Sup you beautiful bastards! Hope you're having a
fantastic Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it
And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is why
massive conservative
commentator Tomi Lahren was in the news.
Over the weekend Tomi Lahren post a photo where she's wearing a make America great again one piece
A fanny pack a flag with wings with a caption:
"Oh L.A. get ready to find your safe spaces! What am I? Well if your conservative,
I'm American as fuck. You're lib i'm offensive
Let's go."
And to that I say Tomi is someone that doesn't really identify as lib or con
You just look like the physical embodiment of
obnoxiously transparent pandering.
But I can't fully hate on it because it's
obviously worked out for you very very well.
But that said unsurprisingly there were people
that hated on her for this outfit.
You had others criticizing your costume choice
saying that it was hypocritical.
This because she has criticized NFL athletes for
disrespecting the flag during the national anthem.
Some people claiming that this was a violation of the US flag code.
US flag code 36 USC 176 reading:
"The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally
but always aloft and free. The flag should never be used
as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery
should never be festooned, drawn back nor up
in folds, but always allowed to fall free.
No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform."
There are many people that sounded off on this,
but one of the most interesting was Keith Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann tweeting: "Patriotic? Bullshit.
She's in violation of the US Flag Code: "The flag should
never be used as wearing apparel."
Then linking to the code,
to which Donald Trump jr. responded:
"Life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid."
And his tweet included a screenshot of
Olbermann's tweet, alongside a picture of Olbermann
literally draped in the American flag.
He's wearing the flag, the flag is touching the ground
So this making Olbermann's tweet look incredibly
hypocritical. Olbermann then responded:
"I knew it! Either Uday or Qusay would be dumb enough
to fall for it and retweet the cover of my book.
The winner is @ Donald Trump jr. #Thanks Dondi"
Adding "Donnie's confession that 'Life is hard;
it's even harder when you're stupid' ...Tomi Lahren's retweet were unexpected bonuses"
So his tweets seeming to imply this was all part of his grand strategy for free promotion.
I mean that could be true, but I have a very hard time believing. It feels like the Trump's playing five D
chest levels of bullshit
You know like if a story came out that it was like Donald Trump
got his hand caught in a Pringle jar for five hours, people be like
but here's here's why he did that. It's five D chess people.
But also, Keith, he didn't actually tweet out the cover of your book.
It was just a picture of you seemingly looking like a hypocrite.
Whatever, let's move forward.
Tomi Lahren eventually responds to the criticism writing
"For the selectively patriotic snowflakes who are melting over a Halloween costume:"
and with that, including a screenshot of the text
"Unless an article of clothing is made from
an actual United States flag, there is NO breach of flag etiquette whatsoever."
People are simply expressing their patriotism and love of country by wearing an article of clothing that happens to be red white and blue with
stars and stripes. And that statement she included comes from the American Legion which is a wartime veteran service organization.
And so that's why some people say that this is an unofficial answer that conflicts with the actual flag code.
Also either way it's important to note that the official flag code is not actually enforced.
It just also serves as a guideline for how to treat the flag which of course brings up the debate of is it really the
Flag if it's not a repurposed flag. It's just a piece of clothing that has the stars and stripes honestly
That's really the end of this story and for me this story is Tomi being Tomi there's being patriotic
And then there's being purposefully divisive if she has this outfit fine to say if you're a Lib I'm offensive
That's just another example of someone making a blanket statement that doesn't help anybody
And I will forever love the Tomi Lahren's career is essentially called yelling and calling people
Snowflakes for being offended by things where her entire show is her screaming about things that she is offended by, but that's my personal
Takeaway, I of course would love to know your takeaway from this story from that. I want to share some stuff
I loved today in today and awesome and the first bit of Awesome today is actually something I forgot to share yesterday
And that is the brand-new trailer for Detroit become human
That's a new game from Quantic Dream
Who of course made heavy rain beyond two souls I'm just so ready for more of their awesome
Then we had a rap battle between James
Corden and Method Man battle that if we're being
Honest wouldn't actually really be fair if people were just coming up with things off the cuff
But the final products still enjoyable
then we got a
Fantastically well done and really interesting video from Cracked called
Why the cops won't help you when you're getting stabbed, and it just goes through this insane story
Then we got an awesome mashup of stranger things two with ariana grande then for your foodies out there
We got this really interesting
Video today from Thrillist about Minnesota wild rice never thought I'd be interested in wild rice actually pretty interested
And if you want to see the full versions everything I just share the secret link of the day anything at all
Links as always are in the description down below, then at a quickie update around Kevin Spacey
You remember how yesterday? We talked about house of cards?
