Matt Taibbi Tells Shapiro Conservatism Is 'Attractive' To Young People

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  • Matt Taibbi tells Ben Shapiro he thinks conservatives are appealing to young people because "there's no sense of humor on the political left."
    Taibbi says Matt Walsh's transphobic documentary "What Is A Woman" is a good example of political comedy.
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  • @elephantman2112
    @elephantman2112 ปีที่แล้ว +940

    I think he meant to say that "conservatives are attracted to young people." Which, in the case of Matt Walsh, is verifiably true.

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      11/10 comment right here. Well freaking done, friend.

    • @davidbright6790
      @davidbright6790 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ​@@realzachfluke1seconded!

    • @arianapurisic3190
      @arianapurisic3190 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      This is funny af ACCURATE

    • @karlmonet
      @karlmonet ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Matt Gaetz is the poster boy for that one.

    • @johng.1703
      @johng.1703 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      young people or just boys?

  • @sametimesfour8024
    @sametimesfour8024 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Vampire Squid.

    • @jschnabes13
      @jschnabes13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      10/10 bravo

    • @sswwooppee
      @sswwooppee ปีที่แล้ว

      Well done.

    • @graemejclark
      @graemejclark ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I feel for Katie Halper. Saying both sides have issues and flirting with very bad actors on the right are two very different things.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@graemejclark Ohhhhh my... 🙄🤦‍♂️SMH Somebody help that woman, Katie Halper - _please!_
      People like her and Taibbi go so far left-wing, they come out on the right-wing side. I'm so sick of seeing my fellow leftists lose themselves...
      What th happened to Taibbi, _man!_

    • @graemejclark
      @graemejclark ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Jimmy1982*Playlists I was thinking sorry for her cause she got left behind. She was fired from The Hill for maintaining a left stance on Palestine, so that seems like the opposite of selling out so far.
      Also, she is a left comedian and he just said the left no longer understands humor so...

  • @geothunder1971
    @geothunder1971 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Ben Shapiro is as appealing as colonoscopy

    • @whispersmith
      @whispersmith ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Hey colonoscopies have a genuine utility

    • @elephantman2112
      @elephantman2112 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      And far less useful.

    • @acidrockpro
      @acidrockpro ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@whispersmith yeah......Ben doesn't.

    • @tenkenroo
      @tenkenroo ปีที่แล้ว +30

      As someone who has had colonoscopys that is way more appealing cause I don’t have to hear Ben Shapiro during a colonoscopy

    • @TKevinBlanc
      @TKevinBlanc ปีที่แล้ว

      Colonoscopies shut the hell up sometimes.

  • @livelongandtroll9108
    @livelongandtroll9108 ปีที่แล้ว +518

    Conservative is attractive to young people, that's why 18-29 voted 63% for democrats.

    • @noble7461
      @noble7461 ปีที่แล้ว

      Should be a much bigger contingent. That's a concerning number given conservatives offer nothing but genocide.

    • @AbrahamMeat
      @AbrahamMeat ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Also, they voted democrat not because they liked the party or are part of the base, but because it’s the less conservative of the two.

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@AbrahamMeat for sure

    • @nevink4717
      @nevink4717 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lesser of two evils is still evil. But seeing as the Republicans have gone bat shit crazy, (just like their donors want) I don’t blame em.

    • @sgtgeneweenie
      @sgtgeneweenie ปีที่แล้ว +1

      OK, Zoomers!

  • @anzumazaki7798
    @anzumazaki7798 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    conservative money is attractive to young grifters

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If anarchists paid more than fascists Benny would be screaming "NO GODS NO MASTERS" faster than he can make his wife's pissy go Sahara mode.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🎯🎯🎯💯 Exactly... they got Taibbi on a _hook!_ 🎣
      So sad. These people see most of those in politics are full-of-it, so "I might as well grab the bag of cash and get paid"... thereby becoming one of those whom are totally full-of-it! A self-fulfilling prophecy.

    • @interdimensionalsteve8172
      @interdimensionalsteve8172 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rubin, Dore, Pool, Brand, Tulsi, Tiabbi, Greenwald, Mate, Owens... who else? These people are all morally bankrupt monkeys who dipped their fingers into leftist waters, realized there was no money to be made, so they sold out to extremely lazy reactionary content pushed onto the depressingly large swaths of ideologically bankrupt conservatives online in America. The fact that this one faction (reactionaries) is where all the views and money exists in political discourse is an extremely strong indictment on the American education system and is a clear sign of the country's looming societal downfall.

    • @phanatic215
      @phanatic215 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's the game. I still look pretty young even though I'm in my late 30s. I could have a quick blexit moment, become a black conservative, and make hundreds of thousands pretty quickly. Thankfully these people have the memory of goldfish, so I'll be able to switch back and they'll forget immediately.

  • @trailerparkproduction3819
    @trailerparkproduction3819 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    Nothing says counter culture like simping for the world’s second richest man.

    • @realzachfluke1
      @realzachfluke1 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Lmfao yeah!

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Rage In Support Of The Machine.

    • @nolongerblocked6210
      @nolongerblocked6210 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tjenadonn6158 I lol'd out loud when I read this

    • @ladyvanda
      @ladyvanda ปีที่แล้ว

      WHAT??? First richest man. Musk will be personally checking if you work for one of his companies, and if you do… you should have learned how Musk wanted his boot to be sucked.

    • @The_Norse_Hunk
      @The_Norse_Hunk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What does money have to do with it? So no comment about the documents they found? The substance of the argument?

  • @dragonslair951167
    @dragonslair951167 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    No, it isn't.
    Sincerely, a young person.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Even my right wing younger brother, who should by all intents and purposes be in Trump and Shapiro's target demographic (abhors any sort of taxation or public assistance, still hasn't gotten the COVID vaccine, keep hate speech legal, the whole nine yards) doesn't vote Republican because he fundamentally disagrees with them on LGBT rights, abortion, and drug legalization and is devoutly irreligious. He would openly describe himself as right wing, and yet he does a better job of being a centrist than most centrists, who in reality are just tight wingers who can talk to black people without shouting racial slurs. AFAIK he's a nonvoter, which IMO is for the best.

  • @evac3928
    @evac3928 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Yeah, starvation wages and serial pregnancy is super popular among the youth.

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Oo, how about being alienated from their friends?
      Young people LOVE that!

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@OscarLangleySoryu Right wingers don't have friends, only co-conspirators who can and will be thrown under any and all busses that come their way.

