American Reich (Premium 320)
This week we dig into a peacoat-wearing QAnon counter-protester and end up unspooling a whole new nest of open fascists.
First up: pardoned Jan. 6 figure and proud white supremacist Jake Lang, doing street-theater politics in Washington, D.C. at a “crusader rally,” complete with Nazi posturing, bizarre props, and an argument that quickly devolves into the classic far-right pastime: accusing each other of being FBI. We also track Lang’s later appearance near Minneapolis City Hall, where he and his crew clash with anti-ICE protesters, and where his claims about being “stabbed” don’t line up with what’s publicly verifiable.
Then we pivot to a very different attempt at building an “American Reich”: a neo-Nazi “urban wear” merch brand that seemingly springs to life overnight on Instagram. From “Woke Reich” prototypes to explicit Nazi aesthetics, the episode traces the rapid online radicalization of an online creator and how algorithmic attention, engagement, and audience validation can help turn grievance content into an overt extremist identity (with a storefront attached).
Content warning: This episode discusses neo-Nazi propaganda and symbolism, antisemitism, racist rhetoric, and political violence.
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Comments (99)
Liv Agar confirmed fiber arts queen
Tapped out at 6 minutes. Fuck this. Fuck you, masochistic bastards. See you next episode 😘
Ya’ll really tempting me to go on an LOTR rant but I will abstain. I have grown.
"join us. join me. let me join you." this video was like a Tim Heidecker bit
I'm so so glad Jake included this clip; it is so funny
https://youtu.be/pGL2rytTraA
The sheer absurdity of two fucking idiots debating each other at a rally over the top of ear-bleeding screaming from the megaphone
So the Jews are making America… [checks notes] Muslim? Certainly haven’t heard that one before! 🧐
definitely drop shipping will usher in the fourth reich
the merch is just the tip of the iceberg you guys trust
Jake’s laugh when he said “We’re gonna wear it cause it looks cool” just knocked me over.
Go ahead and make fun of gauges
was that a hint for the chiral mindset coming soon?? you’d better not be getting my hopes up..
Woahh what’s this, chiral mindset mentioned on the QAA podcast?? My Patreon worlds are colliding
If you scroll back far enough on that guy’s Instagram, he has a post from 2023 where he claims to have been clean for 7 years after suffering from severe substance abuse and alcoholism for 17 years and claims to have spent some of that time on skid row. So I’m going to say there’s a good chance a relapse is involved.
Hi, Liv! 😁
Stoner Nazi’s are the scariest stoners…but the least scary Nazis!
damn I didn’t see THIS life trajectory for Shaggy…
I just went and looked through AR guy’s page and he has a post thanking his grandpa who served in WWII 🥴 you can’t make this shit upppppppp
On which side though?
As I said before, prior to subscribing I had listened to all the free episodes twice. It's that good! Now that I'm a subscriber I have some complaints. Five bucks is five bucks, man. I demand to be taken seriously.
liv agar
The background "urgent" sounding music to those content videos is trigger-cringe.
Seriously. Even the mindfulness videos he made with his wife had the same kind of music. I agree with Liv that he just wants attention and is throwing spaghetti at the wall until something sticks. Unfortunately racism will always stick.
speaking from extensive personal experience i gotta say i think liv is 100% right, this guy is in a hypomanic episode lol (tells incl the sudden change in his SM use/profile, his speech pattern + euphoric affect , & ofc the fact he seems to think his idea to sell nazi slogan t shirts is a world-changing work of genius lol)
Give the lady who screamed into the Megaphone at the start of the episode a gig in a Black Metal band .
The American reich guy really sounds like a Tim Heidecker character 😂
If anyone uses that stock "inspirational" orchestral soundtrack I automatically cannot take them seriously.
The scariest kind of stoner is the least scary nazi killed me
Good episode. Favorite part: the growling and screaming counter-protester :D
Liv I would like to lodge a formal complaint abt you saying "Charlottesville was a decade ago" AND BEING RIGHT. When did I get this ancient.
2016 was a decade ago. 2020 was six years ago. What even is this timeline. It does not compute
In Tolkien's defense, he later regretted making the orcs an evil race. It went against his catholic beliefs.
Yes, apparently he was upset at the idea of a sentient race that was incapable of salvation, which is why he went back and forth repeatedly on what the Orcs were in his writing– meat robots/ uplifted animals/ genetically or magically ruined Elves/ something else
My headcanon is Julian recorded with the team but every single thing he said had to be bleeped so they cut him entirely (unlike the Nazi who "fortunately 😉😉" didn't get cut)
Liv Agar?
CCP JOE BIDEN 😈
I am not sure the counter protestors could even here the cat fight going on but I kinda wish they did and they started yelling for the two Nazi idiots to kiss already
I’ve not even hit play but are you trolling with a run time of 1111 or is it a coincidence
Yo the counter protestor doing Black Metal growls rules
They’ve got some pipes that’s for sure
These fascists are all so embarrassingly dumb and cringe. Its wild
Some of the most melted stuff I’ve heard in a while. Lmao cheers 🍻
It seems mean to our gentle guy jake to make him do all this nazi shit. Let him talk about video games and Ghostbusters
I have the Fuck Racism Fishbone shirt. I was not prepared for the ska to nazi pipeline.
