It's About Time Delivery Drivers Stop Being Married to GPS

 THIS IS NOT MY HOUSE!

It's not even my stuff. I think it's someone else's stuff mixed up with mine and dumped alongside the road because it was after 10pm and the driver couldn't read directions and GPS lost my house 8 years ago. And she wanted to go home. Walmart says I can have my money back in 48 hours. Fat lot of good that does me.

I'm royally hacked off at a Door Dash driver named Mandy. My Walmart order was due between 9 and 10pm. It was late because the driver ignored clear written instructions because her GPS disagreed with them and assumed that I don't know where I live. 

GPS lost our house 8 years ago. Door Dash had a representative call me. I could barely understand her. English was not her native language. She told me I couldn't call the driver. She asked me if my mailbox number was 15123. I said no and told her the correct number, 13122, which was written on the delivery slip. 

The driver didn't call me. Instead she dumped my food in front of a row of mailboxes one of which had a few of my address numbers on it. She piled it all alongside the road in the dirt. I don't even know what road it's on. Walmart is going to refund my money in two days. Till then I don't have enough left in the bank to go ahead and reorder what I needed so we are stuck. Hope some hungry person finds the food.

My wife and I are both partially disabled and we don't have a car. So their delivery service is very important to us. I could tell from the Door Dash agent that the driver was mad at us. The agent hung up on me and I was being as polite as I could be. I did remove the driver's tip. 

Where do they get these people? I've had three similar incidents in the past 3 months where the driver apparently couldn't read written directions and got mad at ME for not being where GPS thought I ought to be. The picture above shows where they dropped it all off in the dirt on the side of the road. 

I look for it but I'm not sure where this is and it could be anywhere in a 6 block radius. It's late at night and we have coyotes roaming the neighborhood and car thieves coming down from Seattle because everyone is moving away from there to my neighborhood!

I tried calling Walmart, but they close at 11 and I got the picture above a half hour before closing time. None of the associates would pick up the phone. They too wanted to go home I guess.

Walmart has been a great help to us during all this CoVid hysteria. I just joined Walmart Plus to get their delivery service. I defend the leftists who attack Walmart and want us to go to rude Mom and Pop stores that charge us more money and are more inconvenient and less accessible to buy stuff. I'm a fan of Sam Walton's company.

Door Dash, however, has hired some wildly incompetent drivers. They need to do some training. Some of the guys are great and I always tip them well, but really. This is getting ridiculous. Someone needs to tell these snowflakes that sometimes the GPS is wrong and you have to use the phone or do some dead reckoning - use a little logic.

There are some smart ones. I had a young lady driver from Ranier Pizza who found us on her first attempt by seeing where the arrow pointed to our house in the middle of a wood showing no roads. She drove around two sides of the block, spotted our mailbox and took the one lane gravel driveway that leads all the way back to our house, turned right at the rock with 13122 painted on it and brought our pizza hot to the house. I tipped her handsomely. Sadly Ranier Pizza has closed. I liked their pizza and their driver.

It's a shame you can't request specific drivers. Some of the guys would have more calls than they could handle. Others would be out of work in days.

Well that's my rant. Sheila has to wait for a couple of days for the Rocky Road Ice Cream that is currently melting alongside the road somewhere in our rather large neighborhood.

© 2022 by Tom King

 

Google Adsense Announces New Censorship Policy

Corporate Censors Rally to Support Failing Progressive Narrative

Big Tech comes to the rescue of floundering Democrat party. If the Constitution is at least partially preventing government censorship of free speech as new free speech social platforms arise and draw millions of followers, then the left goes around the government through their corporate toadies to curb free speech.

Google Adsense is the latest member of corporate Pravda to announce a new policy on curbing all that pesky free speech today. They have announced that the advertising broker will be cutting off monetization of blogs and websites that offer "dangerous or derogatory" content or which "incite violence or deny tragic events" (can you say, "the January 6th insurrection"). In other words if the FCC isn't going to censor the Internet, then Big Tech will. They are trying to insure that no content gets out that does not fit the progressive narrative. They especially mentioned Ukraine and will forbid any information or editorializing about the war in Ukraine that does not match the White House's spin on it.

Folks, we're headed for the days of an American Pravda and the remaking of the United States as the Union of Soviet States of America. And the USSA isn't going to be one whit better than its Russian predecessor was. It seems as though the left is busily condemning Russia on the one hand while seeking to emulate the worst characteristics of the old Soviet Union on the other. Of course, Russia dumped communism, which may be what the left is angry with them about. At any rate, American Marxism is simply another Marxist gang like Nazism and Communism and the disagreements among them are nothing but turf wars like we've seen between the Crips, Bloods, Hell's Angels, and MS-13. Same philosophies, different tyrants running the show.

Thank God, Jesus is coming. The vitriol coming from the left is but a sniff of sulfur on the winds of progressive "change". It's sad that the leftist tools out there really do think they'll be members of the ruling class simply because they made supportive noises. News flash, ANTIFA, BLM and Berkley radicals. The first thing triumphant Marxist's do is burn their tools so they can't object when they find out they were lied to all along.

Truly sad.

