Ep. 23 - Arming Snowflakes： Antonia Okafor on Campus Carry
Summary
Antonia Okafor is here to tell us why we should let college students have guns. Then, Zoe Rachel and Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables to discuss Democrat Dianne Feinstein s anti-Catholic religious test, Hillary Clinton s wonderfully destructive book tour, and the alleged asexuality of women s nipples.
Transcript
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College snowflakes are melting down at universities across the country,
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assaulting professors and vandalizing buildings.
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Antonia Okafor is here to tell us why we should let them have guns.
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Then, Zoe Rachel and Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables
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to discuss Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein's anti-Catholic religious test,
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Hillary's wonderfully destructive book tour, Trump's DACA deal with Pelosi,
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I am joined today by campus carry activist Antonia Okafor.
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But for those of you who are unfamiliar with her work,
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I just wanted to play a quick clip of Antonia every day of her life.
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I have not been working out as much as I used to, so...
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You're much less of an Italian man than you used to be.
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So you are the leading campus carry activist in the country, probably.
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What is the 30-second pitch to let students at college campuses carry guns?
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First of all, I do not think that the people that are snowflake-worthy of that name
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But more likely, they're against guns, so it's okay.
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The silencer that they don't want people to have, too, would just also do the same.
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But basically, it's the fact that those people who already have a concealed carry license off
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campus, that they should have that same right on campus.
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It's not also, it's not about making these superheroes or whatever.
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Oh, you have a permit, and you have a gun, and therefore, now you're able to protect
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It's about personal protection, about making sure that I have that right to self-preservation.
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That the Second Amendment guarantees, really, under God, really, not really by the government.
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It's a natural right that the government's just supposed to protect.
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And even more so, those people who just hate the Constitution.
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If you just bring it into the whole self-defense aspect of it, it's like, you know, you talk
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Well, why don't you allow these women to be able to protect themselves on campus?
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And that's what the whole campus carry issue is about, really.
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Because women are not as physically strong as men.
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And then there's this great equalizer, this sweet, sweet justice that just sends freedom
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When you became a campus carry activist, you were not a gun nut.
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You were, you had just shot a few times, right?
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Yeah, I think that's why I bring the whole liberty aspect of it into it, is because it
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really was not a, oh, yeah, I love guns, and I just want everyone to have guns.
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I mean, now, two years in, I do really love guns.
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You know, it started because, selfishly, you know, I was a woman on a college campus.
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And I was walking home at night, and I realized that I had no means of self-protection, of
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protecting myself, that, you know, it's not okay for me to just have, you know, 9-1-1
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And that's literally what I would do, have 9-1-1 and have it pre-dialed and have my finger
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And then I would have, you know, the rape whistle that they give you in a freshman year
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And I realized, you know, I don't want that for women.
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And to be an empowered woman, I think it's really about, you know, protecting yourself
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before something happens, not talking about health care insurance that, you know, deals
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There is this insane idea that you're going, you have a rape whistle, and you're going
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to blow the whistle, and then the rapist is going to say, okay, all right, well, I didn't
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I'll come back when the cops come, and then he can arrest me, right?
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Yeah, and the thing is, the cops, even, that's the whole issue that people talk about from
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Like, I wrote this New York Times op-ed about that, and most of this New York Times audience
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was saying, most of the response was like, well, why don't you just get a, you know,
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When the week before, they were like, we hate cops.
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I'm like, you guys got to choose one way or the other.
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Um, but really, it's this, they might come in six to seven minutes, but a lot can happen
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in six to seven minutes, and so, um, why don't we get to that point?
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I'm going to refrain from making any jokes about that, because I think they'd be in poor
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That is, that is, it's both a joke and a reality.
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Everything that matters in that scenario is going to happen before the cops get there
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And you wrote, that was a great New York Times piece.
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And you wrote in it, this is a personal thing for you.
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You, this is, this isn't just some political philosophy conversation.
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This is something that you can really speak about as a, as an individual.
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And also the fact that at that point, when I was making those decisions of, man, I,
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I do want to fight for this issue because, you know, it is not even a political issue
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because I dealt with it, but I was coming from the left at that point.
