Big South Forkyyyyy...

Although rain tried to destruct my April trip to the Big South Fork region in Tennessee and Kentucky, the event still yielded 61 photos of a Roads Scholaring or closely related interest!

So read 'em and peep...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/bsf22a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/bsf22b.html
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Want an arts grant? Better toe the party line!

There's a scandal brewing in the arts world, and the media is of course sweeping it under the rug.

It has been revealed that agencies that dole out grants for the arts have been discriminating against venues and works that do not act as a pipeline for official propaganda. Many venues need grants just to survive, and they've become captive to the party line.

Some of the funding received by art museums and performance halls is contingent upon them hosting events that support the official narrative and imposing COVID restrictions on patrons.

Furthermore, independent music recording acts have been denied grants because their songs openly oppose war and the hated "new normal." The thought police has shut out whole new kinds of music, while established broadcasters get handouts and are allowed to buy up more and more stations.

Meanwhile, Broadway theater – already awash in dough - received tens of millions of dollars in bailout money from American taxpayers as compensation for its refusal to reopen as normal after the pandemic. Broadway's choice to not reopen normally prevented or discouraged attendance. Each play that was affected could apply for up to $10 million. In other words, Broadway got free money from the taxpayers for its pro-war stance and support of lockdown culture – while dissenting works were denied funding.

Predictably, the media hasn't covered this sorry episode at all.

Here comes bubble gum!

Isn't it neat how most of the readership of this blog is sent into helpless fits of guffawing at the very mention of bubble gum? Not just the sight, smell, or taste, but the mere mention.

You would have had a blast at our local Memorial Day parade this morning! As people marching in the parade were tossing out Dubble Bubble to spectators, some woman yelled, "Here comes bubble gum!"

In addition, I saw 4 – count 'em, 4 – people who were in such a festive mood that they bubbled.

Baste of Cincinnati is back! (Circus Vargas, Circus Vargas!)

After being canceled 2 years in a row, the Taste of Cincinnati food festival – or as I call it, Baste of Cincinnati – is back! It's a miracle it survived being canceled 2 years in a row, and there was no excuse for canceling it the second time, but now it's back 100% normal!

I got in a confrontation with a pedestrian on the way home, but that's fodder for the July ish.

Taste of Cincinnati is not particularly exciting. At all. It never really was. It's better than being cooped up at home all day, but what's a mere mortal to do? Stink?

I only saw one celebrity look-alike today – namely an Eric Clapton look-alike. However, I did see some woman who was in a festive enough mood that she kept bubbling green bubs.

Have no fear, the June ish is here!

June wouldn't be June if The Last Word didn't put out its June issue!

This ish talks about a hilarious soda spill on a Michigan trip, hiding beer under school bleachers, the Governor of New York ruining books, people getting expelled from school, fights at a carnival, and more!

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https://www.scribd.com/document/575881380/The-Last-Word-6-2022

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Shitlibs, 2000 style

A common shitlib gimmick is to bark about how they were Republicans until the party nominated Donald Trump. It isn't true of all of them, of course, because the Democrats were plagued by the DLC for decades before. But what this shows is that many were Republicans long after that party drove most of its moderate members away.

I found an editorial from the now-defunct Cincinnati Post from 2000 that represents the right-wing Republicanism of many of those who became shitlibs. I used to hear the Post described as "Cincinnati's liberal paper", which shows just how right-wing the Enquirer is. Today, the Enquirer is part of the elitist, totalitarian media consensus that is mostly right-wing except for its patronizing wokewashing that lets them pretend to care about a few issues. But the Post was far from liberal.

The 2000 editorial from the Post was titled "Clinton's hate-mongering." The right-wing vitriol of this piece was overpowering. It attacked President Bill Clinton for advancing a bill against hate crimes and acted as if congressional Republicans were poor, innocent victims of liberal bullying.

The media thought Clinton was one cool cat when he pushed right-wing ideas like school uniforms, welfare "reform", and the late '90s war games with Iraq. But every time he came to his senses and supported something to make the country better, he was portrayed as some dangerous leftist radical.

The Post accused Clinton of "beating up on the Republican congressional leadership" and said the GOP "should beat up on Clinton for advancing such a misguided proposal" like hate crime laws. The Post's arguments against hate crime laws were laughably weak. The editorial said these laws "criminalize motivation", as if hate crimes do not include any actual bad behavior. It said hate crime laws were the same as double jeopardy – which means to try the same crime twice – even though the media had been silent over other criminal cases being tried twice just because prosecutors didn't get the result they wanted the first time.

