Diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer 7 years ago and given 6% survival rate. 5 years ago today I had my last cancer treatment. It's official, I'm CURED!
Many libertarians talk about ending government agencies. Today I did it.
County agency started to manage internet fiber for city government use. Mission creep to corporate use. Then talked about making internet a public utility.
Voted to end it today.
Looks like this is one of the planks targeted for deletion in 2024. Folks, you can't have free markets without the free flow of goods and people. If you want to be a protectionist, the two old parties are there for all your statist views.
It has been my honor to serve the members of the Libertarian Party as your Political Infrastructure Strategist for the past 5 years. I want to also extend my gratitude to my co-workers still remaining at LPHQ and those also let go today.
When the topic of toxic masculinity comes up this is EXACTLY what it means - trying to shame or belittle men into being a caricature of a "real man." Forcing them, through ridicule, to hide emotions - thats what is toxic. It's ok to cry, my dudes. It's ok to show you're a human
Left: take away everyone's 2a rights
Right: all transgender persons are mentally ill
Seriously? This BS is what we're told we have to choose between? Nah, you can miss me with that.
If I had to pick the core concept of
#Libertarian
philosophy, it would be
#consent
Not implied. Not coerced.
Informed, affirmative consent.
How 'bout you?
The Democratic Party in Minnesota believes so strongly in fair elections they introduced a bill to *checks notes* DOUBLE the needed votes for a political party to become a major party. This is a perfect example of how people in power use their power to maintain their power.
Folks, I'm a big tent
#Libertarian
. But my tent isn't big enough for pedophiles and those advocate for allowing pedophilia. Some people in our movement talk a big game about woodchippers and then associate with convicted pedophiles and those who support it. Put up, or shut up.
Libertarianism isn't extreme. Its practical, ethical, & effective. Recognizes & works w/human nature because it isn't based on force or violence. It's mainstream. We've been sold a lie that peaceful, consensual, & mutually beneficial interactions are extreme or radical.
Unforced error.
Libertarians oppose conscription and drafts. Period.
By singling out Ukraine instead of saying "Ukraine and Russia" the conversation turns to U vs R instead of voluntary vs conscription
There was an attempt today to DOUBLE the requirements for ballot access in Minnesota. We organized and allied with 4 other parties and the bill was postponed on zero notice. This was a blast to organize! Thank you to everyone who pitched in.
1. It was a tobacco store.
2. He was carded.
3. The product was labeled D9 and CONTAINS THC with a warning symbol on it.
4. It was 20x the cost of candy.
This sounds like a lie dude made up because he acted like an idiot and got caught.
Let me get this straight...
@LPNational
invited a 2x convicted pedophile to speak at a rally. Then uninvited him yesterday. Then put him back on the speaker list today.
W
T
F
This is our Comms Director. He can certainly say what he likes on his personal social media, but this reflects poorly on our party. This is not who I am - as a person or a Libertarian. I reject bigotry and stand with our GSM members and our members who have GSM family.
This is what we're up against. People who call themselves Libertarians who post videos which say nazis and gay people are the same thing. But hey ... she sure got a whole lotta attention on her feed! Don't retweet that hateful crap. Don't comment on it. Shun her.
Been concerned for a number of years that the LP didn't have a Political Director. Seemed crazy to me. How can you have a political party and not have a political director guiding strategy? But now we don't have a single employee or contractor in the political division. None.
News Flash:
#Libertarians
are not Right or Left. We are not Conservatives or Liberals. We are not centrists.
We are the Party of full and true Liberation.
Mutually beneficial, voluntary interactions with informed, explicit consent.
Peace, not force or coercion.
The
#Libertarian
Party is made up of people who vote for Libertarian candidates. That's it. If you are voting for a Libertarian in November or have in the recent past, WELCOME TO THE PARTY! We're so happy you are here. :)
This is on the LP website and was sent out to media by the LP. The Chair selected & approved the quote to use. Excited about Trump and "our goal" of defeating Biden. I can't possibly think how people have the idea we are endorsing Trump. It's simply a mystery.
Let me get this straight. The BIG PLAN is to give up on that whole electoral politics thing because
1. So much effort
2. Republicans are better right now.
3. So let's be the JV team for them and maybe run a few muni candidates using R organization resources.
F that noise.
