Rand Paul Reads Ayn Rand Quote At Hearing Chaired By Bernie Sanders

At today's Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the hearing, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to question former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
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[@AJ-qv1rs]

I've been in the States now for 20 years .. I still cannot fathom what the point of any of these hearings are ... does anyone ever get prosecuted for wrong doing ? Or is it just charade after charade after charade ... ?

[@blazerchris5444]

Nobody ever gets prosecuted who should. They just toss some underling in jail if it ever gets that far. But you are on the right track that its charade after charade. They need to pretend they are doing work to make it look like democracy is happening and collect a check. "Are you not entertained?"

[@extra4323]

The Justice department has to bring charges because the Representatives don't have that power. It turns political because each party will protect it's constituents.

[@user-gm2tw4ft8y]

@@blazerchris5444 "I'm shocked, shocked to find that there's gambling in this establishment." Casablanca

[@forza-marco]

This is more or less an interview rather than a hearing. Those invited don't even need to show. It's entertainment.

[@yapandasoftware]

Blather... Nothing but blather... sort of like complaining on YT about our politicians.. Aint nothing ever going to get done.

[@unbreakable7633]

The world is stuffed with people who won't leave each other the hell alone. And leaving people alone is the essence of liberty.

[@bobgeiger5630]

Speaking truth

[@gvibration1]

Ideology is about power over you. The universities insist on it.

[@ShadyCool]

The leading problem with every Conservative’s and Libertarian’s “Liberty” argument is that none of you are capable of leaving the American people alone. That’s why your elected politicians have spent the past 50 years sabotaging a once effective economy and saddling the country with growing debt over counterproductive billionaire tax cuts.

[@dorianmclean6755]

Be happy about yourself.... Let others be happy too

[@presence5426]

Being responsible for a large retail corporation is inherently not "leaving people alone."

[@concernedliberal4453]

I remember being angry at Congressman Ron Paul for opposing the Iraq war. I had a lot to learn from the Paul family then, and I'm still learning from them now!

[@rayRay-pw6gz]

It is our right to form and join a union . Why would anyone want to take that RIGHT away. Many DIED fighting for that right . Unchecked capitalism will roll right over the pheasants. Read history.

[@alexandervladimirov3939]

Do you mean that the Iraq people do not have rights for democracy like you and Mr. Paul have?

[@alexandervladimirov3939]

@@muffinator2310Do you believe he is not a fool to be a President?

[@marcryantv]

read the fountainhead

[@The2012Aceman]

@@alexandervladimirov3939 They should fight for them then, that’s what freedom takes. Look at Afghanistan: decades of effort lost in a week because the people simply didn’t care. They wanted to roll over for the Taliban more than they DIDN’T want them.

[@parrotraiser6541]

Just saying "Ayn Rand" probably hurt Sanders' ears, let alone quoting her.

[@callmelegendawight8298]

It burns, it burns!

[@ScottyKirk1]

Exactomundo!!

[@rayRay-pw6gz]

You do realize she wrote fiction. And she grew up in Russia where her family suffered greatly. Just saying !

[@anniehopkins8470]

Not at all... Bernie has 4 copies of "Atlas Shrugged"... he keeps them on all 4 of his nightstands... in the bedrooms of each of his 4 multi-million dollar homes. Bernie "the socialist" Sanders is just a character that he plays on TV

[@BassGoThump]

@@rayRay-pw6gz Yes. Suffered greatly under the exact kind of policies that the honorable Mr. Sanders promotes.

[@Patriot-American]

Much respect for Senator Paul... common sense and cutting through Washington's crap like a hot knife through a stick of butter ...

[@walterpierce6061]

He's a ridiculous clown.

[@wjh8881]

He is the crap of Washington.

[@paulleard8349]

Funny how Rand Paul allows capitalism and inequality to exist together, which means that Rand Paul has been nurtured by corporate enough that he sadly cannot sense the corruption.

[@jakemf1]

Lol! Common sense just like his dad there is none nice try

[@Patriot-American]

You must be a Bernie supporter.... eh, comrade!

[@yvonneplant9434]

Of course Rand read Ayn Rand. 😂😂😂

[@callmelegendawight8298]

He is named after her.

[@ScottyKirk1]

@@callmelegendawight8298 Very cool 😎 I didn't know that. 👌 Atlas Shrugged is a great one of hers I'll say.

[@alexal4]

@@ScottyKirk1 Great book and she was right about many things. We are very close to "Atlas Shrugged" world here in Canada, but the end will not be as happy as in the book.

[@owenparkerjr.6588]

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. Ayn Rand

[@owenparkerjr.6588]

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand

[@RhondaBAZ]

Rand Paul is a great Senator..and what a fighter for Americans!

[@jakemf1]

Drump bootlicker

[@josephmetayer4512]

Reading an Ayn Rand quote to Bernie the Commie is like strongly presenting a cross to a vampire.

[@tdkeyes1]

I doubt Sanders the Totalitarian would even comprehend the quote.

[@ultramagnus638]

@@tdkeyes1 great comment!

