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Trump Republicans tried to take over the hall (assisted by the Secret Service confiscating noisemakers) and hijack the Libertarian convention. They lined up early then stole the front row seats marked reserved. It all backfired wonderfully.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Trump posted that he had an "enthusiastic" audience at the Libertarian Party convention.

FACTS — Round 1 voting was:

Story Daniels 1 vote

Denali the Cat 1 vote

Sean Ono Lennon 1 vote

Christian Weston 2 votes

Art Olivier 4 votes

Donald J. Trump 6 votes

Toad 16 votes

RFK Jr 19 votes

Charles Ballay 21 votes

Jacob Hornberger 59 votes

Joshua Smith 73 votes

Lars Mapstead 122 votes

Mike Ter Maat 141 votes

Chase Oliver 181

Michael Rectenwald 259 votes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

What this shows is that Trump’s entire team doesn’t really understand what Libertarian is. Kennedy seemed to understand, but his politics obviously don’t align.

Then again, personally I put Libertarianism in the same camp as Communism as far as ideologies that are great in theory, but handwave the human factor away. The trick is in how to avoid authoritarianism while still being realistic about how humans behave individually and in groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"play this clip"

dude, just play the clip, it's not like I'm the one pressing play each time

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

This dude really thinks he is smart doesn't he. Half of america just wants an asshole, thats all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The video is great schadenfreude but a better analysis is available (RFK Jr wasn't well received by attendees either).