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Rand Paul - only GOP holdout - speaks
X ^ | Nov 9 | Sen. Rand Paul

Posted on 11/09/2025 10:49:05 PM PST by RandFan

@RandPaul

Tonight the process of opening the govt begins, less chaos is a good thing but hidden deep in the swamp speak of the Republican bill will be a waiver of PAYGO the long-standing law requiring new spending to be offset with cuts. And so it goes, a trillion here a trillion there. $38 trillion in debt and counting. A depressing outcome

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To: RandFan

Well Rand and Ron Paul are a bit nutty like many FR types I see these days..Matters not about the National Debt as the die is already cast and nothing can be done to unring that bell. Trump called that one right as well back in 2020....Trump said lots of folks are going to be caught without a chair once the music stops playing and it will stop playing.


21 posted on 11/10/2025 12:01:07 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: CatHerd

For the sake of my niece Sierra who died last year from drug overdose..damn them all and bomb scourge their operations! Screw them over like they are screwing over young people in our country and all over the world! F them!


22 posted on 11/10/2025 12:02:43 AM PST by antceecee ( )
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To: Leaning Right

It makes no sense to expend such a vast amount of resources on a few little boats hauling a few kilos of cocaine for European consumption when deadly Fentanyl is flooding into our country from Mexico, killing Americans by the thousands.

Sorry, I’m America First. Spend our tax dollars and resources on stopping the tsunami of deadly drugs killing our people and ruining our cities — and the tsunami isn’t emanating from Venezuela.

I hope Trump is just sabre rattling, that he’s hoping all those naval and air assets will somehow dislodge Maduro and won’t go so far as a land campaign to bring about the regime change he wants if the rattling doesn’t do the trick (and it’s doubtful it will).


23 posted on 11/10/2025 12:06:34 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: RandFan

I’ve always liked Rand. And I’ll always have huge respect for how he challenged the official narratives on COVID and went after Fauci. And I love his independence on foreign policy and his opposition to the neo-cons.

But, sometimes, on something like this shutdown, I’d prefer it if Rand were more of a team player.


24 posted on 11/10/2025 12:10:40 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: CatHerd

I would argue for a dual approach. Seal the border from drugs coming in from Mexico. And destroy any narco boat on the high seas. Each will damage the cartel’s bottom line.

As far as the expense for the latter, it probably isn’t all that much. You’ve got to pay those servicemen whether they’re operating in the Caribbean or sitting in a port.

I will certainly agree with you about the saber rattling. Trump must avoid mission creep. Shooting up narco boats, good. American infantry in Caracas, bad.


25 posted on 11/10/2025 12:18:08 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: RandFan

Little fuss budget.


26 posted on 11/10/2025 12:22:48 AM PST by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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To: antceecee

I’m so sorry about your niece.

Oh, I hate — I mean really hate — what these ghastly drugs are doing to human beings. Death, destruction, and misery. Pure evil. Those who manufacture, package, transport and sell them are merchants of death.

The thing is, though, that unless it was in the highly unlikely event she somehow died from a cocaine overdose with no opioid involvement (very rare), her tragic end had nothing to with Venezuela. Even in such a rare case, less than 15% of cocaine entering the US transited via Venezuela (none is produced there).

I’d rather see us spend our resources on effective interdiction of these deadly drugs — blowing up those little boats may look spectacular on video, but it’s not very effective (understatement). A tad less cocaine for some EU bureaucrats in Brussels looking to get a buzz on maybe, but it does nothing at all to prevent another heartbreaking fentanyl death in the US.

Again, my heart goes out to you and I am so very sorry about the loss of your niece.


27 posted on 11/10/2025 12:31:30 AM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Leaning Right

I agree with you. He has some good ideas and sometimes not.


28 posted on 11/10/2025 12:39:43 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold. )
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To: Moonmad27
"You are so devoted to Rand I’m beginning to think you’re Rand himself."

Or his wife who is a political consultant and freelance writer, or one of his three adult sons.

In April 2021, Rand's wife Kelley made headlines after she bought stock in Gilead, a company that makes the Covid-19 treatment remdesivir.

Insider trading...oh my!!

As of 2021, Paul had an estimated net worth of $1.5million. Might be more now, depending on what his current portfolio shows. Probably has stock in Venezuelan cartels.

29 posted on 11/10/2025 12:57:00 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan

I hope your husband is paying you Mrs. Paul.


30 posted on 11/10/2025 12:57:40 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ScaniaBoy
"What has Rand Paul actually succeeded in doing?"

Nothing other than grandstanding, and voting with the RATS...nothing. None of the Bills he has introduced since he's been in the Senate these past 14 years has ever become law.

31 posted on 11/10/2025 1:03:26 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I rezpect the truth. I praise God fpr those who tell it and act on it.


32 posted on 11/10/2025 1:08:13 AM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: RandFan
Who else respects the senator from Kentucky?

Rand Paul is a defender of the drug cartels shipping their products to the US.

Only a Low IQ idiot would have respect for that treasonous traitor.

33 posted on 11/10/2025 1:44:46 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Leaning Right

RAnd Paul i s an extremist Libertarian. He waxes and wanes, depending on whether hei vote counts or not, the more it counts the more he waxes......gives him a platform.

If one of his family were to die from fentanyl poisoning, he would soon change his tune on Trump using deadly force on the High Seas against the drug cartel Pirates of the Caribbean.That makes him an ideological whore.We have too many of those in Congress on both sides of the aisle.

If I could wave a magic wand , I would turn him into Marjorie Taylor Green.


34 posted on 11/10/2025 1:51:23 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: mass55th

Thanks.

Yes, that’s what I mean. To just say no, no, no all the time does not lead to anything constructive. Rand may have good intentions, but when one cannot achieve ones ultimate goal, one has to settle for something less. To just obstruct often leads to the perfect being the enemy of the good.


35 posted on 11/10/2025 1:51:39 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: RandFan

Your messiah is a fake & phony!


@TexasRepublic71
Rand Paul said he was going after Fauci. He meant he was gonna write a book and ask you to buy it. 🤣

Rand Paul@RandPaul
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36 posted on 11/10/2025 2:16:29 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: RandFan

Another crazy hypocrite that is anti deficit but also against tariffs which raise revenue and protect American jobs. He is a POS.


37 posted on 11/10/2025 2:27:41 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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To: Moonmad27

Randfan is definitely a Rand Paul fluffer


38 posted on 11/10/2025 2:29:39 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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To: RandFan

I had enough of you the paid poster and that damn Demonrat your paid to peddle .
That evil thing is a Seething Jew Hating , Iranian terrorist cheerleader , nutjob Open borders paid off hack .
The FBI needs to swarm his office and that evil Massie’s office for Qatar and Iranian funds .
Follow the money with this evil thing .
Your Fake Mr Principle REFUSED TO TAKE A PAY CUT during this period .
A Greedy Con man taking no pay cut .
I think the Paulie Cult Cash is real good too .


39 posted on 11/10/2025 2:37:10 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil. )
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To: RandFan

535 Members of the House and Senate are the reason America is in debt and is as F’d up as it is.

They all should be thrown out and no one ever elected again should have a law degree, must be a natural born US citizen, must have term limits, eliminate CRs, eliminate all welfare programs and government handouts and pledge to write no more laws, work only 6 to 8 weeks max to pass appropriations bills only.


40 posted on 11/10/2025 2:45:46 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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