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I think, I don't even think at that time I made a decision that I realized, you know
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And that's why I realized I can strongly, you know, go to the point that it is not a
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But particularly with women, um, and the differences that science has proven over and over again.
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Um, but really when it's not even just about that, I mean, you're, you, I mean, you are
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coming against someone who is a male or a woman who has a firearm.
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That person's going to win, you know, regardless of how big you are, if you're a male or not.
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That's one of the, at least one of those is true.
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So, um, but no, even despite all those great qualities, um, you know, it's, it's still best
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for you at that point to have something that's going to be an equalizer.
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Do you think there's a racial component of this to, you know, specifically toward arming
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young black women who are say disproportionately more likely to be assaulted?
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Or do you, do you think there is a racial inequality on this issue?
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I think, I mean, uh, the stats have been showing that black women and black women are the fastest
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growing demographic, um, who are, who are becoming gun owners.
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And so I think they are seeing that whether it's a political issue.
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And that's a lot of people, they, they hate this fact that, you know, black women are now
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And so they twist it into, well, it's because the last, what happened the last year?
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And it's just been, it's just been, you know, just blown up and that's why we have guns now.
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Against Trump and the racism that's, you know, just prevalent now just because of it.
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They'll interview me about that and be like, no, it's been happening the last few years
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For me, I think it's also has to do with the rise of women in general, you know, a lot
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more of us, you talk about feminism, a lot more of us are, you know, by our, by ourself
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A lot of us are still pursuing education longer.
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Maybe, you know, that transition from leaving a household where your father figure is there
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and then having it where your spouse is there, there's a, there's a bigger gap there.
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So a lot more women feel that they have to take safety into their own hands.
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And I actually also think that's just an extension of, you know, if you want to bring the feminist
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aspect of it, the feminist movement is an extension of that independence.
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And so, um, black women especially are in these areas that tend to be, you know, statistically,
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statistically, um, more dangerous and they're by themselves.
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And so I hear all the time with other women with their daughters and they're like, I want
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to buy this gun because I want to protect my daughter.
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That's the single woman aspect of it is so interesting because it's, if a woman is living
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with her father, living with her husband or partner, whatever, live in boyfriend, there
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is a physically, hopefully somewhat strong man there to give her backup.
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But if she's living alone or living with young kids, there is a very thin line between her
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Um, I was on one America news network and I was debating this democratic strategist and
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he was like, well, women don't need guns because I mean, you guys just need to advocate for
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healthcare, better healthcare insurance and a rise in pay and a right to an abortion, of
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course, even though the woman is not going to be alive at that point, but okay, right to
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And then also, um, you know, that you have better, you know, advantages in the, in the
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I'm like, how does that even, or a better access to education?
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I have one, I have great healthcare and I, I'm college educated and grad school and I
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Listen, attacker, I make an extra 24 cents on the dollar without controlling for education.
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I am, um, I'm empowered through, um, through healthcare benefits.
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No, all those things are after the fact that you still need a firearm or whatever.
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And that's what's like, we've empowered the organization that I started.
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It's not just having a firearm that's going to be there for protection because first of
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all, you know, you could be younger than 21, just not going to be able to have access to
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It's, um, having a knife or whatever, whatever means you can use to be able to protect yourself.
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But a lot of universities are even keeping like pepper spray from being an option.
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Massachusetts does not allow anybody to have pepper spray on our college.
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Other than Antifa when they go and they protest Trump supporters.
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I mean, they need something, but everybody else, everybody else is our white supremacist.
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So they can't, they can't, uh, deal with pepper spray.
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Now you, so from what I can tell, your politics are slightly to the right of Attila the Hun
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Because everyone, it was really cool to vote for Obama.
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I'm like, wow, you voted for Obama in 2008, but everyone did.
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Um, but yeah, the second time is when people are like, wow, I don't know if I can trust
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Um, but I think it was really the economic issue.
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It was the fiscal side of realizing that, first of all, Obamacare and how egregious that
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And back to my generation and, um, you know, I was studying public policy at the time.
