Ted Lieu: No one ever said, hey let's go hurt Special Olympics. Until the Trump Admin came along

[highplainsdem]

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[Chin music]

1. Lyin cheatin stealin...that's all we get from you.

From kids who cant defend themselves, no less

[gay texan]

16. One can only hope

Her time is gonna come

[smirkymonkey]

2. She is just fucking evil.

God, I hate that woman with a passion. I can't even say what I would like to have happen to her.

[dflprincess]

3. And she pretends to be such a Christian

Apparently she didn't read the passage when Jesus said "What you do to the least of my bretheran you do to me."

Where is Instant Karma when you need it?

[smirkymonkey]

5. I don't know, but I hope it strikes her down very soon.

She is pure evil. She revels in hurting those who are the most vulnerable in this society. I will rejoice upon reading her obituary.

[Salviati]

15. Some of these so called christians make me wish the hell they believe in does exist...

Because they a lot of them would be headed directly there.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I can...

I hope she drops dead ASAP followed by her fucking, murderous brother. That whole family's DNA must be tainted. They should be forbidden to procreate.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Thanks Bigman!

You have taken the words right out of my mouth!

[BigmanPigman]

14. Actually, I can't write what I want to happen to her, him, the

moron and every member of the GOP or I would get flagged by the DU police for "kooky ideas". I have watched too many old movies like The Godfather and Some Like It Hot too many times I think.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Of course, we know how Trump feels about persons with disabilities.

[CrispyQ]

27. This.

This is why I knew he'd survive the Access Hollywood tape. People who could excuse the video that you posted, could easily excuse the AH tape.

[dflprincess]

32. Never forget this ass threw his disabled grandnephew off the family insurance plan, just for spite.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/

Donald Trump likes to get his way, and he’s not above cutting off a sick infant’s health coverage to make it happen.

The story begins after the death of Trump’s father, Fred Sr., in 1999. As David Cay Johnston explains in his book The Making of Donald Trump, Fred Sr. had written a will after the death of his oldest son, Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in 1981. The will left the majority of Fred Sr.’s wealth to Donald and his surviving siblings. Freddy’s family was largely cut out.

When Fred Sr. died, Freddy’s children sued, claiming that the will “had been ‘procured by fraud and undue influence’ by Donald and the other surviving siblings,” according to Johnston.

Johnston writes that medical insurance had consistently been provided to the family through Fred Sr.’s company. This coverage was crucial for Freddy’s grandson (Donald’s grandnephew), who suffered from seizures and later developed cerebral palsy. So crucial, in fact, that a letter sent from a Trump lawyer to the insurer after the patriarch’s death in 1999 said that “all costs” for the sick child’s care should be covered, regardless of caps on the plan or medical necessity, according to Johnston. That didn’t last long.

A week after the lawsuit was filed in court, Freddy’s son (Donald’s nephew) received a letter informing him that the health insurance would be discontinued, meaning his ill son would be left without coverage. Donald openly admitted to the New York Daily News that he and his siblings took this action out of revenge.

“Why should we give him medical coverage?” Trump said, adding, “They sued my father, essentially. I’m not thrilled when someone sues my father.”

[dflprincess]

6. I believe she's also cutting federal funds for Special Education

There are federal mandates school districts have to fulfill for educating Special Ed students. Many school districts are struggling to fund those mandates, the federal money needs to be increased, not descreased. Without the federal money school districts will have to put referendums out to the voters or cut other programs.

The cruelty of these people never stops.

[Blue Owl]

7. Hey Betsy, maybe you could strip all the previous Special Olympians of their medals...

...and melt them down so trump can have some more gold.

I mean, why settle for being just a single piece of shit when you could be the whole steaming pile?

[Chin music]

9. DO NOT

give her any ideas.

[Leghorn21]

8. "Special Olympics" and "Betsy DeVos" have both been trending in the top ten for over five hours now.

Sistah gettin her clock cleaned

This is a BFD, and LOSER45 won’t like how bad he looks

Gonna be some backtracking or twitter pink slipping here pretty quick

[gratuitous]

25. I do not share your assessment

DeVos, in addition to carrying out her own agenda, knows that her turd of a boss agrees with her. Trump knows he can divert attention at will, and this cruel cut will be quickly forgotten. Gotta pay for those tax cuts somehow, and that Special Olympics money is almost 16 minutes of the annual defense budget. 16 minutes!

[Gothmog]

10. From the Hoarse Whisperer

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[smirkymonkey]

13. That place is like a bad dream.

What a monstrosity of a "summer home". Such an architectural mess. It's too bad that there are so many people out there with so much money and so little taste.

[Roy Rolling]

17. She builds rooms around the Clock

Each one holds Amway products that people couldn't sell but were duped into thinking they'd own a yacht like hers.

[FakeNoose]

19. Don't forget her yacht

I think somebody posted on DU that this yacht cost $40 million.

[forgotmylogin]

20. Or her "summer home".

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/6/17654434/betsy-devos-yacht-mcmansion-hell

My mission for the past three years as the creator of the architectural humor blog McMansion Hell has been to unpack what makes mansions like DeVos’s so terrible, from both an architectural and social standpoint. It’s bad enough that we have a president who oversaw a massive redistribution of wealth toward the already wealthy through tax breaks. What’s worse is that obscenely wealthy people like him waste all their money building pseudo-castles and other eclectic tragedies, all while wagging their finger at the rest of us telling us to eat cake.

Trump official and fellow rich person DeVos just rolled back Obama administration loan forgiveness rules for students defrauded by for-profit colleges. It’s unsurprising that she doesn’t want to forgive the student loan debts of those defrauded by for-profit colleges considering that she got her net worth of more than $1 billion from her husband’s company, the multilevel marketing giant Amway, which is often described as a cult. Meanwhile, her brother Erik Prince owns the Blackwater firm, which essentially sells mercenaries. As we can see, we are not dealing with nice people.

[angstlessk]

24. He left out an a in place

pAlace..just for a short season?

[watoos]

18. Just another example

of tax dollars that go to the poor/disabled, is Socialism, but tax dollars that go to the rich is capitalism.

[murielm99]

21. Like Meals on Wheels

Hurt the most vulnerable. That is what this cruel administration does.

And he still has supporters?

[lostnfound]

22. Kindness and gentleness, anyone? Special Olympics is example of American greatness

Lifting up our better selves and making the impossible, possible was always part of our “brand”.

Like the ADA, it exposes human potential.

[SunSeeker]

23. DeVos sees it as a 2-fer: stick in the eye to the disabled and the Kennedy family.

She just couldn't resist.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Whatever can be done to make people's lives suck more,

they'll do it, especially the lives of people who are already vulnerable. I thought they'd hit bottom with cutting Meals on Wheels funding (Free food for elderly shut-ins? Fuck that!), but there seems to be no bottom for these people.

[Gothmog]

28. From the Hoarse Whisperer

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[Cold War Spook]

29. I think the House should double the Special Olympic's budget

for next year. I hate to say this, but I think her house is strangely nice looking. But then I liked the Winchester house also.

[Gothmog]

30. More from the Hoarse Whisperer

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[TomSlick]

31. I sincerely don't get this.

Special Olympics is chump change in the federal budget. There is no way in Hell the Congress will zero-out Special Olympics. I see no reason for the Trump administration to submit a budget that zeros Special Olympics other than to piss off people.

Why poke people in the eye for no purpose?