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Will and Felix briefly touch on Trump’s new Ft. Knox gold obsession, Hakeem Jeffries’ “captain chaos,” and look at an Ezra Klein interview with an up and coming dem with some “interesting ideas.” Then, we’re joined by Marlon Ettinger & Olly Haynes of the French Legislative Assembly Podcast (Flep24(/7)) to look at what’s up in France, which has gone through a wildly unstable political year. Starting with a new Catholic school sexual abuse scandal that’s implicated the current prime minister, we look into the state of the center & right parties, discuss what makes Mélenchon such a compelling left leader, and try to untangle the growing international right-wing conspiracies around Brigitte Macron.

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Jon

Oh hell yeah

Jon

Too slow noncey

jer

I am forst

JDUBZ

Auchincloss is an incredible character. Understand that he ran unopposed in district MA4, a post industrial hellscape - Massachusetts’ own slice of the Rust Belt. Trump won this district, the first Republican to do so in 101 years. Jake’s big idea is, yes, modular housing on abandoned military bases. Without cars. Where property values continuously decline. But with private health insurance. And mortgages. A neoliberal Cabrini Green. He is Pete Buttigieg if Pete was a straight guy who was additicted to poppers.

claus_mc

I thought Brigitte Macron was a snow leopard but now I know China's elite special forces are the snow leopards so now I don't know what to believe

Matthew

I just received my copy of Matt's book yesterday and it's a great little volume. Thanks Chris et al!

Horseloverfat

Jake Auchin-Clause say “public” or “social” challenge

Sunny Day

Cost disease? How about the cost of deez (nuts)

Last Years Man

Someone gave Felix his wheaties (or whatever he eats for his weird dietary needs)

Jski

Why’s this not showing up in RSS

Richie

literally the exact same moment my ADHD reminded me out of nowhere that Tron Legacy exists, Felix mentioned "going into Tron". it weirded me out.

Steeeeve

This is rank anti-Semitism

Last Years Man

He's talked about having a weak stomach and being unable to eat certain things before. It's kind of a running gag.

Tvvvv

Didn’t Fort Knox shut down in like 2015

IronNosy

Thankyou Brendan for the Justice drop at the end

Eon Gattignolo

this construction shit is crazy. look up lennar homes, part of the blackrockification of everything. they have a deal in one place where they get to inspect their own constructions:

Axel

French will love anybody who talks highly of their movies. So Jean-Pierre Melville talk will do just fine.

Brent

Felix’s busy box department is a genius idea, but it would have to be created in secret, which means it may exist, but Trump probably just fired everyone

DreidelChamp

Perfectly timed as I’m off to France in a few days! Thanks chapo boys!

Rioluke88

Jake Awesomesauce

Andy Arnette

This won't load on my RSS feed. Chris, can you help?

Throw Away

I actually live in Weymouth, very close to the union point he’s talking about. They have been trying to build housing there for ages but every plan they have fails spectacularly in some way

Mobile Suit Gundam Eric Clapton

Yeah on top of this many counties/towns have contracts with engineering firms to review all plans submitted (road, storm drain, sewer, water) instead of hiring town/county engineers. One local jurisdiction ended up paying more for an outside review of plans than the entire engineering budget for the 100+ home subdivision...

Throw Away

Also, the people of Weymouth would never approve of a massive low income housing project because they would have to live close to black people

Shane Ronan

Vats? Turning military bases into cities? Deathclaws surely to follow

Shane Ronan

Bitcoin is just star bottle caps

Vic B

There was a bit where a conspiracy nut talks about the gold in Fort Knox being missing in West Wing.

AJ

Song at 47:51?

Anomalie

they took all the gold out of fort knox is old, idk how old, but it's weird to hear it now

Scooter

Lmao exactly my thought with Weymouth as well.

Frank Lee Dontcare

Go check out geopolitical economy reports episode with Michael Hudson just this week on gold. The boys are missing the mark a little

James Kirkland

Same here, not loading into my RSS feed

James Kirkland

Episode isn’t loading into podcast apps/RSS feeds. IIRC this is a Patreon issue, experienced it with another pod I subscribe to.

Mojtaba HUSAYNI Khamenei

Was that out today as well, because yesterday's TrueAnon episode is out as normal?

Wyatt the Wallaby

It was the best of times it was the BLURST OF TIMES?!?!?!

Sam

“Foxtrot, what a fucking pull” ~ Will and my inner monologue simultaneously

Ontario Guy

I have French Canadian friends who their first language is French, and the people in France will switch to English with them

James Kirkland

No this was Champagne Sharks earlier in January. I also sub to True Anon and that showed up in my feed as normal.

