The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 6.1 What Ellie Kemper's KKK Princess Controversy REALLY Exposed, Jake Paul, Pete Buttigieg, More

Starting point is 00:00:00 Sup you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and a few things before we get started. One, welcome to my new office. We successfully moved over the weekend and by that I mean everything outside of this room is in shambles. We're getting there.

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Starting point is 00:00:47 First up, we've got the three ring circus and clown show that is Jake Paul. In the news, many people have been wondering who he is going to fight next, especially because near the end of last month, things appeared to be getting more legitimate with Jake Paul signing a deal with Showtime Sports. It's a multi-fight deal, and so people were going,

Starting point is 00:01:00 okay, is he actually going to fight someone that is one, a boxer, or two, has ever in their life knocked someone out with their fists? I mean, to date in public fights, Jake Paul has fought and beaten a YouTuber, a crab, a former basketball player, and Ben Askren, who throws punches like this. We got the answer and confirmation today.

Starting point is 00:01:18 Jake Paul will be fighting Tyron Woodley, which, hey, yeah, he's still picking a UFC fighter, but Woodley's got hands. And on one hand, you had a lot of people going, yes, Tyron Woodley is a guy that is actually knocked out, trained killers. But at the same time, you had a number of people saying that Jake Paul

Starting point is 00:01:33 is picking kind of one of the safest legitimate fights that he could. Noting that Woodley has lost his last four fights and actually has not won since 2018. Yeah, ultimately we're gonna have to wait and see. Is Jake Paul over-competent here? Is he biting off more than he can chew? Or is he gonna make another person a meme?

Starting point is 00:01:47 Then we had actress Ellie Kemper in the news, trending on Twitter. I think a lot of people clicking on that going, "'Oh, is there another season of, "'or a spinoff of Kimmy Schmidt?' The answer was, no, not that." And instead, a lot of people on Twitter calling her a KKK princess.

Starting point is 00:02:01 Yeah, so the way it started is with tweets like this, "'Sharing a photo of Ellie in 1999 as the winner of the Veiled Prophet Queen of Love and Beauty pageant when she was 19 years old and people digging up the balls old and racist history. So a lot of people here are referencing a 2014 article in the Atlantic about the event, which says that it was started in St. Louis in 1878 by Confederate cavalrymen

Starting point is 00:02:18 and local civic leaders who wanted to make a Mardi Gras like event. It also involved a secret board of local elites choosing an anonymous veiled prophet who would then choose a queen of love and beauty. With the article saying that one of the reasons that it was started was to enforce the power of the elite as there was growing labor unrest throughout the city.

Starting point is 00:02:33 Saying the primary goal was to take back the public stage from populist demands for social and economic justice. With it being meant to reinforce the values of the elite on the working class of the city. And adding, in fact, to underline the message of class and race hegemony, the image of the first veiled prophet is armed with a shotgun and pistol and is strikingly familiar

Starting point is 00:02:49 in appearance to a Klansman. And in fact, for several decades, neither Jewish people nor African Americans were allowed to participate in the ceremony. And even in the early years of the event, there was public backlash against, for amongst other things, racist stereotypes that were portrayed.

Starting point is 00:03:01 And so what we ended up seeing with this is in the 90s, the name of the event changed to the Fair St. Louis, but much of the tradition regarding power changed to the Fair St. Louis, but much of the tradition regarding power structures remained with St. Louis' own website saying, "'The traditional VP celebration has represented "'for St. Louisans a perceived link "'between different components of the community

Starting point is 00:03:14 "'in a holiday celebration,' while also reinforcing "'the notion of a benevolent cultural elite "'and noting that it was created "'by white male community leaders.'" And so while yes, it definitely obviously has racist roots, reports are also noting that it has no known ties to the KKK. And so as far as what all of this has meant for Ellie Kemper,

Starting point is 00:03:29 well, obviously online, there was still a ton of backlash. You also had people saying things like, the Ellie Kemper thing is hilarious, but you people don't really think she's like a secret Nazi agent and not just from some dumb ass town where they make you square dance, right? As well as the likes of Sarah Moldofsky,

Starting point is 00:03:44 a museum educator in St. Louis, doing a huge thread on this event and adding that, well, yes, the ball is rooted in a deeply troubling past. Today, many daughters of wealthy people participate in it and its roots are clearly left out as we know organizations whitewash history. So many young teenage girls participate in this because of family pressures with no idea of the background.

Starting point is 00:04:01 And adding, in fact, many St. Louis residents are unaware and adding that she was born and raised there, but didn't know about it until she started working in the history museum sector. Then let's talk about making babies. Not me though, I'm done. I got two, got the snip-snap, playing man on man defense for life.

