The Fifth Column

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#440 - From Nashua to Haaazzaaa Jan 24, 2024

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Oh dear. Watching the New Hampshire returns, the lads do a spot-on impression of the good old, liquor-soaked days of 2016 Fifth Column and get pretty deep in their cups…so yeah, sorry about this one.

* Trump wins

* Cutting from Trump’s dumb speech

* 20 percent for Dean Phillips

* This is, in fact, democracy

* No one says anything on cable news

* The speeches

* The overstatement machine

* Moralism doesn’t work

* A brave defense of Iran-backed Islamism

* A sort of drunken rant about hipster Houthis

* The New York Times on haaaazaaaaaa

* It all falls apart…something about Tipper Gore, Jello Biafra, and covering every election but the U.S. one

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Members Only #197 - Grappling Joe, Ending Ron, Inevitable Don Jan 23, 2024

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* Michael Winslow RIP?

* Joe Rogan would tear Kmele in half

* The cockfighting story that never was

* Some pretty pathetic fight stories

* That insane UK piano player video

* HHHHHHAMAAAAAAZZZ

* Chris on Kmele’s pejorative for the Irish

* The end of Ron

* It was always “inevitable”

* Back to the basement

* Voters and immigration: not that complicated

* You want European politics?

* Trump’…

#439 - Ladies Tees and Democracy Pleas Jan 21, 2024

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* This time, we’re not going to hold back

* Destroying from the ladies tees

* I love with Doug

* More media implosions

* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* Democracy is over when my irrelevant newspaper folds

* Passover is too Jewish

* The uniqueness of the Holocaust

* Opinion mongers making calls about newsworthiness

* This era as history

* Whatchutalkinabout Fani Willis

* Ross Douthat and “Neocon Nikki”

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Members Only #196 - You Make a Lotta Money Jan 19, 2024

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In a rebroadcast of our latest Second Sunday, Tina Nguyen joins the lads again to discuss Substack, Andrew Yang, Kmele fighting another podcast host, James Bond, Tucker Carlson, Vietnamese immigrants, militias, and…the great Tom Vu. In case you’re unfamiliar with America’s greatest Vietnamese import, some of his greatest hits.

#438 - Guns & Flip Flops (w/ Tina Nguyen) Jan 16, 2024

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* The year of the ladies

* They’re pro-Houthi

* They’re Weebs

* The MAGA Diaries

* The diaspora politics of the Vietnamese

* MAGA Straussianism

* Tina and Tucker

* Tina and the militias

* Kmele and the Houthis

* It’s always World War Three

* Just say they went too far…

* NYT on Russia bombing hospitals

* Some Iowa thoughts

* Some brief thoughts on the fake Substack Nazi controversy

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Members Only #195 - No Limit Consultants LLC Jan 09, 2024

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* Matt, swallowed by Los Alamos

* Jon Ronson’s new pod

* A terrible trailer, a pretentious movie

* Ringo Seal!!! Trump is “being persecuted”

* Head injuries that help

* Listen to that podcast, even if it’s terrible

* A hot plagiarist

* Substack and Nazis

* Chomsky and Jeffery

* Kmele’s new favorite football player

* And so much more!

#437 - Gay Divorce Jan 04, 2024

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Should we even bother with the normal bullet points? Because it’s mostly about Claudine Gay. And the media’s embarrassing reaction to Gay’s “duplicative phrasing” and “attribution issues.” And what this says about the rot in academia. And something about a Disney Plus show. And ladies who live in trees. And how Kmele’s ice has to be colder than Welch’s ice. And a generation of dumb intellectuals. Enjoy.

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Members Only #194 - 2023 Was an Inside Job Dec 29, 2023

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* The last one of the year

* The French public sector

* Macron and the menorah

* Exploding appliances

* Nick & Kanye

* Nikki’s slavery gaffe

* But does she have a shot?

* Billionaires on the “billionaire class”

* Don’t forget about RFK

* Who blew up the pipeline?

* Why we believe what we believe

* Vivek’s “inside job”

Members Only #193 – ‘I Don’t Think Anyone in Israel Right Now Feels Left of Center’ (w/ Asaf Zamir) Dec 24, 2023

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* I resign!

* (“That was a great apartment….”)

* I resign!

* (“That was the worst job….”)

* Mansplaining the war

* Too big to process

* It’s like 9/11 for Americans, and also not

* “You can still smell the death”

* The Jericho Wall revelations

* “I’m pretty sure most people who were responsible will resign”

* Were judicial protests a distraction?

* State fails, society rallies

* A time for Diaspora choosing

* Like moths to crazy

* Intelligence scandal, leadership scandal

* Hard out here for a two-state solutionista

* Did Israel choke off Gazans’ resources?

* “My heart is captive in Gaza”

* “If we don’t come out of this very secure, it’s the end of Israel”

* And yet … hope!

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#436 - From Gavin to Gotham Dec 21, 2023

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* Can Kmele sing?

* A guy is surrounded by some racists

* In praise of…Alec Baldwin?

* Protesters are like racists

* Trump and Colorado

* Smart people who have come to some strange conclusions on this…

* He’s screwing with you. You know that right?

* They think you don’t understand policy

* Not a lot of loyalty….(plus: a paean to Hope Hicks)

* One word: NEW YORK

* From Jihad to Lego

* A silly list of “media influencers”

* Is Emmanuel Lewis alive? (Yes)

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