The Statist Quo

The early American republic is not discussed much in American history, at least not in high school. You might get some of that time period in a college history class, but it doesn’t seem to be a big topic in popular history. Why is that? Maybe because it’s easy to see how the Founding Generation didn’t live up to their high-minded ideals and pretty rhetoric. Or maybe it’s because early United States history is fraught with rebellions, tax revolts, uprisings and the like.

Either way, it’s a very fascinating period and some of the events then played a major role in shaping the country that would grow to be the biggest empire the world has ever seen, that went from the smallest government on the planet to the biggest government in human history. Shays’ Rebellion is one of those events that provoked a reaction and enabled the machinations of characters like Alexander Hamilton. It even helped push George Washington out of retirement, and played a part in the push for a stronger central government. It’s also a great story in and of itself, teaching us a lot about the people that founded this country, known and unknown, and it also teaches us a lot about America’s true relationship with the men that fight its wars.

However, to understand Shays’ Rebellion, you can’t just look at the events starting in June of 1786; instead you have to understand the economic situation at the time, and also the roots of the Continental Army and the direction it pushed the American Revolution in. Join us as Matt tells the story of the Massachusetts Regulators, who go down in history as the Shaysites.

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Today on TSQ, Matt talks about a very powerful force in American life:  The American Civil Religion.  This is not a new concept, but it is one that isn’t discussed as much as it used to be.  A  civil religion is a phenomenon whereby the nominally secular state takes on things normally associated with organized religion, such as dogmas, holy sites or shrines, sermons, incantations and prayers.  It’s creepy as all get out, and should offend us all, whether we are religious or not.

Robert Bellah’s Article

http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm

Tragedy of US Foreign Policy Book

https://www.fpri.org/books/tragedy-us-foreign-policy-americas-civil-religion-betrayed-national-interest/#:~:text=the%20National%20Interest-,The%20Tragedy%20of%20U.S.%20Foreign%20Policy%3A%20How%20America’s,Religion%20Betrayed%20the%20National%20Interest&text=Pulitzer%20Prize%E2%80%93winning%20historian%20Walter,foreign%20policy%20ever%20since%20177

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 On this episode, we are talking about a subject Matt has wanted to cover since the day we started this podcast.  The assault on the USS Liberty and the subsequent cover-up by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.  It was attacked by the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy while off the coast of the Gaza Strip, monitoring radio traffic from the Egyptian military.  A total of 34 personnel were killed and 170 were injured.  Heroic damage control efforts by the crew stopped the Liberty from sinking.  It is the most decorated Navy ship for a single action in US history, yet her story is largely untold and unknown.  The Pentagon brass swept the whole incident under the rug; they forced the crew to keep their mouths shut about their ordeal, under threat of court-martial.

This is our humble attempt to do their story justice, and also to use it as an object lesson in how America treats those who fight its wars.Matt rants on history and statues for a few minutes in the beginning, and then we share the story of the day that Israel attacked the United States.

Best full write-up of the Liberty attack.  Timeline

https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.htmlIncriminating quotes from Menachem Begin, former Israeli PMhttps://www.wrmea.org/1994-july-august/begin-s-admission-in-1982-that-israel-started-three-of-its-wars.htmlOfficial Liberty Survivors' website, lots of resources

http://www.gtr5.com/

  Write-up of 2007 NSA release of audio transcriptshttps://www.mintpressnews.com/evidence-proves-israel-attack-uss-liberty-orders-kill-americans/198757/FacebookTwitter

In this episode, we do a reading of Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 dystopian short story called "Harrison Bergeron". Believe me, its a SHORT story, but it packs a lot into it. We discuss how the future government of Kurt Vonnegut's imagination mirrors what we may see on the horizon in real life. Read along if you like, from the link of the text provided below, and check out the 1995 Film of the same name, based on the book, that I will link to below as well.

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 Today's episode is sort of a ramble about an eye opening thing that occurred in a FB group i joined and made me think...hmmmmm the post libertarians are kinda right? Give it a listen.


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We all have boomercon relatives or progressive friends who are annoyingly political but sometimes we feel compelled to agree with them given some set of circumstances. This is called political relativism. Its pretty basic concept but often enough, especially in times of highly contested opinion, its easy for libertarians to fall into one camp or another. As long as we strive to adhere to the direction of objective morality, and not moral relativism, then our secondary politics can shift from time to time to conform to the objective pursuit of the abstinence of immorality.  Nick, the producer, attempts to explain this philosophy in a way that even he might understand. Fingers crossed. Thanks for listening!

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Been a while since we’ve done a current events show, and some very important things are going on, so here it is, you degenerates.  I talk about Biden’s nationally televised temper tantrum, my own thoughts on the v@x, natural immunity, and so on.  I also talk a little about 9/11, twenty years on, from a little different perspective than you’re probably used to hearing on podcasts in this orbit.

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Nick hosts The Statist Quo once again, and interviews Alu Axelman, author of the very topical book " The Plague That Must Not Be Questioned".
They discuss the new normal, and if it is really "safe and effective".


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Join us for the next installment of our Irish History series.  This episode starts at the end of 1918 and covers British reaction to the 1918 General Election, the formation of the First Dail, and some of the early events that began the slow descent into open conflict, the Irish War of Independence.

Link--Newspaper clippings of First Dail meeting.

https://www.dail100.ie/en/long-reads/press-coverage/

• 99B – Irish History I: Dynamitards
• 105 – Irish History II: Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee
• 106 – Irish History III : The Easter Rising (Part A)
• 107 – Irish History III: The Easter Rising (Part B)
• 113 – Irish History IV
• 115 – Irish History V: A Mass of Antagonism

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Just one event on today’s installment: The 1918 Conscription crisis, an oft-overlooked but very important chapter in the story of the Irish War of Independence. Also covered is the close of WW1, the collapse of the IPP, and the rise of a more radical brand of nationalism...and this is the event that radicalized the Irish people, more than any other.

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