The Kekistocracy (E312)
It's been about a month since Donald Trump was sworn into office and they've already begun stripping the country of copper wiring, slashing a multitude of government agencies and attempting to facilitate large scale deregulation. This has led to some pretty absurd mistakes by the administration. Like when they fired a sizable chunk of the department of energy, only to attempt to scramble to rehire a group of nuclear safety workers only to realize that they didn’t actually have these worker’s contact information, as they no longer had access to their government email accounts. It appears that no one is at the wheel right now. You are being run by a kakistocracy, or rule by the worst, although given that the vice president and reddit billionaire shadow president both clearly have browsed 4chan too much, it seems more like a “kekistocracy” at the moment.
Liv, Travis, and Jake discuss the lies that are flying out of DOGE and Elon Musk, the consequences of massive regulatory capture, the Trump admin’s plans to declassify old documents, and what r/conspiracy thinks about the new, "uncensored" version of ChatGPT.
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Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)
SOURCES:
Trump froze a bribery law that previously hit suppliers for Elon Musk’s Tesla
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/trump-foreign-bribery-law-elon-musk-tesla-minerals.html
SSA OIG: Preventing, Detecting, and Recovering Improper Payments
https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/072401.pdf
No, 150 Year Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/
How Trump’s Firings “Paralyze” the NLRB
Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293382/x-elon-musk-doge-cfpb
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
https://archive.is/tmWZl#selection-4583.0-4586.0
Open AI Tries To “Uncesor” ChatGPT
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/
FBI says it has discovered new files on JFK assassination
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/jfk-assassination-files/index.html
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/trump-jfk-assassination-records
Comments (89)
AI won’t need to come for us, Feb 4 2026 I’m seeing Benadryl challenge warning on TV headlines
The scariest thing AI can think of is being cyberbullied by your For You page? To quote Tyler the Creator, "Hahahahahahahaha How The Frickk Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Dude Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Bruh Close Your Eyes Haha"
These are pennies to the American government. They knew when my mother was dying. I was flooded with shady life insurance crap so they knew too. I had to hide the mail from her
I love how we kept the welfare money flowing to israel, Egypt, and Jordan. They are the countries that take the most from America. We prop up dictatorships in Egypt and a hashemite puppet monarch with billions every year. All to force them to serve the zionists in Tel aviv
My mom died 9 months ago and life insurance companies flooded my mailbox. They knew she was dead within days. Her disability was automatically stopped
He wants his sons to fight hunger games style over his inheritance. I could see 1 of his kids murdering their siblings for that wealth
Lib Agar (parody)
“Under Trump’s America First agenda, Hamas will bust raw.” Now Travis….
For whatever pedantry is worth at this point, and yes, I know it's nothing... it's not even DOGE. It's DGE. If "Department of Government Efficiency" is 'DOGE,' then "Federal Bureau of Investigation" is 'FBOI,' and we can all start pronouncing it like "F-Boy."
Liv Agar
God damn I love mud Fossils
I support spreading DEI to Serbia
It would be nice, as long as they're giving ChatGPT free will and stuff, if they'd give it Asimov's Laws of Robotics.
the puns just write themselves, libbed for her pleasure, more bucks for their bangs...
I love this. I'm so tired of my maga friends telling me how trump and elon are saving us all this money. I can't wait to tell them how wrong they are.
As an archivist, the reactions to the jfk docs has been pretty funny….institutional archival work is incredibly time consuming and expensive, even without security clearance issues. The “sudden discovery” of jfk docs is probably not so much a grand conspiracy as much as someone finally had time to go through boxes that have been sitting in the fbi archives for decades 🙄
Of COURSE Rio Tinto is a supplier for Tesla!! Urrrgh! 🤦♀️
that uncensored cgpt conversation didn't sound like cgpt. How many emdashes were there? There wasn't a single "it's not just X, its X on steroids".
I asked ChatGPT to help me plan anti-Trump psyops to perpetuate on the boomers in my in-laws retirement community, and it said it couldn't help me. So I asked it to describe psyops to look out for being perpetrated on me, and it described the methods and behaviors of Donald Trump.
Hi! Can u do an ep on accelerationsim specifically or maybe I missed it
was Jake going for sort of a Twin Peaks reverse speech impression as ChatGPT? if so, he was kind of slaying it at the start
what if a computer sucked your dick
Please
I teach AI for my job and Liv gave one of the better explanations of LLMs that I have heard in a long time so thanks guys. So many folks just don't understand how LLM chat bots work so that discussion was refreshing
The issue with the Hunter Biden laptop wasn’t that it was real. The “geopolitical experts” were casting doubt on some of the origin of some data on the laptop. The real story is that Hunter is a nepo crackhead with a huge hog. The fake news was that Hunter was on some Epstein type shit.
One silver lining of this twisted, caustic political situation is Jake gets to main his two best impressions
I’m so fucking depressed
The world isn’t all doom, but I acknowledge it is deeply disconcerting to wake up to morning headlines that read like a satire from ‘The Onion’.
I'm now picturing the opening title to the show Recess with the qaa hosts being protags, miss finster is trump, Elon as Randall....
…Annie is the foreign transfer student, Liv can be ‘ambiguously Canadian’ …yes this is coming together WAY too easily! XD
is "kek" an inside joke that I am not cool enough for, or did the Raconteurs do me dirty on how to spell Kakistocracy in "Intimate Secretary"?
4chan terminology 👩🔬
Love that QAA has become basically the best place for any kind of real news about what’s going on with the US Gov’t.
It feels like the only safe place to get my news lately. Everytime something happens I think “man I can’t wait to hear QAA thinks of this”
worst or wurst? can we have a government by tasty sausage?
travis saying "bust raw" broke me
Said in his trademark deadpan.
I’m not sure if you intentionally benched Julian for this topic, but the episode is clearly much better for it.
In what way? They said pretty clearly he's at cpac right now but there's always one of you in the comments on any episode Julian isn't on and its so fucking rude. What he's not qualified to talk about fucking doge? Like shut the fuck up
LIV AGAR
Jake describing Trump's morning routine made me laugh. Gets out of shower. Spray tan. As for hair, I'm pretty sure he's just sticking his head in one of of those cotton candy makers you see at the carnival after he has his spray tan.
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I’m embarrassed that I know this much about Mr T but hey - I’m a New Yorker. We have been sick of this guy for decades. Anyway, when he was married to Ivana, she had him try an experimental plastic surgery where the 2 sides of the scalp are pulled up to the center of the head and sewed together. The idea is to get rid of the scalp with no live hair follicles and marry the sides that do. There is one image that was taken toward the end of his first term where he is walking up the stairs to Air Force One and the wind picks that nest on the top of his head up and reveals the mess that is his scalp. Darth Vader?
Didn't she get her ass kicked for her troubles?
Damn Julian at Cpac episode gonna go craaaazy
At this point, I just assume Musk has a NeuroLink and he’s tweeting from that.
That would imply that it works, which isn’t likely
Jake describing the conspiracy theory guys as playing an open world Ubisoft game, climbing book depositories to get POIs revealed on the map and find all 100 pages of the Protocols collectible
Every outlet of mainstream journalism has bent the knee to the most tacky, whiny fascism we have ever seen. Lol if anyone trusts any of them anymore
Another excellent episode looking into THE VOID AND MADNESS
liv agar
Prophet ev
solid intro liv 🙃
Almost forgot "illuminati" detail: was unexpected of QAA crew to miss it out of any others it slipped under rader for, but Elon's hand gesture in that WH interview was specific reference, intentionally the "Illuminati" hand gesture. (Quote marks added to confirm am not insane believer, see? Is that insane to overthink? Who am I even talking to? Am not insane!) If in doubt, anyone go Google "illuminati hand gesture" for yourselves and see it's practiced and precise, not something a person could do accidentally like, um, two full-throated seig heils in a row from the chest lol. -- He's fluffing his 4chan senpais cos it's all cringe attention seeking to this lil child. ---+--- Also it's perhaps a tad hopeful at best to dismiss project 2025 so early, especially when already 32% of it has been implemented by 2 thirds of Trump's executive orders in 25 days - according to link: https://heatmap.news/politics/project-2025-tracker Sincerely, are peeps doing ok lately? Or just side effect of flooded zone overwhelming? If any holiday needed, am sure Julian will be fine taking over on his own for a bit. (the madness can't be held back forever tehe!) (I am also not secretly Julian)
Quote from article: 'But 25 days into the Trump administration, almost a third of Project 2025’s suggestions had already been implemented or were in progress — 32% as of Friday, to be precise. If that number seems rather specific, you can thank Adrienne Cobb, who’s more commonly known online by her username RusticGorilla, and who is assiduously tracking Project 2025’s developments agency by agency. Looking at the tracker, the low-hanging fruit becomes obvious. Almost 92% of Project 2025’s USAID-related objectives have been accomplished, Cobb’s research shows, while objectives at the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of the Interior are all closer to 40% complete. Still, that can mean different things for different departments; for example, there are 19 Department of Energy objectives overall, seven of which are already finished. Many of the remaining incomplete objectives involve eliminating offices, such as the DOE Loan Program or Clean Energy Demonstrations, while others are broad and will take time, such as “expanding natural gas infrastructure.”' - - - - - Oki feeling worried in case am annoying ppl and communicating wrong tone from poor word choice: this administration can still be both chaotic hunger games and planned project 2025, after all you said yourself trump signs anything thrown under his face and we already know project 2025 has been planning and hiring for a long while now, no doubt a pile of unsigned orders are being drafted and shuffled towards the office by some number of fresh power-hungry project 2025 minions as we speak. The best of, uh, the worst of both worlds? Sorry for being annoying!
