Name: Episode 164 - The Deficit Rag (12/4/17) by Chapo Trap House
Duration: 1 h 17 min 39 s
Description: Matt, Will, Virgil and Felix ponder the tax bill and many reasons for despair. Then, they lighten the mood by talking about Jared's bar mitzvah at the Haim Saban forum and a new behind the scenes look at our president's fast food based diet. Plus Trumpy Bear.

haven't laughed this hard in a while .... bless up ladzzz

my theory is that trump has never used profanity in his life and that lewandowski added it in to make trump look cool

@shoutouttosatan: He was shot down over North Vietnam; they kept McCain alive for shits and giggles.

I honestly think that if the #USA were a smaller country...people would stand more of a chance..! ( I know it, avtually! ) 💔

A full Chapo Trap House house discusses: the magical shoe-based Adam Sandler film 'The Cobbler', a fallen meme warrior, a stolen valor update, and war-game a possible US vs. Iran conflict.

Pre-Order Will Menaker Book Club entry 'Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions" by JR Helton here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-1-63149-287-7/

Episode 152 - Iran Off On the Plug Twice (10/22/17)

Sorry for the delay, we were busy preparing our Halloween costume as the NAtional Debt. We talk about today's dud Russia news and a genuinely good piece in the Atlantic about Third Way weirdos. We also ask, what if Obama was the Joker...

By the way please buy Felix's sister's book: http://www.vineleavespress.com/the-walmart-book-of-the-dead-by-lucy-biederman.html

Episode 154 - Listening Tour (10/30/17)

We're joined by Aída Chávez of The Intercept to talk about the state of Puerto Rico post-Hurricane: their debt, the relief efforts, and the shady contracting going on in the reconstruction. Then we look at "38 Ways to Fix Democracy" courtesy of The Washington Post, preview Tuesday's elections, and pay tribute to Brendan James.

Tickets for Chapo Live and Brooklyn Podfest: https://www.thebellhouseny.com/event/1575857-chapo-trap-house-brooklyn

Aída's recent stories on Puerto Rico

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/bernie-sanders-in-puerto-rico-calls-for-nullification-of-whitefish-contract/

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/27/bernie-sanders-puerto-rico-trip/

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/13/freedom-caucus-chair-warns-congress-not-to-bail-out-puerto-rico/

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/07/puerto-rico-debt-donald-trump-bernie-sanders/

Write in Marc Fliedner for Manhattan: DA https://marcforda.com/

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Episode 156 - 38 Ways to Fix Puerto Rico feat. Aída Chávez (11/6/17)

In this week's episode we consider the Coen Bros worthy, father-son kidnap caper of Michael Flynn Jr. & Sr. and Gulen, break down all of Tuesday's election results, each consider running for office, read about Greta Van Susteren's new APP, and finally, Matt and Virgil make another bet.

Buy Tickets for our Brooklyn PodFest show at The Bell House on 11/17: https://www.thebellhouseny.com/event/1575857-chapo-trap-house-brooklyn

Episode 158 - Double Flynndemnity (11/13/17)

Recorded live at the Brooklyn Pod Fest at The Bell House on 11/17/17

Episode 160 - Live at The Bell House (11/17/17)

This week we discuss the Sebastian Gorka profile in Recoil magazine with the man himself, who calls in to let us know a few more items in his everyday carry. Then we discuss about another brain dead tweet thread from #Resistance member and Brookings senior fellow Benjamin Wittes, and trigger Felix by breaking down Thomas Friedman's latest press release about M.B.S., a reformer with results cleaning up Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

Episode 162 - Arab Spring Breakers feat. GORKA (11/28/17)

Matt, Will, Virgil and Felix ponder the tax bill and many reasons for despair. Then, they lighten the mood by talking about Jared's bar mitzvah at the Haim Saban forum and a new behind the scenes look at our president's fast food based diet. Plus Trumpy Bear.

Episode 164 - The Deficit Rag (12/4/17)

Host of the Majority Report, Sam Seder joins us to talk about his recent ordeal with "Weird Mike" Cernovich and MSNBC, the weird world of YouTube, the repeal of Net Neutrality, and the loathsome Ajit Pai.

Check out The Majority Report: https://majority.fm/

Episode 168 - Nut Neutrality feat. Sam Seder (12/17/17)

This week we talk the latest messy bitch media gabfest about the Trump Administration contrasted against the opening of much of the US coastline to offshore drilling. Then we have a laugh about the new Philly DA Krasner firing a whole bunch of prosectors. Matt gives us the rundown in the big Intercept interview with James Risen, and takes a trip down memory lane to the Plamegate fiasco. We close with Felix's fever dream nightmare of Elon Musk's Rockabilly Martian colony and the "Raw Water" craze sweeping Silicon Valley.

THE GAMING DEBATE TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE: https://www.thebellhouseny.com/event/1614039-no-cartridge-gaming-debate-brooklyn/

The Intercept James Risen interview https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/all-the-news-unfit-to-print-james-risen-on-his-battles-with-bush-obama-and-the-new-york-times/

Watch DAs get shitcanned here: http://6abc.com/2867602/


[9:27 PM, 1/7/2018] Amber Frost: New Yorkers! Join us for the second installment of Labor Now, brought to you by Jacobin and Verso, January 18th, 7 pm at Verso books. Amber will be moderating a talk on union reform with Pamela Galpern of Communication Workers of America Local 1101, Beth Breslaw of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and Alexandra Bradbury, Editor and Co-Director of Labor Notes! We’re selling beer and wine and giving out free subscriptions to Labor Notes.

Episode 174 - Ooohh Baby I Like It Raw (1/7/18)

We're joined by Alex Pareene of Splinter to discuss Shithole week, and the immigration deal the Democrats were ready to cut. Also, the House passing the extension of the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, the barbaric new work requirements for Medicaid in states like Kentucky, and what would have been the epoch defining scandal of another timeline. In our reading series we pay tribute to the Tarfu Report by dipping into David Brook's latest with Alex.

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Episode 176 - Any Port In a Stormy feat. Alex Pareene (1/13/18)

Due to the government shutdown Amber and Matt have been furloughed so Will, Felix and Virgil take the show in a strange new direction...topics include: the government shutdown, Trump voter letters to the NYT, Smokey the Bear: Hot or Not?, What "the economy is good" means in regards to Americans' actual lives, Chelsea Manning at Freedom Night, the right wing musical stylings of Milk n Cook and Mark Steyn's Putty Tat song. We also give our congrats to this weekend's winning NFL teams.

Episode 164 - The Deficit Rag (12/4/17)

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