Via LP blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruz4c0vXgUk&feature=youtu.be
Nicholas J. Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee, responded to questions on RT TV after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.
“The Libertarian Party agrees with [the president] on a few points. We agree with him that we have to show more leadership by finishing the job of closing Guantanamo, we agree with the opening of relations with Cuba.”
“Where we disagree is this idea that we can again try and project military force around the world…”
“The President has also a number of proposals that expand the use of government, that expand the spending of tax dollars, that create subsidies — and we fundamentally disagree with that. We believe that the way that you make education more affordable is you let the free market work.”
Watch the interview here and read an article about the interview here
“It’s Estonia or bust. I have my reasons.”
Would it have anything to do with offering Prince Edward the throne and creating a constitutional monarchy if he would accept? 🙂
more…
Yes, Rothbard to agorism is his path:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ob2f5arcUI
GC, BS is iirc anti-party and anti-electoral political activities. I think he is a Konkinite/agorist type.
I got the vibe he is one angry dude. He’s only one of two who’ve un-friended me on Facebook. I don’t think he liked having his premises challenged, was my impression.
mp, well, alrighty, then. I stand corrected!
Grundmann is a theoretical asymptotic homosexual, and some of his very best friends are recovering homosexuals. He has no wife, ex-wife, kids, girlfriend, or ex-girlfriends that anyone knows of, lives in the San Francisco area with his elderly mother, and does chiropractic body work for a living. He doesn’t hate homosexuals, he is trying to share God’s love with them. I don’t know why anyone would think he has anything personal or hateful against gay people.
mp, that’s SO unfair! I don’t hate anarchists…not at all. I’m a theoretical asymptotic anarchist myself, and some of my best friends are anarchists. I do find it to be sloppy thinking, but it’s certainly nothing personal, unlike G and gays, which feels pretty personal and hateful.
Some more so than others.
Capozzi:anarchists::Grandmann:homosexuals
pf, true of everyone always, actually.
You may not realize how obsessed your fascination makes you seem.
L, yes, you do try to talk about other things, but what I am illuminating is how the NAPsolutist come-from often distorts your more here-and-now views. Language needs to be twisted to accommodate from the anarchist possibility, starting at least with the “governments, when instituted” language in the SoP.
I don’t think I’m obsessed per se, but I do find it all quite fascinating.
If only our black-flag-waving friends took that counsel to heart! They strike me as simply fixed on being not “of the world.” Perhaps they feel safe snuggled in their construct, with clean hands and pure minds, never needing to engage the world as it is.
Actually, many of us black flag types frequently try to talk about other stuff, but there’s this guy that always comes along and tries to bait us into arguments about the illegitimacy of the state.
He’s really rather obsessed with it.
Good job, Nick. You have a rather Zen-like presence, which nicely contradicts the frequent attempts to portray libertarians as a bunch of crazy maniacs.
I thought filibustering was a Senate thing, not a Press Secretary thing. But yeah, I can see myself in the Josh Ernest role – same first name and everything. I’d dig that.
I admire a man who knows what he wants.
It’s Estonia or bust. I have my reasons.
Katz gets Press Secretary for his ability to filibuster.
Passoli would be curator of the WH screening room. The Sarwark family never goes down there for obvious reasons.
Frankel could get Ambassador to Antigua if he asked and dreamed just a little bigger, darling!
Head of human resources for White House interns. I think that has interesting possibilities.
What do I get in the Sarwark White House? I’m hoping for Chief of Staff, but there’s a few other jobs I’d like. In 3 years, I’d like AG or a SCOTUS appointment.
Afraid? I’m not afraid. It’s the level of responsibility, pressure and diplomatic immunity that might suit me at this juncture in my life.
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
-Eames, in the film INCEPTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A_xzurN-Lc
I’ll settle for Deputy Ambassador to Estonia.
PF, sadly, you are not constitutionally eligible to be NS’s running mate! 😉
Director of Communications in the Sarwark White House, perhaps. Given your fluidity with Ebonics and urban slang, perhaps HUD Secretary…until it’s abolished.
