Welcome to "The Villages" | Chapo Trap House | Episode 221 CLIP

We discuss the horrifying pro-Trump retirement community recently profiled by Politico.
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[@irlewy86]

Ancient Greek proverb "Society is made great when old man plant seeds of trees the shade of which they will never sit" Modern US proverb "Tear down the trees and build another golf course"

[@TheEyeball37]

In Florida it's also "drain the swamp".

[@theradhatter4100]

Yep

[@DC_daze]

Listening to this in 2024. Almost 6 years old and it plays like it was published yesterday.

[@lolwuttup420]

Same

[@nocomment3294]

Yeah I here Trump begging for evangelicals to vote, promising he will fix the country so it will be the last time the have to vote. Sounds really ominous.

[@poposterous236]

My parents bought a house here. When I went to visit I always got the strangest feeling like I was living in a bubble universe of some atrociously boring person's version of paradise.

[@poposterous236]

@@danielyoung6778 like damn son, you hit the nail on the head. Its exactly that kind of society. my parents are definitely the neoliberal poster child for the kinds of people that walled themselves off from the world after they helped destroy it. Fine people, of course.

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

The Villages: A horrifying dystopia of shuffling sun scarred Boomer necrofascist zombies. In theaters June 21 1983!!!

[@ETYPEJaguar38]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an actual plot of some cult 1980s VHS horror film.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

It's more like midgar

[@brandonweatherstone2380]

@@ETYPEJaguar38 There is actually a horror movie from the early 90's with a similar premise called "Society", where basically the son of a rich family in Beverly Hills discovers his parents and their friends are a different species that enjoy eating poor people by literally fusing with them. Seriously recommend it.

[@macrussell78]

@@brandonweatherstone2380 That movie is hard to sit through for me, just for the visuals.(you all know what I'm talking about)

[@romanticplacebo3693]

Helltown

[@Ancienregime8090]

The wikapedia article on The Villages is an award winning dystopian novel.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

😂

[@olivermarijuanajones5041]

Hunter S. Thompson warned us about these people.

[@WanderingIdiot81]

Haven't read much Thompson, where did he say that?

[@Daniel-eo6ke]

@@WanderingIdiot81 in fear and loathing there is an anti drug rally he attends its those people.

[@WanderingIdiot81]

@@Daniel-eo6ke right on, thanks!

[@samij6071]

He was also a dickhead libertarian

[@cigolsimons1768]

@@samij6071 So because he was a Libertarian that disqualifies everything he says?

[@Buckmelanoma1]

As a veteran and someone who is pretty much always around veterans, the "spat upon" veteran myth is still very much a thing.

[@8bitpothead]

ofc it is, it offloads the burden of having to take any responsibility while simultaneously making you the center of attention or martyr.

[@HazeAroundtheWorld]

It might be a cliche at this point, but that definitely happened to at least a few Vietnam veterans

[@70sman]

Guys after getting home from the war where I liberated crying children and gave them lollipops 3 hippies wearing John Lennon glasses and flower crowns teabagged me then did the fortnite dance on the grave of my fallen friends

[@Johnsmith99663]

AZMODIUS Good. Vietnam was a criminal war and US vets of it deserve to be spat upon as much as Nazis do.

[@Shilgne1]

@@Johnsmith99663 I understand your frustration but don't go throwing the nαzis under the bus.

[@Bocuma]

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 THE VILLAGES HAS CORONAVIRUS 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[@rozzaziobrown6515]

I visited the villages once(long story) and I swear I was 50 years younger than everybody else minimum.

[@rozzaziobrown6515]

I did get to drive a dope yellow golf cart though

[@shady8045]

thats nuts lol

[@finished6267]

Super neat.

[@robertvaughn9448]

I met them, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I this former jet ski dealership owner... I realized that what was living behind that dotard's eyes was purely and simply... evil.--Dr. Samuel Loomis upon visiting The Villages

[@marshallbs]

Ian Taylor The problem is these people use their stupidity as cover for being a bunch of maliciously self-centered assholes.

[@marshallbs]

Ian Taylor Seriously, it’s as if a guy standing next to you repeatedly kicks you in the balls, only to say it was an involuntary reflex each time afterwards, or that they hallucinated you were a hip-hop thug trying to take their wallet. At some point you get tired of that shit and fucking kick them back.

[@GolfBaller]

The corollary to Hanlon's Razor is "Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence."

[@vienlacrose]

@Victor Williams Fuck you and your foresight.... (Not really foresight; the DNC has always been this predictable.)

