1/ The Democratic Party and its elected officials generally failed Kentucky for decades, with some exceptions. But, my god. The Republican debate tonight confirmed that quite possibly the several people in the entire state least qualified to be Governor want the job.
2/ The Democrats failed and underperformed and got fat and lazy and were just not very good, usually. But these @KYGOP fools are cowardly, stupid or - worse - smart but immoral, untalented, comically insipid, broken creatures who will actively harm people to get and keep the job.
3/ Among those who study this field Quarles was described as ”at least someone who is possibly normal and not a junior varsity Fascist“ and then here he was tonight, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Presidential election. The #kygop is not a serious organization.
4/ And these candidates would endanger the legitimacy of your homeowners association or Little League board of directors, much less the Governor‘s office. They are pathetic, sad, immoral grifters who ironically and dangerously wear their “religion” on their sleeves.
5/ We either turn away from them as a state or accept a hateful and hate-filled, ignorant, racist, and bigoted future. They are despicable.
6/ And finally, if you‘re a Republican and you’re bitching about “America’s standing in the world” take a long look at Kelly Craft and try to imagine, even for a second, that she literally represented the United States of America to the United Nations. Then take a seat.
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[Note: A little longer, with social media-level legal commentary] [I‘m no @dancanon or @JoeDunman, also. I’m Dimestore Dan, or Jukebox Joe, if you will]
I’ve practiced criminal law for nearly 40 years. In that time I’ve read countless opinions.
The Constitution’s safeguards are frequently insufficient to pardon or excuse my client‘s conduct. But those safeguards exist, and matter. We have a right to, as citizens, expect that certain fundamental Constitutional principals protect us all. Among these has always been
from the very beginning, that we have no kings. That no one, even a President or ex-President, is above the law. I‘ve studied Judge Cannon’s opinion as if it were my own case, because, in a sense, it is. It is all of ours. Donald Trump, a citizen already credibly accused in
1/ A good portion of Kentucky citizens don‘t have clean drinking water tonight. Do like 3 minutes of research then come back here. From what is your pride in the Democratic Party? From what is your pride in the Republican Party (I know, that’s nearly a trick question).
2/ Ancient - literally “ancient” - civilizations in North and South America made sure one thing was guaranteed. Clean drinking water.
I won’t even ask ”how far have we come“? The question is, have we gone backwards?
When you get home from work tomorrow,
3/ after having driven 20 minutes in your large truck to a job that, best case scenario, helps take care of others in your community who are suffering from more or less having spent a lifetime doing what you did today,
1/ No reasonable person with a spouse and 2 children, falling to earth* in 2022, would choose to live in the United States of America. This is sad. Sadder? Most Americans can‘t imagine this is true. As a result, it keeps getting worse.
*I mean, David Bowie come on but anyway
2/ Imma stop you right there. I‘m a veteran. The son of a proud immigrant who defended the US and democracy itself in WWII. I was the chief law enforcement officer in Kentucky‘s largest city. Save your “libtard/communist/whatever” frightened Christo-Fascist bullshit.
3/ I graduated from Notre Dame and have a 13 golf handicap and will take all of your money. I’ve forgotten more about basketball than you will ever know. I was raised in an Eastern Kentucky steel town and will defend my friends to the death.
1/ I remember being in the 4th grade. You do, too. I remember many thngs in specific detail that happened in that classroom.
All of those children sat there, the shooter having locked the door and turned to them, knowing, after the first child died, they would die, too.
2/ The word “literally” is overused. The money @LeaderMcConnell and others take from the @NRA is, as that phrase is understood, quite literally blood money.
He’s an accomplice to the murder of those children, the ones who sat, probably frozen in fear, waiting their turn to die.
3/ The United States has more guns than citizens. Today my political cartoon had to be removed by @courierjournal from its social media because of beyond reasonable and civil attacks from extremists. Don‘t say we are a “divided” nation. That suggests moral equivalence.
1/ I write this morning to repeat my endorsement of @TimFindleyJr for Mayor of Louisville, in light of yesterday‘s metro council member endorsements of Craig Greenberg. I know and like some of the council members. I don’t know Mr. Greenberg but I‘m advised he’s well-intentioned.
2/ Generally, Mr. Greenberg, those council members, and I move in the same circles. Most of my professional friends, I suspect, support him. I‘ve been asked frequently to do so, as a result. He’d be a fine mayor, I think, and he‘s working hard for the right reasons.
3/ But one thing has become clear in the past years, and that is those “circles” have not served the city well, and that good intentions - and even good people - are no longer enough. Similarly, the popular model of the Businessman and Chamber of Commerce Mayor has failed us.
1/ It’s common among “responsible and mature” political analysts, especially in Kentucky, to consider @LeaderMcConnell an asset to the state, a stabilizing influence in a troubled Congress, and an icon still building an historic legacy. Any such analysis is flawed and dangerous.
2/ And, it’s dead wrong. By the time of Donald Trump’s election he had the power to stop it. He had the power to protect the Congress and our nation from the radical, racist, authoritarian-leaning danger his party was becoming. But he quite affirmatively chose not to.
3. Instead, he saw the opportunity to turn the political disease infecting our democracy into fuel for more personal power. He sat idly by while his party turned itself into a tragic and dangerous joke that jeopardizes the Republic itself. He did this today,