I'm just gonna throw this out there: if you don't wear a mask in public, you're not a patriot, you're just a selfish jerk and if you'd worn a mask on the first place we wouldn't have needed a mandate.
I don't see anyone saying it so I will:. The fact the RNC allowed Donald Trump to call I to the quarterly meeting this morning at all, much less met his call with applause, is abhorrent.
I'm seeing some disturbing stuff on social media. Regardless your opinion of Beshear's action, please, do not call the State Troopers just doing the job they've been ordered to offensive names or attempt to doxx them. They serve our community bravely and deserve our respect.
Over the last 8 or so hours, I've seen a number of hard core Trump supporters change their social media avatars to an upside-down American flag. If that's your reaction to losing an election, you don't understand a thing about that flag you're disrespecting.
Wow. Just learning
@AndyBeshearKY
pushed Warren Beeler out of the Governor's Office of Ag Policy. Warren has literally been there for decades, serving Governor's of both parties. The press needs to wake up and cover some of these moves Beshear is making behind the scenes.
I'd like Eric Deters to have to look each and every Kentuckian who had a loved one die of COVID in the eye and tell them it was overblown. The dude is a conspiracy theorist nut job and appears to be devoid of normal human emotions.
#KETDebate
Tucker Carlson mocks Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave: "Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed, no word on how that went."
Lol. Cowherd watching a trash NFL game being played by backups when there is a heart stopping World Series game on is a perfect encapsulation if what wrong with the nation.
Kentucky Politics Twitter: if everyone is gonna leave Twitter, can we all please agree on ONE platform to go to? I just don't have the energy to harass all of you across multiple apps.
After seeing today what Donald Trump has wrought, I don't know how, in good conscience, you can claim to be both a Republican and a Trump supporter. This is not what our party believes in or stands for.
Fine, nobody else will say it? I will.
If you're an elementary school employee and you're not vaccinated, you should be reassigned or dismissed.
Those kids don't have an option to be vaccinated, the adults do.
You won't see me sticking up for
@atticascott4ky
often but, unless I have been misled on her behavior last night, the
@LMPD
made a serious miscalculation in arresting her last night. There needs to be a balance between the right to peaceful protest and public safety but... 1/2
Veteran political journalist Joe Sonka has joined Louisville Public Media and our partners in the Kentucky Public Radio Network to cover state politics.
Pray for the people of
#Kyiv
. If reports are correct, it would appear the Russians are bombing metro stations where innocent civilians are taking shelter.
Ryan Quarles is one of my best friends in the world and while I'm disappointed he's not our nominee, I'm incredibly proud of him and the race that he ran and I'm honored to call him my friend.
Thank you God for blessing us with a wonderful campaign, memories to last a lifetime, and lifelong friends. I love Kentucky. I enjoyed traveling the backroads of our Commonwealth for the past year and for the opportunity to run….that is truly an American dream.
I see a lot of commenters suggesting this is somehow a staged photo-op, with a tow truck or AAA out of sight. As someone who knows Ryan pretty well, I can tell you that I'm certain he's too cheap to join AAA or have called a tow truck for a photo-op.
KY gubernatorial candidate and ag commish Ryan Quarles just posted not one but two photos of him changing a tire on Facebook.
One commenter questioned how many of the other 14 folks running for governor know how to change a tire.
Fair question; I'd like to know, too.
#KYGOV
I'm just gonna throw this out there: I've never worked for a campaign that provides health care and, if you broke down my hourly salary on a campaign, it was probably like $0.50 an hour.
JUST IN: A statement from Congressman Andy Barr’s office: "His wife Carol passed away suddenly last night at the family home in Lexington. Congressman Barr may release a detailed statement at a later date, but right now is solely focused on being a father to his two daughters.”
Happy for the opportunity my friend
@DanielCameronAG
was given (and excelled at) to bring his story and his message to a national audience this evening. He's a great AG and, between Daniel,
@RyanQuarlesKY
and
@allisonjoyball
among others, the
@KYGOP
has a young and deep bench!
