Discussion: BuzzFeed Reporters To Rand Paul: 'Stop Using Fake Founding Fathers Quotes'

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As long as it works for him he won’t stop.

Why would he?

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Is anyone surprised that a lying little right-wing thug is caught lying? Rand Paul is a serial liar. A vicious homophobic sexist race-baiting liar. A Republican. As President George Washington once said, “There ain’t nothin’ lower than a right-wing lyin’ dog Republican–Scum!”

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Rand Paul, you are a known plagiarist – on numerous occasions. These BuzzFeed reporters are correct – and any grade school kid can show you how to google something and check a few reputable sources. Paul, you are a joke of an American.

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what’s the problem? he self-certified that the quotes are true and accurate… he has a lot of experience in self-certifying experience and accuracy…

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As Abraham Lincoln once said, “Fuck Rand Paul. Fuck him up his stupid ass.”

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God, does this kind of thing disgust me. Mark Twain never said this piece of treacle: “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” He never would have said it. He would have laughed at anyone who did say it. And you multiply that times eleventy billion and that’s how many bullshit fake quotes there are out there.

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Sen. Paul quickly pushed back:

“In my defense, I highlight the wisdom of the founding fathers because, as a wise man once said, ‘Those who flunk history are doomed to repeat it in summer school. And without air-conditioning.’
Or something.”

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People like Rand Paul are the primary reasons we have such a dumbing-down of our citizenry. This sick fuck does these things deliberately and those who later read his books or speeches will pick up on these outright lies, misquotes and deliberate context-less quotes and store that information in their brains. Honest mistakes are forgivable. Deliberately misquoting anyone is worse than creating your own lie because it’s using that person’s history, that person’s trustworthiness to perpetrate your own lies. Any publisher who willingly publishes this kind of stuff–especially from a known plagiarist on multiple occasions–is an accessory. They need to fix it–and scour this asshole’s book for more like it–and recall the ones not already sold. Untrustworthy. Rand Paul deliberately lies. Rand Paul is a real sick man.

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I think the wise man was Mark Harmon.

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It’s not Aqua Buddha’s fault!

The guy he stole it from SAID it came from Jefferson! Blame him!

Oh, and BENGHAZI!

Huh? She did what?

Never mind.

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As a gay man, I can honestly say to you: Eeewwww! Yes, he has a stupid ass, but I’m not getting my dick anywhere near that effer. He should be so lucky.

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Hey, don’t yell at me. I’m just quoting Abraham Lincoln.

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George Washington put it best:

MattinPA copied his entire comment from a Will Rogers quote and takes credit like King George takes our money to give to the laziest drunken foole in all of England.

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“Fact-Checkers Plead With Rand: Stop Using Fake Founding Fathers Quotes”.

A fake leader pandering to fake patriots with fake quotes from a fake history to rationalize a fake ideology.

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Not many people know that Spinal Tap was based on a true story about the founding fathers.

George Washington: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Thomas Jefferson: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
George Washington: Exactly.
Thomas Jefferson: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
George Washington: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Thomas Jefferson: I don’t know.
George Washington: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Thomas Jefferson: Put it up to eleven.
George Washington: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Thomas Jefferson: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
George Washington: [pause] These go to eleven.

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Yes, but for the sake of liberty. Hamilton famously said: “I care not if you take liberties with my words, unless you are the federal government.”

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“If you Google [it] the first result is a page … debunking the quotation.”

Sounds about right.

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“I mean, this idiot says the same thing about my speeches,” Paul told WaPo. “Do I need to say in my speech, as many people attribute to Thomas Jefferson, but some people dispute, before I give the quote? It’s idiocy, it’s pedantry – it’s ridiculous stuff from partisan hacks. And I’d say that guy’s one of ‘em.”

Your statement would be more dynamic if you could illustrate your position with a quote, Senator.

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I thought Hamilton said “OW!! you shot me!!”

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