    • @sarahbarrett1247
      @sarahbarrett1247 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not to mention an uninhabitable planet with undrinkable water 🙄

    • @cz8587
      @cz8587 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I died at "seriel pregnancy."😂

    • @pkmcburroughs
      @pkmcburroughs ปีที่แล้ว +5

      HA! Kids today! Next year it'll be surfing.

  • @blameitonthebubble5294
    @blameitonthebubble5294 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    They clearly didn't look at midterm exit polls.

    • @filipmaly6603
      @filipmaly6603 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      They did, said "It is Jewish Magic!" and get back to the EchoChamber - Home of the Free.

    • @Thetommywestphalluniverse247
      @Thetommywestphalluniverse247 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@filipmaly6603 in fairness, Shapiro blamed it on Islamic chicanery

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@filipmaly6603 that's what the lazers are for

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Thetommywestphalluniverse247 They voted through a sunroof!

  • @Dodgerzden
    @Dodgerzden ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Matt Taibi going down the same route as Dave Rubin, Candace Owens, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, and Tim Pool...who did I miss?

    • @lawrencemckeon6802
      @lawrencemckeon6802 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ru$$e££ Brand.

    • @thedissidentleftist6997
      @thedissidentleftist6997 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@lawrencemckeon6802 yup matt just was on Russel being so predictable. Typical Joe Rogan orbiters.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thedissidentleftist6997 🤦‍♂️Ohhhh my... so sad. So pathetic!

    • @deannasmith4443
      @deannasmith4443 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glen greenwald.

    • @clntmagee
      @clntmagee ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Tulsi Gabbard, Synema.

  • @atortarr
    @atortarr ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I interpret this as "oh god please vote conservative, young people. Please please please oh god the average age conservative is one foot in the grave please we are gonna lose forever soon"

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Eh, they dug their grave, now they can lie in it.

    • @atortarr
      @atortarr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tjenadonn6158 totally agree. People like Taibbi are reactionary libs because they want the status quo to continue. They make a very cushy living within the status quo. I think that's why so many liberals end up falling in line with fascism as well.

  • @davidowens2067
    @davidowens2067 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    When Taibei is saying Right Wingers are funny, he has already lost the argument. 😂

    • @jimbob3030
      @jimbob3030 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If you count how much I've laughed at them in the past several years, it's way more than I have any other group including the top comedians.

    • @HolyCanoley
      @HolyCanoley ปีที่แล้ว +10

      As someone who up until recently thought of Matt as standup guy.....I'd be really curious to know how his conversation with Ben Shapiro of all people led to this point in the conversation. What, he brings him on the talk about his Tiwtter Files...and somehow finds himself opining on the state of comedy?

    • @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342
      @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jimbob3030 That's unintentional hilariousness lol. Not actual hilariousness.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      If I had a dollar for every original transphobic joke I've heard I'd have a quarter.

    • @abortionisevil
      @abortionisevil ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jimbob3030when they try to be funny it is cringe and when they are serious it is hilarious

  • @PlanetOfTheApes999
    @PlanetOfTheApes999 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    To be fair, there is political "humor" on the right: vicious mockery of marginalized groups that encourages extremists to commit acts of terrorism against those groups. Very interesting how Taibbi never mentions this.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not to mention, isolating and instilling self-loathing into those marginalized peoples till they see no other option but to off themselves... 🤦‍♂️SMH This is pure craziness going on these days!

    • @nerag7459
      @nerag7459 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is much more comfortable witnessing sexual assault of russian girls BUT NOT DOING IT HIMSELF MIND. Just watching.

    • @SmittyDonutFactory
      @SmittyDonutFactory ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Interesting book came out in 2011 by this guy Herzog who analyzed the kind of humor going on in Germany during war years and Holocaust. The article I read focused too much on the resilience and importance of Jewish people maintaining a sense of humor etc etc but there are significant portions of the actual text dedicated to just the kind of dehumanizing "comedy" all these chodes are missing and would love to lap up with a spoon. Showed just how important the psychology of mockery and blank irony is to inculcating an air of acceptance.

    • @vinsanity40k
      @vinsanity40k ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he gave kinison as an example of a comedian he grew up on. whose contemporaries were williams, dangerfield, and carlin. none of these comics would support matt's beloved right wing. matt bemoans that comedy is too inclusive now.

    • @colonialstraits1069
      @colonialstraits1069 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Humor has to be amusing or comic. Conservative “comedy” checks neither box.

  • @tenkenroo
    @tenkenroo ปีที่แล้ว +156

    What’s attractive to young people about conservatism? The lack of universal health care or higher education? The desire to repeal voting rights for young people?

    • @gnomechomsky2524
      @gnomechomsky2524 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's no coincidence 100% of conservative media and politicians have to lie to attract voters. They have to distract from actual issues by making up fake outrage culture war issues and tricking people into voting against their best interests.

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Apparently, it’s the knee-slapping comedy of the right. The kids love to laugh!

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@KG9551 And the right has the best unintentional comedians in town. All the world is a stage, and they're the sideshow freaks.

    • @someanimefan5990
      @someanimefan5990 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny thing is conservatives in other parts of the world don't oppose universal healthcare. Only American conservatives hate it

    • @inconvenientfacts58
      @inconvenientfacts58 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The justification to force themselves on women who do not like them.

  • @cloudofthought
    @cloudofthought ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Of the takes I was expecting of him, "the left won't even laugh with a 'documentary' advocating the elimination of a group of people," wasn't one of them. Sad.

    • @cloudofthought
      @cloudofthought ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But I guess I haven't paid any attention to Taibbi's downfall.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wonder if Ben Shapiro puts on "The Triumph of The Will" when he's feeling down.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tjenadonn6158 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️SMH
      Dear lord... help us!

  • @alex9046
    @alex9046 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    you know what young people love? Doing what the old people tell them because 'it is what it is, you'll get it when you grow up'

    • @mistercohaagen
      @mistercohaagen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol deep cuts

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      What's funny about the line about people getting more right wing as they get older is that I've watched my parents go from social democrats to anarcho-socialists as they've gotten older. My godparents went from Ayn Rand quoting objectivists to Sanders supporters. It seems that people only get more right wing as they get older if they get older without growing up.

    • @jorgeenchilada
      @jorgeenchilada ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tjenadonn6158 i'd love for that to be my family. congrats.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@tjenadonn6158 So beautifully well-put! A person's capacity for compassion should grow with age - which should rule out any of these right-wing so-called "values"...

