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Peak gaslighting. Posting a video clearly showing that there was no “attack” while insisting Rand Paul was attacked. https://t.co/Tf2rqJAIsb
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 1, 2020
BREAKING REPORT: Rand Paul has called to SUBPOENA ANTIFA plane records, hotel records, all travel records & all funding….
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) September 1, 2020
The Little Prince showed up at Trump’s RNC rally speech, because that’s what passes for glitterati must-be-seen-at among the GOP ‘elite’, and he’s been milking the after-reaction from DC natives ever since.
Republicans with media access will claim that Rand Paul was attacked while everyone else with no media access will correctly see that a cop used a bike to push a protester and the protesters pushed back on the cop who wasn’t prepared to follow thru with his assault. https://t.co/80cpoDqmk6
— Goad Gatsby (@GoadGatsby) August 28, 2020
You blocked an anti-lynching bill, you walking bird’s nest. https://t.co/V3IPZ2MVhz
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 29, 2020
I would be super worried for my safety if surrounded by an angry crowd, as likely intended. However, the video does not appear to support Rand Paul’s characterizations, let alone demands for FBI investigation and prosecution.
— EveryoneGetsHatEventually (@Popehat) August 28, 2020
I have a feeling Senator Rand might feel differently tonight about anyone shooting at the government when they have a beef with it. pic.twitter.com/TiQrkzbR8H
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) August 29, 2020
FINALLY, he gets to really stretch himself on the important Wingnut Wurlitzer outlets, and not just his dad’s online-newsletter…
Libertarianism is arresting people without cause so you can find out their mailing address. https://t.co/Je7oR6sLyq
— Charles ?. Davis (@charliearchy) August 29, 2020
At long last, validation!
He didn’t say this about the Charlottesville horde that marched with swastikas and guns, preached white supremacy, beat people up, fired a gun into a crowd and murdered a woman with a car. But, sure, let’s lock up folks he doesn’t like for rude yelling. https://t.co/odxBwIl2kt
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 30, 2020
(If Rand follows the usual Bubble Conserva-Baby arc, he’ll be discovered with one or more sex workers — some caprine — and a small suitcase full of illicit substances by next January at the latest.)
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This post is in: America, Domestic Politics, Election 2020, Faunasphere, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, Healthcare, Humorous, Nature, Nature & Respite, Open Threads, Politics, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
The 2020 Libertarian Party presidential nominee has been bitten by a possibly rabid bat.
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) August 8, 2020
I will not be able to attend the campaign rally tomorrow morning. I will be getting a rabies vaccine as a precaution after having been bitten by a bat near the start of this campaign tour! I have every intention of participating in the FLAME march and I will deliver remarks at…
— Jo Jorgensen (@Jorgensen4POTUS) August 8, 2020
What effect might his have on Ms. Jorgenson’s views on the US healthcare system? Well let’s just say kvetching was involved!
Not with the health care system we have now!
And I'm not stopped…I'm just pausing for a few hours.
— Jo Jorgensen (@Jorgensen4POTUS) August 8, 2020
Or maybe we should have a free market in which doctors could travel to the patient outside of a hospital or their offices.
— Jo Jorgensen (@Jorgensen4POTUS) August 8, 2020
There is, as of 11:10 PM EDT, no word on the condition of the bat and whether it has contracted anything serious or life threatening from coming into contact with Ms. Jorgenson.
Open thread!
Obligatory:
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Oof, right in the ribs his neighbor broke. https://t.co/EsKUOHmZNe
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 4, 2020
The Senate is at an impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime. Raw feelings were evident as Sen. Rand Paul — who is single-handedly holding up the bill — sought changes as a condition of allowing it to pass. https://t.co/ZSGBeUHkuD
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 5, 2020
Rand Paul always figures out a way to asshole his way into an insane news cycle.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 4, 2020
Senator Aqua Buddha's gift for seizing upon even the slightest chance at being a colossal public dick is positively otherworldly. https://t.co/RdimPAA6xS
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 4, 2020
… (It’s worth noting that Aqua Buddha’s standard for what constitutes “lynching” is taken almost word-for-word from the Bush Administration’s standard for what constitutes “torture,” and we all know how well that standard worked out.)
This, of course, is precisely the right moment in time to block an anti-lynching bill, given what happened in Minneapolis and subsequent events. And, of course, the Congress has been trying and failing to get its act together on an anti-lynching bill for only over a century. How freaking hard can this be in 2020? Don’t answer that.
"Minimum government, maximum freedom! Taxation is theft! Legalize everything! Don't tread on me! Murdering black folks is whatever."
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) June 4, 2020
Lynching isn’t just a part of our past. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered just 3 months ago. And Senator @RandPaul is blocking our bill to make lynching a federal crime. pic.twitter.com/p5Lk8PJUph
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) June 5, 2020
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This is insane:
“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
Trump’s posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter read, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”Within two-and-a-half hours of the post, Twitter had placed a warning label on it saying it glorified violence.
