Jen the Libertarian

Barring anything completely unexpected happening Trump will be impeached by the House on the 18th on two articles of impeachment. I sat down with Todd Hagopian to talk out views on impeachment, how we got here, our predictions for the Senate trial, and generally all things impeachment

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We now officially have two articles of impeachment, there was a lot of yelling, Matt Gaetz is still an ass, the UK had an election that looks kinda similar to our election next year, and Trump tried to tackle anti-Semitism but didn't do such a good job

Y'know, a typical week nowadays

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Subtitle to this episode - the libertarians were right as usual and everyone should have listened 

So I wanted to give the two bombshell stories from the past few days - the WaPo Afghanistan Papers story and the DOJIG releasing the findings of there investigation into the 2016 election - their own episode because there's some important stuff to unpack here 

Link to the WaPo article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/

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Nick and I have a sit down where we discuss journalism, his career, libertarianism, how new things become old and old things become new, and if you listen close there's a mention of praxeology

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So in a (somewhat) surprise move Kamala exited the Dem primary, the House Judiciary held their hearing on the nerdier aspects of impeachment, and Trump got mad that people made fun of him at NATO so he left early

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Since articles of impeachment are officially going to be a thing now would be a good time to visit the executive summary of the report that will form the basis of the articles 

Link to full executive summary and report - https://intelligence.house.gov/report/

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Congress is on Thanksgiving break but that doesn't mean zero impeachment related news was to be had - in fact we learned some pretty interesting tidbits from behind the scenes 

And since I had a bit of time this week I discuss Bloomberg's entry into the Democratic primary, Bernie's reaction, the nonsense of "organic" campaigning, and reach vs influence

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The House intelligence committee moved at warp speed to get all of the testimony they could in before Thanksgiving break and it was A LOT of testimony. Like a lot a lot. 

And then those sneaky congressional mofos snuck in a renewal of the PATRIOT Act 

It's been a week

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Round 5. Yes you read that correctly. We are now five Democratic debates (some of them multi night events) in and I'm still watching and recapping them for you. Even though it is getting really painful. 

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Another Impeachment Week has come and gone, but this one brought us the beginning of Phase Two - open televised testimony.  Trump also released *a* phone call transcript but not *the* phone call transcript and DACA gets its day in SCOTUS

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