The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 10.13 Big OnlyFans Leak Exposed, Alex Jones, Belle Delphine, Trump Hit With Subpoena By Jan 6 Committee, &

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sup, you beautiful bastards! Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show. Buckle up, make sure you're subscribed, otherwise I will punch you in the throat, and let's just jump into it. We had a smattering of OnlyFans news today, which makes sense. It's hugely popular, and there is a fuckton of money involved. Specifically regarding money, we saw one of their biggest creators on the platform, Amaranth, saying her account got hacked, and someone actually tried to steal $900,000 that was just sitting in her account. Though, luckily for her, OnlyFans wasn't able to verify the bank account info those hackers used. And while a lot of the reaction was like, close one, that sucked. You had people saying, why do you just have $900,000 in an account? To which she actually answered saying you can only withdraw at a certain frequency or volume. She's saying she does a special withdrawal with them each quarter. Side note, I think that I should no longer cover the news and instead I'm just going to manage OnlyFans models. Is that a

Starting point is 00:00:44 career? Can I do that? Because anytime we talk about OnlyFans, I'm like, I'm in the wrong business. I'm going to start a whole new Friday show, OnlyFans Fridays. I'm going to interview OnlyFans models or have them talk about current events and promote them and take a percentage. Did I just accidentally come up with a great idea? Could you imagine getting a percentage of what Belle Delphine brings in every month? Also, yes, I did just mention her so I could use her in the thumbnail. It was a weak thumbnail story day. Secondly, do you remember where I recently talked about an OnlyFans creator being jailed in Myanmar? Where they said it was about the adult content, though it really seemed like it was because she criticized the government? Well, it happened again, except this time in Singapore, and it also doesn't seem to be kind

Starting point is 00:01:17 of a scapegoat situation. With the production and distribution of porn being illegal in Singapore, but as Vice notes, OnlyFans creators have towed a fine line there, operating in a hidden scene that had escaped sanctions from authorities. But then, in a crackdown last year, police issued a warning to creator Titus Lowe, ordering him to stop posting to the site, but then he didn't do that, with his lawyer saying that Lowe felt an obligation to continue providing content to his subscribers, some of whom prepaid for it despite the ban. So police charged him with transmitting obscene material electronically, he pled guilty, had to pay a $2,100 fine, and he got sentenced to three weeks in jail. But then finally, the legal trouble wasn't just in Singapore. Rather, we got updates to the lawsuit against Meta and OnlyFans. Right, earlier

Starting point is 00:01:52 this year, adult content creators accused Meta executives of accepting bribes from OnlyFans to get competitors blacklisted, right, in doing this by flagging competitors' content for security threats. And now, the names of three of those executives were accidentally revealed per a report from Gizmodo. With those executives including Nick Clegg, Meta's vice president of global policy, Nicola Mendelsohn, vice president of the global business team, as well as another employee named Christian Perella,

Starting point is 00:02:13 who LinkedIn identifies as a Facebook trust and safety director. And as for how those names got leaked, OnlyFans' parent company said that it accidentally unredacted them in a filing and had asked for the document to be deleted. With the other filings having referred to them as John Doe's. Now, for their part, Meta has denied the allegations, as has OnlyFans, but it is an ongoing case. We're gonna have to see what happens,

Starting point is 00:02:30 because this is also not the only lawsuit of its kind at play right now. There's also this separate lawsuit from OnlyFans' rival fan, Censure, with very similar allegations. And then, I want to tell you about this amazing, brave badass that you've maybe never heard about, though some of you definitely have. His name was Takahashi Kazuki. He's the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and unfortunately I have to use the past tense because he mysteriously drowned back in July. But this week, we got new revelations, and they are as amazing as they are heartbreaking.

Starting point is 00:02:55 It was revealed during an interview that he died while saving people from a dangerous riptide. So on July 4th, a U.S. Army major was teaching a diving class on the beach where Takahashi was visiting. The major heard a woman cry out for help because her daughter and another U.S. officer were caught in the riptide, so he and Takahashi jumped into the water, with ultimately both people saved as well as the mother who was swept out before making it back to shore. But several people said that they saw Takahashi struggle against the six-foot waves and ultimately disappear beneath them, with his body being found two days later by the Japanese Coast Guard. And in his interview, the major praised Takahashi for his actions, saying, he's a hero. He died trying to save someone else. And since

Starting point is 00:03:29 this revelation, many of the manga artist fans have been saying the same, saying he'll mostly be remembered for his influence on an entire generation of kids, but he should definitely be remembered as a goddamn hero. While there's nothing that can bring us back because we all are headed to the same place, I really do believe what we do, what we try to do, the stories that we create to connect to other people and the stories that are told about us, those live past us. Those shape the world. And even with heartbreaking reminders like this,

