Rand Paul said he hopes trucker protests 'clog up cities,' including during Super Bowl and in DC

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

By Sonnet Swire

(CNN)While protests by truckers and others against Covid mandates continue to occupy Canada's capital, block US-Canada border crossings and add to supply chain headaches, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he hopes trucker protests come to the United States as soon as this weekend to "clog up" major US cities.

Asked by The Daily Signal about his thoughts on the convoy and the potential for it to spill over into Los Angeles, home of Sunday's Super Bowl, or into the nation's capital, Paul said Thursday that "it'd be great" if the anti-mandate, truck-inspired protests popped in the United States to "clog things up."

"I'm all for it," Paul, a longtime opponent to masking and vaccine mandates, told the conservative media outlet. "Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates."

He added: "I hope the truckers do come to America, and I hope they clog up cities."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/politics/rand-paul-trucker-protests-america/index.html

[durablend]

1. Would it be rude

For me to wish his neighbor to kick his ass again?

[brewens]

7. Won't help. Millions of us have been for a long time and you know they have to want to more

than we want them to. If they could, they would have.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. If during trump's occupation of the WH

If a Dem had said that, he/she would have been arrested on the spot, taken to a Republican appointed judge, been imprisoned to a GULAG for high treason or sedition.

You know I'm right, and not just being overly dramatic.......

[Maraya1969]

58. And worse they'd be fed Gestapo Soup! Uniforms, zippers & buttons included.

[DENVERPOPS]

66. LOL nc

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Not at all! Hope he gets his smarmy ass kicked harder next time. What a worthless pol.

[world wide wally]

64. It's good to know Rand Paul is looking out for ALL of America's best interests

[brush]

71. Sounds like sedition to me. There should be repercussions over this...

irresponsible bullshit.

[gopiscrap]

52. oh hell, I keep wishing that every day

[Maraya1969]

56. I think it would be better if several trucks park in front of his driveway and lawn

and any other ways he can leave house. Make him have to walk 1/2 mile down the street to catch a car while video cameras are rolling and people are shouting questions and/or statements toward him.

If he wants a clog let's give him a clog.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

57. That would be the perfect answer to his latest bullshit.

[Sherman A1]

2. Rand Paul is truly the south end of a north bound horse

[dem4decades]

9. A horse's ass serves a purpose, Rand Paul doesn't.

[CBHagman]

18. Pray do not insult the noble equine beings...

...by comparing any part of their anatomies to Rand Paul.

[lastlib]

46. No, I think he is the PRODUCT of same.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. The RepubliQonners are the Lawless Party. . . . nt

[KarenS]

4. I always think of that neighbor too ) n/t

[ificandream]

5. I think a convoy should park on Rand Paul's street.

[Rebl2]

12. YES PLEASE!

[monkeyman1]

41. maybe somebody might leak his address & have a big-rig party ?

[OldBaldy1701E]

55. HEAR HEAR! (n/t)

[Lunabell]

6. So, protesting and blocking streets is great for his pet issues.

But, BLM activists are "mobs" and he feared for his life. His white privilege freak flag flies high.

[JohnSJ]

8. Rand Paul is a demented POS, just like his racist old man

[Rebl2]

13. I think

he’s brain damaged from his fight with his neighbor a few years back.

[JohnSJ]

16. He was brain damaged long before that.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Including KY cities?

[multigraincracker]

24. and all Kentucky college

basketball games..
That'll get him re-elected....not.

[mpcamb]

11. Who this is great for is Russia. As the us democraacy weaks, our enemies gain.

This coddling of people disrupting vital supply lines in this country and Canada
are exactly what Putin would wish for now that his butt buddy's out of the
White House.

[orangecrush]

45. THIS

[sop]

14. "Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights..."

Funny, Republicans don't want these things even mentioned in the schools.

[Baked Potato]

15. He has Lord Lavatory on his mind, talking about "clogs." Nt

[Mike Nelson]

17. Of course...

... he does. He wants goods and services stopped... so prices go up and we all suffer. He is very wealthy, and will manage nicely.

[yaesu]

20. Can you imagine anyone getting a government check hoping for the downfall of that government

the fucking putin traitor needs a one way ticket to gitmo.

[niyad]

63. 147 of them did just that on January 6. And, of course, the 47 traitor senators

during Obama's term, and the 8 who were in Moscow on July 4, 2018. Lots of overlap, but same principle.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. So killing people with disease is a more important civil right than masking people to prevent deaths

Bird brain is bird brain.

[DanieRains]

22. Because Rand Paul Is A Traitor

Looking to overthrow the government.

Lock Him Up.

[Gore1FL]

23. If the GOP really wants to run on "We cheered-on shutting down the economy." I am OK with that. nt

[sop]

31. Last couple of years Republicans were against Covid mandates that protected people because

they shut down the economy. Now, to protest vaccine mandates that are saving lives and opening things back up, they want to shut down the economy.

[Richard D]

25. Super Bowl fans . . .

. . . on home territory, Los Angeles freeway road rage, reich wing trucQers, plus a very hot day. What could go wrong with this mix? I'm staying home.

