Month: February 2024

by Travis Mateer

Last week the Missoula Economic Partnership engaged in some homeless narrative control, and the Missoulian reported on it. If the Missoulian had stopped there I wouldn’t be writing this post with an image of Val Kilmer kicking things off, but the Missoulian had to go and CONGRATULATE ITSELF for helping MEP control the homeless narrative with their insufferable HUCKLEBERRY op-ed, which says this (emphasis NOT mine):

The claim that some places are too soft-hearted for their own good took a hard-nosed hit last week at a Missoula Economic Partnership gathering. National and local research show that homeless people aren’t shopping around for the best handouts and warmest shelter beds. About 90% of them are living rough where they last had a home, before an economic shock like a job loss or a chronic medical condition overwhelmed their ability to keep up. As economist Bryce Ward explained, the cost those people impose on the community pales before the burdens they bear themselves, in higher risk of dying, exposure to violent crime, and inability to get the care that would solve many of their bigger problems. It brings to mind the movie conversation between the evicted farmer begging the queen for mercy: “How shall I feed my family?” “You should have thought of that before you decided to be poor!” Missoula takes a lot of hits from its urban neighbors for publicly wrestling with homelessness. But as Ward’s research reveals, being clear-eyed about the roots of a problem leads to more huckleberry results than pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

I don’t even know where to start with this “huckleberry” commentary that throws out a big percentage, like 90%, then references some movie scene with a Queen and a farmer. Is this your work, Skiggy?

The original article doesn’t really offer much more insight, it just pivots from the 90% claim to some emotionally manipulative stats about mortality (emphasis mine):

“To put that in simpler terms, if you were a 40-year-old homeless person, your mortality risk is the same as if you were a 60-year-old housed person,” Ward said. “People who experience homelessness, 25% to 50% of them are subjected to violent crime during that episode of homelessness; 75% of them are suffering from some sort of mental health issues. You go down the list, it’s a very, very taxing experience.”

Yes, it is VERY TAXING to see stats like this thrown out by a newspaper arrogantly claiming its helping this community be more “clear-eyed” about how the violence people like Sean Stevenson were subjected to is a result of homelessness and not the LAWLESSNESS being created by the ENTIRE criminal justice system breaking down.

When you replace “criminal justice” with “narrative control” you have a more accurate depiction of what’s going on, but don’t tell that to “researchers” like Jim Smith, the William Ramsey apologist who inspired me to ask the question Is The Smiley Face Theory A Distraction To Protect A Sub-Culture?

Jim Smith is credited at the beginning of the Smiley Face Killer Documentary that William Ramsey made, a documentary I forced myself to watch last night because I might be a sadomasochist. Was it worth the pain? Yes, it was, because I was VERY interested to see the presence of Cyril Wecht in this obnoxious documentary that feels like maybe William had TOO MUCH fun including images of Miley Cyrus scantily clad by smiley faces in his “documentary”.

Does Miley get you more clicks, Billy, or is there something else going on?

Why does Cyril Wecht’s presence in this Smiley Face Theory bug me out a bit? Well, if you check out the two following posts, I think you’ll have a more CLEAR-EYED picture of where I’m swimming, and it’s NOT the shallow end of the narrative control pool.

Cyril Wecht, The Famous Pathologist Who Criticized The Warren Commission, Answered My Call Yesterday (September 26th, 2023)

Why WOULDN’T Narrative Control Include Controlling Counter-Narratives? (October 13th, 2023)

If you read up on Wecht you will discover he used the JFK assassination to make a name for himself, so it’s pretty interesting to me that I posted my article first piece on September 26th because that day, 60 years ago, is the same day JFK landed in Eastern Washington to wave a Uranium-tipped wand less than 2 months before the “magic bullet” took its magic path into history, where Wecht and so many others would made careers out of this emerging industry of conspiratorial speculation.

