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Did Clayton Tucker Pay Almost $6,000 To “Publish” A Book?!?

I always wondered how local socialist termite (and chairman of the Lampasas Democrats Communists) Clayton Tucker managed to “write a book” when he can barely string two sentences together. It is actually listed on Amazon books, but I refuse to shell out $3 to read incoherent garbage. Even though it IS tempting to get it and laugh at the dozens of errors, ridiculous cliches and most likely an awkward attempt at trying to write a heterosexual sex scene in there somewhere.

I read the free summary (maybe 10 pages) and was treated to such high-tech ideas as a “policebot,” an “infobot” and also a “bossbot” – which is….wait for it…a robot that is your boss!

But what I DID learn was that this ‘book’ was ‘published’ by Atmosphere Press in February of 2019. So I dug a bit into Atmosphere Press and guess what?

All you need is “three easy installments” of $1,900 each (for the cheap package) or $3,900 each if you are a supreme sucker – or if maybe grandpa just died recently and left you a bunch of money to waste on a vanity project like this!

Oh, and “Doctor” Nick Courtright will design your cover for you, too!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

This is what happens when you leave a 27-year-old unemployed moron a bunch of money. Trust Fund Tucker couldn’t spend it on magic beans fast enough. He thought he’d be a famous author!

Since Comrade Clayton is “the oldest child of an oldest child” (his words), I bet he got a nice piece of pocket change – which explains his aversion to work for the first 33 years of his life.

We also find some oddness in the dedication of the book:

Corbin Minshew died in 2014 at the age of 23 and was from Austin Texas. He was born about the same time Comrade Clayton was born and thus very close in age. Perhaps an old boyfriend? Anyways, Corbin shook off his mortal coil in Portland Oregon, where all the hippies end up at some point.

Mystery solved: Trust Fund Tucker shelled out a big pile of money so he could call himself an author. He and Stacey Hogg should maybe write a book together!

Remember Heath Bishop (aka Hubert Humperdink) Who Was A Covid Cult Loon? He’s Dead Of Cancer.

Back during the height of the Covid Cult lunacy, I had more than a few shouting matches with a fat guy named Heath Bishop – who went by the nom de plume of Hubert Humperdink…

Dildo Who Spent 40 Years Transforming From Human To Humpback Whale Suddenly Worried About His Health

ManWhalePig Still Doesn’t Get That Masks Do Nothing – Chooses To Insult “Rednecks” Who DO Understand This

Heath Bishop (aka Hubert Humperdick) Wrong Again

A Reminder That Hubert Drew First Blood

Ironically, Eve’s Cafe died not long after Hubert did.

Funny enough, Covid never killed old Hubert. But I’ll bet you a shiny new dime that he took multiple “vaccinations” and “boosters” that the government tricked him into…or maybe traded him a doughnut for.

Those vaccines are possibly causing the huge uptick in cancers in young people.

To quote Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski when he eulogized Donny:

“Goodnight, fat prince.”

One less Biden voter in 2024. Then again, a large percentage of them seem to vote from the grave.

P.S. – Before anyone feels angry at me highlighting Hubert dropping dead, here is a snippet of him wishing death on Gov Abbott…

I Hope The TeslaClowns Get Butchered Tonight After Earnings.

[Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor. This is not financial advice]

I should say butchered FURTHER. Anyone dumb enough to own that stock up at $400 has already been poleaxed for a 66% loss. Tesla is down about 43% since the start of the year. And it looks like a very ugly road ahead as the greentards finally start to realize that this whole “electric cars are awesome” fad was a very, very bad idea.

The stimmy checks are gone, there are a LOT of companies with better products, and consumers are finally realizing there are a LOT of cons to owning an electric vehicle.

I remember back in October of 2018, the TeslaClowns were predicting that earnings in December 2022 would be $23.79 per share. I took a screenshot of that 6 years ago and saved it because I knew that would be colossally wrong when 2022 arrived…

Hey, earning were only about 90% lower than estimated!

Even by the next year (October 2019) the estimates for December 2022 earnings had been almost cut in half to $12.95/share.

Want to know what the ACTUAL earnings were for 2023? $3.12

TeslaClowns dream of battery-powered 18-wheelers (a joke that will never happen) or retarded Optimus robots (humans dressed in tights) to save them now that it’s obvious Tesla is never going to master full REAL self-driving.

Even after Musk has been caught bullshitting and lying about a dozen times (hyperloop, man on Mars, Boring Company tunnels under every City, full self-driving by 2018, 100,000 robotaxis by 2020) the TeslaClown dummies STILL believe all his bullshit!

There are two ways I can immediately tell someone is a moron on sight: they are wearing a mask or driving a Tesla.

In my humble opinion, this is a $15 stock at best. Eventually it will get there, and it will happen even faster when some of Elon’s financial shenanigans are exposed in the end.

