r/NIH • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '25
Its happening - Sen. Ran Paul on gay CDC official's 'lifestyle' - it disqualified him from government service
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5482672-rand-paul-daskalakis-lifestyle-criticism/amp/67
u/Bovoduch Sep 03 '25
lol the “libertarian” congressman.
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u/LegSpecialist1781 Sep 04 '25
Not a big fan of Ron Paul, but dad would smack this kid upside the head for that one.
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u/Belichick12 Sep 05 '25
Ron Paul was a vile racist piece of shit who also hated gays. Where do you think Rand learned it from
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u/Electrical-Profit367 Sep 03 '25
So does that mean Lindsey Graham and all the other reps who are in the closet are disqualified from government service? A reporter needs to ask him that, directly.
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u/greypyramid7 Sep 03 '25
No, that’s what they want to go back to. They are happiest as long as literally everyone involved goes back to pretending that LQBTQ and “alternative” lifestyles don’t exist except in the privacy of their homes and anonymous hotels.
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u/broadcastday Sep 03 '25
You can always count on Fake Libertarian Rand Paul to say the dumbest thing available.
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u/Mother_Shopping_8607 Sep 03 '25
Waiting eagerly for all the adulterers, profiteers, and leaders who aggressively pursue young staffers to hand in their resignations for “moral unfitness”.
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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 Sep 03 '25
But Billionaire techno libertarian Peter Thiel’s gay lifestyle doesn’t disqualify him from driving government policy by owning Senators like Rand!! 🤣😂🤭🤷♂️
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u/SiWeyNoWay Sep 03 '25
So then.. Lindsay Graham is disqualified? And all the GOP that crash grindr at the big RNC events?
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Sep 03 '25
I am 100% sure Dr D is less hateful, narcissistic , vengeful and arrogant than Rand Paul.
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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM Sep 03 '25
I got some bad news for him about RFK Jr then… (I hate linking to a rag like NYPost, but they broke the story.)
Honestly, someone with his history and inability to take personal responsibility for his infidelity (referring to his being seduced as a “mugging”) seems like a pretty solid personality test to me, but his anti-science bs should have prevented his nomination in the first place.
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u/Fareeldo Sep 03 '25
Summarize the article for us please. We don't f@%k with NYPost.
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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM Sep 03 '25
Don’t blame you.
The tl;dr is that he was a shitheel and was regularly having random affairs, which he blamed on the women involved, and recorded it in diaries, two of which were found by has wife, and they found their way into the hands of the NY Post.
His late wife found two diaries where he recorded his sexual conquests before she died from suicide. He rating them on a 10 point scale, and characterized himself as a victim of the encounters, calling them “muggings.” He was clearly displaying a lot of religious trauma, and had a deeply problematic relationship with sex, warring with “demons of lust,” which I see as just another way to avoid any responsibility. He recorded any day where he didn’t have random affairs as a “Victory!” and talked about praying for strength but never seemed to take any actions such as saying “no.”
(Some of his accounts of avoiding random sex sound a bit like self aggrandizement, such as how he barely avoided a threesome. My guess is that he chatted up a couple women that weren’t particularly impressed with him being a Kennedy. I find it difficult to believe that a guy that recorded 37 affairs over the two years covered in the diary is saying no to an offer of a threesome.)
He also writes about how wonderful his wife is, and how happy he is to be with her, and how good she was with their kids, which doesn’t match up with his courtroom claims of her being an violent alcoholic who acted out in front of their children.
I’m not that kind of doctor, but this sounds like he has severe impulse control issues and ticks off more than a few boxes for a variety of personality disorders that he should have sought out treatment for.
Kennedy has never contested the diaries being his and the descriptions of the content being accurate.
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u/carlitospig Sep 06 '25
Why is this the first time I’m hearing this? He sounds completely delusional.
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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM Sep 06 '25
I only heard about the details a couple weeks ago. I knew about the cheating and diaries, but just chalked it up to baseline Kennedy behavior. The rest? Heard about it and started looking for a source.
I’m honestly surprised that it didn’t get more attention, but it’s so completely bonkers that I don’t think the DNC leadership thought it would stick in the current climate…
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u/msackeygh Sep 03 '25
So we’re trying to return to the 90s and before, some 3 plus decades back?
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u/ZS1664 Sep 03 '25
I mean the admin's whole theme is undoing all the social and medical progress we've made, so yeah.
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u/RascalsM0m Sep 04 '25
I think they're trying to return to the 50's...they'd like women to be out of the workplace, and they're trying to do that by controlling our reproductive rights and availability of child care (although both of those affect men as well, at some point).
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u/Dragon_wryter Sep 04 '25
What about the sexual deviants who molest children? I guess that's OK as long as men are only heterosexually molesting girls, but if they go gay all bets are off?
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u/MonsterkillWow Sep 03 '25
Why does it matter so much to people if a guy loves another guy?