Learning about JFK’s actions in Richland was the highlight for me in attending what I could of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which is wrapping up today. Here’s something I found online that givers a decent summary of that curious day. From the link:

Sixty years ago on Sept. 26 a helicopter landed in a remote part of the Hanford nuclear reservation and the 37,000 gathered in the scorching desert watched as President John F. Kennedy stepped out in a cloud of dust.

Eight weeks later he would be assassinated as he and the First Lady rode in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

But on Sept. 26, 1963, he stood young, tanned and hatless on a speaker’s stand by the N Reactor.

He was at the Hanford site near Richland in Eastern Washington to lead the ceremonial groundbreaking for a project that would turn a reactor that produced weapons plutonium into the largest nuclear power plant in the world.

For 12 minutes Kennedy talked about natural resources and nuclear energy, bringing the 1,500 dignitaries who had reserved seats at the front of the crowd to their feet.

Then, in a bit of showmanship choreographed by the Washington Public Power Supply System, now called Energy Northwest, he waved an “atomic wand” over a Geiger counter.

The sound of the counter’s rapid clicking was broadcast over the crowd as the wand’s uranium tip set in motion a clamshell crane. The crane lifted the first shovelful of dirt to build the steam-power facility.

What does all this mean? I have some ideas, but it’s gonna take a longer-form approach to transmit what I’ve come across in the past 6 months of craziness, which now includes even MORE miles than the impressive numbers I put up last fall.

Yes, you do apparently learn a thing or two after driving over 10,000 miles around America in half a year, so I’m excited to start shaping that story into something that’s ready for wider transmission.

Some new donations have started trickling in and they couldn’t come at a better time, considering how COSTLY some of the lessons I’ve had to learn have been. If you are benefiting from my work and you have NOT yet made a donation, here’s your chance!

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

If this image makes you think of two distinct ideologies competing in a free market of ideas, congratulations! Your mind is ALREADY occupied territory, and any thinking that is derived from this fallacy of false distinctions will be worse than worthless, it will actually HELP the psychopath class neutralize the biggest barrier to enacting their anti-human grab for global government: America.

Montana is a great example of how worthless the distinction between Democrats and Republicans has become. Why? Because, despite the vast scale of our geography, Montana’s population is small, and that makes the political dynamics a little easier to track, like watching the waning influence of labor support for Democrats while Republicans struggle to find any cohesion at all, offering easy buy-in to wealthy political outsiders who exploit the blinding hatred conservatives have for liberals, effectively obscuring how snakes like Greg Gianforte have taken hold of Republican politics in Montana.

To see the impressive dysfunction of both elephants and asses in Montana, just look at the 2023 legislative session. What happened? I’ll tell you what happened, since I was there advocating for tax legislation that failed to pass: the people Montanans sent to Helena wasted their time fighting a culture war instead of using a billion dollar surplus to deal with taxes, health, and the housing crisis.

In Missoula, which is DOMINATED by Democrats, two politicians come to mind when it comes to housing and culture wars, and the first one is Danny Tenenbaum, a New York transplant who I filed a police report on when he secretly recorded footage inside Crosspoint Church.

Did anything happen to Tenenbaum? Nope, he’s one of those Democrats in Missoula who seem to be above the law. Even those who stand in JUDGEMENT of others don’t seem too concerned about appearing to violate campaign laws.

It was one of those judges who threatened me from the bench when he told me that I have a “floating” criminal charge that has yet to be officially filed in addition to the FIRST charge I’m facing for allegedly violating a temporary order of protection.

FOLLOW THE MONEY brayed Kimberly Reed, creator of the propaganda piece titled SEAT 31 about Missoula State Representative, Zooey Zephyr. Did I want to puke when I heard Reed bray like an ass about the strategy she followed with John Adams, resulting in the documentary Dark Money? Yes, but I persevered for about 15 more minutes before walking out.

Another Missoula Democrat, Ellie Boldman (formerly Ellie Hill, then Smith), should be thanking Kimberly Reed and all the other culture warriors for ensuring the focus stays on the topics where failure wasn’t bipartisan, like with housing.