    • @littlewingmyoho
      @littlewingmyoho ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TRUE THAT ....as I've aged its wiser and more liberal because I read and learn and grow.I do love your post .Very insightful

  • @Furry-iousNews
    @Furry-iousNews ปีที่แล้ว +80

    These guys aren't talking to any "youth" and frankly that's a good thing

    • @kissstranger2314
      @kissstranger2314 ปีที่แล้ว

      I disagree, they are talking to the minority of the youth that are reactionary incels, who think that their only hope for ever getting a girlfriend/wife is using the power of government to curtail women's rights until women have no other option for survival than to become a man's property like it's the 1800's. Legalize marital rape, criminalize abortion, abolish divorce, force women out of the workplace, criminalize lgbt, promote patriarchal religion. The right-wing platform gives them exactly what they want.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ben talks to youth all the time: he has dozens of them chained up in his basement.

    • @advisorywarning
      @advisorywarning ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately that’s not exactly accurate. A lot of gen z & millennial men listen to him…. Although is it true that the large majority of his audience are boomers- hence his Facebook business model. He’s the no. 1 “news” show in that category on fbook 😞

  • @a12storyasylum
    @a12storyasylum ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I was like "there are plenty of conservatives who are funny" but then I couldn't think of any who are funny on purpose.

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว +22

      You mean Jim Bruer scrunching his face up and screaming isn't the height of comedic genius?! How dare u

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Wait… is Marjorie Greene not a stand-up comic?

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@KG9551 No, Rosetta... she's _serious_ about that stuff! 🤣🤦‍♂️
      Thanks for the laugh 😁

    • @christophergreen6595
      @christophergreen6595 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The guys who made Ghostbusters.

    • @christophergreen6595
      @christophergreen6595 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's it, tho

  • @mechanic6682
    @mechanic6682 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    'Our side of the aisle". So is he admitting he's on the right, or still pretending to be on the left?

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He accidentally told the truth. He broke the Cardinal Commandment of Conservatism, and thus shall be sent to the Pits of Eternal Wokeness.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tjenadonn6158 🤣🤣🤣

    • @based_yeoman9138
      @based_yeoman9138 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Believe he was referring to the left side of the aisle that he still, tenuously, identifies with.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@based_yeoman9138 He's left wing in the same way that I'm a Scientologist: I pretended to be a Scientologist for a week at summer camp when I was in sixth grade despite not knowing anything about the beliefs of Scientology, and I have never been a practicing Scientologist in my life.

    • @based_yeoman9138
      @based_yeoman9138 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tjenadonn6158 it's a broad tent.

  • @ravagingwolverine
    @ravagingwolverine ปีที่แล้ว +47

    When matt taibbi twice said "our side of the aisle" while praising matt walsh's movie thing, I got "Hey, fellow kids" vibes from it.

    • @PatrickPierceBateman
      @PatrickPierceBateman ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you know millions of American children are taking hormone blockers? Matt Walsh told me.

    • @georgecrumb8442
      @georgecrumb8442 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the interview, he says he means the "old left" -- the ACLU, pro-free speech, civil liberties, due process. You're referring to the "new left" which espouses authoritarianism, manufacturing identity grievances, attacking people who criticize you, and generally being a childish asshat.

  • @timothy9874
    @timothy9874 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I used to think Taibbi wasn't a shill... clearly I was mistaken.

    • @chah80
      @chah80 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Me too. Greenwald & Dore always seemed like they had a screw loose, but I thought Taibbi was solid (until now)

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I really do believe this is a recent transition for him. Maybe the last 2-3 years. His work before then stands the test of time and is still quality journalism.

    • @BH-fi1sb
      @BH-fi1sb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      recognizing the problem is the first step to a solution. congratulations

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't feel bad, Timothy... you weren't the only one. I mean, I got fooled by _Bill Maher,_ for goodness sake! Let alone Taibbi...

    • @maxsmart9116
      @maxsmart9116 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't get into politics until 2018, so my introduction to Taibbi was when he was on TMBS. I assumed he was more to the left than he actually was.

  • @WhtMike2006
    @WhtMike2006 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    7:36. Agh yes. When I think of modern conservatives the first thing I think of is their sense of humor.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I've legit been to funerals for babies that were funnier than the Babylon Bee.

    • @octavianpopescu4776
      @octavianpopescu4776 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a (foreign) conservative, I find seriousness to be a positive thing. Life is serious.

    • @KlausJLinke
      @KlausJLinke ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@octavianpopescu4776 _"Life is serious"._ ... especially when conservatives are in power.

    • @octavianpopescu4776
      @octavianpopescu4776 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KlausJLinke Touche 🙂But it is serious all of the time, regardless who is in power and even in non-political areas.

    • @WhtMike2006
      @WhtMike2006 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@octavianpopescu4776 having a sense of humor and taking life seriously aren’t mutually exclusive, right?

  • @RabbiJoeInJerusalem
    @RabbiJoeInJerusalem ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Matt turned 20 in 1990, and the hottest topic of the year was about political correctness. So when exactly was this overnight change?

    • @andrewkoster6506
      @andrewkoster6506 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      this "i'm being CANCELLED by the WOKE MOB" schtick is almost as old as i am, but Taibbi and other conservative fools act like this is FRESH NEW HUMOR? lol

    • @andrewkoster6506
      @andrewkoster6506 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thealternative9580 My brother in Christ, this man is working directly for the richest man in the world, for the specific purpose of advancing his conservative agenda, while complaining about the "wokes" or whatever, and you don't think that he's a conservative? lol

    • @andrewkoster6506
      @andrewkoster6506 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thealternative9580 He's working directly to advance the interests of Elon Musk, the famously right-wing richest man in the world. What more would it take to qualify as a conservative?

    • @princegobi5992
      @princegobi5992 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thealternative9580 do you know how long ago that was? You know that people’s political ideology can change over time right?

  • @Based_Proletariat
    @Based_Proletariat ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Sad to see Matt Taibbi fall so hard.

    • @kevinpoff45
      @kevinpoff45 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unbelieveable, I used to respect his journalism and opinions on many issues. Then again, I used to be a HUGE Rogan chud.

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Out of all the pundits, journalists, comedians, etc we’ve lost to grifterism and general right wing insanity over the past 7-ish years, Taibbi really hurts. His journalism on the 08 market collapse was unparalleled. I learned so much from his writing. He truly was an extremely gifted journalist. But to see him now… ugh it’s just painful.

