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RAND PAUL: Trump is right to reconsider NATO and has the authority to Withdraw!
X ^ | April 2 | Sen. Rand Paul

Posted on 04/02/2026 7:30:50 AM PDT by RandFan

@RandPaul

Trump is right to reconsider NATO. Under Article II, the president has full constitutional authority to withdraw from any treaty without Senate approval. The 2023 Kaine-Rubio provision can't override the Constitution. It's his call to make.

The Constitution says nothing about how to exit treaties, so that power remains with the president. The Founders designed it this way deliberately: hard to get in, easy to get out when an alliance no longer serves America's interests.

Trump is forcing the conversation Washington refuses to have: do our alliances benefit America, or just trap us indefinitely? Alliances should serve our interests, not the other way around. Fair burden-sharing isn't isolationism. It's sanity.

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To: woodbutcher1963

Yes people need to believe in the future and have babies, that is no excuse for the immigration debacle though. We can have our “pick of the liter” so to speak and chose only the best into our country. But no the disgusting elites wanted slaves, so they brought in the worst of humanity, criminals and many others barely capable of independent thought, all designed to be a servant class.


41 posted on 04/02/2026 8:33:49 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: RandFan

some federal judge no doubt will try to stop him


42 posted on 04/02/2026 8:36:08 AM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: Skwor
At least Russia is less tolerant of Islam, we are stuck with choosing the lesser of two evils.

Russia has a large Muslim population. Putin treats them well, so long as they behave.

Putin has also been weaponizing Muslim migrants, transporting them to the Polish border, trying to send them into the West.

43 posted on 04/02/2026 8:38:17 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

The key part of your post was “as long as they behave” which supports my point.


44 posted on 04/02/2026 8:46:08 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: central_va; Fury
Grok AI determined that one person could not post as often as RandFan and never sleep or take any time off. It is so obvious.

No, Grok "determined" no such thing.

I read Uncle Miltie's Grok post. Grok said it was possible that such a person was not real. But Grok was not conclusive about it.

Anyway, if, like Uncle Miltie, you think Grok is so perfect:

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X.

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” .

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'.

45 posted on 04/02/2026 8:51:27 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Skwor

I did not say I agreed with what they did. I am just stating that is what happened and one of the reasons WHY it did.

The people that made those decisions to let so many serfs did it to depress wages too. With a decrease in young people it drives up the wages of the meanial jobs. The people doing labor intensive occupations. Like mowing your lawn or cleaning the toilets.

Generally, our children do not want to do landscaping, roofing or even picking produce/fruit.
This is why we have guest worker programs. The problem is when those guest workers do not go back to the country they came from when the VISA is up.

The other major reason was the demographic shift out of high tax states into lower tax states. Eventually leading to loss of Congress Reps and Electoral Votes for CA, NY, IL, NJ. Then gains for FL, TX, ID, AZ, NC, SC. So, the Dems had to do something about it.
Which is also WHY states like MN don’t do anything about the immigrants stealing from Medicare. It is THEIR voters.

ALL of these issues were the result of FALLING BIRTH RATES.


46 posted on 04/02/2026 8:57:25 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Angelino97
I ask again, when was the last time you came here and RandFan wasn't actively posting?
47 posted on 04/02/2026 9:01:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Most do not want to work starting jobs, regardless of it needs to be “required” that is how they learn, importing others removes the work education process.

And yes, I know they did it to depress wages, here is a pro tip, allowing women to vote and encouraging them to go to work was also to depress wages.

Feminism was always about destroying the family unit and making more wage slaves.


48 posted on 04/02/2026 9:02:07 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: central_va

“ I ask again, when was the last time you came
here and RandFan wasn’t actively posting?”

Exactly!


49 posted on 04/02/2026 9:11:08 AM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: RandFan

NATO is a joke. Trump has to fight with them to pay their fair share. I think it’s time for America to turn over the job as savior of the world to the rest of those clowns out there. I’m sure Red China, Iran or Afghanistan would proudly take over the reins to NATO.


50 posted on 04/02/2026 9:26:17 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegally "born in the U.S." doesn't make you an American. It makes you a thieving ANCHOR BABY. )
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To: Lurker

True, and at least he is consistent.


51 posted on 04/02/2026 9:27:36 AM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: RandFan
Tim Kaine and Marco Rubio introduced a Bill in 2023 to ban the President of withdrawing from NATO without approval of the Senate or an act of Congress. It was part of the National Defense Authorization Act, and signed into law by Biden.

Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO

I wonder if Rubio regrets his vote now. Rand Paul voted against it. It was passed by a Roll Call vote.

H.R. 2670 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 )

52 posted on 04/02/2026 9:36:52 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan

This is more like it


53 posted on 04/02/2026 9:39:17 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: Angelino97

Grok isn’t perfect.

But Grok also concluded that his posting habits were not consistent with a team, etc. I posted data on that in the same thread.


54 posted on 04/02/2026 9:46:37 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

Libertarians circling the wagons around a fake multiuser account RandFan bump.


55 posted on 04/02/2026 9:52:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

LOL!

From https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4372778/posts?page=186#186

“Based on the posting history of user RandFan at freererpublic.com, is it possible that he is a composite character?

Grok’s answer:

“No, there is no credible evidence from RandFan’s publicly visible posting history on FreeRepublic.com (joined January 2, 2019) to suggest he is a “composite character” (i.e., multiple people, AI, or a team maintaining one account).”


56 posted on 04/02/2026 10:06:41 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

I ask again, when was the last time you came
here and RandFan wasn’t actively posting?


57 posted on 04/02/2026 10:09:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Fury

You Liberal-terrorists stick together.


58 posted on 04/02/2026 10:10:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Skwor

If Russia was in charge there would be a lot mor suicides involving windows and tall buildings.


59 posted on 04/02/2026 10:12:45 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: central_va

LOL! Whatever!


60 posted on 04/02/2026 10:17:54 AM PDT by Fury
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