“Libertarians,” who amazingly support open borders, are way off the mark. The only situation where you can even think about open borders is in a completely private property society, with sound money, and no welfare state. We aren’t even in the same universe of such a situation right now. We have a society where private property is constantly under attack, with fiat money and a MASSIVE welfare state. We have about 50% of American CITIZENS receiving federal money, and a sickening amount of corporate welfare. In such a dire and unsustainable environment, you can’t open the border and let anyone in! We’re already sinking! Furthermore, the motives of the government opening the borders are to specifically put illegals on welfare AND to destroy American culture. The purpose is to destroy. These “libertarians” are an embarrassment to the name.

After the Musk feud (Round 1?) there are people pledging total loyalty to Trump. You never want to pledge *total* loyalty to a politician who holds power. Power corrupts. The politician (despite how things may look today) can turn around and use the power against you. You’ll “stand with him no matter what” if he does that? Foolish.

The status quo crowd is quite selective on BBB in who they criticize. They blame Congress, libertarians, Massie, Paul. That’s standard. All are safe to criticize. But they’re careful not to criticize Trump even though he’s the leader of BBB. They’re also careful with Elon … Maybe hoping Elon was just grumpy yesterday and this will all blow over? Who knows what happens next, but these are the dynamics as I see it for the status quo side.