Yesterday a Zoom Chron supporter told me that the Missoula Redevelopment Agency was closing its MRA Facebook page in order to merge its unique gentrification mandate with the City of Missoula Facebook page. The question is WHY?
This question gets even more interesting when you consider how other organizations, like the Downtown Missoula Partnership, have been busy this year rebranding their look. Hmmm.
For me, a long-time critic of MRA with dozens of posts (like this one and this one) and a documentary about the corrupting influence of Tax Increment Financing, there’s a second question that comes to mind when I see this PR retreat being enacted, and the question is this:
The latest effort from MRA to throw $75,000 at the library for a “living roof” is probably one of the moves they’re feeling a little defensive about, since Montanans are getting FUCKED HARD by property taxes, with average homes becoming so out of reach, a former news director (driven out of Montana for her attempt to report on corruption) went to Facebook (where MRA is in retreat) to show why she will never own a home as a fourth generation Montanan in her home state:
Now, let’s pair this screenshot with an image I found by navigating the confusing city website labyrinth where I CONTINUE TO FIND inaccurate information for making remote public comments via the phone. Sure, the city can’t manage to do the simple things correctly, but check out this AMAZING VISION for the “living roof” of the trillion dollar library MRA bailed out when these budget divas threw a tantrum when they’re trillion dollar public bond fell short.
Funny, this image lacks the true “diversity” the library offers because I don’t see ANY mentally ill drug addicts around, though I have seen their drug residue in the library bathroom several times (which I of course documented here and here). To see how much our elected leaders and their MRA minions don’t care about local taxpayers, these numbers should land like a kick to the groin for anyone dealing with the actual fiscal reality of a collapsing society led on all sides by absolute idiots.
These are the numbers being dedicated to the library’s “living roof project” and it’s insane, if you ask me. If these elected assholes think they need this dumb shit so badly, then why don’t they try tapping the GIANT HEADWATERS FUND of money from the sale of Community Medical Center that always flies under the radar in Missoula when our elected officials LARP as panhandlers to the public?
I’ll wrap up this post with a reminder that you are only reading this critical perspective here because I understand this is an information war for narrative control, and that’s how I’ve been operating since Gwen Jones came to my place of work at Missoula Aging Services, where she was a board member in 2018, and tried intimidating me because the Missoulian published by op-ed poem about her sidewalk obsession.
I don’t gain money, friends, or sanity by doing any of this, but that’s ok. I’m doing it because I know, better than most, what the fuck is REALLY going on, and if I’m ever asked later on what I did to try and stop what I saw coming, I want to be able to say everything I could.
As I risk my life on a daily basis to move around this town on a bike I’ve noticed a phenomenon I’m inclined to attribute to “toxic empathy”, an idea that started getting traction when a “sharp, Christian voice” pointed out the left-wing cynicism hijacking human compassion and empathy. Here’s a blurb:
A sharp Christian voice makes a bold argument: when politics are driven by empathy rather than truth, innocent people pay the price. We are told that empathy is the highest virtue–the key to being a good person. Is that true? Or has “empathy,” like so many other words of our day– “tolerance,” “justice,” “acceptance”–been hijacked by bad actors who exploit compassion for their own political ends? In Toxic Empathy, Allie Beth Stuckey argues that empathy has become a tool of manipulation by left-wing activists who bully people into believing that they must adopt progressive positions to be loving. She explores the five most heated issues through which toxic empathy is deployed: abortion, gender, sexuality, immigration, and social justice.
With this idea in mind, the situation that the above image shows is a scenario I have experienced many times in Missoula and it’s beyond frustrating, it’s fucking dangerous.
Here’s what happens: a motorist operating an automobile sees me, the person on the bike, and they are so overcome with caring and, I guess, appreciation that I’m saving the planet with my multi-modal form of transportation, that they decide the laws of the road should be momentarily halted. That’s right, they literally stop when they absolutely should NOT be stopping, and they’re usually smiling benevolently at me until the confusion sets in that I’m refusing their stupid generosity and waving them along.
When I saw someone else this morning annoyed af at this type of behavior in Missoula, it was nice to see I’m not the only one perturbed at this dangerous behavior.
What might seem rather harmless is, I believe, indicative of an entire generation of aging liberal Boomers acting on their deteriorating cognitive abilities by getting tunnel vision when their “empathy bone” gets tapped, and it’s been getting tapped by some VERY malevolent forces for VERY insidious goals.
This is how the insane, absurd, and often times harmful COVID-19 policies were able to be implemented by the psychopath class, something many of those empathic people who took the jab would prefer to pretend didn’t happen in the way it actually happened.
Do these motorists understand why the rules of the road exist? The idea (before cops turned laws into opportunities for subjective enforcement based on profiling) is that laws provide predictability so that chaos doesn’t ensue. When you throw that shit out, the probability of bad outcomes increases.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we fixed this problem of misapplied empathy before we create unrealistic expectations and entitlements for upcoming generations?
To begin this post I want dads with daughters to imagine that you’re meeting your daughter’s boyfriend for the first time at Thanksgiving. If this guy walked in and shook your hand, what would your reaction be?
You might not want to punch this guy in the face immediately, but when he starts talking about his time at Yale, or how green energy is going to power his fancy film studio in Missoula, or the great tax breaks he got from the state of Montana to entice him to move from Wyoming to realize his narrative-control dreams, well, I suspect you might start fantasizing about different ways to remove that soft little smirk from his smooth little face.
