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WATCH Rand Paul Get His A*s Handed To Him During A Hearing On Vaccines

 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made a fool of himself at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Wednesday when attempted to suggest that young men who take the COVID-19 vaccine are more likely to have myocarditis (which is an inflammation of the heart muscle).

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel was testifying before the committee and was asked by Paul:

“Is there a higher interest or a higher incidence of myocarditis among adolescent males 16 to 24 after taking your vaccine?”

Bancel:

“First, let me say we care deeply about safety and we are working closely with the CDC and the FDA.”

Paul: “Pretty much a yes or no,” Paul said. “Is there a higher incidence of myocarditis among boys 16 to 24 after they take your vaccine?”

“The data I’ve shown, actually, I’ve seen, sorry, from the CDC, actually shown that there’s less myocarditis for people who get the vaccine versus who get COVID infection,” Bancel noted.

A clearly shocked Paul asked, “You’re saying that for ages 16 to 24 among males who take the COVID vaccine, their risk of myocarditis is less than people who get the disease?”

Bancel confirmed what he had just said, “That is my understanding, Senator.”

Taken aback and looking as if Bancel had just slapped him, Paul exclaimed:

“That is not true. And I’d like to enter into the record six peer-reviewed papers from the Journal of Vaccine, the Annals of Medicine that say the complete opposite of what you say.”

According to the CDC, Bancel is right and Paul is (as usual) wrong, reporting, Myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been reported.

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Rand Paul’s Sarcastic Version Of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ Gets Him Mocked Online

 

Though you’d never get him to admit it publicly, deep down inside Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) knows he’s a joke and that almost no one takes him seriously. After all, this is the same clown who has repeatedly attacked a man as accomplished and brilliant as Dr. Anthony Fauci out of what can only be jealousy. Fauci is a respected doctor. Paul, on the other hand, is supposedly an eye doctor, though anyone who would go to him for an exam has bigger problems than just astigmatism.

And now the Kentucky Republican is again making a complete fool of himself by posting a sarcastic version of the holiday classic “Twas the Night Before Christmas” in an attempt to criticize the omnibus spending bill making its way through Congress that will keep the government funded for another year.

Paul’s version is entitled, “Twas the Week Before Christmas” and features the following verses:

“‘Twas the week before Christmas, and through the Senate and House, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The senators were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of pork danced in their heads.

“When what to my wondering eyes should appear? But a 4,000-page omni with endless debt year after year.”

Enjoy? How in the hell can we enjoy when we’re busy hunching over the nearest commode and heaving our dinner into the bowl?

Some things should never ever be messed with. “Twas the Night Before Christmas” is one of them. We didn’t need a Rand Paul version of the classic, especially one that attempts to convey a snarky (and poorly worded) political message.

Twitter users were also not amused or entertained, and they were eager to let Sen. Paul know it.

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WATCH Steve Doocy School Rand Paul On The Dangers Of Saying The FBI Unfairly Targeted Trump

“Fox & Friends” co-host called Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and others in the GOP out for their incendiary rhetoric aimed at the FBI for doing their jobs and executing a search warrant former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo golf resort.

Paul was a guest on the show Thursday morning, and he immediately began attacking the FBI:

“This is part of the same people who are still running the FBI. They have a different understanding, maybe, of what they think the FBI can and cannot do and how it should be used on Americans, but I’m going to require proof that there was actually some sort of probable cause of a crime, and I’m suspicious that there was not.”

Doocy schooled the senator on the dangers of saying such things:

“The problem is, over the last week or so there has been so much violent rhetoric directed at the FBI, and I heard somebody printed that it stands for ‘Fascist Bureau of Investigation; or something like that. Unfortunately now the people who work at the FBI headquarters, there are death threats and all sorts of stuff. I heard from a staff member there who was talking to a colleague at the FBI, a colleague realized, ‘Oh, look, I’m wearing the wrong shoes today to work,’ because if somebody attacks the building and they’ve got to run, can’t run in those heels, so they’re caught in the crosshairs.”

