Every once in a while, Rand stands on some kind of principle on a thing or two. Sometimes.

But, mostly, he’s still a flaming dipshit asshole and does asshole stuff like this.

Fuck all the conspiracy theorists - doing battle with Covid involved a moonshot and it goes entirely unappreciated by most of the population. And Dunning-Kruger victims like Rand Paul are not helping at all.

And those experts will be classified as having the bullshit thing the cons call “TDS” in a classic conservative, “no, you!” retort.

I would note that the Soviets would classify those that didn’t agree with their regime as having a mental disorder:

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

And so of course the cons are trying to get “TDS” classified as a real mental disorder, since having a leader under the sway of the Russians is not enough, we need to copy the worst tactics of their past. Of course the mouth-breathing idiots that are the marks for this level of disinformation eat that up - anyone that points out what an idiot and a criminal that Donvict is must have “TDS”; that’s just science.

https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-senate-republicans-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness-2045600

A “master plan”. Wonder why they didn’t go for the term “final solution”, hm?

I have the “pleasure” of knowing a few of those types.

They are so fucking exhausting. I don’t know what’s worse - the die-hard Libertarians that carry that bullshit fantasy throughout their lives, or the armchair Marxist theorist chin-scratchers that think the Democrats are equally bad as Republicans and always want to give you a long-winded think-piece about it.

At least some of the Libertarians drain some votes away from Republicans.

They became much worse after October of 2023, though. I guess if they focus on the economics side they are not quite as annoying, and a bit more grounded, but some of them just cannot drop the voter-repellent, like intersectionality and checking your privilege and taking the maximalist position on culture war issues and so on. The best part? Most of them are proud that they don’t even vote.

Yep. Their view of the world is even worse than if they didn’t pay attention to any news source whatsoever. Before they could be brought back to reality, they would first have to through a stage of deprogramming and unlearning all the bullshit they have accepted as reality.

4 out of 10 Americans are braindead

I bet this same set were howling about how “Biden did that” when it came to inflation and gas prices in 2022, though.

In my admittedly limited anecdotal experience on this, not one of them could explain how Biden “did that”, though. Not one.

But this same set of idiots play dumb when any child can draw a straight line from the “fuck around” stage of PEDOnald’s war on Iran to the “find out” stage of the price at the gas pump and the effect on the economy.

LOL, duh!

Who else to blame?

Anyone stupid enough to have been giggling about “I did that!” for Biden at the gas pump (how did he do that, exactly?) and now being willfully obtuse about this, when you can draw a straight line from dumbdumb donnie’s actions to the price at the pump, is both an idiot and an asshole.

since Lieberman killed the public option

He’s a guy I like to bring up for the both-siderists that like to pretend to be smart when talking about the “extremes on both sides”, LOL.

My retort? “You mean like Lieberman? That kind of extremist on the Democratic Party?”

Usually I get confused looks because the people that talk about “extremists on both sides” are either just reactionary centrists or just low-info trying to come off as being above it all. Either way, they are usually just clueless and full of shit.

Usually they want to talk about someone like AOC or some nameless activists that something something BLM/Antifa/“defund the police”. Or trans or the “open borders” that we don’t actually have and did not have under Biden or Obama…

Yeah, but it’s an extra stick to keep everyone compliant and afraid. Who knows how much we have lost in wages thanks to our lower mobility thanks to having healthcare tied to where you happen to work.

Nixon loved it, of course.

OMG, FFS, I heard exactly that thing in a discussion just a few days ago about Canada extending citizenship to those that have a family history of someone with Canadian citizenship:

“Oh goodie! Then you get to wait for months and months for their healthcare! Hyuk hyuk!”

Healthcare is woke.

/jk

The real reason is a lot of dipshits would rather punch down on anyone they think is possibly getting more stuff and they think are not worthy of it. Even if it means they themselves are in absolute misery.

As long as they think a liberal/POC/gay/trans/non-xtian is getting it even worse, they are just fine. Remember, a lot of them are still obsessed with stupid shit like trans and “the border” when neither of those issues are going to affect them one iota.

We can thank the conservatives for weaponizing “last place aversion”. You’ll see this kind of thing in action when you see someone who is themselves living at the margins, possibly even making use of SNAP themselves, bitching about what other people choose to put in their carts when using SNAP. That’s last place aversion in action. People who are living hand to mouth will agonize over nut-picking news articles from the likes of Faux “News” parading around one guy that supposedly bought lobster and steak with his SNAP benefits. Stupid people will extrapolate one (alleged) anecdote into a belief that there is widespread fraud to be worried about.

That’s always the case. Paramount is seeking approval for up to 100% foreign ownership:

Remember: America First!

Don’t you dare ask any questions about how Donnie is doing Putin’s bidding or why Saudis own a lot of shit here or why Israeli citizens have healthcare and YOU DON’T!

MURICA! USA! USA! USA!

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/paramount-asks-fcc-to-approve-up

How about Vance and his wife?

This is who and what the Republicans and conservatives have always been, at root.

Never believe them when they - or those adjacent to them - start piping up with some horseshit about “true” conservatives.

Also, “take advantage of America” - fuck this asshole. The person doing that most egregiously, and practically rubbing all of our noses in it is the pedo-in-chief and his family. They are self-dealing right out in the open and all of these fuckers should be in prison for not only the prior crimes, but the crimes they have committed just since January of 2025.

LOL, what confidence?

I so look forward to the day when I won’t have to give any fucks about what this asshole thinks on any given day.

I mean, what other choice do they have? The Democrats will bring back the DEI, the CRT, the BLM, the trans, and will be gunning to turn all the men gay or trans, burn the xtian bibles and forbid anyone from saying “merry xmas” because that’s the Democratic platform.

/s, obvs

Should be 10 out of 10, since, objectively, he’s doing a very shitty job. Unless the “job” is doing the bidding of our enemies while enriching himself and his criminal family and in-laws.

Yep. Watching his reaction to a stenographer read a sentence from that shooter’s manifesto was instructive.

Remember, he IS a rapist. He was not in any way “vindicated”. Just because NY has a narrower definition of rape does not change what he did.