T

This is a sign that you're living in Tron

Adam H.

Love the subtle Andre's Restaurant reference.

T

Hägar the Horrible. Hägar the Horrible. The famous Hägar the Horrible. They called him horrible but he's not horrible! He's not horrible. He's great! Hägar the Great. That's what they should have called him. Hägar the Great. And we need his skeleton!

Gabe

That new democrat listened to too much weekend programming on NPR growing up and now his brain is mush.

Luna Zeidner

This is the hardest I've laughed at an ep in so long. Good job boys, you still got it!

John Morgan

What if we could solve the housing crisis by deskilling the labor force, paying workers less money, making the tenants life more miserable?

king_von_diesel

I will recognize French superiority in one thing alone: being haters

Ana

The Auchinclosses are an old money family. That's where Dems think "bold new vision" is going to come from: Old Dutch stock.

Bernard King

I had no idea that France had their own “Big Mike” theory

Grayson Sussman Squires

So glad you included the Ezra Klein interview was going to suggest if not discussed 🙏

HuffingGasInTheShed

Felt that one deep, the dry boys have been good therapy for that condition in me

Ana

Oh and they're rep among the old money elite according to Gore Vidal (if memory serves) is for being weirdos. They married into the Kennedys, so not even very pure old money. Certainly no Roosevelts. Still they produced at least one good writer (Louis).

Gabe

Also doesn't help that Freakonomics was assigned reading in high school for hundreds of thousands of millennials

bruce

Can't help but imagine rep Autismsauce chasing around a giant Adderall like Skrat

TLT

When Felix realizes how ultra cooked he is when he says “guaranteed possibility” and can’t help laughing, that’s how we’re all feeling more than ever. ❤️

protob1

Send the fucking DOGE check already I can spend it on vodka and whores!

Idris

The whole “there’s no gold in Fort Knox” is such an old school conspiracy theory. What geriatric conspiracy theorists is hanging around the White House?

HuffingGasInTheShed

Wait….are you saying we DIDN’t abort all the criminals?

Michael Rosen

Jake Anschluss ist the most Ted talk brained democrat I've ever heard of

Richie

BEATS REALITY, AM I RIGHT, FELLAS?

Kelley

Holy shit, Felix on fire this episode. LISTEN TO MY NEW IDEA FOR ENVELOPES

Evan Pitkin

Fucking banger. The envelopes thing got me good.

Damen Irving

The only granularity going on is inside his skull

Zach H.

“You know about Fort Knox? You heard of this? They have all the gold there. Guarded by a Dragon! Smaug! You heard of him? And we gotta sneak in. Like a little mouse. Cause they don’t want us there the ones that say all the gold is theirs. Short people, big noses. Wear little helmets. Some of them are my best friends!”

Eric Murphy

I think trump just wants to see allot of gold Scrooge McDuck style. Pure and simple.

nick

Just what we need: more pro-blockchain and private healthcare Democrats.

Ozzie

Auchincloss über alles

Dave Long

Not on Podcast feed for some reason

Travis

Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 24 seconds today!

kron

Philippe Duhart

You all should reach out to the Sobremesa Podcast and do an episode on Spain.

Michael S. Judge

I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for a special offer: Guaranteed possibility

Antisemitic Times Square Elmo

Hakeem wasn't chosen as a leader. He was chosen as a yes man who would be trusted by and deliver for the democratic party donor class, cynically using his race as a heat shield to absorb left dissent. He was selected according to the logic of the left identify politics the party has now jettisoned, rendering him a living emblem of the party's ineffectiveness and irrelevance. Everything is going to get worse and worse and he's just going to keep quoting Maya Angelou.

lake

Foxtrot AND Hagar the Horrible?? Felix has been reading the funnies I guess

Billy Gray

Fuck it I’m sayin it!

George P

That cocksucker Auchincloss is my rep, the absolute worst. Guy was a Republican well into the Obama admin, was whining about confederate flags coming down in the 2010s, then rebranded himself as a Dem to take Joe Kennedy III's House seat. Won a highly contested Dem primary with 22% of the vote in 2020 and now we'll never get him out.

Matttttttt

felix sounds congested!! is he not on the chapo health plan ??

