Jen The Libertarian

  • Autor: Vários
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  • Editora: Podcast
  • Duração: 70:51:08
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Sinopse

Political and social commentary from a libertarian woman's perspective.

Episódios

  • The Twitter "Hack", Portland, The Antiracism Controversy

    20/07/2020 Duração: 46min

    Things we learned this past week - root access to Twitter can be bought for an insanely low price, DHS can send CBP into Portland because they feel like it, and libertarians like to fight over dumb stuff (to be fair you probably already knew about that last one)

  • The Letter Discourse with Jesse Singal

    17/07/2020 Duração: 40min

    Jesse and I have a conversation about The Letter (which he is a signer of), the discourse around The Letter (which involves him), The Counter Letter (which also involves him), a bit about Bari Weiss (that does not involve him), and his and Katie Herzog's new (very successful!) new podcast Blocked and Reported  Blocked and Reported Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/blockedandreported Jesse's Substack page - https://jessesingal.substack.com 

  • Schooling In The Time Of COVID, More SCOTUS Decisions, Roger Stone

    13/07/2020 Duração: 40min

    Things happened outside The Discourse over the past week, including the Trump administration trying to either force universities to open or force foreign students to go home, some more SCOTUS decisions that are quite significant, and the commutation of Roger Stone's prison sentence  It's been a busy week 

  • Clickbait And Cancel Culture Are Real

    10/07/2020 Duração: 56min

    Awful lot of gaslighting and strawmannirg and willfully (?) misinterpreting certain things this week... Of course this is about The Letter but also about Taylor Lorenz and clickbait culture and the insane reactions people have had to both stories and wow things have been crazy the past few days

  • Hong Kong, A Statue Garden, And The Return Of The Donegan Story

    06/07/2020 Duração: 30min

    We had an abbreviated holiday week with featured a bit of bad and good news on the unemployment front, conditions worsening drastically in HK (and how we can't really help), and the return of a story I first covered waaaaaaaay back when I first started making content - the Shitty Media Men list  (yeah I know I missed a few presidents on that statue garden list don't @ me)

  • Parler Games

    03/07/2020 Duração: 29min

    So about Parler, the hot new free speech no "censorship" platform that...well...isn't quite  Spoiler alert - yeah you might want to go ahead and delete your account before someone decides to sue Parler over something you said on the platform 

  • Halting Legal Immigration, NASCAR Noose, Tearing Down Statues

    29/06/2020 Duração: 41min

    We've got unemployment claims leveling off at an alarmingly high number, Trump extending the green card ban until the end of the year and adding in some more groups of people who can't come to the US, a whole discussion about a noose, and idiots tearing down statues On the bright side we do have grand jury charges against the men involved in Arbury's death and Braun gave us a bill to significantly change QI so it's not all bad

  • Feminism, Racism, and the Damsel in Distress w/ Cathy Young

    26/06/2020 Duração: 01h20min

    Where we discusser her Arc Digital article of the same name plus a *lot* of other things Link to Cathy's piece - https://arcdigital.media/feminism-racism-and-the-damsel-in-distress-1aa65c5172cc

  • Rayshard Brooks Revisited, SCOTUS Decisions, The Trump Rally

    22/06/2020 Duração: 58min

    In which I discuss the reactions (or lack thereof) to the Brooks shooting, the rather momentous SCOTUS decisions we got this week, and Trump's weird failed Tulsa rally There's also talk about Bolton's book and a slightly off topic ramble about cop who lie about fast food incidents 

  • I Don't Think Protests Are Stupid

    15/06/2020 Duração: 19min

    I don't mean this as shade toward anyone, I just wanted to get some stuff off my chest because I've been thinking about it....

  • Fixing The Police, The Rise Of CHAZ, Rayshard Brooks

    15/06/2020 Duração: 41min

    As the country slides even further into delirium we still manage a conversation about what to do about policing, ancoms take over a chunk of Seattle, and (sadly) we have another death at the hands of police

  • Thoughts On The Current Media Environment

    12/06/2020 Duração: 46min

    Things have certainly gotten weird(er) in the mediasphere since the NTY - Cotton op-ed incident and the frenzy is continuing at at breakneck pace  I have some thoughts 

  • Cops Gone Wild, The End Of Social Distancing, The NYT Is Still Dumb

    08/06/2020 Duração: 01h02min

    This is a long episode because this was a looooooong week full of fairly important news. We got a boatload of police brutality, a very stupid (but reprehensible) Trump photo op, protesting marking the end of social distancing, and the NYT twisting itself into a pretzel over nonsense

  • Peter Quinones on Agorism, The Monopoly On Violence

    06/06/2020 Duração: 59min

    Peter and I talk about his change in philosophical strategy and his new documentary The Monopoly On Violence  Which if you haven't seen it.... https://youtu.be/XWAEKQjN-yM

  • Trump's Twitter EO, Dueling Karens, George Floyd

    01/06/2020 Duração: 37min

    A lot of news happened this week A *lot* We got a ridiculous Trump EO, the internet trying to decide which Karen was the worse Kaen in a total Karen situation, and footage of yet another police killing which has sparked protests and riots across the country.

  • Biden Starts Vetting, LP Online 2020

    26/05/2020 Duração: 38min

    This week we were reminded that yes there is still a presidential campaign taking place with Biden starting his VP vetting process with a few ladies (and currently minus one lady) And I watched the LP National convention part 1. Yeah. It was quite something. 

  • Talking Arbery and Taylor, PATRIOT Act Renewal, Amash Drops Out

    18/05/2020 Duração: 36min

    A discussion about the online reaction to the Arbery case, the Breonna Taylor murder by cop, the Senate reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act (while crying crocodile tears), NYC residents deciding to go back out, and Amash breaking my heart  Link to the Pete Quinones piece - https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/how-members-of-gun-culture-view-the-ahmaud-arbery-killing/ Link to the Fleischman piece - https://arcdigital.media/the-ahmaud-arbery-killing-and-georgia-law-72ebb5c7643b 

  • Believing Reade But Still Supporting Biden

    15/05/2020 Duração: 29min

    There have been many a person twisting themselves into a knot over wanting to publicly say they believe Tara Reade but also believe Joe Biden and I found a particularly good example to discuss - the Linda Hirshman op-ed for NYT

  • Shopping During COVID, Flynn (Again), Ahmaud Arbery

    11/05/2020 Duração: 40min

    Things I discuss from this last week: Unemployment numbers What retail looks like now Trump vetos the War Powers Act Flynn gets acquitted (while I was recording the last episode talking about Flynn) LP finally decides on a convention schedule The almost too bad to be real Ahmaud Abery story 

  • The Flynn Situation, The Biden Situation

    08/05/2020 Duração: 29min

    So last week the country got to see a little glimpse into how LEO works via new info on the FBI's questioning of Flynn and the Biden sexual assault allegation becomes quite the quandary for the Believe All Women crowd  (I recorded this before the news that Flynn's charges will be dropped so obviously more on that later)

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