Jen the Libertarian

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....

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

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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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)