Posted on 02/10/2022 3:23:24 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is “all for” trucker convoys coming to the United States.
The Republican senator discussed the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” during a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal following an NBC News report that a similar trucker convoy may form for this weekend’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles–and potentially come to Washington, D.C., for the State of the Union address in early March.
“I’m all for it,” Paul said. “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
“And some of this, we started,” he added. “We put [COVID-19] mandates on truckers coming across the border from Canada so then they put mandates on, and the truckers are annoyed. They’re riding in a cab by themselves, most of them for eight, 10-hour long hauls, and they just want to do what they want to do. It’s their own business.”
That’s the way health care used to be, Paul said, noting that health care decisions used to be “your own business” between an individual and his doctor.
“I hope the truckers do come to America,” he said, asked how he thinks Washington would handle such a convoy.
“It’d be great, but the thing is, it wouldn’t shut the city down because the government workers haven’t come to work in two years anyway,” Paul added. “I don’t know if it’ll affect D.C. It’d be a nice change. We’d actually have some traffic.”
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Good sentiment.
Phrasing needs improvement.
civil disobedience...
What about the chartreuse mini bus with Jesus freaks inside?
The thought of grassroots protests for causes other than those approved by progressives send them into a purple faced spittle flecked rage.
I like him more every day.
Good times.
Good times.
Good Heavens, not that! /s
Eleven of them?
If Mad Maxine Waters can rhetorically stir the pot and get away with it, so can Rand Paul.
Who are they going to infect. So let the trucker take a quickie test at the border...and get him rolling. A vaccine mandate is totally unnecessary.
I second that.
Now they will charge him for leading g an insurrection.
Farming out tasks that Americans won’t do themselves. Sad.
National strike.
Go Rand!
General strike?
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