Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
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Howdy there, internet people. I'll be providing commentary on and context to today's events through the filter of common sense.
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The Fifdom gets together to have great conversations. All are welcome! Hope to have YOU on soon!
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Let's talk about Trump being allowed to deploy troops after it was clear they aren’t needed....
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Let's talk about Trump being allowed to deploy troops after it was clear they aren’t needed....
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Members Only #281 - When You've Eaten the Poison, You Might as Well Lick the Plate (w/ Jake Adelstein)
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21:43This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Check out Jake Adelstein’s new book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin •A Japanese literacy test •Chvalry is not dead •They don’t teach you how to drink in J school •The Ansel Elgortification of Jake Adelstein •The Yakuza throw a killer Halloween party •Lions, and Tigers and Joe…
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Let's talk about a million people in the street....
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Let's talk about Trump's grocery problem....
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Let's talk about Democrats kicking off the midterm season....
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Let's talk about Trump vs China_ 6 months in and China’s winning....
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Let's talk about Trump, Thune, motives, and signals…
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Let's talk about Trump's Shutdown_ The Master Plan edition....
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Let's talk about why Trump’s economy can’t be ignored, Kings, and bargains....
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Let's talk about Trump, how ‘political opposition is not rebellion,' and Chicago....
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Let's talk about Trump, Bolton, and secrets....
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Let's talk about Trump losing again in Portland and lawful orders....
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The Roads to Fed Employees, Young Republicans, and a bad fly
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Let's talk about Trump looking to the South....
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Let's talk about Trump firing thousands, unrelated news, and still more totally unrelated news....
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Let's talk about Trump firing thousands, unrelated news, and still more totally unrelated news....
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Let's talk about Trump and Hegseth's press play backfiring....
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Let's talk about how Trump’s cuts, Alaska, and balloons....
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Let's talk about Young Republicans and fallout....
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Let's talk about Trump & the GOP preparing an ACA menu....
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RNT_ Trump, measles, money, and China....
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10:24RNT_ Trump, measles, money, and China....
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#528: President Comacho Delivers Peace, w/ Mary Katharine Ham
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1:14:37* Misgendering Fox News * Wait, Michael was at a dinner? * Kmele tries to pronounce Normally * “Clearly we don’t fucking prepare” * “The last time I was with you guys, we were in a much smaller, darker room and I got very drunk” * Trump brings the hostages back … * … then emcees a roast * Somebody tell Bill Kristol! * A little bit psycho vs. the UN…
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Let's talk about why MTG is seeming more reasonable....
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Let's talk about you paying 55% of Trump’s tariffs....
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Let's talk about Trump’s ineffective CDC moves and missing and replaced fences....
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Let's talk about Trump, Special Ed, the future of America and fences....
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Let's talk about how the Trump shutdown should've been completely expected....
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Let's talk about a General saying the quiet part aloud about Trump's plans....
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Let's talk about Trump's Insurrection Act moves being undercut by the courts....
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Let's talk about Trump, debasement, Gold, Copper, and grandma....
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Let's talk about Trump damaging the dollar more than anybody in 50 years....
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Let's talk about Trump vs red state governors....
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Let's talk about a Chicago judge saying to not use force on journalists....
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Let's talk about Trump, China, rare earths, more tariffs, and data centers....
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Members Only #280 - Megyn Kelly Blowback, Principled Sanity, and Nihilistic Dread
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18:01This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com •One Battle After Another •Kmele’s hot take that will bring ruin to Hollywood •Separating the art from John Cusack •The kinship of Susan Sarandon & Mao Zedong •It’s not the dead kid that is most unsettling part of Stand By Me •Amity, as you know, means friendship •No d…
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Let's talk about the GOP taking a holiday instead of paying troops....
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Let's talk about Johnson hearing from military families about Trump's shutdown while on TV....
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Let's talk about Johnson hearing from military families about Trump's shutdown while on TV....
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Let's talk about the GDP minus data centers and the Trump economy....
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The Roads to Plenary powers, Trump, and the Constitution
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