Starting point is 00:03:54 I think it reminds us to try to live a life and do things to make your life a story worth telling. And then let's talk about Alex Jones. A jury ordered Jones yesterday to pay eight victims, families, and one first responder a whopping $965 million. That, the result of the second Sandy Hook defamation trial. And if you add on the $49 million that he was made to pay two families after the first trial, we're talking over a billion dollars of damages so far. So we saw the victims' families finally letting out a sigh of relief in the courtroom after a decade of conspiracy-driven harassment and threats. Some seen crying or hugging their attorneys

Starting point is 00:04:30 who helped them get to this moment, as well as Robbie Parker, a father who lost his daughter, Emily, during the shooting and whom Jones called a crisis actor, saying he has a message for Jones's followers. For anybody that still chooses to listen to that man, just ask yourself, what has he ever given you? And compare that to whatever it is that he's taken from you. But also, let me be clear about a key thing here. This is not the

Starting point is 00:04:50 end of Jones's punishments. This verdict is for compensatory damages, and the judge is still yet to determine punitive damages, including first whether Jones has to pay any, and if so, how much, which remains uncertain. Though, Connecticut law caps punitive damages at attorney's fees and litigation costs, so it's unlikely there's another billion-dollar bomb coming down the pipes. You've also got another victim's family bringing Jones to a third trial down in Texas later this year, but another key takeaway is that even with the damages dished out so far, nobody's sure really how much of them Jones can actually afford to pay. But if you ask Jones himself, he'll say it's impossible, pointing to his business filing for bankruptcy recently, though that doesn't necessarily

Starting point is 00:05:21 mean that it's actually bankrupt. And even during his show where he actually reacted to a live stream of the verdict, he laughed and asked, calling the plaintiffs ambulance chasers and mocking the verdict like it was something out of Oprah. And hey, it is extremely unlikely Jones has the money to pay all these damages, though the family's attorneys say they will chase him to the ends of the earth and make him pay every last dollar. Meanwhile, you got Jones' lawyers saying they're going to appeal the verdict. But regardless, this is a huge, huge thing. And the final thing that I want to touch on today,

Starting point is 00:05:56 because I've seen Jones starting the beginning of his media rounds to try and whitewash this incident. And that's something that might prove very effective, because you look back, it's so far away. What did he say? I can't remember. I saw a clip today of him once again being like, I didn't do any of this,

Starting point is 00:06:10 which is why I think it's important to showcase some of the shit that he was saying. And in fact, Andrew over at Channel 5 did just that with his Alex Jones interview about two weeks ago. You know, he does this thing where he lets Alex talk and Alex tries to recreate history. And then just in the edit, he plays this. I simply question things

Starting point is 00:06:24 and they're trying to demonize me to say questioning things is a bad deal. And elementary school massacre, 26 dead, 27 dead now, 18 kids in Connecticut. When you got small children, this really gets to you. That's why the globalists use children's deaths to go after our guns, because they know it gets to us. Don't ever think the globalists that have hijacked this country wouldn't stage something like this. They kill little kids all day, every day. And it's not our government, it's the globalists. I really think they're gonna try to come after the guns.

Starting point is 00:06:52 It's gonna start a civil war. I clearly believe from the evidence, children are really killed in Sandy Hook, and it's a real tragedy. Unfortunately, evidence is beginning to come out. People who've been coached, people who've been given cue cards, people who are behaving like actors.

Starting point is 00:07:11 I dropped Billy off and watched him go around the corner, and he never came back, all because of the guns. Won't you just turn your guns in for my son? I mean, folks, we've got video of Anderson Cooper with clear blue screen out there. Nothing can account for what happens to his nose. Early on, I said, well, they had to have killed somebody. I mean, this doesn't make sense.

Starting point is 00:07:31 Then parents come out and start laughing and then turn to the camera and cry. No one died in 2012 in Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are. Yeah, ultimately, we're going to have to wait to see how all this happens. And in the meantime, yeah, it appears that Alex Jones is going to be doing the rounds.

Starting point is 00:08:00 And it also appeared that he's even trying to fundraise off of this. So that's interesting. And then holidays have a funny way of sneaking up on you. And if you haven't started preparing for the chaos of holiday mailing and shipping, you're already falling behind. That's why I want to talk about today's sponsor stamps.com slash Phil. And when you're running a small business, every second counts and you can't afford to waste a single moment. We're all busy enough as is. And personally, I love how convenient and cost effective this is for me and my business. I can get all the mailing and shipping done without even leaving my house.

