Month: April 2025

There are lots of reasons a business, non-profit, or individual might choose to re-brand themselves, but the common thread, generally speaking, is getting a fresh start.

For example if you own a restaurant, like Drake Doepke does, and you ALSO have multiple criminal charges that finally got resolved, it might be a good idea to take the shitty service and subpar food at Front and Higgins and call it CAFE MIMOSA.

Almost a year and a half ago, Downtown Missoula was given a new French-themed restaurant in place of the old El Cazador location.

The Missoulian reported on December 28, 2023, that Tres Bonne moved into the corner of Front and Higgins near the Wilma Theater.

Now, 1 year, 3 months and 18 days later, it appears Tres Bonne has undergone a brand change.

Yep, and this conspicuous rebranding came right around the time this happened:

Drake E. Doepke, 41, received a deferred 12-month sentence, meaning the lone charge will be wiped from his record if he remains law-abiding and follows the conditions of his sentence for the next year. He is barred from contacting his two female accusers in the case that was filed last year.

Doepke declined to comment after the change-of-plea hearing in Missoula Municipal Court, but his defense attorney, Dwight Schulte, addressed the court on his client’s behalf.

“Mr. Doepke denies any sexual assault ever occurred, but has used this time, your honor, to reflect on himself and to work on himself,” Schulte told Municipal Judge Eli Parker. “… I personally am very proud of the work that he has put in, the self-reflection and how he has dealt with this most difficult process.”

Hmmm, when you consult Reddit, like I did, you are left wondering why Doepke doesn’t spend more time working on his shitty restaurant and bar brands.

Another example of re-branding is allegedly occurring because the Northside Community Development Corporation has grown beyond its geographically limited name. Here’s a brief explanation of the name change:

Having outgrown its original name and mission, a Missoula-based community land trust has rebranded to align with its next phase of growth.

The North Missoula Community Development Corporation on Monday said it was now the Front Step Community Land Trust — a move that better reflects “the growth and evolution of our work.”

Later in the article, this adorable little org, who I spied getting more politically active with the homeless conversation a few months ago, acknowledged the phenomenon of gentrification was still a big focus. Since the former NMCDC partnered with ANOTHER organization that changed its name recently, from the Montana Human Rights Network to Catalyst Montana (story at the link), I’m not surprised by this move (emphasis mine):

The organization began in 1996 in an effort to revitalize Missoula’s North and Westside neighborhoods. At the time, the two districts were viewed as the city’s lowest income and most neglected areas.

But over the past 25 years, the city has growth and housing costs have risen, making affordability a challenge for many families. The organization believes gentrification and displacement represent a growing risk.

Yes, I agree about the risk of gentrification, so you might think I’m happy that FRONT STEP COMMUNITY LAND TRUST is using a name change to expand its mission, but if that means working with retarded socialists like the Danny and Kristy show, well, expect politics, not actual improvements to our community.

Now, let’s take a quick look at some of the shitty developers trying to exploit a housing crisis to get paid. No, not the ALPHA MALE, Aaron Wagner, that dude has SERIOUS problems after being arrested by the FBI. No, the most recent claims of developer criminality comes from a development planned for East Missoula. From the link:

Two developers planning to build hundreds of homes on vacant land in East Missoula were charged by federal prosecutors in California for allegedly attempting to bribe a local official in exchange for favorable treatment.

David Sanson, 60, of Philipsburg, Montana, and Trent Sanson, 33, of Walnut Creek, California, are accused of bribery and conspiracy charges after a California city councilor said they attempted to give the official $10,000 in campaign contributions to push a housing project through development review.

The indictment also alleges the developers tried to bribe the city councilor with an additional $5,000 in cash hidden within a coffee mug.

Over at the agency I would re-brand as the Missoula Gentrification Agency, the question about using their skimmed tax revenue for the VERY small percentage of drug addicts the Danny and Kristy show are using to extort local citizens with is being debated. From the link:

The city’s mayor and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency have proposed allocating excess funding from the Johnson Street Shelter to help fund the city’s housing sprint as shelter operations wind down over the next few months.

