Gordian, Not! | Chapo Trap House 

Mr. Chapo, again under 60 mins. I'm calling my lawyers again. All my previous legal threats fell on deaf ears it seems. You'll be hearing from my lawyers soon Mr. Chapo.

I love it when Felix reminds us that he is an MMA Bro at heart.

Let’s make the Constitution an online Wiki, editable by 100 people at a time, chosen by raffle.

I like the idea of having billionaires fight each other. I'd expand the concept to a Hunger Games style fight to the death. We just start rounding up billionaires, 24 at a time, and have them fight to the death for our amusement. Last one standing gets to keep all their ill-gotten wealth. All the losers have their estates taxed at 100%.

Another type of article can we have go are the "I'm 20 years old and I have over 5 million dollars from just saving on toilet paper and living in my parents backyard!" trash.

i’d love an episode of the show where felix just shows the rest of the gang PRIDE fights to see their shock and awe

Intro to Pump up the Jam begins, Zuckerberg lands at the MGM Grand in a UFO

Damn, this episode came out just too early to miss the most amazing Bill Mitchell tweet. He's been simping for DeSantis and basically said "Mr Trump sir, it was ME who got you elected in 2016 and i DEMAND you not run in 2024 as my reward. If you are a man of honour you will do this" 😂

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All billionaires should fight once a year for our entertainment at the Colosseum. I also think we should all chip in and make Metis the Tiger the worlds very first feline billionaire. What a cute little fatcat.

i cant find the guy who complains if the episode is less than an hour long. im worried about him

Doubt any of the Chapo guys read comments but I'm a web developer and systems administrator and I can explain Elons scraping thing: More or less, to summarize if you don't wanna read a lot, it's yet again Elon trying to sound smart and technical while revealing he has a toddlers mind. More detailed version: "scraping" is when a script/bot essentially "reads" the posts or data feed of a website like Twitter (or more traditionally a news website) and reformats and ports that data somewhere else. In ye olden days of the internet, before social media, this became common in the form of "RSS feeds," little embedded portions on websites and blogs you could buy prepackaged or make to plug in like, NPR, CNN, and Fox and it would combine them all into an unholy early Twitter for content heads. You see, back in the 90s and early 00s, a lot of "content mill" places actually tried to fight back against RSS feeds and other things, limiting data, banning accts that didn't "engage enough," etc etc because they felt they could force people onto their websites to see their ads. This didn't even close to work, and the modern Internet we know today of API scrapers and third party apps was formed. Today, if you run any sort of data company, you run it with the understanding that some people simply won't like how you do UI or want a "combined" format of your website and another, and will scrape your data for it - most competent companies provide easy low overhead API calls specifically for this purpose Elon is both completely incompetent AND a billionaire in the vein of the Titan Submarine guy, so he seems to believe that he can just decide the last 25 years of internet cultural development didn't exist and claw back some dead reality where you can force someone play in your sandbox to push ads at them, but he's also a fucking moron so he seems to have decided that "scraping" is the main problem and not bots and the crumbling infrastructure, which is ridiculous. Scraping is pretty low impact, certainly less impactful than "high engagement" accounts like the 500 that will show up if you tweet "sugar daddy" or "c**happ"

The best thing about this whole Twitter spectacle is watching the South African wunderkind nepobaby whom the press have been eulogizing for over a decade now be revealed as an unfunny incompetent manchild.

NORTH WOODS MENTIONED BECOME A LAKEPILLED PINECELL

Will's Clinton impression sounds nothing like her yet seems exactly right. Makes me laugh every time.

I have to admit, despite his other rulings I can't help but respect Justice Gorsuch. He's probably the only judge on the Supreme Court who actually understands what the relationship between American Indian Tribes and the United States. So many other Republican Justices in the Federal Judiciary claim to have an originalist interpretation of Federal Law, but don't have it when it comes to Federal Indian Law. Even Democrat Justices bungle that many times. Federal Indian Tribes are sovereign political entities and American Indian membership is a political status, not a racial one. Gorsuch seems to understand that, or more likely he respects it when his colleagues just completely disregard it.

26:39 JG Ballard wrote that in the future we will watch celebrities fight eachother on television. We know there’s no future. But can we at least have Zuck V Elon?

I think Felix and I would agree Pride Never Die

Why on this god forsaken planet did throgood Marshall retire in 1991???? That definitely drops him in my Supreme Court all time rankings wtf

The four numbers at the end of everyone's username makes it harder to tell who is or isn't a bot

I always got the feeling that Lex Friedman’s whole career is based on a “make a wish” type vibe. like, when he started he was constantly stuttering and specifically _really bad_ at interviewing. but it’s sort of like when the special needs “equipment manager” for a JV football team gets to run a quick touchdown route at the end of the game, when it’s already over and the points don’t actually go up on the board, and everyone cheers their guts out. when Lex started, he was sooo bad at it, but everyone self-congratulatingly egged him on and encouraged him to follow his dream (of being a podcaster), to the point that he actually got onto the Joe Rogan show and was legitimized by it. and now he gets taken seriously. so.

I heard you Will when you said "Jadzia Dax" tax, I just feel obligated to note that DS9 reference.

The supreme court can challenge anything. They even took the strawman website case where the lady had 0 customers or complaints and used it to basically ignore commerce as a factor in limiting discrimination of protected classes. Finally my artisnal bodega can openly refuse to hire veterans. They clash with the curated atmosphere. I'm sure anti BDS loyalty pledges will still not be effected.

that lex friedman factoid is going to haunt me

55:04 I was thinking methed-up-samurai was the only person I could remember filming themselves that much.

The day Zuckerberg KOs Musk would be the only good day to be on Twitter.

God, Felix is so funny (and sexy (I'm gay)).

As a half-Asian smart guy jock, I can attest that I am surprisingly persuasive and credible sometimes.

30:48 In my day, the rumour was that Prince had done that.

God, Felix is so funny.

Kenny powers jet ski best jet ski ever

oh no, I live in the northwoods of wisconsin, dont bring that evil over here bobby!

He's in Stevens Point to see the golf tournament

Wait Southern is single now?

What is the desired outcome of no college? I’m new here

I’m more offended about Herbert’s work being referenced by these clowns (Not the dry boys)

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Lol

I will admit the DeSantis boss fight music sounds awesome! Despite him being a terrible human being

first, and most gay!

Surprised at how not cynical they are. Treating this government as anything less than a puppet show

Lex is so weird. "oh hey a really boring youtube channel, with nice slow sort of mediocre interviews with academics. I can have a lazy listen to extremely obscure and not popular thing."

Lauren Southern se ma se poes

Will's right. 33 is a good age to die, which is my current age for the next couple of months. looking forward to death by starvation or lead pipe due to this point of no return global environmental collapse that we are already in. I thought 30 would be the right time to kill myself, but that came and went and I've only somehow gotten more broken and depressed. Really nothing inside me left to continue this death march

Who'd ever thought you'd be that scared of a dude in a dress 👗

If Matt wants to totally give up and pretend to be a history professor, then he should quit the show and ride off into the sunset. But this "I dont know stuff" is getting really annoying. Really annoying, take a break and get yourself together.

God, Felix is sooooooo unfunny.

He was forced to buy it because he was too stupid to not sign the paperwork.

Karelin got robbed of the gold medal.

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