Civil Discord

It’s our most musical episode yet! A trifecta of San Francisco school board recalls prompts us to reflect on the reawakening of blue-city parents. We also consider the best path forward for public education. Maurice wants the DOE DOA. Amanda is clearly a socialist. Next, we move northward to bring you the latest on the Canadian convoy. What’s up with this emergency powers act? Can the government freeze your crypto? Why are state-hired hackers posing in Guy Fawkes masks? Maurice finds fresh evidence that what’s really needed is an anarchist confederation. Amanda is clearly a neocon who believes in the power of nuclear weapons and discourse ethics. She also breaks out into song at least twice. 

Mentioned on the Show: 

Immigrant Parents, Gaybraham Lincoln Recall San Francisco School Board https://sfist.com/2022/02/16/all-three-school-board-members-recalled-in-landslide/ 

Canada’s Emergency Act, Explained https://fortune.com/2022/02/14/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-emergencies-act-freedom-convoy-protests/ 

What Does Canada’s Emergency Act Mean for Canadians’ Money?

https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy-bank-accounts-canada-covid-protest-emergency-powers/ 

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The most recent extension of emergency powers was anticipated—but it hits different. A more serious episode. 

Update: As of press time, at least 13 schoolchildren in LA county reportedly collapsed after being forced to wear N-95s outside during a heat wave, in accordance with LADPS & LA Department of Public Health mandates. You didn’t think heatstroke was good for public health? You must not care about children or Science. 

We’ll be back later this week with more topics & Maurice! In the meantime… 

Amanda Discusses the She-cession on Fact Check This Podcast: https://anchor.fm/factcheckthis/episodes/Ep--137---The-She-cession-w-Amanda--Masha-e1ebrfa 

Get Fact Checked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QxzaPyXn4 

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This show was almost titled “Debasing the Dollar, Freebasing the Dime(bag),” but we have standards. We ask where U.S. institutions’ have gone when it comes to the way they respond to the Chinese Communist Party. Next, Maurice gives a Business Insider article on inflation two thumbs down. NPR asks what color those thumbs are. Amanda explains why harm reduction is great and how the U.S. government is about to ruin it. PLUS: Stay tuned for a Special Announcement™ from Maurice! 

Mentioned on the Show: 

Chinese Artist’s CCP Protest Art Is Anti-Asian Hate

https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/1489807097730846724?s=21 

Business Insider: Inflation is Not the Only Reason Prices Are Going up—It’s Also Greed 

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-measure-inflation-raise-prices-corporate-profits-supply-chain-2022-2?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

NPR’s Opposable Thumbs

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors 

Is the Biden Administration Distributing Crack Pipes? 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/ 

No, Really, Are They? https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-says-pipes-not-included-in-taxpayer-funded-crack-smoking-kits/ 

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Today, we comment on the evolving situations surrounding Joe Rogan’s racial slur demo reel and the Canadian trucker convoy’s removal from GoFundMe. Amanda compares taxpayer-funded healthcare to cheese sandwiches and shares some positive news from the California state legislature. We also compare COVID-19 to the flu—and the numbers aren’t convenient for the totalitarian left. Finally, Maurice reviews a study from Based Johns Hopkins showing that lockdowns did a lot more harm than good. 

The Latest on the Convoy: https://twitter.com/GhostOfGord/status/1490676246191161347 

CA Says No to Shitty Cheese Sandwich Healthcare:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-scraps-single-payer-health-care-plan-double-state-taxes 

COVID Policy vs. Reality Check: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10358361/Omicron-nearly-100-TIMES-deadly-seasonal-flu-scientists-believe.html 

The Johns Hopkins Lockdown Study: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf 

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This week, we cover Justice Breyer’s impending retirement and review the rumors about a Kamala Harris SCOTUS appointment. Next, an aging musician boycotts a streaming service for platforming a pro-speech, big-pharma-skeptical comedian. Guess whose side the left is taking? We also tackle the CDC’s crackpot assertion that natural immunity offered superior protection during the Delta wave and look at a Johns Hopkins study claiming that natural immunity lasts for at least as long as scientists have been tracking it. It’s bonkers! Finally, Canadian truckers take to Parliament Hill; and Canadian Prime Minister Sir Justin Trudeau the Brave takes off. 

Mentioned on the Show—

Breyer Retires: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-28/the-midterm-implications-of-breyers-retirement-supreme-courts-abortion-ruling 

Ilya Shapiro Tweets, Invokes Ire: https://reason.com/2022/01/28/georgetown-should-not-fire-ilya-shapiro-for-a-bad-tweet/ 

CDC Says Natural Immunity Offered Better Protection During Delta Wave:  https://fee.org/articles/cdc-natural-immunity-offered-stronger-protection-against-covid-than-vaccines-during-delta-wave/ 

https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/natural-immunity-gets-another-boost-from-two-new-u-s-studies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=natural-immunity-gets-another-boost-from-two-new-u-s-studies 

Johns Hopkins Studies COVID-19 for Two Years, Finds Antibodies for Two Years:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/in-covid-19-vaccinated-people-those-with-prior-infection-likely-to-have-more-antibodies 

Brave Sir Justin Runs Away: https://www.businessinsider.com/thousands-canada-protest-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-truckers-justin-trudeau-2022-1 

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Today, we’re breaking down all the highlights from Joe Biden’s first press conference in 800 years, including his admission that Build Back Better will probably need to be broken apart and passed piecemeal… better; his call for the Fed to raise interest rates; his refusal to accept responsibility as well as reality; and his tacit invitation for Russia to invade Ukraine. Then we dive into Chamath Palihapitiya’s comments about Uighur genocide and the questions they raise about free markets and foreign policy. Finally, Maurice has some thoughts on Starbucks! 

