048 'Ok, We Need to Talk About Russia, Worse Than Iraq, Non-troversies' - The Fifth Column
It's an active week in Washington as the Trump administration takes a few mulligans. The Travel/Muslim Ban is revealed, Congress debates the deeply unpopular health care reform-reform proposal, and the administration teases a new trillion dollar infrastructure slush fund. The steady diet of (real and imagined) scandal, controversy, and leaks hasn't let up either. And while the national press is outraged over one ridiculous conspiracy theory and infatuated with another, almost no one is paying attention to the slow-motion cataclysm in the middle east... a situation that could get very bad, very fast.
Kmele's a misogynist. Moynihan is in the building. And Welch is in the back of a cab (then the airport terminal)... and Katie Halper stops by, but it's complicated.
(Recorded: March 7st, 2017)
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w/ Josh Szeps (né Zepps), ABC Australia and host of the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast.
Josh-o's back and the dingo has his baby! Australia's most listened-to radio host joins the Fifth from his COVID-free compound in Sydney to talk nonsense about:
- Paul Hogan (obviously)
- How the Aussies handled the COVID
- That story about our friend who resigned from the Times
- 'Cancel culture,' right and left
- 'Good Morning ya' ****s!'
- Armageddon the shit out of that rock
- Are we becoming a totalitarian hell hole? (Probably not)
- Viacom race theorist Nick Cannon on masked singers, Mariah Carey, and the Rothschilds.
- Matt knew a Nazi
Recorded July 15, 2020
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The lads discuss that Harper's letter on cancel culture, signed by Kmele and Yasha (and Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, JK Rowling, et al); the attempt to cancel people who signed a statement opposing canceling people; how everyone's still a fascist; the painful absurdity of Robin Diangelo; a Matt and Kmele fight about Trump's Mt. Rushmore speech; the dangers of the populist right; El Chino; and so very much more.
Recorded July 8, 2020
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Lowery Wrote A Thing:
'A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists' (NYT) - June 23, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html
Welch Raised Some Objections:
'Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral Clarity' Really Just Want To Call People Immoral' (Reason) - June 24, 2020
Some Twitter Drama Ensues.
The Parties Agree to Settle Things Directly.
...And now, here you are. All caught up, ready for the fireworks (literally + figuratively).
Recorded: July 2, 2020
Published: July 6, 2020
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'The New Truth' (June 22nd 2020)
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-truth-rationalism-religion
'Journalists Abandoning 'Objectivity' for 'Moral Clarity' Really Just Want To Call People Immoral' (6/24/2020)
- The Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez of Journalism
- The Great Fireworks Conspiracy (continued)
- The NYT Slack
- All The Smoke
- The New Truth
- Rhetorically Invincible
- White Fragility, The Message of the Cross
- Moral Clarity
- World Heritage Sites
- The Wages of Sin
- Ethical Journalism
Recorded: June 25, 2020
Published: July 1, 2020
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- Some Sports Stuff
- TickTock Swiftboats
- Tulsa
- Trumps Party
- What Comes Next
- Immigration + Visas
- The Coaston Plan
- More Black Lives Matter Talk
- But What About....
- Unbundling the Police
- Liking the Neighborhood Cops
Recorded: June 23, 2020
Published: June 25, 2020
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- Help With Your Down Payment?
- A Busy Day For SCOTUS
- 2A, Qualified Immunity (Part I), Expanding Civil Rights
- Thought Crimes
- On Racism (and Anti Racism)
- The Worst Dinner Party
- The Censorship Impulse
- Gone With the Wind, Song of the South
- The Lost Cause... Myth?
