Have no fear, the December ish is here!

It's another December to dismember at The Last Word, as our December issue is now pub!

This ish talks about more bad Domino Rally reviews, people throwing pizza on the floor during high school outings, the battle of the bubble gum dyes, a student buying pot at school (which used shredded Ranger Rick magazines for cut), med school students getting expelled for abusing cadavers, and more!

So read it now before it reads you...

https://www.scribd.com/document/610883864/The-Last-Word-12-2022

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http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2212.pdf

New York City to lock up "mentally ill" without trial

Since 2020, the bigger the city, the more of a fascist stronghold it is.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams – already on record as supporting child abuse, getting a city worker fired for speaking out against it, and running an administration that lied in court in a related case – is at it again. Adams has now announced the city will involuntarily commit the so-called "mentally ill" without any sort of trial or hearing, even if they pose no threat to anyone.

Why? Because Eric Adams is a hateful, hateful man, that's why. In a city with a long string of incompetent mayors, that shouldn't be too surprising, but Adams's totalitarianism has few rivals.

Today's Democratic "leaders" hate America, and they hate freedom. It shows every time their traps flip open.

New York's latest directive would unambiguously violate the Supreme Court's 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson ruling. This unanimous landmark decision says people may not be indefinitely committed against their will.

Wait! There's more! The city is also urging passage of a state law to bolster the city's stance.

The Coalition for Homeless rightly blasted the city's new directive, but the city is sure to dig in.

In the 2000s and 2010s, America's cities were the home of modern pioneers and innovators. Now our cities are the home of gentrified goosesteppers.

Colleges should pay to have student debt canceled

One of the issues Occupy took up was student debt. Occupy Cincinnati once had a march about this issue, and we were actually attacked during it.

These days, I don't expect anything productive to be done on this or any other matter, given the sorry state of our political system. To give you an idea of how bad things are, in one recent local election, the supposedly most progressive of the 3 candidates wanted to bring back the draft. Today's so-called progressives have become the war hawks that real progressives have long fought against.

I've long supported canceling student debt, but not long ago, some folks actually raised a good argument against it. While debt would be canceled for people who went to college, what about those who never had the chance to go to college? What do they get from canceling student debt?

That's a fair point, but it doesn't make college debt any less burdensome. Another drawback of canceling student debt is that all of us taxpayers would be on the hook for it. So here's my solution: Make colleges pay for it. This would apply to public and private colleges alike, so not all of it would be shouldered by taxpayers.

Think of this as a warranty. For decades, I've said that schools should be subject to warranties that guarantee the quality of the education they offer. If a school doesn't provide an education that allows one to make enough money to pay off their debt, whose fault is that? Is it my fault we have such shitty schools?

Many of our schools are run by some bad, bad people, and there's new evidence emerging all the time they'd rather teach hatred of the Bill of Rights than useful academic material. Our colleges bash the principles America is supposed to be run on, and they ought to pay a price just for that. I hope that with the decline of our colleges just in this decade, society can lift the violent taboo against not attending college.

Republicans win U.S. House

Oh no!

Anyway...

Rural areas moving to the left of urban areas?

There's no law that says urban areas have to be to the political left of rural areas. In fact, the United States since 2000 has been the exception, not the rule. But now, some election results show that rural counties may be trending leftward, while large metropolitan areas are stagnating by moving to the right.

This is now true to an extent in Kentucky. As the dreadful and extreme Amendment 2 was defeated, the county breakdown shows that it won Boone County while losing Carroll County. It won Daviess and McCracken counties but lost Henry and Nicholas counties.

This indicates that fighting against COVID bio-juche isn't the only issue where rural areas have improved over the cities. Urban areas are becoming more authoritarian on issues in general – while rural areas may be becoming less so, even on issues such as abortion rights.

The voting patterns seen in this cycle for referendums and nonpartisan elections doesn't seem to bear any correlation with partisan results. America's party system is undergoing a realignment as significant as what took place during the Civil War and the New Deal.

America may be approaching an era in which rural areas are actually more liberal than urban areas. It's like it's 1990 again. Yes, you too can live in Eminence or Glendive!

COVID maximalism loses at the polls

Days after the election, we still don't know what party will control either the House or the Senate, but one thing is clear. COVID maximalism has lost in the court of public opinion.

One of few major candidates in the entire country to run against COVID totalitarianism was – oddly enough – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. He ended up winning in one of the most significant landslides anywhere. Some governors who were some of the most diehard lockdownists in America survived because their challengers failed to attack them for their COVID maximalism.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, lost largely because he was one of the first well-known Americans to endorse lockdowns. Oz had praised the Chinese Communist Party for its embrace of "zero COVID" authoritarianism.

Whatever the weather, people all over America and around the world are tired of the bio-juche police state and the lies spread to prop it up.

Celebrity look-alike cruise

You may have heard of a celebrity cruise. But what about a celebrity look-alike cruise?

I just received an important e-mail about a recent cruise in which numerous celebrity look-alikes were seen. They included Elvis Presley, Brian Dennehy, Boris Yeltsin, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Elvis look-alike was so hilarious that one day when he was at the pool, another feller began yelling, "Elvis is in the house!"

In addition, a man wearing a Brigham Young University shirt audibly passed gas while strolling through an elevator lobby. Also, some woman bubbled.