When contacted by Independent Political Report to ask if she wanted to comment on the allegations made in the letter, McArdle responded on Thursday evening, declining to address questions and instead replied, "Give my regards to your Luciferian Masters."
About as snappy as a bowl of rice krispies.
(Side note: I don't know why Independent Political Report is one of "those" websites that won't let you copy text. It's a PITA to do a "save as" text files and then open it in Word, but it's doable easily enough, so it's not like they're stopping anything. You also cannot right-click to open individual pieces in new tabs, which is another PITA. If this is being done for the clicks, IPR, well Ghostery has your number.)
Meanwhile. the LP also may or may not have had its Facebook page hacked by the Russkies or another foreign actor. And, McArdle's reaction is hilarious. Per a commenter at the link, no, Angela, the FBI indeed doesn't even give two shits about the LP.
As I commented there:
Per Jack, it does check out, and the Eff Bee Eye does promise a follow-up response. Assuming the letter is genuine, the feds do not say what, if anything, the hackers did, if it's actual hackers and not just a foreign log-in or whatever.
So, let's all go to the LP's Facebook page and see if it has an posts that might be even more head-scratching than normal in the last six months.
Wait, WAIT!
Did McArdle not talk about Luciferian masters here at the IPR in the request for a party fiscal audit? Would Satan not be a representative of a foreign government? There's your answer, folks; thank me later, Jordan.
Angela is as McAwful as non-relative (I think) Megan McAwful.
I'd said the Green Party was past its best-buy date after the 2020 election season. I held out for four more years than the likes of Brandy Baker and Mark Lause, the latter formally noting the party was dead after 2016 (and Stein's lesser evilism recount, also getting initial mention in that link). I did mention, in a 2016 postmortem, things that needed to be improved. And, they weren't. Add in the various transgender/transsexual issues, which culminated with my saying "a pox on both your houses" (which I say as a non-twosider on this issue in general) and the nuttery of "identity movement Greens" (and don't forget censorship on the GP Facebook group before it was closed) and I am an ex-Green. And kind of hoping for it to implode more.
The Libertarian Party is trying to join it on an accelerated timeline. And, doing a damned good job of it.
For more on that, read this Substack by an ex-Libertarian (who works at Cato, re his bona fides) who escaped when the Mises Mice took over. Part of the value of the piece is documenting HOW the Mises Mice did that takeover. That includes drawing a bright line from Ron Paul's racist Rockwell newsletters.
As for the financial side? This, from that:
More than a fifth of the national party’s dues-paying members have left in the past year. That proportion is probably even greater among those who were active members, participating in campaigns and party business. In short, a party that proclaimed freedom of association as one of its core principles, in the end was destroyed because it was unwilling to exercise that fundamental right.
Yeah, you lose one fifth or more of your donors, you're in trouble.
Update, April 16: MoJo has a long, long form about the history of the LP, which includes noting that the Ron Paul-tards are in many ways the forerunners of the Mises Mice, but that the strains within the LP go even further. In what would make the Mice shit bricks today, the Koch brothers backed a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as presidential nominee in 1984, but when he lost, they moved on from day-to-day interest. Among links to the piece is one from Reason mag, which also says this split is part of a 50-year tension.
Update, May 4: Trump has accepted the Libertarian National Committee's invite to speak at the convention. (But there may be a hitch.) Will that, and the grift the LNC is trying to do off that, be enough to replenish diminished coffers?
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Denny the Dwarf Kuchinich, after having been fired as Bob Jr's campaign manager several months back for Kennedy nepotism reasons (one of the few in-laws or other relatives of RFK Jr that still tolerates him) is now running for Congress as an independent. In attacking a WHO "global pandemic treaty," he shows why he was willing to work for Bobby in the first place. He compares it to the WTO. What, are we trying to block the importation of cheaper germs?
In reality?
- It would not "surrender sovereignty."
- It's based on already existing WHO-generated agreements.
Or, per the link above:
It would be only the second such health accord after the 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty which aims to reduce smoking via taxation and rules on labelling and advertising.
However, the proposed pandemic treaty has come under fire on social media, mostly from right-wing critics warning it could lead to countries ceding authority to the WHO. The body strongly refutes this, stressing that governments are leading the negotiations and are free to reject the accord.
If anything, at least if enforced, it would point at China's secretiveness on All Things COVID, if anything.
Denny the Dwarf, as nutters as ever. And, while not quite a Bernie ⇒ Trump guy like that Goodman dude, he is a Bernie (I assume) ⇒ RFK Jr. dude.
As for the Bob Jr. tie otherwise? Denny IS an "antivaxxer under other color." (My phrase.) Or maybe just a straight-up one, being that blatant an enabler of Bob Jr.
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