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Starting point is 00:09:23 specific competitive and closely watched districts, because that's the key thing. In those specific competitive and closely watched districts. Because according to the survey, 48% of the likely voters in those competitive races, they prefer the Republican candidate while 43% support the Democrat. And in those very close elections, 55% of registered Republicans say they are extremely motivated to head to the polls compared to just 45% of Democrats. I want to point that out because the nationwide polling here can be very misleading. When you look at all districts nationwide, it actually looks good for Democrats, with 50% of likely voters saying that they back the Democrat

Starting point is 00:09:48 in their district versus 47% who support the Republican. Although, I mean, just on a generally disheartening note, four in 10 voters, including more than 60% of independents, they say they don't think the candidate in either party has a clear plan for solving the country's problem. Also something that was very eye-opening is what mattered to voters. I think in your head right now,

Starting point is 00:10:05 what are the top three most important things when you're thinking about who you're voting for? Feel free to pause for a second. And then let's see if it matches up, right? So the survey showed that the economy remains the most important topic for both registered and likely voters. With that very notably being followed up

Starting point is 00:10:18 by voting rights and election integrity, as well as an inflation. It's an incredibly significant thing here is that abortion was actually listed as less important. Following below even gun policies were both demographics and even below immigration for likely voters. And for Democrats and I think pro-choice independents, I think that could also just be

Starting point is 00:10:33 having a lack of faith in politicians, right? Not believing that if Democrats somehow held the house and they had the numbers needed to abolish the filibuster in the Senate, that they would actually do it and codify abortion rights. Yeah, ultimately that's the state of things, a little bit of my take. Of course, I'd love to know your thoughts. These midterms are going to be very interesting to watch. Like I said, if you have not already

Starting point is 00:10:50 done it, go to headcount.org and make sure you're still registered. Come up with a voting plan. Be a part of the process. Because in addition to a lot of big lie candidates being on ballots, like there are really concerning reports about how Stop the Steal supporters are training thousands of U.S. poll observers. And some of them are even advising these people to ignore local election rules. But yeah, you either face the challenges of the times or you turn your back to it and what happens, happens. And then I want to talk about John Fetterman, the Senate candidate out in PA. Side note, thank you to the Eagles offense for keeping me alive this fantasy football season. Just throw it some more to A.J. Brown is all I ask.

Starting point is 00:11:22 But I want to talk about Fetterman right now because he's in this extremely tight race with the Wizard of Oz. And the race is kind of based on a few key issues right now. Criminal justice, abortion, inflation, opioids and Fetterman's health. Right back in May, he suffered a stroke caused by a heart condition. The Fetterman reassured voters that he was on the road toward full recovery, that he had no cognitive damage and that he would jump right back on the campaign trail after resting. Within the next month, his doctor putting out a letter backing that up and saying, if he does what I've told him, and I do believe that he is taking his recovery and his health very seriously this time, he should be able to campaign and serve in the U.S. Senate without

Starting point is 00:11:53 a problem. But his Republican opponents and the captain of Crudite have still attacked his health, criticizing him for not releasing any more medical records since then and not letting journalists interview his physicians. Though Fetterman maintains that if anything changes in his condition, he'll give an update, but until then, it's not necessary. Which now leads us to the big news, everyone talking about his appearance on NBC this week, which was his first sit-down interview since the stroke. And in that, reporter Dasha Burns grills him on whether he's fit to serve in Congress,

Starting point is 00:12:15 saying that he seemed to have trouble engaging in small talk before the cameras started rolling. With Fetterman explaining that it's an auditory processing issue, which makes it hard to hear what people are saying clearly at times, which is why he had Burns' questions displayed on a computer in real time as captions. But still, you had NBC highlighting this moment where he fumbles a word,

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Starting point is 00:13:36 challenges that Americans have day in and day out. Which I just have to say as a side note, if, if you think that is bad, you should hear all the fucking flubbed lines that get cut out of this show every day. Also with this, you had Fetterman supporters saying, hey, I'd rather have Fetterman kind of flubbing something here or there rather than fucking Dr. Oz. The quack who promoted miracle cures to millions of credulous housewives for years. Also Fetterman himself stressing the difference between him and Oz, throwing out this jab. Dr. Oz likes to make fun of me that I might miss a word, but, you know, he's missed, you know, two words, and that is a yes or no on the national abortion ban. But still, with all this, you had Republicans holding up that interview as evidence that Fetterman's cognitive issues preclude him from serving. That, then prompting pushback from disability

Starting point is 00:14:17 advocates and others who spoke to him. Like one New York mag reporter who interviewed Fetterman tweeting that his comprehension is not at all impaired, he understands everything, it's just that he reads it and responds in real time, saying it's a hearing and auditory challenge. Others also calling the attacks on him ableist and saying this is just one instance of a bigger pattern of discrimination in politics. And actually with this, and I've only really recently learned this, for people with physical disabilities like this, this kind of prejudice against them is more prevalent than you'd think. I have a guy on my team, for example, who actually worked with me on this story and he offered up the opportunity to say, you know, he's blind and people sometimes assume that that means he's incompetent. Whereas in reality, that's the furthest thing from the

