Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left has new answers

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I am dreading the inevitable What Happened reading series (almost as much as I'm dreading What Happened in general)

is that Donna Brazile's book?

Hillary's

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I would be interested if it was called What Had HAPPENED Was...

Title has a real IF I DID IT feel

I have seen at least two dozen variants of If I Did It and Wha' Happen' jokes over the last couple of hours

i dont know anything about chris hedges but i figured he was a crank bc he gave a talk here a couple years ago in support of a book called 'The Algebra of Revolution' and the poster for it had his face with a bunch of math symbols swirling around it like that one meme

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I have seen at least two dozen variants of If I Did It and Wha' Happen' jokes over the last couple of hours

If you followed more black people, you'd see just as many iterations of my joke!

that inspired me to do a quick audit of the people I follow, turns out at least two people I follow RT'd that lol

(not counting DJP)

holy shit hillary is writing a book called WHAT HAPPENED??????????

yes. this will never end.

when does it come out. gonna steal from b&n

jk.................. i dont shoplift

I keep wanting to hear that Street Fight Radio episode where they apparently discuss the ethics of shoplifting w/r/t automated checkouts but I'm not sure what ep it is

Tommy Vietor describing McCain as "9 parts hero, 1 part troll" on the live Pod Save America ep(feat. Joy Ann Reid!) makes me wonder if Beltway thinking exists in powder form that political staffers just snork down rails of for 4-8 years.

Felix was unusually restrained on Intercepted a couple weeks back, esp when discussing Saudi Arabia

latest Tim Faust ep good as always

yeah Faust's are some of the best/ most informative eps

Did Felix apologize on air for his rape joke or was he lying about doing that as well?

did he say he apologized on air? if so that is definitely a lie

I don't think he said he apologized on the show.

he didn't

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she's had me blocked since before I made that dumbass reply, but yeah apologizing on air isn't a bad idea.

I took it to mean he was considering doing it on air, since he couldn't do it in person. But no, just two lies in one line.

considering doing something and then not doing it is not a lie Fred. shitty, yes. lie, no.

But do you really think he comsidered it?

I have no idea and neither do you

Although, no, let's drop it, it's not important. This piece of shit joked about a woman's rape, told people already sympathetic to him that he was sorry, but lied to avoid apologizing to her, and still hasn't apologized on his podcast. That's all I wanted to know.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just call him a piece of shit instead of playing dumb?

Yeah, but then you can't score points for yourself on the internet that way

I for one am shocked that a guy in his mid twenties who insults people for a living said a bad, shitty thing and didn't handle it well

Oh come on

Are you okay with his behaviour? Women are just going to have to accept this, because we need people to 'insult them for a living'?

By your logic, everyone who support CTH is paying for Felix to do stuff like this.

Yes it's one of the Patreon perks

I think it was dumb and bad and I've said so a couple times fred, you need self- flagellation pics or what?

By your logic

lol at using this particular phrase in an argument about felix

Are you giving him money to insult people, Simon?

yes, sure, absolutely. that is definitely what I meant.

Well are you? Are you still helping Felix 'insult people for a living', even though you seem unsurprised he would then go off and do shit like this? Are you knowingly enabling this behaviour?

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Actually, flappy bird, I want to ask you as well. You've written repeatedly that politics should be 'visceral and libidinal'. Are homophobia and rape jokes an acceptable part of libidinal politics?

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Fred, why do you get so pissed?

sigh

the "insult" comment was only to say that CTH is approximately 50-60% a delivery device for insulting the pundit class + riffing on inside left twitter beef (though less of the latter of late). so no I don't think it's fair to say he gets paid to be a misogynist or whatever; he gets paid to help make a popular podcast which I do not believe to be misogynist. I was not referring to social media/outside-the-show stuff beyond that I imagine having a podcast like that be your principal job is bound to screw with your perceptions of Being Online and what's acceptable behavior and that's why I'm not super surprised something like this happened. did I enable the bad tweet by sending them five dollars? in a roundabout way, sure. I hope he is mortified by what happened and thinks more about who he's going off on online, but I still enjoy the podcast, albeit more for his co-hosts and their guests.

yeah it was a shitty tweet but what else can you expect from edgelords but edgelord tweeting?

if someone wants to setup a patreon so they can fly over and shit in fred's mouth i will happily contribute

Tommy Vietor describing McCain as "9 parts hero, 1 part troll" on the live Pod Save America ep(feat. Joy Ann Reid!) makes me wonder if Beltway thinking exists in powder form that political staffers just snork down rails of for 4-8 years.

― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Monday, July 31, 2017 4:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this wasn't his characterization, he was relating how McCain campaign staffers viewed Johnny Maverick.