Sup, ya Beautiful bastards
hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump right into it
And the first thing I want to talk about today is this insane story out of Egypt.
There's this singer by the name of Shyma Ahmed, professionally she's just known as Shyma
She released a video last month, and it sparked massive outrage in Egypt.
It was a music video for her song "I Have Issues"
Some of the offending scenes include her in front of a classroom
You can see her bra, on the board it says number 69. She's licking an apple
She's being sensual with a banana, she and other men in the background start putting their mouths on some tacos
and then there's this scene where she pours milk on the banana.
and this is big news, they were talking about it on TV, talk shows, blogs, newspapers
The singer reportedly responded to the backlash on her Facebook writing:
But that wasn't the end of it soon after Egyptian state media outlets reported that the singer and the director of the music video were arrested
Arrested on November 18 following complaints about the video
and then yesterday a Cairo court found them guilty of inciting debauchery and publishing an indecent film
Both of them ended up getting sentenced to two years in prison and had to pay a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds
and pun not intended, but this whole situation is bananas
And unfortunately this is just another example of the government cracking down on artists
Just to remind you since taking power in 2014,
Sisi, he's used a wide range of immorality laws to crackdown on artists.
Blocking critical voices on TV, print, some digital content. You may also be wondering why the picture of President Sisi
I'm using has him with Mickey Mouse ears and the reason I'm doing that is in Egypt
That's illegal
Egypt actually jailed a 22 year old law student
for posting that image, three years behind bars.
and obviously that's in a different lane to the kind of censorship
we're seeing here, but it is still censorship.
When it comes to female artists, we've also seen other dancers jailed for months
One singer is facing trial for quote,
"spreading provocative publicity" just because she suggested that drinking from the Nile River might make you ill, so she's facing trial for causing
an unjustified mockery of Egypt.
And that's without even diving into how the government goes after the LGBT community
And I don't really know if there's a main point here. It's just seeing stories like this
it-it-It infuriates me
but it also makes me so thankful that we do have this freedom of speech.
This freedom of expression to be who we are and to do what we want to do
I don't know, this story is just crazy to me
Then in another update on the Keaton Jones story
...This kid just can't win right now. Reports are coming out today that his father is a jailed white supremacist
He has CWB on his neck which stands for "crazy white boy"
People who went through his Facebook where he posted Aryan pride,
"Holy fuck I love being white" memes, picture was found where you can see "pure breed" and "white pride" tattooed on his chest
Now I personally stand by the belief, once again, that we need to separate Keaton from his parents.
it's unclear what kind of relationship he has with his son
The last picture we see of the estranged father and son together is January 2015,
but even that's in a public place.
So is it like visitation, check in?
But what it does affect the most is Kimberly Jones, Keaton's mother
She as you might remember tried to dismiss the photos of them with the Confederate flags.
"This as ironic, it's funny."
So now obviously you have a lot of people looking at the father, going "are you sure?" and also because I don't feel like repeating myself
For two and a half minutes if you want to see the other misinformation that is out there around the story
I'll link to yesterday's video and the video before. But an update to one of those pieces of misinformation:
People were saying that the family started a GoFundMe
The truth is that was started by someone else who said they wanted to raise money for the family and the mother Kimberly Jones has actually
Released a statement saying:
But with all of that said, I do want to once again reiterate:
Keaton is not his parents, Keaton is Keaton, you are you.
It is not okay to harass and bully this boy as I've seen more and more in the past two days
because of who his parents might be.
And it's just disappointing because I know people gonna look at this and go,
"See, this is evidence. This is evidence that Keaton said the n-word" Which once again,
It was an allegation that that seemingly is based on nothing real.
Someone said that the person that found the photos said some stuff
Just a blind claim in the world to which people say,
"Well, how do we know that Keaton was actually bullied?"
Well the school has even confirmed there was a bullying incident,
but did try to downplay the like the severity of it. Said that it was being handled.
The main point: if we do not separate people from their parents,
we don't separate people from other people's pasts,
how the hell can we expect to actually move forward and work together?
