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Kentuckians are screwed. They just don’t know it yet.
Every Kentucky Republican in Congress has voted against foreign aid, and while they were at it, voted to gut public broadcasting. From Government Executive: President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law a measure that would claw back a total of $9 billion in funding that Congress previously approved for foreign assistance programs and…
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The list: Part 3. Massie attack: Waiting for the Epstein files
The Orange menace has attacked a Kentucky Republican congressman for not supporting the Big Bad Bullshit Bill. So, why wouldn’t the congressman fight back with any weapon he can get his hands on? From the New York Times: A leading Republican critic of President Trump has begun a long-shot effort to force a vote on…
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The list (part 2)
A certain incontinent, senile former television game show host is on the attack because a conspiracy theory he started is biting him in the ass. From USA Today: President Donald Trump has a message for supporters upset with his handling of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: They are “weaklings” who have been “duped” and…
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The Orange Menace wants you homeless
From the Courier Journal: Louisville residents who rely on federal housing assistance could be at risk of instability if Congress passes massive cuts to national programs, including Section 8, as proposed by the Trump administration. In May, the White House proposed cutting almost $33 billion, or 44%, in funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and…
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Kentucky MAGAts prepare to eat their own
Is this guy seriously going after Thomas Massie? (From the CJ): Jack Richardson IV has had enough of U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie. But the former chair of the Jefferson County Republican Party and longtime member of the Republican Party of Kentucky’s executive committee can’t force the outspoken representative from Northern Kentucky, who’s caught in an escalating feud with…
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Republicans lie ‘a whole lot more and a whole lot bigger’
Just ask this longtime GOP voter (from the Tennessee Holler):
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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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Lipstick on a pig: The BBB is big, but it ain’t beautiful
The fact that major mainstream media outlets keep referring to the MAGA infected, billionaire backed, Republican excremental legislation as “The Big Beautiful Bill” should make you want to vomit. Just a reminder: This is what will happen if it is enacted: How can something with these consequences not be called … cruel, murderous, greedy, horrible,…
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History repeats itself. Rerun is worse than the original.
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…
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Film critique: Why are you Americans so anti dictators?
The Tennessee Holler remembers this from the 2012 movie “The Dictator.” We were warned. We didn’t listen.
