Chapo Trap House (ft. Matt Hongoltz-Helting) - Analyzing The Libertarian Bear Town

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @scootermcdee111
    @scootermcdee111 3 года назад +60

    Why don't you let your guest finish what he's saying instead of constantly cutting him off all the time and interjecting your own ridiculous uninformative reiterations. So annoying...and your not funny.

    • @connorl9546
      @connorl9546 3 года назад +136

      It's a Chapo interview that's what they do. If you want the raw uncut stuff stop whining and go read the book or article for yourself. If you even have the attention span for it.

    • @mdgraller
      @mdgraller 3 года назад +48

      They're podcasters; their job is to literally talk and not every podcaster is also a good interviewer. Two different skillsets.

    • @frenchmontana961
      @frenchmontana961 3 года назад +3

      @ don't be dumb

    • @frenchmontana961
      @frenchmontana961 3 года назад

      @ what is a spa

    • @frenchmontana961
      @frenchmontana961 3 года назад +1

      @ are you like 43?

  • @Annieisnthome
    @Annieisnthome 10 месяцев назад +6

    “It would seem to me that somewhere in between 'Live free or DIE' and 'Famous potatoes' the truth lies...probably it's a little closer to famous potatoes.” - George Carlin

  • @Dingusberry400
    @Dingusberry400 3 года назад +73

    the donut lady is the libertarian twin peaks version of the log lady

    • @Hkhkgkh
      @Hkhkgkh 3 года назад +10

      Libertarian twin peaks where sheriff Truman lives happily ever after with his asian wife josie Packard

    • @Dingusberry400
      @Dingusberry400 3 года назад +3

      @@Hkhkgkh Dude lmfao yes

  • @alexcypher4794
    @alexcypher4794 3 года назад +118

    How many Chapo guests look almost exactly like Will Menaker?

    • @mitchhosking5599
      @mitchhosking5599 3 года назад +36

      it's like when pet owners get dogs that look like themselves.

    • @alexcypher4794
      @alexcypher4794 3 года назад +5

      @@mitchhosking5599 Who almost bark like their owners too.

    • @ClibanariusJJ
      @ClibanariusJJ 3 года назад +17

      Hahahaha, hell yeah, dude. The Will Menaker FEV dip vats.

    • @ProbablyJules
      @ProbablyJules 3 года назад +11

      What a beardie white guy with a bad hairline? How many Chapo fans look like will menaker?

    • @alexcypher4794
      @alexcypher4794 3 года назад +1

      @@ProbablyJules We've gotta get a survey of that

  • @jakiethedwards724
    @jakiethedwards724 3 года назад +335

    Libertarianism, the ideology that falls apart the minute you introduce roads.

    • @crappozappo
      @crappozappo 3 года назад +122

      The road to libertarianism is paved with.... never mind

    • @TheVFXbyArt
      @TheVFXbyArt 3 года назад +38

      @Nicholas Needham private trolls

    • @jakiethedwards724
      @jakiethedwards724 3 года назад +25

      @@TheVFXbyArt no that's how they deal with bridges.

    • @JStack
      @JStack 3 года назад +66

      “The privatization of Roads and Highways,” which is the book they always reference, still calls for a government to enforce the rules and settle disputes between private entities. The actual payment is proposed as a RFID tag you get on your vehicle and pay for everywhere you go “fractions of a penny per trip.”
      When asked about who cannot afford it? “Well that’s the government’s fault, if it weren’t for the increased indirect overhead of government intervention leads to more costly private services.”
      They legitimately believe if you’re poor, you not only deserve to be poor, but need more impoverished standards to motivate you more. Fuckin lunatics. Was a waste of a read

    • @jameswilliams9104
      @jameswilliams9104 3 года назад +32

      Oh, the irony. All those Roman ruin avatars, and yet such a hatred of roads...

  • @garygrinkevich6971
    @garygrinkevich6971 3 года назад +62

    I'm imagining this story told in a wes anderson format: scene: beautiful homes in a pristine glen two homes symmetrically framed with an old lady shooing a bear into her neighbors window with a handkerchief. a paper boy rolls down a gravel road, throws a perfect toss and is violently snatched and drug into an overgrown ditch, a snowy haired bill Murray looks on from his porch uninterested in the child's screams of pain, he checks the revolver on his table and counts the rounds before placing it down and resuming reading his paper.