The article then had the nerve to accuse Clinton of being "unnecessarily nasty" to Republicans. If you don't understand why that's ridiculous, you must not have been around in 2000. GOP spite never started to let up until many of the worst offenders joined the shitlibs who now fill Democratic ranks. In fact, most of the editorial is a textbook illustration of this malevolence.

The right-wing Republicans of 2000 are the Democratic shitlibs of 2022. I mean that literally. Many of them are the exact same people. Many of those who attacked opponents as "liberals" back then assail these same dissenters as "right-wing Trump supporters" now. If they call you the latter, remember that nasty editorial they wrote back in 2000.

Favorite shitlib insults

Go!

A shitlib is sort of like today's equivalent of the DLC. Shitlibs tar the name of a political faction while not even supporting the values that said faction is supposed to stand for. The term is often used by real progressives to denote establishment "liberals" who toe the party line of sources like MSNBC (which is now full of right-wing Republicans from the Bush era).

But what are some of the favorite insults lobbed by shitlibs?

One of the most common is "anti-vaxxer", which they apply to people who aren't actually anti-vaxxers. Make no mistake, there are real anti-vaxxers out there. But shitlibs call people "anti-vaxxers" even when they write something that explicitly supports vaccinations. Shitlibs are the real anti-vaxxers. They deny natural immunity even exists – while vaccines are based on some of the same ideas as natural immunity.

Another shitlib insult is "dirtbag leftist." Though they intend this phrase as an insult, it's been turned around by those on the receiving end of it to be a compliment.

My favorite shitlib insult lately is "class reductionist." Shitlibs deny that classism and credentialism are even real. They think it's just a hoax. So anybody who points out a real instance of classism or expresses class consciousness is attacked as a "class reductionist."

Another favorite of mine is their tendency to call opponents "right-wing Trump supporters" – even though shitlibs were often Republicans until very recently.

What's your favorite shitlib insult?

George Carlin look-alike sighted

I just got back from a little road trip centered on northwestern Michigan, and I saw a George Carlin look-alike at a Speedway station in Findlay, Ohio.

Puerto Rico statehood drive would gut territory option

As corruption and authoritarianism grow in the once-great Democratic Party, it's also expanding in Puerto Rico, and that's why the Democrats are pushing harder than ever to make the island territory the 51st state. In fairness, existing states are plagued by tyranny and corruption too, but that doesn't make this effort any better.

The truth is, however, that Puerto Rico had a worse COVID-19 response than almost every existing state. A bad COVID response has practically become an article of faith for Democratic "leaders." COVID totalitarianism is a cult that the Democrats follow. I'm not using that term figuratively, for it has all the characteristics of a cult.

Now a group of Democratic members of Congress are introducing a bill that would authorize a referendum next year in Puerto Rico that would give the territory's voters 3 options: statehood, free association, or complete independence. One of the problems with this referendum is that it does not allow Puerto Rico to continue its current territorial status.

Trying to force Puerto Rico to change its status has angered the territory's leading opposition party.

Removing the island's existing status as an option isn't the only problem with this bill. There is currently no major effort to enact laws in Puerto Rico or nationwide against the government abuses we saw during the pandemic – and which we still see. Last year, Pennsylvania enacted a pair of measures to fight abuses of emergency powers. That would be a good model for the rest of the country.

We will not support the Puerto Rico statehood bill unless both these things happen: The referendum there must allow an option to continue the territory's current status. And there must be a law to limit emergency powers.

From now on, there must be a law against abuse of emergency powers before we can support any new states. It can be a federal law or a law enacted by the new state – just as long as there is such a law.

I say this as a former member of the local Young Democrats: The Democrats are now mired so deeply in COVID cultism that it composes much of their identity. It's a second skin to them. If they're able to do so, they will admit or reject new states on the basis of COVID policy alone.

If new states are admitted as a reward for having a tyrannical COVID response, we have a right to expect new states to also be admitted for having a good response.

WKU censored online criticism (a blast from the past)

Much of academia these days is made up of dumb losers who cannot tolerate or comprehend dissent. America's universities are in bad hands. But students have suffered through universities' intolerance for years now.

This includes the poologgery that occurred at Western Kentucky University back in 2012. Even in a state whose public universities have a history of political intolerance (as I know firsthand), this was worse than usual.

