"It is on all of us to explicitly counter double-speak and lies and to leave a paper trail of truth for posterity."
Thank you for this call to continue to respect our free press. A recent comment in the Contrarian chat came from someone crying about how the reporting is "all bad" these days, and how we need to feel hope--and that The Contrarian is a culprit in reporting badness. This article reminds us that we must bear witness to the bad if we ever hope to enjoy the good again in this country.
And by the way, that commenter clearly had never seen the uplifting talks by Norm and Jen in the Coffee episodes. Serious though the topics might be, our fearless Contrarian leaders always find the good them, and if not, will change the topic at the end of the segment to the good they are looking forward to. Appreciated and needed!
So true, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. In some states, even though some are candidates for IVF, some will not go through the process because of the legal mess they’ve made of it aside from the cost. I think he was just talking about it not because he wants to help women build their families but because he’s such a misogynistic ass about anything that affects girls and women. You’re right about everything you’ve said about female sports.
In half the states in the US, women are legally slaves because their bodies are not their own. The FIRST thing that needs to be done to improve the welfare of women is to ban Forced Birth laws across the entire US. They violate the 1st, 13th, and 14th amendment, and have been declared a major human rights violation by the UN.
If Trump actually wanted women to have more babies, he would expand Medicaid, not cut it, so girls and women could have regular medical care both before and after pregnancies, so they and their children could be as healthy as possible. Oh, and completely cover the costs of prenatal care, childbirth, and post-natal care. That will be the day.
That's the thing about this particular charlatan (well, sometimes). Apparently his speech writers can construct sentences like these that can be convincing--to those that haven't been paying attention.
For anyone who's compared the words to the deeds--clearly he's blowing smoke. And yet, here we are in his second term. Let's hope the American people wise up enough to get us through this crisis and not live to repeat it in the future.
"It is on all of us to explicitly counter double-speak and lies and to leave a paper trail of truth for posterity."
Thank you for this call to continue to respect our free press. A recent comment in the Contrarian chat came from someone crying about how the reporting is "all bad" these days, and how we need to feel hope--and that The Contrarian is a culprit in reporting badness. This article reminds us that we must bear witness to the bad if we ever hope to enjoy the good again in this country.
And by the way, that commenter clearly had never seen the uplifting talks by Norm and Jen in the Coffee episodes. Serious though the topics might be, our fearless Contrarian leaders always find the good them, and if not, will change the topic at the end of the segment to the good they are looking forward to. Appreciated and needed!
So true, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. In some states, even though some are candidates for IVF, some will not go through the process because of the legal mess they’ve made of it aside from the cost. I think he was just talking about it not because he wants to help women build their families but because he’s such a misogynistic ass about anything that affects girls and women. You’re right about everything you’ve said about female sports.
Father knows best: "We'll show you what to do with your wombs!"
Haha, he thinks he does. He’s so full of s***.
In half the states in the US, women are legally slaves because their bodies are not their own. The FIRST thing that needs to be done to improve the welfare of women is to ban Forced Birth laws across the entire US. They violate the 1st, 13th, and 14th amendment, and have been declared a major human rights violation by the UN.
If Trump actually wanted women to have more babies, he would expand Medicaid, not cut it, so girls and women could have regular medical care both before and after pregnancies, so they and their children could be as healthy as possible. Oh, and completely cover the costs of prenatal care, childbirth, and post-natal care. That will be the day.
From the remarkable poet Eira Quinn (@eirawritesfire on Threads):
The audacity
to hand women
a world on fire
and then ask us
to raise children in it.
To call motherhood sacred
while stripping it of choice,
autonomy,
safety.
The audacity
to look a survivor in the eye
and tell her
her body is no longer hers.
That it belongs to the crime,
to the state,
to the violence
that broke her open.
Imagine the cruelty required
to force a woman
to carry the echo
of her own trauma.
To call it a ”gift,”
to call it “God,”
to call it anything
but what it is:
an unthinkable violation
sanctioned by people
who will never bleed for it.
The audacity
to preach life
while refusing to protect the living.
To legislate suffering
and call it morality.
To demand women be both
miracle and martyr
for a world that would not lift a finger
to spare them either.
And then—
after everything—
to ask us why we are angry.
Why we do not smile
at the weight they press into our bones.
Why we dare to say
“I will not bring a child into a world
that would treat me this way.” The audacity
is staggering.
But here is the truth
they cannot legislate away:
Any world
that demands such a sacrifice
does not deserve the children
it pretends to protect.
Brilliant poem.
That's the thing about this particular charlatan (well, sometimes). Apparently his speech writers can construct sentences like these that can be convincing--to those that haven't been paying attention.
For anyone who's compared the words to the deeds--clearly he's blowing smoke. And yet, here we are in his second term. Let's hope the American people wise up enough to get us through this crisis and not live to repeat it in the future.
Good article--thank you!