My party is totally wrong on this. GOP Governors are using immigrants as props when they should be embracing them. The values of immigrants (the value of hard work, importance of faith and family, belief in the American dream) are the values of the GOP.
This politicization of the lives of human beings is gross. Maybe instead, help them immigrate lawfully, becoming American neighbors and taxpayers. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me…”
I'm excited (and just a little bit sad) to announce that the time has come to move on from
@KYGOP
and start my own PR firm,
@CapitolReinsPR
. The last 3 years have been a blast but I'm looking forward to what the future will bring.
I am announcing my candidacy for President of these United States'. My only campaign promise is that I will station the United States Military along every interstate in Ohio and they will, at gunpoint, force Ohio drivers to stop cruising in the left hand lane.
The confirmation of the next SC justice will come down to Senators from states whose pop. are 0.23% (AK), 0.41% (ME) and 0.56% (WV) of the US. Next time you ask whether your vote matters, think about the outsized effect voters in those states now have on the future of our nation.
Mark my words my Republican friends; if our party eliminates ways for women with non-viable pregnancies to terminate them and forces them to carry them to term, we're gonna be the Whig party. That's cruelty for the sake of being cruel.
Andy Beshear should have the Mayor of Walton on during his press conferences doing the asshole translation of his presser ala Garrett Morris on the old SNL doing the News for the Hard of Hearing.
Just a thought: Did
@AndyBeshearKY
set the allowable gathering limits at 25 in public at 8 at home so the KY Dem House caucus (25 members) and Dem Senate Caucus (8 members) could have caucus meetings?
@damon_thayer
was this mentioned in your meeting?
Is Andy Beshear outlining the differences between himself and his dad? Pretty much everything he's mentioning is a problem his dad either created or refused to deal with.
#KYGov
Thank you
@AmyMcGrathKY
for kicking off your campaign on
@JoeNBC
instead of in state and instantly framing the campaign as a national celebrity versus a Senator who delivers for Kentucky. I'm sure
@Team_Mitch
thanks you as well.
#KYSen
Anti-maskers! Don't be sheeple! You're being used as tools by Big Pants! Don't let Wrangler and Dockers win! Protest all mandatory articles of clothing or protest none at all! Freeeeedddoooommmmm!
Observation of
#FancyFarm
. There's not a single thing here that says "Democrat" on it. Even the
@KyDems
staff shirts don't say Democrat anywhere. Why are they afraid to tell people what party they're in?
After getting to see a bunch of them in public now, I've determined the cyber truck is the stupidest looking car ever mass produced. Why would anyone want to buy one of those things?
Hearing that yet another GOP HQ in KY was vandalized, this time in Henderson. We have a message for our political opponents: we will NOT be intimidated by your bullying. Your continued use of violence and vandalism to frighten voters will not work and you will lose this fall.
Words matter, rhetoric matters. Folks on both sides of the aisle need to do a better job of picking our words, myself included, because there are unhinged people out there who mistake aggressive rhetoric with actual calls to violence. We cannot all do better.
@ScottJenningsKY
"I sincerely apologise for blowing up Alderaan. There was this whole thing with Vader, we were trying to get the princess to talk, and I just got caught up in the moment. I realize now that what I did was wrong and doesn't reflect the Empire we all live in."
I'll keep saying it: if you're madder about the loan forgiveness than you are about the fact nothing has been done to address why there so much student loan debt, you focused on the wrong things.
Is Andy Beshear tone deaf or the worst staffed governor in America?!? Who the hell let this picture be taken, much less this encounter occur?!? I mean, honestly, this is just incredible.
Andy Beshear was caught hanging out with his big buddy Randall Weddle yesterday.
Weddle made more than $200,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the Governor and Beshear-aligned committees and got special treatment from the Governor.
Andy Beshear has no shame.
The longest personal or professional relationship of my life has been with Whitney, the girl who has cut my hair since 2004.
After seeing what my wife did to my 3 year old's hair, I have zero urge to cheat on Whitney.
#GrowingItOut
Biden accuses Republicans of "holding Ukraine's funding hostage with their extreme, partisan border policies."
Securing our border is NOT "extreme" nor "partisan."
