As she has shown many times in the past, the socialist chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party has zero understanding of economics, cost/benefit analysis or pretty much anything else in the real world. That’s what happens when you live with your mother at age 33 and she pays for everything.
Here’s the latest renewable energy “lesson” from a dunce:
Wow! What a burn! You sure proved your point! We should definitely spend another $50 billion to put more panels onto our already-unreliable grid!
Oh wait…you left a ton of stuff out of your “analysis”:
#1 – Nobody ever said solar panels don’t work in the cold. In fact, they work BETTER in the cold weather than they do in the blistering heat of summer, when efficiency gets reduced up to 20%.
#2 – Those solar panels on the ISS cost upwards of $300 million dollars – yes, I looked it up. So if you have $300 million laying around, by all means – toss up some solar panels that work when it’s minus 451 degrees. Oh, and they only last about 15 years – that works out to $20 million per year. Your tax dollars at work. OH – and they cost MORE to launch into space than they do to manufacture. So call it $600 million. For 15 years. What a deal!!
#3 – The problem with solar panels in Texas in the winter during massive storms like the Feb 2021 fiasco isn’t the COLD, it’s the fact that they were covered with two inches of ice – blocking photons. It also tends to be very cloudy during those storms. So even without the ice, the sun is blocked. I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but there are no clouds in space and no ice storms either. Moron.
#4 – Since the earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours and is tilted at 23 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic, the days in Texas during the winter are very short – about 10 hours. That gives you about 7 hours of strong sun and thus usable energy (IF there are no clouds or rain) – which means your billions of dollars of solar panels produce ZERO energy for the remaining 17 hours, or 66% of the time. Not a very good ROI for your money. This is not a problem in space either. Moron.
But besides all the completely wrong analogies and shit you left out, you really made your point.
I’ll also remind everyone that Clayton Tucker, despite his non-stop promotion of solar panels as being a great power source for an industrialized, First-World nation (it isn’t) COMRADE CLAYTON HAS NO SOLAR PANELS ON HIS OWN HOUSE!
There are ZERO solar panels at grandpa’s house/ranch either – that’s where Comrade Clayton goes to pretend he is a rancher. I’ll bet a shiny new dime there aren’t any windmills out there producing energy either.
Of course, Comrade Clayton would have to ask mom first about putting panels up on the roof, because he actually lives in HER house and under HER roof. He’d have to ask mom to pay for it too, since he is unemployed and penniless (and apparently ‘working’ for an organization that doesn’t even exist) and a decent solar setup would run him around $40,000. If he had $40,000 laying around, he wouldn’t be sponging off mom and living in her upstairs bedroom, now would he?
But besides all that, his promotion of solar panels makes a ton of sense. Well argued, Comrade!!
All over the world, we are seeing men elected who despise socialism and understand that collectivists and statists must be destroyed. They understand that the waves and waves of third-world illiterates are not “refugees” – they are invaders.
Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Ireland are seeing massive protests and unrest as their countries are taken over by Muslim males aged 18 to 28 whom the lefties call “refugees” and “asylum seekers” but who are actually invaders…
Italy knows they are coming and is doing nothing to stop it.
This is crazy. The European Union is intentionally doing this.
For hundreds of years European leaders have fought to avoid Islamic invasions. Now the current clowns are just inviting them in. This will result in… https://t.co/Iic2mmzyTR
People are FINALLY pushing back against the woke bullshit, against the “global warming” nonsense that is just a Trojan horse for socialism, against the gaslighting on “refugees” who are actually invaders – against ALL of it.
But the GREATEST of them all is recently-elected (Argentina) Javier Milei. Nobody understands and hates socialists more than this guy. We need about 1,000 more like him to get elected and start curb-stomping moron socialists into oblivion:
I used to joke that all the Covidiots back in 2020, 2021, and even 2022 (many were still wearing masks then) were “scared rabbits” afraid of their own shadows. Turns out, they were always like that. It’s just that Covid gave them an excuse to turn their insane hypochondria and neuroses into a “virtue” in their confused brains.
