846 - Sundown of the Erdtree feat. Dave Weigel & Ettingermentum (7/2/24)
Last week’s stunningly bad debate and a few shocking Supreme Court rulings have rapidly taken the 2024 Presidential Race into relatively unprecedented waters. We’ve assembled the CTH election unit of reporter Dave Weigel and analyst Josh aka Ettingermentum to survey the state of the race, Joe Biden’s quickly diminishing outlook, and potential surprise outcomes that may lay ahead. Plus, key tips and tricks to master your playthrough of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
Find Dave’s reporting at Semafor here: https://www.semafor.com/author/david-weigel
Find the Ettingermentum newsletter here: https://www.ettingermentum.news/
Comments (141)
Felix stop spoiling Elden Ring
Trash episode. Messmer wasn’t that hard. Do better Mr. Chapo.
Hillary Clinton is the only person ever to lose to Donald Trump.
great episode now i have to go listen to the donna brazille minion book one
alltimer episode
Best satire so far, I have to say. A bunch of C-list shit-libs discussing internal court politics in light of a brain-dead emperor was fire! Loved the wonderful bit of self-gaslighting when one of the characters said that "the more people knew about Biden the more they liked him," and that Biden has a had a relatively uncontroversial presidency. The perfect matter-of-fact delivery and tone are what sold it for me. The last bit , though, about how the adult thing to do is just accept day-drunk Kamala as the steady hand on the wheel in the face of burgeoning global catastrophe, was fucking cherry! Death of Stalin levels. Hats off to the masters, mates!
I know, i wish they had you on to talk about doing epic leftist praxis instead!
Great lineup, great ep.
Nothing made my heart drop into my stomach more than when Felix said that Trump winning reelection wouldn’t be the end of the country. I love you guys but you have a… record with predictions.
Felix is an oracle wym
Obviously fuck RFK Jr. but let's be honest here. The whole eating a dog thing isn't the silver bullet they think it is, if anything undecided voters will see him do that and think "Oh, he's wordly. He's not afraid to sample the local cuisine."
I’m probably alone in this but wouldn’t mind that Kamala unburdened quote in every intro lmao
I just realized this is The View with personality, good opinions and no visuals.
I'm more and more of the opinion that the sicker Biden gets, the more enthusiastic about him I am. Trump wins, he seems spry enough to last 4 years. Biden limps across the finish line? Both of them are probably out of our lives before 2028.
One stop shop of 1/4 of my current interests nice
“...Ahh, it's over... ...My Sun...it's setting... ...It's dark, so dark...” - Joe Biden
My advice to Biden would be to enact summary executions as official duty of the office. Start with anyone on the Supreme Court with ties to Jan 6th or what ever. Then same for Congress and Trump. Literally a get out of jail free card they handed him.
3? That's not even mass murder. If Biden weren't so feeble, I'd bet he's do it. But, alas...
RFK Jr is our Connor Roy
Nice Pilkingtonesque use of "squoze"
Monkey's paw: biden steps down, the party pokemon goes-to-the-phone and gives us 2016.
The bidens are bunkered down, jill is feeding the most lethal multivitamins she knows to her sleeping adult children and in-laws, Biden has a pistol
kamala sucks and this joke has gotten old
well yes he is very old but did you know that trump!!! would be even older!!!
not American but living on the other side of a very long undefended border dealing with our own right wing of grift and manic threat have to say your country is looking wacko but not the usual impressive version of wacko more the horrifying psychopathic version with AR-15s … utterly reckless …
Canada sucks
The fact that it wasn't mentioned makes me wonder if I'm misremembering this: Harris dropped out of the 2020 primaries *before voting began* ...like so unpopular she didn't even wait to see if she got votes.
it's completely incoherent logic, kamala has virtually the same unfavorability rating as joe biden
my two GOATs on one episode???????
Great ep, felt like a classic. In the past this would've been a classic Matt ep, hope hes doing better.
I’m bad at lore so I assumed the hornsent were a colonized people and supported them. Oops
These guys are morons. Bad run of guests.
Harris speaks like the titles for shoegaze songs.
Post of the day
I live in Pennsylvania. I cannot vote for Biden this November due to his Gaza "policy". I will grit my teeth and vote for any other Democrat, excluding Fetterman. Make of that what you will.
That is milquetoast af
Biden could be in a coffin on Election Day and they’d wheel him into the precinct in Delaware to vote for the cameras. He’s not going anywhere. Until he does, I guess
Eating dog makes no sense because you had to feed it meat in the first place just to get shitty predator meat in the end. A pig will turn vegetable scraps into bacon.
