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Here’s a question for you: Who do you consider to be the stupidest person in the entire U.S. Senate? Ted Cruz? Josh Hawley?

Or might it be Rand Paul (R-KY)? That seems to be the general consensus after Paul suggested that President Joe Biden “burn his mask” as a way of encouraging Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

HuffPost notes that Paul made his idiotic remarks during an appearance on Fox News:

“If you want more people to get vaccinated, Joe Biden should go on national TV, take his mask off and burn it.
“Light a torch to it and burn his mask and say, ‘I’ve had the vaccine, I am now safe from this plague. If you get the vaccine, you can be safe, too.'”

.@RandPaul: "If Dr. Fauci can prove that people who are vaccinated are spreading the disease, I'll listen to him … but there is no evidence of that.

If you want more people to be vaccinated, Joe Biden should go on national TV, take his mask off, and burn it." pic.twitter.com/9KlS730jQ7
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 21, 2021

Sen. Paul made his absurd suggestion in response to remarks from Dr. Anthony Fauci that vaccinated people can still infect others with coronavirus and therefore should continue to wear masks as a protective measure.

President Biden said the same thing Wednesday: Masks will be necessary “until the number of cases go down, until everyone has a chance to get their shot.”

Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the only people who should go without a mask is very limited:

“Those who have been fully vaccinated can go maskless inside with other fully vaccinated people or ‘one household of unvaccinated people who are not at risk for severe illness.'”

For his stupidity, Rand Paul was pelted with derision on social media:

There is a strong case that Rand Paul is the stupidest senator in Congress, but when you've got people like Kennedy, Hawley, Cornyn, Cruz, Johnson how do you choose? An embarrassment of incompetence for the GOP makes it impossible to choose.
— BlueRedSolution (@BlueRedSolutio1) April 22, 2021

I know someone who was fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine in January who tested positive last week and became symptomatic a couple of days later. And she infected someone else. @RandPaul is an irresponsible fool.
— GW (@iamgwbush) April 22, 2021

Poor Randy failed infectious disease class in medical school and had to settle for being an self-certified eye doctor. If only he knew that vaccines make you resistant but not impervious to the virus.
— 🇺🇦 Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 (@Kaos_Vs_Control) April 22, 2021

Did he sleep through the lecture on disease spread while he was in med school. Honestly, which med school did he graduate from?
— Kathleen Gilbert (@gilbertk) April 22, 2021

https://twitter.com/Bjb2743Brian/status/1385252649658896386?s=20

https://twitter.com/MattiOwenz/status/1385007954731184130?s=20

https://twitter.com/Gumbo54/status/1385214898381144072?s=20

Did @RandPaul get his medical degree from Trump College of Liberty University?
— Todd (@todditter) April 22, 2021

Rand Paul is a joke. No wonder he keeps getting reelected in the Bluegrass State.

At the moment, Joe Biden is one of the most popular presidents in recent memory, and even Republicans are giving him high marks for the job he’s doing battling the coronavirus pandemic and his plan to rebuild American infrastructure.

Morning Consult released a poll this week which shows that the Biden agenda is wildly popular among those surveyed, with 65 percent saying they approve of paying for the president’s infrastructure package by increasing taxes on corporations for the next 15 years. Only 21 percent said they’re opposed to raising taxes on big business.

Even 42 percent of registered Republicans said they support higher taxes on corporations, with 47 percent of GOP voters telling pollsters they were opposed to such a plan.

Morning Consult poll:

65% of registered voters support funding Biden's infrastructure plan through higher taxes on corporations.

That includes 42% of Republican voters.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 9, 2021

A closer look inside the Morning Consult numbers also has good news for the administration, with 53 percent of those responding saying they they still support tax hikes and only 27 percent saying they wouldn’t support such a plan.

And then there’s this from the poll, which is almost certain to terrify Congressional Republicans:

“When taxes and other potential funding sources aren’t mentioned, Biden’s infrastructure plan enjoys the support of 60 percent of voters, including 84 percent of Democrats, 51 percent of independents and 35 percent of Republicans.”

Americans realize our infrastructure is falling apart and needs to be rebuilt, whether it be roads and bridges our updating schools across the country.

On Biden’s other signature issue, the COVID relief package and plan for getting the majority of us vaccinated, the numbers are also encouraging, with 70 percent saying they think Biden has done the right thing to slow and eventually eliminate spread of the deadly disease.

While Republicans continue to whine and shoot themselves in the foot, President Biden is being rewarded for his bold and decisive ideas. That alone is all the proof you need that the current president is a unifier, unlike his predecessor.