91-3: Senate overwhelmingly passes legislation to expand online privacy and safety protections for children.

The “no” votes:
• Ron Wyden (D-OR)
• Rand Paul (R-KY)
• Mike Lee (R-UT) pic.twitter.com/2NWkb9jPVP

— The Recount (@therecount) July 30, 2024

No one wants to vote against kids and their safety.

The way they’ve framed this bill, it seems like only a child molester would be against it. In reality, it’s the biggest online censorship and spying bill in US history.

New York Post:

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed with flying bipartisan colors in the Senate Tuesday — but Rand Paul stood virtually alone against it.

“I have a great deal of sympathy for the issue,” Sen. Paul (R-KY) told The Post. “But I’m afraid it will lead to censorship.”

The bill, which passed with a whopping 91 votes in favor, is an attempt to protect children from the harms of the internet. It establishes a “duty of care” for social media platforms to protect minors, and would require them to suppress content that could cause harm.

Paul said that, while the bill is well-intentioned, it could enable the government to censor speech that it subjectively deems anxiety-provoking for youth.

“The whole idea that we’re going to set up a committee and we’re going to give a vague definition of anxiety — and then say anything that causes anxiety we’re going to give a group the power to regulate — is bizarre,” Paul added.

That is really bizarre.

Because anything can cause anxiety.

Watching those videos of fat women doing reviews of Disneyland makes me anxious. These women look like water balloons that could just pop. And if they popped, it wouldn’t be water, but disgusting pink goo that would ooze out. It makes me anxious. I’m sure it also makes a lot of kids anxious.

He referred to the “absurdity of the anxiety argument,” explaining that virtually anything could be considered anxiety-producing by the Federal Trade Commission, which has been tasked with enforcement of KOSA.

Paul points to a Harvard survey that found 65% of people aged 15 to 30 say they have intrusive anxiety about climate change on a daily basis. Therefore, KOSA could theoretically be used to censor climate change content.

“I would be one of the first people kicked off the internet because I’m sure that I say things that cause people anxiety,” the senator said. “I just think there’s a real danger in letting government regulate this or take things down.”

Well, I feel that, Rand. I feel ya, brother.

This is a new angle on censorship, this “protect the children” thing. It seems like it should have been obvious. But now they’ve spent all this time hyping up how kids are getting sexually abused and so on, and the internet is this big danger for kids.

It would actually make more sense, if the internet is a threat to kids, to just make the internet like cigarettes and say you have to be 18 to use it. I don’t support that, but this would be the logical line of thought.

Probably, this bill is going to pass eventually, and then be impossible to enforce, and just be selectively enforced over time.

BREAKING – MAJOR BILL: Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) rises in defense of free speech, warning that the Kids Online Safety Act is a bill designed to block free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. He argues that censoring speech based on anxiety will… pic.twitter.com/jiD62Qancp

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) July 25, 2024

@RandPaul put out a wasteful spending #festivus report highlighting $900 billion in waste. Behold, Dr. #Fauci‘s #transgender monkey study.

Some other highlights posted in this thread. pic.twitter.com/NSHQTOLlon

— Steven Middendorp (@smiddendorp22) December 22, 2023

I’m not transphobic, I just think this money should be going to Israel.

(I want to start doing monthly “Breitbart Day” where all my jokes are a parody of Breitbart. People need to understand how ridiculous this Jewish “conservative” narrative is.)

New York Post:

In the most wonderful time of the year for Washington budget hawks, Sen. Rand Paul released his annual airing of spending grievances Friday in honor of the “Seinfeld”-immortalized holiday “Festivus.”

From science experiments on transgender monkeys to $38 million in COVID payments to dead people, Paul’s report detailed what he called “a whopping $9 billion of waste” of taxpayer funds.

The thing is, that all seems irrelevant when put beside the amount of money sent to Israel and the Ukraine.

I kinda like the Seinfeld reference though. (It was a sort of self-deprecating joke about the Jewish refusal to celebrate Christmas. A lot of Larry David’s jokes would have been considered antisemitic if he wasn’t Jewish, as they are basically all making fun of Jews.)

“Last Festivus, we lamented over the national debt reaching an astronomical $30 trillion,” wrote Paul (R-Ky.).

“Shockingly, in one short year, the career politicians and bureaucrats in Washington have managed to approach $34 trillion in debt, without so much as a second thought.”

Paul blasted both political parties for contributing to the shortfall by voting to raise the debt ceiling in late May, “which empowered the government to borrow an unlimited amount of money until 2024.”

