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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 17
A month-by-month look at the year in review (and it was a bad one for Kentucky). Among the topics discussed: WalletHub lists the best states for retirement. Kentucky is the worst. Looking back at the No Kings demonstrations across America. The Democrats who backed Republican shutdown deal – and why How the White House and…
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Why do people vote against their own interests? Racism.
Here’s a Bluesky post from Mr. Spock. It’s logical. We’ve been on Bluesky as an antidote to Elon Musk’s (you know, the centibillionaire whose net worth rose $15 billion today to $475.5 billion) garbage dump, X. Anyone who has been on X knows it’s a MAGA cesspool filled with far-right feces. And the Guardian tells…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 9
A look at life in the surveillance state, left vs. right politics and how we can all make a difference: Some of the things we discussed: And some of the videos we referred to. Josh Turek’s U.S. Senate campaign in Iowa: While Mike Flood pisses off Nebraska constituents: And a scene, in which AI highlights…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 7
A recent hospital stay, the attack on Medicaid and a list of our favorite podcasts. And here are our recommended podcasts and Substacks: PODCASTS: Professional Left Podcast: https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/ Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes In Defense of Plants: https://www.indefenseofplants.com/ Bugs Need Heroes: https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/ Just the Zoo of Us: https://www.justthezooofus.com/ SUBSTACKS: Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/ Robert Reich: https://robertreich.substack.com/ Mark Jacobs: https://www.stopthepresses.news/…
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Space Nazi’s chat bot goes full Hitler
Since the illegal-immigrant South African Space Nazi didn’t like how ChatGPT was succeeding, he decided to form his own chatbot called Grok. Here’s the result: And this: Another reason why billionaires should be defunded.
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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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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…