- What Northerners Really Want
- Still in Love w/ Daisy Duke
- Anti-racism Must Be Anti-race
- Walk Humbly, Seek Justice, See the Humanity in Your Ops
- Qualified Immunity (Part II) -- Why Qualified Immunity Matters
Recorded: June 15, 2020
Published: June 16, 2020
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- An Unprecedented Movement
- Defunding the Police... Or Just Abolishing Them
- Canceling Most Things, Razing The Rest
- Moral Clarity in the News Room
- Trump on the Campaign Trail, Biden's Strengths
- Why Trump and Rudy Can't Stop Talking to Nuzzi
Recorded: June 10, 2020
Published: June 12, 2020
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- Punk Police
- It Might Actually Be Legal
- Black on Black on Black
- Bending the Knee
- NYT Civil War
- Essentialism in Practice
- Law & Order
- Passover
- MLK on Riots
Recorded:6/4/2020
Published: 6/6/2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeKmele facilitates a follow-up conversation on race, racism, and anti-racism -- this time, in the midst of a global pandemic and increasing social unrest. You can find the first installment in this series of conversations here: http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121
GUESTS /
Glenn Loury
Professor of the social sciences and economics at Brown University
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author, 'Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race' and 'Losing My Cool'
John McWhorter
Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Music at Columbia
Coleman Hughes
Fellow at The Manhattan Institute
Contributing Editor at City Journal
Recorded:5/22/2020
Published: 6/1/2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeShe wrote a column in the New York Times. She failed to mention her favorite podcast. She mentioned other podcasts. She texted us asking if she could come on the show to apologize. We agreed. Bari Weiss, the genial and gentle bête noire of woke culture, is back...hat in hand, asking for Fifth forgiveness. But she sticks around to discuss lots of other stuff:
- We are all Stasi agents now
- You're both Karens!
- A murder in Minneapolis
- Whose more powerful? Jack Dorsey or one of your senators?
- Should corporations be fact-checking politicians?
- Matt explains Section 230
- Moynihan rants about journalists being annoying
- A guest appearance from Nellie Bowles
- A really bad piece about white people and spices
- Kmele squeezes in some China/Hong Kong talk
- And some good news from Spencer!
Recorded: May 27, 2020
Published: May 28, 2020
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Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz
Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)
Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism
- How Startups Think About Failure + Survival
- Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives
- Forging Societal Truth
- Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously
- Why Journalist Hate The Valley
- Believing Half of What You Read
- Epistemology Algorithms
- A Feature Set for Fixing Journalism
- Looser Arguments
Recorded: May 14th 2020
Published: May 25th 2020
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- Getting Political
- NBA vs China
- Bad Deals and Bad Economics
- The Incomparable Michael Jordan
- 'What is Best In Life'
- Resuming the NBA Season
- Pissing off Kevin Durant
Recorded: May 13th 2020
Published: May 17th 2020
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U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2011, and currently serving as the first Libertarian Party member of Congress. Amash diagnoses what's wrong with America's politics, parties, and legislative process. And he makes the case for why he's ideally well suited to fix.
Recorded: May 4th 2020
Published: May 6th 2020
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A once in a century pandemic is producing unique and daunting challenges to civil liberties around the world. What are the necessary compromises? Where are the non-negotiable red lines? And what are those mysterious bright lights people have been seeing in the night sky? (The last one is easy: visitors from another galaxy, here to share their advanced technology with us... for a price).
ALSO:
- Avoiding a Hot War w/ Red-China
- COVID in Brazil
- Reading the YouTube Comments
- Logging Onto CompuServe to Own The Conservatives
- A Kinder, Gentler Greenwald
- Russia-Gate Revisited
- Why FISA Was Always Bullshit
- 'Just the Tip' Socialism
Recorded: April 30th 2020
Published May 2nd 2020
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President Trump has an inspired idea for arresting a global pandemic. It involves ultraviolet rays, disinfectant washes -- and Welch seems convinced that it also has something to do with 'butt stuff' -- which, honestly, it wouldn't be the strangest thing you've heard all day.
ALSO:
- Jonah on Political Homelessness
- Define 'Prevaricate'
- Presidential Ineptitude and Slothfulness,
- How Shitty Henchmen Keep America Safe
- Why The CDC is So Popular
- Trump Punching is Boring
- The Most Dangerous Debate
- On Tucker Carlson
- The Best Rescue Package
- Georgia: Open for Business (or something)
- Funding Lockdown Protests
- The Limits of Mitigation
Recorded: April 23rd 2020
Published April 25th 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeKmele Foster, Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) and Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) discuss the cacophony of concern about blackness+ racism in the midst of a once in a century global pandemic.
RELATED POSTS:
'Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?' - Coleman Hughes
https://quillette.com/2020/04/13/do-covid-19-racial-disparities-matter/
'Don’t Racialize the Pandemic' - Zaid Jilani
Recorded: April 14th 2020
Published April 20th 2020
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- Teddy Pendergrass
- Trump’s Absolute Authority
- Cutting off WHO Funding
- What a Pandemic Can Teach You
- China and The American Free Press
Recorded: April 15th, 2020
Released: April 17th, 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe'When America catches a cold, black America... ' -- well, we should maybe talk about that.
- Welch Makes a Baseball Analogy
- Moynihan helps Governor Cuomo shame the traitorous scum who refuse to STAY IN DOORS
- Amid growing concern about the disproportionate impact COVID-19 may be having on black folks in America -- Kmele has thoughts
- When Billionaires Give Money Away (it's never enough -- and it's never good enough -- for Moynihan?)
