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Author Topic: Republican Senator Rand Paul and his Wife Threatened By BLM Mobs!  (Read 3459 times)

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Senator Rand Paul and his wife were threatened by BLM mobs outside the RNC. Police escorts saved their lives. Rand Paul says that something is going on here, and that some of these rioters are being paid and sponsored by somebody, being flown in, and housed in hotels, and paid to incite riots and mayhem. He says the FBI needs to investigate, and these people need to be arrested.

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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2020, 02:23:48 PM »
Is he allergic to combs, or is he trying to virtue-signal with his hair?

From the visual to the overwrought verbiage, this sounds like a deliberately staged bit of political theater. "I don't think we would have survived." "They're trying to kill [me]". "I'm not sure we would have made it." That's just overwrought prose. They were shouting and pushing you, which is a dangerous situation and could escalate, but there's a vast gulf between that, and an active attempt at murder. "The crowd [of 30] doubled to 60, then doubled again to 120." Which are curiously precise numbers, given that crowds are notoriously hard to count. Not to mention the whole bit about how he put his hand on a police officer to support him when he stumbled, and how that means we can't defund police because otherwise who's going to protect us? That just sounds self-serving and completely out of touch, because people who aren't members of Congress don't have a phalanx of cops to form a body shield on their way home. In fact, that kind of elitist hypocrisy has been one of the most telling criticisms of people like Chicago's mayor Lightfoot, for instance when she banned protesters from her block while the rest of the city was allowed to burn.

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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2020, 02:38:16 PM »
If I were surrounded by a mob of 100 people shouting at me, especially knowing how these mobs have turned violent and destructive, I'd be pants shittingly scared.
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2020, 02:58:17 PM »
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If I were surrounded by a mob of 100 people shouting at me, especially knowing how these mobs have turned violent and destructive, I'd be pants shittingly scared.

Yes.  Moreover, he's already been assaulted by a neighbor and put into the hospital.  He receives threats constantly.  Sure, a hundred shouting strangers belong to an organization known to have attacked people and in a few cases killed them, what could go wrong?

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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2020, 03:49:47 PM »
Update from Rand Paul's Wife....

Quote from: Mrs Rand Paul via Chris Cook
Thursday night felt like being in a terrifying dystopian novel. The mob swarmed me and my husband, Sen. Rand Paul, in a tight circle, screaming expletives, threats, and shouting, "Say her name." We rushed up to two police officers, and I believe that is the only thing that kept us from being knocked to the ground. Even pressed against the officers, we were greatly outnumbered.

As the mob grew and became more threatening, we literally could not move, and neither could the two officers for several minutes. The rioters were inches from us, screaming in our faces.

That was the worst part. At first, I attempted to meet the eyes of one of the protesters and tried to explain that Rand authored the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, but it seemed to just infuriate them more, as they called me a "bitch" and "racist wh---" alongside an endless torrent of "f--- yous."

Mobs are terrifying. They looked at us with no humanity -- just a vicious and righteous zeal. After that, I just kept my eyes down and prayed. All I could think of was the driver who was pulled from his car, viciously kicked in the head and left lying in his own blood in Portland, Oregon, last week.

Now the Associated Press is reporting that Rand used the word "attack" to describe our ordeal "without evidence." This is disgusting and utter proof of their bias.

When you are surrounded by throngs of people screaming in your face and preventing you from getting away, that is an attack.

After several harrowing minutes, additional officers arrived with bikes and surrounded us to create a moving barricade to escort us to safety. The video showing us walking is after the additional police had arrived. Before that, we were pinned in the center of a swirling maelstrom of hatred and threats. Those in the media and in government who have downplayed the last three months of burning, shootings, murder, looting, and destruction have fomented this horrific violence.

Since his election in 2010, Rand has made criminal justice reform a priority and has sponsored dozens of bills to address civil asset forfeiture, overcriminalization of nonviolent drug offenses, and the racial disparities in sentencing caused by the 1994 crime bill. I serve on the board of a bipartisan criminal justice reform group and worked hard to lobby for passage of the First Step Act. I have appeared with Alice Marie Johnson and Matthew Charles at events and on various TV programs to advocate for more reforms.

The mob screaming in our faces seemed ignorant of the fact that Rand had authored the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, calling for a ban on no-knock raids. Either that or they just didn't care because their hatred of President Trump makes them feel righteous and justified as they terrorize people and burn cities.

Several of our friends were also attacked trying to make it to their hotels last night, including one who had his glasses slapped off his face, another who was pepper-sprayed by a rioter, and a woman who was punched in the back.