Mentioned on the Show:

Amanda Didn’t Lose a Debate 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1aFPboQ8M 

Fact Checking the Fact-Checkers on Coronavirus Origins

https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/podcast/episode/44282f01/sars-cov-2-evidence-of-gain-of-function-and-lab-origin-with-amanda-griffiths-or-ep-641 

Joe Biden’s Press Confrenstrophy 

https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/bidens-press-conference-was-terrifying-his-internal-monologue-said-out-loud/ 

https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/bidens-press-conference-was-an-utter-disaster/ 

Chamath Palihapitiya Says Uighurs Are ‘Below [His] Line’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE [starts @ 14:45]

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government can’t tell private sector employees what to put in their bodies—unless that private sector receives a lot of federal funding. What does that say about our medical autonomy in a hypothetical Medicare for All utopia? And why does Maurice have a problem with the Court’s OSHA ruling? Next, Jon Ossoff and Josh Hawley have both introduced legislation to ban Congressional members and their families from trading stocks. Amanda explains why both bills would create new problems by ignoring existing ones. 

Mentioned on the Show—

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on—and Partially Blocks—Vaccine Mandates:

https://reason.com/2022/01/07/sotomayor-severe-covid-children-oral-arguments-vaccine-mandate/ 

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a240_d18e.pdf

Jon Ossoff introduces legislation to ban Members of Congress & spouses from trading stocks

https://www.businessinsider.com/josh-hawley-jon-ossoff-introduce-dueling-stock-trading-bans-2022-1 

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In a freewheeling episode full of Premium Content™, Maurice and Amanda commemorate January 6 by discussing the perils of hyperbole and debating Maurice’s vision of a secessionist utopia. Maurice gives us a lesson on the history of Texas, prompting Amanda to give us a lesson on the history of her fourth grade class’ EXTREMELY problematic Civil War unit—which took place during the early aughts and culminated in a water balloon-based reenactment. Next, we have Omicraziness updates from universities across the country (including UCLA) and general biofascism updates from governments abroad (namely Austria). How do they keep getting away with it? We explain.  

Mentioned on the Show:    

Academia Loses the Plot https://reason.com/2022/01/07/colleges-use-omicron-as-justification-for-shutdowns-and-surveillance/ 

Austria: the Next Australia https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/austria-plans-enormous-fines-incarceration 

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This week, Amanda shares her Lived Experience™ with Omicron, or the most anticlimactic cold ever. Then we discuss the Biden administration’s pivot on COVID-19, along with Rochelle ‘Speaking in a Personal Capacity’ Walensky’s admission that PCR tests—which are being used to sideline workers and shutter schools as we speak—can be positive for up to 12 weeks post-infection. In order to illustrate the devastating consequences of relying on PCR-determined case rates to make academic and economic decisions, Amanda and Maurice review UCLA’s woefully misguided ‘decision matrix,’ which will likely force its 97% vaccinated student body in front of their screens for the next quarter. The two close with a light item: New Year’s resolutions for libertarians. 

Mentioned on the Show

CDC, Biden Administration Pivot on COVID-19 Strategy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/27/biden-says-covid-surge-needs-to-be-solved-at-state-level-vows-full-federal-support.html 

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html 

UCLA’s Decision Matrix:

https://ucla.app.box.com/s/mv32q624ojihohzh8d0mhhj0b3xluzbz 

PCR Tests Can Be Positive Up to 12 Weeks After Infection, says Rochelle ‘Speaking in a Personal Capacity’ Walensky:

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-12-29/cdc-director-defends-not-recommending-coronavirus-tests-in-updated-isolation-quarantine-guidance 

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Today, we discuss the shocking surprise that wasn’t: Joe Manchin has refused to support the Build Back Better bill in its current form. We talk about the strategic pros and cons about party-line votes and then turn to the latest in public health fascism news: the New York legislature is getting ready to vote on a bill that’s the equivalent of stop-and-frisk for COVID—only the frisk is internment, and the ‘stop’ can involve forced medical treatment and be renewed continually over 90-day periods. 

Mentioned on the Show:

Joe vs. Joe on Build Back Better: 

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586450-manchin-says-he-will-not-vote-for-build-back-better-this-is-a-no 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/joe-manchin-build-back-better-no-fox-news-sunday.html 

NY Bill A416:

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a416 

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