Jen the Libertarian

By Jen the Libertarian

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

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Jen the Libertarian episodes:

02.22.2021
Biden's Immigration Bill, Jerk Politicians, Facebook Turns The News Off
I talk about Biden's sadly DOA immigration bill and some of the really good stuff in it, the Facebook - Australia story, Ted Cruz's ill fated Cabo trip, Cuomo lying about the number of grandmas and grandpas that dies of...
02.08.2021
Here Comes Impeachment 2.0, At Home COVID Tests, and The Anti-Squad
TL;DL - everything is kinda horrible and broken but hey we might be getting some sweet at home COVID tests and another vaccine on the US market.
02.01.2021
Meme Investing For Fun And Profit, Impeachment Prep
Well January sure turned out to be a weird month no? This past week capped it off with the rise of meme investing, preparing for impeachment 2.0, and a Texas court blocking Biden's 100 day deportation moratorium. A heads up...
01.25.2021
Trump Leaves, Biden Comes In, What Happens Next?
The Trump administration is officially over and the Biden administration is gearing up; from the executive orders Biden issued on Day One we get a glimpse into his policy priorities. Plus, we have an impending impeachment...
01.18.2021
Impeachment, Inauguration, Idiot Capitol Rioters
The past week brought us Trump's second impeachment, details on the upcoming inauguration, and details on just how stupid (or overly confident) the Capitol rioters were. I also discuss the upcoming battle over the next stimulus...
01.11.2021
The GOP Loses Georgia, The Capitol Riot, Twitter Boots Trump
I don't know if this will go down as the week the GOP finally died but after losing Georgia, a riot in the Capitol building, and their leading losing his social media platforms it is on life support
01.04.2021
Stimulus 2.0, Vaccine Rollout, Trump's Phone Call
Good news -- it's 2021! Bad news -- January is going to be a hell of a month We've got a fight over if Congress will approve additional direct stimulus finds (no), a vaccine rollout that's...
12.28.2020
Finally, 2020 Is Almost Over - Weekly Roundup
The last full week of 2020 is officially over! This stupid dumb year is almost over! We still have insanely high unemployment and no COVID relief package but we do have another vaccine on the horizon....
12.21.2020
Barr Goes Bye-Bye, More Vaccines , The Goverment Gets Hacked
In the past week -Barr handed in his resignation -FDA approved Moderna's vaccine for EUA -FDA also approved a completely at home rapid COVID test kit -the federal government kinda botched...
12.14.2020
Everyone Hates Facebook, SCOTUS v. MAGA, Vaccines Are Coming
Bad news - unemployment has once again skyrocketed and the FTC wants to break up Facebook Good news - the 2020 election legal odyssey has ended and the first batch of Pfizer vaccine is officially in...
12.07.2020
Trump's Section 230 Tantrum, MORE Act Passes, DACA Is Back
We've made it to the last month of this accursed year! Yay! However we now have Trump trying to shoehorn a repeal of Section 230 into the NDAA. Boo! We (finally) got a...
11.30.2020
Powell's Crazy Lawsuit, More Trump Losses, SCOTUS Saves The Churches
Short week that was not short on craziness - from the jettisoned Powell still going forward with the Kraken, a nasty Third Circuit dismissal of a Trump lawsuit, to SCOTUS weighing in on NYC's house of worship attendance caps Don't...
11.23.2020
Recounts, Lawsuits, The Great (Media) Realignment
The Trump campaign continues it push to drag out the election to the bitter end (which is coming soon), the narratives keep getting more and more absurd, and the exodus of talent in the mediasphere continues
11.17.2020
Our Neverending Election
It has been two weeks since Election Day and yet the election has not ended yet. It. Just. Keeps. Dragging. On. Warning - there is a rant in here
11.09.2020
General Election Madness
Look at that; we had an election, we got the results in time for the Weekly Roundup, and we managed to not literally set the nation on fire in the process. Metaphorically, however, the nation is...
11.02.2020
Tech Hearing, TikTok, Walter Wallace, Voting Interference
Here we are, in the last of the Before Times. This past week we had yet another stupid dumb tech hearing, a ruling on the TikTok ban, another police involved shooting, and some last minute voter disenfranchisement plots. ...
10.25.2020
The Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire - The Final Round
I did it. I watched all the debates from the 2020 election season. This episode is a bit shorter because I don't know what more commentary I can offer that I haven't in the fifty eleven debate...
10.19.2020
ACB Confirmation Hearing, Dueling Townhalls, Hunter Biden
We're nearing the end of the 2020 Election Season and the news cycle is not slowing down. This past week we had a SCOTUS confirmation hearing, two townhalls instead of one debate, and the New York Post trying to do...
10.12.2020
Trump's Feverish Week, Debate Cancellation, More On Trump's Finances
A week closer to Election Day, a week further from sanity... Don't forget to sign up for my Substack newsletter - jenmonroe.substack.com
10.09.2020
The Vice Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire
A quick rundown of the almost useless vice presidential debate where we learned almost nothing Don't forget to subscribe to my Substack, it is much more interesting than the vice presidential debate - jenmonroue.substack.com
10.05.2020
Trump Has COVID. Now What?
It's hard to imagine Trump has ever had a worse week than the one he just had - his tax returns got leaked, he had a horrible debate performance, and he's currently receiving treatment for COVID-19. Since...
10.02.2020
The Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire Round One
Well I started making these episodes for the Democratic primary debates so in order to see the series through to the end I decided to give the presidential debates their own episodes. This debate series has...not...
09.28.2020
