Month: October 2023

by Travis Mateer

I have another fascinating book pairing (like this one) that came as a result of two books (pictured above) arriving on the same day at my studio, and it got me to thinking about the subject of “controlled opposition”. I’ll try and explain.

The little book with famous names on the cover, including Elvis, is bolstering the name of Cyril Wecht, a guy I talked to on the phone last month. I kept that conversation very short because…who am I? To a man who has assessed the corpse of Elvis, I am a buzzing little voice without a face on the other end of a phone talking about chokeholds and all the bruising a chokehold CANNOT PRODUCE on parts of the body that aren’t the fucking neck, or throat, or whatever technical term a famous pathologist would use.

How famous is Cyril Wecht anyway? Well, in the same spirit of having to GO TO the places in person to truly assess what’s happening, I think it’s important to PHYSICALLY HOLD the books telling the stories of famous people like Cyril Wecht, and the famous corpses he provides professional opinions on. Why? Because then you can see what OTHER famous people are saying, which starts creating a network of influence for a better feel of the type of influence we are talking about.

Now, you might be thinking I’m writing about this famous guy to somehow piggy-back on his fame to higher places. While I am using Wecht’s name to emphasize the cultural reach of the Stevenson family’s heritage in Pittsburgh, it’s the lower placement of another name that caught my attention.

No, not Sherlock Holmes–a FICTIONAL character I might add–but Mr. Dershowitz, who clearly has a high opinion of Mr. Wecht. Well, Mr. Mateer does NOT have a very high opinion of Mr. Dershowitz, and that’s because of two books by Ms. Webb.

These two volumes of ick are must-haves for any library dealing with corruption at the level I know I am dealing with, and because these books are so well-sourced, it didn’t take me long to find this little tidbit of context for our Mr. Dershy Pants:

The flashy powers of being a SHERLOCK character doesn’t impress me, it’s WHO this Sherlock uses his powers for, and who he does NOT, that I find more relevant to MY work, which includes obtaining an old Allegheny County demographic book from April, 1983, so I can juxtapose it with a photo from old “One Shot” Charles “Teenie” Harris.

Cyril Wecht called bullshit on the magic bullet theory that America was told took out the president pictured above, and I’m calling bullshit on ANYONE who is allowed the fame of mainstream platforms to play a part in fueling a speculative industry that idiots like me spend stupid money on studying and archiving.

Occult rituals involving a dead president and endless speculation can be a real downer, so that’s why I’m going to turn downer shit into a comedy skit masked as a walking tour and dress it up in a Mad Max aesthetic for a weaving of the personal with the historic, transforming mundane places like this into scenes of hilarity.

This is my grassy knoll where I came to the rescue of a drunk Indian woman with the same name as my now ex-wife by the building where United Way was housed and employing, at the time, a different woman who truly and impressively inspired my recent travels. Fucking hilarious.

If you would like to be a part of my test audience for the hybrid comedy-act/walking-tour I’m concocting, I have brochures being EXPRESS shipped to Zoom Town as I write these words, and will soon be placing them at some of my favorite places around the valley.

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by Travis Mateer

The smart person who needed to be educated about the psychopath class is visible at the lower, left hand corner of the above image, and his name is Mehrdad Kia. I’ve been covering this Iranian-born regime-change cheerleader for many years, but this is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to give him a piece of my mind directly. It was reminiscent of my recent birthday gift with Matt Gibson, the destroyer of Missoula’s alt-weekly publication.

I’m amazed that more smart people don’t understand that the psychopath class is a real problem, and that they inhabit all sorts of institutions, and come in all sorts of colors, nationalities, and genders. Even the 500 new ones made up from scratch.

I explained to these stupid smart people that when you understand the psychopath class, you can understand things like “intelligence failures”. The “surprise” attack by Hamas? Intelligence failure. The “surprise” attacks on 9/11? Intelligence failure. The “surprise” attack on Pearl Harbor? Intelligence failure.

