Based Franklin, Pete Hegseth & the Meme That Broke Washington in 2025

Summary

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The Isabel Brown Show – “Based Franklin, Pete Hegseth & the Meme That Broke Washington in 2025”

Date: December 3, 2025
Host: Isabel Brown
Podcast: The Daily Wire

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the unexpected viral phenomenon surrounding the Franklin the Turtle meme – how it began, why it’s sweeping the internet, the “meltdown” of politicians and mainstream media in response, and what Isabel views as the real issues being ignored in favor of manufactured outrage. Isabel brings her trademark directness and sharp wit to dissecting meme culture, political hypocrisy, and shifting standards for what truly deserves the public’s attention.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Franklin the Turtle’s Meme Transformation

• Origin Story: Isabel sets the stage with the explosive popularity of Franklin the Turtle memes, transforming the gentle Canadian children’s character into a "red-blooded conservative American hero."

  • “Frank the turtle, our beloved 90s kid character, has transformed miraculously before our eyes from sad Beta Canadian soy boy to red blooded based Alpha American in the span of just a few memes.” (Isabel Brown, 01:49)

• Timeline: Started on November 30th when Secretary of War (formerly Defense) Pete Hegseth posted a meme (possibly created first by Maverick Alexander/@MaverickDarby) depicting Franklin targeting narco-terrorist boats.

  Key Meme Example: ‘Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists’ – Franklin is seen in a helicopter, launching grenades at drug boats near the US.

  • “If you have a book that you would like Santa to bring you this year, you should be asking for Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists. A classic Franklin story.” (Guest, 05:03)

2. Washington’s Meltdown Over Memes

• Political reaction: Congress, particularly Senator Mark Kelly, and mainstream media have taken offense at the meme and Hegseth’s sense of humor.

  • “Congress in particular is losing its mind. Now. It’s Congress. Okay? You guys know how I feel about Congress … there’s a great TV show … the West Wing … the deputy Chief of staff, Josh Lyman … ‘I’m so sick of Congress I could vomit.’ And that's pretty much the perfect articulation as to my response to watching Congress have a meltdown over a fricking meme.” (Isabel Brown, 06:31)

    • Mark Kelly’s Criticism:
      • “He’s putting out on the Internet, turtles with rocket propelled grenades kill. I mean, have you seen this? This is the Secretary of Defense. This is not a serious person. He should have been fired after Signal.” (Mark Kelly, 07:44)
      • Isabel suggests this outrage is connected to recent calls by some legislators for military members to defy “unlawful” orders – painting the escalation as political theater and deflection.

3. Meta-Meme Escalation & Internet Response

• Publisher’s Statement Backfires:

  • Kids Can Press, Franklin’s Canadian publisher, issues a condemnation of the violent, unauthorized use of Franklin – inadvertently fanning the meme flames.
    • “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image which directly contradicts these values.” (Kids Can Press via Isabel Brown, 11:32)
  • Meme creators vow to escalate the humor and creativity in response.

• Notable Meme Variations & Community Participation:

  • Franklin “conquers Canada”

  • Franklin brokers sale of Canada to the USA

  • Franklin joins ICE and arrests “illegal immigrant Dora the Explorer” while Boots and Swiper livestream (13:31)

  • Franklin defends libraries from Drag Queen Story Hour (15:03)

  • Franklin guards the women’s locker room from gender-nonconforming characters (16:01)

  • Franklin at a prayer vigil outside an abortion clinic (19:07)

  • Franklin teams up with Cat Turd to fight chemtrails (19:53)

  • Franklin bulldozes the Federal Reserve (“Franklin ends the Fed”) (20:06)

  • Franklin attends a Traditional Latin Mass, honors Mary at church (22:11, 22:32)

  • Isabel and her team even join in, creating their own Franklin memes for Catholic friends.

