Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you had a fantastic
Wednesday welcome back to the philip defranco show and let's just jump into this and the main thing we're gonna talk about today is some
more of the fallout around the parkland shooting and then some of the just insanity and
Ridiculousness that we've seen around this story. The first part of this is something that actually happened as yesterday's show was going on yesterday 100
students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled seven hours to the Florida House of
Representatives to watch a vote. This because the house was voting on a motion for debate on a bill that could ban the sale of assault
weapons and ultimately in just three minutes the House voted down the motion 71 to 36
just so you understand the full situation here the bill would have banned large capacity magazines also labelling weapons such as the
Ar-15 as assault weapons and then banned that was actually assigned to three committees in the house
but those committees weren't actually scheduled to meet again before the
Legislative session ends on March 9 and that essentially meant the bill was dead unless the House voted to open debate up again
Which they did not, then following the decision we saw the students there and attendance obviously upset lots of photos of students crying in the gallery
Were spreading online one in particular that blew up was of Cheryl aqua
Laurie a 16 year old junior from the high school after the vote
She said it was just so heartbreaking to see how many voters names were up there. Especially after it was my school
It seemed almost heartless how they immediately pushed the button to say no they had the chance to stop it today
If there is another mass shooting it's going to be their fault
We've also seen a lot of outrage stemming from this session this because in the same session where the House voted no the House passed
a resolution declaring
pornography a public health risk Democratic congressman carlos guillermo smith saying unfortunately just five days after
17 people were gunned down at a florida school the Florida House just passed a bill that declares pornography a public health risk basically what?
They have determined is that these are the Republican priorities in?
2018 wasting our time with debate and legislation that declares porn as a health threat meanwhile
We can't even get a single debate vote or hearing on anything related to assault weapon now from this part of the story
I just want to preface it with I am going to try and stay calm and
Compose I can easily do that with the first part of the story
It's a vote a lot of people have a lot of different opinions regarding gun laws
Ar-15 s things of that kind. I will let you know right at the beginning for transparencies sake I have been
Infuriated by everything else we're about to talk about I'm also aware that with how much support some of the pure insanity
We're going to jump into has this will likely result in this video being disliked bombed
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That's a let's jump into the second part of this story
So if you haven't seen there has been a concerted effort since the shooting to discredit
Attack muck and just plain lie about these survivors of this school shoot and the first thing
We'll hit on is the mocking and dinesh d'souza
In response to the decision in florida and specifically an article from the hill that read breaking florida lawmakers
Reject phil to ban assault rifles days after school shooting the nash tweeted adults one
Kid zero following that and responds to a picture of the survivors of this school shooting crying with the TAC AP photo of school shooting
Survivors watching florida lawmakers vote down a bill to ban assault weapons Dinesh wrote worse news since their parents told them to get summer jobs
And I want to say this to the nation' anyone that support of those tweets go fuck yourself
in your garbage face you stupid motherfucker if you weren't already you definitely are now a
Trash person and now just more people know about it is one thing to disagree with someone's opinions their activism
It is a whole other thing to
openly mock the
survivors of a school shooting and when I tweeted something to this extent there were some people saying off Phil's showing his liberal bias in
My eyes, this is not a partisan issue well. Well Dinesh is a conservative political commentator a conservative filmmaker
I do not think he represents everyone that is right lean in my eyes
You have people that are generally on the lap people that are generally on the right
And then the assholes here Dinesh is an asshole and so rightly so we saw people from all parts of the political spectrum
Speaking out against Annette this ranging from Mother Jones is editor-in-chief all the way to Ben Shapiro
Also, if I can just have a quick aside here
I kind of want to give a tip of the hat to Ben Shapiro
And and his website daily wire you may enjoy him or maybe you don't like him you disagree with their politics the the stuff they
Put out they recently announced. They are no longer going to show the faces of mass murderers. It's something
We've done here on the show for a long time
It's something we have preached for a long time so anytime anyone with an audience whatsoever adopts this
I am a fan, but back to the story
We also saw two Sue's that even denounced by the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC if you don't know are an annual
Conservative event he's reportedly been a featured speaker several times
We saw a user tweeting at CPAC riding a ACU
Conservative might want to cancel Dinesh D'Souza's at CPAC right about now you draw a line at one of your speakers openly mocking child survivors
Of Florida school shooting, and they responded with hey Raphael
This is fake news National, Sousa is not a speaker at CPAC 2018
You are seeing an archive speaker profile
And we are taking down his archived picture his comments are indefensible now as far as D'Souza yesterday
We saw him then add genuine grief I can empathize with but grief organized for the cameras politically orchestrated
Grief strikes me as phony an inauthentic
Well the media exploits the parkland shooting my heart goes out to the parents and family members who are grieving the loss of loved ones
Which I will say personally strikes me as phony like how can you tweet my heart goes out to the parents and family members who?
