QAA Podcast - ICE vs. Your Lyin’ Eyes feat. Ken Klippenstein (Premium E319) Sample

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Liv, Jake, and Travis grapple with the killing of Renee Good by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis. Though the incident was captured on video from multiple angles, discourse about it was immediately swallowed by a churn of regime spin, conspiracy narratives, and AI-assisted fakery. To get a better idea of how Department of Homeland Security leadership thinks and operates, Travis interviews independent journalist Ken Klippenstein about internal DHS documents recently leaked to him. Then Jake gives us his report from the fever swamps. The reactions include the inevitable “paid agitator” allegations and a megaphone-wielding QAnon figure who appears at protests to openly taunt crowds with violent rhetoric. Ken Klippenstein https://bsky.app/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein Newsletter https://www.kenklippenstein.com/ Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-ice-programs-revealed Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium QAA episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. REFERENCES Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010648638/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos-analysis.html CEO Says Man In Video Screaming at Anti-ICE Protestors Lied About Working For His Company, Created Fake Webpage https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/34094/update_ceo_says_man_in_video_screaming_at_anti-ice_protestors_lied_about_working_for_his_company_created_fake_webpage All six episodes of Annie Kelly’s new podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers, with new episodes released weekly. www.cursedmedia.net/ Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year. www.cursedmedia.net/

You found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast's Premium Episode 319. Ice versus your lion eyes. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky. Liv Ekar. And Travis View. This week, just the second week of the new year, the world has gotten more frightening with the murder of Renee Good,

who was shot two or three times point blank by an ice agent after pulling out of a driveway, trying to flag the ice caravan to go around her, and then attempting to drive away from ice agents as they reached inside her vehicle. By the way, I just want to start this off by saying, not that I think that we have any too many right-wing people who listen to this show, but if there are, or you hate listening. The penalty from fleeing from a federal agent, even if Renee had not been murdered but instead been pulled over, apprehended charge,

and managed to get convicted, is five years in prison and a fine. I just want to say that. And my point is, we'll never know what was going through Renee's mind in her last moments. The best we have is videos of the incident, which shows her pulling the steering wheel hard to the right, seemingly showing an intent to move around the federal agent. And yet before her body was cold, you have all of these ghouls, vice presidents included, flocking to social media to say essentially she deserved it. Yeah.

It really seems like the right is trying to make this, like, their Charlie Kirk response. Or they're like, you made fun of this evil racist. is homophobic, transphobic guy, who said that American killing people is good. So we're going to make fun of this random woman dying whose crime was being around a nice agent. Yeah, her crime essentially was just like, wrong place, wrong time. Mm-hmm. Which really feels like, I mean, not to be too over-optimistic, but like really overplaying

their hand. I can't imagine, like, because I saw like a lot of, even like, I haven't been on Twitter at all, but I still get exposed to it on other social media. They were really like, they were making like the wojacks of her getting shot. And it's shot in the same place that Charlie Kirk was, just in case you're like, if there's any ambiguity about the, you know, the reason why they're doing it. And it's like, oh, it's because you guys made fun of our guy. But people didn't like Charlie Kirk particularly. Like the average person doesn't.

I can't think of a better way to sour the independent, the median voter. The person you presumably need to be able to, like, control and dominate society than just making fun of this person who's killed. I don't, I think that they're far more overconfident. they're way more confident than I think they should be. I don't think that they really understand how most people are viewing this. Yeah, and the polling is bearing that out. Sometimes I have like little faith, you know, the opinions of the American people. But in this particular instance, they generally seem to understand how messed up this was.

