As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the official Covid narrative is finally falling apart, or is being hastily disassembled, or historically revised, right before our eyes.
And now they are all sick with … well, a cold, basically, or are “asymptomatically infected,” or whatever. And they are looking at a future in which they will have to submit to “vaccinations” and “boosters” every three or four months to keep their “compliance certificates” current, in order to be allowed to hold a job, attend a school, or eat at a restaurant, which, OK, hardcore cultists are fine with, but there are millions of people who have been complying, not because they are delusional fanatics who would wrap their children’s heads in cellophane if Anthony Fauci ordered them to, but purely out of “solidarity,” or convenience, or herd instinct, or … you know, cowardice.
Many of these people (i.e., the non-fanatics) are starting to suspect that maybe what we “tin-foil-hat-wearing, Covid-denying, anti-vax, conspiracy-theorist extremists” have been telling them for the past 22 months might not be as crazy as they originally thought. They are back-pedaling, rationalizing, revising history, and just making up all kinds of self-serving bullshit, like howwe are now in “a post-vaccine world,” or how “the Science has changed,” or how “Omicron is different,” in order to avoid being forced to admit that they’re the victims of a GloboCap PSYOP and the worldwide mass hysteria it has generated.
If you think these “recovering” Covidian Cult members are ever going to publicly acknowledge all the damage they have done to society, and to people and their families, since March 2020, much less apologize for all the abuse they heaped onto those of us who have been reporting the facts … well, they’re not.
They are going to spin, equivocate, rationalize, and lie through their teeth, whatever it takes to convince themselves and their audience that, when the shit hit the fan, they didn’t click heels and go full “Good German.”
I’m not going to forget all the mini Hitlers out there over the last 18 months. The Covid rats and scumbags who applauded the idea of universal mask mandates and forced vaccinations.
Here is a partial list of local Covid Cult scumbags, just so we don’t ever forget those who went full “Good German” and showed their true colors:
Looks like the Lampasas Economic Dunces Club is at it again. Not since Jack sold his cow for some magic beans have we seen economic wizardry like they practice over at the LEDC.
First it was Mike Cour and his Eco-Turd scam. The LEDC (desperate to make a deal and finally get a tenant for their multi-million-dollar Goat Pasture) was strung along by ridiculous promises made by a charlatan. It was obvious to me how it would end, but apparently Talbert, Monroe and Walsh are a little more naive.
Unfortunately, they didn’t learn from that debacle. So they’re about to create another one.
Lots of wiggle room there. Do you know what wiggle room gets filled up with eventually? Bullshit. Lots and lots of bullshit. That, and failed promises. Which is why these deals are always heavily loaded on the back end: in a few years when it all goes to shit, who is going to care enough to point out what a train wreck it all was? Besides me, of course.
Here is how it will probably go down (and this is my opinion, not fact):
This guy gets a sweetheart deal on a lease. He then charges people to store their boats and RVs there – which employs nobody while all the money goes into his pocket. Not much risk to him there – he gets a free swing of the bat to see if he can get people to store their stuff there. In fact, if the idiots at the LEDC give him enough free stuff, he can also undercut any competitors in the area!
At the one year mark, he maybe tells the City that the market just isn’t quite right yet for the other stuff – after all, Brandon has been fucking up the economy for two years now! Can you blame me?? Can I keep using this as a storage space for another year? The LEDC agrees to this because they have fallen for the Sunk Cost Fallacy over and over again and they don’t want to admit failure.
At the end of the second year, same song and dance. Maybe the guy offers a ridiculous low-ball price to buy the property hoping an embarrassed LEDC will just puke it up to avoid more hassle.
The cigar bar and distillery and barber shop stuff? All bullshit. Will NEVER happen. Ever. We heard this “distillery/brewery” story before over two years ago when some guy was going to develop the Sante Fe train station. Remember that? I do – I called it bullshit then and it is bullshit now.
Several meetings ago, Council was briefed regarding the redevelopment of the Santa Fe Depot to a restaurant and possible brewery. Although the tenants have not been identified by the developer [shocker…I doubt there are any yet], he has proceeded with construction plans, specification and bidding. Mister Hardin has also discussed the possible partnership with the City to fund a portion [is that like ‘cost sharing’??] of the right-of-way improvements including sidewalks and flatwork – which may be between $80,000 and $100,000
There it is again – “possible”. As in, it is POSSIBLE someone will give me a free G5 private jet tomorrow. But I’d be a fool to plan a $15,000 honeymoon around that.
