New York Post's Lydia Moynihan on Wall Street, Epstein, and media envy - The Fifth Column #533
November 20, 2025
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as posted by the channelNew York Post's Lydia Moynihan on why she tells kids not to become journalists, high-status-low-income reporters covering the ultra-rich, the Epstein files, and and why obvious frauds keep getting a pass from people in power.
In this episode:
•The Doppelgänger
•Where do these Moynihans come from?
•The journalism disease
•You do not want to get a call from the New York Post
•From schadenfreude to envious cruelty
•Covering the powerful
•What is “social proof?”
•The Epstein obsession
•Incompetence defeats the deep state
•Epstein and language inflation
•Representing the Trump voter
•MTG’s difficulty with economics
•Everyone’s difficulty with economics
•Let’s get a Juul and watch Beetlejuice
•She’s young. He’s not. But they both hate the young.
•Lydia loves deportations
• Her billion dollar idea is…sausage?
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