By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is in the grips of an epic gang war the likes of which it has never seen before. Masked and heavily armed thugs stock the streets of some of America’s biggest cities with total impunity, thousands of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It all went off without a hitch. Donald Trump’s huge, beautiful, helicopter coup of 2026. After two years of bungling pretty much everything from tariffs to the Epstein cover-up, our dayglow Caesar rolled the dice in Venezuela, and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Two events from my bleak rural Pennsylvania childhood have scarred my soul more than any others, fundamentally defining my entire outlook both psychologically and philosophically. The first event was very personal but became very political and the second […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.” -Jacques […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve gone through this scenario a million fucking times before and it always seems to play out the same way. I meet some vanilla white progressive ally who feels my pain. You know the type; the non-profit industrial […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What transforms this world is… Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Way back in the 1700s there was this fucked up little place called Florida, or at least that’s what the Spaniards called it. The original natives of the region had multiple different names for this untamable swampland but […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Statistically speaking, you or someone you love has been preyed upon by a man with more power than he deserves. RAINN estimates that 17.7 million American women have been the victims of rape in the United States and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years straight of total war, after billions of dollars of bombs and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, Satan died last week, or at least so I’m told. Speaking personally, I won’t sleep easier until I see a body because that neocon fossil should have died centuries ago. I can’t help but to feel like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a goddamn commie, and I’m not talking Bernie Sanders here. I’m talking hardcore, blood-red, dyed-in-the-wool, revolutionary Marxism. I was a goddamn tankie and while I quoted Lenin and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the summer harvest and the beginning of the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Oh, how lucky we are to live in an era of such huge and beautiful peace. An age in which the free and not-so-free world alike can join hands in brotherhood around that shining dumpster fire on the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Christianity is back and it’s more violent than ever. I speak of course of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst the decaying ruins of Washington DC. Using the demonic, Caligula-esque Emperador Trump like a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley My people are freaking the fuck out right now. I deal with it every day. Just being transgender in a conservative rural community alone can feel like a fulltime job. Being actively trans, organizing Queer resistance in a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This isn’t just Deja vu. We have quite literally been here before, in fact, we’ve been here so many times that you can practically set your watch to the proceeding order of events. We start with a tragedy, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Believe it or not, I didn’t choose to be Queer, I’ve been raging against my prescribed gender identity since I was barely old enough to kick a priest in the shins, but I do choose to live in […]
By Nicky Reid Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down anytime in the near future. In fact, if anything, the Netanyahu regime seems to be […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrader Exile in Happy Valley I’ve never been much of an opportunist when it comes to America because quite frankly, there is really very little to be optimistic about. A cursory glance at this nation’s history should be more than enough to prove that. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley We’ve seen this same scenario play out on the international news a thousand times before. Some populist despot on a power binge locks down the capitol with heavily armed and uniformed soldiers on the street. Some kind of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President’s longtime friend and fellow member of the predator elite, Bill O’Reilly, announced something that I found to be […]
By Nicky Reid Exile in Happy Valley Lights! Cameras! Action! The scene is a heavily hyped but quickly slapped together peace summit in the late summer of this year of our lord Satan 2025. The setting is Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, some relic of the last cold war’s apocalypse […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It is getting harder and harder for me to cover the endless holocaust in Gaza. I am not an objective journalist. In fact I reject the very notion of objective journalism as inherently problematic and at times downright […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump’s frequent attempts to dress himself in the drag of a peace candidate have always been a cabaret made possible by the Democrats’ open-mouthed embrace of humanitarian colonialism. It’s real easy to score the role of Charles […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This rant is devoted in loving memory to Virginia Giuffre, a woman who died speaking the truth about powerful men. I lost my virginity in preschool. I don’t know a worse way to start a post. Unfortunately, I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley What is the definition of a gang? I would generally argue that this word is a contrived label used by rich people to describe any group of poor people organized around using force to acquire