Matt Taibbi

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spinner tuner thing is a weird premier ep

TARFU! fubar show boys still believe charles pierce though way more than matt taibbi / alex pareene / jesse "the body (weed spokesmodel?)" ventura about the whole trump/russia snafu but otherwise nice kayfabe covfefe confab

#MRGA

i really like alex's voice on the podcast!

very twin cities sane tone

best wrestler at the end is The Globalist gary cohn :)

I think we've reached Peak Podcast. Meundies cannot be making enough money to keep everyone from Joe Rogan to Taibbi paid.

i'd listen to charles pierce and mark shields talk about whatever

One of the reactions to the podcast announcement:

https://www.twitter.com/HillaryWasRight/status/885549771150180352

wha?

i guess nobody cares about the creepy stuff, okay then

Yeah, bullshit

my esteem for alex pareene has diminished quite a bit tbh

most ppl have been, are, or will be creepy

now you can put a Rolling Stones album on

i don't think most people have been creepy with such malice and glee and been arrogant and stupid enough to write about it in a public fashion and not regard or address it in any way

a piker next to Klaus Kinski

even if they doth protest too much it's interesting to consider the 'nothing to see here re russia murdoch / limbaugh / bannon' POV about putin's best fiend

This has a lot of interesting details and info, along with a nice summary of the Magnitsky affair: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

most ppl have been, are, or will be creepy

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 14, 2017 2:39 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks i can now listen to pieces of shit without guilt or regret

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

I like some of Taibbi's writing and don't want to be an agent of "moral panic" or whatever, but come on. This kind of behavior cannot be considered acceptable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

This is very good. I'd somehow managed to neglect the fact that Akhmetshin works for the same company that organised the Steele dossier.

a piker next to Klaus Kinski

Good thing Kinski wasn't a pretty major political commentator for the left, then?

i made a vow last week not to get into dumb arguments on the internetz

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

― Treeship, Friday, July 14, 2017 4:19 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

source?

From the podcast's descr on Patreon:

The TARFU Report runs weekly and includes celebrity guests from the world of politics, journalism, comedy, and more. One show a week is completely free, and patrons have access to a complete, 30-60 minute additional show each week. Subscribers will also have access to all archive content--all for just $5 a month, which is less than it costs to take your working-class friend to lunch at a fine Italian delicatessen.

Everyone who posted to ILX in the Bush era is now one degree of separation from Matt Taibbi's weird mouth/jawline.

Hey I thought we agreed to no more chinshaming on this board

It's more that his mouth never seems to open completely. TBH, Matt Taibbi looks like what I thought Bill Simmons looked like before I ever saw Simmons.

there is already a post-pilot episode up, on RussiaRussiaRussia

and a new one now w/ Charles Pierce

whoa

Last week's was terrible. Pareene (whose voice I've never heard) and Taibbi sounded like college kids.

this is a little better, less stammery, and charlie pierce is on point, but at the moment you have to sign up for patreon to hear it

There's gotta be someone with interesting opinions who wasn't a chronic sexual assaulter

me, but i have a job already

Alfred, they could have you on if they wanted someone who sounds like George Sanders

only if I get to wave a cigarette holder while talking

https://legendofhistory.com/resources/fdr-cigarette%20jaunty%20hat.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-what-does-russiagate-look-like-to-russians-w493462

After Boris Yeltsin won re-election in 1996, Time magazine ran a gloating cover story – YANKS TO THE RESCUE! – about three American advisers sent to help the pickling autocrat Yeltsin devise campaign strategy. Picture Putin sending envoys to work out of the White House to help coordinate Trump's re-election campaign, and you can imagine how this played in Russia.

about half of russian voters were okay with it?

heh

the thing that drives me nuts about the "russia interfered in the election" or "Trump has russia ties" or "Trump is in debt to russians" is the conflation of all russian interest

I mean, my image of it is that there's an oligarchy of billionaires who benefited from the post-Soviet kleptocracy in Russia who do hold some political power.

It's completely possible state-sponsored actors interfered in the US election (they were working for someone). It's true that Trump has a lot of loans and investment from Russian banks and billionaires. It's true that his son and advisers met with several Russians who were marketed (by a weird agent for celebs) as having Russian government ties and possible dirt that could be used in the campaign.

But there's no grand unified Russian theory here.

nothing to see here, either

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/paul-manafort-reportedly-owed-millions-to-russian-oligarch-before-joining-trump-campaign

that Taibbi Yeltsin bit is some lazy tu quoque shit. yep, pretty much the same thing as happened in the 2016 election.

I'm starting to wonder if I should cultivate some russian investor friends to buy some property! Sounds lucrative.

TARFU Report is a bit insufferable, although the addition of David Rees (sadly, a guest, not a new host) made it a million times better. That guy is the best.

more sufferable than mssg boards

Yeah, as a podcast it's a bit of a tough slough