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

Does the media have this conflict wrong?The privatization of protestEurope shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded mediaWait, did Matt Taibbi just say he was warming to intervention?Verdict: unclearNo due process for shitty, Kremlin-funded oligarchs America's overlooked role in the beginnings of PutinismCould Russia have been democratic?Mearsheimer and the interminable NATO debateThe narcissism of Twitter war tourismTaibbi post game On Biden's SOTU speechOn the forgotten trade wars See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

A meme annoys Moynihan. The other guys are caring for their families. Moynihan isn't. Because he's a terrible person. So he produces his first 30-minute solo project. The cassingle of annoyance. The non-essential addition to the Fifth Column canon. But here it is for your amusement. And this is the rapidly spreading meme that precipitated this...unique recording.  Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Welch and Foster haven't slept. Moynihan hasn't eaten (but has...consumed some amber-colored liquids). But the boys manage a conversation of variable coherence. Some topics covered:- Kmele in Arizona- How to debate those issues- Domestic economy class is a human rights violation- Guess who like the new Kanye doc- Racializing Ukraine, for some reason- The totally shocking (and impressive) European response to Ukraine- Is this the end of Putin, redux?- Are these casualty figures real?- If it's untrue, is the Snake Island meme "misinformation?" (Ed note: overnight, since recording this episode, the Ukrainian government confirmed that all members of the Snake Island garrison are alive and in Russian custody) - Bleeping baby names- Moynihan apologizes for high BAC and anger levels- And much, much more Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Because of an annoying Patreon error (yes, it is absolutely their fault), we have to create a new page for this, because this 1995 website, which is never updated and never improved upon, won't delete the old file and replace it with the new one. Sorry. - mmHot of the presses, so in no particular order:- Holy shit, they actually did it.- CNN remembers it's a news organization- Russian imperialism is imperialism, dummies- A boatload of shitty, let's make this about us tweets- Bad Slavic accents- Blame everyone but the guy doing the invading- Stop talking about Trump- NATO history- But it's not about NATO, dummies- Remember that 1994 treaty that Russia is violating?- A bunch more history lessons- So what was the worst tweet of the day?- It all feels so heavy  Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

With Kmele waiting for his son to arrive and moving into his new East Coast digs (or something), Welch and Moynihan again find a temporary replacement. This time the honor is bestowed upon Jamie Kirchick, senior fellow for the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council and author of the forthcoming book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Bullet point topics for this episode seem unnecessary because....lotta Ukraine. With a bonus digression into Jamie's recent piece on Sohrab Ahmari and the right's lurch towards "national conservatism." Enjoy.Also: another Patreon coming at the end of the week. So go sign up. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele's shiny new baby arrives in a week. And he just yesterday relocated the whole fam back to the East Coast. That also means a glorious return to in-person Fifth recordings. Yay. So yeah, a lot going on in the Fifdom. (Some more bigger, better news is coming too. Stay tuned!). Matt has some sort of family thing. Who knows. So MM and Kmele got on the horn to catch up, ramble about random shit, record it, and force feed it to you goons. It's the first of three scheduled Fifth recordings this week! - Russian gymnasts, Kmele's moving saga, and rewatching Training Day- White Claws and edibles = incoherence?- A blackout Friday night out with a radicalized anti-racist dinner companion- Does Kmele suffer from internalized whiteness?- Drapetomania!- Toby loves working in the field- Stop complaining / where we've been- Another racism hoax- The marketplace of ideas is now "the marketplace of ideas"- Sorry, but a brief CRT digression- Haven't heard this podcast but we'll talk about it anyway!- Will Russia invade Ukraine?- RT vs. Sputnik- Putin loves BLM- Stephen Hawkins’ blackboard- Kmele, Live in Arizona!!! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia UniversityA Huge School Board Recall in San Francisco (With National Implications)A Proposed Ban on Talking About *Gay Stuff* w/ School Kids (In Florida, Of Course)A Contoversial Federal Crackdown on Protesters in Canada (Swastikas! Swastikas! Swastikas!)Is there more? Maybe 😏Recorded: Feb 17th 2022Released: Feb 18th 2022 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Kmele's on a plane back East, where he shall remain and where the Fifth will increasingly ditch Zoom for in-person recordings. Yay. Filling in for Comrade Foster this week? Journalist, author, inventor, CNN contributor, mother of three, and all around swell gal, Mary Katherine Ham! The triumph of the stupidThe stupid Washington PostHating friends with stupid politicsMary Katherine, like Switzerland to her ex-friendsThe right after TrumpUnharassed by AilesWhen Hammer and Moynihan metRevisiting MKH’s reporting on the Tea Party town hall madnessMore on Hitler’s truckers Broken risk analysis: MKH on schools, masking, and Covid culture warsMasked and anonymousDoes Dave Chappelle hate the poor?Don't influence the normies The electoral power of hypocrisySports bras, shaming, and misinformationAnd so much more! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

- The Ken Burns/Fifth supercut - We're in an absurd place- A disgraceful CNN clip- Neil Young, moronic newspaper publisher- Life is a political campaign- People who burst into flames- Matt ❤️'s Margaret Sullivan- Is this famous media columnist a Holocaust denier?- People are DYING- Brooklyn science- Canadian Nazi truck drivers - And so he comes back east... Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

Our favorite Danish intellectual returns! After a three-plus year absence, Jacob Mchangama is back on the Fifth, this time promoting his amazing new book, Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, which P.J. O'Rourke calls "best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." We tend to agree. The lads make quick work of a bottle of sake and still manage to blather about...The state of free speech in EuropeJoe Rogan and the crisis of speechMany of history's heroes of free speech were kind of shitty on free speechIt always comes back to NazisThe Weimar fallacyHanged for speech. Really, really bad speechThe sheep theoryJacob brings up Nazis again Tell the moon about the crying roomThe most powerful engine for social changeFree speech is a powerful engine *against* racismTwo islamists realize they were wrong about free speech See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.