By Staff | October 24, 2026
Who Is Mr. Quigley?
Until recently, he was a relatively obscure YouTuber in Texas making videos about subjects most people would rather avoid. Then his audience exploded - perhaps the algorithm picked up the channel, or maybe his common-sense approach to political, economic and social issues just simply started to resonate with viewers. Suddenly, a guy who describes himself as a chronically unemployable college dropout had over 100,000 people listening to him expound on matters large and small.
That his channel is still alive is a near miracle - he's willing to piss of some pretty influential sectors of society, and he doesn't seem especially worried about the consequences. In this wide-ranging interview, we had a chance to discuss his unlikely rise, his anger over a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and why a man who wants to burn the whole system down still manages to find things worth believing in.
Welcome! Your YouTube channel has suddenly exploded. What is it like to have that many people tune in to hear your opinions, and to what do you attribute this thing taking off the way it has?
Well, as a chronically unemployable college dropout who's spent the last decade as a small-business owner, I've never considered myself a very important person. And to be perfectly honest I had figured that YouTube would have shut me down by now. Every day that goes by where I still have this opportunity to speak to so many people is a gift and I try to treat it as such.
Attribution is easy: Ian Carroll (or his majesty The Great Moustache King as we call him) did a live review of my Synagogue of Satan video that took me from around 25k subscribers to nearly 100k essentially overnight. But as much as I'd love to award him sole credit, he has explicitly and graciously denied me on that offer. So I'll say this: I have a genuine passion for the medium of film and storytelling, and I am disagreeable enough to not much care about offending powerful people. And those two things in combination seem to resonate with a lot of folks.
The infamous Momba, YouTube producer and convicted war criminal
You've described yourself as a libertarian, which can mean a lot of things. Classical libertarianism, Cato Institute style, or just 20-somethings who don't want any consequences for their actions. How would you describe your personal outlook?
So... as mentioned, I'm an extremely disagreeable person. My "Big Five" personality tests consistently score me in the 0-5% range for agreeableness. Which I think lends to a very Anarchist-oriented, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" kind of attitude towards basically any form of institutional authority or centralized / monopolistic power.
Hoppe and Rothbard were and are very influential for me and I agree overwhelmingly with their baseline position on the cancerous nature of the State. But I think what differentiates me from them, and most libertarians, is my recognition of the (obvious) reality that private companies or institutions can also wield oppressive power, especially in a system like ours which is so inundated with corporate regulatory capture in so many industries. This means that I do not bootlick for major corporations like many so-called "libertarians". But I also don't think the solution is to replace one system of authoritarianism with another, like many of my Marxist cousins. I'm very much in the camp of "Burn it all down, bring back the guillotines, let people sort themselves out." We've gone too far, at this point. The corruption we see today is too intractable to be voted out.
With your numbers, you can clearly make the decision to do this full time, if you haven't already. How do you plan to keep things fresh and keep people engaged going forward?
I feel like I've already been pushing the envelope of what is acceptable by YouTube standards considerably, so "keeping it fresh" while also staying on the good side of YT censorship will be an interesting trick to pull off. I am definitely looking to diversify into other platforms like Instagram, Rumble, and X both to reach a wider audience and also to not leave myself so vulnerable to deplatforming.
I've started to bring on other team members: a channel manager, a shortform clip editor, a writer / researcher, which should help to take some work off my plate and scale the channel faster. Beyond that, in terms of creative direction, I only ever talk about whatever thing is most interesting to me at any given moment. And it's worked out so far, so I guess my plan is to just continue falling ass-backwards into success.
Was there a specific event or moment for you that spurred you to start speaking out about the genocide, or was it a gradual realization?
I was raised as an Evangelical Dispensationalist Christian and consequently was thoroughly brainwashed with that "Bless Israel and be blessed" Ted Cruz-style of the Zionist mind virus. Even after I left the church as a teenager I never really looked into the history of Palestine. I think that, until very recently, our media and political system have made it extremely easy to rationalize or even outright ignore the demonic brutality of that occupation.
It wasn't until Oct 7th, 2023 that I started paying any attention to the issue. And I know that I'm not especially unique in that response. Lots of people jolted out of their sleepwalking on that day. The only difference for me is that, once I started digging and researching the history, I never stopped. The more I looked, the more ashamed of my prior ignorance and complicity I became, and gradually that shame transformed itself into righteous indignation.
Everyone wants to believe that they're the hero in their own story. But within the greater context of the American participation in the Gazan genocide, we are all of us the villains. Every tax dollar we've fed into the American war machine for the past 80 years is a burden of guilt that we simply cannot and should not abide any longer.
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You spend a lot of time discussing some pretty dark shit on your channel as someone focused on the brutality in Gaza. What keeps you from just completely sinking into a pit of despair?
I definitely fall headfirst into that pit from time to time. I'm not made of stone. My "Top Ten Israeli War Crimes" video in particular was definitely a low point in terms of my mental health. Most videos take me about a week to produce, that one took nearly a month. I had to keep taking breaks. It was brutal. But I'm so proud of that video, and of myself for making it. It was a necessary self-education on the history of Israeli atrocities for the past 80 years, and I'm much better equipped for this fight being able to wield that knowledge against genocide deniers.
I think that, in the face of great evil, nihilism is the lazy answer. It's the easy and selfish way out. It relieves any sense of personal responsibility you might otherwise feel to do anything about the situation. And for me, the antidote to nihilism is absurdism. Yes, the universe is cruel and uncaring. Yes, there are evil people harming innocents out there. But I think one of the best ways to dismantle evil and steal its power is to make a mockery of it. To laugh in its fucking face with middle finger held high. I'm very much in the Mel Brooks school of thinking, in that regard.