[@gehrig7593]

You're sapping the roles. Libertiarians are the real vampires.

[@jasonstarr6419]

a cross festooned with garlic

[@pz3112]

@@gehrig7593 How so??? 🤔

[@backcountyrpilot]

The Paul family legacy is in good hands.

[@mattslev]

Yep the clown legacy lives on.

[@nickfalletta661]

I dunno, he seems to get his ass kicked by his neighbor pretty easily.

[@lenblack1462]

What legacy?

[@bluetears9788]

Senator Paul is a hero fight for our democracy our constitution.💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💪🏼🙌🏽💪🏼🙌🏽💪🏼🙌🏽🙌🏽💪🏼🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jakemf1]

Please

[@someguy3200]

lol he doesn't give a fuck about you

[@rukiddingmeNJ]

Get a job Bernie.

[@teamrecon2685]

Rand is speaking to a group of people who have never worked a day in their life.

[@rampageclover9788]

Not sure I’d go that far but he’s definitely speaking to people who are anti-individualistic, resentful of entrepreneurs who’ve forged their own paths and too scared to live life on their own terms without apology and will waste years working to accomplish someone else’s dream rather than their own. I’m a massive Ayn Rand fan and this Rand has gone up in my estimation…

[@klauspeter5407]

You know that the basis of capitalism is that people who own nothing but their workforce have to work for people that live from that workforce?

[@askeladd60]

@@klauspeter5407 nope that's incorrect, the basis of capitalism is voluntary transactions between two or more economic agents and the respect of the private property.

[@misatobestgirl7230]

@@askeladd60 Until you try to voluntarily join a union. hmmm

[@askeladd60]

@@misatobestgirl7230 yeah because the company can terminate employment contract you voluntarily signed which in all likelihood did not include the right join a union.

[@sce2aux464]

*_"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received-hatred."_* - Ayn Rand

[@briggy4359]

The real irony is that Starbucks kisses the feet of the beast which is devouring it.

[@kftc1980]

Irony, or just trying to have it both ways?

[@HansMcGruber]

They differ on only one thing, pro business and capitalism. U would think this one, pretty important thing to Starbucks would push them to support the right.

[@briggy4359]

@@daotheeternalnamelessbeyon8778 the World

[@briggy4359]

@@HansMcGruber read Gulag Archipelago, look at what large companies did when Hitler instituted Socialism.

[@sebastianb.1926]

Same way Ayn Rand lived off welfare.

[@John-jl9de]

Thanks Rand, you're doing us a great service

[@craigmckenzie7668]

Jesse BENTON...... Rand is a RUSSIAN ASSET....

[@larrykempton9660]

Wow ,really ?

[@williammunn1680]

@@craigmckenzie7668 joe biden is communist chinese aset

[@obsoletevalues6209]

@@craigmckenzie7668 Joe BIden is a Chinese asset.

[@mrbeez8631]

Bernie is a Russian asset. We know this already. Honeymoon in the Kremlin... praises the Kremlin. Fact

[@pranavsambamurti7746]

I love how Rand puts things into perspective......

[@johnbeechy]

why quote a russian jew?

[@craigmckenzie7668]

Jesse BENTON...... Rand is a RUSSIAN ASSET....

[@deadlyradiation7977]

He is a treasure.

[@craigmckenzie7668]

@@deadlyradiation7977 that takes money from Russia......ask Jesse Benton

[@jf7078]

@@craigmckenzie7668 Got proof? I'll hear it

[@ddemonjjv]

👏 Mr. Paul. God Bless America 🇺🇸

[@fragranthills]

Excellent, Dr. Paul. We need more in Congress like you.

[@chuckcartwright1328]

Too bad that most of your colleagues, on both sides of the aisle, not only don’t know who Ayn Rand is, but most likely also Charles Dickens.

[@michaelroberts7770]

I almost overdosed on all the sense Senator Paul makes...

[@jameshayden3952]

Sadly beyond the grasp of most dummycrats.

[@adamvicari3295]

I bet that moron Bernie Sanders was pissing his pants trying to come up with a rebuttal to Dr. Paul. Rand Paul is an American hero, just look at the difference: rand Paul is a successful doctor and one of the most important members of Congress, and a long term senator, Bernie Sanders is a communist reject, a loser who has never produced anything of value his entire life and has never done anything of noteworthiness, never even had an actual job, and yet he has still made a living and millions of dollars being a useless parasite who lives to deride the system that has made him so wealthy

[@mynamexena]

what sense is he making again

[@jamesagostisi2518]

Amen. If the Starbucks employee thinks they are underpaid they can always leave and work for another coffee or maybe open their own coffee shop.

[@bobtepedino5661]

The success of Starbucks did just that: it spawned many, many new coffee shops.

[@timothyplatt3300]

or unionize, which they are legally protected to do.... see, I too can make obvious comments

[@happycamper9300]

@@timothyplatt3300 By the way, most union have drive companies to bankruptcy. Then, nothing left for anyone

[@TeaParty1776]

@@happycamper9300 Most unions are for govt employees.

