RFK Jr Rejected by Libertarians After They Loudly Booed, Heckled Trump
RFK Jr Rejected by Libertarians After They Loudly Booed, Heckled Trump
Kennedy eliminated after receiving support from just 2.07% of delegates. Trump had already failed to be nominated.
Kennedy was eliminated in the first round of voting after receiving support from 19 delegates, or just 2.07% of delegates.
Earlier, Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle had ruled that former president Donald J. Trump was not even qualified to be considered for nomination because he did not submit the proper nominating papers. Trump, however, received six write-in votes -- defeating Stormy Daniels, Denali the Cat, and Sean Ono Lennon.
I mean, if it was Stormy v Biden, we might have us a horse race . . . But it ain’t.
I imagine the Stormy write-ins were trolling Trump
I’ll allow it
There is no such thing as a right wing libertarian
No S
I'm serious
Broad Strokes like this are never 100% accurate but to clarify why you're being downvoted:
In the USA pretty much all Libertarians are considered right wing. It's not a progressive ideology, just one that prefers lower taxation. In contrast, Liberals are often the middle left of the US spectrum before Social Democrats and the farthest left would be fringe groups of Communist Radicals including anti-police and anti-property activists. On the other end, from center to furthest right would be: Moderates, Centrists, Libertarians including a smaller group of Tea-Party anti-tax activists, Rightwing Anarchists (small but vocal), Evangelical Theocrats, and Segregationists (so conservative that they want to return to early 1800s).
You may notice this doesn't leave a place for many ideologies such as meritocrats or anarcho-communists. Just a side effect of our two party system is that the side you align with doesn't usually align with you as an individual. Sucks to suck, especially for those log cabin republicans.
That's just, like, your opinion man!
You’re correct. It’s a spectrum, not a line. Social and economic policy are two independent axes in defining political ideology.
Progressives are more in support of authoritarianism than they realize. Censoring speech is authoritarian by definition. It’s the primary reason I don’t identify as one.Edit: Consider putting the power, and setting the precedent, of subjectively altering the first amendment in the hands of this conservative SCOTUS. Is that really a great idea? Fascism arrives as your friend.Second edit: It turns out that I’ve been misinformed about progressives supporting hate speech censorship. Sorry about the confusion. Have a good night.
Since when do progressives censor speech?
Edit:
Consider putting the power, and setting the precedent, of altering the first amendment in the hands of this conservative SCOTUS. Is that really a great idea? Fascism arrives as your friend.
Again, when have progressives done this? How are progressives responsible for how a conservative SCOTUS rules on First Amendment rights? Specifically, what legislation has been drafted by progressives that censor hate speech? I have yet to see anyone aside from social media, who have their own set of codes of conduct, be censored by the government over hate speech.
A perfect example would be how Republicans say the craziest racist shit and aren't censored for it. If anything, it gets plastered all over the news. So your logic is highly flawed, champ.
Second edit: It turns out that I’ve been misinformed about progressives supporting hate speech censorship. Sorry about the confusion. Have a good night.
No, you were LIED to by malicious actors trying to turn you against people who are, at least broadly speaking, more aligned with your goals than against. There is a reason communists historically kill social democrats before going after fascists, because they're afraid of diluting power between similar parties. They want sole power so badly they are willing to risk fascists getting it if they think it gives them a better chance.
Then here you come with "sorry I've been misinformed" like it was an innocent mistake. Either you know you're acting in bad faith or you're uncritically regurgitating what others have told you in bad faith. The people telling you that stuff are not your friends, they are just manipulators who want to stir shit between two groups fighting the same enemy.
So you weren't misinformed, you just fucked up, try taking some personal responsibility and go back to figure out where you went wrong and who you should be trusting.
Good. He should be rejected by everyone. First libertarians boo Trump, then they reject Brainworm.
They were right twice in the same 24 hour period. The adage about broken clocks is true.
Nitpick: Stopped, not broken. A stopped clock is right twice a day. A broken clock may never be right at all.
It's really the end times when Libertarians seem like the more well-adjusted, rational crowd compared to Republicans.
... If they set up a hologram of John McAfee, with Ai voice mod, like a VTuber sort of, I am 100% certain it would win.
Eh, he lost the nomination every time he ran iirc
Dude was like the tiger King with a bit more cocaine
There's a tiny part of me that believes he said the CIA was after him then faked his own death and is in hiding on a secret island surrounded by hookers and blow.
Make Whalefucking Great Again!
Holograms are still just 2D images on smoke right? Do we have holograms?
https://youtu.be/vPBRj0bE55w?si=1AHiHyWm0TDrTkHP
We've come a bit further than that
Yo know you fucked up when the people normally telling everyone to shhhhh are making noise by booing you.
It's too bad the worm didn't have what it took to finish the job.
I wish this was cause for hope, but polls are still showing Trump neck and neck usually with a 2% lead over Biden. It's really going to come down to at least two, probably three, swing states. Given that some of them allow the EC vote to be split, there is even a possibility of a Tie.
The last couple of elections have shown the polls to be unreliable with a distinct bias favoring Republicans in appearance. Last I heard the popular theory was boomers are more likely to answer random calls and have time for a bunch of questions.
If trump internal polling showed the same lead, there's no way he would show up to try to eat away a slice of the libertarians puny 2-3% of the vote.
I think the numbers look way worse for Trump than national pollsters show and I think their polling indicates Trump loses in a landslide if he's convicted in any of his cases.
That it should require a conviction is still batshit insane. That's still way too damning of a good portion of the American public.
TBF, A or B Polling won't show any votes for C, but with how third party is more popular than in the past for both major parties this year in the wake of the Gaza Genocide it could negatively impact either candidate. That doesn't mean the polling is meaningless.
Trump is polling with a lead even as closing arguments are heard in his hush money trial today, and he has suspended his
insurrectionclassified documents criminal trial indefinitely with help from a Judge Cannon that he appointed during his term.We don't have to like it but we have to accept the facts here, Trump is popular and that threatens the future of US Democracy and NATO.
EDIT: His insurrection trials are held up over some other BS.
Wait, then who will be their nominee? Will we finally have one, even minor, candidate that is anti-genocide?
His name is Chase Oliver. Here's his site if you'd like to read his platform.
I don’t think either are supposed to have a shot. They were supposed to bring media attention to the libertarians (which they did)
Chase Oliver is the libertarian nomination and one of his common quotes is that he is "anti-war to the core". Anybody with sympathy towards Gaza should absolutely be considering voting for Chase in November.
They're clearly Bernie Bros, all of them