I’m guessing Comrade Clayton is just about top-ticking the economy with this retarded post. I want to immortalize it and laugh at it later….
LOL. Yeah, the economy is SO STRONG they just slashed fed funds by 50 basis points.
Fun fact: they have NEVER started a cutting cycle with 50 bps where we didn’t later have a recession.
Not to mention, the U.S. is deficit spending to the tune of about 7% of GDP during PEACETIME in a supposedly-booming economy. Also unheard of.
Remember: the federal government is printing $2 Trillion of debt this year…that is $6,000 per person! The average family of four owes $600,000 of federal debt increasing at 10% a year.
When debt is growing at 7% a year and the economy is “growing” at 2.5% or 3% a year and you have debased the currency by about 30% over the last few years…that’s not a “strong” economy. That’s a debt spiral.
Well, one of the more exciting issues for tonight’s meeting is this: WHO will City council appoint to fill three expiring terms on the Lampasas Economic Dunces Club??
Misti Talbert. Talbert is the current LEDC president (since July 2021) and has served on the board for TEN YEARS already. She is directly responsible for pilfering $971,000 in Covid funds to waste on her Business Pork project. By any objective measures, she has been an abject failure. If anyone deserves to be removed, it’s her.
TJ Monroe. Thelma Jean has been on the LEDC for TWELVE YEARS. During her term as mayor and as LEDC board member, she has demonstrated over and over she has terrible judgement, lack of common sense and ZERO business skills. She should also be removed. Twelve years of fucking up is long enough.
Fin Erwin. I don’t know much about Fin except that he’s a real estate broker, is Misti Talbert’s brother-in-law (strike one) and never applied for this position the first time around – he was appointed.
List of people who bothered to apply to get on the LEDC board this time around [see pages 134 to 142]:
Mike Irvin. This is a no-brainer. Not only should he be on the LEDC, he should be president immediately. Since we now have a few smart, private-sector guys on City council instead of multiple dummies, I expect them to put Irvin on the board and toss Talbert or Monroe. If they DON’T do that, then the fix is most definitely in. There is ZERO reason not to replace a dunce like Talbert with a successful builder/developer like Irvin.
Michael Gill. Never heard of him but doubt he would be worse than TJ Monroe.
Alexis Thompson. Real estate broker. Never heard of her.
Derrick Dewald. Name sounds familiar but I’m not sure why. He’s in property management and construction. Sounds good to me.
Seriously – if this is the only thing you can come up with as to why Ted Cruz should be voted out, then you have nothing.
First of all, All Red is NOT a “champion for all Texans.” He is a champion for thieving scumbags like Clayton Tucker who want “free” education (paid for by everyone else), “free” health care (paid for by everyone else) and open borders so they can stack voter rolls with third-world illiterates who will vote for free shit until the end of time.
Normal, well-adjusted, independent Texans aren’t demanding free stuff. It seems to be only lazy, helpless assholes who live with their mom and are unable to survive on their own who are bleating incessantly for “free” shit to be given to them.
Secondly, I’ve YET to hear a good explanation from ANY shitlib, including Comrade Clayton, as to why anyone cared that Ted Cruz went on a vacation in February of 2021. What exactly did he “run away” from? Was Comrade Clayton sitting at home expecting Cruz to put wood in his fireplace? Was Cruz supposed to go out and restore downed power lines as a lineman? Did he miss his shift shoveling coal into the power generation plant somewhere? What EXACTLY was he supposed to be doing that he “ran away” from? You absolute moron.
[Reminder – since Comrade Clayton lives with mom only two blocks from the police station, he’s likely on the same grid as “critical infrastructure,” and therefore his power NEVER went out in Feb of 2021. Just like Bruce Haywood]
Fat douchebag whines about shit that doesn’t even affect him.
Clayton SURE does love that communist, insane piece of shit Tim Walz! They have so much in common – right down to drinking the semen of barnyard animals, I’ll bet!
Fake rancher Clayton Tucker has words of advice for his fellow Gen Z numb nuts out there!
“Never doubt they mean what they say” – SO TRUE, buddy!
Of course, Trump didn’t “write up” Project 2025 – the Heritage Foundation did. Trump disavowed it. Which is unfortunate, because there is a ton of good shit in there – like tossing 8 million scumbag illegals out on their ears.
But you know who DID say a bunch of scary shit that you should DEFINITELY be worried about? Kamabla Harris! Here is some of the shit she is ON RECORD and ON VIDEO saying she wants to do:
Eliminate private health insurance and implement “single payer” (socialized, government-run) health care. This alone is reason enough not to vote for her. If you want to see government-run, “free” healthcare, look at the NHS in the U.K. – it is a complete fucking disaster.
Give amnesty to the millions of third-world, welfare-sucking, law-breaking scumbags who have waltzed over our borders.
Ban fracking.
Implement a wealth tax.
