Day: April 6, 2025

If you’re finding you have an unsatisfied appetite for hyperlocal provocation and the voyeuristic thrill of watching a man’s life fall apart, that’s because its been radio silence from the Devil You Know, as even after being released from the Missoula County Detention Facility, Travis Mateer has yet to make contact with the new occupying force that took control of Zoomchron.com in his absence.

Our official soothsayer divines that he will prefer to shift gears and spin out whatever new narrative has planted its alien seed in his brain over at his secondary blog One3Twenty.com – which I believe was originally intended to focus on the investigation and ruminations on the death of Sean Stevenson at the hands of Johnny Lee Perry and the Missoula County Sheriff’s office. But if the notes scrawled on the walls of his jail cell in his own excrement are any indication, the complex double-satire of the “no one cares about dead niggers” narrative he’s been trying so hard to weave for the last few years turned out to be accidentally sincere and accurate.

Not only does nobody care, but I and others find attempts to make us care to be hollow and performative.

This is not satire or irony or criticism of you or me or Travis. I’m 100 percent sincere. Nobody gives a shit, and I’m fine with that, and despite what I’ll say later I’m confident Travis always knew that. People die every fucking day. Lots of them violently. The fact that black men die violently at a higher rate (and almost always at the hands of other black men) is a problem for black men to solve. Malcolm X said “The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man“. I’ve always found the race-obsessed, white savior compulsion that has cannibalized contemporary liberalism to be a cancer, one that was probably deliberately cultivated to keep faggy college kids from getting their shit anywhere near together enough to provoke, participate in, or contribute to class warfare. I didn’t make any exception for Travis’ well-harped-on obsession with Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry.

I always found his hyperfocus on them to be an embarrassingly transparent attempt to use a fundamentally manipulative approach to get girls with blue hair and pierced septums to think he was on their side. I never got the impression he really cared about Sean Stevenson or Johnny Lee Perry, and I sure as shit didn’t care about them.

Fuck em. Plenty more bums were they came from.

So if you too have been tired of being guilt-tripped for not caring about a couple dead guys you didn’t know and couldn’t care about beyond a vague performative obligation, rest easy. Its a new fucking era on Zoomchron.com and if your morbid curiosity provokes you to trace the mental deterioration of Zoomchron’s former primary writer, you can monitor his downward spiral on its new arc over at One3Twenty.com

I expect Travis will continue to be legally unable to write about certain Missoula nonprofits as a condition of his misdemeanor probation, but as an independent citizen with absolute editorial autonomy I suffer under no such restriction. Luckily for the nonprofit in question I currently have no reason to give a shit about them, BUT THAT COULD CHANGE. If I get any pushback at all as I cocktease them with hints to their identity and their activities, I’ll start digging up and dumping all the dirt that’s fit to shit.

Fuck em. More nonprofit performative parasites where they came from.

Just to piss them off I’ll probably keep plugging Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). My main reason for that being that I have uncovered more of his deepest, darkest secrets. They make great fodder to manipulatively tug on your heart strings to fund his crumbling existence, and revealing them to you gives me a sort of exhibitionism-adjacent rush. (Its not quite exhibitionism because I’m not showing my own dirt, and its not quite voyeurism because my thrill comes from YOU looking at it… I guess the best metaphor is that I am a sort of pimp of secrets, and in this case Travis is my ho. You’re the John)

What I’m getting at is that the reason Travis Mateer is the way he is… is because he was sexually abused by a prominent political figure. Someone you’ve known for years. Someone very… very… close to you.

Travis is super fucked up. Give him money and he’ll make sure his problems become your worst enemy’s problems.

– Freeman Tao

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Many of you will have already read about the arms buildup in the Indian Ocean and the mounting tensions between US forces and Iran. About a week ago, Iran threatened to strike the island where the US was massing stealth bombers

Diego Garcia is a British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean that houses a strategic US-British military base. Located about 3,800 kilometers (2,360 miles) from Iran, the island is beyond the estimated range of Iran’s conventional ballistic missiles, which are believed to have a maximum range of approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles).

Iran’s state media added that Tehran would strike the Diego Garcia facility with ballistic missiles and suicide drones in response to any “hostile action by the US against the Iranian nation.” According to the reports, “Iran has the necessary weapons for such an attack from its own territory, including newer versions of the medium-range Khorramshahr missile and the Shahed-136B kamikaze drone, which has a range of 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles).”

These statements follow the publication of recent satellite images over the weekend showing that the US strategic base in the Indian Ocean now hosts at least five B-2 strategic bombers. The deployment is part of increasing reports of a US military buildup in the region. Simultaneously, the military news site Defense News reported that the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has left Guam in the western Pacific and is headed to the area.

Since then, the United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier and its associated group to the area, bringing more than 50% of the total Stealth Bomber fleet to the region.

A LOT of us have a pretty well-established and well-justified “nothing ever happens” attitude when it comes to geopolitics. Mass Media organizations have demonstrated enormous willingness and proficiency in wielding reports of terrifying global developments to manipulate and control huge swaths of the population. In the smartphone and social media era they’ve really come a long way since the Bush Era instituted the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System and advised us that under a yellow threat level it was okay to shop normally, but under orange and red threat levels we should do most of our shopping online.

The sophistication and effectiveness of “WAR IS COMING”, “RECESSION RECESSION RECESSION”, and “HOT PLAGUE-RIDDEN SINGLES IN YOUR AREA” propaganda makes a certain casual dismissal of advanced warning a psychological necessity for the dissident on the go, but the major media organizations seem to be displaying uncharacteristic restraint regarding the standoff over the island Diego Garcia and its reminiscence to the fictional Fernando Poo Incident.

Shit got real interesting today and so far mainstream sources are completely mum about it.

Back in October, when Iran/Israel tensions were at their highest, Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.

Iran said the barrage was retaliation for a series of devastating blows Israel has landed in recent weeks against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has been firing rockets into Israel since the war in Gaza began. Earlier Tuesday, Israel launched what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.

One week later there was an unusual and suspicious 4.5 magnitude earthquake in the Iranian dessert 100 miles southeast of Tehran. ZeroHedge.com reported on the possibility of this seismic signature matching an underground nuclear test better than it matched a real earthquake

The speculation that Iran carried out a nuclear test comes just days after the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in the US, published a report stating that “Iran can produce nuclear weapons far more rapidly than expected.”

Published on October 1st, the report noted that in late April 2024, a senior Iranian lawmaker stated that there is only a “one-week gap from the issuance of the order to the first test” of a nuclear bomb.

In May, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Iran may be forced to change its nuclear doctrine, which until now has called only for using nuclear technology for civilian purposes. “We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb, but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” Kamal Kharrazi stated.

The Heritage Foundation report added that in July, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken seemed to corroborate this claim when he stated that “instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, [Iran] is now probably one or two weeks away.”

The statements accompanied a significant increase in Iran’s stockpile of Uranium enriched to the 60 percent level between May and August 2024, according to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

But that shit was half a year ago, and Israel’s been slaughtering their own population and invading their neighbors with seemingly total impunity. The “Nothing Ever Happens” set and their callus of justified skepticism has been right for the billionth time.

AND YET… there was another 4.5 magnitude earthquake in the Iranian dessert TODAY.

Geopolitics this decade has kinda taken on an “all bets are off” approach, and while traditional wisdom is that Iran doesn’t have nuclear bombs and even if they did, that they would never dare to use them, if anything does ever happen, SOMEBODY (maybe you!) will be in a world of shit.

Sound off like you got a pair!

– Freeman Tao

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