Things are only surprising when you lack context, so providing my perspective on the existence of a psychopath class was given in the spirit of providing that critical context it seemed everyone was sorely missing.

Here’s a picture of me at the microphone getting real with Mehrdad and the audience of mostly white women in their 60’s:

Just kidding, that’s Jake Gyllenhaal from the movie Donnie Darko telling the motivational speaker he’s full of shit. I must be getting confused, or full of myself, or BOTH. I mean, how dare I presume to tell an Iranian born regime-change cheerleader that his desire for women to not have men in turbans controlling them (yes, he really said that) is anything less than a passionate desire for FREEDOM for his homeland.

Well, I confirmed what Kia only mockingly hinted at when he complained about being attacked by BOTH Democrats and Republicans in America: this is NOT a free country with a “free” press and a functioning, representative Democracy. If it was, we wouldn’t have Kirsten Pabst as a County Attorney, and ME as the most honest journalist in Zoom Town.

To bolster his assertion about women in Iran and what they want for themselves, Kia used a picture of Time magazine. Maybe Mehrdad secretly wants to be a stand-up comedian, like I do.

Since the audience of mostly older white women didn’t expect to be seeing a stand-up comedian, they didn’t appreciate how fucking hilarious I am. One even yelled for me to leave, but I was already leaving, so HA!

In conclusion, I had a more stimulating time waiting for my sandwich, spending 5 minutes talking to a straggly looking Missoula dude who already knew plenty about the psychopath class without me having to tell him a thing, but I did enjoy seeing the 9-11 in reverse on the plane that Mr. Wimp-Ass, Joe Biden, used to make that awful retreat from Afghanistan, which made people like Mehrdad Kia sad because a STRONG America means a better chance of taking out those turban-headed assholes keeping Iranian women from enjoying BIG D of Democracy, like we have here in AMERICA!

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by Travis Mateer

While I’m eager to share insights I’ve gained after completing the two loops pictured above, I have to remind myself not everyone shares my eagerness, which leaves me wondering, when it comes to subjects like the Smiley Face Killers, do some of these researchers want to UNDERSTAND what’s happening, or simply PROMOTE it?

One of the most prominent Smiley Face Killer researchers, William Ramsey, has a new book out, and I received it in the mail on the same day he responded dismissively to an email inquiry I sent him. Here it is:

To prove I spent good money on Mr. Ramsey’s research, which includes an appreciative chapter on the help Dr. Phil has given to promoting the idea of Smiley Face Killers, here’s a picture. And the other book? Oh, just one of the books I ordered about Cyril Wecht, the famous pathologist I talked to on the phone while I was in Pittsburgh.

What did I talk to Cyril Wecht about? I talked to him about my magic chokehold theory regarding the suspicious death of Sean Stevenson, and he agreed it’s absurd to expect anyone to believe ONE chokehold could produce bruising ALL OVER the body.

Maybe I’ll get a chance to share my insights on synchronicities after being obnoxious on Twitter with Greg Carlwood from The Higherside Chat. Am I still a little butt-hurt that someone who does similar research into synchronicities wouldn’t talk to me on the phone because I wasn’t paying him enough money on Patreon? Yes, obviously.

I was asked to SPILL IT or WALK ON. So I did.

Do you sense a little frustration? Maybe that’s because I’ve been sitting on an incredible story for 3 years, doing everything I can to bring attention to it, and despite the tremendous work I’ve done, there’s a bizarre lack of interest among those who seem most inclined to appreciate my work.

Now, a Holy War is on, and the last time people were searching this vigorously for CAN I BE DRAFTED we were surging US forces in Iraq.

Google search data shows that “Will I get drafted to war?” has jumped above the Feb. 2022 high when Russia invaded Ukraine and hit the highest level since former President George Bush announced the troop surge in Iraq in early 2007. 

And what is Trump out on the campaign trail saying?

On Saturday, former President Trump told the crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that the US is “closer to World War III than we’ve ever been.”

