Vermin Love Supreme is an American performance artist, politician, and activist. He has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. Supreme generally runs for office as a satirical candidate, making proposals that are considered outlandish or unrealistic. His eccentric attire includes multiple ties and a boot on his head, and he sometimes carries a giant toothbrush.
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Vermin Love Supreme is an American performance artist, politician, and activist. He has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. Supreme generally runs for office as a satirical candidate, making proposals that are considered outlandish or unrealistic. His eccentric attire includes multiple ties and a boot on his head, and he sometimes carries a giant toothbrush. He is the subject of the 2014 documentary, Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey, which follows his 2012 campaign and explores his life as an activist and political prankster. Supreme ran a campaign for president in the Libertarian Party’s 2020 primaries. At the 2020 Libertarian National Convention he came in third place, receiving 206 delegate votes. In 2006, Supreme donated one of his kidneys to save his mother. Supreme has run in every presidential election since 1992. He received 43 votes nationally in the 2012 U.S. Democratic presidential election. On December 19, 2011, Supreme participated in the First Debate of the New Election Cycle of the Democratic Party of New Hampshire. He qualified to be listed on the 2012 Democratic Party primary ballot in New Hampshire, but was not selected. In 2012, he participated in a satirical debate against a representative of the deceased British occultist Aleister Crowley.
He currently serves as a member of the Libertarian party’s judicial committee. In a 2008 promotional video, Supreme stated he was registered as a Republican, but that he leaned toward anarchism. In an interview with the New Hampshire in 2018, Supreme labelled his political beliefs as \”social anarchist\” and believes that Peter Kropotkin was a great anarchist thinker and writer. In 1986, Supreme joined the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in protest of nuclear weapons. Supreme’s first political campaign was for Mayor of Baltimore in 1987. At the time, Supreme was without income, and later said that he ran “mainly to give myself a project… something to do” He has campaigned on a platform of zombie apocalypse awareness and time travel research, and promised a free pony for every American. He largely avoided discussing major political issues until his 2020 presidential campaign, which was more serious. He asserted that Americans no longer know how to be citizens, placing some of the blame on schools that teach in a \”very twisted and jingoistic fashion\”. In the video, he describes his joke humor campaign as a response to the lies people are fed by the media and by the government. The election was won by Kurt Schmoke in 2004.
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