Sociopaths Shouldn't Be in Government 3: Rand Paul

 

Being 16 months late in reporting the purchase of a particular stock could look like a mere oversight in some regards, like if one was updating one's portfolio as frequently as, say, David Perdue did. It stands out spectacularly when the purchase of one particular stock occurs one month after having been briefed on Covid-19 and if it were the only stock that had been singularly selected almost as if one was persuaded this particular stock was going places. 

So what the whole hell happened there? Did Kelley Paul get one hell of a tip from somewhere? And where oh where could that have been? Because you know, there were all kinds of tips going round back in the day. Only, it's only Rand Paul that misremembered what took place until 16 months later. Like he thought he'd be slick and avoid investigation, or something.

Now, whoa, whoa, whoa, you might say, doesn't the article suggest that the Pauls haven't earned money on that stock?  Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, yourselves, they haven't sold it, and the Senator from Kentucky was just out here being not at all helpful regarding arresting COVID-19 spread.  Do you suppose a man with 3/4ths the lungs he was born with and even had COVID-19 himself, and is actually trained as a doctor, thinks "What the hell, vector away you free-souled little sonsabitches?" without some kind of material impetus? I dunno. Maybe he's thinking remdesivir can make a comeback.

But you all need to recognize Regeneron is where the money's at. Ron DeSantis said so. (Does he get comped for the shilling or will that show up in his 2024 contributions? I fancy he's too clever to have put Regeneron stock on his financial disclosures TBH.)  Why DeSantis wants to pimp Regeneron when a vaccine exists and is free is anyone's guess. And why he despises mask mandates.

But I am starting to assume sociopathic motives, because even little kids are getting this Delta variant and that hazard should have well and truly been persuasive for a governor to consider being fully permissive of prophylactic measures.  If they weren't a little bit sociopathic. 

And my principle of good government is--you don't have a concept of tolerable deaths in your head. You want to do the best you can to save who you can and don't want to see people hurt. And here these Republicans are--blowing that standard to hell, capitalistic and toxic. Unbothered by body counts. Pennywise and calling on "Freedumb!" 

It's curious to me is all. Is Rand Paul a sociopath? He's in government to stop it from governmenting well if it all. But a willingness to profit from dysfunction in government and then deliver on dysfunction is very special. 

I'm not sure Rand Paul belongs in government, even if I hover between whether he's a sociopath or not. But putsch come to shrove, I'd have to say he pretty much is.