But questions over the legality of using tax increment to fund a social program prompted MRA board members to seek a legal opinion from the City Attorney’s Office before the funding is allocated to the housing effort.

There is more I’d like to say about all this, but I’ve got a date with the pee-tech this morning. After a longer than usual period between my last pee-cup analysis, I got the call this morning. I’m sure my post from yesterday has nothing to do with it.

Thanks for reading!

When I read that last Wednesday’s City Council meeting had a breakdown of decorum I was curious to see who inspired Gwen Jones to gavel the meeting into recess. Was it a public commenter? Or could it one of our two Socialists who PRETEND to be grown ass adults, but really are more like hissing pussies when they don’t get their way.

After consulting the recording it’s clear that the Socialist without a penis was the one who rudely interrupted another non-penis packing Council member, so Gwen Jones took control and called a recess. Hilarious.

The two idiot Socialists (who I will be knocking doors to defeat this political season) were trying to play a 3 million dollar shell game to save the cartel-supported human warehouse for drug addicts because they apparently LOVE the violence and misery of addiction. Less enjoyable for these political pussies are the rules intended to govern their behavior, hence the Kristen Jordan tantrum.

Socialists really enjoy public tantrums, and I enjoy connecting dots when they pull these little stunts, like I did in January of 2023 with this post. Before I get to the excerpt I need to note that this is an OLD POST, so hopefully it won’t trigger my anti-first amendment hate readers from forcing edits through my probation officer. Here it is (links active at original post):

While Missoula is facing a 4 million dollar structural deficit this upcoming budget season, the incredibly tiny percentage of people this Danny & Kristy show are politically exploiting sometimes burn down private property, thus adding to the larger price-tag we pay as a community.

I’m super excited to start knocking doors in the appropriate wards so that more of Missoula knows how the Danny & Kristy show roll. Maybe I’ll even print out a copy of the text message Kristen Jordan sent a constituent now running for political office.

Here’s the text again for those who didn’t read it the first time, but with the added hilarity that by posting evidence of this defamation against me, it’s actually ME who might get trouble for it. Isn’t that funny?

Character assassination via lawfare is NOT a new tactic and, in fact, is a really great one to use because of how effectively Kafka-esque our Kangaroo courts have become. How else can one explain how a judge like Mandamus Shane seems more interested in saving bathroom kinks than he is in saving the first amendment?

Monday, Missoula County District Court Judge Shane Vannatta asked lawyers in a dispute about HB 121 how Missoula County, for instance, should enforce that situation.

House Bill 121 requires public restrooms and changing areas exclusively for males or females, requires people to use bathrooms based on “external genitalia present at birth,” and defines sex as strictly male and female.

It says a library or prison or museum, for example, “shall take reasonable steps” to provide individuals with privacy from members of the opposite sex.

Also, it says an individual who “encounters another individual of the opposite sex” in the restroom can file a civil lawsuit against the “covered entity,” such as a prison, domestic violence shelter or school.

I highlighted LIBRARY because the trillion dollar Missoula library I highlighted in March as incapable of ridding bathrooms of DRUGS and paraphernalia, like tooter straws, once again proved me right about Missoula status as a RETARDED COMMUNITY that must WANT drug residue in public spaces.

There is SO MUCH MORE I would like to say and disclose to the public about the narrative controllers and how they con you, but the ladies with law degrees have their vicious little combs out, and I’ve already said plenty for them to whine about.

Luckily I have whistle-blowers like John Kiriakou to look up, a very brave man who spent MUCH more incarcerated time in a much more serious environment for his brave public disclosure of things the public NEEDS to know if they want to be an INFORMED public, and not just sad bastards parroting shitting propaganda slogans like NO KINGS.

