WTF is wrong with Rand Paul?

[milestogo]

[Thomas Hurt]

1. bought and paid for

[TheBlackAdder]

33. Yep. He's another one of Putin's Lap Poodles.

[JDC]

39. Exactly

[still_one]

2. Everything

[Jane Austin]

11. Yes!

You nailed it.

[crickets]

23. +1

[Sancho]

3. He's not a convenient idiot...

so he must be a willing traitor.

[dhol82]

5. That has to be the answer.

Wonder how much he got from Uncle Vlad?

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. It comes from upbringing.

With all the nazis his dad hangs around with, it really shouldn't surprise us he's so comfortable being around them.

[Wounded Bear]

6. He bought into his namesake's bullshit...

[MineralMan]

7. He's a freaking reactionary libertarian, that's what's wrong.

Just like his father.

[lastlib]

17. He's suffering from "drain bamage"....

Like his old man.

[Faux pas]

8. He didn't just

turn into an asshole, he's always been one. No mystery to me.

[PufPuf23]

9. Environment but also congenital plus the self-entitled personality where

human decency is missing.

[mr_lebowski]

10. I feel like this is a rhetorical question (nt)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. You mean more than usual?

He's clearly part of the Trump/Russia mess IMHO.

[milestogo]

19. He is all over the airwaves and he is really annoying.

If there were ever a fantastic argument against libertarianism, it's him.

[old guy]

13. Nothing.

He is the same as ever. Has a safe seat and craves the spot lite no matter how crazed he gets.

[CanonRay]

14. Russian money fever

[lastlib]

18. "Rublonic plague"? eom

He must've caught it from Moscow Mitch or Leningrad Lindsey.

[yonder]

37. "Rublonic plague" Good one.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Too much THC

Not enough TLC

[brush]

16. He's a libertarian a-hole who noticed how much media attention...

Graham gets for kissing trump's and wants to get in on it.

Another question is what's wrong with Kentucky? I know that state is red but to keep sending Moscow Mitch and Paul over and over back to the Senate is nuts.

Does any state have two worse and worser still senators?

Excuse "worser still" but I couldn't think of a better way to say it.

[Retrograde]

20. Let me count the ways...

-raised by Ron Paul
-shortened his given name to Rand in honor of his idol, Ayn
-acts like a privileged snot who always got what he wanted
-seems to despise people who aren't powerful or in a position to benefit
-never outgrew Randian libertarianism
-got where he is in politics due to his father's name
-seems proud to have won Kentucky the uncoveted "State with Worst Senators" award several years running

[BlueMTexpat]

21. He's Rand Paul.

Just being Rand Paul would f**k anyone up.

[blueinredohio]

22. A better question WTF is right with Rand Paul?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. wtf is wrong with Rand Paul's voters?

Forget Rand Paul; how do we counteract those who vote for him?

[Blue_Tires]

25. What's wrong with him NOW? Or what has *always* been wrong with him?

[demigoddess]

26. congenital brain damage?

[Docreed2003]

27. Living with a marmot on your scalp will make you crazy...

[58Sunliner]

28. Compromised sociopath who will do anything for attention.

Part of the lunatic fringe. Now mainstreamed. Ugh.

Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming
I know what you're after
We're wise to you this time (wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
But this is open season
But you won't get too far
'Cause you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
We're on guard this time (on guard this time)
Against your final solution
Oh no
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
We can hear you coming (we can hear you coming)
No, you're not going to win this time (not gonna win)
We can hear the footsteps (we can hear the footsteps)
Hey, out along the walkway (out along the walkway)
Lunatic fringe
We all know you're out there
Can you feel the resistance
Can you feel the thunder
Oh no
Hey!
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Thomas William Cochrane

[SMC22307]

45. Wow, I haven't heard that in, hmm, let's just say ages.

Still sounds good!

[58Sunliner]

46. Yeah, truth retread. Sociopath covers a lot. My fallback is POS.

[poli-junkie]

29. He's on the take...

just like all the other TrumPutin sycophants. You can read right through 'em. Traitors! Each and everyone of 'em!

[MontanaMama]

30. What's NOT wrong with Rand?

Dude is a mess.

[louis-t]

31. I don't know, but I can't get the image of him being throttled

by his neighbor over grass clippings out of my mind.

[whistler162]

32. He is Rand Paul!

[GoneOffShore]

34. You didn't know that he has always been an egregious fuckwit?

I'm shocked.

[VOX]

35. "Rand Paul Is Trump's Perfect Russia Stooge"...

Article linked is from 2018, but still applies. Note that Paul has voted against Russia sanctions.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/rand-paul-donald-trump-perfect-russia-stooge/amp
Trump’s Perfect Russia Stooge
Vanity Fair
By Tina Nguyen
August 7, 2018
The unlikely, unholy alliance between Rand Paul and Donald Trump, one a libertarian iconoclast, the other the cancerous center of the Republican party, has cemented itself in golf games and frequent phone calls. “They’ll talk on the phone and Trump will go on about Bedminster and golf and whatever else is going on; and Rand will drop in his libertarian ideas,” a source close to Trump recently told Axios. “And Trump will laugh and say, ‘This guy’s crazy’ . . . They won’t even argue. He’ll let him speak his mind.” Their friendship has manifested in a number of ways, including in Paul’s periodic abandonment of his principles to vote however Trump needs him to, and Trump’s apparent willingness to take Paul’s questionable advice. But while Trump’s affinity for Paul may, on some level, have been predictable—after all, they both love to needle Mitch McConnell—their friendship has recently veered in a less likely direction, as Paul comes to Trump’s defense on all matters Russia.

On Monday, weeks after Paul made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor in support of Trump’s Helsinki summit—“The hatred for the president is so intense that partisans would rather risk war than give diplomacy a chance”—the Kentucky senator visited Moscow on a private trip to strengthen relations between Russia and the U.S., a matter he called “in­cred­ibly important,” according to The Washington Post. (The U.S. Embassy in Moscow told the Post that Paul was not on an official diplomatic trip, and was traveling privately with a group.) Paul’s Russian jaunt reportedly included a visit with former Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, who U.S. intelligence suggests is a spy, and whose undisclosed meetings with Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn led indirectly to Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign.
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[Dan]

36. I always figured his neighbor didn't beat his ass enough.

[dlk]

38. Where to begin...

[BlueIdaho]

40. The same thing that has always been wrong with Rand Paul...

He’s a fucking tool.

[NCLefty]

41. His squirrel hat is too tight again? Also, his wiki page mentions his new-found love of crime:

On November 4, 2019 Rand Paul called on the media to reveal the secret identity of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo whistleblower after threatening to reveal the name himself, despite Federal law that protects the identification of whistleblowers.[175]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul

[11 Bravo]

42. That thing on top of his head done ate his brain!

[Demovictory9]

43. wasn't his dad a nut?

[SMC22307]

44. He's always been a POS, same with Lindsey Graham. (n/t)

[TeamPooka]

47. The Paul's go way back with Russia/Soviet Union money. Back to the 80s