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Who knew like actual facts could change someone's mind?
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And then realizing also that, you know, all these policies, even if you just focus on
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African-Americans, if you really are just focused on that, because that's right.
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The reason why, you know, as a black woman, as a black person, a lot of us voted for Obama
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because we were just like, well, this is our chance to do better.
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And I believe all the hope and change that you talked about and then realizing that,
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and not only did they not help the black community, if you're just looking at their poverty rates
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were higher and welfare, you know, um, being dependent on the government was higher.
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Like having food stamps as a staple of your, your legacy of that, have more food stamps than you have before.
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It's not, it's not something I want to aspire to.
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And so this looking at that issue really made me realize that I wanted to change over,
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And then everything, Liberty really just changes everything else.
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So you felt the social issues followed from the economic issues?
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A lot of it, but also, I mean, you, you talk about this, you know, coming from Italian,
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you know, background and, you know, my family is very conservative and just values, right?
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Even though they voted for Hillary and Bernie last time, um, they, I think a lot of people
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in minority community, they really have these conservative values.
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It's not, there, there isn't latte sipping on the yacht.
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There isn't, you don't go to Al Gore's movie premieres and things like that.
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Climate change is not the most important thing to these people.
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That's why I'm just like, okay, with Bernie, I'm like, okay, that's nice.
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But my mom is not talking about like, oh, but those poor polar bears.
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By the way, there are more polar bears today than there have ever been in history.
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Who, nobody is saying, ah, but in a hundred years, the temperature might be 0.2 centigrade higher.
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And so, listen to screaming kids who I can't feed.
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So even more so, they're like, unless you're talking about that for me to eat.
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But I do care that, you know, I think I can't go to this other party or another party because
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they, the media tells me that they're all racist and they're sexist and misogynist.
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And that's what I think really gets them, unfortunately, is regards to the value system.
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And that's the same thing I had too, is that, but media tells me that they're racist and
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I recently, you know, I recently had dinner with a friend of mine, friend of mine for 20 years.
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So, you know, we went to middle school together, high school.
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She said, do you really believe the things you put on Facebook?
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I said, I don't even know what I put on Facebook, but presumably I do.
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Cut that out before a sweet little Elisa sees it.
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So, so this is a person I've known for 20 years.
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But there's this heavy virtue signaling, sick, oppressive culture surrounding conservative
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Well, the ironic thing about that too, is that when you hear what these people on the
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left are saying, it, that's the real racism right there with the policies like, oh, you
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can never, oh, um, one of these professors that got in trouble, I forgot one, one of those
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elitist ones that, you know, um, and they got in trouble because they basically said that
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It basically said that having the best way to have a better life is kind of this middle
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class, you know, culture and middle class behavior, like getting married and, you know,
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having kids, you know, in wedlock and stuff like that.
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And people got mad because they said that they were racist because a black person could
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No black person has ever gotten married and had a good life.
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Like, and I'm just looking at it like, does no one see how racist that is?
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There is no difference between those guys and Richard Spencer.
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I absolutely agree, but then I'm going to be called a racist when I say stuff like that.
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I don't know if the last time that you saw me, but now I am officially a white supremacist.
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That's a bit, I always suspected it of you, Antonia, but that's, well, all right, let's
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We have Zoe Rachel, his eminence, Paul Bois, and we're going to keep Antonia Okafor around
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In the name of tolerance, Democrats are instituting religious tests against prospective judicial
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Here is Dianne Feinstein grilling an appeal court nominee, Amy Barrett.
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When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within
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you, and that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have
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I don't even know if what she just said was English.
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Diane must have forgotten Article 6 of the Constitution, which reads, quote,
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No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust
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Dick Durbin, Senator Dick Durbin, asked Barrett if she considers herself a, quote,
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Bernie Sanders grilled the Office of Management and Budget nominee on whether he thought Jews
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So we have to ask Paul Bois, do Jews go to heaven?
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The dogma lives loudly within you, your eminence.
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What is up with the resurgence in anti-Catholicism from the government?
