Right-wing judge throws out rule against noncompetes

The growing fascism in America is enough to turn your brain into bubble glop.

Thirty years ago, it was generally understood that holding workers to noncompete clauses after they no longer worked at the workplace where they signed it was illegal. Then - despite little or no new laws on the matter - it was assumed by many to be legal unless your state had a specific law against it. But now, unelected judges won't even allow laws that prohibit noncompetes.

Not long ago, the Biden administration - in a rare moment of clarity - issued a nationwide regulation against noncompetes. But now U.S. District Judge Ada Brown has thrown out this rule. The reasoning for this ruling by the judge - a Trump appointee who was confirmed to her post in a bipartisan lovefest - is impossible to follow.

The case against the regulation was lodged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - a secret society that supported totalitarian COVID measures and has praised some of the vilest overseas dictatorships in modern times.

Our rulers no longer have the capability to carry out the duties of their office, and rarely even have the desire to do it.

Animation ruination

The greed never ceases.

Recently, it was announced that 4 new episodes of 'The Simpsons' this season will not be seen on broadcast TV and will instead be shown only on Disney+ - a subscription streaming service nobody has.

Granted, 'The Simpsons' ain't what it used to be. I was enamored of it for its first 25 years. But I stopped watching it when it got agonizingly dumb. That was around the time of the episode about Maggie whistling and the appearances of the guy who always shook his face and said, "You're fiiiiiiiiiirrrrred!" But can't a guy catch a fresh Simps without having to pay for what used to be free?

Much of what's going on here is that entertainment is afflicted by the same problem that afflicts other industries. It's become a giant corporate empire. Disney+ is part of Disney Streaming, which is part of Disney Entertainment, which is part of the Walt Disney Company. 'The Simpsons' is under 4 levels of corporate bureaucracy. Disney also now owns Pixar, Marvel, the 'Star Wars' franchise, Hulu, and more.

At minimum - the absolute very minimum - you'd think Disney+ being co-owned with Hulu would violate antitrust regulations. For a single company to own so many other brands and franchises would also seem to be an antitrust violation. But everyone knows that antitrust enforcement is a four-letter word these days. The federal government has an antitrust division - but hardly ever uses it. The government will throw people in jail for not practicing social distancing on a beach, but it won't enforce even minimal antitrust rules.

Corporations - in any industry, not just entertainment - have no constitutional right to exist at all. But they are treated as if they have more rights than people do.

One of the basic charges of the FCC is to make sure broadcasters act in the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." I think it's time for the FCC to step in and make sure TV and radio remain as free as ever. Not like I expect much from the FCC either, because it spends more time raiding pirate stations that don't hurt anyone than breaking up the monopolies that already afflict broadcasting. The FCC rubber-stamps companies buying too many stations, which would have violated old ownership caps. It even allows companies to own more than one TV network, which itself violates antitrust rules.

One of the priorities of our leaders should be to break up big corporations in every industry. What's happening to 'The Simpsons' is just a tiny piece of the corporate tyranny that has enveloped society.

Judge who ruled against RFK Jr. was fired for "ethical missteps"

The Democrats are a party of right-wing crooks and tyrants, and their corrupt machine in New York state only proves it more.

Early this week, New York Supreme Court Justice Christina Ryba struck Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in that state after a lawsuit filed by a Democratic superPAC. The thing about superPAC's is that they weren't even permitted until the far-right Citizens United ruling. The realignment of the 2020s has led the Democrats to abandon a proposed constitutional amendment to remedy this ruling, as the party has become fueled primarily by superPAC's.

This superPAC could be using the money it raised to promote Democratic candidates on their own merits. The problem with that is that the Democrats no longer have any merits. So instead they use this money to file frivolous lawsuits to knock opponents of the ballot. This dough was raised not from the Democrats' old working-class base but from millionaire professionals who have taken over the party because the Republicans in 2020 weren't authoritarian enough for them. Think the laptop underpantsers and a few academics.

Kennedy is appealing Ryba's decision, but it's important to look at what Ryba wrote in her ruling. For one thing, the Democrats' argument was that Kennedy is not actually a New York resident, so he should not appear on the New York ballot. What??? You don't need to be a resident of a particular state to run for President. Besides, Kennedy is clearly a New Yorker, as he votes and pays taxes in New York and has New York hunting and driver's licenses. If he lived in California, he wouldn't be able to have Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney sharing the same state didn't matter, because they were never required to follow rules like everyone else.