[@robertvaughn9448]

World's gotten worse since those weighty days.

[@PEGGYLOPA]

I hear there is a huge STD epidemic at The Villages. Swingers of the world unite!

[@Jack-cw8bw]

@Seth M. I live here and the concealed swinging culture is unreal and hilarious. They put pool noodles with different colors on their golf carts to covertly signal different things to the other swingers

[@Inkspeckle]

@@Jack-cw8bw "trump worshipping boomers accidentally reinvent the hanky code with pool noodles in their cult commune" was definitely not something I ever expected to find out

[@jm6406]

@@Jack-cw8bw I would learn the colorations and go bird watching

[@thatboyneedstherapy7926]

The villages in Orlando are genuinely worse than the settlements in the West Bank

[@ecoRfan]

I just measured distance on a map. The Villages are about 45 miles from downtown Orlando as the crow flies.

[@michaelnewman7248]

they're a couple exits from ocala, the horse capital of the world

[@jojbenedoot7459]

@@michaelnewman7248 I always saw all those horse racing billboards on my way up to Gainesville and now I know why

[@ChewyThomson]

You know, if they built a gigantic 50 foot wall around this community and then filled it completely with water, literally nothing of value would be lost at all.

[@markwilliams2620]

Chewy Thomson Good water forever tainted.

[@hjorturerlend]

Nah, just weld the gates shut and televise it.

[@anselmguile6070]

No they are human beings, you're more of an extremist than them

[@maksuree]

Anselm Guile lol no they aren't

[@dr.jorgeb.peterson9872]

Yes!

[@XavIsOnline]

Oh god it's *literally* the old generation, with the least investment in the actual effects of policies or in the future in general, that have doomed all of us, individually and as a civilization/species, to slow, horrific, painful deaths at the hands of climate change. It's poetic.

[@plasticiconoclastic]

Is that a real name, Kip Tucker?

[@shinjinobrave]

Lol, fucking every time. Kip Tucker. Ford Springer. THESE ARE NOT REAL NAMES

[@Beery1962]

"They've made the BIGGEST contributions to your world..." Who do you think he's talking about? Last I checked, the generation that fought WW2 are pretty much all dead. The oldsters we're dealing with now fought a useless war in Vietnam, then got us into even more useless wars for oil. They're a bunch of naive dumbasses and dirtbags.

[@Beery1962]

"Young men were DRAFTED to Vietnam, ordered by their gov't to go!" Yeah, and they didn't have the sense to skip over the border to Canada or Mexico. Like I said, they aren't exactly over-furnished in the brain department. "During the Cold War, I was stationed in the Arctic Circle, near the USSR border." So not exactly a war zone, eh granddad? Why is it always the folks who never saw combat who are so desperate to get us into the next war?

[@Beery1962]

LOL! "Love it or leave it", eh?Yeah, as soon as someone says something you don't like, out goes your commitment to the First amendment. Do you really think you're defending America by trampling all over the Bill of Rights? To you, the Constitution only matters when people are saying things you agree with. I'm getting kinda tired of scumbags like you who think a half-assed commitment to the US is what makes a real Marine. No wonder we lost in Korea and Vietnam.

[@nohbuddy1]

Golf courses need to be seized and used for something useful

[@AmbientSounds205]

As a kid who grew up around them they are money pits. Just make them public or turn them into parks.

[@leorickt.9604]

@@AmbientSounds205 but then how will country club members know theyre better than everyone else?

[@AmbientSounds205]

@@leorickt.9604 They have to flaunt their 401k and stock holdings

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Some of you comrades have never broken 100 and it shows.

[@TheYopogo]

Affordable housing

[@zackamania6534]

A friend of my mother let us spend last Christmas in her house in the Villages. The pools are for people over THIRTY. Children under 19 are limited to 30 days per year (these are these people's GRANDKIDS FFS)....

[@dougdimmedome5552]

Literally a fascist class.

[@squirestew4u]

Gotta love apartheid brought to you by a corporation

[@davidhoran7116]

squirestew4u the ancaps are all fully erect.

[@victoriamitchell2233]

@@jacksonhoward1442 Fuck off, fascist colonizer.

[@adrianwellington4419]

when in the last 5 decades has south africa been anything but developing?

[@stevehendricks1718]

we didnt have this crap until the HR dept flew in "aka Liberals"

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

@@adrianwellington4419 From its independence in 1961. You know Verwoed was a terrible man but very smart he could have actually changed the course of the country back when he was Prime Minister we could have been as developed as an Australia, so many mineral resources and fertile land. Apartheid was one of the most complex systems of discrimination in modern human history, if that research went into developing the country for better for all.