    • @lucyross5478
      @lucyross5478 2 года назад +1

      Omg. I am simultaneously afraid of you and want to hang out with you.

  • @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
    @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 3 года назад +142

    more libertarian dunks, pls

    • @Trafffic1092
      @Trafffic1092 3 года назад +16

      truly my favorite genre of content

    • @420JackG
      @420JackG 3 года назад +20

      It's very low hanging fruit

    • @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
      @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 3 года назад +12

      @@420JackG fun, too

    • @RenegadeSparks
      @RenegadeSparks 3 года назад +15

      @@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 the funnest/funniest part is when the libertarians all show up and try to debate people and try to act smug when everyone just mocks them and doesn't take them seriously

    • @weewee2169
      @weewee2169 3 года назад +4

      @@420JackG
      low hanging fruit that dominates political attitudes and subjugates us all

  • @josephkolar3443
    @josephkolar3443 3 года назад +73

    I knew a guy who said he was a libertarian and also that his main political concern was fighting climate change.

    • @treyebillups8602
      @treyebillups8602 3 года назад +20

      I would love to hear his justification for this stark contradiction

    • @romanmanner
      @romanmanner 3 года назад +31

      @@treyebillups8602 Most people lack a cogent worldview. His buddy is no different.

    • @bills.prestonesq.5905
      @bills.prestonesq.5905 2 года назад +2

      Which thing won out in his head in the end?

    • @Gum_Cuzzler
      @Gum_Cuzzler Год назад

      I’m pretty sure Jesse Ventura said he stopped identifying as a libertarian because he realized they were all indifferent to climate change; either thinking it was a hoax or just not a big deal.

    • @michaela8194
      @michaela8194 9 месяцев назад

      It's amazing how people compartmentalize their logic.

  • @jayfeather4710
    @jayfeather4710 3 года назад +91

    Real talk though, imagine being a *lIbertarian firefighter*

    • @GuyWithTriangle
      @GuyWithTriangle 3 года назад +34

      Near the end of the Roman Republic, one of the richest men in Rome was Marcus Lucinius Crassus. He was a property baron, but the way he acquired property was cutthroat. He owned a fire brigade, and whenever a building in the city caught fire he and the brigade would show up. But before they attempted to put out the fire, Crassus would tell the building owner he would only put out the fire if they sold the building to him. The longer the building burned, the lower his offer would be. After the fire was put out, he would spruce up the building a bit, and then sell it back to the original owner.......for full price.
      So there's your answer

    • @mikelopez9071
      @mikelopez9071 3 года назад +19

      Just let the fire do it's thing bro, it's natural

    • @shaunjohnson4174
      @shaunjohnson4174 2 года назад +1

      A quick way to ensure you are made redundant

    • @Waldemarvonanhalt
      @Waldemarvonanhalt 2 года назад +1

      That's kind of how firefighting companies came about. They would have bidding wars in front of burning Roman buildings.

    • @bills.prestonesq.5905
      @bills.prestonesq.5905 2 года назад +1

      @@GuyWithTriangle Also had a very ah... metal death. Maybe.

  • @Daydreamerputtosleep
    @Daydreamerputtosleep 3 года назад +17

    This guy really sounds like Vince Gilligan. Also you gotta love a man with a hearty laugh

  • @BBQAndButter
    @BBQAndButter 3 года назад +40

    LOVED this book. I really like this guy's writing style.

  • @Greasyspleen
    @Greasyspleen 3 года назад +28

    Libertarian firefighter? I suppose his wife is a libertarian librarian?

  • @ymirs4400
    @ymirs4400 7 месяцев назад +3

    Turns out the bears don’t follow the “non aggression principle” and don’t bother entering into a contract with people before they eat them 🐻

    • @BarackLesnar
      @BarackLesnar 3 месяца назад +1

      i do not consent to gettin ate

  • @TheRealMattKronik
    @TheRealMattKronik 3 года назад +70

    Let the bears pay the Bear Tax, I pay the Homer Tax.