Here’s a little breakdown of what Kiriakou experienced under that piece of shit president with the melatonin that makes privileged white women leave snail trails on their stadium seats:

On April 5, 2012, Kiriakou was indicted for one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, three counts of violating the Espionage Act, and one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA.[32] Kiriakou initially pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released on bail.[33]

Starting September 12, 2012, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia conducted closed Classified Information Procedures Act hearings in Kiriakou’s case.[34]

On October 22, 2012, Kiriakou agreed to plead guilty to one count of passing classified information to the media thereby violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act; his plea deal spared journalists from testifying in a trial. All other charges were dropped.[35]

On January 25, 2013, Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison, making him the second CIA employee to be jailed for revealing classified material of CIA undercover identities[23][24] in violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (the first was Sharon Scranage, a CIA secretary who was arrested and convicted in 1985).[36] In February 2013 New York Times reporter Scott Shane referenced the Kiriakou case when he told NPR that Obama’s prosecutions of journalism-related leaking were having a chilling effect on coverage of national security issues.

In case you doubt the factual basis for my provocative rhetoric, suck on this BBC of reality, ladies and gentlemen!

During the Obama administration, the Department of Justice brought charges under the Espionage Act against eight people accused of leaking to the media — Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Stephen Kim, Chelsea Manning, Donald Sachtleben, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou and Edward Snowden. 

Two other high ranking Obama officials, General David Petraeus and General James Cartwright, were also prosecuted as part of leak investigations. They both ultimately pled to lesser charges and were never indicted under the Espionage Act. Cartwright was also later pardoned. Including their cases, the total number of leak case prosecutions under the Obama administration was 10.

Ok, that’s all for now. If I keep exhibiting these alpha tendencies my handler is SURE to put me another CTO (Cuck Time Out).

Thanks for reading!

(Disclaimer: for performatively legal purposes, Psy Op Watch, and all the writings of Freeman Tao are to be considered “informative satire”. Any statements that are illegal, defamatory, distasteful, or stupid… are clearly jokes.)

Have you noticed any cases where the masters of mass media are deciding what you’re thinking for you yet? These assholes have their vectors of psychological attack and control dialed in many orders of magnitude stronger than any society in human history has ever had to deal with, so if you can’t identify a single instance where your original thoughts are implanted from above then there’s probably A LOT of thoughts that are not your own.

Knowing is half the battle. (It’s the easy half, but still…)

So for those with the masochistic/naïve tendency to continue to engage with legacy media, you’ve probably heard a ton of panicky bullshit fear propaganda this year (and especially this last week) about the stock market. Every week the CNN and CircleJerk Times is shoving headlines down your throat about “TRILLIONS IN VALUE WIPED OUT IN DAYS/WEEKS/MINUTES/BLAHBLAHBLAH”…

I kinda doubt this narrative has been getting a lot of play on Fox News and other “Conservative” mainstream slop, because the alleged stock market catastrophe feels to me like a highly partisan talking point. Standard MSNBBCNNPRetard bullshit meant to make your primitive circuits wire together the simple thought process “stock market do bad. Trump fault. Me lose money. Me no like Trump.”

But let’s take a closer look shall we? How about a story in pictures?

Here’s the S&P 500 value for the last 5 days. Yeah, that dip yesterday looks significant, but if you look over at the scale on the Y axis you see that its a little less than 5% value dip… significant but PROBABLY not catastrophic (maybe some wallstreet guys threw themselves out the windows of their 50th floor offices… I dunno).

But lets step back and look at the S&P 500 for the last 30 days.

Alright, yesterday’s “Black Monday” “crash” suddenly doesn’t look like such a big deal, but damn the first week of April really took a big bite… That’s 10% of the value of whatever fucking units that Y axis is in… that’s GOTTA be a big deal right? Maybe the panicky idiots on the TV and Radio and Newspapers are right? Gather up your children! Gather your belongings! Gather up your women like the singer in the song sings! Load your gun with bullets! Powder up your rifle! Pray The Lord to save your soul like in the Holy Bible?

