Five Woke Companies To Avoid During Holiday Buying.

Consumers’ Research issued a “Woke Alert” on Tuesday warning Americans not to buy from five prominent businesses in the country this holiday season.

Best Buy

Electronics retailer Best Buy committed to fill one out of three new non-hourly corporate positions with black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) employees by 2025. The company also intends to fill one out of three new, non-hourly field roles with women by this time and provide $44 million in college preparation and career opportunities to BIPOC students.

In August, O’Keefe Media Group revealed that one of Best Buy’s management training programs was discriminating against white applicants. A qualification criteria for joining the program was that the candidate should identify as black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander.

The revelation was met with calls to boycott the company. “It’s time to Bud Light Best Buy,” Kingsley Wilson, of Washington, D.C. Young Republicans, said in an Aug. 9 X post. The public backlash prompted Best Buy to temporarily move its profile on X to “private,” per Consumers’ Research.

Activision

Video game publisher Activision faced a federal civil rights complaint from America First Legal (AFL) for its “illegal, racist, sexist, and discriminatory hiring practices,” according to an Aug. 15 post by the advocacy group.

In 2021, Activision mandated that the company raise the number of women and “non-binary” employees in the firm by 50 percent in five years, said the watchdog. To achieve this, Activision created scholarships only for women, non-binary, and “gender fluid” individuals.

The company’s network groups aimed at helping employees advance in their careers are only open to “Asian and Pacific Islanders, Black, ‘Latinx,’ LGBT+, ‘SWANA’ (Southwest Asian and North African), and women,” AFL stated. “Those who are white, straight, or men are not given the same opportunities as their peers to network and advance their careers at Activision.”

The company embedded “DE&I (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) leaders” within their business and also into their games, according to AFL. Activision developed a tool called “Diversity Space Tool” which measured video game characters based on their culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, body type, ability, age, and ethnicity.

“It’s unbelievable that in 2023—some sixty or so years after the civil rights movement—major corporations would obsess over the race and sex of the employees in their workforces,” Gene Hamilton, AFL vice president, said at the time.

Target

Target faced backlash after promoting LGBT Pride products in May—some of them targeting children. Consumers immediately called for a brand boycott, prompting the company to withdraw the LGBT-themed children’s products from all U.S. stores and websites or in some instances, to reposition the products in its retail outlets.

A video of a Target customer in a store’s kids’ section showed LGBT clothing and books for sale. A tag on a kids’ dress read—“Thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions.’ Another clothing tag said—“pride toddler legging.” One piece of clothing had a tag saying “tuck-friendly construction.”

Two books being sold in the kids section were titled “Glad You Came Out!” and “I’m So Happy That You’re Queer!”

Some of the items in Target’s Pride collection were designed by UK-based designer Abprallen, who identifies as a transgender gay man and is a proclaimed Satanist.

“To make matters worse, when recently confronted on national TV about these products, Target CEO Brian Cornell tried to sweep the controversy under the rug by flat-out lying, stating ‘Well, I think you and I both know those weren’t true,’ Consumers’ Research stated.

Nordstrom

Luxury store chain Nordstrom is affiliated with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which runs the “Welcoming School Program.”

The program aims to “create LGBTQ+ and gender inclusive schools, prevent bias-based bullying, and support transgender and non-binary students.” HRC gives Nordstrom a 100/100 score for its promotion of LGBT policies at the workplace.

Over the past years, Nordstrom has donated almost $1 million to support LGBT activities. It has taken part in over 35 Pride festivals and parades across the nation.

Home Depot

Home Depot has also teamed up with HRC for the Welcoming Schools Program, which Consumers’ Research says is “specifically geared towards indoctrinating schools on how to promote LGBT ideology among vulnerable students under the guise of ‘inclusivity.’”

Happy Thanksgiving

Every year, I like to remind everyone that socialism nearly killed the pilgrims:

Luckily, it only took the pilgrims a year to figure out that socialism doesn’t work. As opposed to today – where morons well into their adult life STILL think it’s a grand idea.

