From woke to broke

I used to work at a place where my co-worker and friend listened to a lot of country music on the radio. She was of the same opinion that I was: There was a lot of fake "twang" going on.

I mean, I can't say I'm a yuge fan of Conway Twitty or Hank Williams. But there is certainly something more authentic about their music than these blowdry-airheads who put on the country "twang" and bore everyone to death with their vanilla "country music."

Say what you will of Dolly Parton, but I see her as authentically country, not a put-on. I also liked Kenny Rogers who was a yuge part of the country-crossover sound in the 80's. Think "The Eagles" as well.

I think Garth Brooks has just made himself the official douche-bag of faux country music stars. Too big to fail? I certainly hope not. Flush him down the toilet with a rack of Bud Light. Hey...that might be the beginnings of a good country music song.

I first saw Dolly Parton on the Porter Wagoner Show in the sixties. The below clip is toward the end of her time there. 

Dolly and Porter  


I could not stand his suits.  And I have to admit that I thought both were genuine hicks. Imagine my surprise when Dolly went mainstream. 

Another victory for those wascally wacists.

Starbucks ordered to pay $25 million

Starfucks takes a 25 million hit for racism.

www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/jury_starbucks_must_pay_white_woman_25m_for_racially_motivated_firing.html

jury awarded a white woman $25 million after concluding that Starbucks fired her on racial grounds

I believe I have said this before, "I have no interest in watching the latest Indiana Jones movie." That said, I did take the time to watch the video you attached and the guys were regular people. That is good, but the down side is that two out of three were old guys like us, and one is a Brit. (I believe) What, if anything, does that say about the future of the Los Estados Unidos? 

If this is the case, and it most probably is, then the advertising industry bears a huge responsibility for the gullibility of the population. 

Here is a comment from Anheuser-Busch's "Global Chief Marketing Officer" regarding Bud Light's precipitous fall from its no. 1 perch. 


Let me parse that. 

It's tough to see the controversial and divisive debates that have been happening in the U.S. in the last couple of weeks.....

Meaning. Damn, some people are actually paying attention to the garbage we churn out in the media and had the gumption not to roll over and play dead. This is not supposed to happen. 

"It's tough exactly because what we do is all about bring people together." 

Meaning. I lie like a rug. What we do is actually about selling product. I don't give a shit about "bringing people together" except in so far as it prods them to guzzle more horse piss called Bud Light. 

Marcondes said companies and brands should be driven by their values..

Partially true, but in fact a lie by omission. Anheuser-Busch's values 1, 2 and 3 are "sell more horse piss." That is what drives them, but he avoids saying this. 

No doubt that is often the case. I also suspect that this approach has been very cleverly developed by the powers that be in order to "inspire" their worker bees that what they are doing is good, almost sacred, not just about something so banal, and even evil, as making money. 

To convince the suckers that they are "special people doing good" is a powerful motivator. 

It must be about 50 years since I read The Screwtape Letters.  I couldn't recall who wrote them. My first thought was Ambrose Bierce, but he wrote The Devil's Dictionary. 

C.S. Lewis was a better writer and man. 

If you could get 6 in 10 Californians not to vote for these Leftist flakes, then you'd have something.



I don't think that's particularly meaningful. Even if California was not Libtardville, there would be 27 percent of the people who said, "California's policies and laws do not reflect my political views." The point is to make sure that the 27 percent who say this are the fringe Left...out of power and not causing trouble for the rest of the Normals.



I don't know that The Big Apple isn't far behind. But how ironic that a bit of reality creeps in and these places are becoming a living example of the dystopia that Leftism brings.



This may not seem like much. But we need that from politicians. We need them to state the formula: "Because of A, we have B." We don't need phony Donald Trumps who claim Florida is the place that is really horrible and complain about the Deep State while acting to further its interests (KFF) or just being a weak Shakespearean punching bag. ("Will no one rid me of this turbulent Deep State?")



Shouldn't the margin of error for a California poll be more like 30%. I mean, it seems likely many of those polled don't know what to think or even how to think. This is a large reason they are running the state into the ground.



That is a somewhat startling number...even for California, given that on the Titanic you'd still have a base of 15% who thought the ship was being run well. So that low number does seem significant.



This paragraph can too easily slide by unnoticed. The point is, those who pine for Utopia are never going to find it. And as they pine harder, they make things worse.

I seriously doubt that there are more than a dozen Californians who will fess up to the fact that their naive dreams just aren't working out. You can't try to deduce what is going on in regards to the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of a place as to what "reflects their values and political beliefs" without making note of this inherent contradiction. Californians are simply unable to parse "works/doesn't work" via any normal or rational means. Their ultimate goals are "unsatisfiable." There are no "good vibrations" at the end of their Utopian rainbow.