The college persuaded Twitter to close down a parody account that criticized the school. A student also said her schoolmates had been skeeped at by school officials over Twitter posts.

WKU's president went on Facebook to reprimand students over their posts, but getting Twitter to close an account is what truly crossed the line into censorship. The critical posts weren't even made using a school account or school computers.

WKU officials claimed they were trying to protect the school's brand. But actually the effort was aimed at silencing criticism of WKU.

By that time, much of our education system had already become a tainted brand. There wasn't much left to protect in 2012, and it's far worse now.

Kentucky Democrats endorse Andy Barr

The elitist bullies who make up the shitlib Democratic vanguard are always bumping their gums about how we must "vote blue no matter who." But a few weeks ago, they rejected the Democratic candidate for Senate in Utah and instead endorsed right-wing independent Evan McMullin. Now Kentucky Democrats have done something like this too. They're endorsing a right-wing Republican even though the Democrats have a candidate.

Kentucky's 6th congressional district has long been "represented" by right-wing Republican Andy Barr. Barr is seeking another term, and is being challenged by Geoff Young, who won Tuesday's Democratic primary.

Although Young was the choice of Democratic voters in a contested primary, the state's Democratic "leaders" are endorsing Barr instead. The Kentucky Democratic Party even released a statement saying they would not back Young. Failed Gov. Andy Beshear has been particularly nasty and vitriolic.

If Democratic Party bosses wanted somebody more to their liking than Geoff Young is, they should have put up a more well-known candidate – instead of throwing a fit about the results of the primary.

The reaction by Democratic "leaders" to Young's candidacy also typifies the burgeoning war by elites against rural America. Young actually won every county in the district except Lexington's Fayette County. Why should the gentrificationists who have ruined our cities have more of a voice in our electoral process than rural counties do?

Up here in northern Kentucky, most local elections are just as bad, for the Democrats – not for the first time - made backroom deals with the Republicans to not field candidates in most races.

There is nothing shitlibs enjoy more than calling Americans idiots. Yet they're mystified that we don't give a shit what they think anymore.

Celebrity look-alike embellishes Wasatch Range

I just received an important e-mail declaring that an Ellen DeGeneres look-alike was seen working at the Salt Lake City airport.

Getting your fill of Phil

Today at Kroger, I saw a Phil Donahue look-alike.

Vermont town wanted to burn house to force out residents (a blast from the past)

Here's another slice of fairly recent history that shows just how heartless our overlords are.

A few years ago, officials in the town of Arlington, Vermont, planned to ask the fire department to burn down a historic town-owned house to drive out a family that had lived there for years. The family included 6 people, including an elderly widow and a visually impaired man. Three of the 6 were deaf. Two of the 6 were small children.

But the town called the family "squatters." As we all know, that's one of those words that gets thrown around so much that it's lost all meaning.

It turned out that the town wanted to demolish the house just so the property could be turned over to a well-connected developer. The town practically admitted as much, as officials said clearing the property would be a good way to attract buyers.

When I was about 4, I used to think the purpose of a fire department was to burn down houses – not put out fires. But that was before I ever heard of gentrification.

Airline bee incidents could sting

For reasons that are completely unknown, the spread of killer bees was long laughed off as something we'd just have to live with – even though it could have been prevented. But a 2006 article said killer bees had reached Florida after "decades of hype" – posing a threat to "basically everyone who ventures outdoors." These "decades of hype" provided plenty of time to prevent it, but not a damn thing was done about it. Killer bees had already appeared in the southwestern U.S. in the 1990s. At least 14 people in the U.S. had been killed by them.

In Florida, killer bees killed animals and menaced utility workers, firefighters, reporters, and even police. People were trapped in their homes by swarms of the dangerous insects. The decades-long inaction on killer bees forced residents to bee-proof their homes.

Now there's been another incident involving bees. They might not be killer bees, but this episode underscores the dangers that may be present.

Last month, a shipment of 5 million honeybees heading from Sacramento to Anchorage was rerouted all the way to Atlanta by Delta Airlines. The bees were being shipped to over 300 beekeepers in Alaska. Most of the bees died when they were stranded on the hot tarmac in Atlanta. The crates were also placed so the bees could not access their food.

It's bad enough that this shipment was destroyed in a way that was completely avoidable. But here's a terrifying question we can't find an answer for: Are bees shipped on the same flights as passengers? Maybe the reason nobody can find an answer is that they might not like the answer.