What the pilgrims knew about socialism and private property by John Stossel:

The Pilgrims had clashing ideas about how to organize their settlement in the New World. The resolution of that debate made the first Thanksgiving possible.

The Pilgrims were religious, united by faith and a powerful desire to start anew, away from religious persecution in the Old World. Each member of the community professed a desire to labor together, on behalf of the whole settlement. In other words: socialism. But when they tried that, the Pilgrims almost starved.

Their collective farming — the whole community deciding when and how much to plant, when to harvest, who would do the work — was an inefficient disaster. “By the spring,” Pilgrim leader William Bradford wrote in his diary, “our food stores were used up and people grew weak and thin. Some swelled with hunger… So they began to think how … they might not still thus languish in misery.”

His answer: divide the commune into parcels and assign each Pilgrim family its own property. As Bradford put it, they “set corn every man for his own particular. … Assigned every family a parcel of land.”

The Pilgrims’ simple change to private ownership, wrote Bradford, “made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.” Soon they had so much plenty that they could share food with the natives.

Happy Thanksgiving! Before we eat that turkey today, we should first thank private property rights because they protect us from the “tragedy of the commons” that resulted in starvation and death for the early Pilgrims’ failed experiment with Bernie Sanders-style socialism! Without property rights, Thanksgiving Day would instead be “Starvation Day.”

Socialism is being repackaged and recycled by today’s left-leaning politicians including Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez and is being taken seriously by a new young and gullible generation, many who weren’t even alive when the historic events of the 1980s and 1990s occurred including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the lessons from history about the defects, deficiencies, and failures of socialism are very clear. As we’ve learned from countless examples throughout history, including now Venezuela, the main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: capitalism works.

Potato Head Trying To Buy Her Way Into Polite Society….For $31? Come On, Man!

What do you do when you’re a rabid left-winger from California/Austin who has ruined her own city with terrible liberal policies and has decided to move into infest a nice, small town which leans politically to the right and tends to love Trump (Trump got 78% of the vote in 2016 AND in 2020)?

Trump – a person you detest with all your being and who you STILL stupidly think is a secret agent of Vladimir Putin?

Well, first you try pretending you never said all the Marxist, lefty-lunatic-fringe stuff you’ve said over the last 10 years by erasing all of your social media.

But let’s say that doesn’t work! Perhaps there is a Paul Revere type out there who has alerted the citizenry that they are being invaded by commie scum from Austin. The kind of scum who applauded when the Biden puppet stole the election thanks to the VERY SAME authoritarian Covid measures that you ALSO applauded heavily?

Well, you try and buy your way in. Maybe you start a fundraiser to buy more lights for the annual town Christmas display….

You see, you can’t signal your virtue the old Austin liberal way – which was to demand people wear masks, get ‘vaccinated’ and social distance, or maybe start blathering about tranny rights or publicly support the Marxist front group called Black Lives Matter.

That dirt don’t stick in Lampasas.

So you need a NEW way to signal your virtue. What better way than to create a fundraiser and be the FIRST ONE to donate and get the ball rolling!

Wow. What a virtuous person! She probably donated a whole bunch of money to get the ball rolling, right?

Well, not exactly….

Seriously, Potato Head? Thirty-one bucks?!? That’s an insult, man.

I guarantee you that Potato Head donated WAY MORE than that to Black Lives Matter back in 2020 – to help out her oppressed black sisters and brothers buy a $6 million dollar mansion who are brutalized and terrorized by those evil cops….

Odds that Potato Head has even ONE black friend? I’m guessing about 300-1.

Thirty-one bucks from the chick who humble-bragged on social media about her Austin mansion that “used to be a 4-plex”?

“WE bought it”? Don’t you mean when Kurt Eller bought it?

Thirty-one bucks from the chick who humble-bragged about her dogs that cost about $2,500 each and are “super, super rare”?

Yes, they are expensive!

Come on, lady. You’re not going to buy your way out of being a Marxist whack-job for a measly $31. Pathetic.