Of course, now the clowns are all admitting what WE knew all along: the masks were useless talismans. Worn only by virtue-signaling douchebags like Johnson, Fitzharris, Tucker and Haywood:
Like all asshole liberals, Johnson cannot stop telling people what to do and just mind her own business. This is likely because she HAS no business. She appears to be a weirdo hermit who spends most of her life inside pretending to be a member of Starfleet Command – emerging only rarely to shake her cane at the clouds or complain about the 2024 eclipse.
Now, Melissa “Safety Patrol” Johnson lets us know she is STILL in charge of everyone’s safety by taking a shit on a cool Christmas idea posted on Lampasas County Breaking News:
If I was 25 years younger, I’d LOVE to be one of those guys in the reindeer costumes being lifted up and down on that rig and pretending I was running into the sky. Is it possible I’d fall off and hurt myself? Sure, because I’d have 5 or 6 cups of eggnog and possibly a THC gummi beforehand.
But guess what? I’m a grown man and can make my own decisions. But meddling old crones cannot stand that thought…
Reindeer don’t have horns, you idiot.
It’s spelled BONY, not BONEY. DAMN you’re dumb!
Fuck your permits. This is America. I grew up in South Florida in the 1970s. People drove down Main Street in swamp buggies drinking beers from an OPEN CONTAINER in the 4th of July parade – back when America was still proud and great and not filled with lunatics who don’t know what gender they are and safety nannies wielding canes.
I think this idea is cool as shit. If I was a little kid, I’d probably fall for that and remember it for the rest of my life. That’s what make this time of year so much fun – cool stuff like that. Because you’re only a gullible kid for a short period of time. Then you grow up to be a meddling, miserable, mask-wearing cunt who can’t keep her nose out of everyone’s business, right?
I wish I owned a big earth mover like that, because I would totally make this happen. Then I’d drive that fucker right down the street to Melissa Johnson’s hovel and I’d lift my drunken reindeer guys over her driveway over and over again until she lost her mind.
He just can’t seem to decide who his employer is and what job title he holds!
Comrade Clayton gives a whopping $10 every month to ActBlue, a far-left PAC. He has donated seven times this year, on a monthly basis. Last donation was in June.
But under “Employer” he decides to lie and put “Our Revolution Texas” – listing himself as “Statewide Coordinator.” Our Revolution Texas was a far-left commie splinter group of Bernie Sanders for President.
The problem is, Comrade Clayton either left or was fired from that job in December of 2021: two years ago. He told us this himself AND listed it on his LinkedIn page.
December 18, 2021 – Tucker fired or resigned
Our Revolution (commie organization) employment terminated in December 2021
The other problem is that it appears that Our Revolution Texas doesn’t even EXIST as a going concern anymore! If you go to the Our Revolution Texas page and click “Contact Revolution Texas To Get Involved,” you will be directed to a dead page….
Whoops.
Furthermore, Comrade Clayton has told us REPEATEDLY that he works for the tiny, pissant organization called the Trade Justice Education Fund – in fact, he just flew out to Seattle AND San Francisco for this “job” that pays no money! So he certainly couldn’t have forgotten who he “works” for, right?
In fact, you can see that he DID list his employer last October, November and December as the Trade Justice Education Fund – before inexplicably switching to the lie that he works for Our Revolution this year…
Of course, he is NOT self-employed at all. I have exposed his lies here repeatedly about being a rancher/farmer/cowboy or whatever he calls himself this week. He even has the nerve to call himself a “small business owner” now!
The only place you find Clayton Tucker’s name on anything other than a non-profit political shell corporation is his “Grassroots Nation,” which is simply an LLC on paper. He filled out some forms, named himself founder and that’s the end of it. That is not a small business. A small business has customers, a product, some assets, and income. Cherry On Top is a small business. Lampasas Beer Market is a small business.
Grassroots Nation LLC was ‘hired’ a few times by one of Tucker’s OTHER shell companies to do social media. That’s it. He literally ‘hired’ himself:
Commie-funded Bluebonnet PAC (founded by Clayton Tucker) used Grassroots Nation – also a Tucker shell company
Further confusing his tangled trail of lies is the fact that when he posts pictures of “the ranch” and talks about goat or donkey purchases, it’s always “we” bought some goats and “we” sold our donkey.