[@kenboughton9252]

It's a wonder that Bernie didn't have a heart attack over the reading of Ayn Rand; his antithesis.

[@presence5426]

Sanders isn't the antithesis of Ayn Rand

[@Redwood65]

Sanders is a Marxist through and through. If he could fully implement Marxist style rule he’d do it in an instant.

[@byronrogers4489]

Sanders doesn't have a heart.

[@kenboughton9252]

@@byronrogers4489 👍

[@cabinetguy5639]

Sanders does nothing but hurt the average working stiff

[@maxprize829]

I’m not a fan of Starbucks to say the least, but this witch hunt is BS

[@johnbeechy]

did u ever read the history of the white american man? Profits do not go into the GDP, and all the tax cuts by rand paul have only lead to the end of the 14th Amendment's Sec 4/Sec1 ayn rand was a russian jew atheist and she did not tell the truth about really any a thing READ Article 1 S 8 P1 of the Constitution, because those words are actually the Fxxking Law of the white man! russian atheist jewish women are not aware of the white man's words. ayn rand hated Jesus and that is why rand ayn paul is a hater of Jesus too

[@oceania2385]

Agreed.

[@cameraman655]

Indeed, what is this clown show costing...? A total waste of Taxpayers 💵💵💵💵 Bolshevik Bernie at it again....👎

[@richdilorenzo8145]

The thing is, as Senator Paul mentions, is that we don't HAVE to buy Starbuks coffee. IT IS A CHOICE. So is working there.

[@eltopo71]

@@richdilorenzo8145 Are unions a choice?

[@wp8218]

Idk how people can hear speeches like this & still vote D

[@cameraman655]

You and me both....

[@VikingMan44]

You really believe they are being "voted" into office?

[@robjohnson8522]

They never hear it.

[@Kerfufflekitten]

Because cnn told them to.

[@jakemf1]

Because Rand was a nut and so was Paul’s farther!

[@maggielandow2686]

Who knew people would buy water.

[@johnmarks227]

The government has known about it for a long time.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Well, you pay a water bill

[@dominicchou5033]

Local spring water (actual spring) with a filter?

[@mkaberli]

@@DIRTYdeeds613 For goodness sake, don't let the government know.

[@peakhelliw1509]

Who knew that you had to pay for companies to filter your water

[@bobmcarthur5468]

Very true and good to hear. Rand Paul is one of the few I almost always agree with.

[@sandilou2U]

Senator Paul is a shining example of what I expect from Congress.

[@Google_Censored_Commenter]

Then you've been deceived by charisma, flowery rhetoric and great storytelling capabilities. Tell me, should all of that not be secondary to a Senator addressing the topic? Read what's on the screen. Did a single word out of Rand Paul's mouth for those 5 minutes, come close to talking about the topic? If not, he's as far from a shining example as the rest of them.

[@rayRay-pw6gz]

Boy you really set the bar low. What bills has he wrote that were passed that made your life better ?

[@mikesofamerica2024]

yes, Ann Rynd-right up there with L Ron Hubbard...

[@andreichira7518]

​@@rayRay-pw6gz The fact he has opposed bills from passing is a big plus in my book! The less Congress does, the better!

[@rayRay-pw6gz]

@@andreichira7518 so we pay these elected officials $150K per year to do nothing and that is ok with you . I guess you do handle the finances in your family.

[@tylerm1320]

What a heroic statement! Thanks for standing up for man’s right to think, produce, and profit. Three cheers for the innovators - the real MORAL heros. Three cheers for capitalism, profit, and the ability to pursue one’s happiness.

[@tailswinsmore5054]

Where is there capitalism? The government takes my money to bail out CEOs who failed at running a business.

[@danoakes4071]

When you take from those who have earned, to bribe those that have not; you make slaves of both.

[@andyharman3022]

You're paraphrasing Ayn Rand!

[@danoakes4071]

@@andyharman3022 I've never read Ayn Rand.

[@andyharman3022]

@@danoakes4071 I think you'd like her.

[@2wheelz3504]

Rand Paul, you are the man! Please, please never give in. It is so refreshing to hear sanity.

[@stephenkaiser9780]

Amen.

[@Nevrix123]

Bathing a CEOs booty hole in front of everyone is sanity?

[@corkygoss7403]

@@stephenkaiser9780 Amen.

[@janetromo3944]

Good job senator Paul

[@eltopo71]

Howard Roark is a terrorist.

[@richardkoenig5399]

Why can't we get a senator like him in Pennsylvania?

[@alexisdoesdemocracy4405]

Cos propaganda is powerful and the media work as the Democrats media arm.

[@jaredb6934]

Because ya'll voted for Frankenstein.

[@anthonyesposito7]

Because Pennsylvania voters are working class as so they voted for someone who will represent the working class, not someone like this guy who would gladly push those same workers grandmother's in front of a bus in the name of capitalism and profit.

[@aregularguy44]

Very well put, Senator Paul.

[@Susieq26754]

Go live in Russia if you don't like it here.

[@aregularguy44]

??Bernie thinks he is living in Russia! @@Susieq26754

[@uncletido99]

I don't even like Starbucks, yet rand is spitting just absolute facts here. This is America, they pay their employees a decent wage and let them keep tips. It's not their fault you idiots will pay for it.

[@blazerchris5444]

Right? I like my Folgers Select instant coffee over Maxwell House, but it still remains true that I can pay $8 for about a months worth of coffee. And on top of that, I can almost go to the store, buy a jar, get back home or to work, and mix it in hot water before I could get to the order window at the Starbucks locations near me. They always have a line out onto the streets and people pissed of honking at each other. No thanks to all that, but I respect Starbucks for being successful at getting so many people to go stark raving mad for a mediocre cup of coffee.

[@jam1870utube]

Only non-union stores are allowed to receive credit/debit card tips, with which a majority of customers pay by credit/debit, so it's not quite true regarding "tips."

[@chuletaization]

I worked a job where I took coffee breaks at a small independent cafe across the street from Starbucks. There was never a wait. I got my delicious coffee instantly and was able to sit and sip for 15 minutes while across the street a line of clowns waited 15 minutes to get a Starbucks malt, frappe, vanilla cinnamon twist concoction they had to gulp down on the run as they rushed back to their 9 to 5 cubicles, lol.

[@yapandasoftware]

Bernie is a best selling author... *Let's analyze how a socialist can sell products in an open market for a profit and supposedly make millions of dollars* First off, nobody buys Bernie Sander's books. He gets the government in power to buy up his books using tax payer dollars and then gives his books away for free. Kamala Harris did the same thing with her children's books. *This is called "corporatism" and is completely different than capitalism. In fact, it's totally socialism in every sense of the word. Bernie (and many in the DNC including Hunter Biden) forces hard working tax payers to pay for the garbage they create and you have no say in the matter* Hunter Biden's artwork was bought for $800M for a finger painting he did. You could have bought the most expensive Rembrandt and had money left over. The Mob never went away... they are still organized crime... they just changed their name to the DNC.

[@yapandasoftware]

@@blazerchris5444 A cup of coffee where I live (The real kind and not that folgers or maxwell house weak stuff) is only 30 cents a cup. So strong, you can stand a spoon in it.. America's food industry has sold Americans a bill of goods. Coffee in the 70's and 80's (pipeline coffee) was the best. Now you have to live in Turkey if you want the real deal.

[@DrProgNerd]

If companies don't provide something the public wants, they don't succeed. A succesful company is a sign of a public need/want being met. We don't need government interferring with this agreement between vendor and consumer to exchange value.

[@DadsCigaretteRun]

The fact that they think they need to shows how far the government has fallen from purpose

[@kimjameson7979]

Good, we needed reminded that we're living in the best of all possible places, at the best possible time. We're a sad lot if we don't protect sanity.

[@gvibration1]

"The system is rotten, burn it down" is the mainstream left on every Western university campus.

[@TeaParty1776]

But its not the Garden Of Eden so we should tear it all down!

[@peppermintpig974]

Keep in mind, we have politicians playing nuclear football right now and destroying the economy through currency debasement at an unprecedented rate. We may take some of our advantages for granted, but we have also had the benefit of our gains stolen away through direct and indirect taxation, so we are not seeing the full benefit of technological innovation and productivity. Instead people like Bernie Sanders are trying to set the morality tone by policing businesses for not living up to their fantasy standards of higher wages while destroying the purchasing power of the dollar. Sometimes I wonder whether these clowns even own mirrors.

[@nunyabidness3075]

I hope all the CEO’s learn from the treatment Howard Shultz got. You cannot appease the mob enough, ever. Speak truth early and take the costs upfront.

[@isaacnaim7206]

i would say its even smarter to just ignore the trap altogether. Less backlash even upfront, the less engagement you give to something the less fire it has to go on.

[@nelsonbrum8496]

Who in their right mind would put Bernie Sanders in charge of anything?

[@beanindividual4000]

Guess you slept through two primaries.

[@ginag7844]

He is ridiculously annoying.

[@rsacchi100]

Someone who would like to destroy what they put him in charge of.

[@NoCommie]

Communists disguised as "Democratic Socialists"

[@danmurphy8315]

I'm a Quick Check coffee guy. After having listened to several of the videos of testimony on this, I would have to say that Rand Paul is the only one making any sense. I feel bad for CEO Schultz having to sit there and be questioned and trolled by these idiots, mainly B. Sanders, on all of their non-sense. I have a few friends that work part time at Starbuck's and they tell me that they're treated very well, especially for part timers. If the workers think that they have it so bad, then go work somewhere else!

[@morpheus6749]

If Schultz was in possession of a pair of stones, he'd ask that corrupt grifter Sanders point blank where he got his $millions and his three houses on a government salary.

[@Yoseman1]

The sick part is, Dan here is probably a working class guy, who will struggle to retire at all, and be picked and plucked away by medical bills, and STILL defends the guy not paying his workers a living wage. It's the height of slave mentality.

