> Kentucky ranks 4th nationwide for rising gas prices https://fox56news.com/news/kentucky/kentucky-ranks-4th-nationwide-for-rising-gas-prices/

Yea, gas is getting a bit pricey around here.

#BigOil #BigGas #warfare #ThisIsAmerica #BadEconomy #KentuckyProud

> Another Trillion Racks Up for the National Debt https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/15/another-trillion-national-debt/

As that fine, upstanding mastermind of politics Dick Cheney said in 2002: "Deficits don't matter."

Yea, fuck it, just keep borrowing on the great credit card with no spending limit. Sooner or later the reckoning will come, and so the #CosmicJoker will laugh.

Blessed be the #DivineHumor.

#AmericanEmpire #ThisIsAmerica #BadEconomy #GOP #PartyOfStupid #RepublicanLite #USGovernment

Another Trillion Racks Up for the National Debt: News Article - Independent Institute

The U.S. government's total public debt outstanding is on the verge of permanently surpassing $39 trillion. In truth, it already has, first breaching it

Independent Institute

And if that was not bad enough, hospitals and doctors want to be your #AISlop casino dealers. . .

> Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/americans-ask-ai-for-health-care-hospitals-think-the-answer-is-more-chatbots/

#ThisIsAmerica #BadEconomy #sloperator #cogsucker #HealthCare #medicine #tech

Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

Ars Technica

Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy. Poll data, so as usual, caveats may apply.

> Americans Turning to AI to Supplement Healthcare Visits https://news.gallup.com/poll/707789/americans-turning-supplement-healthcare-visits.aspx

FTA: "About 14 million adults report skipping a provider visit after using AI."

#HealthCare #ThisIsAmerica #AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #medicine #poll

Americans Turning to AI to Supplement Healthcare Visits

One in four Americans use AI for health information. Most do so to supplement care, but some are using AI in place of a provider visit when barriers arise.

Gallup

> Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy
https://theconversation.com/why-americans-are-buying-22-smoothies-despite-feeling-terrible-about-the-economy-279425

Because as attributed to P.T. Barnum, there is a sucker born every minute.

#BadEconomy #ThisIsAmerica

Why Americans are buying $22 smoothies despite feeling terrible about the economy

Virtue-signaling and self-care help explain a popular new kind of splurge, even as American shoppers pull back elsewhere.

The Conversation

> Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/virginia-tax-breaks-confederate.html

FTA: "In the past, the organization [Daughters of the Confederacy] has said that losing the decades-old tax breaks could hinder its ability to maintain its headquarters in Richmond and carry out its operations."

Not seeing the problem. Time for those traitor descendants, similar groups to go into junk heap of history.

#Virginia #history #treason #Confederacy #CivilWar #ThisIsAmerica

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

The new law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger is the culmination of a long, Democrat-led push to distance Virginia from its Confederate past.

The New York Times

> Most new data centers in the U.S. are coming to rural areas https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/13/most-new-data-centers-in-the-us-are-coming-to-rural-areas/

What? You think rich #assholes want a data center next to their fancy properties? LOL.

TBH, I hear echoes of things like the prison industrial complex, which also tends to favor rural areas.

js

#BadEconomy #exploitation #corruption #tech #ThisIsAmerica

Most new data centers in the U.S. are coming to rural areas | Pew Research Center

Over 1,500 new data centers are in development nationwide. Most will be built in rural areas, particularly the South and Midwest, marking a shift from urban locations.

Pew Research Center

“The US effectively penalizes aging.” https://rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-rundown/the-us-effectively-penalizes-aging/

Actually, that depends. If you are wealthy, you can age just fine, just pay for a hot nurse or two to take care of you. The rest of us? We are pretty much fucked. Again, one of those ticking time bombs in the #BadEconomy

#elderly #ThisIsAmerica #aging

“The US effectively penalizes aging.”

How the costs of eldercare are draining middle-class wealth in this week's Roosevelt Rundown.

Roosevelt Institute

The lack of self-awareness is astonishing.

The US Senator Lindsey Graham said there is nobody in the regime that is normal. The statement is totally applicable to the Trump regime.

Nevertheless Americans continue voting for a pedofile, a rapist and a felon and his political party year after year, and somehow it is normal?  

#LindseyGraham
#Trump
#ThisIsAmerica
#foxnews

And speaking of fuck the children and elderly. . .

> 2.5 million Americans lost food aid in months after passage of GOP megabill, study finds https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/04/08/repub/2-5-million-americans-lost-food-aid-in-months-after-passage-of-gop-megabill-study-finds/

#ThisIsAmerica #poverty #hunger #FoodInsecurity

2.5 million Americans lost food aid in months after passage of GOP megabill, study finds • Kentucky Lantern

At least 2.5 million people lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for SNAP, a new study finds.

Kentucky Lantern