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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