Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I would be so mad if I bought tickets to their live show and it was one of these worst people lists.

A special message from a Mr David Hayter:

https://www.cameo.com/v/n7SnVjD_H

hahahahah it's even funnier because felix had david hayter on one of his earlier podcast (...dirtbag? scumbag?) and talked to him for like an hour about MGS

god cameo is so creepy and weird

having said that i'm not not advocating for ilx to pool our cash to pay for kathy griffin to yell 'WE WANT HEN FAP' on video

creepy? or sad? i vote sad

i dunno if it's an either/or situation tbf

Virgil makes new friends wherever he wanders:

hello i’m going on @TYTNetwork within the hour to denounce the noid’s war crimes https://t.co/RPD86GxKVD

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) September 21, 2018

CitationsNeeded along with Luke Savage go over a certain tv show and how much pop culture reflects political sensibilities vs how much it shapes it

http://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-51-how-the-west-wing-poisoned-the-liberalmind

Getting into why people get into conspiracy theory when they realize things are fucked up and not say more leftist, more accurate analysis, but you have to talk to these folks and not just dump Marxist tomes on them.

Also plays a lovely clip of David Icke on the phone raving to Alex Jones about this wonderful program he’d seen on the History Channel that explained everything, called “Ancient Aliens”

http://fans.fm/listen/4x0

That pamphlet is probably folly but it's a neat idea!

Getting into why people get into conspiracy theory when they realize things are fucked up and not say more leftist, more accurate analysis, but you have to talk to these folks and not just dump Marxist tomes on them.

it’s hard to explain why people favour one conspiracy theory over another

Not necessarily, there are pretty consistent traits to what we refer to as “conspiracy theories,” and why folks who believe one are much more suceptible to others.

Corey Pein had a good bit in the Baffler a couple years back about how theorists could be described as “the world’s shittiest detectives,” as they’re aware aomething is up but are ludicrously inept at figuring out the culprit.

I’ve heard it explained elsewhere that RW cons theories are these wild, evocative thrilling stories of dark secrets and subterfuge that only the Elect Few of Really Smart People can divine, whereas left wing conspiracy theories have been explicitly written out in dusty books sitting on the shelf of your local library for the past century.

it's amusing to me that ppl think of the chapo listener base as misogy-bros, the top of ILE and r/cth are identical at the moment

https://i.imgur.com/FdCClpf.png

Friend-of-Chapo Libby just posted a quietly devastating and timely personal piece.

i spent last night writing about something that happened to me that i've never been able to categorize, to help me sort it out. i'm sharing it in case it helps other women do the same. it's long and no one has edited it, on purpose. it's just me. https://t.co/55WkxzMg7l

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) September 27, 2018

I've heard that cumtown, which I do not listen to, has a bit near the beginning of its most recent patreon episode, which rumor has it is available free on soundcloud about a dog movie called Fluke that nearly caused some guy to drive off the road this morning from laughing so hard.

huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvJY3IE_Cc

I heard the bit, funniest part was 10 minutes later when Nick brought it up again and Stav said “who’s fluke?”

Someone crashed their car bc of this?

recently,
nick: name a number between 1 and 2000
stav: 4000

yes, incredible

up there with "Thousand Island Stare"

I think the gag is that man alive does not want to admit to listening to cum town

man alive is a politipod head

best CTH laugh lately was Amber's description of Bari Weiss - "aka Stav think he look good in that wig"

sources tell me the line was actually "slick in that wig"

and i believe will delivered it

I think he said they looked alike in an earlier episode but it was Amber with the "slick in that wig"

milo, you know that's from a meme right?

No, I try to not be aware of memes.

Are they still into cocaine?

nah

Some personal news: I listened to a whole episode of this. Matt seems smart.

On your own initiative or by circumstance?

Matt live-streamed on periscope a follow up lecture to his fascism talk, on who made up fascist movements:

Fascism II: The Legend of Adolf’s Gold https://t.co/j7W4L7u6iC

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) October 1, 2018

https://www.pscp.tv/w/boGrDjFQbUtxWG1sZ1h4UW98MXlwS2RZRVB3ZGFHV_dJow4nrnNQrWrgv-twpYw-jLfoMAsz9byvckDSJjPG

Here's a downloadable audio version of the sequel to my Fascism episode for those who rightly don't want to look at my face. https://t.co/b2FhfSncgN

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) October 1, 2018

HOOS go on chapo

On your own initiative or by circumstance?

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, September 30, 2018 7:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

an episode came up in a youtube playlist while i was sorta bored youtube surfing this weekend!

Felix on the latest premium episode put into words exactly what I was feeling on Thursday:

"Lying on instinct versus deliberate grandstanding. The way that Brett Kavanaugh cried reminded me so much of how I felt during [the Bush 43 years]. It's the veneer of respectability."

The comments section for that fascism explainer is a trip. If you have no context re: chapo it's just a dude giving a pretty straight-faced lecture and all the comments are ppl shouting about beer and one dude going "i voted trump but might go leftist next time".

I guess this was inevitable

BROOKLYN! Join me at @BAM_Brooklyn Tuesday night for the 6:50pm screening of "FAHRENHEIT 11/9" followed by a conversation w @willmenaker, @virgiltexas & @cushbomb, co-authors of "The Chapo Guide To Revolution" https://t.co/mEFGyhrrKQ pic.twitter.com/TMtH8VZWa5

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 2, 2018

it's a real dirtbag-left voltron situation

Q&A with Michael Moore and the treat boys of @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE pic.twitter.com/6z31fjIp6c

— Ah shit, I used a spooky name in the handle! ⚾️ (@TheJoeGomez) October 3, 2018

Curious how the talk went as Matt’s(if not the entire show’s) politics are more explicity leftist or Marxist than Moore’s ever were

i have this weird idea in my head that moore is getting radicalized by the dry boys

I can only hope so. I got pushback on FB for mentioning that his style is sloppy and undercuts his own points at times

Periscoped chat?

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1jMJgEepavqKL

Christman should be barred from ever doing his Trump impression again.

really glad I dropped Red Scare after like 3 weeks

Sorry but airing out alleged sexual predators in a literal Twitter thread isn’t “seeking justice” or “telling your story,” it’s attempting to capitalize on your trauma in exchange for agreeing to be exploited by a massive digital platform

— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) October 3, 2018

meanwhile someone successfully boiled down her shtick to a sentence so I never have to think about her/them again

love to defend my reactionary opinions as cosmopolitan anti-americanism to my audience of gullible, self-hating europhile americans

— /// (@infiniteaviary) October 3, 2018

eurgh xp