The "meat" can be really shitty animal protein like fish cleanings, feathers, all of the stuff that even the chinese won't eat even if it made their cock bigger and harder.
Duh! Blazing Saddles ending we all make AI strawmen for ourselves to bot a steady stream onto Facebook/IG/“X” of how terrified we are about… the election/all OTUS’s whatever meanwhile we all start going outside and slowly we all begin to have a friend or two If we could do that… The rest is easy. We don’t need representative democracy anymore but we should deep fake it until they are all dead. Same with the stock markets corporate media etc etc
I absolutely did not understand that ending.
“Biden was dead: to begin with.”
On the 4th of July, Kamala will be visited by three talking coconut trees
It sets a terrible precedent for whistleblowers and journalist but thank god Julian is free. If you didn’t support his release and charges that Trump brought against him being dropped then you’re not a real leftist. Just a Hillary bot.
Felix is pro dog eating. Bold stance
Don’t knock it till you try it
As an American who has actually lived in South Korea for years, the periodic freak-out about someone eating dog will never not be hilarious, glad Felix knows what's up
The Eli Cash from the Royal Tenenbaums moment from the libertarian candidate would have two definitive reactions, one from people who experimented with psychedelics, who would have a flashback of a traumatic/awkward moment where they uttered those words while on psychedelics in an interaction with a square, or squares who would think “what kind of way is that to act?”
Fuck it Tony Evers for Prez
Mark from Radio War Nerd keeps getting back to it but: this is literally worse than late soviet Gerontocracy. the guys are even way older than Brezhnev
He was only 75 when he died!
a hearty Movie Mindset RIP to the great screenwriter Robert Towne - THE LAST DETAIL, CHINATOWN, SHAMPOO.
So much soybantz in the beginning I thought I was listening to The Flophouse
"Cringe is part of art." -Matt Christman
Joe needs to get some scadutree fragments FAST
What can unburdened be, what has been unburdened can be. What has been unburdened can be, unburdened by what unburdened has been.
Biden keeps waking up with pennies on his eyes and flying into a rage while Brett McGurk tries to explain Continuity of Government
Death to America
A wish, a curse, either way it's coming true 🙌
Wasn’t Rectenwald the guy who sued Amber for calling him Rectumwald?
Better political analysis than both the NYT and WaPo. I'm glad that they are offering real political education for their young fans. Weigel is a DC legend and Ettengermentum is the progressive inheritor of Ezra Klein's beat.
What
I think on July 24 when Netanyahu speaks to congress. The dem and republican leaders will step up and announce Bibi as the bipartisan candidate. And from now on all Israeli pms are officially also us president. As it was always meant to be.
Yes but from then on more official, with a crowning ceremony, where Ben Shapiro the pope of the Jews puts the crown on Bibis head. Followed by antizionist Jews dropping to their knees and handing in their Star of David necklace, or their hats, and being sent to gtmo for antisemitism .
The obvious answer to the Biden's stubbornness is for the Dems to support Republican efforts to impeach and convict Biden. Preferably before the convention.
Waiting for a new Chapo normally= 😕 Waiting for a new Chapo while trapped in our exponentially heightening hellscape= 🤤 Right after listening to a new Chapo normally = 🤭 Right after listening to a new Chapo while in hellscape = 🥹 Right after this new Chapo = 🙂↕️ ❤️🩹 heavy Wisenheimering with a deliberately light sprinkle of expert facts and opinions. Floss Latino
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At this point i give Biden a 60% chance of holding on, but if he fucks up the abc interview on friday he's dead
Tv voiced journo guest was not a great fit for the pod
Barfsack ending his support tweet with a hanging, no punctuation “joebiden.com” is one of my fav parts of this saga
Can you blame him? I wouldn't want to deal with this shit either
The Democrats really are the only ones who could panic about having no candidates with national popularity (aside from Bernie), nominate Biden as some kind of safe placeholder who passes the baton to the next generation of leaders, then spend the next 4 years NOT PASSING THE BATON so that by the time 2024 rolls around they have to wheel out the world's oldest candidate because they still don't have a replacement.