“I’m telling you, we are closer to World War III,” Trump said, warning that another conflict could use “weaponry the likes of which this world has never seen before.”

Great. While it’s more important than ever to understand what the psychopath class is up to, nothing short-circuits brains like a Holy War. Hopefully my Holy War Song isn’t evidence that my own brain is malfunctioning.

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by Travis Mateer

Two days after the attacks of 9/11, Stephen King was pushing back on White House claims that no one could have imagined such an attack. That’s not true, King said in his New York Times piece, because Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had the ultimate goal of hijacking a plane from the Denver airport and flying it into New York City.

Huh?

People keep saying ”like a movie,” ”like a book,” ”like a war zone,” and I keep thinking: No, not at all like a movie or a book — that’s no computer-generated image, because you can’t see any wash or blur in the background. This is what it really looks like when an actual plane filled with actual human beings and loaded with jet fuel hits a skyscraper. This is the truth.

Certainly, it seems to me that the idea of an enormous intelligence breakdown is ludicrous; again, this was not like a book, not like a movie; this was men armed with nothing but knives and box cutters relying on simple speed to keep people off balance long enough to accomplish their goals. In the case of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, they failed. With the other three, however, they succeeded quite nicely. Cost of weaponry? Based on what we know now, less than $100. This qualifies them as cut-rate, low-tech, stealth guerrillas flying well under the radar of American intelligence. We must realize this and grasp an even more difficult truth: although it is comforting to have a bogyman, and every child’s party needs a paper donkey to pin the tail on, this Osama bin Laden fellow may not have been the guy responsible. It wouldn’t hurt to remember that the boys who shot up Columbine High School planned to finish their day by hijacking a jetliner and flying it into — yes, that’s right — the World Trade Center. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris weren’t exactly rocket scientists, and the guys who did this didn’t have to be either. All you had to be was willing to die, and these guys were. It could happen again. And now that crazos the world over see that it’s possible to get 72 hours of uninterrupted air time on a budget, it will almost certainly happen again.

When it comes to imagining violent scenarios, Stephen King knows what he’s talking about. I’m not sure what age I was when I first read King’s story about a school shooting, titled Rage, but it was probably around high school.

If you didn’t know Stephen King was making money off depicting violence in schools a few decades before Columbine, here’s the plot summary of the story:

Charlie Decker, a Maine high school senior, is called to a meeting with his principal about a previous incident in which he struck his chemistry teacher with a pipe wrench, leading to the teacher’s hospitalization and Charlie’s suspension. Charlie then subjects the principal to a series of insulting remarks, resulting in his expulsion. Charlie storms out of the office and retrieves a pistol from his locker, then sets the contents of his locker on fire. He then returns to his classroom and fatally shoots his algebra teacher, Miss Jean Underwood. The fire triggers an alarm, but Charlie forces his classmates to stay in the room, killing a history teacher, Mr. Peter Vance, when he attempts to enter. As the other students and teachers evacuate the school, the police and media arrive at the scene.

See? Stephen King knows what he’s talking about AND he was way ahead of the times.

Why am I thinking about Stephen King, 9/11, and Columbine? I listened to a podcast, is one reason, and we’re going to be hearing a lot about dark-skinned terrorists again, is another.

Normally I don’t write about geopolitics at this local blog, but since an Israeli Consul is going to be speaking in Missoula on Wednesday, I think I’ll have something to write later this week. Here’s what’s happening on campus tomorrow:

Wednesday’s 20th annual International Conference on Central and Southwest Asia at the University of Montana has gained new urgency after violence erupted in Israel and the Gaza Strip over the weekend.

Conference organizer Bob Seidenschwarz said Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta’s keynote speech Wednesday evening remains on the schedule, although its content is likely to change. Sermoneta’s speech was titled “Charting a new course: Israel’s engagement in the Middle East and Beyond.” Montana Commerce Department Director Scott Osterman will join Sermoneta for a facilitated discussion starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the University Center’s third-floor theater on the UM campus.

