The Chapo boys plaintively beseech on page…ahem….69, For example, in a rare moment of sincerity, the boys ask why, during the late 90’s tour of cum stains on a dress, why oh why anyone bought the con game of Clintonian Third Way neoliberalism despite 20 years of hindsight now proving Bill Clinton himself was a grotesque power hungry sexual predator trailer park trash poser the likes of which we may never see again. The problem with the Chapo book is its hopelessness, which I guess is a function of it being satire.
That is, if the generations after GenX can survive the Mad Max Hunger Games Heironymous Bosch painting of 21 st century late stage capitalism my generation, and those before me, carefully crafted with our own hands for a tiny feudal oligarchy to feed upon us all. for the generations after us to clean up after they manage to guillotine a few hundred billionaires. It’s a fine screed, whose pace accelerates the more a reader understands their own role in leaving a total shit pile plundered husk America Inc. Their 2018 book, “The Chapo Guide To Revolution,” read to me like the generation after mine’s “J’ACCUSE!” If your GenX response to a millennial rant is “guilty, your honor”, the Chapo book will read very rapidly to you, too. The good news is that market dynamics in early 21 st century America can (and do) sustain hard left political media, and the Chapo boys are pioneers in this niche market, which will no doubt explode over the coming decade. Like right wing talk radio, it is a small, but very lucrative, niche market that sustains Chapo Trap House. The hosts now earn over $120,000 per month by crowd funding what the average American would call “talk radio”, but on the internet.
Matt Christman, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, Felix Beaderman, and Brendan James sashay across the pages like the bearded hipster dudes bouncing from the loft in Bushwick to the Pabst watering hole in Williamsburg (their universe), who one fine day, as Hillary Clinton shoved Her Genitalia Down Our Throats decided to record their drunken choom sessions, then got rich.
For the ignorant, “Chapo Trap House” is a weekly podcast, best described as “the dirtbag left,” sort of the Bernie Bros’ more radical non-voter buddies who may have met at Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street (which they never mention – we’ll get to that).
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