Nicholas Sarwark

@sarwark.org

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Self determination advocate. Keeping Phoenix families on the road with Consolidated Auto Sales, educating civic leaders with the Libertarian Policy Foundation, and providing affordable self-defense with the Altor pistol. https://nsarwark.substack.com/

Remixed Nancy Bushmiller cartoon with Sluggo getting a backwards message in the final panel.
If the future was already decided, they wouldn't need the propaganda.
Marketing draws on the sexual energy of they individual in order to impart it to the objects. The accident of desexualization reveals the necessity of the commodity spectacle. The objects are not only shown by men and women who look or act horny, the objects are in themselves appealing, attractive, desirable, necessary for one’s fulfillment, exactly as a sexual object is. Man, to be, has to be recognized by other: but with commodities—whose essence disintegrates with possession, only to reappear in commodities not yet possessed—there is no recognition, only pursuit. The labor of men returns to them in the commodities produced, commodities invested with the real life of the producers: men consume their alienated existence. The end is the Nothing Box-the commodity that serves no function other than to be purchased, until you possess it, then it disintegrates. In the passage from ‘things to goods’ capitalism achieves its huge slight o’ hand: life disappears into objects. Life is object: spectacle, show.”
Caring about people is not political
We aim at creating a movement which quite simply is based on necessity. The necessity of correspondence, the necessity of common action, the necessity of poetry, the necessity of work, the necessity of laziness, loneliness, of reality and dream based on all necessity which comes from the necessity of life. From: https://web.archive.org/web/20120216084805/http://www.infopool.org.uk/7402.html
“They rejected the idea that advanced capitalism's apparent successes—such as technological advancement, increased productive capacity, and a raised general quality of life when compared to previous systems, such as feudalism—could ever outweigh the social dysfunction and degradation of everyday life that it simultaneously inflicted.”
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice poster that says “Fight Fascism”
“You can say 'all are welcome' but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you're only going to get wolves.”
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice patch.
Tarps and barriers around the front of the Kennedy Center.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/blacknowledge/posts/pfbid02o1oe1XsLSmjDCo1vkbnX9Gm3FVggWNaBT3yxBnmWtn2T8sfcZqwyjP7jGJmeRTj4l Today, we honor the birthday of Philando Castile, whose life was unjustly taken at 32 years old. Known as “Mr. Phil” to students at the school he worked at and “Chedda” to friends because he always had a job, Castile was an active, loved member of his community. Philando Castile should be here celebrating today
Patrons in a Denver airport bar watching the 2026 World Cup semi final.
A hazy IPA in a pint glass with a World Cup game on television in the background.
Fabric label that reads, “Gentleman by day, philosopher by night pervert by choice rebel by fate.” H/T Eric M. Vaughnes on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10242273201669285&set=a.1605895230113 ).
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Comic by Doug Langdale about what products used to contain. Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27714885858179722&set=a.200189106742768
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & LIBERTY ORIGINALISM AND THE ILLUSIONS OF OBJECTIVITY Timothy Sandefur" Abstract Law needs objectivity. If a legal system incorporates rules that are too subjective that system falls short of the goal of the legal enterprise. If the subjectivity becomes too pervasive, the result is actually not law at all but its opposite: arbitrary power. This Article examines originalism's entitlement to the status of an objective theory of law. It considers first what objectivity means in a legal contest, then examines the two main claims of originalism (semantic and normative). After seeing why neither satisfies the test of objectivity, it evaluates recent efforts by originalist scholars to satisfy that test, efforts whose successes come about only at the cost of jettisoning originalism's basic reliance on origin. CONTENTS 106 1. ORIGINALISM'S APPEAL ..... 107 II. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LEGAL OBJECTIVTTY 109 115 III. THE PREMISES OF ORIGINALISM... 116 A. The Semantic Originalism of Death. B. Time-Traveling 118 INTRODUCTION Vice President for Legal Affairs, Goldwater Institute, Barry Goldwater Chair In American Institutions, 2023-24, Arizona State University. My thanks to Jon Hersey, Thomas Walker-Werth, and Angel Walker-Worth for helpful editorial suggestions.
In 1984 James Grady published the novel “Runner in the Street” which contained a passage about people who control prostitutes:4 “They all trip themselves up,” said Ben. “It’s that one girl they abuse too much, too often, who signs papers on them. It’s that one time they sell a little smack on the side. One time we’re lucky and they’re not. But we only need to be lucky one time. Bad guys need to be lucky all the time.” From: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/12/08/lucky-always/
Screenshot of QVC.com website showing a search for Bumble and bumble shampoo.