But before you start eating your elderly neighbors lets maybe keep stepping back… you know… just for due diligence…

That’s the S&P 500 for 2025 so far… This one raises complicated feelings… Zoomed out like that it LOOKS like its substantial, but not THAT big a deal right? I mean… It bounced back from MOST of that huge bite in early April… Maybe now’s a good time for me to buy the dip… I could get rich doing nothing at all… I could make imaginary fiat currency appear out of mid air like all those rich assholes that shut down Hooters for some complex financial reason…

But… when I look at the Y axis I see we lost like 20% of the value… Oh shit? Question mark?

I need to take another step back… I’m feeling confused

These motherfuckers… I’m starting to smell a rat… You mean to tell me the S&P 500 is HIGHER than it was 1 year ago? FUCK… I wish I’d looked at this graph before I smothered my grandma to spare her having to live through a second great depression…

Lemme take one more step back… Over a five year trend I’ll surely see that things are critically fucked… There’s no way the assholes that own everything would lie to me about something as important as my nation’s financial future right? Surely people are smart enough to see through that kind of bullshit right?

Those motherfuckers… The stock market lost 20% of its value and its still better than it was for 3/4 of the Biden Administration?

Hang on… how long has the S&P 500 been a thing? Since 1996? Lemme see the whole thing, I can’t listen to these cunts’ “analysis” anymore… I think these bastards are trying to manipulate me…

THIS is why I keep telling you guys if you see a CEO that owns a massive media conglomerate you should shoot them in the face. (That’s not a metaphor).

So yeah, this whole “Trump’s collapsing the stock market” thing feels like a fucking Psy Op to me. But hey, the fucking stock market itself is kind of a Psy Op once you start Watching out for that shit…

The way the public used to make money investing in the stock market was that they’d buy shares in a company and the company would pay them a dividend annually (a share of their profits based on how much of the company you own). A lot of people that aren’t stock market people still think that’s how it works, but lots of publicly traded companies don’t even pay a dividend at all, and that being the method of getting rich off the stock market is embarrassingly outdated. A lot more people think “buy low sell high” is how the game is played, but even that’s pretty outdated. Most daytraders and investment firms are making and losing the big sums on what’s called “puts”, which is essentially just gambling on the stock market. You place a bet that Prostate Massage Incorporated is gonna double in value in the next 60 days. If you’re right you get paid. If you’re wrong you lose.

And just like gambling at the casino, the house always wins. Because the big investors have high tech, AI-driven, microsecond transaction capability, as well as the advantage of huge amounts of volume and capital, they can play the long game and all the volatility in the stock market is REALLY effective at making YOUR money become THEIR money. (And we’re not even going into the insider trading shenanigans or when their pet senator gives them a heads up about new regulations a week before the public finds out)

You’ve got some stock in Prostate Massage Incorporated in your retirement account and they get hit with a scandal for saying women don’t have prostates and holy shit your stock is in freefall… your financial advisor advisOs you to SELL SELL SELL… before it gets any lower. So you sell the stock when its at like 50% of the value it was when you bought it. Jamie Dimon or Warren Buffet or Saul Sheckelstein buys it up through their investment firm and a week later when the stock market recovers, you find that you lost your shirt and these assholes threw it into their warehouse full of shirts to continue to appreciate in value…

Fuck…

But that isn’t even the REAL racket with stock valuation these days. You probably hear all this shit all the time about how CEOs don’t pay taxes on their personal income, and if you think that’s potentially bullshit then you’re at least watching out for Psy Ops. And yeah, part of it’s probably bullshit, but one of the many ways that the system CAN be rigged in favor of the super wealthy is this.

