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Welcome to your weekly dose of radical curiosity. Each [Monday or whenever it’s released], Civil Discord critiques the critics and tackles the top lines in news and society. Beginning with the premise that the ‘smallest common denominator’ of self-ownership is the greatest single driver of political, social, and cultural change, your intrepid co-hosts and colorful guests break down what individuals, communities, businesses, and finally institutions can do to find their footing, combat totalitarianism, and make their voices heard, wherever they stand on the issues. If you’re ideologically homeless, culturally tribeless, or tired of hearing the same rants about what’s not working, Civil Discord offers provocative counterpoints and fresh perspectives to keep you in the know, arm you with the arguments, and empower you to create the change you crave.
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Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Today, Amanda is joined by special guests Nate Thurston and Charles Thompson from the Good Morning Liberty podcast. They talk about the challenges of privacy protection and the differences between the way corporations and governments use your data. Then we discuss what libertarians are doing right and wrong when it comes to communications and strategy: both among other libertarians, and between the left and the right. Nate reminds everyone Ron Paul was a Republican. Charlie talks about the difficulty of balancing the search for incremental wins with the satisfaction of sweeping policy reforms. Amanda isn’t a Real Libertarian™.
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Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Amanda and Maurice recap the week’s two top self-defense verdicts and discuss where criminal justice reform can go from here. (Quite a long way, it turns out.) Then we return to COVID news from all around the world: Austria becomes the next Australia; OSHA backs off of its mandate; the FDA decides it will release Pfizer trial data over the next… 54 years; and a new variant leaves us contemplating the horrors of asymptomatically spreading an asymptomatic virus.
Mentioned on the Show:
Police Open Fire on Austrian Protesters: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/police-netherlands-open-fire-covid-lockdown-protesters-european-nation-rcna6231
OSHA Says ‘Oh, Shucks’: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/582022-osha-suspends-enforcement-of-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-for-businesses
Reuters Blasts the FDA: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/
Twitter Flags Pfizer for Misinformation: https://twitter.com/HansGruber916/status/1462434365485498378
Gavin with the Good Hair’s Perpetual State of Emergency: https://www.sfgate.com/california-politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-COVID-emergency-powers-16625463.php
SARS-CoV-2 or just : https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/new-symptomless-covid-strain-more-22218807
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
After Maurice makes a special announcement about Florida, we discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse self-defense case, from the perspective of two people who have actually been watching it. (Evidence: Amanda’s residual accent is flaring up.) We discuss how our perceptions have changed from the initial event until now, share lawyerly perspectives on the outcome (hearsay), and review some of the more contentious elements of the trial, including pro-defendant claims about “doctored video footage”. (Does enhancing a video really “add pixels”?) We also explain how this case gets to the heart of the far left’s views on private property.
Mentioned on the Show:
Florida is #1 in Low Case Rates!
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
Amanda on Bicubic Interpolation: https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/zooming-in-on-pixelgate
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Today, we break down the new OSHA workplace vaccine rule—and the immediate injunction filed against it. Then, our post-election analysis explores how Democratic strategists handed Republicans multiple victories in true blue states. Maurice gives his perspective as an educator. We also ask whether Republicans will fulfill the mandate voters gave them without going off the rails. Amanda discusses her second investigative piece on the NIH’s involvement in gain-of-function research and the origins of SARS-CoV-2. (Spoiler alert: the evidence is coming from inside NIH’s letter to the House).
Mentioned on the Show:
The NIH’s Letter to Congress Reveals Less Than They Say, and More Than They Think https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/post/the-nih-s-letter-to-congress-reveals-less-than-they-say-and-more-than-they-think
A Rule and an Injunction
https://www.wafb.com/2021/11/07/5th-circuit-court-appeals-suspends-bidens-vaccine-mandate/
VA Election Results by County, vs. 2020 Presidential Margins
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1049026183/virginia-governor-election-mcauliffe-youngkin
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
In breaking news this week, the NIH submitted a letter to Congress implicating its role in funding alleged gain-of-function research, carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, resulting in the creation of an exponentially more contagious virus with features similar to SARS-CoV-2. We reconstruct a timeline of the events—including a prior EcoHealth Alliance proposal to engineer SARS-CoV-2-sounding viruses and vaccinate wild bats—and ask: what did the NIH know and when did the NIH know it? We also report on the fact that, according to the NIH’s website as of last week, gain-of-function research has never existed; but a totally different [and we’re super careful about it] kind of research, called ePPP research, has. Then, in our-supply-chain-is-broken news, we discuss how the ongoing shipping bottleneck is a problem created by demand… for over-regulation.