    • @carolinemaybe
      @carolinemaybe ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@KG9551 it really does hurt.

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@carolinemaybe it’s funny because I had held out hope when I saw he was no longer on Useful Idiots as I noticed Katie Halper started going to the Dore side with Aaron Mate, etc. I thought that was because Taibbi was still principled… I was very wrong.

    • @Ashakat42
      @Ashakat42 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Taibbi has always had problems with misogyny I guess it was only time. Sad.

  • @TheeDavidDee
    @TheeDavidDee ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Matt Taibbi knows the right-wing gravy train grift is hot right now and he's not gonna miss his payday

    • @chasd9504
      @chasd9504 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Spot on

    • @shaftomite007
      @shaftomite007 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yes and he couldn't be any more obvious or pathetic about it

    • @PlanetOfTheApes999
      @PlanetOfTheApes999 ปีที่แล้ว

      Taibbi was brainwashed by Bret Weinstein and the IDW. He really is deluded enough to believe in his reactionary stances.

    • @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342
      @soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@shaftomite007 Lying was never something he was good at lol.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 You don't have to be good at lying to convince right wingers.

  • @shawnhenderson2091
    @shawnhenderson2091 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I've lost all my respect for Matt Taibi, he's done virtually all the things he wrote an entire book making fun of MSM pundits for doing, latching onto stupid threads of a non-story and acting like its a big deal when its really not, he's become just another hack, unfortunately he's a hack for GQP and Dore GreyZone types

    • @Dante3214
      @Dante3214 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I remember reading his article on the banking industry in the Rolling Stone, seems like he decided to sell out like Greenwald did. I wonder how long Taibbi can do that?

    • @donaldbarber3829
      @donaldbarber3829 ปีที่แล้ว

      His schtick for so long was that liberal journalists were too focused on Trump and shady deals with Russia instead of focusing on climate change and the economic oligarchs of capitalism. Now apparently it was woke people and Twitter they should have been obsessed with.

    • @shaftomite007
      @shaftomite007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nailed it

    • @inconvenientfacts58
      @inconvenientfacts58 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He became a hack the moment he started being a regular on The Rising.

  • @bulletproofblouse
    @bulletproofblouse ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Just checked Taibbi's age and he's five years older than me! I can't imagine the gall I'd have, the sheer unearned confidence to even think I can wade into "what the kids are into". The cultural gap between Gens X and Z is MASSIVE.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I'd go so far as to say the cultural gap between anyone who grew up without the internet and anyone who grew up with the internet is near insurmountable. This would be not just between Gen X and Gen Z, but even between older Millennials and younger Millennials. The internet fundamentally changed society in so many ways it's almost unprecedented: even comparing it to other sea changes in the history of media, like the mass adoption of radio or television, feels minimizing. I guess the closest analogue would be the generations before and after the massive spike in global literacy rates, but that happened over decades rather than the blink of an eye that was the internet.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      the emotional intelligence gap is massive is as well. Gen Z don't have any, the are incapable of thinking for themselves, just a bunce of screw ups

    • @bulletproofblouse
      @bulletproofblouse ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@stephenglover8828 Alright Steve steady on. They're in their early 20s and to be honest their future looks bleak, what are you expecting?

    • @noosphericaltarzan
      @noosphericaltarzan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are our kids. Gen Z and Gen X have much more in common with each other than with millennials and boomers.

    • @bulletproofblouse
      @bulletproofblouse ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thealternative9580 Woah, calm down there old timer! Would you like a seat?

  • @davidlegrice4207
    @davidlegrice4207 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Can we just take a moment to applaud whoever captured that image on the thumbnail.

    • @puppypoops178
      @puppypoops178 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Absolute savagery 🤣

    • @jjhammer31
      @jjhammer31 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Looks like gomer Pyle from full metal jacket

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jjhammer31 And Ben is doing his best impression of Delbert Grady.

    • @edwardkantowicz4707
      @edwardkantowicz4707 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      👏🏻👏🏽👏👏🏿👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏻

    • @penguinuprighter6231
      @penguinuprighter6231 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great skin tone.

  • @MovieEggman
    @MovieEggman ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Shapiro Conservatism Is 'Attractive' To Young People for all the wrong reasons, Ben Shapiro's reactionary rants has practically become a meme for how ridiculous he always sounds , Gen Z kids are laughing at him not with him.

    • @89joshuadavies
      @89joshuadavies ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Practicing xtians are the exception.

    • @maddii34u
      @maddii34u ปีที่แล้ว

      Like seriously 😂😂

    • @jimbob3030
      @jimbob3030 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@89joshuadavies Nothing ages people more than a 2000 year old mindset.

    • @philipvipond2669
      @philipvipond2669 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would argue that those are the right reasons.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Recently saw a YTP that shipped him with Jordan Peterson.

  • @chrismcdevitt7814
    @chrismcdevitt7814 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The moral decay of Matt Taibbi continues.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      what thinking for yourself and being objective.......morals you don't have I assume

  • @Jimmy1982Playlists
    @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Matt Taibbi has become everything he got famous for criticizing.

  • @Simouno
    @Simouno ปีที่แล้ว +55

    It's heartbreaking to think how many people that used to be regular on the Michael Brooks show turned their backs on him by selling out to the right as soon as he died and he couldn't roast them properly

    • @neygrant6329
      @neygrant6329 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      who else?

    • @tonycaballero1494
      @tonycaballero1494 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's almost like saying "it's amazing how all of taylor swift relationships end because all the guys she dates are assholes" and then you think "wait all of them? Maybe she's the asshole" I think you can apply the same logic to this situation

    • @WXVA9
      @WXVA9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tonycaballero1494 I think this is a little unfair to Michael Brooks, but I agree that his whole bully persona was questionable and didn't serve him well.

    • @slavajuri
      @slavajuri ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@WXVA9 what on earth are you talking about lol. Michael was gracious to almost anyone who even touched left-wing politics. Dude rarely got pulled into or commented on internal drama.

    • @bryna7
      @bryna7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It has nothing to do with Michael brooks...most of these people were already problematic. But, dudes on the left don't think sexism is a red flag.

  • @89joshuadavies
    @89joshuadavies ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There's no such thing as contemporary conservative art. Their comedy is boomer cringe

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There's a reason why there's the conservative film industry, completely separate and quarantined from the real film industry.