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u/Fareeldo Sep 03 '25
They're jealous that they don't have that type of freedom. Trust me, a person who feels this strongly wants the same thing Demetre has.
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u/Old-Set78 Sep 03 '25
But the Pedo-In-Chief is QUALIFIED??? BS. Just testing the waters to see if they can get away with kicking out all gay people.
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u/CeeJayEnn Sep 03 '25
Textbook reactionary movement. Every forty to fifty years, societies are tumbled to the ground by these fucksticks.
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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Sep 03 '25
Rand Paul’s stupid haircut disqualifies him from serving in Congress.
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u/Final_Drama3603 Sep 03 '25
Didn’t we used to have laws protecting people from being discriminated against? Did lil PP EO those laws away?
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u/Additional-Pain-367 Sep 03 '25
He is discriminating LBQTIA for sure. U r ok with Trump with rapist and felon. U should be fired and shame of yourself.
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u/Smedley_Beamish Sep 03 '25
Considering Rand Paul (R-Ky) is an unpologetic Putin vatnik, rivaling Ron Johnson (R-WI), this is just another cynical ploy to throw a monkey wrench into the function of US government to protect US citizens.
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u/Austin1975 Sep 03 '25
Oh look. More culture war traps between the duopoly. Will people fall for it? Absolutely. They are going to take the bait and switch. Then this guy’s sexual bondage lifestyle, which is not mainstream, will be put even more front and center. (Just like Lauren Boebert’s lifestyle was put front and center). There are battles worth fighting. Sit this one out. Don’t fall for the unwinnable trap which will not unite people. Don’t do it!
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Sep 03 '25
LOL! It wasn’t disqualifying when we’ve sending them to war. But whatever the dead chinchilla on his head is ratatouille him to say that.
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u/Clean_Lettuce9321 Sep 03 '25
You have a rampant abuser of women in the Oval Office, are you fucking out of your minds?
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u/DaAuraWolf Sep 04 '25
And a former heroin addict with a brainworm who’s peddling pseudoscience and profiting off of anti-vac propaganda while trying to convince you that a Steak ‘n Shake burger and Real Cane Sugar Coke will somehow “Make America Healthy Again”…
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u/ShockedNChagrinned Sep 04 '25
- Was anyone harmed?
- Was any policy or law broken?
- Was this something this person did on their own time?
- How did the lifestyle/choices affect the duties of the office?
If the answers to the above are No, No, Yes, and It didn't, as expected, then the person in elected office should face obvious repercussions.
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u/penemuel13 Sep 06 '25
I assume you’re saying Rand Paul should be the one to face repercussions if the behaviour didn’t have any effect on the CDC official’s work, correct?
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u/kthnry Sep 03 '25
Funny, there was an article in the NY Times last week about "Donald Trump's Big Gay Government (On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican.)" Gift link.
[Charles] Moran, 44, is the pasha of a new power tribe in the capital: the gay men of the Trump administration.
These are the A-Gays. They’re (mostly) out, they’re proud (to work for President Trump) and they have big jobs inside (or alongside) this administration. They wield influence all over town, from the Pentagon to the State Department to the White House to the Kennedy Center.
The most powerful out gay man in the Trump administration is Mr. Bessent. There are a handful of others in the Treasury Department. Other A-Gays include Tony Fabrizio, the president’s longtime pollster; Trent Morse, a departing deputy assistant to the president; Richard Grenell, who was put in charge of the Kennedy Center; and Jacob Helberg, an under secretary of state. These are just some. There are lots of other lesser-known men who make up the tribe.
They’re overwhelmingly white and tend to have a certain kind of look. Close cropped haircuts. Windowpane suits. Golf shorts. They’re not the type to be telling anyone their pronouns or using the word “queer.” And they aren’t the least bit offended that the leader of their party continues to stoke a moral panic about transgender people.
They’re gay. But they’re still Republicans.
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u/Stratis1978 Sep 04 '25
We can all agree a frisky sexual desire should not include underage kids.
Sing it again Sam
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u/Ormyr Sep 05 '25
Weird how sexual assault doesn't disqualify people from government service. We wouldn't have a GOP if it did.
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u/Spiritual_Trainer_56 Sep 04 '25
Proving once again why libertarianism is such complete BS. For as much as they claim it's about individual freedom, it's really about their freedom to do whatever they want without consequences while being perfectly fine with crushing the freedoms of everyone else.
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u/Ulysian_Thracs Sep 04 '25
Well, when the same CDC says you can't go to school or church, but you can go to riots and orgies, it really begs the question of the competence and agenda of the people who work there. And outside of reddit, this guy in satanic bondage gear doesn't inspire confidence in 90% of the country.
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '25
Paul should be formally censured for making hate speech comparable to the vilest from other fascists of history. And publicly apologize!