David Browm

We need to get Transvestagator Colombo over to France asap

Elliot robinson

fellas we doing calls or puts on attention futures??

kron

Been listening for a year and a half and the Auchincloss segment is my favorite so far. I’m at work and can barely contain my laughter. I love you guys

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

anyone know of any Chapo-like podcasts _in French_ (or German for that matter). l could use some practice for my thoroughly rusted out French, but it seems like all the ones in that vein on European politics are in English (see also Corner Späti).

Billy Gray

Holy shit just got to The Envelopes and I’m dying

Philip Manzi

Auchincloss is a rare sighting he’s a 2012 urbanist, he read Vishan Chakrabarti’s “A Country of Cities” and never read anything after that.

Matty C

Housing always sucks because those ideas that guy had I was like “yeah on whatever sure, it’s something” and then they always immediately start talking about “useful” crypto and national defense.

Monster Mittenz

Democratic party policy is what happens when any idea is acceptable except solving the problem...

YungCereza

I snorted at "Very Krauted Up" spelling of Jake Auchincloß

Sam

I don’t feel bad for Ukraine.

Christian Bendillo

There is something quintessentially French about wanting to fuck your grandma idk how to elaborate but iykyk

Trying ToFree

All timer for Felix here. Someone gave him the super-poster serum.

etienne

if you do chapo trap house in french and it's anywhere remotely good I WILL give you 5$ a month on patreon. hit me up

cccph

Right right

etienne

he's not doing it because of conspiracy theories he wants to put his nazi guys wherever there's money and Knox is step 4 down after the Fed gadget that was already taken over. We're at the point now where it's gonna take Stalin Purges on steroids to even get back to baseline hard-right stranglehold

Tan Tan

Am I racist or does "Someone's paying attention so someone's buying attention" not sound like a fucking Kamala Harris ass thing to say? Like you're trying to be witty and clever but actually when you hear it and stop to think about it makes absolutely no goddamn sense?

etienne

actually scratch that, I need a Trashfuture but for canadian and/or quebec politics specifically, whichever language

Marshall Steinbaum

Baumol was an expert witness for AT and T in its antitrust case. His “cost disease” is just a way of excusing monopolistic pricing that doesn’t blame monopolies.

Jingle Jangler

Like, the kids and elderly and the young men who die in trenches, you have no sympathy for?

Sav

FYI Gallego is pronounced "guy-ay-go." Stay woke, boys

Anndgrim

I am from Pau. My father told me about those accusations decades ago. Everyone knew in the region.

Matthew

Auchincloss/Anschluss took me tf out 💀

fredbaroque

OPERATION CLAUSEWITZ. Not even closs.

Sam

No, I mean the geopolitical entity. And the entire state and civil apparatus that got those people killed.

CJ

Lmao

Arno Noack

Massachusetts Democrats are basically just Republicans with a d in front, this guy is ridiculous he's the perfect example of what bertel Ullman was talking about in his paper what is political science and what should it be, where he explains that modern political science and political science in general was just created as a way to create a bunch of bullshit terms to distract people from actually creating solutions

Noctor

I’m not smart but morgellons cost disease makes sense but it seems irrelevant. Shitification of housing by making prefab modular bullshit would only work if that’s what people wanted to buy more so than standard housing or the modular housing was literally the only option available—as if he thinks changing the most fundamental practices of a huge industry nationwide with huge lobby would be feasible? Also I’m pretty sure this is what the ultimate big bad China did when it did infrastructure decade and uplifted the world economy out of the 2008 financial crisis? Sounds like ultimately he’s arguing for a planned economy.

Nathan

The dem congressman was pretty funny. Labor and material costs don’t affect housing costs at all. If they did, you could rent an apartment that was built 100 years ago for a nickel. The community health centers is a good idea but if people could see doctor and pharmacists without going through private health insurance, no one would buy private health insurance. Pivoting to talking about how much he loves insurance makes it too obvious he has absolutely no intention on ever making that possible.

Kinetics Video

We. Have. So. Many. Houses. Already. How does whatever build apartments out of the Hoover Dam or whatever plan not just get bought by the same equity freaks that own what we already have? Just have public housing, jfc

Hudson

I don’t know man I’m good in France for a long time. it is deeply leftist. The left just isn’t very vocal. So you get people thinking there’s this huge far-right here because they’re so loud and annoying. But just look at the last election, when it really counts a broad left coalition comes together and says non! But they need to find the lefty response to Bardella. Melenchon is not popular enough. He’s been around too long doing his invectives and on paper he’s right but he’s such a bitch about it. Finally , the surge in right wingers is a lot like that of the States: people fed up with bullshit liberal nothing burger politics. But if La France Insoumise can find a younger more rizzy leader, offering the working classes a decent economic package, most of those now right wing-leaning people will swing back left like switching from white wine to red.

