Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Mic Dicta can’t release episodes fast enough these days

yeah, I think I probably didn't explain myself very well. I like political humor quite a bit. But the Chapo folk are repellent and repetitive.

probably boredom/excessive free time

also the only reason i ever listen to podcasts

Lmao any criticism of the show and it's like WHY ARE YOU LISTENING TO IT? NO ONE'S PUTTING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD

the makeup of their audience and how people listen to the show and what it actually is/whatever it started as is hilarious and really interesting imo

@ ups -

I don't even know why (because it was business as usual) but I found their segment on Syria pretty repellent. I think I'm out on these jr. high dipshits.

― President Keyes, Monday, April 16, 2018 10:20 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a typically lazy & supercilious response to the show. if it was business as usual why did you keep listening

The litmus test on listening IMO is how down you are with their attitude toward US foreign policy (non-interventionist), you have to be down with the idea that we're largely a force of evil in the world or else laughing at liberal/centrists on FP is going to be unlistenable.

If 'all postwar Presidents are war criminals' gets your dander up, not the show for you.

liking the...fifteen minutes of mic dicta I've listened thus far

After getting a barrage for several hours for commentary:

Mr. Star, do you admit participating in a legal podcast that you enjoy doing?
- Yes, your honor.
Then I have no choice but to sentence you to do that podcast all the time for the rest of your life. You may only discuss Michael Cohen.
- This is fair. I expected nothing less.

— Charles, Star of Mic Dicta (@Ugarles) April 16, 2018

I should listen to that. I already follow most of 'em.

mic dicta is really good so far. i'm getting kind of sick of chapo. that's my update.

it's not really 'political' but i've been really impressed with 'the relentless picnic' so far too

(for any of you who may have run into the 'george lazenby' tumblr way back when, he's one of those guys)

thought the recent one was pretty decent. i totally understand how hearing an flat anti-war stance would drive people insane cos i used to flaunt that stance on ilx and got tons of shit for it. anti-war is just not popular stance (so props to people like this for trying to fix that).

sadlol

i totally understand how hearing an flat anti-racist stance would drive people insane cos i used to flaunt that stance on ilx and got tons of shit for it. anti-racism is just not popular stance (so props to people like this for trying to fix that).

Yeah you're mowing down those ilxor racists Fred

the latest Citations Needed features an interview with "a former MSNBC employee" whose voice has been anonymized.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc

ooh la la!

I'm down with citations needed but not enough to pay for it I am a monster

Also, the latest episode of Intercepted is actually a three-part radio drama by Wallace Shawn(!)

Yo, everyone listen to the latest episode of The Dig with Renee Paradis and Michael Kinnucan on DSA electoral strategy, two people who are smart as shit and I think are going to be playing an increasing role in shaping left politics. Also follow Michael on Facebook because he makes the best posts.

If it's more along the lines of the "electoral strategy, not electoralism" ethos laid out by one of the national slate platforms a while back then I'm all for it

I'm not sure what "electoralism" means, but that sounds right

thinking that elections are the entire ballgame, basically

Virgil & Matt were on Talking Simpsons, talking about ep where Bart plays Dennis the Menace to GHW Bush

http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/2018/04/17/talking-simpsons-two-bad-neighbors-with-virgil-texas-and-matt-christman/

Also,

"welcome to Talking Simpsons, the haunted podcast that kills old people"

— Wow, Bob Mackey! (@bobservo) April 15, 2018

new Red Scare: https://soundcloud.com/red-scare-727066439/zuck-my-dick

They’re extra salty on this one

the latest Citations Needed features an interview with "a former MSNBC employee" whose voice has been anonymized.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc

― Simon H., Wednesday, April 18, 2018 2:14 PM

this was good, and it's ridiculous how Chris Hayes is the network's only saving grace

yeah even as someone who watches basically no american news television it was an engaging listen. I did think it was funny how they opened with something like "it's not enough to say it's limited and bad because it's corporate media" but....ultimately that's more or less what it boils down to even if the specifics are a little knottier

I haven't listened to the pod but it is disheartening how thoroughly MSNBC has taken to heart this "Fox News of the left" mentality to the point that they've just waded neck-deep in conspiracy-mongering, which is what seems to fuel a huge amount of Fox's programming. and maybe some of these conspiracies are true, I'm not suggesting they're off in the equivalent of Uranium One-Land or anything. Obviously this is driven at least by the perception of what's going to get ratings, and I know the average cable news viewer across the political spectrum is pretty fucking old. Is it just that old people are particularly susceptible to conspiracies? Or, I guess, more pointedly, is this just the pathology of Boomers?

Actutally, most of the reporting is solid – MSNBC's producers are at pains to invite the NYT, Huff Post, WaPost, et. al. reporters to discuss their stories. The problem is the depths to which the Russia coverage consumes them. It makes you realize they have no news division: it's green rooms where Adam Schiff, Bill Kristol, and Josh Earnest hang out showing each pics of their kids.

I’ve heard the line that “Russia is the liberal Pizzagate” which seems to fit a lot of the hysteria

It was Comey who, in striving to look balanced and nonpartisan, threw a heavy, wet diaper into the middle of the 2016 election. And it is good, polite men like Comey—men who believe even the most ghoulish of our public servants deserve to be cosseted in the warm embrace of Washington chumminess—who have helped foster the kind of hapless, resistance-free environment that has allowed mass corruption to flourish. Telling Comey to eat a pile of shit is the subject of this week’s DEADCAST.

https://deadspin.com/i-m-getting-pretty-fed-the-fuck-up-with-james-comey-1825381922

As if they knew their Syria segment was weak tea, The War Nerd joins them on the new premium ep

xp One thing I will say about Trump is that he's pretty good at identifying and nailing people's weaknesses, and I absolutely do get the sense that there is something self-serving about Comey, like the whole way he handled the Clinton stuff seemed much more concerned with appearances than with propriety.

Comey is a whore. Look no further than media blitz. 60 Minutes or Dateline or whatever is one thing, speaking at Barnes & Nobles' and going on talk shows and doing a full press tour is so gross.

speaking at Barnes & Nobles

i mean i'm not defending comey here but he put out a book iirc?

a podcast hosted by drew magary sounds like my living nightmare anyway tbh

ftr I have yet to actually listen

i mean me too

he's a highly entertaining writer but no, he's not good at podcasting. which is actually somewhat endearing because I have a feeling I would be really bad at it in exactly the same kind of halting, dorky way he is.

the Deadcast is still actually pretty solid though because David Roth is very good at podcasting. replacing Tim Marchman (who was miles worse than Magary) with Roth was a gamechanger.

yeah I like Roth a lot

david's a great writer

Charles Mic Dicta on the new Patreon ep of This Week in Atrocity

I did end up listening to Mic Dicta - I would probably love it if I were American but it's just a *little* too much about local legal minutiae for me not to tune out after a while.

/ speaking at Barnes & Nobles/

i mean i'm not defending comey here but he put out a book iirc?

I once saw Juliette Binoche in a B&N.

Correction: Charles _to_ be on a future ep of TWiA, as tomorrow they’re watching a Hallmark movie involving the legal system

I've been enjoying these one-off candidate interviews

BONUS: Virgil’s interview with Dan Canon, civil rights lawyer and candidate for the U.S. House @dancanon 🌽🌽🌽 https://t.co/vQGYA1fbH5

— Chapo Trap House (@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE) April 24, 2018