Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

what’s up with virgil? hasn’t been on the show in aged and hasn’t even tweeted for over a week

any studies on what COVID does to IBS?

Virgil's working on creating an automatic Whip-It machine that can keep him sedated until this is all over.

I bet Virgil wouldn't quit vaping

i’m on the new @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE episode talking about the connections between Hollywood sicko George Lucas’s ATTACK OF THE CLONES and its connections to the DNC’s child grooming and secret assassination programs

(and Star Wars Expanded Universe lore) pic.twitter.com/VSj5LYnxx7

— hayley (@hayleyglyphs) April 3, 2020

I've been half tuned out for the last lil bit but this...I will listen to

idg Tim Heidecker

ok the My Pillow episode was pretty entertaining

very happy the rest of the nation is getting to know a great all time Minnesota weirdo

lol Red Scare X Steve Bannon

wow I'm shocked. look at me over here, making my shocked face

the only question is whether red scare or steve bannon are more desperate for attention rn

Also who brought the coke to the interview? Hosts supply seems like the proper etiquette, right?

this entire fucking subculture is a cesspit of edgy liberals and literal fascists

death to the podcast left

enh Red Scare has always been the hyper-edgy reactionary outlier of this "scene". no one else would ever stoop to booking this creep.

Embarrassing to see people defend it though.

I haven't seen any of that but I absolutely believe that it's happening.

can someone get Menaker some Sudafed

I don't understand who Red Scare appeals to. Edgelords, sure, but do they have any Patreon supporters outside of NYC?

I don’t listen to the podcast, but the subreddit has gone way crazier way faster than I expected. They’re already deep into “ironic” pro-Trump posting

this direction was so fucking predictable from the beginning

the direction taken by whom? some posters and one edgy podcast?

I guess I’d be annoyed if one of the Chapo guys or gal actually says “actually a vote for Trump is good and you should do that”

anti identity politics social democrats flirting with fascism using irony for plausible deniabilty

the chapo guys aren't necessarily the worst for this but they've been way too friendly with those who are

^

I don’t listen to the podcast, but the subreddit has gone way crazier way faster than I expected. They’re already deep into “ironic” pro-Trump posting

― Dan I., Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:14 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

?? i see one post there from a british person making an obvious joke

they're joking about "a vote for x is a vote for trump", i don't see anyone actually saying they're pro-trump

the subreddit is also hated and disavowed by the actual chapos

and the actual anti-idpol subs hate it for being pro-idpol lol

ffs i don't even listen to this podcast don't make me post here

They’ve never had the Red Scare people on, they have had numerous trans guests, POC guests, labor and community organizers...

It seems like the main requirement for criticism is still to not have actually listened to the podcast.

amber has been on red scare but we've always known she sucks

i've listened to the podcast its shite

i've also seen enough of their online conduct to know what they're about

out of curiosity i found a thread at an actual left anti-idpol sub and there was 1 whole poster saying they'd vote for trump. i figured there'd be more accelerationists at least

I've never been able to get past the rampant disablism of these arseholes meself. And their podcasts are shite!

amber has been on red scare but we've always known she sucks

― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:17 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

steve bannon went on red scare this week!

lol nevermind this was discussed.

:O

I kind of want to listen to that. Kind of suggests he's not at the height of his influence though.

i listened to it.

bannon was praising ocasio-cortez a lot and said the future was "left populism" vs. "right populism" and it wasn't clear yet "who had the better answers" for "the little guy." the hosts lightly pushed back against bannon's support of aoc. then they argued with him about employer-based healthcare. then at the end they told him they loved his style and that the multiple layered shirts was an attractive look.

sounds about right

dasha (the one that was a sailor meme before she was a podcast host) at one point lightly questioned trump's racist appeals and bannon said his usual thing, that what matters is that you're a "citizen" blah blah "economic nationalism." it was a very predictable episode.

oh yeah, also, bannon thinks that the virus might have leaked from the virology lab in Wuhan.

bannon is surprisingly ingratiating when he talks, constantly praising liberals and leftists and looking for common ground with his interlocutors. I've noticed this before. it's an act i guess?

were anna and dasha actually pro-AOC? i thought they despised her

no, they were against aoc. bannon was for aoc.

lol.

like, he didn't agree with her, but he like the idea of "millennial candidates" coming up through the "grassroots."

one point that should have been asked, but wasn't, was whether bannon still supported the "deconstruction of the administrative state." it was exactly that philosophy that led to trump firing the pandemic response team in 2018.

have they had richard spencer yet

red scare? enh I wouldn't put it past 'em

new bonus ep w Murder Bryan from Street Fight about the PMRC is the most I’ve smiled all week. lotta nostalgia.

have they had richard spencer yet

Pakman had Spencer on a couple of years ago, it was pretty good. I've only ever seen Pakman and Gary Younge interview Spencer

Has Felix's sister ever been on an episode before? I'm cracking up at how they start sounding like each other as the dialogue goes on

I've not really listened to Chapo or similar that much so I may have this wrong, but how does this Dirtbag Left fit alongside the Populist Berniebro Left of Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski et al. There seem some parallels but Krystal, Kyle and others seem to make a point of speaking in very everyday terms, not defining as socialist. Are the chapo people further left, or is it just a case of presentation?

idk where those people stand but the CTH posse identify as socialists and their live events tend to have DSA recruitment people canvassing the entrance