Rand Paul Airs Grievances For Festivus, Needles Trump’s Inner Circle

Senator Rand Paul answer questions during a meet and greet event Friday, May 30, 2014, at the Garrard County Cooperative Extension Office in Lancaster, KY. (AP Photo/The Advocate-Messenger, Clay Jackson)
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Sen. Rand Paul continued Friday his annual celebration of the Festivus holiday, a secular affair popularized by “Seinfeld” which features the airing of one’s grievances.

In a Twitter post early Friday morning, Paul told readers to “stay tuned” for his own airing of grievances. “I got a lot of problems with you and now you’re gonna hear about them,” he wrote, echoing Frank Constanza’s immortal lines in Season 9, Episode 10 of Jerry Seinfeld’s popular sitcom.

Early Friday, several grievances poked fun at cabinet picks and advisers to President-elect Donald Trump:

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  1. I hate to say it, but some of these are actually pretty funny.

  2. Avatar for krux krux says:

    This kind of made my day. Nice break from the “War on Christmas”…

  3. Shorter Ayn Rand: I want to make sure that most of the people in my state of Kentucky DO NOT have access to HealthCare.

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