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Great stuff!

Isaiah 48: 16 -17 has a beautiful picture of Trinity

Boy, you sure hit the nail on the head with this one.

I see the logic here - but it would require a different legal change. The authority of police to take you into custody or seize your belongings (like towing your car) is based in criminal enforcement. To do so "for your own well being" becomes a constitutional issue - and a scary case of where they think the boundaries of 'your own good' may be. I don't *dis*agree with you - just saying it's not as simple as presented, and the 'solution' raises as many issues as the 'problem'.

Driving w/o insurance isn't a crime either, but MADD made insurance mandatory precisely so drunk drivers could get it. Btw, you can't say you don't drink unless you *never* drink. If you drink at holidays or an occasional drink, you drink. Stop fudging. I had a friend who said she didn't drink. Then she had a beer. I'll never believe her about anything else. When I say I don't drink, it means I never, ever, drink. Lowering the blood alcohol levels won't change a thing. People who are going to drink and drive will drink and drive regardless. And a victim is anyone who has to take evasive action to avoid someone who got in the car after drinking. You don't need to get drunk for it to affect you.

libertarianism is always such a disappointment. You use narrow definitions and ignorance of human nature to formulate a specious argument encouraging reckless behavior and ultimately putting innocent people at risk. You are more concerned with ideas than with real people who live in the real world. Next time I see a recommendation from you i'll immediately click three dot menu and don't recommend channel.

MADD actually supports prohibition

This is one of the best discussions and logical arguments on TH-cam. Jim, you are courageous, humble, thoughtful and logical. I hope I can meet you in person someday. Long live the NAP.

A crime requires a Victim, leading to just compensation. Yes, this is logical. Revenge is an emotion that misleads, e.g., the desired/expected result is never what is acquired, after reflection. I was permanently disabled in 1978 by a reckless driver. My life has been shortened, years lost immediately afterward and still I suffer daily. The driver was released without punishment. After 36 years I looked her up. She divorced, then died of cancer. I was disappointed. I wanted to ask her if she knew what she did. She didn't visit me in hospital or ever communicate. Now, at 82, I realize this was not my worse loss. My only friend died after his cousin ran off the road, crashing the car in a ditch, 1954. It haunted my dreams every night for 5 years. My takeaway: I found a way to live. I overcame. Nothing else matters. I wasn't hurt by the fact that the perps didn't suffer. I didn't need revenge.

Wow. It's a hard case to make, but you did it. Your personal connection to the issue is also quite moving.

I agree! One mistake though. By using the name of Trump for both sides you kinda did the same thing you're trying to counter.

I loved this. I'm an herbalist and a member of an herbalist's guild (the American Herbalists Guild) and I think this kind of private association is the best way to ensure good practice. But as for the issue of drugs I want to share a dream I had about 20 years ago. I was standing guard at the door of a prison cell, but the cell was more like a bank vault. The walls were very thick and the door was huge and heavy. There were two prisoners inside. One kept drying to open the door and walk out and i kept having to tell him to go back inside and kept shutting the door. The other, however, simply walked through the wall and escaped. I was given the interpretation as I woke up. The prisoners were drugs. The jail cell was government control. The substances people use to numb their physical and emotional pain, such as alcohol and cannibis, were represented by the prisoner who walked through the walls of the cell and could not be contained. I was told that people will always seek some way to numb there pain and no amount of government control will every put a halt to that. The other represented hardcore drugs. Again, the government (represented by the cell) couldn't contain them. There were always legal loopholes and problems that would open the door to these things. But I, as the guard, represented the community of people who care about each other, and it was only me, as part of that caring community that could help to restrain the use of these substances. I've never looked at the problem the same way since that dream.

God bless this man.

You gotta talk to JIll Stein as well.

Well, I guess as an American, you have the choice to waste your vote on a libertarian who’s never going to do anything, Wow!

Thanks for spreading Chases message!