    • @steelersguy74
      @steelersguy74 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tjenadonn6158 It’s all c-grade Christian propaganda.

  • @alexc5156
    @alexc5156 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Was this just a job interview for Taibbi?

  • @davidradtke160
    @davidradtke160 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wait…there is no sense of humor on the left…ok but where is the humor on the right? Like I haven’t found any genuinely funny right wing humor. It’s not an art form that lends it self to reactionary world views and existing power structure.

  • @2nd-place
    @2nd-place ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Well to be fair I started out conservative and now I’m progressive. But I was also indoctrinated at a young age by my fundamentalist “Christian” family that have slowly and then all of a suddenly gone off the deep end of the Q conspiracy train and are so far right there is no redeeming them. I had to cut off all ties years ago for the sake and safety of my children. Some of the most manipulative, hateful people I’ve ever experienced and only through therapy have I come to realize how much abuse I’ve endured. BTW I still believe in God but it’s not the same God of these crazy fundies, who are mostly evil people nowadays.
    It’s funny though when I take Sam’s advice to talk to my grandparents (who are not so far right) about issues instead of politics they’re to the left on many issues and don’t even know it. They’re for masking and vaccines (and think it’s crazy to say republicans aren’t), they’re for public healthcare for everyone, they’re for social security, they want to make sure children are taken care of after birth instead of obsessing only over pre-birth, they’re for a lot of election reforms and things like gerrymandering, and most recently they’re for not throwing out the constitution which is a pretty liberal idea nowadays!!

    • @KG9551
      @KG9551 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m glad you were able to begin healing from growing up in a fundamentalist environment. And I’m sorry so many in your family are that far gone, it must be painful to see it. Much ❤ to you and good luck on those conversations with your grandparents, it’s always amazing to find common ground on the things that matter.

    • @icemanvamp7433
      @icemanvamp7433 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you agree with majority report your not progressing, your just a simp for democrats

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@KG9551 🎯🎯🎯💯 Hear, hear! Sad that not throwing out the Constitution has become a liberal viewpoint... normalizing this kinda reich-wing insanity feels like it was always the goal.

    • @2nd-place
      @2nd-place ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@KG9551 Thanks it has been an entire process but I just feel bad because my grandparents bare the brunt of their insanity now, in their 80s.

    • @2nd-place
      @2nd-place ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Jimmy1982Playlists It’s really strange how old old school republicans like my grandparents (in their 80s) are seen as fairly moderate today. Although my grandpa has a fair bit of hard-wired racism he still struggles with from being raised in the middle of nowhere on a small farm that had dirt floors when he was little. I think black people were seen more as competition and scape goat for any problems since he was so poor back then and everyone in the entire region was super racist (lynchings and such). Nowadays that area is just regular racist.
      The other week I explained that rent price fixing algorithm they talked about on the show to my grandpa, who is actually fairly good with computers and taught me how to build them when I was a kid, and he was vehemently opposed to it. Then when I brought up the fact that it’s “free market capitalism” which republicans love to tout, his eye bulged out of his head and his expression went blank. I feel like I’ve been slowly chipping away but the fact remains that people in their 80s aren’t going to change much.
      I need to continue to focus more on my workplace which is owned by conservatives and leans that way pretty heavily. I’ve had some conversations with my boss which I think have swayed her opinion on some things, but she has always been more willing to change than most anyone there in a position of leadership. But I have made some impacts to improve benefits.

  • @LinkRocks
    @LinkRocks ปีที่แล้ว +9

    LOL Taibbi's money men told him to go out there and try to rope in as many young people as he can. This is straight out of their playbook.

  • @gillieography
    @gillieography ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I’d ask what happened to Matt Taibbi but we all the know the answer & it really sucks.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep! We've seen it with far too many people to not recognize it now...

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Taibbi was born in 1970 and yet seems to have forgotten Ronald Reagan, the 1980's, Alex P. Keaton, "Greed is Good" and all that. Sad!

  • @CorrectFossa
    @CorrectFossa ปีที่แล้ว +29

    No one correct him, Ben’s already wasted so much money on DailyWire youth outreach

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How much money did they spend setting up Incel Edgelord Productions or whatever his vanity movie studio is called?

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      educating young men to be men and not stereotypical Gen Z wimps isn't a waste of money

  • @notrombones5041
    @notrombones5041 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Yes, it is attractive to young trust-funders, and young maga-types.
    To normal, emotionally-healthy young people? Not so much.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've been saying for years that right wingers and functional human beings are so separate as to be entirely different species.

    • @notrombones5041
      @notrombones5041 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tjenadonn6158 - Rightwingers are emotionally-damaged.

  • @VanessaB
    @VanessaB ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I could make fun of this by editing a picture of Matt Taibbi into that "How do you do, fellow kids"-meme, but then again, I'm not as old as him.

  • @beckyblueish
    @beckyblueish ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If nothing else, Taibbi and Katie Halper repeatedly expressing their love of/respect for Jimmy Dore should’ve been a tip off

    • @mikecourt13
      @mikecourt13 ปีที่แล้ว

      When did Katie Halper go Right. I am subscribed and haven't seen one rightwing bit.

  • @swissarmyknight4306
    @swissarmyknight4306 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Taibbi must have looked at his retirement portfolio and really felt that he was insufficiently capitalized. This is a $$$ sellout $$$ move.

  • @hailsagan8886
    @hailsagan8886 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wouldn't understand why. The number of people who identify as religious is in sharp decline,and last time I checked,most younger people are not rich.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The percentage of younger people who are religious is also skewing far away from right wing lines like evangelicalism and Roman Catholicism towards more left wing lines. Leo Tolstoy's works on Christian anarchism have seen an uptick in sales, the number of people identifying as pagans and Buddhists is going through the roof, and even theistic Satanism (as opposed to atheistic Satanist groups like the LaVeyans or The Satanic Temple) have become more popular.
      I dated a theistic Satanist for a while. We didn't end up going the distance, but he was a good dude and things ended on good terms.

  • @TheShamescoStillLovesYa
    @TheShamescoStillLovesYa ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I am so disappointed in Taibbi. How can he claim Matt Walsh is funny? How can he say you can’t say things on the left without examples? He has lost it.

    • @PresidentBarackbar
      @PresidentBarackbar ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not only that Matt Walsh is funny, but that What is a Woman? is satirical? Really? It certainly doesn't present itself that way. Other than the weird "this guy is so boring for talking too long" cut in that one interview and the disrespectful song choices for some of the montages I struggle to even find attempts at humor in it.