In the last three years, my husband was shot at by the Bernie Sanders supporter who nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, had six ribs broken and his lung damaged by a vocal internet hater of President Trump, and endured numerous death threats against him and our family. An MSNBC reporter literally said on air, laughing, that Rand's assault was her favorite news story of the week. She was hardly criticized or made to apologize, let alone fired.

People such as Bette Midler and Nancy Pelosi's daughter regularly tweet out encouragement of the man who nearly killed Rand, which is amplified by thousands of their followers. My message to all of them is this: You have become exactly what you say you hate -- violent, close-minded, authoritarian, and utterly lacking in empathy.
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2020, 12:45:39 AM »
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Is he allergic to combs, or is he trying to virtue-signal with his hair?

From the visual to the overwrought verbiage, this sounds like a deliberately staged bit of political theater. "I don't think we would have survived." "They're trying to kill [me]". "I'm not sure we would have made it." That's just overwrought prose. They were shouting and pushing you, which is a dangerous situation and could escalate, but there's a vast gulf between that, and an active attempt at murder.
Did you miss the part where they were threatening to kill him? Where they said "we're not going to let you go alive until you say you're for criminal justice reform" and when his wife tried to explain the 22 criminal justice reform bills he has authored, they started getting agitated, called her a racist, and started screaming?

That is not political theater. That is not "a vast gulf." When thugs with a history of violence surround you and threaten to kill you, you have every reason to take them at their word. But you did get one thing right-- we the ordinary people don't have a phalalnx of cops to protect us from these thugs. The cops are minutes away at best, and if BLM gets it's way, they won't be coming at all.

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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2020, 06:54:31 AM »
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If I were surrounded by a mob of 100 people shouting at me, especially knowing how these mobs have turned violent and destructive, I'd be pants shittingly scared.

only once my ammo was depleted, but scared is the best way to be for a bayonet charge, or in this case, a pocket or belt knife charge.

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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2020, 05:53:35 PM »
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Did you miss the part where they were threatening to kill him? Where they said "we're not going to let you go alive until you say you're for criminal justice reform" and when his wife tried to explain the 22 criminal justice reform bills he has authored, they started getting agitated, called her a racist, and started screaming?

That is not political theater. That is not "a vast gulf." When thugs with a history of violence surround you and threaten to kill you, you have every reason to take them at their word. But you did get one thing right-- we the ordinary people don't have a phalalnx of cops to protect us from these thugs. The cops are minutes away at best, and if BLM gets it's way, they won't be coming at all.
Nope, didn't miss anything. But threats like that are so universal, that "kys"  is almost as common an internet acronym as "lol". Having a crowd of people getting in your face and shouting shit at you is a scary, dangerous situation and they were right to be worried. But nobody even threw a punch, so it's miles away from a gang of people actively trying to murder, as Randbaby repeatedly claimed.

This is an entitled elite who has never dealt a physical confrontation, and who is trying to overdramatize the encounter for political purposes. It's the definition of political theater.

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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2020, 06:11:18 PM »
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Nope, didn't miss anything. But threats like that are so universal, that "kys"  is almost as common an internet acronym as "lol". Having a crowd of people getting in your face and shouting shit at you is a scary, dangerous situation and they were right to be worried. But nobody even threw a punch, so it's miles away from a gang of people actively trying to murder, as Randbaby repeatedly claimed.

This is an entitled elite who has never dealt a physical confrontation, and who is trying to overdramatize the encounter for political purposes. It's the definition of political theater.

You are lying or stupid.  Which is it?  It's documented and referenced more than once above that he has already been physically attacked.  There was a freaking court case about it already. Are you so damn caught up in your own world view that you can't see contrary evidence at all?  Jesus Christ.

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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2020, 06:24:09 PM »
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You are lying or stupid.  Which is it?  It's documented and referenced more than once above that he has already been physically attacked.  There was a freaking court case about it already. Are you so damn caught up in your own world view that you can't see contrary evidence at all?  Jesus Christ.
He was attacked by a neighbor, half the country away. That doesn't mean the crowd many months later was sure to kill him. Pull your head out of your ass long enough to take a deep breath and see the facts.

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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2020, 06:29:32 PM »
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Did you miss the part where they were threatening to kill him? Where they said "we're not going to let you go alive until you say you're for criminal justice reform" and when his wife tried to explain the 22 criminal justice reform bills he has authored, they started getting agitated, called her a racist, and started screaming?

That is not political theater. That is not "a vast gulf." When thugs with a history of violence surround you and threaten to kill you, you have every reason to take them at their word. But you did get one thing right-- we the ordinary people don't have a phalalnx of cops to protect us from these thugs. The cops are minutes away at best, and if BLM gets it's way, they won't be coming at all.

