Sen. Rand Paul: I'd help fund ticket to send Omar to Somalia

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jul 30, 2019, 5:17 AM ET

FILE - In this July 22, 2019, file photo, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a ribbon cutting for Amneal Pharmaceuticals in Glasgow, Ky. Republican Sen. Paul says he’d help pay for a minority congresswoman to return to the country she fled as


Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he'd help pay for a minority congresswoman to return to the country she fled as a child, saying she might better appreciate the U.S. upon her return.

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The sentiment echoes President Donald Trump , who tweeted this month that Omar and three other minority congresswomen should return to the "broken and crime infested places" they came from. All four are U.S. citizens.

Louisiana Republican Congressman Ralph Abraham has said he'd pay for the women to leave, if only they'd tell him where they'd like to go...............................

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Rand Paul is a disgusting excuse for a human being!

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[machoneman]

1. He did this solely to play to his racist KY base, just like Trumpy did for the nation's racists.

Not surprised but like the references to poor KY winger voters, most of whom can't even read.

[Yavin4]

29. But they're going to vote for him anyway

Why is it that when Republicans pander to their base, it's okay, but when the Dems try to appeal to their base, the media tries to scare them off.

[empedocles]

2. Surely does resonate to the '60's, paying for bus rides to get rid of - 'thems'

[thinkingagain]

3. I'd help fund the tickets to send

Trump & family along with the all GOP to survivor island.

[dewsgirl]

4. Maybe Russia?

[Lonestarblue]

7. I'd help, especially if they're sent to Vieques Island.

I believe the US military still uses it for target practice.

[SoCalNative]

20. Don't ruin Vieques

by sending them there. It's too beautiful and was my retirement plan until the hurricane hit. It's not just a military island.

[CrispyQ]

26. Let them have Air Force One. It's been infested for almost 3 years now. -nt

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Let this kill any further talk of Sen. Rand being somehow "reachable" ...

Rand is not an independent thinker as he likes to pretend -- he is just an attention whore.

[IronLionZion]

6. The irony is that many white liberals would love to be sent back to Europe

I was born in America and grew up in rural Appalachian Trump country. If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me when I was moving to India or leaving this country for good, I'd be able to retire early. The worst part of this story is it wasn't the uneducated hillbillies saying this, it was successful educated people whose grandparents were immigrants from Italy, Ireland, or Eastern Europe.

[lunasun]

8. Son of Ron Paul -verified self published racist

In the newsletter, bylined by Ron Paul himself, black people were described as “terrorists,” "animals" and worse.
I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in [major U.S. cities] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
A few months later Paul's newsletter also passed along this advice on how to get away with shooting black teenagers:
“What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example.).
“I frankly don’t know what to make of such advice; but even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”
It's not surprising that, today, Ron Paul claims his newsletters, published by his political group and purporting to be written by himself under his own name, were actually the work of an authorized ghostwriter.
As if having someone else ghost your racism before mailing it out in your name to your supporters is somehow ok. [Coincidentally, his son Rand Paul's ghostwriter, Jack Hunter, turned out to be a neo-Confederate extremist famous for writing "John Wilkes Booth Was Right."] It should also be noted that in the 1990s, Ron Paul repeatedly defended his racist newsletters in the Texas press; it was only much later, after winning the hearts of some credulous liberals in the late Bush years, that Ron Paul changed his tune and claimed he'd never seen "The Ron Paul Political Report" racist newsletters.
Long ago but
Hasn’t stopped either
2015
https://www.salon.com/test/2015/02/24/ron_paul_congressional_black_caucus_opposes_war_because_they_want_to_spend_money_on_food_stamps/

[dalton99a]

12. A family of racist Russia-loving traitors.

[turbinetree]

9. Hey Paul did you ever fucking look at your family history.......................

your a fucking immigrant..............................racist, bigoted libertarian POS

[WhoWoodaKnew]

10. We're still stuck in the Civil War. Whites vs Black rights.

[Javaman]

11. once again bigot/racist paul shows his true colors. nt

[paleotn]

13. Get that tribble off your head, Rand.

It's making you go all openly racist.

I know I shouldn't think this, but sometimes I wish his neighbor had been armed.

[Bayard]

14. If we can dump McConnell next year (Yay, Amy McGrath!)

Randy could be next.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Putin called.

[murielm99]

16. Why does Kentucky have such crappy Senators?

[patphil]

18. A good question.

Perhaps we should ask the Kentucky voters why they keep pulling the lever for really crappy people.
But this is not the only state where people don't give a shit about who represents them.
Rand Paul is just so out front regarding his shittyness that I would think even Kentuckians would notice.

Patrick Phillips

[safeinOhio]

17. Isn't Somalia the libertarian wet dream

of small government, no regulations and fee taxes?

[FakeNoose]

21. Somalia has a lot of starving, desperately poor people

Rand Paul should donate his money to feed the hungry Somalians, and shut up about it.

[Aristus]

19. Hey, Rand: how about cleaning up that hellhole known as Eastern Kentucky before casting aspersions?

I've been there. What a squalid, uninviting, spooky, dismal tract of country. The kind of place you more or less expect Snuffy Smith to jump out at you from behind a rock, brandishing a rusty blunderbuss.

At least Somalia has taken steps to improve...

[Bengus81]

22. I'll help fund a ticket for him to go to Canada permanently..............

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. No way he'd help fund a ticket ...

... without a spending cut, preferably in health care or welfare, to offset the fare. He won't even vote to help 9/11 first responders.

[onetexan]

24. If anybody thought this guy Rand Paul was decent, this removes all doubt he in fact is

a bigoted shmuck, like his father.

[COLGATE4]

27. I'd help fund Paul to go back to school and see if he

could actually pass the Board Specialization in his field. (His current 'board certification' is made by a certification body that only has 2 members - Paul and his BIL).

[Texin]

28. And I'd fully fund a ticket for Paul to go back to hillbilly moron-infested Kentucky.

[Dan]

31. I'd buy a ticket

If I could to go back in time and see his neighbor kick his ass....

[BaronChocula]

30. Wants attention for being racist, but...

No one cares.