Socialist Nerd Wonders Why He Fails At “Ranching.”

Another day, another useless and meaningless [convention/meeting /rally/gathering] so Marxists can jerk each other off and convince themselves that [Beto/Allred/random commie] has a chance of winning in Texas.

Comrade Clayton: “Big Ag is making it impossible for ranchers to make a buck! Monopolies! Corporate profits! Whaaahhhhh”

Also Comrade Clayton: “Here I am wasting yet another day at another stupid, unpaid gathering far away from my ‘ranch’ taking pictures of myself with a bunch of retarded old ladies! I hope mom is watering my goats!”

It reminds me of how Julie Cain Landrum constantly cried online about the “plight” of the small business owner but then only opened her lemonade stand for about 12 hours a week and then closed it for weeks at a time.

Reminder: she went out of business doing that, Comrade! She didn’t have a mom to house and feed her, however.

But don’t worry – Comrade Clayton has a “day job” with the Trade Justice Education Fund. A nonprofit joke that pays him next to nothing. His “job” is to occasionally re-tweeting arcane, obscure shit nobody cares about. Like this:

Looks like hard, satisfying work! I’m sure it pays SUPER well, too!

LEDC Non-Profit IRS Filings For 2023 Finally Drop Online. They Skimmed a Record $534,327 From Taxpayers.

I’ve been waiting for this for a LONG time. The LEDC non-profit filings for last fiscal year.

They skimmed an all-time high of $534,327 from the taxpayer last year – up a whopping 15% from the previous year’s $466,975. There’s your inflation for you.

Of course, expenses rose over TWICE as fast –up 34%($255,000 versus $191,000 previous year).

That revenue amount (skimming tax dollars) is up SEVENTY PERCENT from 2019 – right before Covid. That’s a CAGR of 14.3% (the amount skimmed in 2019 was $313,229).

I’m pretty sure the population of Lampasas didn’t grow 14.3% per year – therefore, we are looking at a combo of inflation and increased spending thanks to stimmy checks. I suspect next year’s filings will see a marked slowdown.

But let’s get to the juicy shit:

Part I (13) shows grants (free money given away by the LEDC) of $55,128.

If you follow the many directions and schedules, you are eventually pointed to Schedule I, part I and II. There you find the following:

Does the organization maintain records to substantiate the amount of the grants or assistance, the grantees’ eligibility for the grants or assistance, and the selection criteria used to award the grants or assistance?

The answer given is NO

So, they skimmed $534,000 in taxpayer monies, handed out about 10% of that to persons/organizations unknown. Probably some of it went to shit like Vision Lampasas, Spring Ho events, etc. Which is fine. So where did the other 90% go??

Well, “other expenses” were $254,768.

When we go to Part IX, column (A), lines 11a–11d, 11f–24e to see what that entails, we find:

Legal expenses of $2,315. Advertising and promotion $5,386 (advertising the empty business pork year after year). Travel $2,993 (for the now-resigned Ybarra to fuck around at useless conventions).

Depreciation/amortization of $115,775.

Interest payments of $87,115.

“Other” expenses of $9,967. Ybarra bar tabs? Kickbacks to somebody? Who knows.

“Professional services” of $15,096. What services? Paid to whom? It doesn’t bother with that stuff.

“Admin and overhead” of $12,000. It has been $12k forever. This is money they pay to the City for all the “hard work” they do for them ‘administrating’ and stuff.

“Office equipment and maintenance” $2,440 – what office and equipment do you need to maintain if you’re ALREADY paying the City $1,000 per month for “administration and overhead”?

If you want to see how bad some of this slush fund stuff is, may I direct you to some previous filings in the following post from almost FIVE years ago:

OUTRAGEOUS Tidbits From LEDC Non-Profit Filings

‘Business Park’ Is Huge Piece of Pork. Pope Eckermann and Others Feasting On Taxpayer Ass

Tim Walz Is Alex Soros’ Bitch

Weird. Because I have it on pretty good authority that Kamabla and Walz HATE billionaires.

Ask yourself what Joffrey Soros is saying with these posts, and who he is saying it to.

Probably something like “this bitch is well trained. He doesn’t crap on the floor. I own him now, too.”

I imagine a fellow beta like Clayton Tucker would stand in the same subservient stance for Alex the twink.

“Honored to host Governor Tim Walz at my home in New York City, where we wrote him a big fat check to remind him who owns him.”

