Ted Lasso could totally be written by an AI and I wouldn't know.

you need to review Parks and Rec and how it basically disarmed libs in the face of Trump.

Watch 1982's "The Soldier" recommended by Brendan the Traitor to find out exactly what's inside that silo

Needed this episode to validate my abysmal contempt for ted lasso- didnt even go far enough

Travis the chimp! Almost died laughing...

it's a Ohio accent! West of Pittsburgh everyone's a cowboy 🤠

TrueAnon visits your home (Virgin Islands) to talk about the fallout from the controversial case levied by former AG Denise George against JP Morgan’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein—and the damning Jes Staley emails that have come out.

Episode 271: Disney Men

Long March? But it just started! We head down Peking’s way to look at why the US keeps shooting all the Balloons, our situationship with Taiwan, and why every US politician can’t stop talking about China.

Episode 273: The Dragon Rises: Tiger's Paw

We take a trip to Israel with Noah Kulwin and talk about Israeli political culture, Netanyahu, liberalism, money, and the Judicial Overhaul. Truly, Israel is a land of contrasts!

Tickets for the final Year of the Smile show in Austin, TX: prekindle.com/event/53167-trueanon-austin

Transcript of Yair Netanyahu telling his friends they can have sex with his girlfriend: haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-01-11/ty-article/the-full-transcript-of-yair-netanyahus-wild-tel-aviv-night/0000017f-e544-d62c-a1ff-fd7ff4de0000

Episode 281: Next Year In Jerusalem

This week we're talking about landlord self defense classes, tenant unions, and tenant organizing, with special guests Katy Slininger (Cargill Tenants Union) and Ben Mabie (Crown Heights Tenant Union, Tenant Union Flatbush). Make sure to stick around for the end, where we look at how landlords are arming themselves for the rev.

Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-emergency-tenant-organizing-committee/

Connecticut Tenants Union: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 285: Con Air Landlordism (w/ special guests Katy Slininger & Ben Mabie)

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723 - The Pentagon Discords (4/14/23)

Usually, telling lies on the internet is Constitutionally protected. 

But what happens when it’s not? What happens when you post and meme so hard and so maliciously that you go far outside the realm of protected speech and wind up in a federal prison. That’s the story of a 33-year-old man named Douglass Mackey, who operated a few Twitter accounts under the name Rickey Vaughn. Using these accounts he spread Pizzagate lies, racist tropes, and also messages deliberately designed to mislead people into giving up their right to vote. On May 31st, Douglass Mackey was convicted of Election Interference in the 2016 presidential race after a one week trial.

To better understand this case we spoke to someone who has been covering it for years: Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center. We chat about Douglass Mackey’s background, the crime he was found guilty of committing, and what it means for the future of online disinformation campaigns. We also discuss the trial’s involvement of “Microchip,” a notorious troll who is currently working as a federal informant.
 
Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Michael Edison Hayden: https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden

QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 227: The Posting to Prison Pipeline feat Michael Edison Hayden

We plan out what builds we’re going with using items from King Charles’ upcoming coronation. Then, we compare and contrast visions of masculinity within the Republican party using the models presented by Donald Trump and Josh Hawley, and start forecasting what the Trump v. Biden match-up might look like. Plus, we’ve got new Epstein revelations, and an update on a classic bit of William F. Buckley lore.

New merch now available here: https://represent.com/store/chapo-trap-house 

Hell on Earth: The Original Podcast Soundtrack now available here: https://chapotraphouse.bandcamp.com/album/hell-on-earth-original-podcast-soundtrack

728 - Mighty Men (5/1/23)

"I Was A Teenage Conspiracy Theorist," The Atlantic magazine playfully titled a 2020 essay. "Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise," reported The Associated Press in 2022. "Do You Know Someone Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? We Want to Hear About It," wrote The New York Times last year.

Fears of "conspiracy theories" are a common trope in the U.S. media, a worry that's grown more acute with the rise of QAnon, anti-vaxx sentiment, anti-semitism and a host of other dangerous theories that unduly rot brains throughout the country. To a great extent, this understandable: Many ideas that meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" are, indeed, baseless and dangerous and can direct people's political energy and resources into wasteful, racist, and downright stupid rabbit holes.

But that fact shouldn't delegitimize or foreclose all skepticism of those in power, but too often the term "conspiracy theory" is used to do just that. Repeatedly, media lump together so-called conspiracy theories, regardless of their accuracy, rationale, and ideology: at once, UFO chasers, QAnon, and the Black Panther Party being subject to FBI disruption are somehow placed in the same category of paranoid kooks. At the same time, unproven, and often debunked ideas advanced by media that also meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" — such as Saddam Hussein being behind 9/11 or so-called Havana syndrome — are treated as unassailable, meriting ongoing investigation, limitless resources, and of course, utmost solemnity.

On this episode, we detail the double standards applied to conspiracy theories inside and outside of the realm of U.S. corporate media. We’ll examine the development of the concept of conspiracy theories and the media's selective invocations of the term to discredit real grievances directed at American power and the U.S. government, and moreover, how power-friendly conspiracies — namely those focused on Enemy States like the Havana Syndrome narrative — are permitted to fester and grow without pushback because their red yarn dot connecting implicates the right lists of Acceptable Bad Guys.

Our guest is Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic.

Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: The Jetsons, More Gulf War trading cards

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248 - Wifi-Connected Vat-Grown Human Husks 05.05.23

It’s Ted Lasso, folks! Yes, after many years of consternation around this show in the Discourse, many requests for review (and Will watching a bunch of that Good Doctor show and reporting back it was actually pretty ok), we decided to take a look at this footballing Yank and his relentless positivity. So, here’s our review of Ted Lasso and what it’s psychotic cheeriness says about TV and America.

732 - Marinating Melvin (5/15/23)

Infrastructure designed to combat "disinformation" is expanding rapidly within the US government and intelligence agencies. But how do they define it in the first place? And how much transparency around their methods is the public granted? Our guest is Ken Klippenstein, journalist for the Intercept.

Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Ken Klippenstein: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein / https://kenklippenstein.substack.com / https://theintercept.com/staff/kenklippenstein/

QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com

Music by Pontus Berghe.  Editing by Corey Klotz.

References

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/05/foreign-malign-influence-center-disinformation/

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/17/pentagon-perception-management-office/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/10/08/performing-disinformation-a-muddled-history-and-its-consequences/

https://ia904509.us.archive.org/20/items/debord-disinformation/Debord-Disinformation.pdf

732 - Marinating Melvin (5/15/23)

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