us into doing the work ourselves in return for pitiful discounts (think cleaning all the gutters, which were leaking and causing water damage, for 50-100 bucks off rent), fixing plaster issues for 20 bucks, and fixing broken doors for 10… (we were a young couple in a religious area that openly wouldn’t rent to unmarried couples). We told her about the danger of the fence and she refused to do anything, so we removed the glass and built a new fence, which is still there years later. She kept our security deposit as a result of “unauthorized changes”. Thank goodness we are long since out of there…
I once lived in an apartment where the outlet started sparking. I told the property manager and he turned my power off and ran an extension cord from the hallway to my fridge. I lived that way for a month. I was extremely broke at the time and the little food I had in my fridge went bad before he ran the cord to it. So I basically starved, froze and didn't have lights or internet for a month. It was terrible. They still expected me to pay rent. It turned out the wiring in that apartment was copper and if they opened the wall to fix it, code said they would have to fix the whole building... When I tried to break the lease and leave they took my security deposit because I broke the lease and also the floor was scuffed. 🙄
My roomates and I rented a house back in 2018- our hot water heater went out and when we reported it to the landlady she started ranting that we must have tampered with it since it is only 15 years old. If that isn't insane enough she would cancel our appointments to fix it and even showed up at the house and started calling my roomate "prickless". We ended up calling the police on her because she was becoming increasingly volatile.... luckily we were able to move out pretty quickly and now have a (semi)sane landlord.
I was unfortunate enough to rent a place in South Africa, I am a herpetologist, so I do keep various reptiles and breed them. I had one room dedicated to that. The properties here are quite huge and there was another flat on the same property which was leased to another bunch of people. They, as you might have guessed, do not like reptiles. The one weekend I went away and when returning on the sunday I found a massive and shocking surprise. The idiots went to the reptile room and sprayed poison into the room killing the majority of my smaller snakes and lizards. Now people want to know why I prefer my animals above people, this is a perfect example.
I rented a place where the heating bill ended up being 5 times what a normal bill should be, I asked them to check out the heating system... they didn't. One night, I was in the bedroom and had turned on the light to see eyes glowing through the vent in the floor. A SKUNK had gotten into it somehow. I am forever grateful to that skunk for not being too startled by me even though it scared me enough to create skunk fumes. They finally came and fixed the hole that was in the vent. And they did let me take a tiny bit off of rent to cover my bill... but it wasn't even half of what I had paid. I left as soon as I could get out of the lease.
“It’s not even the fart” goat lyric
The parents are only mildly inconvenienced to have to send their precious baby boy to a new expensive private school! They will never learn their lesson.
back in june i preordered a special edition cardigan from the taylor swift shop that was supposed to be delivered by october. well that got pushed back twice then when i finally got it in december i received the wrong item. when i contacted customer service it took three weeks for a back and forth conversation to get a resolution. they shipped me a new one and they sent me the wrong one AGAIN. this time when i contacted them the whole think only took a couple days which was better but they resolved it by refunding me my money, giving me a $70 credit, and letting me keep the wrong item. as frustrating as the whole thing was i was pretty satisfied with the end result. i still ended up just buying the right sweater second hand. that’s my experience so as shitty as it is, they are starting to rectify some of these issues.
Talk about burying the lead. That last story is... insane. This single court case could fundamentally change the country forever.
And to think there has been very little on this in the news. It boggles the mind.
I've had a LOT of crazy landlords.
One of them started out a sober and ended up selling drugs in all the other tenements in the house, and one of the people he sold to hated us and made enough written noise complaints to make it so he could surprise evict us.
Then right after that we moved into a place where a guy was like we'll clean this place before you move in only to be riddled with cocroqches and every single door in the apartment falling off, him never fixing all of it, and then when we tried to leave he would keep our depot saying we "wrecked the plqce". We decided to l3ave all our garbage in the middle of the room for good measure when we left lol.
Lovin these longer episodes! Thanks for all the extra effort Phil & Team!
My first and current home is in an HOA and my roommate is someone who works with my dad in construction. Our garage is big enough to fit my car but not his truck, being just long enough that it would stick out of the garage door, so his original plan was to just park in the guest parking so that he wouldn't have to move his truck any time I needed to leave for school/work. This seemed to work for about a week until it got booted and he was required to keep his truck in our one-lane driveway to prevent this issue going forward. My dad (who owns the house) tried getting in touch with the heads of the community about this issue and refused to create an exception for him even though he is paying equal rent with me. Luckily for me, my new job is mostly remote and all my classes for this semester have been in the afternoon so this isn't as much of an issue anymore but I still hate having to bother my roommate any time I just want to go grocery shopping or do something fun with the family.
The worst experience I've had is a landlord essentially wasting my time every time something went wrong: apparently it's their business to hire someone to act as a answering machine every time I have something I want to confront them about - Every time I rang I was like, "can I speak to the landlord please" and they would ask "what is it about, can I have your name and phone number" and then give me some bs about how they will call me back... I would then have to wait what could be weeks later for them to answer back: it was a nightmare. Sincerely: I didn't pay for rent just so you can put problems on hold. Luckily I moved away but still put up with landlords that don't address problems properly requiring multiple messages.