The owners of the IGA and employees in ISOM,KY received today ….
Prayers
$20,000 cash
Cleaning Supplies
And up to $10,000 amazon gift cards
#missionaryofmercy
#606Strong
Jacob Chansley, AKA Jake Angeli, Arizona man makes first court appearance in for charges related to storming the U.S. Capitol. His mom says he hasn’t eaten since Friday because the detention facility won’t feed him all organic food.
@abc15
I have the freedom to not be vaccinated.
I also have the freedom to play Russian roulette or let a blind person practice knife throwing at me.
Part of having freedom is having the maturity to know when to exercise it.
Took one presser to burn all the goodwill Beshear had built up. And for no gain. By overreacting so wildly (and unconstitutionally) I'll bet there's more people at church services tomorrow in protest than would have been otherwise. Folks, he's dumb, but still, please stay home
I'd love to go back through the C-J archives and see how many times, in 90+ years for Democrats running the state House, this article was written about Republican bills. I can wager a guess....
Fish and wildlife, State Fair Board, Governor's Office of Ag Policy. What do all three have in common? All three have access to funds not usually touched by the Governor for general fund or other uses. Hmmmm.....
Huh. Who'd have thought that constantly (and falsely) saying a process is rigged would make one less likely to succeed at said process? Time to nominate some normal Republicans in 2024.
We have 3 timeouts. We're going to lose to Oakland with 3 timeouts left. Fire him. Before the bus leaves the arena. Fire him now, before he can even walk off the court. Fire him now.
#FireCal
#BBN
Alex Jones desperately tries to get Kanye West to clarify that he doesn't actually love Hitler ... but nope.
Ye: "There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things."
Why yes. Yes I did say that. Pretty proudly, in fact. If you're a GOP County Chairman who believes otherwise it might be time to find a new party who shares your reprehensible beliefs.
I wonder what Paris Hilton would say.....
Anyone who affiliates with TJ Roberts or donates money to his 501c4 needs to know what they are affiliating themselves with.
There are a lot of ways to argue against infringing 2A rights, only a true psychopath would think this is an effective or appropriate one
One of the “liberty” groups that sent out attack mailers against Reps. Koenig and King and Sen. Douglas in the Kentucky primary election has this public take after the Uvalde massacre of 19 children and two teachers:
Huge news for KY.
@RyanQuarlesKY
was elected President of the non-partisan group that reps all state departments of Agriculture. NASDA helps sets the policy agenda for Ag across the nation and now, one of our own heads it. This fella may have a future!
I'm grateful to be the new NASDA president. Under my leadership, we'll double down on innovation and resilience. We'll rise to the challenge of redefining agriculture for farm families in this unprecedented time. And I'll always have the back of Kentucky farm families.
@NASDAnews
This is unacceptable and disgusting. The funny part is, no one will ever know or care what their political point is because this will be the only image anyone will see about today. Who ever did this is a failure at being a protester and a human being.
.
@KyDems
2019 theme is "Failing Up". Lose a State Rep race, run for AG or Treasurer. Lose a St Senate race, run for Auditor. Lose for Auditor, run for Governor. Lose a Governor's race, give the SOTU response. Lose a TX Senate race, your front runner for POTUS nom.
Went to see Ben Folds tonight. He's awesome and a huge leftist. An influential Dem sat in front of me. A celeb Dem was two rows up. OMG, life was ok! We need to realize it's better to be American than living in China or Russia. What unites us is still more than what divides us.
Massive news. Whether you like him or not, its inarguable that Mitch McConnell has been the one of if not the most impactful Congressional leaders in American History.
This is disturbing. I don't know who needs to hear this but Americans you disagree with are still your neighbors and fellow countrymen. They should not be hunted because of your disagreements.
@gregkellyusa
dude, I don't smoke weed but, if this story is true (DOUBTFUL) whatever you smoked wasn't weed and you should report your friends to federal authorities.
#thisstoryisnttrue
The events of last Wednesday have weighed heavily on me as I think about the future of both the country and the party I've spent my adult life working for, so I put pen to paper to express my thoughts on where we are and where we need to go.