Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

nice, premium ep just went up, their review of Justice League

awww yeahhhh

Oh good, for a minute I was concerned they wouldn’t have Amber on.

lmao @ amber calling him "Hugh Jazzman"

ok the post-tax bill ep is one of their best. palpable rage and a thorough repudiation of the "waaah, dominance politics" crowd.

I laughed at "You were friends with the Lindbergh baby!"

Felix went off in this episode

We don't appear to have a Patreon thread but it appears they done fucked up today.

what, the price increase? or the lack of a new premium episode

Patreon's price increase

yea it's fucked up. got emails yesterday from other people I pledge to giving notice about the price increase and how unfair it is. it doesn't make any sense, these creators were happy to take on the processing fees- why pass them onto the customers?

more money

Yeah, it's a pure cash grab. There are already murmurs from folks wanting to start a not-for-profit alternative.

Even a for profit alternative that used the old patreon system would surely prevail

the Nomiki Konst segment was good, is she the most mainstream personage they've ever had on? It was almost funny to hear them respectfully silence their usual fuck-the-Dems rhetoric for half an hour

yeah, this ep was a nice balance of smart and stupid

i do enjoy virgil and felix’s vaguely rain man dynamic

the Nomiki Konst segment was good, is she the most mainstream personage they've ever had on? It was almost funny to hear them respectfully silence their usual fuck-the-Dems rhetoric for half an hour

― Simon H., Monday, December 11, 2017 8:50 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

More mainstream than Naomi Klein?

I think so. she's been on fox news and stuff.

more mainstream than sebastian gorka?

David Hayter & all the celebrity comedians they've had on are definitely more mainstream than this person

they've had patton oswalt on

I guess I meant in terms of political commentators/personalities. (the Hayter segment was on some other Felix podcast btw)

I had a dream that the Chapo gang roasted me

ohh yeah. yeah that makes sense. still hoping for a Chris Hayes appearance on Chapo, that seems like a possibility (he is a premium subscriber iirc)

I had a dream that the Chapo gang roasted me

is nomiki konst mainstream? the neera tanden minions of the world still act like she & the unity commission are fringe nobodies

yeah i wasn't familiar with her before reading this thread this morning (haven't heard the new ep yet), looked her up, since when is TYT mainstream?

also for the record i have never listened to more than 5 minutes of this stupid show because i already know plenty of obnoxious loud white bearded socialists with podcasts and unlike these superstars i can at least tell my local brocialists apart on the mic

i think they've trolled/said mean things about chris hayes, not sure if that means he's verboten

whiney g traphousen

again I only inferred mainsteamness because on top of TYT she's a CBS correspondent and has also been on Fox. I don't think neera tanden stans are necessarily the best judges of who and who is not on the fringe

I'm actually not sure all the CTH people are even socialists

they tweet at each other though, yeah they've had disagreements on there but Chris is a fan & im p sure they agree with the consensus that Chris is by far the best MSNBC host, at least certainly the most amenable to leftist politics

felix supports the organization of the mojahedin of the islamic revolution of iran iirc xp

do people come onto other podcast threads to vent their disgust at their imagined versions of the hosts or is this a cth specific thing

they probably do. like i could probably make up some imagined pod save america content in my head lol

Unrelated to any of the current #discourse, does anyone know why Brandy Jensen ghosted from Twitter?

happily i don't have to imagine amber's unpleasantness, she spleened at me in person outside a bar because i'd sent a skeptical tweet about her review of The Purge

do people come onto other podcast threads to vent their disgust at their imagined versions of the hosts or is this a cth specific thing

― oiocha, Monday, December 11, 2017 3:17 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's an effect of something becoming very popular very quickly, people do the same thing in music threads/movie threads/etc.

"spleened" is a new one for me

happily i don't have to imagine amber's unpleasantness, she spleened at me in person outside a bar because i'd sent a skeptical tweet about her review of The Purge

seldom has a post more gloriously affirmed my decision to stop having any kind of social life at all after 2005

i don't know what spleened means and i don't know if joan's post is directed at hoos's opinion of unpleasantness or amber's behavior

neither/nor it just reminded me what a nightmare IRL friends are

Spleened meaning "expressed anger at"

I didn't think I'd made this usage up (I swear its a Shakespeare thing or something) but maybe I did

One “vents spleen” or “is full of spleen”, I’m not sure if “spleen” (v. intr.) is attested by Shakespeare.

First OED citation for spleen v intr is from 1885 and the entry says “US”

I have blessed us with a coinage

do people come onto other podcast threads to vent their disgust at their imagined versions of the hosts or is this a cth specific thing

― oiocha, Monday, December 11, 2017 1:17 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one else is this bad

i did know about the use of spleen as a noun just not a verb. i remember reading a weird translation of notes from underground when i was like 17 and stopping after the first sentence. "i am ill. i am full of spleen and repellent." because come on.

BIG HOOS aka the spleendriver

I wanna read Amber's review of The Purge