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Well, we're definitely a long way from the days of people putting no Catholics allowed in
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I think we've definitely evolved into a full-blown anti-Christian sentiment.
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But I think the main reason why Pelosi, I mean, Feinstein and Durbin are specifically
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targeting her for Catholicism is because a faithful Catholic, which is what she is and
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someone like Scalia is, are going to operate under the dictates of Thomas Aquinas, which
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states that a government has to bow down to the laws of God.
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So that means that that's going to inform their legalistic decision-making, which means
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no same-sex marriage, no abortion, and no socialism.
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So pretty much everything they stand for goes out the window.
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I must say, every single thing that Paul Bois says sounds about as authoritative as it could
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And for those of you who are not watching, you really ought to watch, because it appears
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that Paul's coming to us from directly in front of the Vatican.
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I didn't know you were traveling, Paul, but that's excellent.
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So is there any legitimate concern that someone's religious views could make them unfit to hold
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You know, if you have, in our Constitution, you have the right to life, and it can't be
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deprived of you without due process of law, and the rights that fall underneath that.
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You can't adhere to any of those rights without some basis of faith.
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Now, when we say due process of law, what law are we talking about?
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Because you can't say that these are inherently qualifiable rights by a man, because another
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man will have a different perspective on those laws.
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Lynch mobs that will go and say, no, this person is guilty.
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We're going to lynch him right here without due process.
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So you can't say that these are inherent qualified laws.
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You have to apply faith to know that there is a law that says you cannot deprive a person
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of their life, their later due process, without this law.
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There has to be the faith that puts this on a foundation of a particular law that is beyond
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I was saying, in short, you can't help but apply faith to this law, and it has to be a
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That is such a good point, and nobody makes it.
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There is a meta-law, there is a faith to even believe in the law, and people say all
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the time, they say, well, we can't legislate morality.
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Health care provisions are legislating morality.
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We bring our views of the world and human nature and government to bear when we construct
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There's still—it still comes down to a faith of which morality is the most sound and most
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And that brings up another question about this, which is, Antonia, something tells me that a
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Muslim nominee would not have been grilled in this way by the esteemed Senator Feinstein.
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Is this religious test being applied selectively?
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And that's—we see that with a lot of things, too, even with the feminists, right?
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They'll say, oh, my gosh, you know, you're bringing back women decades and everything
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But they will never talk about Muslim people and Islam, which is very, I would say, probably
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It's like, okay, seriously, like, they get to pick and choose who they want to say is
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I mean, she's the one who talked about jihad and stuff like that.
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Sharia law, when she says that she actually wants, you know, that to be part of the law
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of the U.S., of the land, and then the feminists are, you know, suddenly quiet about that.
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I mean, that's what we're basically dealing with, where there's no actual principle here.
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Well, we can move on to another esteemed religious reverend, Reverend Hillary Clinton.
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Politico is reporting that Hillary campaign alumni are dreading her forthcoming book tour,
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with anonymous staffers reacting, quote, oh, God, quote, I can't handle it, and, quote,
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Now, to date, Hillary has blamed her election loss on the FBI, James Comey, the Russians,
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Vladimir Putin, anti-American forces, low-information voters, the optimism of her supporters, pollsters,
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Barack Obama's re-election, Barack Obama himself, voters' desire for change, misogyny,
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suburban women, the mainstream media, television executives, cable news, Netflix, misguided documentarians,
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Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks, fake news, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Macedonia.
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Antonia, what does Hillary help to accomplish by blaming everybody else under the sun?
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Is this about protecting her family's reputation?
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Well, the ironic thing, though, is that if it's about protecting her family's reputation or herself,
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I think, like, any reasonable person is just like, okay, ooh, come on, I mean, this is a little bad.
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You're not a Kathy, you know, like, Griffin or whatever her name is, you know, the one with the redhead,
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with, you know, basically coming back two days after that whole Trump thing.
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Yeah, you know, D-list, A-list, or D-list, you know, actress or whatever.
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It was your fault, and you have more respect, male or female, when you do that.
