Today we’re going to switch things up a little bit. We’re still going to cover those hilarious horse shooters over at HiCal but we’re also going to add their BFF and idol into the mix as well. Of course we all know who Satan Tara Michelle Sanders is, but I think it’s time to give her a little more of the very thing she seems to crave the most. Attention. I’m going to do my best to do this justice, but I have to admit I’m a relative neophyte when it comes to all things Satan. She’s been on my radar for a few years, but she actually has always irritated/stressed me out. After she got run off the racetrack I thought I could just ignore her. Foolish of me. Where the HiCaliber contingent are like cartoon villains, Satan is just completely evil and hateful. Deep evil. Hard evil. The fact that these two entities have joined forces is just straight up scary for any horse that finds itself in their path. However, yesterday was kind of a good day for horses and their advocates and that’s what we’re going to deal with on this post.
I thought it best to do some brief introductions before we get into the really fun stuff and where better to begin than with Satan? Depending on the day, Satan likes to tell people she’s either 27 or 30. Every single public record I pulled has her between 36 and 38 which makes a lot more sense considering all the things she claims to have done and the fact she looks rode hard and put up wet most days. Amazing barrel racer, A circuit hunter/jumper, leading racehorse trainer, the list goes on and on and none of it is true. Yes, she probably chased a few cans. Maybe she hopped a horse over a cavaletti or two and her race career was less than stellar. She won a grand total of 5 races at a low-level track and didn’t make enough to keep Doughboy in donuts. Her current gig, besides neglecting horses and conning people is multi-level marketing. I don’t know too much about Le-vel but if she is an example of what the products can do for you, it’s not a great endorsement. Tara has been with Doughboy aka Jacob Thompson off and on for a number of years. In what capacity, I can’t really say since she claims they are not married, but is listed under his last name on several documents. She also moves out on him at least once a year, so what their official status is anybody’s guess and I don’t really care either. They are partners in crime and that is not in dispute.
Next I will introduce you to Jacob aka Doughboy, the convicted felon. As you can see by his arrest record, he is a bit younger than Satan which makes her a cougar. RAWRRR! I always thought the idea of behind being a cougar was to get your claws into some hot young stuff, but whatever. It’s not like she’s an upgrade from his first wife either. Satan never exactly tells the entire story on Doughboy’s criminal history. Like any good villain, she places the blame everywhere but where it belongs. To make a long story short, Doughboy wrote a bunch of checks on some cattle when he had no money to cover them. From what I understand he got caught in this little buy/sell scheme where he’d buy a load, then flip it quick and make a small profit. Eventually it caught up with him and he ended up owing nearly half a million dollars, resulting in ten years probation and having to pay restitution. Unfortunately for Doughboy, his elevator doesn’t run all the way to the top. He makes a habit of violating his probation on a semi regular basis resulting in trips back to jail every so often; the latest being earlier this year when he neglected to tell one of his parole officers that he moved. I think that was a 3 week stint that time and it resulted in my most favorite live feed ever. After pretending like he was just out of cell range for about 4 days, Satan finally had to admit he was in jail and we were all treated to her shrieking and crying as she drove around and had to shop for prison panties for Doughboy. It was the stuff of comedy legend. He also had to go back to the concrete motel when the dumb ass lost $15k gambling in a casino (convicted felons are not supposed to be in casinos) and got the brilliant idea to file a false police report claiming he was beaten up and robbed in the parking lot. Unfortunately for Doughboy, the security cameras did not support his story, so he was out the money and back in stripes over that brain wave. This all happened around the time of some other shadiness of personal horses dying under mystersious circumstances. I just can’t wait to see what he comes up with next!
Now that you have met Satan and Doughboy, let’s briefly talk about the notorious feed lot. Romney Faye Baker has alternately referred to it as `The nation’s largest kill pen’ and `the nation’s most active kill pen’. Neither of these things are true but we shouldn’t be surprised because Romney Faye is often laying claims to lofty but untrue titles for HiCaliber too. What the Thompson feed lot actually might be is the nation’s most filthy and neglectful one. All kill pens suck and all kill buyers are shit, but Thompson’s take it to a whole other level, or they would if they were actually kill buyers. They are not by any stretch of the imagination. Their pens are pure filth, if they feed the horses at all it is moldy crap that even cows wouldn’t touch and the pipe corrals are falling down and dangerous. That’s in addition to the disease and untreated injuries within their herd. It’s not uncommon for horses to just lay down and die and their bodies left where they dropped until somebody eventually gets around to moving them, sometimes days later. They have no contract to ship to slaughter and most kill buyers won’t have anything to do with them. That’s not to say their horses don’t end up at in the pipeline, because they often do, but only if an actual kill buyer pics them up at whatever auction that Doughboy or his sire decide to dump them at. Despite all their threats of them shipping direct to Mexico if people don’t bail the horses, that is just not so. They have no ability to ship a slaughter load directly to Mexico. I’ll get more in depth with their fuckery at a later date. There is a lot of it to cover.
