Chapo Trap House - The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

PRAISE FOR THE CHAPO GUIDE TO REVOLUTION

I havent had my worldview exploded by a political work like this since reading Millies Book in 1992.

Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author of Silver Screen Fiend

The raucous dirtbag hilarity of the Chapo crew sometimes masks the fact that they reliably provide some of the most incisive, sophisticated, and thought-provoking political analysis found on any platform. Their book is as intellectually serious and analytically original as it is irreverent and funny, and it deserves substantial discussion and all of the gushing and angry reactions it will inevitably provoke.

Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author of No Place to Hide

In my day, it didnt take fifteen goddamn people to write a book. Nevertheless, this was an exceptional, funny, and entertaining read. Howard Zinn on acid or some bullshit like that.

Tim Heidecker, coauthor of Tim and Erics Zone Theory

Garrote sharp, acerbic, smart, inventive, and truly laugh-out-loud funny, The Chapo Guide to Revolution feels like it was written by the offspring of the shotgun marriage of The Onion , Howard Zinn, Dorothy Parker, Bill Hicks, Noam Chomsky, and Jonathan Swift. If they all got together and fucked and had one baby, I mean. I LOVED this book.

David Cross, New York Times bestselling author of I Drink for a Reason

Perhaps in Victorian England a spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down, but in the hellscape of contemporary American politics, the Chapo Trap House crew does well to swap out sweetener and deliver its punchy political analysis with a big dose of snark, wit, and lolz. Lovers of the podcast will revel in righteous takedowns and scathing portraits of galling political self-interest, while newcomers to the brand and veterans alike will enjoy the frank and funny introduction to the contemptible political players, online feuds, Marxist themes, and partisan blood-letting that are the grist of the Chapo podcast, and which have made it a site of catharsis for an entire doomed generation.

Briahna Joy Gray, senior politics editor at The Intercept

Finally a book that explains why I shouldnt like Matt Yglesias. And so many others. All the monsters we encounter online have been laid out and torn asunder in spectacular fashion. This book is like those fleeting moments of the Chapo Trap House podcast that have clarity.

Dave Anthony, coauthor of The United States of Absurdity

PRAISE FOR CHAPO TRAP HOUSE

Intolerant Vulgarians.

The Federalist

Aggressively masculine.

Jamie Kirchick

Juvenile guys with one lady who trash people and talk about obscure and sometimes gross topics.

Joan Walsh

Conveys a hunger for dominance and submission.

The New Republic

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This book is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.

F or two years now, youve been asking, Who is Chapo Trap House? This is Chapo Trap House speaking. We are Chapo, a podcast that loves life, coffee, doggos, bourbon, and intelligent debate. We are the podcast that does not sacrifice our love for those things or our values. We are the ironic pieces of shit who have deprived you of victims and thus destroyed your world with your own logic. If you wish to know why youre perishingyou who dread knowledgewe are the gang who will now tell you.

If youre reading these words, youre likely living in despair and hopelessness. Youre fed a steady diet of thin, flavorless gruel by your leaders, your parents, fake friends who love drama, the fascist mods on Erowid and r/celebritytoes, the lying sheeple news media, and, most especially, all previous works of political satire and comedy. You find yourself in the dumbest of all possible worlds, clowns to the left of you, Re-thug-licans to the right. And the president? How about... NO. Like a veal calf, you sit in your crate, every day growing sadder, softer, and more delicious, thinking, Theres got to be a better way!

Friend, were here to tell you that there is a better way: the Chapo Way.

This is the beginning of a journey you will never forget. In this book, well survey the blasted landscape of contemporary American politics and culture through our scientific ideology of irony, half-baked Marxism, revolutionary discipline, NoFap November, and posting on the Internet. Youll become an initiate in the Chapo Mindset and take control of the neurons that govern your weak, fragile emotions. You will experience success, probably for the first time. You will learn to live your life on your terms. By buying this book and all its affiliated content, youll improve your health and fitness, have stronger relationships, straighten your posture, purify your brain chemistry, and gain more focus. Your children and ex-wife will respect you.

In addition to desiring to become a Brain-Clear Alpha Silverback Gray Wolf, youre probably also interested in politics, and in taking a sideways glance at the news through the lens of satire. Maybe you became politically aware one crisp, clear Tuesday morning in September, when you got the day off from school; you noticed your local GameStop clerk had tears in his eyes as he waived your late fee on Tom Clancys Rainbow Six . Perhaps around the time America decided to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq, you had an inkling that living in the End of History wasnt going to be as utopian as promised. Maybe after John Kerry reported for duty at the 2004 Democratic Convention, you felt a brief twinge of patriotic embarrassment followed by a bone-deep sense that things will never get better. Or maybe it was when you graduated from college with six figures of debt around the time the economy shit its insides out.

Its possible you briefly lost that feeling of impending doom in 2008, after the likable, cool presidential candidate defeated the old man who slept through all his flight school classes. But that relief probably vanished in a wave of Wall Street bailouts and drone strikes and a brief Democratic congressional majority that didnt even bother to pass the card check bill or push for true universal health care. Perhaps once you got a job, you realized that the payor, if you were really lucky, the benefits packagewas vastly outweighed by what work took out of your soul, as you spent your days white-knuckling it from check to check, feeling like the same idiot failure you were before you had a job. In any case, the last presidential election probably left you completely lost, tossed about in the gaping maw of twenty-first-century America. Youre just another plastic bag adrift in the ocean with no power, no future, and not even a symbolic say in politics.

More bad news: since 2016, the Democratic Partythe standard-bearer of left-of-center policies like replacing unions with low-interest Uber loans and bringing charter-school apps to Haitihas stopped even pretending to fight for you.

All this leaves a new power vacuum on the left, in which we have taken up residence. The mummies in the Democratic Party are busy trying to rebrand Clintonesque bromides like entrepreneurship and education reform, while the average, young working person is desperate for health care, free college, and a steady job that pays them in something other than Applebees Lunch Combo coupons.