Years ago, in another life, I referred to the attached cartoon to make this point about the Republican Party:

I once asked if the worst case scenario was “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles.”

Then I modified that to: “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles next to a nuclear plant during an earthquake just as the tsunami wave reaches 50 meters.”

Now it’s: “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles next to a nuclear plant during an earthquake just as the tsunami wave reaches 50 meters carrying a school of piranhas being chased by great white sharks.”

Sad to say, but it looks like there’s no end in sight.

Then I saw this Sunday on the Big Beautiful Bullshit Budget Bill:

And this:

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” cleared a key procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate late Saturday night, pushing the massive spending package one step closer to the president’s desk.

The vote on a motion to proceed to final debate on the bill passed with 51 yeas and 49 nays. Every Democrat and two Republicans, Sens. Thom Tillis, N.C., and Rand Paul, Ky., voted against it.

The actual voting took hours and the measure only passed after three Republican holdouts — Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rick Scott of Florida and Cynthia Lummus of Wyoming — folded and voted yes.

Sen. Ron Johnson, Wis., an outspoken critic of the bill, ultimately changed his vote to a “yes” from a “no.” That additional Republican vote gave the bill 51 yeas, so Vice President JD Vance did not need to cast a vote to break a tie.

Make no mistake, if this bill goes through, Kentucky is screwed. We’re one of the poorest states in the nation and practically all of our GOP representatives in Congress (Rand Paul and Thomas Massie have been the exceptions) are all in on the destruction of the infrastructure that keeps a lot of people in the commonwealth alive.

On Friday, the local newspaper noted that there are …

[A]n “estimated 200,000 Kentuckians that Louisville health professionals and Kentucky policy researchers worry could be left uninsured if the U.S. Senate approves President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” by his July 4 deadline. 

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the reconciliation bill on May 22, tasking the Committee of Energy and Commerce to cut funding by $880 billion over the next decade. That committee is chaired by Kentucky GOP Rep. Brett Guthrie.

Many experts believe that most cuts could impact Medicaid, the joint federal and state program that aids low-income citizens by providing them with health insurance, despite it not being mentioned in the budget resolution.

According to a study cited by the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, Medicaid reductions could leave tens of thousands of Kentucky residents uninsured in every congressional district. The data, pulled from The Center for American progress, an independent, nonpartisan policy institute, provides state and congressional-level estimates for the number of Kentuckians who would be without health insurance in 2034.

For Kentucky’s third Congressional District, which primarily encompasses Jefferson County, an estimated number of 28,000 people will lose insurance coverage, and 19,000 people will be at risk for losing all or some of their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

But Republican MAGA voters are the real problem, because they elect people who don’t care if they die. It’s amazing that the poor people in this state are so willing to hand over their votes to people who only want to benefit billionaires who want to have the entire planet to themselves.