Vance post on boat strike 'really ticked me off,' Rand Paul says

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Source: Politico



The Kentucky senator lashed out at the vice president over the weekend.


Jennifer Scholtes 09/08/2025, 7:35pm ET

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, ...............

After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the “highest and best use of our military,” Paul lashed out Saturday night: “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” he wrote on X.

Paul told reporters Monday that the message was in keeping with his long criticism of unchecked U.S. military power and questioned whether the attack, which reportedly killed 11, was legally or morally justified.

“Maybe [the boat] was coming here. Maybe it wasn’t. But nobody’s even asking whether we need to prove that. We just blow them up,” he said, adding: “I got no love lost for these people. But at the same time, is this the new Coast Guard policy? ... Almost none of the boats we’ve interdicted does it end up with us blowing up the boat.”

“But I think what really ticked me off and got me going,” Paul continued, referring to Vance, “was for someone to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a shit what anybody who was going criticize him was going to say. That to me was a disdain for human life and a disdain for processes.”................................


Read more: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/08/congress/rand-paul-jd-vance-boat-strike-00551368

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For once, I agree with Sen. Paul

[msongs]

1. hypocrite of the day award. trump humper trash nt

[Klarkashton]

2. "I've got no love lost".

What a callous remark for people that were murdered for nothing. You know that there is no proof of anything. They are just shithead cowboys at a turkey shoot doing trumps bidding.
No love lost my ass.

[RussBLib]

3. yeah, todays GOP is full of real nice, gentlemanly folks

...and puppy killers.

This is an international crime. There should be hearings. Maybe charges. Haha. At least SOMEone is saying the right thing here (Rand Paul).

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Klarkashton]

4. They took pleasure pulling the wings off of butterflies

As children. I knew shitheads like those Republicans.

[Klarkashton]

5. How bad does it have to be for that Paul asshole to speak up?

This is bad.

[electric_blue68]

6. Ikr?!

[Beartracks]

7. Disdain for life, due process, and democracy itself are MAGA hallmarks.

And every Republican legislator and Justice who rolls over every time they have an opportunity to bring such unconstitutional lawlessness to account has blood on their hands -- from COVID, through the January 6 insurrection, through healthcare "overhauls," to this boat attack, and ongoing.

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[JoseBalow]

8. Dickheadsayswut?

Fuck you, Randy.

[Aussie105]

9. Bit hasty, right?

But convenient.
When you blow a small boat out of the water, it may be considered hasty and massive overkill, but you are free to make up any cover story afterwards.

[Javaman]

10. yeah, okay, cool story rand.

next week he will hail it as a "genius" move.

[travelingthrulife]

11. These are your people Rand, they excel at distain for human life and processes.

You support it.

[Paladin]

12. That's how thoroughly fucked up things are, at this point.

Rand Paul, emerging as the Voice Of Reason. I never thought I'd see the day this would happen...

[republianmushroom]

13. Why is Rand Paul seeking attention now ?

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. What did you expect?

You spent you whole career paving the way to fascism. That's how you get fascism.