** UPDATE ** – AFTER EARNINGS

Literally every number from top line to bottom line is NEGATIVE for Tesla [EPS missed -9.1% and revenue missed -4.3%] – yet stock pops 11%…heading back to a P/E of 80. LOL.

Stock is up because Elon dangled a shiny object in front of people who cannot read financial statements or remember news from two days ago. Another vaporware promise (robotaxis coming August 8th!!) from Elon to stop the bleeding. Fanbois are eating it up.

They have been snorting FSD fairy dust for so many years, they cannot help themselves. Like Charlie Brown and the football. This will likely reverse when the 10Q is released next week.

So – $0.34 GAAP EPS fully diluted. Assuming things get no worse (HAHAHA) for the rest of 2024, that would be $1.36 GAAP EPS for the year. That works out to P/E of around 115 – or about 18 times higher than industry average…and revenue is falling.

Remember: back in 2018 the projected earnings for this “growth company” for 2024 were well over $30 a share – about 22x higher than they ended up being in reality.

I will take this opportunity to sell more short-dated, 25% OTM calls. Thanks for the free dough, suckers. Not financial advice!

BREAKING NEWS: Tesla will be laying off 2,688 employees at its Gigafactory in Austin Texas (12% of workforce there).

Council Approves Spending $2,212,950 To “Rehabilitate” Hostess House

As predicted, it sailed through. Now we wait to see if the second part of the prophecy comes true: many change orders before this is all over and ANOTHER $100k or so added on to the cost.

Ironically, it was Cathy “Even if it Costs More” Kuehne who read the motion to be voted on. It was met with a rather unenthusiastic 7-0 unanimous “aye” from City council.

This will likely be former YMCA director Finley deGraffenreid’s final big chance to blow obscene amounts of money before he rides off into the sunset to collect his fat pension. So I expect he’ll make it a real spectacle to behold!

The contract time will be 180 days from the notice to proceed. So we are likely looking at around Thanksgiving as a completion date. I’ll take the over on that, as well.

Four Years Ago This Week: When Morons Lost Their Minds Over The Flu, Made Up Fake Social Distancing Rules and Closed The City Pool.

I’m proud to say I never fell for ANY of this Covid nonsense like countless imbeciles (Stephanie Fitzharris, Julie Cain Landrum, Bruce Haywood, Clayton Tucker, Melissa Johnson, Porkchop Kuehne, James Cain, Hubert Humperdick, etc) did.

Since we are now approaching the four-year anniversary of when these idiots ruined the country with their hysteria, I’ll be posting plenty of reminders – because I promised to NEVER forget of forgive what they did.

HCQ was later shown to be effective. Potato head wanted people jailed for questioning the narrative.

Here is a prescient excerpt from a May 2020 post I wrote. Remember: Saint Fauci HIMSESLF was just recently forced to admit the whole “six feet rule” was ENTIRELY made up. Gee – how did I know more than an expert like Fauci?!? Because I used my brain and didn’t get hysterical like many middle-aged, potato-shaped females did.

Here it is:

The City is discussing NOT opening the public swimming pools for the summer. That is an outrage. This “social distancing” bullshit is like a religion all of a sudden, despite the fact that it is snake oil and not science (kinda like the plastic straw bans). You CANNOT social distance in a pool. Kids need to be kids. They need to roughhouse, pick boogers, dunk each other underwater, wrassle, and BE KIDS. Mike White was AGAIN the voice of reason on this issue, while the Speed Bump (Randy Clark) was for keeping them closed.

Mike White said “it is not our job to enforce social distancing…everyone on the planet knows about Wuhan Flu now and they can make their own decisions. We have already taken so much away from these kids with the lock downs“.

I am totally paraphrasing Mike there, but when he said it I was cheering in my car and yelling “f*ck yes, Mike!!!”. [I again reiterate that Mike White resigning from council is a huge blow. He is oftentimes the ONLY voice of reason and logic].

This “shut down the pools” is just another step in the pussification of America. If you are too much of a scared rabbit to go to the pool, then don’t go. Kids ESPECIALLY are at very low risk of dying from the Wuhan Flu. Let the parents make the decision to go or not to go.

The Wuhan Flu is going to be with us a LONG time – probably forever. And yes, some people are going to die from it. Get used to that. It is very unlikely there will be a vaccine any time soon. Quite frankly, I’d rather get out there and spread it around and get it over with. If you are morbidly obese or over 65 you may want to be a lot more careful, but for the rest of humanity, let’s get on with it already.

I’ll be VERY keen to see what happens with schools in the fall. I’ll tell you this: if you don’t re-open the schools you are going to have a LOT of VERY pissed-off parents. We all pay a LOT of taxes to run these schools and having the kids “learning by Internet” is not going to cut it. Parents are not going to shell out THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS in property taxes and then have their kids underfoot all day long screwing around on the Internet. No way. There will be pitchforks and torches.

