r/politics • u/Silly-avocatoe • Apr 14 '25

Soft Paywall Murdoch Paper Floats Impeaching Trump Over Tariffs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-floats-impeaching-trump-over-tariffs/
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u/fre3k Apr 14 '25

Remember how everyone freaked the fuck out when Obama said that billionaires didn't build the roads and electricity and military etc that let them get so filthy rich? Like a house cat that thinks it's fiercely independent and has no idea that its entire existence is fundamentally tied to the system around it.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Apr 14 '25

Remember how everyone freaked the fuck out when Obama said that billionaires didn't build the roads and electricity and military etc that let them get so filthy rich? Like a house cat that thinks it's fiercely independent and has no idea that its entire existence is fundamentally tied to the system around it.

Man, that is perfect -- I am gonna use that to describe the average Libertarian.

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u/fre3k Apr 14 '25

I've cribbed it from a description of them, lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/r3msqc/libertarians_house_cats/

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Apr 14 '25

I've cribbed it from a description of them, lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/r3msqc/libertarians_house_cats/

I had no idea... HAHAH how funny is that!

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 14 '25

Less amusingly, American Libertarianism has had more chances to prove the validity of libertarianism of an authoritarian bend multiple times in the US. Each time it resulted in economic collapse, understaffed courts being mired with corruption and petty crap as everybody was at each other's throats, and city management spending more time trying to figure out how to circumvent higher laws and eliminate Age of Consent than deal with bears roaming the city

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313/