  • @LowescC
    @LowescC 3 года назад +18

    "what do you mean before the bears came..?"....( yeah, it does sound kind of cryptic ....in New Hampshire )

  • @johnlewtas6833
    @johnlewtas6833 8 месяцев назад +2

    my family used to own the only other thing this town is known for-- Ruggles Mine: an open pit mine that was turned into a tourist attraction. i grew up going here a lot as a kid. there used to be, along the main drag of the town, across from the country store, a little rise featuring some picnic tables. it was affectionately termed "hippy hill" because there would always be some holdouts from the 60's stopping there on their motorcycles. they haven't been there in years. i still have family in the state, so I pass through every now and then, and grafton as a whole seems pretty dead compared to what i remember.
    finally, my family finally decided to sell the mine and it was bought by, i understand, one of these free-staters. despite being a beloved family-friendly tourist attraction, this guy is trying to turn it into some kind of compound. they really fucked up the town. it's totally different from when i was a kid 20 years ago. it was never destined to be the jewel of New England, but cmon, don't just do this to a town that doesn't want it.

    • @berdyderg900
      @berdyderg900 7 месяцев назад +1

      Incredible 'castro took my family's estates' energy here

    • @johnlewtas6833
      @johnlewtas6833 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@berdyderg900HAHAHA that's really funny. i can see how it'd read like that.
      it was hardly an estate, it was a very modest operation that barely turned a profit. it was a big hole in the ground they charged admission for. all of the valuable materials had been extracted long before it my family came into possession of it. as i understand, we just bought it off the original owner once because it wasn't valuable anymore. my uncle who would come up with crazy get-rich-quick schemes just had the idea to turn it into a tourist attraction. if you've ever been to up that way, you'd understand immediately it's a pretty depressed area of a state that's already a shithole.

    • @johnlewtas6833
      @johnlewtas6833 14 дней назад

      @@berdyderg900 ha! hardly an estate, it was a business that barely broke even, but i see how it would read like that lol

  • @K0RIEDAWAY
    @K0RIEDAWAY 3 года назад +14

    Grafton literally sounds like the first city I built in the SimCity game available for the Palm pilot. I was 6 then

  • @BarackLesnar
    @BarackLesnar 3 года назад +19

    okay we're one second in and i need to stop: the place is called "grafton"? home of the graft? this was all inevitable

  • @fatwatermelonz
    @fatwatermelonz 3 года назад +8

    Excellent book too

  • @FreyaEinde
    @FreyaEinde 3 года назад +23

    Look if it ever comes out that bears are just people who got turned that way by an ancient witches curse I ain't gonna be surprised. They are so bizarre.

  • @BNardolilli
    @BNardolilli 3 года назад +20

    Hongoltz-Helting sounds like the name of a White Russian general

    • @harmreductionman4474
      @harmreductionman4474 2 года назад +1

      You didn't know? Gen. Hongoltz-Helting led the charge to free the captive Romanovs from the Bolsheviks with his innovative "facts and logic" offensive. He failed miserably when the Red Army won the debate by pumping him full of bullets.

  • @omegasmesh
    @omegasmesh 3 года назад +7

    I remember reading the article but didn't know chapo did a segment on it cool

  • @pokemongo-up3rq
    @pokemongo-up3rq Год назад +9

    I feel like libertarians would lose a war to a particularly cunning group of house plants.

  • @disk0__
    @disk0__ 3 года назад +18

    Will talks to thic Will

  • @CzolgoszWorkinMan
    @CzolgoszWorkinMan 3 года назад +10

    donut lady welcomes new bear overlords

  • @jaspershepherdsmith9047
    @jaspershepherdsmith9047 3 года назад +9

    I was thinking about this this morning, acid man

  • @subversivelysurreal3645
    @subversivelysurreal3645 3 года назад +10

    …off topic but i recalled Betsy DeVos talking about certain schools keeping guns on hand, ‘in case of bears’ 🤣 (it’s been a while, so correct my, kindly, please, if i’m wrong on that.)

    • @terrycrichton
      @terrycrichton 3 года назад +7

      Well she was specifically referring to semi-remote Alaskan schools, which isn't really a weird idea in itself, but she was then suggesting this in reference to the broader conversation of preventing school shootings, which is in fact bugfuck nuts.

  • @lucyross5478
    @lucyross5478 2 года назад +6

    Just finished this book. Some people aren't meant to live among others. I feel so sad for the people who already lived in Grafton, and had their lives offended by these folks. The very thought that multiple people were attacked by bears simply because residents refuse to make agreements honoring the safety of other human beings and animals is just beyond comprehension.