Starting point is 00:14:50 truth. He's one of the best people I've ever worked with. And for people with speech pathologies in particular, that experience can be especially frustrating. Where you have people seeing communication issues as questionable intelligence or cognitive decline. Even though it's been said that Fetterman is expected to get better and better and he's using this technology kind of just in the interim as like a walking cane to fully get his stride back, it hasn't stopped Republicans from asserting that he's unfit for office, and also doing so in the fucking most disgusting ways. If you don't remember, a senior communications advisor to Dr. Oz's campaign said,

Starting point is 00:15:17 quote, If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke. Which I just see as a further confirmation with Oz and in general that you are who you keep around you. And then I watched the final January 6th hearing, so you didn't have to, though I will link to it down below because you should. It started with a committee saying some notable things. The most striking fact is that all this evidence come almost entirely from Republicans. A key lesson of this investigation is this. Our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold, regardless of the political cost. We have no guarantee that these men and women will be in place next time. sources that his election fraud claims were false. He admitted he had lost the election. He took actions consistent with that belief. With Chairman Bennie Thompson specifically clarifying that this session was not a hearing, but rather a committee business meeting, but that

Starting point is 00:16:15 the panel will still present new evidence. While much of the evidence reinforces what we already knew, there were a few interesting findings here, right? Specifically regarding Trump's efforts to overturn the election being premeditated. They went through testimony and documents outlining how many close to Trump encouraged him to embrace lies about mail-in voting ahead of the election. Also playing lots of new testimonies from some of the president's top advisors and senior administration officials who outlined how Trump knew that he had lost the election. This is including from aides who said he explicitly acknowledged that he had lost in private conversations, as well as from others who said he had made the acknowledgement implicitly through actions like ordering overseas

Starting point is 00:16:44 military withdrawals implicating he was trying to accomplish final military goals. One of the key and most notable pieces of new information came from the members efforts to present the potential for violence and how well-known it was. One of the most prominent moments of the hearing being the clip of Trump advisor Roger Stone. I suspect it'll be, I really do suspect it'll still be up in the air. When that happens the key thing to do is to claim victory. Possession is nine-tenths of the law. No, we won, fuck you.

Starting point is 00:17:07 Sorry, over, we won. You're wrong, fuck you. ABC. I said fuck the Lord and let's get right to the violence. That's what I'm saying. Start smashing pumpkins if you know what I mean. Members also introduced a lot of new evidence from Secret Service memos that show that the agency was well aware of the potential for violence. This including

Starting point is 00:17:27 communications from December that showed the Secret Service was informed that extremist groups, specifically the Proud Boys, planned to march into D.C. armed on January 6th with a source explicitly saying their plan is to literally kill people. Please, please take this tip seriously and investigate further. Other texts and emails further showed that Secret Service agents arrested several Trump supporters carrying assault rifles and pistols in D.C. on January 6th, and members specifically claiming that Trump himself knew the crowd of his supporters were armed and dangerous and heading to the Capitol, saying that Trump and the White House had ample opportunity to try and stop this. The committee then went on to outline how Trump refused to call off the mob, presenting testimonies

Starting point is 00:17:59 to establish how Trump for hours refused demands from top advisors and the closest to him to stop the deadly violence as he watched it unfold. The panel then playing previously unseen footage of both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders where they're pleading with the Trump administration to provide resources and help the people in the Capitol. And remember, for the sake of time, I'm trying to condense this, make it consumable, but I can't hit on everything. So I definitely recommend you click the link down below and watch it, even if it's on like 1.75x speed. But the last thing that I want to mention with this is what happened at the very end And that is the fact that the committee closed this session by voting unanimously to subpoena trump to testify now as far as what?

Starting point is 00:18:31 Happens next. I mean we're gonna have to wait to see the inevitable legal battle over this unprecedented subpoena But if one thing is clear is that the panel's work is not yet done and not just on this front, right? Because in her closing remarks liz cheney literally said that the panel has information to consider criminal referrals for multiple individuals. So some big things to keep an eye on. But ultimately, that is where that story and today's show ends. Thank you for watching and subscribing to my daily dives into the news here. If you're looking for more news, I got you with more Philip DeFranco show here or this brand new channel that's been blowing up for us where I just cover international news. But do what you will because my name's Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in. I love your faces and I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 10.13 Big OnlyFans Leak Exposed, Alex Jones, Belle Delphine, Trump Hit With Subpoena By Jan 6 Committee, &

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