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And I think it's going to hurt her cause and whatever her cause was, cause of making $100,000.
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Yeah, whatever that's, I think that was the whole cause.
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The Democratic Party has been pretty good to the Clintons.
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Why is Hillary Clinton going on a 15-city attack the Democrats tour?
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It's in their nature to throw people under the bus.
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And Hillary's going to try to get, you know, she's going to throw them and try to terminate them the same way she got rid of them emails and got rid of that server.
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And, you know, with Democrats, they have to separate themselves or somehow sanctify themselves in their own sanctimonious way for why it is that they're the losers that they are.
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It's just like, you know, she said, is that own up to it.
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Now, like I said, even when you got these drones out there trying to remove, like, these Confederate symbols, figures in history, the flag and stuff like that, they're trying to separate themselves from what is their fault.
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And she's trying to separate herself from what is her fault and trying to put it on somebody else.
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Zoe, Rachel, typically pulling his punches, typically very calm.
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It's just passing the buck and running away the moment that there's trouble.
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Paul, Paul Bois, the longer that Hillary Clinton remains the face of the Democratic Party, the better it is for us.
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President Trump's approval ratings are fairly low.
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But I know of one person whose approval ratings are lower.
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According to an NBC poll that just came out, her approval ratings are 30 percent, the lowest that they have ever been.
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And who are the Democrats going to put up to counteract the attacks of Hilldog?
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And as they've gone knee-deep in this intersectionality narrative, they ran it for eight years with Barack Obama.
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And I think they're just so wedded to it, they're going to have no choice but to run the intersectionality narrative again.
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And the only person that they really have that kind of fits that bill is Kamala Harris.
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But Kamala Harris is probably the one who they're going to run.
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And as long as she's tweeting out tweets about how Trump can't pardon people who've been convicted of a crime,
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then I don't think we have anything to worry about here.
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But Liz Warren, I thought, was a Native American, which, as far as I can tell, is a more oppressed minority than Kamala Harris.
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Well, yeah, I just think it's funny because it's like, oh, well, a black person, Obama, and then Hillary Clinton's a woman.
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And just put them together and then we're good.
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It's just continuing with the first of everything, a black woman, first president.
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It's going to get really weird, like five or six candidates down the line when you start mashing different things together, two heads coming out.
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For all of those DACA that are concerned about your status during the six-month period, you have nothing to worry about.
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Some of the concerns that people have when they came out is, well, it said six months, and these people are being fearful that it said, pack up because you're out of here in six months, not, we have six months and we're going to pass a bill, so take comfort.
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So that's why I said to him, when he called this morning, I said, thanks for calling.
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The people really need a reassurance from you, Mr. President, that the six-month period is not a period of roundup, but it's just that the DACA is frozen and that these people will not be vulnerable.
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00:29:42.620
Antonia, President Trump seems to be buddy-buddies with Nancy Pelosi today.
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Is this the long-dreaded, long-awaited Trump pivot to the left?
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This is one of those like, aw, Trump, you're awesome.
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So it's up to Congress really is what it's really about.
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You make a great observation, which is, it's just a tweet.
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Every time we go crazy, we start ripping our hair out, we say this is the end of the Republican Party.
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It's just some tweet, and then it moves on, and you tweet something else.
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What is the best path forward for President Trump regarding these so-called dreamers?
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It certainly is a tricky situation, Michael, and it's one I certainly struggle with as a Catholic.
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And I certainly do have compassion for the dreamers and the kind of situation that they're in.
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However, I do believe that DACA is not the way to solve it, especially with Obama just ramming it down our throats through executive order.
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So what Congress needs to figure out here is how can we compassionately deal with the dreamers who are here under no fault of their own,
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while simultaneously giving a strong deference to the law here.
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So they're going to have a tough time doing it.
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But I'm still up in the air about how to handle it.
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I'll tell you, with that answer, I wish you were on the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops,
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because they keep making all of these awful political statements that seem to me not quite infallible.
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So everybody thinks that these dreamers are a bunch of eight-year-old kids, but the dreamers are as old as 36 years old.
