Strong Thunderstorm at Night with Torrential Rain On Porch, Heavy Thunder and Lightning Sounds

The election has come and gone. Liv, Jake, Travis and Julian talk about conspiracism among online Republicans and Democrats in the wake of Trump’s victory. We also talk a bit about Kash Patel, who guested on QAnon podcasts before becoming the future Director of the FBI. Plus Jake brings us a sequel to his story: Letter from the Meme War.

Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes:
www.patreon.com/QAA

Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com)

https://qaapodcast.com

QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Post Traumatic Election Disorder (E301)

It's a holiday week so we're mailing it in with the Ethicist. Hope you all are being as lazy as we are.

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 369: The Return Policy

"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 2021. "The GOP has found a Putin-lite to fawn over. That's bad news for democracy," argued Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC the following year, 2022.

Within the last 10 years or so, and especially since the 2016 election of Trump, these authors — Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in addition to several others — have become liberal-friendly experts on authoritarianism. On a regular basis, they make appearances on cable news and in the pages of legacy newspapers and magazines–in some cases, as staff members–in order to warn of how individual, one-off “strongmen” like Trump, Putin, Orban, and Xi, made up a vague “authoritarian” axis hellbent on destroying Democracy for its own sake.

But what good does this framing do and who does it absolve? Instead of meaningfully contending with US's sprawling imperial power and internal systems of oppression — namely being the largest carceral state in the world — these MSNBC historians reheat decades-old Axis of Evil or cold War good vs evil rhetoric, pinning the horrors of centuries of political violence on individual "mad men." Meanwhile, they selectively invoke the "authoritarian" label, fretting about the need to save some abstract notion of democracy from geopolitical Bad Guys while remaining silent as the US funds, arms and backs the most authoritarian process imaginable — the immiseration and destruction of an entire people — specifically in Gaza. 

On this episode, we look at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved historians, dissecting their selective anti-authoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for US and US-allied militarism.

Our guest is historian and author Greg Grandin.

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

In a new series by Felix, Josh (@ettingermentum), and Spencer, we ask: how did the Republican Party, once the dominant force in American culture for almost a generation, become a group of bowtied cosplayers and rapist streamers yelling about Litterboxes? We trace this development back to the empires built by two men—Paul Weyrich and James Dobson—as well as the failures of one Pat Buchanan.

This episode draws from Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine and David Grann’s “Robespierre Of The Right.” For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

Seeking A Fren for the End of the World

Seeking a Fren for the End of the World: Episode 1 - This is Really Just the Beginning

The genius Tim Heidecker is on the show, we talk about Alex Jones selling out, comedy in the age of Trump, and President Hamburgler wandering around the White House in the dark with old cartoon-style pajamas and a candle. We conclude with a new entry of "True Allegiance," with a special reading from Tim as Brett Hawthorne.

Episode 79 - Our Values Are Under Attack feat. Tim Heidecker (2/6/17)

Tim's back. We talk about the classic New York slice, read more from John Kasich's drifter diaries, and listen to more random excerpts of Gorilla Brain Mind. 

Get new Chapo t-shirts here: https://represent.com/chapo

Episode 125 -  Fast And Furious: Toledo Drifter feat. Tim Heidecker (7/15/17)

Recorded last week on Columbus Day with Tim Heidecker; we talk about comedy legends Colonel Sanders, Hugh Hefner, at Joseph Kony.

Episode 150 - Get Kony feat. Tim Heidecker (10/14/17)

Sorry for the delay, we were busy preparing our Halloween costume as the NAtional Debt. We talk about today's dud Russia news and a genuinely good piece in the Atlantic about Third Way weirdos. We also ask, what if Obama was the Joker...

By the way please buy Felix's sister's book: http://www.vineleavespress.com/the-walmart-book-of-the-dead-by-lucy-biederman.html

Episode 154 - Listening Tour (10/30/17)

In the first part of this double shot of recent Midwest live shows, we're joined by Street Fight's Brett and Bryan at The Columbus Athenaeum for a dive into Charlie Kirk's extremely shitty new book "Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters"

Then, from Chicago's House of Blues we introduce an unforgettable new character into the Chapo pantheon of Op-ed shitheads.

Tickets still available for Madison and Minneapolis!!!!

http://chapotraphouse.com/tour/

Chapo Trap House

Episode 254 - Best of the Midwest: Columbus & Chicago feat. Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby (10/15/18)

What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 1:9 

Welcome to 2019!

Episode 278 - Vision 2020 (1/6/19)

Best Place for Relaxing Thunderstorm Sounds! More than 175k Subscribers on YouTube!
Thousands of people around the world have already discovered these nature sounds and their positive effects. Give it a try and sleepless nights will be a thing of the past. Time to relax!

Strong Thunderstorm at Night with Torrential Rain On Porch, Heavy Thunder and Lightning Sounds

Relaxing Guru