Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I’m so mortified at just the stills, you could not pay me to watch that

we've already established on the thread that christman is going to be the chapo host to go to rehab

I checked out after one of Matt's first rants - either the initial Senate results coming in & eliminating any chance of the Dems taking it back, or how our electoral system is broken & dysfunctional, and intentionally so, "a bipartisan effort to suppress the vote," so depressing... then I watched a movie and by the time I tuned back in Dasha had replaced Matt lol

Dasha's not as bad as Anna but that's still a depressing dip

well she didn't say anything she just wore matt's hat and drank his rum

that checks out

pic.twitter.com/V14B0RGoZ5

— P😡UL (@paulspyder) November 7, 2018

https://t.co/wcmVYKmCSH

— Gray Wolf Blitzer (@cushbomb) November 7, 2018

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/9uwci9/the_election_night_special_summed_up_in_one_pic/

https://i.redd.it/42pe5ecjauw11.png

With music

i made this purely from a place of love pic.twitter.com/WpSBQRyzD5

— Càdlàg (@Cdlg9) November 7, 2018

Jamie and T were excellent fill-in hosts. Jamie probably should have been handed the mic halfway thru once Matt was plenty gone.

did anyone else see how fucking coked out of his mind Chris the producer was toward the end of the night? jaw going CRAZY!

i'm the professional entertainer who tells 100k disaffected young white guys to kill themselves and everyone around them in a country where disaffected young white guys definitely don't have easy access to doing that, and avail themselves of that access regularly. love to lol.

— random content man (@FredieDeBoerWar) November 7, 2018

https://media.giphy.com/media/lj935f7J3guGc/giphy.gif

wah

I wonder how many digital suicide notes will just feature a gif of Matt losing control of his mental bowels on livestream

is that actually FdB, I thought he died

wait has Frederick B been Freddie de Boer all along????

NP their audience is entirely socialist dudebros, remember? let us shed no tears for their lonely, possibly ironic suicides

I forget I just need to type “large adult son” and it’s a solid 15 min of uninterrupted giggling/nostalgia for our political awakening last year.

please tell us what the good jokes are!!

i'm the professional entertainer who tells 100k disaffected young white guys to kill themselves and everyone around them in a country where disaffected young white guys definitely don't have easy access to doing that, and avail themselves of that access regularly. love to lol.
— random content man (@FredieDeBoerWar) November 7, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 8 November 2018 02:30 (forty-seven minutes ago) Permalink

Lol is that actually Freddie deBoer? Dude has no room to talk shit about anyone for dumbass online behavior

don't believe so

iirc he posted an apology on his blog for the shit he pulled and said he'd been in treatment for some time since, and I'm pretty sure there was no subsequent return to social media

Ah ok.

please tell us what the good jokes are!!

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.)

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wait has Frederick B been Freddie de Boer all along????

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:45 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yo legit I thought this at one point and was extremely confused

Same

@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE @cushbomb @willmenaker @virgiltexas @ByYourLogic Go off, king of kings. #election #Chapo, #GOAT, #HELLWORLD pic.twitter.com/DT61BU0Kbg

— wojtek arciszewski (@wojrants) November 7, 2018

surely someone has ratted them out to twitch by now

tommy vietor from pod save america has added to the dogpile.

pod save america, the podcast whose title makes no sense

also nerdstrom you just quoted a tweet from a bad irony poster

what always impressed me about UBL was his placid demeanor, the warmth in his eyes. truly the expressions of a man who is at peace with himself, and whose balls are thoroughly and regularly drained.

— random content man (@FredieDeBoerWar) September 12, 2018

but since pearl-clutching in a really pathetic way about this dumb podcast is your hobby continue i guess

really enjoying Trillbilly Workers' Party lately

they're really likeable, moreso than the chapo guys tbh

yeah it's an affability vs lols tradeoff, not unlike with Street Fight

for ppl who are into that side of things, the ChapoFYM crew are doing a 24-hour charity stream in support of Trans Lifeline starting in about half an hour

The latest Antifada ep gets pretty hardcore, talking to the guy who went undercover with a lot of alt-right groups and gets into why you need an actual positive political program to accompany any resistive movement

http://fans.fm/listen/4zw

I gotta say, the Dollop episode on John McCain -- which, yes, admittedly focuses on every shitty thing he ever did, at the expense of most other considerations -- not only taught me a few things I hadn't heard about or knew very little detail about, and convinced me of its thesis that he was absolutely a proto-Trump in terms of his fictitious persona and cozy media relationship. (Complete with sketchy Manafort/Russia content!)

i've been saving that one for a special occasion

surprised dave managed to make it to the end of the episode without suffering a fatal rage embolism tbh

I worry about him sometimes tbh

convinced me of its thesis that he was absolutely a proto-Trump in terms of his fictitious persona and cozy media relationship

I think a lot of national stage politicians are closer to Trump in this regard than most people realize, it's just that the personae they create aren't as overtly outlandish

John F Kennedy is a proto-Trump. Teddy Roosevelt is a proto-Trump. Pretty much everyone is a proto-Trump if it's about creating a persona and handling the media well.

yeah, but the overt xenophobia, misogyny and corruption make it a little more apt than the average imo

the only meaningful difference being that those qualities were hidden/cloaked by the persona rather than amplified by them

Which is kinda the thing that makes Trump Trump though.

No argument here

John F Kennedy is a proto-Trump. Teddy Roosevelt is a proto-Trump. Pretty much everyone is a proto-Trump if it's about creating a persona and handling the media well.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 10:04 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well and also extreme narcissism.

Jesse Ventura is the proto Trump, he's not a terrible guy and was an ok no governor but there are so many similarities to the phenomenon having lived through both