Kinetics Video

He goes in looking like the Chris Evans after his syrum and comes out like the before

DT

Representative Anschluss just wants the world to be like Animal Crossing. Modular housing, no public services, you have a landlord that also owns everything in town but he's quirky and cute. Dems continue to babybrain it up.

Robert Sayre

All you have to do in France is greet the shopkeeper, waiter, etc. Americans don't do this, but it's considered very rude there. That's most of the controversy.

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

Je suis vraiement flatté, mais je suis en cherche d'un podcase pour _l'écoutement_. Si j'essais moi faire d'une émission, j'auriais l'Academie Française sûr ma cul pour crimes grandes contre le lengue avec un accent Jersais.

Kinetics Video

What did Gleb from Kharkiv do to you exactly?

Kinetics Video

Oh I just hit that. Going to die thinking about it, divine riff

etienne

I mean more like whoever wants to self promo here but yeah I hear you

Kinetics Video

He's the visibly diluted black person in public life. If weak tea could walk and give up

RDB

the difference between “modular” and “custom” houses is blurry to the point where there is no real difference between the two except style. its been that way since like the 70s. if you live in a neighborhood under development, you see it. A developer only has a few floorplans at most that they work with, they assemble the frame offsite, ship it in, and put it together, then we come in and connect the utilities and do trim out and change anything that the customer wants changed. the only reason they dont all look like copy/pasted suburban developments anymore is bc people generally dont want to live in those. they also dont want to live in things that look like trailers, which would be true “modular” buildings, which are still assembled using labor-intensive practices, you just dont see it from your kitchen window bc its offsite. this is just an example of a guy so deep into the textbooks that he doesnt know the thing he’s suggesting is already in effect but hasn’t solved the problem.

Ben

Fantastic episode, the auchincloss segment proves you boys still got it

Kinetics Video

What we need is Fannie Mae for tents and pallets

Rat Baby

Holy shit, Felix firing on all cylinders this ep. I’m in tears.

Noctor

Hmm. I worked as day labor for a track home construction contractor and I definitely saw framers put it up stick by stick. I’m sure things have changed since then cause it was near 2 decades ago now. But maybe that’s why it seems homes built in the 80s and 90s are better quality than the newer construction I’ve seen lately.

Jason Yungbluth

Apropos of nothing, can we get Chapo to cover Matt Taibbi?T here's still a small part of me that wants to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I would love to finally hear the boys' analysis of his decline.

etienne

Radio War Nerd had a couple episodes about him, I think 357 was particularly good

Jason Yungbluth

Ooo! Never heard of RWN. I'll check it out. I still want Chapo to do this, though. I know it is hard, they are (or were) comrades in arms, but Taibbi's heel turn is just breaking my heart. Only seeing Christman go MAGA would hurt more.

Noah McClellan

Big Head Mode in Real Life-Biederman 2028

Here, Try This

I was told by a Parisian that even if you are getting out of your car to yell at someone for backing into you a “bon jour” is expected to precede the yelling

GG Allin Dulles

He's an ex marine iirc which explains a lot

Robert Sayre

Right. In the American mind, it is "I don't want to bother them." In the French mind, it's "disrespect." It seems cheesy in American English, but to them, you treated them as less than human. Then, they are in fact rude.

Kinetics Video

Location, location, location. First thing they tell you in the business

Michael

“Nothing like funding an army of battle hardened psychopaths and then betraying them.” That sounds more similar to the Bay of Pigs than 9/11. Trump should make sure to avoid convertibles.

Snooder87

The thing to understand is that "modular" homes is just a fancy name for "factory built". He's not talking about cookie cutter suburban tract developments. He's basically saying "mobile homes are cheap to make, we should be doing more of those to keep housing affordable". And yeah, there are benefits to doing that, but it's also generally not as cost effective as people think. We've been trying to do it since the 70s and it seems to come in waves every decade or so, but it always seem to just run into the basic problem that building stuff on a real plot of land is unique to that plot of land and requires enough customization that whatever savings you get from mass production in a factory get wiped out by the additional customization you need to do on site compared to just building it there in the first place.

Michael

The Quebecois can’t get no respect.

Jason Yungbluth

I'll check that out. I actually met Taibbi in Buffalo when I was younger and was pretty starstruck for a long time afterward. I've always thought he was the funniest and most honest reporter of his type... to see him sharing a stage with Charlie Kirk makes me want to deliver my own personal version of President Bartlet's rage against God!