[@insect-man]

Unfortunate that we couldn't sink greater Orlando into the abyss without also losing Miami and the Keys

[@streeterville773]

I think that's what they want

[@ecoRfan]

@B. Greene The exurbs of Orlando are very right-leaning.

[@vienlacrose]

If you sonsabitches touch Cape Kanaveral or the launch pad, i'm going to have you -reported- unpersoned.

[@grimsnark4849]

Saw this in a reddit thread about STD's in retirement communities: "There's a place in Florida called "the villages" where many old people go to retire. It's known to be a huge swinger community with a loofa based communication system where the color of the loofa (usually displayed on a car or something like that) indicates the kind of stuff you're into. It's also known to have its own strain of gonorrhea..."

[@ElectricChaplain]

The Villages have 125,000 people. The 2018 governor election was won by only 33,000 people. Keep that in mind.

[@adamtherock2008]

This is my favorite Chapo reading. Must’ve listened to this at least a dozen times now. Never fails to make me laugh and horrify me.

[@mybirthnameful]

25:33 25:33

[@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14]

"All these names have double chins"

[@angel-gu8co]

"I love it when he says 'fake news'. I only watch Fox because they're the only media that tells the truth." LMAO

[@mrpink99]

My next door neighbor, who is a perpetually cheerful Christian in the mold of Ned Flanders (right down to the mustache & glasses) says that too.

[@AndreiThankYou]

Holy shit, my grandparents live there. I’ve visited there a few times and it’s fucking eerie. This is spot on in every way.

[@tonycampbell1424]

I'm so glad I listened to the end. That Ben Shapiro burn at the ending was so outstanding.

[@efermi2118]

this really is peak chapo

[@TheDynamicJAB]

Literally

[@markrussell1606]

Fun fact. I just visited my Mexican in-laws at the villages. Don't worry. They, and we, are Bernie supporters.

[@missyrogers7098]

They did say 98.3% white

[@mayabombanation9914]

Man, listening to this makes me so nostalgic for pre-2020 Chapo. The energy in this is something else.

[@topleybird2443]

Before everything fell apart.

[@TamaCinema69]

listening now you can tell they can barely tolerate talking to another anymore, it's so disjointed now. Felix best chapo any day.

[@Garrett1240]

What changed?

[@TamaCinema69]

@@Garrett1240 not really one thing but the whole virgil fiasco's still a mystery as to what exactly went down, they went a little too whole hog into the bernie campaign after nevada gave us false hope, and since theyve drifted apart. Matt wants to be the next jim jones or some shit, Felix wants to be a twitch streamer, and i have no clue what Will's motivations are. Amber's still just reading the Economist and drinking tea or something. Seems like virgil's in some sort of hospital for, as he put it "experiencing ego death weekly" which is def not good for you, so yeah hes prob gonna be eating orange slices for the next 10 years.

[@Garrett1240]

@@TamaCinema69 I literally don’t know what happened to Virgil. I only started listening to this podcast and watching tons of clips a few months ago. What happened to Virgil and why do you say Matt wants to be Jim Jones?

[@doctorbarber1]

8:52 I bet the number of Villages residents who've been beaten to death with a putter after a drunken argument on a golf outing with the guy he wife swaps with on the weekends is not 0.

[@cdvideodump]

Trump's retweet of a white supremacist from The Villages brought me back here

[@russell32784]

Freaking hilarious!!!! I live 30 minutes from the villages, you have nailed it!!!

[@AlZ-oy4si]

This is the All Time Greatest Chapo Clip. In recognition I'm gonna just start coming up with fake Villager names, and keep editing in new ones here over time. Bob Flogg Grover Yudkin Rex Lummis Bo Bragg Ralph Rolfson Dominique de Villeneuve j/k - Rick Baxter Sal Daly Kurt Dixon Col. Reginald Willis Beaufort, Ret. CSA Butch "Butch" Maddox Bubba Max-a-million ...

[@doctorbarber1]

The community is so big that it actually has news sites that cover it exclusively, and almost every day there's a story on there about some boomer getting arrested for a DUI in his golf cart

[@fafo867]

they made a boomer ethnostate lmao

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

This sounds like the ideal neighborhood to loot when the revolution comes

[@finished6267]

For what? Franklin mint collectible plates? Stamps? Fucking golf clubs?

[@freakyzed8467]

@@finished6267 all the dinars you could ever want.

[@finished6267]

@@freakyzed8467 oh tight. Iraqi dinar are the boomer doge.

