This will be one of two posts on this subject, I will be finishing up my paperwork for the district 4 City Council position election this week and that will mean a couple things. The only other post that will talk about the election specifically or my efforts in it is going to be the reveal of my campaign page and after that this will just be my thoughts and my blog. It may deal with some topics like before but it will not talk about the campaign or my efforts on it.
Now, there are a lot of political questions. I am not going to answer them. What I will answer is something that people may ask who know me, and those who may have never heard of me be wondering.
Why do something like this?
Over the years it took me to learn how I work in the world and it is something where I can be loud but I am more of a get your work done and look towards the next goal. This is something that I will be putting myself in the spotlight to some degree due to the position involved. Honestly, it’s a big move for someone who six years ago was just getting off the street trying to make by with everything they got.
Six years have taken me from the state capitol to the nation’s capitol and from the federal court in Portland to the federal reserve and the bipartisan policy center. I have written books, and I have gotten in better shape despite still being built like Thwomp from Super Mario. We need people to listen and work on getting things done, and this week part of my work was using the time my building had lost its power to see the issues that someone disabled may have if they had to get out of a building quickly.
I banged my shins up hard doing that.
Why do something like this?
There is a way I do it, that makes me the best choice, in my very skewed opinion, and even more so I made a promise once and this may be how I intend to keep it. Also, you can tell I am nervous when I forget to schedule the posts and leave it just waiting for me to hit publish.
[argle bargle]
If this is the worst mistake, forgetting to hit publish on a blog post during the start of a campaign then I think we can be happy with that.
I am going to be a little real. Sometimes doing so much it gets people wondering in day-to-day life asking about how I can do so much.
Economic competitions, leadership camps, writing books, repairing, analyzing data files and that’s just over the past two weeks. Not including the work when it comes to my classes and volunteer work. Not including projects I may not talk about as much, and while I am happy to do it, because I think it should be done and no one else is getting to it.
I sometimes give myself a rest. Call it pulling the armor off. Just relax and breath to see the lay of the land of where we had gotten.
Six years ago, I was on the streets. Before that I was using this for goofy t-shirt design and just being a loud voice on the internet that seemed to be full of them. Being goofy I will never say no to on its own. The first posts of this blog go back to 2013, and it has been an odd but entertaining cross section in my life. Definitely was learning involved in the time frame.
It was strange because I am still that angry person but back then I was the person that knew nothing but to rage because he had not been taught a thing else. Family was brutal and abusive, friends were few and unable to help, and it just felt like the world was against you, and it was true because it was. Since then, I have gotten to university, flown to the nations capital, worked with policy centers and presented to the federal reserve. I have written books, and done more than a hundred different recipes for different projects and over the time I had to learn how to be social in a way I was never used to.
Kevin Nash, who is sneaky smart had a line in a promo that I think fits.
“A funny thing happened on the way to getting here, as I got older, I got wiser.”
Anytime I can work a wrestling quote that makes sense I will. There is a difference but who I am then and who I am now have changed to some degree, I have become cagier and I have been the one to make more positive out of the negative. I am still the angry person that wants to make things better and cannot stand stupidity without reason. Just sometimes it is important to take your helmet off and look back at the path once traveled
Marcus Corvon or Monty Brown if you watch videos online you may find some wrestling fan say how he was a failed wrestler. That is why I am writing this.
Now, pardon me for being smarter here then some fans, but this is one I am going to be pure Anderson asshole here.
Monty Brown was a TNA stalwart when they needed an identity and he helped them find it. I dare say if it wasn’t for the alpha male of early TNA then we may not know it in the way we do now. This was Bobby Lashley, before Bobby Lashley, skilled and multifaceted, a proper NFL history with a pair of super bowl victories.
Dude, was a thoroughbred, if he was a stock he would be a blue-chip stock. He knew how to talk and play a character and he had morals in an age I guess people were more about the money. His finish was a version of a spear called the pounce where instead of hitting someone from the front he would get an angle going from the opposing set of ropes. He was not the technical master, but he had enough that he knew where to go for 99% of wrestling life. He was a powerhouse and unique to boot.
He went to TNA, never won any titles because they didn’t have one to put on him. (Era of AJ, JJ Abyss, Raven, etc. etc. etc.) This was a guy everyone knew could be a world champion in a class of wrestlers that had all been not just champion level but was high tier. Everyone knew he could be world champ and they bought in when he fought for it because one pounce was all it took.
Behind the curtain there is not a single man that will say a bad word about him. In an industry where you had to defend your value, he let actions shine more then words. No one in an age where people have to be political saw him get into that portion of it. After TNA for so long where he basically helped keep it alive he had gone to WWE for the WWECW brand and became one of the bright spots there. I wanted to see him against Regal because it could have been very interesting.
