Rethinking Politics

Starting with a discussion of Abigail Shrier and her book Irreversible Damage, Brad and Dan discuss various Trans issues and related political principles. In particular, we focus on the question of of parental authority vs state authority vs the rights of the child. We also touch on all kinds of related issues such as what constitutes abuse.

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We've discussed the intellectual Cold War between Sam Harris and Bret Weinstein. Both Bret and Sam have addressed the societal response to Covid and hold opposing positions. The main problem is that Bret wants to get together and discuss the data while Sam doesn't. In the latest salvo from Sam, we were hoping to see a change in tactics. After all, Sam himself admits that his approach hasn't been persuasive. Instead, we saw more of the same: appeals to authority, an unwillingness to treat the opposition as an equal intellectual opponent, and failure to respond to specific data-driven arguments against his position. In this episode, Brad & Dan discuss the modern world of information access and the need for institutions to accept that reality. We also explore various developments in the Covid debates.

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Ask just about anyone and they will agree that something is wrong with the world, but they won't agree on what is wrong or what caused it. The pandemic/response has messed a lot of things up, but that is only a part of the puzzle. In this episode, Brad and Dan have an open ended discussion on what is wrong, how it got that way, and what if anything we can do about it. While doing so we discuss things like Twitter, Abortion, Gun Laws and even Federalism.

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2021 is almost over, but with the spread of Omicron it appears like we have at least a few more months of Covid dominated news cycles ahead of us. The good news is that the new variant appears less deadly. The bad news is that reasonable risk assessments don’t drive news. Fear of the variant is already being channeled into support for vaccine mandates. In this episode, we discuss what this variant actually means as well as several of the illogical and inconsistent Covid narratives. 

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What does Chrystal Kizer have in common with Darrel Brooks? Not much honestly. One killed her trafficker when she was seventeen, the other was a repeat offender who ran over and killed several people while injuring many others. But they are both getting attention because their cases are glaring examples of serious flaws in our current criminal justice system.In this episode we look at these cases as well as several others to see how we can get more justice from the criminal justice system.

After three days of deliberations, the jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts. Which for the most part, puts an end to this case. But the political fallout from this case has just started. So in this episode we discuss what should be straightforward facts of the case that are constantly confused and how so many are drawing their own conclusions based on political ideology rather than reality. We also cover what self defense actually means, and how it applies in this case. 

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With the jury still deliberating and the nation holding its breath, we discuss the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. We also discuss the CDC's change in goal posts for Covid 19 and the newly announced University of Austin. 

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https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-11-12/cdc-shifts-pandemic-goals-away-from-reaching-herd-immunity 

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/new-data-on-covid-19-transmission-by-vaccinated-individuals 

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1027198500/the-potential-implications-of-not-tracking-breakthrough-cases 

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-COVID-Vaccine&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4b2MBhD2ARIsAIrcB-TLIIfaZ5B2sj3xtfdbaDm28j9KBm8-HxkSvNHdDlViaQth_LZAptUaArBkEALw_wcB 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html?name=styln-coronavirus®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Interactive&variant=1_Show&is_new=false 

We are less than halfway through, yet November has already been a crazy month for politics. The House finally passed the Infrastructure Bill that Biden had been struggling to get through, OSHA finally released the Vaccine Mandate for businesses, and the November 2nd elections were a Republican tidal wave. In this episode, we take a look at these developments and offer our analysis of where all of this is going. We also discuss the factions within both parties and specifically what a future Republican Tyranny could look like. 

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In this episode Brad and Dan take a look at an argument that is frequently used in favor of central planning as opposed to an unrestricted market. That argument is this: look at all of the well off and successful socialist modern utopia like Singapore and Sweden, they are much better off than the US using a free market system. To answer this we use a couple of data sets to analyze the differences in the economies of several different nations and consider the causes of their prosperity.

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We are back!!! We began by catching up on a few current events we've missed. We go through everything from Trump's media company to Joe Rogen duking it out with CNN. Then we get to the meat of the episode where we discussed the current "stagflation" and supply chain issues with shipping.

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https://fee.org/articles/biden-thanks-unions-for-promising-to-help-solve-a-supply-chain-mess-they-created/?utm_source=zapier&fbclid=IwAR08vL2z_i1aYrJgmK0IlWP4XNeav_6A8HkkKhT_rOljDC5fwRKPDZtaaig

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dockworker-pay-20150301-story.html