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For all the ball breaking you guys got I am so grateful that you’re there NOT having a nervous breakdown, not clear why anyone would be served that, particularly the most distressed over the election, regardless of which direction their ire is coming from.

This is the place because you remind the audience that Wednesday will follow Tuesday, rather than destruction. The most unsettling times are when you guys are apprehensive, then I think it’s time to really worry. TBH I’m not convinced people lobbying for more hysterics would be pleased if they got their wish.

Thank you for the updates, have a great weekend, and C U Next Tuesday!

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Matt, please ask Jamie Raskin about serving on the Jan 6th committee after voting not to certify the 2016 election, assuming of course something as important as "our democracy" comes up.

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Mission of the week: Convince my Harris-loving wife that we should watch the Free Press on election night because it will be the only unbiased choice.

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I just realized the publication is different and I messaged you guys lol.

Moynihan was great on Maher. But it’s disheartening to see all the pushback to the point on fascism.

It’s such an eye roll moment when people unironically go into “fascism” diatribes

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Live show Tuesday?

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The free press is doing one with the Irish Menace

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I assume they couldn’t get kmele to come on since he’s at a conference

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Fucking Kmele

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The only way I’ll make it through election night is if I eat a tab of that acid that Morrison (and about half the audience) took before the walk-off music performance.

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Bill Maher and the other TDS guest was so annoying! Why have Michael Moynihan on if you don’t want an actual intelligent discussion on how we got here? And no deep dive (or even a whisper) into a candidate whom I believe poses as much (maybe more?) of a threat than orange man because we can only assume she’s still as radical as she was in 2019 and she has the entire legacy media and and gov’t agencies doing her heavy lifting.

Thankful for 5th column, Reason, and the Free Press for being honest brokers and nuanced.

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Tim Miller appeared to be a completely humorless individual on Maher.

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I’ve been a long time listener and subscriber, and that is solely based on how much I respect the triumvirate of the Fifth Column. But I would be lying if I didn’t express my disappointment with recent episodes, recent Bill Maher episodes, recent Free Press content, or Moynihan’s ankle grabbing appearance tonight on Real Time.

Everyone talks about the election in terms of left and right, liberal and conservative, republican and democrat, as if those are the only two choices between two equally shitty poles. Here’s a cheat sheet to winning elections: socially liberal and fiscally conservative - that’s 70% of the country. That’s what people want and no political party provides. Why social and fiscal conservatism lives in one party while social/fiscal liberalism lives in the other makes no sense. We’ve let the least equipped and least talented cast-offs take control of our lives because we surrendered giving a shit.

This shit isn’t hard, it’s just bad messaging and atrocious education. And it doesn’t help that the “independent” voices propagate the idea that there’s only one choice between two shitty options. We had so many choices before it was Trump - Harris. It’s a lazy, ignorant, and all together uninteresting confluence of bad decisions that have led us to such a terrible choice. Anyone with any self-respect about themselves or their community will ponder this

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I mean - I’m going to push back pretty hard. I think this is true 10-15 years ago. But the issue now is I think a lot of the country is the complete inverse. People seem to now be socially more conservative and fiscally liberal.

The issue is the left has pushed hyper-progressive politics for the last 8-9 years. DEI, gender ideology, less parental rights, and a general sense of restricting and limiting speech (whether or not it’s happening, people feel they can’t say what they want to anymore). You’re seeing groups all across America protest this stuff at school boards, lukewarm attitudes to abortion, and certainly a general fear of being censored.

Fiscally I think COVID broke a lot of people’s brains. Stimulus checks, benefits, other financial windfalls that made people really like handouts and not give any care to the government waste and spending.

I think honestly there’s been a bizarre shift in this direction of social conservatism as a backlash to “woke” ideology (which I’m not even entirely against), and fiscal liberalism stemming from COVID spending.

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Sounds like Libertarian to me! There is a candidate, but he is not on all of the state ballots. And of course, he doesn't stand a chance. Just saying that there are people out there.

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Hey Fif'dom, can anyone recommend a documentary on the american labor movement? Ideally one that isn't trying to be sharply critical of capitalism and that isn't, as it were, trying to make the case in favor of government intervention into labor relations. That's ideally, like, if there were a bunch to choose from. All recommendations are welcome though. I'm trying to educate myself about why labor unions are necessary.

AND I don't to read.

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I'm so mad that Matt beat me to the cunt joke. 😡

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wait what

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Disclaimer: not actually mad! I should have been faster on the draw.

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