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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is calling for across-the-board defiance of future Covid-19 mitigation measures implemented by the CDC including mask mandates and any potential lockdowns.
In a wild rant posted to Twitter Sunday, the Kentucky senator speaking direct-to-camera before a dark blue backdrop railed against the petty tyrants and bureaucrats implementing new mandates.
Its time for us to resist, Paul said. They cant arrest all of us. They cant keep all of your kids home from school.
We dont have to accept the mandates, lockdowns and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say no. Not again.
Link to tweet
Paul then took on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Joe Biden directly.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-cant-arrest-all-of-us-rand-paul-implores-defiance-of-covid-mandates-from-petty-tyrants-in-wild-rant/ar-AAN6xwC
No wonder his neighbor kicked his ass.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)Hes one of the pros at that.
Fear mongering is actually what hes doing in that statement. Along with A LOT of propaganda.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)2naSalit
(86,073 posts)Obviously his ass wasn't kicked hard enough by his neighbor.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,660 posts)No other way to slice it.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)Psychotic means that you have "broken" with reality. A person who is psychotic cannot distinguish between internal mental processes, and external perceptions of the shared reality. When a person has auditory command hallucinations and visual hallucinations, which lead to active delusional process, that is psychotic. People who suffer from psychosis, do not intentionally do so. It is a part of a neurochemical process that can lead to people making decisions on information not supported by the shared reality. Those people are typically victims, though they can be dangerous.
If Rand Paul were to be analyzed for his mental health, he would likely be said to be narcissistic or have anti-social tendencies. That would put him in line with Sociopathy. This is intentional and deliberate malice for his own personal benefit.
We need to stop equating people like Paul with psychiatric conditions. He is not psychotic, he is a deliberate liar with self serving motives.
Irish_Dem
(45,660 posts)And a person can be psychotic without hallucinations.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)Here is information on psychosis from the NIMH
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/what-is-psychosis
psychosis by its nature means a break from reality. Paul has not broken with reality. He knows very well what the reality is but chooses to lie about it.
There is a major difference.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts).
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SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Infringing on the rights of Americans to infect the rest of us who did their patriotic duty and got vaccinated, masked up, and socially distanced themselves away from others so all of us can be safe. Just like the Fed. judge ruling against desantis and his efforts to prevent students from common sense measures to mask up, etc., the judge said that desantis nor the state of FL couldn't make one rational argument in front of the judge for the anti-masking edicts the idiot governor is putting forth...not one valid argument.
Idiots got an audience and they are bound and determined to kill as many Americans (don't care) as long as they have an audience and as long as they feed their narcissist egos nonstop.
liberal_mama
(1,495 posts)Covid is raging in the South.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)...to pay his neighbor to give him another ass-whippin'.... God, I DESPISE this scumbag!
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)underpants
(182,284 posts)McCONNELL and Rand Paul?
herding cats
(19,549 posts)Say insane things to rile the masses, while making sure your vaccinated and safe.
Hypocritical herders of their flocks, politicizing a deadly global pandemic.