I am generally a downer, a realist, I searched for hours online and not one single guy would say a single thing bad about how he was as a wrestler or as a man. Mind you this is an industry with more skeletons than a spirit Halloween store, and for one guy to not have any makes some suspicious. Except for years, for literal years at the highest point of two different very physical careers he had been a guy to lace up and let actions speak more then words. Honestly if I cannot find anyone after years of being in the public high of anyone trying to bring you down he must have done something right.
Because after Hurricane Katrina he did a lot more right. During that time his sister passed, and her kids were left without a parent or a home until he stepped in. Let’s just think of that, a guy with not one but two physical well paying careers currently in one and he goes.
“Nah, I’m gonna take care of my sisters kids.” I am going to be honest I do not know how many people would do that. I hope a lot but I do not know.
He gets a third career and now in his fifties and some people let themselves go and just work and be a parent.
Nah, not the alpha way. For me before Tate heard of alpha it was Brown’s and honestly for me it still is. This is him doing an interview in his fifties.
Dude, is still built like a brick shithouse. MVP needs to get him in the hurt syndicate, think of MVP going back to full time wrestling and they chose the Alpha Male to come in as a manager for title matches and big moments. Seriously, this man is a shape where if he wanted to say he was back in I do not think any worldwide company would say no to at least a couple matches.
So, the idea that he was a failure. No, bro was on his own time and he had morals, honestly good on him better the majority of us I would say. He got two rings in the NFL, he has done enough that he has to be one of the best wrestlers never to be world champion, which in wrestling lists that is a big one to be high on.
However, anyone who thinks he failed. Wrong, incorrect, failure of understanding, and now by the way he is the head of his own fitness and helps people train. Sometimes characters are more the people behind it and we wonder where in titles and tribulations but when someone like that knows when to call it and can rebuild himself time and time again, he is a success just a different kind of it, and if you don’t know that to quote Mr. Brown.
“Remember in the Serengeti, you are in the land of the Alpha Male, and the Serengeti is all I see.”
He knew how to be a character better then a lot of people. You can make the Alpha Male as Monty Brown a proper comic book and it would work. A dash of Kraven the Hunter, some Black Panther, some Blade, some Loki, and you got someone with the style and swagger that if he is a failure, then there are a lot of failures in the world.
Learning something new is hard, I think that is something that we all understand to some degree. I think what we forget is you can learn more the none major thing.
I have written on her of people changing drastically their careers. Porn stars who became therapists and psychologists. Instagram models who became biologists. Football players who became farmers. There is a love of life and wish of growth that I really like seeing and sometimes those journeys are not the easiest.
Kim Kardashian, recently talked about not passing the bar, the noted exam for lawyers, and its rough. Sometimes when you try to make a change it is very difficult, it is something where you will fail a few times. I am not writing this as a laugh track or some insult even though I have had issues with how the Kardashian have done business in the past. If you cannot cheer for those you disagree with or dislike to become better versions of themselves, you are not human.
Now, I am so small a blog, Kim Kardashian and that level of fame will be magnetically opposed to these posts. To her though, and everyone else who are having difficulties in their transitions career wise, keep going. It will be tough, but if it ever gets really bad, you have one loud jackass in the Pacific North West cheering you on to be better because if we do not get better than the world is much darker than any of us can dream.
Just because you are older or you have done things before you can still pivot into something new and learning is something you do every day if you love life and if you try to make the most of it then keep trying and I hope if you read this, you keep going, because if you try hard enough eventually you will make it.
I did not go on to the next round in my federal reserve competition. I was a one-person team, I hope I represented well and it spoke more to the issues of trusting in sources of financial power like the federal reserve and what will happen. I thought it was interesting, I thought it would also help versus the average speech of possibly talking the same points as a paid group and claiming .25 will be a sizable change in the federal rate.
My point was at each level from us, to cities, states, federal, and even international the markets will react differently but no matter how they may take the moves in what directions because the finance game is essentially many layers of games on the same board. There was going to be a problem that if you are not trusted the moves made will not be held to the same value because trust is not as much in the reserve and the moves and people of it. My move was to take a year get the reserve to make itself a source of information for people about the reserve and finances and cut out a lot of the problems with people hearing about the reserve second or third hand.
It was a subject I thought was a good one, I did my best with it. I was ill when I had to speak, I was alone, but I also did it. How many people can say that? It was a feast or famine presentation and it didn’t pay out. I still would do it on that subject, I would still try to do a better presentation. Strategic Temporal Credibility in a Multi Level Reflexive Market. Could have workshopped the title more except when I had it that it felt like the best one.
