Viral Tweet Has A ‘Landlord’ Asking Whether She Should Kick Out A Tenant For Letting His Friends Break Into Her House
Interview With Author
If your tenant invites a bunch of friends over and they wreck the house that belongs to you, you’d probably consider kicking them out before the lease is up, right? That’s how LA-based actress and musician Pin Young started her Twitter thread about being a landlord. Her post went viral with over 392k likes. The main draw was the surprise twist she had in store for us.
We don’t want to spoil too much for you, but let’s just say that Young’s thread was a total whoosh moment, going over the head of a lot of people (us including), fooling them because they took it too literally. Scroll down, have a read, and let us know if she got you too! Be sure to read on for Bored Panda’s in-depth interview with Young: she feels very passionately about the subject and shared a lot of interesting insights.
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Some very perceptive Twitter users actually played along with Young. However, most people weren’t expecting the twist with President Donald Trump and the events that happened at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6.
Now, things are heating up politically in the United States even more. The people involved in the riots are being identified and arrested. Meanwhile, the Democrats are making moves to remove President Trump from office and then start an impeachment process.
CNN states that an ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Sunday, January 10, shows that 56 percent of respondents want to see Trump removed from office. Meanwhile, 43 percent believe that he shouldn’t be removed.
According to the BBC, the first step the Democrats will take will be for the House of Representatives to vote on a resolution to call on Vice-President Mike Pence to “remove Mr. Trump’s presidential powers” by invoking the 25th Amendment.
The resolution should take place on Monday, January 11, while a formal vote could happen on Tuesday, writes The Guardian. Pence would become the interim president until Biden is inaugurated on January 20.
However, if that move is unsuccessful, the Democrats aim to charge Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker, believes that Trump “represents an imminent threat” to the country’s democracy and its constitution.
A friend inspired her to create the thread based on a real-life experience
Young told Bored Panda how she was inspired to start the thread by one of her Facebook friends, contemporary visual artist Mamie Young, who posted a similar analogy about her roommate supposedly robbing her. “That reminded me of an actual tenant that had rented my second bedroom in the past and was all sorts of trouble. Much like Trump, she had broken the terms of the lease on multiple occasions, pathologically lied about it, and tried to stay longer than the lease. I was legitimately scared of what she might do even though she said she’d eventually leave,” the actress said.
The tenant’s ‘lease’ can be extended if they do a good enough job
She went into detail about the analogy that she used between Trump and a tenant. “We Americans collectively own the government buildings, and the Capitol is the center of it. The President of the United States is like a live-in employee at the White House, contracted to do work on our property for 4 years. If he does a good job, maybe we’ll extend his lease, and he can live in our guesthouse for another 4 years. If he violates the terms of the lease, we as landlords have a right to terminate the agreement and take legal action if necessary.”
A theoretical threat to democracy that became a physical one?
Young acknowledged that President Trump “didn’t actually attack the Capitol” himself. However, she stated that he “incited insurrection and had his ‘friends’ try to occupy the Capitol for him.” In Young’s opinion, Trump had been a theoretical threat to US democracy for the last 4 years and “was a literal physical threat” to American lawmakers and institutions. “We have to treat our country as our own home—because it is.”
The actress believes that President Trump, guided by the desire for money and attention, is prepared to do practically anything to maintain his influence with his supporters, but might stop short of further radical actions. “I honestly think Trump has been emboldened knowing that there are people who are willing to literally fight and die for him. If social media outlets like Parler and Twitter become unusable, he’ll continue to spread his message through any means necessary. He’ll continue to fundraise, as he has, because, for him, everything is about money and popularity. At the same time, he is afraid of losing all of it and going to prison, so I think he may tread a little more carefully if he listens to anyone around him.”
Impeachment and conviction are possible before Biden’s inauguration, but only if both parties cooperate
“It is entirely possible to impeach and convict Trump before Biden’s inauguration if both parties can come together to expedite the process. However, seeing as there are still some Republicans who are standing by Trump, the realistic expectation is that he can be impeached by the House before the inauguration. Then, after Biden’s inauguration, the Senate can debate on whether to convict for the purposes of preventing him from running for office again,” Young said.
Some people took the story at face value despite the hints
On a slightly lighter note, Young explained that a lot of people were legitimately concerned for her well-being despite her thinking she made it obvious that she was talking about President Trump. “I feel bad about all the people who took the time to give me advice on what to do, but I have to be honest and say that it was fun and entertaining to keep the analogy going. It shows that we do have kind people in the world—strangers willing to reach out and help people in need (even if they’re being stupid). We need more of that in this world. If we can treat each other with more kindness and empathy while also being able to laugh at ourselves and have a sense of humor, the world would be a much better place.” Words of wisdom. Hopefully, this year will have more of this.
You can find Bored Panda’s earlier posts about the storming of the Capitol right here, here, and here. So, dear Pandas, what did you think of Young’s thread? Did you think that she was speaking about an actual tenant of hers? What do you think will happen before January 20? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
The best: "A doctor and her husband are looking for a place on the 20th. Do you allow pets? They have the sweetest pair of German shepherds" Thank you for the laugh!
Kick him out. He should have been long ago for lying about his application and not disclosing all his assets prior to getting subsidized rent. The sad thing is, his friends in Congress will just bounce the ball around and not doing anything. If you don't get impeached for what just happened, what does it take????
