Brian Holder

[Libertarian Party of North Carolina @LPNC]

🚨Trigger warning🚨

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@ErikEngberg @reason "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@WhiteHouse Why, so the fraudster living in the White House can pardon them?

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@WhiteHouse Holy fuck, a 1.1% increase! How much smoke and how many mirrors do you go through on a daily basis? Bunch of liars, crooks, and pedo protectors.

[Steven Nekhaila @StevenNekhaila]

The U.S. green card system is a Kafkaesque nightmare.

In practice, lawful applicants are often told to stay in the U.S. past their visa expiration while their adjustment of status or appeals drag on. If approved, the overstay is treated as if it never happened. If denied, that same overstay is suddenly retroactively “illegal.”

Lawyers and immigration officials quietly acknowledge this contradiction because leaving the country often kills your application outright. So people are trapped. Comply and risk penalties. Leave and lose everything.

The entire immigration system is replete with contradictory laws, inefficient and opaque processes, and perverse incentives.

The Libertarian Party is calling for real immigration reform. As long as it’s easier to cross the Rio Grande than to climb Mt. Bureaucracy, the system will remain broken and peaceful people will continue to be collateral damage.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Psst, Denmark…

Tell this administration the Epstein files are in Greenland… they’ll lose all interest and will never be able to find it.

[MLB2NC @MLBRaleigh]

Babe wake up, new tourism numbers just dropped. #RaleighOnDeck

[Steven Nekhaila @StevenNekhaila]

Some libertarians believe that because a Republican president once granted a pardon at our movement’s request, or because some GOP politicians borrow our rhetoric, we now have a seat at the table.

Let’s be brutally honest: that was a transaction, not a partnership. Political favors are granted based on convenience, not allegiance. The mistake isn’t in making the request—it’s in thinking it meant we had power.

Some argue that aligning with “liberty-friendly” Republicans is a winning strategy, that we should throw our votes behind their candidates to get incremental wins. But history shows that junior partners in politics do not influence the powerful—they are absorbed and discarded:

✅ Power is built, not borrowed. No movement in history won by hitching itself to a larger political machine and hoping for scraps. That’s what useful tools do, not serious political actors.

✅ The GOP takes, it does not give. They will absorb libertarian votes, energy, and activists, then discard us the moment our principles become inconvenient.

✅ Influence without leverage is meaningless. If libertarians had real leverage, we wouldn’t need to beg for concessions—we would be dictating terms.

Historical Parallels: The Fate of Political Subordinates
•The Anti-Federalists were absorbed by the Federalists and disappeared. Their ideas survived, but their political independence did not.
•The Tea Party was devoured by the GOP. What started as an anti-establishment movement became another wing of the very machine it opposed.
•Libertarian-leaning Republicans are tolerated, not empowered. They may play the game well, but they will never be allowed to control the party.

The Only Path to Power Is Independence

Some in our own party have made the mistake of believing we can trade political independence for “influence.” Instead of fighting to expand the party’s own power, they encouraged voters to back Republicans, undermined our presidential candidate, and thought that negotiating for a single pardon meant we were finally being taken seriously.

That’s not strategy. That’s subservience.

Libertarians must stop seeking permission to be relevant. We must stop trading our identity for minor policy wins.
•We must build independent power through winnable local races (sheriffs, city councils, school boards).
•We must force major parties to adapt to us, not the other way around.
•We must extract real concessions, not settle for symbolic gestures.

A Seat at the Table Means Nothing if You’re on the Menu

The idea of a Libertarian-Republican alliance is a myth unless libertarians wield actual power. Otherwise, we are just a bargaining chip—traded away when convenient.

Libertarians must stop being pawns in someone else’s game and start playing to win.

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@SecBlinken At the forefront of aid to Lebanon, dead last on aid to US citizens. I'm sure those in the NC and TN mountains are proud to be sending money overseas.

[Pinnacle Entertainment Group @PEG_Games]

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[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@NatlParkService A friend of mine once said "those who fall behind get left behind."

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@NatlParkService Government account promoting birds? Checks out.

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@RealSpikeCohen Looks like the Xindi were involved.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Without government, who would deport you for NOT coming here illegally?

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

I've just created an alternative to Project 2025.

Here it is:

Eliminate every federal department and agency that isn't referenced, by name, in the Constitution.

That's it.

I call it Project Afuera.

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@WatchComet Mutant Hunt

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

If you drink a lot of water, you won’t have time for other people’s drama because you’ll be too busy looking for a bathroom.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Speaker Johnson has led the GOP to pass:

1) an omnibus that spends more than Pelosi’s highest year

2) an expansion of the domestic warrantless surveillance program

and this week he’s pushing

3) Schumer’s dream bill which contains $100 billion of foreign aid, mostly for war.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Translation: "When I was a member of Judiciary, I saw the abuses of the FBI, hundreds of thousands of abuses. And then when I became speaker, I got the confidential briefing from a different perspective: They said if I didn't support FISA, I wouldn't be speaker for much longer."

[Brian Holder @Arkayanon]

@Drabblecast I use Castbox and there are 2 feeds other than the backer feed. One hasn't updated since last April, the other March 22nd this month.