Basil and Pool: two wildly gesticulating gadfly guncles with a gumptious gift for gazing through glamours, glaring down the grimy gatekeepers guarding the gears of global governance–and they do it with giggles and with grit.

So get ready, because here comes the BAREBACKKLASH, which is what we call the spiritual meta-pod that transpires whenever Basil and Poolhouse, (hosts of BareBactrian and BACKKLASH, respectively) get together.

Over the past few months, these BAREBACKKLASH summits have often touched on the idea of “media market literacy,” or put simply: understanding what the fuck is going on with the parasocial pigslop being shoved onto your online feed.

Resulting from these early iterations of “media lit” coursework, Basil would eventually escalate his holy war upon the so-called post left / dissident right media market. Basil single-handedly rent apart the veil that had been concealing an unseemly political sausage factory from consumers of the rw media timeline-at-large.

This led to an earth-shattering series of moments, memes, rumbles, and revelations that rocked the online right, and forced some of the most powerful and prominent social media figures in the post-left sphere to (for once!) actually defend themselves, their actions, and their beliefs, instead of doing what they normally do–attacking the things other people stand for, aka counter-signaling (aka the O in DARVO).

This saga culminated in Basil’s John Gaulting from the xfkatwitter last week, and Poolhouse is the platform Basil blessed with an official appearance to comment on these events. This devastating and incendiary episode serves as the perfect capstone that you will not find anywhere else (shoutout to the anonymous listeners!)

This conversation delves into the insidery niche of the political social media market sphere, as Basil recaps the fallout, explains his decision to pause his twitter presence, and speculates with Poolie on just where he and the rest of this media market is heading.

Grab your popcorn, fasten your weave, and set that playback speed to one you can handle, because these fast-talking f––gots are about to take you on wild journey surveying the scorched wreckage of the dissident right, in the cult classic but still snap-crackle-and-poppin’ way that defines HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH.

Subscribe and Listen to BAREBACTRIAN on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/BareBactrian

THE POOLHOUSE GUIDE TO DARVO LEFTISM:

Aspects of DARVO:

How each symptom manifests:

The stunning of I WAS THERE™ (sans Poolhouse) with Oso and Basil that kicked off this saga:

https://backklash.substack.com/p/open-lines-with-basil

https://x.com/NuganHandVEVO/status/1795882739662729470

Another Poolhouse nevermind post… The Poolhouse drag of BAP’s drag of Basil (see below)

The famous BAP “drag” of Basil:

Poolhouse’s drag of Anna K’s drag of Basil:

Program Notes

(0:00) - oh well whatever, nevermind

(5:35) - he’s backk

(11:55) - be best

(15:15) - barebactrian: this week

(20:35) - the John Gault of it all

(26:30) - (not)gay voice

(30:33) - Bronze Age Bl**re Wh*te aesthetics

(36:00) - Racist LARPers and Bronze Age Tr**ny redux

(41:01) - Denunciations, Deflections & the TQ litmus test

(49:11) - DARVO BAPism

(55:55) - the jig is up

(1:02:02) - Dissident 2.0

(1:17:07) - DARVO dissidents

(1:22:11) - she had to get out, get out

Episode Mixtape:

Fannypack - Camel Toe

B-52’s - Mesopotamia (Poolhouse No Homo Edit)

X - Los Angeles

Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend

Fischerspooner - L.A. Song

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