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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn MSNBC: A fucking HALL FULL OF people in wheelchairs outside of McConnell's office
"Protesters are being removed from outside of Mitch McConnell's office. You can see that many of them are in wheelchairs."
MattP
(3,304 posts)these fucking bastards
eleny
(46,166 posts)atreides1
(16,093 posts)...if the press wasn't there, McConnell would have the Capitol Police push them down the stairs, and then take the wheelchairs so he could resell them!!!
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Old bastard McTurtle needs to suffer like the poor people in Kentucky that he shits on.
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)of the police dragging someone away from McConnell's office.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)I'm not going to turn my TV on so early and appreciate the video clip.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)And GOOD on MSNBC to air it!!
I wonder if CNN showing the protest also?
K&R
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and because you can download videos from there, I have found it handy for copying the various hearings
for later replay.
I am sure this will be up soon, either via news outlet or personal videos.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)So, how do you find what you're looking for? If I want to find a video of this protest, what do I do?
Type some key words words in the search bar? Thanks!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Fucking ReThugs are shredding safety nets of millions of Americans and people will die.
I loathe them with all my being. Mitch McConnell most of all. Even more than BLOTUS, but it's close.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)Bravery has its reasons
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)and the likelihood of humiliation. Heartbreaking. Proof that Turtle has no heart...just get rid of them. His phones are permanently blocked. You go into a rotating voice mail that just keeps rotating. On another, it says, we are closed
Another, due to the large volume of calls....
I hope the DNC is smart enough to run adds against McConnell showing this. I won't hold my breath though. Also, we need a good opposition candidate.
A lot of people in Kentucky are pissed at him over the health care bill. We should be maximizing that wedge now w PSAs. Nada. Of course, like Wisconsin and Michigan, we wouldn't want to stir it up the Repubs, would we.
Leith
(7,813 posts)Ol' Turtle needs to see the consequences of fucking with people's lives.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)They just don't.
their motto is PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)"all for me and ALL for ME!"
procon
(15,805 posts)Now, if they had been CEOs, billionaires, lobbyists, dictators, warlords, despots, Arab princes, or praise singing sycophants, he would have happily listened.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)They can't stand doubts about their mythology of America being fair and a land of opportunity for everyone regardless of circumstances. Myth over reality. Scapegoats over doubting the system.
If it wasn't for the fact that most African Americans know better given this country's history, it wouldn't surprise me if their most religious members accepted such mythology as well.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Bob Kafka's law: "You never look good arresting people in wheelchairs." It's one of the best ways to reveal callousness.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)those people, some of them will be injured. They're in wheelchairs for a reason, after all. Nobody wants to be in a wheelchair.
For law enforcement, there is no good way to handle such a situation, and they have no training for it.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)I've seen videos of police doing outrageous things to the handicapped, the elderly, pregnant women, and even children. All rules of decency seem to have gone out the window. We are living in a bizarre and horrifying era.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts).
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)do you want to explain what seems to be a terrible statement?
I've NEVER met a single person in a wheelchair that wanted to be there!
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)There are people who can't walk and the alternative to a wheelchair is being locked up in a nursing home. Walking is so painful or difficult that having a wheelchair to use is a tremendous relief. Wheelchairs represent liberation for many people.
The proposed cuts may limit or eliminate funding for mobility equipment, and the option to get out of bed with the help of an assistant that provides in-home services that allow people whose bodies are less mobile than average to live independent, and satisfying lives.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)and I support that totally.
Thanks for clearing that up - your position is much clearer now.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I've heard people talk about how they love their wheelchairs. I've also noticed that when people get new wheelchairs, they often sound like people talking about getting a new car.
As Stella Young noted-- contrary to the big lie, being disabled is not a bad thing.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)I appreciate your making clear your point.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)I lost my wife to MS after a 13 year battle - a beautiful lady trapped in a wheelchair for 9 of those 13 years. Dealing with those issues makes one VERY sensitive to what all is involved.
THESE GUYS ARE PIGS!
enid602
(8,652 posts)But they're cutting the Medicare funding that goes to nursing homes, loyal. So even that is not an option.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Congress IS willing to let people die or actually kill us by withdrawing options.
Gen X is being tested. The population that is reaching the age where these services are most needed are the parents of Gen Xers. The question has been revealed is how many children of baby boomers are as callous as Paul Ryan?
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)to support disability rights. Republicans promptly told him to F off.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)It was an international treaty for disability rights. They got some satisfaction from telling the UN to f off, too.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)and run it for the 2018 election.
NJCher
(35,730 posts)Don't you just love the ruthless efficiency of the walker. He just marches right along, even over tree roots. There is not a moment's hesitancy when he gets to the cliff, and he holds his head high as he walks away.
Cher
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)This is awesome and I appreciate all of them doing this to make the point!
livetohike
(22,163 posts)angry while watching this that I am in tears.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)I hope she is going to be ok They better not arrest her.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Her protesting isn't any more remarkable just because she's doing it sitting down with equipment that allows her to use her body independently.
It's natural for people to fight for their lives when they are under threat.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But I suspect they won't be. I wonder, though, if any of their supporters are still capable of feeling shame?
get the red out
(13,468 posts)They are vampires.
Zoonart
(11,878 posts)where are they? I didn't see any Democrat Congressman or Senator streak down there to resist opression or to lend support or even to get the fuck out onto the capitiol steps with bull horns and challenge the sleeping MSM to go wide with coevrage of this outrage.
Disabled dragged from the PEOPLES' HOUSE! This is an outrage!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)There is not an ounce of shame in the whole damned party!
