Free as in Beer

by | Sep 2, 2025 | Products You Need, Travel | 130 comments

[Edited to remove doxxing information]

We’ve all been there. A fellow Glib is in your area! You’ve agreed to meet! You’re at the pub on time! But now you have to identify your accomplice. You can get away with sidling up to a likely-looking suspect and murmuring “Pineapple on pizza?” just a few times before the management invites you to visit the egress. There must be a better way.

And now there is. Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to introduce you to the exclusive and prestigious Glibertarian Pin:

Style suggestion

Now fellow Glibs can be discreetly identified at a glance. No more awkward social fumbling. And all of this can be yours for the low low price of free!

I’m not kidding. I had 200 pins made and my goal is for every Glibertarian who wants one to have one.

Hundreds and hundreds of pins.

The only quid pro quo is I’ll need information sufficient for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver a cardboard envelope. It doesn’t need to be a genuine name but it does need to be a genuine address. I don’t need your Glibs handle but it would be cool to know the “real” identity of who I’m mailing it to.

Distribution economies of scale can be accomplished if someone is willing to serve as point for Glib conclaves like Honey Harvest and Glibs Gulch. If you want more than one pin I’d appreciate a brief explanation why.

I took the liberty of doxxing myself in the other forum with a new topic “Glib Pins” in the Meetups section:

https://www.glibertarians.us/community/meetups/glib-pins/

Contact me if you want a free pin. E-mail is best but the USPS still delivers to North Nowhere Vermont. My cell phone receives texts but I don’t answer unexpected calls from numbers I don’t recognize. International inquiries are welcome.

About The Author

Richard

Richard

130 Comments

  1. Richard

    Public to TPTB: Please edit this article to remove my e-mail address.

    • Nephilium

      Done.

  2. Richard

    OTOH, Glibs that see it can now ask for a pin without having to brave the other forum.

    • Brochettaward

      I was going to email you pictures of my First.

      • Ted S.

        [ this space intentionally left blank ]

  3. Richard

    Fourscore has agreed to act as Upper Midwest distributor for Glibs pins. If you’re going to Honey Harvest and want to pick up a pin there post a comment here.

    MikeS: You’re covered.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      I’ll be at Honey Harvest.

      • Richard

        Noted.

    • ron73440

      I will be at HH also.

      • Richard

        You’ve been added to the list. (They’ll none of ’em be missed.)

      • Gender Traitor

        (They’ll none of ’em be missed.)

        I see what you did there. ::draws snickersnee::

    • CPRM

      I’m Spartacus! Er, I’m going to HH, if you check the thread this late.

  4. kinnath

    I will be at Honey Harvest

    • Richard

      Literally noted.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hello fellow Honey Harvester! I also will be at the HH this year.

      The pins look really nice. I’m amazed that they can get a tracking device installed on something that small.

      • Richard

        The Top Secret Satellite Tracking Embedded Quantum Nanodot (TM) is really cool and surprisingly inexpensive!

      • Sean

        Wait…it’s a tracker? I thought it was a 5G amplifier for the mind control…

  5. rhywun

    Hello, fellow chat room participants!

    😉

    • Fourscore

      Hi, MY name is Fourscore and I have a ….for you

  6. Sean

    Ok, FED.

    😛

    • Richard

      “Greetings fellow pin bearers.”

      • Sean

        FWIW, you’re pretty awesome for putting this together.
        <====

      • R C Dean

        Concur w/Sean.

        Shot you an email with my address.

    • Brochettaward

      He’s making a list of us for the asylum camps that some of you so cheerfully desire.

      • Richard

        My NSA control officer was pleased as punch when I told him about this.

      • Brochettaward

        Did you check your email? Did you show him pictures of my beautiful First?

      • (((Jarflax

        So, out of curiosity, will you be first to be interned?

      • Brochettaward

        I am obviously the most powerful glib and force of resistance to the system. Every First is an act of defiance to the globalist cabal that would make us all second.

      • (((Jarflax

        We obviously are not all second, this entire conversation is playing out on a third’s post!

      • Rat on a train

        The NSA knows where I am …
        They’re still mad because I stole my nameplate and left a mess in my desk.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “See ya, boss! Someone else gonna have to clean up my shit. Literally. I’m outta here.”

  7. Yusef drives a Kia

    I put my addy in the forums, Im self doxxed anyway
    Thanks!

    • Richard

      A cardboard envelope will go out today.

  8. R.J.

    Cool! I will request one.

    Previously I just relied in the fact that I am the only guy with a Brussels Sprout head and eyeballs on stalks.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Will there be meetings?

    • Brochettaward

      I know a nice beer hall we could meet up in.

      • Fourscore

        They still have phone booths in beer joints?

