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Louisville GOP backs sexist soul-sucking Senate candidate
Just a reminder that the never-ending rot of MAGAt Republicans includes your next-door neighbors in Jefferson County. From Louisville Public Media: The Republican candidate running for a state Senate seat in a special election in South Louisville stands by a 2018 blog post that says “millennial females” aren’t “wife material” and described the “vast majority…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 14
No Kings rallies across America, media shortcomings, government shutdown continues, while food prices rise and health access falls. White House demolition meets Argentine payoff. And finding good cheesecake. Podcast includes references to: Scenes from the No Kings rally in Denver. 200,000 Kentuckians may lose health insurance by 2027 There goes that last tooth in your head
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Can the local media get it right?
Just a quick thought on the No Kings rally and how it was covered in Louisville. It was obvious that the protest against the Orange Menace and his MAGAt cronies in Congress was a success. This from Louisville Public Media: From Paducah to Prestonsburg, Kentuckians gathered at No Kings protests on Saturday to voice dissatisfaction…
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No Kings rally in Denver
Some of us aren’t in Louisville today for the No Kings in America rally, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t able to find a protest to join. In Denver, the rally at the state capitol had tens of thousands of participants in a peaceful, but spirited, gathering against the evils of the Trump regime. People…
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No Kings day expected to draw millions for anti-Trump mass protests
That’s the Kentucky Lantern’s headline on the following: More than 2,600 nonviolent demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s administration are slated Saturday as part of No Kings day. The second No Kings day, following another in June, is in response to what a broad coalition of liberal advocacy and labor organizations say is “the increasing authoritarian excesses and…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 13
Dealing with the government shutdown: Is it safe to fly and what’s happening at national parks? Kentucky Democrats on the campaign trail. Reflections on the art fair (show) and a slowdown at the Speed. Links to our discussion: Why the U.S. government has shut down and what happens now (BBC) A couple of quick notes…
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Billionaire Bezos wants you to blame Democrats for shutdown
Jeff Bezos (net worth $233.7 billion) and his cronies on the editorial board of the Washington Post have decided to conjure up a trap for Democrats who are trying to save lives threatened by the Orange TACOs budget slashers. [T]he Democratic Party shut off any potential escape valve to avoid a shutdown, which began at…
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What the hell is the CJ doing? (Part 2)
Another “opinion piece” in the CJ manages to offer a premise, then completely debunk it in a link that’s supposed to support that argument. The headline on this winner is: Polls show Americans don’t trust Democrats on crime, economy. And for good reason. The story contains this justification for the headline: Harry Enten, CNN’s chief…
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Michael Moore: What went down won’t go up!
The director of the documentaries “Roger and Me” and “Bowling for Columbine” has a few things to say about the symbolism of escalators: When the escalator at the United Nations came to a wrenching and sudden stop this past Tuesday as soon as Trump stepped on it, I would like to believe that future historians…
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What the hell is the CJ doing?
This is a headline appearing on the home page of the Courier Journal today: Biden openly tried to silence speech. Trump shouldn’t do the same. So, you click on the link and see a story consisting of 25 paragraphs talking about censorship by the Trump administration. The very last paragraph of the story says this:…
