Episode 63 - SuccessFail: The McMegan Story feat. @TheShrillest (12/4/16) by Chapo Trap House published on 2016-12-04T17:38:43Z First we talk to Ezekiel Kweku of MTV about his diagnosis of the Democratic Party's failure this year, how they can beat white nationalism next time around, and the Æon Flux animated series. Then the full Chapo team assembles to tackle the book "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success" by Bloomberg View blogger and chronically wrong person Megan McArdle. It's a horrible dumb book and everyone gets mad at Will for making them read it. Ezekiel's piece: www.mtv.com/news/2955564/skin-in-the-game/#ifrndnloc Real Ames Hours on McArdle's portfolio: http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/ Genre News & Politics Comment by E.J. Rollins this book seems like its aimed at white middle class suburbanites with dreams of being business owners, to convince them to fearlessly join the ranks of the perpetually-failing petite bourgeoisie 2019-05-28T21:53:26Z Comment by gamerunknown prepay metres 2018-01-21T15:24:12Z Comment by gamerunknown Isaiah Berlin, liberal philosopher 2018-01-21T12:11:18Z Comment by gamerunknown that notion is good, it undermines the stock market entirely 2018-01-21T12:03:39Z Comment by gamerunknown gorilla mindset 2018-01-21T11:58:59Z Comment by gamerunknown 1cm is actually big 2018-01-21T11:25:47Z Comment by Grim Snark As Hank Hill says: "Find what your niche is, and you will find riches." 2017-07-28T16:11:02Z Comment by Primo Pitino cutting of Megan's last word was deliciously bitchy, thank you <3 2017-05-18T05:33:36Z Comment by brantmac J.K. Galbraith, in the Age of Uncertainty, following some lovely anecdotes about Churchill having coal miners shot etc, uses this decision by Churchill (as Ch/Exchq) to argue that he basically caused the Great Depression and WWII. A nice tip for arguing with your racist uncle for whom genocidal colonialism just isn't enough. 2017-01-10T20:50:35Z Comment by DRAB NEON More like lack of proper enforcement of property laws... 2017-01-06T14:27:18Z Comment by herkrieg "Donald Trump is a businessman like the ghostbusters were scientists." <3<3<3 He was also on ghostbusters ffs. 2016-12-16T02:55:28Z Comment by Phil Hostak Did y'all know that for years, the working title of this "book" was "Permission to Suck"? (She went on book leave in like 2012 to write this steaming heap.) https://twitter.com/RossYoon/status/114407820492943360 2016-12-13T03:38:44Z Comment by Sean Morris I immediately thought of "stay outta Riverdale" and then THERE IT WAS LOL 2016-12-07T19:01:51Z Comment by jonah 🔥 2016-12-06T20:09:58Z Comment by Tiger King mark 2016-12-06T02:49:44Z Comment by Ratatataturk I'm not going to watch it but you guys might want to subject yourselves to this episode of bloggingheads.tv featuring Matthew Yglesias and McMegan bloggingheads.tv/videos/1120 2016-12-05T06:21:16Z Comment by Petuniia "For upper-class women, their home is the world. For working-class women, the world is their home. " -rosa luxemburg 2016-12-05T00:43:21Z Comment by Collin Estes A couple years back, I went on tour with a country band and played a bunch of oil boom towns in ND. Matt is 100% accurate. Fights broke out constantly; just violent, drunken chaos. Always a bunch of white supremacists hanging around, too. 2016-12-04T23:13:35Z Comment by Petuniia Book Report on "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success" by Megan McArdle starts 2016-12-04T23:07:10Z Comment by Petuniia "The politician also has to articulate a moral vision of the country they want to create, that will resonate with their supporters. I think Obama, for all his faults otherwise, was very good at doing that, at least as a candidate both in 08 and 12. That's how he was able to turn out the amount of people he did to win handily and part of the reason Hillary did not." -Will 2016-12-04T22:51:41Z Comment by Petuniia "Politics for me is storytelling, storytelling in a way that appeals to people's self-interests." -Ezekiel Kweku 2016-12-04T22:08:00Z Comment by Petuniia People would like it to be inevitable that Trump would win and the reason why is that then we can't place blame on anyone and everyone can feel good as there is nothing more that could be done. -Ezekiel Kweku 2016-12-04T22:00:14Z Comment by Fourlttrword Matt slinging heat 2016-12-04T20:18:33Z