So who is “we”? I thought you were the owner? How many employees do you have? Or are YOU the employee? If you were the employee, why didn’t you list THAT as your job on the Federal campaign forms? If you own a small business, why not put THAT down on ALL your FEC forms – not just for the donations to the Texas Democratic Party?
“Clayton Tucker Campaign” has $8,244 lying around to donate to his own PAC? Very bizarre, to say the least. Campaign for what? Is he just shuffling money around between his various bullshit shell companies?
What the hell is it with Tucker and the Muslims? Is Clayton secretly some weird fake-rancher role-playing gigolo for older Muslim men? Because I can TOTALLY see that. Obama had a similar setup in Chicago with white guys in the bath houses when he was an obscure state senator.
Muslim Sasquatch
Inbred anti-American Somali Muslim who married her brother.
I sure hope Grady Lucas and the other Covid Cult Clowns got their boosters! Same with Haywood and Tucker. Please, PLEASE go out and get your Covid boosters today!!
“We are shocked to find out that there were 262,000 excess deaths on 2021 alone.“
By comparison there were only 66,000+ covid deaths from 2020 to Nov 2023 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines Dan Fernandez:
🚨🚨💥💥 Phillipines launches investigation into EXCESS DEATHS in the country.
We are shocked to find out that there were 262,000 excess deaths on 2021 alone.
By comparison there were only 66,000+ covid deaths from 2020 to Nov 2023
Since Texas weathered its second-hottest summer on record and faced unprecedented demands on its power grid, the future of energy supply and use in the state—and across the country—has become the subject of national discussion.
Air conditioners were in constant use in Texas over the summer as average temperatures reached 85.3 degrees between June and August and didn’t dip below 100 degrees for weeks on end in some cities.
The strain that the soaring temperatures put on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state’s energy distribution network, is severe, no matter the circumstances.
Making that situation all the more dire is the rapid growth of the state’s population and the rising number of tech companies that are installing or expanding facilities in Texas that require massive amounts of power to operate.
More and more people live and work in a state that’s woefully unprepared to cope with soaring demand.
“Peak demand in ERCOT has grown 14 percent since 2019, while our supply of thermal generation—gas, coal, nuclear—has remained essentially flat,” Brent Bennett, policy director of Life:Powered, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told The Epoch Times.
The investment of $99 billion in wind and solar infrastructure in Texas and about $10 billion more in green energy transmission lines has not only failed to improve energy supply but has exacerbated the problem, he said.
Mr. Bennett and others say overinvestment in green energy comes at the expense of investment in sources that actually work.
Texas Swelters
The summer of 2023 was so hot that officials in some areas came close to adopting daily “load shedding,” or power outages, at least as a temporary expedient—protocols similar to those that have made life miserable for many people living in South Africa, whose state-run energy distributor, Eskom, is notoriously ill-managed.
Idiot greentards and brain-dead politicians have allowed over $100 BILLION to be wasted on unreliable power sources like pinwheels and solar panels.
Texas cities sweltered at 105 degrees or hotter for the most days in a row on record.
On Aug. 20, ERCOT hit a milestone: an all-time weekend peak demand record of 84,805 megawatts (MW), according to Alexander Stevens, manager of policy and communications at the Institute for Energy Research, a Washington-based nonprofit agency. Mr. Stevens compared that figure to the August 2022 peak demand of 78,485 MW.
Even that Aug. 20 weekend peak demand wasn’t as high as the demand on individual days this past summer. On Aug. 10, ERCOT grappled with 85,435 MW of demand and hit 81,674 MW on Sept. 5.
Mr. Stevens attributes the records partly to population growth, noting that from 2000 to 2022, Texas received an influx of 9,085,073 new residents, a record among states and 3 million more than the runner-up, Florida.
The retreat of excruciatingly hot weather over the autumn doesn’t mean that the Lone Star State is out of trouble. With winter approaching and posing its own set of challenges, ERCOT last month began soliciting bids from power providers in the hope of ramping up its reserves by at least 3,000 MW.
