Here’s my Trump at LP convention wrap, as LP presidential candidate Chase Oliver takes the stage and denounces “the neocon war criminal” and “charlatan grifter” who just spoke www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
“Trump sold gold high-tops at SneakerCon; maybe he can sell us gold dildos to f— ourselves with,” said Thomas Knapp, 57, a delegate from Florida.
Incredible reporting; thank you for this
The man in the dress and wig is Starchild, a longtime... fixture? mascot? eccentric?... well-known party member, I guess. Sex worker and decrim activist who always wears tutus and lingerie and things like that at conventions, going back decades. So not just some rando, all the LP regulars know him.
I get why Libertarians would want Ulbricht (and anyone else) pardoned on the drug dealing charges, but isn't facilitating computer hacking and the distribution of fake IDs a violation of other people's property rights? And didn't he get the heavy sentence because ...
... there was also evidence that he solicited murder for hire?
I suppose, though, I'm not surprised that former guy, who wants to pardon people who beat cops on Jan 6, is fine with pardoning the guy who probably attempted to commission murders (but was actually convicted for other things).
Yes and yes. He did both of those things, and the attempted murder-for-hire in particular was one of the acts that wound up helping the feds find him and nail him because he was so damn sloppy about it. But freeing him has been one of THE go-to LP pet issues of the last several years.
