DOOMED with Matt Binder

Activist Rafael Shimunov joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Ellen Degeneres's friendship with George W. Bush. We discuss George Bush's legacy, our own experiences growing up post-9/11 under the Bush administration, why Ellen's friendship with Bush is a problem, why Ellen's defense of her friendship with Bush is even worse, Rafael's amazing video critiquing Ellen's defense and how the Ellen Show keeps hitting it with unwarranted copyright claims to take the video down even though the video falls under fair use, and more! Also on the patron only half of the show, we discuss Shep Smith's sudden departure from Fox News, a post-Trump world, your questions and comments and more! Support the show at http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Matthew Gertz of Media Matters joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to breakdown everything you need to know about Trump / Ukraine / Biden. We run through all the players, conspiracies, and complete timeline of events that have brought us to an impeachment inquiry. How did "no collusion!" turn into "collusion is perfectly fine!"? What's Rudy Giuliani's involvement? Who is Peter Schweizer and how does 2016 and Clinton Cash fit into this? Find out all this and more on this episode! Plus your questions, comments and more in the patron only part of the show! Support the show and become a patron at: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Canada's far right movement takes center stage as Michael Bueckert, a writer and graduate student, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Maxime Bernier and his People's Party, Dave Rubin of the Rubin Reporter coming to Canada to support Bernier and the protests the college event will be met with, who supporters Bernier and the People's Party, Rebel Media, Justin Trudeau's black face, Qanon in Canada, and much much more! Plus your questions and comments! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Jonathan Larsen of The Young Turks' TYT Investigates joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his explosive report on the mysterious secret police tapes that have dogged 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg's political career. Jonathan walks us through the controversy surrounding the elusive tapes and his report which uncovers what might be in them. Also the uproar over Working Families Party endorsement of Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders plus more! Support the show: http://patreon.com/mattbinder

Nomiki Konst, activist, Bernie Sanders 2016 surrogate, and former candidate for New York City Public Advocate joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the third Democratic Debate, hosted by ABC, and the first debate to feature the top 10 polling candidates on the same stage. We discuss how this debate failed at being a debate, how Republican and Democratic debates differ, how Democrats are clinging onto civility even in their Democratic primaries, the framing from the moderators throughout the night, how the first half of the debate completely ignored Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro's big night and how it can actually hurt him, Joe Biden latest flubs, Pete Buttigeg and Beto O'Rourke's performances, will Kamala Harris reenter the top tier?, the difference between Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang's "big surprise," and much more! Support the show at http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Dave Karpf, an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss calling conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens a metaphorical bedbug and the "feud" that has now sprung out of it. Dave shares with us what happened when Stephens emailed him and his provost, the MSNBC interview after Stephens quite Twitter when "Bretbug" began trending, what's going on at the NY Times?, the piece Stephens published basically equating Dave (who is Jewish) to a nazi for calling him a bedbug, how a digital media professor is using his own headline news in the classroom, will Stephens come to the university for a discussion on civility?, and much more! Also in the patron only half of the show, a call from listener Grim Locke about Bernie Sanders' campaign and its effectiveness against white supremacy, Matt's new YouTube livestream background, plus your questions, comments, and much more! Support the show: http://patreon.com/mattbinder.

Alex Zielinski, news editor at Portland Mercury, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her bombshell story about the undercover progressive spy who infiltrated and secretly filmed Patriot Prayer, how one of the videos is going to play out in a court case, what happened at Cider Riot, Andy Ngo's Proud Boy pact and exit from Quillette, Alex's on the ground account of the Proud Boys rally a few weeks ago, why this is all happening in Portland, and more! Plus in the patron only half of the show: your questions, comments, and more! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Support the show @ http://patreon.com/mattbinder! On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt takes a look at what's gearing up to be the next net neutrality-like fight for the web. ICANN, which basically runs and manages the internet, is removing the longstanding price caps from its contracts with the domain name registry that runs .org, and its looking to do the same for .com and .net soon too. Will this eventually create a tiered-like system for content creators and startups trying to compete with mega corporations and big tech?

Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter with the Southern Poverty Law Center / Hatewatch, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his explosive investigative report about Matthew Q. Gebert, a white nationalist working for the U.S. State Department. We discuss Gebert's radicalization, which known figures of the white nationalist movement he was in touch with, the Mike Peinovich connection, the "Coach Finstock" online handle, his wife Anna Vuckovic aka “Wolfie James” involvement, how Donald Trump once retweeted him, what's next and what the U.S. government is doing about it, and more! Also we discuss Twitch's banning of the word "nationalist," Stefan Molyneux, plus Matt asks the important question: Is Matthew *Q* Gebert...QANON!?! Plus in the patron half of the show: your questions, comments, and more!

Dale Beran, writer and author of It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the history of 8chan in the wake of the El Paso shootings, why the website is the posting grounds of choice for three white supremacist shooters just this year, how it came from popular imageboards 2channel and 4chan, who is its founder Fredrick Brennan and the site's new owner Jim Watkins, the huge GameGate connection, the Qanon conundrum, the internet radicalization of young white men, how 8chan went down this past week, and much much more. Support the show at http://patreon.com/mattbinder