Maybe you can get your mom to submit yet ANOTHER grant to the LCRA – those idiots just handed your mother over $12,000 to waste in her garden. A garden that gets used by maybe 12 or 14 people (and is locked to the public). The Christmas lights are seen by THOUSANDS. Seems like a much better expenditure to me.

I actually considered donating $32 just to be a dick, but then it occurred to me: the City of Lampasas had something like a $331,000 budget SURPLUS at the end of the last fiscal year. They could have easily peeled off 1.5% of that to spend on Christmas lights that the entire City could enjoy. But they didn’t. Instead they spent every cent of that money to give raises to a bunch of overpaid City Hall bigwigs who hardly need it.

So I’ll take a pass. Bah humbug.

Highest Paid City Workers Got Raises Of Over 4.2% For New Fiscal Year – 34% HIGHER Than The 3.2% Social Security COLA.

I remember not too many months ago, I was given an explanation for why City council felt that everyone with a pulse who worked for the City deserved a raise of “between 4% and 5%.” The reason given was that social security COLAs were going to be going up by about that amount. So it seemed fair.

[Ignore for a moment that for the already-overpaid Nerf job holders at the very top making six figures, a 4.5% increase is a much bigger chunk of change than it is for the poor schlub who actually goes out there and turns a wrench or fixes downed power lines. ALSO ignore all the huge raises that were given in years past when inflation was close to zero]

As it turns out, social security will only be giving a 3.2% increase next year:

Social Security Benefits Increase in 2024

So if they decided on 4% raises, we are looking at being 25% more generous to City Big Wigs. But it turns out, the raises were even more generous than that.

SALARIES: FAT and ALWAYS going UP:

Stacey Ybarra: has been with the City less than a year. Has failed to find a tenant for the Business Park. She saw a pay increase of 4.2%– her salary goes from $85,000 up to $89,280, according to paystubs I obtained. This is 31% more generous than social security.

Ryan Ward: has been with the City less than two years. Started out at $110,000, which was ALREADY $25,000 higher than the average for an ASSISTANT City Manager nationwide. Has already been given a COLA last year. His salary is now $126,243 – an increase of 4.3% over last fiscal yearand a total increase of 14.5% in just 21 months This is 34% more generous than social security.

Jody Cummings: Ryan Ward told us last year (May 2022) that our police chief was overpaid by 7.9% – but that didn’t stop him from getting an even bigger raise than Ybarra or Ward for this fiscal year…

Librarian overpaid by 11.2% and police chief overpaid by 7.9%

According to paystubs obtained from the City, Cummings will see his salary increase from $103,220up to $107,874 – an increase of 4.5%. This is FORTY PERCENT more generous than social security. Oh, and the police chief of Burnet “only” pulls down $73,544…

BENEFITS: FAT and always GOING UP:

This does not even consider benefits. The City’s gold-plated health insurance premiums jumped 13% this year. City employees only pay a small fraction of that cost. As I have shown previously,someone with a health plan that costs $1,548 PER MONTH is only required to pay $438 out of their own pocket.

That is a HUGE benefit, as those of us out here in the real world know. I know my health insurance just jumped 15% yet again this year…and I get to pay the whole thing myself.

JOB SECURITY: you are GUARANTEED your job for as long as you want:

Did I mention that it is basically impossible to get fired from a City job? DeGraffenreid, Ward, Ybarra, Cummings, Wright, Acevedo, Moreno – they can stay as long as they like. There will NEVER be the shock of losing your job in a bad economy. They will be there until they decide they want to retire – and they will get a 4% to 5% increase in their salaries AND benefits for the rest of their careers – regardless of performance.

Must be nice! We’ll revisit all of this next year when the U.S. economy is deep in the shitter and people in the real world are being laid off left and right.

2023: Another Year of Failure For Lampasas Economic Development Corp.

The LEDC has now concluded their business for 2023, since they never meet in December. What have they accomplished this year? Let’s take a look.