"dont tell ruth bader ginsberg to resign, its fate - dare i say The Will of God? - that we are privileged to witness such fortitude in the face of advancing age... and anyway its all trumps fault"
Unleash the Bidenseeds
Twitter manifesting a Kamala 2024 campaign in real time
I'm always listening to Hell of Presidents Chris
Very bold and brave for chapo to dedicate an entire episode to sounding like the New York Times
man wtf happened. i wake up the day after the debates and everyone is scrambling to be team biden just to spite the NYT? Sorry but a broken clock is right twice a day. Y'all have lost your damn minds
ngl i thought from the name it was anothe d&d episode and i'd have been on board for that
I want to go home… And Edge (to this podcast)
Ettingermentum’s radio voice is very improved, much more expressive and relaxed. You love to see it!
Mimic tear can't help, Joe's build is garbage and I highly doubt he has the mind to call it anyway. He could summon phantoms, but can you imagine how much HP that would give Trump?
Biden definitely does not have 60 vigor
you've been invaded by dracula flow biden
Biden would make a great Finger Reader Crone.
If Biden resigned today, can't Kamala just run as the incumbent? What am I missing?
She’s goofy as hell and the Biden family probably still hate her after she went after Biden at the debates in 2020.
Great episode. But when did they talk about the Supreme Court?
That’s the fun part, they basically didn’t
The Ettingermentum and Weigel combo. Hell yeah
S-L-O-P SLOP! SLOP! SLOP!
the best meat's on the floating rib
The intro had me cackling
Felix needs to clear his throat before the show. The milky gargle is supremely disgusting.
He's laquering his entire insides with vape juice.
Dress, Check. One Gallon of Lube, Check. Fuck-Machine-5000, check. Giant 12 inch black dildo, check. Guys I’m ready to listen to my bi- weekly Chapo 😎
im sitting in my some assembly required sex swing kit from burn after reading
Does Felix support my reliance on arcane/bleed build or am I not a real guy now?
Admitting to using a bleed build in 2024 is like admitting to being a diaper fetishist
Glad that the boys are pro-summoning
Alternate title: Shadow of the Coconut Tree
I'm only 4 minutes in I hope this whole episode keeps up the Elden Ring schtick
Just switch out trump’s Diet Coke for full strength Coke already and kill that pos
Extra long red tie so he trips and falls down the stairs.
Make sure you all sign the Mohg apology letter
I can't beat any of the giants in the first area of elden ring
chunks of dead DNC in the slop fo the week
Been waiting on my slop all day and folks, I'm eating good rn
Joe Biden looks like a Fromsoft NPC at this point, fair enough
May Biden incinerate all that divides and distinguishes.
Can NVDA just buy us already
25th
Sick Kingdom Hearts reference in the title. No doubt Felix came up with it
I still say Weigels name the exact way Trump did that one time. "Dave WHYgel, who is this guy? Very unfair, fake reporter"
Joe is currently in the Oval office holding a cardboard sign CAN PREZ HAZ IZE KREAM?
Oh, so it's just brain freeze?
Keep Ettingermentum coming back!
I’m going to listen to this sitting in my Nissan, nude, waiting in line at a Wendy’s drive thru
I already listened to this sitting in my Subaru, clothed, waiting in line at a Wendy's drive thru
I have NEVER fallen out of a coconut tree
Frank Biden is Joe but wider I hate it
Joe Widen
Kamalamaxxing
Give us the Kamala DLC you cowardly Dems
Welcome back Weigel
Was hoping ettinger would come on after the last week
Slopdrop
When's the real beltway garage coming back?
One had a stroke and the other turned out to be Asian Matt Gaetz so
The permanent oligarchic autocracy is now official and not just a vibe
That's what gets me about commenter's in here like Sparky. You've got multiple generations that have walked by the fact that their state perpetuated,, or they themselves were beneficiaries of the political economy, of a global holocaust to turn the world into a workcamp for their quality of life, but the highest court confirming the head of state is a above the law is a bridge too far?
Let’s gooooo
Huh
Is this episode of Chapo trap house podcast spoiler free
This is going to be an all-time great episode
Power lineup 🫡
BAYLE! VILE BAYLE!
Nice
oh also kinda nice to put together a guy who spent his time on the trail going like "welll I'm talking to some Concerned Parents from Wisconsin and the Trans Bathroom issue could come into the balance this season" and a guy who spent like 17 articles about how badly the Trans Bathroom Warriors keep losing their elections
the Exxon ruling is real like ripping the copper wiring out of the wall hour lol. You know how the FTC isn't doing anything about robocalls? that's going to be everything now. Have fun!
"agency capture" is already a thing, business + lawfirms are currently in the revolving door with agencies and congressional committees... i guess this reflex ("decision") is another tool to make sure the right people get what they need from govt... also, now the judges and their staffs are directly part of the grift