Doing it on video and ill trying to speak through a rough throat the odds were long. I did something not many in my school have done and all I can hope that maybe they enjoyed something from it, that maybe they learned something. One can hope every time they enter a competition if they do well, but this time I was not enough to move to the next round.
Today Zohran won his mayor race, not surprised and people are already cheering. Sneako the average Twitch fool was calling how only ‘real new yorkers’ will stay.
This is what annoys me, the idea of someone can promise the moon with everyone who can count knowing it cannot be done. Let me give you a prediction, New York will lose money and business because the cost of doing business will now be more then the cost of moving to somewhere more comfortable.
His promises of state-run grocery stores, free buss systems, and rent control will be no closer when he is done then when his term is done. This is something that annoys me though because I am not in New York and I could have told you that. State run grocery stores will at minimum cause an exodus of other stores and then when they can’t maintain keeping the process and logistics up it will not be able to get the food they had delivered in a proper manner.
Free Bus systems? I mean I work around transportation in a lot of volunteer work. That will take maybe billions, and they do not have the money or the tax base to push on to get that done. If they did, they would need to raise taxes and that will be a minimum of help needed from the state.
As for rent control, it has not worked. In fact, recently Javier Milei in Argentina removed rent control and the rent went down. 30% over two years. The market had made everything much more fluid and that caused the prices to fall. We have a group of people willing to be fed lies for votes and are shocked when nothing comes to pass.
None of this will work as it stands save some outside factor beyond thought or an act of economic mercy from a great power. Now, Portland is actually ahead of the curve because we currently have a socialist city council we have done nothing and in fact have been a shame upon their jobs. Any set of beliefs in itself generally is not a bad thing because the world will dictate one has to be flexible in their thinking to survive.
What I hate with a burning passion is zealotry. Politics, religion, anything that can make you blind to the color of an apple sitting on your desk just because someone else said it was another color and made word salad to cover it. Which funnily enough the new mayor of New York said he didn’t say anything about the grocery stores on CNN, and explained how he wanted to pick a fight with Trump.
Let me be clear, Trump annoys me too, a lot of people do. The greatest blow a democrat or group of democrats can do is to make a city that had been known for high taxes, for filth, and for using the power of state and local office unfairly is to get a city back to full running order and under budget. One city does that and every town and city will look at it wondering how they can do that and you will have people wanting to learn the plan.
Instead, we get the plan of Zohran, of Wyden and of the Portland Peacock Parade that we need to pick a fight. That fight has left us with less money, less resources, less people wanting to come here and more people moving out.
Instead of that we have someone in New York who has zero experience in anything getting away on lies he has to know he can’t commit to. In Virginia someone got elected after talking about how someone’s kids should be targeted with X and Reddit just celebrating tonight like it was the midterms. Congrats, this victory may be the best one you get.
Tell me what the republicans gathered from this?
That so long as someone as a D by their name they are all good. Sex offenders, violent zealots, so long as you have the stamp you are fine. That was the biggest point they used in a lot of ads, they are the party of hope and love. We just tossed that title into the trash and set it on fire. It angers me because it does no one in the long run any good. Midterms are going to be much different and now the party that the democrats have to deal with just got a note saying they don’t care unless they win.
We did not just win a hard fight, we just put the cape in front of the bull.
300 hours volunteered in a semester and a year. Since I started at uni my volunteer hours were being counted and now I have near doubled my last year of school between may 14th to now.
Always something to be done and always something to be better at.
So let me do something else.
When would it ever be enough?
After I achieve my goal of making the city better what would I want?
This made me think about it.
I would be happy maybe with someone that cares for all my eccentricities who I am and not what I bring to the table. To be able to do good for my city and watch as the sun rises on a new apex of industry, and just enjoy a life of fights and bloodshed and violence made to something positive and just enjoy it.
Do things I never did before. I never went to Japan, homeland of my aunt and her family. I never flew private, I don’t know what people do in such jets but it sounds nice. Go to Africa and see how people do film there and make stories. Learn to cook in a dozen cuisines, and actually dress nicely. I wear clothes out and having a proper wardrobe would be nice. Invest in farms.
Oh, the one thing I would do with money and power and time, is be an unbreakable immovable trickster. Hear me out, you know the kind of people who never had someone get in their way, then ones with money with no sense? Having someone come from what I did turn their ideas I disagree with to mulch is going to be infinitely entertaining.
A group of people want less farms and push farms needing expensive sets of equipment, I am going to equip every one of them in the state. If someone tries to get someone off land by being sneaky I am going to give my lawyers a bunch of caffeine and tell them the budget is open to six or seven digits plus and I want blood.
