The Fifth Column

The Fifth did a bit of processing today with our Trump-supporting friend at her Connecticut studio. Hungover, exhausted, bedraggled, the lads then returned to the scene of last night’s Fifth-Free Press-Reason party and recorded this episode. They enjoyed it. And they suspect you will too.

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* Kmele on his appearance in Thomas Chatterton Williams new Atlantic piece

* The end of America!

* If you don’t vote like me, you should be ashamed of yourself!

* We’re not “heterodox”

* On never talking policy

* Authoritarianism in America

* Boyz in the Hood redux

* A whole lot of final election thoughts

* A listener from Utah teaches us about TBCK syndrome

* Kemi Badenoch on uneq…

* A Thomas Jefferson freak off

* The tree of liberty…

* “Election integrity”

* What’s happening with those Pennsylvania ballots?

* Editorial page endorsements are worthless

* Why won’t you resign, lady?

* A slaughter at MSG

* These people have lost their minds

* And Bezos is correct: they don’t trust you

* The end of the NYT sports page actually said something important…

* The bubble

* An absurd boycott

* What would a Kamala victory mean for Israel?

* Finally a good Downfall meme…

* To promote his Substack conversation with Moynihan (live today at 5pm ET only on the Substack app!), Josh Szeps calls in from the car and talks Aussie stuff for 20 minutes.

* Banning that lady from your country (“Does anything ride on this?")

* Baghdad Bob on Australia

* The Times and the truth

* People who disappear

* They are making me talk about this fascism shit

* …

* How to be a Navy Seal

* Losing an eye in Afghanistan

* Dan can’t find his glasses / “I can’t see shit”

* Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan

* A case study in intelligence failure and confirmation bias

* On leaving the Taliban in power

* Has Trump been good on foreign policy?

* The Republican Party post-Trump

* Tucker "is best friends with Hunter Biden!”

* Why are you even in Congress?

* On the mechanics of Congress

* Maybe a hundred normal congressmen

* What has Dan accomplished for Texas?

* Is populism winning?

* On banning TikTok

* Dave in the Hall

* Dead in the garden

* All the dictators

* His kampf

* McDonalds troofer

* Can Trump be funny?

* People don’t care about what we care about

* A friend attacks

* BHO was a great candidate

* Wham-O, Sandusky, and the kids Freak Off

* On “Neighborhood Bully”

* Never say “grande”

* What plagiarism counts

* Old wine, old bottles

* Bret Baier v. Kamala

* He finally asked Matt’s question. Or was it Kmele’s question?

* On not answering questions

* The wisdom of Bill Clinton

* Back to the politics of the 90s

* We always come back to it: late night is awful

* Weed reparations

* We always come back to it: fascism

* Please come back, archive.org

* Shutting down CBS?

* Why the media being stupid is actually really important

* Ted v Colin

* Micklewaithe v. Trump

A rebroadcast

* Military propaganda for the kidz!

* Jewish Columbus

* A new history of communism

* The brainworm burrows in again

* The Italian

* Obama’s code switch

* There are meaningful differences between *these men*

* Polling problems

* The brothers Menendez

* Sarah, live from Folsom

* Chomsky’s Cuba book

* Are there still meaningful policy differences between the two major partie…

* Yes, Michael J. Fox actually actually has Parkinson’s

* The MAGA hat incident

* We got a journalist around here…he’s asking a lot of questions

* Choppin’ it up with 60

* Young morons embrace violence

* German American Bund at MSG 2.0!

* Bob “Silent Coup” Woodward

* Look, he was actually unfairly treated

* Schultz interviews Trump

* It was Jeff Gerth, actually

* A tale of two natural disasters

* The natural disaster of a Kamala interview

* Running out the clock: “Frankly, I love the American people”

* Debate home run derby

* Moynihan’s Utne Reader piece for 2008. Welch on Katrina

* New media that we love. Or at least *like*

* A very brief baseball convo. Relax.

* Kid (and adult) anxiety

* Don’t kill on snek

* The science of Trump’s brain?

* The worst of all the excuses

* Oliver’s dad and the JJ Rule

* The Big Dance on OpenLibrary, btw

* Fatherhood songs

* Phones, kids, rabbit holes

* Pete Rose was the best…and the worst

* On Kris Kristofferson

* On Megyn and Moynihan