Also, it's just a quick side note for anyone that's maybe watching me for the first time
I'm approaching this story as someone that has a mindset of fuck a white supremacist fuck bigotry in general
I've seen people somehow argue that because I'm trying to defend Keaton Jones that in that way. I'm a white supremacist apologist somehow
The leaps people make these days are Olympic tier.
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We also had Google putting out this really interesting year in search 2017 video
We also got this really interesting trailer for Annihilation
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Then let's talk about this wild story about Gibson's bakery in Overland, Ohio
And this story involves an incident from November of last year
It involves four main people:
Allyn Gibson, the bakery owner's son and three students for Oberlin college Jonathan Alledon, India Lawrence and Cecilia Whetstone.
In November of last year,
police responded to an altercation that spilled out of the bakery and onto the street,
There were two conflicting accounts of the incident.
According to Gibson he confronted one of the students that he believed to be trying to steal two bottles of wine.
Saying when they tried to walk out of the store Gibson took out his phone. He tried to take pictures of them
That's when he says Alledon swipes at his phone
He hits Gibson in the face and according to the police report:
According to one witness there was no verbal confrontation before things got physical
But we also got a different story from one witness.
Andie Golser who said:
And this is when he says he saw two girls trying to physically separate the two
But that they were also hitting Gibson at the same time.
And according to the police report when sergeant Ortiz, officer Fursteen arrived on the scene:
The officers then arrested the three students, charged Alledon with robbery
That's a felony charge, Lawrence and Whetstone, they were charged with assault.
Overland police lieutenant, Michael McCluskey saying that store owners do have a right to detain shoplifters. Saying:
But many people very quickly started saying that this was a racially motivated act.
Soon we saw hundreds of people gather outside of the bakery in protests.
One poster that was being passed around said that:
The Student Senate at Oberlin College passed a resolution that said:
They also called for members of the administration to formally condemn the bakery.
A member of the Black Student Union at Oberlin College saying:
Now since this incident the students that were involved have plead guilty to charges of attempted theft and aggravated trespassing.
They've also released statements that said their actions were wrong,
that the store wasn't racist.
And what we're seeing now is the bakery has actually filed a defamation lawsuit against the school
for encouraging the protests against the bakery.
And they specifically focused on Meredith Raimondo, the Dean of Students
They allege that she used a bullhorn at one of the protests, that she was handing out flyers
that said the bakery was racist, that they had a long account of racial profiling and discrimination
The suit accuses the school of facilitating the protest by canceling classes,
passing out fliers, supplying protesters with free food and drinks, and to the allegations about profiling he said:
Also pointing out police figures from the past five years
That only six out of forty adults arrested for shoplifting at the bakery were black
So essentially his argument is that we're not going after brown or black people
we're going after whoever in a moment we think is trying to steal from us,
which based on the actual arrest numbers, black people are a minority.
Now in response to this lawsuit
Oberlin College has responded saying:
and I'm very interested to see where this goes, not only because I think the just the general situation is interesting
But also because I want to see what else this college does.
This isn't the first time this school has popped up in the news
It popped up in 2015 because there were students angry about sushi.
There was outrage on campus, people calling the sushi
disrespectful to the Japanese, that there was culinary cultural appropriation
So that's not gonna help the school defend themselves from the people claiming that the the school and the students that are complaining are just SJWs.
But at the same time we do have a conflicting report on how things started I don't know, I'm gonna pass this question off to you
What are your thoughts around this story? And then let's talk about Roy Moore and Doug Jones.
Yesterday I said you know if I had to guess, I had to lean into it, with the numbers as we were seeing them, that Roy Moore
Was gonna be able to pull it off
But lo and behold, Roy Moore lost to Doug Jones by what is believed to be
1.5 percent of the vote, and this is huge news in Alabama because Alabama hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in 25 years
And even that guy was described as a conservative Democrat who eventually became a Republican
Now as far as who voted for what we looked to the exit polls.
