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

* Collapsing China?* Flop-o-rama: She said, she said* Recommending the Fifth for your very woke friends* An incel Nazi has dinner with an ex-president * An Iowan in Massachusetts faces horrible discrimination* Farrakhan plays the Jewish violin (and he’s really good…for a racist!)* Criminal justice reform and red flag laws * Revisiting the idiot punditocracy* Visiting the idiocy of “stochastic terrorism”* The inevitable return of the PMRC / suing Judas Priest* Hiding the Wilco records* What’s up Twitter world: A murderer wants a blue checkNote: Many of you, including a correspondent cited in this episode, have asked us for advice in dealing with friends, relatives, and random losers who have catastrophically stupid opinions. Studies show that there is a 10% chance you can change their mind with a gift subscription to the Fifth Column (and a 90% chance they will end up cutting you off). As Maulana Karenga once said, between lighting the Ujima and Ujamaa candles, “give the gift of the Fifth. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

with/ Ethan Straus of House of Strauss (on Substack)* Does the NBA Have an Antisemitism Problem?* They control the media, our podcast, and the NBA!?* Wait, who isn’t Jewish?* “Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Hitler”* Baseball + The John Birch Society* Stolen (Jewish) Valor* “More than an Athlete” / Lebron “gettin’ that Jewish money” James* Divide & Sponsor* Was (Is) Twitter Pushing Hysteria* But is it antisemitism? (Does it even matter)* Identitarianism, Judaism, and antisemitism (real and imagined)* How to Talk about “Jewish Supremacy”* The Truth about Black Hebrew Israelites* Threat Inflation (and What if they’re right)* THE NHL(GBTQIA2S+)* Why the NBA 🖤 Crypto* The World Cup* Why Can’t You All Be As Brave as Ben Collins!?* An Actual HeroRecorded 11.22.22Published 11.23.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Selective outrage in Qatar* Endless outrage on Twitter, about Twitter * Remember the trucker protest?* Mad about the beer and the gays * First Class Clem asks about race and Israel* Cabbies and R. Kelly* A listener remembers David Brudnoy * On Cuba and Africa and forgetting* That Joan Baez letter (and this insane response)* How to lose voters and alienate people * Matt is pro-cancer* Which celebrity memoirs aren’t polluted by dumb politics?* A sort of pink pilled lefty in Vermont asks about Nick Cave* Forever purity and being formed in perfection* Being the first person to stop clapping at a Stalin speech Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Rejecting twelve hours with the commoners in coach, Kmele remains stateside while Moynihan and Welch make goyish aliyah in Israel. Wandering from the Egyptian border in the South all the way up to Trump Heights in the North, the lads are introduced to one of Israel’s most famous journalists and big thinkers, Nadav Eyal, author of Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization. Eyal graciously joined the Fifth at a recording studio in Tel Aviv for a very deep, very nerdy chat about whether or not the world is collapsing and if the midterms are a harbinger of a changing culture, desperate to move beyond the national populist moment. As we wind down, Eyal gives his verdict on the Energizer bunny of Israeli politics, incoming Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, and the worrying rise of his racist nutbag coalition partner Itamar Ben-Gvir. After Eyal frees himself from the Fifth’s clutches, Welch and Moynihan stick for a few extra minutes to talk about Jewish girls with guns and why Dave Chapelle thinks they might control Hollywood. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

No Red Wave. No Blue Wave. No Fascist Takeover. No Democracy Dying in Darkness. The 2022 midterm elections came; they’ll take almost a month to sort out (including a runoff in Georgia) — but things are generally about as bad (and good) as they were before the election.Moynihan returns from the field, where he was covering the race in Florida.Welch and his family are momentarily clear of any exigent health emergencies.And Kmele taps in from Austin, Texas. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* We Are the Jews * On the end of democracy and Bill Maher* Skepticism v Cynicism* Remembering Jim Eagle * Moynihan shows up 40 minutes late, having just left a Desantis rally in Ft Myers* The worst nickname ever* On the Draper interview* We Are the Jews, Redux* MM’s Only Fans* Have you seen the whole clip? Oh my lord* More on those story hours everyone keeps talking about Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* The Libertarian Moment?* To Start A War* Weapons of Mass Delusion* Pelosi Attack* Definitely Not Bothsidesing* Voting For Anyone Else Is a Vote Against Democracy* The Gravity of Things* Reddit profiling* A Few Parting ThoughtsRecorded: 11.2.22Published: 11.3.22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Look, it’s the rule: When sufficiently annoyed, record a Cassingle. Except I’m not actually annoyed, just…a tad reflective, about journalism and politics and honesty and comportment, after being accused by New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait of writing something I decidedly did not. Some background material.* I wrote this.* Chait then wrote a thing about what I did not say, so I tweeted to him, then he tweeted back, then I tweeted, and he tweeted, and thank God Elon is going to nuke that company into the sun. (Chait has since done another tweet-thread, which includes the words: “I believe his passage did say that, and I quoted the entire thing, but I believe him when he says he didn't intend to say that.”)* Wait, don’t go! Here’s me debating Chait at a January 2017 SoHo Forum event about whether Barack Obama was a “great president”:* This is … not my first rodeo.* That Michael Kinsley memo (and others besides).* My 1998 Tabloid.net reminiscence about drinking with Hunter Thompson at age 18; seven years later, my Reason obit. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Power Strip* A Victory for Equity* Surveying the Midterms* Fetterman’s Debate Disaster* The Mystery of the AIDS Quilt* The People vs Jim Eagle* Eminent, Indefatigable Election Fraud* Yarvin - The Mastermind* Black Lives Redux* I Miss The Old Kanye* “Whatabout!?” MSNBC Montage* Antisemitic Calypsos* Antisemitic Hip hop* Crosby, Stills and Ugh* T Boz Lives* From Ken Burns to Colorblind* African ApologiaRecorded 10/26/22Published 10/28/22 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Adi and the Panzerfausts* Kmele just wants to help him* Inflabortion* THE GENIUS CONFERENCE* Why don’t you care about democracy??* Ultracrow* “Mr. President?”* A Rushdie update / That FIRE pod about Rushdie* The Washington Post discovers a serious shortage……* Listener: How are you different from all those shitty people?* Racist Swedish food* The unsurpassed genius of that model girl from that one video* Wait, why do drag shows happen in libraries anyway?* Forms and racism Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.