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I didn’t vote for Donald Trump because I thought he was flawless. I voted because I thought he was the last off-ramp. The lesser of two evils… with a promise that actually meant something. No new wars. End the old ones. Put America First. That message hit hard. It felt like a reset. But look around now. Conflicts aren’t ending — they’re multiplying. Billions are still pouring overseas. Military support keeps expanding into places most Americans can’t even point to on a map. And back home? People are drowning quietly. Groceries cost more every week. Families are hanging on by a thread. Veterans — the ones who already gave everything — are still sleeping on the streets. Debt is crushing. Stress is everywhere. So I keep coming back to one question: What happened to America First? Because this doesn’t feel like it. This feels like the same machine… just repainted. I didn’t vote for global escalation. I didn’t vote to fund the world while Americans fall behind. I voted for peace abroad and stability at home. And right now? That promise feels further away than ever. This isn’t just disappointment anymore. People are starting to wake up.

As North Carolinians, we should be interested in seeing where ballot selfie case goes, As Libertarian & candidate, I'm livid the State would consider our freedoms prosecutable. Hogarth v. Brinson Bell - Verified Complaint fire.org/research-learn… via @TheFIREorg #ncpol

@MisesChair @beinlibertarian Don’t forget the part where you say “it’s not a takeover,” vilify anyone who disagrees with you, accuse them of being a pedo/fed/marxist, bully people willing to work until they quit, excommunicate your own people when they don’t fall in line, then endorse Republicans anyway.

@LPNational I'm more concerned with the embezzler hijacking the party bank account than I am the length of the embezzler's dress x.com/i/status/18817…

Thank goodness Jesus let that random firefighter die to save the child rapist warmonger 🙏

@AP4Liberty He's signing lots of libertarian kill switches into law, dropping libertarian bombs on school girls, expanding our libertarian national debt...

Trump did care about libertarianism actually.

Several years ago on this date, I received an unexpected call from a dear friend across the country who was crying. He explained that he'd been in a bad place for a few months, verging self-harming, and he just wanted to talk to someone. He's never called me without texting first. I was worried about him. So we talked. For about 4 hours. By the end of the call, I felt confident that he wasn't going to kill himself. Not that day, not the next... I think he got to a point where he no longer saw it as the best option. But I wouldn't get off the phone until I felt that way about his state of mind/emotions. In that call, we talked about his problems, and then we talked about how it's hard to see other people's problems with a lens like Facebook, and I told him some of my problems to help him see how things aren't always what they seem. He said that helped. We talked about things that drive us both a bit batty, and things we care about, and things we love, and stupid mundane crap that makes us want to punch something. And we laughed. And we told stories. And I validated him in the ways he was feeling ignored. And we hung up so he could go to bed, and he told me he was actually looking forward to the next day. I've been the recipient of a number of calls or messages like this. I've also been unaware in an interaction that I had accidentally become someone's reminder that life could still be good (I have a blog entry about it). If you ever get a call like this, sometimes people are good at spilling what's going on right away, and you just need to listen and ask the occasional questions. Sometimes they struggle with the words. I find this more often. Sometimes when you know that they need to talk but it's hard to get them to start, I start by asking about the right now. Where they are, are they sitting down, describe the room they're in, describe their roommates, describe their job... Help them paint pictures for you so you can be let into their world and solidify their connection to it and to you. To make it seem less lonely. These are tough calls, and emotionally draining, but they're important to take when it happens - I'm profoundly happy about certain people in my life that are still alive because I took a call like this. But it's also a good reminder, that you don't necessarily know where people are, emotionally, and we should all try to be kinder to each other in general. This isn't specific to this case mentioned above, but more and more I've watched activists and advocates and allies of important causes get piled on when they slip up, and I've watched them define their self-worth by their friendship in those spaces, a friendship that is often conditional on "how much work are you doing for the cause?", And I've watched how they end up distraught, drained, and even suicidal. It makes me recognize how often people need breaks, particularly from that kind of pressure. All this just leads me to: There are ways to help. Take time for people. Be patient. Be kind.

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Must have been all the illegals voting against Massie. 👀

Jake has another excellent, detailed piece here. I want to mention something that I think some folks miss: davidmhart.com/liberty/Americ… What McArdle attempted is *literally* what the Paleo strategy is. It's a strategy intended to court the racist and bigoted elements of the Republican movement, as can be seen in the article linked above, to fundamentally change what "libertarian" means and to push that neoconservative/reactionary BS on all of us. This is why people talk about needing to remove Paleos: The idea isn't that the people are evil as individuals, but that they fundamentally want to tear down the Libertarian Party, so they must be stopped.

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@carynannharlos Damn. I was just starting to like her Dignity Act. 👀

When are they going to convert the Trinity into a Tetrad?

@jeremykauffman @justinamash

@justinamash Half of America wants me dead but would settle for my slavery. MAGA, despite its flaws, is the strongest force opposing it.

This is exactly what guys like John Boehner and Paul Ryan used to say. It was a false proposition then, and it’s false now. A member of Congress’s team should be the American people. It’s those they represent, not a political party or a man. And the partisans in Washington consistently work together against the interests of Americans everywhere. The war isn’t between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between those who love liberty and those who love power. MAGA, Inc., is just the same old political establishment—but now they use Trump as a shield for violating your rights and abandoning the Constitution.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again — Donald Trump was saved by G-d so he could save the world. Tonight, thanks to his leadership, the Republican Party did what the Democrat Party failed to do decades ago — said clearly and unambiguously that Jew Haters are not welcome in our party. It is no coincidence that on this same day, the leading Democrat in a swing district announced she would build concentration camps for American Jews. Our parties are not the same. Our leaders are not the same. America has big choices ahead and I believe we will do the right thing.

I have no problem dressing well for the convention. However, the motion proposed by Republican candidate Ben Weir: 1) Targets trans delegates, referencing biological sex 2) The LNC has no such authority. The LNC serves the Convention, not the other way around.

Emo Ben's latest motion is still out of order. The LNC has no authority to establish convention standing rules. The Bylaws specifically carve that out to the delegates. This is the typical do-nothing, clog-up-the-business-list nonsense that has pervaded this term. Far more offensive than any dress is that he blatantly violates his fiduciary duty by breaching the Bylaws requirement to not be a candidate of another party, and basic ethics say that if you are registered Republican you are not on the LNC. And FWIW I always wear suits. I am tempted this convention to just wear jeans as his insufferable prattling was uncomfortable enough.

@kellymccullen @ProsperCLT2023 @ErinforNC They could just introduce and pass my property tax bill. Miller4senate.com some of them have a copy I handed them.

🚨 NEW: Rep. Roy introduces The Ban Chinese Communist and Islamist Home Ownership Act, legislation which would ban foreign adversaries from buying American homes. “‘American homes belong to American families — not the Chinese Communist Party, foreign Islamists, or our geopolitical foes,’ Roy told the @DailyCaller. ‘While Americans struggle to afford housing, hostile regimes are buying up our land and neighborhoods.’” dailycaller.com/2026/05/19/gop…