12345

Seems a little unfair

T33ny

Fuck Ezra Klein and fuck technocratic fixes for political problems

Oliver Clozov

how many times are they going to try to rebrand neoliberal supply-side "doing anything but tax breaks for businesses is impossible" economics

etienne

I listened to his stupid podcast TK News for a summer while I was bored while he was still kinda being an edgelord about it and not fully deep throating the boot yet, so it's a bit personal to me too

Jason Yungbluth

I just can't believe how ponderous and unfunny his recent shit is. I used to live for his takedowns of Tom Friedman! At this rate he'll be writing a column for the Babylon Bee.

Ian H. B.

"We need more granularity" what a winning sentiment lol

safetyconesavior

The problem lies on whether the Treasury and central banks have been speculating on the market with the expectation of the gold being there. Economist Michael Hudson explains this well

J

Felix coming in very correct with the adderall comment on Jimmy Anschluss I think. The famous John Mulaney cocaine interview with GQ was also described in the preamble as a “wide ranging conversation”. Journo speak for gacked out interviewee.

Jaime Christley

when it gets to the guy being into the blockchain, me in my car and Felix on the mic uttered the same "okay...." at the same time and with the same timbre

Craig

Rep. Itchyclause was spittin'

Stim Scrounger

lol isn’t Ft Knox like a classic History Channel thing?

Curtis Dyer

Need the Auchincloss segment on the YT channel

Jonathan Hill

No it’s definitely ga-lego in his case

Jonathan Hill

Just read his wiki after listening to that segment and got even more scared

Robert Sayre

Haha we can consult Reddit for the word "Llama": https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/wv60ac/if_ll_in_spanish_is_pronounced_with_a_ylike_sound/ I know, because I can speak Spanish, but still screw this one up. Like "agua embotellada" is "agua embo-teh-yada", no "L" sounds. The "Gallego" pronunciation did grate, as that's the easiest variation to catch. American English speakers think it is like wall/ball/call/tall, but that's not how it works in Spanish. You can get this one right without overdoing it, like saying "San Francisco" in a Spanish accent like a dork.

Davis G

Can someone teach Felix’s stupid ass how to pronounce “Gallego” please? “Gal-uhh-go” sounds like nails on a chalkboard.

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

some sort of second-person non-specific is a neo-pronoun whose time has come. (l suppose "one" kinda fits that bill now that l think about it)...

justdave

The clash rule.

etienne

im a huge NUMTOT myself and it pains me to see it represented that way. I still think theyre good policies on paper but it's bringing a torque wrench to the bazooka fight

Daniel Marchant

Jake Anschluss is "my" congressman so listening to Felix and Will mock his nonsense was very gratifying. He's bad in that Mayor Pete way. A Marine in Afghanistan, a Republican from 2013 to 2015, and he looks like a flattering police sketch of Jared Kushner. One of his "grand projects" was a US-Israeli facility dedicated to researching AI and he proposed it via a speech generated with ChatGPT. He has a district office in the same building as my primary care so walking past the sign is a nice little test of how well my blood pressure medication is working.

drizzly_november

Surprised Will didn't mention Jake Anschluß is related to Hugh D. Auchincloss, who was stepdad to both Gore Vidal and Jackie Kennedy.

burglerian jihad

isn't 'modular housing' just living in shipping containers?

Joe’s fat head

Nah, stick with it. Makes me think of the classic arcade game.

Joe’s fat head

Fucking lost it at "let's see how much saltwater an eastern European can drink."

Joe’s fat head

I mean if AI can translate it into Mandarin...

Gabe

Acid Marxist beat Chris to it

fredbaroque

Coming this summer on Season 6 of Blowback!

Agent Grange

The only people who will vote in the 200,000 person election will be the 200,000 civil servants in Felix's Department of Busibodies.

Davis G

I usually enjoy his many mispronunciations but this one just bothers me for some reason

K H

I absolutely love when Felix interviews people and it comes to how money flows around. Then we get to know how the pentagrams are made.

Alice Pooper

I saw Mélenchon in Paris once before a protest (a tame one). I was eating at a pretty bobo restaurant - brunch vibe- and he looked at me and I felt disgusted with myself

Adam Foster

“Charter cities” are an idea capitalist economists had 20 years ago where they said “hey guys, what if we just built Hong Kong in the middle of nowhere? it’s regulation that made Hong Kong what it is today right? nothing to do with geography and sociopolitical history of course, just tax law”

Shawn

The wife of Spain's prime minister was also accused of being trans. The PM threatened to resign, allegedly because of the attacks on her, and then just said "nah".