You know the guy who in some movies or shows just helps the little guy out not just because it’s a good idea but also because the people doing the dumb crap have more dollars than brain cells? That would be me. Not just because it is the right thing to do, but because I am going to be an evil little troll doing it.
I mean with enough companies you got to have loss leaders to balance your taxes. How many places can I burn money.
Go to a hospital department, ask what do you need and tell a doctor and a nurse to stuff a shopping cart like supermarket sweep. Do I know if the new cat scan machine can be delivered, no, but we will figure that out in the long run. When you have enough money and power being the asshole on the good guys team is a perfect place.
Work treatment shit. Build a factory set to a thirty-two-hour work week, pay them for forty set pay for part time to be similar to account for an addition 8-hour shift for free and just do it better. Would a lot of rich people think I am Loki reborn?
Because pissing off people while you do good things is the sort of things that would give me life. Seriously. I get to that point it may not be a long ride but it will be a kick.
You ever wonder what you shouldn’t say online? It’s something I deal with because, well, no one generally wants to hear me anyway and I don’t like wasting time. I don’t get how people can post every day.
Then I took a deeper thought as too why, and its still a problem for me to grasp. You see I can technically put anything on this blog, and sometimes if I do something interesting or I thought would be worthwhile to someone to anyone I do.
When I don’t it feels just off, like it’s taking space, and it still has to be drilled in my head that I don’t decide what is useful I can only put up stuff and hopefully someone does get some value out of it. When you are raised to not waste time of others sometimes in an insulting way, it’s hard to unlearn that, and I will have to struggle about that as I grow.
Generally, people have not been interested in what interests me, the numbers, the styles, the just details of somethings. Here, though I need to remember that is not my decision, its yours. Just odd thoughts in something where it makes someone wonder how much they really knew about the world.
Granted I keep trying to learn but it seems there also has to be the moments the small little funny things that just keep you going. One of my personal favorites is trying to explain my thoughts with pigeons and name them after French chefs, or doing the same with ducks and Italian chefs.
You will look like a madman doing it, but for some reason they always stay long enough for me to explain a thought so long as they aren’t being in danger. The good thing is if it makes sense after talking to a bird you can most likely do it talking to a person.
Portland Police is infinitely disappointing, this has been something that I have given the benefit of the doubt for years, and you can go see that in past posts about trusting the police so they can do a good job.
That was of course years ago when I had hope that it was just a lack of resources and not a serious lack of execution. From what I have seen that is what we have. We have a group of political class people who want to keep doing the same thing and turn this city into a cauldron of failure and to date have not done one single thing they claimed they would. Now though, I have seen it and others that it’s clear the police are just
Mitch Green has to be the biggest disappointment in the council to me.
He ran on housing affordability and students have been kicked out, the number of apartments has not changed in any meaningful measure. He ran on public safety and it has in fact gotten worse which is an achievement when cops don’t show up half the time within fifteen minutes with lives on the line. He is an economist that can’t do math, he is a politician who changes parties as soon as he cannot be removed and all of it is a fathom level lower than what we need as someone in office.
It just seems there is a lot of disappointments, of those willing to use the city without trying to help it.
I do not like it seeing my city being played the fool trying to stir the fears of those who do not know better.
How disgusting does the government have to be when they use the people in such a way.
In my volunteer work, I have been keeping track for the university because you get an award if you do so many hours in a twelve-month period. Last year I got 148 hours getting me to the second highest level and 150 is the minimum to get into the highest level. The count is from May 14 to May 14 every year and so far, this year after tabbing it all up I was at around 30 hours last year
I am at 72 hours this year, and the trip is volunteer service (anything I don’t collect an hourly wage on is something that can be counted) and that is including camps and trainings as well. This includes all my meetings and generally I do not claim any reading or studying resources I could almost double that if I did.
Getting that award would be nice because as a disabled person it is something that feeds the chip on my shoulder because every so often people think disabled means you can’t do something. I try to look at it that I will need to do it a different way, and it is a different way because my goodness my legs feel like iron most days and I will say my thighs are so big I can actually crush a melon pretty easily. My size allows me to do that pretty easily, but someone who can walk miles with a frame like mine is something that usually scares some people.
Another thing is the jokes, lots of jokes with me classifying as a heavy armor unit if you give me a slingshot. I have gotten used to them and some of the better ones still make me chuckle about it.
At my size I am the volunteer version of Roadblock(seen above), although I think he looks better then I do. Cannot complain for what I have though, I am making what I can work, I just need to make sure I rest well.
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