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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)

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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

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-nlrb-firing-musk-doge-workers-rights-labor-unions-paralyze/

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

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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"

Nolan-Globus

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

Ruth Kiszka

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

Ruth Kiszka

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

Ruth Kiszka

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

Ruth Kiszka

Lib Agar (parody)

Grease Witherspoon

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”

Heather Klose

And Creamer that’s okay too <3

Cordelia Reagan

Laying in wait for the crash out, mentally preparing for it

Cordelia Reagan

“Under Trump’s America First agenda, Hamas will bust raw.” Now Travis….

Cordelia Reagan

we got hit by two hurricanes but anna paulina luna getting re-elected was still the worst thing to happen to florida's 13th district in 2024

Scrimmified

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."

Doctor Unk

Liv Agar

Queeriam

Is there a chance that DOGE is a data mining endeavor to push Grok ahead in the Ai race?

Keegan Wyatt Strouse

God damn I love mud Fossils

CatDaDdyWeldZ

I think nyrb unironically had a good article on it way back if you want to dig into the origin and some speculations

mayfly

Please

bobore

I support spreading DEI to Serbia

jake noble

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.

Melissa Humbert

Said in his trademark deadpan.

FOEBREAKER

Maybe so.

Neely McCormick

the puns just write themselves, libbed for her pleasure, more bucks for their bangs...

d'egg

Didn't she get her ass kicked for her troubles?

Jose Luis Rios

😂

Jose Luis Rios

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.

Jose Luis Rios

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 🙄

Odile

Of COURSE Rio Tinto is a supplier for Tesla!! Urrrgh! 🤦‍♀️

Melissa Humbert

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".

Brad

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.

Brad

Yeah I forget who said it but I agree with whoever said that tweeting is the one thing Elon earnestly does

Andrew Lenahan

Hi! Can u do an ep on accelerationsim specifically or maybe I missed it

ree de la vega

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

Cool and Normal

what if a computer sucked your dick

Vessue

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

Atticus Garrison

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.

Steven Kirk

One silver lining of this twisted, caustic political situation is Jake gets to main his two best impressions

'Mech Bae

…Annie is the foreign transfer student, Liv can be ‘ambiguously Canadian’ …yes this is coming together WAY too easily! XD

Mac-something

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’.

Mac-something

“Kek” is like a jokey way of laughing, like “kekekekekekek.” I’m not sure if this comes from the way Brazilians type out laughter online (they literally type “kkkkkkkk”) or from someone trying to type “lel” and hitting the wrong key, but that’s what it meant originally. Then 4channers created a meme country called Kekistan with a flag that looks like Nazi Germany’s naval ensign (the one that’s red with a black cross with a white border, offset Scandinavian-style, with a swastika in the middle and an Iron Cross in the canton) but with the red switched out for green, the swastika switched out for an emblem made of four letter Ks in a circle, and the Iron Cross switched out for the 4chan logo.

No Relation to Henry

I think it's also a way of contrasting Musk's obsession with maintaining a certain online presence and reputation with the relatively low profile most billionaires keep most of the time, and how little they presumably care what us plebs think about them.

Peter Aidan Byrne

Wise and healthy position to occupy 👌

Overzealous Euthanasiast

always out of the 4chan loop

Brad

Prophet ev

Bobby Dubs

4chan terminology 👩‍🔬

Overzealous Euthanasiast

I’m so fucking depressed

Joelio

I'm now picturing the opening title to the show Recess with the qaa hosts being protags, miss finster is trump, Elon as Randall....

Teijo

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"?

Brad

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.

Nick Corum

I'm struggling to see that there is much believing left to do. Yes, the CoT moddels takes some time to think, but they can now, already solve som really complex problems. Even if what DeepResearch has already shown is all that we will get (wich is very unlikely), the world will change drastically. AI is breaking new benchmarks monthly, almost weekly. Is it possible that the evolution plateaus? Sure, but the data is suggesting no such thing at the moment.

SupRPositioN

CPAC is the worst place for Julian to be... We're in for a full crash out next ep...

GT

interesting, im gonna be way too honest, but i've listened to this podcast for like a year and i still can't tell the 3 guy's voices apart. i only recognize liv.

Creamer

I'll pay double this lost pateron's tab to keep Julian's presence/insanity alive and going strong. We need the representation.

Overzealous Euthanasiast

worst or wurst? can we have a government by tasty sausage?

Brendan Luster

Because he’s ruined multiple episodes with “China #1, President Xi please nuke / carpet bomb us!!” when that’s neither funny nor possible, and when he’s not screaming nonsense like that he’s usually bullying one of the other hosts. I don’t see how what I have to say is any ruder than your comment or his Chapo-level drivel, but don’t worry if he continues doing it I won’t be paying the pod five bucks to keep posting.

Worst, Most Lamentable Dust Man

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

Sebastian Pickett

travis saying "bust raw" broke me

Jeremy

I’m not sure if you intentionally benched Julian for this topic, but the episode is clearly much better for it.

Worst, Most Lamentable Dust Man

LIV AGAR

Laura Walsh

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.

Janice MacKay

That would imply that it works, which isn’t likely

Brent

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?

