shady vance dementia donald
I’m out of the loop.
We in texas call our shitty governor hotwheels because he’s in a wheelchair
Abbott’s neighbor’s tree branch fell on him. He sued his neighbor and used the money to run for governor. He immediately changed the law so lawsuits like his are capped and no one else can sue for as much as he won. I prefer to call him “limp dick Greg” but some like “little piss baby”
I had no idea she said this until now and was like wtf is is hot wheels? Then read the comments…it’s Abbott!
Jasmine Crockett just gained more respect from me. Fuck “hot wheels”! Hahaha
Well a Republican wouldn’t be a Republican if they’re weren’t hypocritical, whiney-ass beotches after all.
A good Republican is a two faced hypocritical Republican. Cant trust them as far as you can throw them.
Did we forget about this one?
That’s what cued me to hate him even more. My mom makes every excuse when I bring that up, even to this day.
honestly there are plenty of things to make fun of abbott about without being ableist. js
Nothing they would understand. You go high enough and you’re pretty quickly over their heads and it has no effect. Remember this is a studied thing. Conservatives don’t grasp irony and sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert quit the old show. They didn’t get it and it was having the opposite effect they intended.
its still not an excuse. i have plenty of friends who think this whole thing is funny, and im just a little disappointed. like just because he’s a piece of shit doesn’t make it cool to make fun of a disability. she didn’t call him “hot wheels” because of like a car collection or whatever, its obviously a reference to his disability.
while its obviously not a slur in and of itself, if abbott called crockett something adjacent to a slur, im sure we would be up in arms.
look, i think the dems should do more and fight dirty, but this isn’t the way.
What does fighting dirty look like to you? Calling a douche who deserves to have a tree fall on him Governor Hot Wheel is pretty mild on the scale imo so what ISN’T too far?
dirty fighting would be actually doing whatever they can to block and repeal everything trump is doing. gum up the gears in legal battles and shit. proactively undoing much of the gerrymandering. they could have claimed the election was stolen by false electors aligned with trumps agenda.
in the past decade the republicans have shown great examples of obstructionism and propaganda campaigns.
i just feel like making fun of a disability is beneath them. am i worried about greg abbott’s feelings? fuck no. i care about disabled people reading the news and seeing ableist sentiment cheered on by “progressives”. i just think its kinda fucked up so many people don’t see it that way.
He earned it when he pulled the ladder up behind him. Fuck Greg Abbott
impressive that he climbed the ladder in the first place
I dunno why people are upset about this. I see the majority of people complaining about Dems “taking the high road” and avoiding dirty tactics like the Republicans take. “They should take the gloves off and get dirty on the low road”, “fight at their level!” I read.
Then as soon as Crockett does take one glove off and makes one borderline offensive comment the reaction is largely, “ugh, no need to be ableist”.
Guys, what the hell do you think the ‘low road’ is?
It doesn’t start at breaking the law and blocking supreme court noms, it starts at political midslinging, and the dems are getting “wow that’s going too far”. Lol. They will not escalate to a higher level of personal risk such as breaking protocols and laws (as the R’s do) if they’re knocked back at the first rung. They see the public has a preference: protocol above results.
(I’m about to get replies about how mudslinging needs to be carefully crafted to avoid any offensive terms to any group now. Be real. That is not always possible)
We have a deeply fundamental problem broadly with society that people want to be outraged and angry, so they will latch onto anything, this is why the left can’t organize and why the most successful political party are the party of orcs and violence and animosity and outrage, even though they have fewer people.
The left isn’t much different honestly, they just choose to turn into raging asshats when someone breaks their unspoken rules and boundaries that make them feel “civil” and feel like the “good smart guys.” The right doesn’t have qualms about being the bad guy because they’re fucking stupid and we’re gingerly tip-toeing around them careful we’re going to hurt someone’s feelings, meanwhile on our side we can’t even form a single broad movement because too many leftists get twisted when someone in their own ranks says a word that could spark the outrage of someone, somewhere, at some point.
I don’t feel like I have a team at all. I want the same things that the left states its arguing for and fighting for, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t fight, it doesn’t accept people, it doesn’t actually want change, it uses the same tactics of shaming and finger-wagging everyone, everywhere for saying naughty things, then wondering why they’re not getting more people or making progress.
edit: your downvoting is as impotent and pointless as the fights the left takes on. If you think an argument against the left’s tactics is an implicit endorsement of the right, congratulations, you belong with the right, you are a reactionary and dumber than shit.
I think it helps to get out of online spaces and interact in person with people. Text is always far easier to misinterpret or to misword, you’re more likely to find allies face to face.
I agree that people need to be more accepting and slower to judge. There are a lot of anti-Trump/MAGA people out there who lack the lexicon to get across that they’re on-side and whom might make a mistake here and there - no need to flay them publically and turn them away.
Just remember that there is literally no reason to attempt to engage with Them on any kind of intellectual level. Only give them mockery and shame, or ignore them.
Remember how the “they’re weird” -thing hit them? They HATE being ridiculed
How dare you?!
IKR? Hot Wheels don’t deserve this slander.
Yes, that would be the icing on the cake if she apologized to the owner of Hot Wheels.
My position is that no politician deserves respect.
A politian is an elected representative. Their appointment depends on those who put their trust on them.
How politians managed to create a compulsory respect towards them evades me. The position they occupy is not theirs and, for what it counts, makes them the voters and state (as in, every citizen) servants.