James Kirkland

Not sure, but that was the band Gojira

Kauai

I unironically believe the Brigitte Macron transvestigation and also that they are Macron's dad.

Chubby Justin

I think auchenslosh sounds like an extinct flightless bird species

Chubby Justin

A cost disease on both your houses!

Chubby Justin

Some ideas for new gimmicky phrases for economists to coin: Cost disease demand poison Currency feedback Halloween scarcity

THEKILLERWHALE

There is a lot of truth here. A lot of otherwise sympathetic people are a bit turned off by Melenchon. To me, that video of his arrest was one of the most successful political takedowns ever. There is a clear before and after with his support and it was precipitated by an illegitamate use of state power. For me, you should not imbue politicians with more virture than they deserve. Do not expect much and you will not be disappointed. So I do not think he is the savior, but I disagree with this switch out Melenchon with a younger version that has all of his positive traits and none of his negatives is a big ask. He has a lot of intangibles, rhetorical power included and every politician has their baggage.

DS

Just rediscovered this relevant gem about soon-to-be wifi-connected vat-grown human husks who willingly give away their vision and futures to capitalists like Elon who seek to destroy all institutions and strip everything down so only the profit maximizing imperative remains. Brilliant, Matt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMTPshmRWYY (I couldn't get into the France discussion, but strongly support the right to do nothing in peace).

Hudson

I see what you're saying. I'm personally sympathetic to Mélenchon. And I can see why American or otherwise Western Lefties would champion him. He doesn't pull any punches with his rhetorical flourishes and he's objectively hilarious, esp at his most bitchy. Unfortunately, it's safe to say that the French have heard enough colorful speeches, and for centuries now lol. And sadly, beyond the consummate smearing from every corner, there is a fair amount of human, physical repulsion to him, even among French lefties. (I think it has a lot to do with his eyes that bug out when he gets exercised by some maddening issue, lol.) That's why I say he should find a younger prettier face, and take a step back. It's largely superficial and dumb as hell, but the upshot is he just isn't well-enough liked. Of course, he will never do the pragmatic thing and that's why LFI will remain the 'crazy far-left opposition party'. Meanwhile, the oratory prowess that the FLEP boys kept raving about is simply not a huge commodity here. It's kind of a 'yeah, we've heard it all before' sort of thing. But maybe that's just among the Frenchies I roll with.

AbeLinkin

Not necessarily. Manufactured housing is actually getting pretty good

stronghammer113 v2

modular home= Trailer house. they want Americas Khrushchevka to be the Trailer house. i mean with the rural nature of America it kinda works. but that overlooks the fact that trailerhouses last like 30yrs tops. build an actual modern Khrushchevka you dumb motherfuckers

AbeLinkin

You might be right, but modular homes can be made well

Max

I want to tell this guy about glorious Plattenbauten.

vimproved

I love the idea that there are Obama -> Trump -> Biden -> Trump voters. Like damn, some people stay winning

king_von_diesel

Blowback, s15: "it really seemed like peace was at hand. Zelenskyy and Putin were speaking via back channels, and it was clear nobody wanted this war. But along came a spider..."

Karim El-Hayawan

Love how Chris was completely cucked when he told them the word was "Anschluss". Like he wasn't even there.

justdave

Before you make fun of the French for being judgmental, grab your balls and smell your hand. Ya, that's what it's like for them ALL DAY

Karim El-Hayawan

My french is pretty bad and even I fucking hate the quebecoise accent. Fuck them.

Jeffrey

Joe Kennedy died so Jake Auchtism could run

Ontario Guy

When traveling I love asking people in tourist areas who their least favourite tourists are. French Canadians and Israelis pretty much an even #1

Mark Schneider

Winning by losing! I voted Obama the first time. Then none of the above ever.

yea

I listen to Chapo while I grind mining in old school runescape

etienne

that guy is literally Numbers Fuckstein from the comic

John Cameron

Jakub Auschenschloss is an expired store brand Trudeau shipped to the United States Democratic Party in error. We apologize for any hardship this may cause

justdave

Damn, I voted McCain, Hilldog, Trump then Kamala (I'm Ken Bone i.r.l. ((in real life)))

Nathan

16 straight years of “omg we are so back.”

SparkSolidarity

Great episode. Flep is an amazing podcast. Solid needle drop at the end. Justice - Stress

mary catherine

“Mediterranean aggression” 🤨🤔

etienne

it's like florida, on paper ppl are more chill but in practice also more insane and gnarly

Rxk Lenderman

The Justice needledrop at the end was perfect

M

Can’t do that since Chapo basically BECAME Taibbi.