Screenshot from MAC Cosmetics website, taken on July 8, 2026, showing a Chappell Roan link on the header menu. https://www.maccosmetics.com/
Screenshot of smashbox website, taken on July 8, 2026. https://www.smashbox.com/
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rederiswrites Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having Al write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending Al emails (or using Al responses on social media, or publishing Al flyers, or or or) is rude. It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it. It's rude.
When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or any white man in the world says “give me liberty, or give me death,” the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of [him] so there won't be any more like him. Original quote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
A bunch of $20 bills fixed with a Tubman Stamp displayed on a cutting mat.
Screen capture from an AI generated video posted by President Donald Trump on his official Facebook page.
Alexander Ovechkin standing in a Washington Capitals uniform under text that reads, “His Gr8ness continues” next to a stylized signature indicating a contract was signed.
2020s political compass results indicating alignment with Mark Carney.
A rooster sculpture in front of a lake.
Kat McElroy and Sonja Feintech are the volunteer coordinators for all FreedomFest volunteers. Please sign up here: 2026 Application (and feel free to pass the sign-up link along to anyone else you think would be interested - this is not Mises Caucus-specific) It's a great deal, since FreedomFest tickets are currently $600 (and will go up to $800 soon). As a volunteer, you'll also have plenty of time to see some of the speakers and films.
My good friend is gay and is also my main realtor for my business and personal stuff. Right after I took this location I went to lunch with my gay friend .. We go to lunch weekly to talk business etc One of my ex employees told me and the rest of the team there is no way he could go eat lunch with a gay person He is my “ ex”employee but he was severely homophobic and he acted very gay in normal situations
A man wearing a “we won the war” shirt with a ripped Confederate battle flag standing in front of the plaza where George Floyd was killed by agents of the state.
Alicia Dearn If you’re a libertarian, then you should know that the LNC has taken the express position before a federal judge today that refusing ballot access to libertarian candidates is not that harmful because they can run as independents. 50 years and millions spent in petitioning and legal fees to get ballot access, and all that time lobbying and campaigning to change the anticompetitive laws of the two major parties … apparently entirely pointless because locking libertarians out of the ballot is actually NBD. If you’ve ever given them time or money, you’ve been duped. I consider myself part of that as I’ve contributed well into the six figures in legal services specifically for ballot access across the country since 2012. Source: https://www.facebook.com/aliciadearn/posts/pfbid0uekzFLf92ip7fceeNmon1FapgQVXn9iqbqgv7y1R8k8r1cFAXRDtqgHHEuEQfuj4l
What will UATX’s humanities majors do after graduation? I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them ended up working for top UATX donors like Jeff Yass and Joe Lonsdale. I can also see some of them partnering with friends over in entrepreneurship to start businesses. Most college students fail to gain valuable human capital, useful career connections, or intellectual joy. At least UATX humanities students get the latter two.
Bryan Caplan standing next to a bust of Jeff Yass Source: https://www.betonit.ai/p/reflections-on-uatx
“Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
RAW adds: “I hate to sound like a Marxist, which I’m not, but the reason you haven’t heard about Scandinavian Socialism is because the media of this country is controlled by rich people who are scared shitless of socialism. They want Americans to think there’s only one type of socialism, Soviet Communism, which is the kind of place where dissident scientists get thrown in lunatic asylums… The Scandinavians reward their poets and they don’t put anyone in jail for dissident political opinions.”
Screenshot of the WangerFlange.com website.
12 Solve for Sisyphean Systems I have configured servers, written code, built web pages, helpe design products used by millions of people. I am firmly in the camp that believes technology is generally bending the world in a positive direction. Yet, for me, Twitter foments neurosis, Facebook sadness, Google News a sense of foreboding. Instagram tums me covetous. All of them make me want to do it-whatever "it" may befor the likes, the comments. I can't help but feel that I am the worst version of myself, being performative on a very short, very depressing timeline. A timeline of seconds. -Craig Mod Sisyphus, a Greek mythological king, was a trickster punished for cheating death. Zeus sentenced him to an eternity of futility, rolling a giant boulder uphill only to have it roll back down once he neared the top. In today's world, these giant boulders come in the form of never-ending inboxes and notifications. Many of these Sisyphean systems surrounding notifications are, by definition and by design, "hard to contain or eradicate," the definition of cancer. Staying caught up with social media is impossible, given that it purposefully captures attention
“Thu Nguyen” @thunguyenthom account profile on X, captured on June 19, 2026 @ 10:20 am Eastern. Source: https://x.com/thunguyenthom/with_replies
“White supremacy won't die until white people see it as a white issue they need to solve rather than a black issue they need to empathize with.”