It's ending after season six
But even though the show is ending and the creator of the series spoke out the show is still in production well
Today meteorites capital and Netflix have announced that the production of the show is currently suspended in a joint statement
They said decided to suspend production on house of cards season six to give us time to review the current
Situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew so production is suspended until further notice will it come back
I don't know then let's talk about our douchebags of the day James and Cheyenne Chalkley. these two were arrested yesterday and charged with
Injury to a child which already sounds bad, but it really doesn't describe the full situation
Let's walk through it these two are the parents to three
Children a ten-year-old girl a five year old girl and a three year old boy
Authorities are notified last September when a teacher notices that there are bruises on the five-year-old girl's back initially the girl tells the nurse that
she doesn't know how she got hurt then saying she got hurt on the
playground we would later find out it appears that this five year old girl was lying because
She told this to investigators, the father would spank them when they misbehave
but because they bruise easy, Child Protective Services wanted to get their father into trouble and quote break up their family that just breaks my
Heart because you have this small child who believes that their abuse is
Standard now because there's something different with her that she gets bruised too easily
She has to protect her dad CPS gets involved
They speak to all three children and the stories that come out when they talk to officials and their foster family it is rage-inducing
Both sisters said their father and stepmother would beat them with belts and switches a ten-year-old girl saying her father had shoved her head
Into a wall while her stepmother beat her with a switch with thorns the five year old girl saying the parents would take turns
spanking her she said her father put her head in a toilet and flushed it adding that her father would use a
Shock collar like the kind you would give to a dog on her on her arms her legs her back both children described an instance
With their father where the father found cat feces in a closet thought
They had intentionally refused to clean it so he then smeared the wet diarrhea on their faces
and made the five-year-old eat some five-year-old also saying that the father had put poop on a
Toothbrush and brushed her teeth so hard
She started to bleed and when talking about their stepmother the little girls added that she was often there
She was present while this was happening according to the ten-year-old when their father would ask
Cheyanne their stepmother if he was being too hard on them
She responded that if they were her kids she would hit them more also
It's really heartbreaking about this story is it appears that CPS had previously been involved according to the affidavit. There was an instance in
2016 where the father left the children unsupervised January of this year he reportedly sprayed his naked children with cold water while outside
While it was 45 degrees that case was reportedly closed as high-risk and we're in on the story isn't a surprise
I'm furious some people just don't deserve children
I may have referred to these two as parents, but they are not and I look at that man's picture
I do not see a father
I see an abusive sperm donor my opinion when you say mom dad you're talking about a real parent it
Biology doesn't matter nurturing the love. That's what makes a parent and I see none of that here
That's what we're gonna end this story these two in my opinion are garbage people their only
contribution to society is to be an example of what not to be that's the only thing they've succeeded at then let's talk about the
Huge updates around Catalonia and Spain now
We've talked about this story several times as its developed, but if you don't know what's happening
Let me bring you up to speed this will be a little oversimplified
But here we go Catalonia is a region in Spain and a good number of the people there want independence now
They've had autonomy
But they have found that that has
Limitation and so what we recently saw in Catalonia is they had elections that brought pro-independence parties to power to promised referendum on independence
And they move towards one in response to this a Spanish government claimed that it was illegal unconstitutional
And that Spain was indivisible and during that you may remember Spanish national police were
Violent and brutal and stopping voters and protesters and as far as the votes cast ninety percent were four independent
Although there was a dispute as to whether or not this vote was representative of Catalonia this because only
43% of people voted see a people saying well not even half the people voted this can't be legitimate of course the argument against that
Was Spanish national police were out there beating people in the streets not everyone that wanted to vote was able to and some people might
Not have even bothered to go out because they knew what Spain was going to do and so that's essentially where we last left that
Story, so what has happened now
It's all Catalan president Puigdemont speaking with the generally taught about independence you wanted to postpone
Independence to quote have a conversation with Madrid about Catalonia's future seemed open to negotiate in Catalonia status
rather than just pure
Independence but Spain refused this they demanded to know if Catalonia was actually going to declare independence
And this is because in their constitution
They have this thing called Article 155 and 155 allows the central government to remove
Self-rule from a region in case they're trying to leave Spain, but before they can actually enact it
They need to have actual confirmation of Independence Puigdemont
Then dodged that question and said he'd leave it to the generally taught what we saw there is that the generally taught voted for independence
70 voted yes 10 vote no there were two
Absentations and the rest boycotted the vote and then in response that on Saturday Spanish Prime, Minister Mariano
Rajoy came out and said quote. I'm informing you that as of today
I am dissolving that Catalonia in Parliament and on the 21st of December there will be elections and so there that was him invoking article
155 of the Constitution and Catalonia was now under Madrid's direct rule
Catalan police commissioners were fired most government officials were fired and that obviously
including president Puigdemont in response to this his office told reporters that he doesn't recognize the order from Madrid removing him from power and
We saw a Spanish Attorney General filing rebellion and sedition charges against Puigdemont and his cabinet additionally there were misuse of public funds
charges
So we're looking at our charges that carry sentences of thirty twenty and five years
Unsurprisingly Puigdemont and much of his cabinet
They all seem to be
Missing all of a sudden as far as where was he there were claims that he was in Brussels seeking asylum and Belgium made it
Clear that if Puigdemont asked for asylum
They would quote have to consider it we have since learned if Puigdemont said he did flee to Brussels
But not to seek asylum saying quote. I am NOT here to demand political asylum
I am here in Brussels as the capital of Europe I'm here in order to act with freedom and safety and as far as the
Independence movement itself in Catalonia, it doesn't look really strong right now earlier in this movement
We saw incredible numbers taking to the streets to vote to protest so we've seen from this is that secessionist had called for mass
protest civil disobedience
but very few people actually went out to take part also a large trade union who had originally backed the protests have now backed out saying that quote things have to
Carry on as a recording this video things have remained somewhat calm in Catalonia and as of right now
There is a scheduled Election Day on December 21st and so understand what I'm saying here isn't that this swing at independence in Catalonia?
It's not fully dead, but it does seem like the movement is on its back foot right now
But ultimately we'll have to wait and see how this situation develops
And that's actually where I'm going to end today's show and remember if you liked this video your like we're trying to do on this
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