The Harrodsburg Road Senior Protestors ...

I didn't get a picture of this, because we were turning onto the highway that is New Circle Road, but yesterday, when getting yet another cath specimen at my urologist's office on Harrodsburg Road, we noticed a group of about 6 white senior citizens - appearing to be in their 70s - standing on the corner of Harrodsburg Road and New Circle Road, holding high signs that said things like:

"This Vet Says No U.S. Troops in U.S. Cities!" 

We, and mostly everyone else, honked twice in appreciation, thumbs upped, smiled and waved! 😍

I have wondered how it was possible that the same generation that was horrified by the national guard killings of 4 Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970 could ever applaud Trump and troop deployment in our cities - but apparently, it actually took Trump mobilizing troops in our major cities for them to finally wake up/get involved. 

When I got home, I looked them up - there's not much on them, except that 6 months ago, they were outside Mitch McConnell's Lexington office protesting, but gently removed, so they moved to this busy public-land corner down the street.

(By the way, Mitch McConnell's satellite Lexington office is on the corner of Harrodsburg Road and Corporate Drive - Corporate Drive being a fitting address for this senator who has made a career out of being corporate lackey, don't you think?)

Go Lexington Senior Citizens!

A little late to the party, but better late than never, welcome - we're glad to see you! 😂

Hey - don't mess with our senior citizens and vets, Trumpers - you do, and it's on - Lexington loves its veterans and senior citizens - you'd have all of Lexington to contend with. 😉

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PS - Then again, others are still sleeping - or brainwashed - to the point they're contradicting themselves or undermining their own talking points.

So like other states, Governor Beshear (Democrat) - and Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton (Non-Trump Republican) - received the Trump memo, last week, requesting removal of our rainbow crosswalk -  which we implemented in solidarity with the LGBTQ community after the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings in 2016, approved by our city council and implemented by our former mayor, Jim Gray (D - openly gay), as well as current mayor, Linda Gorton (R - non-Trump moderate).

Beshear and Gorton promptly yawned and threw Trump's memo in the trash. 😂

However, some comments I read under the articles about this said things like "King Andy says no, he won't get rid of the rainbow. All Hail King Andy! Just like when he wouldn't let us go to church during COVID."

It got several likes, but made no sense.

Um, Dude - you've got this backwards. The person behaving like a king, engaged in government overreach here is Trump - the federal government with more power, mind you - is demanding our state governor and local mayor remove street art of a rainbow, chop, chop.

I bet you a dollar to donuts that if this were a cross or a bible painted on a Lexington street, and it was Obama that sent a memo to remove it when President, you'd be singing a different song, now, wouldn't you?

But the thing is, he didn't - and would never.

For all your incessant whining about free speech and  government overreach previously, y'all sure changed your tune quick about individual rights vs. the government, when it's stuff YOU want, didn't you?

And dude, it's a rainbow.

It is NOT saying: "Go forth into the world and be gay." 

If anything, it IS saying: "We stand in solidarity support with the LGBTQ victims of the Pulse shootings, and we accept and love our LGBTQ friends and neighbors and want them to feel safe and supported here."

Either y'all can't comprehend the difference between "acceptance/love of" VS. "promotion of" - or you pretend not to.

And FYI, whether or not Governor Beshear overstepped during COVID, the fact remains, his intent was the same as most every other law we have - protecting our dumb asses from ourselves.

Not just spread of a deadly virus, but from those politicians who, at that time, were denying its existence, just so you'd still get out and vote for them!

(Think about that for a second - you're still hanging on every word as gospel the same politicians who initially said COVID was a hoax - essentially, they didn't care if you died, just so long as you got out and voted for them first?!?)

What "noble" cause and reason could Trump have for demanding a rainbow be removed again?

Ya know, his usual - his own political gain - pleasing his wealthy-donor Christian Nazi supporters paying all his legal fees.

Again, I am a Christian too - but not a Christian Nationalist (Nazi.)

Christ would never force people to Christianity - - especially not just their version of it.

God himself gave us free will to choose Christianity or not - - to include which interpretation and denomination.

Who are YOU to revoke it?