This Will Blow Comrade Clayton’s Tiny Communist Mind.

The 4 things that happened after Argentina REMOVED rent controls:

1) Supply increased by >170%.

2) Rent growth eased to 3-year low.

3) Rentals became easier to find + “many renters are getting better deals than ever.”

4) Inflation cooled.

“Opponents of price controls say Argentina is a cautionary lesson for officials from the U.S. to Europe who have looked to curb surging housing costs with rent controls.”

None of this is a surprise. Remember that it’s not just “landlords” who oppose rent controls. Science, history and academia oppose rent controls even more loudly and more credibly.

If we want to get serious about improving rental affordability, we need to get more serious about building a lot more housing. Anything else is just noise distracting from the root issues.

Rent control is price control. Price controls DO NOT WORK – whether it’s the price of gasoline, oil, food or anything else. Moron socialists need to learn this lesson.

Javier Milei kicks ass.

LEDC Board Appointments Tabled For Now.

No decision was made last night on the LEDC board situation.

At least there were some good points made by citizens and council and a few people are waking up to the fact that this group has been VERY insulated for a very long time – while squandering millions with no results.

Somebody brought up a lame point about some rule about board members living in the City or something. I couldn’t hear it all because the $96,000 Azbell A/V system is a piece of shit half the time. But what I WOULD say to something like that is this: Stacy Ybarra lived about an hour away from our City and nobody seemed to have a problem with that. And THAT was a very-well paid position.

If a board member lives a couple miles outside the “official” City limits but essentially spends all their time and money in “Lampasas proper” then who the hell cares??

Hilariously Wrong LEDC Predictions From Exactly TEN YEARS Ago Today

Ten years ago, poor Kathi Masonheimer was the “Economic Development Director,” and by my math, Talbert and Monroe were sitting on the board. Here is what they told the Lampasas Dispatch at that time [original article HERE]:

Here we are, ten years later. The SAME dipshits are running the LEDC. I’m guessing the debt service payments are MUCH higher than $12,500 per month now, since they’ve blown another three million or so since then.

Annual revenue over the last ten years? ZERO dollars. Number of tenants? ZERO.

So any time you start to actually BELIEVE the bullshit they spew, go back and read this article again. That’ll bring you back to reality.

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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.

Gold knows this – which is why it’s up ANOTHER $140 (5.5%) over the last 5 weeks and up 30% ytd.

Oh, and it’s beginning to look a lot like stagflation!

US Manufacturing PMI Plunges To 15-Month Lows; Prices Are Soaring Again

US Consumer Confidence Plunges Most In 3 Years As Labor Market Weakens Significantly

US BANKRUPTCIES HAVE BEEN RISING AT THE FASTEST PACE SINCE THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS

Monroe, Talbert and Erwin ALL Want Back On LEDC Board. City Council Needs To Get Rid Of Two Of Them

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??

I wrote about this previously, but here is another synopsis:

Current LEDC members who want back on:

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.

Deorald Finney. Ah, my old buddy who scammed Talbert and Monroe out of $72,000 in electrical hookup fees for his Stone Valley development. I’m biased against him and wouldn’t be shocked if he used his position to line his own pockets. God knows we have enough of that. How about this: you pay the City back the $72,000 you avoided paying and then we’ll consider you. Deal?

Jasmine Crockett – Still a Hood Rat Moron.

I can field this one, Representative Crockett.

You see, all of your off-script remarks are quite retarded. Shockingly retarded.

They’re so retarded that many non-retarded people share the video just to highlight how retarded you are, making them “go viral.”

To be clear, here’s what happens:

When you post your retarded off-script videos, you still get engagement from your retarded supporters going “YAS KWEEN”

But you also get engagement from non-retarded people saying “omg an actual retarded person is in Congress.”

Commie Catamite Clayton Crying About Cruz Vacation From 3.5 Years Ago!

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.

Fact check: Allred gets called out on border policies

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.

If anyone keeps “running away” from his responsibilities, it is Comrade Clayton himself! He’s constantly leaving town to go to dozens of stupid unpaid conventions while his poor 69-year-old mother and 93-year-old grandmother have to feed and water his parasite-ridden goats.

THAT is what a responsibility-shirking pussy like Comrade Clayton does.

As for what Ted Cruz does for Texas? Here’s just ONE example of Ted acting in the best interest of Texans:

Natural Gas Export Permits Approved After Federal Nominations Held Up By Sen. Cruz