Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

tOO damn

that is simultaneously terrible and hilarious

i like when Matt rants I think he clearly cares the most, keeps the show from getting too meta

he needs to stop saying "Mr. To Damn [fill in the blank]"

weird Zing error there, plz disregard

"Felix is obviously the most consistently funny one, but most of the absolute sharpest/smartest jokes are Virgil. Felix has the best batting average but Virgil’s hitting the grand slams."

This is my experience of the show. But for me the episodes without Felix are almost unbearable (aside from their readings) at this point because he's the best at pulling the others away from the rant and into the riff. Without him Matt's given just a little too much leeway for his tirades and Virgil feels more onus to fill air time and goes into wonk-mode and forgets to make jokes. Felix is also good enough at extended solo riffing that it gives the others enough time to formulate their top-shelf zings.

Amber's on the new Red Scare, I'll leave it to someone else to give us the highlights

Still baffled that anyone can stand let alone enjoy red scare tbh

the chapo / cum town / red scare universe lost a big one today

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9V9-KloYj/

RIP Ernest

23! a helluva run, rip big man

I'm expecting to hear some screaming over this soon.

Pod Save America host and former Obama Admin flack Dan Pfeiffer was a VP of GoFundMe until 2017, and continues to have significant financial interest in the company, which gets a third of its revenue from medical funding campaigns. https://t.co/lqXH2rWwuG

— Chico DSA 🍞🌹🍺 (@dsachico) February 17, 2019

lol these fuckin guys

Common People

lmao

omg Bernie NO!!!! pic.twitter.com/663WUYC0Xo

— GhostTrace (@owenrumney) February 18, 2019

haha he would know I guess...? ...more than Aaron Sorkin at least?

loved Adomian's Larouche

American politics is totally diseased but we must never forget that British politics, media, discourse, people etc are somehow even dumber and more excruciating pic.twitter.com/sVC4ikO7Mg

— Will🦕Menaker (@willmenaker) February 19, 2019

lmbo

Just a little bit of today's lovely compliments. pic.twitter.com/RNYtlELcaz

— Jack Deakin (@JackEDeakin) February 19, 2019

who is 'Jack Deakin'

some full nobody who has stuck his head above the parapet in UK politics world

I forget who found this, but it sums up every single person in British politics/media pic.twitter.com/yvq5RGT7JJ

— Will🦕Menaker (@willmenaker) February 20, 2019

don't make me explain who all the ppl in that thread are

is who they are important? because it's plenty funny enough knowing they're just a bunch of journalists with no life experience

oh god I'm choking laughing from that

had to look to see if it was real, but I'd forgotten that these people are insane caricatures so of course it is

are those people not taking the piss?

nope

welcome to every day in UK politics journalism

that’s not even tom peck’s best tweet

"how many layers of STEMlord are you on, bro?"
"like five or six"
"you are like a little baby. watch this" pic.twitter.com/ao3Ye1kdFk

— eturtle witness (@wehpudicabok) August 6, 2017

"I've never eaten cereal."
"I've never petted a dog."
"I've never kissed another human being on the mouth."

that’s the least benign ‘benign opinion’ i’ve ever heard

feeling mild embarrassment for not having done something most people have done

versus

proudly having never done anything normal

lolling at the fact theyre at CPAC

it’s funny to see you talking shit when I’m at CPAC meeting Chuck Baldwin. pathetic pic.twitter.com/8Xe37d1IUm

— incredibly weak, demure irl but uses bear jew avi (@ByYourLogic) February 28, 2019

Matt was on fire in the Larry Charles ep

i listened to an episode of the red scare podcast on someone's rec yesterday, and those women are insufferable, aren't they?

a dangerous drinking game would be to take a shot every time they use the term "neoliberal" in a pejorative way (which is the only way they, or probably anyone else, uses it). i don't think there's a definition of that term that could be plausibly stretched to cover every of the ways they invoke it. it basically serves the same function that terms like "bourgeois" once served in marxist-leninist discourse, as a kind of secular substitute for xian demonology or something.

i don't doubt their commitment to bernie or whatever but the main impression i get is of a narcissism of small differences where distinguishing themselves from liberal normies is the driving force.

anyway. back to my podcasts on the history of the subcontinent. "personality" podcasts are, in my experience, uniformly awful.

Got called a “judeo-communist.” #stillgotit

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) February 28, 2019

FetLife Expo ‘19 is lit! pic.twitter.com/fylAtom4dh

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) February 28, 2019

Larry Charles ep better than expected, with the side benefit that they went through so much of the series' subjects that I don't feel the slightest temptation to actually watch any of it

lol @ Large Sons Productions

I admire and relate to the lengths to which they will poison their own brains in service of content

Love to have a normal, regular conversation with the guy who personally protected Jeffrey Epstein’s child rape ring. pic.twitter.com/8Y4cpte0T3

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) February 28, 2019

podcasts on the history of the subcontinent.

Recs?

Amber on the NYT for Columbia Journalism Review

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-the-new-york-times.php/

that lede 👎

What is the Bernie upset described in the phrase "The past presidential election was a shock to nearly everyone whose job it was to predict its outcome, and both the Bernie and Trump upsets prove..." ?

bernie doing fairly well in the campaign and having a lot of support?

"upset" is pulling double duty there

all the Chapos are banned from ever referencing Network again

amber otm re the FT

the amber piece is excellent NYT has been bad for so long

FT is what i draw for when I'm somewhere with a selection of papers - that or the globe and mail - hate the NYT

that Nation travel side hustle thing is sad

substitute every reference to the NYT in that article with the guardian and repost it in the LRB

the guardian at least posts op-eds by actual leftists once in a blue moon