Are grieving the loss of loved ones when you're tweeting. Oh don't one kids zero
This is almost as bad when those stupid entitled kids have to get a job for the summer following all of this this morning Dinesh
Tweeted while it aimed at media manipulation my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends and a terrible tragedy. I'm truly sorry
He's apologized. He's trying to make it about me media manipulation
Exploitation that doesn't seem to match up with his previous statements, but okay
Whatever they comment quickly on the idea that these these children those survivors of this shooting are being exploited
I would argue that we need to say all or not what I mean by that is if we have the victims and survivors of
a of a shooting of any tragedy whatsoever and they want to talk to the media or they want their story shared
We should allow it same as we would allow President Trump during the State of the Union to provide many
Examples many victims and their stories someone's daughter was killed by ms-13. Let's share that story
Let's talk about it if someone shoots up a school
And you survived and you you think that maybe something can be done, so this doesn't happen to someone else let's talk about it
Why are we picking and choosing when we can share stories?
why is it when an illegal immigrant or someone who came here legally went through the right processes or a
Refugee does something horrible?
We can immediately talk about immigration and border security
and it's not politicized when it becomes a different situation like how does a 19 year old legally get an ar-15 same day then that's
exploitation manipulation when someone speaks out and I say this and I always get a lot of international hate for this I
Support the Second Amendment personal, it's a massive issue
But I think at the very least we can talk about mental health we can talk about
Access we can talk about better background checks. We can talk about better points of sale
Why are we depriving a common sense conversation any oxygen?
But all of that said the mocking around this situation was nowhere near the worst thing about it conspiracy
Theory is around the Parkland shooting range from okay
That's kind of crazy to just
Batshit disgusting and ridiculous one of the main conspiracy theories revolves around david hog you may remember him
He's one of the students that we talked about standing up speaking out
He also helped announce the march for our lives event what we've seen since the shooting is that hog and several other
outspoken students have been accused of being
Crisis actors Aaron literally claiming Hogg and others are paid to travel to disaster sites and argue for stricter gun laws and let's actually talk
About the evidence being used against David hog
I saw this being pushed by Infowars a
Correspondent for the gateway Punda and people saying David Hogs having trouble reciting his lines and let's actually look at the video
They're talking about when we heard the first gunshot. We initially thought. It was a drill. That was a bad choice
Actually that was bad choice because the jannat
People are sharing this video saying see he's been trained to say some things as proof
there's an agenda at all I see there as a teenager trying to talk about a traumatic moment in his life as cleanly as
Possible in an interview if it's not live try and say what you're trying to say as cleanly as possible people pointing to the person
Behind the camera saying it's fine as if he was coaching him
He didn't try and twist it to fit that narrative, but that just sounds like a producer saying like it's okay. Just you're fine
It's come you you take your time
We're gonna shoot this piece anyway people sharing a video over the past 24 hours saying boom damning proof of that
Hog is a crisis actor, and it's a video of David hog on CBS. He's labeled as witness
It's news out of California chose one of Hogg's friends and other teenagers are confronting a lifeguard get people saying boom
Here's the evidence. Hog is a crisis actor
How is it in 2017 he's in California for this so then in 2018 he's at this school and Florida
He's involved in this shooting and speaking out we answer that is simple a hog lived in California, and then several years ago
He moved to Florida and sometimes he still visits his old friends while he was back in California visiting this happened
Which then connects to another conspiracy theory that hog actually graduated from high school in?
California doesn't even go to school in parkland
Florida people sharing this Facebook post this photo saying look look at the yearbook its facts. I guess what turns out that's fake news
Thanks to a student who had their Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the school in Florida's yearbook and boom
There is the other reports were fake news
Misleading reports doesn't stop it from being shared because fuck it it fits our narrative
Also thing to note is that video showing david hog in
California for that news report that has since been removed from YouTube before it was removed
It was actually the number one
Trending video on the website which a lot of people have given YouTube a lot of hate about and I will say well
I understand the anger looking at the title I can understand
How it slipped through the title of the video doesn't lead you to believe that it's being used as misleading
propaganda once you actually look at the the description the
Comments where where the traffic's coming from you can see that it is
But they did end up removing the videos saying that it violates YouTube's policy on harassment and bullying also issuing a statement saying this video
Should never have appeared in trending because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source our system is classified as soon as we became
Aware of the video we removed it from trending and from YouTube for violating our policies
We are working to improve our systems moving forward and as it right now. That's the ultimate batshit-crazy claim
There are also some that claim the students are connected and working with the FBI
People saying this seemed to feel like it's definitely true because hogs father worked for the FBI also a thing to note as these batshit
Conspiracy theories didn't just stay online we saw it actually bleed into real-life
politics in fact an aide to a Florida state lawmaker was fired Tuesday for pushing this crisis actor theory Laura Representative Shawn Harrison's District Attorney
Benjamin Kelly he reportedly sent an email to a Tampa Bay Times reporter in response to a story about how online
Conspiracy theorists have attacked student survivors of the school shooting the papers
Washington bureau chief Alex Leary
Tweeted out that email and the email from Benjamin Kelly read both kids in the picture are not students here
But actors that travel to various crisis when they happen and Alex Leary saying in his tweet
