"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'

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@NeadReport Good questions and good points.

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@Sfwmson I think the ACLU says active filing lawsuits, but the odds are stacked against anyone filing suits in states where the federal appeals court is stacked with hard-right justices. Texas is ground-zero for that.

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@CatHerder Indeed. Where's the Dick and Jane reader on which I cut my teeth in grade school when we need it now? Dad goes out to work, as he should do, and Mom stays home in her Betty Crocker kitchen to keep a comfortable house for her hard-working breadwinner. And the two children are adorable and, of course, everything is all white! What's not to like?

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@gnate Amen.

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@lawyersgunsnmoney Thanks for the first comment I've read today that made me laugh out loud.

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@StephanieMoore Those church signs. Attached is one a Facebook friend of mine took this week in her neighborhood in Dallas.

https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/113/408/497/578/101/853/original/9f5149fa6b0f1d83.jpg

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@philip_cardella It appears we didn't move on at all, some of us, and that those some of us now want to drag all of us back centuries.

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@mlbellar I love that I can count on you to give me a chuckle, unfailingly. These days, the chuckle is appreciated even more!

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@wdlindsy yeah. And as we talk about often, you and me...fascism.

It is an ideology that tries to drag us back while trying to murder its way forward.

It looks back on an imagined past where the grievance class thinks it had no grievances and where it, at that time, they faced no resistance.

The reality is they whined in complained at all times and at all times were resisted, particularly by POC and especially women.

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@JoCzechowska Yes, that's definitely true. But that's the sticking point for all these MAGA bros.

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@martinvermeer So well-stated and well-observed. And as we make that point, we should remind ourselves that divorce rates are highest in states controlled by white evangelicals and lowest in blue-voting states.

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@chefraven Indeed!

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@JosephMeyer I think that as the Republican Party has devolved into a personality-driven cult, the cultic mentality has prevailed, as always happens when social groups devolve into a cult.

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@seb321 Doesn't it, though?

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@FloydyStu Stupid is as stupid does, for sure.

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@StrangeCulprits Agreed!

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@MishaVanMollusq Shudder.

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@wdlindsy Actually Watters isn't wrong when he characterises the thing as an extramarital affair - though *not like that*. Being seduced by an ideology that looks upon one's spouse as less than fully human and more like a kind of property is indeed the kind of 'extramarital affair' that ought to be a deal breaker for any self-respecting spouse.

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@peachfront Aren't there a number of states in the South (with Missouri thrown in) still fighting tooth and nail to permit young adolesecent women to marry? I smile, too, at the claim that Mary was 14 when she gave birth to Jesus. We know next to nothing about the historical Jesus and even less than that about Mary, other than what the gospels, which are theological statements and not biographies, tell us. I can't think of anything in the gospels stating Mary's exact age.

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@Illuminatus Thank you. Very good point. I appreciate the link. This is history I did not know.