LA-based actress Pin Young is one of many people trying to make people understand the impeachment situation my comparing it to more comprehensible situations. She’s just being more tricky about it.
Instead of reasoning with people, she fooled them by starting a Twitter thread about her “problem tenant.”
“My tenant who rents my guest house told his friends to break into my house,” she wrote. “They broke a bunch of shit but thankfully weren’t successful in occupying it, and I got out in time. His lease is up on January 20th anyway, so should I let him finish up his lease or kick him out now?”
Sound familiar? Young is presenting a situation all of America witnessed on January 6th. President Donald Trump incited his followers to storm the Capitol, leading to the destruction of property and much more seriously, the death of five people. Now, Donald Trump has become the first president to get impeached a second time, even though his term is up on January 20th.
Not everyone got it right away. They were very firmly in favor of Young kicking out her “tenant.”
She made it up – as an example for what happened at the Capitol yesterday.
— Jen (@jenminicooper) January 7, 2021
It's not about me 😉
But I appreciate your concern.— Pin Young 🎙📽🎻🏳️🌈🌊 (@PinYoungActress) January 7, 2021
Immediately and get a good security system and have the police drive by your house for awhile. He should be arrested.
— Orphan Antoinette (@OrphanAntoinet2) January 7, 2021
Have him removed now! You are only not allowed to kick them out for not paying rent. Breaking the lease, destruction of property & acts of violence are all very justified for having them removed from your property!
— skidnee🆘 Many cultures, one race Human! (@skiddnee) January 7, 2021
The people who did get it started playing along to help Young make even more points about the situation:
That's what my friends keep saying, but I dunno…he just said he'll be peaceful til January 20th. He's lied a lot before, but maybe I should believe him this time?
— Pin Young (@PinYoungActress) January 8, 2021
Yeah that's the reasonable thing to do, right? He belongs in prison and should really pay for the damages he's done the last 4 years.
— Pin Young (@PinYoungActress) January 8, 2021
Well, he did do some work on my property, like building a shoddy 1 inch wall. But that didn't make up for all the endless vacations I paid for him to take. Was I too nice?
— Pin Young (@PinYoungActress) January 7, 2021
She even went as far back as 2016 and the fact that Hillary Clinton could have been president instead:
I know that lady had sent in her references from a weird email but the guy you let have the place?
.. we warned you.
Remember when he grabbed that other person's cat and bragged about it? We said he keeps grabbing cats and has a long history of not paying his rent…— Socially Distant Squirrel (@PolitiSquirrel) January 8, 2021
And other people got their points in, too. They want to evict:
Scares me.
— Renee Elias (@46HappyMom) January 8, 2021
And that the police were in on it:
You won't believe this, but I saw footage of the police opening the gate to the guest house so your tenant's friends could come in and break stuff.
— Chewy Ice (@MarilynCavi) January 7, 2021
The tenant is orange.
— Pin Young (@PinYoungActress) January 7, 2021
There were a few tenant “defenders.”
This is all a lie! You hired those friends yourself to frame your tenant! He’s been the greatest tenant you’ve ever had, and everyone else is conspiring against him to make him look bad! He won that lease fair and square!
— Charlie Fillenwarth (@illinifan1280) January 7, 2021
Not everyone approved of the analogy:
I wanted to play Devil’s advocate on this one but I, too, have a hard time even imagining sympathy for landlords
— ur local Marxist ☭ (@comehalebopp) January 8, 2021
Young told Bored Panda that the tweet going viral really surprised her.
“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,” she said.
“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.”
And she added, “We have to treat our country as our own home—because it is.”