Yeah but – tranny monkeys are not the real issue here.

The issue is boomer entitlements (much more so than black entitlements) and wars.

Boomers should pay for their own health care. I pay for my own health care. Boomers should be adults and take responsibility for their own lives. Boomers invented “the government is my mommy” thinking, and now it’s coming home to roost.

“As Congress spends to reward its favored industries and pet projects, the American taxpayers are forced to pay the price through record high inflation and crippling interest rates,” he said in the report.

(Interest rates are a bigger problem than inflation, unless you’re poor. Just feel a need to mention that again. Inflation only hurts poor people who, quite frankly, deserve it. They should stop being poor. This is America. There’s no excuse.)

“The same big spenders teamed up, yet again, to continue sending Americans’ hard-earned money to foreign countries and funding endless wars, all while ignoring our porous southern border.”

“I have a lot of problems with federal spending,” he added, channeling Frank Costanza, “and now it’s time to hear all about them.”

…

Government funding for brutal experiments on primates made multiple pages of this year’s Festivus report.

First, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases spent nearly half a million dollars to forcibly change the gender of male monkeys, according to the report.

“That’s right, the NIAID is using $477,121 of your tax dollars to fund the forced feminization of male rhesus macaques,” Paul said in the report.

“Utilizing taxpayer funds from NIAID, a Florida lab set out to examine what would happen if female hormones were given to male monkeys.”

The reason?

To study whether male monkeys pumped full of female hormones were more susceptible to HIV.

Hmmm….

“The lab worked to make male lab monkeys ‘transgender’ to address ‘social injustices’ suffered by ‘transgender persons’ such as ‘transgender women who were assigned a male set at birth but express their gender along a female spectrum,” the report read.

The problem?

“Critics note that monkeys themselves are not susceptible to HIV, and argue injecting the male monkeys with female hormones is unlikely to yield relevant information or to help humans,” Paul noted.

HIV is fake, by the way. It’s a big hoax to transfer huge money to homo immune system drugs. “Anti-virals” are just designed to boost the T-cell count, because “HIV” simply means “low T-cells.”

In another experiment, the National Institutes of Health spent $171,000 of your money on studying the gambling habits of monkeys — an experiment that began in 2014 but has continued for nearly a decade later.

The experiment involves putting the monkeys through three sets of tests. the first two of which present “clear patterns” to win, while the third pays out randomly.

What they found was that monkey like to gamble, and that they share humans’ “unfounded belief in winning and losing streaks.”

Okay, well. I’m actually happy to know that information. I think that was probably a fair way to spend money.

In fact, I would rather those hundreds of billions sent to the Ukraine have been spent on the monkey gambling program.

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this report. 

There’s a lot of universities still doing this

Oh, so we’re doing forced vax again?

Interesting.

Washington Examiner:

Rutgers University students are faced with disenrollment for the upcoming semester if they do not submit to the school’s vaccine mandate.

Rutgers became the first school in the country to mandate the vaccines for students in late March 2021 and has maintained it despite the federal government ending the pandemic emergency declaration in May and most Americans considering the pandemic over.

“It’s baffling to see that from what should be a leading voice of science-based rationality, comes arbitrary garbage,” Republican New Jersey state Sen. Declan O’Scanlon said in a statement slamming the university. “It’s a ludicrous policy; any benefit there might have been from the initial vaccine has long since waned in the face of continuously evolving strains.”

Indeed, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky admitted the vaccines do not fully stop infection or transmission of the virus in July 2021, prompting her to update masking guidelines, another protocol for which efficacy is questioned.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been vocal on the issue of vaccine mandates and safety and called out Rutgers for its maintenance of the policy.

“Requiring 3 COVID vax for college freshman is not just bad science but malpractice,” Paul wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Risk of myocarditis is 28x higher in young men w/COVID vaccine than the risk of myocarditis from COVID. Germany released stats – no healthy young people died from Covid.”

Rutgers remains one of under 100 institutions of higher learning across the country that still has a vaccine mandate going into the fall 2023 semester, according to data from the anti-mandate organization No College Mandates. Other schools include Harvard University, Wellesley College, the Juilliard School, and Johns Hopkins University.

The school does have an option to request an exemption, but it is “evaluated on a case-by-case basis” and “NOT automatically granted,” according to its mandate information page. Even if a student is granted an exemption, their ability to go to class on-campus is “not guaranteed,” and they are not allowed in on-campus housing.

Students who refuse to comply are encouraged to go to college online.