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Some of them are well into their adulthood, what would have been considered until recently middle age.
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Why are Democrats so much better than Republicans at coming up with these emotionally manipulative euphemisms?
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Man, that is a good question, and I pray that we get it answered.
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But, you know, at the same time, I think we're asking these questions of, you know, of Trump and the House and the Senate and these other people.
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The question I'm asking is, look, if America is this rotten country of these awful people,
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why is it that y'all think that you can come here and improve your lives?
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Why is it that you think that you can be a better person of coming to a country of awful, rotten, racist people?
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They're obviously dreaming of this horrible future and this racist wasteland.
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And the thing is, all these things that you want from America, why aren't you yelling at your government to give it to you?
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Your country is supposed to be this fabulous country under this, you know, this call that you want.
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We got free health care and everything's supposed to be free education and free housing and all that sort of stuff.
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How's that working out for you so well when you have to come here and impose it on us to give it to you?
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This is, I really want to end the show on a positive note.
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A new law may free the nipple in Berkeley, California.
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Progressive Councilman Chris Worthington explained, quote,
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If a woman's nipples are fit to be seen by the most innocent and impressionable portion of the population,
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I thought he was talking about me, but it is babies and toddlers,
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then it stands to reason that nipples are not inherently sexual and are fit to be seen by the rest of the population if that woman so chooses.
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We're going to have a practical tutorial at the end of this segment.
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Why are you throwing the question to me first, man?
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Like, if they're bruised in skinner's nipples, then I wouldn't find anything sexually about it.
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This is before puberty when a kid is like a young, these young toddlers, when they see these things as food.
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They haven't, like, gotten the hormones to start to process them as anything different.
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So now, here's, you know, and biologically, listen, yes, they are inherently sexual because they're sexually specific.
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You know, when you have these attributes that actually define a woman, defines her sex, then that actually makes them sexual.
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So I always tell sweet little Elisa that my back hair is very sexy.
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And she disagrees, but I'm going to bring Zoe Rachel's argument to her.
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Paul, Paul Bois, if men can show their nipples, but women cannot show their nipples, then what do we do about transgender people?
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If a man thinks he's a woman or is pretending to be a woman or dresses like a woman, can he show his nipples?
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This seems to expose a great issue that the Berkeley City Council is finally solving.
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Like, a man that identifies as a woman, can he show his nipple?
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Yeah, 2,000 years of Catholic theology will not answer a word about that.
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I mean, I think if we're on the subject of defining terms, I mean, do we even have to call them nipples anymore?
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I mean, can't we just call them, like, the little pointy round things on your chest?
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I won't request the practical tutorial promised at the top, but is this evidence that feminism
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was really invented by a man, a very clever man who decided that he would get easy sex
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and get to look at nipples all day and not have to work that hard or pay for dinner?
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And is this sort of feminism what we all mean by empowerment?
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So I am currently reading The Feminine Mystique, so I guess I'm going to figure out what that
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After I read this book, I'm still 70 pages in, so I have, like, 400 left.
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But, yeah, all I know is that if you want to know what real empowerment is, go to empower2a.org
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We'll see what we get when we get to the website.
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It's always good to have you, especially Antonia, but also Zoe Rachel and his eminence Paul Bois.
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Now it is time to go back to guns for the final thought.
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The debates over gun control and the Second Amendment give off, like the freedom seed-spewing
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boomsticks they center around, lots of loud noise and hot air.
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It protects the freedom of people from tyranny.
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There are endless statistics demonstrating the public hazards and benefits of gun ownership.
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A trained gun owner prevents a mass shooting or terrorist attack by killing the criminal
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before he can kill the innocent people around him.
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But the essential defense of the individual right to keep and bear arms that Americans have
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cherished since 1789 is that it puts the government's money where its mouth is and offers a blunt defense
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against those hypothetical but perfectly plausible oppressors who would pervert the meaning of laws
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Without the right to keep and bear arms, the people are ultimately powerless.
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The Second Amendment is the constitutional provision that protects all of the others.
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We're going to be answering all of the life-changing questions.