The prospect of crates containing millions of bees being on passenger flights is a disaster in the making. If you don't understand why this is dangerous, ask an adult. Can you imagine 5 million bees swarming a passenger flight? No people should be anywhere near these bees unless they have special training and perhaps a beekeeping suit.

Even last month's incident could have threatened many people. When the bees first got to Atlanta, they were kept in a cooler. But many of the bees escaped from the cooler – right there inside the airport, no less.

At the end of the day, we need to make sure that bees are considered hazardous cargo that may not be transported on passenger flights. If this isn't a rule or law already, it ought to be.

Have no fear, the May ish is here!

May wouldn't be May if the May edition of The Last Word wasn't pub!

This ish talks about my waterlogged sleeping bag on a camping trip, 4th grade troubles, Kentucky Horse Park tickets getting ruined by ketchup, luxury cruises getting spoiled in ridiculous ways, and more! It's not sold in any store!

So beep your bipper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/572219772/The-Last-Word-5-2022

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Another Kroger bubbling (imagine that!)

Today at Kroger, some woman bubbled.

Comic Book Guy goes Krogering

Earlier, I received an e-mail declaring that a person who resembled Comic Book Guy from 'The Simpsons' was seen at a Kroger. He was even wearing a 'Star Wars' hoodie!

The e-mail also said Casey Kasem mentioned 'Sesame Street' in a rebroadcast of an 'American Top 40' from 1973. He made reference to "a Muppet called Ernie."

In addition, the e-mail said a person bubbled conspicuously and with extreme dispatch at a local park.

A person got mad because Elon Musk doesn't have a master's degree

Using literacy tests to disqualify voters was an ugly chapter in American history. But the mindset that drove this requirement lives on in the credentialism that defines America's elites today.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is an improvement over the previous disastrous state of affairs, but if we just go by raw measures, it would be a wash. Musk is a billionaire, but he has no master's degree. I only oppose the billionaire part – not the part about not having a master's degree.

Some nobody posted on Twitter that Musk "doesn't even have a Master's degree. Is that who we are going to trust with the future of our democracy?" Guess what? I don't have a master's degree either.

The elites say it's just fine for billionaires to buy up entire venues – as long as they have a master's degree. Maybe people with higher education levels should be disqualified from positions of power – because they didn't exactly handle the pandemic very well.

People are right to be wary of a billionaire owning Twitter. But who do you think owned it before Elon Musk did? The Last Word?

More "vote blue no matter who" hypocrisy

Democratic blogs have long urged folks to "vote blue no matter who." That's their bag, I guess, and I could tolerate it before these blogs sold out their principles in the name of fighting the pandemic. Appeasing wealthy donors who acted in bad faith and supported a bio-juche dictatorship was more important than principles to them.

But recent developments have shown that these blogs don't even abide by their own "vote blue" maxim.

Visit any shitlib blog of the "vote blue no matter who" strain lately, and you'll see they spend more time attacking Democrats than fascist Republicans like Mitt Romney. One of their biggest targets lately is Tulsi Gabbard, who is the topic of endless red-baiting. If the next presidential election is Romney versus Gabbard, you know damn well they'll support Romney. Another Democratic target over the past couple years is Virginia State Sen. Chap Petersen – thanks to his rather consistent opposition to the COVID police state. The shitlib blogosphere has actually tried to recruit a challenger to Petersen.

I wanted to see what Daily Kos said about Utah Democrats supporting Evan McMullin for Senate. Naturally, the Kos Kids are praising the move.

In other words, perhaps the biggest "vote blue no matter who" blog out there has rejected Democrats like Gabbard and Petersen - but embraced a right-winger like McMullin over an actual Democrat.

Do they even realize how ridiculous they sound?

Illinois school district punished students over MySpace posts (a blast from the past)

How out of control were the autocratic ghouls who run our school systems back in the 2000s? Almost as out of control as they are now.

My Big Cleaning yielded a story about the fascism practiced by schools in Libertyville, Illinois, in 2006. The school system declared that students would be punished if they used MySpace or other websites to depict under-age drinking or other "illegal or inappropriate behavior" – even if these posts were not made from school or using school resources, and even if the content was completely unconnected to school. Even if they made these posts from their own home, they would be disciplined.

Students were required to sign a pledge agreeing that such content would be grounds for punishment. The school district vowed to follow up on tips alerting them to these posts.

School officials sound like big Democrats to me. I bet they wrote letters demanding lockdowns.