I first heard His voice during a complete nervous breakdown, attempted suicide. He brought my attention to my children and said, "What about them, how is you dying this way going to affect them? You need wisdom." (wisdom a word I would not have thought on my own) I stopped and just cried and cried, "I need help, I need wisdom." over and over all the to the Crisis Stabalization Unit (psyche ward) A series of things happened there to prepare I wont go into but on the 3rd day, I had a meeting with my husband and Dr to talk about my condition and I had been fearful thinking he would never forgive me and would probably waant to divorce me. When he came into the room, he acted like nothing happened and gave me a big hug lifting me up off the ground. At that moment I heard "Jesus" then "You are blessed. Everything is going to be okay because you're okay." And was healed at that moment of all fear and depression. Ai went home filled with His love and joy unspeakable and full of glory. All I wanted to know this Jesus [that I knew was 1000% unconditional LOVE, without any doubt already] but I went to the Bible and it confirmed what I already about his love but learned about the trinity etc. All that to say, He revealed Himself in me at a literal psyche ward as Mr. Kruger said. He meets us where we are in our darkness. Thank you for all you do to share the truth!✝️❤️‍🔥🙌♾️

great content!

Very interesting discussion.

Politics = war, hmm. This means - this _implies_ , and let's remember how-strong of a word that actually is - that _the existence of a state carries with it a cold civil war_ . It's not the only way such a thing can happen, and sometimes it stops being cold, but it _defaults_ to cold civil war; _that is its nature_ .

Would be interested to get some people's takes on another commentary from a practicing lawyer who normally isn't known for such bias, but... th-cam.com/video/xoJZu_EaDeM/w-d-xo.html

Supreme Court's power regarding constitutionality of laws: as you say, not explicit in the 1787 Constitution, but stipulated by the Court in Marbury v Madison. Strangely not only Hamilton in Federalist 78 (hardly surprising), but also (not with approbation) a reading of the Constitution by anti-federalists (Brutus).

I find it amusing (or hypercritical) of these expert worshippers to disparage Plato's Republic. Isn't this text (or a superficial reading of it) really the paradigm for what they ultimately desire?

This is essential commentary. Thank you!

I love that MSNBC types are fomenting about this! 😂

Good interview with Dr.Phil and RFK

A multi-billion industry fueling media and merch, and...shock...corruption. So important, the two controlling factions have built it into never-ending elections, like their never-ending war, too profitable for them to stop.

From 9 years ago...Top 5 Vaping Myths Exposed! th-cam.com/video/p8QzKer8akE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Z0gayuRYwEHwW09h

We must anchor liberty in truth for powering our self-governing pursuits into future freedom. Mt. Rushmore needs a facelift! Structures are toxic to liberty!

We were fighting in Austin, defending thousands of us mom & pop stores. They destroyed us. Juul was skewered, grilled, and fed to big tobacco. FDA just gave first vape approval to Juul now that big tobacco owns it. WE live this, my channel on you tube has our struggles captured. This, our industry, is only one!

Fear is where we are or chaos or hell on earth.thank Jim, Bill and Baxter.Honesty right there

Only a government run by totally righteous, Godly, empathetic and loving people can produce proper results for the governed. That's why it hasn't happened. Human nature isn't like that.

Sounds like the snookering going on Jan 6....huristically pondering...

Senior was Head of the CIA, remember...

Impact of our knowing the truth! Please share far and wide!!

'The Shack' is one of the worst excuses for a book I've ever read - 'Twilight' for middle-aged sadomasochists.

