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The 2016 primary and presidential elections turns the right into a state of outright civil war as only a handful realize the vessel they’ve

The 2016 primary and presidential elections turns the right into a state of outright civil war as only a handful realize the vessel they’ve been looking for is right in front of them. Unfortunately, a shock victory would teach them all the wrong lessons.

This episode draws from Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian and Joshua Green’s Devil’s Bargain. For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

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Niko

That voice after the intro haha☠️

bruce

The phantom of the Opera drop made me so happy. The man himself would be simply thrilled

JD Nonce

When Ben Carson was rambling about ‘excuse me for this but I’m not one of these politically correct people’ only to start complaining about the deficit I choked on my warm soy milk

Joe S.

To be fair, "you're a good comedian but your lectures are boring" aged far better than pretty much anything else said in that interview.

sarah

Phantom music sent me reeling LMAO

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

After all this time I'm still not clear on who this Benjamin Ghazi guy is or why he's had such and impact on American politics.

Sam Bondurant

Good lord that Roy Moore-Drake drop is an all timer

helvetica.hottie

Us gals gotta stick together in this world. 😅

Daniel Dermont

Columba bush is not Colombian but I wish she was

etienne

it's when you have a band where one guy plays a banjo, one guy is raking a washboard with an empty beer bottle, one plays a bass made with a round steel bath tub and a broom stick, one guy wears a barrel with suspenders, and the lead soloist plays whistle with a whiskey jug, and all their songs are about carrying a bindle on the railroad

NYCM&AHole

Private equity, not venture capital. Private equity strips something that’s been built already. Venture capital loves juicero

Dan

Loved the timing of the “Nice for What” lyrics😂

True Horror Productions

We're the bears who sing for duke, dooo da, dooo da Drinking moonshine til we puke, alllllll the dooo da dayyyy

etienne

^ the Skiffle Bluegrass Expert has logged tf in

NYCM&AHole

Gloryhole in the washtub

Shane-A112

love me my 2 hour chapos to chill and shit on company time to

Evan

I'm loving the new series, Felix. Thank you for your hard work. It makes filling out spreadsheets a lot less monotonous.

Tim

Over 2 hours? Is it my birthday?

J Christie

What's the song played in the outro?

Michael S. Judge

"Butt thugs" has me thinking of Benghazi as another instance of Ray J Through History

etienne

love too hear zoomers do nostalgia for Portal to Hell moments like the pandemic and the '16 election

Keith Huston

I also listened to this in one sitting while filling out a spreadsheet 😭

Evan

It's a salve for the monotany

Sarah Camino

Insane nostalgia hit when Centipede dropped

Rusty

The fact that I was ever fell for that anti-SJW BS is a shame I've carried for a long time

regular bird

Hope you turn this into a book so I can give it to my lincoln project pilled dad

Declan Kennedy

I've already been enjoying this series but this episode really whips

Kompy

"Wily Hobo John Kasich" line of the episode so far

Tyler Sutherland

It's kinda nuts that I look forward to this more than the main show lol

Brendan Costello

For a minute I thought Felix was using an AI voice emulator (a la Elon /Adrian Dittmann)

John Leavitt

This series is the most I have ever listened to actual right wing media and dear god how do people stand this it sounds like shoving cats into a shredder while whining

ezra

Banger

J

The hilarious republican primary in 2016 was what first got me interested in politics. I was just starting high school and Vic Berger’s videos of the debates were so funny I started reading the news. I can still see kasich getting off his tour bus and waving to a crowd of nobody LMAO.

J

Fuck how could I forget… “Jeb is a MESS. Jeb is a WASTE” find those Vic Berger videos if you’ve never seen them

Evan Pitkin

An immense heap of Felix brand slop. Thank you very much! This is my favorite companion series to chapo thus far!

Millhouse

I started taking a shot every time Felix says “jug hooters” and now I have cirrhosis.

K H

Lil ass boy. How is your zoomer ass even watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure dumbass?

