Well, well, well, all those who bitched about the bitch are eating crow now. For the most part, we Kentuckians stopped complaining about the turtle’s policies pretty much after every election. For or against, people complain about the dumbest things. I don’t give a flying fuck what an elected official does in his spare time. I care what policies work and what is being enacted to make all parts of the system better. Our beloved turtle, the devil we know, is done serving a life sentence for Kentuckians. What did he do? Hell if I know. Just lower the gas prices, please.
What I do know is that the turtle dedicated his entire life to politics for Kentucky. Many people don’t even know he was the mayor of Louisville at one time. He rose through the ranks, getting elected to higher and higher positions, mainly because if he won, he would go away. He ended up taking a position in the Senate that nobody else wanted and stayed there longer than anyone else in history ever has.
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Kentuckians ask, Who will replace the turtle? Can we trust someone new for our state? I ask, did we trust the turtle? Whatever the answer, we all got used to him, his name, and his representation, whatever that was. Mitch was Kentucky, and his bitching put Kentucky on the map in federal politics.
I got invited to a protest march on March 4th. March for Democracy, the invitation said. I asked, What are we protesting? The answer, “Whatever you have to protest! We are going to Frankfort to yell! Make your sign!” I asked again. “Specifically, what is everyone protesting? There must be a unified cause.” The answer: “Totalitarianism!” Not to offend anyone, but that is ridiculous. I hope they get their point across, whatever it is. I fail to see how marching on the capital when everybody is laid off is going to change anything.
Of course, people are freaking out about all the hearsay changes that have not even affected them… unless they are Federal employees… that… oooooh… I’m going to say it… probably hated their jobs anyway and are getting unemployment.
I would love to have had a federal job to get laid off from. There is a very important and obvious point to be made about the layoffs. The work still has to get done. What is happening is a restructuring. There will be plenty of jobs to go around once the dust settles. People with good work ethics and a modicum of intelligence that had boring jobs and bad managers might just end up with interesting new positions, and if it goes well, all the bad managers will get canned.
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This appears to be the big picture plan if you look at the big picture. So many people are overly concerned with threats to their self-interest that don’t even exist. What’s wrong with being positive about the big picture? Plenty of people are predicting doom and gloom; I am choosing to take a different perspective that doesn’t make me miserable all the time.
There is one certainty. The changes within our country remain to be seen. In the meantime, just take a look around, for real. Has anything really changed much? I may be wrong, but as I see it, us folks down on the ground, at least those who do not have federal jobs, keep on doing what we have always done. A word of advice to the Federal people: look at this time as a paid vacation and make a new resume. Your job probably sucked anyway. You all will have a chance to do something you are capable of instead of being squashed by indifference. For those who prefer indifference, there will be new boring jobs for you too. The work still has to get done.
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This article appears in Feb 14-27, 2025.