    • “Whoever invented this meme format, if indeed it was at Maverick Darby, thank you for your service to our society.” (Isabel Brown, 19:35)

4. Media & Institutional Outcry

• Article Highlights:
  • Politico: “Franklin the Turtle Publisher slams Hegseth for Violent Boat Strike post” (23:21)
  • NPR: “Franklin publisher slams Hegseth for his post of the Turtle firing on drug boats” (24:17)
  • BBC: “Franklin the Turtle and Sabrina Carpenter are in a tiff with the Trump administration” (24:34)
  • CBS: “Hegseth’s use of Franklin the Turtle in Meme on Boat strikes condemned by Book series publisher.” (24:49)
• Isabel ridicules the “toddler-level meltdown” from both politicians and journalists over a meme, especially in contrast to their seeming lack of outrage over graver issues.

5. What’s Being Ignored: “Real” News Stories

• Distraction from Serious Issues:

  • Isabel juxtaposes the meme meltdown with a shocking case from Minnesota – a Somali migrant convicted for the rape of a 12-year-old girl, receiving only a minimum sentence (28:19).

  • She shares the mosque’s letter in support of the perpetrator and criticizes cultural relativism and leniency in US law and asylum policy.

    • “So I tweeted this yesterday and I think it begs the question to ask again, forgive my youthful and cultural ignorance on all of this. Maybe I just genuinely don’t know any better, but is this letter from this guy’s mosque just openly saying that the kidnapping and rape of 12 year old girls is Somali culture? Hmm. Why would we ever give asylum to people like that? … Why would we ever make excuses for that behavior? But we are.” (Isabel Brown, 29:25)

  • She also highlights other similar stories of sexual violence and lack of accountability for migrants within Minnesota.

  • Rhetorical shift: She is angered by what she sees as misplaced outrage – memes get the press’s full attention, while rampant crime and threats to American safety receive excuses or silence.

    • “...Maybe instead of being so ridiculously outraged by one of our Cabinet secretaries being half aware of American culture and memes, the powers that be, from Washington to the media to everyone in between, really ought to be enraged about the kidnapping and rape of innocent American girls children.” (Isabel Brown, 34:24)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Meme Culture’s Power
  • “The fact that we have so many people in government leadership right now that understand meme culture, that can make something really funny … makes sense to us, not to Washington clearly, but sense to the American People, bravo. No notes.” (Isabel Brown, 05:30)
• Publisher’s Misstep
  • “You just violated the one rule of meme warfare, which is if you want it to go away, you just need to ignore it.” (Co-host/Guest, 11:47)
• On the Zeitgeist
  • “Thank you God for making me alive in 2025. A lot of people say they were born in the wrong generation. I am here for this right now.” (Isabel Brown, 23:00–23:05)
• Mocking Outrage
  • “Honestly, to me, it is just completely pathetic that the people in media and in Washington alike are having a toddler level meltdown like true temper tantrum about the posting of a literal meme from the Secretary of War when what they should be enraged about… is, I don’t know, legitimate narco terrorism…” (Isabel Brown, 24:49)
• Darker Realities
  • “Is this letter from this guy’s mosque just openly saying that the kidnapping and rape of 12 year old girls is Somali culture? Hmm. Why would we ever give asylum to people like that?” (Isabel Brown, 29:25)
• Call to Audience Participation
  • “I am here for the Franklin memes and I'm dying to know if you have a favorite Franklin meme from the last 48 hours that maybe I have not seen as it's going super viral.” (Isabel Brown, 34:36)

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Memes Highlight Reel (with Timestamps)

• Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists (05:03)
• Franklin Conquers/Sells Canada (12:21, 12:36)
• Franklin joins ICE, arrests Dora the Explorer (13:31, 14:40)
• Franklin defends the library / fights Drag Queen Story Hour (15:03)
• Franklin guards the women’s locker room (15:41–16:16)
• Franklin at prayer vigil (19:07)
• Franklin vs. chemtrails, bulldozes the Fed (19:53–20:06)
• Franklin attends Latin Mass, honors Mary (22:11, 22:32)