Ryba complained that Kennedy's home isn't a "bona fide and legitimate residence, but merely a 'sham' address" and that his claim to live in his own home is "highly improbable, if not preposterous."

A judge said that??? Can you imagine Harry Blackmun or Earl Warren writing a ruling that made such obviously partisan claims and said an argument like Kennedy's was a "sham" and "preposterous"? Is this a court or a sitcom?

But if you're a senator, you do have to live in the state you represent. If Kennedy is not a New York resident, how was Hillary Clinton able to claim New York residency? Clinton was actually still First Lady when she was sworn in as senator, so it's hard to see how she was a New Yorker.

This isn't the only ruling by Ryba that has no legal ground. In 2022, she threw out an Albany ordinance that protected tenants from illegal evictions. Landlords may evict tenants for cause - e.g., if tenants create a nuisance or refuse to pay rent. Albany's ordinance only barred evictions that lacked cause. Prohibiting these evictions strengthened contractual obligations and protected housing. Ryba's decision against Albany's law threatened the protections that existed not only in Albany but also elsewhere in New York state.

(This isn't the only bad court ruling regarding housing in New York state in recent years. Last year, a court ruled a co-op can evict without cause the unmarried partner of a deceased shareholder - even if they were in a long-term relationship. This runs roughshod over common law and other legal concepts.)

It turns out that several years ago, Ryba was fired as an appellate division lawyer because of "ethical missteps."

Our entire political process has become an "ethical misstep" - especially since superPAC's have been allowed to steal elections.

Walz jailed COVID dissidents

I knew there had to be a reason the media is so enamored of Tim Walz.

Walz is portrayed as some big teddy bear who really didn't maliciously overstep his authority during COVID like governors of more populated states like Gavin Newsom, Mike DeWine, and Kathy Hochul did. But that's far from the truth.

It turns out that a woman who ran a wine and coffee bistro in Albert Lea was actually jailed for violating Walz's COVID orders. The business followed Minnesota's shutdown orders at first, but refused to close during the later orders that began in November 2020. That was while big box retailers and other huge chains were allowed to remain open.

Let me repeat: This was under new orders issued in November 2020 - not March.

Outrageously, the state was still pursuing the case against the bistro owner even in December 2021, and she was sentenced to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. She missed Christmas and the birth of a grandchild.

And a small business was ruined - while big corporations only got richer.

It also turns out that Walz ordered police to shoot people with paintball guns just for being on their front porch during his stay-at-home order. Entire squads of police patrolled neighborhoods to carry out this assault.

Until now, these stories were never even reported anywhere that we could find them, unlike the lockdowns in general.

The man who gave us "Mind your own damn business!" wouldn't mind his own damn business. And he shows no remorse. He still insists he was right.

Tim Walz is a thin-skinned fascist, a gangster-like figure who is part of a banana republic. The revelations about Walz aren't even the only major story about our overlords' fascism to emerge in recent days, so you may want to keep an eye on this blog.

June! July! Game day bucket go boom!

I still amass local Roads Scholaring photos, and I've gotten 10 more from my immediate area over the past couple months. Read 'em and bip...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/daybel24.html

Kids acted cool in stores

Today I received an important e-mail about little kids acting up in stores.

Last week, a boy who was about 3 years old loudly imitated Cookie Monster in the cookie aisle at Kroger.

This morning, a youngster - possibly the same one - was in the balloon section at Meijer. He popped a balloon and let at least one other balloon float to the ceiling where it will never be retrieved.

A Bellevue bunkeroo for your bemusement

Today, I was walking down Fairfield, and a man piling laundry into his car ripped an LAP bunker blast.

Have no fear, the August ish is here!

August wouldn't be August if we didn't publish the August ish of The Last Word! And if it didn't rain constantly. Wait, that's every month.

This ish talks about the recent increase in online censorship inspired by Murthy v. Missouri, a shoplifter who chewed bubble gum, signs that mislabel public roads as private, people filling bubble gum with Pepsi, and more! It's not sold in any store!

