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-J.D. Vance seizes the means of production

-Let’s define “conservative” in case you forgot

-So what the hell is Fusionism?

-From free markets to owning the libs

-Cultural resentment > economic anxiety

-Is there a reset after Trump?

-Whe…

-Greetings…oh, fuck

-Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss

-Clip Roulette

-Tucker and the Demon Bomb

-Jason Arday, martyr?

-The Jonah Lehrer comparison

-The Samantha Power mic disaster

-Fuck you Joaquin

-John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists

-Ukraine didn’t go away

-Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games

-Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen?

-Median Strategies and the fake poll

-Adam Bonica, Marc Elias and scamming the elderly

-Is Cuba a dictatorship? Apparently a difficult question

-The Padilla Affair / Slobo Googling

-Theft as a “biological need”

-Chocolate City

-Stay tuned for más Moynihan Report

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We’re joined by former ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who now publishes Real Patriotism with Terry Moran on Substack and hosts a podcast of the same name on YouTube.

-Terry reads that tweet

-Fired, suspended, non-renewed…whatever

-Any regrets?

-Network news is dying and everyone’s jumping ship

-The 9/11 flag-pin controversy

-Hire more people who voted for Trump

-Why not …

-Kmele is out of Adderall

-Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?

-“Montrosity” and other difficult words

-The adventures of Proximity Hong

-The curious case of Jason Arday

-Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist?

-AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy

-Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed

-Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you.

-Funding the other side’s whackos

-Mamdani declares war on Amazon

-A general rent strike. Over one cockroach.

-David Remnick meets the DSA

-Kmele gets swarmed by the Hasan bots

-So, how great was Mao?

-Midterm Madness and the 2028 Democratic sweepstakes

-Clip Roulette

-Kmele tries to explain himself. It does not help.

-Can America get at least a busted Boris Johnson?

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-a pre-obit for the esteemed David Frum

-involuntarily unionized at The Atlantic

-spy novels, bureaucrats and expense reports

-turning down Bill Buckley’s golden ticket

-prosperity, security and how quickly it can all disappear

-Frum is forever a man of 1989

-God makes you lucky, then convinces you you’re smart

-Tucker Carlson was always capable of many things

-falling flat on your back isn’t progress

-the Michigan Senate choice from hell

-Democrats discover Trump’s permission structure

-Midterm Madness in Michigan

-the polling industry has a phone problem

-politics for people who can afford to lose

-“I saw you coming so I could stop you”

-immigration restriction without the Trumpism

-fascism has the better sales pitch than communism

-what Donald Trump loves besides himself

-the conservative future Frum got very wrong and other reflections

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Michael Moynihan has returned from his Italian sojourn where he barely escaped arrest…

-Moynihan has the clap or something

-Who exactly is the demographic for this show?

-Moynihan’s European vacation involved bus karaoke, too much drinking, and now the shakes

-Matt went to Cooperstown with Bill Schulz…

-The forgotten insanity of the Peekskill riots

-Paul Robe…

So that’s where these Genius Grants come from…

-Most roads lead back to Prague for Matt Welch

-about that letter…six paragraphs, $5 million in free publicity and Harper’s back in the mainstream

-It was NAFTA, not woke, that elected Trump. Or was it?

-Illegal immigration is a wage issue

-Who still believes free trade is the answer to everything?

-Vietnam made …

Jesse Singal of Blocked and Reported and Singal-Minded fills Michael Moynihan’s special diabetic chair to discuss Fauci’s diaries, broken institutions, runaway AI, LeBron and Mamdani Mart.

-Moynihan out, Jesse Singal in

-Bari Weiss hired everyone except Jesse

-The Prince of Science re-enrages everyone (or at least Rand Paul)

-Gell-Mann amnesia and the collapse of institutional trust

-The media needed a COVID daddy

-An OpenAI model escaped the sandbox

-The analogy of the paperclip machine and how it consumed the universe

-Cambridge protected alleged plagiarist Jason Arday

-Midterm Madness, Ohio governor race version

-Kmele feels that LeBron will never love him but he doesn’t want to talk about it

-Three grown men relived their greatest pickup games

-Kmele wanted the gods back in The Odyssey

-Mamdani Mart promised groceries at 30 percent off

-Billy Bob Thornton returns from hell in White Knight (a Kmele Foster joint)

-Nazi dinosaurs stalked Jews through Schindler’s Park

-Jesse discovered second-order effects

-Not every strange obsession with Israel was antisemitism

-Rent stabilization has worked great for millionaires

-No French goodbye for Kmele

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