I’m excited to attend this. Will we hear anything about Ukrainian Nazis and that hilarious “gaffe” up in Canada?

The Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for a Ukrainian war veteran who turned out to be a former fighter for Nazi Germany has reignited calls to take down a monument honoring his unit.

Yaroslav Hunka, 98, who served in the voluntary 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS, was applauded as a war hero by Canadian leaders on Friday without them realizing he actually fought in a Nazi unit.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has since apologized for the gaffe, calling it “deeply embarrassing.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was visiting Canada’s parliament at the time of the standing ovation.

It’s very confusing when your freedom fighters against evil Russia are sometimes ALSO Nazis. Will Mehrdad Kia be around Wednesday to tell America we’re wimpy for not taking out Iran and being better pals with Ukraine against evil Russia?

Yes, this man is very thoughtful, and here are some of his thoughts on Biden being a wimp:

The American foreign policy of retreat projected weakness and sent the wrong signal to Putin, who brazenly invaded a sovereign country, Ukraine, convinced that the Biden administration, just like the Obama White House in the case of the Russian invasion of Crimea, would ignore aggression against a sovereign country by Russian forces. The heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people, along with mass demonstrations across Europe demanding a strong response to Russian aggression forced the hand of the United States and its European allies, resulting into military support for the Zelensky government in Kiev.

As an observer who has been equally critical of both Democrats and Republicans in many foreign policy issues, I have to confess that I have rarely seen a weaker and more disjointed foreign policy approach than the one implemented by the Biden administration. Advancing a U. S. foreign policy that advocates a strong American presence in critical regions of the world through a close alliance with our traditional partners will minimize the possibility of U. S. military intervention in the future, and it will significantly reduce the likelihood of conflict erupting in various corners of the world because of intervention by China and Russia, such as what we see now in the cases of Taiwan and Ukraine.

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by Travis Mateer

My assertion in this post is that the majority of voters in US elections should be considered “low information voters”. So, while it might be a nice idea to think smart people who have nuanced opinions about complicated issues are the ones darkening bubbles for candidates, the reality is closer to most voters not knowing what the hell is going on, and our deplorable media industry is going to keep them that way.

Which brings me to Missoula’s Mayoral race and the very important question I have for local readers: are you going to vote for the penis or the vagina for Mayor?

I think the vagina has a very good chance of winning this race, and I’m basing this statement on graffiti. Specifically, there is a stencil I’ve seen spray-painted around town and it has a very simple message: vote women.

If Mike Nugent is serious about becoming Mayor, there’s a very simple action he can take to show us he’s serious about leading Missoula into the new era: CUT IT OFF, MIKE!

By cutting off his penis, Mike Nugent will be a much more compelling and competitive candidate for Missoula. Heck, I suspect even TIME MAGAZINE will take notice of Mike Nugent if he shows this kind of bravery and dedication to our NEW WORLD of extreme, body-modifying Transhumanism.

Maybe, if we’re a lucky human species, our Mayoral candidates will one day look like this:

Will Mike Nugent get brave? If he’s worried about what his wife might think, he should know that in this NEW AGE, appendages will be EVEN BETTER than those flesh sticks prone to dysfunction we currently have swinging between our legs.

Imagine a detachable, rechargeable appendage with multiple settings! Problems of size and lasting are problems no longer! Just look at how happy Ally Sheedy is!

Seriously though, I am very NOT interested in Missoula’s Mayoral race because I don’t think it matters one bit whether Mike or Andrea wins. The most interesting thing about this race is that Jordan Hess, Missoula’s SHORTEST placeholder Mayor, got taken out in the primary.

What does the Hess failure mean? It means members of the old guard, who aligned behind Hess, have some ass kissing to do, so the real question is WHAT ASS will they kiss? Will it be the ass that backs an external, linear set of genitalia, or the one that features an internal, more circular genitalia setup?

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