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Commentary on Meme Warfare & the Political Moment

• Isabel and her guest celebrate the viral creative energy, mocking both the establishment’s inability to handle internet culture and the way attempts to censor or control memes only backfire.
• The show positions meme culture as both cathartic and meaningful—connecting people more profoundly than political soundbites and squabbles in D.C.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Meme Context — [01:49–03:19]
• Meme’s Political Fallout — [06:31–09:53]
• Publisher’s Response Ignites Meme-Fire — [10:54–12:13]
• Franklin Meme Variations — [13:11–22:35]
• Media Coverage and Critique — [23:21–24:49]
• What’s Being Ignored: Migrant Crime — [28:19–34:24]
• Community Meme Share & Outro — [34:36–35:08]

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Episode Tone & Language

Isabel’s tone throughout is direct, irreverent, and often sarcastic—energetically critiquing what she sees as misplaced priorities from the media and political class, while playfully celebrating the creative “meme warriors” of the internet. The discussion blends internet culture with pointed political analysis, always returning to the show’s mission of “bold truth-seeking” and cultural commentary that “stays with you.”

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode is a fast-moving exploration of the culture war frontlines—specifically meme culture’s role in shaping (or skewering) public debate, and the political establishment’s struggle to keep up with (and meaningfully respond to) new forms of communication and satire. At the same time, Isabel uses the meme phenomenon as a jumping off point to highlight what she views as more pressing societal dangers—urging listeners to keep their focus on “what actually matters.”

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Transcript

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I come to you with somber news this morning that the Internet has been broken, but actually in the best way possible because Frank the turtle, our beloved 90s kid character has transformed miraculously before our eyes from sad Beta Canadian soy boy to red blooded based Alpha American in the span of just a few memes. Everyone is melting down that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle. But the memes that have come out of this are now rival ring and in my opinion, Fat jd Which is.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Saying something because that was peak meme.

[Isabel Brown]

Culture at its finest. I frankly am sick and tired though of watching politicians in Washington, the mainstream media and so many other powers that be be ridiculously angry at you for sharing a meme when they are Failing to pay attention at all to, I don't know, the kidnapping and rape of innocent American children, girls, narco terrorism that is threatening the lives of American citizens every single day, and the plight of illegal immigration and migration that is fundamentally attempting to invade our society. Everything you need to know about the Franklin memes and what the media should be actually upset about today on the Isabel Brown show.

90S kids, wake up because Franklin is breaking the Internet all over again. I have no idea how this really got started, but the Internet is ablaze with memes of the popular children's book series later turned TV cartoon, if I recall correctly, of Franklin the turtle. Now Franklin is a sweet guy, okay, he's got a little bit of beta energy. Turns out he's Canadian. Didn't know that. But Franklin is becoming a red blooded based American, at least according to social media.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

And every user on X that is.

[Isabel Brown]

Creating the most insane meme format I have ever come across, maybe in my.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Time as a creator.

[Isabel Brown]

And from what I can gather, this all got started on November 30th when our secretary of War, previously known as our Secretary of Defense, there was a name change. Don't dead name the Department of War, okay? It is the Department of War now, not the Department of Defense. Our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Tweeted out on November 30, this meme that some people are saying came from a content creator named Maverick Alexander at Maverick Darby is his handle on X. I don't know if he created this original meme or if he's just now the most prolific creator of the new Franklin.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Memes, but this meme was posted to Pete Hegseth's X account and all hell broke loose. Franklin targets the narco terrorists. I'm gonna leave this up here for a second for you. PXF tweeted this on November 30, so just a couple days ago saying for.

[Isabel Brown]

Your Christmas wish list. So if you have a book that you would like Santa to bring you.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

This year, you should be asking for Franklin Target's Narco Terrorists. A classic Franklin story. And you can see launching grenades out.

