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Susanne Pennelle's avatar

Neither should calling women low IQ or piggy. That should be just as revolting.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

I agree. I’ve spoken out about that on a number of occasions.

The R word is undoing decades of progress on behalf of the disability community though, and it will result in escalating eugenics and fascism.

I may do a separate article on the insults targeting women though!

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Jack Jacobson's avatar

RFK & taco are doing everything they can to expose us to toxic chemicals & diseases! Much as Trump told his nephew, his disabled son should be murdered. Taco has ZERO COMPASSION! He’s hammered Walz & Walz’s family with the term “RETARDED” for having a challenged child. Trump is full of piss & vinegar. He lacks empathy for anyone or anything! He still wants to starve & murder MILLIONS OF US. He can spout “piggy” all day, but he is obviously the FAT, GREEDY HOG expecting our irrational loyalty while he starves & murders us!

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Susanne Pennelle's avatar

It’s the Nazi playbook to call the disabled “useless eaters.” The disabled in Nazi Germany were sent to death camps.

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Neurodivergent Hodgepodge's avatar

This is a must read. Well done!

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Thank you! I really want people to understand how it feeds into eugenics which just fuels fascism.

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Neurodivergent Hodgepodge's avatar

Same!

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Kris H's avatar

Where are the good Minnesotans I know, physically standing up and protecting this family. Come on, guys. Get on the bandwagon and stop this crap!

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

A bunch of high school students in Burnsville walked out today to protest ICE! That gave me some hope!

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Lynne's avatar

He is such a bad person it is unfathomable that he is our "leader." It is abhorrent. Disgusting! And no Republicans call it out, which again is unfathomable.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Agreed. As Tim Walz said, every Republican should be calling this out. The fact that none are is deeply shameful.

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Christopher's avatar

And people wonder why Canadians are not interested in visiting the Excited States of America…

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Stevew's avatar

It's little Donnie's way to overcome his inferiority complex. It's not something that can be overcome. He is inferior in intellectual capacity and every other way except being a criminal enterprise.

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cpcon's avatar

Is the "r" word "republican"? That is a vile, loathsome word.

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Anne G McWilliams's avatar

86*47 ASAP FUBAR

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VJ Grimes's avatar

Often said, about Trump and “projection.”

Plus, Trump has declined especially fast especially recently. He arbitrarily lashes out, a symptom.

Trump takes shortcuts because he cannot find the words; life is getting complicated as paranoia sets in.

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Jack Jacobson's avatar

Trump is not a real human being! He’s a pedophile, surrounded by equally morally empty scum that also want to starve & kill millions of 99% of us!

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Jack Jacobson's avatar

Trump & his pedophile MAGAts must be euthanized!

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VJ Grimes's avatar

Epstein, i.e., “euthanized,” the Russians caught up to him before he could reveal how he manipulated Trump, into the arms of wealthy Russians. Bought Trump. Epstein knew they’d come for him.

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Jack Jacobson's avatar

It’s most likely that Trump is a serial MURDERER. Trump enjoys starving & murdering! It’s likely that he’s also behind the murder of Charlie Kirk. Trump holds reverence only for himself! He only saw a young widow & babies to rape & abuse. That was his motivation. Kirk was also pushing for Trump’s promise to expose all details behind Epstein.

Epstein & pedophilia are Trump’s power over Congress & the courts!

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Just the Facts's avatar

Thank you for this post. I have a son who has Down syndrome who is an amazing human being. I have had to put up with Republican business clients who knew that and used the R word in meetings with me, knowing that I couldn’t saw anything without jeopardizing the team’s engagement.

My son is loving, helpful, kind, funny, creative and a great dancer—better than the Trumps in so many ways!

I am sick of the party that pretends to care about Down syndrome fetuses but clearly doesn’t give a shit the second they are born. Red states and anti-abortion politicians (when it isn’t the hypocrites own wife or daughter with an unwanted pregnancy that they will travel out of state to deal with) can always issue debt for billionaire tax breaks and then turn around and undermine and refuse to fund early intervention, special ed, Medicaid services for people with disabilities, etc.

