These jokes are not good imo. If Trump has some sort of physical disability, making fun of him for it is exactly the same as what he did to Serge Kovaleski.
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Fuck this ■■■■■ Leave out the other two offensive terms.
It’s very simple. Mock or hate them for things they choose and ideas they have not the things they don’t like disease, race, sexual orientation etc.
Don’t make fun of peoples’ disabilities. No, not even Trump’s. This shit isn’t hard, and there’s plenty of other material to work with.
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Counts to 100 while trying to remind myself that ■■■■ is not considered as offensive in many other countries as it is in USA#1
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Did Serge call a news conference to tell us he was the healthiest news man who ever lived and then hired a fake doctor to back up those claims?
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Hmm.
I am 100% on the “don’t make fun of disabilities” train. But if Trump has frontotemporal dementia or a similar condition that profoundly impairs his ability to keep us all alive and the GOP is covering it up because they’re addicted to power… then we need to call attention to the fucking crisis on our hands.
If I’m riding a bus, and the bus driver has a stutter, then that dude has my never-ending support and compassion. But what am I supposed to do if the bus driver doesn’t have hands or feet and there is a crowd of idiots who block me from grabbing the steering wheel as we careen toward a cliff? Do I listen intently while the driver shouts “I have the best feet ever!” or do I start shouting about how this motherfucker can’t even reach the brakes?
There’s a way to do this that’s more elegant than the video above, but to say that Trump’s deficits are off-limits is to ignore the consequences of those deficits.
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That video isn’t making fun of Trump’s hypocrisy, it’s making fun of anybody who has difficulty walking. Imagine watching it with somebody who has Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis sitting next to you. Still funny?
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I have no idea what that quote means and I’m not bothering to watch because fuck her.
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Yup, I saw a friend from Philadelphia posting that she got tickets and encouraging other people to get them so they can mess up with the Trump rally or something like that, but this is going to backfire.
It’s let’s make fun of Graham for being gay v 2.0. I don’t know why this is so hard to figure out for people.
We are the side that cares about language and things like using the proper pronoun. Our convictions show when we hold ourselves to the same standards when talking about our enemies.
Oh I know it’s offensive. It was literally the only swear I wasn’t allowed to use growing up. We swore like sailors.
However, it doesn’t refer to a physical or inherited characteristic of a person but to their personality or choices. That is the huge bright line difference.
Kellyanne Conway has lost the ability to trigger me even a little bit. At this point the only people that actually make me involuntarily physically upset when talking are Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.
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He tweeted that the ramp was “very long & steep, had no handrail” and “was very slippery.” The first two assertions are obviously true. Reporters, including at The Post, noted the ramp was not wet because the weather was dry and sunny. But everyone knows a ramp can be slippery for many reasons other than being wet. Lots of ramps are smooth surfaces meant to facilitate wheelchairs, which can make them slippery to people wearing leather-soled shoes like Trump was wearing.
The media double standard is also obvious when compared with how Hillary Clinton’s health was treated. Her stumble at a 9/11 memorial event elicited media mention, but the issue was dropped once her campaign said she was being treated for pneumonia.
oh cmon
In that same year, Bourdain penned a tribute to Glasgow on his Tumblr blog.
He said: "Notorious for its hard drinking, hard living, hard ass citizenry - and its uniquely merciless sense of humour.
Competition can be tough, it turns out, on Okinawan military bases—when you’ve spent most of your training learning to hunt and constrict exposed necks—and most of your jarhead rolling partners no longer have them. In Hawaii, they tend to have rather large torsos, so finding yourself in side control is particularly unpleasant. I have had my ass kicked in many lands—but it was particularly tough in Glasgow. This should not, in retrospect, have been a surprise. Glasgow is famously, a tough town. Notorious for its hard drinking, hard living, hard ass citizenry—and its uniquely merciless sense of humor. I fell in love with Glasgow immediately on my first visit. I was barely off the train and within minutes was called a “ct”. Though pretty much the worst thing you can call anybody in America, here, in Glasgow, I found, it was in a casual expression of affectionate—useful in nearly every social situation. “Oi! You’re the ct who wrote that cookery book! Loved that book! Have a pint!” I have since learned to love the customs and practices and oral traditions of the Glaswegian—even when I can’t make out what the hell they’re saying. Which is, admittedly, much of the time. It’s Europe’s No Bullshit Zone. Nobody takes themselves too seriously. Most of the time when I get my ass handed to me, it’s a much younger, fitter, or higher ranked practitioner—often with high school or college wrestling experience. So, in Glasgow, I figured, looking at the shorter, less physically imposing old dude I’d be rolling with, that I had this. I was a foot taller. He was close to my age. I thought; “once Pops gets a taste of my Shoulder of Justice on his neck, it’s gonna be tap, snap, or nap.” I could not have been more wrong. It was like running into a fire hydrant. He crushed my rib cage in his guard like a box of year old Triscuits. His fingers were socket wrenches, his chest an engine block, his arms and legs apparently manufactured from some kind of cable—the stuff they hang suspension bridges from. Everything he did hurt. I ended up pounded into the mat again and again, grateful when the murderous (yet relentlessly cheerful) garden gnome would finally grab hold of an arm or neck so I could tap out gratefully.
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Maybe our side needs to be less prissy about such things in general.
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NSFW
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Why do we want to set the bar lower in terms of harming minorities?
It’s not like there aren’t other ways to mock trump.
What is wrong with fuck that ■■■■■ Why does it need the slander at disabled people?
IMO:
“Ha ha Florida Man can’t walk” = not OK
“Florida Man is a piece of shit hypocrite for making fun of mentally and physically disabled people while being mentally and physically disabled himself” = OK
I would also accept “Florida Man is a danger to us all because he is clearly in declining health and refuses to acknowledge it which could have grave consequences”
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In the US that isn’t the case. Like at all. Or am I misinformed?