Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.9.20)

Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.9.20)

ā€œI never understood wind.ā€

ā€œThere is something physically wrong with this president.ā€

ā€œIā€™m not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.ā€

ā€œWriting ā€˜Joleneā€™ and helping all the kids to read is an objectively better contribution to humanity than starting the Ku Klux Klan, and anyone who would argue otherwise is a monster.ā€

ā€œI must confront the fact that there may be nothing I can do to persuade these people that a more equal, kind and caring society is better than what we have now.ā€

ā€œAn Iowa woman who told police sheĀ ran over a teen because she ā€˜was a Mexicanā€™ has been charged with another attempted murder after police say she hit a 12-year-old boy on the same day.ā€

ā€œA homeowner living next to an elementary school inĀ IowaĀ is facing backlash for painting Confederate battle flags and swastikas on pallets around his property.ā€

ā€œI mean, didnā€™t travel with her to these witchcraft meetings but, as a Christian I have spiritual discernment.ā€

ā€œI couldnā€™t fathom in what universe I would go to a doctor for a strep throat culture and some antibiotics and I would end up with a $25,000 bill.ā€

ā€œPotential defects, according to Mauer, include feces, sex organs, toenails, bladders and unwanted hair.ā€

ā€œPeople who areĀ this willingĀ to slut shame women rarely actually care that much about women being abused.ā€

ā€œThe Centurion investment fund does its business with an unlikely pair of banks: both linked to a billion-dollar Venezuelan money laundering and bribery scandal.ā€

ā€œTraditionally itā€™s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places.ā€

ā€œThe co-founder of Students for TrumpĀ pleaded guilty ā€¦ to scamming consumers and businesses out of $46,000 by posing as a lawyer online and dispensingĀ legal advice.ā€

ā€œThatā€™s white-on-white capitalism.ā€

ā€œTweets [Trump] shared over the holidays indicate heā€™s feeling more shameless than ever about retweeting sketchy accounts that have promoted conspiracy theories portraying his political enemies as satanist pedophiles.ā€

ā€œTheĀ Trump Tower BakuĀ project carried some classic hallmarks of a money-laundering operation, including firms being paid in cash, some of which was transferred in duffel bags.ā€

ā€œLet me address this ā€˜snowflakeā€™ thing.ā€

ā€œThe Jordan imbroglio comes just as Chris Rowe, the Republican Partyā€™s New Castle chairman,Ā resigned after using the word ā€˜fā€”-tsā€™ in a comment on aĀ recent Facebook post.ā€

ā€œIā€™m here essentially to say goodbye to my mom.ā€

ā€œHe died 50 years after he lost, in Vietnam, all that underpinned his life.ā€

ā€œVanilla Ice ran it by Donald Jr.ā€

ā€œBaker stole the recipe from another con man. It does nothing.ā€

ā€œIt just feels like a place where people genuinely care about other people ā€” which, in the current landscape of American Christianity, can feel incredibly radical.ā€

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