The issue is similar if this was a literal story as it is with the analogy. Kicking someone out of your rental space and kicking a sitting president out of office are both very complicated matters (at least in the US) and require a lot of legal hoops to jump through, many of which take longer than 2 weeks to complete. If this was a literal tenant, then proving that he had encouraged his friends to break into her house would require witnesses, sworn statements, etc. you cannot just kick someone out of their home based on hearsay or your own testimony (it would be chaos if landlords could). For a sitting president, while the evidence may be more readily available to remove him from office, both invoking the 25th Amendment and going through the process of impeachment require many steps beyond the simple action of the vote. At this point, they have 9 days to complete all of the actions to remove him from office, which would be at an extraordinary speed. Right or wrong, it’s very complex.
Refusing to operate on a cancer inside the body because it would be too painful will eventually lead to the spreading of the cancer with a fatal result in the end. The same applies to Trump. Remove him from the political stage, make it impossible for him to run for president ever again. He's the cause, the disease and the symptom in one. He's the personification of egocentric evil and dangerous narcissism.
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I long ago noticed that Conservatives have no ability to comprehend metaphors -- they simply cannot grasp the idea of parallels or (verbal) illustrations that are similar to another situation or issue.
When the date Jan 20th was mentioned in the first paragraph. Not hard at all.
throw him out and why did you pay for vacations for him is this a friends with benefits thing i know that's none of my business i just don't get all you did for him vacations not kicking him out when he told his friends to break into your house pissing over the neighbors fence seems like it's more than a tenet landlord relationship oh and people asking the color of this person is wrong bad people come in every color and the cops taking selfies with the people who broke in yeah you might want to mention that to there boss or the da if it goes that far
I caught on when I got to the bit about the lease being up on 20th January.
I honestly didn't pick up on the joke until she said orange. Even without getting the joke I said kick him out
Did she say he was "orange"? The only time I've ever heard of someone being referred to orange is Trump lol!!
That's the point of the post. The entire thing is a Trump analogy.
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So... what? Maybe I'm having a WHOOSH moment, but is this real or some sort of politics?
Whoosh moment. Try reading again the part where she's saying that the tenant is orange. :)
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You can actually have tenants arrested for breaking the law.
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And freedom of speech -- you are protected from govt trying to silence you. Twitter is not the govt. I don't understand why so many people don't understand what the first amendment actually says.
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It's a community submission site. You want those articles? Submit them.
Load More Replies... The best: "A doctor and her husband are looking for a place on the 20th. Do you allow pets? They have the sweetest pair of German shepherds" Thank you for the laugh!
Kick him out. He should have been long ago for lying about his application and not disclosing all his assets prior to getting subsidized rent. The sad thing is, his friends in Congress will just bounce the ball around and not doing anything. If you don't get impeached for what just happened, what does it take????
The issue is similar if this was a literal story as it is with the analogy. Kicking someone out of your rental space and kicking a sitting president out of office are both very complicated matters (at least in the US) and require a lot of legal hoops to jump through, many of which take longer than 2 weeks to complete. If this was a literal tenant, then proving that he had encouraged his friends to break into her house would require witnesses, sworn statements, etc. you cannot just kick someone out of their home based on hearsay or your own testimony (it would be chaos if landlords could). For a sitting president, while the evidence may be more readily available to remove him from office, both invoking the 25th Amendment and going through the process of impeachment require many steps beyond the simple action of the vote. At this point, they have 9 days to complete all of the actions to remove him from office, which would be at an extraordinary speed. Right or wrong, it’s very complex.
Refusing to operate on a cancer inside the body because it would be too painful will eventually lead to the spreading of the cancer with a fatal result in the end. The same applies to Trump. Remove him from the political stage, make it impossible for him to run for president ever again. He's the cause, the disease and the symptom in one. He's the personification of egocentric evil and dangerous narcissism.
Load More Replies... I long ago noticed that Conservatives have no ability to comprehend metaphors -- they simply cannot grasp the idea of parallels or (verbal) illustrations that are similar to another situation or issue.
When the date Jan 20th was mentioned in the first paragraph. Not hard at all.
throw him out and why did you pay for vacations for him is this a friends with benefits thing i know that's none of my business i just don't get all you did for him vacations not kicking him out when he told his friends to break into your house pissing over the neighbors fence seems like it's more than a tenet landlord relationship oh and people asking the color of this person is wrong bad people come in every color and the cops taking selfies with the people who broke in yeah you might want to mention that to there boss or the da if it goes that far
I caught on when I got to the bit about the lease being up on 20th January.
I honestly didn't pick up on the joke until she said orange. Even without getting the joke I said kick him out
Did she say he was "orange"? The only time I've ever heard of someone being referred to orange is Trump lol!!
That's the point of the post. The entire thing is a Trump analogy.
Load More Replies... So... what? Maybe I'm having a WHOOSH moment, but is this real or some sort of politics?
Whoosh moment. Try reading again the part where she's saying that the tenant is orange. :)
Load More Replies... You can actually have tenants arrested for breaking the law.
Load More Replies... And freedom of speech -- you are protected from govt trying to silence you. Twitter is not the govt. I don't understand why so many people don't understand what the first amendment actually says.
Load More Replies... It's a community submission site. You want those articles? Submit them.
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