Posted on 05/27/2024 8:50:03 AM PDT by dayglored
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former President Trump made a surprise appearance at the Libertarian Party Convention yesterday, but was met with a chorus of boos after the dozens of libertarians present realized Trump was wearing deodorant.
"Boo! He smells good! Boo!" screamed Libertarian Party member Johnna Lundqvist. "It's very pleasant smelling, and I don't like it! Boooo!"
According to sources, Trump's speech got off to a rocky start when he mentioned the revolutionary concept of winning elections. "Winning elections? Boo!!" yelled libertarian Donald McAdoo along with tens of others. "Look, look, he's wearing a suit! His hair looks well-kept! Boooo!!!"
As Trump continued his speech undaunted, somewhere over the mixture of marijuana and body odor, the libertarians began to catch a new smell in their nostrils. "Hey, that doesn't smell like weed," said McAdoo. "That smells almost... refreshing, like cleanliness and lavender. Wait, is Trump wearing deodorant??? Boo!!!"
At publishing time, the libertarians had again booed Trump after discovering that he was wearing closed-toe shoes.
Libertarian Party Platform:
Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”, eliminate the Border Patrol and INS.
Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.
Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments full 9 months. Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.
Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science and marketers can come up with, zero restrictions.
Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.
Military Strength; minimal capabilities.
Hilarious.
I think the Libertarians took a real hit to their hippy party.
The screaming ones made all of them look like complete fools. Their choice of a candidate was the nail in the coffin.
Libertarians come in many flavors. Tom Woods is a Catholic libertarian historian who tracks largely on economic and religious freedom, non-interventionism in foreign policy, low taxes and less government/government spending as a general proposition. The libertarian president of Argentina is a GOOD guy.
Libertarians are food for 1-2% of the vote, and their votes count for as much as ours. Some of the intellectual economic libertarians would be useful in non-trade posts in the cabinet, and since they are used to losing, they are less likely to stab you in the back, though they might slam the door loudly on leaving a position. They WON’T work secretly with Paul Ryan.
Probably because a vote is a vote, and reaching out for votes from those who can be persuaded to vote for you is not a waste of time.
Preaching to the already-voting-for-you choir is entertaining but arguably less useful.
There’s never been nor will there ever be a society based on libertarian “principles”, where everyone gets to do as they please.
I find it ironic that people who detest government want to run for governmental offices.
I know it’s the Bee, but what is it with the Libertarian Party?
Like Milton Friedman was, I’m a small “l” libertarian, not a party member.
I think those guys are kind of crazy. They come across as French Revolution Jacobins.
First, the Bee. Always spot on and hilarious.
I’ve thought a lot about why he went there having watched it on Real America’s Voice Saturday night. There were certainly cheers, but a lot of booing and catcalling and the rest of the abuse that you throw on somebody you don’t like or don’t agree with. Trump just kept pushing ahead and once or twice said to them that they have the choice of getting their usual 3% or going with him.
In one respect, he’s fearless and will go anywhere. He proved it in 2016 when he went to a black church in Detroit and just the other day in the Bronx as one of the residents described it, “...he didn’t go to Riverdale. He came to the hood hood.” So going before the libertarians is essentially the same thing in going anywhere and delivering his message.
On the other hand, why would they care about getting more than 3%? If you’re in a party like the Libertarian party, and I was there in the 90s after the Republicans took over Congress and the Senate Republicans like Pete Domenici loudly proclaimed that the Contract with America was not theirs, you go into it knowing that you’re not going to get a lot but you’re trying to build something. It’s not an argument that’s going to sway most of them and so the only thing you can figure is that he’s trying to sway some of them and every vote matters.
Meantime, he found himself at NASCAR yesterday. Trump us truly the Energizer Bunny and that should really be the message coming out of going to the hood hood, going to the Libertarian convention, and then going to NASCAR plus whatever else he did in a four-day span. Contrast that with JoJo the Pedo Clown who’s eating popsicles and crapped his diaper over those four days just like every other four day span of his miserable existence.
Like Milton Friedman was, I’m a small “l” libertarian, not a party member.
I think those guys are kind of crazy. They come across as French Revolution Jacobins.
LOL
Every vote counts.
If I was Trump I would go to every NAACP meeting and Black caucus and talk about his record Black employment and how he feels about being the target of illegal political harassment. If he can persuade just a few percent to get off the DEM/KKK plantation it would be worth it!
Careful ‘bout getting into bed with Satan. There just might be strings attached.
Real Libertarians are no better than the leftist whackos out there. Society needs guardrails in order to function. Libertarians have no guardrails. It’s a free for all, anarchist party.
The article is not far from the truth. Years ago, a friend of mine in college abandoned the Libertarian chapter on campus when he learned that his girlfriend was being criticized by the women members because she wore makeup and not jeans but shorts and obviously shaved her legs. The chapter folded when the core membership moved to Idaho to join a commune of anarcho-lesbians who grew potatoes.
Trump’s Bronx audience was more civilized than these Libertarian critters.
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I think he spoke to these liberals in the same manner he hosted queers at Mara Lago.
A vote is a vote is a vote.
These libertarian booers reminded me a little of the old-time Philly sports "boo-birds", who, one year, actually booed Santa Claus! (Hear the story of that sad, sad day at this youtube link.)
Sounds kike democrats on steroids.
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