wealth like rich […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This may be politically incorrect, but we need to face the fact that we are a nation under siege. America has been invaded by an insatiable alien swarm that has engulfed this nation like a human inferno. Breeding, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Donald Trump is on a rampage and the colossal pistons of America’s federal government machine seem to be his new favorite battering rams. Every problem, perceived or contrived, seems to require a bigger and bigger government solution. Things […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Ooh, that smell Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell The smell of death surrounds you” ‘Ooh That Smell’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd I may be a hedonistic, post-left, genderfuck, heathen but I’m also a fiercely localist, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley After spending the last year killing pretty much everybody else in the Middle East, Israel and their less than silent partners back in Washington finally zeroed in on their ‘big bad’ in Tehran this June. All of this […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many ways, it has never been harder to be […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’ve read more than a few of my rants, then you are probably already painfully aware that I am a Queer person and that I take this identity pretty seriously, some of you may even be forgiven […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Genocide Convention defines genocide as an intentional effort to completely or partially destroy a group based on its nationality, ethnicity or religion. Merriam-Webster defines genocide as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Everywhere you turn lately somebody seems to be talking about the importance of mental health; online adds, television commercials, celebrities, politicians and a lot of other shit that generally makes me want to shake cocktails with the stuff […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the world is a pretty fucked up place right now and America kind of has everything to do with it. From the rapid advance of climate carnage to the blatant mass starvation of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Ana Maria was a nine-year-old girl from a little town called Chiclayo, Peru in 2007 when the Catholic Church robbed her of her childhood. She didn’t even see it coming. A beloved friar known popularly as Father Lute […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Trump Administration really seems to have a thing for genocide, and I don’t believe this statement to be hyperbolic even if it is a tad theatrical. Whether they’re launching nationwide dragnets to preserve the racial purity of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Another Pope has dropped dead, only this time it’s the left who seems to be all busted up over it. Don’t get me wrong, I guess I get it. On the surface, Francis did seem like a pretty […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The reign of Richard Nixon was a heavy chapter in the history of the American Empire. The entire world seemed to be on the brink of explosion and Babylon was far from an exception to the rule. The […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve often mocked the hyperbole trafficked by the Trump alarmists in the mainstream media, but even I can’t deny that the first few months of Donald Trump’s second run in the White House have been terrifying and the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange has happened to American colonialism. Somewhere between the shock-and-awe of Dubya’s New American Century and the explosive verbal dysentery of Orange-Sphincter-Bad, Uncle Sam’s mask of sanity got cracked. Naturally, the neocons and neolibs will blame […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s a debate that has been raging between left and right libertarians for Kali knows how long; that age old question of just how libertarian are borders? Naturally, being a Situationist-cum-Agorist, the answer seems pretty fucking obvious to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that’s the impression you might get from eyeballing the latest headlines. Every other day it seems like another batch of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Speaking from the precarious perspective of an obnoxiously androgynous genderqueer person both online and in the very rural real world, I’m not exactly a stranger to bigotry. Aside from the fact that getting called a monster in the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley White supremacy remains a very potent weapon for the powerful in this country and I don’t think that the far left should stand alone in confronting it. Many of my more libertarian readers tend to cringe at such […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It was the imperial bitch fest heard round the world. Two of Babylon’s finest Frankenstein monsters dueling it out on live tv over a mythic peace deal that neither creature seemed to prioritize over their respective egos. In […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Before I begin my latest act of contrarian journalistic blasphemy, I feel morally obligated to observe the basic fact that Donald J. Trump is a completely grotesque piece of human filth. Unspoken ethical obligations aside, I do know […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a mad beast loose in the White House again; a lecherous, creamsicle colored, publicity whore, scantily clad in peeling bronzer and a shrill shock of combed over ginger squirrel pelt. A nasty, petulant brat trapped inside […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and it sounded pretty fucking sweet on the radio. Even a bitter post-everything anarchist like me gets a little choked up listening to the good doctor’s Sermon on the Mount at […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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