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Rand Paul swarmed by protesters after RNC... This is your brain on Infowars. (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Boos aren't attacks. SoonerPride Aug 2020 #1
Well, bless his heart.... Bayard Aug 2020 #2
this is their play... dhill926 Aug 2020 #3
Did anyone lay a hand on him? vlyons Aug 2020 #4
Only one who touched him was the bicycle cop. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #6
he's paranoid from what happened. stillcool Aug 2020 #5
Weren't the unmasked idiots in the audience also from out of town? brush Aug 2020 #7
Hell, he's from out of town and paid to come to DC. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #8
Yes, and didn't his ignorant as contaminate the Senate pool? brush Aug 2020 #9
He apparently wasn't successful at that either. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #10
He claims they were "paid anarchists".... IowaGuy Aug 2020 #11
Paul was baiting them. If he and his wife decided to walk through the protesters, Midnight Writer Aug 2020 #12
and they apparently had the option to take a shuttle IcyPeas Aug 2020 #13

dhill926

(16,392 posts)
3. this is their play...
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:49 PM
Aug 2020

trying to paint a picture of out of control protestors, that only repubs can save us from...it has worked before, but times feel different now. And yeah...fuck Rand Paul...

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
4. Did anyone lay a hand on him?
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:52 PM
Aug 2020

Spit on him? Throw a pie in his face? Or did they just yell at him and call him an asshole?

Nevilledog

(51,303 posts)
6. Only one who touched him was the bicycle cop.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:56 PM
Aug 2020

Lots of replies to this saying "We are all Rand Paul's neighbor"....lol

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
5. he's paranoid from what happened.
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 12:56 PM
Aug 2020

with his neighbor. He could have taken advantage of the situation and explained his point of view on things...well...maybe not.

IowaGuy

(779 posts)
11. He claims they were "paid anarchists"....
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 01:26 PM
Aug 2020

So the concept is, there is a capitalistic structure / organization that pays people to be anarchists......uuuhhhh, yeah, whatever you say Rand.

Midnight Writer

(21,871 posts)
12. Paul was baiting them. If he and his wife decided to walk through the protesters,
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 01:49 PM
Aug 2020

then he did not feel unsafe. He had to know the streets around the White House were packed with opposition protesters.

He was hoping for an altercation so he could run to FOX and play victim.

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