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PresidentBarackbar you can't find humor in genocidal propaganda?
      Is that what woke is?

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PresidentBarackbar Matt "If her age is on the clock she's too old for my cock" Walsh will be shocked to find out his documentary was satirical.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PresidentBarackbar 🎯🎯🎯

    • @teopalafox
      @teopalafox ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PresidentBarackbar it’s because the premise and people’s inability to respond to a simple question

  • @michaeltorris5675
    @michaeltorris5675 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    “I lost friends for that.” Taibi is the type of guy who doesn’t have friends, just acquaintances he can use as stepping stones to whatever it is he wants to do next.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right wingers don't have friends. They only have co-conspirators.

    • @hughquigley5337
      @hughquigley5337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine losing friends that you’ve had “for decades” over your promotion of a hate ‘documentary’. It’s fucking pathetic

    • @michaeltorris5675
      @michaeltorris5675 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hughquigley5337 Agreed. But my point was that he isn’t the type of guy who really has friends. Like actual friends. People with whom he feels safe letting down his guard. He is the type of guy who has a group of people he hangs out with, but none really care about him. And he definitely cares nothing for any of them.

  • @joemagarac405
    @joemagarac405 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Young people tell Ben Shapiro otherwise by ruining Ben’s Red Wave. Taibbi is such a clown but at least he no longer pretends he’s not a right winger.

    • @thedissidentleftist6997
      @thedissidentleftist6997 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fox News still try to push the lie about Matt Taibbi being "independent" with some progressive views as recently as yesterday. And one conservate author today said taibbi is old time leftist.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only red wave Ben was looking forward to: typically of a girl is old enough to be menstruating she's too old for right wingers to find her attractive.

  • @absolutfreak5012
    @absolutfreak5012 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Did Matt sustain a head injury? What happened to him? (Or was he always this way and I was unaware?)

    • @streetgato9697
      @streetgato9697 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Taibbi had always been Rightwing-y. He peaked during his Vampire Squid fame and fooled many into thinking he's a liberal. I didn't buy it. Also the time he spent working in Russia makes his association with Putin apologist Glenn Greenwald even more suspect. It's all a grift.

    • @josephhertzberg2734
      @josephhertzberg2734 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He got mildly me-tooed, and ran for the exit(hardest door on the right).

    • @Ellimist000
      @Ellimist000 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was a head injury caused by two hammers, one named "pansy-ass entitled white male aggrievement" and the other named "naked greed". Many a good righteous minds they have knocked clear out of sight 😂

  • @ET-we3yo
    @ET-we3yo ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I still see so many dumb comments on the web about ppl saying that Taibbi and Greenwald are "left wing" and using that to justify some reactionary take... It's so grating.

  • @skyty0
    @skyty0 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Why does Matt Taibbi sound like he's always on the verge of tears?

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's learned the Shapiro method of convincing right wingers to buy your bullshit.

    • @zo62
      @zo62 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s his soul and having to be on with Ben Shapiro like when you don’t have a girl and you want it badly

    • @kmac1766
      @kmac1766 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

    • @pkmcburroughs
      @pkmcburroughs ปีที่แล้ว

      Right?

    • @slavajuri
      @slavajuri ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he has some social issues. I've heard him joke about insecurity with public speaking a few times.

  • @yogisie
    @yogisie ปีที่แล้ว +54

    WTF happened to Matt Taibbi??? I remember that he once was a respected journalist.

    • @JabroneyDirt
      @JabroneyDirt ปีที่แล้ว +26

      He got Greenwalled..

    • @philhunt26
      @philhunt26 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe somebody paid him a visit? Or it could be the $. His pivot to the hard-r-right surprised me.

    • @killzone866
      @killzone866 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the money really started to rain.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@killzone866 It ruins 99.99999...% of everything and everyone!

    • @FreshwaterSquid77
      @FreshwaterSquid77 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same thing that happened to a lot of disaffected liberals; the Left completely went off the rails.

  • @sakomanlee
    @sakomanlee ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Taibbi has displayed immense courage. He went on Ben Shapiro's show, a man who has NEVER laughed, or even cracked a smile and said that the political left lacks a sense of humour.

  • @yamahkogribbis6212
    @yamahkogribbis6212 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Matt taibi discovering what other grifters learned years ago, there's much more money to be made in service to the establishment.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's exactly what TYT learned seeing how they serve the establishment

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think referring to *_The Eternal Jew_* as "a documentary", without further comment, is itself an anti-Semitic act.
    I also think referring to *_What Is A Woman?_* as "a documentary", without furhter comment, is a transphobic act.
    Does anyone want to dispute either of those conclusions?

  • @TigreModerata
    @TigreModerata ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I expected many many possible takes, weird arguments, whatever, but he comes out with HUMOUR🤣🤣🤣 let's not forget Crowder in drag - that's worth more than whatever a Chapelle ticket goes for nowadays😆i would be a lefty, if it wasn't for the amazing sense of humour on the right - that makes my blood boil just hot enough to hate all sorts of categories of people! I laughed my way straight into fascism...

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼
      _Join The Fascists: We're A Barrel Of Laughs!_

  • @shaftomite007
    @shaftomite007 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I think he must have been an early trial tester for NeuroLink.

  • @danwarb1
    @danwarb1 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Taibbi is a weird sheltered guy these days.

  • @SmartSmears
    @SmartSmears ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The idea that there is no sense of humour on the left and the right are the funny ones now is just insane. It's just absolutely ridiculous on the face of it.

    • @icemanvamp7433
      @icemanvamp7433 ปีที่แล้ว

      When they say the left, they mean the shitlib left, i.e., the majority report

    • @GarciaCornbread
      @GarciaCornbread ปีที่แล้ว

      @@icemanvamp7433 Jimmy Dore isn’t going to fuck you, dude

    • @icemanvamp7433
      @icemanvamp7433 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GarciaCornbread It's weird how your imagination went right to gay sex

    • @teopalafox
      @teopalafox ปีที่แล้ว

      The left is the joke

  • @seraph5765
    @seraph5765 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's a great point made by Emma and Matt that Matt Taibbi's excuse that "The response was so overwhelming" is garbage. Matt Taibbi has gotten into bed with some of the vilest figures on the popular right and is being pampered by them and told by an adoring crowd of fascists that he is one of the few good ones. (I imagine he is also making a tremendous amount of money cashing in on his left reputation in these venal circles.) But the volume and the tone of the response should be what is concerning when it is praising Taibbi's work promoting Matt Walsh's anti-trans hate. What these fascists most desperately crave is to be recognized by mainstream and popular media and to have their sick ideas reaffirmed in elite circles and they will pay to hear their brand of hate coming out of a figure like Taibbi's mouth. It's embarrassing to watch, frankly.

