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While every liberal is toasting #NoKings day as an affront to #Drumpf

#ProPublica , Politico and others concede that the nation's actual cut throat commander in brief and deed is hardcore #RWNJ and avowed #ChristianNationalist #Federalist feudalist #OMB strategist #RussVought

Under his direction, the US has cut billions in so-called #humanitarian federal spending on things that irked #Libertarians like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and even #PresidentReagan's own initiatives like our now defunded #NGO created under his tutelage known as the #InstituteofPeace

https://www.youtube.com/embed/w1LuV82l0vs

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-russell-voughts-influence-and-his-push-to-reshape-the-government

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/18/the-king-of-the-shutdown-00614718

I only know who Chase Oliver is because
happened to watch their clown show convention where they almost elected no one for their presidential candidate

#Libertarians #ChaseOliver #USPolitics

I am glad the #Libertarians rejected both #DonaldTrump & #RobertKennedy.

#ChaseOliver appears to be a serious candidate who has surprisingly visited all 50 states in #America 🇺🇸.

👉🏾 Chase Oliver wins Libertarian Party presidential nomination https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/26/politics/libertarian-nominee-chase-oliver/index.html

‘#QAnon #shaman’ #JacobChansley #plans to #run for #congress. Despite being a #convicted #felon.

He was sentenced to 41 months in #prison but #served just 27 months before he was moved to a #halfwayhouse in #Phoenix.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Arizona #Conservatives #Extremism #Insurrection #Libertarians

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/15/jacob-chansley-qanon-sharman-congress-election/

"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda

For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/

These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network

And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society

Excellent investigations of these groups include

• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0

• Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores

• Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/

I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215

Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.

#DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway