The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)

With apologies for the Zoom-style audio fidelity….for those of you who chose to spend your Sunday afternoon with family or friends (inexcusable but sure), here is the promised rebroadcast of today’s Second Sunday recording. The usual subjects are discussed: racist concussions, racist German phrases, Matt getting robbed (by Pat Buchanan?), short people not getting droned while saving the planet, exhausted Brooklyn parents, dead celebrities, and a billion other things besides…. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight??* Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do?* And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want?* Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy “isn’t that bright” and “will do whatever it takes to maintain power”* Why the system is broken and how it got that way* Congress is becoming more European * Reminder: Amash created (and named) the Freedom Caucus* Are you really putting yourself forward to be speaker?* The whole system is broken. And all the other speaker options are reflections of this brokenness* The NYT and “ultraconservatives”* The Ukraine objection exception* A qualified defense of the execrable Skip Bayless* Idiots deciding who gets to speak Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

 * Subway Protocol* Lying, Liar* Flooding the Zone* Modest Proposal* The Real Corn Pop* Domestic Disturbance * Buffalo Electronics* Trump Tapes* Moynihan is cold* Welch isn’t paying attention* Kmele coins a good one (for the third time)* Dank Meme Party* After Trump* Read This. Read That.Recorded: 12/29/22Published: 12/30/22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* On Moynihan’s new situation* So how was your Christmas? * Glass Onion wasn’t good* Year Zeroing all the bad stuff and bad people* Are you joking? Of course Meghan Markle is an annoying narcissist * A bit of therapy for a listener going through it…* A meditation on Ron Karenga, the psychopath who created Kwanzaa * Wait, are white people responsible for the spread of Kwanzaa?* A listener points out something we overlooked on the Stanford banned list* Giving your enemies a gift subscription* That stunning New York Times report on Bucha * Revisiting Ukraine Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Sweet Baby Jesus* Ted Cruz 🖤’s Striper* Dress for the Job You Want* Defensive Capabilities + Fiscal Profligacy* The Worst Possible Scenario* Criminalish Betrayal* Worse than Watergate?* Presidential Travel Rewards* The Stanford Grammer Experiment* Demanding or Entitled BIPOCsRecorded: 12.21.22Published: 12.22.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* The quiet politics of heterodox TV writers * The conservative misinformation beat * Miss’ vs Disssss’* Spill the tea, Moynihan* Komsomol Kidz: Let’s politicize everything * Help with Luke’s Cold War deep dive * Jack asks about TraumaZone and Adam Curtis (note: this is the Curtis spoof Moynihan mentioned)* Can AI make real art? (That Tracy Emin story referenced here)* Joe’s cousin is an Instagram Stalinist* What happen to the Red Eye guys * “Post” and people who are dicks online * Sweden, The Hives, A-Ha, and Shocking Blue Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Irish Israeli * France vs Morocco* That Marriage Act* Biden Told The Truth That Time* What Republicans Won’t Do, But Ought to* They’re Actievly Trying to Kill us * Leaving Twitter (Because I’m Oblivious, For the Children)* Doxxing*** Elon’s Plane?* MTG (Would have won!)* Jan 6th Prosecutions* MacedRecorded 12.14.22Published: 12.15.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Recorded on Sunday afternoon, this now-vintage episode was consider lost forever, after a certain Fifth Columnist discovered that he still doesn’t understand how computers, cameras, and microphones work. Well….lost until we (i.e. Moynihan) found a weird backup copy of the episode on the Twitch servers! So…a few days late, of variable quality, and now available for download:* Back to the “Twitter files,” reluctantly* Everyone loves Joe McCarthy * Yet another James/Jim Baker* The pointlessness of trying to control speech* The Times pickets* The Times returns, writes an absurd article about Cuba* A Michael Jackson hagiography on Broadway Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* VolCels* Accents and swearing* Rapping daughters * Trump is bored of the Constitution* FIIIIIGGGGHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTT (featuring Michael C. Moynihan as Mills Lane)* More on the gross corporate media reaction to Matt Taibbi* A “Substack blogger”* There’s (A Bit of) Power in a Union* Protests Work* Two good books on Poland: A Secret Life and A Covert Action. And if you can find it, this is a good documentary on the same subject.* A union construction worker comments on John Fetterman’s slobbishness* Should Eric Adams forcefully institutionalize crazy people?* When Don King hands you rubles… * The colossal #metoo’ing of James Toback * 🥚🐇 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Yes, we have to talk about Kanye West Ye Kardashian again * Verdict: The man is not well. And is an anti-Semite* Kmele is sad. Matt is not. * Wild guess: Ye is unfamiliar with Theodor Herzl* Note: some people with bad views used to have not so bad views* Remember “slavery was a choice?” That was pretty dumb* Is Kanye making people '“unsafe”?* Matt Taibbi releases internal Twitter comms on the Biden laptop * Journalists: this is the wrong type of journalism* These numbers seem pretty fake * Too many people are interested in politics* Hakeem “the Dream” Jeffries Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.