  10. The Late P Brooks

    I’ll need information sufficient for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver a cardboard envelope.

    Not hand delivered by two men in a black Crown Vic?

    • Richard

      Not being a fan of illegal aliens, Trump eliminated that department.

  11. Not Adahn

    UnCiv: Are you going to be at HH? Can you pick me up a pin?

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t have enough leave to attend this year.

  12. DEG

    International inquiries are welcome.

    Please do the needful.

    • UnCivilServant

      No, the needful shall never be done.

      • (((Jarflax

        I’m hopeful we can be mindful, not wrathful about the needful

      • R.J.

        If you do it on a horse you do the steedful.

        If you do it while you are eating you are doing the feedful.

      • The Other Kevin

        If are at the Red Cross, you’re doing the bleedful.

      • Ted S.

        STEVE SMITH DO BREEDFUL, AND BY BREEDFUL MEAN….

    • Rat on a train

      I did a big needful this morning.

      • UnCivilServant

        EWWWWwwww… TMI, man.

    • Rat on a train

      submitted it to this Chinese outfit
      Just like the three-letter agency branded merchandise at the employee stores.

    • R C Dean

      The Imperial White flesh tone for the Glibs is just *chef’s kiss*.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thanks

    • EvilSheldon

      Nuts, I have all those already.

      Might grab the Filthy Animals Heist Simulator. That could be fun, after the crushing disappointment that was Payday 2…

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        the crushing disappointment that was Payday 2.

        You figured out that the government took 42% of your take home pay? That crushing disappointment?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Just like the 1930s

    One of the world’s most prominent hedge fund billionaires has warned that rising inequality is turning the US into an autocratic state and condemned business leaders for failing to speak out against Donald Trump’s policies.

    Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, said “gaps in wealth” and a collapse in trust were driving “more extreme” policies in the US.

    Speaking to the Financial Times, the veteran financier said many western countries were affected by growing inequality, leading voters to turn increasingly to autocratic leaders.

    Don’t worry, Ray. You won’t end up in the ditch with the other plutocrats. You’re one of the good ones.

    • slumbrew

      If Ray Dalio were suddenly twice as rich tomorrow, it would have no impact on my life.

      Tell me again why I should care about wealth inequality?

      (SLD: if the answer is “because they use their wealth to influence politics”, the answer is “so government should be less powerful”)

      • (((Jarflax

        Him being twice as rich is not a problem for me, but the root of the historic increase in wealth inequality is devaluation of currency. There are and will always be richer and poorer because of wealth creation, but eroding the currency transfers wealth from the working middle and lower classes to the connected upper classes and is a problem.

    • EvilSheldon

      Ray is welcome to donate as much as he likes to the ‘Buy EvilSheldon a new Atlas Athena limited optics blaster’ fund…

    • Suthenboy

      “….condemned business leaders for failing to speak out against Donald Trump’s policies.” <—-How on earth did I know that was coming?

      In the same way that dope seems an element of every crime, Donald Trump is the common element in everything wrong with the world. He is in there somewhere, every time.
      Of course the real problem is that we dont have a serf class ruled over by a cadre of Mamdanis controlled by a couple dozen squillionaires.
      DJT is all that stands between us and paradise.

      So…..fucking…..tiresome.

    • Suthenboy

      “Don’t worry, Ray. You won’t end up in the ditch with the other plutocrats. You’re one of the good ones.”

      *Pssst! Hey Ray, that’s what they always tell the first ones to go when the time comes*

      (not a joke)

    • rhywun

      The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Dalio said attacks on the Fed “would undermine the confidence in the Fed defending the value of money and make holding dollar-denominated debt assets less attractive which would weaken the monetary order as we know it”.

    We all know how fanatical those guys have been about defending the dollar.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Idiot tax

    Is it worth it? Everybody knows the lottery is a losing game for most people. The states support it so they can get money without raising taxes. Since Powerball was launched in 1992 it has raised $36 billion net of costs, the Multi-State Lottery Association reports. Or, to put it another way, since it was launched the people playing it have lost $36 billion (plus their share of any costs).

    ——-

    … that $1.3 billion is an illusory figure. That’s the sum total of the payments you’d win over 30 years. The MSLA says that each year’s payment will be 5% higher than the previous year’s. The first year’s payment will be only around $20 million. In the first 10 years you’ll collect a total of about $250 million. The biggest annual payouts come many years in the future.

    If you take the money as cash up front, you’ll get $589 million or just under half the notional jackpot number, the MSLA says.

    Oh, and these numbers are before tax. So as you’ll be paying the top rate of federal income tax, 37%, if you take the prize up front in cash you’ll collect just $371 million after tax. That’s ignoring state and local taxes as well.

