Category: Every Day Life

What Is Wrong With Advertising?

The Degeneration Of American Values

A Happy Family. 1950’s General Electric ad campaign.

The purpose of advertising is to elicit a reaction from the consumer. Sometimes television commercials can be very persuasive, or they can be a total turnoff.

I do not know what has happened to advertising, but most television commercials these days are not representative of American culture or society as a whole.

The traditional family has been replaced with single parents, same sex couples, and interracial families, all these while excluding Caucasians families and other groups.

But why is this happening? I believe that the “woke” culture, the promotion of victimhood, and the pressure from minority groups, under the thread of boycotts, have put pressure on companies to comply with this nonsense.

But at what price? I, for one, will not patronize businesses who have fallen for this DEI shakedown.

Back in the day, television advertisements with good-looking people were the norm. Today, even beauty products are advertised with people that the majority of society would deem unattractive.

Excuse me, but if a company is going to attempt to sell me a product they claim is going to make me look better, the last thing I want is to see someone who looks worse than me after using the product.

Even obesity has been made to look like healthy living, while making obese people appear as the victims with commercials about stopping “weight bias.” Obesity is not a healthy way of life. It is dangerous and people die from it.

Inexplicably, 3 out of 5 commercials are cast with Black talent, despite the fact they only represent less than 18% of the United States population.

I am of Hispanic heritage, so I am not the target audience for these products. Now, if these companies are trying to get Black people to spend money on their products, that’s fine, but they are excluding those with the spending power.

In the United States, White Americans hold about 80% of the total wealth, so you would think that products would be targeting those with the spending abilities.

Unfortunately, this is part of the DEI culture of victimhood. Companies have bought into the lie that minorities in this country have a difficult time achieving financial independence or opportunities, so they use advertising as a tool to promote this mentality of failure.

Even with all these “Black-only explosion” in advertising, blacks represent only about 9% of American buying power, behind Asians and Hispanics.

But perhaps, this has been done purposely. Maybe all these  “Black-only”  or “Majority Black” casted commercials are meant to rehab the image of a sector of the population that is mostly known for criminality.

After all, Blacks in America commit and tried for over 50% of violent crimes according to FBI statistics. Unfortunately, this is high mountain to climb, and it will require more than a few “make believe” scenarios to change the reality on the ground.

But this is not the only flaw with advertising. Companies want you to believe that men can be women, kids are independent entities, and people should get paid in advanced for work that hasn’t been done yet, among others.

The only way to teach these companies is to make them pay with your wallet.

Why would I buy a product from a company who thinks I am not worthy enough to be represented in their ad campaigns?

Why would I buy a product from a company who doesn’t represent my values?

I don’t and neither should you.

Idiocracy Was Supposed To Be A Movie

Americans Have Made It A Way Of Life

Idiocracy 2006 Picture courtesy of screenrant.com

In 2006, Idiocracy was a movie produced by the creator of Beavis and Butthead, Mike Judge. The movie plot was hilarious, and the picture was very funny.

The movie depicts two individuals who underwent an Army experiment and wake up five hundred years later. Only to be awaken to a dystopian and anti-intellectual society. Virtually a society populated by morons.

Now, let’s move forward to 2025. From government to advertising, the country is facing an identity crisis of major proportions and consequences.

Lead by the Democratic Party, segments of our population have come to believe illegal immigration is a good thing, providing free health care to illegal aliens is justification enough to shut down the government, and enforcing United States laws is unconstitutional.

Our government is run by selfish and inept politicians who continue to be elected by the same people, over and over again. Stupid and ignorant politicians like AOC and Crockett can send our children to war, but somehow they have become the leaders of their party.

Their constituents are so foolish, they go out and hold “No Kings” protests without the common sense, and understanding, that if we were under  a monarchy, they wouldn’t have the opportunity to have such protests.

Everything in our society has been dumbed down. From people been lazy enough to have their food delivered by total strangers, believing that men in women’s sports and bathrooms are normal, and the privilege of citizenship is a nuisance.

Americans get peppered with advertisement aimed at the lowest common denominators in society. White men are portrait as weak and stupid, and commercials depict single mothers and single fathers, completely omitting the value of the family nucleus, while trying to convince us this is the norm.

