Doomed With Matt Binder

Aaron Maté of The Nation joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the Russiagate debate: how the media got it wrong, Donald Trump...no collusion?, the ridiculousness of the social media and Internet Research Agency trolls, who hacked the emails?, Russiagate skeptics and their reaction, and more. ALSO, Julian Assange is arrested and pulled out of Ecuador's embassy in London.

David Bixenspan, wrestling reporter at Deadspin and Mel Magazine and co-host of Between the Sheets, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to talk WrestleMania week! We discuss: Linda McMahon's resignation from the Trump administration, Big Show vs. Betsy DeVos over Special Olympics funding, progressive indie wrestler David Starr vs. pro-Trump outlet Sinclair Broadcasting, Roman Reigns and the conspiracy theories around his battle with cancer, and more! Plus for Patreon subscribers: David Bixenspan joins us to discuss the Ultimate Warrior's ties to to far right groups, why the WWE insists on having the Warrior Award, Matt's opinion on Michael Tracey vs. Sam Seder on Russiagate, your questions, comments and much more!

Walker Bragman, independent journalist who wrote a piece in Paste Magazine called “The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence?” and spoke to the Sanders campaign, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss progressive journalist Davis Sirota joining the Bernie Sanders campaign, Edward-Isaac Dovere's piece, advocacy journalism, and whether there is any truth to the conspiracy that Sirota was doing hit jobs on Beto O'Rourke and other 2020 candidates for the Sanders campaign. ALSO, Matt debates Walker on Walker's 2016 piece "The Liberal Case for Donald Trump." PLUS your questions, comments, Matt's committment to live up to his Beto donations / haircut bet, and a special (livestream chat) appearance from Michael Brooks!

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Beto O'Rourke's big announcement that he's running for president. However...who is Beto O'Rourke? The two discuss Beto's Senate run in 2018 against Ted Cruz, who he said he was then, who he's saying he is now, what he stands for, how much will he raise, his conservative record as a Congressman representing El Paso, Texas, and much more! Plus in the patron only half of the show: Matt's big "personal news" announcement, more on Beto and the 2020 field, your questions, comments and much more!!

Joe Rogan recently invited Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and its head of legal, policy and trust and safety Vijaya Gadde on the show to discuss the social media platform's anti-conservative bias. In order to best discuss the issues on the Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan invited "independent journalist" Tim Pool on to help. But, who is Tim Pool? On this of DOOMED with Matt Binder we take a look at his history, Pool's far right and alt-right ties, and debunk Rogan and Pool's arguments.

Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch and the Sh!tpost podcast joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his on the ground experience live from the right wing’s largest annual gathering, the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference. We discuss how CPAC has changed over the years, Turning Point USA's large presence there, TPUSA's after party, NRA's disappearance from the event, who "stole" the show, as well as discussing specific personalities such as Candace Owens, Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump Jr., Laura Loomer, Jacob Wohl, and more! PLUS on the patron only half of the show: your questions, calls, and much more!

As Cardi B says "vote for Daddy Bernie, bitch!" In this episode recorded on the night of Bernie's announcement that he's running for president, DOOMED with Matt Binder takes calls from listeners to discuss Bernie's record breaking donation haul, what the 2020 primary has in store for the left, an overview of whose running in the 2020 Democratic primary so far, a look at Bernie's announcement videos and his interview on CBS announcing his run, and much much more!

Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche died on February 12, 2019 at 96 years old. The perennial presidential candidate ran a movement for decades that many say is a cult. Longtime anti-LaRouche activist, Jay, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss what its like to have a sibling become a "LaRouchie" and join the movement effectively cutting off family members. Jay discusses who Lyndon LaRouche is and what he believes. Jay discusses his personal experience with his sibling and what happens to the movement going forward. Also, in the Patreon members only portion of the show we discuss Lyndon LaRouche some more, plus your comments, questions, and more!

Writer Talia Lavin (aka @chick_in_kiev) joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the latest right wing harassment campaign: Learn to Code. We discuss how "learn to code" became a right wing harassment campaign targetting laid off journalists, how #GamerGate was ground zero for so much of this, the "actually, it's about ethics in gaming journalism" gaslighting, Tucker Carlson's bizarre coverage of this on his show, and more! Plus we listen to a #LearnToCode clip from Red Elephants' Vincent James on YouTube and the antisemitic twist to the harassment. Also, Matt lays down the hypocrisy over the uproar about Bernie Sanders' state of the union response. And don't miss the patron only half of the show with your questions, comments, and more!

Michael Edison Hayden of Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Gab dot com, white supremacists' favorite social network. We discuss the tweets sent from Gab to Matt right before the show where they insist they are just a "free speech" social network, Michael's experiences using Gab, how he has been banned from the site, its CEO Andrew Torba, how companies like GoDaddy cut ties with the website, the type of people found on Gab such as Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Robert Bowers, the infighting on Gab, the companies keeping the site afloat such as Epik, a domain company run by CEO Robert Monster, and the crowdfunding company StartEngine, Matt explains the title of the episode (hint: it has to do with an infamous pro wrestling promo from HBK about the Hart Family), Gab members invade the DOOMED YouTube livestream and more! Plus for Patreon subscribers: we discuss the difference between the legitimate crticicisms of Kamala Harris' record and the wrongheaded nasty attacks

Michael Brooks of The Majority Report & The Michael Brooks Show joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Roger Stone's arrest, Donald Trump caving in on the government shutdown thanks to labor, right wingers like Ann Coulter turning on Trump over his falure to "win" the shutdown fight, a rundown of the Venezuela situation, + the breaking report during the show that Bernie Sanders is preparing to run for president in 2020! Plus, in the member's only show your questions, comments, and much more!