    The odds are well past the point of “effectively zero” no matter what absurd payout might be claimed.

    • EvilSheldon

      Only $20 million? How awful!

      • The Other Kevin

        Yeah not even worth the trip to the gas station.

      • Suthenboy

        Take the one time payment. The annuity is just a fraction (about half) of the dividends on the one time payment…the lotto people keep the other half.
        If you take the one time payment yourself and put it all into an index fund in your name you keep all of the dividends and receive the same amount over ten years instead of twenty. Taking the annuity is…not smart.

    • Suthenboy

      ….and yet someone always wins.
      You know who doesnt win? I will give you three guesses.

      *disclaimer – I bought a ticket. One.

    • The Other Kevin

      $100k would completely change my life. That’s a far cry from “just” $371 million. As far as the $2 a week, I never go to Starbucks, so by my math I’m still ahead.

      That being said, I recently explained to my youngest how you don’t actually take home $1 billion. She said it was, quote, “retarded”.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t think $100k would completely change my life. It’s not enough to retire, it’s not enough to get a new house. It would be a nice leg up on getting out of this state, but I’d still be stuck.

      • Nephilium

        I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure if it’s not enough for me to retire on in the next couple of years, my life would not change that much, although future plans would.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama

    In your FACE, Polis.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Only $20 million? How awful!

    Try buying something decent in Jackson Hole for a measly $20 million.

    • EvilSheldon

      Like I would lower myself to spend any time in Jackson Hole.

      I might look for a condo in Park City though…

    • Suthenboy

      Why would I do that?

    • (((Jarflax

      If I wanted to live in that region I’d probably go Cody, or maybe Dubois. Jackson Hole is just unpleasant between the Californian pretention, constant traffic, pedestrians just ambling out into the road at random, and the fact that an economy based entirely on crappy art galleries and over priced gastropubs makes for a poor place to live.

      • DEG

        Second Cody.

        The gun museum is great too.

    • DEG

      I passed through Jackson while I was on my FreedomFest 2025 road trip.

      There was a real estate agent office in the center of town with some properties advertised on flyers in the window.

      Don’t worry, they have thought of the poors. They had a listing for a two bedroom, one bath 880 square foot condo for about $900K.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    It looks like there might be a vast underground lair for sale out on the prairie east of Colorado Springs for pennies on the dollar.

    • R.J.

      Link?

    • Suthenboy

      Property taxes?

  19. Derpetologist

    As far as gubmint lists go, I got an award from CIA at their HQ in 2002, worked for NSA from 2018 to 2021, and got questioned by the FBI at my apartment in 2023.

    So I have the trifecta of spooks on my tail. Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure NSA is still mad at me because I rickrolled them and threw my phone at them. At least I’m on good terms with my minder. She came out to meet me at a bar in Augusta, GA.

    On the subject of nuthouses, they are as Evil Sheldon said, torture chambers, and not just for crazy people. At least that’s what it felt like to me when I was there. It’s silly to argue about the rules of confinement because if enough people want you there, they will lie to trick you inside where you’ll later be coerced into signing a document saying it was voluntary unless you want to be trapped there indefinitely.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Link?

    Sensei’s space command story.

    There is a huge space command bunker out there.

  21. Richard

    I’m off to the post office to mail the first batch of cardboard envelopes of pinny goodness. When yours arrives please leave a note in whatever article is current. If yours doesn’t arrive let me know and I’ll mail another.

    • Richard

      The cardboard envelopes I got are designed for 6″x4″ photos. There’s a little bump on each where the pin clasp is. The Postmistress was suspicious of that and thought they were “non-machinable” and had to be classified as parcels. She called two people and got conflicting advice. I sent them with a simple stamp and she said there was a chance they’d all be returned.

      If that happens I’ll get some bubble wrap envelopes but I think they’ll go through OK.

      • R.J.

        Next week, the Post Office will send armed postmen to your house to explain the proper stamping procedure.

    • UnCivilServant

      Those movies aren’t documentaries, you know.

    • Suthenboy

      Uh….you might want to rethink that.

    • (((Jarflax

      Plot Twist: You get to women’s prison, but 100% of the inmates are burly dudes in drag looking to get their rape on

      • UnCivilServant

        “This is the tranny wing of the women’s prison – to meet the special needs of the transwomen inmates.”

    • EvilSheldon

      Yoy do realize that your cellie’s nickname will be ‘Large Marge,’ and they’re not just talking about the 300 pounds of adipose tissue and body hair…

      • Not Adahn

        Grosse Margeurite?

    • Derpetologist

      Seems like there’s an even split of “pretending to be a woman to avoid rape” and “pretending to be a woman in order to rape”.

      On the other hand, I wonder allowing men to dress up like women in exchange for a lighter sentence might have some deterrence value. Cruel and unusual punishment? Maybe.

      I kind of like the 3 strikes rule, but I’d change to be after your 3rd and any subsequent arrests, the accused is merely beaten soundly.

    • Brochettaward

      Everything about that story is ridiculous, but watching the media actually using the pronouns she/her for that dude is tops of the list.

      Like we hate this person and everything they stand for, but we must maintain the narrative no matter how obvious it is that it’s bullshit even if just specifically in this case.

      And of course, this is someone on the run for thought crimes.

      • whiz

        The ‘stache is a nice bonus, too.

      • Suthenboy

        I did note that.
        no matter how much you hate the media…..

    • rhywun

      “her escape to Russia”

      You can’t write anything more farcical.

      • rhywun

        All that’s missing is the love letter to Donald J. You-Know-Who furnished by “a source familiar with the matter”.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    I guess Belichick’s big college debut was rather inauspicious. Too bad, so sad.

    • slumbrew

      Eh, before the game he said something like “we’re making progress – I mean, we’re not good, but there’s potential”.

      70 new people on the roster. He was never going to run the table on his way to the national championship.

      He seems in for the long haul.

    • EvilSheldon

      Question – why was Johnson ‘placed on probation’ instead of fired and prosecuted for fraud?

      Another question – why does this ‘agency’ have public housing units in prime waterfront property in Old Town?

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      No, Timmy, you can’t take my guns. Fuck off.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    If that happens I’ll get some bubble wrap envelopes but I think they’ll go through OK.

    What if you cut a hole out of the center of a piece of cardboard for the pin to sit in to make the thickness of the package more uniform?

    • Ed Wuncler

      “The feeling is so strong that the threat of prison does not worry me. I will go to jail for this.”

      That’s a level of bravery I wished I had at times.

      • R.J.

        I think a lot of them are at the point where they are going to jail for one thing or another anyway. And they are being menaced by criminal alien gangs. They don’t care anymore. We were so close to that. So close.

      • Brochettaward

        I just wanted to note that as obnoxious as the parasitic illegal class is if you live among them, it has nothing on what is going on in Europe. Allowing an invasion of Muslims would be next fucking level awful.

      • Derpetologist

        I decided last year it was worth going to jail to make a point and send a message. Of course, it was an easier decision for me as I have no dependents and few obligations.

        If you do enough wild and crazy things, the voice of fear becomes softer.

  24. Ed Wuncler

    The folks in Nordic countries and the UK are going to find out real soon that you can vote authoritarians into office, but you can’t vote them out. We are about to see a horrid cycle of violence in Europe that we haven’t seen in while and it’s all because a bunch of asshole politicians, bureaucrats, and a public that valued security over freedom enabled and allowed it.

    Saying that though, I can’t talk much because during the COVID nonsense, I ranted against the measures but didn’t do jack shit because I knew that talking out and even fighting would do great harm to me and my family. And I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice my quality of life to fight against something that I knew would have been a losing battle. Perhaps that’s how a lot of people feel in the UK.

    • Sean

      LMK when. I’ll buy some popcorn.

    • Suthenboy

      It is how everyone feels and it is the prudent way to act. Being a martyr is foolish. Now…when the shit hits the fan and you know the damage to your life and family will come no matter what you do…that is a different matter.
      You dont know what you are going to do in battle until you are in battle.

  25. Derpetologist

    The clearance on this mail sorter looks wide enough to handle a pin.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQAtTt6rMms

    But yeah. Like Brooks said, try to make it look flatter. I’m sure there are people who have tried to mail crack rocks before, and looking for such anomalies is one of the few ways postal workers have to pass the time.

  26. Not Adahn

    Irritated at SIG right now. When I bought the gun, they didn’t tell me it was out of stock. Then they couldn’t give me an ETA. Then they had an estimated shipping date of 8/29. Today that is still the estimated shipping date.

    I want to shoot a duty pistol at a rate of $105/minute!

  27. R C Dean

    Well, well. Somebody went to (former?) Fed Gov Lisa Cook’s “primary residence” in Ann Arbor. Guess what?

    She’s renting it out.

    https://x.com/pulte/status/1962883351901012407

    So just where does she live, anyway?

    • Fourscore

      On a couch in her office…

  28. Threedoor

    Sweet!

    I don’t care who had my contact information.

    19095 Clydesdale Rd
    Lewiston, ID 83501

    Is there an address I can send the glibs a donation check rather than having some of it eaten up by credit processing?

    • Richard

      A cardboard envelope will go out today (Wednesday). I addressed it to “Threedoor”.

    • Richard

      Just saw your e-mail. A new envelope is addressed to your name.