Given that 2023 was far from the first hot summer in Texas and that the demographic trends have been underway for many years, some may wonder why the state is scrambling now to try to expand its reserves and avoid more emergencies.
Mr. Stevens and other experts who spoke to The Epoch Times agree that while renewable energy isn’t sufficient to meet demand, politicians who want to appear forward-looking and in line with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) imperatives aren’t listening.
A Green Energy Panacea?
Even with policies specifically tailored to meet Texas’s acute needs, the market would be a challenging one. But, in the face of all these trends, Texas doesn’t receive anything close to the level of investment in energy production and distribution systems and facilities that it requires to meet demand.
In fact, policies that encourage wind, solar, and other so-called green and renewable energy sourcesnot only fail to meet the demand but actively undermine any efforts to sustain and broaden supply networks that aren’t cyclical in nature and vulnerable to changes in the amount of wind or solar energy available at a given time,specialists in energy use have told The Epoch Times.
Part of the issue here is cultural and political. Some people assume that only political and social regressives living in flyover states, with a callous attitude about the environment, would harbor doubts about or oppose generous subsidies for ESG policies.
Many view ESG as essentially well-intentioned and lack any understanding of how such policies actually divert resources from and wreck the competitiveness of the utilities on which millions of people depend for their day-to-day existence, according to energy sector experts.
The escalating crisis in Texas has implications for the availability and reliability of energy throughout the nation, given the tendency in other states to favor ESG-based solutions and the demographic trends that expand energy use without regard for available resources, the experts say.
Misdirected Allocations
The problem comes down to flawed energy policy, William Keffer, director of the Energy Law Programs at Texas Tech University, told The Epoch Times.
“As a general observation, we have allowed our sources for electricity in the state to become lopsided, so that we have too much dependence on the renewables sector—wind and solar—and not as much capacity as we should have when it comes to the dispatchable sources like natural gas, coal, and nuclear,” he said.
Investors looking at opportunities in Texas and elsewhere obviously seek out assets that they expect to generate high returns, and the federal tax credits (MASSIVE subsidies) lavished on wind and solar facilities have helped bring about this lopsided market, he said.
The original idea of providing subsidies to foster renewable energy sources back in the 1990s was understandable, even laudable,but legislators have gone on renewing tax credits for such projects without regard for market dynamics, Mr. Keffer said.
A clause of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act extends the Investment Tax Credit, offering a 30 percent credit for wind, solar, storage, and other renewable initiatives, he pointed out.
The Biden administration is a huge backer of tax credits for investments in wind and solar projects. On May 31, the Treasury Department, the Energy Department, and the IRS released new guidance regarding an allocated credit program, offering a 20 percent tax credit on top of the existing 30 percent credit for wind and solar facilities in low-income communities.
“We just keep on extending these tax credits, which is going to continue to disrupt the market, with people spending their money in ways they would not otherwise,” Mr. Keffer said.
Undercutting the Dispatchables
With such lavish tax credits, wind and solar facilities can essentially sell their energy for close to zero dollars and still turn a profit, according to Mr. Keffer. The producers of dispatchable and badly needed energy sources aren’t in this position, hence they aren’t attractive investment targets, and no one wants to finance the building or expansion of coal, natural gas, or nuclear facilities.
“Wind and solar are always going to beat them to the punch with an artificially low price, such that they can’t sell their electricity at a price that gives them a return on their investment,” he said.
“Coal plants continue to be shut down, and natural gas plants don’t add to their lineup, because nobody wants to invest in a new one.”
Chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party (SDEC-24 TX) Clayton Tucker makes a habit of posting ridiculous garbage without ever asking the obvious questions that a normal person would ask. You’d think a chick who spends her entire day on the Internet would dig into things a little bit, but you’d be wrong. It’s all about cliches and platitudes for the tiny, envious socialist brain:
So on to the obvious questions a REAL thinker like myself would ask: What’s the name of this restaurant? How are their finances? How much are they raising prices to pay for this? When was the pay hike implemented? What is the old wage and the new wage? How many workers are affected?