Massively increase corporate taxes – which will be passed on to YOU the consumer.
More Green New Deal bullshit and forced conversion to electric fagmobiles.
Price controls to “punish” the “greedy” grocery stores!
Not to mention a gaggle of other stupid shit like packing the Supreme Court, getting rid of the Electoral College, cracking down on free speech and other socialist pipe dreams.
Oh – and all the war mongers LOVE her! I hope Comrade Clayton is as enthusiastic about being conscripted to go fight somewhere overseas as he is about voting for this moron Kamala. Because I’ll be sure to alert the local draft board that there is a war-loving, doughy leprechaun socialist over on Western Ave living with mom who is available to be mowed down by machine gun fire.
We’ve all experienced something like the following. The topic of politics comes up at a party, and someone in the group, seeking some way to say something smart but not divisive, will just toss out that we need to get rid of the Electoral College, the Constitution’s structure for electing the U.S. president and vice president.
A member of Wisconsin’s Electoral College casts their vote for the presidential election at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Dec. 14, 2020.
The expectation is that everyone present will readily agree. And usually that is precisely what happens because few people have ever heard the other side.
We celebrate democracy so much, so often, that it seems like a no-brainer: the popular vote should always prevail. What possible reason would there be for any other system, much less this convoluted one in which states appoint electors who then weigh in with their choice?
Well, a cocktail party is not the ideal time to take up the topic but let’s just say it very clearly. The Founders were too smart, too well read in history, too aware of the complications and geographical diversity in the United States, and respectful of the federal system, to embrace something as crude and unsustainable as direct democracy.
Under such a system, the large population centers would dominate everyone else, and result in the worst excesses of mob rule.
The purpose of the Electoral College is to provide a fairer weighting between the states, which were seen as the primary political jurisdictions in the U.S. system. The federal government had defined rolesand defined limitswhile everything else was left to the states. The U.S. president needs to represent the whole and therefore the states would serve as an essential buffer.
This is why the United States is a republic on the old Roman modeland not a democracy of the form that Aristotle said can only work in small homogenous territories. A direct democracy in which the popular vote elected the president would disenfranchise all small states and, within them, everyone who lived outside the large population centers. Essentially five or so of the most populous cities would elect the president and there would be no reason to campaign anywhere else.
In other words, anyone arguing for the abolition of the Electoral College is very plainly arguing for a one-party state forever, with elections as nothing other than a veneer on top of it.
Anyone who moved from one of America’s Gothams to get peace and quiet, run a small business or start a family, or simply wants to raise a family and be left alone, would essentially surrender all political rights. He would then be subject to tyrannical control forever by the mobs and masses left behind in the population centers.
The reason this topic has come up, and this is the only reason, is that the popular vote is yielding different results than the Electoral College. This happened in both 2000 and 2016. Both were wildly contentious and disputed and led to the claim that we just need to stop with all this crazy confusion and defer to the masses. Of course the claim is only made by the party that lost out.
Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #68 explained the consensus view at the time of the drafting of the Constitution:
“The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never [editor’s note: it was also published as “seldom”] fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.
“Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.”
“The choice of several, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of one who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes.” (emphasis Hamilton’s)
He admitted that the system was not perfect but, he said, “it is at least excellent.” He pointed out too that the system itself had not met with any real controversy precisely because it protected the rights of the states and guarded against mob rule and manipulation.
To be sure, the system as established bumped into some problems soon after and some clarifications were added in the 12th Amendment.
An essential piece of the system was reinforced by a bicameral Congress that mirrored the old English system of a House of Commons and a House of Lords, the first elected by popular vote and the second appointed as a reflection of high status and deep investment in tradition and order. The House of Lords also reflects the deeper history of liberty in the English tradition wherein it was the landed aristocracy that first stepped up to limit the power of the king with the Magna Carta.
The U.S. Senate was to be the American version of the House of Lords. There were to be two in each state regardless of population size. These would be appointed positions emanating from the legislatures of the states. Thus would the Senate always represent the interests of the lower orders of government against the centralist tendencies of the federal government.
That’s why Article I, Section 3, Clause 1 reads: “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.”
A disastrous change was made to this bicameral system in 1913. Woodrow Wilson and many other progressives pushed through the 17th Amendment that blew it all up with these words: “elected by the people thereof.”
It was a change in only two words: chosen became elected, and legislature became people.
As a result, the major metropolitan areas of the states became the centers of political power, and the U.S. Senate became another version of the House. The careful design of the Framers was immediately blown up,leaving only the Electoral College and the 10th Amendment as the remaining bulwarks against mass direct elections that the Founding generation knew from history would lead to tyranny.
Ideally, there would be a repeal of the 17th Amendment. I would push that button right now if I could.