Here’s a picture of Ellie sitting at an important table with our Governor, Greg Gianforte. Why is the table important? Because those sitting at the table were a part of Gianforte’s housing task force. I’ll get to their “achievement” after the pic.

How did this task force do, considering the explosion of housing prices in markets like Bozeman and Missoula are some of the MOST unaffordable in the country?

Well, people who boast law degrees, like Ellie, managed to stitch together a bundle of confusion that Montana’s Supreme Court put an INJUNCTION ON in December.

From the link:

In his order and preliminary injunction, which stops the laws until the trial’s final outcome or the Montana Supreme Court rules differently, Salvagni criticized the Montana Attorney General’s Office for how it handled the issue, and agreed that the Legislature’s approach was “chaotic” and likely rushed, resulting in a mix of confusing and contradictory rules for cities and counties to follow. Furthermore, his ruling said that the lawmakers also appear to have cut the public out of the process completely, raising serious problems with the Montana Constitution.

Great work, Danny and Ellie! And to further exemplify how Democrats in Missoula DO NOT seem to care about what the public cares about, here’s Ellie Boldman inserting herself into the Fort Missoula development controversy on the side of Max Wolf, the developer. I wonder why? (emphasis mine):

Others sided with the developer on the issue, including state Sen. Ellie Boldman. While some grants may exist and could be secured to help restore the hospital, alone they’ll fall short of the true cost.

Without another stream of revenue to complete the work, restoration won’t be possible, she said.

“The condition of the hospital right now is just too far gone, too decayed to be salvaged by public grants alone. There won’t be enough public funding,” said Boldman. “I have zero doubt that if we want to work together as a community to save that hospital, the economic feasibility really means a multi-use development in some small way. It’s clear we’re running out of time.”

Work together as a community? Bitch, please. If Ellie hadn’t been run out of Boise when her power play at the Boise District Attorney’s Office failed miserably, Missoula wouldn’t have been forced to deal with this duplicitous train-wreck leveraging homeless people for a political career.

Seeing the Boldman name pop up in a Marty Gomer article helps me make sense of seeing the Ellie Boldman/Ryan Sudbury pairing I witnessed walking down the sidewalk on Thursday as Ryan (one of Missoula’s city attorneys) made his way to the Fort Missoula Council hearing. Interesting, I thought, before replying to Ellie’s “Nice to see you, Travis” with a loud WISH I COULD SAY THE SAME ABOUT YOU, ELLIE!

The caliber of people making up our laws in Montana has gotten so bad that any shiny cultural object will grab their attention and keep it. Why? Have we gotten so used to fighting un-winnable wars since the Vietnam Era that it’s simply become a way of life here in the states?

Projecting American Strength beyond our borders is a sentiment that certainly sounds like a conservative talking point, which is why I’m assuming a MONTANA Governor is spending time trolling the FEDERAL government in Texas, but my disgust for ALL political talking points (since they don’t correlate with what I like to call “reality”) leads me to express my bipartisan frustration like this:

Talking to Billy Mc on Twitter is like masturbating a dildo, or believing in the two party political system, and I’ll offer his bio as evidence:

The Western Montana border crisis is a Gordian knot that required, back in the day, a form of direct action (Alexander’s sword), something NEITHER party is capable of even pretending to use, especially when you start untangling the kind of curious relationship that exists between the Missoula and Mineral County Sheriff Offices, and the relationship of the Mineral County Sheriff to the Highway Patrol, and THAT relationship to the Attorney General’s Office.

Maybe it will take someone with a Zombie Tool sword to cut through the political noise that will be building this year into a crescendo of unholy bullshit so loud and deafening that maybe a true grassroots movement to WITHHOLD THE VOTE will take hold, and we can all collectively delegitimize this whole ridiculous charade and start over.

I mean, a boy can dream, can’t he?

Or maybe the boy should learn to compete more like a girl.