Conservative activist Kevin Martin joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the mutiny occurring within Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA group, his opposing group of TPUSA dissidents "Heal Our Voice," the events that occurred at the group's recent Student Action Summit, his feelings on Candace Owens and her new group Blexit PLUS! a debate between Matt and Kevin on healthcare, education, Black Lives Matter...and it looks like Kevin might not be as conservative as he thinks!

Travis View of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast (and possible controlled opposition) joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the latest happenings in the world of the QAnon conspiracy, JFK Jr...ALIVE?, the Golden Globes is dragged into the conspiracy thanks to the Fiji Water girl, Seattle QAnon follower Buckey Wolfe kills his "lizard" brother with a sword, how YouTube plays a roll in the spread of the QAnon conspiracies, what's with QAnon's appeal to the boomer generation, will the movement move on without Q?, what's next for the QAnon faithful whose families now all hate them, and more! PLUS! For Patreon subscribers: a bonus episode featuring your questions, comments, reminiscing on the time I cucked Michael Brooks at the last Majority Report live show in Brooklyn, harassment in the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, and more!

In the last DOOMED of 2018, Matt Binder listens to a clip from Judge Jeanine Pirro's Fox News show featuring Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Katrina Pierson, conservatism is the new punk, the conservative grifter who raised money off being turned down by potential roommates, the future of DOOMED in 2019, Matt discovers how to grow his Patreon, all your YouTube livestream comments and questions, listeners name Matt's new cat "Michael Brooks" (which absolutely will not stand), a call from listener Rene and ONLY Rene because apparently no one can figure out how to use Skype in 2018, and much more! PLUS BONUS: this episode includes the first ever DOOMED PATRON ONLY extra content for FREE (before it goes behind the paywall for the next episode!)

Let's take a look back at all those we lost to deplatforming in 2018! Rachel Kraus of Mashable joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss deplatforming, tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube having so much power over our lives, the posterboy proving that deplatforming works: Milo Yiannopoulos, the Tucker Carlson advertiser boycotts, bad cases of deplatforming like Tumblr with porn, and then finally...a "in memoriam" and look at the year in deplatforming: Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys, Tommy Robinson and Britain First, Laura Loomer, Gab, and many more! Plus you're livestream comments and questions!

Parker Molloy, editor-at-large of Media Matters For America, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss deadnaming and misgendering of the trans community, Twitter's new policy banning 'deadnamers' from the platform, how this makes the platform a freer place especially for transgender people, some of the worst of the worst deadnamers are not only conservatives but self-proclaimed "feminists" and "progressive" too, and the Trump administration trying to redefining transgender out of existence. We also take a broad look at the culture wars, the state of the 2020 Democratic primary a mere 59 weeks away from Iowa, Bernie vs. Beto, Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Congressional hearing, and more! Plus your livestream comments and questions!

Kelly Weill of The Daily Beast joins the show to take us inside the Flat Earth Conference, the world's biggest gathering of flat earthers. We discuss the early days of the flat earth conspiracy and the Flat Earth Society, how YouTube changed the game for flat earthers, Logan Paul's appearance and how it created a riff within the flat earth community. Also, we try to make sense of some flat earth beliefs! All that plus Laura Loomer handcuffs herself to Twitter's headquarters in protest of her ban, your YouTube comments, questions, and more!

Lena Afridi, director of economic development policy at ANHD: Assosication for Neighborhood and Housing Development joins DOOMED to discuss the Amazon HQ2 deal, how it will effect the people of New York and specifically the people of Queens, New York (and even more specifiaclly Matt Binder), some of the weirdest terms of the deal (Jeff Bezos helipad?!), some amazing little known facts and figures about NYC and why the HQ2 location is such a big deal, the second HQ2 location in Arlington, Virginia, what Amazon could do to fix the issues with their new headquarters, what Amazon HQ2 means for the rest of the country and more! Plus your comments and questions from the YouTube livestream!

Leo Sussan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's technology director for her 2018 campaign and the co-founder of the Reach app, joins DOOMED to discuss the app he helped create that's changing the way progressives campaign. We discuss how canvassing is broken, how Reach fixes it, what the future holds for tech and progressive campaigns, as well as preview the state of affairs after the Midterms and looking forward at 2020. Also! Your livestream comments and questions!

David Bixenspan, a reporter covering pro wrestling for Deadspin, Mel Magazine, and most recently for The Nation, joins DOOMED to discuss the controversy surrounding WWE's 10 year deal with Saudi Arabia, the propaganda at Greatest Royal Rumble, Vince McMahon's decision to go ahead with the Crown Jewel event after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which wrestlers bailed on the event and why, the additional layer of Hulk Hogan returning at this event, your comments and questions and much more!