[Gore1FL]

29. Not to mention that it's a Special Security Event.

A bunch of trucks of unknown content rolling towards a nationally-televised event with a concentrated population on-site isn't going to result in a small response.

[hadEnuf]

36. Maybe Paul and his filthy traitorous party and supporters can get the Super Bowl shut down.

That would endear them to a lot of Americans, eh?

[33taw]

26. What is his home address? I know his neighbors love him.

[DonCoquixote]

27. can he be sued

after all, many of those billipnaires are the libertarians he is a "friend " of

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Too many extraneous chems in Randy's "Aqua Buddha" tokes. Damaged. Or just a dick.

[LiberalFighter]

32. So he can blame Biden for the economy "tanking"?

[Picaro]

33. Rooting against his own county as usual...

They just want destruction and chaos and dissolution. Because...? Why? The current system seems to work well for them, but they still want to destroy it.

What do they want the world to be once they've destroyed what is?

I can't fathom it.

I was a revolutionary in my day, but I wanted radical improvements. Elimination of racism and sexism. Equal opportunity. Economic justice. Justice for all the dispossessed and the oppressed. Peace. I didn't want to burn everything to the ground.

What does Rand Paul and those like him want? What do these truckers want? Is nihilism a virus that can't be stopped?

[Martin68]

34. What I find ironic about Trumpist support for trucker anarchy is that if they were in charge,

they would have the national guard out with live ammunition.

[LymphocyteLover]

35. isn't this domestic terrorism?

[Brainfodder]

37. If he went missing I wouldn't care if anyone looked for him?

[DBoon]

38. so he wants to bring trafic here in Los Angeles to a standstill

How would we notice?

[rustysgurl]

39. Calling him pond scum

is an insult to pond scum everywhere.

[Beartracks]

40. Sounds like conservatives don't care much about regular, hard-working Americans.

And it sounds that way because they don't.

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[monkeyman1]

42. rand is about as dumb as TFG !! as republican's sink , rand dig's it deeper !!

keep on running your mouth rand paul , piss some more people off in your district!!!

[C Moon]

43. You know what's going to happen with this...nothing.

They would all rather be at home watching the game on their big screen tvs, drinking beer and eating chips.
Plus, they are petrified of losing the above by being arrested.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

47. If you think that then you don't know anything about us truck drivers,

the vast majority would rather have our rigs rolling and earning money than, in your words,

They would all rather be at home watching the game on their big screen tvs, drinking beer and eating chips.

We have a saying in the industry, if the wheels ain't turning, this truck ain't earning, words we live and drive by.

I am sick and tired of the stereotyping of us truck drivers, without whom this country's economy would collapse,

But, hey, thanks for the insult.

[niyad]

59. Please be safe out there. It seems like some of your fellow truckers are nuts.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

62. Oh, there's no doubt that a minority of truckers are lunatics,

but the vast majority of us just want to haul loads and get paid and make it home safe without the bullshit of these renegade "truckers".

Thank you.

[RayStar]

44. Dang

I thought he loved this country.

[niyad]

60. Whatever gave you that idea?

[bucolic_frolic]

48. Ayn Rand Paul advocates Bungee jumping with our health?

Maybe you, Big Bird. Not me.

[CrispyQ]

49. I loved the LA resident who responded to a possible trucker protest at the Super Bowl with,

"Good luck getting through LA traffic to disrupt the game."

[niyad]

61. Exactly.

[dlk]

50. Paul has proven again and again he is an enemy of democracy

There is something seriously wrong with him.

[gopiscrap]

51. Rand Paul is the pimple on the hemmerhoid of man kind

[sakabatou]

53. What an asshole!

[Mz Pip]

54. This hurts Republicans, too

Is Randy so stupid that he doesn’t see that?

Hopefully this will backfire big time.

[Turbineguy]

65. Yes. Because wanting an

economic collapse is the patriotic thing to do.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

67. He may want an economic collapse,

what he will get is the Teamsters Union opposing such a move by these renegade "truckers", and you don't really want to fuck with the Teamsters Union, it could have bad consequences.

https://news.yahoo.com/eric-shawn-teamsters-put-brakes-194030087.html

[Skittles]

68. funny, I don't remember repukes cheering on BLM to "make people think"

fuck him, fuck all repukes, fucking HYPOCRITES

[C Moon]

69. Another hate-America right ring epic fail.

[SouthernDem4ever]

70. Rand Paul still a Russian asset

What an ass. There is no other way to describe him.

[rockfordfile]

72. Rand Paul should be locked up for promoting disruption to our economy to help foreign interests.

Rand Paul is a loyalist to foreign interests.

[eppur_se_muova]

73. I'm hoping something clogs up Rand Paul. nt

[samsingh]

74. so let's get this straight. This traitor and fool is against taking the knee

at a football game that doesn't impact the game, but he wants his fellow fools to actually clog up the streets so that there is no football game at all.

more repug logic.

[malthaussen]

75. Hopes dashed, traitor.

Guess your macho Truckers are really pansies, Mr Paul.

-- Mal

[Emile]

76. There you have it folks, this guy hates America! He is

willing to destroy our country to make President Biden look bad!