At first glance, it may seem like men are more prone to competition than women. They can be more risk-tolerant and use more physical aggression toward each other.

Their friendships are by and large transactional, and their conflicts are typically straightforward and direct.

Women on the other hand often experience emotional depth and complexity in both friendship and competition.

If they seem less competitive than men, it’s because they sometimes enact their rivalry drive in more covert and clandestine ways.

Maybe I’m wrong about all this and it’s ME who is pretending to NOT be defeated. This is definitely a possibility, since I was clearly wrong about the face of Sean Stevenson, produced as a giant magnet, being an invisibility cloak to hide my covert marketing device.

This blurry selfie is me outside City Hall on Thursday night, after securing my marketing device to a pole. My experiment concluded the following day, around 9am, when I got a polite inquiry from Missoula PD about this work of art, specifically how quickly I could come down and get it MOVED!

Today is Saturday, not a day I usually post new content, but it’s nearly the end of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, so if I have any new readers I want them to know to NOT be alarmed if a motley crew of artists infamous for garnering noise complaints finds a creative way to test the supposed CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED freedom of speech tonight.

It may or may not include a dildo named Sue.

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

By the time I arrived at Council chambers yesterday morning I was already riled up, which can happen quickly in a town where one has so much personal history, like I do with Missoula. If you reference a local anecdote about the illusion of female solidarity, for example, you must be prepared to run into that example on your way to City Council.

I was at Council on Thursday morning because the developer holding a historic hospital building hostage at Fort Missoula had a decision coming about the terrible development scheme he was proposing, which includes rehabilitating the hospital. Why do people oppose this development scheme? Because it crams ugly, modern townhouses into a historic piece of Missoula’s geography that have NO BUSINESS being there, unless today’s business is destroying EVERYTHING that makes a community worth living in.

The picture above shows my kids at Fort Missoula in the spring of 2020, a year trust in the media started declining precipitously, which is something I learned at the one of the Big Sky Documentary “Doc-Shops”. Gee, I wonder what was happening that spring, does anyone remember?

Taking my kids to play outside was more than an amenity that spring, it was a reminder of WHY people make sacrifices to live in places like Missoula. Here’s a little from the article about how unfair Missoula is being to the poor developer, Max Wolf. From the link:

Mark Stermitz, the lawyer for the developers, said during the hearing the council should have thrown out the original ruling because of Missoula’s historic preservation officer’s assessment of the Fort Missoula core, the role of open space at the site and the question of fairness.

“We didn’t feel that we got a fair shake from the day we applied because of a biased board concern,” Stermitz said, referring to concerns over housing at Fort Missoula from groups like Save The Fort.

Yes, I don’t doubt that people who LOVE the fort absolutely HATED the development scheme the second they saw what was being proposed because building ANY new structures at the density being proposed would radically alter this part of the Fort where people like me go to GET AWAY from the more dense urban parts of our valley.

Here’s a little more about the history that Wolf wanted to impact by shitting out some townhouses:

The hospital was the Missoula epicenter of the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 and served Japanese and Italian detainees during World War II.

In 1963, the U.S. Army transferred ownership of the hospital and surrounding grounds to the Women’s Club for $1. The Women’s Club then transferred ownership to Montana Youth Guidance Center to create a rehab facility.

In the 1960s, the center transferred ownership to the Western Montana Mental Health Center. The group used the building for mental health services for a number of years. 

Despite calls to sell the building to the Rocky Mountain Heritage Center, WMMHC put the land on the open market in 2019 for $900,000.

This recent history is interesting to consider when you know our former County Commissioner, Jean Curtiss, was on the board of WMMHC and, in 2019, she was publicly complaining about…DEVELOPMENT that was being enabled by County money. Isn’t that funny?

There’s more I’d like to share, but I’ve got to get moving this morning after a nice chat with local police. Apparently my grocery cart is causing some concern at City Hall, where I parked it conspicuously outside after City Attorney, Ryan Sudbury, told me he didn’t read my blog.

