re: Like to hear the libertarian reaction to Trump's handling of Iran...

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See, this is one of the biggest problems libertarians have. They're not grounded in reality.

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the "WE ARE BEING INVADED" crowd isn't exactly ground in reality, either

you have people who are complaining Trump hasn't ended birthright citizenship with an EO for Christ's sake

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EXACTLY.

The same "conservatives" who claim to worship the text of the Constitution will go through rhetorical gyrations worthy of a circus contortionist to assert that the 14th Amendment does not say what the 14th Amendment SAYS in perhaps the clearest and least-ambiguous language in the entire document.

It is OKAY to say that you do not LIKE what the 14th says and that you would like to see it changed or repealed. Just don't act like one of the "living document" advocates and try to make it say something that it clearly does not say.

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saying "we need to change the rules" doesn't mean "frick the rules". remember, you are also arguing "we need to change the rules" as well

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Change the wording on your website, instead of defending why these maggots illegally cross and then suck at the teat.

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AGAIN with the inability to grasp that MANY libertarians think the LPA is FoS.

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So how do we address the problem realistically?

Step 1:

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the republican party purges all the half assed conservatives

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Step 2: Control Congress.

Step 3: Profit.

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TDPT "conservatives" cannot seem to grasp that "purging" everyone they consider to be a "RINO" would result in a GOP appealing to about 10% of the populace.

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Uh.. no. Why should I be liable for what government steals from all of us when I’m the one who opposes government while you support its existence?

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Because you choose to tilt at windmills, instead of falling in with the people who want to actually do something about the problem.

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do you advocate accelerating that destruction from debt and sloth, by allowing criminal illegals to walk over our southern border, or do you advocate minimizing or slowing down that destruction, by doing everything possible to keep criminal illegals out of our country?

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I advocate avoiding brain-dead-stupid binary choices.

I interact regularly with our "illegal alien" population, and I think it is largely hard-working and productive. In fact, I greatly-prefer them to a significant percentage of our native-born population in every way from work ethic to food and music choices.

There is no evidence that they vote in significant numbers or any evidence for the vast majority of the claims made against them (crime, etcetera). I think that most of the xenophobia we see against them (as here) comes largely from people who have little to no contact with them and who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

In VERY short form, I think we should have an extensive and accessible guest worker program with vetting of participants for criminal history and easy access for those without a criminal record. The guest workers should not be granted an accelerated path to citizenship. Their children should not be granted automatic citizenship unless the other parent is a citizen, and children of TWO guest workers should not be entitled to any governmental benefits (including education).

The guest workers themselves should not be entitled to access to any federal entitlement program, and each state should be able to decide for itself whether they would have access to state programs.

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AGAIN with the inability to grasp that MANY libertarians think the LPA is FoS.

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Then why are you a libertarian ?

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Why in the frick would I want to be a libertarian ...?

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Clearly, you do not. Which is fine, because we don't want you either.

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You can't be conservative if you support a candidate that is endorsed by the Libertarian Party

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Depends upon what type of "conservative" you are. Social conservative? Clearly not. Fiscal conservative? Probably so. Limited government "conservative?" You probably ARE a libertarian to at least some extent.

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I interact regularly with our "illegal alien" population, and I think it is largely hard-working and productive.

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It doesn’t matter if they are hard working, productive, attractive, repulsive, fat, skinny, mean, or nice. They are illegal aliens. The government of their native countries would not allow you to do in their country, what they are doing in yours. Most likely, they would throw your arse in jail.

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There is no evidence that they vote in significant numbers or any evidence for the vast majority of the claims made against them (crime, etcetera).

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I’m not responsible for the vast majority of claims, or even know what most of those claims state. What we do know is that they do in fact vote, they are in fact included in the census, therefore making those states more powerful in congress, and they do in fact commit heinous crimes against citizens and others.

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if it wasn't, and we just got lucky, this was way too aggressive and close to Iraq Vol. 3

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You are very naive, my friend. There is no luck involved when it comes to this type of national situation.