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Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Infrastructure week. at last.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

After roe, women are no longer free.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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Big Sis probes Baby Doc’s poop chute

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Dr. Ron Paul’s son, US Senator Rand “Baby Doc” Paul, set off one of Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano’s terrorist alerts at an airport TSA checkpoint today. After refusing a pat-down by leering Big Sis operatives, Baby Doc was forcibly removed from the line and dragged to a “private screening area,” where he received a full body cavity search.

An engraved metal jacketed copy of “Atlas Shrugs” was found to be the culprit.

Well, not really. But you’d think so given the reaction. I bet those TSA louts let dozens of swarthy Middle Easterners pass through the line unimpeded.

[H/T: YAFB at Rumproast]

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  2. 2.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    I like digby’s take on this one:

    … I cannot help but be reminded of the fact that his home state of Texas just passed a law that goes a good deal further: forced vaginal probes of women seeking an abortion. To me, that seems like at least an equally intrusive state action, but when asked about it his allegedly highly principled father replied: …

    Click the link above to find out his dad’s reply.

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    Zifnab

    Gonna be hard to make a pro-TSA argument around here (or anywhere, really). Rand Paul was in clear violation of Security Theater for daring to blip while standing in a TSA-certified cancer machine. I’m having a hard time showing anything but sympathy for him.

  9. 9.

    giltay

    The talk of the Twitter is that he was flying to an anti-abortion rally. But, of course, he wants the governments hands off of his body.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    I got a shockingly personal pat down at a jimmy buffett concert once. It was annoying but not the end of the world.

  11. 11.

    Maus

    Really, the main surprise here is that Son of Bircher-King allowed himself to be rapeyscanned in the first place.

  12. 12.

    dedc79

    He was on his way to a “pro-life” rally in opposition to Roe v. Wade.

    Rand’s libertarianism is a strange one. Pat-downs are an invasion of his personal liberty but telling a woman what she can or cannot do with her uterus is fine.

  13. 13.

    Boots Day

    I wonder if this will spur Rand Paul to do the hard work of creating and passing legislation that makes the TSA less of a waste of time and money for all American air passengers, or if he’ll just whine to the GOP media about it. Gosh, I can’t wait to see which one it is.

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    @Zifnab: I have no desire to defend the security state. But if someone has to get mashed in its accursed cogs, it might as well be Rand Paul. I can’t abide that smug little prick.

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    Mike G

    I wonder if this will spur Rand Paul to do the hard work of creating and passing legislation that makes the TSA less of a waste of time and money for all American air passengers

    I’d expect this will spur the Repuke Party of Privilege to do the hard work of creating and passing legislation that creates a TSA exemption for members of Congress, while us little people just have to eat it.

  20. 20.

    Comrade Mary

    Where the fuck is my edit button?

    I guess it’s time for everyone to line up while Tunch wields the wand.

  22. 22.

    scav

    Security Theater meets Libertarian Theater. hmmmm. Still rooting for injuries. Remarkably useful default heuristic so far.

  23. 23.

    artem1s

    as per a previous post regarding GPS surveillance…every time one of these privacy issues come up before the Supremes or the Senate or House someone, somewhere needs to make the point that even the elite 1% will be subject to the ramifications of selling off civil liberties in lieu of security kabuki.

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    Frankensteinbeck

    Like any issue involving Pauls I and II, a narrow focus gives exactly the wrong understanding of this issue. Rand Paul did not get rejected from boarding a plane because of unnecessarily tight security restrictions. That’s how you would interpret this from sane viewpoint that TSA security rules are part of the disgusting excesses of Bush’s War On Terror that are now hard to get rid of.

    What happened is that Rand Paul missed his flight because he refused to submit to standard security procedures that would give New World Order agents a chance to search him, perhaps plant trackers or who knows what while they had the chance.

  26. 26.

    ericblair

    @artem1s:

    someone, somewhere needs to make the point that even the elite 1% will be subject to the ramifications of selling off civil liberties in lieu of security kabuki.

    You don’t have to go through the pornoscanner if you have a private jet. Whether or not the 1% can actually wall themselves off from all of the indignities foisted on the rabble, I’m pretty sure they think they’re immune.

  27. 27.

    williamc

    Good god damn, I about busted a gut reading this post’s title!

    And somehow knowing immediately what it was in reference to is a testament to my potty-minded existence…

  28. 28.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Zifnab:

    Gonna be hard to make a pro-TSA argument around here (or anywhere, really).

    How’s that, exactly?

    What was the process in the good old plain-metal-detector years? How many times did one get to set off the buzzers before a more thorough search was conducted?

    It’s not like Paul was stopped while walking down the street and searched for no reason. He was attempting to board what reads to be a commercial flight- which he, like the rest of us, has no constitutional right to board- on which the passengers’ safety is very vulnerable to someone with a gun, knife….or box-cutter.

    Paul wasn’t detained after failing the initial walk-through, either, not held for questioning. He was given the option to accept a pat-down or walk away. He chose the latter option and re-booked on another flight.

    What’s he going to bitch about next? Not being allowed on a roller-coaster for not being allowed to re-measure himself against the outstretched paw of some cartoon character?

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    Randellin

    Do they really need to search a well known congressman like that? I am glad he stood up to our government’s fascist cretin practices.

  33. 33.

    ChrisNYC

    Oh look! This is on the front page at Drudge. What a righteous defender of liberty that guy is.

  35. 35.

    Nutella

    @dedc79:

    Rand’s libertarianism is a strange one.

    No, Rand’s libertarianism is a typical one. Freedom of action for prosperous straight white men is what libertarianism demands. If maximizing the freedom of action of those prosperous straight white men requires forcing a woman to bear her rapist’s baby or preventing black customers from entering a white-owned store if the owner doesn’t like them, he and his fellow libertarians are all for it.

  36. 36.

    Nancy Irving

    Why is he complaining? Aren’t the airlines private companies that, according to Rand Paul, should be able to do whatever they want? After all, he did not have to submit to any of this–he could just have chosen not to fly, just like black people before the Civil Rights Act were free not to stay at hotels, matriculate at colleges and sit at lunch counters.

  38. 38.

    Robert Waldmann

    How can it be that I didn’t think of calling Rand Paul “baby doc” ? How did it happen that I never read that before ? Is it really possible that the blogosphere, the sultanate of snark, didn’t include that analogy until now ?

    And what about Naomi ?

  39. 39.

    Robert Waldmann

    I do have to stress that I didn’t have to read the post to understand who is the new baby doc.

  40. 40.

    Li

    I’m no fan of Rand and his loony idea of what the government should and shouldn’t do. But I’m pretty sure that conducting a mass-molestation campaign against an endless number of perfectly innocent people for the sake of security theatre isn’t good governance. So I feel sorry for him, though perhaps less sorry than I feel for the old ladies that have their colostomy bags taken from them and the like, because he could do something about it if he tried.

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