345 w/ Mary Katharine Ham "The Moronic Inferno b/w Hammer of the Gods"

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 stupid

• The stupid Washington Post

• Hating friends with stupid politics

• Mary Katherine, like Switzerland to her ex-friends

• The right after Trump

• Unharassed by Ailes

• When Hammer and Moynihan met

• Revisiting MKH’s reporting on the Tea Party town hall madness

• More on Hitler’s truckers 

• Broken risk analysis: MKH on schools, masking, and Covid culture wars

• Masked and anonymous

• Does Dave Chappelle hate the poor?

• Don't influence the normies 

• The electoral power of hypocrisy

• Sports bras, shaming, and misinformation

• And so much more!

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