So point your bippus here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/754704082/The-Last-Word-8-2024

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

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2408.pdf

SBD1 ruins condos

Sanitation District #1 of Northern Kentucky - SD1, or as I call it, SBD1 - strikes again!

Dozens of residents of a condo complex in Southgate are being forced to relocate because a sewer excavation project by SBD1 created slippage in a nearby hillside. Cracks have appeared in the condos, and a building has even separated from the ground.

The excavation itself was to serve new luxury developments that are being built all over. So people are threatened not only by a landslide but also unchecked gentrification that is artificially jacking up housing costs.

Some residents though have not relocated, because none of them have received any financial assistance to do so. SBD1 has so far been unwilling to pay for the damage.

This is the same SBD1 that was involved in months-long infrastructure closures in Bellevue that contributed to many Bellevue residents losing their shirts. These prolonged closures were also accompanied by the digging of deep holes in sidewalks that endangered pedestrians and animals. That was after this agency was stacked with political patronage appointees.

These appointees are of course allied with the groups that have politicized pretty much the entire Kentucky "education" system - that is to say the pro-lockdown Charles Koch Foundation. As always, follow the money.

Layin' some logs in the Aug!

You may know that back in May, I went on a family trip to St. Augustine!

That event yielded 168 photos for my Roads Scholaring collection, and you're gonna read 'em and peep...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/sa24a.html
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Questions for the naysayers

There are 2 issues that are so important that I've begun to base my vote almost entirely on them. One issue is Social Security. The other is accountability for the atrocities during COVID lockdowns. At this point, I care far less about a candidate's stances on other issues. One issue that comes close is gentrification, but that comes up at the local level a lot more than in national politics.

These issues come up in conversation, but a few naysayers keep asking why I still want accountability for events from 3 or 4 years ago. For one thing, COVID mandates haven't completely ended. For another, saying I should let it slide would be like if your Social Security is cut and you don't try to get it back.

But there's a more important question I've never once gotten an answer for. Why should we have had such severe mandates at any time since 2020, considering we got along fine without them before?

Gotcha on that!

Why aren't we using the same standards to define child abuse now as we did before 2020? The standards began backsliding in 2020, making the world more dangerous for children.

Do you really think there'd be as much support for COVID mandates as there was if the media hadn't egged it on? Be honest. Gotcha on that too!

How many stay-at-home orders were ever enacted to fight disease outbreaks before 2020? Other than among medical workers performing surgery or dentistry, how many mask mandates were there before 2020? How many amusement parks and schools demanded people wear masks before 2020? How many medical offices demanded masks on patients? Wouldn't a daycare be charged with child abuse if they put a mask on a 2-year-old before 2020? If I was a prosecutor, and if this happened in my county, I would prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

You don't put masks on 2-year-olds. Ever!

When were schools ever shut down for a whole year or two over a disease outbreak before 2020? I can understand closing schools for a few days, and once in a great while - a long, long, long while - that used to happen. But 2 years?

Why should we have permanent mandates now, when we never had them before 2020? Gotcha on that too! Imagine that!

Getting coherent answers would rule.

Uniparty faces challenge in Maryland

This is very rare, but we have to correct something we posted yesterday.

It appears as if the U.S. Senate election in Maryland actually has more than 2 candidates. Ballotpedia says that in addition to the living disasters in the Republican and Democratic parties, there's also a Green, a Libertarian, and an independent. We were unaware of this, because of a post in another forum.

Thank heavens Marylanders may have a choice, but don't expect the media to let any of these other 3 candidates win.

Right-wing New York councilmember arrested for biting cop

In March, we told you about Susan Zhuang, a right-wing Democrat on New York City Council. She abused city e-mail accounts to raise funds for a nonprofit tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and she also organized a far-right rally against a proposed homeless shelter.

Zhuang was at another such protest today. And she was arrested for biting a police patrol chief. She faces numerous charges including felony assault, resisting arrest, and obstruction of governmental administration. Zhuang was among 9 people arrested for their conduct at the event.

Another day in the life of a right-wing uniparty acolyte.

Another idiot exposed

I used to think the Republicans would never be outdone in their horridness, but the Democrats lately have degenerated into a strange, unrecognizable glop.

Let's take a look at the disaster unfolding in Maryland. The U.S. Senate race there has only 2 major candidates: Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. Hogan is no genius, but Alsobrooks is just an absolute idiot.