[@morpheus6749]

​@@Yoseman1 The sick part is you think the whole world owes you a life of luxury. Nobody owes you shit. And nobody is forcing you and your SB union sisters to work at Starbucks. *NOBODY.* You and the rest of your little communist cabal are free to quit and go somewhere else. And we will all be glad to see you GTFO. The world will just be a better place. Oh, and one more thing: there's nothing more pathetic than a loser giving his own comment a thumbs up.

[@turkrane12]

Six dollars for a cup of coffee, there's a sucker born every minute

[@dougbourdo2589]

I have never had anything from starbucks for that very reason.

[@scotttwood]

Someone I work with bought me a cup of coffee from Starbucks because I said I've never had one before and I quickly found out it's absolute garbage. The worst cup of coffee I've ever had. It was so disgusting I couldn't finish half of it. Absolute disgusting!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@TeaParty1776]

@@scotttwood Your personal values should not be enforced by law.

[@scotttwood]

@@TeaParty1776 you make no sense?

[@gregthebaritone]

Just checked the menu. A 12 oz cup of hot coffee is around $2, whereas a 12 oz cup of hot coffee at McDonalds is about $2, but keep perpetuating the myth.

[@garyduckworth5355]

Rand Paul is spot on again. Thank you Senator Paul.

[@letsgobrandon8271]

Rand Paul is right. Stop vilifying successful people and companies. Star schmucks wouldn't hire me if I even wanted the job. But, glad it worked out for someone else.

[@mr.e2962]

Every socialist is a disguised dictator. -Ludwig von Mises

[@johnbeechy]

actually every single GOP president in your lifetime has failed to bring one surplus. and all of them had recessions, with bush baby having 2. read the history of the white american man, before u sell out to a russian female jewish atheist. u r a fool Profits do not go into the GDP, and all the tax cuts by rand paul have only lead to the end of the 14th Amendment's Sec 4/Sec1 ayn rand was a russian jew atheist and she did not tell the truth about really any a thing READ Article 1 S 8 P1 of the Constitution, because those words are actually the Fxxking Law of the white man! russian atheist jewish women are not aware of the white man's words. ayn rand hated Jesus and that is why rand ayn paul is a hater of Jesus too

[@craigmckenzie7668]

Mises was an Atheist Jew. Like all true Libertarians. Jesse BENTON...... Rand is a RUSSIAN ASSET....

[@TuhljinTampergauge]

@@craigmckenzie7668Weak ad hominem.

[@mkaberli]

@@craigmckenzie7668 Prove it!

[@jameshayden3952]

Bernie contemplating which of his houses to sell...er give away.

[@irfanhusein1445]

The best senator in congress.

[@maryf1370]

Agree, Senator Paul. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS.

[@unclebee5674]

A months wages for a loaf of bread is coming!

[@garthornspike3648]

Yes, and you can damn well bet that the leftist scumbags that caused the hyperinflation will blame it on evil capitalism.

[@francismarion4450]

That's the government spending too much.

[@JackTheMarigold]

@@francismarion4450Nope, it’s the richest buying congress and throwing working people into the mud.

[@fulmenmoon40]

Hahaha, Rands grin at the end says it all.

[@ubuu7]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3zQgX-hntahhZo

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

haha Yes it does!

[@mikedefalco3036]

"Says it all".. That he just served his corporate handlers' anti-union interests as was their arrangement, and benefits from the class war while posturing himself as a representative of the common man's interests?

[@surelywoo]

Good testimony. Paul nailed it.

[@ericanderson7346]

Paul is a fucking tool. Starbucks is in no way a service to humanity.

[@bobflowers681]

The Senator does make some good points.

[@lgvelez]

The Senator has never been poor

[@lgvelez]

Or would have been a Senator if it wasn’t for daddy

[@DaleBolender-ms7jl]

Thank you Rand Paul for quoting Ayn Rand!

[@presence5426]

Ayn Rand was a sociopath

[@norskenorge8808]

Bernie is such a Toad!!!

[@bigeherb]

That no good draft dodger!

[@jam199716]

Rand is awesome!

[@Budvb]

Absolutely adored his father in office, I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

[@brianp2845]

The hearing was about union busting at Starbucks and individual worker's rights to organize. I believe it would be called freedom to organize. Nothing Rand Paul said addressed that.

[@bittnerbs]

Rand Paul is the only principled person in Congress. He’s been steadfast and consistent throughout his tenure. He’s the president that we need, but Biden is the president that we deserve.

[@johnhough7738]

Maybe the USA should earn a good president? (And anywhere else should too, for that matter.)

[@robertgould6808]

Comrade Bernie . You are a millionaire. You do sound like an Oligarch.

[@mgonzale1527]

I do not think you know what an oligarch is 😂

[@czarcastic1458]

@@mgonzale1527 I don't think you know what a woman is.

[@mrbeez8631]

​@@mgonzale1527 Bernie, owning all this property while lecturing others about economic equality? Nah... not an oligarch...

[@jamesforbes2871]

@@mgonzale1527 ... What lead you to that conclusion?

