Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

She's also right-wing Times editorial columnist Bari Weiss's girlfriend.

I saw that and thought it was a joke, jfc

that is news to me, and wtf

reminds me of when i was an editor for my college newspaper and would ‘interview’ my friends for quotes to stick in the articles

The constant evoking of “anger” and “rage” as somehow disqualifying a position is such a massive tell. It’s like seeing FB contacts I know post in ways to suggest they think being conflict-averse is somehow a political stance

when you're a memeber of the Comfortable Class, it most definitely is. pretty much their only stance.

i think the 'bernie bro' stuff is truer now than it was in 2015/6; the runaway popularity of chapo in the last 3 years has created this enormous long left-tail of unfunny young dudes trying out the mean style in replies but who aren't good at it

The constant evoking of “anger” and “rage” as somehow disqualifying a position is such a massive tell. It’s like seeing FB contacts I know post in ways to suggest they think being conflict-averse is somehow a political stance

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, February 29, 2020 5:04 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

That and her use of the word "Politesse."
No

How are all these serious journalists getting way with essentially writing about their Twitter replies

A digital Cletus Safari

here's some more detail about the author of that NYT article and her rich family

Ok this is funny. @NellieBowles—the author of this scandalized NYT article about the supposedly fake leftists (they make money!) of @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE leading the youngs to a bad, violent revolution—is a member of the oldest oligarch family in California.https://t.co/A0yCxM3IbN

— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 29, 2020

never thought I’d read the phrase “San Francisco’s Debutante Ball”

no matter what you think of chapo it's pretty funny this is like the fourth time the writer of a hit piece on them has turned out to be a literal aristocrat.

How are all these serious journalists getting way with essentially writing about their Twitter replies

glad to see the nitwit branch of American feminism is so well rep'd among "serious journalists"

NYT piece is tot "window into the ALT-LEFT" vibe

morbs go on chapo

Here’s a question for the real headz: name off some of the best eps for converting a Chapo curious PMC (sorry)

We listened to the Matt/Amber/Virgil ep about the UK election on a road trip and she liked that. Then dipped into one of the recent live ones and didn’t catch a lot of the inside riffs. Obv live=not usually the best intro to a pod, particularly one like CtH

I’m a frequent enjoyer of the show, but I can’t say which classic eps would best fit the bill.

I mean, besides the Douthat reading

I played the Dinari scam one for an uninitiated friend and she enjoyed it.

I'd bet the Caleb episodes are pretty evergreen. I think those were the hardest I've ever laughed at this show.

Eyes Wide Shut episode

I'm not going to be able to listen to the show if the Democrats successfully Voltron into mechaBiden to stop Bernie.

I'd bet the Caleb episodes are pretty evergreen. I think those were the hardest I've ever laughed at this show.

― OneSecondBefore, Monday, March 2, 2020 4:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

OTM

its like 2 hours long but the CPAC one is an all timer and the one where they read donna brazile's book is good too.

The Megan McArdle kitchen appliances reading where Will has to own up to wanting all the same shit

Or Ben Shapiro's novel episodes

The Blues Brothers are in town

Oakland gets a treat today: @virgiltexas and @cushbomb driving around in the @DSAEastBay Bernie soundcar pic.twitter.com/QYgCiMHS5T

— Meagan Day (@meaganmday) March 2, 2020

The people demand more @cushbomb and @virgiltexas Bernie soundcar content and I am a humble servant of the people

Come to the @DSAEastBay office at 3832 Market St in Oakland for a rally with these guys and a canvass at 6pm tonight pic.twitter.com/tlnBQxGJY8

— Meagan Day (@meaganmday) March 3, 2020

holy shit that truck

I just realized it’s more Nashville than Blues Brothers

Oh I am my own damn god.

— C. Everett Cope (@cushbomb) March 3, 2020

Somebody must have gotten some DMT from Joe Rogan on the SoCal swing

TrueAnon Liz is pretty funny, maybe I should set aside my aversion to Brace.

You have to respect a hit this clean and swift

BREAKING: Bam Margera, former star of MTV's "Jackass," issued his response to writer Amanda Marcotte's comments in a @nytimes' article on @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE where she stated that she "pretended" to enjoy his program in her youth. https://t.co/XOJajTwaBg pic.twitter.com/RoOuhPPOaz

— Kenzo Shibata (@KenzoShibata) March 5, 2020

props to bam

goat

I think the closest thing we have to a consensus among the most good faith interlocutors in this thread is that Bernie needs to Sister Souljah Chapo. That would be insanely lucrative for them and mainly meaningless to normal people.

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 6, 2020

this would rule

"Chapo? More like crap-po. We're done!"

Felix and Virgil could buy Juul Inc

Will tweets are extremely cringey

will sucks

the way he says "rather" like rah-ther, he's a rich kid

i like em ok though

Will's simultaneously the most moderate politically and the most radical edgelord (since Felix got more earnest) but he can be a pretty decent host at keeping the show moving.

i don’t listen to the pod but i only like felix tweets

since we post Pareene tweets in this thread we should mention he has a new podcast "The Politics of Everything"

Will is definitely the dumbest chapo.

damn my rich kid radar is impeccable


Daniel Menaker is a fiction writer and editor.[1] He is currently working with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and as a consultant for Barnes & Noble Bookstores. He is the father of Will Menaker, one of the hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House.[2] His father was alleged Soviet intelligence agent Robert Menaker.[3]

CareerEdit

Daniel Menaker was a fiction editor at The New Yorker for twenty years and had material published in the magazine frequently. In 1995 he was hired by Random House as Senior Literary Editor and later became Executive Editor-in-Chief, working with such writers as Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann, Elizabeth Strout, and Nassim Taleb. After leaving Random House in 2007, he became the host for a web-based book show called "Titlepage"[4] in 2008.

OH MY FUCKING GOD FELIX IS A TOMMY

this is like the end of usual suspects

Following high school, he worked in the gym at the University of Chicago (located in his hometown of Hyde Park), and eventually attended and graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.  

xpost Thus their obsession with failsons

Will, for all his faults, has been pretty upfront about his background.

Matt feels real middle/working class Midwestern

I honestly cannot convey what a dickbag douche frat rich jock private school St. Thomas is.... the idea of a "Tommy" is total shorthand for a certain type of dude here