Libertarian?

Here is a recent article providing an update:

Reason June 25, 2024

Here is the Oak Bay Starfish take:

TV newspeople will cover both major parties and whoever those parties nominate as a candidate. The press will be present on the campaign trail for both major parties. Made for TV debates will be hosted by TV newspeople and candidates from both major parties will be invited to these debates.

The press and the Uniparty prefer standard/more of the same politicians. These are the candidates the press is happy to see on the TV debate stage. We are talking Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, etc. The Uniparty and the press are not OK with candidates who may question the system or push back at interviewers and newspeople. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ron Paul, these are the candidates that will not be approved by the TV. Trump is most hated but he is in the very unusual position of being the protest vote who may also go on to take office. Really hot to handle, so the TV goes into months of coverage to do anything possible to trip him up.

The TV debates will feature questions that tend to be friendly to both major parties. Both major parties and TV networks will set up or change rules for the TV debates. Notice how football rules will not be changed months ahead of the next Super Bowl.

No Libertarian candidate on the TV debate stage

No Libertarian candidate will be seen on the TV debate stage. The debates are meant to be linked to voting, but when do we vote on decades on undeclared/unwon DOD wars? RNC/DNC candidates on the TV debate stage will not interrupt to ask: When do we vote on undeclared wars? The press will not bring it up. No libertarian is there to ask about it. The big party machines and TV news networks have already edged out any candidate who would ask.

Politics is controlled by majority rule.

The majority of people who vote will pick one of two major political parties to support each time a major election takes place. These two political parties will take turns in power.

Both of these major political parties are good with funding:

Decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars.

The US Dept. of Defense was established after WWII, in the late 1940s. DOD has a truly poor track record with undeclared wars.

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

Military aid packages for foreign governments.

Decades of undeclared/unwon DOD wars is now the norm. Look and see if the new military aid packages create any wave of enthusiasm to sign up.

What happens when American families no longer send the young ones to enlist and will not support a draft?

Some may say it is time to bring back a draft.

A Draft? – DOD Brand Has Been Wrecked

They tried that during the Vietnam War. They found out they had to stop.

Last time there was a draft, children were raised by the WWII generation, in families where Mom and Dad were married to each other.

Both major US political parties may be forced to downsize their ambitions for various overseas military operations. Things are slow over at the recruiting office.

Prediction:

The breaking point will come at the US Armed Forces recruiting office.

Breaking Point Will Come At The US Armed Forces Recruiting Office

There is no WWII generation to encourage new enlistments like there was back in the Cold War era of the 1980s.

A $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Twenty years of big US Dept. of Homeland Security spending and more cartel product in Hometown, USA than ever before?

Welcome Home Troops

Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Newspeople avoid these questions:

Would the DEA be out of work if a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security was able to keep cartel product from showing up in all 50 states?

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Has local CBP created any shortage of cartel product in the Puget Sound area?

Homeland Security Is A Scam

Both major parties are good with:

Staged/scripted/made for TV debates crafted and agreed upon every time by the uniparty. Imagine reviewing and resetting football rules weeks before the next Super Bowl.

Telling us that undeclared/unwon wars are for your freedoms.

Has any member of the press ever challenged any elected official on the idea that undeclared/unwon DOD wars are for your freedoms?

In the news:

May 27, 2024 The New York Times

Biden Marks Memorial Day With Message About Freedom as Trump Lashes Out

“Gratitude to our fallen heroes,” he said. “Gratitude to the families left behind. And gratitude to the brave souls who continue to uphold the flame of liberty all across our country and around the world.”

Flame of Liberty?

Why do elected officials and high level DOD civilians speak of the US Armed Forces as if they function as some sort of giant civil rights organization?

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

Going back to the 1990 Operation Desert Shield,

How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?

Uncle Sam is having a hell of a time finding people to sign up for the US Armed Forces. Pretending that decades of undeclared/unwon wars are linked in any way with American freedoms is the kind of dishonesty that will snuff out the energy American families once had for encouraging young people to enlist.

Good luck with your US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.

As time goes on, American freedoms and the consumer choices we have are becoming more restricted by a combination of government and big business policies, not Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden or the next bad guy DOD will be going after in distant lands.

If The Troops defend American rights and freedoms, what becomes of those freedoms when the US leaves Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc., without a victory?

President Biden,

While the troops were deployed, federal law was signed prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to adults age 18-20.

Can you help us to understand the militarized version of freedom here?

December 21st 2019 KOMO News

Legal age to buy cigarettes, vapes raised to 21 nationwide

“Signed into law by President Donald Trump Friday as part of the new $1.4 trillion spending bill, a new measure prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.”

The day I graduated from high school, all 50 states could set their own minimum drinking age.

In 2024, after decades of military operations for your freedoms:

18-20 year old adults may not stop off at the mini-mart and legally purchase a six pack of beer.

National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984

What I like about Libertarian thinking:

The USA is home to a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place. Libertarians are good about having honest discussions.

Libertarians are good about maintaining a free enterprise system.

Both major parties will send The Troops to Iraq for your freedoms then require you to install only shower heads and toilets in your home that meet US federal government specifications. All this while preparing to celebrate freedom and independence from a powerful central government on July 4th.

New Federal Summer Food Programs

Free breakfast and lunch for any child through summer:

June 5th, 2024 KETV

Omaha Public Schools serves free breakfast, lunch through summer meals program

“Any child under 18 can take advantage of both programs.”

Libertarians might say:

Tax money- which some people intend to be used to help others via public assistance programs– also goes for bombing Iraq.

Helping others by donating to churches or private charities, food banks, etc. can avoid these conflicts.

Donors are free to opt out if a charity misbehaves.

People could keep more of their own money to donate to causes of their choosing if the federal government was not taking it to pay for wasteful programs.

Helping others by donating

Are Public Assistance Programs Working?

Mainstream Social Media – 2024

Seen on what used to be Twitter:

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Warning: These people are asking the questions that could be handled by real newspeople if they were on the job.

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

The press stopped asking questions a while back. People go to social media to share ideas. People are OK with basic rules such as:

No hate speech, insults, threats, foul language, attacking other commenters, etc. These are rules that make sense.

Today, social media posts are suppressed, filtered, censored and shadow banned. Will social media die out? What will become of the press?

Today, TV newspeople function like paid actors reading a script.

Mainstream TV News

Private citizens are stepping in and going out with a camera to see and document what is going on.

Instead of waiting for school teachers to teach about individual rights and limited government authority, waiting on the press to ask questions, or courts to handle cases, these guys go out and update us with a quick reality check.

Also not waiting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein or the take down of the next bad guy in distant lands, as DOD defends the constitution, etc.

Videos recorded at or outside of sites that are funded by the public seem to be best for documenting these issues.

Any TV newsperson could go out and educate the public on their rights/public official’s obligation to provide info, etc. That does not happen.

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society: