For the love of God, make it stop.
Over Sunday, the Libertarian Party finally had the chance to show off their stuff at a convention in Orlando, Florida. They did — like everything except a much too small thong (on a much too large man.)
Libertarian Party Chair Candidate James Weeks stripped naked on live television during the Libertarian National Convention airing on C-SPAN. Weeks had two minutes on the clock to give his pitch to the American people; he chose to strip naked in fulfillment of a “dare” and then immediately dropped out of the race instead.
“I figured we could use a little bit of fun,” said Weeks to the crowd. The “Liberal activist” from Massachusetts started to clap his hands as the music was cued, and then began to undress. It was horrifying.
Oddly enough, some of the crowd was into the political strip tease. But by the end of the jiggling, pasty white man dancing in nothing but a thong, most of the crowd seemed to turn on him. One man took to the mic and told Weeks he was “making an ass” of himself.
“I’m sorry; that was a dare,” said the naked Libertarian, “I’m gonna go ahead and drop out.” (Good idea.)
Per NBC News, the evening ended in strange fashion, too: “the convention was contested and had to go to a second ballot before the Libertarians nominated former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as its presidential ticket.”
Here’s the strip tease in all of its glory. Enjoy.
