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Redleg

(7,026 posts)
1. Good point, other than the meme-maker making fun of the Governors disability
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:18 PM
Aug 2025

My old way of thinking, backed up by empirical research, would say that the incessant whining and blaming Dems would backfire on Republicans because their own voters would see them as weak and feckless. All these years of Trump whining and blaming have changed my thinking on that matter. Maybe it only works for Trump, the most wronged and innocent man in the world.

marble falls

(72,543 posts)
2. How is he disabled when he's caved out a successful career as a lawyer and politician. He certainly doesn't ...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:15 PM
Aug 2025

... seem disabled to me. Nobody has defined him by his chair or claimed he is a incapable of being Governor by his chair. Is TACOs weight a legitimate reason to make fun of him? How many times has RFK Jr been ridiculed for his voice or the parasite found on his brain? I'm one legged, should I get bent out of shape for being called 'peg leg'?

However if you feel this is a slur on those differently enabled, I will delete this OP. I don't want to offend anyone.

Curiously, are you confined to a chair?

Redleg

(7,026 posts)
4. Because he has a medical condition that limits a major life activity- the ability to walk
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:50 PM
Aug 2025

I am not defending Abbot- I think he is a fucking clown. I just wanted to point out the issue of his disability.

marble falls

(72,543 posts)
5. The only one emphasizing his "disability" is not me, the man is quite abled. He never mentions it, no one around him ...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:39 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:31 PM - Edit history (1)

... mentions it. If there is one disablement about him it's inability to realize how far up his ass his head is.

Calling him hot wheels is on the level of calling me chrome dome.

BTW: I have both legs and a thick head of hair.

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