The Chapo Guide to Revolution Quotes

“The ugly truth is that no employer hires anyone unless they can extract more value from them than they have to pay out in wages and benefits.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“It’s possible you briefly lost that feeling of impending doom in 2008, after the likable, cool presidential candidate defeated the old man who slept through all his flight school classes. But that relief probably vanished in a wave of Wall Street bailouts and drone strikes and a brief Democratic congressional majority that didn’t even bother to pass the card check bill or push for true universal health care. Perhaps once you got a job, you realized that the pay—or, if you were really lucky, the benefits package—was vastly outweighed by what work took out of your soul, as you spent your days white-knuckling it from check to check, feeling like the same idiot failure you were before you had a job.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“Finally, as 9/11 fell on December 7, 1941, America entered World War II, and wouldn’t you know it, the US actually recovered from the Depression. It turned out that with state control of production and jobs for all, a nation could spend its way out of misery. Of course, this proof of concept of planned economies was instead interpreted as a reason to constantly go to war.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“Still, despite controlling both houses of Congress during the second Reagan administration, they let a brain-dead right-wing president get away with carrying out an HBO miniseries’s worth of Iran-Contra crimes, which was pathetic. And here’s a dose of irony to sweeten the pill: Reagan selling arms to Iran in order to fund rape squads in Central America really did make Watergate look like a “third-rate burglary.” So if libs want to keep holding up Watergate as a historic triumph for the forces of good, they’ll have to admit that letting Reagan off the hook represents a far greater historic triumph for the forces of evil.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“And what happened? Fact-checked, focus-grouped, data-driven Clinton lost to the most deranged presidential candidate ever: a clown, a fraud, a sexual predator, an inveterate liar who has faked every single thing he’s ever done—a giant cube of flesh who embodies all our vilest instincts and our ludicrous celebrity culture. She lost—the Democrats lost, the liberals lost—to him.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

“Today Europe can be divided into the countries with sun, good weather, great food, and sex but terrible economies and those with great economies but total darkness, awful food, and even worse sex. However, all of Europe remains strongly united against male circumcision, and as such is still far, far ahead of America.”
― Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason