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@JDStokes79 @BrianMcWilliams @LPNH effective in influencing New Hampshire's policymaking, even if it is through questionable rhetoric

@Meiscool7067 @BrianMcWilliams @LPNH Effective in what? Making libertarians look childish and hateful to the general public? Getting Republicans elected?

I, personally (my comments do not represent the Libertarian National Party or the National Committee), think the disaffiliation of @LPNH is a mistake. To be clear: as the Comms Director for the party, LPNH caused no shortage of issues. I had many calls with them, and LNC leadership, about curtailing messaging that seemed purely inflammatory without context or meaning. LPNH was highly effective in garnering "negative" media coverage - which is clearly bad for our National Party. However... the reasons I strongly oppose the actions taken earlier to disaffiliate LPNH are: - LPNH does have a distinct strategy to their messaging, even though it is highly offensive to many, which is designed to be bait for leftwing media and online commenters. And it is very effective in garnering media coverage, and per LPNH's own members to "drive away leftists from coming to the state." This is a strategy. A strategy is not a reason to disaffiliate, even if it is damaging to the LNC, and LP candidates. Many LP candidates and affiliates fail with their strategies, but they aren't removed from the party. - LPNH represents the largest per capita group of Libertarians in the nation, which now have been disenfranchised. - The Libertarian Party is an organization and movement that puts free speech as one of our highest values, yet have disaffiliated one of our chapters (at least in part) for engaging in free speech - even if it is unpalatable to some - and taking a different tact. We are not a dictatorship, and this sends the message to affiliates that if you step out of the prescribed lines you will be punished. I am not here to defend what LPNH says or does. But I will defend the principles behind what they do.

@Ike_Saul 6 if you count rand

One understated reality of what Trump has done: He basically just nuked his Senate majority for the next six months. Rs have a 53-47 hold on the Senate. - Sen. Tillis is retiring and already acting like an independent. - Sen. Cassidy now has no reason to play ball. - Sens. Murkowski and Collins have long been willing to break with POTUS. - Sen. Cornyn will have to navigate the runoff, but win or lose next Tuesday he comes out of that doing whatever he wants. All the sudden, a 53-47 Senate majority is a 48-47 majority with five live swing votes.

@StatewireX @MattWalshBlog thanks for proving why the income tax should be removed

@MattWalshBlog Without income tax, funding today's $6.8T+ federal budget would demand crushing 30%+ national sales taxes, sky-high tariffs, or savage spending cuts.

I agree. Also the top half should pay zero income tax.

This is the problem with socialism. The answer is always more money. Never a number. Never a limit. Never a point where voters are allowed to ask, after we spent all this, why are the results still mediocre? NYC Public Schools is already running a roughly $44.6 billion budget. Depending on how you count the all in costs, that puts spending in the neighborhood of $40,000 plus per student. That's more than most private schools charge. So what's the amount of money per pupil that will make New York public schools adequate? How much wealth should be redistributed to those Queens teachers to make the system "fair?" We see this in healthcare, too. Any potential cut to Medicaid is dooming poor people to die. @SenSchumer claimed over 50,000 people were going to die if we made even the slightest cut to Medicaid. Fine. Then say the quiet part out loud. What is the target spend per Medicaid enrollee? What happens when spending rises and patients still cannot get care? Let's get those numbers out there, find a way to fairly tax the wealthy to fund the safety-net, and then be done with it. $50k per student per year? $10,000 per Medicaid beneficiary with some age-adjustment? $200,000 per mile of high speed rail track? They can never tell you. One, because they have never run a business before, so they have no idea how to actually look at a balance sheet. But, two, they don't want the money to go to the teachers, students, patients, or choo choo train. They want wealth redistributed from class enemies like Bezos to their political allies. They want to fund things that sound nice. "Free childcare" "Free diapers" "Free Faith Healers" so they can take money from people they don't like and give it to people they do like. But, again because they have never run an actual business and because their only motiviation is to just not fail badly enough to prevent their re-election, the services come in way over budget and under-quality. They're spending other people's money on other people, and as Milton Friedman points out, that's when you stop caring about both price and quality. So the people to whom they promised free stuff look at their free stuff and are disappointed. "I was supposed to get healthcare but now I need to wait a year for my knee replacement." So they blame their class enemies and say "well it would work if we could just take MORE of their money and redistribute it." So they take more money, but the quality doesn't improve. Their political allies, the union bosses and NGO CEOs get big paychecks they then funnel back into their campaigns. And again, and again. Until all the people who actually produce wealth have been taxed into oblivion. You have no more Amazon. No more abundance. Just bread lines and poverty. And that teacher in Queens still isn't getting paid what they are worth.

I’ll be voting blue down the line during the midterms. They actually primaried the hero that wrote the legislation to release the Epstein files. They primaried the last man that always defended the constitution. They primaried the man that actually wanted to balance the budget. They primaried the man that refused to vote to send billions of dollars a country committing human rights atrocities. They primaried the man that stood for everything this country was built to protect. They took 20+ millions dollars from a foreign nation and ended the career of the most principled man in politics. Our country is very sick.

@GladYuengling such a shame it is

You see a Massie win or loss. I see a division on the right that will hurt the midterms. The communists will have the House and Senate.

One of the most profound effects Trump has had on Congress is that he convinced a giant portion of GOP voters that the establishment guys who fall in line are the heroes and the constitutional conservatives who challenge the system are the villains.

@AP4Liberty we can't vote our way out of this

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IF ANYTHING LIBERTARIANS?

Making politics unprofitable should be our main priority

@realBrandonGill yeah where are the spending cuts I wanted

It's almost like we as Republicans should keep the promises that we make to our voters instead of pretending to be conservative once every few years to get re-elected.

If a Chinese paper wrote a story about how a primary race in Kentucky was the most consequential race for China after pro-China donors poured $35 million in the race What’s would that mean?

Ed Gallrein refused to complete the National Association for Gun Rights candidate survey distributed to congressional candidates on behalf of pro-gun voters. The survey asked straightforward questions on major Second Amendment issues, including expanded background checks, federal “gun-free school zones,” and national Constitutional Carry legislation. Gallrein has had every opportunity to reassure gun owners by simply going on the record. Instead, he has refused to answer. Gun owners have seen the pattern before: staged campaign photos with firearms, vague “support the Second Amendment” slogans, and carefully scripted talking points that disappear the moment pressure comes from Washington insiders.

yeah that needs to be fixed too sorry gang

@BraddrofliT @PolitiBunny no taxes should fund anything because they shouldn't exist, you're missing the point

@PolitiBunny So your taxes can fund bombs, bailouts, and billionaires with no questions asked but a kid getting lunch is where you draw the line? That’s not fiscal responsibility. That’s ideological rot.

It’s. Not. The. Government’s. Job. To. Feed. Your. Kids.

Nothing has turned me more against Populism than the people themselves

@beyond_capital theres a really good solution to this but its not the one you think

“Billionaires create jobs” Nah, billionaires create poverty.

Bernie Sanders did no planting.