By leaving the cart covered with a large magnetic banner I had made asking WHAT HAPPENED TO SEAN STEVENSON? I was testing a theory that this banner would act as an invisibility cloak, effectively hiding my cart, but I guess the image of a euthanized black man smiling next to an attractive celebrity isn’t the invisibility cloud I thought it would be.

I’ll have more to say about yesterday’s decision, and it will probably rhyme, so stay tuned.

And, as always, thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

If you don’t understand that “entertainment” is actually narrative warfare being waged by the psychopath class against the vast majority of humans on this planet, then you won’t understand what just happened across six episodes of True Detective’s fourth season, Night Country, but I’ll try explaining it to you anyway. Obviously, this explaining will include plot spoilers, though I’m not sure a show that prioritizes WOKE messaging over quality writing can really be spoiled any worse than what the creator of this crap, Issa Lopez, already did to it.

Quality content has taken a back seat to what this show is REALLY about, which is social engineering. The meta-narrative surrounding this isn’t just happening among fans comparing Night Country to past seasons of True Detective, it’s happening EVERYWHERE, and as long as our human frustrations are being compartmentalized, then re-directed at each-other, we’re not going to be able to step back and see how quickly and disturbingly “reality” is mirroring the “fiction” we’re allowing ourselves to be programmed by.

What did the audience expect? Did they expect consistency with core plot elements, like the spiral, which signaled the existence of a satanic pedophile cult in season 1? Sorry, audience, the spiral now represents lethal female vengeance, which makes covering up for the killers at the end by the female cops A-OK!

Let’s see how this world of cold-weather women did with their body count.

Jodie Foster and her ghost whisperer sidekick have a history together, and that history includes the execution of a violent, abusive man. While Foster’s character, Danvers, isn’t the one who takes the head shot, she later bonds with her sidekick by admitting she was about to shoot the man herself before her partner did the dirty business first. Cool!

The scientists who go missing at the start of this serial abomination are all men, and they all end up dead, even the guy who survives the initial attack of the vengeful cleaning ladies who SPOILER we find out at the end are the ones responsible for the murders. Why? Because the scientists are the ones who collectively murder the female activist, Annie. Right on, ladies!

In NIGHT COUNTRY women do all the wonderful things men do, like having vacuous sexual trysts with multiple partners, regardless of them of being husbands, and acting as ruthless corporate assassins, like the woman who told the cop to move the dead body of the activist to protect the purposeful pollution strategy of thawing the ice to get at…the ancient microbes from that frozen snake thing? Yeah, I guess.

Besides validating murderous vengeance and the subsequent cover-up, what other fun messages does this show transmit to its audience, like maybe on the salacious topic of sex?

Well, there’s Danver’s adopted daughter, Leah, who is gay and makes some child porn with her girlfriend for the internet, and there’s the ghost whisperer who, even though she repeatedly fucks a man, don’t worry, the show lets you know she’s bi, and her fucking of the man is very female-on-top dominant. He even whimpers a little at the end. Sexy? Not in the least, because those are OLD standards. We’re in NIGHT COUNTRY now, people, and it’s going to be a LONG, WOKE night!

The young man who manages to find most of the leads in the main case, Pete, does appear to have a heterosexual fucking-orientation toward his indigenous partner, but he flips out at the beginning of the show over her sexual aggression. Why? He’s too enraptured by his boss, who has fucked half the town’s men and likes to check Tinder, to give his partner a little nookie.

Pete redeems himself, though, by shooting his own father in the head, and like a ritual initiation, Pete takes his dead father (and the dead male junkie) to Rose, who helps him dispose of the evidence. You’re in the club now, Pete!

I think we enter unicorn territory with this social engineering project when the BIG REVEAL gives us the “story” of vengeance as told by the female elder who was introduced in episode 1 giving first aid to the abused white woman with missing fingers.