The work I'm doing has also led me to a deepening of my faith. I've not been an especially religious person for many years, and thanks to my hatred for institutional authority I'm still not. But since I started on this path, I've seen too many wild coincidences and blessings to ignore. I am convinced that what I'm doing is in the service of a greater good and has been endorsed by a higher power. And that belief helps carry me through some of the darker subjects.
The concept of anti-Semitism has become so conflated with anti-Zionism in recent years that the term has become almost meaningless. You've categorically stated that it's morally wrong to discriminate against anyone on the basis of immutable characteristics, but it's likely you'll receive criticism, if you haven't already, from people who don't understand the distinction. How do you respond to people who just don't get what you're saying?
Well thankfully, I have attracted a very wide audience that does understand what I'm saying. I do not hate any individual person for how they were born. I do not believe in collective guilt or punishment for immutable characteristics. And my core audience knows this about me. Now, obviously there are folks who watch my videos who are genuine anti-Semites. I knew when I started making these kinds of videos that there would be, and there's not much I can do about that. My solution has been, at every imaginable opportunity, to highlight and celebrate the very small but very vocal minority of prominent Jewish individuals Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Dave Smith, to name but a few who go out of their way to explicitly condemn the Zionist project. Very likely at great personal risk and peril, and at the expense of their familial, friendly, and professional relationships. Those good people are more courageous than I will ever be, given the position they put themselves in by taking the position that they do as ethnic Jews. They are heroes of mine, each and every one of them. And I will celebrate them whenever given the chance.
In a perfect world — we're giving you a magic wand here — what aspects of society would you like to see change and why?
I would like to return us to a hard money standard, either gold or some other fixed REAL currency. I think that so much of what is evil and wrong about society at the moment is down to money manipulation. There exists a powerful international banking cartel that uses debt and usury to enslave us all, and create all manner of perverse financial and social incentives. Fake bullshit fiat currency is the primary vehicle that allows for this manipulation. Fixing the money would solve so, so many problems that it's hard to come up with anything else that would even compete.
I'm an anarchist so, obviously, I think that decentralizing all hegemonic American power structures would help a lot. The Federal Government should cease to exist entirely. Not only because this would end our Neoconservative foreign policy, but also I think that folks don't appreciate how much large corporations DEPEND on oppressive government regulations to suppress legitimate competition and maintain monopolistic power. I mean, how many people do you know that would be willing to buy a SIMPLE, reliable car or truck with decent mileage for $15,000? You know why we can't have that? Because of stupid regulatory imposition on the car industry that fills all new-build cars with touchscreens, and cameras, and bells and whistles and gizmos and gadgets and stupid fucking AI crap. All of which drives the price up by $30-50k (editor’s note: my car’s navigation recently switched over from simple voice recognition to a shitty AI assistant against my will. Yay.)
Anyway, I'll get off my AnCap soapbox now. The government makes everything worse, people. Put on your big-boy pants and govern yourselves.
You have a Bible verse on the wall behind you, Matthew 18:6. You've discussed this in live streams, but for our readers who aren't familiar with it, what does it mean? And more importantly, why does it resonate with you?
This verse came to me as I was praying and seeking a mission statement for the channel. Matthew 18:6 is an admonishment from Christ that it would be better to die than to cause harm to a child. If you read the Gospels through, you'll notice that Christ doesn't repeat himself all that often. But he does emphasize again and again the importance of protecting children. And so much of what we see in Western society right now is in direct, perverse opposition to that. One might even call it a spirit of AntiChrist.
The butchery of children in Gaza with American bombs and bullets. The propagation and coverup of the Epstein network (which is STILL in operation today, by the way). Childhood obesity approaching 25% due to toxic food. Mental health issues approaching 20% for ages 3 to 17 due to some combination of social media exposure and overmedication. None of this is sustainable. A society which sacrifices the lives and wellbeing of its youth is destined for extinction. And if we don't course correct quickly, we probably deserve it.
To what do you credit your sense of morals and ethics? Was it the way you were raised, an outcome of simply being a thinking person, or something else entirely?
Well, I had a pretty rough childhood. But if I am to give my parents their due, they definitely instilled in me a solid work ethic and a framework of Christian morality. Be honest, protect your reputation, lift up those around you. These kinds of things. But I think that my morals actually improved upon leaving the Church as a teenager certainly in regards to whether it's ever acceptable to harm children. Christian Zionism is definitely the worst possible flavor of Christianity for how quick it is to dehumanize children in the Middle East. My recent re-integration into the faith is much more agnostic and on-my-own-terms. It's easier for me to reconcile the Gospels than the Old Testament, the latter of which is horrific and, frankly, blasphemous.
Other major influences would include Karl Popper's framework of Negative Utilitarianism and Murray Rothbard's "For A New Liberty". I'm constantly and obsessively thinking about the philosophy of ethics and have had too many influences in that regard to name all of them.
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Anyone out there you'd like to shout out for supporting you?
Thanks to Sierra, my partner in crime, in life, and in the crazy misadventure that this YouTube channel has become. She keeps me on track with her unceasing support and affection, and calls me out on my bullshit when I need it (not infrequently). There are many other people in my personal life that I would like to thank, but for the sake of anonymity I will not expose their names. You know who you are.
Thanks to Ian Carroll, Clint Russell, Jess Elofson, Neil Oliver, Benjamin Boyce and all others who have been willing to collaborate with me and reach out a hand of friendship in spite of the rowdy, controversial shit that I am prone to say.
And thanks to the good people at knifetwister for a kickass coffee mug! It will remain in the background of my videos for as long as I'm making them.
Links
Official Website - misterquigley33.com