In this edition, a libertarian who voted for Trump is surprised that Trump is going after Thomas Massie and Rand Paul.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    11 hours ago

    If the presidential election were held today – with the same candidates – I would sit out.

    That’s wild. Wanting to turn back time, not in order to make a difference - but in order to avoid making a difference?

  • rodneylives@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    13 hours ago

    There is absolutely no excuse. It’s not like he was an unknown quantity. No amount of disdain is too great for these people.

  • Garbagio@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    Tl;dr: Massive dipshit is mad other massive dipshit is another kind of stupid. It’s like a hippie anti-vaxxer being big mad at a religious one for insulting their crystals.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    no, you wernt swindled, you know hes a scam artists, and you allowed yourself to be scammed to feel good. why do you think conservative people fall for scams all the time, they believe they can get rich or something out of it, even if they have a high chance of not getting anything, and they would keep going for the same scam, because they think it will be different or he was kidding.

  • etherphon@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    If only there were some evidence that this man was a COMPULSIVE LIAR before, we could have been spared. Oh well.

  • khepri@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    That’s weird, because libertarians hate handouts, welfare, regulations, and the Fed in general. All things which Trump is doing a fantastic job of burning down so him and his buddies can loot the corpse of our dying empire. Seem like the libertarian dream actually, where all that matters is how much can you snag for yourself before someone else does. If you can’t compete in an open free market, then just kindly die and reduce the surplus population.

    • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago

      Libertarians are just conservatives that are too chickenshit to commit to the bit, so they hide behind a different title to distance themselves.

      If it helps, think of them the same as how a “pescatarian” pretends to be a vegetarian. They’re a carnivore that won’t commit to the title.

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    My lord libertarians are retards. It’s like they have the memory of a goldfish. I just wish stupidity was terminal in their case.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    “I voted for Trump. I feel completely swindled.”

    You know what would make you feel better? Voting for a Republican again.

    Seriously, fark these MAGA “buyers remorse” stories. They haven’t learned a damn thing.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago

      But haven’t you heard? The left is way worse for reasons that I’ll either fail to put into words or don’t sound half bad when I say them out loud!

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago

      “Golly Jee, I keep sticking my hand in this fire and burning myself… but the fire is so warm, surely this time it wont burn me-AAAAHHHHHH” - Typical Republican Voter.

  • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    The only thing Trump did do was pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, which I am very grateful for,

    R… really?

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      19 hours ago

      He promised he would to the Libertarian Party for their votes, at a major Libertarian rally/meeting which he was the VIP guest of before the election.

      What’s really shocking is that he actually followed through on his promise.

      Weird that this was their big ask, though: pardon the international darkweb drug website guy, because freedom means I put whatever I like in my body with no regulations; be that a fairly harmless bag of weed or deadly research drugs from China or Russia. Why not, say… Federal legalisation of weed? Or something else that would benefit them all in their lives…

      Nope: 11641

  • ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    Saw a quote once that describes this pretty well: “Libertarians are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 days ago

      American style libertarianism is incoherent. It’s just Republicans who smoke weed and sleep in on Sunday.

      Even Ayn Rand saw through their bullshit, calling them “anti-capitalist” because she understood that capitalism requires a strong State.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 days ago

      Yup. When you think about it, if you were really libertarian you’d have an electric car and maybe stand up a wind turbine and some solar panels in your yard. That way you wouldn’t be dependent on complex oil refineries and a global oil system, the majority of which is directly owned by foreign governments.

      But how many libertarians actually do this? Really libertarianism is about a vague feeling of distrust in the government and it doesn’t actually go any deeper than that.

  • NABDad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    Morgen Mogus, Parker, Pennsylvania

    Great. Another Pennsyltucky moron.

    Given how uninformed he is, perhaps it would be best if he just sat out all the elections.