Well, it’s a brand new year, but I see the same old LEDC incompetence. After deciding to skip their December meeting, they STILL have not posted the agenda or packets for tomorrow’s meeting:
Does this mean there is no meeting tomorrow? Hard to believe, since they are in the middle of “planning” a multi-million dollar boondoggle known as Phase II of the Goat Pasture (Mike White’s words, not mine).
Mandy even mentioned in November that perhaps they might want to actually meet in December since “we have more active topics of discussion” [page 21].
Two years into this “pandemic” and it just boggles my mind that there are still people out there who are afraid of coronavirus. Thanks to a surge in “cases” there are thousands of morons who aren’t sick at all, waiting in hours-long lines to take a test to see if they have a virus that couldn’t possibly kill them.
It is the world-class dunces like these who (a) keep this ‘pandemic’ hysteria going when it is clearly over and (b) are clogging up the clinics and hospitals and fucking things up for people with REAL medical problems:
They should have slapped your face and called you a moron, too.
Hey dummy: your 10-year-old grandson is not at risk of dying from this. He is more likely to be killed by lightning. By your own admission, the kid isn’t even SICK! He was just “around his uncle and aunt” who supposedly had it – or maybe they just tested positive. Teresa Christoph, whoever she is, should have a big “MORON” tattooed on her forehead and be banned from the doctor for a year.
Brandy English is arguably even worse! She actually drove around clogging up the works and wasting the time in THREE towns! Keep your dipshittery in Killeen, lady. There are people in Lampasas with REAL medical problems. Your 8-yo is more likely to be killed in a car accident with you driving all over hell’s half-acre gumming up the healthcare system than she is to be killed by Covid.
If you are related to any of these people, please grab their shoulders and shake them. Maybe slap them across the face a few time to snap them out of it. You are acting like complete dipshits.
The Goldfish swam last night – the first meeting of the year and first in nearly a month:
Finley presented council with an 89-page fiscal year 2021 financial report. He didn’t want to go into too much detail or “bore you with this”, except to say that “it was a tough year” and mentioned the winter storm and electric fund [starts at 7:30 mark].
They raised rates anyways, of course, starting back on 11/1/21. But now Finley is telling us it was a “tough year”. The electric fund took a roughly $1.5 million dollar hit (they spent $7.8 million on electricity but had only budgeted $6.3 million), according to Finley [17:10 mark]
This is very odd to me, becausethe Bungler-in-Chief Misti Talbert bragged on Finley last year when she said:
“It’s important for the people watching at home to know: the position that we are in in terms of the utility rates we pay is accredited to one person and one person only – his name is Finley deGraffenreid….0ur risk has been mitigated by his ability to broker deals for us and secure us not knowing that something like this would happen, but in the event that it has we come out on top. When it comes to utility rates, that’s who you thank right there” [points to Finley]
Then Finley pat himself on the back a little bit with these assurances:
Finley: “Our contracts are currently fixed-pricing…so the pricing from our wholesale suppliers per kilowatt will not change”
Finley: “We are financially healthy…our electric department does carry adequate reserves to overcome the temporary spike”, “I think this is a bump that we just absorb because we are healthy financially….the impact…is pretty negligible…but we are certainly in a position to absorb that if council so chooses”
A $1.5 million dollar hit sure doesn’t sound like we came out on top. Sounds more like we were on the bottom….biting the pillow.
Yet another huge black mark Misti Talbert’s disastrous mayoral adventure. Keep in mind this same idiot is now running the LEDC and recently signed off on ANOTHER $1.5 million loan for the Business Park boondoggle.
I’ve requested the 89-page report so I can see it all myself. I’ll keep you apprised.
Alexandria Ocrazio-Cortex, who could eat a sandwich through a fence, has apparently caught Covid. This is despite taking the “vaccine” AND the additional “vaccines”. Did someone forget to disinfect her feed bag?
This happened one week after she ran away from New York (where there are draconian mask rules) and went to Florida (where there are not) and galivanted around mask-free – despite being a Covid cult member and rabid maskhole herself.
