The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)

A rebroadcast of Sunday’s live Zoom, available only to subscribers, of course. And this particular live event was only available to Never Fly Coach-tier subscribers. So you know what that means: If you’re not subscribed, maybe it’s time to pony up? And if you’re already a subscriber…remember that there are different tiers and that we can, in fact, quite… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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. the movement / MAGA vs. po… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

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 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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’… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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” Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

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. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* 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! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

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. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.