Chapo Trap House - The Recent Obama Interview

from episode 529, "Friendscape Navigator."

[@dbarker7794]

"JD Vance is at 6 percent in the race for Senator from Ohio." Happier days.

[@gray8692]

AndroidPolitician walked so that AcidMarxist could run

[@youmaboi5279]

The Harris vs Vance election prediction was pretty close

[@robbibittybob20]

Obama: You still don't know what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Ezra Klein: You admire it? Obama: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Ezra: Wow, so you think you were in over your head when dealing with the Republican senate?

[@willknowsright9615]

hell ya dude. Ripley saw the signs

[@lukemadrid5711]

Id like to think Obama does DMT in his mansion on Martha’s Vineyard

[@michaelcoutts9470]

"we're all just atoms floating on a speck of dust in the cosmos. And that's why money is important."

[@minivergur]

I like how the Carl Sagans cosmos theme was playing when Obama was explaining his cosmic nihilism

[@PDXVoiceTeacher]

It was so fantastic.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Also just sad that he has to figuratively zoom out that far, to move the conversation away from the fact that he was a lame duck president from day 1

[@JT-nr9vl]

I enjoy that Felix calls JD Vance for president at 20:15

[@marcuswalters8093]

"We've got to treat each other better because we're all we've got." He's quoting All Star Superman.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

I can see Obama as a nihilistic cosmic supervillain. Anti-Man.

[@SeanMintus]

Popeye’’s and Burger King staged a chicken sandwich war while being owned by the same company. That’s politics, folks.

[@chaotickreg7024]

Remember that it only worked because people bought into it. A lot of capitalism's problems only exist because unfortunately people buy into it. Funko Pops are like collectible bits of garbage but people buy them.

[@yodabaki970]

What the fuck is a chicken sandwich war?

[@yodabaki970]

@Rainer wouldn't help I'm not American don't really know what popeyes makes. I looked it up after asking that whole thing seems incredibly stupid.

[@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677]

Dude, that chicken sandwich war was set up? Jeez they got me

[@ram_s_d27]

@@yodabaki970 charlimentarian just called for one

[@alexcypher4794]

When Matt talks about how people in politics, once they know that by getting into political office they don't get to actually affect anything, devolve into serial narcissists who can do nothing but talk about themselves, apply it to the rest of society, and it strikes me: it's almost as if not having any power or agency weakens you, degenerates your character, and makes you into a wreck.

[@mcmasters1484]

I agree that everyone who wants the position is a narcissist but to say they do nothing is a exaggeration

[@stevem.o.1185]

@@mcmasters1484 The US president is and always has been essentially a figurehead, much to Bush and Obama's chagrin. They definitely tried to extend executive power, but they didn't succeed. The fact that the USA is the only thing Trump has ever "controlled" yet never fully tanked basically proves it. The real power lies with the house, and it's sick that everyone complains about politics, but statistically almost never vote out incumbent senatorals/congressions. And you can't even vote in/out Supreme Courterinas. It's almost like votes mean nothing.

[@neomcdoom]

If you are like upper middle class or above you have power and agency over your own life.

[@alexcypher4794]

@@neomcdoom And Obama and the other presidents are far above that station, yet they seem to do nothing but spectacle. Their "power" never leaves this realm even as it serves as the vehicle for the interests of their class.

[@Baseballnfj]

@@stevem.o.1185 yeah.... a huge fucking problem with Congress is that congress refuses to use its extreme power because then they'd have to do something. Fucking Roe v. Wade should have been codified into law by Congress a long time ago but they'd much rather punt on those wedge issues and force the Supreme Court to handle it. The SC was not meant to decide social policy for the entire country... many Democrats love having the Sword of Damocles dangling over abortion rights in this country. It gets people to the polls.

[@serdirtbagoftheleft4045]

“Obama why did you bomb those kids?” Obama: I wanted the republicans to think I was cool, :(

[@stopculture]

“In the grand calculus of the multiverse, their sacrifice means infinitely more than their lives.”

[@kylecameron3459]

Hearing them talk about Kamala Harris and JD Vance in 2024 is wild.

[@user-fs9qf3py9o]

Too on the nose lmao

[@aes0p895]

seriously trippy

[@NobuhikuObayashi]

All those drone murders

[@MrEzuma]

That's freedom baby.

