The agents don't care. They'll murder you in the street for daring to "disrespect their authority". Protect yourself and others...
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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i can't believe ayn rand paul is doing more for the populace than potus
Rand Paul and I disagree on many things, but he probably has more integrity than the rest of the Republican Senate caucus combined, and frankly I struggle to think of a Democrat in the Senate who I trust more either.
frankly I struggle to think of a Democrat in the Senate who I trust more either.
...what?
Do you believe Bernie Sanders lacks integrity (maybe you're splitting hairs on "Democrat")? Elizabeth Warren? Mark Kelley?
Idk, this seems like a poor attempt to "both sides"
Bernie is an Independent.
Warren helped the DNC derail Bernie's presidential run which definitely lost her points in my book.
Kelley seems like a straight shooter. So, we got one.
Your comment seems like a poor attempt to put me in a box because I said a positive thing about a Republican.
Fair enough. I'm struggling with the constant attempts to pin the blame of trump on the Dems not being enough while also projecting various purity tests on the party. I respect that you weren't doing that, sorry.
The dem party has a lot to improve on as whole and specifically with leadership. I also want anything better than Trump and I'm willing to settle, for now, on good enough. I wrongly interpreted your message as another attempt to wedge the party
It was very big of you to concede the point and I appreciate your willingness to engage with nuance! I do think the Dems are less bad than the (Fascist) Republicans, but I don't excuse their lack of serious resistance.
Hopefully we can find a way to dislodge the corrupt and sociopathic leaders of both parties and build a system that actually works for us some day. And yes, MAGA is a special brand of evil that I do not consider to be part of the "both sides" paradigm.
I can say I agreed with the first half of his statement but rand paul is kinds the best of the worst to me.
The other Libertarian, Massie, ranks a bit higher, if only for Junkyard Wars.
Maybe Ron Wyden? Please correct me if he's done something awful but he's one of only a few members of congress I've seen consistently push for our privacy rights.
Please correct me if he's done something awful
Not to my knowledge. We can keep him on the nice list... For now
I can believe it - it's just another measure of how fuX0r3d we are.
So they say now. It matters what they do when their foot soldiers violate peoples' rights in the field, and arresting them and taking all of their biometrics without a warrant and releasing without charge isn't acceptable, and that's what they have license to do, if not manufacture a charge, play victim and claim to have been hurt, or just summarily execute them and then declare they were acting in self defense despite irrefutable video evidence they didn't have cause.
Especially your 2nd amendment right
The second amendment right to shoot people interfering with ICE?
Cause that is what the majority of second amendment people are going to do.
Many of us are armed and you should be too
So I can fight the government and the second amendment nutters? Sounds like a real shitshow.