Larry Silverstein, CEO of Prostate Massage Incorporated doesn’t actually get paid a wage by the company he runs. There’s some bonuses and shit, but the bulk of his compensation is in the form of stock. His primary responsibility is to make the value of PMI’s stock continue to rise. Then when he wants to buy another yacht or chalet or a supple young boy to harvest his blood, Larry goes to the bank and takes out a loan with his stock as collateral. He buys a beautiful young boy from Guatemala and scares the shit out of him so he can milk his adrenal gland for adrenochrome and trip balls/live forever, then he goes about his day.

When its time to pay back that loan what does Mr. Silverstein do? He takes out another fucking loan. And since the stock of Prostate Massage Incorporated has continued to increase in value he can take out a loan for twice as much with the same chunk of stock that was collateral on the first loan. That gives him enough cash (liquid capital technically) to pay off the first loan, buy another yacht (or helicopter), another chalet (or condo), another blood boy (or girl). And so on and so on to infinity.

When MSNBBCNNPRetards on the news tell you how new economic policies caused 1.5 Trillion dollars in damage to the economy, they’re not talking about REAL value… They’re talking about a big fucking house of cards ponzy scheme, that yeah, they lost a couple layers off their palace of cards, but bet your ass the bulk of the loss is gonna fall on the heads of “retail investors”. (AKA suckers) (like you?)

The “value” lost as overinflated stocks tumble down five or ten or twenty percent in a week or a year is all made up bullshit anyway. You can tell it’s not a real loss because nobody gains (or at least not remotely on the same scale as the loss). The “value” just vanishes in to thin air because it was an illusion to begin with.

You wanna talk about a REAL fuckin’ drain on the economy? Lets look at foreign aid to Israel. The United States has given almost a quarter of a Trillion dollars to Israel since the 70s, and that’s not imaginary play money for tax dodge usury bullshit like the stock market. That’s badass shit like guns and bombs and tanks and missiles, or real capital that can immediately be spent on badass shit like guns and bombs and tanks and missiles.

But whoa… We’re getting kinda off the subject here and infringing on what could be a future issue of Psy Op Watch, so I’ll leave it at this:

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got no problem with Israel bombing the shit out of their own citizens and their more uppity neighbors (I’m not joking. Fuck em.), I’m even theoretically okay with us primarily footing the bill. (The State of Israel is notoriously thrifty after all. “What, just to blow up a hospital I’m supposed to spend a lot of MONEY? Oy Gevalt!”)

But… BUT! I value my government spending my money wisely, so couldn’t we drop just a few billion dollars giving Hamas and Hezbollah some bigger weapons to fight back with? (I’m sure we already are giving them a lot of money, but it looks like they need a lot more).

Maybe, just maybe, the Israelis and the Palestinians can kill each other (I mean every single one). Let’s be real… Wouldn’t that be an improvement?

Thanks for reading the second installment of Psy Op Watch. Your ass is DEFINITELY on a fucking list now.

SOMEBODY CALL THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE!

– Freeman Tao

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On Saturday I went to the Courthouse in Missoula to observe the stupid people who want NO KINGS. I was packing my megaphone and wearing a bright red t-shirt with a well-known eccentric from Missoula’s recent past. My plan? To use my megaphone to shout a propaganda slogan that might make our local liberals less stupid.

Here’s the slogan: BEWARE THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM; THE NATIONAL PUPPET IS NOT YOUR ENEMY!

Since my TALE OF TWO DUIs sign is loud enough I successfully abstained from using amplification to tell this crowd how dumb I think they are. When I saw one of my favorite cops, Bob Franke (sorry Guy), I showed him my sign and told him NOT to worry about my black amplified UZI megaphone because I had decided NOT to use it. Bob agreed there was a “good vibe” going with the unspoken consensus between us that were I to use my amplified free speech maker, the good vibe would suddenly become less so.

Here’s the hunch I was operating on: this crowd would NOT appreciate what the first amendment is supposed to protect were I to start telling them how the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office has euthanized and executed two black men in their own backyard. How many of these people even KNOW the name of their Sheriff?

