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Civil Discord
by Civil Discord
Welcome to your weekly dose of radical curiosity. Each [Monday or whenever it’s released], Civil Discord critiques the critics and tackles the top lines in news and society. Beginning with the premise that the ‘smallest common denominator’ of self-ownership is the greatest single driver of political, social, and cultural change, your intrepid co-hosts and colorful guests break down what individuals, communities, businesses, and finally institutions can do to find their footing, combat totalitarianism, and make their voices heard, wherever they stand on the issues. If you’re ideologically homeless, culturally tribeless, or tired of hearing the same rants about what’s not working, Civil Discord offers provocative counterpoints and fresh perspectives to keep you in the know, arm you with the arguments, and empower you to create the change you crave.
Episodes
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Episode 56: Where You’d Go? I’ve Miss You So!
Maurice hops on to give an update on what's been happening in over the past month, and shares some good news! He also gives an update on his views on a cultural issue that has recently taken place. Watch us on YouTube (watch us LIVE on usually Sundays!):...
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Episode 55: Forever a Loan
Today’s big story is, of course, President Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal. We discuss the constitutionality, consequences, and conflicted feelings that libertarian-leaning recipients of unsolicited federal aid can experience—plus, what to do with them (and the extra money). Then the…
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Episode 54: Attacking the Cracks in the Alphabet Soup State
…That was REALLY supposed to be a play on “Animal Crackers in My Soup,” and then we fired our title-writing summer intern. Today we discuss the right and left’s reactions to the raid on Trump’s Florida estate and what it means that both parties are taking aim at Americans’ faith in our...
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Episode 53: The IRA vs. Your IRA, Chekhovian Guns Only, and Props for Pelosi
Maurice just woke up from a nap and Amanda forgot to do the pre-show notes. Still, the podcast soldiers on with a LIVE pre-show that includes the hosts’ controversial opinions on national anthems, public school starting hours, and possibly Canada. But we get into some real news content: The...
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Episode 52: “Ivanov actually gets a lot right.” —Amanda Griffiths, Alleged Libertarian
This week, we catch up on stories breaking, broken, and mostly unspoken. First, a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun! Next, the White House can’t stop a recession—even if they try to redefine what the word means. Then, President Biden plays footsie with the idea of declaring a…...
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Episode 51: Checks, Drugs, and Good-Haired Trolls
Remember when we joked about needing inflation stimulus checks to fight inflation? Well, Gavin with the Good Hair took us seriously! Seriously. We discuss. Speaking of which—GwtGH just bought ad space in Florida to go head-to-head with Ron DeSantis! We discuss the major party prospects for 2024…
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Episode 50: When Your Gun Has More Rights Than Your Nicotine
In a one-two policy punch that couldn’t be more perfect for big tobacco, the Biden administration moves to restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes while the FDA pursues a ban on Juul vapes. Next, SCOTUS upholds the right to concealed carry in all 50 states while the Senate passes a bipartisan gun...
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Episode 49: Hyperstagflation, Unreliable Sources
After a special announcement, we unearth a buried story from this past weekend: The WHO’s director general has apparently leaked his own thoughts on the ‘lab leak theory’. Next, we turn to all things inflation. How bad is it? What comes next? What will (and won’t) help? Finally, trad media is…
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Episode 48: The Flux and the Party w/ Jim Magoo
Today, we welcome a returning guest—Jim Magoo, from the “Ignore the Rant” podcast—to pick up on what feels like a continuation of our last joint episode, “Bolshevik Libertarians” (yes, we have a theme). Magoo briefs us on the Mises Caucus “takeover” of the Libertarian Party, shares his thoughts,...
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Episode 47: Chad Media v. Trad Media
Episode 47: Chad Media v. Trad Media This week, we discuss the media frenzy around the verdict in Depp v. Heard and talk about what the renaissance of decentralized expertise means for our general information ecosystem. Then Maurice takes the floor to talk firearms, proposed bans, new laws,...
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Civil Disinformation Governance Board
This week is a win for discord! Our accountability institutions brought some much-needed sunlight to Biden’s proposed Disinformation Governance Board, which promptly shriveled in the public gaze. We look at what erstwhile Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz had to say about the agency’s demise…
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Episode 45: Not Legal Advice, Not Tax Policy Advice, Not Financial Advice
First things first: We had some major audio/video issues with this podcast, so ⅔ of the time Amanda is pretending to react to Maurice’s deep thoughts while she stares at a blank, soundless screen. Did we pull it off? You be the judge! Speaking of judging, we provide a brief of the Depp/Heard…
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Episode 44: Abnormal SCOTUS Leakage
Maurice takes a week off to move and the news explodes! We spend this episode wiping SCOTUS leak residue off of our faces and speculate on who the leaker is—and what will happen to them—before discussing whether this is a matter best left to federalism or the courts. Amanda goes undercover...
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Episode 43: Freedom of the Skies, CNN -, Libs of TikDoxxed
What will happen to democracy now that an unelected judge has bypassed the will of an unelected bureaucrat and ruled that laws should be made by elected representatives? We discuss by visiting the recent ruling against the CDC’s airline mask mandate. We also share tips for how to respond if…
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Episode 42: Shanghai, Scandals, and Musk Runs Amok
After discussing Amanda’s groundbreaking trip to Chicago and her Lived Experience™ with not getting COVID, we examine the Chinese Communist Party’s failed mission to keep anyone from getting COVID—even if it means destroying every life in the process. We puzzle over a few theories about what’s...
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Episode 41: Counterfeit Bills
Civil Discord is reporting from the front lines of the culture war! We hash out our disagreements over Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Bill and discuss what teachers should and shouldn’t share with their students. Amanda shares her Lived Experience™ of wanting to be a boy between the ages…
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Episode 40: Certified Jackwagons
After a discussion on the worst drivers in the U.S., we recap the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings and explain why Congressional inaction is partly to blame for sentence differentials on child pornography. We also solve the gender crisis in competitive sports! You’re welcome, America....
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Episode 39: Moving the Overton Window w/ Eric from Rebel with a Cause podcast
Today, Eric from the Rebel with a Cause podcast joins us to talk about the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s Annual Threatdown, the Ukraine invasion, gas prices, energy policy, and the new omnibus bill that Does Not Spark Joy. Maurice adjusts to his position as the podcast’s moderate...
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Episode 38: Rhetoric vs. Reality
The Biden Administration is talking tough about Russian sanctions and energy independence—but how is that reflected in their policy choices? We break down how the administration’s entry into Putin’s Iran Nuclear Deal, flirtation with Venezuelan oil imports, and staunch refusal to become energy...
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Episode 37: There’s Nothing Like a Good Molotov Cocktail
Your timeline and analysis of the stories to follow on the Russo-Ukrainian War. We (briefly) armchair psychoanalyze Putin and the unexpected strength of U.S. intel, NATO cooperation (what’s happening now? Is it too little too late?), and Ukrainian resistance. After a bit of history on the…
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Episode 36: It’s Like Hacking, But You Work for the State
It’s our most musical episode yet! A trifecta of San Francisco school board recalls prompts us to reflect on the reawakening of blue-city parents. We also consider the best path forward for public education. Maurice wants the DOE DOA. Amanda is clearly a socialist. Next, we move northward to…
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Minisode: Gavin with the Good Hair’s Forever Emergency
The most recent extension of emergency powers was anticipated—but it hits different. A more serious episode. Update: As of press time, at least 13 schoolchildren in LA county reportedly collapsed after being forced to wear N-95s outside during a heat wave, in accordance with LADPS & LA Department...
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Episode 35: Debasement and Freebasement
This show was almost titled “Debasing the Dollar, Freebasing the Dime(bag),” but we have standards. We ask where U.S. institutions’ have gone when it comes to the way they respond to the Chinese Communist Party. Next, Maurice gives a Business Insider article on inflation two thumbs down. NPR asks...
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Episode 34: Fascist Proletarians
Today, we comment on the evolving situations surrounding Joe Rogan’s racial slur demo reel and the Canadian trucker convoy’s removal from GoFundMe. Amanda compares taxpayer-funded healthcare to cheese sandwiches and shares some positive news from the California state legislature. We also compare...
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Episode 33: Remedial Conspiracy Theory
This week, we cover Justice Breyer’s impending retirement and review the rumors about a Kamala Harris SCOTUS appointment. Next, an aging musician boycotts a streaming service for platforming a pro-speech, big-pharma-skeptical comedian. Guess whose side the left is taking? We also tackle the CDC’s...