[@RedSntDK]

2009 Nobel peace prize 🏅 btw.

[@AWildBard]

It's weird that, after 8 years of the Obama presidency, most people don't know who he is or what he stands for.

[@blackdog9698919]

Hope and change, of course. I was only interested in Obama because I believed he was campaigning on universal healthcare. When that never actually materialized I stopped caring about him. I have liberal friends who still worship Obama, though, and it's really pitiful.

[@theotherdude1998]

​@@blackdog9698919 who asked?

[@beebgegegeg-xr3cm]

@@theotherdude1998 I’ve never seen someone ask this on a KZbin comment 😂 You’ve broken my brain

[@TheRedKnaveLP]

Going off his auto biography he's for Bi-Goth Girls and Calling Pete Buttchug gay and short.

[@tactictoe]

​@@theotherdude1998I did

[@OrinLinwe]

There is something particularly pathetic about being an ostensibly smart journalist, who is still young and physically attractive, but who - despite those advantages - lean fully into the kind of sycophantic pseudo-work that tends to mark the twilight-career of a "has-been, formerely great" reporter.

[@91gamble31]

LMAO beautiful

[@shanedurban]

I think you are being a bit harsh on Ezra. He is a smart guy with a big brain, and also not a dilettante. Ezra is a bit square but not in a David Brooks way.

[@zhiguli8]

That was the job description. MSM isn't looking for Ben Norton.

[@Kelvinian]

@@shanedurban That's damn charitable description for the guy who was inexplicably in love with Paul Ryan.

[@shanedurban]

@@Kelvinian Well, I don't know anything about that, but we need to be realistic. Chapo is really funny, but they are pretty nihilistic and don't exactly offer any ideas about governing (not that they are meant to) and are pretty all over the place in terms of who they attack. I also dont really think they go at Ezra too much here either, cant really remember. Ezra lives in the real world of politics and has to operate in it, he is not a too cool for school guy wearing sweatpants making a podcast. I love Chapo and think they are very funny and smart, but they are basically out of touch rich kid comedians who say whatever they want. I'd like to see them go after Matt Taibbi and his hypocrisy. Ezra is not the problem. IF you have ever listened to Ezras podcasts you will know that he is without a doubt the most sober minded and prepared interviewer out there. He is policy guy and that is job, and he does know what he is talking about. Anyway, good banter.

[@emic621]

Ezra Klein lookin like Adam Friedlander lol

[@orphaneduk5672]

It's just Adam in disguise

[@noidontlikeu]

@@orphaneduk5672 it's Adam doing his best impression of Cool Adam

[@Erwin.Clayton]

Hell ya dude

[@pokemongo-up3rq]

Banks:(Puts gun up to their own head) "gimme everything you own, or the old man gets it!" Obama: "This guy's serious, America. Just do what he says!"

[@PostYourJaggahog]

The 'AM' of the AM supercomputer in 'I have no mouth and I must scream' actually stands for Acid Marxist

[@from_each_to_each_1848]

This hits different in 2024 now that Kamala is the presidential nominee 💀

[@januaryloyd8932]

obama go on chapo challenge

[@akkai3588]

20:15 is insane lmao

[@kyelemoler]

not a single word about the 5 wars he started.

[@rivera229]

Chapo talks about it all the damn time. Just because they don't talk about it this one time, you get suspicious?

[@kyelemoler]

@@rivera229 No. It's just a podcast.

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Obama was president for eight years (or, as a popular right wing meme inexplicably puts it, "over seven years"). It's hard to give an exhaustive list of all his misdeeds in 34 minutes.

[@billytitus1519]

Call of Obamathulu

[@feydrautha012]

I'm going to vote to "accelerate the endgame" from here on out. Thanks for the providing that valuable direction, Obama!

[@Baseballnfj]

Accelerationism seems like pretty rock solid logic to me!

[@feydrautha012]

@@Baseballnfj Yep, that's why we're expanding fracking and offshore drilling. Gotta get to that endgame, baby!

[@Eamonshort1]

Unfortunately with neoliberalism the endgame accidentally results in most of us dead so they kinda check mated us there

[@feydrautha012]

@@Eamonshort1 Well, that's the joke, which I should have explained to Thomas here-there is nobody to vote for, at least in the final -R/ -D general election, that isn't the accelerationist choice.