When Alsobrooks won her primary, the media held her up as some great progressive champion. That's far from the truth. This is a "progressive" who, in her 2018 campaign for county executive, accepted hefty donations from real estate developers to influence her stances. Her current Senate race is funded largely by wealthy developers in the Washington, D.C., area.

A Maryland law said politicians could not accept contributions from developers with projects pending in their county. Seems pretty fair, doesn't it? But Alsobrooks claimed this law was racist.

How?????

This is how the Democrats try to win votes these days. Instead of real progressive policy proposals, they adopt right-wing stances and attack real progressive legislation as racist. They've become a right-wing party that operates in a universe that's perfectly congruent to the existing right-wing party, yet nominally outside of it.

I firmly believe the Republican voter suppression bills so common a few years ago were racist. Much of what the GOP said and did at the time was. But campaign finance laws are not racist.

Maryland Democrats are so corrupt that they passed new laws not long ago that gutted these campaign laws.

During the 2020 election, Alsobrooks demanded that the county's 229 polling places be collapsed into only 15. Hogan clearly had the better stance regarding this, as he pointed out that this would violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Alsobrooks responded to this criticism by accusing Hogan of not locking down hard enough to fight COVID-19.

Thus it's no surprise that Prince George's County under Alsobrooks had one of the worst COVID records of any county in America. You can probably count on one hand the number of counties that were worse. As late as November 2020, she issued new capacity limits and other restrictions that were much stricter than state rules. She announced she would send "compliance teams" to break up private and public gatherings and close down businesses that tolerated such events.

If you support such extreme measures, you're not a progressive, but a right-wing authoritarian. Period.

The long and short of it is that the Democratic "leadership" has become a right-wing body that falsely accuses people of racism for daring to criticize them. Modern examples go back at least as far as 2016, when Hillary Clinton claimed Bernie Sanders's plan to break up big banks was racist, but this series of statements really didn't guide the party until 2020. It's actually a big change in a very short time.

It's a shame politics doesn't work like sports. When the Cincinnati Bengals were at their nadir, there was serious talk of suing the team on behalf of taxpayers who were forced to fund their stadium. This was on the grounds that the Bengals were failing to field a competitive team. It would be nice to be able to sue the Democrats in the same manner, as they've refused to field a competitive party. It's not just Maryland. The Democrats refused to even run a candidate in our local congressional district - telling Democratic voters to vote in the Republican primary instead, which is impossible because Kentucky is a closed primary state. Some Democratic insiders have told reporters off the record that the party has even conceded the presidential race to Donald Trump.

We don't have a two-party system - even in contests that are supposedly competitive. The major parties have mostly the same policy stances and differ very little other than in the way they use racism.

Another new mask mandate (imagine that!)

My latest Substack entry describes a brand new COVID mask mandate that just cropped up:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/another-new-mask-mandate-imagine

A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at Kroger, some woman bubbled a green bub.

Another broken promise, another year of masks in schools

My latest Substack entry is about the stupidity of masks in schools continuing in the 2021-22 school year, and the lawbreaking of schools imposing mandates in states where it was not allowed:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/another-broken-promise-another-year

Have no fear, the July ish is here!

The July ish of The Last Word is pub-a-roo!

This installment talks about yet more ruined vacations, a coordinated censorship effort on Twitter, scary TV shows and commercials, a scam by overseas third party sellers on Amazon, a teacher getting angry when students didn't do an assignment on the election, and more!

You can't find it on Scribd, because they're blocking it again. But you can slink on over here to read the latest Last Word...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2407.pdf

Utility to shut off power on purpose

America is essentially a third world country now.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company is the greedy firm that has a monopoly on electricity and gas service in much of California. PG&E's negligence has led to many devastating and deadly wildfires. In 2010, PG&E even caused a pipeline explosion in a residential San Bruno neighborhood that killed 8. Now PG&E plans to shut off power in several counties this week as temperatures are forecast to reach 100° F.

So PG&E refuses to provide the service it has a monopoly on.

But when the power isn't off, PG&E charges its customers exorbitant rates. Online comments say the company charges as much as $300 per month.

