the Last of My Kind

In the post title, one of Jason Isbell's songs, he sings:

"Daddy said the river would always lead me home / But the river can't take me back in time / And daddy's dead and gone / The family farm's a parking lot for Walton's five and dime....."

I found the lyric clever and cutting, not knowing at the time that before it was named Wal*Mart, the stores were called Walton's Five & Dime. 

I can count on one finger how many times I have been to Wal*Mart to purchase anything. I traveled to Boise for a business meeting and somehow forgot to pack socks. Their store was open 24/7, so on a Sunday at 23:00, I was buying black acrylic socks. They didn't carry anything with cotton fibers.  

Shocking. {said with sarcasm, obvi}

What is shocking is that one of the Walton heirs spent a few million dollars on a full page NYT ad yesterday touting the No Kings protest which I mentioned two days ago. 

My honest to g-d first thought was, "fuck, now we have to shop at Wal*Mart".  But the store is disavowing any association with the heir or the ad. 

So, phew - bullet dodged on the shopping aspect. 

Still, what a break in the ranks, no? 

Granted I know zilch about the Waltons, except for the fact they're all billionaires. Whether they purposefully do it or not, they cater to the MAGA crowd. It's just a socio-economic circumstance, but no doubt they feed into it for return customers. I'm assuming below them is Dollar General. 

I don't think MAGA knows the difference between the store / board / other Waltons vs this one Walton. 710 tells me they have called for a boycott of Wal*Mart. 

Where they fuck would they shop? 

That said, if Wal*Mart took a financial hit due to a boycott, I wouldn't really care. Two birds. One stone. 

And hey, if that ad increases the No Kings attendance, so be it. Though I don't think a lot of the Wal*Mart demographic are NYT readers. 

Sure, I could be wrong - but I think we know I'm not. 

Song by: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit