Day: January 27, 2026

When I comb through local news stories the way I imagine a politician might comb through his flattop hair, I don’t often learn new and important things, but with everyone so upset over the use of Federal resources in the guise of ICE agents killing people, perhaps knowing a little more about “Operation Stonegarden” would be helpful, and LORD KNOWS I love to help.

What is Operation Stonegarden? Glad you asked. Here’s a description from the link:

Operation Stonegarden is a federal grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of the State Homeland Security Grant Program. Operation Stonegarden provides funding to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to enhance their capabilities to “support joint efforts to secure the United States’ borders.” Funds are to be used for additional law enforcement personnel, overtime pay, general purpose equipment, and travel and lodging for the deployment of state and local personnel – among other applicable activities – to “improve overall border security.”

I discovered this program earlier today as I read about a “Muti-agency” drug bust in Lewistown. The name of the funding source was tucked away at the bottom of the article, where only assholes like me will read it and go HMMMM…

A coordinated criminal interdiction mission on Jan. 26 resulted in significant law enforcement activity across several Montana counties.

Agencies involved included the Phillips, Fergus, Judith Basin, Wheatland, and Golden Valley County Sheriff’s Offices, Fort Belknap Police Department, US Border Patrol, Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish & Wildlife Service, Montana Highway Patrol, Central MT Dispatch, Phillips County Dispatch, and Fort Belknap Dispatch.

The operation aimed to target high-crime areas within each jurisdiction to disrupt and stop criminal activity.

The mission led to 62 traffic stops, two arrests, 19 citations, three K9 deployments, and the seizure of illegal narcotics and drug paraphernalia.

The majority of the operation was funded by Operation Stonegarden.

While Democrats across America are ready to go to war with ICE–which will require their collective hive mind to allow even MORE stupid emotions to erode even MORE of their critical thinking capabilities–it should be noted the DEMOCRAT Jon Tester, back in 2019, co-sponsored the reauthorization and funding increase of this amazing pork chops for cops program:

Senator Jon Tester is co-sponsoring a bill to reauthorize and increase funding for Operation Stonegarden.

That’s a federal program focused on border safety.

The new bill would increase funding to $110 million.

Operation Stonegarden is what’s known as a force multiplier.

The federal government gives local agencies money to work with border patrol.

Before Tester got his political ass handed to him to give him the free time to ensure Democrats will keep losing in Montana as he helps push the Seth Bodnar Independent LARP, he was getting Byrne-JAG money for local law enforcement. Here’s what that money is supposed to fund:

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The JAG Program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, planning, evaluation, technology improvement, crime victim and witness initiatives, mental health programs and related law enforcement and corrections programs, including behavioral programs and crisis intervention teams, and implementation of state crisis intervention court proceedings and related programs or initiatives including, but not limited to, mental health courts, drug courts, veterans courts, and extreme risk protection order programs.

Conceivably this kind of money would help teach Missoula police officers–let’s say a group of FOUR of them responding to an altercation at Charlie B’s–how NOT to be so terrified of ONE man and his stick that they end up taking him down to the sidewalk, punching him, tasering him, and injuring him before our brave County Prosecutors charged him criminally for…not putting his stick down fast enough?

Going back to the all-important MONEY, if local elected officials are so horrified at what coordination with Federal authorities yields, then take a REAL step and GIVE BACK THE MONEY! And I think City Club on February 9th would be a great time to let those local law enforcement agencies know.

City Club–where unintentional comedians pretend to have “new ideas” and a “free exchange of thought”.

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It appears that “Kent State” will be the Democrat talking point moving forward in the Democrat street war against election results, which I gleaned after watching a very painful minute of complete bullshit from our Harvard educated Mayor, who didn’t blink an eye at making the stupid Kent State comparison. Check it out for yourself.

One of the most toxic politicians Montana has ever had to endure–Ellie Boldman Hill Smith etc.–saw immediate opportunity with the ICE shootings, just like she did when that German exchange student was shot and killed in Missoula a decade ago. I told Democrats back then that their strategy was fucking stupid, but they doubled-down on stupid and, a decade later, these political losers turned the entire state of Montana from purple to RED.

Here’s the “secret police” ICE op-ed from Ellie, the most despicable politician Missoula has ever foisted on Big Sky Country:

If you have trouble reading this op-ed, just know that the alcoholic train-wreck who penned this bullshit claims…”We must choose transparency over secrecy, accountability over impunity, and constitutional government over fear…” because “…History has already shown us what happens when we don’t.”

Yes, when a politician like Ellie isn’t held accountable for bullying a young woman into committing suicide, or over-billing the Public Defender’s office on a CPS case, or double-dipping on Covid money, the result isn’t pretty. Will Montana Democrats every understand the extensive damage allowing Ellie Boldman to run rampant for two decades has done to their brand?

Here’s a screenshot of the article (Western Montana News) where I wrote publicly about the thing people in this town have been whispering about for years:

When Ellie arrived in Missoula from Boise twenty years ago, the director of Missoula’s United Way, Susan Hay Patrick, helped her land the job at the homeless shelter. When Ellie was compelled to leave that job at the homeless shelter after using shelter resources to help run her political campaign–which is legally dubious, to the say the least–Eran Pehan took over and commenced doing damage control to protect Ellie for her own career trajectory.

Today, Susan Hay Patrick is still the director of United Way, Eran Pehan is overseeing the total revamping of building codes with a background in social work, and Ellie Boldman is still a State Senator who helped corrupt RINOs undermine their own party for the entire duration of the legislative session.

The men who stay visibly tied to Montana Democrats like hemorrhoids on an asshole, or barnacles on the hull of the Titanic, are actually impressive creatures because, like Mark Anderlik, they know exactly what kind of nasty shit the Ellies of their party pull against their own people behind the scenes, yet they persist, wondering why working class men don’t show up to their street tantrums:

Why the fuck would labor show up for Democrats in Montana when Democrats stopped showing up for labor a LONG time ago? This isn’t rocket science, Mark. This is the legacy of the Clinton Machine and the only way forward is to curb-stomp the fuck out of it, which will never happen with a party infrastructure of sniveling professional victims running the show.

If anyone wants to really understand how party politics is played in Montana, just reflect on MY trajectory after leaving the non-profit world and coming forward under my real name to write aggressively about what I knew to be vast local corruption in the town I’ve lived in for 26 years.

When it comes to targeting citizen journalists like me and whistleblowers like Brandon Bryant, Mayor Davis knows how important depicting local cops as well-trained angels is to her own political existence, so that’s what this Harvard-educated politician did last night, regardless of the reality that individuals within her own political sphere are getting away with verified criminal behavior.

If these pathetic hypocrites don’t want their grandstanding bullshit to be mocked by someone who knows better, then hold your own side accountable. Until that happens, take your Kent State comparisons and shove them, past the hemorrhoids you refuse to hold accountable for all the asshole pain.

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