Luckily, I am here to do all the REAL work, because I like to get the whole picture. I’m not a moron socialist who just posts one-liners all day long like “we need to pay everyone a living wage,” or “no child should ever be hungry.”
I live in the real world…as do the people who run restaurants and the people who eat at them. So here are some facts:
The restaurant in questions is called Pollo Tropical and they are a Florida chain. I myself was born and raised in South Florida and have never heard of this chain, so that makes me wonder about some things.
The first thing I learned, is they are a shit company whose stock (FRGI) has been destroyed by about 86% over the last few years. So the one thing they HAVE accomplished is bending shareholders over and making them bleed from the anus:
A negative P/E ratio is never a good sign
Socialist retards like Clayton Tucker and Alec Stapp probably don’t know this, but that little dash in front of the 5.03 MILLION means NEGATIVE. As in, they lost five million bucks on over $400 million of revenue.
That is not good.
We also learn that they have raised prices a lot recently and will raise them AGAIN next month to pay for these generous wages. The raises JUST happened, so it would make sense that we need to see how this restaurant is doing a year from now – because they might just be out of business. Which means all those workers would have a salary of $0.
So in addition to the 17% price increases from last year and this year, they are tacking on ANOTHER 6% next month.
Once you raise the price of a shitty chicken sandwich to $17.00 or so, people tend to say “no thanks” and pretty soon you are out of business.
FURTHERMORE, this chain has a LOT of locations around Miami. How many undocumented Cubans and Haitians do you think they have in the kitchen washing dishes for $10/hr cash under the table? As someone who has worked in several kitchens in his life (as opposed to Clayton Tucker and Alec Stapp who have never worked ANYWHERE) I can guarantee you there are more than a few.
As for the “boost in pay” they are giving out: how much of a boost? Did you raise it from $9/hr to $11/hr? Because that’s still pretty much a shit wage. Naturally, NONE of the articles about this magnanimous company makes mention of cold, hard numbers or facts. Just feel-good bullshit that simpletons like Tucker and Stapp can re-post and point to and say “SEE?!? It works!”
Unfortunately, the reality is always more like THIS little story:
But why take the word of actual restaurant owners? I’m sure unemployed parasites who have never even seen the inside of the restaurant business (like Tucker and Stapp) are SO much more knowledgeable than those people that actually RAN restaurants for decades.
What Tucker and Stapp can just NEVER understand (but what I learned in second grade) is There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL). When the cost of your inputs spikes drastically (labor, electricity, insurance, cost of good sold, etc) you have two choices: raise prices to pay for it or close your doors. The more you raise your prices, the less demand you will see for your product. Again – there is a limit to what people will pay for a shitty chicken sandwich.
These aren’t “fat cat greedy owners” who are hogging millions to themselves and refuse to pay a decent wage. If you do an honest accounting, most small business owners make LESS money on an hourly basis than a lot of their employees. Tucker and Stapp don’t know this either, because they are do-nothing clowns who post Tweets for a “living” and have mommy to live with.
SO – the post shown above about them “boosting wages” and making it “work” is complete bullshit for now. We’ll see where they are next December.
[Oh – did I mention that Pollo Tropical has ALREADY closed THIRTY of their restaurants? That means the hundreds and hundreds of workers in THOSE restaurants now get $0 per hour from Pollo Tropical. TANSTAAFL baby!]
The Obamas are disgusting hypocrites and rabble-rousers.
Fools like Clayton Tucker, Bruce Haywood and Stephanie Fitzharris will NEVER criticize the Obamas for being greedy, even though they have never worked an honest day in their lives or created anything of value for their $70 million dollars. The are quintessential grifter scumbags.
It is also quite telling they own TWO mansions right on the water- which means they are not the least bit worried about the supposed global warming and sea level rising. Only morons like Clayton Tucker believe that tripe.
Instead, Marxist grifters do all their complaining about entrepreneurs, businessmen and risk-takers being “greedy.” I hope you lefty clowns all get pancreatic cancer from your Covid “vaccines.”
