Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Fuck him and also never trust a man who has done or even tried to do standup.

massive fuck you to everyone who so confidently asserted that the “allegations against” taibbi had been “debunked”. this is how you reproduce rape culture

Bringing on Matt Taibbi for an episode of your show with Virgil Texas is maybe not the best timing right now. https://t.co/JSSQxLZLPu

— Syndicalist Weedle Collective (@Weedledouble) June 10, 2021

Virgil has an accuser at least

how come i knew about this over a year before she came forward? honestly i don’t remember where i heard it but it has been out there for some time. why does it need to come to this every fucking time?

There was a list of online creeps years ago and VT was on it

now chapo stans and the crypto fascists in their orbit have been harassing her on social media to no one’s surprise. this could have been avoided

The fact that she was scared of being accused of being a pro-Trumper and that it delayed her coming forward is unbelievable, and a major illustration of the toxicity of that milieux. I hope she finds peace.

well yes. but there’s also the president and his fans

thank go’s she has the two of you to

how come i knew about this over a year before she came forward? honestly i don’t remember where i heard it but it has been out there for some time. why does it need to come to this every fucking time?

case*

anyway, fuck groomer creeps including “Virgil Texas”.

but thank christ you two unbearable clowns are here to victory dance

whoosh

the point is not that i am some kind of sleuth but that it was already more or less common knowledge. and yet

why do the people directly affected keep having to put themselves in the firing line like this so that if they’re lucky a few more people might now take seriously what is already widely known?

Because Hulk took down Gawker

there's nothing special going on here AFAICT in terms of toxicity, patriarchal abuses of power, and online stan culture, except that it stands out more when it appears to be in conflict with stated politics

trying to decide if BJG will cut him loose or double down, suspect the latter

(I mean that show will remain unlistenable regardless)

Left podcast world seems to have gone silent on this

but thank christ you two unbearable clowns are here to victory dance

― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Thursday, June 10, 2021 5:41 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what are you talking about ?

Expressing sadness that women are coerced into shutting up about sexual abuse because of toxic twitter culture is a victory dance? This is a weird thing to say.

Orb fail

A deeply moving podcast that leaves you with a million things to think about. @bariweiss https://t.co/qIPcXmyJON

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) June 10, 2021

who needs her anymore

My homies put me on @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE

— LOLA (@GangstaBooQOM) June 10, 2021

on 530 when they were riffing on Naomi Wolf, Matt brought up one of my fav weird little things of the 90s - when everyone who grew up in Wisconsin called cash machines "time machines"

I heard you paint dog houses.

has Red Scare gotten any blowback for being total anti-Palestine idiots on pod in the past now that the issue's blown up in the discourse again or nah?

I just sort of assumed most ppl who know they're dummies stopped listening ages ago

yeah I guess, just seeing their star in the ascendant and while I'm not usually out for blood on these things in this particular case a cancellation would be in order

they can't be "cancelled" because they have a loyal simp audience and they're making the content they wish to hear, and any external criticism is just that, external. it would be like "cancelling" cum town - what's the point?

As I said, my impression is that they're getting more shine outside of that audience.

Hopefully dasha's acting career ends up nuking the pod before that can really happen, but personally my feeling is the audience/popularity/influence ceiling for the show is genuinely not that high

(Like, obviously they're doing very, very well for a podcast, but I don't see even CTH-level "ubiquity" in their future.)

It won't happen anytime soon, but I'm guessing they could be among the first to eventually hang it up and focus on their life-consuming non-podcast things -- something I don't notice as much on the other shows I've heard. It sounds like the show serves themselves more than anyone else, which is what their listeners want. Probably not the best way to expand an audience, but definitely a good way to maintain a following.

Matt and Chris have a new one on Stitcher Premium about Presidents. It’s bound to be better than the Felix show but the Stitcher app is so bad.

Eager to finally hear Blowback: Cuba.

I dig the episodes that are the mix of history, sociology, culture, politics mixed together.

on a tangentially-chapo related note: Sam Seder's ambush of Crowder was hilarious

Mostly because Seder appears for 2 seconds and Crowder starts sputtering and trying to fill every available space with words so Seder can't talk

Crowder has also banned the terms Sam Seder and majority report from his reddit, lol

holy shit lol

daily wire whining on Twitter about bad faith “debate me bro”s is reaching heights of hypocrisy that I did not think were possible

It was weird when Crowder threw out a list of people who refuse to debate Seder: Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, Noam Chomsky (wait, what?)

He was thinking of Nim Chimpsky, I think.

just for the record I am also refusing to debate Seder, whoever that is.

Only a million Youtube subscribers. You have to have at least 6 million before I know your name.

The famed @cushbomb has recently signed with us for a book tentatively titled "Behold a Fail Horse." The attached image is NOT the cover. pic.twitter.com/l1x23Q9FCJ

— Zer0 Books (@Zer0Books) June 30, 2021

christ man

So virgil texas never addressed the accusations, even privately to briahna joy gray. Seems bad. The pod is better with just her anyway though.

i was wondering about that the other day, it's weirdly hard to find information about it

It seems like there was something there, otherwise he would have denied it. But that is still speculative I guess.

This is the only thing I've seen:

Late night status update on @BadFaithPod pic.twitter.com/nRKNEBN04z

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 28, 2021

is there a name for the kind of writing you always get in these situations, this bland tone which i assume is supposed to be read as fair and empathetic without taking sides, it's everywhere these days