Hopefully when we get back to Payson the pool bond will pass. However, the Tea Party Hoopleheads thrive on stupidity and backward thinking, so it is a toss up. Watch this.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
A rotten game by Otto and the Stooges
The Three Stooges’ Nefarious Plan
In Payson, the new ruling trio — Mayor Steve Otto and his loyal sidekicks Charlie Bell and Jim Farris — have cooked up a backroom scheme worthy of the Three Stooges title they’ve earned.
The previous Town Council, made up of responsible, forward-looking members, passed a 1% sales tax to fund long-term community improvements — a new pool, infrastructure repairs, and civic projects that would raise property values and make Payson a better place to live.
But Otto, Bell, and Farris rode into office whining about that very tax, pandering to the Tea Party crowd by railing against “big government spending.” They promised fiscal purity — and now, in true hypocritical fashion, they’re trying to hijack that same 1% tax revenue to bankroll their own pet projects.
If they were honest, they’d repeal the tax entirely — the same tax they used as a political weapon to get elected. That would mean they’d have to raise a new tax to pay for their agenda, and they don’t have the courage or integrity to do that.
As one of the few honest holdovers from the previous council pointed out, rescinding the tax would force transparency. Instead, the Stooges prefer smoke, mirrors, and political theater — while they quietly siphon funds meant to serve the people of Payson.
So the question for Payson voters is simple:
Do we let the Stooges steal the legacy of a responsible council — or do we call their bluff and demand they govern with the honesty they promised?
Do you still support Trump
The Art of the Lie
It’s useful to know early in a conversation whether you’re talking to someone living in the Trump delusion. You can usually tell within a minute. The signs are familiar: denial of facts, hostility toward truth, and a strange loyalty to a man who treats democracy like a nuisance.
It’s almost impossible to imagine a rational person still supporting this dictator-in-waiting. Trump has managed to offend and degrade every moral, legal, and human standard this country once held dear. He insults veterans, mocks the disabled, cheats his workers, and uses religion as a marketing tool. If that’s your idea of leadership, then you and I live on different planets.
Ignorance is the virus Trump spreads—infecting reason, compassion, and civic responsibility. He thrives on resentment, manufactures enemies, and sells hate disguised as patriotism. His followers don’t see the manipulation because they’re too busy cheering the man who turned their anger into his business model.
Trump once bragged about writing The Art of the Deal, but history will record a truer title: The Art of the Lie. Every chapter is the same—deceive, distract, deny, and repeat. He turned the presidency into a scam, the truth into an inconvenience, and half the nation into customers for his con.
America can survive corruption, but not willful blindness. It’s time to inoculate ourselves against the Trump virus—with facts, courage, and a little old-fashioned decency.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
The Payson Stooges Try a Quick One
The Payson Stooges and the Politics of Hypocrisy
In small towns across America, local politics often mirror the national stage — full of bluster, hypocrisy, and backroom maneuvering. Payson, Arizona, offers a textbook example.
The town’s self-styled reformers — Mayor Steve Otto and councilmen Charlie Bell and Jim Ferris — campaigned as champions of fiscal restraint. They rose to power by railing against a 1% sales tax increase passed by the previous council to fund essential community projects — including a long-overdue public swimming pool.
They thundered about waste, big government, and “tax tyranny.” They waved Tea Party banners and promised to roll back what they called “reckless spending.”
But now that they hold the reins of power, the tune has changed.
Instead of repealing the tax they so loudly condemned, the Three Stooges of Payson have decided to keep the 1% tax — not to build community assets, but to redirect the money toward their own pet projects. It’s the oldest political con in the book: condemn your predecessors, then pocket their work for your own agenda.
One of the town’s honest council members put it perfectly:
“If you want to use that money, repeal the tax and then pass your own — show the public who’s really raising their taxes.”
It was a clean, fair challenge — and a political trap the Stooges may find hard to escape. Do they expose themselves as hypocrites, or betray their Tea Party base?
Across America, from Washington to the smallest town hall, the same pattern repeats: politicians preaching purity until power tempts them. The lesson from Payson is clear — watch not what they say, but what they do with your money.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Danger, Danger, Danger,
DANGER, PAYSON — THE TEA PARTY STRIKES AGAIN?
Remember the robot on Lost in Space who used to shout, “Danger, Will Robinson!”? Well, it might be time for that warning here in Payson. Word is circulating that our new town manager has been spotted attending Tea Party meetings.
Now, the facts still need to be verified — we’ll leave room for that — but if true, this could be serious. Has our town’s top administrator drifted into the gravitational pull of the far-right vacuum? Once someone gets caught in the Tea Party’s black hole of conspiracy and extremism, it can be hard to escape.
To make matters worse, there are whispers that Inga — yes, that Inga, one of the most toxic figures in the local Tea Party orbit — might be involved. If this unholy alliance is real, the consequences could be disastrous for any effort to move Payson forward with reason, fairness, and truth.
Let’s hope this is all just a misunderstanding. But until we know more — Danger, Payson. Stay alert. Stay informed.
(Follow updates at the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity.)
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