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

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

​@@realzachfluke1seconded!

This is funny af ACCURATE

Matt Gaetz is the poster boy for that one.

young people or just boys?

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

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.

@@AbrahamMeat for sure

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.

OK, Zoomers!

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.

🎯🎯🎯💯 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.

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.

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.

10/10 bravo

Well done.

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

@@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!_

@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...

Hey colonoscopies have a genuine utility

And far less useful.

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

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

Colonoscopies shut the hell up sometimes.

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

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

@@filipmaly6603 that's what the lazers are for

@@Thetommywestphalluniverse247 They voted through a sunroof!

Lmfao yeah!

Rage In Support Of The Machine.

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

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.

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

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

@@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.

Not to mention an uninhabitable planet with undrinkable water 🙄

I died at "seriel pregnancy."😂

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

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.

Ru$$e££ Brand.

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

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

Glen greenwald.

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

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

@@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.

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.

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

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 😞

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

lol deep cuts

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.

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

@@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"...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Spot on

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

@@tjenadonn6158 🤣🤣🤣

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

@@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.

@@tjenadonn6158 it's a broad tent.

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

@@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

@@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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The guys who made Ghostbusters.

That's it, tho

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

@@KG9551 it really does hurt.

@@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.

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

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.

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

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

@@tjenadonn6158 I identify with Generation Z and I am a WWIi survivor who was part of the beat generation.

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

Absolute savagery 🤣

Looks like gomer Pyle from full metal jacket

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

👏🏻👏🏽👏👏🏿👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏻

Great skin tone.

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?

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.

Nailed it

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

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

Practicing xtians are the exception.

Like seriously 😂😂

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

I would argue that those are the right reasons.

Recently saw a YTP that shipped him with Jordan Peterson.

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

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

who else?

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

@@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.

@@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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

@@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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 😂

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.

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

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

@@tjenadonn6158 - Rightwingers are emotionally-damaged.

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

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

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

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

😂😂😂

Right?

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

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.

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

@@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.

@@PresidentBarackbar 🎯🎯🎯

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

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.

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.

Elon took Matt's brains and balls.

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

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

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

The left is the joke

He got Greenwalled..

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

the money really started to rain.

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

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

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

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

@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?

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

yep, that was my experience 💯

Same here.

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.

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

@@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.

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?

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

@@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.

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

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

@@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."

@@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!

@@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.

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

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

And groomer too 👌

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

Elon Musk.

@@tjenadonn6158 🤣

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

@@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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Brand is another grifter.

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

@@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!

When he was bitching about cancel culture and feminism? How so?