The Fifth Column

* The point of a dagger

* The Messenger of death

* The billionaire model

* WE NEED SOME QUICK BITES

* The murder of James O’Keefe

* Horrible people, horrible ideas, great writing

* Requisite 2024 talk

* In (soft of) defense of Jon Stewart

* Cori Bush is the Whitney Houston of Congress

* LD on Simmons pod

* Jamaal Bowmen is the Philip Larkin of 9/11 (hmmmmmm)

* Yay for Aaron!

* And so much more!

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* A black man on his toes

* MJ at the Apollo

* A “Compassionate” Traitor

* Ron Radosh’s review of the doc

* An entire life of lies

* And a list of actual commies in the government (Note from MM: When I say “married to Ethel Rosenberg,

* A shitty copy of Mission to Moscow

* Listeners and Redditors: you’re wrong about Trump and democracy

* The man vs...

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...

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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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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.

* 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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* 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!

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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* 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”