From Aqua Buddha to "Typhoid" Randy

There are consequences to having "libertarian" notions about "freedom" and "government" when other people are involved.  This is why libertarianism is a bunch of bullshit by and for sociopaths and crackpots.  Actions always have consequences to others.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a nepotism if there ever was one to be elected to Congress, decided he was perfectly immune to things that happen to his lessers, so he went around after he had testing for whether he was COVID-19 positive and used the congressional gym and swimming pool, thus exposing everybody else to his germs.   He also ate with colleagues, helping to further the spread.  Despite being a physician by trade, or maybe because he is, he arrogantly displayed the righteousness of being a libertarian:  I've got mine and to hell with you.

Paul then admitted he was COVID-19 positive and is now in quarantine.  He and his father, former Texas representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul, are now having to eat crow because they proclaimed the pandemic was a "hoax" created to curb more personal freedoms.

I believe the pandemic is overhyped, even now, but it sure as fuck isn't a "hoax."

This story exposes the problem with the Pauls:

Prior to Paul's diagnosis, a recent article titled "The Coronavirus Hoax," by his father Ron Paul was published on March 16. In the piece, Ron Paul said that "governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them."

He also called Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, the "chief fearmonger" who "did his best to further damage an already tanking economy," when Fauci appeared on the TV program Face the Nation.

"Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States?" Ron Paul wrote.

Rand is considered high risk because he had part of his lung removed as a result of being assaulted by a neighbor back in 2017.


The latest figures from Worldometer re USA are 41,569 cases and 504 deaths.  Roughly half of the cases total are in New York.

Speaking of Rand Paul, it is time for somebody to send him down to Texas to meet this dimwit politician:

Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren pic.twitter.com/wC3Ngvtsbj

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 24, 2020

"Libertarian" Is Just Another Word for "Nitwit"

If "government" gets out of the "marriage business," then "marriage" for all intents and purposes would be abolished.

It doesn't matter if you have a church ceremony. That is merely a wedding. It is NOT a marriage. Without that license, you are NOT "married." Above all, marriage is a LEGAL contract, and in order to dissolve that contract you MUST use the court system, which is an arm of the government. There is NO way to logically argue the government shouldn't be involved in marriage without advocating its abolition.

I haven't heard that argument for marriage abolition since the radical feminism of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the argument was based on the very real issue that women were second-class citizens because of traditional marriage.

Now we have wingnuts like Rand Paul making arguments for marriage abolition under the phony guise of religious freedom. We have wingnuts now advocating for shacking up outside of that piece of paper called a marriage license. They are making similar arguments to what those hippies were making in the 1960s. Instead of "husbands" and "wives" or "spouses," the partners would be their "old men" or "old ladies." I can just see the likes of James Dobson calling his wife his "old lady" once marriage is done away with.

Rand was born in 1963, a little bit too young to remember the "counterculture" of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Marriage long predated all of the world's major religions. Societies, call them informal governments, created marriage in order to foster responsibilities by parents for any children resulting from heterosexual sex. It was also a way to ensure societies would continue. Religions also helped enforce those responsibilities. However, "God" had nothing to do with the creation of marriage; it was, to put it crudely, a way for society to put the brakes on the promiscuity of men. After all, children needed support, and so did women, who really needed marriage because childbirth was so dangerous and their economic options limited.

But enough of that. Rand Paul just needs to shut up and stop pandering to the religious crowd.

Same-sex marriage is a reality, and nothing can be done to reverse it.

It's time to move on.

Yet Another Reason Why "Libertarians" Are Narcissistic Morons

and, in the case of politicians like Rand Paul, fucking dangerous to other people.

When you are talking public health, you goddamned quack, there is NO freedom of choice when your actions affect others. Of course "libertarian" ideas appeal to those who are either sociopaths, greedy individuals, or people who never grew up.

There is not one single issue where these extremists have the correct opinion. Not a single issue.