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Fake Doctor Rand Paul?
Do real doctors call for locking up public health officials for doing their jobs?
Don’t leave out “Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/rand-paul-delivers-letter-to-trump-from-putin-766743
We don't really know what the letter said.
It was a birthday card, but inside he said he “Changed the launch codes to ‘1437’” because he was “thinking of his sweet Vladdy Daddy Putin-Pie.”
(That was a joke, but coincidentally today, October 7th, is Putin’s birthday. He’s 71.)
I'm not sure how you get 'pedantic' out of what I said. My question is where the information about the content of the letter came from and whether it's reliable, and whether that's all it said. That's different than questioning whether it exists at all.
This kind of shit is a pet peeve of mine. Some version of this tripe has been floating around the right for 20 years if not more.
It's bad comedy, but it works on the credulous when it lines up with what they already believe.
Yeah but JadeHelmFEMAWifiBigTechBillGatesNWOLizardPeople, maaaaaaan!
Wait so in the US you can just make up your own medical certification board, certify yourself and start practicing?!
Those are the freedoms that Red states keep screaming about defending.
No, he left a certification board that brought in policies such as 10yr recertification. This kind of thing isn't uncommon amongst specialties and professions, with fracturing societies and groups. His licence is governed by the State.