But do keep in mind these are exit polls not exact reality taken from the ballots.
Among party lines and with independents
We saw a very significant split in the votes
Based on age we see the young people leaning to the left
Older people leaning to the right. Based on ethnicity and gender, we saw majority of white men and white women
voting for Moore, with black men and black women
especially we saw voting for Jones.
Now despite Doug Jones winning by 1.5 percent of the vote,
Moore refused to concede, last night telling supporters in Montgomery that he may pursue a recount.
"Realize when the vote is this close that it's not over and we've still got to go by the rules about this recount provision
that's what we've got to do is, wait on God and
Let this process play out -- if the votes are still coming in and we're looking at that
... May God bless you as you go on, may he give you safe journey, and thank you for coming tonight
It's not over and it's gonna take some time"
That said, it doesn't really look like anyone other than Jones will be in the Alabama seat.
The current margin is too large for an automatic recount, that would have to be under 0.5 percent
That said, a recount is always possible if the candidate requests and pays the cost.
So who knows?
That said, after the vote many people turned to President Trump
to see what he was going to say.
And last night he tweeted:
Which I will say personally
I was shocked that there was a response that cordial.
I even tweeted last night that that seemed far more reasonable than what I was expecting.
Someone was critical of that tweet,
I then responded:
And then at 3:22 a.m. Donald Trump tweeted:
See that's the Donald Trump I know, he does not like to lose
Remember when he had those tweets that were supporting and endorsing Luther Strange online
and then when he lost, he deleted them.
Which by the way Donald Trump was actually right,
Luther Strange was the best choice if they wanted to make sure that Alabama stayed red.
But honestly last night, I mean just take a look most of the headlines were like "Moore loses!"
This was more about Moore than it was about Doug Jones
It's Alabama, Doug Jones would have lost to an empty bag with the words "pro-life roll tide" on it
Also to the Democrats that are saying,
"You know this is the change, this is the change that we've been wanting to see,
this is the change towards the 2018 election.
Yes and no.
In the special elections we've seen this year, including the one last night, Democrats beat benchmarks.
The voting differentials have been big.
And yes what was seen last night is that President Trump's promotion,
his endorsement does have limitations.
But the only known limitations last night is the endorsement of someone that is seemingly very homophobic
and someone who was alleged to have touched underage girls.
So last night was representative of change, but not as much as you think.
Also in advance for the 2018 election
Let's just look at Alabama
Based on the vote last night where the Democrat got more votes than the Republican.
If the votes across party lines went the exact same way, you voted red, you voted blue.
If they were voting for representatives for the House of Representatives.
Last night the Republicans would have taken six out of the seven seats.
Obviously that should open up a conversation about gerrymandering
But it is very important to point out to Democrats who are enjoying this victory,
that you have many, many, many hurdles ahead of you.
I mean just look at the insanity of how they carve up those districts to make sure that it leans one way
It's wild.
And as it always happens with something like this,
people started looking around for who to blame.
Some blaming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who kept his distance from Moore's campaign.
Before the networks called the race last night Sean Hannity also attributed it to McConnell
"I think Mitch McConnell has a lot of culpability in all of this I was a Mo Brooks supporter from day one
And I thought he would have been a great candidate,
the person that came out strongest against Mo Brooks, Matt, was Mitch McConnell"
"That's right"
"Mitch McConnell, you know literally put himself in the middle of the race time and again
And it didn't work out well for him".
Others instead blamed former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
This because he was pushing hard on Moore's candidacy despite all the allegations against him;
many people seeing him as such a polarizing figure
that it may have actually inspired people to vote against Moore
New York Republican Congressman Peter King writing on Twitter:
And that is where we are right now.
As far as will there be more fallout?
Whether Bannon or McConnell, who knows.
Will Moore push for a recount which leads to end of year craziness?
Maybe.
What I do know for sure is if you thought 2017 was crazy, I don't know if it's gonna hold a candle to 2018.
And for everything else we're just gonna have to wait and see what happens.
And of course This is the Philip DeFranco Show,
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