• Forget 'Go Woke, Go Broke' - Jaguar Went Stupid Instead

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 1 21:36:28 2025
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    https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/07/01/forget-go-woke-go-broke-jaguar- went-stupd-n4941331

    Pity poor Jaguar. The British-based luxury and performance carmaker has
    had a rough go of it this century, but nothing could prepare anyone for
    the most bone-headed move in corporate history � and I don't mean Jaguar's
    woke "Reimagine" ad from late last year.

    Let me bring you up to speed.

    As recently as 2018, Jaguar sold 180,833 cars annually. Last year, they
    sold fewer than 33,000. In April � the most current sales figures
    available � Jag sold just 49 cars in the massive UK/Europe market. U.S.
    sales figures aren't available yet, but they aren't any better.

    Jaguar went from selling 1,961 cars a month to 49 in just six years. I'm
    no car industry expert, but that looks pretty bad to me.

    "This 97.5% plunge marked one of the steepest declines for a premium
    carmaker in recent history," Design Rush just reported. But I have to ask,
    is that really in recent history or is it ever?

    The company understood that something had to change, and in November, it revealed its "Copy Nothing" rebranding. If you missed it then, don't miss
    it now:

    aguar
    @Jaguar

    Follow
    Copy nothing.

    #Jaguar

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1858800846646948155

    I mean, the company had to try something after years spent watching sales
    swirl down the toilet. But I don't hesitate to remind you that just
    because something must be done, that doesn't mean they had to go and do
    this particular (and particularly stupid) thing.

    "Copy Nothing," with all its bored-looking gender-fluid whatever people
    and zero cars, came at the second-worst possible time, too � just as
    consumers and corporations turned 180� away from the woke stuff.

    And yet, I must remind you, that is the least of the company's troubles. Because while some of my conservative friends saw Jag's latest sales
    figures and posted endless variations on "Go woke, go broke," that's not
    what happened.

    Charles V Payne

    Jun 30, 2025
    @cvpayne

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    Remember that Jaguar rebranding (the creepy one)?

    John Hawkins
    @johnhawkinsrwn

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    Wait....are you trying to tell me that this group of people doesn't appeal
    to Jaguar's target audience?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuuNfPsW4AAs16s?format=jpg&name=360x360

    John and Charles are sharp guys, but it looks like they didn't read past
    the headlines.

    Jag's nosedive isn't because of the brand's woke rebranding, although it
    does stem from the same mindset � one they'll teach in business schools
    for decades as an example of what not to do.

    You see, Jaguar stopped selling cars because they stopped making them:

    This dramatic drop coincided with Jaguar�s effort to reinvent itself as an all-electric luxury marque.

    Under the �Reimagine� plan introduced in 2021, the company halted internal combustion model production in anticipation of an EV relaunch set for 2025�2026.

    By late 2024, Jaguar suspended sales in the U.K., leaving dealerships with almost no inventory.

    "Heading into 2025," the report concluded, "Jaguar had phased out nearly
    every vehicle in its lineup: the XE and XF sedans, F-Type sports car, E-
    Pace, and I-Pace crossovers."

    Other European luxury carmakers slowly introduced EV models into their
    lineups, while adjusting production and expectations as EV adoption slowed
    in recent years. Jag spun down its ICE cars before it could spin up EV production.

    Remember when Coca-Cola switched to New Coke that tasted more like Pepsi?
    This is like Coca-Cola switching to New Coke but then not making any to
    put on store shelves or in soda fountains.

    Jaguar: "We have this exciting new electric car!"

    New Customer: "Amazing, I love it. Where can I buy one?"

    Jaguar: "You want to what?"

    Maybe there is a sizable enough market for all-electric luxury cars for
    weirdos you wouldn't trust near your kids. Maybe! But if you're going to
    market to those folks, it helps if you have a product ready to sell them.

    Recommended: NYC�s New Marxist Star Wants to Seize the Means of Production


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  • From mark w@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 4 02:20:54 2025
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    Texas is trying had to be number one!


    Full List of Texas Pastors Charged With Abusing Children This Year
    By Giulia Carbonaro On 12/9/22 at 9:51 AM EST


    This year, at least 10 Texas pastors, former pastors and youth ministers
    were arrested, charged or convicted for various allegations of sexual
    abuse of children.

    In November, 56-year-old David Lloyd Walther, a pastor for the Faith
    Baptist Church in Round Rock, was arrested for the distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child pornography, as reported by the
    Austin American-Statesman. Walther, who told the FBI that he had a
    pornography addiction, faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

    In the same month, a 31-year-old former student minister at the Champion
    Forest Baptist Church in Harris County was sentenced to five years in
    prison after pleading guilty to online sexual abuse of a child. Timothy
    Jason Jeltema pleaded guilty on November 17 to four charges of online
    sexual abuse of a minor�including one charge of indecency with a child�one charge of sexual performance by a child and two counts of online
    solicitation of a minor which were initially brought against him in 2018, according to the Baptist Press.
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    In July, 48-year-old Chad Michael Rider, of Anna, was convicted in the
    Eastern District of Texas for assisting former Denison pastor David
    Pettigrew produce child pornography. According to documents and testimony
    at the trial, Rider helped Pettigrew convince minors into taking sexually explicit photographs. He was found guilty of three counts of the sexual exploitation of children.

    In the same month, pastor William C. Robinson, who at the time was working
    for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, was charged with
    continuous sexual abuse of a child, to which he pleaded not guilty.