Well. It hasn’t gotten as extreme as it was.

Back in the heyday of the virus hoax, the unvaxed were not allowed in Zoom calls. Also – and I hope you remember this – various organizations were requiring people wear masks on Zoom calls so that “everyone feels safe.” The implication was that seeing a human face made people feel unsafe. Which, I think, was probably very true for the women who bought all the way into this hoax.

Senator John Kennedy wasn’t the only one to take some swings at lo latine lo Cubane on Wednesday.

Rand Paul, who is by a long way the best Senator in the Senate, went on a rant against this guy about how the government constantly spreads misinformation about basically everything.

Paul cut to the bottom line, asking what exactly it is these people are planning to do about alleged “disinformation.”

RT:

Due to its long track record of disinformation, the US government has no right to tell the American people what the truth is, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has stated. He went to list a number of examples of where Washington had lied to its own people, and the rest of the world.

During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Paul grilled Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the so-called ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ his agency has announced to supposedly help social media platforms filter out ‘fake news.’

“Here’s the problem: we can’t even agree what disinformation is,” the Republican Senator pointed out. “You can’t even agree if it was disinformation that the Russians fed information to the Steele dossier.”

He was referring to the controversial and largely discredited report that relied on info from anonymous sources to allege collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election in the US.

“If you can’t agree to that, how are we ever going to come to an agreement on what is disinformation, so that you can police it on social media?” Paul wondered.

“Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The US government!” he insisted.

In order to back his claim, the Senator mentioned several examples of false information being deliberately spread by Washington over the past decades.

Among them were the so-called Pentagon Papers, which revealed that the US government had been misinforming the public about the scale of its military operations during the Vietnam War. The documents were officially declassified in 2011, but the media had been reporting on them since 1971.

Paul also mentioned “George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction,” referring to American claims that Saddam Hussein’s regime had been in possession of WMD, claims that were used by the US to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but were never confirmed by findings on the grounds.

His other example was the Iran–Contra affair, which saw top US officials secretly organizing the sale of weapons to Iran in violation of an arms embargo between 1981 and 1986 in order to obtain money to fund the Contras insurgent group in Nicaragua.

“I mean, think over all the debates and disputes we’ve had over the last 50 years in our country. We work them out by debating them. We don’t work them out by the government being the arbiter,” the Senator said.

“I want you to have nothing to do with speech… You think the American people are so stupid they need you to tell them what the truth is?” Paul added.

Nina Jackowicz might think that. Lo Latine lo Cubane is just a Jew who wants to control the thoughts of the goyim.

It’s an amazing thing that Congress is so polite you can’t even point out the history of Jews being the lead force behind communism, and thinking they can control everyone’s thoughts and behavior. I mean, it’s in their religious texts that they believe this. It seems like something you should be able to question them about, no?

I sure hope that the Republicans will for the first time in history manage to do something to stop something. This disinformation warfare department is over the line. It’s too much. Surely.

Thank you for an incredible kick off to my senate race today at Liberty in the Bluegrass today, Kentucky! #StandwithRand pic.twitter.com/awE6NLQJYl

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 1, 2022

Why is there no longer any single person in government or media saying “it’s just the flu”?

What about after the CDC admitted that the death count was fake, and the numbers went down to flu numbers?

Why keep talking about a “deadly virus” there is no evidence for?

AP:

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul promised Saturday to wage a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if Republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.

Speaking to supporters at a campaign rally, the libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican denounced what he sees as government overreach in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He applauded a recent judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs.

“Last week I was on an airplane for the first time in two years and didn’t have to wear a mask,” he said, drawing cheers from the partisan crowd. “And you know what I saw in the airport? I saw at least 97% of the other free individuals not wearing masks.”

Paul has clashed repeatedly with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, over the government’s COVID-19 policies and the origins of the virus that caused the global pandemic.

Paul, who is seeking a third term this year in Kentucky, said he’s in line to assume a committee chairmanship if the GOP wins Senate control after the November election. The Senate currently has a 50-50 split, but Democrats have the slim edge because Vice President Kamala Harris is a tie-breaking vote.

“When we take over in November, I will be chairman of a committee and I will have subpoena power,” Paul said. “And we will get to the bottom of where this virus came from.”

The senator, an eye surgeon, continued to offer his theory about the origins of the virus.

“If you look at the evidence, overwhelmingly, not 100%, but overwhelmingly the evidence points to this virus being a leak from a lab,” Paul said.

