Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

They interviewed the trad cath guy who wrote the anti-Chapo article and yeah it was bad

And heeeeere it is:

https://youtu.be/jvN464imtMQ

It’s hilarious how you can pinpoint the precise instant Matt loses it.

Also, Amber(who was not a full co-host at that point yet they were recording in her apartment) was threatening Will with complete de-friending if he didn’t let her on to confront the guy.

Its the second time they had a conservative/Libertarian on. The previous was Robby Soave from Reason, I think, who seemed to fold when confronted with the implications of his beliefs.

Episode 17, I think.

The David Cross episode wasn't that bad - Felix was as much of an asshole as he was.

seriously so many fuckin people in this world think the predator is the best ice cube album smdh

yeah, it's clearly 2001's greatest hits

jfc that cum town clip

yeah it's v bad

his jbp impression is extremely funny tho hehehehe

apparently that was a patreon episode so people paid cash money to hear that, v cool

felix's JP is much funnier than Mullin's imo

apparently that was a patreon episode so people paid cash money to hear that, v cool

i'm sure if you contact the cum boys on twitter they'll happily let you venmo them some cash

i can take or leave a lot of cumtown and i certainly wouldn't pay for it, but imo everyone should be dunking on peterson and his saddo acolytes all day every day.

yea but that’s easy. it’s like making fun of libertarians

xp i did see their live show last month at Carolines, that counts

oh lol i totally paid for funny moms the last time i was in nyc and it was totally worth it

Check it out, Eric Garland UK has logged on:

In which @ggreenwald, @willmenaker, @MaxBlumenthal, @Trillburne, @RaniaKhalek, and yours truly are exposed as major players in the Russian troll conspiracy https://t.co/NMkPQOEXcQ pic.twitter.com/TOPBwsA5xz

— Carlgoyle Beijer (@CarlBeijer) March 9, 2018

https://www.byline.com/column/67/article/2078

A series of posts and and reports started to grow to a crescendo from the end of February 2018

Oh no

I debated Matt about video games again on cable news https://t.co/AdptOMvnmS So far I’m two for two... a remarkable winning streak in defense of game’s

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) March 10, 2018

Virgil dressed like this, and Matt wore a terrible shirt, both very on-message

pic.twitter.com/ZxSX6DBjx7

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) March 10, 2018

Definitely not reading the Eric Garland article or whatever that is but kind of burying the lede there that most of those people listed are gross Assad apologists.

“Check it out, Eric Garland UK has logged on:

In which @ggreenwald, @willmenaker, @MaxBlumenthal, @Trillburne, @RaniaKhalek, and yours truly are exposed as major players in the Russian troll conspiracy https://t.co/NMkPQOEXcQ pic.twitter.com/TOPBwsA5xz
— Carlgoyle Beijer (@CarlBeijer) March 9, 2018
https://www.byline.com/column/67/article/2078”

xp OMG

just that first picture of the three of them... incredible

pic.twitter.com/MJrmuRAkYE

— mr grace mugabe (@mattvbrady) March 10, 2018

lmfao!!! im losing it

Jason Schwartzman, age 11

oh shit that's the same israel cable channel that adam went on lmfao

Great debate. now I need to listen to the actual debate

scoring that bout for will actually, sorry virgil

though wd think ppl's retreat into the anti social world of video games is a symptom not a cause

gonna need some evidence that Khalek is an actual Assad apologist tbh

Loved Matt finally admitting that Felix is annoying as shit when he picks some youtube video or meme or site and beats it to death as a reference point (the god's plan video).

wasn't expecting a deep-dive on dune lore but i can't day it was unwelcome (although will's flagrant mispronounciation of denis villeneuve's name was pretty aggravating - it sometimes seems like these guys didn't utter a word their entire lives until they started podcasting)

they didn’t

(god's plan)

Certain words Will’s cursed to mispronounce forever due to the pitiable circumstances of his Manhattanite upbringing, like “rather”

i enjoyed the family history with will's dad

i've gone down the rabbit hole of tankie paranoia about these guys and honestly it's really entertaining and kind of thought provoking!

i mean, the iowa writers project was CIA funded. it's a weird world.

i think the secret to the age of podcast oversaturation is pick out eps based on the guests. there's only a couple i listen to fully sequentially.

i mean, the iowa writers project was CIA funded.

As was Foucault's gang iirc

TOR and Signal are DARPA projects. it's feds all the way down.

the idea of government black-ops cash supporting virgil's overwatch habit and keeping matt supplied with pairs of crocs is so awesome i kinda hope it's true tbh

useful idiot felix biederman reporting for duty, sir!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VsCEs7C3BGY/maxresdefault.jpg

said rabbit hole:

since it involves the family of one of the Chapo guys and I used family memoirs as a primary source.

— Crypto Cuttlefish (@cuttlefish_btc) July 27, 2017

favourite detail from that, about the fbi agent tom mcdade that will's dad talked about during his episode:

Eventually he hires a young Daniel Menaker as a corporate spy to infiltrate a food conglomerate and steal an instant soup recipe for General Mills, as related in Daniel Menakers autobiographical short story "I Spy."

brb gonna write from soup to nuts: the chapo trap house story and rush it out as a self-published ebook spoiler before their book hits the shelves

another weird rabbit hole was when all the tankies that thought pisspiggrandad was acting as an imperialist cia plant when he went to rojava to help the ypg

well there have been NATO airstrikes in support of the YPG, right? they do have a bizarre place as US client

like most conspiracy theorists they seem to assume a lot more competence than there is, ever

or that some aimless bay area dipshit wouldn't run off to do something romantic and communist, like that's just too weird to believe

Any force other than the Syrian government are imperialist lackeys in the eyes of the tankies. So YPG may as well bel Al-Nusra or ISIS

if someone could do a quick explainer on my the tankies are pro-assad, that would be great, it's totally confusing to me

what I've seen has not been pro-assad so much as countering the narrative that the US has not been involved and needs to do more

a lot of tankies are reflexively ant-NATO/the west when it comes to foreign policy. so for instance they will defend or minimize serbian war crimes during the yugoslavian civil war because serbia was backed by russia and bombed by NATO.

in Syria were the opposition forces have been western funded jihadists http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?mtrref=www.google.ca&gwh=F89CC97711B83E8283EE22C80058A4E3&gwt=pay, western funded YPG https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180130-what-is-behind-the-us-support-of-the-ypg/ and the regime is backed by russia, and iran, for a lot of tankies this is basically a manichaean good vs bad, imperialism vs anti-imperialism sort of situation. as obtuse as that may sound

of course tankies literally think that stalinism was good and that the dprk has a good system of government