So, since you know you are going to open the schools in the fall or face riots, you may as well start now and open the pools and let these kids mingle and spread all their germs around. You DO realize that’s how immune systems work, right?? They need germs to practice on, to quote George Carlin.

Council Meets Tonight 4-22-24 – Live Blog

Some interesting stuff on the docket tonight: Hostess House debacle, possibly raising fees at the golf course (some as much as 33%!), Wings of Eagles using some dilapidated old buildings like the the New Hope Baptist Church and also wasting more money on the Old City Hall remodel!

I haven’t live blogged it in forever for two reasons. I’ve been busy and the agendas have been pretty boring. Depends on if I get some mowing done today or if it’s still too wet out there.

Stay tuned…

Live…..

5:35pm – Nextlink discussion: don’t care

5:45pm – Agreement with Lampasas Rodeo Association: also don’t care. Although if I’m not mistaken, Greasy Chris Harrison (of S2M2 and skate park fame) was in front of council recently begging for money ($50k? I forget) for upgrading the announcer’s booth or something. The promise was that now they can attract “bigger and better rodeos.” Uh huh. And Martin’s Rod is building a distillery!

I’m not sure it matters much what’s in the rodeo agreement anyways because the City has made it clear (Brodie Estates and Industrial Park) that they don’t hold anyone accountable for their side of the deal. Any asshole can just sign any deal and ignore it. Why not? Finley, Ward and city council are too afraid to speak up and enforce the agreements.

6:10pm – This sucks. They are taking way too long on this rodeo shit.

6:17pm – Ok. Screw this. I remember now why I don’t do this. Will listen at the gym tomorrow then summarize.

Commie Crone Who Wants To Ban Fossil Fuels And Owns A Tesla Hops On Airplane For 190-Mile Trip.

Virtue-signaling communist moron Carol Garner Doughty has really outdone herself this time.

To refresh your memory, this evil old shrew wants to BAN fossil fuels NOW…

And she also owns a Prius AND a Tesla, lest you doubt her commitment to the cause….

Remember: her multi-millionaire husband got a $7,500 tax break for buying that overpriced golf cart!

But when libskank Carol says “we need to stop the use of fossil fuels” what she REALLY means is YOU need to stop. Not her. She will do as she pleases because she is better than you and cannot be inconvenienced in the slightest.

She will EVEN jump on a giant, carbon-spewing airplane to make the very short 190-mile trip from Austin to Dallas while her $100,000 Tesla sits in the garage collecting dust. Then she will bitch and whine the entire time and yammer nonsense about chakras and Buddist monks. Because she is clinically insane…

In fact, she could have taken the BUS and saved the environment even more!

But the bus is for poor, smelly people. Not her. So her commitment to saving the planet is, shall we say, one big steaming pile of horseshit.

So I have a couple of questions for this batshit insane old shrew:

If your flight was from Austin to Dallas, how did people “deplane in Houston”?

If they must get you off the plane in three hours (“by law“) then how did you sit on the runway for “at least five hours” you absolute moron??

Here is the best part:

Carol Garner Doughty is SUPER woke. Therefore she approves of all the herculean efforts to get rid of competent white males from the air-traffic control towers and install more incompetent minorities.

She was also 1000% for forced vaxxing and a rabid member of the Covid cult. The very things that forced a LOT of veteran pilots and flight attendants into retirement because they refused to acquiesce to that bullshit.

The direct result of her idiotic beliefs? Air travel in the U.S. is worse than ever. Most of the “weather delays” you think you are suffering through are actually due to ATC personnel shortages and incompetence. So in essence, this dumb shit Doughty did this to herself. I wish I could watch her suffer on a tarmac for 12 hours a day every day. It brought me GREAT joy yesterday reading about her whining. You made your bed, bitch. Now lie in it.

As for her “I’m never flying again…I’m done” bullshit? That’s just overly dramatic female hysteria and histrionics. She’ll be back on a plane within a month – despite her supposed concern for the planet.

Verdict: extreme moron and hypocrite.

Why Do Only White Males Pilot Air Force One??

Clown horns like Biden, Obama, Chlamydia Harris and the rest love to yammer non-stop about “diversity.” The government is even putting all of us at risk by lowering standards for air traffic controllers because there are “too many” white males passing the tests while women and minorities fail at a much higher rate.

Woke Idiots Trying To Kill Us With “Diverse” Air Traffic Controllers.

So I guess we can assume that only blacks chicks are allowed to fly the president around in Air Force One, right??

Not exactly. Here are the names and photos of all the Air Force One pilots:

Listing of Presidential Pilots.

A lot of white guys named Dave, Scott and Mark.

Exactly ZERO Shaniquas, Latoyas or Laquishas.

