Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

They need to bring back the talking stick(vhs box of Police Academy)

xp You're right, I haven't thought about that until now but wow it's a lot different than a year ago.

lmao the talking stick does need to come back

They're gonna need an entire other book just to decompress from Ozyfest

Have you ever wanted to tune in, drop out, and groove to the smooth sounds of Mark Sanford projecting US debt service payments over the next decade? #OzyFest is for you.

— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) July 21, 2018

Also, Boots said he's going on.

I love Boots so much I'm kind of dreading that tbh. They'll need a taser to keep Felix from taking about Soundcloud rappers.

lmao this article is absolutely brutal https://t.co/4YXyk9bcac pic.twitter.com/3yRZpxsXyB

— Alex Press (@alexnpress) July 23, 2018

haha the second photo in this article has @cushbomb nicely framed in the background, tripping pic.twitter.com/jsISksvPug

— amir and fidelito stan (@alexjs85) July 23, 2018

Some really good lines in the Ozyfest one, thankfully not just dumbfounded rage. "Our new media digital platform is all about connecting falcons with falconers!"

I am just shocked to learn that WaPo piece was written by a dude.

felix is on the non-subscriber "yeah but still" ep released today (the brandon wardell/jack wagner pod)

I am just shocked to learn that WaPo piece was written by a dude.

why?

come on you know why. not respecting sister/abuela hilary sufficiently

What year is it? Who is the current president?

yeah, a good thing to ask the dead-enders for sure

Jamie Peck is writing a piece on it for Rolling Stone if you're this concerned about gender

that sounds awful

We have a fascist president and they actually made the effort to be physically present for a Hillary appearance to get mad about it. Were any of the Chapo guys at the family separation protests last month? How about any of the fan boys here?

I literally had never heard of her before today. xp

NP, go and browse the CTH subreddit if you like and search for "protest," "action," "demo," "occupy ICE," etc if you're curious about how politically active their fanbase is.

We have a fascist president and they actually made the effort to be physically present for a Hillary appearance to get mad about it.

Their commentary on Hillary is about 1/10th of discussing the rest of the festival.

Maybe less - felt like five minutes in an 80 minute episode.

xp did you get lost on the way to the CTH fan reddit or something?

afaict the podcast is about perception of politics and the political media as much as anything, and covering a festival that's sponsored/owned by some of the same people that own The Atlantic and other political news media seems like an obvious move

sorry, xp to Nerdstrom there

Um, Chapo Trap House had an entire bonus ep on Occupy ICE. I can't speak to whether any of them attended a protest but it seems likely.

its good that this thread exists

it does keep the liberals v leftists tit for tat shite out of other threads to an extent i suppose

OzyFest is deeply deserving of clowning no matter who is president.

jim otm

was hoping for more "neo-liberal readings of classic poems" but they sputtered out fast.

For those who’d like to hear Tim Faust’s Health Justice talk and Q&A, audio I recorded is here:

https://soundcloud.com/portlanddsa/tim-faust-talks-to-portland-dsa-about-health-justice

Eventually we’ll have subtitled vid and transcripts up of the event.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/a-neoliberal-nightmare-at-ozy-fest-2018-702600/

This ep is really them at their best. This is what Chapo was made for.

Agreed

i'll give the episode a listen (i've been more or less enjoying the show lately) but that RS article is embarrassing. i mean, Of Course ozyfest was a godawful idea carried out largely by godawful people (though it would have been nice to see one of these pieces really engage with the fact that some folks who are actually at least somewhat Good like Gillibrand and Cynthia Nixon were there too), so i'm not really sure what was the point of making a huge show of how you totally were trippin balls when you showed up to clown everybody there.

drugs are edgy iirc

http://www.ralphsteadmanartcollection.com/images/collections/F&L-Original%20Spread.jpg

Why would you listen to a podcast that has Cocaine Intelligence Unit patch for a logo and complain about them talking about drugs?

If you're not tried of thinking about the left and electoral politics, another round at The Dig w/ Seth Ackerman and Kate Aronof

https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/35556306/the-dig-a-new-party-of-a-new-kind/

Why would you listen to a podcast that has Cocaine Intelligence Unit patch for a logo and complain about them talking about drugs?

because i find it entertaining when they talk about politics and find it incredibly tiresome when they talk about their drug consumption

it's pretty simple

Eh this and some mention of purchasing edibles while on the west coast are really the only times I’ve heard them describe their drug consumption in any kind of detail (not a patron subscriber bye so maybe there’s lots more there?)

I mean it could be worse. They could be beer nerds who won’t shut up about esoteric micros.

bye

the drug refs have been few and far between but I agree with bg that the LSD and coke stuff is played out as hell

if you're hunter s thompson and it's anywhere between 1965 and 1975, for sure go ahead and mash together hard-nosed politics-beat reporting and colossal drug consumption, it'll be uniquely enlightening

if you're not, don't

is basically how i break it down to an extent

otm

For folks interested in the YPG, big new piece in RS suggests they played a role crucial role in pushing back ISIS in Syria than previously reported

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/untold-story-syria-antifa-platoon-666159/

*more crucial role

i look forward to trump's message of congratulations to pisspiggrandad

that's a great piece simon, thx for posting

nice!

I think it's tiring but the drug jokes seem like second-generation mocking of the HST tendencies. I guess it's no more or less meta and navel-gazing than anything else my generation does but "I'm going to get messed up and go to an event like Hunter Thompson, isn't that dumb? *winks at camera*" is kind of played out

ironically addicted to cocaine

i might have taken a less jaundiced view of it were it not for the fact that 1) ozyfest is such a mindbendingly surreal event in its own right it kinda didn't need any chemical assistance and 2) matt and will tripping added nothing at all to their retelling - they might as well have taken a handful of cod liver oil instead for all the difference it made

spoiler alert: he was tripping on cod liver oil