Neely McCormick

Damn Julian at Cpac episode gonna go craaaazy

Sebastian Pickett

At this point, I just assume Musk has a NeuroLink and he’s tweeting from that.

Mare Procellarum

Also, suppository, dude, I love you man, don't believe the hype.

SM21

I follow AI "progress" professionally. I'm a tech bitch whore for wealthies. Agree there's turbulence coming. Disagree that CoT is reasoning or a diff can of worms. Disagree that CoT is gonna change model training forever. CoT is slow and trends toward formulas, eg. "A, B, but in contras C, so in conclusion D," for testing cases with little support in the training data. CoT won't surpass the need for high-quality, domains specific, training data. It just obfuscates, behind the "reasoning" hype, the looming material limit to the theft of IP, i.e. high-quality training data

SM21

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

Noblesse Oblahaj

Because he behaves like the living breathing comment history of a terminally online Reddit account, to be sure.

MJ SKA BOI

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

Noblesse Oblahaj

Another excellent episode looking into THE VOID AND MADNESS

TodoMal

liv agar

ev

solid intro liv 🙃

tina

Lucy in the sky with nazis

hhhhhm

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!

Overzealous Euthanasiast

Is why curious, what fancy exotic treats may circulate betwix these freaks - even if it turns out to be boring ole kitchen cupboard meth, would still help understand what flavour of psychological mess is spilling all over the dashboard wiring lol 👩‍🔬

Overzealous Euthanasiast

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)

Overzealous Euthanasiast

COBOL isn’t an alien language guys. Like I don’t believe in musk and his lil freaks at all or anything they say but I find it funny how people keep talking about it like no one could possibly understand these arcane ancient programs. I’ve used COBOL. It’s fine. It’s not good. Like it’s super finicky and specific and I’m sure the real problem is that there are a million programs all tied together and even if you rewrite it all successfully, which you cannot do with 5 guys in a month, then you still have to test it (do you have tests to reverse-engineer or do you have to make them) and probably manually go through the results or develop tests for the new software as you develop it. Blah blah etc. I’m being a pedantic nerd but personally I think the reality of these guys struggling to code new databases and try to reverse-engineer decades of bureaucracy is… it’s deeply troubling, but it’s also kind of the funniest thing ever. I just feel like the general public has this weird thing about COBOL. Do you realize how many languages, frameworks, APIs there are? COBOL is pretty easy to work with. As with anything it’s hard to master, which is why I don’t like 25 year olds doing major revisions under duress.

Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing

People often try to guess what weird drugs super rich folks on and I suspect the shit they get we have never heard of and could never afford

Dan sulin

he glued a phone to his pp for su

SM21

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.

Dan sulin

I keep hearing people refer to Musk as the Reddit Billionaire... Why?

Jade Heyden

Anna Paulina Luna is my rep, she is so embarrassing.

Kt

Liv reminds me of Matilda of Tuscany in the 1066 ck3 start date

Ruth Kiszka

Please do a crusader kings 3 episode

Ruth Kiszka

The story at the end is just exactly the plot of the video game Receiver 2.

ALL GOOD ALL GOOD

Liv should be in charge of DOGE. She is a wise gen zer. She'll take care of all these broccoli headed fascists

Ruth Kiszka

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.

ALL GOOD ALL GOOD

Julian Feeeeeelds!!!

S G

I can barely handle the podcast version anymore. :(

Michael Vader

Is it a QAA episode if Jake doesn’t comment on hair density?

Storky

The way I yelled FUCK! at “Travis, you are the news now.”

A

This time it’s gonna work man. Just another ten billion.

Louis Wilkins

🙄

Overzealous Euthanasiast

The AI conspiracy part just sounds like a Danganronpa plot

julie poulsen

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.

SupRPositioN

He’s gurning

Dale Everett

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?)

Overzealous Euthanasiast

I'm picturing some Scanners style events

Grease Witherspoon

Yooooo! I haven't thought about that site in years. Can confirm, this is the good shit.

Grease Witherspoon

raga vil

Harrison Sanchez

GPT sounds suspiciously like Steven Hawking's speech synthesis did that one time on Epstein's island

Em

Hi, Mr. Elephant

Troy McClure

Does he still have Covid?

Snickerdoodle

I hope he was wearing some sort of psychic shield

Kelley

Take my $5 because I love you

Patrick Hill

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.

Kelley

I'm actually friends with r9k people who were on it years ago? I think they modeled things on computer memory management. 😅

Suzie B

all of us

Shivvy

i am so afraid for our boy

Shivvy

JAKE COMING THROUGH FOR THE BRIEFLY NAMED GEN Y WITH A JIMMY HAT SHOUT OUT

Shivvy

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

B Grimez

same -- i filter current events through my little pods

buttface

julian at cpac… can’t wait to hear about this next week 💀

callie

Liv Agar (Patriot)

Shivvy

This podcast has become the only filter through which I can keep up with the outside world. Direct consumption is too toxic

alli moulton

Liv agar

Alex Anderson

Oh hell yeah

Harold DJDROPDEAD

Liv Agar won’t wear my CuhShoeLuhs!

Seth Hoover

New ep!

Mac-something


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