John Fugelsang tweet:

[tblue37]

"Libertarian" is Latin for "Embarrassed Republican."

Link to tweet

[MLAA]

1. I didn't think you could embarrass someone who is still a Republican today!

😬

[Wounded Bear]

12. They do seem to tend toward an absence of shame...

[Ocelot II]

2. I'd always heard that a Libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke weed.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Yep.

That's how I heard it, but Fugelsang might have the revised definition for the post Trump era.

[KS Toronado]

9. All the Libertarians I've meet wanted 2 things

Lower taxes & legal weed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. I first heard that from Thom. It has proven correct all these years later.

[CousinIT]

3. He nailed it. I've always said:

Libertarians are just Republicans who don't want to admit it.

[czarjak]

4. My libertarian cousin votes Republican and then swears he's not one.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Yeah, a lot of them just want cover...

so they can say they don't like either party. Then they vote straight repub.

[piddyprints]

6. I've been saying that for years...

Ever since my sister voted for Junior in 2000 and then said she was a libertarian.

[TeamProg]

7. And "Republican" is Latin for "Embarrassed Libertarian"

see: Rand Paul

[BlueJac]

8. K&R

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. OMG, that is so perfect.

[calimary]

14. Of course it is!

That’s what someone says when they don’t want to admit they’re Republican.

[peggysue2]

15. Libertarian is just another word for selfish

I've got mine, I feel fine and the hell with you!

[TheBlackAdder]

16. A Libertarian is the most self-affecting form of Republican. They are only out for themselves.

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If anyone else benefits from their actions, it's purely coincidental.


Libertarianism is not a REAL viable political party, it's just a collective of takers and self-absorbed assholes. They are the main takers of public money, seeing whatever they can plug into as somehow 'deserved' while programs they can't plug into are somehow a 'tax' that they must pay.


They are so into themselves, as suffering from multiple DSM-IV symptoms (borderline personality, sociopathy, narciccism, etc.), that there has not been one successful Libertarian society of any kind, whether it be country, state, commune, whatever. Libertarians all want to be the main person and not be told what to do, so eventually there will be in-fighting and faction within the group. There will always be the Top Dog and the rest have resentment.


Also, they must take from others, so in society they try to seize power and assets from others.

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[Paladin]

17. Bullseye, as usual. (nt)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. I remember a couple Repub acquaintances who swung Libertarian back at the end of the Dubya days.

They swung back later after the smoke cleared.

[liberalla]

19. YES! That's a great one! and very fitting at this time!