This was the live feed the kicked of yesterday’s freak out. It’s also the shorter of many, which are also saved and posted around FB if you care to look for them. I can’t listen to everything she posts because I’d have no time for my own life and animals, but this was the first of a few. Thankfully, there are enough people willing to take one for the team, that we can take turns and still have an idea of what went on. As far as I can tell, despite her rambling and contradicting herself, is that the Thompson lot and Dr, Hoerner are under investigation. She basically blamed everybody from HiCaliber, other rescues, haters and finally Sully the horse for her situation. She claimed that the USDA or Dept of Ag or the Illuminati or whatever had a plane flying over the lot for a long time taking pictures and because she is all smart and stuff, she figured it out and called them. As near as I can figure they are getting busted on some paperwork errors and, when the inspector came to the lot they were as disgusted by the conditions as any other person with a shred of compassion would be. A problem many advocates and horse lovers have had with them is that injured and sick horses are just left to languish and often die on that lot because they claim they can’t treat them if they are shipping to slaughter. Obviously, this causes a lot of needless suffering, but according to Satan, she is only trying to save and rehome horses and will treat them as soon as they are purchased or some such bullshit. Also according to her they were told to treat them or ship them immediately and Gary, sire of Doughboy, is tired of the drama so he’s just going to go get a contract and start shipping direct.
The screen shot above is the proof that Doughboy has no contract to ship to slaughter, can’t get a contract to ship to slaughter and won’t be getting one for a few years yet and that is ONLY if he can pay his bond. As far as I can find, Gary hasn’t had a contract in recent history and it’s just not a pick up the phone and get one situation. Hopefully, that clears that up despite what Satan says. The Thompson lot is not shut down as of right now but only under investigation. Satan is claiming that Gary wants all horses out of there by July 4th and then they will no longer be doing the private sales. That was her story at one point yesterday. In between driving around ordering tacos and Mountain Dew, emotional eating and ranting in the Dillard’s parking lot and telling us all how super smart she is in stuff, she somehow managed to regroup and take a page out of the HiCaliber book of emotional blackmail and attempt to turn a negative into a money maker. This was only after Charles Manson and Romney Faye Baker offered their very public support. I guess this is the hill they have chosen to die on.
God help us and all horses if Satan reinvents herself as some sort of rescue/rehab situation. As if the horses in Louisiana aren’t already screwed enough between their fuckery, Bastrop and then civilian abusive shits like the contingent that tortured Dr. Drip. The legitimate rescues have enough to contend with without having to deal with Satan and Doughboy trying to join the club. Then you have Manson’s letter of support which is basically a sign of them melding into one hateful entity. I feel like I’m wasting my time with this blog and should be out looking for horcruxes or something. This is horrible.
Meanwhile, back at the west coast feed lot ranch, things have been eerily silent on the HiCaliber front. Well, not really all that silent. They have been attempting to be professional by what appears to be taking Dr. Moss hostage and using him as a human shield to deflect their fuckery. I’m not even sure what the hold over him is but he didn’t seem very happy in these videos and he was mostly just being assistant to Manson as she frequently contradicted him and overrode his expertise by telling him she read something in a magazine. I shit you not. It kinda reminded me of those hostages that are forced to read out how well they are being treated as somebody is standing just off camera pointing a gun at them. Hopefully, Stockholm Syndrome will set in soon and he will seem happier in future videos. HiCaliber still absolutely refuse to give an update on Firetyme or Saban nor do they even publically respond to questions about them. Instead we were shown an update on Percy (pictured above) where Manson informs us he has navicular and is at the end of the line if they can’t get him comfortable. I’m super confused about this because a few months ago she was telling us he had a soft tissue injury. I’m thinking it was suspensory or something along those lines, but definitely not navicular. Now they want to heel nerve him along with HiCaliber Doug. I guess we are done with the run on peen cancers and have moved on to navicular now. Maybe we should start a pool on what the next ailment to sweep the world of rescue will be. It has to be something that requires surgical intervention and a chance for Manson to wear her scrubs. Meanwhile two of the Louisiana horses just hit the $1 menu. Nadine for being crippled and Rogue for living up to her name. Both are young and neither appears to be a Thoroughbred or be in Manson’s good graces. Hopefully, they get the hell out of there soon before they get branded as `behavioral’ and find themselves under a blue tarp by the wood shed.
Once again, I feel like I’ve just kinda skimmed the surface. This stuff with Satan is a developing story and the stuff with HiCaliber is an ongoing saga. HiCaliber, thanks to Romney Faye Baker and Charles Manson, seems to have gone all in with Satan, but are currently trying to lay low in hopes some donor dollars come back their way. Satan is going to spin this story a million different ways and Doughboy will likely treat us to another live feed threatening people, which will get sent directly to his parole officer and round and round we’ll go. However, this time feels a bit different. Things ARE different. There are a lot of wheels turning. There is still a LOT of HiCaliber stuff to come out. I try to prioritize and keep things in some semblance of order, so there are lots of things yet to come. The Satan stuff, which has been ongoing forever, is just heating up in time for her star turn in the upcoming documentary, Platinum Ticket’s Final Ride, which will be out this summer. Hopefully, now that I’ve given a bit of background to the readers here that may not have been following her antics, we can get right into things in future posts. I’ve got a lot of things in the inbox I want to get to so I hope to get another post off this weekend at some point. Until then, keep up the good fight and don’t forget to hug a horse if you’ve got one. Virtual hugs work too. Most importantly stay the course!
