ClaytonB
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It's another "gospel": "As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:9)

SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN SOME REP "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again."

Why is obstruction an impossible explanation?

Hearsay and false allegations. Ulbricht was never charged, let alone convicted, of any violent crime. All of his "crimes" were paper-crimes and, while I oppose white-collar crime as much as any other crime, these were all paper "crimes" against the State's arbitrary and unlawful regulations, including unlawful tax and other financial regulations. In short, Ulbricht was flaunting onerous and unjust regulations and he was punished and made an example for that reason. In short, Ulbricht was made an example of what happens to people who flaunt the State's arbitrary, tyrannical, unjust and unlawful dictates. His punishment is an important lynchpin of the current tyranny. We are a country of free men, but who among us is ready to do a life sentence just to prove the point?? How you can cite the FBI with a straight-face is beyond me. This is the same FBI who has multiple times planted live explosives, lured the mentally-ill into a "terror plot" they themselves manufactured and is almost certainly the agency who planted the January 6th pipe-bombs. This is not a credible source for determining if the sky is blue, and you're citing hearsay from them as evidence against Ulbricht? Don't be ridiculous.

Can you give me the phone# for the CEO of Bitcoin, been trying to get ahold of that guy for a while now...

Simple enough.

Yeah, screw those guys. Where are they?

All I can say is beware of fratricide. None of that has anything to do with me or this discussion, just some fever-dream in your mind.

In other words, the entire past 20 years of tech-development basically boils down to corporate America singing this song: :tears:

You're lecturing the choir, nay, you're lecturing the head rector on this topic. The stakes are higher than you think, and the New Testament clearly explains the actual terrain of the war. So, if you want to step outside the bounds of merely political discourse, then we can go over to the Peace Through Religion forum and go down that rabbit-hole until you can't take the depth anymore, and I'll help you back to the surface. These people are absolutely not playing tiddlywinks and they have quite literally sold their souls to Satan, and they are working to drag all of humanity along with them into eternal torment in the fires of hell, at least, all that they can manage. If only bodily death were the worst thing that can happen to a person! Slavery is what this has been all about from the Fall until this very day. When Adam disobeyed God, he implicitly made the Serpent greater than God, it was the very first act of devil worship. (When you obey A instead of B, your actions declare that A is greater than B.) The devil has spun a million yarns to distract us from the truth. "It's the evil capitalists!" "It's those damn Marxists!" "It's the PSYOPs!" "It's the 2-party system!" "It's the Illuminati!" "It's the gay frogs!" It's none of those things, and all of them. But behind them all is just one -- Satan himself, and his millennia-spanning system of universal slavery and death. The Gospel is about dismantling that system of perpetual slavery and death. POTUS is small-fry in that war, which is really the only war. Read Matthew 24, which is the first half of the Olivet discourse, 25 being the second half. 24 puts all of this in the proper perspective and removes all cause for hyper-ventilating over who is or is not POTUS. It can't matter that much if we can manage to exist for four years with a dementia-patient holding the nuclear codes, which I take as a heavenly hint that earthly affairs don't matter nearly as much as we're told they do.

I'm trying to find any middle/common ground for the sake of peace. If you want war, it's your funeral. Who smelt it dealt it.

Sure, I could support an RFK Jr. but he is a Democrat, he supports abortion, and so on. What I agree with in your comparison is that both RFK Jr. and Trump are external to the DC Swamp. Trump did not effectively defeat the Swamp as we had hoped, as 45. I agree that is a mark against him. So, between RFK Jr. and Trump, I'd say the pros/cons still break down in Trump's favor, but I will grant that it's not a black-and-white endorsement, and that's not a good thing. For example, Trump cannot utter a single word against the Fed, and that is very clear in the video where he remains steel-faced while the crowd is chanting "End the Fed"! But would RFK Jr. make a campaign promise to End the Fed, ban CBDCs or anything other than gold and silver being legally classified as money? I doubt it. And no, the vaccine is not the Mark of the Beast. Nobody had to worship Satan to get the vaccine. You're entitled to your opinion. I have rejected the 2-party system in the fullest possible way so, while you're entitled to your opinion, it also happens to be wrong.

Well, it must also be remembered that the LP is politically "porous", meaning, it's not as robust against the countless arts of infiltration practiced by the Big Leagues. So, D operatives could walk right in and no one would know the difference. That said, I do think there is genuine dislike of Trump among a sizable chunk of libertarians. Ls have a strong tendency towards idealism. If this were 2014 instead of 2024, I would have been booing Trump, but that was before Clown World. In Clown World, Trump is a super-genius and pretty much everything else he claims about himself. We have a man currently holding the nuclear codes who can hardly assemble and utter a single sentence of intelligible English. That's not a high bar to jump. And while the idealist objection, "But that shouldn't be the standard!" is a valid objection, please point us to the other alternative. Who is the candidate out there that, by any means, can raise the kind of populist energy that Trump has raised, and who is at least libertarianism-friendly? I also reject the lesser-of-two-evils trick that the two-party oligarchy is playing on us, but in the current political moment, I see no one besides Trump who is viable and not openly hostile to America, traditional American values and American liberty.

