Postcards from the class & culture wars (11.27.23)

Postcards from the class & culture wars (11.27.23) November 27, 2023

Their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

“The Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution.”

“Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications like Suboxone into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your child.”

“Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.”

“If people want to really know how I’m doing, I’m not doing OK.”

“When radical reactionaries call for a return to traditional values in family life, they mean returning to a cultural and legal situation where women didn’t have the freedom to leave bad marriages, the freedom to choose to have few or no children, the freedom to obtain professional employment etc.”

You don’t even know who’s responsible for your food while you’re talking smack and eating it.”

“Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view. We need to see some pain in the economy.”

“A subset of super-rich Americans has wagered, thus far successfully, that they can simply ignore their tax obligations.”

“Prichard Water’s problems started long before Bradley was using public money to buy Gucci bags.”

“Whatever God ultimately thinks about playing dress-up, here on earth, trying to control who does it where says a lot more about the people seeking the control than the ones having all the fun.”

“Republican Rep. David Cole of Huntsville was arrested on charges of voting in an unauthorized location, according to Madison County Jail records.”

“Former Republican state lawmaker Joe Harding of Ocala, the architect of Florida’s controversial law limiting discussions of gender and sexuality in public schools, was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of defrauding the government of $150,000 in pandemic aid.”

A vocal critic of LGBTQ rights campaigns, Voris revealed in 2016 that he had previously ‘lived a life of live-in relationships with homosexual men,’ but now ‘abhor(s) all these sins’ since his ‘reversion to the faith.'”

The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak.”

“The Republican frontrunner in North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial race made a slew of antisemitic comments over the past decade including sharing a quote that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler.”

Like many Christian-nationalist events, ReAwaken America also brings a bitter side of antisemitism.”

“Basically, this is yet another thing Republicans are welcome to die mad about.”

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