Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

did they want to be less serious than chapo and were like uhh our side of the apartment is cum town and such is our podcast

Sure why not

"that's the left, this is dirtbag"

the cat poop meltdown was pretty...

― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, January 9, 2017 4:07 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is def weird that they're going to make around 400 grand a year of almost pure profit from this show and still don't rent a recording studio or anything.

if you can make that much without a studio are you really going to make that much more with, and if so, won't someone be renting it for you

yeah they don't necessarily need a studio to sound better or avoid a cat fucking up half their mics. just more experience like four SM7's or something. pocket that shit

I prefer my podcasts to get by on a shoestring budget no matter how much the donors are kicking in, like the Trump campaign

I DMed Brendan about it, who said he's recording the show straight into his laptop, which explains that. I wish people would stop relying on computers to record this stuff, the failure rate never helps.

I suggested using a separate digital recorder, like a Zoom H4N or an R16 so he can record channel-specific sound files for up to 8 mics

Listened to the ep and yeah it was pretty annoying. I don't need them to go to a studio, I enjoy the home-recorded vibe, I just want to be able to hear everyone and not have half-interviews lost.

At the amount they're grossing it's absurd.

tbh they should be paying someone for that advice

True, but they're not professional broadcasters, and I'm guessing none of them did college radio to learn the (sorta?) basics

i actually enjoyed the cat shit episode ok because of the true allegiance reading

altho since i think of virgil and felix as "the funny ones" the first half was not optimum

they are going to have a field day with this latest bit of business

Seems like the Keepin it 1600 guys have set up the anti-dirty left media group with accompanying podcast away from Simmons.

lol

@cushbomb
2023: Heartwarming President Cory Booker personally hugs every citizen before they are fed into the protein processors.

I like their annotations on this risible op-ed
http://genius.it/11154026/www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/221558/time-to-fight-for-your-party

love the show but gotta say these dudes and their cadre on twitter seem just a leeetle too sure that a lot of those trump voters aren't really racist and would have so totally voted for Bern. and shit, man, thats just wrong.

i think they mean the Trump voters in the Rust Belt

yeah no racists in Indiana amirite

obv referring to WI, MI, PA. Indiana was never in play for Clinton.

There's a very good possibility Dollars Horton isn't aware that the GOP voted to end the C.H.I.P program but he's VERY upset with Booker for voting against Bernie's amendment.

love the show but gotta say these dudes and their cadre on twitter seem just a leeetle too sure that a lot of those trump voters aren't really racist and would have so totally voted for Bern. and shit, man, thats just wrong.

― will, Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:23 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the same rust belt voters who voted for Obama would be in play for Bernie. He polled well with them.

Here we go again

Actually ilx user man alive and, eventually, k3vin, you're both wrong and will is correct

I think they, rightfully, recognize a difference in the 40%+ who will vote Republican no matter what and the seemingly large percentage who swung at the last moment with Comey's letter-slash-were looking for an excuse to not vote Hillary.

I pretty much agree with all of that. HRC carried a lot of baggage. I mean that was a big reason why a lot of us opposed her in 08. I feel like it's impossible not to subscribe to Bernie Might Have Won, I can't imagine why anyone would definitely dismiss that.. "Would Have" I've seen embraced by Bernie or Busters who I had to watch repeat right wing talking points..

*definitively

Of course Bernie "might" have one, Hillary might have won too given different butterfly wing patterns, the only ones being overconfident are those acting like Bernie definitely would have

We never got to see the oppo against him enacted but trump was a better politician than either of them

*won

That kind of reminds me how hypothetical candidates always poll better and you never know what narrative will take shape when the actual campaign happens so it's kind of annoying when they cite polls as proof that Bernie's victory was some kind of certainty. That's a definite "baby's first election" kind of thing though that tendency is in no way exclusive to the young.. But this was an election where conventional thinking was proven incorrect and conventional thinking certainly formed the basis of a lot of Dems choice of Hillary over Bernie.

For the Chapo crew (and similar people like Katie Halper), the "Bernie would have won" thing sounds less like continuing the primary and more like a rallying cry around having the Democrats actually act like a progressive party.

They didn't want Bernie to get the nom for Bernie's sake, they're leftists who want to see the Democrats move left. For better or worse that rallying point right now is Bernie.

it's one thing to suppose all of trump's rust-belt voters were too committed to racism to vote anyone but trump and another to suppose all of hillary's no-shows were too committed to no-showing to show for anyone at all.

There's also that small matter of getting the almost half of the country that doesn't vote involved

That kind of reminds me how hypothetical candidates always poll better and you never know what narrative will take shape when the actual campaign happens so it's kind of annoying when they cite polls as proof that Bernie's victory was some kind of certainty.

also worth bearing in mind that polling was essentially totally fucking useless in this election cycle

eh, for every rust belter voter Bernie would have put "in play" with there would probably have been a Virginia voter worried about their taxes going up

I never intend "Bernie Would Have Won" to be a literal certainty. For me it's a shorthand for "Donald Trump was beatable and you need to rethink your conventional wisdom about electability and centrism."

National polls showing that Bernie was more popular than Trump or Clinton certainly do not guarantee he would have won. However, national polls about Clinton's unpopularity proved accurate.

Her popularity rating only became negative in 2015. At one point she was the most popular politician in the US. So as volatile as they were, their accuracy was hard to know about.

It's not that I'm sure Bernie would have won, but the reasons given for why he "definitely wouldn't" are stupid. "He's a Jewish socialist." So what? Barack Obama is a black man with a muslim father who spent part of his childhood in indonesia and whose middle name is Hussein. "They have opposition research on him." Same is true of every candidate. "He's too far left." Things don't always break down along clear political lines. People respond well to the gut feeling that someone cares about them and that they can trust them. "Bernie Would Have Won" = abandon your truisms about presidential elections, the ones that helped you lose this election.

That post Ian painfully stupid. Barack Obama is the best politician of his generation. Bernie sanders is wish fulfillment candidate for people harboring a fantasy that most of the country is secretely super left wing & we just need to type in the right cheat code

*is painfully stupid

Bernie Sanders is not super left wing, as right-center politician Barack Obama said a couple weeks ago

Like, I agree the Democratic Party should push to the left. I don't agree that pushing to the left will inherently win us elections. It's the right thing to do; it is not intrinsically the way to win

Putin has video of Bernie in a hotel getting up to pee 20 times in one night

lol

Like, I agree the Democratic Party should push to the left. I don't agree that pushing to the left will inherently win us elections. It's the right thing to do; it is not intrinsically the way to win

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, January 13, 2017 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course it won't "inherently" win elections, but neither will continuing to pick "compromise" candidates that very few people actually feel any enthusiasm for!

no thread is safe from this crap apparently

main problem w Clinton was perception that she was corrupt, not that she was too centrist #BidenWouldHaveWon

this thread is one of the circles of hell