While Paul said he agreed there was no need to call for violence against federal agents, he quickly tried to minimize the threat by claiming he faces even greater attacks for his stance on controversial issues:

“I think the death threats are inappropriate and not the way to go about it. There’s the political process. The problem is that the people in charge of Congress, the Democrats, have not been interested in or curious in investigating anything. We have a million people who died from Covid, and I haven’t had one hearing on the origin. We finally did a couple weeks ago. I insisted on hearing, and the Democrats didn’t come to my hearing. The thing is there’s been a lack of curiosity on the part of investigation, but there’s no excuse for threats to the FBI, and the thing is, look, and they’re not the only one getting threats. I’ve had probably over 50 threats this year. Sometimes i can have a dozen in a week. We have my address posted online, we have people who are wishing me ill will, injury, all the time.”

At times like this, it’s easy to understand exactly why one of Rand Paul’s neighbors beat the snot out of him.

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Rand Paul: I Won’t Help Ukraine Until Funds For ‘Sexually Promiscuous’ Quails Are Cut From The Budget

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) continues to hold up a $40 billion aid package to our Ukrainian allies because he claims the federal budget already contains too much waste.

According to Mediaite, Paul suggested on that birds high on cocaine were his biggest concern:

“If the defense of Ukraine is really in our national security interests, shouldn’t the gift come from our military budget?” Paul asked. “What about cutting wasteful spending? My office cataloged over $50 billion in waste.”

Paul referenced several unusual spending items, including money to fund studies on selfies, Panamanian frogs, and sneezing in cafeterias. Then came the crème de la crème.

“Couldn’t we maybe cut the money spent on Japanese quail studying whether or not they’re more sexually promiscuous or not when you give them cocaine?” he asked.

And this isn’t the first time Sen. Paul has brought up cokehead quails as a reason to not fund necessary priorities like U.S. national security. He did the same thing in 2018, the Washington Post reports:

You can look up data on NIH grants. This particular research was called “Enhancement of Sexual Motivation” and it did, in fact, receive $873,503 from the agency over the course of its progress. But that funding ended more than five years ago. It ended before Paul raised it in 2018.”

Here’s the video of Paul’s 2018 coke-quail rant:

It should also be noted that the study cited by Paul actually has practical applications in humans, as Scientific American has explained:

“There is already an extensive literature on drugs like cocaine, how it impacts various behaviors and how it acts in, and changes, the brains. But we don’t know everything by any means, and we certainly don’t know enough about mechanism to treat cocaine addiction effectively. Studies to understand how cocaine impacts every behavior are important to our understanding of the drug and how we can combat its effects.”

Supposedly, Rand Paul is a doctor. But he sounds more like a coke-addled strutting rooster. Then again, at least a rooster serves some purpose, unlike the junior senator from the Blue Grass State.

 

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Sherrod Brown Says What We Suspected About Rand Paul: ‘He’s Kind Of A Lunatic’

If we’re being completely honest, we’ve all thought at one time or another that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) isn’t quite right.

Now, however, we have confirmation that Paul is indeed off-kilter, and it comes to us courtesy of a colleague of his in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

AlterNet reports that during a mass vaccination event in Columbus, Ohio, Brown remarked:

“He’s kind of a lunatic. He thinks he wants to be different, but it doesn’t serve the public interest.”

Just a couple of months ago, Paul clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing on COVID-19. He insisted that it was “theater” for those who were already fully vaccinated to still wear a protective mask. Fauci disagreed and let the senator know just how ignorant he sounded saying such a thing. He also explained why it’s a good idea to wear a mask even after one has been vaccinated:

“The expert immunologist has warned that although the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and others offer major protection, it is still possible for someone who has been fully vaccinated to be infected and spread COVID-19 to others — and for that reason, Fauci recommends wearing masks as an added precaution.”

There was also this confrontation between Paul and Fauci back in June of last year:

Did you wonder why there were fewer cases of the flu last year, especially during peak flu season? Because so many of us were wearing masks! Maybe we need to do that every year when it’s flu season if only to save lives. Why does this have to be controversial? We should all be willing to do what’s best for others and not just what makes us feel good. That’s what it means to be a member of a civilized society.

But there’s something more at play here: Rand Paul is a dick. Plain and simple. He knows he is, and he plays it up because he thinks that’s what his constituents want to hear. Maybe he’s right, but he’s still a lunatic and a douchebag.