[Isabel Brown]

Of a helicopter to blow up the narco terrorist boats in the Caribbean and.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Near the southern part of the United States of America.

[Isabel Brown]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Let me just say that right out the gate, the fact that we have.

[Isabel Brown]

So many people in government leadership right now that understand meme culture, that can make something really funny, that can connect with the American people in a way that makes sense to us, not to Washington clearly, but sense to the American People, bravo. No notes.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

I am ecstatic to be living in this timeline. Thank you, God, for making me Live in 2025.

[Isabel Brown]

But Washington and the Internet alike are not so happy about the Franklin meme. Everyone seems to be having a complete meltdown over this. Acting like Pete Hegseth is like hanging up this portrait on every building in Washington D.C. in fact, people have memed.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

That actually watch this.

There you go. He's screwing in the Franklin targets narco terrorists memes on the Pentagon, naturally, because that's the world that we live in.

[Isabel Brown]

And because people are so angry about this particular meme that was posted by our Secretary of War. Congress in particular is losing its mind. Now. It's Congress. Okay? You guys know how I feel about Congress. I don't really think it's a secret that Congress is my least favorite place on the planet. Like, worse than Los Angeles, which is saying something for Isabel Brown. There's a great TV show that I loved to watch growing up. Most of you probably have seen it because it's one of the greatest TV shows of all time, the West Wing that depicts the President and his senior staff in the White House and what it's like to work in the West Wing. And in the very first episode of the show, the deputy Chief of staff, Josh Lyman starts with one of his opening lines of the entire show, multi season, very long show that ran over many years by saying, I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit. And that's pretty much the perfect articulation as to my response to watching Congress have a meltdown over a fricking meme. But in particular, Mark Kelly is really upset about this, which is not a coincidence. And we'll come back to that in a second. But here's what he had to say a few days ago in response to the Franklin meme on Capitol Hill.

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He'S putting out on the Internet, turtles with rocket propelled grenades kill. I mean, have you seen this? This is the Secretary of Defense. This is not a serious person. He should have been fired after Signal.

[Isabel Brown]

G.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

It's not a serious person.

[Isabel Brown]

He's just not a serious person. I find it, and I don't want to go too far down this rabbit hole because that's not the point of today's episode. But I find it oddly suspicious, like, not coincidental, that Mark Kelly and some of his best buddies over on Capitol Hill all just made a video a few days ago telling members of the military to defy what they deemed to be unlawful orders from military command. Which basically goes all the way up to Pete Hegseth and subsequently Donald Trump. Then orders were made for a pretty controversial situation in gutting down these narco terrorist boats that were coming to the United States of America and bringing God knows how much untold amounts of illegal drugs, illicit drugs, potentially weapons, all kinds of things that could put American citizens in danger. And then when we talk about those orders that are controversial but completely within the scope of what law enforcement allows for here, now they're upset. Now they're really upset. And then they call Pete Hegseth not a serious person. There's some really weird backdoor insider baseball conversations happening in Washington, D.C. right now, and I just wonder what could have possibly prompted that video from Mark Kelly a few days ago saying to members of the military, hey, you should be ignoring every single thing the Secretary of War is telling you. Defy orders, get out, get away from all of this stuff, because these guys are the real criminals. And then when they just act like normal people and they post memes, then you're not a serious person. I mean, God, you literally can't take these people seriously for more than five seconds.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

But back to the meme lore in just a second.

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[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

This is hilarious.

[Isabel Brown]

Everyone knows about meme culture that if you just ignored it for like five minutes, it would be one meme. It'd be funny. We'd all move on to the next meme format. The worst thing you could possibly do is issue a response, but the publisher of the Franklin books based in Canada issued this response related to the memes from Kids can press Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Kindness, empathy and inclusivity. Unless you're conservative, I guess.

[Isabel Brown]

We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Which directly contradicts these values.

[Isabel Brown]

Ooh, kids can press. That's a big mistake. Big mistake.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

You just violated the one rule of meme warfare, which is if you want.

