I left the Republican Party towards the beginning of Reagan's second term when the growing stench created by the Neocon parasites, feeding off of being embedded in the WH bowels, became too much to bear. I started dabbling in Classic Liberalism which eventually led me to the Libertarian Party. Silly me... I thought that a party calling itself libertarian by capitalizing the "L" would espouse a modicum of libertarian values. (It took a while to find it, it was barely into its teens when I left the Repubs.) At least I came out of it a realization; each and every organized political party exists solely to be the host body for a few whack jobs who proceed to eat the brain and proceed to control the body.
"They’re mad Trump didn’t #FIREFAUCI, #ENDTHEDEEPSTATE, #FIRETHEFED, #DRAINTHESWAMP, get rid of taxes, or return the country to the gold standard[]" just provides another proof for my theory.
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"Also somebody held up a sign saying “MAGA=SOCIALISM,” which really makes ya think."
True, that. It makes think that in any given political crowd there will be at least one person who knows a few buzzwords and isn't afraid to use them -- whether or not they have a clue as to what they're parroting means.
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(too easy, but...)
"The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party.
Actually, Trump [sic] might be at least partially correct about the nomination. When he didn't get it, I half expected him to try a small-scale version of 1/6. I'm still surprised, surely his closest "advisors" would have suggested it as a trial run of a strategy for what might have to be done post-general election.
In his orange pip of a brain he did hear an enthusiastic, adoring crowd -- his narcissism would not allow anything else in. He wasn't hearing "booooo," he was hearing a whooping "hoooooya." He wasn't hearing "fork you," he heard "fork Joe." Like any narcissist worth their salt, they don't just lie to others, they lie to themselves regularly.
And no, after asking two different search engines the same question five different ways I drew a blank looking for a Repub rule preventing their nominee accepting the nomination of another party. In fact a two-party nominee already has occurred in an election for POTUS: in 1872 when Grant (R) faced of against Horace Greeley (D & Liberal Repub -- a breakaway faction of the Repub Party).
Did that guy actually see how it took police and the National Guard to remove those college leftist sissies out of the campuses a week ago? Because you big ol' Libertarians couldn't even keep control of a row of seats in YOUR OWN CONVENTION!
A lifetime of getting everything he wanted all the time through money and bullying finds our Mr. Trump at the crossroads of different groups who are not under his control, all of it of his own doing.
I've had more than my share of complaints about the writers of this timeline for being so derivative and repetitious, but I got to give them props for this new arc. It's got my attention.
Here is when I point to as an example of American Politics becoming like professional wrestling. Trump encouraging the heckles and boos of the crowd to generate red heat is like a wrestling heel coming to your town and saying it smells like garbage.
Full disclosure: I didn't watch the entire 26 minute video linked above, but I've seen clips elsewhere.
I was especially tickled by the part where he said, "THAT's nice!"
What a weak, dumb, whiny comeback -- and also, all of a sudden NOW he cares about NICE? His WHOLE WORLD is centered around cruelty and spite, and has been for DECADES. It's his BREEEEAND.
A coworker came in like that one Monday, said he'd been playing in a pickup game of football in a field, got tackled, and slammed his head down in the one bare patch of ground in the whole field.
If you don't have a contract for tens of millions to let that happen, you shouldn't. How else you going to pay for the next 30 years of your life paralysed from the waist down?
Once they get control of the government, you will be amazed at how long it will take to dismantle the Deep State, drain the swamp, and turn this country into the Constitutionally-driven paradise the Founders envisioned.
Most Libertarians don't really know much at all about political and economic structures and theories, so they probably honestly don't know the difference. As opposed to us Leftists, who can ramble online for DAYS about how AnCap isn't real, squabble over exact differences between exact types of socialism, and eventually end up in a verbal death match between Tankies and Ultras while the rest of us tap out to watch from the sidelines.
Libertarians. MAGA.
Two kinds of crazy.
I left the Republican Party towards the beginning of Reagan's second term when the growing stench created by the Neocon parasites, feeding off of being embedded in the WH bowels, became too much to bear. I started dabbling in Classic Liberalism which eventually led me to the Libertarian Party. Silly me... I thought that a party calling itself libertarian by capitalizing the "L" would espouse a modicum of libertarian values. (It took a while to find it, it was barely into its teens when I left the Repubs.) At least I came out of it a realization; each and every organized political party exists solely to be the host body for a few whack jobs who proceed to eat the brain and proceed to control the body.