Mentioned on the Show:
The Bare Minimum of Accountability: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan
Herd Immunity Doesn’t Exist and Neither Does Gain-of-Function:
https://twitter.com/jeremyredfernfl/status/1451565600673828869?s=12
Supply Chain Bottleneck Problems and Solutions:
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
In Woke News this week, former NFL coach Jon Gruden resigned in disgrace over some marginally distasteful statements made in some very old emails. Does this count as ‘cancel culture’? What is ‘cancel culture’? Then, in Federalism News, some state governors are banning vaccine mandates and confusing libertarians who aren’t sure whether it’s ever okay for governors to ban anything. Amanda has a theory to reconcile the libertarian pragmatics and ethics of the issue. Next, workplace walk-offs continue apace! Maurice analogizes the current situation to the many libertarian lessons hidden in Disney’s ‘A Bug’s Life’. Finally, China: will they or won’t they [blow up the world]?
Mentioned in the Show:
Jon Gruden Resigns in Disgrace https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/sports/football/what-did-jon-gruden-say.amp.html
Governors Against Mandates
Workplace Walk-Offs: Chicago PD
You Are Not Free to Move About the Country
China Better Have a Landing Path Programmed for the Armed Flight
https://www.ft.com/content/b14925de-839d-4373-acaa-821128e41e30
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Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Today, we tackle what Congress won’t: the debt ceiling! We also break down what Congress won’t: the incredible expanding spending bill that Pays For Itself(™) by tracking Venmo accounts of service workers, taxing you to help pay for better tax enforcement, and conducting studies about what else we could tax in the future (like driving!). Then we talk about a wave of workplace walk-offs grounding flights and depleting the service sector. We also analyze the racial scandal that wasn’t, in which a white woman allegedly told a black man to ‘stay in your hood’ during a fight—right after he’d mentioned he was from another area.
Mentioned on the show:
The U.S. National Debt Clock: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Everything is Infrastructure: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cbo-estimates-infrastructure-bill-would-add-256-billion-to-deficits-11628196739
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
On this Very Special Episode of Civil Discord, Amanda talks with the founder of the Australian Liberty Network and host of the Gumtree of Liberty Podcast about Australia’s COVID policies and prospects for liberty. We review the scope of Australia’s totalitarianism, discuss regional variations in both politics and policy, and talk about why (and, practically speaking, how) change needs to come from the grassroots. Come for the updates on ‘COVID camps,’ hear about why Australia’s gun buy-backs were a symptom—not the cause—of the country’s COVID tyranny, and stick around to explore some solutions.
Mentioned on the Show:
Australian Gun Laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_of_Australia
David Limbrick on Liberty Lockdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_D4YhSh6k
@LibertyDownUndr on Twitter: https://twitter.com/libertydownundr
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@LibertyDownUnder on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/libertydownunder/
The Aussie Liberty Network On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4vHVgOcB63JVSwi39gYgg
Bookmark: https://australianliberty.network/
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Today, we cover Republicans and Democrats joining forces in opposition against the right to bear arms with the passage of a new red flag gun confiscation act. (Wait until you hear the Republicans’ excuse for co-signing the legislation.) Next, we cover Reps. Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Massie joining forces in opposition against funding Israel’s Iron Dome—but for very different reasons. Then, Amanda and Maurice debate joining forces with BLM in opposition of New York’s vaccine passports; and ask why politicians only care about empowering minorities when they’re voting to empower politicians. Finally, we end with a light item: In 2017, the CIA considered assassinating and/or kidnapping Julian Assange as well as changing the definition of a ‘journalist’ so that they could prosecute Glenn Greenwald!
We Discuss:
The House’s Red Flag Confiscation Fiasco—https://www.google.it/amp/s/bearingarms.com/camedwards/2021/09/23/dems-slip-red-flag-provision-into-military-spending-bill-n50265/amp
Not All ‘No’ Votes Are Created Equal
BLM Protests Vaccine Mandates—https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.blackenterprise.com/leader-of-black-lives-matter-new-york-chapter-calls-vaccine-mandates-racist-and-disrespectful/amp/
Former CIA Official: “We tried to change the definition of [journalists], and I preached this to the White House, and got rejected.”—https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html
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Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Today, Amanda shares a story about voting in person to recall Gavin with the Good Hair before we dive into President Biden recalling monoclonal antibody aid from Florida in the interest of “equity”. Next, Maurice explains how parents can organize to recall mask mandates at public schools; and we discuss the most likely scenarios by which the school and university mask mandates will end—mass[k] exodus? Midterms? The threat of midterms? Mass[k] de facto non-enforcement? Finally, we conclude with a light item, and ask whether our next geopolitical powers will be in South America and Africa.
Biden cuts off monoclonal antibody support to Florida because ‘equity’
Masking children: against science, against the rest of the world
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html
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