They will literally KILL the old, poor and sick so billionaires can get a ***king tax break!!!
Thunderbeast
(3,419 posts)They have the power. They make no bones about using it.
In future elections, they will once again bring up the image of a minority or refugee challenging their God-given right to privilege.
Works every time.
The ignorant white man will put up with ANYTHING as long as you promise that the POC is getting less.
Tribalism and fear mongering.
The poor will die quietly.
The robber-baron kleptocrats just don't care.
They will ensure their place at the front of the line.
Asshats!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)Many of them have accepted the idea that the USA is a good and fair country with equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their circumstances.
My brother lost most of his eyesight years ago. He attended meetings of a blindness group that turned out to be run by a strong conservative. The group repeatedly failed to provide truly helpful information and the guest speakers were blind or visually-impaired people who were "successful" despite their handicap. My brother always talked to them after their talks and discovered that every one of the "successful" speakers had received large sums of money from parents to own a business! Every... single... one.
Lots of white people have been attacked by right-wingers for protesting wars and the like. Again, it's seen as an attack on the "good and fair" mythology of the USA.
Poor white people often accept the mythology too. Even if they're poor and receiving government aid, they often don't place the blame on our economic system. They'd rather seek scapegoats for their situation.
Most African Americans aren't so delusional given their history in this country.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)those people in their wheelchairs are not his real constituents...he works for the white house
So maggot can have bragging rights.
That's it.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Wow... looks like someone on a ventilator? I hope they are OK. These people are heroes.
lame54
(35,321 posts)mucifer
(23,565 posts)Alwaysna
(574 posts)In Missouri 2005 , Governor. Matt Blunt cuts 100,000 people from medicaid and there were protests including people in wheelchairs and oxygen dependent handicapped people . They protested at the capital and his mansion but the Republican wouldn't budge from his decision. He was a one term governor. His pappy is still a senator and still just as ruthless and calloused.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)There's your new narrative folks!
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I stand (because I am LUCKY enough to be able to stand) and APPLAUD each and every one of these brave souls.
I have a family member about to die because treatment is out of reach, and it simply cannot get any worse.
FUCK THAT TURTLE!!!!!
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)you have my sympathy regarding your family member - knowing that we're about to witness many others receiving the same level of care from this regime.
You are also right: FUCK THAT TURTLE!!!!
mucifer
(23,565 posts)normal conversations with the protesters.
One protester interviewed said she "would rather go to jail than die". I really hope the press will report on this .
WaPo has the live feed on facebook . But, I don't see an article yet.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Mitch McConnell is bar none the worst SML we've ever had!
ButSeeYa
(273 posts)As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)"In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed the Home and Community-Based Services provisions within Medicaid. These provisions are a huge part of Medicaid and are rooted in a simple reality: People with disabilities are less safe, less happy and less free in institutional settings than they are in the community."
https://www.google.com/search?q=george+w+bush+ADA+amendment&oq=george+w+bush+ADA+amendment&aqs=chrome..69i57.19861j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Then, Bush sr. signed the ADA in 1990. His son signed amendments to fix damage done to ADA by the courts in 2008.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)I can NOT understand why we keep electing this evil, uncaring, asshole excuse for a human. But ole Mitch can do whatever he wants, and the dickheads will still dutifully drag themselves to the polls and vote for him.
Note: I have voted in every single election for the last 20 years, even if I was sick on election day and I have made damn sure I have voted for anyone but Mitch 'Pond Scum' McConnell. (Although that is unfair to Pond Scum. I would certainly vote for Pond Scum before the Turtle.)
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Agree 100%! Mitch could kill enough of the population in this state with that bill to go down to 5 congressional seats. He represents a very poor state, where people rely on Medicaid.
People vote for him because he has power, even if it's the power to kill them.
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)call McConnell turtle . It is an insult to turtles. At least turtles do some good in the world unlike McConnell who is trying to destroy the sick and elderly.
AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)That would really cost the states more money. they would also love to tell us , "move on."
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)This protesting is out of hand......
get the red out
(13,468 posts)He is just such an evil man. So many people here in Kentucky will DIE, and he could not possibly care less.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The Koch bros need those billions in tax cuts, the poor things.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)Great visual, McConnell, hauling away people in wheelchairs
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)perdita9
(1,144 posts)I protest where I can, when I can, but I live far from Washington, DC and I'm grateful for for the people who can make their voices heard on these important issues.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)I have been contacting various resistance organizations to get an ACA protest march nationwide to draw attention to this deadline issue. I was thinking of attending using crutches or a wheelchair since my chronic condition will lead to this outcome soon.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)a GOP talking point or already is. This is terrible to say the least. It only helps the GOP if the disabled stay in the shadows until their appointment with Trumpcare/deathcare comes.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)I wasn't against the idea, just how it was talked about.
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)yesterday about a woman with a disabled child (lives in red state KS) that was worried about cuts being made to Medicaid because her child depends on it. At the end of the article she made a point of saying she is a conservative Christian and not some liberal democrat. All I have to say to that is when you voted republican, you voted to have your child's Medicaid cut. No sympathy for you mom, but I do for the child because you have a short sited sighted mother.
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)bresue
(1,007 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)The prick would only feel offended if people started lighting themselves on fire in protest, like the monk protesters in Vietnam, because they would leave a foul odor in the air. I seriously do not think that would even stop these evil bastards.
He truly deserves to roast in hell for eternity, along with the rest of his republican frauds.
Rhiannon12866
(206,006 posts)There were some in wheelchairs wearing oxygen masks!
burrowowl
(17,645 posts)the Capitol Police are willing NAZIs!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)This needs to be played repeatedly in 2018