Emperor Trump(?), The Barrett Nomination, The Taylor Cases
In this week's roundup - Trump makes dumb mouth noises, the SCOTUS nominee is revealed, and the grand jury makes its decision on who will face charges in the Taylor shooting. And news - I've started a Substack! Here is...
09.21.2020
The TikTok Debacle, 1776 Commission, RBG Leaves The Building
We may be done with 2020 but 2020 is clearly not done with us. This past week saw frightening levels of overreach from the Trump administration on the TikTok acquisition deal and on what exactly should constitute US history...
09.14.2020
Trump Talks To Woodward, Deported Unaccompanied Minors
It was a short week but we still have stuff to talk about, like how for some reason Trump decided to tell Bob Woodward things he probably shouldn't have and the staggering number of deportations that have happened since March
09.11.2020
It's Time To Talk About Section 230. Again.
Since Congress won't leave well enough alone when it comes to Section 230, we have two presidential candidates who are openly antagonistic towards Section 230, and two platforms have already changed their TOS to reflect the current environment we need...
09.07.2020
The Portland Shooting, Don and Joe Visit Kenosha, Anon Sources
The story of the shooting of Aaron Danielson in Portland comes to a rather troubling end (?), both presidential candidates visit Kenosha and have very different experiences, and The Atlantic drops a piece on Trump that causes a mini...
09.04.2020
Trump's (and the GOP's) 2020 Agenda
Left off of the weekly roundup - Trump released his 2020 agenda and the RNC decided that their 2020 agenda what whatever Trump said. So let's look at this Trump / GOP agenda shall we?
08.31.2020
RNC Recap, Kenosha
The past week gave us a bunch of dystopian hellscape - between the warnings of impending doom coming from the RNC to another police shooting that has kicked off riots in Kenosha, which lead to the Rittenhouse shootings ...
08.24.2020
DNC Recap, Bannon Gets Arrested
The DNC finally took place virtually on August 17 - 20 and I watched the primetime portions of it and recapped it for you, and we got a surprise arrest
08.21.2020
The Awful Alex Morse Story
I bring you one of the most sordid tales of backstabbing intrigue ever. Alex Morse is the victim of one of the grossest smear campaigns I've seen in a long time and the story is a mashup of everything that's...
08.17.2020
Biden / Harris 2020, USPS Meltdown, Who's Running DHS?
So we now know the entirety of the 2020 Democratic ticket, a controversy / conspiracy involving the USPS and our pending mail voting tsunami, and btw we don't know who is supposed to be running DHS but we know...
08.15.2020
COVID and Kids and School and The Lack Of Decent Data with Matt Welch
Matt wrote a piece for Reason about his journey trying to find decent data on the safety of sending kids (namely his own) back into a brick and mortar school environment. Spoiler alert - it was quite the frustrating...
08.14.2020
Education In The Time of COVID with Corey DeAngelis
Sure everything is bad is right right now and that includes the current educational mess we find ourselves in for the 2020 - 2021 school year but there may be a silver lining here - parents across the country...
08.10.2020
Trump's Very Bad No Good EOs, The Beirut Explosion
Trump decided this is the week he's granting himself the power to decide if Tik Tok and WeChat get to operate in the US and to institute his own covid relief plan via EO (none of this seems particularly legal...
08.07.2020
What Happened to Mobilize 2020 with Cliff Maloney
As I'm sure everyone is aware YAL's Mobilize 2020 got canceled at the last minute by the city of Dallas (insert rage emoji here) so I have a brief chat with Cliff Maloney, president of YAL, to find out what...
08.03.2020
Bad Economic News, Portland, New DACA Memo, Tech Hearing
I think I can use this episode's title for every weekly roundup for at least the rest of the year... We got Q2's GDP numbers and yeah lol we're boned, Portland seems to be healing now that the feds are...
07.31.2020
About The Portland Situation with Nancy Rommelmann
So as everyone on Earth knows the feds were sent into Portland to do...I don't know what exactly and Nancy went to go document what was going on and report back to us
07.27.2020
Feds Coming To A Town Near You, Immigration Malarky, The Covington Story Returns
Things in Portland aren't slowing down and neither is the trend of deploying Feds to cities who didn't ask for their assistance, the Trump administration is *still* trying to keep illegal immigrants from being counted on the Census and...
07.24.2020
The Future (And Demise) Of The Antiracism Movement
Where I look into movements that have come and gone in the past (namely girlboss feminism and #MeToo) to predict the future of the current It Movement Let's just say the future doesn't look bright ...
07.20.2020
The Twitter "Hack", Portland, The Antiracism Controversy
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...
07.17.2020
The Letter Discourse with Jesse Singal
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...
07.13.2020
Schooling In The Time Of COVID, More SCOTUS Decisions, Roger Stone
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...
07.10.2020
Clickbait And Cancel Culture Are Real
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...
07.06.2020
Hong Kong, A Statue Garden, And The Return Of The Donegan Story
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...
07.03.2020
Parler Games
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...
06.29.2020
Halting Legal Immigration, NASCAR Noose, Tearing Down Statues
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...
06.26.2020
Feminism, Racism, and the Damsel in Distress w/ Cathy Young
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
06.22.2020
Rayshard Brooks Revisited, SCOTUS Decisions, The Trump Rally
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...
06.15.2020
Fixing The Police, The Rise Of CHAZ, Rayshard Brooks
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