This also sounds like, one poll said like 70% the respondents had seen a video of the incident, which is crazy. Right. Yeah, I mean, you know, I've seen every angle of this because, you know, of course, X, The Everything app made sure it was the only thing in my feed. And in my opinion, it showed me, you know, clear as day that the ice, I'm not even going to say in my opinion, the video I watched showed me clear as day that this ice agent was in absolutely zero immediate danger. And this is coming from somebody who has seen way too many episodes of cops,

more than I would like to admit, to know that they have let people live for far worse offenses with a vehicle. Yeah, I mean, like, it was like what really struck. me was the fact that the shooting did not affect the sort of the velocity or the angle of the vehicle and the officer was unharmed. They were saying there was some sort of injury. There has not been corroborate. We'll get into that later. But it was obviously not ran over because if he had not shot, it would have not affected the trajectory of the vehicle. This is one of those I would recall like, you know, why did he have the bull, Bart kind of facts? I'm thinking

that scene in The Simpsons where Millhouse is chastising Bart for gas. Liding him. Santa's a little helper? I guess I was the only one who loved him. You got that right. Remember the time he ate my goldfish and you lied to me and said I never had any goldfish? But why did I have the bowl part? Why did I have the bowl?

And this is one of those things for his law. Here's a real, a core fact, which is real central, which is I think everyone needs to pay attention to, which is that, like, obviously the officer would not have been harmed because the shooting did not make them a sort of any sort of like,

then change the trajectory of the vehicle in any meaningful way. Yeah, you don't de-sp, your body doesn't despawn. It's not like a video game after you shot. Like, it's in the same general area. Like, you don't move. That's, you leave the capacity to move because you die. Yeah. Aye.

This is a tough one, guys. Yeah. Uh, things feel bad. I know police are like, they do be murdering people in the street, like, like consistently for like millennia. But, because, you know, especially after this, like, big push of like, you know, ice and, like, the $50,000 hiring bonus and the posters that are like, Uncle Sam wants you, you know, very reminiscent of that kind of stuff.

It's like any geek off the street, as demonstrated recently, I'm sure you guys saw the wonderful slate article from Laura Jadid, where she gets offered an ice job while doing the minimal amount of work. She doesn't sign any of the paperwork. She definitely isn't going to pass her. drug test because she's like smoked weed, you know, a couple days before, you know, taking the test. And she still gets the offer. So when I say any geek off the street who wants a $50,000 signing bonus, which is a lot of money, that's a lot of money, essentially with the idea of going to, you know,

essentially to become like some kind of street mercenary and, you know, ski masks and body armor. Yeah. You know, I was worried that something, I was worried that something like this would happen. Yeah, honestly, I was surprised, like, given my, like, how low my opinion of the America Kikin white proletariat is that they had to offer that much. I thought they would have done it for free. I'm sure, actually, honestly, I'm sure all of those, like, you know, really high cholesterol, like, chuds, you cannot, like, keep up a brisk pace for more than 10 seconds.

Probably would be doing it for free. Anyways. The, the journalist who went to the sort of, like, recruiting area, which is really, You guys should read that article if you have it. It's really funny. It's held in like some kind of like e-sports arena. So it's like all of these like thick neck, you know, like law enforcement guys sort of milling around. She said it's kind of empty.

There weren't as many people as she thought. But it's all like neon, like neon LED lighting and like state, you know, because it's, it's tricked out for some kind of video game tournament. Yeah. It's, it's so, it's so bizarre. But she said that like, you know, eventually, you know, she ends up talking to this guy, you know, who's an employee or has been working for ICE for a long time. And he's like, you know, it's not going to be, you're not going to be on the streets right away. Like, you know, you got to sort of, there's a lot of paperwork to be done. You're not going to get to do the cool stuff like you see on TV.

And the journalist is like, oh, well, that's okay. Like, I guess I'm more suited to that. Like, I'm more suited to that. And the guy kind of like adjusts. And he goes, oh, well, just to be clear, the goal is to have as many guns and badges on the street as possible. okay so even he kind of like when she said that she wanted to maybe she would be comfortable working in the office that was like the wrong sort of mentality to have she could tell you know you are the brown shirts you don't understand there's no brown shirts doing paperwork you don't get to do that you've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the qaa podcast for access to the full episode as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast miniseries go to patreon.com slash qaaq YouAA. Travis, why is that such a good deal? Well, Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month.

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