Sure, these well-meaning citizens want their illusions back and I don’t blame them. I’ve been troubled since the passing of the Patriot Act that America has been in a post-Constitutional crisis, but that was a LONG time ago. Unfortunately, from my observations, Americans don’t have the attention span or the cognitive powers to rise above the two-party con they are emotionally invested in, and the result is what I saw on Saturday.

Another idea I had that thankfully didn’t materialize was using my black UZI megaphone to play a terrible song I had just written that morning about Little Tim. The lyrics to this song are some of the most disturbing rhymes I’ve ever written, and that’s saying something. Here’s the tune that I hope you DO NOT enjoy!

Does the Constitution protect me? No, thanks to my judge, Mandamus Shane–who is too busy protecting the retards with badges in Mineral County–I can’t write about a certain non-profit panhandling Missoula for money to SPRINT drug addicts into housing so they can destroy an INTERIOR space instead of our precious outdoor environment.

Instead, what I CAN write about is how the politician who revived the program that that non-profit suckles on, known as Project Safe Neighborhood, was ALSO the politician who helped suppress the FBI’s role in the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City. Here’s a screenshot for context:

Was anyone at the NO KINGS “protest” on April 19th cognizant of what happened that day 30 years ago and how the official narrative, like most official narratives in this retarded country, is a steaming pile of horseshit? No, because thinking is dangerous, and thankfully Democrats have been conditioned to not think too critically, lest they wake up to the total scam of our two party political system.

If you DON’T think our two party system is a total scam then you aren’t watching Montana Democrats support a corrupt REPUBLICAN because he’s part of their own stable of political cucks who have actively torpedoed the Republican agenda in Montana. Even Darrell Ehrlick seems annoyed at this bullshit (emphasis mine):

Liberals in the Montana Senate sure have a funny way of rewarding the guy who tormented them and blocked their legislative plans for years.

Besides sympathizing with a man who has seemed to frustrate them for years, the Senate Dems’ moves backing former Senate Majority Leader Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, suggest they’ve decided to jump head-first with him in a mud bath of dirty politicking.

Yep, with the help of 9 Republicans, Democrats will make sure that virtually nothing of substance gets done amidst one of the most severe property tax squeezes homeowners have ever had to endure in this state. It’s almost enough to inspire the sentiment FUCK ‘EM ALL.

Though this sentiment is tempting for a political cynic like myself, I’m doing my best to enact a different approach by asking myself WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Would Jesus tell his little girl NOT to attend church service because the Christians at First Presbyterian are a bunch of worthless hypocrites who only pay lip-service to Jesus? No, I allowed her attendance, because she asked me directly, which is more than I can say for the sad woman I was married to for two decades.

Later today Missoula’s alleged leaders will be meeting to provide our STATE OF COMMUNITY, an event I got arrested at last year due to the restraining order lawfare I’ve been subjected to for the last two years.

Is Missoula still retarded? Yes, Missoula is definitely still retarded, but thanks to all the kangaroos involved in dispensing what they call “justice”, I’ll be somewhere FAR FAR away from that retarded scene thinking about dead popes, risen Jesus’, and the poor citizens in this little valley who don’t seem to understand what is REALLY going on here.

Thanks for reading!

There’s been a little talk lately about “socialist bullshit”. With Bernie Sanders’ recent visit to town, the little spasm of organized resistance to the current shape of things at the federal geopolitical level has shouldered its way to the forefront of local political discussion. As attentive readers have no doubt noticed, I value the reflexive rejection of prescribed paradigms. What does that mean in less pretentious language? I think that broad ideologies are a fucking trap and with the sophistication of modern mass media propaganda and brainwashing, terms like “socialist”, “conservative”, and “democracy” are functionally meaningless.