Starting point is 00:04:15 But you know how recently we talked about the US birth rate being low, there being some concern there? Well, it's not actually just a US centric problem. This is an international issue. The United States has a birth rate around 1.84. It usually uses immigration to help fill those gaps. With a birth rate of 2.1,

Starting point is 00:04:30 they refer to it as a replacement rate, which is a weird way, but an accurate way of describing what making children is. Yeah, 2.1 to keep a population stable. Yeah, I mean, South Korea, for example, last year they had a birth rate of 0.84, the lowest in the world. And then you also have, and it's the focus today, China, who last year they had a birth rate of 0.84, the lowest in the world. And then you also have, and it's the focus today,

Starting point is 00:04:46 China who last year had 12 million births, which notably is down 18% annually and is the fourth straight year of declines. With a number of experts saying they believe the population there will peak in 2025. And then you potentially have an issue because as Morning Brew explains, fewer babies equal fewer future workers,

Starting point is 00:05:02 and it could upend existing systems of support for the elderly because younger workers' taxes subsidize public services for retirees. So because of this growing fear, China changed their policy on children yesterday, right? If you're unfamiliar, back in 1979, China enacted a one child per household policy over fears that they didn't have resources

Starting point is 00:05:17 to provide for a growing population. They then changed that in 2015 so people could have two children, and now, post-pandemic, with these growing concerns, they have made it so that married couples can now have three children. But here's the thing, experts think that it might not actually help out.

Starting point is 00:05:30 When China instituted the two child policy, that didn't really result in more births. And like in a lot of places, including the United States, when you ask young people, why are you not having babies? A big part of it is I don't have the time or the money. Or you know, a 26 year old professional there in the New York Times saying, no matter how many babies they open it up to,

Starting point is 00:05:45 "'I'm not going to have any "'because children are too troublesome and expensive.'" Also, it's not just direct monetary costs, but for women in particular, it's the cost of pausing or potentially losing careers. But also, I should note, not every place is worried about lowering birth rates. You also have places like Africa,

Starting point is 00:05:59 whose population is set to double by 2050, which is also part of the reason that the global population is not expected to go down, right? It's around 7.8 billion today. It is expected to be 11 billion by the year 2100. From that, I want to take a second to thank the fantastic sponsor of today's show, Athletic Greens.

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Starting point is 00:07:15 as we were going into the weekend, and that's often how you kind of like miss stories. In Canada, there was a mass grave found with the remains of what is believed to be 215 children. Reportedly, in British Columbia, it was a school that was set up to assimilate indigenous people. It ended up being closed back in 1978.

Starting point is 00:07:29 And the details, I mean, it's just an absolute horror show. As the BBC explained, Canada's residential schools were compulsory boarding schools run by the government and religious authorities, right? So they were forcing these kids in. And the Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest in the residential system. It was opened under the Roman Catholic administration in 1890.

Starting point is 00:07:46 The central government took over in 1969. According to Roseanne Casimir, chief of one of the communities there, "'To our knowledge, these missing children "'are undocumented deaths,' and adding, "'Some were as young as three years old.'" Following this news coming out, you had Justin Trudeau saying

Starting point is 00:07:59 that this was a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country's history. "'I am thinking about everyone affected "'by this distressing news. We are here for you. And while this story is horrifying and it's heartbreaking on its own, what's really scary is this is just a small piece

Starting point is 00:08:11 of a much bigger problem and an issue in the past. Right from 1863 to 1998, reportedly more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools. And while there, the children were often not allowed to speak their language or practice the culture. And many of course were mistreated and abused. And notably. And while there, the children were often not allowed to speak their language or practice the culture, and many of course were mistreated and abused. And notably with all of this,

Starting point is 00:08:28 two notable things happened in 2008. One, the Canadian government formally apologized for this system. And two, a commission that was launched in 2008 to document the impacts of the system found that large numbers of indigenous children were never returned to their home communities. And in fact, according to the Missing Children Project,

Starting point is 00:08:42 which documents the death and the burial places of the children who died while attending these schools, to date, more than 4,100 children who died while attending a residential school have been identified. So this most recent finding is kind of just the little bit of the iceberg that's poking out of the water compared to the whole horrifying situation, which, I mean, is also part of the reason

Starting point is 00:08:58 why you have so many people saying, we need to investigate even further than we already have. This is just one school out of over 130. And then finally today, let's talk about news around President Biden's infrastructure plan. Right, so like we talked about last week, Biden proposed a $2.3 trillion plan. Republicans came back in the 500 billion range.