[@cer_eal]

I live in the villages, the private security detail that patrols the streets just got government plates on their commercial cars. this place is scary.

[@lhaviland8602]

70 should be the max age for voting and running for public office.

[@MrJohndoakes]

2:40 When I think of "The Village", I think of a weird place where everybody has numbers instead of names, people can never leave, there are killer roaring weather balloons.

[@idareya355]

I heard the villages has the largest concentration of STDs in the country

[@powderedtoastfacekillah734]

Revisiting after the president retweeted the “white power” tweet

[@eartianwerewolf]

This is one of the best of all time

[@thomasross6824]

My grandparents live here, and it’s genuinely creepy how similar everything is

[@alekazattic6622]

"It has enough golf courses to play a different course every week of the year..." "Oh my fucking God kill me now"

[@ryanotte6737]

I made the mistake to take a peek at The Villages area satellite images via maps. It might be as depressing as scrolling around looking at the tar sands oil extraction operations.

[@landryprichard6778]

Omg...I have a trust fund cousin who is in one of these in Florida! Thanks for filling in the gaps.

[@dopaminey9946]

This is the humour needed in a psycho world. The brutal truth in a brutal world😀😊😭😢😐😃😄

[@Beery1962]

Chet Sturges. Aaah ha ha ha ha ha. WTF is "Chet" short for anyway? I mean, surely no one is actually called "Chet".

[@BBoyd-bt3hy]

Chester lol, sad I know that but that's what it's short for

[@zukoher]

Shinra Company!!!

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Literally midgar

[@TheBeatle49]

A few years ago a friend suggested I move there. I didn't explicitly know any of this but reacted instinctively, "No way."

[@rabidcheesehead2914]

Ur so right at the end I used to conservative until I actually thought about nuance

[@JulietRoseCapulet777]

Even if you love golf, who the FUCK wants to live with/by that many golf courses?!? I’m a huge swimmer, but there’s such a thing as too many swimming pools no matter how cool they are!

[@Crowley9]

You say "The Village" and my mind goes to The Prisoner. Which also works in this context.

[@awlomthesheepermen]

Wow the new get out adaptation went in a weird direction

[@warmlycalculated390]

Goddamn, Jordan Peele NEEDS to make this.

[@polemius01]

Thanks for the PSA. I now know one place NOT to go to when I retire.

[@theradhatter4100]

There's a based lib in this neighborhood who is the coolest man you will ever know. And he's having a great time ☺️😂

[@burbclavefutur1527]

Here's another comment posted on TheVillageNews.com by an actual resident: "Don, What a breath of fresh air. My parents were messianic white liberals from suburban Chicago who believed in bussing, sec.8, quotas, lowered standards, abolish civil service, etc. I tried to tell them about "diversity" but they won't listen. FINALLY their neighborhood became integrated. 1 st to go was the Propane BBQ grill,Lawn mower while taking a Pee, groceries while unloading from the street, roofing shingles taken at night,burglary while doing yard work,neighbor kids asking for just $10 to buy food(crack), schools scores collapsed while spending more$.They missed out on the masked home invasions. I tried to tell them for I lived & worked with multiculturalism. Our government has ethnically cleansed every major city in America. We need a currency collapse to see if America would survive like The Great Depression."

[@giannigiovful]

this is why we need a boomercide, 5 years cannot come fast enough holy shit

[@otakuevolution2131]

We need to nuke these motherfuckers from orbit.

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

Can't wait until the Villages degenerates into the music video for HAM by Mr. Oizo.

[@chipbipple2593]

Wow. That's twice as many people as love in my hometown, the "City" of Berwyn.

[@theotherdude1998]

I'd like you all to know that I got a Ben Shapiro ad on this video

[@cordelllongstreath741]

shinra joke

[@FirstnameLastname-bn4gv]

I actually went to school with a guy named Hunter Tuggle

[@qtipmotha]

How many years do we have to wait until it's under water?

[@Dayglodaydreams]

Act as we say and think you should act or we will yell about you doing that. That is socially enforced uniformity.

[@romanticplacebo3693]

This is their Kingdom Come, and is it any wonder these are the people who whip themselves into a frenzy over the infinitesimal?

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I’d expect to see something like this in a fucking Carl Hiaasen book.

[@pixelbath2131]

oh i bet it's just a coincidence that this is the only content on KZbin that stops playing and pretends to buffer with full wifi or 4G and doesn't resume until i close and reopen the app and reload the video?

[@VolcanicPenguin]

Did you guys finally set up an official KZbin Channel?