"They’re mad Trump didn’t #FIREFAUCI, #ENDTHEDEEPSTATE, #FIRETHEFED, #DRAINTHESWAMP, get rid of taxes, or return the country to the gold standard[]" just provides another proof for my theory.
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"Also somebody held up a sign saying “MAGA=SOCIALISM,” which really makes ya think."
True, that. It makes think that in any given political crowd there will be at least one person who knows a few buzzwords and isn't afraid to use them -- whether or not they have a clue as to what they're parroting means.
-----
(too easy, but...)
"The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party.
Actually, Trump [sic] might be at least partially correct about the nomination. When he didn't get it, I half expected him to try a small-scale version of 1/6. I'm still surprised, surely his closest "advisors" would have suggested it as a trial run of a strategy for what might have to be done post-general election.
In his orange pip of a brain he did hear an enthusiastic, adoring crowd -- his narcissism would not allow anything else in. He wasn't hearing "booooo," he was hearing a whooping "hoooooya." He wasn't hearing "fork you," he heard "fork Joe." Like any narcissist worth their salt, they don't just lie to others, they lie to themselves regularly.
And no, after asking two different search engines the same question five different ways I drew a blank looking for a Repub rule preventing their nominee accepting the nomination of another party. In fact a two-party nominee already has occurred in an election for POTUS: in 1872 when Grant (R) faced of against Horace Greeley (D & Liberal Repub -- a breakaway faction of the Repub Party).
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Has anyone candled Don Don's head for brain worms lately?
"the party of you're not the boss of my mom!"
*chef's kiss, Marcie
Ta, Marcie. The MAGAts invade!!
Did that guy actually see how it took police and the National Guard to remove those college leftist sissies out of the campuses a week ago? Because you big ol' Libertarians couldn't even keep control of a row of seats in YOUR OWN CONVENTION!
The Unraveling.
A lifetime of getting everything he wanted all the time through money and bullying finds our Mr. Trump at the crossroads of different groups who are not under his control, all of it of his own doing.
I've had more than my share of complaints about the writers of this timeline for being so derivative and repetitious, but I got to give them props for this new arc. It's got my attention.
Here is when I point to as an example of American Politics becoming like professional wrestling. Trump encouraging the heckles and boos of the crowd to generate red heat is like a wrestling heel coming to your town and saying it smells like garbage.
In their defence, a lot of towns DO smell like garbage.
Thank you for referencing "A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear!" Brilliant post :)
Full disclosure: I didn't watch the entire 26 minute video linked above, but I've seen clips elsewhere.
I was especially tickled by the part where he said, "THAT's nice!"
What a weak, dumb, whiny comeback -- and also, all of a sudden NOW he cares about NICE? His WHOLE WORLD is centered around cruelty and spite, and has been for DECADES. It's his BREEEEAND.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a rubber chicken is a good guy with a rubber chicken.
Second Amendment violation!!!!
"which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it"
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Co-worker coming in to work on Monday morning with goose egg on his forehead and black eye: "I coulda taken him."
A coworker came in like that one Monday, said he'd been playing in a pickup game of football in a field, got tackled, and slammed his head down in the one bare patch of ground in the whole field.
If you don't have a contract for tens of millions to let that happen, you shouldn't. How else you going to pay for the next 30 years of your life paralysed from the waist down?
Even the Libertarians have some standards, I guess.
Clearly they have more standards than the Republicans do.
Everything about Republicans is substandard.
So my tax dollars paid for the Secret Service to confiscate the rubber chickens? Who do I sue?
Big Rubber Chicken. They control the real action in Washington now.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I don’t get their use of the anarchy symbol. Are they anarchists or are they libertarians?
It looks like the CyberTruck logo to me. Probably some Musk-fluffing from the Libertarians.
Yes, their idol, Elon Musk, whose companies only exist because of government subsidies 🙄
So true!
It Market Tested well...
"Be Ungovernable! Vote for Us to Not Govern You!"
Maybe need to send that message back for a rewrite.
Once they get control of the government, you will be amazed at how long it will take to dismantle the Deep State, drain the swamp, and turn this country into the Constitutionally-driven paradise the Founders envisioned.
Most Libertarians don't really know much at all about political and economic structures and theories, so they probably honestly don't know the difference. As opposed to us Leftists, who can ramble online for DAYS about how AnCap isn't real, squabble over exact differences between exact types of socialism, and eventually end up in a verbal death match between Tankies and Ultras while the rest of us tap out to watch from the sidelines.