Sadly that pipeline is there. Dickie Barrett found enough people to form an antivax ska-punk band¹. lt's only a short step from there to fascism. [1] l was super disappointed when l found that out
Julian Feeld
This episode was missing one key thing that I’ll just add myself. This little piss ant needs to be placed against a wall and bleep right in the bleep bleep bleep all twitchy. I will take a cauldron of boiling bleep and dump it all over this bleep little bleep bleep bleep bleep and glue it shut for good measure. Fuck Nazis
Every Nazi ep deserves a bleep rant
Not petty mayonnaise honking the horn until it went out 🤣👏
Okay these last two episodes of QAA has been depressing, I missed Julian he makes it less uncomfortable. Also it sucks that Jake force himself to study on this crap which is pretty much telling him that his days are numbered.
Bad take
I feel like they use the same background music in the Real Housewives franchises
The swelling music over every video honestly gets funnier with every clip they play
That royalty free music is making my ears bleed.
I flip clothes online, and there’s an option on sites like eBay and Poshmark to have them generate an AI description of whatever item you’re selling ( side note- I can’t use them because I give measurements of garments, and I can’t that from AI). The AI generated descriptions are very flowery and contrived, and I’d bet money he uses this kind of thing for a shortcut for his shitty product.
god I hate eBay’s AI descriptions. they always obfuscate the important information when sellers should just be filling in the structured metadata instead. the AI model shots are surprisingly good, better than hanger photos for initial impressions at least, but real model photos are still always better.
So I'm confused should I cancel my patreon which is like 60 a year for the cursed media membership? Do you still get the premium QAA.
The mindfulness to fascism pipeline is real
I have a pavlovian response to any music bed that uses that wretched inspirational string chord progression. It's always associated with a terrible kickstarter, crypto hype video, or nazis.
I think Liv is right about the American Reich guy. He sounds like he's spinning out Liver King style and that fucking music. Looking forward to a new Brad series, sounds extremely my cup of tea.
LIV AGAR FIBER ARTS QUEEN
is the protestor growling into the megaphone the same chick from the RNC episode ? if so, hell yeah.
The woman screaming in the background is *chefs kiss* loooool
Btw. Every time I hear American Reich my mind always goes to Sacred Reich - American way album from 90's. Pretty good oldschool thrash critical of America. Till now the idea of someone using American Reich was so absurd, that it was mainly used as satire. How far have we fallen
I agree with Liv that the American Reich guy gives off a mental breakdown vibes. If you ever listened to longer parts of Kayne interview on Alex Jones show, the way he talks how it's all about love is very similiar to how Kayne talked how he loves everybody.
I was getting Liver King.
liv agar
liv agar
It will never not be funny that american nazis do not know how to pronounce Reich and do not care to look it up.
The far right is full if Conner O’ Malley type characters.
Lol and then Jake calls him one like two minutes later!
*sobbing, crying* "Liv Agar"
There is a commercial property company in Ireland called Agar and every time I see one of their signs outside a vacant building, my brain goes, “Liv Agar”. The internet has poisoned me
He says "unfortunately we aren't german". This idiot doesn't understand you can't do nazi shit in Germany. Hopefully America will get there too.
Nazi shit is so illegal in Germany. I went on a student exchange to Germany back in the 80s and we were taken to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In the interpretive centre, all the propaganda posters from the Nazi regime on display had the faces of Hitler and other leading Nazis airbrushed off– it’s illegal to show them, even in an educational/historical context like a concentration camp!
Opening a couples' mindfulness advice video with a self-deprecating joke about the state his own relationship, little bit of boomer humor shining through
Lang clearly doesn't want to die, since he ran away like a wuss.
That royalty free building track (or indistinguishable variants of it) is so omnipresent in so much of American culture from the early days of reality TV to shitty blogs and many 'Your Kickstarter Sucks' appearances (well, the audio version of appearances anyway lol) and of course the modern reactionary RW griftosphere now it's not even cringe trite music no more to me it's an alarm. What's going on with that particular obsession America? U ok? - Also Jake severely understated the counter protestor by describing her as "growling", was expecting cute cat or dog noises not literal Kittie scream metal lyrics lol. Someone go get a band to play alongside her!
Pharmakon is that you on the megaphone?
Is that lady in a band already? Need a grindcore vocalist.
thinking of the dead Kennedy's listening to this. "Zen Fascists will control you" and matt christmans rant about zen fascists
Don't know where else to ask this. Does anyone remember the crazy episode about a hole to center of the earth in Castlerock, Washington? They mention a geologist saying a deep cave there wasn't possible and i did a little research and figured out that geologist is my friend Pat. I would like to share the episode with him.
Perhaps premium episode 147
Brownification? Jewish money?? LFG
Hmm
Haven't listened yet- but will; before doing so, thought of taking a poll: How many QAA listeners (and/or creators) have read William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? Would love to know... Fwiw, For over a decade now, my thinking is that some in MAGA/GQP have also read it, but are using it as a something of a manual or guide- so I've yet to be truly surprised. What shocks me is how many of my fellow Americans are either caught flat footed right now or (worse) just don't care...
There are nas-ghoul about?
They are sworn to hunt down and destroy Jay-Z
Man I haven't listened yet, but I'm hoping this is distraction enough today. I'm not ok and I don't know what to do with it right now.
I am sorry this is equally depressing but there are a couple deranged chuckles
Yay it must be my birthday! Oh wait it actually is
Happy Birthday! 🎂
Id say that Lotr is mostly stolen from Wagners the ring cycle but ye
Guy who’s only seen Boss Baby: getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from Lord of the Rings.
Needed this right now.
Hell yeah
Liv agar
Liv fast and die Agar