In the U.S., many conservatives have accused Chinese scientists of developing COVID-19 in a lab and allowing it to leak.

Yeah, it’s just a neocon argument for trying to do war against the Chinese.

Maybe also Paul legitimately hates Anthony Fauci and is trying to destroy him.

Who knows?

What we know: no one wants to keep talking about the “deadly coronavirus,” and I’m not sure why Rand Paul, a confirmed Russian agent, is doing so.

Just a reminder that John McCain called out Rand Paul nearly a decade ago as a Russian asset. He was then, and he is now. pic.twitter.com/T7s22miygl

— VoteVets (@votevets) April 26, 2022

If the Ukraine chooses neutrality, then this entire stupid and pointless conflict will be shown to have been completely without meaning.

Thus far, the US has said that they will not allow the Ukraine to become neutral again, and would rather see every Ukrainian dead. Washington has ordered the Ukrainians to fight and die and have all their buildings blown up in the name of Washington’s “global strategic objectives.” This is the first time a US official has come out and said “well, maybe.”

But remember: they keep making all kinds of different statements. I don’t know if this is incompetence, confusion, a strategy of confusion, or some combination.

RT:

Washington would not oppose Ukraine declaring itself a non-aligned, neutral country, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony in the Senate on Tuesday. The US seeks to arm Ukraine to strengthen its hand at the negotiating table, but can’t be “more Ukrainian than the Ukrainians” and the ultimate decision will be up to Kiev, Blinken said.

The crisis in Ukraine, which Blinken visited over the weekend with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, dominated Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the State Department’s 2023 budget.

At one point, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) voiced his concern that Ukrainians were “being pushed and goaded by half the members of the Senate who want them in NATO,” and that they might have otherwise agreed to neutrality, as Moscow had asked. 

That certainly would have been a lot simpler than this big military conflict, I think.

It would have also been a lot better for the United States and Europe, as apparently having a military conflict in the Ukraine meant that they had to sanction themselves.

And no – I don’t think that a revolutionary Jewish government installed by the US can be seen as “the voice of Ukrainians.”

Asked by Paul whether the US would accept Ukraine becoming a neutral state and not a NATO member, Blinken implied that Washington just might.

“We, senator, are not going to be more Ukrainian than the Ukrainians. These are decisions for them to make,” he told Paul. The purpose of the current US military aid to Ukraine is to give Kiev the ability to “repel the Russian aggression” and  “strengthen their hand at an eventual negotiating table,” Blinken added.

What?

Claiming that the US has “seen no sign to date” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “serious about meaningful negotiations,” Blinken said that “If he is, and if the Ukrainians engage, we’ll support them.”

Some in Moscow believe the US and the UK have influenced Kiev to backtrack from the talks with promises of support, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a TV interview on Monday. He also said that trying to negotiate directly with the US and NATO did not give results, as they listened to Russian concerns and then ignored them, “rather impolitely” making it clear that it was not up to Moscow to decide its own security.

“Listen, Ivan – I’m the sheriff.”

I’m not sure how much can be drawn from these statements from Blinken.

He is basically on par with Kamala Harris in terms of his ability to speak in public and answer questions.

Furthermore, the Zelensky regime is literally a puppet government that he runs. So this is like a ventriloquist saying “I’ll take my hand out of this puppet’s ass if the puppet wants me to.”

The fact that the US is continuing to pretend not to be in charge in the Ukraine just demonstrates the utter ridiculousness of this entire bizarre dramafest.

Rand Paul literally said “you could argue that every ‘country’ [Russia] has attacked was part of Russia.”

Based.

He actually cited John Mearsheimer, which is pretty based.

This 2015 speech John gave now has 25 million views.

Rand Paul doesn’t actually do anything, in terms of laws or whatever.

But he’s a great actor.

He does this big spectacles.

He doesn’t stop anything, but he’ll put on a show.

In fact, he might just herp you the derp out.

RT:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s attempt to evade questions about a drone strike that allegedly killed a Kabul aid worker backfired, as Senator Rand Paul pointed out that the target should have been known before the attack.

Pressed by Paul (R-Kentucky) on whether the August 29 strike killed an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative, Blinken testified in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the Biden administration is reviewing the incident, and “a full assessment will be forthcoming.”

“So you don’t know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?” Paul asked. “I can’t speak to that and I can’t speak to that in this setting, in any event,” Blinken replied. “So you don’t know or won’t tell us?” Paul continued. “Uh, I don’t know because we’re reviewing it,” Blinken said.

Paul then stung Blinken with the obvious, saying, “Well, see, you’d think you’d kind of know before you off somebody with a Predator drone whether he’s an aid worker or he’s an ISIS-K.” He added that the US has a recent history of drone strikes with unintended casualties, including “hundreds and hundreds of people” who were killed remotely by the Obama administration, and civilian casualties lead to “blowback.”

“I don’t know if it’s true, but I see these pictures of these beautiful children that were killed in the attack,” Paul said of reports that seven children and three other people were also killed in the drone strike. “If that’s true, and not propaganda, guess what, maybe you’ve created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing the wrong people.”

“We can’t sort of have an investigation after we kill people. We have an investigation before we kill people.”

To be fair we don’t know if the children were beautiful because we only saw their splattered corpses.

I’m always frustrated that Americans believe that putting on a show is the same thing as doing something.

In fact, I think if these Republicans didn’t put on shows, people would demand that they do something.

But most Republican voters are convinced that because these shows are on, they must be doing something.

Trey Gowdy used to do these shows. Then he got a literal TV show.

Jim Jordan is another one that does big shows.

Ted Cruz.

It’s usually kind of meaningless stuff too. Paul always goes after Fauci, but he goes after him on stuff that just really doesn’t matter, or is actually part of a hoax. He’s always on about the Wuhan lab.

This bombing – I mean, who cares?

They’ve been bombing rando civilians for two decades, and actually longer. They used to bomb randos in Latin America. It’s part of a “strategy of terror” against the third world in order to force them to go along with American foreign policy. That failed in Afghanistan, but they are still going to keep bombing random people – just to remind them.

I guess it shows incompetence, maybe. If you think they don’t do it on purpose.

But the whole thing showed incompetence.

Politics are just boring and gay.

After Rand Paul this week came out effectively calling for a Derp Revolution, he was given a suspension by YouTube for different comments he made earlier in the month about masks.

A badge of honor . . . leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work.

If you want to see the banned video go to Liberty Tree https://t.co/gsTUwuLZGL

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 10, 2021

Responding to the ban, Paul said:

As a libertarian-leaning Senator, I think private companies have the right to ban me if they want to, but I think it is really anti-free speech, anti-progress of science, which involves skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth. We realize this in our court systems that both sides present facts on either side of a question and complete an adversarial process to reach the truth in each case.

YouTube and Google though, have become an entity so huge that they think they are the arbitrator of truth.

How can they be a private company and also a monopoly big enough to be the arbiter of truth?

How can a monopoly that contracts with the government and relies heavily on publicly-funded infrastructure to operate be a “private company”?

What difference does it even make? If you ideology requires you to lose on purpose, why would you not change your ideology?

Paul also said:

I will try to channel my anger, not in breaking these companies up but by publicly expressing my disagreement with them and publicly promoting other channels that offer free speech alternatives.

What alternatives?

Has he not heard of the Daily Stormer?

Any alternative exists only so long as the registrars all it to exist. Unless you believe you’re going to survive on Tor, then you end up dealing with nations that are considered enemies of the United States just to be on the internet.

What’s more: I only saw these statements from Paul on Russia’s RT. The Western media does not appear to have even bothered to note what he said. So using the media as an outlet is also off the table – as evidenced by Trump’s situation (anyone who interviews him is banned from everything).

The only remaining option is to go out in the street and yell. Putting aside the fact that you will not reach millions of people there, as you would on the internet, you have established law that the Antifa are allowed to attack you for speaking in public, and if you defend yourself you will be federally indicted. Moreover, at this point, they can probably just arrest you for violating Virus Law.

There is no path to free speech outside of breaking the idiotic and pointless code of libertarian ideology.

Ideology is not philosophy, and it is not important. It is a boomer tool for simplifying things they find confusing, but the core of existence should not be about avoiding confusion.

We are made in the image of God!

We have the ability for rational thought!

We do not need to reduce systems to their component parts like dogs or rodents!

Seriously though: what do masks and mask law have to do with YouTube – if it is somehow not a de facto government entity?

Why do Republicans consistently support their own political disenfranchisement?

What’s going on?

Anthony Fauci claims to be the only wizard on earth capable of directly communicating with Science.

However, he now has a competitor in Rand Paul – who is also claiming to be able to communicate with Science. Far from claiming that Science wants more mask mandates, Paul claims that Science told him and Science doesn’t support mask mandates.

Appearing on Tucker Carlson, Paul said that he also follows the Science, but that his communications with Science are the true Science doctrine.