I think plumbline is still understood in these parts if you prefer that term.
Maybe just a little 🙂
I’m an old school fool with a new school style
Tried and true and guaranteed to make you go wild
-Blaze
NS, ever gentlemanly. Perhaps 2020, then!
I just refuse to use “radical,” since I don’t find NAPsolutism to be radical at all. Maybe I’ll use “purist,” although, as you say, all labels have downsides. It seems to concede that there actually IS such a thing as “pure” L-ism.
NAPsolutist dogma seems more accurate, although dogma is a bit pejorative these days.
Ah, rhetoric! So exasperating sometimes….
I am already 35, though I consider it unseemly and inappropriate for a sitting LNC Chair to seek the Presidential nomination.
I think “purist” or “radical” are the current terms of art, or their opposite, “statist.”
The problem with all of these shorthand terms is that, like “fascist,” they both say more and less than they ought to. “Fascist” long ago stopped meaning much more than “asshole.”
pf, glad we agree. NS from president! 😉 Is he 35 by ’16?
I’m a fossil, I guess, still somewhat reeling from the cultish insanity of the LM’s earlier days and the terms then used.
Does plumbline work on the current L street?
I think Nick did a great job here.
And you may consider me to be one of your black flag waving friends who would not suggest that one is not allowed to acknowledge the existence of states and the relative merits of the policies they have to choose from.
KL (“kool [or oK], (talk to you) later” in chatspeak, per wikipedia).
NS, wonderful! If only our black-flag-waving friends took that counsel to heart! They strike me as simply fixed on being not “of the world.” Perhaps they feel safe snuggled in their construct, with clean hands and pure minds, never needing to engage the world as it is.
Kind of a nice existence, in a way….
Fun trivia fact: The pale blue book immediately behind my left ear is “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays” by Murray N. Rothbard.
In any event, I doubt even our black flag waving friends would suggest that one is not allowed to acknowledge the existence of states and the relative merits of the policies they have to choose from. For those familiar with Christian teaching, you may recognize the concept that one can be engaged in the world without being of the world.
perhaps “plumbline” is more current….
KL = Korrect Line, sorry. The term may no longer be used.
pf, absolutely, the media doesn’t allow for making each and every point. I take that into consideration when assigning my A/A+!
But, if you were NS’s handler, in the minutes before the interview, would you have counseled him to emphatically make the point that sanctions are acts of war, or would you have counseled him to answer as he did?
I found his answer well-framed and -measured, fyi.
And is diplomacy KL, or not? I wouldn’t think so, since that necessarily involves States, which are inherently aggressive.
(Yes, you could say that insurance companies can be “diplomatic” I s’pose, but I think the term in this context implies existence of States.)
Just curious….
And I don’t recall whether MNR ever praised the diplomatic process. Is that the KL?
Too many acronyms. I was following you up until the last one, but I don’t know what KL stands for. Couldn’t be Lesiak, and it doesn’t sound like it would be Kuala Lumpur, kiloliter, Kvenna Listin (Women’s List, a political party in Iceland), or Konzentrationslager (concentration camp).
Perhaps Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of the difference between two probability distributions?
I wonder if Rothbardians and others find this disappointing in that NS I believe didn’t make their point that sanctions are acts of war.
It’s called siege, which is a battle tactic going back to time immemorial. And there’s only so much a person can say in an interview of this length. I’e had much longer interviews where I forgot to make some points or didn’t get to them. So what?
I wonder if Rothbardians and others find this disappointing in that NS I believe didn’t make their point that sanctions are acts of war. And I don’t recall whether MNR ever praised the diplomatic process. Is that the KL?
A/A+. NS is at his best when he speaks. If GJ gets the nomination, he should hire NS as his speech coach.
He comes across as highly reasonable, and his spoken words here ARE highly reasonable. Might be a bit too lawyerly and dispassionate. But we remember that McLuhan said TV is a cool medium.