The far-left member of the jihad squad was seen last week at several Miami hotspots, as New York was hit with a record-high number of Covid-19 cases due to the far less mild Omicron variant. New York has also instituted a strict mask and vaccine policy.
To say she is a hypocrite would be putting it mildly. But that’s what socialist scumbags are: morons and hypocrites. Just ask Comrade Clayton.
How will AOC spin this? Blame Florida?
Covid just wants to date AOC:
Covid has jumped from human to burro
I think we should put her on a ventilator just to be sure she gets over Covid.
Given her horse face, this is one time Ivermectin would be EXQUISITELY appropriate. Let’s all bray for her.
Local socialist worm and thrice-failed political candidate Clayton Tucker has shown us he’s afraid of a lot of things over the last couple years: honest work, paying his own way, and living in his own place. But this takes the cake.
The same idiot who thinks the world is going to overheat from global warming in 10 years and kill us all (yes, Clayton, that’s what “existential” means):
…is also simultaneously petrified that we will see another once-in-100-years cold snap. He also apparently thinks a couple of dozen ill-cut logs will save him:
Clayton forgets that it was his demand of adding unreliable solar and wind to the grid that fucked everything up in the first place.
Lemme guess: grandpa’s land and trees, grandpa’s truck and mom’s fireplace?
Wow! Impressive! We are well into the cold part of the year and have had numerous cold snaps already and you’re posting pics TODAY of cutting a few logs. Bravo. Do mommy and daddy have a fireplace in their house (where you live upstairs) so you can burn those, or are you just going to pile them on top of yourself for warmth?
Here are the FACTS: climate-related disasters killed FAR fewer people in 2021. In fact, it was 98.7% less than a century ago:
The fact that Comrade Clayton is so scared of the grid failing tells me that the grid will be perfectly fine this winter. That is because Comrade Clayton is 100% wrong on every fucking topic he opines on:
I also thought of something else recently: Comrade Clayton lives in the upstairs bedroom at his parent’s house, right? His parents live at 208 S Western – right by the public library, City Hall AND the police station. It occurs to me that this douchebag probably never lost power at all last February! The hospitals, fire departments and POLICE STATIONS are all considered pretty important and were spared the rolling blackouts that the rest of us (like me) endured. I bet there is a pretty decent chance that his parents’ house is on the SAME power sub-grid as those others.
How about it Clayton? Did you even lose power once at mom and dad’s house? I’ll bet you A HUNDRED DOLLARS that you didn’t, you wannabe working man.
In fact, you posted tweets every single day between February 10th and February 19th! Hard to do without power, I would think. You must have had plenty of time on your hands. Shouldn’t a “rancher” be out at his “ranch” taking care of things instead of posting drivel on Twitter?
You wanna see prepared? It’s called the Rule of Threes (have a backup for your backup) – and it got me through that freak once-in-a-lifetime cold snap without harm and without crying for Ted Cruz or government help.
Unlike you, I don’t just talk about solar panels and not own any. I’ve been solar-powered for ten years:
I also have a backup generator with a massive tank:
…and when that son of a bitch genny shit the bed on day 5 at 6am in zero-degree weather due to a frozen gas regulator, I also had many cords of wood ready to go to heat the house while I thawed that bitch out:
It was fucking mayhem out here in the boondocks – things failing left and right, running around at 2am in the pitch dark freezing cold keeping shit running, keeping the animals alive, going out to manually switch over from grid to genny over and over.
Not ONCE did I think “man, I wish Senator Cruz was here to do all this for me – what a dick he is for heading down to warmer weather”. That’s because I’m not a pussy who expects The Government to take care of me. I do that shit myself. I don’t give a fuck if Cruz flies to Tahiti – what difference does it make in my life?
Do you know how sad it is that you are 31 years old and crave TWO sets of parents to take care of you? Your actual parents, who provide you with a roof over your head…and Big Government, who you want to hand you free shit for life. Grow a dick, man. Grow some balls too, while you are at it.
Man was not meant to suckle mommy’s tit through dentures.
Know what else? I paid for all this shit myself! Mom and Dad didn’t give it to me, like someone else I know.
Boy, City council and Finley REALLY know how to pinch the pennies! Remember all this when you pay your electric bills every month – the bills that just went up on November 1st of last year because City Government has to feed that rapacious monkey known as Fat Nerf Job Salaries.
