8:00 PM EST – The atmosphere is electric, much like Ron Paul’s event in 2012 just days before the RNC – the latter resembling what Rodney Dangerfield would call “the dance of the living dead.”
8:27 PM EST – “I’d like to build a wall around Donald Trump and make Bernie Sanders pay for it.” – Austin Petersen
8:31 PM EST – “The rights you are born with don’t change depending upon which side of an imaginary line you’re born on.” – Marc Allen Feldman.
8:35 PM EST – “There is an offensive word in your question and that is ‘taxpayer.” – John McAfee
8:36 PM EST – “When it comes to the federal role in education, abolish the Department of Education.” – Gary Johnson
8:41 PM EST: “We’d have voluntary mutual aid societies like we did before the government took over social security.”
8:44 PM EST: “None of us are going to pass a drowning child, even if we are dressed in a tuxedo, going to a wedding. You jump in and save the child. Libertarianism is not heartlessness.” – John McAfee
*8:45 PM EST: First boos for Gary Johnson for remarks about global warming and that “free market bankrupted coal.”
8:49 PM EST: “Why can’t we have a lottery? A lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math.” – Austin Petersen
8:49 PM EST: “This government survived for 120 years without an income tax. How was that possible? We had a government that was reasonable.” – John McAfee
8:52 PM EST: “The minimum wage is always zero, as one knows who is out of a job.” – Marc Allan Feldman
8:54 PM EST: “The minimum wage was originally devised to stop black workers from competing with white labor.” – Austin Petersen
9:01 PM EST: “When you talk about a 35% tariff on foreign goods, who ends up paying them? Well, we do.” – Gary Johnson
9:04 PM EST: “I have a barber and we have a free trade agreement. I give him money and he gives me haircuts. He never gives me money.” – Marc Allan Feldman
9:05 PM EST: “Money is not a creation of government. It is a creation of the marketplace.” – Austin Petersen
9:05 PM EST: “End the Fed! End the Fed! End the Fed!” – the delegates
9:16 PM EST: “Radical Islam is a threat. Congress needs to get involved. They have abdicated their responsibilities to the president. There needs to be an open discussion and that hasn’t happened.” – Gary Johnson
9:18 PM EST: “The most dangerous religion in the world is statism.” – Austin Petersen
9:23 PM EST: “We used to manufacture weapons to support our war efforts. Now, we manufacture war efforts to support our weapons industries.” – Marc Allan Feldman.
9:27 PM EST: “I kind of like the United Nations because it really doesn’t do much.” – Marc Allan Feldman
9:29 PM EST: “Calling me an isolationist because I don’t want to invade Poland is like calling me a hermit because I don’t want to rob my neighbor’s fridge. Switzerland has the greatest foreign policy. Have you ever had Swiss cheese, Swiss chocolate or a Swiss Army knife?” – Darryl Perry
9:32 PM EST: “What we are dealing with are two machines. They have no heart; they have no soul. They eat everything.” – John McAfee [on the two major parties]
9:36 PM EST: “I believe in gun control. I believe people should control their guns.” – Marc Allan Feldman
9:45 PM EST: “I have traveled extensively and in most Third World countries, you can use the bathroom in the street, in front of everyone. Having seen that, I don’t understand how anyone could care.” – John McAfee
9:49 PM EST: “As far as the nomination of justices, I want to support the firm right of Congress to do nothing. It’s the only thing they do well.” – Marc Allan Feldman
9:50 PM EST – An appearance by Jesus.
9:56 PM EST – “The drug users remain constant whether it’s criminalized or decriminalized.”
10:00 PM EST – Darryl Perry loses his shit over drug laws.
10:06 PM EST – “As many of you know, my wife is black. I can assure you that discrimination was not ended by any legislation.” – John McAfee
10:10 PM EST – “I want you to help me help you make the Libertarian Party libertarian again.” – Darryl Perry
10:11 PM EST – “This is not a campaign about one man. It is about a revolution of We the People.” – Austin Petersen
10:14 PM EST – Marc Allan Feldman tears the place up. Wait for the footage.
10:16 PM EST – The crowd goes wild.