More Tommy Thompson right-wing extremism (a blast from the past)

Tommy Thompson is one of these fascists from 20 years ago who now seems to be among the Democrats' favorite Republicans – ever since the propellerheads switched parties and traded their Wall Street business suits for Silicon Valley underpants.

Thompson is the right-wing 4-term former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services in the George W. Bush thugocracy. He ran for President in 2008 but was forced out of the running after making a series of anti-Semitic remarks. Most recently, Thompson humiliated himself through his actions as interim president of the University of Wisconsin System.

As my Big Cleaning gets under way, I found a folder full of news stories on my computer dating back over 20 years that I never got to cover – because our rulers would always outdo themselves by doing something even stupider. In 2002, Thompson – while he was part of the Bush regime – announced that the government would oppose labeling of genetically engineered frankenfoods. "Mandatory labeling will only frighten consumers," he told a biotech gathering. Boo! He went on to say, "Labeling implies that biotechnology products are unsafe.'' Uh. Aren't they?

That was after 19 countries already required labeling.

This was also when Bush planned to move 300 workers from HHS to the Department of Homeland Security – a department that to this day has accomplished nothing positive.

As HHS head, Thompson succeeded Donna Shalala, who helped to nearly ruin the Democrats' electoral chances in 2020 with her vanity congressional campaign. Shalala brang her own extremism to the fore, which ultimately wasn't much different from Thompson's recent travails. Republican hero worship of big corporations 20 years ago was borne of the same bad intentions as Democratic support for corporations today.

Because frankenfoods were not labeled, American consumers remained in the dark for years thereafter. It wasn't until 2016 that Congress passed a law to try to give people more information on what they put into their bodies. The labels did not appear until this year, and some confusion still reigns. To add insult to injury, an NPR story about the labels repeated a false claim that there's no evidence that genetically engineered crops are harmful to humans.

Why should the media be trusted on any issue if they amplify outright lies like that in plain sight?

Bubbling season has sprung

Today, a person walking up the street bubbled a humongous bub.

Utah Democrats back Evan McMullin for Senate

The Democratic Party as we once knew it has essentially ceased to exist.

Utah Democrats had a candidate to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee in November. It's not as if Democrats in Utah are better than anywhere else, as they hopelessly botched the COVID response in the Salt Lake City area – but then again, Republicans botched it to an extent in the rest of the state. But now Utah Democrats have voted at their convention to ditch the Democratic candidate for Senate and instead support independent Evan McMullin.

McMullin ran for President in 2016, painting himself as a "respectable" conservative, in contrast to Donald Trump. By all accounts, McMullin is no progressive, and he probably wouldn't have been a major Democratic candidate 30 years ago. The Democrats back then were enough of a big tent party that they might have nominated candidates of differing policy stances – but not someone who flat-out wasn't a Democrat.

Any Utah voter who is legitimately a Democrat or outside the conservative fold is now finding themselves with no candidate to vote for. Of course, with the Democratic Party being the twisted mess it is now, this isn't unique to Utah, as Democratic candidates have inched more and more into what would have been considered right-wing authoritarianism just a few years ago. I'm also accustomed to local races where there is often no Democratic candidate, because corrupt Democratic party bosses often make backroom deals with the Republicans to let the GOP run unopposed. This story also reminds me of that congressional race in Hawaii some years ago where right-wing Democrats fielded their own candidate to split the Democratic vote and "prove" that more liberal candidates couldn't win. But at least these events aren't such an obvious concession as what happened in Utah where the Democrats actually backed a separate conservative candidacy of someone who isn't even a Democrat.

Democratic "leaders" don't give a damn about anyone except themselves and their corporate allies.

South Fairmount! Park Hills! Newport! Game day bucket go boom!

Roads Scholaring continues to loom large in the world of the Great Royal Tim. The magic continued in February, when I pept the brand bippus bustin' new Lick Run Greenway. The greenway has a poo connection, as it was part of a sewer project...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/cinwest22.html

If that fails to enchant you, there's a few photos from March that focus mainly on the area around the new detention basin in Park Hills, a project that decimated the old Amsterdam Road setup...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/covph22.html

It's free like pee!

My, my, my Bologna...

China's ruling regime has long been a darling of the American media, which possesses a deep-seated love of authoritarian governments and policies. In the past few years, China has become known for what's called a social credit system – which is a bit like the hated practice of credit scores, but instead of focusing on economic activity, it punishes people if their behavior is not considered virtuous. It involves widespread mass surveillance.

