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Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian who routinely supports measures to assert Congress’s role in authorizing the use of military force abroad, was the only Republican to support the resolution, and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to oppose it.
The ogre demands blood!
Wondering where fetterman is in the epstein files at this point
He probably does that for the love of the game.
Something tells me fetterman is like musk, pathetically begging for a trip to pedo Island and getting turned down because he's too cringy.
Probably worried he will eat someone
Do the Republicans view Rand Paul the same way we view Fetterman?
Doubtful, pretty sure Paul has always been the way he is.
Fetterman either was a closet chud or the stroke he had while... running for office or after he was already in office (can't remember which)... legitimately rewired his personality to be very chuddy.
Fetterman either was a closet chud or the stroke he had while... running for office or after he was already in office (can't remember which)... legitimately rewired his personality to be very chuddy.
It's both. He was always a racist, chauvinist shit, but the brain damage and the clear, constant distress and disruption to his daily life that it's caused wiped out his impulse control and massively increased his aggression and fear responses.
He is not ok, and should be in some kind of safe, calm treatment facility instead of a high-stress environment where he gets to make life and death decisions based on his worst impulses.
Rand Paul is more like the Republican AOC. He's the one guy who articulates the positions a lot of naïve Republucan voters actually want (i.e. the government should stop wasting money, and shouldn't criminalize shit which doesn't harm anyone else - but in the smug fascist "I'm not touching you" sense). He exists to give people the impression that the party isn't a homogeneous constellation of blood-sucking neoconservatives, car dealership owners, and oil barons. It makes the libertarians think they have a future in the party, and that if they vote for the next 50 years "anti-interventionists" might actually be given a chance in the driver's seat.
This role was a lot more convincing maybe 20 years ago. There was a strong libertarian backlash in the wake of the George Bush administration, "Global War on Terror," PATRIOT Act, etc. Since then, all of those people have either become Anarchists, Communists, or Ancient Aliens hot couch guys. I guess 0.02% of them became successful entrepreneurs and still believe it.
Is that Rand Paul you're describing? It sounds a lot more like Ron Paul.
edit: tho ron paul might have been more like republican bernie now that I think about it
Key Votes
This is starting to be really funny
I thought the thumbnail was teletubbies
Now that you mention it....
But they are affectionately mocked as "skittles" in the Navy due to the colors of their uniforms. Each color is a different job.