Okay, that's a bit hash, but usually they either buy into his crazy rhetoric on various things, or they like some of his policies, but by the time they find out about the rest, they are too far in to reconsider. There is a die-hard Ron Paul supporter base that are scientoligy-level kinda dedicated and scary. It's not politics anymore, it's a cult.
That said, it amuses me how they complained about the media blackout on Ron Paul before - well, now the networks give a shit, since he looks like a front-runner, and considering all the garbage like the racist newsletters, crazy policies, and other garbage he carries on with, the media is filleting him like a fish. That doesn't mean they wish for the "blackout" (what fucking nonsense) again, but rather, now it's a main stream media conspiracy to smear him.
I feel sorry for that lass though - she's getting the full focus of the r/ronpaul downvote brigade, who have a long history of swarming any negative press or opinion about him and abusing the shit out of everyone in sight, particularly the author of the article.
I've got a friend who is planning on voting for Ron Paul (more than likely) even though he is a Democrat and quite liberal. His reasoning is that Ron Paul will generally try to push through a lot of good things, and Congress will keep his more crazy plans from coming to fruition.
Also, while he did follow it there was a chance that they could have extended the timeline again. I agree that he does not deserve it as a win on his part but assuming that someone else would have followed the same timeline rather than extending it is putting faith where it is not deserved.
What angers me is that they're saying that not staying longer is a failure. Just to be clear: Romney and some Faux News talking heads have said that NOT extending the pointless, goalless war in Iraq was a FAILURE.
Today I learned that Ron Paul sponsored a bill in early 2009 entitled "We the People Act". Nice name, isn't it? The bill hoewver is not so nice. It would essentially strip federal courts and the SCOTUS of the ability to enforce parts or the whole of the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 14th amendments of the US Constitution by striking down state laws that infringe upon them. It would also allow states to ignore SCOTUS cases such as Lawrence v. Texas, Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, and of course Roe v. Wade. Fun, isn't it?
Welcome to the world of Ron Paul. It's why he's not really a libertarian, too - he pays lip service to the idea of individual liberty(well, as long as you're an old, rich, christian white dude) but in reality, he's all about states having the power to do whatever they like to you with no repercussions, and businesses being able to do whatever the fuck they like with no repercussions, because you can just move somewhere else if you don't like the former and the magical mystical invisible hand of the free market will sprinkle pixie dust and solve all our problems for the latter.
So, in all honesty, you should be fine, as long as you're white, not any sort of immigrant, heterosexual, male, christian, and Rich. If you're non-white, female, non-christian, gay, or anything other that the aforementioned rich WASP? Yeah, you're super fucked.
Oh, and of course, bonus quote - "Gay men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... They enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick." - The Ron Paul Survival Report, January 1994
That's right, he either wrote or signed off on the publication of this in one of the publications that bears his name. And he uses this platform to say that Gay Men are suicidal, nymphomaniacs who enjoy having aids because it gets them attention and pity.
Well on my way to becoming a "Ron Paul says crazy bullshit" Page-a-day calendar:
"The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim—frequently a victim of his own lifestyle—but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care," Paul wrote.
"Every year new groups organize to demand their 'rights,'" he continued. "White people who organize and expect the same attention as other groups are quickly and viciously condemned as dangerous bigots. Hispanic, black, and Jewish caucuses can exist in the U.S. Congress, but not a white caucus, demonstrating the absurdity of this approach for achieving rights for everyone."
"Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into sexual activity," Paul wrote. "Why don't they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable."
All these are from "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years" a book authored by Ron Paul, and unlike the newsletters, there is no dispute or question of his authorship.
Well on my way to becoming a "Ron Paul says crazy bullshit" Page-a-day calendar:
"The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim—frequently a victim of his own lifestyle—but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care," Paul wrote.
"Every year new groups organize to demand their 'rights,'" he continued. "White people who organize and expect the same attention as other groups are quickly and viciously condemned as dangerous bigots. Hispanic, black, and Jewish caucuses can exist in the U.S. Congress, but not a white caucus, demonstrating the absurdity of this approach for achieving rights for everyone."
"Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure employees into sexual activity," Paul wrote. "Why don't they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable."
All these are from "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution after 200-Plus Years" a book authored by Ron Paul, and unlike the newsletters, there is no dispute or question of his authorship.
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The day I can stand taking in enough of what Ron Paul has written and said that I can put together 365 pages of crazy shit, as opposed to having to chicken out and just use his more garden-variety crazy ramblings as filler.
Though, I'll put it on the list of things to investigate, it might be worth looking into.
I have a weird opinion of Ron Paul, on one hand I respect him a lot more than any of the other clowns running for president, and I I share more common ground with him (Most anti-war, pro personal freedom, anti corporatism, and deficit hawkin' guy around). But the other half is just crazy bullshit. The other day a Ron Paul supporter told me, without a hint of irony, that the government is soon going to fake a terrorist attack BY ALIENS. The Reptillians apparently aren't going to invade, they're going to put on their turbans and bomb a school bus. He could not be disabused of this notion, even after being informed that this was basically the plot of the Watchmen.