Blacks continue to be the perpetual victims, while been afforded the same opportunities as any other American citizen.

Victimhood has been very profitable despite the fact they commit over 55% of violent crimes in America.

But, America is such a racist country, that three out every four television commercials are cast with black people. Not bad for a group who claims to be disenfranchised.

Illegal aliens, mostly Hispanics and Latinos, have become the new slave labor in America, which explains why the crowds at the protests mostly white, old people are showing up. After all, these illegals are the ones who pick the crops, cook their meals, and raise their kids.

The media wants to tell us that been overweight is cool, fast food is healthy, and big pharma is nothing to be afraid of.

Boy, I remember when Old Spice used to depict surfer dudes in their commercials, now they have some black guy who’s supposedly stealing the Old Spice from his wife. Seriously?

This is what idiocracy is all about. Society has become so dumb, they are willing to accept everything, no matter how stupid or insane. No matter how ridiculous, illogical, or unrealistic.

If you have a chance to watch the movie Idiocracy, please do so, not only will you have plenty of laughs, but will you be able to see where we are as a country.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a movie, but Americans have made it a way of life.

The United States Of America and Illegal Immigration

Taking The Societal Trash Other Countries Do Not Want

Come here legally or….Photo courtesy of the washingtonpost.com

Let us be honest, if you ask any doctor, lawyer, engineer, or a highly educated citizen in countries like Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, or Venezuela, if they want to leave their country, their answer will be a resounding no.

Why? Because these people enjoy a high-quality way of life in their own countries. For the most part, they are independently wealthy, with tight family ties.

On the other hand, the majority of the people entering the United States illegally, are low skilled, poorly educated, and many of them have criminal records.

The majority of them cannot speak or write their own language and come from the poorest regions in their countries of origin.

Under the Biden administration, these people receive $2500.00 dollars EBT cards, free telephones, health care, and housing, upon illegally entering the country. Our government is rewarding criminal behavior with taxpayers’ money, and it seems nobody is outraged by it.

You should be fuming over it. These people are a burden to our society, our social services, education system, and financial systems.

These illegal aliens are a problem to their own countries, and they have been shipped here in what it is nothing but societal cleansing. They are taking their trash out and dumping it in our front door.

Would you be fine with your neighbors dumping their trash in your front porch? I do not think so.

It seems our government is perfectly fine replacing the American citizen with third world, unskilled, uneducated, criminally inclined, and mentally disturbed individuals. People like this are easily manageable and have no loyalties towards our country laws or Constitution.

To make matters worse, it is alleged that our government is paying churches, sometimes as much as $1200.00 per illegal alien, to house them and provide shelter. Most of these illegal aliens have been bused or flown to small towns throughout America, sometimes outnumbering American citizens populations on those same towns.

This is egregious and Americans should be outraged by it. Illegal immigration is an existential threat to the social and moral fabric of our country. Illegal aliens are coming here unvetted, without identification papers, and dumped into our neighborhoods without our approval.

We should expect that people coming here illegally be processed and deported immediately. That is how a government that cares about its citizens ought to behave.

The United States of America is not the world’s human dumpster, and we should demand better from our government.

And The Answer Is? A Big No!

No Posthumous Pardon For Convicted Felon George Floyd

The legacy of convicted felon George Floyd. Photo courtesy of the nytimes.com

After an attempt by convicted felon George Floyd’s attorney to have his criminal record clear after his death, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has rejected the request.

At the heart of the request was an allegation that, according to Allison Mathis, the officer involved in Floyd’s case has been accused of using false evidence in multiple cases. Obviously this was a Hail Mary thrown hoping the board would bite. Nothing was mentioned about Floyd’s 2004 drug conviction or any alleged improprieties with that case.

Last October the board recommended issuing Floyd a pardon but then rescinded the decision a few months later without a reason.

I am sure that would have not been a popular decision among law abiding Texas citizens and it would have looked bad for Governor Abbott who is seeking re-election.

I am very pleased with the decision by the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. Just because someone is no longer alive it does not mean their crimes never happened.

