"Why I’m Voting for Trump" [Michael Heise, LP Mises Caucus founder]

[Swordsmyth]

@PAF 's just pissed he hasn't found that unicorn yet.

He's just mad we aren't going to become Venezuela.

 

[PAF]

He's just mad we aren't going to become Venezuela.

To date, we have been on that slow path. Where have you been?

 

[acptulsa]

To date, we have been on that slow path. Where have you been?

Cheering the process on. Telling everyone it's inevitable that we turn into Venezuela and advocating for those doing that evil deed by claiming that there's only one other choice and it'll just make it happen faster.

That's where he has been.

 

[fisharmor]

Constant, scratchy nagging about what an asshole I am, how wrong I am, what a sellout I've become, what a disgrace to the name of William Wallace and the Anti-Federalists I am, is all just background noise that mostly goes in one ear and out the other, like when it comes from Mrs. AF on an hourly basis.

I certainly haven't meant to convey any of those ideas and publicly apologize if anything I've said has come across that way.
Everywhere else I hear about the election I similarly feel like I have sand in my eyelids so I can certainly sympathize.
You're an open-minded guy who will change his mind when given information that leads to that. It would have happened a long time ago if it was going to happen, and we all know this.
But remember, debate isn't meant to change the minds of the debaters.
We're not really talking to you - we're talking to everyone reading.
And I hope they all take from this the absolute most important concept America has lost - the idea that we can disagree and still be friends.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I certainly haven't meant to convey any of those ideas and publicly apologize if anything I've said has come across that way.
Everywhere else I hear about the election I similarly feel like I have sand in my eyelids so I can certainly sympathize.
You're an open-minded guy who will change his mind when given information that leads to that. It would have happened a long time ago if it was going to happen, and we all know this.
But remember, debate isn't meant to change the minds of the debaters.
We're not really talking to you - we're talking to everyone reading.
And I hope they all take from this the absolute most important concept America has lost - the idea that we can disagree and still be friends.

No, not at all and thanks for the note.

That comment was directed at my buddy [MENTION=40029]PAF[/MENTION] who was not feeling well the past couple of days, and, being bored with resting while convalescing, took the opportunity to break my balls for 48 hours straight.

Everybody here, unlike most of our fellow citizens, want the same thing: maximum individual liberty.

Our only disagreements stem from how that concept was lost and why, and how to regain it and why is that so hard.

 

[PAF]

No, not at all and thanks for the note.

That comment was directed at my buddy [MENTION=40029]PAF[/MENTION] who was not feeling well the past couple of days, and, being bored with resting while convalescing, took the opportunity to break my balls for 48 hours straight.

Everybody here, unlike most of our fellow citizens, want the same thing: maximum individual liberty.

Our only disagreements stem from how that concept was lost and why, and how to regain it and why is that so hard.

I can take it just as hard, even down to a bar-room brawl.... but to compare me to a wife? That about put me in the critical care unit!

 

[fisharmor]

I can take it just as hard, even down to a bar-room brawl.... but to compare me to a wife? That about put me in the critical care unit!

Ok minor digression for an anecdote.

For 24 years my wife has been scolding me about throwing the ground beef grease down the kitchen drain. Every time she cooks she puts paper towels in a mixing bowl and pours the grease in there and then wipes it clean into the trash.
Every time I did I ran the tap hot, chased some soap down the drain, and dumped it.
This was definitely one of those "woman would you STFU about this already" things.
Right up until it clogged again two months ago, and I had to go install a cleanout in the drain line, and fish it, and find out, oh, it's all grease.

I'll be eating that crow until I die.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Ok minor digression for an anecdote.

For 24 years my wife has been scolding me about throwing the ground beef grease down the kitchen drain. Every time she cooks she puts paper towels in a mixing bowl and pours the grease in there and then wipes it clean into the trash.
Every time I did I ran the tap hot, chased some soap down the drain, and dumped it.
This was definitely one of those "woman would you STFU about this already" things.
Right up until it clogged again two months ago, and I had to go install a cleanout in the drain line, and fish it, and find out, oh, it's all grease.