Clark Stoehl

The centipede needle drop sent me into a flashback fugue state. What the fuck are the last ten years

tapwaterskeptic

The crossfire clip is iconic - I remember seeing that on YouTube in 8th grade and instantly becoming Jon Stewart’s strongest soldier.

Zen Ben

This series has triggered more political engrams since Hell of Presidents. I remember all those wretched people and can be reminded with a twinge of all the damage they inflicted on the body politic.

Hemlock

wtf does that even mean it's ungoogleable

Ben

So good

Hemlock

>the guy who interrogated Bane You mean the one and only CIA?

Matt James Rich

They've been very generous these last couple months.

Dick Must Bust

Omfg I forgot about the Trump centipede thing! That was 8 YEARS AGO!?!

Sean Green

as in blowing into a jug like a musical instrument

J Christie

I've only watched that show because my bisexual gf. I didn't grow up with Elton because my dad thought he was gay.

La Synthèse Humaine

dunno the reason for the handful of scott walker drops in these episodes but i sure do appreciate them!!

Drew McGill

Do we actually think Russia undeniably helped Trump? They made a few shitty memes that in no way helped lol. Maybe something more substantial came out that I missed since I really stepped out of russiagate bs. I’m genuinely curious now because I didn’t think the Chapo boys were one of those dweebs.

Bill Vog

Forgot to comment on the fact that this is so great. Felix shines here, he's so funny off the cuff and just as funny scripted. Loving this

K H

Of course he is ma'am.

Julian Perez

I can’t believe he mentioned Roma Downey as Dobson’s wife and didn’t mention she was the lead in the show “Touched by an Angel”

christoph.s

At around 1:34:23 Eric Prince is Betsy Devos Brother not her nephew.

mariol struga

internationalist movement of nationalist lmao nice one

Ryan

The Andrew Lloyd Webber reference when introducing Trump's campaign did not go unnoticed

Mark Schneider

Perhaps a subtle tribute to the fascist, Koch-owned Wisconsin governor, a different Scott Walker, who destroyed unions & collective bargaining in that state c. 2012-13. Not important enough for his own segment (I think he did run in some R. primaries for Pres., went nowhere), nod & a wink.

etienne

I love that section about the first few days of the Trump admin where you have to assume the point of view of someone that suffered a severe concussion and thought that he would enact the Richard Nixon agenda

Michelle

“Girlfriend in a Coma” after bringing up Jeb!’s failed campaign was inspired. A+ would clap

buttface

i tried to like this but it's impossible to follow and i believe it's ultimate conclusion -- that the conservatives are hapless morons who were doomed to fail -- is wrong considering how much they are owning right now.

Zerk

Broke out in a huge grin for that Phantom of the Opera needle drop

Kvvvy

Once again, Felix one liners are unmatched

Kvvvy

The Milo-Rogan exchange is bananas

robert ryan

I don’t think the Russians really did anything that swayed the 70,000 least excited Trump voters away from Hillary. This wasn’t like 500 votes in Florida. It was something serious enough that the fbi investigated it for two years and sessions recused himself but they were never going to find a smoking gun either.

robert ryan

I’m still kind of consider this to be more of a companion piece to on the medias “the divided dial” which premiered two years ago and covered much of the same topics https://www.google.com/search?q=on+the+media+2022+cobservativr+media&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS721US722&oq=on+the+media+2022+cobservativr+media&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigATIJCAQQIRgKGKABMgkIBRAhGAoYoAEyCQgGECEYChirAjIJCAcQIRgKGKsCMgkICBAhGAoYqwLSAQkxMDQzMWowajSoAhOwAgHiAwQYASBf&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

cboss

Thank you for the astute forensics in the tone we need.

Daniel Daughhetee

I work for that rich Birmingham suburb mentioned in the Roy Moore discussion! I was pumping my fist and honking my horn

Chubby Justin

I am 12 years old and learning all this for the first time. Great stuff

Matt James Rich

Betsy Devos, pronounced "Duh-vahs", not "Deh-vohs". It's a Dutch last name, not Greek.

Garth Hillsborough

That Milo-Rogan clip was fucking vile, jesus christ.

