By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I grew up very Queer in a very small and very conservative town in Central Pennsylvania. I didn’t have the word ‘Queer’ or really any word to properly describe my feelings of visceral otherness, but I couldn’t seem […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative running through the western zeitgeist and slowly trickling out to its various victims in the Third World that ‘Queer’ or at least ‘LGBTQ’ is somehow synonymous with colonialism and imperialism; that queerness in and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s June, then it must be Pride and straight people everywhere are celebrating how far you’ve come. You know, out of the closets and onto MTV. But what if you don’t particularly feel like celebrating? What if […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley ” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you have no earthly idea what in the hot fuck is going on with the Iran War right now, then you are probably paying attention because the Trump Administration and the mainstream news appear to be equally […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.” -Thomas Szasz In the beginning, there were shamans; wild eyed wiseman communing with the ancestors, drawing down the moon, and swapping genders like loin cloths. They were […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The desperate details are less important than the fact that this was […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well folks, it’s that time of year again. The birds are a-chirping, the flowers are a-blooming, and Trotskyites and Stalinists alike are falling head-over-heals in love with the working man like it’s the very first time. That’s right […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange is shifting in the darker corners of the internet. Something serpentine slick and black as ink. While Donald Trump moves farther and farther to the right and much of his cultish base mindlessly follows him […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As a badly battered Middle East hangs off the edge of a cliff by a string with a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran, peace or anything remotely resembling it looks even less likely for Southern […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is no more room left to mince words in the name of political correctness or anything else for that matter. Israel has become a menace of downright international proportions, and the world must come together to confront […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley At the writing of this post, it has been nearly a month since Israel and America began their savage aerial assault on Iran, and the Islamic Republic has been throttled and decimated in nearly every way conceivable. The […]
By Nicky Ricky aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley A wise man once said that rage is merely depression turned outward. I don’t know what that motherfucker’s name was, but I’d like to rip his fucking head off and kick it through a stained-glass window because outward […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage bombardment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, neither regime has […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I think a lot of people take words like ‘home’ and ‘family’ for granted and I suppose I was one of them. I grew up in what I thought was a pretty stable home, a three-bedroom house with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on about how far someone else’s people have come and how far the nation that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I realized that there was something deeply terrifying about my body when I was two or three years old. I didn’t exactly know that I was a girl, I just knew that something was profoundly wrong. I didn’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture of mental health by anyone with half of a functioning brain […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest diplomatic conquest in Greenland. After weeks of mounting tensions between our dear leader and his […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026 don’t prove this to you with flying colors than I’m terrified to ask what will. Since Christmas, […]
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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