Facebook, by contrast, remained silent on the matter for 18 hours until Zuckerberg’s post appeared.
Justifying leaving the posts on Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg wrote, “We looked very closely at the post that discussed the protests in Minnesota to evaluate whether it violated our policies. Although the post had a troubling historical reference, we decided to leave it up because the National Guard references meant we read it as a warning about state action, and we think people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force. Our policy around incitement of violence allows discussion around state use of force, although I think today’s situation raises important questions about what potential limits of that discussion should be.”
Testifying before Congress in October, Zuckerberg said, “If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm … we will take that content down.” He was answering questions from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when he made the claim.
In case you need that interpreted, what it means is if you or I say “Kill the Jews,” it’s no bueno. But if we’re talking about a state policy of killing the Jews, well then that’s just a reasonable discussion.
I remembered giggling the first time I played CIV VI and one of the endgame government options was Corporate Libertarianism. I think about that a lot and it scares the hell out of me now.
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“I give advice according to the best scientific evidence”: Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul argued Tuesday during a Senate hearing over the impact of the coronavirus on children and the decision to reopen schools while Fauci testified to the Senate https://t.co/CrtBnaGkxK pic.twitter.com/05VNNTa66x
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 12, 2020
“Paul dismissed the warnings of public health professionals and scientists that there could be a surge as more states in the US are reopening businesses.”https://t.co/lKlYGQVCRb
— The Grey Man (@IntelOperator) May 12, 2020
Rand Paul tells the government’s leading epidemiologist Dr. Fauci that he is “not the end all,” which is quite the lecture coming from the guy who visited the Senate gym while infected with coronavirus.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 12, 2020
*I* had it already, so I’m safe. Why should I care about what might happen to other people?
To the approximately 2 million New Yorkers and others who got coronavirus and survived, don’t let these busybodies tell you that you don’t have immunity. They want you to be lemmings and do as THEY see fit. RESIST!
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 5, 2020
Look, if we let Those People get sick, we can harvest their plasma to protect *important* people… (No, really.)
Rand Paul is out here talking about "silver linings" to coronavirus outbreaks at meat packing plants — his belief (which is not proven) that people who get Covid gain immunity and therefore can go back to work pic.twitter.com/gWMlKf7qxj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 12, 2020
As Dr. Fauci gives his opening remarks about Coronavirus, the camera swings to Rand Paul, who continues to touch his face and stroke his beard. pic.twitter.com/CsDSJZECRp
— Hil.i.am (@hilaryluros) May 12, 2020
Yes, but there was a black Democrat in the Oval Office, back then…
Worth recalling, Rand Paul was one of the biggest, more destructive, spreaders of misinformation and panic about how Ebola may spread. That he’s downplaying COVID spread now is quite the 180https://t.co/0n7v2l8oLp
— Sam Stein (@samstein) May 12, 2020
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Happy Hitler death day! pic.twitter.com/nZgKBzdaKT
— Ad Infinitum (@Ad_Inifinitum) April 30, 2020
“Pro Life” advocate:
Ben Shapiro: "If somebody who is 81 dies of COVID-19, that is not the same thing as somebody who is 30 dying of COVID-19…If grandma dies in a nursing home at age 81, that's tragic and it's terrible, also the life expectancy in the United States is 80" pic.twitter.com/L2UJi95OUN
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 29, 2020
If anyone knows Ben's grandma, hide her.
— Leslie on a Pike ?? (@Leslieoo7) April 29, 2020
TP-USA founder Charlie ‘Wear Your Diaper to Campus’ Kirk:
question, how is taking money from the federal government any more morally depraved than your standard business model of taking money from the suckers who willingly hand it over to you https://t.co/QlLXt01RGY
— kilgore trout, multiyear slanderer (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 29, 2020
You have to be able to document your tax filings and payroll which imagine would've been uncomfortable.
— Great&UnmatchedCavsKermit (@JbkJbk1234) April 29, 2020
Also gonna go ahead and call shenanigans on the idea that he and his employees make 7million a year, as a 1.2m PPP would imply.
— Surprised Face Guy (@SurprisedFace) April 29, 2020
UPDATE: In a post from Turning Point USA COO Tyler Bowyer, Bowyer contradicts @charliekirk11 and admits the organization DID in fact apply for the PPP loan, despite Kirk previously saying it "woud be in violation of our beliefs at Turning Point USA."https://t.co/PLYlDP2u9u
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 30, 2020
Dinesh D’Souza will sink to ANY challenge in the Terribleness Sweeps…
Millions of dead Africans would beg to differ. I volunteered in an AIDS orphanage in Kayelitsha, South Africa if you wants to talk about equal opportunity death and suffering, you coward. https://t.co/azG6CkvDXI
— Ash (@irisandmaeve) April 29, 2020
And then there’s this guy…
FREE AMERICA NOW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
"I would call it, 'forcibly imprisoning people in their homes' against all their Constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people's freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country," Musk said https://t.co/AZS9BmF0U2
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) April 30, 2020
FREE AMERICA?