Business Park: still empty.

Next May will mark the TWENTY YEAR anniversary of when the LEDC decided to embark upon this disastrous adventure at the urgings of Angelou Economics (you can learn about that HERE):

They borrowed $1.1 MILLION (over TWO million in today’s dollars) at a hefty 7% – for what is now STILL a giant empty “goat pasture” (former City council member Mike White’s words, not mine). The only excitement that has happened over there was when a murderer dumped a corpse there in July of 2019.

Well over seven million dollars has been wasted thus far.

Last January (almost a year ago now) Finley hired Stacey Ybarra as the new Economic Development Director. She was hired on at a very generous $85,000 per year (quickly raised to $89,280 after less than nine months on the job) – which is $10,000 MORE than the person she replaced (Mandy Walsh) who had been there FIVE years and had a lot more experience than Ybarra.

Ybarra promised last January that getting tenants for the Business Pork Project was her “number-one priority.” After that, she posted a lot of phantom jobs and “projects awarded” which were subsequently erased from history when I started asking for specifics.

[Oh, and the City’s hack attorney JC Brown billed the taxpayer lots of hours to keep the charade a secret from me. Money well spent!]

Eventually City council grilled her hard on what the hell was going on over there! She did a lot of stammering and sputtering, but the eventual answer turned out to be: absolutely nothing.

NOW, Ybarra and the LEDC are “rewriting” the LEDC incentives plan and the “strategic plan” AGAIN (third or fourth time now…I’ve lost count).

Bottom line? Don’t expect any miracle “high paying jobs” to show up at the Business Pork Project any time soon.

SUMMARY:

Business Park expenses: over $7,200,000.00

Jobs created: 0

Days park has been empty: 7,155

Thugs Running Wild – A Democrat Legacy.

You should know about this case if you haven’t heard about it yet. Jillian Ludwig was an 18 year old musician in Nashville attending Belmont University. She died a few days ago after getting hit in the head by a bullet fired by Shaquille Taylor who was out on the street corner shooting randomly at passing cars.

Taylor is of course a career criminal with an extensive rap sheet. This past spring he was charged with aggravated assault when he shot into a vehicle with children inside. The charges were dismissed and Taylor was set free after the court deemed him mentally unfit for trial. They didn’t send him to a mental institution. They just let him go. Now Jillian Ludwig is dead.

This is what “compassion” for these violent parasites gets you. It’s a trade off. Compassion for them means abject cruelty to innocent people like Jillian Ludwig. It means that Jillian Ludwig has to die so that we can be nice to a criminal scumbag who contributes absolutely nothing to society.

Society would be a better place if Shaquille Taylor was not in it. It would be better place if Jillian Ludwig was still in it. But instead Ludwig is dead and Taylor is alive. This is what we do now. Time and time and time again. We trade the worst for the best. We sacrifice the lives of the people you want in your community for the sake of people that nobody wants anywhere near them.

Still “Keeping Receipts,” You Tool Bag?

Another game, another embarrassing ass whipping for Coach “Prime.” I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so – almost two months ago.

I guess Division I is a lot harder than you thought, eh douchebag?

The deafening silence from all those who were blabbermouths three months ago is very satisfying. Their bandwagon has fallen apart. There will be no bowl game. Not for a team full of arrogant assholes who go 4-8 and lose eight of their last nine games. Prime Clown is lucky that Nebraska played like roasted dogshit in Week Two, or he’d be sitting at 3-9.

When the team is coached by an ego-driven clown who makes the game all about himself, this is what you deserve and get.

I think the greatest highlight of the season has to be when Colorado was winning 29-0 against Stanford at halftime and Sander’s moron QB son was busy trying to sell his merchandise on Instagram from the locker room. Then they go out and get ass-blasted and lose in double overtime! But what do you expect from a clown whose dad is MEion Sanders?

What a chump.

Alexandria O-Crazy-eyes Smollet

Anyone who has ever been around Puerto Rican chicks knows that they are all batshit insane. Sandy Cortez is no exception.

