Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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

holy shit this kid is a fucking moron

That interview has such a great moment of Matt completely blowing up at some chump refusing to engage.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/january-20th-2017/my-dream-for-my-kids-celibacy/

His great desire for his sons is that they be celibate.

Matthew Walther is associate editor of the Washington Free Beacon and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow

new episode is great, one of their best imo, but about 50 min. the audio starts glitching and cutting out, FFS GUYS FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT

the chapo dudes tweets are 100x better than the podcast imo

perhaps but i prefer longform audio digest as a method of consumption

genius.it annotations > podcasts > tweets imo

Unfortunately, Genius dropped all their freelancers, so Felix and Virgil got canned.

As befits the show, they found out last week while Periscoping the group reaction to the Inauguration.

Damn, back to racist teenagers for them, I guess

"....It's a living."

That Walther interview my first Chapo thing I ever heard and it was horrible. I guess I don't like these guys.

They themselves didn't like that recording enough to not release it as an episode and dumped it on YouTube instead

Ahh I did not know that... seems like they went for a real "gotcha" thing with an easy target and got frustrated when he didnt give them what they wanted and then a lady yelled for a few minutes.

yeah they normally don't bother bringing on conservative or even lib guests and I gather this is why

kurt, listen to this episode, the most recent one, imo one of the best so far: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-75-mr-chapo-goes-to-washington-12217

A critique more academic than most:

http://reallifemag.com/the-laugherators/

as literary critic Linda Hutcheon explains in Irony’s Edge, irony is inherently dangerous and unstable. The ironist cannot, almost by definition, control who is hurt and how by ironic gestures. “Why should anyone want to use this strange mode of discourse where you say something you don’t actually mean and expect people to understand not only what you actually do mean but also your attitude toward it?”

because deep down you know that your strongly held convictions are just as completely arbitrary, wrong, conditional, and useless as anyone else's
source: i have a very good brain and i've said lots of things

I think that qualifies as the "critique from the left" they've expressed hope for.