So basically, I think this is completely retarded on its face.

“Science” is no better than voodoo at this point, because the universities and government institutions doing the studies will just falsify them in order to push a leftist agenda. Just as one very small example, Rand Paul will accept the CDC’s death toll, despite the fact that it is completely ridiculous.

If you say “follow the Science,” what you are saying is “endorse the conclusions of these highly politicized institutions – and it’s a game you cannot ever win.

Here’s a game you can win: the government does not have the right to control the people’s behavior, regardless if there is a deadly virus on the loose or not. The lockdowns, the forced masking, the vaxx coercion – all of these virus measures were both illegal and immoral, regardless of the circumstances presented by the alleged pandemic.

Do you see how this works?

Do you see how obvious it is that as soon as you give the left the ability to determine the rules of the discussion, you’ve already surrendered to them?

Related:

• Dems are the Real Vaxx Refusers
• Mitch McConnell Says Democrats are the Real Anti-Vaxxers

“Dems are the real Science deniers” is no better than “Dems are the real racists.”

It’s moronic to surrender all of your most basic philosophical premises before you even enter into the debate, and the only reason you would ever do that is because you want to lose.

Maybe Rand Paul doesn’t want to lose, but he exists within the confines of an ideological order – that of conservatism – that thrives on losing and surrendering.

Instead of “follow the science,” here’s what Paul should say:

Look, we can argue all day about the meaning of the latest study from the CDC or Johns Hopkins, but it ultimately doesn’t matter. What matters is that the government never had the right to shut down our businesses, to force us to wear masks, or to coerce us into taking an experimental vaccine.

Every one who is afraid of the virus has the right to shelter in place in their home, to wear a mask, to take an experimental vaccine, if that’s what they want to do. People can look at this study or that study and decide what they think is best for them. But the government simply has no mandate to shut down society or to force people to do things they don’t want to do under the guise of protecting the population.

That would force the Democrats – and their Republican allies – to explain why they have a right to take our freedoms, and make our decisions for us, which is something they are not equipped to do.

They are very much equipped to say “oh actually no, Senator Paul, the Science doesn’t say what you said it says – it actually says what we said it says; here’s the latest study.”

What is so disgusting is that I even need to explain something so simple as this right here, because the total policy of the entire American conservative movement is: “well of course as soon as the Democrats present the terms of the argument, you immediately surrender to them – that’s just being gentlemanly.”

Rand Paul had another pointless showdown with the Lord of Reality, Anthony Fauci.

It was pointless again, because Rand again refused to go to the core of the problem, and address the core issues.

Instead of addressing anything that matters – such as the fact that even if this virus exists, it only kills old people, or the numbers of dead from the vaxx, or the fact that 40-50% of Fauci’s own employees are refusing the vaxx – Rand instead started babbling about this Wuhan Lab hoax.

(Reminder: No one has asked him about this, to this day.)

Senator Burr asked Fauci, Peter Marks from the FDA, and @CDCDirector what percentage of their own employees are vaccinated.

Fauci probably a bit more than half, around 60%.

Marks said about the same.

Walensky dodged the question. pic.twitter.com/zoeZXZeCWM

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 14, 2021

The Wuhan Lab hoax is a hoax designed to make right-wingers believe in the vaxx. It’s also an exercise in changing the narrative, forcing liberals to go from believing something is a “conspiracy theory” into claiming that anyone who disagrees with it should be killed.

I still see right-wingers believing in this dumb hoax, incapable of recognizing the implication – that it means you have to believe in the deadly virus, which is a reason to get vaxxed. Instead, they are still fixated, like stupid children, on the fact that the media “admitted Trump was right.” In actual reality, the media did not “admit” anything. They just changed what they were saying. No one forced them to change what they were saying – they just decided to do it.

Rand did say that Fauci lied to Congress under oath, which is true, so maybe in that way this is somewhat interesting, but it is a minor issue.

Frankly, I thought they were going to throw Fauci under the bus earlier, and replace him with some other shill for the next phase of this hoax, given that he is so tarnished. (The UK recently threw their top virus hoaxer under the bus.) But apparently, Fauci is still polling high. If the Democrats want him to remain, he will remain, because we live in a totally lawless society, and there is no one that can charge him with anything.

Rand is the best Senator, probably by a lot, and that really shows you how horrible our situation is in terms of this government. Just imagine Ted Cruz.

It will be interesting to see if Rand stands up against the agenda to invade Cuba to give them hardcore freedom that the rest of the Republicans are pushing.