ivanmhennessy.bsky.social
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Every time I've quit, it was the right call.
I think you'll succeed
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Prosperity gospel is a blank check for cruelty
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Best possible followup
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'Subversives'
Don't 'send a social worker to a knife fight'
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Just called a safe injection site 'assisted suicide facility'
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Lots of shit talk about "vagrants and professional protesters "
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Concern about stagnant population. No mention of housing shortage
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Scare mongering about pan handling and needles scaring off tourists.
Dig at protesters.
Talk of making downtown affordable for businesses
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Pastor who runs a food distribution program just said "if you don't work, you don't eat"
No sign of self awareness
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Next speaker, Michael Gantt
He's claiming to see lots of hate in Brattleboro.
Lots of crowd work.
Speaking against Human Services budget
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Hank has brought up a flier about Article II on the Town Meeting Ballot. Claims to have been approached by an elderly Jewish woman afraid of going into post office past protesters
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Second woman speaker, also talking a lot about addicts as patients and people, also being a lot of room noise
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Positive mention of Turning Point visiting patients in the hospital.
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Solid run down of withdrawal from various drugs
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"Everything is laced with fentanyl"
Xylazine
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Healthcare is broken.
Assaulted at work in the hospital.
"Safety is not a political issue"
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Next speaker Lori Korault
First speaker born in Brattleboro, maybe Vermont
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Hank is advocating for both drunk tanks and 90 treatment facilities funded by Medicaid
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First woman speaker is getting a lot more room noise than the men. She's starkly pitting us against them. Lots of talk of the losses her family has suffered.
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Subtle xenophobia connecting drug use to 'not vermont'
Introducing a new speaker: Julie Winchester
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Hank is talking about needing police AND social workers. It's unclear what his budget solutions might be
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Mike has introduced the idea that 90% agree with Hank, versus 10% fringe radicals.
Hank us undercutting Mike's claim to be a working man by pointing out how much property he owns. No one seems to notice
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Every speaker has been a transplant
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Mike is feeling sorry for himself because owning other people's homes is hard in a town that you know nothing about
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Now introducing Mike Cota (?), owner of a bunch of property.
Needle was brought around for people to see. It appears to be fresh from the packaging.
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Hank is talking about crime stats.
Actually points out the cost and logistics of incarcerating more people.
Showing people a needle he claims to have found at a playground
He claims to be showing us fentanyl
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Plea for sympathy based on Hank allegedly having been attacked.
Spreading idea that people are smoking meth in public
Claims to be scared of the power of laugh reactions
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Lockie has brought up propaganda and disinformation. Continuing to dismiss expertise
Quick dig at social justice
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Hank has introduced Alex Lockey. Alex is pumping up the importance of primary sources, talking down the idea of expertise
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He's just referred to 'town' as 'they'
Mentioned contested RTM elections. That's something I'm glad to see.
Moved on to bragging about the horrors he hasn't shared in his videos.
Rattled off a list of towns and cities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. (Dog whistles)
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After the introduction, Hank is talking up his personal transformation. Brief mention of being a father.
Now, he's celebrating the coverage of his past poor behavior.
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The first speaker is Walter Hagedorn who recently shared a painting of a chicken with some seriously racist imagery. While introducing himself, he implied he's had sex with half the women in the room