{"id":325926,"date":"2019-10-21T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=325926"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:08:02","slug":"julian-castro-celebrates-national-period-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/21\/julian-castro-celebrates-national-period-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Castro Celebrates National Period Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a tweet here from Democrat presidential candidate Julian Castro. Let me read to you this tweet<\/a>. This is Julian Castro, twin brother of Joaquin Castro. They both are the sons of Democrat rabid activist in San Antonio, Rosie Castro. These kids in the womb learned how to carry protest signs, in the womb. They were born with Molotov cocktails in their hands.<\/p>\n

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“Every day, people are forced to choose” — ready for this, folks? I swear you\u2019re gonna think I\u2019m making this up. “Every day, people are forced to choose between going to school or work, or staying home because they can\u2019t afford the menstrual products they need. Pads, tampons and cups should be available tax-free, across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve gone from women at Columbia University needing $,1500 worth of contraception every month to now Julian Castro saying that people are stressed out to the point they can\u2019t choose to go to work because they have to stay home because they can\u2019t afford tampons! They can\u2019t afford pads. They can\u2019t afford cups. And, therefore, pads, tampons, and cups should be available tax-free across the nation.<\/p>\n

You know what the hashtag is? #NationalPeriodDay. Dawn, did you know there was a National Period Day? How would you celebrate National Period Day? How can men participate in National Period Day? I guess we advocate for free tampons, government-paid tampons, government-paid pads, government-paid cups. I mean, who knew that people were missing work because they couldn\u2019t afford tampons. Did you know this?<\/p>\n

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(interruption) You don\u2019t know what cups are for women? Well, you\u2019re the women\u2019s expert on this staff and you don\u2019t know what cups are for women? You gotta think transgender, I think, if you\u2019re gonna think cups for women. I\u2019m guessing. Hell, I don\u2019t know, either. All I know is that I learned something today, that there are women cowering in the corners at home afraid to go to work because they don\u2019t have government-paid-for-tampons.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, guys. During the brief, obscene profit time-out there, I figured out how we guys can participate in National Period Day. It\u2019s very simple. Just go with the flow. That\u2019s all it takes, and you\u2019ll be seen as sensitive and caring, concerned, and understanding. Just go with the flow.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: To Fairfax, Virginia. This is Carrie. Carrie, welcome. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. It\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So a little comment on the Castro comment about women\u2019s hygiene products. I am an OB\/GYN in Fairfax and I actually do a lot of mission work around the world. I go to Honduras, I go to Africa. And one of the things that does keep women out of school, thereby suppressing them, is their cycle. And so one of these projects that we do is actually providing pads for girls every six months so they can go to school and not miss school.<\/p>\n

In America they are God awful expensive. And, you know, I kind of have mixed feelings. Should we not tax it? I do think it\u2019s a very important thing and if we want to really help women, and my dad raised me as a very independent thinking woman, I do think we need to really help women get in on their jobs, their schooling, and I do think there may be a little place to help women be able to do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I can understand that in places that you mentioned, Africa and some other Third World places, but Julian Castro here, \u201cEvery day people forced \u2013” he\u2019s talking about Americans here \u201c– forced to choose between going to school or work or staying home \u2019cause they can\u2019t afford menstrual products. Pads, tampons, cups should be available tax-free.\u201d At what point does anybody have to just stop providing everything for themselves and the government is just gonna pick it all up?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: And I get that, and it may be a discounted cost, but 10 bucks a month when you\u2019re only given four dollars a day to eat is a lot of money. And even for myself like, really, I\u2019ve gotta spend this again? You just don\u2019t want to do it. The cup is a great thing, just for those listeners who don\u2019t know, it\u2019s actually for those eco-minded patients, really, really good. It\u2019s reusable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. You know what I did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a one-time investment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I had not heard of it, so I Googled it. And I saw some pictures. I now know what the cup is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And if they\u2019re eco-minded and the Green Deal, hey, there you go. You got some good stuff. It\u2019s reusable, so it does save cost.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, Carrie, look. In my whole life now — I\u2019m 68 — and I\u2019ve never heard, in all of my years, I\u2019ve never known a woman or girl who couldn\u2019t go to school or to work because she couldn\u2019t afford pads. It\u2019s the first I\u2019m hearing about it here at age 68. And I\u2019m not sheltered. Now, I didn\u2019t grow up with sisters or any of that. Not denying that. Everything costs something and not everybody has enough money to buy everything they need or want, but, I mean, it reminds me of not long ago when we were told that women need free contraceptives to the tune of $3,000 a month.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The difference, though, is sex is a choice. Having a period is not. It\u2019s part part of life. It\u2019s part of what you are born with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And so I do have a little bit of a — you know, that\u2019s who I take care of, is women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What percentage of American females do you think are going padless or tamponless because they have to buy other things instead?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I used to work in a very, very, very poor area in North Carolina. And they will use sheets and cloths and wash and redo things. That\u2019s why — “on the rag,” that\u2019s where that came from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let it be known the caller used the term and not the host.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. (laughing) Exactly. But that\u2019s how that term started, because that\u2019s what women would use. They would take it home, wash it, and reuse it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got it. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But it\u2019s something that can\u2019t be prevented. Pregnancy can.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m out of time. I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t mean to be rude. I really don\u2019t. But you got most of what you wanted to say, and I appreciate it. We\u2019ll take a break and then \u2013 I had no idea! Folks, I had no idea.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just checked. You can buy a box of top-of-the-line Always brand sanitary napkins, 72 of \u2019em in a box, for $5. How many food stamps is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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