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Episode 32: Minor Incursions
Today, we’re breaking down all the highlights from Joe Biden’s first press conference in 800 years, including his admission that Build Back Better will probably need to be broken apart and passed piecemeal… better; his call for the Fed to raise interest rates; his refusal to accept responsibility...
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Episode 31: All the Wrong Problems
The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government can’t tell private sector employees what to put in their bodies—unless that private sector receives a lot of federal funding. What does that say about our medical autonomy in a hypothetical Medicare for All utopia? And why does Maurice have…
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Episode 30: Civil Wars, Y’all Omicrazy, and Vibe-Based Communications
In a freewheeling episode full of Premium Content™, Maurice and Amanda commemorate January 6 by discussing the perils of hyperbole and debating Maurice’s vision of a secessionist utopia. Maurice gives us a lesson on the history of Texas, prompting Amanda to give us a lesson on the history of her...
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Episode 29: Suffer Neither Fools Nor Cowards
This week, Amanda shares her Lived Experience™ with Omicron, or the most anticlimactic cold ever. Then we discuss the Biden administration’s pivot on COVID-19, along with Rochelle ‘Speaking in a Personal Capacity’ Walensky’s admission that PCR tests—which are being used to sideline workers and...
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Episode 28: Crossing Party Lines, New York’s Viral Internment Bill
Today, we discuss the shocking surprise that wasn’t: Joe Manchin has refused to support the Build Back Better bill in its current form. We talk about the strategic pros and cons about party-line votes and then turn to the latest in public health fascism news: the New York legislature is getting...
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Episode 27: The Do’s and Don’t’s of Libertarianisming, with Good Morning Liberty
Today, Amanda is joined by special guests Nate Thurston and Charles Thompson from the Good Morning Liberty podcast. They talk about the challenges of privacy protection and the differences between the way corporations and governments use your data. Then we discuss what libertarians are doing…
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Episode 26: The Right to Fair Trial Data
Amanda and Maurice recap the week’s two top self-defense verdicts and discuss where criminal justice reform can go from here. (Quite a long way, it turns out.) Then we return to COVID news from all around the world: Austria becomes the next Australia; OSHA backs off of its mandate; the FDA…
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Episode 25: Convenience Lawyers
After Maurice makes a special announcement about Florida, we discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse self-defense case, from the perspective of two people who have actually been watching it. (Evidence: Amanda’s residual accent is flaring up.) We discuss how our perceptions have changed from the initial…
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Episode 24: Comedy of Unforced Errors
Today, we break down the new OSHA workplace vaccine rule—and the immediate injunction filed against it. Then, our post-election analysis explores how Democratic strategists handed Republicans multiple victories in true blue states. Maurice gives his perspective as an educator. We also ask whether...
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ePPPisode 23: Memory Holes and Bottlenecks
In breaking news this week, the NIH submitted a letter to Congress implicating its role in funding alleged gain-of-function research, carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, resulting in the creation of an exponentially more contagious virus with features similar to SARS-CoV-2. We...
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Episode 22: Mandates Against Mandates
In Woke News this week, former NFL coach Jon Gruden resigned in disgrace over some marginally distasteful statements made in some very old emails. Does this count as ‘cancel culture’? What is ‘cancel culture’? Then, in Federalism News, some state governors are banning vaccine mandates and…
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Episode 21: Post-Infrastructuralism, the Flight-Fight Response, and Karen vs. Karen: the McKarening
Today, we tackle what Congress won’t: the debt ceiling! We also break down what Congress won’t: the incredible expanding spending bill that Pays For Itself(™) by tracking Venmo accounts of service workers, taxing you to help pay for better tax enforcement, and conducting studies about what else…
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Episode 20: Deep Dive: Australian COVID Policy
On this Very Special Episode of Civil Discord, Amanda talks with the founder of the Australian Liberty Network and host of the Gumtree of Liberty Podcast about Australia’s COVID policies and prospects for liberty. We review the scope of Australia’s totalitarianism, discuss regional variations in...
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Episode 19: Strange Bedfellows
Today, we cover Republicans and Democrats joining forces in opposition against the right to bear arms with the passage of a new red flag gun confiscation act. (Wait until you hear the Republicans’ excuse for co-signing the legislation.) Next, we cover Reps. Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Massie...
