Rand Paul votes yes on tougher sanctions of Iran:
Voted yes on massive military defense budget:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/12/rand-paul-votes-in-favor-of-631-billion.html
Voted yes on Feinstein amondment to NDAA which (allegedly by some rights groups) doesn’t fix the NDAA and in fact might make it worse:
http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-americans-indefinite-detention2012-11?0=defense
Rand Paul, I am disappoint.
Sure would be interesting to know why the guy flew off the handle in the first place.
Rand Paul is a Republican Party loyalist and a nationalist, quite unlike his confederalist and independent minded father.
Did anyone else besides me read that he has plans to take a trip to Israel too?
He’s in the pockets of AIPAC I think.
Anyway, his father is the Natural One %, he has the same Meyer’s psychological type as Jesus and Jefferson did so it’s unlikely his son would have the same type. His father truly was a gift from Nature’s God… too bad too many people rejected Nature’s Gift.
Even if we had a monarch who was the natural 1%, he would still get compromised because he would care for too many people for there to be a world of peace and anarcho-confederalism.
How the hell can his dad let him pull this shit? If my son were acting out like some sort of Neo-con punk then I’d take a page out of the Simpson’s book of parenting.
Edit
SM,
I do love what “going of the handle” constitutes around here 
It is interesting to wonder how it is “at home” between father and son. Maybe when Rand entered politics the two came to some kind of understanding that he would be independent and the two wouldn’t fight each other over their positions?
@ Neodoxy
i dun get it
And I used to like The Simpsons until I found out it was progressive…and the show started to suck as it’s animation grew better.
SM,
My point was that “off the handle” on this website is the same as mainstream Republicanism everywhere else.
Oh. Yes.
Also, this will derail the thread, but why is it that so many libertarians like the movie “Fight Club?” After I saw it, my conclusion that it was anti-capitalist even by our definition of it.
Classic Simpsons isn’t partisan and there’s heaps of libertarian themes in there. The writer of the most Simpsons episodes, John Swartzwelder, is a libertarian. Avoid episodes after season 12, though. There are very few good ones in there, and it becomes more and more left wing.
A real example of left-wing shit is Family Guy. The show was nice before it got cancelled, but afterwords, Seth Macfarlane just used it as an outspeaker for his liberal views.
An old halloween episode around Clinton and Dole:
Alien as Bob Dole: “It’s a two party system. You have to vote for one of us!”
Aliens laugh
Audience Member: “I think I’ll vote for a third party!”
Alien as Bill Clinton: “Go ahead, throw you vote away!”
Aliens laugh.
I still like the simpsons. Seasons 17 and 18 started to get better and they arestill alright to very good. Lisa is only wrong half the time (she’s always been anti-gun). But Groening loves Al Gore (Futurama) and hates Nixon (Futurama).
I really love watching Futurama, but everytime Al Gore’s head appears it makes me cringe.
Fight Club is in a way anti-capitalist, but it’s much more than that. The ideas of Tyler Durden’s philosophy aren’t promoted by the author as being correct and nor are the ideas of Jack (or the narrator)… the author feels that people should seek a balance between extremes.
People want to bash movies and art of any kind on these forums just for being anti-libertarian, but I don’t think that does the art justice at all. Fight Club isn’t just some anti-capitalist message, it’s a guide for boys becoming men in a consumerist world. In fact it’s not so much anti-capitalist as it is anti-consumerism. And by anti-consumerism, I don’t mean to say that it promotes owning nothing at all, but more that it promotes not going out and “working at a job you hate just to buy shit you don’t need.”
Fight Club has some good messages. You take some, you leave some.
Quotes aren’t working for me, but that was meant to be directed at SkepticalMetal
I see. You know, ever since joining the libertarian movement I’ve felt the need to restrict myself on what types of art I can and can’t enjoy.
Yeah I think it’s safe to say that not only is the message anti-consumerist, Tyler Durden’s philosophy is also meant to be horrifying. I wouldn’t read too much anti-capitalism into the movie.
Re: “Sure would be interesting to know why the guy flew off the handle in the first place.”
The key is that he was never there in the first place.
Am I the only one who thinks Seth Macfarlane looks like Peter Brady? Ever seen the two of them together? Hmm
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
@ Groucho
Wow.
But yeah, I’m very much convinced now that Hollywood has a liberal agenda. Nowadays you see frauds like Sacha Baron Cohen humiliating the face of the libertarian movement by tricking Ron Paul.