Here's the email I asked for more information to back up the claim and was sent another email that link to a YouTube conspiracy video
And the video he reportedly linked was the video of David Hogg and a news report in California following all of this
Florida State Representative Sean Harrison later tweeted tonight mr.. Kelly was terminated from his position as my district secretary
I am appalled at and strongly denounced his comments about the Parkland students. I'm again
Sorry for any pain this has caused the grieving families of this tragedy also saw Kelly
Delete his Twitter account, but not before saying I've been terminated from the Statehouse
I made a mistake whereas I tried to inform a reporter of
Information relating to his story regarding a school shooting this was not my responsibility
I meant no disrespect to the students or parents of parkland so we apologize
But just for responding to the reporter not for promoting a conspiracy theory okay. You know just looking at this situation
I mean it was already a horrible situation, but but the fact that real politicians that real
Survivors are having to say no this actually happened. No one's faking it. We're we're not we're not being used
We're wanting to talk. It's incredibly troubling
I saw Marco Rubio have two tweets and claiming some of the students on TV after Parkland are actors is the work of a disgusting
group of idiots with no sense of decency
tackling Korean one of the five students who announced March for our lives tweeted our kids not actors
We are kids that have grown up in parkland all of our lives
We are kids who feared for our lives while someone shot up our school. We are kids working to prevent this from happening again
We are kids diego Pfeiffer a Stoneman Douglas senior saying this those people that are calling us
Crisis actors or actors in general you know what I want to go to school for musical theater
I would love to be an actor no joke but but honestly
The people here and the people that we left behind with the people that are no longer with us
they are not acting they are dead so have that other people tell me that my
Mourn my grief is not real that I'm just acting it out
I would love to be that good of an actor trust me I would
But I'm not and this is real also hearing from Sam Fuentes another senior from the high school who sustained multiple injuries you cannot look?
me in the face and
Tell me what happened isn't real
You can't tell me in my face that this violence does not occur not after you've lost your friends
Not after you've lost people you've known for so long and of course David hog. Haven't go on TV to say no
I'm not a crisis actor. I'm not an actor in any sense way shape or form. I'm not a crisis actor
I'm somebody that had to witness this and live through this and I continue to have to do that
Also, interestingly enough during the interview David hog even says that he's Pro Second Amendment
But he just wants to talk about background checks and access and the ar-15 these people keep saying that I'm anti Second Amendment
I'm not I
would love if I want every American to be able to own a gun that has a mentally stable mind a
Person that has a credible background that doesn't have any previous like major
convictions and
Somebody that's not going to go out and commit these atrocities because those are the people that are at fault here
This is an addition to video David hog put out on his own YouTube channel two days after the shooting with several other students from
The schools just pointing out
we're not actor unfortunately it only really seems to have been picked up by a lot of people who think that he's an actor and
Harassing him in the comments even calling him soy boy is extremely feminine
Onto you you little twerp people calling him an outright liar
Here's the thing it is okay to disagree
With David and any of these other students or anyone that supports that I think you can 100% acknowledge that on this topic
They're very very left, and they're trying to push an agenda disagree with them
But don't openly slander them creating these insane conspiracy theories
So you don't have to talk about the real issues also to bring it back to earlier
Don't openly mocked um's of a crime with all of that said where I actually want to end this story today is around the heroes
And the victims last week we talked about Aaron Feist the football coach who died shielding students from gunfire
he also mentioned Scott beagle who was killed after unlocking his door and letting students in to hide from the gunman and since then we've
Learned about students like Peter when Peter was a 15 year old member of the Junior ROTC
Reportedly he was killed while holding the door open so others could escape from the gunman the stories around Peters heroism also
Led to an online petition for him to get a burial with full military honors
And while full military burial honors are not generally given unless the deceased was active duty the US Army ended up finding a way to
honor Peter Peter and two other freshman JROTC cadets who also died in this shooting Martin Duque Elena petit were all awarded a medal of
Heroism classmates and family members also said the Peter dreamed of attending the US Military Academy at West Point yesterday the day of his funeral
the Academy announced his admission and a statement the Academy is saying the US Military Academy wants to pass on our deepest condolences to the
Hwang family in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school community Peter weighing at a lifetime goal to attend USM a and was posthumously
offered admission for his heroic action it was an appropriate way for us MA to honor this brave young man West Point has given posthumous
Offers of admissions in very rare instances for those candidates or potential candidates whose actions exemplify the tenets of duty honor and country we also
Have the story of Anthony Borges he's a 15 year old student was shot five times
Protecting 20 students from gun firing that he was reportedly shot in his back and legs as he locked the door and blocked the doorway
With his body
And so thanks to his actions and no one else in the classroom was injured student was reportedly in that room saying none of us
Knew what to do he took the initiative to just save his other classmates and after the shooting Anthony was taken to the hospital
Initially he was in critical condition, but the good news is he is now in fair and stable condition
That said he still has a long road ahead of him with many more surgeries to come people have started a GoFundMe
Page for him that I'll link down below, and that's where I'm gonna end this one
This is by no means all of the heroes from that day
And I mean that across the board the individual actions of certain survivors as well as all the first responders with all that said
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