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Advice to Democrats planning to run for president in 2028
Word is that Andy Beshear is going to pass up running for Mitch McConnell’s U.S. Senate seat and will instead pursue a presidential campaign. So, he should listen to Scott Galloway here at the 14:03 mark: There’s your platform, Andy. Run with it!
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We said this would happen: MAGA cuts Ky. funding
If you heard our last podcast, you knew this was going to happen. From the CJ: The U.S. Department of Energy canceled tens of millions of dollars in funding for two Kentucky-based pilot projects intended to reduce carbon emissions, marking another wave of the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and decarbonization initiatives. One $72 million…
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Photo gallery: Louisville protests Trump’s L.A. action
Kentuckians staged protests in Louisville in response to the flatulent Orange TACO’s effort to escalate violence in Los Angeles. (This update on California from CNN): Things remained relatively quiet in the Los Angeles area this morning with authorities observing a handful of peaceful demonstrations, a law enforcement source involved in monitoring the situation told CNN.…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 5
A wide-ranging discussion on the Big Beautiful Batch of Bulls— Bill, the billionaire catfight (i.e. Republicans in disarray), University of Louisville sports and Kentuckiana’s ties to the Underground Railroad (through song). Contains a few swear words, so hide the kiddies!
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This Ky. legislator decided to join the clown show!
Paraphrasing “The A-Team,” I love it when a plan falls apart. From CBS: The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk broke down in dramatic and public fashion on Thursday, with the president threatening to cancel Musk’s lucrative government contracts and Musk claiming that Mr. Trump could not have won the presidency without him, fueling…
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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…
