Re: Anyone think there will b
By: Dumas Walker to ACCESSION on Sat Sep 21 2024 10:02 am
> > DW> I guess it depends on how you take it. At the time, I took it as
> > DW> Trump being hard on that particular person and not as a blanket
> > DW> implication of disabled persons as a whole. However, I can easily see
> > DW> where others woul
> > DW> take it that way, and I didn't think it was appropriate.
> > While it is (much moreso now), and definitely was inappropriate.. I'd like
> > to know how many people arguing about this as a reason not to vote for him,
> > have ever called a friend of theirs a retard, or a short bus riding window
> > licker, or slow, etc. Back in the 80s-90s you heard that crap every day, as
> > it was ver
> > common.
> Yes, it was indeed. I suspect that any folks my age acting appalled about it
> now used to say it a lot then.
you can't say 'that is retarded' and stuff like that because people pretend to
be offended. it was used a lot from the 70s-80s when i was growing up.
now retarded people are referred to as "intellectual disability".
but if we used that in a disparaging way, those words would be banned as well.
> > DW> definately didn't act so. Some of his attacks on John McCain were
> > DW> also good examples of inappropriate, "un-Presidential" responses.
> > He wasn't ever, nor wanted to be groomed to be president. He has always
> > been a
> > business owner and basically ran the country the same way - which was
> > /very/ successful, if I might add. It was definitely a nice break from the
> > previous what, 20 years of Democrat presidents?
> I don't think people realize how some politicians are groomed for that. I
> remember reading years ago that the Kennedys were grooming their eldest for
> an eventual Presidential run. He died, so they turned their focus on John.
i still remember oprah talking to trump trying to get him to be president.
that was in the late 80s when all the democrats loved trump, loved his money and
he was godfather to a lot of their children.
> an eventual Presidential run. He died, so they turned their focus on John.
> He had already spent some time not being groomed which made things a little
> more difficult.
slave owners have their sons take over.
---
■ Synchronet ■ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
|