Starting point is 00:09:15 Biden comes down to 1.7 trillion. Senate Republicans then release a plan that's 928 billion. And with that, you had the Biden administration setting a deadline saying, I want to come to an actual compromise with Republicans by this weekend. With that later changing to June 7th, when Congress actually comes back

Starting point is 00:09:29 from the Memorial Day break. And so with that, just being six days away, there's a question of, will we actually see compromise? It's unclear if they can actually meet somewhere. So with that question looming and the deadline getting closer and closer by the second, I reached out to and talked to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over the weekend.

Starting point is 00:09:45 One of the first questions I asked him is, with their two different plans, where are Republicans and Democrats actually close, as well as areas where there's still a lot of debate? Well, one area that you see a lot of alignment is the idea that we gotta do a lot around, for example, our roads and bridges. Our number came in higher than theirs.

Starting point is 00:10:00 We moved a little bit closer to theirs. There's a lot of work still to be done for them to be in the same place, but it's an area where you can tell we started in a more similar position. Other areas we're really pushing for that didn't seem to be a priority for Republicans, for example, rail and transit, very important to this administration, I think very important to Americans. So many Americans depend on transit to get to where they're going. So our jobs plan calls for us to double the investment in transit in the United States.

Starting point is 00:10:28 But as we talked about last week, one of the areas that Republicans and Democrats are furthest apart is how to actually fund this plan, right? Biden wants to pay for the plan by raising corporate taxes. Republicans have rejected that instead, wanting to spend unspent COVID relief money. When I asked Buttigieg, is this the area where Republicans and Democrats

Starting point is 00:10:43 differ the most, he agreed. Would you say the area that Democrats and Republicans are kind of furthest right now, other than that, would be funding? Because it does appear that Republicans have flatly rejected the plan to raise corporate taxes. Yeah, I think it's accurate to say that's probably where we've been the furthest apart. And remember, even though this is a big, big plan, right, we started at two plus trillion dollars. He's also laid out how to fund it in its entirety without asking most ordinary Americans to pay more in taxes. We think that corporations need to be paying their fair share. A majority of corporations, or sorry, a number of corporations pay to zero on billions of taxes. And that just doesn't make sense. We're not calling for a very high tax rate.

Starting point is 00:11:28 We're calling for a tax rate that's lower than it's been most of the time since we've been alive, but more balanced than where we are right now. We've not found a very detailed plan on an alternative for how to pay for that that wouldn't require something the president's not willing to do, which is put it on ordinary Americans. So clearly a lot of work to do if we're going to come to terms on what they call the pay force, the question of how you're going to pay for all of this. Now, there are other funding sources that have come into the discussion. One that's interesting is financing authorities getting some private dollars into the mix, and that has its place. But it's not going to be able

Starting point is 00:12:03 to do all of the heavy lifting here, which is why we think, certainly the president thinks that what we've put forward is the best route so far, which is to just get corporations to pay their fair share. And by the way, who benefits a lot from us doing this is corporations, because we've become more competitive. This is good for the American people. It's also good for business. And so regarding the financing, it does appear that Republicans want to finance almost everything entirely using unused COVID relief funds. Is that something that the administration would consider? And if not, why not? I'd really think twice before turning to the COVID relief dollars. Remember, these are dollars going out to small businesses, rural hospitals, restaurants,

Starting point is 00:12:43 cities, communities that really need those dollars, and they're doing a lot of good. We're saving jobs today by creating certainty about tomorrow. That's what the rescue plan was about. And you'd really wanna think twice before going back into those dollars and clawing them back, especially again, when we don't have to.

Starting point is 00:13:00 But even beyond funding levels and mechanisms, top Republican negotiators have repeatedly said that there is a fundamental disconnect over what constitutes infrastructure. Well, Republicans believe that it needs to be traditional definitions like roads and bridges. The Biden administration thinks that it should go beyond that, for example, as Buttigieg explained.

Starting point is 00:13:15 We found that things like having an elderly parent that you need to stay and take care of or not being able to afford childcare, these are actually keeping people out of the workforce. So I know that sounds pretty far afield from a construction job, but it may be that somebody doesn't have a chance to get a construction job

Starting point is 00:13:30 because she or he is stuck taking care of somebody because of our failed care infrastructure. That's how these things fit together, and that's why we think we need to do them all at once. But ultimately, we're gonna have to wait to see where the negotiations go, what happens next week, will the deadline be met or not. Personally, I am a cynic, but ultimately with this story

Starting point is 00:13:49 and interview or honestly anything else that stood out to you today, I'd love to know your thoughts in those comments down below because this is the end of today's show. As always, thank you for being a part of this little family, watching the videos, like and subscribe and all the good stuff.

Starting point is 00:14:00 But with that said, of course, as always, my name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in. I love yo faces and I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 6.1 What Ellie Kemper's KKK Princess Controversy REALLY Exposed, Jake Paul, Pete Buttigieg, More

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