[@RonSafreed]

Ohhh comrade Bernie has a red commie flag with the hammer & sycle hanging in his garage at home 7 smiles at it every time he goes into the garage!!

[@michaelmckenna9022]

What I learned from the Paul family is that if everyone in the freedom movement were as dedicated as they are, all the problems out there would be solved.

[@JakeWitmer]

Accurate.

[@dansands8140]

The problem with fighting the left is that they're all angry children who think they're fighting the ultimate battle of good vs. evil, whereas the right generally knows it's fighting upset children. It is hard to be enthusiastic about fighting children, at least before they draw blood.

[@themaestro5338]

@malus1426if if’s and but’s were candies and nuts, we’d all have a wonderful time.

[@michaelmckenna9022]

@Malus I agree that utopias don't exist. It's a great talking point with the left. The reason I used such language was to emphasize my point.

[@ericmichel3857]

We're from the government, and we're here to help! You think $6 coffee is expensive, wait until you see how much government regulated coffee cost! It will taste like crap and yet you all will be fondly remembering the days when coffee only cost six dollars! Oh and cream, sugar, cinnamon... All that stuff was included! Ah the good old days.

[@misatobestgirl7230]

To be fair people who put cream, sugar or cinnamon in their coffee should be put up against the wall.

[@ericmichel3857]

@@misatobestgirl7230 I am with you! Let's not forget people that put salt, pepper, or any spices on their food, they should all be put up against the wall.

[@mralmnthwyfemnin5783]

I just want to add a fact I heard on the radio one day. There was a twenty year period in the late 19th century (I want to say 1880 - 1900 but I could be wrong about the precise period) when the US experienced it's largest GDP growth ever (250%). That twenty year period was presided over by 6 pro-growth, pro-business Republican presidents.

[@ArtStoneUS]

That sounds like the period where the Democrats decided they needed to punish the "robber barons" who were busy building railroads steel mills, oil refineries, electric power plants...

[@TeaParty1776]

Republicans voted for the Sherman Antitrust Act and have been supporting Dem anti-business laws ever since. Reps now hate individual rights.

[@konberner170]

I love this man.

[@jmseipp]

Yeah, Bernie is GREAT! (-:

[@gabev6172]

@@jmseipp wrong man

[@jimmoses6617]

@@jmseipp Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty, by far, than any other system ever tried throughout any time in human history. This is the objective data and truth. This is why people come to America, fleeing other nations and often dying in the process. Capitalism has afforded us to have a MASSIVE social programs including schools, police and fire departments, water and sanitation services, building codes, mail service, rural utility and internet services where it is not economically possible to service such rural areas, an military that protects our nation and people, an the list goes on and on and on. This is only possible because of our foundation that is built on Capitalism. I have lived on 3rd-world nations, in very poor areas of those nations (Peace Corps) and trust me that every single person there wants what we have. Appreciate this great nation for all that it has given you and all the opportunities that surround you. Go out into the world and get after it son!

[@martincane6544]

@@gabev6172 To hear a rebuttal from Bernie would have been a truly informative moment. I don't like one sided debates. CNN is great at that KZbin could have done better.

[@loriann5694]

My Uncle paid union dues all his life. When he retired he elected to receive a higher percentage amount in union pension, this election made it impossible for my Aunt his widow to receive a dime more when he unexpectedly died a few years later at age 68. All the funds paid in for 45 years were not available to her and the numerous pages of fine print in this election unbeknownst to them, after review by an attorney, she would spend a fortune in an attempt to try and recover. She could use the money they paid into the union pension fund....he only collected a short two years. I'm not sure why the union was able to keep all the funds he obviously had in his reserves?

[@TeaParty1776]

unions fund elections.

[@Ziggy_Moonglow]

Because unions are corrupt, ponzi schemes where the workers pay in and the bosses collect. There's a reason the mafia and Democrats love unions.

[@spindragon]

Rand Paul quotes Ayn Rand, even Atlas shrugged

[@Ace1King1]

Not only Ayn Rand, but William Shakespeare!

[@spindragon]

I dunno it's all fantasy, including the mythical magical free market that never existed anywhere or any time in history..We're living in a great ecconomy folks where Rand's CEO constituents are making 1460% more than they did in the 70's and given the vaule of the dollar workers are making less..

[@strategery101]

Did John galt shrug?

[@daveolson6001]

It doesn’t take much to make Bernice Anders look like a fool, and Rand (both of them) did that in spades. I’ve never had a Starbuck’s in my life, but I’m about to.

[@evelynwerner1891]

Love you Sen. Paul. TYfor all your great work. God Bless and Protect you and your family always.

[@ricorock44]

I hope one day Rand becomes president…

[@shutuplige6524]

we couldn't be so lucky

[@classicalliberalcents3871]

That's why Paul is one of the good ones.

[@stevemt3238]

Amen.

[@firefighter0585]

Rand Paul is a national treasure.

[@craigmckenzie7668]

Like the treasure/money he gets from Russia?? Jesse BENTON...... Rand is a RUSSIAN ASSET....

