Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I'm planning to do a Twin Peaks thing with a friend of mine who has written for Film Comment, MORE I CANNOT SAY

Are you going to edit it yourself? Editing for me is the hardest part due to how much I detest my voice and speaking habits.

Also because all the shows I recorded were like 2 hours and change, and cutting that down to something decent and inserting relevant audio takes me something like 8-10 hours an episode.

Yeah I'm gonna have to do all the work, cause my partner is way too busy with school etc to put in any extra time. I try to keep a pretty strict 60 min time limit for this reason.

This ain't going away anytime soon, but as you have plenty of people still slinging " Berniebro" as it were a valid descriptor or insult, I would posit not being people who voted for Sanders in the primaries being the cause.
THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:55 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never called anyone a Bernie Bro (I'm aware that's hurtful)but we can acknowledge both sides perpetuate this. Seems unreasonable not to. I mean just recently I had to see so many people seemingly way more outraged with Booker for voting against Bernie's amendment (despite voting for a similar one w tougher measures the same night) then they were about the GOP taking people' healthcare away, removing protection for pre-existing conditions, disassembling the C.H.I.P program etc the same night. Not to say there aren't unreasonably anti-Bernie Dems making extreme claims right now too.

It seems like every time I object to anything a democrat does, someone jumps in with "Why do you care more about that than x bad thing GOP is doing?" Who says I care "more" about it? I still care about it. No way I'm getting on board with a democrats-are-off-limits policy no matter who's in office. Also, can't help but think the response would be different if it were Joe Manchin instead of Cory Booker. Booker is both targeted and defended because he's seen as a contender for 2020. Some of us don't really think he's an ideal choice. Some people who do seem to think the strategy should be exactly what it was in 2016 -- shoot down anyone who disagrees because they're fucking up the plan.

I mean there's already starting to be this familiar attitude around Booker of "I, professional urban person who inherently knows 'electability' better than anyone else, have already determined that this is our guy for four years from now, so you'd better not tarnish him."

the gop taking people's healthcare away is a given. that's what the gop is for. democratic voters being outraged at the gop doesn't make them stop taking people's healthcare away. being outraged (not on twitter tho) at the clinton/booker wing of the dems for its constitutional inability to effectively oppose fascism has some glimmer of a chance of making them more effective.

despite voting for a similar one w tougher measures the same night

I spotted what must have been an attempted debunking of this but no way I'm digging through the twitter archives to find it

i agree w man alive that Dem party need to 'stress test' their candidates more. but there will be a lot riding on who the Bernie contingent will be willing to endorse or vote for in 2020, and who they will see as beyond the pale. after the last primary everyone's hoping for a good unifying candidate. so far the tone of anti-Booker stuff i've seen from left has suggested he won't be that

I'm not particularly a fan of Booker or think he's a great candid choice either but (maybe I was the only one who saw this idk) certain people seemingly way more mad about that particular vote then the stripping of health care. That seems like taking primary grievance pretty far.

A lot of it seems like a reflex. This for example. The idea that HRC would have nominated someone just as bad as DeVos, like this is even a fair comparison.. Are Dems critical of Trump going to be consistently undercut by the left? https://twitter.com/baltimorematt/status/821533320383254528

(maybe I was the only one who saw this idk) certain people seemingly way more mad about that particular vote then the stripping of health care

Republicans gonna Republican - they're doing exactly what they said they were going to do - beyond a blanket "fuck them" (which I saw everywhere) there's not much reason for a progressive voice to go on about it, whereas the guy who's positioning himself to run in 2020 is going to get criticism for coming out of the gate doing the wrong thing.

Agree that it's better Booker is subject to those criticisms sooner than later. He should have just voted for Bernie's amendment since it was symbolic anyway

jfc that tweet

that tweet is awesome, brad

clean shot

Jeet Boy, Jeet Girl

effective ruling politics is not built on members of the ruling party voting for their "local interests" on national issues.

TBH, I was pretty amused that democrats lambasted Trump for picking the Hardees CEO for secretary of labor, and then the wikileaks email showed that Clinton was likely going to select Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Our fast food is more progressive than theirs I guess.

Yes, it is. Howard Schultz isn't perfect, but he's worlds better than Andrew Puzder. (and love how Mike Allen has become a go-to source when it serves an end)

Starbucks is not fast food

(says the guy who can count the number of times he has been inside a Starbuck's on one hand)

Starbucks is totally fast food, come on.

Yeah Bernie supporters aren't reliving the primary at all, that's only Hillary supporters. Now let's talk about these supposed "ghost cabinet" appointees to say "Hillary would have been bad too" while people who want to destroy government are being confirmed.

lol

Our fast food is more progressive than theirs I guess.

I mean ... yes? Like, Starbucks has benefits packages for part-time employees while Carls Jr. is famous for violating laws mandating that employees get a tiny break during the day?

the HRC ghost cabinet isnt about them being as low as Trump's, it's just an indicator that "Sanders is pushing her to the left" was Guess What?

What?

it was bs

Guess Jeans?

so close
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/richer-poorer-poindexter-socks/3159594

Anyway back to Chapo, this radio play episode kind of sucks. Can't stay with it.

Would've been better if they were actually into the game while folding in all the fan service.

yeah i can't get through it

The Eminem bits may well have been the show's nadir.

Enh, I liked this ep, but I'm a Lovecraft fan, and dug that they did something this dorky.

ok I did lol at "Go Miskatonic U! The fightin' squid!"

i thought matt's stoned-on-pizza voice was funny but that's p much all i got.

Maybe I need to give it more time, I only made it about 10 mins and there was something exhausting about it. It seemed like something that would be really funny and clever at a family gathering but not something I wanted to listen to on the radio.

no it's definitely bad

I went back and listened to the Freeway Ross episode that keeps being recommended, and while it eventually got pretty funny there were 15 minutes of boring shit-shooting at the beginning. Pretty standard for a Guys-in-a-living-room podcast. I can see how people can't hang with this.

I also didn't know that half of that episode was a relatively sympathetic convo about Sean Hannity

Yeah, when I recommend eps like that I usually remind people to stick through the shit-shooting at the beginning. After a while I think that stuff grows on you too, but at first I can see how it seems inert.

I also didn't know that half of that episode was a relatively sympathetic convo about Sean Hannity

I'm sorry, what?

http://fair.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SeanHannityFootball.png

not so hard to understand tbh, looks like a likeable guy imo

http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sean-hannity-04152015.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000709183776/6273b31aa1836ac86426478aaa82a597.jpeg

The only way it's relative sympathetic is that they're not just cursing his parentage for 20 mins. Getting into his sadsack need to dine at foofy NYC steakhouses while complaining about elites on the air as well as his compulsion to proof he's the alpha dog enough amongst his employees on an almost daily basis is just part of it. Not to mention his bragging about regular training sessions with Chuck Liddell.

eh, they favorably compare him to O'Reilly numerous times and say he'd be fun to go out drinking with. All the negative stuff was kind of a given.

Well, yeah, comparing to Oreilly kinda tilts it a bit.

i don't fuck with roleplaying games or table-top stuff but i finally got thru the most recent one and it was good for what it was. obv would appreciate it more if i was a fan of those games. if y'all are following them on twitter, they're already in DC reporting on the Inauguration. psyched for their live show.. tmrw?

this rules, sorry if it's been posted already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN464imtMQ