M

There is zero difference between them intentionally mispronouncing Gallego and when Trump intentionally mispronounced Kamala to whistle at the racists.

M

Yeah, how dare they exist and get invaded?

Sam

Shut the fuck up. It takes 5 minutes to read about what preceded this. Nordstream. Minsk. Maidan. They blew it!

Jason Yungbluth

"Can’t do that since Chapo basically BECAME Taibbi." How do you figure?

M

Can’t wait for Will and Felix to start obsessively riding as hard for Melanchon as they did for Bernie and Corbyn even though they’re all the fucking same: Old as shit and dependent on “activating” voters who never turn out and don’t even really exist so they always get their asses kicked electorally.

Simon

I like the riff then interview format.

Chapo Bath House

RIP David Graeber. You would have loved slapping the shit out of Rep. Auschwitz

Ana

There is a Halloween scarcity imo. Not enough days out of the year to binge horror films and eat way too much pizza and get hammered on beer. Beer and Pizza Socialism for the People!

TSL

"fell for it again" champions

Ana

Government-funded community health centers are already a thing in many places in the US, and they fucking suck. I had one misdiagnose me with something very serious back in 2012 because they ignored my medical history and it resulted in me being prescribed meds that gave me a grand mal seizure so bad I went temporarily blind afterwards. Also, Republicans just defund them when they take office because only poor people with no insurance use them. So many of Auchincloss's ideas are shit that already exist and suck. Confirmed he's out of touch old money btw - third down on "Notables": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auchincloss

Alex

My French boyfriend has always said it’s pretty well known in Paris gay circles that Macron is gay and Brigitte his beard. I heard that long before the “Brigitte is trans” train began chugging along

Ana

Remember when the DSA people chanted "oh Jeremy Corbyn" at their convention in 2017? What utterly cringey shit. And Melenchon had a rep for being to Corbyn's right at that time and using conservative dogwhistles (which apparently he stopped doing at some point over the last 8 years? Or we just don't care anymore because everything has tacked so far to the right we can't tell?). I swear no one ever learns their lesson.

VAN Fan

There’s no compelling alternative approach. And did it not work well in Mexico?

Zach Pierce

Well sometimes technocratic fixes are necessary but for sure a big FAH Q to Ezra Klein.

Zach Pierce

Ezra’s pod was good/aw-haw. It’s no good. Listen to it aw-haw. It’s not good aww-haw-wah.

Chapo Bath House

Big ups to Chris leaving in all the Felix flubs ~5:00

zona

Economists are calling it "cost disease." It's where a thing is important so you can't trust a bullshit robot to do it.

Brian Mulligan

Dunno if you realise chapo featured in FT letters a few weekends back. You were puffed up as a left podcast alongside trueanon and Adam friedland I think. Fame - what's your name?

Elai Kehler

love that Felix’s butterfly net policy has evolved to a gentler “fake bullshit department” policy

Chris

The Macron's wife theory is from Sleepaway Camp

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

I like it when Felix talks about Foxtrot, it makes me feel heard

thicchatlogan

Corbyn had a ton of genuine enthusiasm and then got ratfucked by a joint effort between Labor/LibDems/Tories/the UK media class to smear him as a virulent anti-semite and Bernie had serious momentum in 2020 to the point where he also got ratfucked by Obama telling the non-Biden candidates to drop out and close ranks around him. Acting like both of them had no shot from the outset is just doing the liberal establishment's work for them and setting that aside it's totally ahistorical.

Natalie

The hoops democrats will jump through to avoid obvious solutions (socialist policies) is so maddening

thicchatlogan

they should skip all the other shit and just lobby to establish a special tax-exempt zone like that but it's only one lot with an unstaffed post office that every fortune 500 company is allowed to list as their legal address for tax filing purposes

kallampero

The voters exist, they turn out, they are conspired against by a corrupt DNC and electoral system. The proof of this is everywhere. You drank your own kind of Kool aid if you think otherwise. See Nevada 2020. Ffs...