- China is Using Fake Numbers
- A Briefing Full of Jim Acostas
- President Trump Lies, Frequently -- Accept When He's Telling the Truth
- Trump's Greatest Failure
- Foreign Policy Tea Leaves
Recorded: April 7th, 2020
Released: April 8th, 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeWith more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic.
PLUS 'The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens'
- Keep Buggering On
Recorded: March 31st, 2020
Released: April 2ndth, 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe- The lads are losing it in quarantine
- New York is 'authentic' again / full of crackhead zombies
- Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis
- So what's happening in COVID world
- And what does Kmele think *now*?
- Is this all capitalism's fault?
- More studies, more confusion
- The shitty media is even shittier than ever
- Hating on De Blasio
- Manufacturing scientific consent
- It's MH370. And we're inside the plane
- A wee bit of mail from a wee Scot Trot
- Is there anything to talk about *but* COVID?
- Kmele has a new telescope/is a huge nerd in the woods
Recorded: March 26th, 2020
Released: March 27th, 2020
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- Kmele is the Kurtz/Lauren Hill of Virginia
- Some listener mail
- We have the results! (Calm down Todd)
- Updates on the COVID
- Is it all going to fall apart? Probably
- Are we are at war? Not really
- Some more listener mail
- Some audiobooks to listen to while quarantined
- Some more sports to watch while no sports is happening
- Kmele really needs to bring it back to COVID
- An Italian friend drunk texts, loses her mind
- More disaster socialism
- The most important thing about COVID is what Trump calls it
- Some book recommendations
Released: March 19, 2020
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The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán!
- Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding
- All COVID, all the time!
- Wait, so does he have it or not?
- Kmele questions the consensus
- Disaster capitalism becomes disaster socialism
- Money is fake. Let's give everyone a billion dollars, ok?
- Masked and bonding with the Hasids
- Why Matt can't smoke weed? (Yes, it involves Central Europe and the First Gulf War)
- Ken Burns gives it away
- Let's rerun 70s baseball and hockey games
- More on this damn virus
- We totally missed the Andrew Gillum wedding party
- Dude. The drugs were on the floor
- Pick some books. Let's read them
- And so very much more
Recorded: March 16th, 2020
Released: March 17th, 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribew/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of 'The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes'
DESCRIPTION:
- Decadence, Low and High
- The Four Horseman
- “Giving Decadence Its Due”
- Birth Rates, Populations, Populism
- It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right
- Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn
- TVs Golden Age
- The Case for Joe Biden
- Don Jr's GOP
- A New York Times Conservative
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- Typhoid Welch
- Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday
- Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline
- 'Democratic' Socialism?
- MAGA Corps and Bernie Bros Will Excuse Almost Anything Their Candidates Do
- Elizabeth Warren Lost -- It's Empirically Not HER Fault
- DNC Subterfuge
- Biden's Lies About Getting Arrested, Mandela Thanking
- Preview of the Biden v Bernie Debate
- Schumer SCOTUS Threat
- The FISA 'Rubber Stamp'
- The Horrifying Books on Your Sshelf
- President Trump's *Disgraceful* Peace Deal w/ the Taliban
- Eli's Libertarian War Powers Fetish
- Steve Kornacki: Legend
- Chris Matthews
- Billionaire Lives Matter
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Recorded: March 5th, 2020
Released: March 6th, 2020
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- Throwin Up Gang Signs
- COVID-19
- Cuban History 101
- Giving China Credit
- Billionaires and Unicorns
- Harvey Weinstein
Recorded: February 26th, 2020
Released: February 27th, 2020
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Co Authors: ''Sinking in the Swamp' How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington'
Description:
- Moynihan's Vocal Fry and 'Actually Good' Accents
- Searching for 'Henry Hills' in Trumpworld
- Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy
- Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever
- Rats and Snitches
- Daily Beast: A 'High-brow Tabloid'
- Woke (Racist?) Bloomberg
- The Muslim Ban
- From Seb Gorka to Hunter Biden
- Reporters vs Opinion Pundits
- Will the Press Scrutinize the Next President as Aggressively?
