by William Skink
I’m going to interpret yesterday’s events in verse. And the song below that is from Aesop Rock’s new album, Spirit World Field Guide. Enjoy.
bread crumb Q food rots the brain Saturn strong, bro brings the pain horned guy's fur with Thor tattoo hammers hard the photo shoot let them in to set them up Trump's a golem no hiccup where you at, bro? got my back? why you hangin' behind their claps?
by Travis Mateer
When Donald Trump snatched the White House away from Hillary Clinton in 2016, Democrats and their treasonous intelligence operatives, like John Brennan, went into action. Now, four years later, the Democrat cartel is back in power. So, what are the dedicated patriots who think they’ve had the presidency stolen supposed to do?
I know what the rulers of our Kakistocracy WANT Trump supporters to do, and that’s turn to violence, especially after what happened in Washington DC yesterday:
Four people died as supporters of President Donald Trump violently occupied the U.S. Capitol.
Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said the dead on Wednesday included a woman who was shot by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as three others who died in “medical emergencies.”
Police said both law enforcement and Trump supporters deployed chemical irritants during the hourslong occupation of the Capitol building before it was cleared Wednesday evening by law enforcement.
There is another way to respond for Trump supporters who understand what lurks behind Joe Biden and the neoliberals who have destroyed anything good Democrats once stood for, and that response is to work locally organizing decentralized networks of trade.
The concept I am referring to here is Agorism:
Agorism is a free-market anarchist political philosophy founded by Samuel Edward Konkin III that believes the ultimate goal as bringing about a society in which all “relations between people are voluntary exchanges– a free market.”[1] The term comes from the Greek word “agora,” referring to an open place for assembly and market in ancient Greek city-states. Agorist theory divides people into two classes: people who make their living through the market, and people who make their living by coercing others (called the “economic class” and “political class”, respectively). They support a nonviolent overthrow of the second class by the first, through peaceful black market and grey market activity, known as counter-economics.
Agorism, if embraced by a community, has the potential to establish counter-economic networks that can help a community weather the economic storm that is coming.
And the storm IS coming because the 4th industrial revolution has arrived and the pandemic has provided the catalyst to impose THE GREAT RESET. This is happening whether you want it to or not.
I’m not going to lament the fact Joe Biden will be sworn in as president. Instead, I’m going to continue exposing what the Zoom Town neoliberals are actually doing behind their altruistic language in supposed liberal strongholds like Missoula.
I have faith that through this exposure, strange bedfellows and unconventional allies will emerge as more people realize our common ground IS our community, and self-serving corruption is NEVER ok, even when it’s coming from well-spoken non-profit influencers.
So stay tuned…
by Travis Mateer
I just returned to my art studio from the Trump rally happening right now outside the courthouse in downtown Missoula. I’m putting out this post ASAP to report on a miraculous thing I witnessed.
A man from the Trump side of the street came over to speak with a man with a rainbow flag and his friend. I was standing there, watching and listening and chomping at the bit to add my two cents (which I did, eventually).
Was there yelling? No, there wasn’t any yelling, but there WAS a conversation, and that conversation identified potential common ground: local corruption.
I came away with two contact numbers of two people who live in Missoula and who understand that local corruption is a good place to start when it comes to angry people wanting to do something to effect real change in their community.
It’s not supposed to go down like this. Trump people are not supposed to speak civilly with rainbow flag people to find any shred of shared humanity.
This is the kind of thing agent provocateurs are brought in to prevent. I hope this show of support for Trump in Missoula doesn’t get the Autozone treatment.
by Travis Mateer
Instead of writing about the professional wrestling match in DC today featuring the satanic pedos squaring off against the white-hat patriots, I’m going to focus on the showdown between our local braintrust and dastardly flavored vaping products.
I was going to ignore this battle of brains against vaping to write about Lin Wood tweets and Qanon, but then I read how our local superheroes were putting on their cape of extraterritorial powers to fight their enemy and I thought to myself, this could be serious. From the link:
Missoula County will consider using its extraterritorial powers to extend the City of Missoula’s ban on the sale of flavored vaping products and their display five miles outside city limits next week.
After reading this quote a few times, I started getting confused. Are they putting on a cape, or is it actually a dog collar hooked to a leash leading to the Mayor’s office?
I read on, seeking clarity, but, alas, got this:
The Missoula City Council adopted its ban on all flavored electronic tobacco products in November. The City-County Health Board followed suit the following month.
If approved, it would be the first time Missoula County applied its extraterritorial powers in four years. The last time it did was related to the city’s smoking ordinance.
I looked elsewhere for understanding. Perhaps The Nooge (Jim Nugent) could help out. A PDF from an email from 12 years ago put it this way:
Pursuant to section 7-4-4306 MCA pertaining to municipal mayoral powers provides that “the mayor has power to exercise the power as may be vested in the mayor by ordinance of the city . . .in and over all places within 5 miles of the boundaries of the city . . . for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations of the city
Sure, banning vaping products is all about enforcing health, especially for THE YOUTH:
“This initially started with the health board adopting a resolution and asking both the commission and City Council to do something to stop the epidemic of youth tobacco, especially using vape products,” said Shannon Therriault, county director of environmental health.
Thanks, county director of environmental health, I’m so glad you’re watching out for my kids as they continue to get deprived of contact with their peers and are forced to wear masks because they could be asymptomatic vectors spreading the dreaded Covid.
I can only hope this magic 5 mile extraterritorial power zone, that has sucked me into the city’s anti-vape agenda, doesn’t mean our municipal TIF junkies can somehow put the squeeze on my property taxes.
Is anti-vaping a trojan horse to invert the Couty/City power relationship?
Nah, it’s just good people doing their gosh darn best to help us out.
Yeah right.
by Travis Mateer
On January 5th, 2020, Sean Stevenson was removed from life support at St. Patrick’s hospital after being in a physical altercation with another man at the Poverello Center, western Montana’s largest emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen.
The physical altercation that led to Sean’s death occurred on January 3rd and from the time he was taken to the hospital, to his final moments, no one ever contacted Sean’s family.
To understand the many questions this disturbing case raises, please listen to my interview with Sean’s sisters, Jejchelle Stevenson and Angela Stevenson.
The audio has some feedback that I mostly cleaned up with my modest post-production skills, but if there are any issues, please let me know in the comments.