What's Jen the Libertarian about?

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Jen the Libertarian episodes:

Biden's Immigration Bill, Jerk Politicians, Facebook Turns The News Off

Here Comes Impeachment 2.0, At Home COVID Tests, and The Anti-Squad

Meme Investing For Fun And Profit, Impeachment Prep

Trump Leaves, Biden Comes In, What Happens Next?

Impeachment, Inauguration, Idiot Capitol Rioters

The GOP Loses Georgia, The Capitol Riot, Twitter Boots Trump

Stimulus 2.0, Vaccine Rollout, Trump's Phone Call

Finally, 2020 Is Almost Over - Weekly Roundup

Barr Goes Bye-Bye, More Vaccines , The Goverment Gets Hacked

Everyone Hates Facebook, SCOTUS v. MAGA, Vaccines Are Coming

Trump's Section 230 Tantrum, MORE Act Passes, DACA Is Back

Powell's Crazy Lawsuit, More Trump Losses, SCOTUS Saves The Churches

Recounts, Lawsuits, The Great (Media) Realignment

Our Neverending Election

General Election Madness

Tech Hearing, TikTok, Walter Wallace, Voting Interference

The Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire - The Final Round

ACB Confirmation Hearing, Dueling Townhalls, Hunter Biden

Trump's Feverish Week, Debate Cancellation, More On Trump's Finances

The Vice Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire

Trump Has COVID. Now What?

The Presidential Debate Dumpster Fire Round One

Emperor Trump(?), The Barrett Nomination, The Taylor Cases

The TikTok Debacle, 1776 Commission, RBG Leaves The Building

Trump Talks To Woodward, Deported Unaccompanied Minors

It's Time To Talk About Section 230. Again.

The Portland Shooting, Don and Joe Visit Kenosha, Anon Sources

Trump's (and the GOP's) 2020 Agenda

RNC Recap, Kenosha

DNC Recap, Bannon Gets Arrested

The Awful Alex Morse Story

Biden / Harris 2020, USPS Meltdown, Who's Running DHS?

COVID and Kids and School and The Lack Of Decent Data with Matt Welch

Education In The Time of COVID with Corey DeAngelis

Trump's Very Bad No Good EOs, The Beirut Explosion

What Happened to Mobilize 2020 with Cliff Maloney

Bad Economic News, Portland, New DACA Memo, Tech Hearing

About The Portland Situation with Nancy Rommelmann

Feds Coming To A Town Near You, Immigration Malarky, The Covington Story Returns

The Future (And Demise) Of The Antiracism Movement

The Twitter "Hack", Portland, The Antiracism Controversy

The Letter Discourse with Jesse Singal

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

Clickbait And Cancel Culture Are Real

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

Parler Games

Halting Legal Immigration, NASCAR Noose, Tearing Down Statues

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

Rayshard Brooks Revisited, SCOTUS Decisions, The Trump Rally

Fixing The Police, The Rise Of CHAZ, Rayshard Brooks