Some parts of the country and the world have been hotter than 100° lately, and the utility companies there haven't shut off the power - yet. So this is on PG&E - and the California Public Utilities Commission, which has a cozy relationship with PG&E. It was this relationship that enabled PG&E to neglect its pipeline, causing the 2010 blast.

That's in a state whose "leaders" are always making nasty online posts about the Rust Belt and Appalachia, but at least most of those states haven't banned as many books or jailed as many surfers as California has over the past few years.

Murthy Murthy me...Things ain't what they used to be...

The U.S. Supreme Court ought to start publishing their rulings on toilet paper.

When they get things right, it's only by accident. Last week, we discussed the court's recent ruling that rightly requires investors in foreign corporations to pay taxes like everyone else, but that was one of very few constitutionally sound decisions they've made lately. Even then, I think they only got it right because they happened to stumble into it. Regarding almost everything else these days, they just completely ignore elementary law that we learned in 7th grade civics class.

Their ruling this week in Murthy v. Missouri is one of the most outrageously bad decisions in the court's history. This case was prompted by the Biden administration colluding with social media sites to censor content such as COVID "misinformation." Much of the "misinformation" that was censored was actually true. The Twitter Files prove this.

It is folly to characterize those who fought the White House on this as "right-wing." If you support government censorship like this, you're not a progressive. Period. This is what right-wing dictatorships do. You expect to see something like this under totalitarian butchers like Emmanuel Macron. You don't expect to see it in a democracy. Yet the whiny nerds at Vox produced a lengthy article attacking judges who opposed this censorship as "right-wing."

That was even after right-wing Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the Supreme Court opinion in Murthy v. Missouri that allows this censorship. Vox is siding with some of the most right-wing Justices in history, yet is accusing everyone else of being "right-wing." Vox also laughably claimed that those who opposed the censorship were actually suppressing the White House's free speech rights - not the other way around. Vox also said the First Amendment does not bar the government from asking social media sites to remove content. Yes it does, you idiots.

This ruling came even after every lower court - without exception - ruled against this suppression of free speech.

What's the Supreme Court's "reasoning"? They said it was because those who fought against this censorship lacked standing, but as hard as we try, we cannot follow this contorted line of thinking. In fact, those who were censored were no longer the plaintiffs by the time the case reached the Supremes. The case started out as Missouri v. Biden but was later retitled as Murthy v. Missouri. So the actual plaintiff was Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who the victims were fighting against. If the case was thrown out, it should have been because Murthy lacked standing to sue those who were censored.

The Supreme Court is a rogue court. There are some issues where the Constitution leaves absolutely no wiggle room. This is one of them. The rights listed in the Bill of Rights were not created by people. They are natural rights. That's what "inalienable rights" means. Every current member of the Supreme Court has at some point recently placed either political alliances or weird legal theories ahead of real law.

But in this constitutional republic, real law takes precedence over the bizarre opinions of a few unelected dictators in black robes. Some things in the Constitution have to be interpreted, but there is no ambiguity that such government collusion with social networking sites violates free speech. Absolutely zero. The Supremes' ruling in Murthy v. Missouri is George W. Bush-level stuff.

Kentucky colleges raise tuition

A market system is full of vagaries and inequalities, but it's the economic model that we've been force-fed for almost everything we do. If you're in a position that you qualify for some program like medical benefits, you'll find that works better than leaving everything up to the market. But market economics are likely the reason you ended up poor enough to qualify.

Along with our commitment to civil liberties, our interest in economic justice is one of the reasons we dissent from COVID tyranny, but that's another topic altogether.

When I started college, I planned to major in broadcasting. Everyone tried to discourage me, saying there wasn't enough of a "market" for broadcasters. My response was always the same: Who cares? A few people even said I shouldn't qualify for any sort of financial aid unless I majored in something "marketable", but that argument is ridiculous on its stupid face.

Market hawks hounded me about my choice for a major. So I should be allowed to hound Kentucky colleges about the all-important "market."

There's a crazy little thing called supply and demand. In this decade, academia has destroyed their own credibility. As a result, colleges and universities all over America - maybe the world - faced a steep drop in enrollment in the early 2020s. They wanted to turn schools into prisons, and lots of our young people just weren't having it. For the most part, the enrollment decline wasn't the students' fault. There were a few students who demanded more fascism, but they came from trust fund backgrounds, and their peers didn't give a shit what they thought. When I was in college, nobody would have put up with it, period.