There’s a temptation to try to use a broad-stroke narrative to make sense of an exponentially more and more bewildering world. It makes a certain sense from the citizen civic engagement standpoint. Real people rarely have the time to research every goddamn candidate in every goddamn election, so assuming you still engage with the placebo of voting, having a D or an R next to a candidate’s name and hoping that will give you some useful understanding of the direction they want to take your town or your state or your world… well… its tempting.

(By the way, the placebo effect is a measurable improvement over zero treatment, so maybe chew on that “voting is a placebo” metaphor for a minute. Shit’s got layers man.)

What the fuck does all this have to do with Daniel Carlino? I’m glad you asked. I was risking getting off on a rant there.

So when unabashed contrarianism controls your life and you’ve abandoned the guidance of political parties, left-right political spectrum, and respect for law and order, the natural reaction is to look to what practical chances you have to fuck with the power structure whenever it effects your life directly.

In my case, I had a little legal trouble brewing with the city… They kept threatening to start issuing fines and citations if me and my people kept conducting public demonstrations of ecstatic music and dance on Missoula’s streets. And I kept threatening to sue the motherfuckers if they tried it, because a few years ago I went and established a nonprofit religious corporation so our little weekly demonstration of performative freakdom would be legally recognized as a church.

There was one particular police sergeant who really got a bug up his ass about us showing up downtown with amps and drums and flamethrowers and shit every week. My paper shield of us being a church kept him at bay for a couple years, but once he got promoted to lieutenant, officer asshole thought he finally had the sway to shut us down for good.

Well fuck him. I went over his head. 100 or so emails back and forth with the chief of police later, I decided the best way to put lieutenant limpdick in his place was to change the law he thought he could use to stop us (a seldom used law that’s meant to be used to keep people from driving around with trucks blaring advertisement from loudspeakers, but which the cops were trying to use to shut our static performance down).

So I called my city council person. Both of them. They ignored me. Typical government experience. But I kept calling city councilors. And I found one that was actually interested in constituent service. One who (like me) felt like the mayor and the city council had been presenting a too united a front and ignoring their citizens for too long. That City Councilor is named Daniel Carlino.

Councilman Carlino listened to my proposal and said it was a good idea. He said he read the law they were threatening to cite us under and didn’t think it reasonably applied to us, so he said he’d push a bill through the city council to amend the ordinance in question.

And he fucking did it. I called an elected official. Told them the law was wrong and he fucking changed it.

See that text in the middle that’s in red and crossed out? Those are the six words Daniel Carlino changed in the Missoula Municipal Code so that my church was free to practice in peace.

That was over a year ago and we haven’t had a cop step foot on our little island since.

That’s the way government’s supposed to work. Elected officials are supposed to listen to their constituents, see where laws are being applied in a useless or harmful manner and fucking fix it. And he did it.

I don’t give a fuck if the kid’s a socialist, a nationalist, a national socialist, a Whig, a Torrey, or a fucking pescatarian. All I give a shit about is that I think the Mayor and the City Council are a tight knit little club of backroom dealing cocksuckers, and if there’s one or two people on the council that regularly vote differently then the rest of them, then I’ll take what I can get.

There’s a big motherfucking problem in fringe political action to shit on the slightly-less-shitty politicians because said politicians are painfully wrong and stupid about one thing or another. There’s not a human on this Earth I agree with about every single thing, and if there was I’d have to change a couple of my opinions to argue with that disagreeable motherfucker. There’s not a single politician in this hell-on-Earth that’s much better than “kinda shitty”, but a “kinda shitty” socialist cuck type who helps me fuck the law while its trying to fuck me? Well that motherfucker’s a hell of a lot more worthwhile in my book than the rest of his cohort.

A lot of otherwise intelligent people have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot by vocally decrying the usefulness of a politician just because they’re full of shit about one thing or another. We’re all full of shit about one thing or another, and that applies double to politicians. When one’s worth working with, criticize them for the individual issues that piss you off, don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, and don’t shoot yourself in the head because big scary buzzwords like “socialism” put asses in seats.

Better red than dead!

– Freeman Tao

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