[Isabel Brown]

It to go away, you just need to ignore it. But now that they've responded and turned this into a whole thing, especially that it's violating inclusivity, the Internet has now turned this into a wildfire of some of the funniest meme content I have ever seen in my life.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

And they just keep getting better over the last few years.

[Isabel Brown]

48 hours or so starting, of course. In response to this statement from Kids Can Press as a metaphorical middle finger.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

To Canada, Tim Pool tweeted this one out. Franklin conquers Canada. A classic Franklin story. God, you just love to see it, don't you? And even if we're not conquering Canada.

[Isabel Brown]

Franklin could at least broker the sale of Canada to the United States. At least that's what it says.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

In this particular meme of Franklin, you see him standing between Canada and the United States. He's using his negotiation tactics to sell America or sell Canada to America. We are represented by a based bald eagle. And there's the moose in the suit there with a helicopter flying overhead. And it's not just Canada. People from across the Internet have vowed.

[Isabel Brown]

To make the Franklin memes even harder now that they know that Congress, the media kids can press the publisher of Franklin.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

And everyone else is wildly angry about this.

[Isabel Brown]

Here's one. This memer has vowed to meme even harder over Franklin and has made Franklin.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Join ICE in his latest escapade. There he is arresting people at the border. Look how happy he is. A classic Franklin story. Franklin joins ice.

[Isabel Brown]

And not just is he getting that new job, but Franklin apparently is getting super, super based. Unbeknownst to me. Again, Franklin is Canadian. He's always kind of had some beta energy. I didn't know he was Canadian, but it makes sense. I guess in retrospect, he's no Arthur. Okay? Arthur is a red blooded, unapologetic, fists.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Out Arthur fist meme American.

[Isabel Brown]

Franklin, I guess is jealous of Arthur's Riz. So he wants to be just like.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Arthur now because he is going all.

[Isabel Brown]

In on red blooded Americana.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

This guy memed Franklin getting a new.

[Isabel Brown]

Job with ice, but not just to.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Arrest people at the southern border, this time specifically to go after Dora the Explorer. Franklin gets a new job. A member of dhs. He's masked of course, to protect his identity from the radical leftist protesters.

[Isabel Brown]

And he is arresting illegal immigrant Dora the Explorer. While of course Boots and Swiper livestream.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

The whole thing on their iPhones as keyboard warriors for the radical left.

[Isabel Brown]

Franklin is not just deporting Dora, he is headed to the library to express his anger over woke books targeting your kids.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Here is Franklin defends the library. Franklin, Franklin is out to take down Drag Queen Story Hour. He's a patriot. He's our guy now, says Kongman Lee on X. And you can see the angry, what.

[Isabel Brown]

Did Charlie call them? The Rainbow Jihadist mafia. All dressed in rainbow. Their hair is rainbow, they've got the.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Pride signs, they're doing Drag Queen Story Hour.

[Isabel Brown]

And based Franklin is having none of this.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

He says absolutely not. Not on my watch. Save the kids.

[Isabel Brown]

And while we're saving kids at the library, frankly I Franklin, I'm also going.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

To guard the women's locker room at.

[Isabel Brown]

Our kids schools because not on my.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Watch will men sneak into the women's bathroom. Franklin guards the woman's locker room with a big sign on the door. No men see this? What is this supposed to be?

[Isabel Brown]

A beaver? I'm guessing by the tail it's a beaver.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

I guess it could be a gopher, but beaver walking in wearing an I heart gender shirt clearly supposed to be like non binary or gender ambiguous.

[Isabel Brown]

A man. A man trying to enter the woman's locker room. Not on Franklin's watch.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

No siree.

[Isabel Brown]

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[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Against the lies of the abortion industry. It seems Franklin, in his latest escapade.

[Isabel Brown]

Is joining a prayer vigil outside of an abortion clinic.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

A classic Franklin story.