  • @YouMuttonhead
    @YouMuttonhead 3 года назад +30

    libeartarians

  • @justcommenting4981
    @justcommenting4981 3 года назад +16

    I miss Virgil

  • @zlanj3693
    @zlanj3693 3 года назад +5

    a bear in grafton NH??? SHOCKER

  • @marcusmalone
    @marcusmalone 3 года назад +36

    The fundamental drive of the Trumpists isn't freedom in the broader sense, it's specifically the freedom to be reactionary bigots.

    • @YOSSARIAN313
      @YOSSARIAN313 2 года назад

      These guys do not like the state at all. Republican or Democrat. These guys are the weirdest of the weird

  • @hiimakeboxes
    @hiimakeboxes 2 года назад +18

    I’m a lifelong New Hampshirite and this state is chock full of libertarians, it’s goddamn awful

  • @icarusearthbound
    @icarusearthbound 11 месяцев назад +1

    Let the bears pay the bear tax, I pay the homer tax

  • @willdenham
    @willdenham 3 года назад +1

    "We're here, we're clear, we don't want anymore bears!"

  • @d.w.stratton4078
    @d.w.stratton4078 3 года назад +22

    Libertarianism is the greatest political logical fallacy.

  • @grantmitchell4057
    @grantmitchell4057 3 года назад +9

    Does anyone remember which episode Chapo debates a libertarian?

    • @connorl9546
      @connorl9546 3 года назад +3

      Are you thinking of the Mathew walther episode if so he’s not a libertarian but a catholic reactionary. Just look up chapo Mathew walther. Otherwise I don’t remember them ever debating anyone.

    • @grantmitchell4057
      @grantmitchell4057 3 года назад +2

      @@connorl9546 That's it. Bless...

    • @garygrinkevich6971
      @garygrinkevich6971 3 года назад

      @@connorl9546 the guy from grumpy old men?

    • @IndieGinge
      @IndieGinge 3 года назад +1

      Their "interview" with Robbie Souve is what you're thinking of. I forget the episode number but it's their only other hostile interview besides them dunking on Matthew "Anal sex is equivocal to punching a baby" Walther. From what I remember it kinda sucked compared to the tradcath fight.

  • @beeswillinherittheearth5084
    @beeswillinherittheearth5084 3 года назад +19

    If you ever have a problem with bears going through your trash just squirt some dish soap on it.

    • @justcommenting4981
      @justcommenting4981 3 года назад +10

      "is this bear rabid, or just extremely clean?"

    • @beeswillinherittheearth5084
      @beeswillinherittheearth5084 3 года назад +11

      @@justcommenting4981 lol I mean over the trash. I grew up in an area with many black bears and they hate it

    • @garygrinkevich6971
      @garygrinkevich6971 3 года назад +11

      Plot twist: bears now violently crave the sweet taste of dish soap.

  • @52flyingbicycles
    @52flyingbicycles 2 года назад +3

    Talk all you want about libertarians but we all know
    #bearsdidnothingwrong

  • @JohnDoe-jq4re
    @JohnDoe-jq4re Год назад +9

    I knew libertarianism was brain dead, but it’s nice to see it fail practically

  • @terrycrichton
    @terrycrichton 3 года назад +3

    This is like the libertarian version of the Münster Anabaptist rebellion, yet somehow even dumber.

  • @stephendedalus9878
    @stephendedalus9878 Год назад +4

    Lol a libertarian firefighter.

    • @comingupooo
      @comingupooo Год назад +1

      "House on fire huh? Well here's my rate. It is a bit steeper, seeing as how you didn't buy into the insurance, but we do have a number of payment plans..."

  • @martinschwanebeck7586
    @martinschwanebeck7586 3 года назад +7

    Hrm, wonder why Virgil wants more places with less harsh laws, on, just randomly picking, Age of Consent

  • @fokii9880
    @fokii9880 Год назад

    Rapture speedrun challenge

  • @5686darryl
    @5686darryl 3 года назад

    A YO!

  • @AdrianMendoza23
    @AdrianMendoza23 2 года назад

    Insanity

  • @MyEyesWithin
    @MyEyesWithin 2 года назад +3

    Right libertarian community: you get bears in your town.
    Left libertarian community: manage to hold them selves against tyrannical pro neo liberal government. (Ex: Chiapas, Mexico. Rojava, Syria.)

    • @Taurox220
      @Taurox220 Год назад +1

      What neoliberals were the Rojavans fighting against? Literally their whole survival was based on political and military cover from Western neoliberal governments.