All of her ridiculous lies come tumbling down now that 44,000 hours of J6 footage have been released….

Of course, she wasn’t even in the same building as it turns out. She told another interviewer she thought she was going to be raped – and threw in the usual “white supremacy” and “misogyny” horseshit for good measure.

What a piece of trash. Like all commies in The Squad, she is a lying sack of shit and a parasite.

“It’s Just a Stutter”

Remember when all the lefty idiots tried to tell us three years ago that Joe Biden’s dementia was actually “just a stutter”? They called us assholes for mocking his “disability.” Potato Head Fitzharris was one of those fools.

They tried to tell us this even though you can watch videos of old Joe from his last FIFTY years in office and there is no stutter to be seen up until 4 years ago or so.

Here is the reality….

Fake Rancher/Real Socialist Goes To San Francisco For “Work.” His “Job” Actually Pays $0.00. STILL Wearing Covid Muzzle Like a Pussy.

Another day, another 3,000-mile-round-trip junket to another socialist shithole city. First it was Seattle…now San Francisco.

Now, why would a rancher in Lampasas go to San Francisco for “work”? Was he visiting the fudge packers? Whoops, I mean the MEAT packers. Seems odd for a “rancher” with only 18 goats to fly to San Francisco for “work.” I mean, he HAS told us for the last 3 years that he is a fifth-generation rancher – so what other “work” could he be talking about??

Actually, it is impossible for “Big Business” to “overrule the will of the people” in a free market. If you don’t like what they are selling, don’t buy it, fucko.

AGAIN with the blue shirt? Did some handsome young boy tell you once that it was “your color” or something?

There are a lot of big words up there. Words like “algorithm accountability” and “building EVs” and “data privacy.” One thing is for sure – Comrade Clayton knows ZERO about any of that shit he listed. He’s just a commie grifter who lives with mom and pretends to be a rancher on grandpa’s land every now and then.

I suspect he goes to shit like this to feel important for a day or two. Maybe forget about the abject failure his REAL life is. Out in SF, he can tell all the fawning college boys he’s a “Texas rancher” and those dummies will never know better.

But of greater interest to me is that he calls this “work.” Most people, when they say “I have to travel for work” it implies they have a real job that, like, COMPENSATES them for their time and energy, with money and stuff.

Trade Justice Fund = bunch of idiot 20-somethings still wearing Covid masks.

Not Comrade Clayton. He gets $0.00 for all this gallivanting around to Seattle and San Francisco. How do I know this?

Well, first of all, Trade Justice Education Fund is a tiny pissant organization that has only been around about three years – and they only have 306 followers on Twitter. Highly unlikely they can afford tons of paid positions.

Secondly, everyone on the Team Bios page has a real title like President, Treasurer, Senior Advisor, Director of Operations, Organizing Director, etc. But poor Comrade Clayton is just a “Program Associate,” which sounds a lot to me like “unpaid intern” or “useful douchebag who will work for nothing.”

Finally, a quick look at the non-profit tax filings of his latest grifter organization shows us that NOBODY gets paid, according to their tax filings!

The list of top seven people in charge of the organization (Part VII, page 7) shows ALL of them receive ZERO compensation, benefits or salaries.

Part IX line 7 lists “other salaries and wages” – ZERO DOLLARS all across the board!

Also, Schedule O states specifically: “No one on the board of directors received any financial compensation from the organization directly or indirectly.“

So…..

If the Trade Justice Education Fund’s tax filings show ZERO expense for salaries/benefits/compensation over and over again, then there is NO WAY they could be paying Comrade Clayton a thin dime for all of his “work.” Either that, or they lied on their tax filings.

Q.E.D.

P.S. – also, Comrade Clayton is STILL petrified of a cold virus – despite being “vaxxed” and “boosted” multiple times! What a complete pussy. You can see the mask draped over his arm while he inexplicably takes a picture of himself taking a picture.

November 2023 – still wearing mask
Spring 2021 – vaxxed and boosted!!