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Episode 18: Megalomania, monoclonalmania, maskmania.
Today, Amanda shares a story about voting in person to recall Gavin with the Good Hair before we dive into President Biden recalling monoclonal antibody aid from Florida in the interest of “equity”. Next, Maurice explains how parents can organize to recall mask mandates at public schools; and we...
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Episode 17: Everything is Unconstitutional; FOIA’d Again
This week, unconstitutional new legislation takes aim at bodily autonomy by pitting U.S. citizens against each other. No, we aren’t talking about the federal COVID injection mandate—we’re talking about the Texas abortion law! Okay: we’re talking about both. We’re also talking about something no…
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Episode 16: A Rolling Stone Checks No Facts
Today’s episode is a quickie. We reminisce about the days when the left was skeptical of Big Pharma’s motives by covering an absolute debacle of a story that appeared in Rolling Stone and several other major publications—including The Hill—about how Oklahoma hospitals are turning away gunshot...
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Episode 15: Bolshevik Libertarians
This week, we welcome our first-ever guest, Jim M., co-host of the “Ignore the Rant” podcast! We discuss the merits and disadvantages of activist movements versus incremental shifts when it comes to achieving socio-political change. Jim asks whether “the liberty movement” is (or should be) a...
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Episode 14: Do We Invade Australia Now?
Australia is a scarier place than we like to admit. There are definitely dinosaurs (they call them cassowaries), paralytic octopuses, immigrant detention black sites, internment camps (they call them ‘Centers for National Resilience’), and… fascists. Lots and lots of fascists. With very few...
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Episode 13: Foreign Policy is Dead, Long Live Foreign Policy
This week, we start with Afghanistan and move on to our broader critiques of U.S. foreign policy (and its discontents!). Maurice is an anarchist. Amanda is a civil libertarian, a Zionist, and a recovering neo-con. We thought it would be interesting to talk through recent events and see where we...
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Episode 12: Karen vs. Karen
In this episode, we revisit a tale of two Karens: Amy Cooper, a white woman who called the police on a black man in Central Park; and Christian Cooper, a black man who argued for greater Central Park police presence in response to off-leash dog-walkers. A recent report from Kmele Foster provides...
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Hashtag Resist All the Things
Maurice, Civil Discord’s Official Texas Correspondent, reports on Texas Democrats’ trip to D.C. and explains why spending 1.5 million taxpayer dollars is necessary to protect Texans’ voting rights. Next, Amanda, Civil Discord’s Official People’s Republic of California Correspondent, reports on…
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Whatever Happened to Miss Information?
Today, we open with a light item—a viral TikTok video—and engage in some cultural commentary. Next, we break down a new executive order that aims at promoting free-market competition by creating a central body staffed with career bureaucrats. Speaking of free markets, the Biden administration is...
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Botching the Bill of Rights, Airstrikes, & Alan Iverson-mectin
Maurice and Amanda debunk and decipher President Biden’s latest remarks about the second amendment and… the tree of liberty? Next, your hosts split on airstrikes in the Middle East, discuss a case study in cronyism vs. capitalism (with special guest, Bernie Sanders!), and review the state of...
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Deep Dive: Spilling the CRT
In this Very Special Episode of Civil Discord, Maurice and Amanda do a deep dive into Critical Race Theory—what it is, what it isn’t, where it comes from, and where it’s going. Amanda works in critical theory and explains CRT in academia; and Maurice discusses how CRT shows up in the wild. Plus,...
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Welcome to your weekly dose of radical curiosity. Each [Monday or whenever it’s released], Civil Discord critiques the critics and tackles the top lines in news and society. Beginning with the premise that the ‘smallest common denominator’ of self-ownership is the greatest single driver of political, social, and cultural change, your intrepid co-hosts and colorful guests break down what individuals, communities, businesses, and finally institutions can do to find their footing, combat totalitarianism, and make their voices heard, wherever they stand on the issues. If you’re ideologically homeless, culturally tribeless, or tired of hearing the same rants about what’s not working, Civil Discord offers provocative counterpoints and fresh perspectives to keep you in the know, arm you with the arguments, and empower you to create the change you crave.
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