[@JNaStY720]

@Ron White Cringe

[@obsoletevalues6209]

@Ron White He certainly tells more truth about COVID than Dr. Fauci.

[@mrbeez8631]

​@Ron White lol.... he does. And caught Fraud-chi lying. But ignore that fact, and move along live a good little sheep

[@stumblingmumbler]

A national turd

[@jasonvest507]

So well said Senator. Also, for any who haven't read The Fountainhead...highly recommend it!

[@jasonstarr6419]

also Atlas Shrugged.

[@jasonvest507]

@@jasonstarr6419 Yes!!! Also very good and relevant today!

[@talbenavraham1478]

​@@jasonvest507 Atlas Shrugged could be taking place today with small changes.

[@jasonvest507]

@@talbenavraham1478 Absolutely agree, I have personally noticed less of a drive to solve problems and more of a drive to ignore them and place blame on something else.

[@jamesboulger8705]

Of course you do.

[@pauldegregorio6432]

Senator Rand Paul well done! Bernie, I have no words for the likes of you.

[@chrisflach5911]

Every student in America should hear this. The demonization of capitalism in our schools and our media is appalling. Both prey on the weak minded, filling their heads with utopian horseshit. Parents ask your teenagers what they think about capitalism. You will be shocked at their response. I definitely was when my 15 year old went on and on repeating lie after lie.... all of it he claimed he learned at school.

[@stickman-1]

Every teenager should watch The Fountainhead. I know I did and it turned me from a Jesse Jacksonite to a Reaganite in less than 2 hours.

[@user-gm2tw4ft8y]

Have him watch Thomas Sowell about how he was a Marxist all through his teens and even while studying under Milton Friedman. Than he got his first real job with the Federal Dept. of Labor. He then realized that the government was nothing more than a business unto itself. He then understood why capitalism (although not perfect) is the best system there is. Good luck.

[@chuletaization]

@@stickman-1 Ayn Rand was a sociopath who didn't believe such a thing as the public good exists and that the highest calling of an individual is to despise and repudiate any wish to consider the needs of others as fatal weakness and a betrayal of oneself. She condoned lying, cheating, intimidation, blackmail, extortion and any other strategy to achieve success at whatever cost to society in general. The late great Christopher Hitchens described her contribution as elevating 2 of the 7 deadly sins, greed and gluttony, to virtues.

[@chuletaization]

@@stickman-1 Btw, if you really want to know who Ayn Rand was read her novel don't just watch the the movie. Unless you think Hollywood makes documentaries.

[@stickman-1]

@@chuletaization Agreed. I was just saying the movie was enough for me to wake me up.

[@billjohnson6300]

Three cheers to Rand Paul and Mr. Schultz, the founder of Starbucks! What a great American success story! My oldest daughter worked for them for 8 years. She loved it, made tons of friends, and was incredibly well prepared to come to my dental office and become a perfect office manager.

[@n539rv]

AMEN!

[@nevadastrong702]

My Uber driver this past weekend in Miami is an immigrant from Cuba. He said there is no food there. The citizens are starving they have no food. He expressed to me how happy he is to be in America with all the abundance of food and freedom he has here. He’s already saved up $20,000 to start the process of bringing his wife and daughter to the US. We exchanged numbers at his request. His best friend lives in Vegas. I told him if he’s ever in Vegas to hit me up.

[@ArtStoneUS]

Several years ago, medical doctors in Cuba got a raise to $75 a month

[@TeaParty1776]

But everybody is equally opoor in cuba...

[@scouncer]

I'm not a huge fan of Starbucks either but I love their success story and agree with Sen. Paul.

[@troykeeling4490]

I agree. Howard Roark wanted to do low rent construction, and they were all against him.

[@johnbeechy]

Profits do not go into the GDP, and all the tax cuts by rand paul have only lead to the end of the 14th Amendment's Sec 4/Sec1 ayn rand was a russian jew atheist and she did not tell the truth about really any a thing READ Article 1 S 8 P1 of the Constitution, because those words are actually the Fxxking Law of the white man! russian atheist jewish women are not aware of the white man's words. ayn rand hated Jesus and that is why rand ayn paul is a hater of Jesus too

[@psychoshrink166]

Run for president, please, Mr. Paul.

[@darrinwebber4077]

Not my favorite politician... But that was ... Smooth. I gotta admit.

[@FFNOJG]

well he is mine. Dr Paul is one of the few principled and truly caring for America's well being politicians😊

[@dustyboylson7015]

"YOU KNOW WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE? CAPITALISM!" WELL SAID SEN. PAUL.

[@jamessteed3741]

Paul sees reality accurately in a world of distortion

[@Madridme3]

Excellent comment!

[@gillesandfio8440]

Senator Paul makes a correct interpretation of Howard Roark and successfully made a competent and morally correct defence of Capitalism. Learn this stuff people!

[@LarryjB53]

Alfred Peet is the man who reinvented the modern coffee business in America. Jerry Baldwin of Starbucks cited Mr. Peet as his mentor.

