Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

surfeit of ethnic voices

um maybe it's their turn to speak?? getta load of this white guy needs all the air over here

Um

Never mind

Lol wut? I assumed jim meant the hosts doing wacky ethnic voices

hey now

lmao

Pretty funny from sleepingbag who says conservatives can't do comedy

Jeet Heer recommends the most problematic chapo for an NYT op-ed slot

Nyt gonna sign up angela nagle just 2 clown

can't have new york times without NORMIES

lol that actually works

at all levels mantappingtemple.gif

Just let the cum town folks write crossword
Next logical step after maddow did it

Will taking his turn at whining about the fans today.

huh?

When I read any of the comments on the Chapo subreddit ... pic.twitter.com/jUhyuuNE92

— Will🦕Menaker (@willmenaker) March 5, 2018

Tbf, that’s the subreddit, where even fans on the DBHQ Discord refuse to go.

I lurk there because it's a decent link aggregator, I don't see that much discussion of the podcast at all much less the obsession Amber and Will assume.

oh it's there

mostly in the comments of the links to the episodes themselves

couldn't help noticing my sweet boy felix was locked out of the 'grownups talk politics' section of the latest episode again

mind you once they let him back in again he sure doubled down on obscure rappers and hideo kojima references

i just noticed a new episode of scumbag pop up on my phone, i dunno if he's on it or not yet but there's that

would totally listen to a chapo trap assisted living facility w/ Dad Menaker, Billy Corbett, and Richard Wolff

but i really came to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnwctVXEcs

Latest Scumbag is Zitron talking to Vincent D’Onofrio

How many people here are actually on DBHQ? I’m on there in a decidedly non-lurker fashion

I don't even know what that is!

based that clip alone [not even judging their name] i can't imagine being a person who listens to cum town

it takes all kinds

yeah apparently it takes dumb assholes too

absolutely

what Will says approx. 44 min into the latest episode about how private schools are more laid-back is completely wrong, everything they said prior to that about public schools putting insane amounts of pressure on very young kids and making them incredibly anxious absolutely happens in private schools. speaking from experience. all that stuff they said about kids in 3rd grade being warned about getting into AP classes and good colleges is everywhere in private schools. Assuming he went to a private school in Manhattan (like me), I'm surprised he had that take. I also went to a Quaker school for HS, and it was not 'laid-back' though obviously not the under-funded and militaristic environment of public schools.

i love my daughter's public school it's great

yeah that whole segment on parenting and uh steel manufacturing(??) saw them veer a little too far out of their lane. the actual interview with the striking teacher was great, though, and I almost spat out my coffee when he said that his preferred outcome would be "...a worker's republic?"

yea the interview was good

The DBHQ is the Dirtbag HQ, the Chapo-adjacent discord server.

Friend of the pod and the closest thing there is to a dirtbag on staff at a mainstream paper Liz Bruenig finally throws down the "s" word, invoking both Andrew Sullivan and Mark Fisher in the process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-give-socialism-a-try/2018/03/06/c603a1b6-2164-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html?utm_term=.5ac9b54dca7b

Sweet. Good on her.

welp this david cross appearance is extremely uncomfortable

His first was uncomfortable enough I'm surprised they brought him back.

honestly a decent producer/editor would have cut that whole Farrakhan argument

I haven't listened to the latest one yet, but sometimes they kind of flounder as it seems like they're all taking turns trying to stumble onto the *right* left take to have. I felt that way when they started talking about the Stoneman kids, like they couldn't really settle on a point to have about it but felt like they had to have some point about it.

ha, just came here to post pretty much exactly what simon did

cross comes across as a cranky asshole in pretty much every interview i've ever heard with him, i think that's just his deal

lol at him and felix arguing about louis farrakhan of all people tho

Felix was also taking some big swings at jokes with Cross there

which one of them was pro farrakhan? i keep trying to guess but i could really see it going either way.

neither, really - felix was dismissive of him as a spent force, cross was adamant that farrakhan was still a dangerous public figure

It was a really dumb argument tbh, assumptions of bad faith on both sides. They just seem to irk each other to some extent

That said, DC's little digs at the podcast were kinda rich considering how he made his bones...telling (bad, mostly) jokes into microphones

(imo Cross is an excellent comedic actor but a mediocre-at-best comic and a generally unpleasant dude)

I only heard DC's first appearance on the show, but I got the sense that he likes to take issue with whatever someone else is saying in order to make himself look the "smart one."

i feel like cross might be kinda butthurt that the chapo folks haven't paid their dues toiling for years in shithole comedy clubs, and he kinda has a point in the sense that they still suck on stage, but podcasting isn't standup so wgaf rly

neither, really - felix was dismissive of him as a spent force, cross was adamant that farrakhan was still a dangerous public figure

fwiw this is really interesting to me more bc of cross + his relationship to jewishness which he has often disavowed but of which i read his concerns about farrakhan as being operative