If you had unwanted babies being abandoned in the woods to die by desperate girls on your #RedStateHellhole bingo card, well, you got a hit.
(Alt possibility - creepy 30 or 40 yr old "boyfriend" drives underage teen to woods to give birth and get rid of the evidence so he doesn't get hit with child support and/or pedophilia / incest charges.)
Emboldened by the fascist Ky GOP imposing their religious beliefs on women and LGBTQ folks, now magats are harassing businesses of people who follow different spiritual paths.
This was never going to end with abortion and trans people - you know that, right?
They intend to eliminate anyone and everyone who will not bow to their disgusting cult. Today it's crystals and nature religions. Tomorrow it's Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sufis, and Judaism.
These nutjobs don't care about constitutional rights and are fine with using police state violence to enforce their cult's backward and barbaric beliefs. And if that doesn't work, they're fine with murder, arson, and assault.
Red states like Ky are planning to eliminate income taxes to move to an entirely sales tax system. They plan to tax all goods & services, so presumably your doctor, home care, your bookkeeper, and your contract labor will all have to charge you sales tax on top of their regular co-pays & fees.
Of course, that means the brunt of all taxes will be paid by the low wage working poor, and the rich will not be affected - nor pay any tax on their income. Small biz is screwed.
Of course, this being the GOP in Kentucky, they will no doubt slap sales taxes on Food & Medicine, too, just to make sure they hurt the poor as much as possible.
B/c that's what right wing christians do - hurt the poor, disabled, elderly by depriving them of food, med care, affordable housing, and then criminalizing homelessness for good measure. In the name of their evil god.
Always looking for ways to make the poor more destitute than they already are, like good christo-fascists do, they have succeeded in making it easier to strip people of the pathetic and inadequate Ky Medicaid system that already provides little care and steals people's houses when they die.
Because the children of the poor should be punished too, by taking their generational wealth away as much as possible. And if your child is disabled or has no other resources and ends up homeless, they don't give a f^ck.
Think you can file an ethics compliant against a Ky legislator who is taking bribes and enacting biased bills? Well, you can file one, but they'll just chuck it into File 13.
(That's the trash can, for you youngsters out there.)
It is now illegal in Kentucky to expose the illegal treatment or processing of animals.
When exposing crime is punished, you are governed by criminals.
To clear up some confusion, the red legislature passed this Ag-Gag law, the governor vetoed it, then the legislature overturned the veto, with a few dissenting votes - but not enough to stop the overturn. So the Ag-Gag law is now adopted.
Anybody want to bet on which social services get cut to pay for this new #Kentucky bill? I'm willing to bet housing funds is one of them. This is just a way for the Ky GOP to line their private prison buddy's pockets, without addressing any actual societal need leading to homelessness.
Because, of course, the poor deserve to be punished for being poor. Their evil god hates the poor. And so do they.
Yes, Kentucky is just a sh!t state all the way around now.
PS - Jews and African Americans were only admitted to Lexington's Idle Hour golf course / country club in 1985. That's not ancient history. That's the year my oldest daughter was born. I moved here in 1989, and even though Lexington is supposedly a liberal city, it's history is dark. Doing my architectural internship, I found a lot of icky defacto redlining and other things. There are still deeds in the downtown victorian era neighborhoods up through the 1950s that forbid a Jew or African American person from buying the properties or even staying there overnight.
Sports fans will have heard that Coach Caliperi is leaving #Kentucky after 15 years of #Basketball here (which is the real religion here, by the way). I have just one thing to say.