@JoshEakle
Biden is one of the fathers of the war on drugs. He's not even a lesser of 2 evils. He's really damn evil. The sheer and lasting misery he has accomplished for decades with millions of lives destroyed? He's not a lesser evil.
Nothing says Libertarian quite like a weapons pat down for all attendees, threatening to boot a candidate for presidential nod for campaigning, going after your photographer for taking photos and...oh yeah, erecting a metal barrier to keep the plebs away from the ruling class
I can't ever remember caring what someone else wore to the gym because
A. I'm focused on my own workout
B. I'm a Libertarian and if you aren't harming others I don't care what you wear. Or don't wear. Exercise naked for all I care. Just wipe the damn machine when you're done.
We're a Political Party. Because of how political parties are set up, & the extreme restrictions on them, they aren't vehicles for anything other than electing people to office. If you want to accomplish other goals, find an organization model better suited.
LP members, Lifetime members, candidates, and electeds are being blocked by the
@LPNational
account. This is an extreme change in policy and I respectfully ask this to be reviewed and reversed.
At the rally yesterday in MN a LPMN board member was talking about "regime Libertarians" in Minnesota. Dude, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but YOU'RE the regime now.
This man is on the
@LPNational
National Committee. He's engaged in a discussion about party business with party members. Is this OK? Is this what LP members want in Party leadership? I dont.
At the senate hearing and one senator asked about concerns of organized crime in the Cannabis industry. Ummm.....I'm sitting in the middle of organized crimelords so ....
Strategically, aligning the LP with one of the 2 old parties is a bad move. The media likes a "horse race" story for clicks so even if races aren't that close they say they are & it scares voters back to old parties. We need to grow our base, not position as JV team.
I just didn't understand the whole "look at how many followers I have and how few you have" thing on personal accounts. Until my husband said "when you got a small dick you gotta measure something else" and I haven't stopped laughing since.
Congratulations to Libertarian Party of Alaska and to their candidate, Chris Bye, for advancing to the general election for US Congress. This was a Top 4 jungle primary.
#Libertarian
Party should have higher aspirations than to be a smaller version of the Republican Paty. If that's the direction, then we become what our critics slur us with - Republicans who smoke weed.
"Woke" finally has a legal definition!
"The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."
Turns out I'm woke AF along with the rest of the Libertarian Party!
Registered Libertarians in the US from 2020 to the most recent audit published by Ballotpedia shows that we have dropped 92,757 members (from 652,261 to 559,504).
Serious ideas, please: what should state affiliates do to reverse this trend?
So if Russia preemptively nukes the US or some other country, are we still supposed to attend the I Love Putin rally put on by the LP and some tankies? Or can we have an actual peace rally instead? Just asking questions.
When you host an event you know media will be at, or you want to good photos to use later in PR, be sure to control the background. This can be done with event security, having volunteers fill the space, or using a fabric backdrop.
Appointed to serve on county board, representing cancer patients who aren't receiving pain management because prescriptions are so restricted. Advising county on what they should do with the projected $16.5 million in
#opioid
settlement funds. Today is our first meeting.
#Libertarian
candidates: one of the demos most open to voting for LP (but not presently doing so) are liberal women under 40. What's holding them back? We aren't articulating enviro policies. There are better Libertarian solutions than R denial & D disaster.
Something I'm thankful for, but also excited/nervous. In 5 days I pick up keys to retail store space I rented. I'm selling natural wellness products like medicinal teas, mushroom tinctures, CBD, & D9/D8/DO. Because taking charge of your health is a very Libertarian thing to do.
To win elections, Libertarians need to articulate our solutions in a way which appeals to voters from Left, Right, and Center.
This doesn't mean you compromise principles. It means you state principles in an appealing, easy to understand way so our principles can be adopted.
Why am I passionate against pedo speaker & the pro-war/Putin speakers for anti-war rally? Because I'm a vet of Gulf War. Friends & family have served in war ). I've seen the harm and the suicides after. To see an anti war rally planned & have it be this is a bitter pill.
I think puberty blockers and transition surgeries should be illegal for minors and I’m fine with the state enforcing that under current circumstances.
If you want to eradicate all moral decay out of our society by right wing authoritarian measures, you’re going to be dealing
How likely is it a GOP political operative is "helping" steer Libertarian Party strategies & leadership decisions at National & State level out of goodness of his heart? Coincidence this happens after we hurt GOP in critical 2020 elections & are threatening more in 2022 & 2024.
The Satanic Panic of the 1980's was when people bought into the hysteria that children were being ritually abused by rings of Satanists. They asked law enforcement to go after child care providers, teachers, goths, musicians, authors, etc.
Im just going to put this out there.
@JoshuaAtLarge
has always been supportive of our candidates and that the Libertarian Party be run as a political party. He was also the only, or 1 of 2, LNC members who thanked staff as they left this past year.
This exchange appears to confirm the next plank the MC plan to eliminate is the one supporting the free movement of humans and capital. Shows a deep ignorance of Libertarianism. Borders are meant to restrain governments, not people. Just as people have rights, governments dont.
Libertarianism is grounded in the idea of consent.
Affirmative, informed, coercion free consent. That the culture change we are working towards. That's how we achieve true peace and real prosperity.
For those who need to hear this:
You aren’t special. You aren’t going to be the hero who saves everyone. You literally would not be able to defend yourself.
This won't bring him back. This was one of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen. Watching a sobbing man crawl towards police while being forced to play a deadly game of Simon Says.
Drug related death rate for people who take opioids prescribed for them is 0.0022 per 1,000. That's less than death rate from taking daily aspirin
Cohort Study of the Impact of High-Dose Opioid Analgesics on Overdose Mortality.
#opioidsummit
Thinking the Libertarian Party should be left or right wing is either
A. BS old party candidates say because they have trashed their brand
B. A misunderstanding from new members who don't fully grasp Libertarian philosophy
C. Purposeful slander by the old parties.
I don't have a philosophical litmus test for Libertarians. I do have an asshole/non-asshole litmus test. A decent person in your group will become more liberty leaning the longer they are there. An asshole in your group, no matter how liberty minded, will destroy it.
Systemic racism is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organization and manifests as discrimination *even when the people involved are not racist.* And THIS is why government can't "solve" racism - because they are literally the system in systemic racism.
Seeing Libertarians saying it ok to kill someone because they were open carrying and that's all scary is one of the weirdest things I've seen. Literally making gun grabber arguments. WTF
Another moment through the looking glass: A Libertarian Jo Jorgensen supporter peaceably open carrying at a BLM protest is murdered by someone who publicly fantasized about murdering protestors — and some “Libertarians” and LNC members aren’t sure what side to come down on.
When I was interviewed for my contract, it was right after I was forced to face that I had a 6% chance of living 5 years. When you are counting down your days, it becomes very clear what is important. For me, that was our candidates, our campaign teams, and our affiliate leaders.
Watching leadership in the
#LibertarianParty
swing toward social conservatisim, at a personal level, certainly has been something I didn't think I'd ever see in 2022.
For those who joined MC because you wanted competence & success - I get it. Same. That's what I want. However, the numbers are clear. And it should be OK to question direction & tactics without being shunned, attacked, or exiled. You joined a political party, not a cult. Right?
Loving the "if you aren't excited about Trump headlining the convention you don't know politics and are just larping" from people who have never won a single election.
You know who WAS locked in their homes for almost 2 years? People in care facilities. No visitors. Not allowed to leave. State govt sued to not let family move them out. Know who the state DID allow in? People sick with C19. But hey, let's just pretend that all didn't happen.
Chatting with
@TylerJohnHarris
about the election. We noted
@ChaseForLiberty
race and how successful it was. His goal was to push for ranked choice voting and he set his entire campaign towards that. Forcing a runoff was a tactic to force the conversation about RCV
The purpose for the Libertarian Party is set by our delegates. We are not the JV team for old parties. We elect candidates. Charter affiliates. Nominate candidates. Inform public about our planks. This is not a mystery.
This Party, unlike the two Old Parties, is YOUR Party. YOU are the Party. And just as I was so very proud to work with you from LPHQ, I’m just as excited to work with you as your fellow member.
Advocating 4 city states isn't advocating 4 liberty. It would b little prisons of statism w/checkpoints at every town. Wouldn't be more peaceful, either. Look at history - city states were in constant war. Heck, look at the US - States fought each other outside of the Civil war.
I appreciate all of you so much. It's been a tough week (year? lol) but you've helped me keep my head up and eyes focused on advancing liberty. I'll keep going if you do. Deal?