George Floyd was not a saint despite the efforts by the liberal media to portrait him as such. Floyd had a violent criminal history the media refused to share with the public.

In 2009 he served a five-year prison sentence, as part of a deal, for a 2007 charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Before that, he had been convicted of several charges from theft with a firearm to drugs.

The 2020 George Floyd riots were destructive. Domestic subversive groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa went on a rampage of burning, looting, and destroying everything they could.

By the way, has anybody been convicted for these crimes?

Floyd’s death was a regrettable one. No human being deserves to die while on police custody, but that does not mean Floyd’s life of crime should be an afterthought or forgotten.

I believe the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole understood accountability for his crimes should remain in place.

As his family got handsomely rewarded for his death, bad police officers were held accountable, and millions of dollars in property damage still unaccounted for, this is a remainder that when one commits a crime, one is not the victim, but those harmed by those actions are.

The Democrats Are Out of Touch

Abortion Is Not a Winning Formula in Real America

Big difference. One is a constitutional protected right; the other one? Not so much. Photo courtesy of live5news.com

As a male, I have tried to stay away from the abortion debate as I feel it is a subject I cannot relate to or completely understand. I cannot put myself in the position of a woman and assume I can understand the reason they would want to terminate a life.

Unfortunately, once the communists started to call for violence, and the domestic terrorist’s began acting upon, due to the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, as a former law enforcement officer, my neutrality on the subject went out of the window.

Let me start by making it clear, abortion is not, and has never been, a constitutional right. Despite of the people in power running around stating so, abortion is not in our constitution; and therefore, is not protected by the Constitution.

It was a 1973 (410 U.S. 113) Supreme Court ruling in which decided the Constitution protected a women’s right to have an abortion, despite the fact there has never been such protection afforded by the Constitution.

The decision struck down many federal and state abortion laws creating a rift between state and federal rights and a legal battle has lasted over 50 years.

Many legal scholars have said the Supreme Court got it wrong and conservative pro-life and religious groups have fought for the overturn of what they considered and overreach by the Supreme Court.

The democrats think this winning issue is going into the mid-term elections. Of course, this is what they have done in every election cycle, they use abortion, gay rights, and racial issues to appeal to their base.

But this time is different, this time we have more pressing issues that preoccupy the American people, including democrats.

High inflation, high gasoline prices, high unemployment, and a looming full blown recession, are at the heart of the priorities Americans care about going into the mid-terms.

Abortion is not issue American families are talking about at the dinner table, especially when food is more expensive, and they have to decide to either pay the mortgage or feed their children.

Democrats claim “all is lost” for women who wish to have abortions, which is a complete lie. Abortions will continue to be offered; the only difference is the issue has been returned to the individual states.

There are many states which will continue to offer abortion and even pay for those women to travel to their state on ‘abortion holidays.’

Companies like Disney, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Facebook, Starbucks, and Morgan Stanley, to name a few, announced they will pay for their employees on this ‘abortion holidays.’

I guess it is time to put your wallet where your morals are. If you use or support any of the above businesses, and believe abortion is wrong, you are nothing more than a hypocrite, but that is between you and your conscience.

Funny how the democrats are all about the law and have no problem lying to the American people about the January 6th riots, but they have no problem calling for riots and uprisings over a Supreme Court ruling.

Just like the over 200 riots in 2020, which the democrats called for and even encouraged their left-wing loons to do, I am sure the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice will ignore the riots and destruction of property the same radicals will act upon as a result of the Supreme Court ruling.

Nobody will face charges and outlets like CNN and MSNBC will call it ‘patriotic acts’ of defiance. Talk about a diluted society we live in.

If the democrats think this is a winning formula, by all means, go for it. The reality in Americans everyday life is different, and abortion is the last thing on their minds.

Social issues were a winning strategy for the democrats when such issues were deemed underrepresented in our society, but those days are gone.

Today, Americans are worried about how they are going to make their next mortgage payment, fill up their vehicles, feed their families, how to protect their families from out-of-control crime, and how to protect their children from government indoctrination to name a few.

Democrats are out of touch and have no legitimate issues to run on or brag about and they should pay the price at the ballot box this November.