Greater Missoula has around 100,000 humans calling this valley home and one of them is so reviled by her City Council peers that a recent Monday meeting turned into the rhetorical equivalent of a pro-wrestling smackdown as Kristen Jordan learned explicitly why she’s purposefully marginalized.
To see how this meeting is being regurgitated by the establishment mouthpiece, the Missoula Current, I’ll be using a lengthy excerpt from the article. Here it is:
“Never was I called, never was I invited,” Jordan said. “When I found out (talks) had been going on, I asked to collaborate and was told absolutely not.”
Jordan added, “Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.”
Council member Jennifer Savage brought the Pride flag measure to City Council after discussing the resolution with other council members. Savage works for Missoula County Public School and said the process happened organically as the flag came under attack.
She said Jordan wasn’t included in crafting the resolution due to her past behavior.
“I did that work with people I have trusted and people who have shown themselves to be trustworthy council members,” Savage said. “You (Jordan) have not proven to be a trustworthy colleague.”
Jordan has been vocally critical of City Council, it’s process and, at times, the administration. She has yelled at peers, attacked colleagues and members of the public in emails, and stormed out of meetings while shouting slurs.
Other council members have noted the behavior over the past three years.
“That is why no one called you. It’s not because we were trying to be exclusive. It was because you’ve slammed your computer in this chamber and told us all to F&$! off. You have yelled at more than one of us on numerous occasions, over the phone, in person, and people have seen it. It’s something that has made it very clear that you’re not a collaborative partner.”
Ideology aside, Kristen Jordan is so bad at her job of representing constituents and communicating with her peers that I could probably be convinced that she’s a political op to discredit the idea of “Socialism” as a viable alternative to the controlled demolition of our late-stage Capitalist economy.
I was tempted to engage in a similar line of conspiratorial thinking when I read that the top cop in Washington DC, Pamela Smith, didn’t know what the phrase CHAIN OF COMMAND meant. How is that even possible?
It’s possible if you expand your thinking to include the possibility that a centuries old plan to meta-gaslight humanity is now rapidly emerging from the shadows to become our unquestioned dogma.
We are at an inflection point, as a species, and what are we doing about it? Buying tickets for Ari Aster’s new film so we can see how the controller class accomplished the build-out of our digital prison while townie caricatures hit our brains like bullets of demoralization in the larger information war?
Sheriff Dumbass and Mayor Fuckface (Eddington) aren’t characters that exist in a vacuum, they’re inverted mockeries of core archetypes that have actually been integral to human evolution. If Aster becomes orthodoxy, then the hero’s journey made famous by Joseph Campbell has been reduced to turning your cop car into a political circus of primary colors and misspelled bumperstickers.
The Aster flick I watched a few weeks ago is set in a Western town in New Mexico and, like I said above, it’s all about mocking humans as the REAL threat gets quietly constructed in the background as the movie drama unfolds. “Keep your eye on the data center,” my friend advised.
To finish up this post I’d like to include two examples of humans using AI in a completely unnecessary and disturbing manner. The first example comes from Kevin Dahlgren, the former homeless service provider who now makes content about the Homeless Industrial Complex. Here’s the AI-enhanced poverty porn Kevin recently put out on his X-feed, then deleted when I suspect he realized it was incredibly tasteless:
While this is pretty bad, it’s not anywhere as fucked up as what Jim Acosta did recently. If you think mainstream has reached its nadir, think again!
Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.
The video shows Oliver, captured via a real photograph and animated with generative artificial intelligence, wearing a beanie with a solemn expression. Acosta asks the avatar: “What happened to you?”
“I appreciate your curiosity,” Oliver answers in hurried monotone without inflection or pauses for punctuation. “I was taken from this world too soon due to gun violence while at school. It’s important to talk about these issues so we can create a safer future for everyone.”
It’s true that humans can suck, but when you consider the existence of a psychopath class deploying Large Language Models to reshape the entire world for their benefit, I’ll take shitty humans like Kristen Jordan over Grok or Chatty any day of the week.
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