    Also in July, Brian Pounds, a 45-year-old minister at First Assembly of
    God in Vernon, North Texas, was charged with sexual assault of a child and delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, according to Vernon police. Pounds denied having had sexual contact with the child, but the girl
    testified to the many times the minister had performed sex acts with her
    and given her meth.

    Baytown pastor Lawrence Hopkins was arrested in late June with the charge
    of soliciting a minor online, according to Montgomery District Attorney's Office. The arrest of the 55-year-old associate pastor at Rollingbrook Fellowship in Baytown was part of a multi-agency operation to capture individuals who have been "actively seeking to sexually exploit children
    via the internet in Montgomery County," authorities said.


    Following the pastor's arrest, Rollingbrook Church sent a statement acknowledging the case and declaring that Hopkins' employment at the
    church had been "immediately terminated." The church thanked the
    Montgomery County Sheriff's Department for "their efforts to protect our children and pursue those who would seek to harm them" and announced they
    were "cooperating fully with the authorities."

    In April, the Nashville-based Southern Baptist news service Baptist Press reported that youth pastor Conner Jesse Penny, 32, had been arrested on
    three counts of sexual abuse related to a minor. According to the police report, Penny, who was employed at the Inspiration Church, formerly known
    as Mimosa Lane Baptist Church, in Mesquite at the time of the arrest, "had sexual contact with a female under the age of 17 years of age on multiple occasions between 2015 and 2018."

    In March, pastor's son and Conroe church worship leader Jonathan Ryan
    Ensey, 37, was found guilty of victimizing a congregant by committing
    indecency with a child and online solicitation of a minor. He is serving
    eight years in prison, as both sentences were served concurrently.

    In January, Aaron Duane Shipman, the 44-year-old lead pastor at Bible
    Baptist Church in Odessa, was charged with assaulting a teenage girl for
    years, beginning when she was 16. The woman, who's currently 18, reported
    the case to the Odessa Police Department. The church, upon hearing about
    the arrest, issued a statement declaring that Shipman's contract had been terminated.

    In the same month, 61-year-old Houston-area pastor Conrad Estrada Valdez
    was charged of sexual assault of a child between the ages of 14 and 17, as reported by ABC. The case was brought forward in 2019 by a then-30-year-
    old woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Valdez when she was 15.


    The cases reported so far are limited to the charges brought forward this
    year, and to the state of Texas. By expanding the search further back in
    time or beyond Texas' borders, the list would grow much longer than the
    one compiled in this article.

    In October, the North Texas megachurch Denton Bible Church released a 2019 investigation revealing that a former youth pastor sexually abused 14
    girls at two different churches. The pastor, Rob Shiflet, was sentenced in
    2021 to 33 months in federal prison for sexually assaulting two girls on
    church youth trips, and is now registered as a sex offender.

    On December 1, a former youth pastor at a Southern Baptist church in
    Missouri was charged with six child abuse-related charges.

    In May, a document released by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)
    revealed the case of more than 700 Baptist leaders�including pastors,
    teachers, ministers and volunteers�accused or found guilty of sexual abuse
    of children.

    The 205-page document, which looks at cases dating back to a period
    between 2000 and 2009, details the arrests and�sometimes�sentencing of
    Baptist leaders found guilty of sexual assaults, soliciting children,
    child pornography and more.

    According to SBC, the list is the result of an internal investigation by Guidepost Solutions aimed at uncovering the cover-ups of cases of sexual assaults which were allegedly kept quiet by the church's higher-ups.

    "This list is being made public for the first time as an initial, but important, step towards addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and
    implementing reform in the Convention," a statement by SBC read. "Each
    entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction brought
    about by sexual abuse. Our prayer is that the survivors of these heinous
    acts find hope and healing, and that churches will utilize this list proactively to protect and care for the most vulnerable among us."

    But the lack of a rigid structure within the SBC, which doesn't have an established hierarchy, might make bringing the necessary change to the
    church difficult.

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  • From It's Africoon Awareness Month@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 5 00:34:17 2025
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    A Memphis man already serving 90 years for three prior rapes was
    convicted Wednesday of raping a Raleigh woman in 2014 while her
    5-year-old son slept in the next room, said Shelby County Dist. Atty.
    Gen. Amy Weirich.

    A Criminal Court jury convicted Deandrey Peterson, 28, of aggravated
    rape and aggravated burglary for the attack on a 30-year-old woman on
    Feb. 18, 2014, in the Abington Apartments in Raleigh.

    He remains in custody and will be sentenced next month by Judge Paula
    Skahan. Peterson also has a sexual battery case pending.

    According to testimony, Peterson raped the woman at gunpoint, took $20
    from her purse and gave it back, and began texting and calling her after
    he left. The phone from which he was calling was stolen nine days
    earlier from another rape victim who lived in the same apartment
    complex.

    His previous convictions include the rapes of three women in the
    Abington Apartments or elsewhere in the Raleigh area, all of them
    occurring within a few weeks of each other in 2014.

    The trial this week was handled by Asst. Dist. Attys. Carrie Shelton and
    Abby Wallace who have worked in the DA’s Special Prosecution Unit which prosecutes cases of child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse of
    child victims; rape and aggravated rape of adult victims, and abuse of
    elderly and vulnerable adults.

    SVU reviews child-victim cases with Shelby County’s multi-agency Child Protection Investigative Team.

    https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/convicted-serial-rapist-c onvicted-in-4th-rape/522-99d0d10e-c74f-4109-bd62-3f3d250addba

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