Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revived one of his favorite talking points about runaway federal spending on Tuesday – the one about coke-fueled sex among Japanese quails. “If the defense of Ukraine is really in our national security interests, shouldn’t the gift come from our military budget?” Paul asked. “Couldn’t we maybe cut the money spent on Japanese quail studying whether or not they’re more sexually promiscuous or not when you give them cocaine?” he asked. The problem is, the federal government can’t redirect money from funding studies about horny coked-up quails because the government isn’t funding studies about coked-up horny quails – at least not anymore. “But we don’t know everything by any means, and we certainly don’t know enough about mechanism to treat cocaine addiction effectively.

Source: Washington Post May 18, 2022 04:19 UTC