[Isabel Brown]

Franklin joins a prayer vigil in front of an abortion clinic, praying alongside his friends Beaver and Fox.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Pray to end abortion. God, I love this so much. They never get old. They never get old and they're actually like all ridiculously this amazing, iconic, timeless.

[Isabel Brown]

Whoever invented this meme format, if indeed it was at Maverick Darby, thank you for your service to our society.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Thank you for continuing to fight on the front lines of the meme wars. They're also kind of unhinged by the way. They're not just super based like some of these are pretty unhinged.

[Isabel Brown]

Here's Franklin joining forces with Cat Turd to fight off chemtrails.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Franklin takes on the chemtrail.

I mean, you literally can't make this up. He's also taking construction equipment through the streets of Washington D.C. franklin is putting an end to the administrative state. Franklin ends the Fed as he bulldozes the Federal Reserve. And while he's at it destroying the.

[Isabel Brown]

Levers of unchecked government power of bureaucracy, he also has to go back in history and over explain the misgivings of the Biden administration, which now our current president has now come forward this week to say anything happening with the auto pen is ruled null and void from the last administration. I'm actually super interested to see how they unpack this and how they explain this from a legal perspective.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

But Franklin is joining the fight. Franklin, a classic Franklin story, is explaining Joe Biden's auto pen, a classic Franklin story about executive power.

[Isabel Brown]

While snail and bear and beaver and.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Fox look really intrigued by this story.

[Isabel Brown]

Put out of course by Patriot Publishing.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

And Freedom Illustrator there at the bottom.

[Isabel Brown]

And if we're really, really noticing Franklin's change of behavior, not only is he getting super based in his red blooded American conservative politics, he left Canada long time ago. In the span of this meme warfare, Franklin's getting super trad in his religious beliefs too.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

This one's going pretty viral all over X. It's generating quite the response. Franklin realizes the crusade were justified as he reads through history with his big gigantic cross necklace and really contemplates the history of Islam attacking Christianity. And I had to make a few just to have a little bit of fun. In the Franklin meme warfare of 2025, we put these ones together for our Catholic friends.

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Franklin is going to the traditional Latin mass all dressed up in his beautiful.

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Suit and tie and is so moved.

[Isabel Brown]

By the reverence of the Latin Mass. And since he's so trad and so based, Franklin of course is honoring Mary, the mother of God, the God bearer, the Theotokos. There he is, happily standing near a.

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Statue of the beautiful Virgin Mary at.

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His local Catholic church.

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It's adorable. I'm obsessed.

[Isabel Brown]

This might be one of my favorite meme formats ever. I think in 2025 it holds a close second candle to Fat JD because you honestly just can't beat Fat JD Vance. And the fact that he then dressed up as his own meme for Halloween. Impeccable. God, I love living in this timeline.

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Thank you God for making me alive in 2025.

[Isabel Brown]

A lot of people say they were born in the wrong generation. I am here for this right now.

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I know I was made for such a time as this. This being analyzing the meme warfare of 2025. But the media is pretty pissed, actually.

[Isabel Brown]

And they're really outraged over the fact that members of our government are spending all of their time arguing back and forth about memes, which now has made their attention 100% about memes. Politico put out this headline, Franklin the.

[Co-host or Guest on Isabel Brown Show]

Turtle Publisher slams Hegseth for Violent Boat Strike post. Can we pull up. Let's pull up that Hegseth post one more time for you that he posted.

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Tell me if this is actually wildly violent for you.

Franklin targets narco terrorists.

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So he's blowing up a boat of.

[Isabel Brown]

Guns, of drugs, of things intentionally designed to target, harm and kill innocent American civilians. That's not violent. You're not even supposed to pay attention.

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To what's in the boat.

[Isabel Brown]

It's the meme. It's the meme that is so hurtful and violent and completely inexpensive, excusable in polite modern society. NPR said this. Franklin publisher slams Hegseth for his post.