Disgraced former Libertarian National Committee Chair and MAGA sellout, Angela McArdle, spouting some new conspiracy theory.
Jeremy Todd posting on Twitter that “The dog population is a burden on humans and especially the field that works with them.”
Neoconfederate podcaster and 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Tom Woods. Source: https://x.com/ThomasEWoods/status/2066350547675013344
“The dirty little political secret, though, is that no corporation ever has or ever will pay taxes,” Sarwark said. “Corporations merely collect taxes and pass them on to their customers in the form of higher prices, to their shareholders in the form of lower dividends, and to their employees in the form of lower wages. In the end, only people pay taxes.” https://lp.org/tax-cuts-great-need-balanced-budgets/
Art from New Hampshire in 2018 depicting a bird in a meadow with the words, “Be Wild and Free and Great or Don't That's Okay too”
Alex Astley and James Wiley appearing together in a photo op.
Jack V Lloyd @jackvlloyd · May 30 I can save you $149 per year on Scott Horton Academy. It sums as: - Blame Israel and America - Russia and China aren't that bad - Islam isn't a threat, it's just blowback - Being pro-war is okay so long as you call it "armed resistance against Zionism" That's the whole school. Source: https://x.com/jackvlloyd/status/2060755225560936666
Screenshot of Nicholas Sarwark's Facebook post with “FUCK RACISM” in white text on a black background.
“Stephen Miller's Wife Doxed This Young Dem. Then the MAGA Rage Hit. by Greg Sargent”
Screenshot of a Facebook comment on Nicholas Sarwark's post from May 26, 2026 @ 10:00 am.
Libertarian Party of Texas Facebook post sharing Ted Brown's campaign post. Source: https://www.facebook.com/LPTexas/posts/pfbid024juDP9je3gSxNaKqgPJudNE8V57i1DbV5Ltd866ZzMeY4mQ39Rqc9A8z8rdFqmZKl
2026 Libertarian National Committee chair election results taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Libertarian_National_Committee_chair_election
2026 Libertarian National Committee chair election results from Wikipedia.
2026 Libertarian National Committee Chair election results from Wikipedia.
Justin Amash speaking to a Libertarian Party convention dinner.
Michael Heise @MisesChair Just an FYI as somebody who has successfully taken over the Libertarian Party on a shoestring budget before: The cost and effort to take over the LP, inherit its ballot access and do whatever else you want with it from a rebrand / name change to a bylaws and platform reset, etc is *significantly* less than starting a new party or getting a candidate on the ballot. Orders of magnitude less. It takes like 3000-4000 people across the country winning positions and delegate spots at the state party level conventions and, if you really want to go hard and overwhelm it, like $1 million to buy airfare and hotel rooms to make it as easy as possible to get 700 people to the national convention ready to change shit. The sticky part is this cant be done suddenly right before election season. They have a national convention this weekend and will have another one in like 2 years. That process needs to be engaged, at a maximum, in like a year from now in order for it to work. This is incredibly small potatoes compared to the energy out there ready to coalesce around an America first movement and what it would take to start from scratch.
Half an IPA at a Grand Rapids pizza place.
Photo of Thomas Massie from a Mises Caucus email. When we launched the Mises Caucus, it was with the clear goal of realigning the Libertarian Party with the principles of Ron Paul. Dr. Paul endorsed Thomas Massie's first congressional term, seeing significant policy alignment, strong grassroots support, and the moral courage to stick to these principles, especially when you are the only voice opposing the encroachment of the state.
Michael Heise @MisesChair As for doing what Jeremy suggests, I get it, its cathartic and its funny, but in reality, the biggest retards in the world would remake it 5 minutes later. The truest thing Sarwark ever said is the party is made of those who show up. And people need to actually care enough to do that and do it to keep consistent control of the mechanisms of the party. One of the original visions of the caucus was to be an organizational structure that took the randomness out of the parties operating structure so that you can actually plan and work towards something longer term. If people wont do that because their preferred candidate doesnt run, then its going to stay in the control of the lowest common denominator. 2:56 PM · May 15, 2026 · 17 Views