This story, told around a kitchen table, is sprinkled with just enough native-sounding mysticism and plausible deniability to ease the badges into providing this group of women with the “official” story from Anchorage, which is that the scientists are considered to have died from a freak weather event. The cover-up narrative is now cool because it obscures the role of the righteous killers who I’m guessing a certain segment of the viewing audience is supposed to identify with.

I’m claiming this on-screen female solidarity is as real as a unicorn because the real world just doesn’t operate like this. No, it’s more like this comment from a woman about the abuse of power by another woman which allegedly resulted in multiple female inmates being harmed.

Before we get to the comment from someone I’ve spoken with, but who’s name I’m omitting, here’s the article I’m 99% sure the comment is referring to:

The warden of the Montana Women’s Prison in Billings has been placed on administrative leave.

Jennie Hanson has been the warden of the facility since 2017.

The Montana Department of Corrections, which oversees the prison, has refused to provide any details, calling it a personnel matter, and telling MTN News that Assistant Warden Alex Shroeckenstein is now the acting warden.

The women’s prison houses around 240 inmates. Hansen has been an employee of the corrections department since 2009.

And now, here’s the comment:

Another real world example from Montana is tied to a State Representative who used homeless people to launch a Montana political career. According to MULTIPLE sources, this female State Representative enacted a campaign of cyber-bullying against another female because this young political intern had supposedly engaged in an extramarital affair with this Rep’s husband. The result of this bullying was the young woman’s suicide in 2019, and despite text evidence of this bullying, which I’m told the family took to authorities, our County Attorney, Kirsten Pabst, refused to do anything.

Returning to the show, the idea of suicide is actually depicted as some kind of romanticized cultural thing to embrace. Is this just another gripe dreamed up by someone with a penis who has the sads because the patriarchy doesn’t protect him anymore? No, it’s actually something I came across in a Reddit thread I’ve been following, and this comment is a good illustration of the argument I’ve seen about how Navarro (the ghost whisperer) is depicted as disappearing in the end.

So, in summary, gender war, meaningless fucking, and suicide. If you want to know who to thank for this season, her name is Issa, and she just happened to have been raised by an apparently pretty dedicated father who, according to Wikipedia, did his best after mom died. From the link:

Issa López was born in Mexico City, where she was raised by her father after her mother died when she was eight years old. Her father was a semiotics academic and a college professor. During her childhood her family faced economic hardships, since academia is not a high-paying job in Latin America. This was a defining aspect of her life, inspiring much of her later work, since her dad would try to keep her and her sister entertained in spite of their economic situation. Lopez explained in one of her interviews that she, her sister and her dad would “go every weekend on some road trip through Mexico, from small town to small town, sitting to watch kung fu and horror movies in traveling cinemas, eating street food, visiting archeological sites, jungles, deserts and the most haunted little towns in the country”. Those memories were the inspiration for many of her stories.

I hope this post has provided a fair look at a show I had high hopes for, because I don’t want the possible bias of what I’m going through, personally, to totally color how I view the social engineering that seems to be a higher priority for our controllers than making money, or anything closely resembling “art”, especially since my ability to keep going against so many headwinds is being sustained by my synchronicity buddy, and my rose (not the one who punctures lungs so the corpses sink to the bottom of the cold, dark sea).

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

I only lasted 30 minutes at Tuesday’s first “doc-shop” because, I’m embarrassed to say, I was too triggered to remain in a library space built with public money and filled with obnoxiously self-righteous people who think what they’ve done to promote Missoula’s State Representative, Zooey Zephyr, is NOT propaganda.

If I had been able to remain in this publicly-funded spot where our Mayoral candidates yapped about their campaigns last August, I would have asked the SEAT 31 filmmaker, Kimberly Reed, a very specific question about the Zooey Zephyr supporters who MY SOURCES tell me threw gloves from the gallery, which is the REAL reason the gallery was cleared.

Did that come up yesterday at this event? Not in the 30 minutes I attended, but maybe I missed something, so I’ll ask around to see what I can discover.

