Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.
The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on his Truth Social site. The post says it was recorded Thursday on Long Island, where Trump traveled this week to attend a wake for a recently killed police officer.
In the video, two trucks decorated with giant Trump flags and altered American flags are driving on a highway. On the tailgate door of one of the trucks is the image of Biden lying horizontally, bound and gagged.
Trump has a history of sharing and promoting violent images featuring his perceived enemies.
I dont think any politician tends to do what they say, and trump is more braggadocios than most and will claim he will do more than he will by a long shot. But I can look at what he wanted to do, what he was stopped from doing, and what Biden is doing and see that I dont care about Trumps rude words when Biden is just so so shitty.
They both suck, just in opposite ways. Trump seems to forget that our country was and is built by immigrants, and Biden seems to forget that following the law should be rewarded, not breaking the law.
If I could vote for “empty seat,” I might just do it.
I am going to vote for the libertarian candidate. Of all the groups they are the most right about everything, and since I am in Idaho, it doesnt really matter who I vote for president.
Same, but I’m just south of you in Utah.
But it also kind of depends on who the libertarian candidate is. I’m not a fan of the Mises caucus, but Charles Ballay seems okay. It really doesn’t matter anyway, because the Republican candidate will win regardless (was pretty funny when McMullin took enough votes in 2016 and Trump got <50%).
What is your issue with the mises caucaus, I dont think they are perfect, but I dont know a group with a better grasp of economics, and they have good logic behind when they dont go along with traditional libertarian stances (like open borders).
They seem like right wing libertarians, basing things too much on property rights and less on the NAP. They just seem like conservatives that are okay with some recreational drugs and same gender relationships.
That said, they haven’t been in control all that long and their platform seems pretty decent on their website, so I’ll give them a shot.
I’m generally a fan of the Chicago School of economics (Milton Friedman), mostly because I think the Austrian School goes too far in allowing things to fail. I’m against Keynesianism though, and I like the idea of competing currencies.
I don’t know enough about what they believe, but I have seen some alarming articles about how they might be courting the more extreme factions of the Republican Party. Whether those fears are FUD remains to be seen.
I can see that critique being valid, but I dont necessarily think that being conservative is bad if it complies with the NAP, especially because being conservative is kind of vague. What I think is that they are essentially they are the party of The Pauls, Thomas Massey, and (maybe) Justin Amash, and when I look at their actions I rarely find things they have done wrong. If we look at Ron Paul, and the things he has been saying for decades, to the best of my knowledge he seems to be proven right every time.
If you podcast my favorites are “Part of the Problem” and “Liberty Lockdown”, those are both Mises caucus. I dont agree with everything, but they have a good rational behind their beliefs.
Yeah, definitions can be a bit squishy, and I have a lot of respect for those you mentioned. My concern, however, is that they’re courting people who may not actually support the NAP, which just gives a platform to the wrong sorts of people. But since they’re relatively new, all I have to go on are anecdotes about isolated units.
Some specific things I’m worried about (warning: No True Scotsman arguments):
Both can arrive at similar policies, but they come from very different sets of principles. Also, courting those on the right often means not courting those on the left. For example, I mentioned safety nets, which those on the far right are opposed to (taxation is theft), whereas those more on the left justify under the NAP (e.g. libertarian justification for Basic Income; similar program NIT is supported by Milton Friedman). So I’m worried that the more libertarians court those on the right, the more of our principles we’ll have to sacrifice or downplay to appease those newcomers, when there could be a workable middleground that goes in a common direction (e.g. replacing all welfare with Basic Income/NIT can reduce taxes and the scope of the state without screwing the poor/minorities). But that upsets those on the right (dislike cash handouts) and the left (want Basic Income in addition to current welfare programs).
Anyway, I guess we’ll see if the Mises Caucus can walk that tightrope.
I think you analysis seems to be accurate, it seems to well encapsulate the problem. I remember Milton talking about the negative income tax and I think it probably its probably the most pragmatic way to get out of our current welfare dependence issue.
My theory is that the libertarian party should be the party of “Hey, government takes your freedoms and your money, lets have less government.” I might want to federal government to be 1/10th the size, but thats not really a winning argument when most people have Government Stockholm syndrome and believe the government helps them, and it kind of does for some people.
I see what you are saying about how the libertarians are courting the right, but how do you believe that winnng over people on the left is actually viable? I feel like many of them are so far into the marxist and authoritarian camp that there really is no bridging that divide, and maybe the only way is influence them in our direction.