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Of the Turtle firing on drug boats.

[Isabel Brown]

At least they can admit that it's a drug boat. Unlike Politico, the BBC, Franklin the Turtle and Sabrina Carpenter are in a tiff.

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With the Trump administration. That's a really good story, actually, that I don't know if we have time for today, but we'll come back to.

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The Sabrina Carpenter of it all another time. Long story short, is she slow or stupid? The world may never know. CBS said this. Hegseth's use of Franklin the Turtle in Meme on Boat strikes condemned by Book series publisher. Honestly, to me, it is just completely pathetic that the people in media and in Washington alike are having a toddler level meltdown like true temper tantrum about the posting of a literal meme from the Secretary of War when what they should be enraged about, what they should have been enraged about throughout my entire lifetime, is, I don't know, legitimate narco terrorism that has been threatening the lives of every single American that is finally properly being dealt with by this administration. Or worse, actually, the cultural invasion that is threatening innocent American citizens every single day. Back to the episode in just a second. But it's the holidays, which I'm so psyched about. We finally had our first holiday feast as a family of three for Thanksgiving last week. And now that we're starting to think ahead for Christmas, we're also thinking about what to eat for Christmas dinner and what to give as gifts to our loved ones. You know the drill with holiday gifts. You spend hours finding something that they'll probably just end up in a drawer over or have re gifted next year. But here's a much better idea. You can send someone a good rancher's gift box instead. It is not just a box of 100% American raised meat, although it is that. It's also a reason to have all of your loved ones come over for dinner and spend quality time with the people that matter most to you in the world. All of Good Rancher's meat is high quality, 100% American, raised on local farms and then delivered straight to your front door. Their cuts come pre portioned and they are hand cut by master butchers. Meaning that you'll spend way less time prepping and and way more time sitting down with the people that you love. This holiday season you can send a physical gift box directly to someone's doorstep or send them an e gift that lets them pick their own delivery date. It is super simple and customizable and I have to tell you we rarely if ever buy any sort of meat product at the grocery store if there is a good ranchers option. We are always picking the good ranchers option because it has made a world of difference in our family's health knowing exactly where our meat is coming from, but also in just knowing that we are supporting American agriculture. There's no guessing what's on our plate and we feel great about the results of our family dinner every single night. That is a gift worth giving not just to yourself, but to all the loved ones in your life too. So this holiday season give them more than just a gift. Give a reason to get back to the table with your family and friends. Head to goodranchers.com and use my code ISABELLE for $40 off your first order. Plus when you subscribe you will get free free premium cuts like chicken thighs, wagu burgers, Yum or bacon which their bacon is my favorite bacon I've ever ever had in every single order that you have with them for life. That is good ranchers.com code Isabelle for $40 off plus free meat for life. One more time good ranchers.com let's all get back to the table. If you want to know and if we want to talk about what the media really should be focused on? I don't know. How about this story that came out of Minnesota this week of a Somali migrant who was sentenced earlier this year to 12 years. I'll pull this up for you. In prison after kidnapping and raping a 12 year old girl in Minnesota. He's a Somali migrant, came here to the United States.

His mosque, the St. Paul Islamic center, wrote a letter after he received the minimum sentence. Need I remind you of 12 years for raping a 12 year old? Completely inexcusable. He should have at least been castrated if not received the death penalty. Wrote a letter in support of this guy and said, well, actually, and I think I have the letter separately for you. I'll try to pull it up. Actually. This guy was really like a family man. He really loved his family. He loves his children. That alone is enough to make my stomach turn that this guy is a father and they're talking about his close relationship with his children right after he raped a 12 year old girl. And like all of us who are coming to America, we're, we're really facing all these challenges there in the second paragraph, he's facing the challenge of starting over in a new culture. So he's having to learn English, he's having to adjust to a fast paced system, and he's really struggling to raise children in an environment far different from the one that we grew up in.

