Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I mean really there are very, very few journalists/pundits/whatever there are in his league. the Amy Goodman of our generation is OTM budo. Such a fucking loss for the world and fuck, I'm a big fan of his show and whenever he's on MR! This really fucking blows, and his absence will be felt for a long time, the void he leaves is just gigantic.

and I mean fuck, what was he, 34? he was just coming into his own. Horrible, horrible, horrible, in every way.

yeah this really fuckin sucks. that is just brutally young.

he was 37, sorry

Totally fuckin I don't know what. I despair for the fucking American media honestly

Echoing what everyone else says above, was watching him just yesterday. One of the voices that became a reliable presence over time, and was really just beginning to come into his own

nice lil tribute at the top of tonight's chapo

Majority Report tribute show on right now. Very emotional.

Brooks’ sister said he died of a blood clot in his throat

oh god

Here’s the memorial show: https://youtu.be/MP4FCxWnxSw

MR is back today but I honestly don't know when/if I will be able to listen again. Heartbreaking

I think there's going to be a tribute episode of The Michael Brooks Show tomorrow. They are apparently going to keep going with that show, though I don't know in what form.

Sam & Griscom mentioned how most of the branding was already TMBS, I guess they'll just do the KFC thing

god the show is so much more listenable when a) they just shit talk random current events in relatively rapid fire and b) amber is busy writing her bad new book

yeah if they were just a lefter version of Stern commenting on the news i'd be fine with it

yup. it's a good thing to have and they're at least half bad at the other things

really the Street Fight guys should do it but they never really polish their act

The longform reading series episodes are their peak but they never even finished Ben Shapiro's novel IIRC

the most recent premium true anon, going big picture on COVID and how comprehensively fucked the USA is, is really strong stuff. I'm guessing it'll get unlocked.

oh nvm it's a free ep!

there's a section starting 60 mins in that justifies the entire project's existence

The longform reading series episodes are their peak but they never even finished Ben Shapiro's novel IIRC

The folks on Behind the Bastards will do this from time to time, with Robert berating Ben for clearly having no idea about the military stuff he gets into hyper detail on, and Cody & Katie laughing at how tortured Ben’s prose is.

Switched my free monthly Twitch sub thing to TrueAnon to support Yung Chomsky

he is a real asset

Thought Brace was the asset

:)

I like her twitter and TrueAnon, but what does she do for a living? Where did she come from? I feel like she started showing up in my feed a couple years ago out of nowhere. Did she used to have a regular writing gig? Does she work in finance or something? Who is this woman? I like her voice.

idk, she wrote for some places at some point. you could probably find out quite a bit if you were inclined to go digging which I am not

she's cia

(that was a copypasta I saw pulled from the RedScare subreddit)

Listening to the Ben Shapiro Behind the Bastards episodes. It's weird to hear a podcast do ad reads now.

The TrueAnon Spider Network episodes (last two premium ones) are absolutely WILD.

Upped my Street Fight Patreon level to listen to their new doom metal miniseries.

It's starting to feel like a surprise when I get a notification of a new Chapo episode.

Liz is deliberately secretive about what she does but has said in the past that she has a regular job and it's not in finance.

we euros do not understand modern bread

I agree that her voice rules, and the show would be unlistenable without her. I also like when she flexes her financial knowhow as that's a weakness of many/most lefty pods

huh why did my post about bread appear here? I didn't click on this thread, am not a reader of it, was meant for the rolling food adventures one, which I have bookmarked, but not this thread, which now shows up as having been bookmarked. weird.

That was pleasantly baffling, I thought you meant bread as in mucho dinero and that it was a super vague reference to this Liz person's supposed finance background.

DHS is gathering intelligence on activists in an attempt to tie them to foreign militant groups, per intel report leaked to me.

One target was Brace Belden, co-host of the popular left-wing podcast @TrueAnonPod:https://t.co/Lh67aOVKx7 pic.twitter.com/NeMOyJDIRu

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 3, 2020

a very clever ruse to conceal his op status, well played

the chapo subreddit has been essentially cloned/rebuilt sans Reddit, a move I assume lots of people are making

https://www.chapo.chat/

shoulda been chatpo

chatpo trapt house

Incredible that they separated it from reddit but kept all of the worst (functional) parts of reddit - upvotes, limited time window of relevance, etc.

Kids these days don't even understand a proper forum

Last Spider Network TrueAnon ep got pretty deep into the magick weeds

someone made a large list of "bad people on the left" and then deleted it from twitter, but i just want to note it's an honor to be on here with many of you. pic.twitter.com/P7uC74MUx9

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) August 7, 2020

idk where the compiler is coming from but almost everyone I recognise on there is indeed pretty bad

truly an honour to be included with such luminaries as Vanessa Beeley, Cenk Uygur and Sam Kriss

Sure, but what's wrong with Emma Vigland, Nina Turner, Alex Pareene, Nomiki Konst etc?

or indeed hannah gais