At around the 39:20 mark, Jim Babka criticized Dave Smith for saying that one of the goals of the Mises Caucus was to shed the Libertarian Party of its wokeness. Around 47:30, Jim said that everybody these days is into identity politics, which is a curse. So, wasn’t Dave and the Mises Caucus trying to get rid of this curse? When Dave talks about getting rid of the wokeness (identity politics), he isn’t saying that should be the ultimate goal of libertarians. He is saying that libertarians should be focused on selling liberty and not wokeness. But in order to sell liberty, the party has to rid itself of the people who are into identity politics, otherwise the liberty message won’t be there and it won’t sell. In 2020, the LP presidential candidate put much focus on virtue signaling to groups instead of opposing lockdowns and putting more emphasis on issues like war. It is looking likely that 2024 might not be much different, as the identity politics takes center stage. That is the point. We don’t need to shed wokeness for the sake of doing so. It is so that the LP candidate can represent a message of liberty instead of getting distracted with these culture war issues and spending time virtue signaling to various groups. If we are going to go back to a time of Harry Browne, then the party really does need to get rid of the identity politics. Everyone can be different, but that shouldn’t be the focus of the message except in so far that people should be free to live their life how they want as long as they don’t aggress on others. There hasn’t been anyone like Harry Browne since 2000 within the LP. There was Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, but of course he was running as a Republican and didn’t get the nomination. I wish there had been a Harry Browne running in the LP in 2024, but I am not certain that he would have received the nomination. That is why Dave is right that the party needs to shed its wokeness. It’s so that the party can get back to selling liberty.

Wow, great discussion. Babka is insightful. I sure wish I had him as a consultant on my Libertarian campaign for state rep. in WA!

Trump's presence at the LP Convention is a sign that we Libertarians have more power than we think we do. And of course we should not have nominated Trump or RFK jr. They are not libertarians. I'm really happy to be voting for Chase Oliver. Good job, convention attendees! :)

12:11 I'm a libertarian and I'm part of the right, and everybody else who isn't is a part of the wrong. Pthththththththt.

Oliver is the closest to a Rothbardian candidate we've had in years. It's good to see that the Randian "objectivist" faction is fading in influence.

Well, Trump is an authoritarian buffoon....

Trumps appearance at the convention made many people AWARE that there is a Libertarian party....many had no idea.

This was an amazing move by Angela, but a terrible move by the delegates. Chase is the worst pick of all, you'll get less than 1% guaranteed. There's already 3 other left wokesters to choose from in this election. This could have been a 4 way election cycle if Dave and Clint were the nominees. Now RFK jr will get more in one cycle than this party ever has. What a failure after the greatest 4 yrs to show ppl why they needed something new, and yall want to give them the same rebranded crap.

I disagree. If you are a republican, living in a blue state, or a democrat, living in a red state - your voice doesn't count towards anything. How is this fair? Do people need to move to swing states, if they want their vote to count? Right now these few swing states choose the destiny of the whole world (not exaggerating). But I do agree that the voting system can be changed in even more ways to make it even more fair. Like being able to vote for several candidates at once, or ordering the candidates from the most preferable to the least preferable. This way, the 2 party system could be cracked and more people can be better represented.

now I need some Instant Grace about the problems of direct election of Senators. I know you have it in you.

I joined the LP in Reno, 1973, attended 3 POTUS nominating conventions, two as a rep for Nevada. My best friend, Karl Bray, could have easily won the nomination, running as a tax resister. He was asked to attend a "secret" meeting with all the top libertarians, where they convinced him to "back off" because "now is not the time for a tax rebellion". They promised to back him when the time is right. The "time" for a tax revolt was ripe. I know because I attended a "Tax resistance" convention in LA, 1971. That's where I met Karl, who was the most popular speaker among the 1000+ male, elderly conservatives who had been "God fearing, proud tax payers" all their lives. They told story after story of the IRS making up charges, then extorting them. That group was enraged, betrayed, and wanted justice.

Trump is silencing the anti war people by sucking the oxygen out of the room.

It's sad to see a grown man with such deranged views on trump wen he is supposed to be a libertarian if you think trump should behave in court I'm from the UK and its obvious that it's a set up

These people are out of touch with what's happening to the middle class and poor in this country.