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On Monday, Tucker Carlson followed up his interview of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin with an appearance at the 2024 World Governments Summit in Dubai. Speaking with Egyptian journalist Emad Eldin ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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Usually it’s Republican politicians bragging that they’re “more libertarian than conservative” but this time it’s a former Democrat, Bobby Kennedy Jr., who’s reportedly thinking of running for president on the Libertarian Party ticket. This bizarre...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 08:32 AM PST
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The press is calling him a libertarian rather than a fascist, but in the model of Trump and Bolsonaro. The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/... Gedan believed there would be “a lot of buyer’s remorse in Argentina” if Milei pursued even a small fraction of...
by agoldnyc
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on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 08:18 PM PST
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Billionaire and immortality enthusiast Peter Thiel, who placed a quixotic bet on Donald Trump in 2016, is standing down this election cycle, promising�he won’t donate to Trump, or anyone else ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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World's richest man Elon Musk went on libertarian entertainer Joe Rogan’s podcast on Tuesday. In the clip below, Rogan tries to get Musk to open up on how he feels after one year of ownership of X (
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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The Washington Post says the two big winners of the first Republican debate were Ron Desantis (29%) and Vivek Ramaswamy (26%). In DeSantis, we see the GOP going full fascist with his assertion that he’s going to leave people at the border “stone-cold...
by thomhartmann
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 08:01 AM PDT
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“The me of things.” Once again a Gregorian, befuddled word choice is quintessentially the thing. DrSuessian even! Self-interest Uber Alles, even The Rules. And from that, as Shiv warned, “Things do happen, Rome.” As in the fall of Rome. And our own...
by maydon
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 09:43 AM PDT
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Today on Newsweek I saw this. The death of child abuse victims could be "a cost savings," because it would mean they don't need "government services" later in life. Republican David Eastman, who sits in the Alaska House of Representatives said this...
by coolspring
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 09:33 AM PST
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The libertarian paradise of Rio Verde Foothills is nestled out in the desert near Scottsdale, Arizona.�
It was formed specifically to avoid the rules and regulations required for civilized society, ...
by kos
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Libertarian Anti-Government, Authoritarian Prejudice, Vigilante Militance: Understanding Today's GOP The chaotic screaming and pushing surrounding Kevin McCarthy’s election as Speaker of the US House of Representatives hides the real politics behind the school-yard antics. Today’s far-right is a toxic alliance of two forces joined by anger and...
by semiller48
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on Fri Jan 13, 2023 at 08:35 AM PST
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While Kevin McCarthy’s struggle to become Speaker of the House of Representatives appears to be about personality and struggles within the House Republican caucus, it’s really about something much larger: the fate and future of American “big...
by thomhartmann
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 07:22 AM PST
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As 2022 came to a close- a hell of a year that started with our hospitals being crushed by Omicron, was pancaked in the middle by an unprecedented assault on the fundamental rights of every American ...
by SquireForYou
117 comments
on Tue Jan 03, 2023 at 06:41 AM PST
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One of the definitions of the word myth is; a widely held, but false belief or idea: like trickle down economics And that’s what we’re dealing with whenever we here the phrase/descriptor; Moderate Republican. There is no such creature. It doesn’t...
by TexDem
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on Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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This weekend Senator Pat Toomey went on Jake Tapper’s State of the Union to try to clean up Republican sabotage of a bill to provide healthcare to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn’t do himself or his...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 08:12 AM PDT
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One of the many museums dedicated to American history is Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate. This was the estate designed by Thomas Jefferson, built and worked by African American slaves. Monticello is one of the most famous slave plantations because...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jul 11, 2022 at 01:59 PM PDT
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On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same token if you begin reading this ongoing story on page...
by Partofthesolution
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on Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 06:59 AM PDT
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To answer this simple question, you need to know just one basic fact - they were in the pipeline business. Similar to many (and perhaps all) billionaire types, David & Charles have had a basic Gimme Gimme philosophy, and like other major greed-heads,...
by DaveElder
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on Thu Apr 21, 2022 at 02:33 PM PDT
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I want to call attention to an article that was just sent to me. It’s over four years old, but I don’t know who has been hiding it, or how it has escaped notice. The article is written by Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. It...
by sophiacat12
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on Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 09:23 PM PDT
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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly hinted that he will run again for President. He ended this month’s influential Conservative Political Action Conference saying, “Who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a third time.” Florida Governor...
by Nickjlicata
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on Tue Feb 22, 2022 at 04:58 PM PST
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The alt-right takeover of the Republican Party has brought conspiracy paranoia mainstream. The wacko-space alien ideas are still fringe phenomena, but a majority of Republicans have slid from questions about “how did Trump not win the election?” to a...
by semiller48
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 06:52 AM PST
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