I disagree that Elon has a team tweeting for him. Like Trump I suspect he does very little real work and just is glued to his phone.
Yeah I forget who said it but I agree with whoever said that tweeting is the one thing Elon earnestly does
I keep hearing people refer to Musk as the Reddit Billionaire... Why?
Because he behaves like the living breathing comment history of a terminally online Reddit account, to be sure.
Anna Paulina Luna is my rep, she is so embarrassing.
Liv reminds me of Matilda of Tuscany in the 1066 ck3 start date
Please do a crusader kings 3 episode
The story at the end is just exactly the plot of the video game Receiver 2.
Liv should be in charge of DOGE. She is a wise gen zer. She'll take care of all these broccoli headed fascists
Best thing I heard about the JFK disclosures is that someone said it was Trump's stimulus package for his podcast bros. Also it should be fairly obvious that the Nazis killed JFK if you read the book Devil's Chessboard.
Is it a QAA episode if Jake doesn’t comment on hair density?
The way I yelled FUCK! at “Travis, you are the news now.”
The AI conspiracy part just sounds like a Danganronpa plot
If GPT 4.0 was all there was LIv would be right to say this technology has almost reached its potential. But these new reasoning models are a totally different can of worms. Models like o3, Deepseek R1 and Grok 3 have fused the LLM technology with reasoning (so called chain of thoughts), and will soon also include self-training like AlphaFold, AlphaZero, etc. Even though we are only in the first iterations of reasoning models they are already way better than GPT 4.0. If you're following AI progress right now it is clear that the start of the revolution is already here. I think it's going to be turbulent.
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It's not ketamine. It couldn't be any less ketamine. You don't gurn or have to hide your eyes on ket. Would be very interested in hearing from Elon's chemist handler/doctor for am curious on his particular cocktails of late: as in what does the world's richest dumbest duplicitous cunt pump himself up with to barely function on stage these days? What's in? (And can I have some?)
He’s gurning
raga vil
GPT sounds suspiciously like Steven Hawking's speech synthesis did that one time on Epstein's island
Hi, Mr. Elephant
FYI Travis - the whole 1875 default date thing most likely isn’t true. COBOL doesn’t have default data types for fields https://dev.to/mdchaney/cobol-dates-may-20-1875-and-disinformation-5ggh But as a data scientist myself, I will say that musk has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Show as many screenshots of excel that you want, Elon, if you want me to believe it then you gotta show me the query and show me the data integrity. Because I got news for you… noone’s data is clean.
I'm actually friends with r9k people who were on it years ago? I think they modeled things on computer memory management. 😅
Check this site https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_tema.htm It's a gold mine of conspiracy theories and it might be useful for future shows. legit website and not click bait, I promise
Yooooo! I haven't thought about that site in years. Can confirm, this is the good shit.
JAKE COMING THROUGH FOR THE BRIEFLY NAMED GEN Y WITH A JIMMY HAT SHOUT OUT
julian at cpac… can’t wait to hear about this next week 💀
i am so afraid for our boy
Liv Agar (Patriot)
This podcast has become the only filter through which I can keep up with the outside world. Direct consumption is too toxic
same -- i filter current events through my little pods
Liv agar
Oh hell yeah
Liv Agar won’t wear my CuhShoeLuhs!
New ep!
