tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post1702058151951262839..comments2024-03-24T16:53:02.846-07:00Comments on Five Hundred Pound Peep: The Disabled: Scapegoats of the Republican PartyFive Hundred Pound Peephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-26555084857810408672017-07-02T06:16:13.242-07:002017-07-02T06:16:13.242-07:00good article. I always hated that saying. It doesn...good article. I always hated that saying. It doesn't make you stronger. Some try to glamorize poverty and other states in Christian circles. When everything is supposed to be a "lesson" there's a point where you want to punch the "teacher" out, so I don't buy those theological musings or the ones where they say that everything is part of the plan. It's strange that place of illness where you could find yourself willing to slip away just to even escape the pain, with multiple body systems collapsing one by one. I experienced it with severe kidney stones--dozens coming out at a time by the way not just "one" and during the infection of 2001, where I almost lost my life and every infection triggers me back there. With those who are severely ill, many tire of the platitudes. I always liked Christopher Hitchens, he is kind of one of my secrets, that I liked reading his writings. I didn't announce this to my IFB church members of course. LOLFive Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-90213669944372895112017-07-01T17:29:23.046-07:002017-07-01T17:29:23.046-07:00https://jaldenh.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/vanity-fa...https://jaldenh.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/vanity-fair-trial-of-the-will-by-christopher-hitchens/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-10156630615383026442017-07-01T08:02:04.070-07:002017-07-01T08:02:04.070-07:00I think it was brave too. Did any of you see the a...I think it was brave too. Did any of you see the article about the people locked in a room who were protesting? That was so wrong, they were not disabled in that case, but I could see it happening. I belong to some FB UK disability boards, and what has happened there is horrific beyond words and yes people have lost housing and their lives. When they went on the austerity plan the disabled were kicked first to the curb like the Republican party wants to do to us. I think it is the point, they do want us to die and "stop costing money". This is a bitter pill for someone like me who wonders if I would have escaped disability with the right treatment at the right time. When I talk to Republicans who are gung ho, I have directly asked "well what should people like me go and then do?" and "go die" or silence is the basic response. I am glad you care, it proves you have a conscience. Most people if they grow old enough aka stay alive will end up with at least one disability before they die. I hope you can avoid disability too. I believe it is the end of humanity as well and a victory for "those who have waxed cold" and the narcissists and sociopaths out there.Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-28020057680937151022017-06-30T12:37:34.703-07:002017-06-30T12:37:34.703-07:00The die-in was brave and painful to watch. We know...The die-in was brave and painful to watch. We know what happened when benefits were cut for the disabled in the UK, thousands died in the following years, probably most were preventable deaths. But you're right, that's not an unfortunate liability, that is the point. It's extremely grotesque and I think many ppl balk at this reality. Even if they are concerned with preserving social safety nets, we don't hear about the real alternative of their removal (go die). It gets neatly left unsaid but I've been saying it a lot with increasing alarm as I saw the UK activists struggle against cuts, that came and destroyed thousands of lives. I think my family thinks I'm unhinged because I am not, technically, disabled. Why do you care so much? Well I have Lipedema and I fear disability in the not so far future. But I also know when we start saying that one person's life costs too much, it's the end of humanity, anyone living peacefully can become to costly to allow to live Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-80820207890121178582017-06-28T12:36:29.536-07:002017-06-28T12:36:29.536-07:00https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/27/1587644...https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/27/15876442/healthcare-medicaid-cuts-disability-protestsFive Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-46892070042107034592017-06-28T08:41:19.288-07:002017-06-28T08:41:19.288-07:00I am glad the people at SSDI, are kind and easy to...I am glad the people at SSDI, are kind and easy to work with, yeah that guy is right it is money you paid in during your life, and was meant to be used. The Republicans have unleashed these sickening lies about Social Security. I am on SSD, the one you pay into, maybe I got disabled younger, but that is part of the system. I am visibly disabled and I get the feeling some think I should take the walker and put trays on it and be a waitress or something.Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-76200824305437275012017-06-27T14:46:49.814-07:002017-06-27T14:46:49.814-07:00I've noticed that if you aren't obviously ...I've noticed that if you aren't obviously compromised it doesn't register with people that can still work. On a bad day I can hardly stand up long enough to shave with out getting dizzy. Much less go out and work like I used to. The people at SSDI have always been kind and easy to work with. One time I made an off hand remark about it being tantamount to welfare and the guy on the phone was quick to remind me that this was money I had paid in during the course of my life and to never think of it as a hand out. Most think if you can tape a yard stick your head and tap out e-mails you should be able to work construction. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-23301257635127828952017-06-27T09:47:44.752-07:002017-06-27T09:47:44.752-07:00It was very triggering, remember I had the false f...It was very triggering, remember I had the false friend who the day before I ended the friendship, she told me my weight and Aspergers embarrassed her, and that I should just go die in the gutter instead of being a slave to Social Security. She was always making comments about government mooches and giving me pie in the sky comments, you could sell your art work...[hey it makes pin money at times, but paying for thousands in medication, I wanted to ask her if she was insane?]<br /><br />I am suffering from self esteem issues from the disabilities, as I have gotten older they have gotten tougher to cope with, and I do feel even the subtle stuff has taken a toll on me especially in an affluent area. I got a leg infection this week, and feel more of the blame and worse. Yes they tell us what matters is only money and we do not matter. <br /><br />Sorry you hear such horrible stuff living in an all white town being non-white. I don't want to know what that would be like. Where I live now is a very racist area, very segregated especially for a state that is not in the South, I do get the feeling that this may infuse on multiple levels and affect other groups like the disabled, etc. Classism, racism, and other isms like Ableism can marry into a very toxic stew. <br /><br />I was horrified that people being dragged out of wheelchairs is now acceptable. I hope they do kill this health bill. It is evil and cruel. I do feel I have dealt with some triggering and health stress, from the political climate. It is growing so bad and is a picture of the soul of who has been put in charge.Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-47974634885343029762017-06-27T09:33:55.442-07:002017-06-27T09:33:55.442-07:00"She told me my health problems should not be..."She told me my health problems should not be paid for by her, and that my most honorable position would be to go die instead of being a burden on her taxes." This makes me so angry. Partly because it's just so black hearted, but also because it's like the actual social expression of being raised by narcissists like our parents: what matters is me and my money, you don't matter at all. I'm really sorry for all the crap you've been told over the years because of your disability too, not surprised, but sorry. I'm not white and I was raised in an all white town in the 60s and the kind of crap I had to hear always shocks the white people I know. If you don't have something that causes people to call you out then you have no idea how much ugliness is shown to people every day. Every day I've been reading hoping to hear that the Senate will kill this health bill. It is an evil, cruel bill. It was unbelievable seeing people dragged out of their wheelchairs! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-2790023771990870162017-06-27T08:00:58.428-07:002017-06-27T08:00:58.428-07:00I agree many of those Republican leaders are malig...I agree many of those Republican leaders are malignant narcissists and sociopaths. America has gone to a new very terrible place where open disdain for the less fortunate has now been made policy among wealthy leaders. They want to be deemed superior while practicing eugenics on various segments of the population. This has been done through the back door while destroying many people's economic futures but now while they work to take medical care away and strip away the social safety net, that is moving this country into a very bad place. I believe they love their feelings of power, and they do profit off all the suffering,paid off by corporations behind the scenes who probably financed their campaigns. Led by the luciferian religious right and others, they love the feeling of power and destruction over millions of lives. Paul Ryan and crew in other words ENJOY what they DO.<br /><br />The adults with disability know their very lives are at stake. Many will be warehoused back into horrible institutions and have aides, medical care and waiver programs taken away from them. I can see one medical program for the fragile disabled taken away I planned to enter to keep me out of nursing home care, and there will be no help at home offered. Yes Mitch McConnell definitely hates the disabled and cares nothing for their needs, even 30 years ago, a politician treating vulnerable disabled people like this would be chastised, today it is business as usual. Many on the right have been trained to disregard and hate the poor, the disabled and to scapegoat various segments of the population. These brainwashed types have been taught to worship the uber men of Nietzche and Ayn Rand, who proclaim their superiority to the masses and who claim inferiority for many groups they have scapegoated. The disabled are chief among them. <br /><br />That's a good article too, well as you know being in IFB churches I saw the rhetoric being whipped up among the poor among the religious right and it started years ago and has reached a zenith. Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-56242302062459175272017-06-27T06:29:32.146-07:002017-06-27T06:29:32.146-07:00These Republicans are malignant narcs who need to ...These Republicans are malignant narcs who need to be exposed for what they are so that we will stop meeting their narc supplies. They love attention, our comments, and the feelings of having the ultimate power over Americans who could not make the decision because of broken legal system and constitutional laws. They get jollies when they see disadvantaged people like those who disabilities; who are non-white people, poor, unmarried women who want marriage and family, and unemployed protesting against their death sentences. <br /><br />When adults with disability took the time to do a sit-in as described in the news, they felt Mitch McConnell gave them a death penalty. They did not want to die, so they protested. McConnell chose not to talk to them, so he called the police. Any Republicans who support these types of policies that hurt innocent people President Reagan did not target in the 1980s are malignant narcs. <br /><br />Here is an article I thought you would like to read: http://www.salon.com/2017/03/23/why-are-republicans-so-cruel-to-the-poor-paul-ryans-profound-hypocrisy-stands-for-a-deeper-problem/bostonjogger16https://www.blogger.com/profile/07180857725607291804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-44983445458739208762017-06-26T07:08:45.649-07:002017-06-26T07:08:45.649-07:00It scares me and sad to say in the IFB which I lef...It scares me and sad to say in the IFB which I left there was many people like that. I don't know how their heads didn't explode either, most supported the death penalty too. I know there are moderate Republicans and people who don't fit these criteria but I think I live around a lot of the other kind, I really do. Five Hundred Pound Peephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862707335431442713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-650289478442133391.post-34755534600316452192017-06-26T03:34:50.510-07:002017-06-26T03:34:50.510-07:00Being "pro life" and thinking Social Dar...Being "pro life" and thinking Social Darwinism is a good thing are such divergent opinions that I've never understood how people can believe that way without their heads exploding.Dorothy Kernaghan-Baezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09062351446371618876noreply@blogger.com