An extended sit-down with Rand Paul. Cool. Assessment:
He's got a quick mind, and he listens to questions well - he's not "phony smart" and getting away with it, like Ted Cruz.
But he is an asshole - not as big as Ted Cruz (maybe) but still an asshole and that's worth noting.
I say he's not as big of an asshole because, unlike Cruz, I think Paul is smart enough to know what he is - which is good - he keeps that shit in check. He lets his smarts impress. But that's also his problem.
See, Rand Paul's intelligence has to be more impressive than even his arguments because, along with being a senator, what we're really watching appears to be a head case who can't allow his inner asshole out - which is a tremendous psychological burden - so say "bye-bye" to any passion at all. It's like he's got to be some kind of near-coma of himself or he'll start yelling racial slurs or something. Rand Paul's such a picture of personal repression there's no way he can be trusted, because it's obvious he's not being straight with even himself.
You can't overlook these kinds of deficiencies.
All I can see at the core of this man - even when discussing, say, medicine - is a desire to win, ...something, plus gears turning and/or smoke coming out of his ears. Rand Paul is presenting us with a carefully crafted image, and calling John Oliver mentally ill to his face was only a hint at who's really sitting there.
The depths available to Rand Paul are definitely at odds with what we see, and I'll even go so far as to say I won't be surprised if there's personal trouble ahead for him. Something's got to give because he's not going to get what he wants. Maybe ever. Because he doesn't know.
Another reason I'm glad not to be standing with him now,...
It's his temperament, which is simple and plain and that is something you in a leader, which is probably why it frightens you because you are waiting for the other shoe to drop even though there is no shoe.
ReplyDelete"It's like he's got to be some kind of near-coma of himself or he'll start yelling racial slurs or something. Rand Paul's such a picture of personal repression there's no way he can be trusted, because it's obvious he's not being straight with even himself."
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck does that even mean? He's trying very hard not to frighten the sheep, and you see a racist? Jesus Christ, dude. Get a grip. Argue against his ideas or don't, not what you read in his "vibe". You're falling into traps you should have seen a hundred yards off.
And another thing:
ReplyDeleteBefore you guys get pissed at me, go yell at somebody white for over-reacting to Trayvon because I never would've started speaking in such terms without it.
And Methadras, when the likes of Rand Paul frightens me - as opposed to being A) pitied for being such wankers of personality, and B) resented because such lousy specimens of men get elevated far beyond their station - I'll let you know.
I'm not a bad judge of character, and all I see in Rand Paul is failure waiting to happen.
Because of his dad (some of whose ideas weren't bad imhao, but they were coupled with some either completely nutty shit and/or some spooky ass racial shit, so "no dice" from me), Rand is someone I don't feel should be trusted.
ReplyDeleteThen there's the grand convergence of some seriously no good, New Agey weirdness going on and taking hold in the GOP (for that a person would have to know the history of how New Age came to be; a hint: read some Emerson...again, who I can't say I dislike, but he's a crazy, bad minded loon sometimes) that Rand seems to be riding the crest of that also makes me say "uhm, pass".
Because he isn't stupid is yet another reason to be wary of him (Cruz is just a dumbass and obviously can be wrong footed often enough to perhaps mitigate the harm he could cause; Rand is another story).
And of course just in time for the Democrats' own creepy lady from hell to take a run at the big chair...don't astrologers have term for this? Ah, yeah, a Grand Convergence (of fucking evil nutty crap -- a big ol' shit Snickers for America, yip fucking ee!). I find astrology terms to be most fitting for this, wouldn't you agree?
PW
"a Grand Convergence"
ReplyDeleteIsn't it bizarre? That's exactly what it feels like, in every way, no matter which direction I look at it from. The perfect storm.
Of stupidity, too.
I mean, "we can win by losing"?
In politics, that's the unhinging of rationality, right there,...