Of course, Big Mike Obama is completely wrong with his idiotic quote about the pie. The pie is not static. One guy getting rich is not TAKING from the poor person, no matter how badly Clayton Tucker wants that to be true so he can blame someone else for his failures.
Entrepreneurs, inventors, businessmen, problem solvers and risk-takers create wealth with their inventions and creations and that makes the pie bigger for EVERYONE. That is why even the “poorest” welfare bum in the United States has incredible gadgets that the richest man in the world didn’t have just 50 years ago.
Free-market capitalism, risk-taking and building a better mousetrap is what made American wealthy and lifted ALL boats. Socialist grifters do nothing but destroy all that is good.
Well, Janet “I Never Asked The City For Anything” ‘Crazier’ Crozier is finally seeing her ridiculous dream come true. She has managed to blow about $24,000 to make her private garden club “ADA compliant.”
Nobody asked her to do this, of course. She just has an irrepressible urge in her liberal DNA to waste other people’s money in the most ludicrous fashion. As far as I know, the fake crippled Russian persona I made up is the only “person” who expressed any interest in this ADA idea.
This latest hare-brained scheme brings the TOTAL cost of her garden area to nearly FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND dollars [for a tally, go HERE]. Quite a sum of money for a simple garden. You could probably feed a needy family of four for a couple of years with that.
Where did the $24,000 come from? Well, over $5,000 is from the taxpayers as the City had to extend some sidewalk over to her sand box. Another $12,359 comes from the clearly-insane people who give away money for the LCRA.
Either she has a cousin working over there or something OR the LCRA is swimming in so much money, they have decided to just set it on fire. Honestly, if the non-profit LCRA has THAT much coin sloshing around their bank accounts, I’d much rather they give a refund to all of us who pay for water and electric through them. Clearly we are paying too much!
[Fun fact: the City of Lampasas pays roughly $600,000 per month to the LCRA for electricity – which the city then marks up and sells to you]
I’m guessing the remainder (about $5,000) of it came from the “fundraiser” they did. I’m sure her lovely daughter Potato Head Fitzharris chipped in a few thousand to make mom happy and to try and buy some goodwill. Maybe make everyone forget she is a far-left Marxist. Or maybe not, since she only gave $31 dollars to the Christmas light fundraiser she herself started.
But that’s not all of it. It occurs to me that a couple years ago, she pitched her garden idea to City council as just a tiny little gardening group. They wanted to use an old volleyball court (City property) over by the swimming pool since it was sitting there unused.
Fair enough. If it wasn’t going to cost the City anything, why not let a few old biddies dig in the dirt and grow a tomato plant or two?
Of course, it swiftly blew out of control. Crazier asked, nay demanded, that the City blow about $11,000 on some water storage tanks – even though the City ALREADY installed water lines for her (for ‘free’) and give her 5,000 gallons of water for ‘free’ every month as well. She has received thousands and thousands of dollars worth of “free” stuff from the City in terms of City workers’ labor.
She put a large, permanent shed on the property, as well. But the latest move is by far the most ridiculous:
Pretty big and PERMANENT changes to CITY property. I don’t recall any of this being discussed during council meetings. Maybe I missed it.
I wonder what would happen if, say, some Frisbee Golf club that used the 580 sports complex decided to start digging holes and filling them with concrete to plant permanent flags in the ground to use? Or if the Rodeo Club decided to start digging holes and filling them with concrete to put up some permanent cross-rail jumps? Oh, and what if those clubs had a fence around their little area that was locked to regular citizens?
To put it a little more bluntly, what happens when Crazier kicks the bucket and the club falls apart in a couple years? I guess we are left with a big chunk of concrete where a volleyball court USED to be. It certainly can’t be used as a volleyball court anymore. I’m wondering who will pay to restore everything back to the way it was?
Ironically, the City recently spent almost $40,000 to REMOVE concrete from their Industrial Park so Martin could get a better deal if he decides to exercise his option to purchase the land.
Paying lots of tax dollars to dig holes here and fill them in over there! Pour concrete here, and remove it over there! Brilliant. Sounds like an FDR make-work, Depression-era wet dream from the 1930s! Comrade Clayton would be proud.