[@robinwells8879]

We are living the plot of Ayn Rands other masterpiece “Atlas Shrugged” as we speak and that ends very very badly for the wreckers. 😂

[@sammyspaniel6054]

In a room full of honest men that would have ended the debate.

[@JakeWitmer]

In a room full of squirming parasites...it made a few of them uneasy, and the rest of them paid no attention 😂

[@ranger275th9]

With everything that's going on in the world, congress is having hearings over coffee... Amazing!

[@anthonyesposito7]

Not about coffee more about exploitation of labor.

[@knine8154]

You completely missed the whole point of the example he made. And people call me a crayon eater

[@unbreakable7633]

@Andre Alves Catenani Apparently knine8154 is right about the point of what Paul's saying.

[@ranger275th9]

@@anthonyesposito7 The you have an option DON'T WORK THERE!

[@ranger275th9]

@@knine8154 Do you eat crayons?

[@danielchristiansen594]

I think Ayn Rand had a good perspective on politicians...people like Senator Paul for example. Why not actually read Ayn Rand and find out?

[@ginag7844]

Brilliant. Not all have the ability to think like this. They’re all trying to form a union against the company that least needs a union. 🤦‍♀️

[@MagicTaco27]

Great speech from Senator Paul

[@stefanroche3052]

Ayn Rand Paul? Good for him, maybe I’ll read a whole book of hers.

[@Quicks1lvr]

Bernie is mad he can't write a book about this to buy a 5th mansion next to the ocean.

[@hardrockminer-50]

I think Bernie gets a house every time he drops out of an election...

[@peppermintpig974]

"I am once again asking for your financial support."

[@JA51711]

Rand Paul for President

[@orangechickengorl]

I don’t like Starbucks due to their actions regarding union busting, them paying for infanticide, and just general overpriced-ness (please just visit your local coffee shop), however Sen. Paul brings up some good points here.

[@RiceaRoni354]

I think unions are a socialist endeavor that enslaves workers as subcontract labor the unions profit from.

[@lesterryanmd]

Starbucks is an unaffordable luxury for a great majority of Americans, this is the sad truth, and that is the reason why it is going to vanish

[@stevebuczynski2756]

And that's the free market. If you don't like something, you don't give it your money. The answer is not to wield the state to force it to do what you want.

[@good2goskee]

a country with more choices is a freer country. A freer country is a wealthier stronger country. If you think SB sucks..... buy your coffee somewhere else or drink tea. Isn't it great you get to choose?

[@owenparkerjr.6588]

Morality teaches us not to suffer and die but to enjoy yourself and be happy. Ayn Rand

[@iamhudsdent2759]

@@Abraham-xi9ep I'll bet you've never read one of Ayn Rand's books, and that you let others do your thinking for you. Which means you're not qualified to comment on the matter.

[@douglashaner6802]

​@@iamhudsdent2759I bet you know next to nothing about her as a person. She did hard drugs....committed adultery....and when she grew old accepted Social security checks despite spending years slandering such things as socialism.

[@TheHauntedKiwi]

@@iamhudsdent2759 Ayn Rand is a welfare recipient who thought other poor people should die

[@MST3Killa]

@@Abraham-xi9ep Who the hell is Bernie Sanders to preach about Socialism except a person who has made millions off that scam?

[@palijim]

@@Abraham-xi9ep suffer away

[@kinkle_Z]

Hahaha! $17/hr in LA will buy you a decent tent to put up on the sidewalk. You can't live on it these days! Not in California!

[@masterphillips]

As I always say, if you want to save the forests, buy more wood!

[@tsipher]

My dad said, “a Socialist looks at a big house and says, no one should live in that, while a Capitalist will look at the same house and say, someone that works for that house will earn it.” I won’t take the advice of someone that doesn’t appreciate what they have but will tell others how to live

[@JC-ok4yx]

“We live in an era of super abundance.” That is exactly what some people have a problem. If we have too much then they can use power to control it all.

[@TomdeSabla]

Having a lot means there's more to control? Hunh? I think it's far more risky to have too little. Then you're totally desperate and looking for a handout at any cost - including the cost of all your liberty and self-determination.

[@johnmicheal3547]

No, they use the power of Capitalism to destroy itself. Using your tax money to attack you. They persuade sheeple to vote away their freedom.

[@justthinking526]

This is the problem. A relative few are living in super abundance of the underpaid work of their employees. Hence, unions

[@TeaParty1776]

Marx is wrong. Production is not force.

[@guylaurent8138]

And what give you this superabundance it's certainly not Socialism....

[@odysodys1098]

👍👍👍👍👍 Rand Paul!

[@robertaccornero7172]

Senator Paul is the best.

[@RoadTripzz14]

Rand Paul was never an entrepreneur in his life and has a medical “degree” of questionable veracity. Although that probably tops Paul “I got my butt kicked in that debate with Joe Biden” Ryan who spent like 6 months in the “free market” that Republicans love so much. The abiding concept of the Republican Party is contempt for working people.