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Irony of the day. Rand Paul mobbed...again

blackangst1 said:
So Rand Paul was attacked yesterday, and in his interview said the rioters were yelling "say her name! Say her name!" (referring to Breonna Taylor). The irony? He authored the The Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, which bans no-knock warrants.

Ragers gonna rage I guess?

townhall.com

Rand Paul Survives His Third Attack From the Violent Left

As you know by now, Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked by a Black Lives Matter mob ou
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So why doesn’t he say that & say her name?
Also during our current times I wouldn’t call people shouting at a lawmakers assaulting them
 
BLM is a decentralized movement protesting racially motivated police brutality on black people.

It is not "the left".

I'm sorry he was attacked. Violence is not the right way to protest.

Edit: Video posted on the link does not show an attack on Rand Paul. The video shows a person shoving back on officer escorting Rand who first pushed the person with something resembling a bike. When the officer stumbled, no one advanced on him or Rand.
 
blackangst1 said:
Google not working for you?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1299338647343378440
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I don’t trust short videos and I don’t trust twitter.
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That bike wasn’t throw a him. That appears to be the cops bike being used as a shield.
Unless it happened at the very end and the buffering interrupted it
Above is why I don’t trust twitter.

Someone throwing a bike at another to me sounds like a dude rushed up with a bike over his head and tossed it one someone. Which would hurt but certainly not damage any healthy person.
What appears to happen in that non contextual video is a cop holding his bike up as a shield or brace to keep people away from Rand. Cop may have been pushed, cop may have stumbled on the curb or maybe both.
 
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I know ya'll gonna quibble over words here, but the gist of my post is the most important. Crowd went after him screaming for him to say her name, which he did. On the senate floor.
 
blackangst1 said:
I know ya'll gonna quibble over words here, but the gist of my post is the most important. Crowd went after him screaming for him to say her name, which he did. On the senate floor.
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I’ll agree with your main point. Going after those that are trying to do something to help the cause you are fighting for doesn’t make any sense.

To be fair though, rand is a douche and it would be easy to assume he wouldn’t support such a cause.
 
ivwshane said:
I’ll agree with your main point. Going after those that are trying to do something to help the cause you are fighting for doesn’t make any sense.

To be fair though, rand is a douche and it would be easy to assume he wouldn’t support such a cause.
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Well said I agree.
 
Yeah, no.

No attack there at all. Just cops shoving and getting shoved back. Lightly. No one even goes down. It's nothing.
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OP has failed.
 
Oh and may I add:

Sponsoring a bill that is the wet dream of libertarians (no knock warrants) but NOT addressing the actual murder itself, lack of charges against the officers or changing the systemic racism that led to this IS THE FUCKING POINT HERE.

He merely used her death to further an already existing libertarian goal but did NOTHING to address the REAL reasons she was murdered and her murderers not charged.

So yeah, irony not found. He did one worse than ignore her death. He attempted political gain from it without addressing the underlying racism and inequity that led to it.

Again, OP fails.
 
Amused said:
Oh and may I add:

Sponsoring a bill that is the wet dream of libertarians (no knock warrants) but NOT addressing the actual murder itself, lack of charges against the officers or changing the systemic racism that led to this IS THE FUCKING POINT HERE.

He merely used her death to further an already existing libertarian goal but did NOTHING to address the REAL reasons she was murdered and her murderers not charged.

So yeah, irony not found. He did one worse that ignore her death. He attempted political gain from it without addressing the underlying racism and inequity that led to it.

Again, OP fails.
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That may be true and as a politician you’d think he’d be able to make a statement. However, I’d rather have incremental action than no action at all. So while his bill doesn’t get to the heart of the matter, he at least made an attempt to address an issue related to it that was within his capacity to do so.

Also considering how deep systemic racism is and that there is no one magic bullet to address the issue, I’m not sure putting all the onus on any one politician is a good idea.

The problems we face in this country with regards to race is a collective action issue. We will all have to do our part to address it, there won’t be any one person who can fix it nor will it be fixed by a single party.

Your frustration is valid but I think it’s misdirected.
 
Obscene people gon' act obscene.

As long as people think that is acceptable behavior... as long as people keep thinking that this is rational dialogue.... the more you will be ignored because in reality you're a garbage piece of shit human.
 
vi edit said:
I get confused what Rand does and doesn't stand for.
Right before this he was anti-"anti-lynching".

www.nytimes.com

Frustration and Fury as Rand Paul Holds Up Anti-Lynching Bill in Senate (Published 2020)

A dispute over legislation to make lynching a federal crime has grown fierce as Congress turns its attention to issues of race and law enforcement amid protests across the country.
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He's for less government, which is why he can support the prohibition of no knock warrants and be against more penalties on a person.

Libertarians don't care about people they care about having less government. Its all extremely shortsighted and a rather callous attitude towards human life and human nature.
 
ivwshane said:
He's for less government, which is why he can support the prohibition of no knock warrants and be against more penalties on a person.

Libertarians don't care about people they care about having less government. Its all extremely shortsighted and a rather callous attitude towards human life and human nature.
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Do.... uh.... do you happen to.... know who runs the police that you 'tards are proclaiming that you want to defund?
 
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