That would rebalance a major part of the system that is broken, re-enfranchise the rural areas, drive more focus on states’ rights, and set up the Senate to be a genuine force of resistance against centralization. I’m assuming that this change won’t happen anytime soon, since only a few of us even write about this subject which most everyone else regards as eccentric and irrelevant.
That said, there are ways to make the existing system even worse. One of them is to abolish the Electoral College. These days, in the cocktail set of the elites, the presumption that the system needs to go is all the rage. It is said as if no one of any high credential or social status could possibly disagree.
I’m telling you, this is all deeply dangerous. A president elected directly by popular vote would be the end of the republican system of government and probably liberty in America along with it.
The framers knew exactly what they were doing. The wisdom of that generation—as Hamilton said, they created not a perfect system but an excellent one—becomes more apparent with each passing year.
Another entitled, clueless, vapid libskank who lives in her elite bubble. Notice how they’re very often “artists”? Just like our own Julie Cain Landrum and Potato Head Fitzharris. When you’re SO lobotomized by the propaganda and algorithm that you think you are being a patriot. Liberal hippie boomer idiots.
Remember when Martha’s Vineyard was happy to get the National Guard to remove the 50 illegals DeSantis sent there?
I’d love to ship all of these clueless broads to Venezuela for two months so they can see what their “equity” bullshit looks like for real.
Hard to believe a year flew past already! It’s been exactly a year since some City employees and the recently-departed Stacy Ybarra wasted an entire paid day on a junket to Mineral Wells.
A year later? Ybarra gone, no new EDC Director, no tenants in the Business Pork and the LEDC is disarray. THAT was money and time well-spent! Here’s a reprint of the post I made on 9/21/23:
If you wonder what your overpaid City employees do all day, look no further than their Facebook post from yesterday:
Mineral Wells is about a two hour drive straight north of us. They are a suburb about 45 minutes west of Forth Worth. Why they chose this place (other than having a “history deeply rooted in mineral springs”) is beyond me.
Is that the new pivot for Ybarra? Push Lampasas as a “therapeutic mineral springs” destination? Who knows. But she has to do SOMETHING to look busy all the time, I guess.
She tossed a nice word salad about the trip, that’s for sure. She’s not on Finley’s level yet with his “leveraging enterprise funds” or “stakeholder visions,” but she threw out a couple of nice meaningless bullshit buzzwords like “innovative economic strategies” and “benefit-driven projects.”
See what I did there with the hyphen as a little joke reinforcing the whole hyphen discussion? I bet Ybarra will get it when she reads this.
But Ybarra did leave out some information. I’d LOVE to know more about these “innovative economic strategies” she speaks of. Because according to Wikipedia, the City of Mineral Wells lost 12% of their population between the year 2010 and 2020. They went from 16,788 down to 14,720.
Ouch. Maybe those “economic strategies” weren’t so innovative after all.
So who wasted their entire day on this ridiculous and useless junket? Some of the usual suspects…
On the right we have TJ Monroe. Former mayor and current board member of the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. In fact, she has been sitting on the LEDC board since back when they invented milk.
In the middle is Economic Development Director Stacey Ybarra, who always has a shit-eating grin on her face reminiscent of a second grader who heard a loud fart in class and can’t stop giggling over it. She is also inexplicably wearing a shirt celebrating a team currently occupying the cellar in the AL East division. Oh well – marginally better than a Yankees shirt, I suppose.
On the far left is City secretary Becky Sims. I’m not sure why she’s there except to take a paid day off work to galivant around another town and get a free lunch.
I’m not sure who the other bird is, but she appears to be wearing Badger Blue, so she must be one of ours. She’s not a City Big Wig though.
Ybarra and Sims cost the taxpayer roughly $900 per work day between the two of them, so I hope the trip was super duper informative and will yield LOTS of brilliant “economic strategies” to implement here in Lampasas.
You know, there IS one thing they can learn from Mineral Wells: looking at their City organizational chart (page 8), we can see that this town of 12,000 has NO IT DEPARTMENT – like many, many other towns our size. Lampasas could definitely outsource that stuff and save hundreds of thousands per year!
If the IRS, the FBI, Wall Street, Iran, Putin, the military industrial complex, the New York Times, Iran, 100 former McCain interns, and Dick Cheney all want one candidate to win then, for the love of God, vote for the other one.
I wonder what he’s majoring in. Jizz guzzling? Wasn’t he one of the guys on the “Men on Films” skit back in the 1990s on In Living Color? I think he was…
The bigger problem is that he is a Grade-A moron and has no clue at all what he’s talking about.
That’s the problem with electing people through the democratic process – the vote of a certified moron cancels out the vote of a well-informed, intelligent person who knows history and understands socialism will fail 100% of the time. As soon as the Free Shit army makes up 51% of the voters, we are truly fucked.
I’ve always said, they should put a couple fourth-grade math questions on the voting screen before you can vote. Weed out retards like this fairy with blonde hair.
