“Rand Paul is an interesting candidate to me. Rand Paul could possibly get my vote,” Maher told The Hill.
Is Maher being facetious with this? I so hope he is because I really liked him. His documentary on religions was amazing. I watched it 4 times and want to watch it again because it was so funny.
He can’t be such an idiot, can he?
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It’s possible he’s being facetious. But then again:
Bill Maher has always prided himself on being contrarian and libertarian. He’s never women in general, let alone Hillary Clinton. Rand Paul and Bill Maher vibrate to the same level of smarm so it’s natural that Bill Maher would like Rand Paul.
Also More of his positions on various topics
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He doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and thinks vaccines cause autism. He’s a Bona Fide bonehead.
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Maher or Paul? Or both?
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Good question. I assume Leah was referring to Maher, but I googled and look:
Rand Paul is also a card-carrying member and advocate for a group of quack doctors called the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons
An interview with Alex Jones
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Both Paul and Maher are anti-vaccine, but I was talking about Maher specifically, since he’s a denialist of germ theory; I don’t know if Paul is too, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
On that note: I’d be really terrified to shake hands with someone who was a germ theory denialist.
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Both of those claims are false. He’s expressed skepticism about flu vaccines and made some offhand comments about germ theory but denies being a denier. Weird how people jump to label others without even performing a quick google search to confirm.
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I really want to keep liking him. so this is welcome information. 🙂
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Derp. Could you remove the comment in moderation, please? I meant to say that Rand Paul has anti vaccination views as well after googling.
Alex Jones interview
He belongs to a physician group that believes mandatory vaccinations are immoral
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he doesn’t believe vaccines cause autism. He’s just skeptical about flu vaccines. Flu vaccines are extremely profitable and their efficacy isn’t generally well established which makes some level of skepticism appropriate. Big difference
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I’d personally never get a flu vaccine for precisely this reason. But from that to “vaccines cause autism” there is a huge and uncomfortable distance.
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I’d never heard of Bill Maher before your post, but I had heard of Rand Paul, and he doesn’t seem to be such a belligerent war monger as Obama (and Bush before him) so he;d probably get my vote if I had one. Oh, wait a bit, it’s RON Paul I’d heard of, so scratch that… I know nothing about Rand Paul’s warmongering proclivities.
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Rand Paul is a lot like his father Ron Paul, but noticeably more paleoconservative.
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Does that make him more or less likely to drop bombs on people?
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Ha, it would kill a social conservative even to utter the word “gay,” but they’ll perform every kind of linguistic gymnastics that can get “homosexual” and “pedophile” into the same sentence.
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Yet you support Putin whose belligerent war mongering makes both Obama and Bush look like babes in arms? I don’t get this.
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What makes you think I support Putin?
Disagreement with the warmongering rhetoric of people like Obama, Bush, Clinton and Blair does not amount to support for Putin.
And agreement with the anti-warmongering rhetoric of Ron Paul does not mean that I agree with everything he says, nor with everything that Putin says either.
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Talking about “civil war in Ukraine” and “Ukrainian separatists” equals supporting Putin. It’s like talking about WMDs in Iraq. If you believe in their existence, you are pro-Bush whether you want it or not.
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The meme wars are real, even for non-combatants.
It indeed makes a difference whether you say “work stoppage” or “lockout”, whether you say “inheritance tax” or “death tax”, whether you say “Democratic” or “Democrat”, whether…
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Exactly. “Pro-life” or “woman-hating”, “family values” or ” hatred of gays”, etc.
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A comment somewhat above this one was supposed to go here, oh well.
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Obama has drone bombed legions of innocents across the Mideast. His ratings are worse there than W Bush’s were. The difference is, none of these countries were once, in any part, the United States. Obama should send Putin his Nobel.
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Ukraine was never part of Russia either. It is shocking that theer are still people who are not aware of this very basic information. Are you a high-school dropout?
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