The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

Chapo Trap House · Felix Biederman · Matt Christman · Brendan James · Will Menaker · Virgil Texas

Aug 2018 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Instant New York Times bestseller
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker

The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way.

In a guide that reads like “a weirder, smarter, and deliciously meaner version of The Daily Show’s 2004 America (The Book)” (Paste), Chapo Trap House shows you that you don’t have to side with either sinking ships. These self-described “assholes from the internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate.

Learn the “secret” history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that THEY don’t want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster.

A book that’s “as intellectually serious and analytically original as it is irreverent and funny” (Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author of No Place to Hide) The Chapo Guide to Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal and conservative characters, biographies of important thought leaders, “never before seen” drafts of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you’re a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and holds being barred, then this book is NOT for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we’re in, then Chapo, let’s go…

Ratings and reviews

As a reporter, I obtained a galley of this book and was transported back to the glory days when "journalists spent the coke-fueled 1980s living the dream." I received great advice on how to become part of the "perpetually insecure floating labor reserve of Digi-News," including 1) Get a Good Twitter Avatar, 2) Get a Good Twitter Bio, 3) Write Good Tweets, 4) Regale the crowd with the latest memes and hot takes that every already knows, and 5) Good Journalism: Find some time to do this. While they're certainly not centrists, the writers shred both liberals and conservatives. Conservatives who read the book might just come to the realization that their goal of freedom has evolved to champion "the freedom to dominate anyone deemed lower than you." For liberals, reading this book is like a restaurant experience where your meal (liberalism) gets lodged in your throat and someone (Chapo Trap House) steps in and performs a Heimlich maneuver (this book) on you. Expelled and covered in mucus, that meal will never look appetizing again. My favorite part of the book was Matt Christman's reminiscence of the populist right during the Bush years: "Support for obscene military spending and imperial bloodletting satisfied a deep psychic need among neutered and demoralized American men." The writers' "Jobs you will probably have" section was also one of my favorite parts, where one of the jobs, "Bio Bag," adds new meaning to the term "sell yourself." While the writers are critical of both sides of the mainstream debate in America, and mine both liberals and conservatives for some pretty great humor, South Park nihilists they are not. The book ends with some real prescription for change, which both liberals and conservatives need to hear. I would recommend the Chapo Guide to Revolution as one of the best books on politics, media and culture that you're likely to find any time soon.

This book is probably written by flamboyant smug writers that write in white they snort in endless lines of ridiculous yet true accounts of cocaine use. Coca leaves coca tea kinda like the coffee 90% of Americans are addicted to. Nice logic when Ulysses s grant probably railed lines with 50$ bills and coca cola had cocaine as an ingredient I believe dr pepper as well.

Trite nonsense that you have to be absolutely ensconced in Capitalist luxury to have the privilege to consider. The subtitle is absolutely true. There is no logic or reason here and like all commie IQ deficients, the authors have the luxury to consider facts to be the problem.

About the author

Chapo Trap House is a collective of writers, artists, and satirists that began as a political comedy podcast in March 2016. Their biweekly show has been covered everywhere from The New Yorker and The Guardian to VICE and Paste magazine, which calls its creators “the vulgar, brilliant demigods of the new progressive left.” Chapo is a mix of absurdist comedy and freewheeling commentary, skewering political and media figures and reviewing bad movies and books. Originally a trio of Internet-pals Will Menaker, Felix Biederman, and Matt Christman, the show has expanded its roster to writers Brendan James, Amber A’Lee Frost, and Virgil Texas. They live in Brooklyn, New York.