Terry Buckley

its a name, you can say it however you like

GnarlyRaeJetson

Forgot how weird and ridiculous shit got for trump the last go round. These next 4 years finna be a doozy

THEKILLERWHALE

Between Amway, Blackwater, school privatization and the fact that they are genuinely onerous and stupid people, they may actually be the worst family on the planet.

Fernslinger

Fuck yeah! So fun to remember all the crazy shit that went down! Plus, Who knew Felix was good with a script?

Adam H.

Shapino and pals do an excellent job of debating against children that don't know anything.

Terrance McDonald

I see the overall spirit of the series as “these people are so weird.” The fact that they are dorks and losers is ancillary

trent

I thought the point he made was that fb helped Trump, not Russia per se

not_today

Does the Patreon app suck or what.

Drew McGill

He quite literally stated that it was indisputable that Russia helped at this point lol. He does brush it off a bit later on though. Oh well.

hot_local

its so fucking bad bro

Last Years Man

Felix is really outing himself as a political nerd here (not a criticism).

Beef

I idolized my libertarian brother until 2016, when he said Ben Carson should've won the Republican primary. Between that, this show, and Street fight, my entire world view changed lmfao

Biscuit

Isn’t Mulan a ftm classic

Darren R Young

Can someone explain what a jug hooter is?

buttface

I guess it's fine to point out that right wingers are weird and distasteful as long you acknowledge in the same breath that they have been overwhelmingly successful over the past 50 years. Otherwise this is just cope.

drunk cig

Corn cob pipe, red long jons, suspenders, straw hat, scraggly beard. Empty jug of moonshine with 'xxx' on the side, the man blows air into the jug in a rudimentary musical fashion. Thus the bumpkin hoots the jug. Hillbilly type shit

ploob

I'll take 'Cars Catching Dogs' for $800 Alex

ploob

Oh sure the ol' Blame-It-On-Your-Bisexual-Girlfriend bit

Cooper Kulpa

Very nicely written and organized.

Jack Krastny

this is one of the most salient, crystallized, concrete vivisections of our modern era - thank you chapo, felix- this series and the hell of presidents/ hell on earth / are mainstays of my inner monoglub- reasons why i shill out the monthly dough

Jtdre

In an incredibly funny coincidence the latest Red Letter Media episode has them watching an anti porn video by James Dobson. Worlds almost colliding

Bonepile

Felix's Shapiro impression sounds too much like Wallace Shawn

jsobrie

Pixar’s Sodas

bruce

I will say it should be noted that the big jumping off point of Pepes from Rand to the trump campaign is when Rand came out as anti confederate flag in the wake of the Charleston church shooting

Hemlock

I have never seen someone do that in my life

Skwerral

It sort of melted my mind a bit. Also that RLM episode was hilarious.

Arid

That's such an insane thing to admit on a huge show

Arid

Glad to hear about Roy Moore's race! It was such a wild episode in Alabama politics. Not mentioned was the main reason Moore won the primary. Luther Strange very publicly traded not prosecuting Gov Bentley on corruption charges for the senate seat. The corruption was overstated; he was fucking his secretary. Strange argued that her salary was therefor embezzled state funds. So everyone in Alabama saw Bentley resign and do community service doing free dermatology screenings, and Strange become senator

Wagner Koop

POV: Centipede Drop Denial (HOT)

Violet Lucca

It was perfect, just like Christine’s voice

kenneth hammond

literally thought the speed on my podcasts got set to 3x speed when I heard shapiro speak in the intro. what an insufferable dweeb. even worse is meeting a guy who adopts shapiro as his new personality 🤦‍♂️

Laura

As in The County Bear Jamboree

lyle menendez

Holy shit I forgot about Bernie Bernstein! That was fucking hilarious when it happened.

king_von_diesel

The most naive thing about this series, in retrospect, is that the gamer gate saga was a dumber time. Compared to where we are today, we were putting up rookie numbers.

VIOLETTO

love the line about churches talking about jews like tolkien fans talk about elves

king_von_diesel

Charlie Kirk was still alive when this aired. We truly all are Charlie Kirk.