by Travis Mateer
Sigh.
It just gets crazier and crazier, so Tim and I discuss it. I read a poem. Social bonds are blowing up. Boomers are nostalgic over peace signs as another body is added to the count of…what exactly? A mental health crisis involving a machete?
I dunno. It’s only Tuesday. It’s only September. And it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
by Travis Mateer
UPDATE BELOW
I am done allowing city council candidate J. Kevin Hunt free range to comment on my blog for a number of reasons, the main one being his refusal to answer my simple, direct question: do I have the right to say NO to a vaccine?
Does Hunt’s refusal to answer this question mean he supports medical apartheid?
I don’t know. I tried calling Hunt weeks ago, but he stopped taking my calls, and since he won’t be commenting here anymore, he won’t be able to lecture me on why the Australians are doing a fantastic job.
What, you didn’t know medical apartheid already arrived in Australia? It has, and here is the premier of Victoria explaining what the future economy will look like:
“There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated,” Andrews stated. “We’re going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be.”
He added: “If you’re making the choice not to get vaccinated, then you’re making the wrong choice.”
How cute, they’re still calling this a “choice” in the totalitarian penal colony of the crown. I wonder if this gives J. Kevin Hunt’s budding authoritarianism a mandate hard-on?
It’s really unfortunate I’m writing this post at all, especially considering all the money Hunt has invested in himself for this campaign.
Last month mayoral candidate Greg Strandberg took a look at Ward 1 candidate financial reports and had this to say about Hunt’s campaign:
Hunt received $8,500 over the past month, spent about $5,400 and now has $3,400 in the bank. Most of his spending was for a mass-mailer of about 6,000 campaign brochures. That cost him about $5,000.
In the days since that report came out, he’s filed two additional reports, listing about $2,500 more to send out around 6,000 postcards.
$8,400 of Hunt’s campaign money comes from donations to himself, which are listed as loans. Hunt has been running since March, but since that time, just one individual has donated to his campaign.
With all this money being spent by the candidate, it’s too bad there’s no one to counsel J. Kevin Hunt on how NOT to turn a supporter into a detractor, because that is precisely what he’s done to me.
And the sociopathic elite love it.
We don’t have to allow the bifurcation of our society to happen over this pandemic, but in order to stop what’s coming, people like J. Kevin Hunt have to face their fears and see the propaganda (and who benefits) for what it is.
I was plenty afraid during the first few months of this madness, but I faced those fears and came out the other side healthier and stronger than ever in my resolve to expose the corruption in this town.
J. Kevin Hunt has taken some bold actions in the recent past toward this goal of exposing local corruption, but this attempt to drag his old-normal progressivism into the new-normal of a liberal culture war has turned this former supporter against his political ambitions.
So, with all that said, if you live in Ward 1 and you haven’t turned in your primary ballot yet, my suggestion would be to darken the bubble for Jane VonFossen. Instead of wasting time by commenting on a blog to shame someone for medical decisions they are making for their family, Jane is trying to understand how the city of Missoula spends our money:
I’ve spent a great deal of time recently trying to get a clear picture of how that money is being used. It’s been a challenge. It shouldn’t be that hard, but it is. The City of Missoula isn’t very transparent in how our money is being spent. When I’m elected, special high-cost programs and projects that benefit a few with connections to City Hall and select areas of the city, will be identified and called out. Today’s City government culture fosters secrecy and hidden spending.
Right on, Jane VonFossen. If I lived in Ward 1, this is who I would be voting for.
Thanks for reading.
UPDATE
Below is a response candidate Hunt sent me via email. I’m just going to copy and paste it, as I have more serious things to be attending to at present.
List of your lies about me in your latest blog post:
(1) that I refuse to answer your question re whether you had a right to refuse vaccination. This is really bizarre given that your readers had to have seen my answer.
(2) that I shamed you for the medical decisions you make for your family. Never happened.(3) that since March, only one individual has donated to my campaign.
(4) that I lecture you about the Australians. Never happened. I’ve never referred to them at all.
(5) that I stopped taking your calls.
(6) that I am a totalitarian (this one is hysterical).
(7) that I support mandatory vaccination of everyone. I expressly stated that I do NOT, in the response to your question that you now claim I never provided! That was seen by many people. Of which I retained a copy.
I find it difficult to believe that you would engage in deliberate lying. That leaves me with the only alternative explanation — corroborated by the claim that I never answered your question — which is that you’re now afflicted with a thought disorder. In addition to the gross confabulations, your logical thought processes have gone out the window.
I don’t expect you to correct the lies you wrote about me, but I demand it just the same. I can’t influence public opinion as to whether you’re a crackpot, but I have plenty that paints you as a prevaricator. Correct the false statements.
jkh