© 2022 by Tom King

Don't Blame "Undocumented Aliens"

Don't blame the victims. Fix the problem!

Ease off on the illegal immigrant rhetoric, guys. My sympathies are actually with many of the guys crossing illegally. Truth is that they are being lured here and massively exploited by the very people who claim open borders are "merciful" and "the Christian thing to do." But guess who is most invested in you believing this progressive propaganda.

Surprise, it's big corporations and big agriculture. Chicken plants, dairy farms, flower nurseries, orchards, cotton farms benefit big time from illegal immigration. Employers for these places pump money into political campaigns so that their representatives in government encourage illegal immigration and then overlook it when they exploit illegal workers. 

Don't believe me?  Watch the Democrats waffle and drag their feet should conservative legislators put forward a program to bring illegals under the cover of OSHA and the Department of Labor. Set up a guest worker program that allows illegals to make a decent wage (at least minimum) and have the protections all American workers have. Set it up so that these workers can go home when they are done, having worked, helped their families and paid taxes like the rest of us do. That by itself would spoil the game employers play which allows them to misuse migrant workers who have been lured here to work in semi-servitude. Hardly surprising since Democrats have a history of exploiting the poor and minorities not to mention actual slavery.

The evidence of this criminal mistreatment and oppression of refugees escaping here illegally with the encouragement of our Democrat overlords is there to see if you don't shut your eyes to it. There are hundreds of colonias all over, especially in areas near the border or along migrant worker routes coming up from Mexico. These tar paper shack villages don't have water, sewer, paved roads, police protection, or even electricity in many cases. Authorities overlook the abuse of workers and the awful conditions they face. 

For their troubles, employers get cheap nonunion labor and maintain control over these virtual slaves by threatening to deport anyone who complains. It's the Democrats simply doing slavery light. They've always liked cheap labor (and money on the side). We're seeing massive exploitation targeting poor desperate people here. The ones we need to go after are the politicians and the employers and corrupt bureaucrats that keep the "system" working. Notice, nobody is talking about that sort of systemic racism. They wouldn't. Too much money and power in keeping it going and too much guilt for those who support it with propaganda and protection.

Also, the flood of actual refugees from Latin America is being used as cover for drug cartels', terrorists' and smugglers' activities. A cold-blooded calculation has been made that the crime and flood of drugs, guns and sex slaves is worth it to keep the money flowing into party coffers. Thus the sign above above. No attempt to curb the dangerous traffic. Just a sign warning people not to go where it's going on. 

So, I don't blame the people being lured here from awful places south of the border. I blame the politicians and the lawyers and the drug lords, smugglers and terrorists cold-bloodedly using them. We can stop it if we would just stop doing one of two things:

1. Stop buying the whole, "If you are a Christian you would support open borders" propaganda. Like all propaganda, the narrative is designed to distract you from the real purpose of those shoveling it out.
2. Stop vilifying illegals. There is a huge supply of hard-working people who would line up to come work here in jobs us college graduates have no interest in. They are family people, conservative, anti-abortion, religious and big on free market capitalism

I heard a Hispanic comedian joke that if a Mexican gets his hands on a hand cart, he'll have a taco stand set up and running overnight. That's someone who is a free market capitalist. I went to school in South Texas and I'm here to tell you the folk coming over the border, by and large, will find some kind of work to do. The American economy right now needs that kind of energy shot in the arm once in a while. 

We've absorbed waves of immigrants in our history. British, Irish, Scots, Polish, Germans, French Hugenots, Italians and any number of Chinese and Japanese have come and joined the melting pot. In my neck of the woods, there are Russians, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, Indians, Polynesians, Asians of all sorts and yes, Mexicans and South Americans. 

The thing is they come here to work. Instead of encouraging that, our government offers them either dependency on welfare or exploitation by corrupt employers. If we quit throwing up roadblocks to people trying to start small businesses, we'd see a boom in immigrant-owned business like you wouldn't believe. Here the principle that a rising tide lifts all boats kicks in. As new workers make things and build things, they spend money for goods and services which creates more jobs than there were before they came. Nobody loses out. They just get opportunities to do new things and to rise in the world.

And to the horror of our Democrat friends, given half a chance to make a living and take care of their families, immigrants, being already conservative, start voting Republican. That's how we get folks like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in the Senate and Donald Trump winning big majorities among Hispanic South Texas voters - all giving nightmares to the left.

So instead of trash talking our refugee friends, let's help them. Let's close the border. Get a guest worker program going. Offer English classes at our Mexican consulates as a path to immigration and citizenship. Many who are born in corrupt cultures and nations are already Americans in their souls. Let's harvest those folk by giving them a way to come home to the United States. They make good citizens. If we just look the other way, the folks crossing the border are infiltrated with criminals and bad people. Not their fault. If we create a way to manage the flow of immigrants and block the flow of smugglers, sex traffickers and terrorists, we win this battle and increase the number of family-oriented, entrepreneurs, hard workers, pro-life Christians and conservatives. It's one way to turn the tide and win the voting block the left thinks it owns.

In no time the Democrats would be clutching their pearls and having a fit of the vapors. Next thing, they'd be building a border wall with their bare hands.

Just sayin'

© 2022 by Tom King