Patrick Carroll

Melenchon summed up the new Congo war very simply by just saying “Rwanda is invading the DRC using American and European weapons and technology”

J P 3

Rep. Anschluss's housing program sounds like another version of Kamala Harris's student loan forgiveness program or her black entrepreneurial investment program built around subsidized loans. e.g. things with a lot of administration that almost no one will qualify for. These are programs that not only won't win a single vote, but which might actually lose votes. A "radical" idea in housing would be to do what they have done in Vienna, Austria and expand high-quality social housing (e.g. "public housing"). However, Anschluss is putting forward a housing program that is just another way of subsidizing developers and finance in the hope that some of the benefits will trickle down to home buyers. If the goal is to solve the problem of affordability and homelessness market forces will never solve the problem. Markets do not function if everyone is able to have a home. The market system is only maximally profitable when some people are priced out. This is true of housing and health care, which is a reason that we need universal, not-for-profit, public programs.

Alberto Limon

Oh brother, I could not be payed enough to give a single fuck about France.

zona

Their whole job is to create those hoops (and then beckon anybody who might be interested in socialist solutions through them by pretending there's a little treat in their hand)

Chapo Bath House

The fetish for means testing is the most spreadsheet brain shit in the world. Like, I have the same thing wrong with my brain where I actually like filling out the long for census, but I put my belief in the fundamental dignity of human beings above my weird hobbys. These nerds need to get a hobby and campaign on policies that 1) normal people can understand, and 2) actually make people's lives better

Antipaganda

Huh. Never thought eating crayons actually made you insane.

Antipaganda

Chapeau Domicile Le Maginot.

Antipaganda

Bonjour, I am going to fucking kill you

Matthew Golden

Captain Chaos was Dom DeLuise's alter ego in Cannonball Run

Patrick Jones-O'Brien

Vienna doesn't have a state-owned construction company. The way they are keeping housing cost down, whether paying for social housing or tax incentives, is subsidizing development!

Quadabyte

We will be selling bitcoin to the Vex and using the Travaler to create the Final Shape of the universe, we will see great progress once the goverment stops punishing such great minds such as Clovis Bray.

Sarah Anderson

Somebody on this app, please start brainstorming.. give the idea stunted Dems something to work with.

etienne

you still need to put 95% of the zoning code in the trash if you want to do Epic Red Vienna and on that yimbies are right

ohnoitsthefuzz

You bitches keep Quincy's name OUT your fuckin mouths 🦎

Alberto Limon

Mexicano, cabrón. A la verga Francia! Todos mis compadres odian a Francia.

zach

la maison blanche! it's feminine! that's like french 101

Jordan Wisniewski

Louis Auchincloss was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell during WW2. This family has some real ideas.

Patrick Carroll

Soy estadounidense y odio colonialism francés, pero no la espiritu de revolucion de la gente francia

king_von_diesel

That family has a designated walk-in skeleton closet.

fratthew

justice stress 10/10 outro pick, just gonna skip all guesswork and thank chris wade for that one

Austin V

Great episode made greater by the Justice outro

S

Appreciate the Stress drop

ALR

The stacked-up-trailer parks from Ready Player One

ALR

Gojira - Mea Culpa, written & performed for 2024 Paris Olympics

Eli

Is don Jr. still alive

No Relation to Henry

I want to note that birthright citizenship isn’t unique to the US. Most countries in the Americas (Colombia being a major exception IIRC) have birthright citizenship, as do several countries outside of the Americas.

No Relation to Henry

The bit about Brigitte Macron makes me want to start a French QAnon where the conspiracy theory is that the French deep state is controlled by a cabal of elites who aren’t pedophiles.

Matt D

Biotech isn’t sewing people together you fucking cavemen

Kevin Jay

Does anyone have the translated video

Bradlei Smith

Is that Perturbator in the outro?

Pierce

It was a bit about nazi “biotech”, which is why he followed up with “how much salt water can eastern europeans drink” you caveman

Pierce

Ahhh nooo don’t use pretty words nooo

Jonathan Nathan

Hagar the Horrible is my favorite Felix running gag

Ethan Bachrach

Brace has some stiff competition for the "Liberal Hitler" moniker

S

Justice

Aiden

Anybody have a link to the Melenchon nationalization of time speech? I want to find it but don’t parle franch

Tyler Sutherland

shoutout for using Gojira's olympics song as a drop

etienne

certified correct housing opinion

Paul Nakis

Than Achlutz guy sounds like he’s suggesting something out of a Phillip K Dick novel: decentralised collectivisation, but with no change to the logic of free market capitalism and hypertechnology. Has anyone ever ready a Martian Time Slip?

Paul Nakis

He’s one of those lefty Nazis that Hitler offed in the Night of Long Knives, the kind of guy who thinks we could use sterilised Black Rhinelanders as eunuches to run the decentralised Newspapers.