Didn't see THAT coming...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

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[True_Blue]

1. Rand Paul always makes a stand

right before he caves.

[DetlefK]

2. You mean that Rand Paul pretended to be a maverick, only to fold immediately?

You mean the guy who hated Trump, then went golfing with him and then loved him?

You mean the guy who once held a faux filibuster to an empty chamber when the Senate was out of session and then used that for fundraising how he had stood up to Obama?



Who could have predicted that?

[dalton99a]

3. "Trump has soared from lower than that speck of dirt to high enough for Mount Rushmore"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/rand-paul-president-trump-russia.html

WASHINGTON — When he ran against Donald J. Trump in 2016 for the Republican presidential nomination, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky quipped that “a speck of dirt would make a better president” than the bombastic businessman from New York.

Then came President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, his government’s interference in a White House campaign in which Mr. Paul barely made a ripple and last week’s presidential summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland, which pretty much everyone but Mr. Paul deemed a diplomatic disaster.

Suddenly, in the mind of the junior senator from Kentucky, Mr. Trump has soared from lower than that speck of dirt to high enough for Mount Rushmore.

“The hatred for the president is so intense that partisans would rather risk war than give diplomacy a chance,” Mr. Paul fumed on the Senate floor last week in a long defense of Mr. Trump’s Helsinki meeting. “This is crazy.”

As the lonely Senate voice extolling Mr. Trump’s diplomatic acumen, Mr. Paul has become the commander in chief’s wingman. He has nabbed broad visibility for views once deemed fringe, and coveted White House access: “Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it!” the president tweeted.

It was the senator’s idea to suspend the security clearances of Mr. Trump’s political enemies, an idea embraced at the lectern by the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

[empedocles]

4. 'you mean the guy'

whose neighbor didn't hit nearly him hard enough?

[dalton99a]

6. Neighbor was too damn kind

[themaguffin]

5. Why is this news? Did he pretend to object as usual?

[oberliner]

8. Rand Paul says he's "honestly undecided" on Kavanaugh (July 23)

Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning lawmaker from Kentucky and a recurring troublemaker for the GOP, says his mind still isn’t made up on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Given Republicans’ slim margin in the upper chamber, Paul’s vote could be pivotal for securing Kavanaugh’s seat on the high court, and his indecision is increasingly putting other lawmakers on tenterhooks.

“I am honestly undecided. I am very concerned about his position on privacy and the Fourth Amendment,” Paul told Politico’s Burgess Everett in an interview. “This is not a small deal for me. This is a big deal.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/23/17602254/rand-paul-kavanaugh

[BSdetect]

7. Paul is a joke.

[Gothmog]

9. Who is surprised by this?