Demand among students for a college education has dropped. So tuition should become cheaper, right?

Well, welcome to Kentucky. In Kentucky schools, market economics is like the fourth 'R'. But not when schools actually have to follow it themselves. Accordingly, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education has just increased tuition at most state colleges and universities - despite less demand.

This is one of a series of episodes in recent days that shows that Democratic corruption has gone past the point of no return. We can safely say they're even more corrupt than the Republicans now, even though the GOP is also far from innocent. Unlike 20 years ago when the state was mired in Republican corruption, the Democrats run Kentucky now. This is on you, Dems.

Dear Democrats: Get your corruption out of my state. The North Carolina State Board of Elections would be happy to have you if you want to be corrupt.

Higher education has become a money pit rather than a serious academic institution. It's one of the biggest scams in the country. I'm also sick of their smug attitude and disproportionate amount of power.

Lockdowns are for the birds

My newest Substack entry reports that new lockdowns are already in the works for bird flu:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/lockdowns-are-for-the-birds

Supremes uphold tax on foreign income

There's a consensus that the rich haven't been paying their fair share in taxes. One of few good things in the otherwise miserable Trump tax law of 2017 is a onetime tax on dividends made by shareholders in foreign companies. Before that tax was enacted, companies could dodge American taxes by parking their profits outside the country.

A couple in Washington state launched a bizarre court challenge against that tax after they had to pay taxes on their investments in India. They said the tax was unconstitutional under the Sixteenth Amendment. This is ridiculous because the Sixteenth Amendment specifically authorizes an income tax.

After losing in lower courts, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supremes have now ruled 7-2 against them. Right-wing Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas were the only dissenters.

The lawsuit was actually frivolous. I remember when the far right accused everyone of filing frivolous suits, but this is about as frivolous as it gets - with the exception of well-funded suits filed against state governments and schools by those claiming COVID restrictions weren't draconian enough.

Sports of all sorts

My latest Substack entry is a brief account of idiotic attempts to enforce mask mandates at school sporting events:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/sports-of-all-sorts

Schools and masks: a bad mix

I've been building up to this entry for months, and it's a long one. My latest Substack entry finally deals at length with the unparalleled evil of mask mandates in schools:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/schools-and-masks-a-bad-mix

It's against the law, revisited

I have a new Substack entry that's a brief look at politicians issuing COVID mandates in violation of state laws that explicitly banned them:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/its-against-the-law-revisited

More Reagan extremism

Forty years after the Reagan regime, we're still being forced to recap all the ways Rappin' Ronnie failed America and stole from workers.

He supported right-wing dictatorships abroad. He cut Social Security by raising the retirement age - a change that is now taking effect (which our "leaders" refuse to fix). And he added special new taxes on service workers who weren't making much money to begin with.

Most Americans who aren't in service jobs and don't have to rely on tips had thought that tips were not taxed. But it turns out they are. Donald Trump is making an issue of it, though I doubt he'll do anything about it if he wins - especially after his tax increase on the working class in 2017. But who started taxing tips in the first place?

I'll give you 3 guesses: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, and Ronald Reagan.

Reagan began taxing tips even as he began giving handouts to the rich.

Why does every city and town have some road or public landmark named for Reagan? He was the worst President in history not named Bush, yet historical negationists treat him as a god.

A person bubbled at New China Buffet

Today at New China Buffet, some woman bubbled.

Yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip, mum-mum-mum-mum-mum-mum, get a job!

My latest Substack entry is about how allegedly "progressive" lockdown advocates use extreme rhetoric that makes them sound like what they claim to oppose:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-mum

Philly mayor breaks agreement with homeless advocates

The worst big city mayor in America strikes again!

Back in 2020, the city of Philadelphia reached an agreement with advocates for the homeless that said a "village" of tiny homes would be constructed on a city-owned parcel. But - after taking office at the start of this year - Mayor Cherelle Parker decided to unilaterally scrap this agreement.

There is now a plan to build a drug treatment center there, but even the optics of this plan aren't as bad as the act of taking away the tiny homes that were promised. No plan has been put forth to build the homes elsewhere after Parker's right-wing dictatorship scrapped the original plan.