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Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

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THE PURPOSE of Trump/Hegseths' MURDER and WAR CRIMES, with ZERO proof nor DUE PROCESS under Law, is to NORMALIZE and expand Putin puppet traitor Trump's abuse of power until Law is thus IRRELEVANT; so for Trump to turn our own now corrupt military against the American People like Liberals/Democrats.

EVEN DELUDED, MAGA CULT SHEEP LIKE RAND PAUL can come to their senses maybe? Though Paul enhanced Trump's anti-truth, anti-Science, baseless, fascist big lies via Climate Science and Vaccines; even slandering American hero Dr. Fauci, causing him endless death threats; he's at least right about this.

A more apt analogy would be: "Can we shoot a grenade launcher at a Miami truck - and then have snipers take out anyone in the truck who survives the explosion?" It's murder.

And how do you think they will retaliate. No one even mentioning that. They won’t overtly attack. Send more deadly drugs? Blow up random locations. What’s the strategy to defend us?

Rand Paul is a lot of things, but one thing he's not (in this case), is a hypocrite, a stooge or a sycophant. If I was born in 1760 and still alive today, I would be able to say I lived through the worst of world history and still be able to say this administration is as bad as it gets.

Hi, I’m a Kentuckian. I didn’t vote for/don’t like this goober. Buuut, he has distinction of being right twice a year, and then the whole state walks around looking like they’ve been hit with a fish. You also likely agree with him on the sale of hemp products and giving cops military equipment.

What does Sen. Freedom have to say about ICE’s gestapo tactics? Although he does get credit for standing up for something. His collaborationist colleagues don’t. They claim to be Christians, they should be less afraid of brownshirts and more afraid of the Vichy Section of hell awaiting them.

When you lose Rand Paul, you’re simply not even close to reality any more. He went along with the “we make our own reality” Cheney administration, but so far, this is a bridge too far for him.

I seldom agree with Sen Rand Paul, but on this we agree. You can’t go around blowing things up because “you think they’re transporting drugs”. This leads to Trump’s Border Patrol eliminating “believed” narco-terrorist. It’s lawlessness. Hegseth & those involved must be held responsibility.

That's what I mean. He will sound very reasonable, work well with others, but suddenly says something that causes a neighbor to come over and beat the crap out of him.

I disagree with Sen Paul about pretty much everything, but the fact that some Repub senators are at least speaking out about this latest illegal act is a start in the right direction. Time will tell if they have the balls to carry it through.

Basically Democrats are letting Republicans eat their lunch. In the house you got MTG going super hard against Trump and Jeffries does the bare minimum. In the Senate you got Rand Paul going hard and basically Chuck Schumer is the same as Jeffries

Um. They don't have the votes to "do" anything. Words, speeches, moral outrage are basically useless when you're in the minority & there aren't enough GOP critters - the real enemy, not the Dems - to walk across the aisle & do the right thing. Here's an idea - vote Dem next time, not 3rd party.

Several democrats have been arrested/charged with crimes or are under investigation for standing up to Trump. This is an absolute nonsense take that thoroughly dismisses the real risks these people are taking

I do as well but he took too long to get on board. Unfortunately Republicans see him as a sellout. I dropped the GOP as soon as they nominated that 🍊 buffoon. I knew then all of their talk of equality and a fair playing field was bunk. It opened my eyes to the true nature of their white supremacy.

Donald tRump, a convicted felon, fraud, traitor, racist, bigot and misogynistic rapist of women AND children is the judge and jury, and he uses the military as his executioner. Goose/Gander, we need a goddamned Star Chamber.

Hegseth is acting like he is the King Pirate of the Caribbean Sea. He thinks he has the right to decide which vessel should be blown up, yet refuses to show the American people ANY evidence!! These speed boats can't even reach American shores. They are NOT a threat to our national security at all.

Rand’s not wrong but the majority of the Republican congress is so damn unqualified for their elected positions that they don‘t do anything to uphold our constitution, our rule of law, our military code! This administration is dangerous and the Rs are cowards!

Nonsense might as well start picking off suspected delivery truck or car/van carrying craft fair items because you know they are concealing items in plastic containers or marine coolers that could be frozen food items . They could be potential terrorists.pretending to be Americans.

It’s all irrelevant bc the US is done. The GoP is totally corrupt, the Dems are feckless, our institutions are defunct, the economy is barely hanging on, no other nations trust us, and it’s all because Everything DJT touches dies.

Because there is a law breaking criminal in charge who does things for his own benefit. If he would go the legal route, they'll probably tell him to kick rocks you don't have the authority. So he makes up a crisis: War on drugs (While pardoning a drug kingpin)

1st term they went through all his tweets and rally speeches to come w an agenda. Looks like this time they just told him he has a mandate and a rubber stamp SCOTUS - just go for it, whatever he wants.

Rand was neck deep in creating this insanity. Rand and the endless right wing freak fest never expected their endless lies and lawlessness would end with more lies lawlessness? Rand should be in jail for the national security lies he has told over the years.

Wow. Either forgot or didn’t know. ‼️What do you think was in sealed letter to Putin? “Pls don’t release the #Epstein files”? Signed “Krasnov” since 1987-88. Russia has had the chump as kompromat for awhile it seems. For #Epstein to call chump bad is really bad.

I feel like talking about "but what if we were wrong" is simply obfuscating the REAL problem: this wasn't actually about drug trafficking at all. It was about escalating tensions to justify further terror and violence. Talking about it as if drug trafficking was involved is playing their game.

It’d be bad if say Mexico started wiping out yachts just off California orTexas or Florida claiming they were smuggling guns.(Americans are rich, gun runners have yachts) Or Canada started sinking Maine fishing boats claiming they’re smuggling drugs and guns.(🤷🏻‍♀️ maybe they do)Gov’t has to be careful

They couldn't have been worse. Literally no one else is as stupid, as sycophantic or as drunk on power [& alcohol] all at the same time as Hegseth. No one.

Ok. Now grab 8-10 of your buddies in Senate willing to stand up to the beast. Apply pressure to Congress folks to hold impeachment and you guys do the rest and finish the job this time. Problem solved.

May the pathetic boys and girls that follow up the orders and press the expensive button to kill the unknown people on board of the unknown ships wake up every hour screaming. May their commanders burn in hell. The USA is a terrorist state.

MAGA: When Rand Paul makes more f-in sense than you do, RAND PAUL for the love of GOD! It is past time for you to retire from politics and maybe go live in a yurt under a vow of silence.

He says the same thing I've played over and over in my head. The only difference is "citizens" in those trucks, much like the President of the Philippines did, killing people he suspected and his private police force was all too happy to go along with the killing. That's where we're headed.

If the error rate is really that high, it does suggest something is seriously off in how the policy is carried out. It makes me wonder whether the problem comes from the system itself or from gaps in enforcement. What do you think is the real root cause?

The worst part of the attacks is that we know they haven't committed a crime. The claims are an excuse; regime change & oil hunger are the reasons. We want Venezuela's oil; Maduro won't give it to us or sell it to us under a deal we consider advantageous, so we're trying to remove him from office.