It's an objective fact that the LP are losers at the national level. We don't need to dwell on it and get all black-pilled, but if you're going to boo Trump for taking the time to come and speak at your convention, so you don't have to go to a regular rally with everybody else, then don't whine and cry when he points out that you're losers. Fair is fair...

:rolleyes: Well, if the second coming is right around the corner, it won't matter if we have a seat. And if the Lord should tarry, then yes, I prefer to at least have a seat in the cabinet of POTUS which, for all its evils, has got nothing on the prince of darkness. I mean, do you have any better ideas between now and November? There's 2028, as well, so I'm not opposed to planning from scratch for that. Or even 2032. But there have to be some positive, concrete ideas including path-to-success. "Educating people" is not it, at least, that's not what the LP should be doing. The Mises Institute has been quietly seeding the conditions for a true revolution for liberty in this country for decades. The LPMC takeover of the LP is a fruit of that labor. And because of this, the LPMC understands that the job of the LP isn't to "educate", it's to effect political change in the direction of liberty, at all levels of government, everywhere across the nation, in the most effective way possible. We're not interested in "ramming liberty down people's throats"; the purpose of education is to get them to want it again; and the purpose of the LP is to get all the liberty that the market will bear.

:eek: Isn't it amazing!

That is possibly the most OCD music I have ever seen. Respect due to the sheer magnitude of it... For fast, technical keyboard work (by humans), I enjoy Hamelin... More generally, my favorite era is late-romantic/early-modern piano...

This was so much better than a normal political rally. There was real energy in the room, real engagement, etc. I can tell Trump felt like he was reaching for a life-ring a few times in his speech, but it's worth paying that price to engage with vibrant political energy that isn't just personality-cult. I'm willing to bet that many who booed Trump in that crowd are going to end up voting for him in November due to his promise to commute Ulbricht's sentence. Also, his promise to put a libertarian in his cabinet is unprecedented, to my knowledge, no R/D candidate has ever promised that. So, that's a guaranteed win for the LPNC, it's a no-brainer. We just don't have the numbers to get our own POTUS candidate elected to anything more than a footnote in the 2024 election. Getting a libertarian in the WH at the secretary level is real power, at the Federal level. The LP would be retarded not to take that offer. Of course, the contrarian-libertarians are going to "stand on principle" anyway, and nothing can be done about them. Just my opinion. I would much rather actually have a seat at the table than just cheer from the sidelines and hope that the libertarian voice is heard in a Trump 47 administration. Everybody with an ounce of sense should be able to see that this is a great bargain for libertarians, as a party.

What intensity? Here's some intensity... Turn up the subs for this one:

*snicker*

8PM Eastern https://lnc2024.com/schedule

Even if they were "true believers", you can't be a body of criminal pirates and rebels, and call yourself a religion. The true believers within Satanism (yes, there are "believing satanists", aka devil worshipers within Satanism) believe and teach the precise opposite of the 10 commandments, including that murder, robbery, rape, and so on, are laudable and demonstrate one's worthiness of power. No belief that conforms to such avowed evil can be a protected belief and no organization which holds, promulgates and acts according to such beliefs can be mistaken for a religion in the sense of the 1st Amendment. The Satanists aren't just trolling the churches, they are gaming the First Amendment because the real agenda is to get rid of it. Satan and his henchmen didn't feed Christians to the lions in the Coliseum for a laugh, they fed them to the lions to send a message. This is the same crew from 2,000 years ago. They hate the 1st Amendment and they want to destroy it because it's in their way...

I never knew I needed a pine-tree flag. Now I do...

BUT WHO WOULD BUILD THE RO...

Quality of all forms of food service tanked during COVID. What were customers going to do, complain? People keep talking like communism is something that "could happen here"... no, communism is already here, in full-force, people just have their heads so buried in the sand they don't even realize what's actually going on. The mere act of distinguishing between "essential workers and businesses" versus "non-essential workers and businesses" is all the proof you need that full-blown Soviet-level Marxism in America is a fait accompli. If your government can tell you that you are a non-essential worker, or that your business is a non-essential business, and shutter you or have you fired, your government is a communist government, full-stop. We are long past the point where dissolving the DC government is legally and morally justified under the Constitution and Holy Scripture. The government there is an alien occupying force, and this fact is evident on its face. We The People simply need to wake up and drive these 21st-century Redcoats back to hell where they came from...