So I tweeted this yesterday and I think it begs the question to ask again, forgive my youthful and cultural ignorance on all of this. Maybe I just genuinely don't know any better, but is this letter from this guy's mosque just openly saying that the kidnapping and rape of 12 year old girls is Somali culture? Hmm. Why would we ever give asylum to people like that? Why would we ever assume that that has a place in the melting pot of the United States of America? Why would we ever make excuses for that behavior? But we are. People living in America are making excuses for this over and over and over again. Just one of the responses that I got on X for asking that very simple question is that indeed Somali culture to kidnap and rape 12 year olds. Was this one from someone living in San Francisco? Now from immortanzit pronouns, she, her, yee, ye, whatever that's supposed to mean. Who said this? The Minnesota school system really needs to teach women to dress modestly. Otherwise more men will have to suffer police involvement. Cool. So that's what the next great frontier of new American residents and those seeking asylum in our country actually Believe that It's your fault. 12 year old girl. Whatever happened to believe women? Whatever happened to it's not about what she was wearing. Whatever happened to feminism? I don't know. And that's just one story. There are literally countless others along the exact same vein going viral right alongside this one this week alone in Minnesota alone. I'm paraphrasing here, but I saw one this morning tweeted by Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, who hosts her own show now. And she was talking about a young man who has now been captured, arrested, led off, and completely not charged, serving no prison time three separate times for raping different women in Minnesota, has not received any formal charges by any of this, or if he has, the charges have been dropped, has not served a single minute of prison time associated with all of this, and then this week has just been arrested again for another rape of an innocent woman living in Minnesota. Somali migrant who just. Just doesn't understand the cultural differences. And this takes me back just yesterday or two days ago to the press briefing room when I was sitting in this room listening to the outraged media people who were so angry about the targeting of these narco terrorist boats, they asked the same question about the Venezuelan boats, I don't know, 15 times in that one press briefing. And they were just desperately trying to get Caroline to say something different or to make it seem like she was changing her story when she stuck to the exact same talking points the entire time. Because they were the truth that they did act within the scope of the law to do this, and specifically they were acting to protect the American people. That several times during the Biden administration, entire raids of fentanyl alone were completed, literally dozens of times of enough fentanyl to kill every single man, woman and child in the United States of America. Like, if you don't think this is a direct attack on the American people in a less obvious way because it looks secretive, it looks covert, it's happening through drug trafficking and not through mass shootings. Think again. Like wake the freak up, people. And thank your lucky stars that this White House is actually taking action against this. In the press briefing room, when everyone was seemingly angry that Secretary Hegseth had even taken the action against the narco terrorist boats in the first place. One reporter asked Caroline, well, you keep talking about values incongruent with American values or people who are incongruent with American society. What does it mean to you to be misaligned with American values? Um, this raping 12 year olds and calling it a cultural difference and trying to excuse it and say that you really are an upstanding member of society not congruent with American values or American society. This is what that means. So maybe instead of being so ridiculously outraged by one of our Cabinet secretaries being half aware of American culture and memes, the powers that be, from Washington to the media to everyone in between, really ought to be enraged about the kidnapping and rape of innocent American girls children. I don't know. Maybe that's way too extremist of me to say, but I think that's a pretty fair criticism of just how ridiculously out of touch the people claiming to speak for us actually are. I'm over the manufactured outrage, but I.

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Am here for the Franklin memes and.

[Isabel Brown]

I'm dying to know if you have.

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A favorite Franklin meme from the last.

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48 hours that maybe I have not seen as it's going super viral.

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But please comment it in the comment section of this video and let us know if your favorite meme popped up in the episode today already.

[Isabel Brown]

Please don't forget to subscribe wherever you guys are watching or listening to the show. We have so much more to come for you later this week on the Isabel Brown show, but your girl's gonna go doom scroll for a little while this afternoon and go check out some more Franklin memes, because I'm all about it.

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See you guys tomorrow.

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