He foolishly agreed to let me make him over and drag.

I was very surprised when he said yes.

Very excited a little bit.

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Now you'll fully understand what it's like.

And then to make my dad into a beautiful, gorgeous woman.

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Eso I'm here today with my father, William Makana, who was in the Marine Corps for 23 years and retired as a lieutenant colonel.

He's for some reason, agreed to allow me to put him in drag, So thanks, Dad.

She paid me.

You have a camera right here.

I did not have hit him with love, but fun fact, I asked my dad to be a drag queen in this video.

But what?

I didn't tell him.

So I really wanted to have a heart to heart conversation from one Democrat liberal to a conservative Republican.

Today's topic is gonna be the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, And I'm gonna get my dad's thoughts on the entire thing.

Okay?

You don't know anything about the Brett Kavanaugh.

Confirmation didn't follow it.

Oh, my God, Dad.

Video useless.

Okay, what else can we talk about?

Trump?

Did you vote for Trump?

I don't know anything about Trump.

What kind of American are you?

You don't like either choice.

You just ignore them.

No.

It's your civic duty as an American to vote.

When you don't like either choice, you just ignore them, Bones.

Okay, well, my dad knows nothing about Brett Kavanaugh confirmation.

So I guess we'll just discuss politics.

Why are you a Republican Republican?

Was the political party which had views that most closely aligned with my own in those views include minimal government, um, doing things on your own rather than being helped because I think you learn more when you're forced to do things on your own.

I believe in freedom of business, freedom of speech and all those things.

What do you think about the Republican Party now that they've confirmed someone in office who has over 23 sexual assault allegations against him?

And he also nominated a Supreme Court justice who has a ton of sexual assault allegations against that one item by itself does not condemn an entire party.

However, I believe the Republican Party has already condemned itself on numerous counts where they've let down the conservative values of the people that originally made up the party.

I'm very disappointed and disillusioned by the position of the Republican Party.

Are you gonna vote on November 6?

Of course.

What?

Your stances on things, Unfortunately, how we vote in elections is privileged information.

You don't have to make it known.

So you're pleading the fifth.

The fifth implies that I would be incriminating myself in some kind of criminal activity.

So I'm not pleading the fifth.

I'm just standing by my constitutional rights to privacy.

You're a person who shot guns for a very long time.

I believe you were a sharpshooter champion and you taught me how to shoot guns, and I was a kid.

But we're now finding that school shootings are big thing.

What do you think is like someone who is uneducated?

Gun owner needs to happen in order for these kinds of public mass shootings.

To stop responsible used to guns has been a part of this country since before the Revolution.

Uh, every family had firearms and they taught their Children how to use them safely.

Accidents can happen, Sure, but a lot of the gun violence that we hear about is that the gun that caused it or is because somebody had a problem psychologically, they got into an emotional altercation with somebody.

The fact that a gun was present sometimes it was an argument.

Therefore, if they didn't have a gun in a one of escalated as far.

But is it worth it?

Giving up a constitutional right for those instances, which, in my opinion, a very, very minor minor in terms of percentage wise of how often it happens to clarify?

I don't believe in taking away guns.

I think you know the reason we have guns in our Constitution is very valid.

I think it's a it's a safe thing for some people have if they're responsible and if they're psychologically sound.

But I think what a lot of Democrats are trying to dio is to put more sanctions in place so that people who are psychologically unsound can't get ahold of a gun.

I haven't gone through the process of getting a firearm yet, as you know, I am thinking about it.

But from my friends who are firearm owners, even they agree, like there should be more of a background check.

It should be like the DMV were like, You do have to go retake your test after a certain amount of time.

You should have to have, like, a psychological evaluation that it's almost too easy for any person to get a hold of it without any training.

More than the psychological evaluation is, what you just mentioned is training.

I recently went through a concealed weapons carry, of course, and the only reason that bothered with that was because you can't open carry in California.

So in places where if I did want to take a firearm, I had to use a concealed carry weapons permit.

And why would I want to use those?

Because, like if I go out in the desert to go hiking, I would wanna have a weapon with me in case of an animal attack or somebody comes after me.

It provides an immense sense of feeling safe.

Have a firearm, something like that.

Not because I want to take it to the mall or a concert or anything like that.

That's in my opinion, is totally unnecessary.

But in the course of going through that, I was shocked how many people there wanted to have that license because they wanted to be able to, they say, protect themselves if something happens.

But they didn't seem to have a good reason.

They didn't seem serious about it, because when we went to the pistol range from 5 ft away, you're shooting at a target about this.

Why about this tall half the shots and missing the paper?

If you can't hit a paper from 5 ft away, you don't deserve to be shooting a weapon in public period.

Because you're not gonna hit what people still able to obtain firearms at the end of that.

Sure, you just had to make so many hits on paper.

It wasn't 100%.

That's concerning it.

Iss, Do you know about the me too movement?

The me too movement?

Yes, a little bit.

So the me too movement was started because women were very tired of having to keep silent about sexual assault, sexual harassment, etcetera.

So there was this big wave online of women coming out and accusing bigwigs.

It's sort of pivoted to where now the main argument amongst some men is that, oh, any woman can accuse any man at any time of sexual assault, and he was fired from his job.

It ruins his career, although it really doesn't.

What are your thoughts on sexual assault allegations that air coming out today?

I have limited knowledge of the me too movement because I don't read about it except what I see on my phone when I read about the news.

But from what I've seen, women have every right to speak out about sexual harassment, especially a sexual assault.

It's understandable why some hesitated, particularly if they're in a field like entertainment.

If you complain about something like that, your career could end in that in that field.

But I think the me too movement would have helped itself and women better if it forced to look at applying the law.

A lot of the complaints that I've read about about the me too.

Movement is the hearsay, whereas if something were taking an illegal direction, you gotta deal with evidence.

There has been some like the Brock Turner case.

For example, he was sentenced to six months in jail for raping a woman.

There were there were witnesses there who saw that he raped her.

And so I think a lot of women are really discouraged today because the law is not backing us up when we do talk about it.

And unfortunately, with the way that sexual assault goes, it's like you don't want to talk about.

Your instinct is to take a shower immediately afterward to forget about it.

Your brain literally doesn't want to remember the details of that.

And so going forward to like the police and all that is not actually encouraged, not instinctual, for in my opinion, men and women are not the same.

They just aren't okay, so the legal system is dominated by men.

A better solution.

It's not a short term solution, but is to get more women on the bench so that you can have more views from both sides on cases like that, uh, in deciding on sentences, a woman judge might be able to better appreciate the magnitude of defense.

I'm not saying that it's okay that men are dim viewed in those things, but it's a fact of life that they don't view things the same.

They grew up different.

So as a society we have to fix up by better integration of the genders.

Cool.

Is there anything else you want to say about politics in general?

Yes.

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