Rand Paul Slammed As "Lunatic" By Senate Colleague

Republican Senator Rand Paul loves to make a spectacle out of himself, and he isn't afraid to play the fool. And recently, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown was asked about Paul's antics, to which Brown replied that Paul is "kind of a lunatic." That might be the nicest way to put it, but it is still extremely accurate. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Senator Rand. Paul loves to make a spectacle of himself, even if it means making a fool of himself, even if that is on the Senate floor. And therefore it goes into the Senate record, but recently one of his colleagues, democratic Senator Sherrod Brown. In fact, this happened on a Monday or Tuesday of this week, I guess it was anyway shared. Brown's had a mass vaccination event in Ohio. He's asked about ran Paul, you know, the guy says you shouldn't wear a mask. If you're vaccinated to which Sherrod Brown responds, he's kind of a lunatic. He thinks he wants to be different, but it doesn't serve the public interest. He's kind of a lunatic Sherrod. Brown says that may be the understatement of the century right there. It's accurate. Sure. But, uh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't add the, you know, quantify or kind of, I would just say, Hey, he's a lunatic.

If you ask me personally, I do think Rand Paul is, is a lunatic. Um, but here's the thing and Sherrod Brown, who, by the way, doesn't get enough credit from Progressive's. Even though he is very progressive, he is a great Senator, but anyway, he really hit it on the head with the second part of the statement. He thinks he wants to be different, but he doesn't serve the public's interest. And that to me was the better descriptor. That to me explains the entirety of the Republican party today, because it's all about spectacle. Right? Think back, back in March, I think it was when you had ran Paul taking on Dr. Fowchee in that Senate hearing, and Paul was saying, no, you don't have to wear masks anywhere. Even if you're vaccinated and found, she was like, actually, no, that's not true. You could still spread the virus to others.

Masks are still very important. You should be wearing them. And of course, Paul has also made a spectacle of not wearing a mask on the Senate floor anymore. He doesn't care. He had COVID back in March of 2020, and he overcame it. And at this point he's also been vaccinated. So yeah, he's, he's pretty good, but he could still spread it to others, but he doesn't care because he has to make a spectacle of it all because that's what Republicans have done with our entire political process. It's all theater, it's all spectacle. It's all about how could I get the most eyeballs on me right now without actually having to do any work? Think about it when Bernie Sanders is in the news, it's not because he's making a spectacle. It's because Hey, Bernie Sanders proposes a piece of legislation. That's going to provide free college education for, you know, 80% of Americans.

Bernie Sanders is out there pushing for universal health care. Again, AOC out here, pushing for the green new deal. They're not doing it because it's spectacle. They're doing it because that's legislation that the public desperately needs. Meanwhile, Republicans, when they make the news, what is it? Marjorie Taylor green says something stupid. Lauren Bobert does interviews with all these automatic weapons behind her Ted Cruz calls out woke corporations ran. Paul says, don't wear a mask. It's all grand standing on the Republican side. None of it means anything. None of it accomplishes anything except to get their idiotic faces in the newsfeed once again. So everybody talks about them, but that's the thing we have to make sure we do. If we talk about them in that regard, make sure we point out that obviously this doesn't benefit the public's interest whatsoever. The issues that these Republicans are pushing, the, the issues that get them out there in the news they're issues that nobody really cares about because it either doesn't help anybody or it actively hurts an already disenfranchised part of the American public. You know, the transgendered athletes ban that doesn't benefit anybody, but it sure as hell hurts a lot of people and singles them out, marginalizes them even further. But that's all Republicans are capable of doing. They can't put forward legislation. They can't come up with new ideas. They can't actually do anything to help the American public. So all of it, everything they do is pure political theater.