I went online this morning to see if I could find any media outlets who reported on this important aspect of the Zephyr uprising and was surprised to see this article from IDAHO. From the link (emphasis mine):

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, stood at her seat in the Montana House Chamber with her microphone in the air, while the other representatives evacuated the floor as shouts of “Let her speak!” echoed from protesters in the House gallery above.

Protesters threw gloves covered in fake blood on the House floor Monday as police with batons and helmets made arrests and cleared the House Gallery and dissenters continued to shout.

Zephyr, the first transgender woman elected to the Montana Statehouse, had punched in to speak, and Minority Leader Kim Abbott, D-Helena, stood up, along with fellow Democrats, to say Speaker Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, had not recognized Zephyr.

Why do I have to go to an IDAHO news outlet to get this detail? I’ll ask John Adams if he calls me back, which I doubt he’ll do, since my message yesterday to the Montana Free Press was pretty dismissive of their news-reporting abilities.

Here’s John Adams “Free” press promoting his friend, Kim, and her piece of political propaganda:

Montana Free Press readers may also recognize Reed, who grew up in Helena and now lives in New York, as the director of 2018’s “Dark Money,” which followed, in part, the origins of this publication. (Following a reprise screening this year of “Dark Money,” the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival will host a talk-back session with Reed and MTFP founder and “Dark Money” subject John Adams in conversation with Big Sky Film Institute Executive Director Rachel Gregg after the film’s 5 p.m. screening on Sunday Feb. 18.)

Read along as Reed offers insights into the process of making “Seat 31,” explains her goals when it comes to telling stories about trans people, and highlights some of the footage left on the cutting room floor.

I missed this talk-back session, so DARN! But if I had attended, and if I had been able to NOT get so damn triggered, I would have inquired about the projectiles that Montana’s media watchdogs didn’t find relevant to include in any of the coverage I saw regarding this legislative shit-show.

Since I’m a kick-ass journalist doing the work the peddlers of propaganda are making MORE difficult with their noise, I didn’t just leave the library in a huff, I did some INVESTIGATING on my way out, since this public asset required a cool HALF MILLION dollars in TIF loot to complete. From the link:

The city of Missoula is set to pay $500,000 toward a new public library downtown. The money is to ensure that the library has a fourth floor.

The Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s board of commissioners approved giving the library’s board of trustees $500,000 in tax increment financing.

…

“I think the public library is a great community asset, and in cases where bond measures went in front of the county, that’s the will of the people speaking. So this passed by a good margin, and that’s the voters saying, ‘This is an important thing to do. We want to do this, and we are authorizing for the funding for this,’” City Council Member Bryan von Lossberg said.

What did I investigate in the library yesterday? Well, I heard someone from the film festival complaining about the lack of coffee at the library because the cafe was closed and they didn’t know why. Interesting, I thought, maybe I should ASK about why this is the case, so I did, and this is what I was told.

The cafe in the library was run by a third-party vendor, and that vendor was NOT able to stay in business, so they closed. Was it a staffing issue? Or was it a homeless people sometimes throw chairs in the library issue?

Since I worked in homeless services for nearly a decade, my bias is toward crediting the challenging patrons of the library for creating a less-than-ideal environment to sell coffee and snacks. This is the same challenge that Subway and Ninja Mike’s experienced at the retail spot by the main bus transfer station downtown, so it’s a good thing Ninja Mike’s rebranded themselves for woke money to become the GOLDEN YOLK.

Yes, it really is this absurd in Zoom Town, but I will NOT embrace nothingness Lisa!

What the hell is this? Consider it an inside joke between me and the tricksters trolling me everywhere I look, so instead of staying annoyed at this sometimes obnoxious phenomenon, I use poetic alchemy to transform it into a more enjoyable form.

https://vimeo.com/915218808?share=copy

Tomorrow, like the song hints at, I’ll be tearing apart the social engineering project called True Detective: Night Country, and you better believe there will be spoilers, so you’ve been warned.

Thanks for reading!