[@kylemeyer2139]

I like them calling the Springsteen Obama podcast lol

[@villedocvalle]

He is just another corporate ghoul

[@feydrautha012]

A bit more powerful though, I'd say a ghast rather than ghoul.

[@KenWenWinPow]

Lol Felix's laugh at the end is unhinged

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

Barry O was perhaps the most inconsequential president

[@superchroma]

He liked his drone strikes.

[@HarryS77]

William Henry Harrison? John Tyler? Grover Cleveland? JFK? Millard Fillmore? Come on.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

Wouldn't say most inconsequential. He did draw a lot of white supremacists out in the open. If McCain or Romney had won their elections against him, I doubt we'd have ended up with Donald Trump. Of course, that's hardly his accomplishment.

[@noidontlikeu]

@@HarryS77 JFK by virtue of getting killed did more than Obama

[@alanfulcher460]

We are the mediocre Presidents, you won't find our faces on dollar or on cents!

[@yellowbeard1]

Listening to Felix rant about how JD Vance is going to eat shit in the election is hilarious now but to be fair I thought the same thing. JD got the Trump endorsement and that was enough

[@matthewgarrow6982]

Insightful. You may now enter the 7th chamber my children.

[@freelance_commie]

Has that been photoshopped? He looks like he’s wearing W Bush’s wax mannequin face.

[@conor2439]

Barack Whosane Obama

[@KingGiganTitanusROARKing]

Uhhhh uhhh uhhhh together

[@codyboone3658]

is that adam F with obama?

[@maryfolles1168]

Thank you AcidMarxist ive been binging all these videos for the past week.

[@AegisEpoch]

13:34 an unfortunate truth that victims of smearing campaigns can attest to, is that people appeal to the power structure for convenience and often lie to themselves about the necessity to do so. obama's failing here can be just as easily said for the 2016-2020 left's lack of direct outreach to gerrymandered communities in the forms of things as basic as rides (we lost key elections in districts where energy could have been singularly focused) and overfocus on placating conservatives temper and edge lording about not calling trump supporters dumb or racist, alienating the most consistent demographic thats, at least for the time being, the back bone of anything the left would want to accomplish, all of which resulted in more votes for trump by those placated conservatives in 2020.

[@tomrobbins5242]

The only thing missing in this analysis is the squad's role in the sham. I will assume it is an unintentional oversight.

[@rf3471]

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!

[@thinkoutloud2144]

2:01

[@idklol4197]

Virgil groomxas

[@chriskp]

No support for healthcare? Tf was the affordable care act?

[@romanmanner]

A shitty compromise that made ALL insurance more expensive, for everyone, while ensuring people couldn't sign up for it with websites that didn't work.

[@williamjameslehy1341]

A shittier, more right wing version of the healthcare scheme Mitt Romney came up with a few years prior. I.e. fining poor people for not buying obscenely overpriced private health insurance they can't afford.

[@joleaneshmoleane8358]

It amazes me how perceptive and smart chapo can be about stuff like this, but then TOTALLY buy into the identity politics being used to distract us today. They’re so right on some issues and yet have completely stupid takes on other issues.

[@blankblank2370]

Wdym?

[@ChewyThomson]

Such as

[@hegaliandialectics4289]

by subscribing to identy politics do you mean that all their lingo and calls to action aren’t centered around revolution?

[@lancenichols3542]

Legitimately curious as to what you mean.

[@mtlewis973]

hate to be an echo in a cave here but this is fairly indecipherable

[@ryanking7532]

Is this supposed to be funny?

[@williamjameslehy1341]

What do you find funny? Jim Breuer and Greg Gutfeld?

[@ryanking7532]

@@williamjameslehy1341 who?

[@Oceanmachine27]

No, this is incredibly serious sir

[@varanaut1308]

Chapo guys are just tankies who reflexively dislike their neoliberal superiors.

[@grapeapetape9132]

Jessie what the fu k are you taking about

[@TheDiskoPanda]

Sigma male detected

[@logicNreason2008]

Brian Kennedy? More like Lyin' Kennedy, amirite

[@orphaneduk5672]

Pretty sure they dislike Neoliberals because they are Neoliberals

[@alexcypher4794]

>"Superiors" Imagine accepting Ezra Klein as your superior

[@czechmeoutbabe1997]

Holy shit Prophetic Felix Biederman at 20:30 predicting JD Vance vs Kamala