[@cadene5498]

“Oh I just unlocked the Lieutenant Calley skin.”

[@rats748]

5:45 Amazing joke by Felix that was lost on the room

[@brookstanner]

I got a concealed carry ad as pre-roll for Chapo. lol.

[@JoeSixThreeOh]

brookstanner Is it the “RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS DON’T CARRY A GUN AS A WEAPON, BUT AS A SHIELD” with the flip-out holster? Made it a point to never buy their holster because of how fucking annoying that ad is.

[@Distimmer]

This place keeps coming up... Trump did a campaign rally there a week or so ago.

[@noahklinger7083]

5:45 nice FFVII shoutout there...

[@ponkrock]

A fleet of golf carts, armed with hunting rifles, decorated with hunting gear… They rule the Florida mainland.

[@iloveryangreasley6172]

I live like 20 minutes away from "The Villages" and it really isn't anything remarkable, I actually don't see THAT many older people when I go shopping up there...

[@LordSkella]

I had a friend who made an ad for them and was micromanaged to shit and back

[@benpickard3203]

I can't believe my liberal grandparents lived here

[@bonzaisubber8535]

16:04 “pree-ons” Matt; “pry-ons” are the birds, bro

[@davidsenderodelsanto]

Actually either pronunciation is correct. Pree is the Latin and prai is the Greek.

[@THATBOISHAD]

These guys are savages 😁 I love it.

[@stothAjs]

Obama saluting with a latte = WW1 and Great Depression for Trump supporters.

[@ItsBrokenPen]

shinra retirement homes. for a peaceful transition back to the life stream. moggles on staff 24/7.

[@pano3607]

Apparently they’re not all trump supporters! They’re a bit more divided according to that recent video. Although the ones that like him also like shouting “white power”, so y’know - they are *deep* trump supporters.

[@jays2551]

this really is hellworld

[@butyraceousbrachiosaurus]

19:00 just a normal sermon like pastor charlie used to give

[@SpiritoftheEmperor]

Hey Jimmy Buffett is great.

[@bearVshark100]

This is the woodlands texas

[@someyoutubecommenter5164]

Not to defend this American Berchtesgaden but pickleball is a ton of fun, easy to get into, cheap, and can be quite competitive. Boomers do not get to claim this great American sport.

[@punchcat1234]

the villagers are a very scary group i mean scary

[@BNardolilli]

And now they have Corona

[@lhaviland8602]

33:56. I am deeply disappointed in the lack of an Irma reference.

[@PurushaDesa]

Hunter Tuggel.

[@tonycampbell1424]

Glorious FFVII reference.

[@mrpieceofwork]

How do they keep those pesky hurricanes out?

[@CMike44]

Londonderry NH wuttt

[@Dartyus]

More like senillages.

[@Gilgaemesh]

Watch the documentary about this. It's amazing...

[@pdmacgregor]

I think a change is going to be coming to this abomination;

[@BETTERNOTGOLIVEBOY]

My grandparents used to live in the villages. I loved visiting them. My grandparents are Democrats. My grandpa worked in the union sprinkler industry his whole life and my grandma retired from Sam's club.

[@jkholtgreve]

Golfing isn’t a sign of wealth, necessarily. Here in the Midwest it’s actually a working/middle-class pastime. I guess it depends on how many public (and affordable private) golf courses there are nearby.

[@jonsnor4313]

Its still often a sign of how wealthy you are, but not always. My uncle who works as a waiter(in a country where it doesnt mean you are extremely poor, but not wealthy either) does golfing as his pavourite hobby. He is by no means rich, but there are still lots of folks who are there because they want to show of wealth an prestige. But you are right, it doesnt mean you have to be wealthy. Also he nearly won a free trip to a luxus hotel in a tournament. With a free luxus suit.

[@jkholtgreve]

Jon Snor Yeah, that’s why I didn’t include the poor in my assessment. My dad grew up upper-working class (his dad was a skilled tradesman) and played it all through adolescence and young adulthood. When he moved to suburban Chicago he quit but retained his love of the sport. I never understood it till I wound up in his old stomping grounds. You’re right about the wacky class mix though- public courses are a lot like public fishing holes in that they’re some of the few spaces that still have an incredibly wide income representation. But in rural areas the difference between the professional and laboring classes isn’t as stark either.

[@bigmouthprick5852]

Golf is simply for cunts

[@honestabe411]

Terrible for the environment

[@shady8045]

Oh wow cool it’s the worst thing ever

[@nuber11blade]

There's so many golden videos from the inside! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnnQZIucZqZ3pLc