Once again, the communists in charge are hypocrites. YOU are the one who suffers under their commie ideals. Not them.

That asswipe Mark Cuban is just as bad. Mark loves to yammer about diversity too, but guess what? HIS private jet pilot is a white guy too! He also had a LOT of black guys on his basketball team and ZERO Asian guys.

I’m so sick of these woke morons. Woke needs to die. The biggest culprits? Middle-aged dummy lib women who don’t even understand the garbage they are pushing.

Potato Head’s own DAD tells her to stfu!!

City To Seriously Consider Blowing $2,212,950 On Hostess House “Rehab.” Over TEN TIMES Original Estimates!

Just don’t call it a remodel or a renovation. Those are “no no” words and conjure up memories of the $1,500,000 Old City Hall REMODEL fuckups back in 2017/2018/2019.

(As a reminder, the Old City Hall remodel was originally supposed to cost $350,000 and they thought THAT was too much! Final cost: well over $1.5 million)

You can call it a “rehabilitation” or a “refresh” or “redesign” if you like. I call it a giant cock up the ass of the taxpayers.

Remember: the Hostess House only brings in about $12,000 per year after expenses. They could literally just take that $2.2 million and throw it into t-bills and make 10x the return.

In case you forgot how we got here:

In the fall of 2019, the City took over the building from the DAR. According to them, it just needed some “minor repairs” and “minor decorations”…..

THEN it jumped up to “about $200,000”, according to City Manager Finley deGraffenreid in the Lampasas Dispatch in March 2021:

[But when computing things using FinleyMath(TM), you ALWAYS have to add a zero at the end. Like owning a boat. That $3 bracket for your home ends up costing $30 at the marine depot! It has happened over and over and over again. Thus, $200,000 becomes $2,000,000]

THEN it ballooned to $1,308,670 – which is a sick joke all by itself. Morons like Cathy “Pork Chop” Kuehne said they should keep the historical look “even if it costs more.”

Why not? It’s not her money! It’s just play money, apparently!

THEN it jumped again up to $1,879,483.55 [see page 67]

“Scope creep” means dummy council members throwing in everything on their wish list.

But wait…there’s more!

It jumped YET AGAIN to $2.15 million!

Then last February, City council dropped a load in their panties as they saw bids come in even higher than their ridiculous estimates:

So they had to go back to the drawing board. This, of course, costs MORE money to “revise” stuff as they decided to take out to 24k-gold toilets and diamond-crusted doorknobs….

Now they will probably pay $2.2 million and tell us it’s a DEAL because that is DOWN from the $2.97 million estimate last year! See how it works? No mention that it’s actually TEN TIMES MORE than they budgeted. Actually, probably 30 times more, since it originally was just “minor repairs,” they assured us.

Prediction: this will pass at $2.2 million on Monday night…but halfway through the construction, a LOT of new charges will come in as the contractor “surprisingly” finds issues nobody knew was there. These are called “change orders” and it’s the oldest trick in the book to grab more money from a government that is now trapped.

Since there will be no turning back at that point, the City will pay all that shit too. I’ll guess it’s another $100,000 at a minimum.

Fire Department Gets New Engine. What Was Final Cost? What Caused Delays?

The fire department will FINALLY get their new engine this weekend after MUCH delay. Let’s look at the timeline of costs:

In 2021, the City had $400,000 earmarked for a new fire engine [Dispatch front-page news 2-17-23]

Dispatch article on April 1, 2022: “The vehicle is now estimated at $942,000, which [former fire chief, now long-gone Jeff] Smith said is more than the $800,000 the fire department budgeted. Smith said in meeting with deGraffenried, “He told me, with the way everything is going with COVID, it’s really not unreasonable that the cost has gone up that much”

The company told the City “it would take 14 months to build and ship the vehicle” – thus placing delivery around July of 2023 [Dispatch article 4-1-22 page 12].

August 14, 2023: a few members of the FD were supposed to travel to South Dakota to fetch the vehicle. This seemed odd to me, because the company was going to “build AND ship the vehicle” originally, according to the Dispatch article. You’d think for almost a million bucks, they’d deliver the fucking thing to your front door with a bow on it.

Lampasas Fire Chief Jeff Smith, left, and engineer Jared Payne of the Lampasas Fire Department stand in front of the city’s new Spartan NXT Pumper. 

Then suddenly – that didn’t happen. There was a massive delay. There WAS no new fire truck to drive down from South Dakota. Naturally, Finley neglected to mention or explain this huge eight-month delay in the million-dollar fire truck.

(Kind of like the RKJ elevator, right Finley?)

So the questions are:

#1 – Why was this delayed for 8 months?

#2 – What was the final, all-in cost for “the very first custom-built” engine the City has ever purchased??

I have made open records requests for the answer. Stay tuned.