The City recently hired Ryan Ward as the new Assistant City Manager (ACM). I requested salary details since Finley didn’t want to provide them last week to The Dispatch. Turns out Mr. Ward will be paid $110,000 per year. If that seems high for an ASSISTANT City manager in a small town in Central Texas, you are correct. It is 30% higher than the national average.
The midpoint of that range is $84,540 – which is a hell of a good STARTING salary for a small town in a state that has a much lower cost of living than, say, California or New York (or Austin, for that matter). I guess Finley (who has never worked in the private sector) doesn’t see it that way. Instead, they will START Mr. Ward at $110,000 per year.
[Don’t forget the bennies, either! According to Finley himself on many occasions, the cost of those generous government benefits (medical, retirement, etc) is roughly 40% of an employees salary. That means Mr Ward is now a permanent $154,000 line item in the budget every single year.]
I’d be surprised if Mr Ward didn’t also have a generous car/phone/travel allowance as well.
Here’s the weird thing: Ward left his previous job in Santa Fe County after less than two years AND he was making $104,000 there. Why pull up stakes and uproot your family for a measly $6,000 pay raise? I’d make a small wager that Finley promised him a quick raise after 6 months or so. Even money says we see Mr Ward get a bump in salary before the year is out. Any takers??
According to his LinkdIn profile, he has jumped around a lot (5 jobs in the last 10 years) with a short stint in the private sector:
He spent 12 years with the Texas DOT (2000 to 2012) then jumped ship to work for the City of San Angelo (December 2012 to July 2017).
Then he skedaddled off to New Mexico just as the pandemic hit in March 2020 where he didn’t last two years – and is now returning to Texas.
I’m also wondering why Finley had to look in New Mexico for an ACM? There are 20,000 people in Lampasas County and by his own admission he had 30 applicants for the job.
Then Rickie Roy was made ACM, but I’m not sure Finley had anything to do with that. Roy was already a proven winner (public works) who moved up through the ranks and then inexplicably resigned.
Then Finley was tasked with finding a replacement – who was apparently hired but then quickly quit and decided to take another job somewhere else! Strike two!
So this will be Finley’s third swing with the ACM bat. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
If you love watching slow-motion train wrecks, 2022 will be a great year, I predict. Look at all the eggs City council has in the air – more than a few will go SPLAT!
Hostess House remodel refresh. Clearly, City council learned nothing from the $1.5 million Old City Hall renovation fiasco and will be launching an encore performance over the next year. When the City took over the Hostess House, they lied and said the HH needed a few “minor repairs”. Now, they are planning on spending over $1.4 million – and another elevator will be involved! We know how well that turned out last time.
2. Skate park and pavilion. This is another project that has already doubled in price before ground was even broken (from $200,000 to $400,000 just for skate park). The pavilion will cost at least $175,000 (I’ll take the over on that, too).
Janet “Crazier” Crozier, the local recycling/gardening loon is also trying to attach $10,000 worth of water tanks to this project, in what is a VERY questionable use of HOT funds (yes, I’ll be making that case later this year with a lawyer, if need be). The Community Gardens spent a grand total of only $35 on water last year (their water bill is subsidized by the taxpayers) – yet still demand the taxpayer fund a $10,000+ idiotic rain catch system.
3. New Assistant City Manager. Ryan Ward was hired to be the new ACM. He can never take the place of Rickie Roy, of course. Rickie was taken from us far too soon. Rest assured I will put Mr. Ward through the wringer this year. I am still waiting to hear how much they are paying this guy – the City could not be bothered to divulge that to The Dispatch last week. I doubt he could be any worse than Gary Cox, however. We’ll see.
4. Business Park Phase One Two. This is the granddaddy of City boondoggles. This phase of the boondoggle will assure the LEDC and City will have wasted at LEAST $6 million on this thing before it is all done. LEDC head moron Misti Talbert just signed off on another $1.5 million in borrowing for this goat pasture (Mike White’s words, not mine).
The entire premise of this Business Park is idiotic and built on faulty logic and assumptions. It will be a failure, as it has been for the last 17 years. I predict many, many additional costs to pop up over this year. They will all be documented here in great detail.
