Holy Shit! Dimitri Simes

[tikka]

If I'm not mistaken, he is the new foreign policy adviser to Rand Paul. This might explain Paul's sudden change to being Russia's best friend. Maybe a better description would be that he is Paul's handler. There has never been any rational explanation for Paul's change.

In the Daily Beast's article, He is called putin's friend and possible author of Trump's pro-Russia speech. He acts like an unregistered agent (spy?). I hope the FBI and Mueller are watching him.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142151891

[marble falls]

1. Sounds like a foriegn power looked under Rand Paul's rock and found something juicy ...

maybe an "Aqua Buddha" episode from college?


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/does-rand-paul-have-woman-problem/

Then there’s Aqua Buddha. Four years ago, when Paul was running for the Senate, GQ? published one of the weirdest political stories in years. It recounted an episode from Paul’s college days at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. At the Baptist school, Paul—then known as Randy—joined a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood that conducted assorted pranks to irk the school administration and that published a satirical newspaper that ran ads for a local strip club on its back page. Their overall aim was to poke fun at the school’s religiosity. In one caper, the group paraded about campus with a large picture of Anita Bryant with a hole cut out of her mouth. (Bryant, a spokeswoman for Florida oranges and a popular figure on the Christian right, had pronounced oral sex a sin.) When Paul was at Baylor, the NoZe outfit was banned by the administration; membership was punishable by expulsion.

GQ reported that one day Paul and a fellow NoZe-er abducted a female student who was on the swim team with Paul. According to the woman, who asked not to be identified, Paul and his pal blindfolded her, tied her up, took her to their apartment, and tried to force her to do bong hits. Next, they drove her to a creek outside Waco and, as the woman put it, “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him.” The woman told GQ that she had not been hurt and that the event had been a “joke” but “kind of sadistic.” Paul’s campaign manager declined to comment on this episode, noting, “During his time at Baylor, Dr. Paul competed on the swim team and was an active member of Young Conservatives of Texas.” After the story appeared, Paul complained he had been the target of an anonymous accusation. (The woman told the Washington Post that she was a clinical psychologist working with former members of the military, some of whom were tea partiers, and that she feared being identified might place her in danger.)