  • @shaftomite007
    @shaftomite007 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Taibi utterly lost in the sauce. Wonder what his price finally was? Bargain bin prices on credibility.

  • @LauraVee63
    @LauraVee63 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm really disappointed about Matt Taibbi....been watching him for years. A few years ago, when he was doing a channel with Katie Halper, I did a little research about both of their backgrounds that revealed they both grew up with silver spoons in their mouths.

  • @BaronCemetery
    @BaronCemetery ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Taibbi's politics seem to have become "people don't think Beavis and Butthead is funny anymore :("

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He's the personification of "Okay, Gen Xer."

  • @seanpatrick1243
    @seanpatrick1243 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Didn't Walsh prove himself to be a scientific expert on his softball Joe Rogan interview?

  • @shaftomite007
    @shaftomite007 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Anybody that ever used to listen to the Useful Idiots podcast but had to stop bc of Taibi's strange slow crawl to insufferableness knows he's been losing it for awhile now

    • @scrubjay93
      @scrubjay93 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yep, that was my experience 💯

    • @oronbaba
      @oronbaba ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here.

    • @Aud_the_Odd
      @Aud_the_Odd ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was a listener at one time as well but his takes just got increasingly shittier and now that I know he is a transphobe I hope he continues to get shredded for being a bigot.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      you mean supporting freedom and freedom of speech and free thinking, not just following the democrat party line, that's what you class as losing it do you
      you seriously should try thinking for yourself one day, you might actually learn something

    • @oronbaba
      @oronbaba ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephenglover8828 No, that’s not what I mean at all. More about him pandering to a particular audience and misreading obvious scenarios due to his own ideological bias. He himself admitted openly that he generates a particular kind of content on his Substack because it makes a lot of money, and he wishes he could go back to actual reporting, but unfortunately it is not as lucrative.

  • @TidalBell
    @TidalBell ปีที่แล้ว +21

    you know what's really important to me in regards to my politics? Its comedic value

    • @interdimensionalsteve8172
      @interdimensionalsteve8172 ปีที่แล้ว

      You a RM Brown fan? If not, you sound like you should be.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah like the hypocrisy of calling Elon for censorship when the left have been doing it themselves, that's pretty funny

    • @interdimensionalsteve8172
      @interdimensionalsteve8172 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Stephen Glover uhm, the op is an individual you know absolutrly nothing about. "The left" broadly represents tens of millions of people in America alone, none of whom you know. Do you know how stupid you sound making an argument like that?

  • @crumplepunch312
    @crumplepunch312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember Taibbi had an interview with Nathan Robinson on a podcast and Robinson asked if he would ever consider becoming a socialist, Taibbi said he wouldn't because he had lived in the USSR.

    • @sisuguillam5109
      @sisuguillam5109 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What now? If I am not mistaken he moved after 1992... which means he has no lived experience of sowjet communism (which has, of course, nothing to do with socialism).
      And why, when it was so horrible, did he go back to Russia after Usbekistan?
      Does Taibbi think people can't look up basic facts about his life?

  • @sswwooppee
    @sswwooppee ปีที่แล้ว +13

    He’s 52! Matt Taibbi aged out of saying what is and isn’t “attractive to young people” a long time ago.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️ I can't believe that didn't occur to me... he's always seemed like a teenager, despite the early-onset baldness lol!

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Jimmy1982Playlists It's like he's a small time pop punk band that has never moved on from that one time they opened for NOFX in the mid-90s, but all rolled into one person.

    • @christophergreen6595
      @christophergreen6595 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tjenadonn6158 whichbis even funnier because NOFX has evolved... Or stayed true, just grown up a little.
      Okay, he stopped drinking.

  • @patrickstreetet3085
    @patrickstreetet3085 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You can still do all the jokes they say you can't say anymore, but it's got to be a joke, not just a stereotype without any thought. I noticed they like troll humor, like oh you can't say that anymore, make a scenario, take stuff from your life, sometimes inappropriate can be funny if you have good intentions or lack of hate behind it
    . Anything can be funny. Look at George Carlin he made anything funny

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It depends what the punchline is! There is humour in every situation but if you're trying to bully humans for things they can't change, for some reason that annoys humans hmmmm

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@OscarLangleySoryu Hell I regularly joke about my own suicidal episodes and the stint I did in a psychiatric hospital (Protip: if you need to convince the people who have the power to let you go that you're sane don't start going off about Scientology and how they're proving L. Ron Hubbard right.) If you want to hear good jokes about autistic people ask autistic people, of you want to hear jokes about trans people ask trans people. Good jokes come from a place of familiarity and affection: the same instinct that siblings have of "Nobody can bully my brother except me."

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tjenadonn6158 Don't mean to praise every single comment you leave on this video... _but I'm going to!_ 🤣🎯💯
      Coming from someone on the autistic spectrum who has had to joke about some of the same things... telling psychiatrists they're (negatively) reminding you of L. Ron Hubbard doesn't work, either, unfortunately. 🤣
      The more you go thru and survive, the more you're (hopefully) able to laugh about!

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tjenadonn6158 idk, my close (cis/het) girlfriends have made some very funny trans jokes. It's almost as if having a close relationship affects your perspective.

  • @sammaelazrael6309
    @sammaelazrael6309 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm all for republican attempts to attract young people. It's a nice money pit for them to throw money in and see no response back.

    • @OscarLangleySoryu
      @OscarLangleySoryu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Be alienated from your peers! Join the Not-See party!

    • @jeffreycarman2185
      @jeffreycarman2185 ปีที่แล้ว

      The biggest drawback is that they keep flushing money down the Charlie Kirk toilet, lining Kirk’s pockets.

  • @alfgwahigain5544
    @alfgwahigain5544 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If the basis of Taibi's premise is that the right is funny, then we know he's just talking pure BS.

  • @whitb62
    @whitb62 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The last election would emphatically say the opposite lol.

