Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Still waiting for the book about how technocrats' mistrust of democracy and their Herculean attempts to manage it haven't produced better outcomes.

so matt is in nyc now? not sure how i feel about this.

imo the rest should've moved to Cincy. in fact, things would be much mo betta if all the young socialists would stop congregating in nyc. time to pull an inverse of the NH/ "free state" project and get a gang of freelancers & uber drivers to move to a sparsely populated red state like Wyoming and get 2 dem socialist Senators elected.

so matt is in nyc now? not sure how i feel about this.

I did grow to enjoy the tin can quality of his rants

lol yeah

The inability of him to talk into his own mic drives me insane

It sometimes gavethe impression that Matt was just this disembodied head that ranted from a jar on the shelf or something.

i imagine jambi from peewee's playhouse

matt's midwstern marxist adjunct professor (i.e., unemployed) vibe has always been my favorite part of the show, so I hope he doesn't become too new yorkified.

harbl otm, I will miss jambi

Countdown to the first time he slaps Felix or Will for an egregious mispronunciation.

ryan otm

I've been enjoying Trillbilly Workers Party a lot lately, sort of a nice midpoint between the lefty smartassery of Chapo and the modest and cozy chillness of Street Fight.

It's pretty much up to third in my list after I run through the week's Chapo and cum town.

Caught angela nagle on a podcast today and I figured she'd elicit hissing from all the right ppl

She came across as having good knowledge of the various but her thesis seemed p underdeveloped, this may well have been a function of keeping it simple for the anchor.

I had a similar reaction after reading her piece in the latest Baffler, essentially about the death of civility and manners in the discourse driven by Trump. Probably a 2,000 or 3,000 word piece that felt like bulletpoints, nothing I didn't already know or anything that wasn't already obvious. Reading her, you keep waiting for the deep dig, and it's just cliff notes. I don't get it.

In fairness I got the impression that she has that deep dive if required but yeah, where is it if so

oh yeah I don't think she's a charlatan or a grifter, & this piece wasn't even really the same territory as the book, but the experience reading it was the same. inexplicably skating on the surface

makes u think

Hmm... People say Hillary is "the past" but within 24 hours of her @Verrit endorsement, we have more followers than @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE.

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 5, 2017

those 24 hours did occur in the past tho

I spent a couple billion dollars running for president and all I have to show for it is more followers on twitter than chapo

not sure what I appreciate more, Peter Daou thinking that is a useful metric, or Peter Daou being aware of CTH's existence and caring what they say :)

I tried the Trillbilly Workers Party but those accents are rough going.

He has threatened half a dozen of their followers / friends with libel in the past iirc. Xp

ugh chapo might be kind of insufferable coming up.. they can't not take the bait from these idiots

The accents of the Trillbillies are part of what endears me to them. My mom's side of the family is from Southern Ohio, and it's like hearing my cousins talk about lefty shit

dril has nearly 3/4 mil follows. That's my metric.

dril has 753k followers

that is a vicious like propagated by the numbers men at twitter

he has five million now

vicious lie, lol

oh lol I definitely read "3/4" as "three or four"

even folks who don't like chapo can hopefully take some joy in their irritating a useless hyperrich stain like Daou

I also find the accents charming xp. I'm a big fan of a kinds of regional American accents though, pretty much anything is more fun to listen to than the standard American English of NPR

even folks who don't like chapo can hopefully take some joy in their irritating a useless hyperrich stain like Daou

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), 6. september 2017 00:03 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup

his music is bad and he should feel bad

More followers than Chapo Trap House 🔘
Win an election against a perverted game show host ⚪️

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) September 5, 2017

peter daou is gonna get entombed in hillary's casket like the pharoah's cat

— joe prince (@joeprince___) September 5, 2017

hot take: they shouldn't have taken off on Labor Day

Don't they normally put out shows Sundays and Tuesdays?

yeah Sunday is the free show, which they skipped this week. premiums are looser - either Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-138-verrit-carefully-feat-alex-nichols-9517

The reason for their delay was that sometimes they live the failson gimmick a little too hard:

sorry for the delay everyone. we had a device driver issue today and were unable to record. episode will be recorded and put out tomorrow

— Brain Mentality (@ByYourLogic) September 4, 2017

this is what $80,000 dollars a month buys you, folks

lol the opening with all of them "calling in" was so great

yeah that was fun. I didn't think they were that good on Verrit, mostly because, how could they be -- it's like the thing with liberal comics and Trump, where people think it's "going to be great for comedy" and it's actually terrible for comedy because you can't write jokes about something that already is the joke. The conservative rap bit was entertaining though. I think they're at their best when they're bring your attention to that sort of thing -- the perverse, hidden corners of conservatism and centrism that you'd overlook otherwise.

As they pointed out, Verrit is the kind of thing that feels willed into existence by Chapo. Unfortunately there wasn't much more to say about it. Also I was disappointed that they didn't pick apart my favorite bit of the whole thing "The 65.8 Million"

they did a little.. wasn't there a line about them trying to take advantage of VC's who dont understand what 65m actually means

I just found that to be such a perfect encapsulation of #demfail. 1) it's an obvious and terrible ripoff of "the 99%" but so much clunkier and less memorable and 2) it centers a "movement" around Hillary, instead of around an issue (e.g. wealth inequality), and 3) its wonky (65.8!). I mean I can almost hear the committee room back and forth that led up to it:
"The 65 million. Nice ring to it"
"Well ACTUALLY it's almost 66 million. You don't round down from point 8"
"Okay, how about the 66 million"
"Sounds too much like the six million. You know, never forget?"

I was glad they pointed out that most of their listeners surely begrudgingly voted for Hillary, like what % of that 65 mil was really jazzed about it

its hilarious. talk about doubling down on creating a bubble. might as well make money of their sycophantic audience it's all they have left.

the irony of them bashing Sanders while he is actually working at this moment is insane. this idea that the media didn't entirely bow down before Hillary and treat Trump like an idiot is almost frightening.

one of the best tweets in a long time

pic.twitter.com/cgpLHPJjLF

— 🍍 Dollars Horton 🍍 (@crushingbort) September 6, 2017

cosign

I liked this Kriss/O'Hagan piece

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tropical-depressions-kriss-ohagan