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Some things are better left forgotten
Why would the Herald Leader want to remind the senile flatulent Orange TACO of this? A concerned and inquisitive President Donald Trump made headlines in February when he said he’d inspect the United States’ gold supply, housed at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, about 90 miles west of Lexington. His concern: “Maybe somebody…
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Let them eat cake? Don’t let them eat at all!
The Herald Leader has a story with this headline: One in five Kentucky kids faces hunger. Congress should not make that worse. A complaint about the headline will follow soon, but the top of the opinion piece by Melissa McDonald, Executive Director of Feeding Kentucky, says: In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or one-in-six, face…
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You MAGAts happy, now?
The Big Beautiful Bill is looking pretty ugly. From the Courier Journal: In Kentucky, more than 11,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic development hang in the balance as Congress considers axing clean energy tax credits approved in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, according to an analysis from Rhodium Group and MIT — threatening a key…
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What drives MAGA? No surprise here.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: In January, (political sociologist David N.) Smith and his University of Kansas colleague, associate sociology professor Eric A. Hanley, published a 47-page paper deconstructing the Republican president’s appeal. Building on decades of scholarship about the lure of authoritarianism and their own analysis of American voting psychology in 2012 and 2016,…
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Since Ky.’s GOP has no compassion
This public service announcement from our neighbors to the north: We are failing at kindness and empathy because ignorant people vote for grifters and con men who’ve convinced them that the GOP cares about them. The Space Nazi and his orange cretin Chia Pet want to make Canada the 51st state. If things keep going…
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You be the judge
From the Courier Journal: They only need to arrest one judge. They only need to fire one professor. They only need to kidnap one person to a foreign prison without due process. They only need to prosecute one journalist. They only need to convince one university to agree to surrender its students and its soul. They only need to ignore one…
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Winners and losers? More like losers and losers.
The most important paragraph in this story is the last one: The state’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday took another step in its investigation into whether Cameron committed an ethics violation by allegedly soliciting certain campaign donations for his 2023 run for governor. An administrative law judge will be assigned to review the case…
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Think housing, medical care and breathable air are human rights? Think again.
When you think things are as bad as they can be for the poor and infirm, the GOP finds new ways to make them worse. From the Herald Leader: Recently, the White House released the Administration’s proposed FY26 federal budget. The suggested cuts to housing and homeless services are dramatic. The proposed budget would slash…
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Oversight chairman missing in action: Was he ever there?
Remember a thousand years ago during the Biden administration when a certain Kentucky congressman was performing the Mo, Larry and Curly role every night for Fox News, claiming transcendent corruption emanating from the White House required extensive and exhaustive investigations? Well, that congressman, who still leads the House Oversight Committee, has decided that true corruption…