  • @christopherlopez1657
    @christopherlopez1657 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What happened to Matt Taibbi? I don't remember him being this crazy.

  • @kurisu7885
    @kurisu7885 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm 37, conservatism has never appealed to me.

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      is it the free thinking that's really confusing you or just freedom as a whole

    • @kurisu7885
      @kurisu7885 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenglover8828
      Free thinking, but you believe a lot of what you're told without question, freedom, but you expect others to only use it the way you want them to.

  • @bh-zj4yt
    @bh-zj4yt ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Matt Walsh, Comedian……

    • @amyh9512
      @amyh9512 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And groomer too 👌

    • @stephenglover8828
      @stephenglover8828 ปีที่แล้ว

      anyone from the left, Comedian.........

  • @msmnews9322
    @msmnews9322 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm now against abortion, because the political left can't tell jokes.

  • @JagoBC
    @JagoBC ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my favorite thumbnails of all time!

  • @karissimpson6631
    @karissimpson6631 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that I only hear about Matt Taibbi in connection to Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro tells me all I need to know.

  • @twistfinger
    @twistfinger ปีที่แล้ว +15

    He should get a Babylon Bee reporter to do the next Twitter Files drop.

  • @asmuel
    @asmuel ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "I grew up with Pryor and Kinison..." actually means "I heard Joe Rogan say he grew up with Pryor and Kinison, I'll cite them as evidence to confirm I understand humor"

  • @yaketysaks
    @yaketysaks ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How long until Matt Taibbi is on a ‘why I left the Left’ Prager U video?

  • @karl-niclasburner8451
    @karl-niclasburner8451 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lots of identitypolitics within genderroles. Lots of guys feeling lost, left behind or just overlooked that want/need a new self-narrative. Some choose the most toxic cuz its easy.

    • @scourgeofsnackind
      @scourgeofsnackind ปีที่แล้ว

      young republicunts are born into republicuntism, they don't choose it because of any real reason besides being born into wealth.

  • @sisuguillam5109
    @sisuguillam5109 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hearing from someone who knows how Taibbi works was very interesting.
    Especially the bit about his lack of courage and his feeling of entitlement.

  • @TheParentalRevolution
    @TheParentalRevolution ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Matt Taibbi is such a grifter. No wonder Joe Rogan loves him so much.

  • @carterjackson8033
    @carterjackson8033 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The true Matt Taibbi is revealed. Working for money now more than ever. And a lot more incurious than we gave him credit for.

  • @Maddie9185
    @Maddie9185 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And to think there was a time when I use to listen to Taibi

  • @steelersguy74
    @steelersguy74 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So is Matt implying that the Walsh documentary is a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone?

  • @spockmandia
    @spockmandia ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "There's no sense of humor on the left," Taibbi says, as Ben Shabeebo stares him down like an eagle sizing up a field mouse.

  • @jonathansurovell3516
    @jonathansurovell3516 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've never before seen someone whose physical appearance and facial expressions were so indicative of midlife crisis.

  • @oo0O08
    @oo0O08 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Matt Taibbi quote tweeting Aaron Mate talking about the passing of Micheal Brooks: "Wow, this is terrible news. Michael was just as Aaron describes him, kind and funny. I'm in shock."

  • @nickrouse8426
    @nickrouse8426 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If I was walking with my kid and saw a freak like Matt Taibbi, I would cross the road. I'd walk away from that. Lol

  • @jessevilla3708
    @jessevilla3708 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Someone missed the part about the red puddle

  • @ndimuafrica
    @ndimuafrica ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The thumbnail is hilarious. LOL

  • @DrSpaceCapeTV
    @DrSpaceCapeTV ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Conservative comedy is probably the worst brand of comedy. Just look at Jim Breuer doing his Fauchi bit. I think most comedians lean left of the political spectrum. Although I do think that a lot of regular people on the left have lost their sense of humor when it comes to certain subjects that they are passionate about.

  • @FledgePaddock
    @FledgePaddock ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Matt Taibbi: "I don't know anyone who'd call what happened in 2008 'capitalism'."
    Katie Halper (probably): "was I a joke to you?"

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Literally every single left wing theorist on earth disagreed with that. What happened in 2008 was capitalism manifest.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tjenadonn6158 🎯💯 That part... Unchecked, unregulated Capitalism: welfare socialism for the richest and corporations, and rugged individualism (complete with self-pulling bootstraps!) for the rest... it's Capitalism at its (in)glorious best!

  • @rishabhanand4973
    @rishabhanand4973 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    12:14 as a great comedian once said "right. Cuz if there's one group in dire need of a challenge, it's trans people". Obviously said sarcastically.

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      James Acaster is a genius.

  • @WoziBeatz
    @WoziBeatz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What happened to Matt Taibbi? He used to be great. If only we had Matt Taibbi to report on wtf happened to Matt Taibbi.

  • @keithbertschin1213
    @keithbertschin1213 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Think most of us had Taibbi nailed a while ago

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว

      I never thought it'd get _this_ bad! 🤦‍♂️

    • @dreigivetimpoolmassivewedg7646
      @dreigivetimpoolmassivewedg7646 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm not so sure; I never liked him......i listened to like 15 minutes of his podcast with Halper once and realized what they were but just like Greenwald it seems most on the left had to be slapped in the face with his true colors to realize them.

  • @jasonphillips5393
    @jasonphillips5393 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm confused about Russel Brand's seemingly high regard for Taibbi.

    • @Furry-iousNews
      @Furry-iousNews ปีที่แล้ว +23

      He fell off the edgy and is now a full blown conspiracy nut, so it's not surprising

    • @Thetommywestphalluniverse247
      @Thetommywestphalluniverse247 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Brand’s also grifting the Conservative Conspiracy Express, it’s not surprising

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm confused about why _you're_ confused, that Brand - who's doing the exact same thing - has such high praise for his fellow grifter... Brand, like Bill Maher, is another clown who used to be funny till he took a hard right turn, and now can't get a half-chuckle outta me.
      Kinda ironic, given Taibbi's complaint about "no more humor on the left," no?!?
      There's nothing/nobody more humorless than the reich-wing horrorshow.

    • @clntmagee
      @clntmagee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude fuck Russell Brand, holy shit shouldn't even be spoken about

    • @jacquelinejohnson7699
      @jacquelinejohnson7699 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brand is another grifter.

  • @empanada223
    @empanada223 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mr. Taibbi must not have looked at or hand-waved the recent midterm elections...