I'll be eating that crow until I die.

I'd tell her 24 years was a pretty good run.

 

[PAF]

Ok minor digression for an anecdote.

For 24 years my wife has been scolding me about throwing the ground beef grease down the kitchen drain. Every time she cooks she puts paper towels in a mixing bowl and pours the grease in there and then wipes it clean into the trash.
Every time I did I ran the tap hot, chased some soap down the drain, and dumped it.
This was definitely one of those "woman would you STFU about this already" things.
Right up until it clogged again two months ago, and I had to go install a cleanout in the drain line, and fish it, and find out, oh, it's all grease.

I'll be eating that crow until I die.

LOL of course.


After fishing and cleaning the drain more than several times I bought and put a hair catcher in the tub. What good did it do? When the hair catcher clogs up she simply takes it out and lets the drain clog back up again. I said "why didn't you clean the hair catcher out and put it back in so that I don't have to fish around the drain again?" Her response: "you want me to look beautiful for you, don't you?". So I learned to keep my mouth shut

 

[Occam's Banana]

Ok minor digression for an anecdote.

For 24 years my wife has been scolding me about throwing the ground beef grease down the kitchen drain. Every time she cooks she puts paper towels in a mixing bowl and pours the grease in there and then wipes it clean into the trash.
Every time I did I ran the tap hot, chased some soap down the drain, and dumped it.
This was definitely one of those "woman would you STFU about this already" things.
Right up until it clogged again two months ago, and I had to go install a cleanout in the drain line, and fish it, and find out, oh, it's all grease.

I'll be eating that crow until I die.

I've always done the hot-water-drain thing, too.

But now I'm gonna start doing the paper-towel thing.

 

[Swordsmyth]

To date, we have been on that slow path. Where have you been?

Fighting it instead of trying to accelerate it.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Cheering the process on. Telling everyone it's inevitable that we turn into Venezuela and advocating for those doing that evil deed by claiming that there's only one other choice and it'll just make it happen faster.

That's where he has been.

I've recently been supporting Trump, who reversed the direction of movement, you've been fighting him which helps the people trying to accelerate us down the path.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Ok minor digression for an anecdote.

For 24 years my wife has been scolding me about throwing the ground beef grease down the kitchen drain. Every time she cooks she puts paper towels in a mixing bowl and pours the grease in there and then wipes it clean into the trash.
Every time I did I ran the tap hot, chased some soap down the drain, and dumped it.
This was definitely one of those "woman would you STFU about this already" things.
Right up until it clogged again two months ago, and I had to go install a cleanout in the drain line, and fish it, and find out, oh, it's all grease.

I'll be eating that crow until I die.

I've always done the hot-water-drain thing, too.

But now I'm gonna start doing the paper-towel thing.

You should be saving the grease to use in cooking.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1852468326435278907

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[Okie RP fan]

I think the GOP sees the LP/libertarians as that annoying little cousin that is sometimes funny or has a good idea occasionally.

The Dems loathe the LP/libertarians unless they can completely co-opt their groups and hangouts (like the libertarian subreddit that is basically just a leftist hangout).

 

[Occam's Banana]

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Why I’m Voting for Trump
https://x.com/DissidentMedia/status/1850674333431308697
https://x.com/DissidentMedia/article/1850674333431308697
{Michael Heise | 27 October 2024}

[...]

Also in the mix is the Libertarian Party itself and its chair, my friend Angela McArdle. Through her leadership and coalition work, Libertarians have a voice within this Unity Movement, too. She has organized two large-scale antiwar rallies since becoming chair—one with prominent dissident left-wing voices and another with prominent dissident right-wing voices. She invited all other presidential candidates to the last Libertarian convention, with only the Democrats declining the opportunity to make their case to Libertarians. Trump, facing a hostile crowd at that convention, promised to free Ross Ulbricht from prison, to place a libertarian in his cabinet, and is now openly discussing eliminating the Department of Education and removing the income tax. I’ve never had a politician come to my house and care enough to make me an offer. I certainly respected it.

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Will he keep his promise?

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