NO, MONEY DOWN!
— Jazz Bono (@giantschleps) April 29, 2020
Elon hasn’t been this persecuted since they ended apartheid in South Africa https://t.co/NKobwuNGsd
— Kevin Bird, in these turbulent times (@itsbirdemic) April 29, 2020
Before someone takes this to mean "so you think he agrees with every single thing the south african government did" i'm just saying maybe living in an armored compound with fortifications to keep out black people that your state defined as non citizens has an effect on a person
— Gorilla Warfare (@MenshevikM) April 29, 2020
Of all the replies in the Musk thread this is my favorite pic.twitter.com/fGlPBT6xfM
— Gorilla Warfare (@MenshevikM) April 30, 2020
Elon Musk is dangerously wrong about the novel coronavirus https://t.co/HxrFj1Nny5 pic.twitter.com/a1bTYUfZJa
— The Verge (@verge) April 30, 2020
wonder how his prediction is goinghttps://t.co/FLquccHdVS
— CEEDEE SZN (@jerruh_jones) April 29, 2020
Time for another round of everyone's favorite game "This Comic Is Suddenly Topical Again" pic.twitter.com/WsSaoeCy0D
— jon rosenberg?????? (@jonrosenberg) April 29, 2020
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Worth remembering Amash owes his career to Dick & Betsy DeVos. They backed him in his first Comgressional primary & raised him lots of money. When more pragmatic local chamber of commerce types primaried him they stuck w him. Without the DeVos’s he’d be a political nobody
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 29, 2020
As a former amateur observer of Michigan politics, I’d describe Justin Amash as ‘Rand Paul with a working forebrain.’ Which of course is why, given the recent attention he drew for his ‘principled’ stance against RINO Donald Trump, he couldn’t resist the eternal libertarian impulse to make the most dangerous election of our lifetimes ALL ABOUT HIMSELF. (The deVos family can afford to buy the best jagoffs available on the open market — and they do.)
Michigan Congressman Amash weighs third-party presidential bid https://t.co/IqeIMvNzMp pic.twitter.com/77CZeNfCEj
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 29, 2020
… Amash, a 40-year-old conservative lawmaker who has been a member of Congress since 2011 and had helped found the House Freedom Caucus, left the Republican Party last July after his criticisms of President Donald Trump alienated him from his former allies.
He joined with Democrats to vote to impeach Trump, but on most policy issues still votes as a straight-line Republican…
Amash has as much chance of becoming president as our beloved Blogmaster, but for the next six months, he’ll have the worshipful attention of every horse-race tout among the Media Village Idiots. Not to mention the teeth-gnashing envy of some hundreds, even thousands, of dedicated large-L Libertarians. The Washington Post‘s Dave Weigel (who used to be a perceptive reporter) is already very excited!
… “Things have really taken a turn for the worse, in terms of the growth of libertarianism in Congress,” Amash told The Washington Post in a 2018 interview. “You have some bright spots here and there. But for the most part, the party’s become more nationalistic, more anti-trade.”
In 2019, Amash became the only Republican to call for Trump’s impeachment. Not long after, he left the party and continued to vote against spending bills, while opposing many White House priorities. He faced a tough reelection in his Grand Rapids, Mich.-based district, with Republicans and Democrats both filing against him…
The Libertarian Party is set to meet in Austin over Memorial Day weekend to pick its presidential nominee, with the convention making its choice on May 25. While the pandemic has canceled many political events, the Libertarian Party had not moved the convention, and earlier this week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the state would “reopen” on May 1.
I would *never* wish a contagious coronavirus outbreak on anyone. But a nice contained bout of norovirus, maybe?…
Exactly what do you have to “explore” if you’re running for the Libertarian nomination?
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 29, 2020
The “Honest Trailers” version… https://t.co/FuokqDX2bt pic.twitter.com/89dK7Tdhht
— ℝ𝕪𝕤𝕒 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕖𝕣 (@RysaWalker) April 29, 2020
When he was in the Michigan House that chamber passed many bills 109-1. He likes attention, plus unlike Rand Paul or Mike Lee, he’s almost completely consistent; he holds the most extreme of extreme ideologies against the gov’t doing ANYTHING…except controlling women’s’ bodies https://t.co/eFBcEoqdaN
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 29, 2020
Biden’s margin is 10 points with no third part contender. That shrinks to 6 points when a third party is introduced according to the most recent USA Today/Suffolk poll. @justinamash is a trump re-election card. https://t.co/SAN47ZVDMy
— Pence, the new Agnew (@PenceNewAgnew) April 29, 2020
We foolish mortals doubted that a sequel could ever match the batshit insanity of the original 2016, but 20 Fast 20 Furious has had a truly spectacular first act https://t.co/3iaRfydJhG
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) April 29, 2020
“Amash for Prez”: Another GOP Jagoff Heard FromPost + Comments (75)