Dave Smith

You are you after all.

But if you go into almost all these libertarian things and you were to say, like, hey, rate show of hands, how many people are here because they found libertarianism through Ron Paul?

We're introduced to these ideas are converted.

It's going to be a huge percentage.

I'm not saying it's everyone, but it's going to be a third of the whole fucking movement or something like that.

You know, I mean, I think I have almost no doubt in my mind that like the free state project would be much weaker if Ron Paul hadn't run for president.

Like a lot of people learned about it that way and then found out about the Free State Project and then moved there.

A lot of people wouldn't be doing the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum, obviously, if they hadn't found through Ron Paul.

I'm like, so...

Again, these were presidential campaigns where he lost, where he didn't have the youth or all of the technological and media advantages that Thomas Massey has.

From my perspective, looking at it like that, it's like, if we think that having more libertarians, having a stronger presence of people with libertarian ideas, if you think that that might be helpful toward the end of a more free society, which it seems to me obviously has to be part of it,

um i don't see i don't see anything we could do that would be like more bang for your buck than have one of our best guys with an amazing track record standing on the most important issues and just being right about all of them and exposing who knows i mean he could expose tens of millions of people to to these ideas so i'm all for it i think it's it's absolutely worth doing and if he's willing to do it man we could make some noise

I mean, dude, what?

And think this through for me.

You know, like, really play this out.

Like, okay, if it ends up being Marco Rubio versus Thomas Massey, which, look, no guarantee it will, but that seems like the most likely right now to me.

All right, I get it.

I get Rubio's going to have the Adelson money and Rubio's going to have the establishment.

But, like, yeah, Rob, what happens if he has to see him in a debate?

Like, really?