- The Never Trumpers Who End Up in the White House Anyway
- John Bolton's Next Act
- Swin/Lachlan's 'Badgers Story'
- Drama Queens
- Bob Woodward
- Godfather 3, still bad
- Gore Vidal + Timothy McVeigh
Recorded: February 18th, 2020
Released: February 19th, 2020
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- Black History Month
- There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt
- Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others
- Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition)
- Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang
- Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall
- A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement
- Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole
- ADL: 'White Supremacy is On The Rise!'
Recorded: February 12th, 2020
Released: February 13th, 2020
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This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wethefifth.substack.com/subscribeThe last time we did this, we said don't get used to it. Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome.
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Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls.
Moynihan returns to Iowa and remembers why he hates journalists. Bumbling around the Hawkeye State, he chats with Andrew Yang, hangs with hardcore Trump types and fanatical Bernie bros. And they're all Iowa nice.
Kmele has a black 'Big Chill' weekend in Pennsylvania and opens about up his parents--to a gobsmacked Moynihan.
As usual, the lads try to catch up on a bunch of listener mail, provoking discussions about tattoos, Chile, Northern Ireland, Goop, The Central Park Five, and the 'Preppy Killer' Robert Chambers.
And twenty years after it debuted, Kmele finally watches Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Outro music: RIP Andy Gill.
Recorded February 4, 2020
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- Kmele's Inner MAGA
- State of the Union Theatrics
- “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!”
- 'The Big Lie' (and other nonsense)
- Mitt Romney’s Moment
- Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform
- Iowa Fiasco
- Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC
- Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes
Recorded: February 5th, 2020
Released: February 6th, 2020
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- When the mob came for the Fifth
- Hong Kong: Proto Police State
- The Democratic Field
- Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce
- Criminalizing Disinformation
- Watching Lou Dobbs
- Fearing the Bern
- Truthy Skepticism
- An Impeachment Drive-By
- Eli on the FBI
- Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...)
Recorded: January 29, 2020
Released: January 30, 2020
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Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. (@MiriamElder)
DESCRIPTION:
Our fake bios
Miriam's seven years in Moscow
Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists
Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s
Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism
Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleged sexism. Plus: Is believing Warren or Sanders a #MeToo lesson?
Who is the nihilist candidate?
Banning lies on Facebook
Can a bully be funny?
The “Independents” couple forever
Recorded: January 16, 2020
Released: January 18, 2020
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Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News
Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019)
DESCRIPTION:
- Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard
- Bomb Iran?
- Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again?
- International commerce —> global middle class —> less war
- Trump thinks China should police the Strait of Hormuz
- What if we did NOTHING?
- Brian Stelter praises Tucker Carlson
- John Bolton might testify
- Moynihan shows up late
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Facebooks deep fake 'Problem'
- Thanks for the swags, and the booze
Recorded: January 7, 2019
Published: January 8, 2019
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- Neighborhood Watch
- Moynihan’s Anti-Brit Streak
- Bernie’s Fundraising Clout
- Ron Paul’s Newsletters and Everlasting Ice Cream
- Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs
- Iran’s Quds Force commander Soleiman Killed in Iraq
- Media Malpractice on Vaping
- Chuck Todd's Fake News special
- About That Memo
Recorded: January 2, 2020
Published: January 3, 2020
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The Williamsburg Tapes (Dispatch #4)
'Losing Our Religion'
DESCRIPTION
It's a pre-Christmas miracle! The Fifth Columnists are back at the stammtisch (stupid table) in Williamsburg for a long-ass special dispatch, mostly discussing things distant from the news cycle. Kmele watches 'Mandingo' and, to the shock of both Welch and Moynihan, is slack-jawed by how racist it is. The lads answer some reader mail and discuss Michael Collins, the Pete Best of Apollo 11; offer some meandering thoughts on Catholicism and Seventh Day Adventism; ruminate on tragedy and loss; blather about the Richard Jewell movie nontroversy; recommend books about Israel; and provide two-plus hours of assorted other nonsense.
Recorded: 12/??/2019
Published: 12/25/2019
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Staff Writer @ The Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:
- Patreon-only Preview
- Chapo Trap vs Conor
- An Underreported Attack in Jersey City
- Afghanistan Mea Culpa
- Something About Impeachment
- Reauthorize Every War, Every Year
- Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration
- Complicated Brexit voters
- Gesture politics
- The Paternalism of Blooombergism
- The Pronoun Talk
- Civility, Without Obsessing Over Identity
Recorded: December 17, 2019
Published: December 18, 2019
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- Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail
- Debunking mediums and magicians
- UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn
- WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers”
- IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior
- Mispronouncing Nunes
- Acela Wars
- Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year
- The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment
Recorded: December 12, 2019
Published: December 14, 2019
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