Don’t worry, it’s not JUST Sean Higgins coming to Missoula. No, he’s bringing along a race-appropriate partner to alleviate the liberal pussy mafia of any misgivings they might have about empowering a white male to tell stories about AND he’s taking about green energy! Let’s see what Forbes has to say about our new narrative controllers.
Missoula is what locals would call a “blue bubble” in a red state. Situated in a valley surrounded by the Rocky and Bitterroot Mountains, this once lumber town turned college town is on the precipice of a new identity: The Hollywood of the Mountain West, cutting away the corrupt bloat of the industry and refocusing on artists, stories, and the workers who make those stories possible. At the center of this transformation are Co-founders President/CCO James Brown III (a Brown University alum and Wharton MBA candidate) and CEO Sean Patrick Higgins (a Yale School of Drama graduate). The film industry has long been dominated by the coastal elites of Hollywood, New York, and in recent years Atlanta thanks to Tyler Perry Studios.
Brown and Higgins are disrupting the status quo with their company, Story House Montana . This 47-acre, 400,000-square-foot film studio is accompanied by Story House Village (Sheridan, WY) a 240-acre live-work community with acquired land, annexed, and final plat filed, with $10M+ in and vertical construction beginning Fall 2025. What these founders are embarking on is revolutionary and uncharted territory for the region. This is much more than a studio, it’s a vertically integrated media and real estate company designed to build a sustainable creative ecosystem and generate lasting community wealth. Over 435 jobs are projected in Missoula, with additional workforce growth tied to Sheridan’s development.
If you thought BOZ ANGELAS was bad, this sounds exponentially worse. And they will ask for MORE tax breaks in order to accomplish this nightmare vision of Hollywood literally metastasizing inland.
It’s no secret that tax breaks for filmmakers at the state-level are now having their intended effect. This quote comes from a Wyoming “news” source plainly stating tax breaks made Missoula a target for the narrative war:
In search of tax incentives unavailable in Wyoming, Higgins moved his film production operations to Montana.
“There’s no incentives in Wyoming right now,” Higgins said during a recent phone interview from California, where he was meeting with investors for three film projects planned for production this fall. “There’s a better runway in other places.”
The site, formerly owned by what Story House described as “a company in a nonrenewable, pollutive industry,” has been reimagined as a clean-energy media manufacturing hub.
“Missoula has given us the opportunity to show what the next era of entertainment infrastructure can look like — green, local and values-driven,” Higgins said.
Values-driven? The only values I see represented by the narrative-controllers at this point is a strategy of coming out of the shadows in order to deploy an overt, in-your-face demoralization campaign as their donors, the psychopath class, uses every trick in the book to keep us distracted and fighting each other instead of them.
Storytellers who step out of line and ignore their STAY QUIET sign really do become hobos, as I can attest, and you can read all about it in one of the best three-part takedowns I’ve ever read about what Hollywood is doing in their war against the rest of us. This series, titled “The Hobo And The Hollywood Goddess” (part I, part II, part III), is so good I’m struggling to write a response that doesn’t reflect how far from conventional reality I’ve traveled to understand the very real murder of Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.
Sean Higgins may think he’s got the last name to pull this off, since it resonates so nicely with the “Summer Higgins” hippie character Taylor Sheridan’s horsey porn used in Yellowstone to mock us with, and it’s ALSO the name of a CIA agent in 3 Days of the Condor, a movie that got to use the inside of the twin towers just two years after those iconic buildings opened.
But 1975 is a LONG time ago. Now, in 2025, we have “former” CIA assets snapping and helping further divide an already divided and pretty much conquered nation of screen-slobbering dopamine screen junkies who think it’s “climate-smart” to take $250,000 grand after giving $70,000 to the library for a “living roof”.
Here’s an excerpt from the first link:
The City of Missoula has secured a $250,000 grant to plan what they describe as “clean energy projects” through a public-private partnership that includes Clearwater Credit Union, Missoula County, Climate Smart Missoula and Missoula Economic Partnership.
The grant, from the Coalition for Green Capital’s Municipal Investment Fund, will be used to identify potential clean energy projects and create a plan to attract funding for their implementation. Missoula was one of 50 communities nationwide selected for the award.
The initiative aims to build what officials called a “pipeline of finance-ready clean energy projects” that would later require additional investment to implement.
Isn’t it funny that our Harvard-trained Mayor uses the word PIPELINE here to discuss the plethora of bullshit that could get fed to our insane leadership if the idea of “green banks” ever takes off? Well, according to the Roosevelt Institute, this is how they see the funnel getting its first real-world test after a decade of smoke-blowing that started in Connecticut, where Yale spawned Sean Higgins and where United Way of Missoula County got that ED long past her shelf-life.
It’s the end of a decade-long effort to mainstream the concept of green banks—public development banks designed to finance the net-zero economy. The idea has come a long way fast. Connecticut created the first American green bank in 2011, then New York in 2013, followed by many other states and municipalities largely with the help of GGRF awardee Coalition for Green Capital. Despite years of advocacy and legislative efforts in 2019 and 2021, the potential for a national entity to finance climate initiatives was still somewhat of an Overton-window-pushing idea even in 2020, when I and other scholars from the Roosevelt Institute and elsewhere discussed its role in an ambitious green public investment agenda in the pages of The American Prospect. (Putting theory into practice, my coauthor Douglass Sims is currently leading one of the fund’s awardees, Justice Climate Fund.)
Later this week, as I prepare to start the first revision of my manuscript, I’m going to highlight another narrative controller who I reached out to via phone a few weeks ago, but never heard back from. I’m very interested in the dead homeless man she’s so haunted by that she just had to use a homeless character in the crime fiction she shits out to her publisher for a paycheck now, so stay tuned.