And last night BLM/Antifa murdered a man in Portland walking down the street because they believed he supported President Trump. They then cheered about it because "he was a ****ing Nazi!" Mayor Wheeler is having a press conference where he's saying Trump voters deserve violence for what they've done to the country.

Rand Paul was correct to be in fear for his life. The only difference between the kid in Kenosha and the murder victim last night is that the kid was able to kill his attempted murderers before they could murder him.

Also, I've thought about this long and hard. I've counseled that a limited application of law and order could de-escalate this.

But I'm done. I literally could not care less whether they pulled the triggers or are only cheering for the ones who did so. They're rabid animals and their violence is escalating. Its only a matter of time before they start attacking people in their homes for not supporting their insanity.

Invoke the Insurrection Act, Mr. President. Start with Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff (who today blamed the murder on, I kid you not, Russian infiltration of BLM/Antifa to aid President Trump) and every Senator, Concressman, Governor, Mayor, DA, Prosecutor and media figure who's supported this band of Marxist murdering scumbags. I don't care if someone thinks that would make President Trump a dictator either. We either have the rule of law or don't... and if we don't then we have no country anyway and I'd rather have a benevolent King for our next government than malicious murderous despots who want me, my family, my friends and loved ones dead.

Besides, at this point I think President Trump might be the reincarnation of Cincinnatus and wouldn't hold the power past the crisis anyway... if he were going to go autocrat he would have done so a long time ago.

Also no, doing so will not START a civil war. The civil war ALREADY STARTED and the other side is shooting to kill unarmed people they even believe support the other side.

Shoot all the rioters, hang the people funding them and put everyone who's cheered the murderers on into prison for providing material aid to domestic terrorists.

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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2020, 06:47:03 PM »
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Shoot all the rioters, hang the people funding them and put everyone who's cheered the murderers on into prison for providing material aid to domestic terrorists.

Wait...cheering is material support? You really are dumb as fuck.

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« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2020, 06:54:31 PM »
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Invoke the Insurrection Act, Mr. President.
That's a terrible precedent. I haven't seen it explored anywhere, but a better approach might be withdrawing federal support. Because this isn't happening all over the country, it's happening in specific areas where the governor, mayor, and DAs are providing cover for the rioters, instead of dealing with them. Make it clear that the federal government will not tolerate this, withdraw all their officials, and cut off every spigot of funding that's available. The withdrawal of officials would be largely symbolic, but the lack of funding should really hurt, because a huge chunk of state funding is pass-backs from the federal government. Then make it clear to the neighboring areas that if there's any spillover, they can either handle it themselves, ask for help, or they'll be cut off, too. I haven't really worked out whether it's feasible, may run into problems with the governors for instance.

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« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2020, 08:15:48 PM »
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Wait...cheering is material support? You really are dumb as fuck.

I figured you'd reply to that and broke my ignore of your posts just to be sure you'd reply as expected. You didn't disappoint and my relegation of you to ignore-land fully justified.

First, at least some among the number cheering knew the identity of the murderer and are refusing to cooperate with the police. They are aiding and abetting first degree murder. You cheer for the murder of those whose only crime is disagreeing with you, then you're a monster and prison is the best you deserve. You certainly don't belong in any form of civilized society.

I don't think you understand how utterly DONE Middle America is at this point. Democrat leadership calls us "enemies of the state" for our voting choice. The Democrat VP candidate has encouraged the riots to continue. BLM and Antifa are shooting people on the street because they think they're Trump supporters and then cheer about it. They have made bones about it that they want us dead.

If you support them... then YOU want us dead (you're just hoping someone else will do the job) and I'm done pretending that people who want me and mine dead have anything useful to contribute to discussions or to society.

If they are not stopped they'll eventually get to you too no matter how Woke you are because they will always purity spiral and the new punishment for failure to comply with Antifa or BLM is two in the chest followed by a celebration that they killed a Nazi.

Now back to ignore land with you you spiteful troll.

As for "horrible precedent"... the more horrible precedent is that you can murder people for their political beliefs and face no punishment for it because you are the favored class and the victim was the unfavored.

I am perfectly willing to live with the precedent that escalating murderous rioters can be shot dead in the street after 90 days of non-stop destruction and currently more than 30 deaths.

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« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2020, 08:25:39 PM »
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This is an entitled elite who has never dealt a physical confrontation, and who is trying to overdramatize the encounter for political purposes. It's the definition of political theater.


Over dramatic or not, it is as funny as hell that the mob is trying to bully the guy who has done the most for them.

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