{"id":7344,"date":"2020-04-01T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:50:28","slug":"like-father-like-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7344","title":{"rendered":"Like Father, Like Son"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Straight out of the Oh, Da Irony file, comes this tidbit and just in time for April Fools Day. It seems crusty ol&#8217; contrarian curmudgeon <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ron Paul has emerged from the his old prospector's pit to give his two cents worth about the coronavirus and, surprise surprise, he's agin' it (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2020\/march\/16\/the-coronavirus-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul has emerged from the his old prospector&#8217;s pit to give his two cents worth about the coronavirus and, surprise surprise, he&#8217;s agin&#8217; it<\/a>. We roundly mocked <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Paul roundly during Con-a-thon 2012 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=996\" target=\"_blank\">Paul during Con-a-thon 2012<\/a> and rightfully so. His views are and have always been all over the place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cue the entrance of his son, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who also was taking the coronavirus pandemic very lightly until, drum roll please, he tested positive for coronavirus (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rand-pauls-father-wrote-coronavirus-hoax-article-days-before-son-tested-positive-covid-19-1493662\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who also was taking the coronavirus pandemic very lightly until, drum roll please, he tested positive for coronavirus<\/a> even though he&#8217;s asymptomatic. But that didn&#8217;t stop ol&#8217; Randy boy, no sir. After he got tested, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/03\/rand-paul-coronavirus-test-reckless\/608593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"he made the rounds at the gym and pool among other places (opens in a new tab)\">he made the rounds at the gym and pool among other places<\/a> before he got the results, thus possibly infecting many other individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this father and son pair&#8217;s actions even more astounding is that they&#8217;re both physicians. They should know better! Well, we think we know why they turned to politics.  If they were still practicing medicine, their patients would probably be dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ronrandpaulcoronavirushoax.jpg\" alt=\"Crusty, contrarian curmudgeon, Ron Paul, reckons that coronavirus is just a hoax, to which his son, contrarian Senator Rand Paul fully agrees, despite testing positive for the virus.\" class=\"wp-image-7347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ronrandpaulcoronavirushoax.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ronrandpaulcoronavirushoax-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Crusty, contrarian curmudgeon Ron Paul reckons that coronavirus is just a hoax, to which his son, contrarian Senator Rand Paul fully agrees, despite testing positive for the virus.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight out of the Oh, Da Irony file, comes this tidbit and just in time for April Fools Day. It seems crusty ol&#8217; contrarian curmudgeon Ron Paul has emerged from the his old prospector&#8217;s pit to give his two cents worth about the coronavirus and, surprise surprise, he&#8217;s agin&#8217; it. We roundly mocked Paul during &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like Father, Like Son&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3,198],"tags":[2124,22,2086,147,9,1957,332,2114,98,596,822,19,329,785,485,2089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}