The Fifth Column

We talk about what the media still gets wrong about Trump, what losing CNN did to him, and why he believes more political violence is coming.
-Kmele sizes Chris up and… is this podcast 10% gay?
-From Fox, to ABC, to CNN
-Did the media make Trump president?
-Celebrity, discontent and everything the media missed
-Being right about what’s wrong
-The duopoly is killing us. DSA isn’t helping.
-Cuomo, Cuomo and Cuomo Crime Time
-Scott Jennings, JD Vance and the rewards of picking a side
-The media discovers capital-T Truth and loses its curiosity
-Trump’s corruption and the limits of whataboutism
-Mario Cuomo should have worn a toga
-Voters don’t want the flaws. They want the disruption.
-There will be more political violence
-Matt Lauer crosses the street to express his condolences
-Broadcasting from the basement and losing an identity
-Illegal immigration and its convenient distortions
-Tucker, Fredo and Mike Tyson
-Kmele can take Joe Rogan. Chris has notes.
-AOC gets savvier; Kmele would prefer an accounting
-I don’t make mistakes anymore. They’re just lies
-COVID couldn’t transcend the culture war
-Midterm Madness
-the first presidential candidates that Matt Welch, Chris Cuomo, and Kmele voted for
-Andrew Cuomo and the outsider problem
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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, co-written with Jonathan Swan, is out now.
-yes, he superglues the gold fixtures in the Oval Office
-Maggie Haberman and her very irritating competitor Jonathan Swan
-Project 2025 and Stephen Miller’s search for lawyers who would get to “yes”
-what needs to be in the paper as soon as possible… a…

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-Bret Stephens, Mexican?
-Bret’s naked grandmother and the Trotsky/Diego Rivera/Frida Kahlo connection
-The family saga of Stalinists, refugees and Reagan Republicans
-Learning to love America through tap water and cops you don’t have to bribe
-Belgium, a sick little, horrible place
-America, land of late bloomers
-The socialist Sweden Bernie remembers no lon…

-The many sins of fattie John J. Cafaro
-The Moynihan Report will return
-Hand jobs and the intellectual life of West Hollywood
-Release the Welch canceled-songs playlist
-The Iran deal is dead. The war is back.
-Why did Iran blow it up? Why does a dog lick his balls?
-Air power has never toppled a regime
-The anti-globalists discover the Strait of Hormuz
-Israel’s secret Ahmadinejad project
-In partial defense of the late Lindsey Graham
-Politics is gross. Stop loving politicians.
-Fellating is best done behind closed doors
-“There is no they. There is only we. And we usually don’t know what the fuck we’re doing.”
-Midterm Madness comes to Michigan
-Haley Stevens brings a little bit of stick-it-to-’em
-Is this DSA thing real?
-Colorado nominates a man who first killed at seven (he thinks)
-Two fatal ICE shootings in two weeks
-Ann Widdecombe is murdered. Britain shrugs.
-Kmele attempts the Caitlin Clark/data center crossover. It does not land.
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Robert Wright’s new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, is out now (Bookshop | Amazon)
•“Conference” = group sex
•21 years of successfully avoiding podcast wealth
•Interviewing the godfather of AI
•A tiger and a rattlesnake
•Matt gets quizzed on LLMs
•The God Test
•The shock of vibe coding
•China and the superintelligence arms race
•Re…