Now the Italian city of Bologna is becoming the first place in the Western world to introduce a social credit system for its citizenry. It has been speculated that it may soon be the rule throughout all of Italy.

Bologna officials call it a "smart citizen wallet" that awards "digital points" based on a person's conduct, especially if the person "does not receive sanctions from the municipal authority."

Think it won't happen in America? Remember, the system of credit scores that we have – which effectively confers titles of nobility - only dates to the late 1980s. Americans in the 1970s probably never thought that oppressive system could happen.

275 photos from New Mexico trip!

Some of you may recall when I visited New Mexico this past October.

That trip yielded 275 photos of a Scholaring interest, and now I've posted all of them for the whole wide world to ogle (beep).

So point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21c.html
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Hochul pollster helped Amazon anti-worker effort

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is one of the most evil major politicians in America. Though the Democratic Party is often associated with labor union support, party brass has shown itself to be allied only with unions that are corrupt – like the teachers' unions that have connived to keep America's schools closed and deny children an education, or other crooked unions that have sided with chamber of commerce groups and the World Economic Forum in supporting the fascist "new normal."

The people we are talking about above are not simply misguided. They are bad people.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island recently voted in favor of forming a union, making it the online retailer's first unionized facility. Yet Democratic leaders fought against this unionization drive, because the union didn't pledge to support the "new normal."

Jeffrey Pollock's Global Strategy Group - the main pollster for Hochul and other Democrats - helped prepare the company's anti-union literature. Hochul's campaign committee paid this pollster $123,000 for services for months after she became governor. Pollock was also a longtime Hochul consultant and served as a pollster for the disgraced Andrew Cuomo. Pollock helped Cuomo fight against sexual harassment allegations.

It isn't just these individual disgraced politicians. The state Democratic Party, Democratic Governors' Association, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and other Democratic groups used Pollock's firm too.

It isn't the entire party, of course. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is challenging Hochul in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, said the scandal represents "typical Hochul hypocrisy." Suspiciously, congressional Democrats launched an inquiry against Suozzi after he decided to challenge Hochul.

What a disgrace the party has become. I never would have joined the local Young Democrats when I was in college if I knew the party would be this bad now. The corruption, totalitarianism, and anti-worker activity we're seeing from the Democrats now is the sort of thing we used to rightly attribute to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Right-wing whining about taxes blasts apart GOP

It's breathtaking that anyone can grumble that the rich are paying too much in taxes and expect to be taken seriously. Yet this complaint has guided the Republican Party for 30 years.

Now, however, even Republican heavy hitters are starting to sour on this stale whine.

Mike Gibbons – a Republican millionaire who is running for Senate in Ohio – griped at a media event that middle-class Americans don't pay "any kind of a fair share" of income taxes, while the rich pay too much. Gibbons said the idea that the rich are winning out at the expense of the middle class is "absolutely false."

Gibbons's hinting that taxes should be raised on the middle class but not the rich has been assailed by the rest of the Republican field in the Senate primary. One rival even called Gibbons "Tax Hike Mike." Some of these Republicans have also opposed national GOP plans to raise taxes on the middle class.

Of course, I'm guessing the Democrats support Gibbons – just like how they keep praising Mike DeWine and calling those who oppose him fascists. The totalitarian Bush-era right-wing extremism that crushed the poor and working class still exists to some degree within both major parties, but in the past couple years, it's taken over the Democrats to the same extent that it ruled the Republicans for decades before. Bill Kristol becoming a Democrat wasn't a good sign for the party. Just days ago, a Reddit commenter said the Democrats "are the kings at being handed a fucking gift and dropping it off a cliff." The Democrats seizing the mantle as the party of Wall Street, incompetent technocrats, bullies, and incels sums up their tendency to squander a political bonanza. The Democrats' refusal to condemn Gibbons speaks volumes.

If the jackboot fits, wear it, Dems. And if it feels good, put it on.

Have no fear, the April ish is here!

The birds are chirping, something's in the air (possibly a bunker blast)! And the April issue of The Last Word is now bobbing along the landscape!

This ish focuses primarily on a brief documentary video I made ridiculing the decline of NKU! It also discusses bad reviews of dirty Waikiki Beach restrooms and other nifty doings!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/567130595/The-Last-Word-4-2022

If that doesn't work, bip on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2204.pdf