Most outrageous, they defile the Christian faith by following someone who shows us daily his values are anti-Christian, giving those searching for a faith an absolutely appalling view of what Christianity must be about. They are really evilgelicals because what they preach isn’t Christian, and they turn people with good hearts away from a faith that should be about lifting people up and helping those in need.

Bizarrely, many on the radical, hate mongering right who claim to follow the one who said “love your neighbor as yourself” have started describing someone who shows empathy as “radical leftists.”

Empathy and kindness are the two central values Jesus taught in defining what it means to “love your neighbor.

Most people miss the deeper subtext of the Good Samaritan story by not asking, “Why a Samaritan?” Samaritans were looked down on by the high priests and seen as heretics for having a slightly different set of beliefs. Consider that and read this:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2010:25-37&version=NIV

When you run into postings by the evilgelicals, you can ask them how hate speech, cutting Medicaid and gutting the research into improving the health and education of kids with disabilities is consistent with this most unsubtle of Jesus’ teachings:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A31-46&version=NRSVUE

How do they praise someone who pursues personal wealth above serving others and brags about being rich while cutting aid to the poor when Jesus does not forgive that sin:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2010:17-22&version=ESV

How do they claim to follow the literal word of the Bible and not get his story about a camel:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2019:24&version=NIV

When fishermen from Trinidad are slaughtered by US missiles, how do those who want the Ten Commandments posted in government buildings miss the “Thou shalt not kill” part or dismiss Trump’s porn star hush money while ignoring “Thou shalt not commit adultery” ?

My son embodies Christ’s teachings. The Trumps’ hatefulness could not be further from them.

Somehow at times like this I need to find a way to be loving towards those who hate the way Jesus and Dr. King were. It’s worth noting that Dr. King and his wife drove the road to Jericho where the Good Samaritan story takes place, and he mentioned it in his “I’ve Been To the Mountaintop” speech the day before he was assassinated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Been_to_the_Mountaintop

Stay strong, love each other. Trump flings hate and distraction when he is failing. Tim Walz never built a gold leaf ballroom while Americans can’t pay for heat. Tim Walz never ordered the murders of fishermen without due process. Tim Walz is a decent man.

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MissAmazing6's avatar

I suppose they know how to make those that have a mental health condition work a job? Otherwise they are not going to get Medicaid? Then those with these challenges will be off of their medication? And then what? Chaos and fear, and then prison? The people that think those without physical disabilities are just lazy are so - the S word- Stupid. As a mother of an adult son struggling with this disorder, I am sickened by this president and his administration. They have no compassion. I have said this before, these people are not people, but monsters. I pray the monsters get taken out before anyone else gets hurt.

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Valerie Starr's avatar

An embarrassment to humanity…just when you think he’s hit a new low, he goes further

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Heather's avatar

This is disgraceful , as are the Republicans who are allowing this abominable behaviour to continue and even encouraging the same attitude.

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Heather's avatar

You are right. It is horrible. Looking on from afar, Australia.

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Mark Shveima's avatar

It is sad to see one manchild and his sycophants be able to rope in such a huge section of Americans into dumbing down, and then proudly pushing that ignorance into everyone else's face and space. That all human beings do not naturally react with compassion and care for others who have to deal daily with their physical or mental differences is a failure of humanity. And just another indication of how we are still woefully far from attaining what it truly means to live as a human being.

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Marianne Klee's avatar

Very well said....it is appalling.

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OregonBoatingGuy's avatar

I posted in support of the Somali family that got called the n word on a rage by the Cinnabon lady and a number of people backed her up and repeated her language.

But to be honest, the only thing that makes it unique with Trump is that he’s the leader of our country. We common folk, left and right, are throwing vile slurs at each other all day every day. They call someone the n or the r word and we call them an effing moron.

Trump wasn’t the first to lose his filter, but he’s the leader and he eggs his base on, so yes, we should want more and call it out.

But common, we could never honestly “expect” more. That ship sailed in 2016. Sad, but true.

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