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Table Of Content

• Critique of the Democratic Party
• CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Stumps Bill Barr By Asking Him WHY He Thinks Trump Wouldn’t Kill Rivals In Stunning Exchange
• Hosts
• By tying the renewed crackdown to a bipartisan foreign aid deal, the bill could move quickly through Congress
• Political influence
• Trump Leaves Court and Curiously Tells Reporters, ‘I Was Forced to Be Here and I’m Glad I Was’
• Episodes

Another is an extended riff on a Weekly Standard article about Scalia’s voracious appetites, praising the late Justice for his ability to inhale oysters, wine, and beer by the bucket (“horseradish in his neck folds,” said one host). Hell on Earth will tell the story of the Thirty Years War, the cataclysmic outbreak of violence in central Europe that lasted from 1618–1648. It’s the story of the long crisis of the 17th century, the birth of Protestantism and the collapse of Catholic Christendom, and ultimately, the gleaming T-800 Terminator skeleton of Capitalism emerging from the rotting corpse of Feudalism.

Critique of the Democratic Party

The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner returns this Saturday for a night of comedy ‘roasting’ – where the great and the good are ruthlessly mocked in celebration of the freedom of the press. Several key justices seemed inclined during arguments on Thursday to send Trump’s case back to the trial court to determine whether he was acting in his official capacity when he tried to overturn the 2020 election and during the run-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by his supporters. “I would like to improve the production values of the show,” Will said.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Stumps Bill Barr By Asking Him WHY He Thinks Trump Wouldn’t Kill Rivals In Stunning Exchange

Suddenly regular people had to know who Pepe the Frog was and what he'd come to represent. Now it’s a movie pod too like we don’t have enough of those.

Hosts

She explains how Rayner’s difficult childhood and impressive rise has shaped her politics. From caring for her mother through a serious mental illness to working and studying as a teenage mother, Rayner’s experiences mean she feels she must represent people who have no voice in politics, says Edwardes. This week Jonathan Freedland is joined by Jeff Nussbaum, a former senior speech writer to Joe Biden, to discuss the art of writing gags for presidents and whether there is still space for humour in US politics. The first week of testimony in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York centered on David Packer, the tabloid mogul who says he helped quash stories in order to benefit the then-candidate's presidential bid. And in a Pennsylvania county where voters expressed concerns about inflation ahead of the 2022 midterms, people say they're still frustrated by high prices but that the economy is not necessarily the top factor in who they'll vote for come November.

By tying the renewed crackdown to a bipartisan foreign aid deal, the bill could move quickly through Congress

About six years ago, Menaker and his cohosts Matt Christman and Felix Biederman—Twitter mutuals who shared a scabrous sense of humor and an unapologetically leftist political bent—got together on Google Hangouts, ripped the audio of that conversation, and posted it as the debut episode of a podcast called Chapo Trap House. The show’s angle of approach set it apart from other comedy/politics podcasts almost immediately. Menaker, Christman, and Biederman were political commentators fluent in the argot of Weird Twitter and the more irony-poisoned provinces of Reddit. But for listeners inclined to view the events of 2016—and Donald Trump’s ensuing reign as shitposter-in-chief—as a massive, tragic and hilarious unforced error on the part of clueless centrists, Chapo was also a balm, not to mention a welcome alternative to the cautious liberal comedy of the post-Jon Stewart era.

And I always said that [about the show.] But that Bernie campaign, man, it gave me a minute where I was like, Maybe I was wrong about it being entertainment. The show has an democratic-socialist perspective, and its co-hosts are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The hosts are typically extremely critical of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, particularly its centrist wing. Chapo supported Bernie Sanders in his first presidential campaign in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries and his second campaign 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.

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From the beginning, Chapo has been unabashedly partisan; all three hosts pulled hard for Bernie up through 2020. It’s also proudly vulgar, frequently esoteric, and laughably low-budget—many of its early episodes sound like people attempting to communicate via several different non-compatible walkie-talkies. Despite or because of all that, it’s become a lasting hit.

It's the image of bros talking to bros that some people seem to have recoiled from. And yet if nobody on the left is talking to young white men and making them think about, for example, socialism, the only people talking to young white men are going to be the Jordan Petersons of the world. And we were sort of laboring under a delusion that our political message could get meaningfully into people who have seen this shit before. Like, OK, an entire aspect of myself that I thought was involved in this project, doing this show, I have to reconsider. I can no longer realistically convince myself that I'm part of anything that has a political valence in the electoral space.

Episodes

The trio of hosts bring to the table a breadth of awareness about (seemingly) everything that’s been published in every media outlet for the past few decades, and a depth of knowledge on various, arcane subjects. Their capacity for recall and ability to uncover gems from America’s content landfills are uncanny and occasionally intimidating. Will joked about putting out a set of annotations with each show, but it would probably be a welcome addition, as I find myself retreating to Google to trace all the show’s allusions.

The show has never taken advertising, but has been raking in six figures a month on Patreon since 2018; it’s currently the fifth-biggest project on the platform. For that you'd need a huge infusion of people from outside of politics. What we found out [with Bernie] is that you can talk until you're blue in the face about all this stuff that regular people want to hear, and stuff that would make their lives better— but they have lived their whole lives in this fucking country and they've never once seen any political promise brought to fruition. So there's no reason for them to believe anything they might hear about something like socialized medicine on a TV that's playing in a bar. But since then, a number of senators have come out in favor of the proposal and plans to tuck it into the foreign aid package. Cantwell announced Wednesday that she now supports the legislation after lawmakers agreed to give ByteDance more time to sell off TikTok.

House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine. Chapo Trap House is different from any of the roughly 10,000 other podcasts about politics and the media, in that it’s produced without a single shred of good taste, professionalism, or restraint, and it has no qualms whatsoever with imagining the gory, shameful deaths of op-ed luminaries. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are supportive of the bill’s inclusion in the aid package, their offices confirmed. The two lawmakers had previously led separate legislative efforts to tackle concerns over the app. One semi-regular feature is roasting right-wing pundits’ weirdly fetishistic odes to older, conservative personages. Will reading an episode from Ross Douthat‘s 2005 book Privilege, in which the Times columnist recalls going skinny dipping with William F. Buckley, is one highlight.