But then on the other hand, if he did win election, he's not going to get all the crazy shit that he wants (the income tax is too ingrained to get rid of now), and hopefully he will have a net positive effect.
Just a note about saying "He probably wouldn't get the crazy shit he wanted". I said the same thing in 2000 with Bush/Gore and we know how that turned out.
Just a note about saying "He probably wouldn't get the crazy shit he wanted". I said the same thing in 2000 with Bush/Gore and we know how that turned out.
Yeah, never underestimate the ability of democrats to cave. It's practically their super-power.
The other day a Ron Paul supporter told me, without a hint of irony, that the government is soon going to fake a terrorist attack BY ALIENS. The Reptillians apparently aren't going to invade, they're going to put on their turbans and bomb a school bus. He could not be disabused of this notion, even after being informed that this was basically the plot of the Watchmen.
Yeah, that's not unusual. I've been called a COINTELPRO agent, or at least being in the pay of various shadowy organizations at least a dozen times, just because I disagree with Paul. It's no coincidence that he's a regular guest on Alex Jones or for Birch Society functions.
Oh yeah - And while he was very vocal against the NDAA, He sure as shit didn't see it as important enough to vote on. And for legislation this important, that he knew about this far in advance, then his personal ambitions are not a good enough excuse for not bothering to show up.
Though I suppose the fact that there was an interesting little section in the bill - Texas gets over six hundred acres of extremely valuable land for a pittance, in exchange for about two-thousand acres of much less valuable land, for the purposes of...Expanding the Fort Bliss base, which at it's current size, already pumps 1.7 billion dollars into the Texas economy.
Also, it's interesting to note that this wasn't in the original bill, it only became part of the bill after it was introduced before the house of representatives, and before it passed the house.
And while we're at it, let's hear a quote from wee little Rand Paul, Son of the racist leprechan -
PAUL: I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they’ve been traveling and perhaps, you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not they’ve been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn’t be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after — they should be deported or put in prison.
Well, Rand Paul is quite the kook. This is what he said recently about public healthcare:
"With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. ... You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be."
Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.
I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.
Yep, just like his daddy, he's mad as a cut snake. Oddly, though, he ends up not being quite as obsessive-libertarian as his pappy, he's pretty indistinguishable from the more mainstream republicans, albeit ones like Bachmann, Santorum or Perry.
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Okay, that's a bit hash, but usually they either buy into his crazy rhetoric on various things, or they like some of his policies, but by the time they find out about the rest, they are too far in to reconsider. There is a die-hard Ron Paul supporter base that are scientoligy-level kinda dedicated and scary. It's not politics anymore, it's a cult.
That said, it amuses me how they complained about the media blackout on Ron Paul before - well, now the networks give a shit, since he looks like a front-runner, and considering all the garbage like the racist newsletters, crazy policies, and other garbage he carries on with, the media is filleting him like a fish. That doesn't mean they wish for the "blackout" (what fucking nonsense) again, but rather, now it's a main stream media conspiracy to smear him.
I feel sorry for that lass though - she's getting the full focus of the r/ronpaul downvote brigade, who have a long history of swarming any negative press or opinion about him and abusing the shit out of everyone in sight, particularly the author of the article.
No, Mitt, this is what a signature of failure looks like:
Just to be clear: Romney and some Faux News talking heads have said that NOT extending the pointless, goalless war in Iraq was a FAILURE.
So, in all honesty, you should be fine, as long as you're white, not any sort of immigrant, heterosexual, male, christian, and Rich. If you're non-white, female, non-christian, gay, or anything other that the aforementioned rich WASP? Yeah, you're super fucked.
Oh, and of course, bonus quote -
"Gay men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... They enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick." - The Ron Paul Survival Report, January 1994
That's right, he either wrote or signed off on the publication of this in one of the publications that bears his name. And he uses this platform to say that Gay Men are suicidal, nymphomaniacs who enjoy having aids because it gets them attention and pity.
Though, I'll put it on the list of things to investigate, it might be worth looking into.
Oh, and he wants to invalidate gay marriages using a constitutional amendment.
But then on the other hand, if he did win election, he's not going to get all the crazy shit that he wants (the income tax is too ingrained to get rid of now), and hopefully he will have a net positive effect.
Oh yeah - And while he was very vocal against the NDAA, He sure as shit didn't see it as important enough to vote on. And for legislation this important, that he knew about this far in advance, then his personal ambitions are not a good enough excuse for not bothering to show up.
Also, it's interesting to note that this wasn't in the original bill, it only became part of the bill after it was introduced before the house of representatives, and before it passed the house.
And while we're at it, let's hear a quote from wee little Rand Paul, Son of the racist leprechan - Emphasis mine, source Here.
Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, apparently.
Well, Rand Paul is quite the kook. This is what he said recently about public healthcare: