Inside a viral video calling out the government for its inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic and the man behind it: a working class comedian with a long history of taking on powerful interests.
, more than 26 million people in the United States have made jobless claims, pushing the unemployment rate to levels unseen since the Great Depression.
"Haven't we learned too many times that when we give the big company all the money the execs get fat and the workers get f******?" DiBitetto said."So you have ten years of massive profits and you need a bailout after two weeks of a shut down? How come we the people have to save for a rainy day, but you save nothing?"
That same year DiBitetto became an unexpected viral sensation with his video"Bread and Milk," which poked fun at people's attitudes in advance of major snowstorms. I didn't do this thinking"Oh this is going to go viral." I never do that. I never think anything is going to go viral, but it struck a nerve and we sat down and we wrote out what we thought the government should do, instead of what they're not doing. It's just crazy. And obviously it struck a nerve and now it's 27 million views, just on Facebook alone.If I did it in my house, my wife would kill me.
At one point you call out the"greedy cocksuckers and you government lackeys who suck the balls of the big corporations" and you say,"shame on you all." Do you think any of them feel shame? Once again, it went nowhere. Me and my wife, we worked for a school bus company for 15 years. I was on a picket line, burning wood at subzero temperatures, worried if my job was going to get taken over by scabs. Bloomberg couldn't care less. There's another billionaire who hasn't a clue. They're all in their own little bubble, they don't know what it's like.
A lot of this video focuses on mortgages and moving those three months of mortgage payments to the back of the mortgage, but I wanted to ask you about the majority of your fellow New Yorkers, who are renters. Do you have any suggestions for the wave of evictions and missed rent payments that are an inevitable consequence of this?
Like I said before, if you worked hard for it, to become rich, God bless you, you earned it. But when it's given to you with a silver spoon in your mouth, how do you go to bed at night? How do you put your head on the pillow when you watch the news and you see there are 22 million people on unemployment in this country, where many are living paycheck to paycheck.
Along those lines, is it weird that people are asking you all these politics or policy questions because the people who are supposed to be handling this aren't responsive?
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