Postcards from the class & culture wars (7.18.22)

Postcards from the class & culture wars (7.18.22) July 18, 2022

Well, the Establishment Clause had a good run.”

“As of today, you have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney… but the police have no obligation to respect those rights and you have no avenue to enforce them.”

“To the legislature and the attorney general, crack open your history books — the Supreme Court has a new standard if it wasn’t done back then we can’t do it now.”

“Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.”

Because the law in Arizona is worse.”

“Today we saw a patient in Dayton who has cancer. Her doctors told her she would have to terminate before she received chemotherapy treatment. She will have to travel to Indiana.”

“Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.”

This all goes back to the fact that we don’t trust women.”

“Residents in the town of Millinocket, Maine, say they are outraged and disappointed after a local insurance agency displayed a racist sign remarking on the Juneteenth holiday.”

“But by the time that training was ordered, the officer had been involved in the killing of another African-American man.”

“We are all ok but we’re angry, very very angry.”

“And, you know, I don’t want to be afraid for the rest of my life.”

If the Republican Study Committee’s plan were implemented, Social Security and Medicare would be partially privatized, food stamps would be slashed, Head Start would be phased out, Medicaid funding would be decimated, the Affordable Care Act would be weakened, labor unions would be undermined, the EPA would be gutted, abortion would be banned, birthright citizenship would be eliminated, Donald Trump’s border wall would be funded, and even the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would see its doors permanently closed.”

“Arizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn said Arizona communities would ‘collapse’ without cheap prison labor.”

“Such an investigation should also examine the intolerable activity of retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and how his actions were aided by Governor Bryant.”

“And even the contender who has garnered mainstream support had an ‘admittedly lame’ hobby acting in low-budget horror pictures, one of which included a zombie biting off a man’s genitals.”

The furry days are over when I’m governor.”


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