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Not that I'm a Biden supporter, and I get that there are lots of things to be desired about Democrats. But what I'm not a supporter of is this juvenile cruelty that has come to be known as part of the conservative / Republican brand ever since Trump showed up on the scene. The mantra is: laugh at everyone's mannerisms, ridicule their disabilities, taunt them with cruel insults. This has flourished in the last few years.
These behaviors used to be below most elected leaders, much less adults. We teach our kids in schools to be better than this. It's sad when conservatives rally around this sort of behavior.
It's this kind of fundamental character defect, more than any Republican / conservative policies, that just make me not able to get behind Trump. Get a Republican politician who also at least strives to be a basically decent human being, and I just might vote for him or her.
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Sullenberger, a former pilot best known for landing a commercial jet on the Hudson river in what came to be known as “The Miracle on the Hudson,” authored a New York Times op-ed on Saturday about his experiences wrestling with speech.
“What might a child who stutters, as I did, feel when they hear a grown-up on a public stage trying to make a bunch of other adults laugh by ridiculing a public figure who also stutters?” He wrote.
He had a message for children who may be affected by such a “culture of cruelty:” “You are fine, just as you are. You can do any job you dream of when you grow up.” He pointed to his own success as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, airline pilot and public speaker.
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect,” Sullenberger wrote in his op-ed. “You become a true leader, not because of how you speak, but because of what you have to say — and the challenges you have overcome to help others.”
Not that I'm a Biden supporter, and I get that there are lots of things to be desired about Democrats. But what I'm not a supporter of is this juvenile cruelty that has come to be known as part of the conservative / Republican brand ever since Trump showed up on the scene. The mantra is: laugh at everyone's mannerisms, ridicule their disabilities, taunt them with cruel insults. This has flourished in the last few years.
These behaviors used to be below most elected leaders, much less adults. We teach our kids in schools to be better than this. It's sad when conservatives rally around this sort of behavior.
It's this kind of fundamental character defect, more than any Republican / conservative policies, that just make me not able to get behind Trump. Get a Republican politician who also at least strives to be a basically decent human being, and I just might vote for him or her.
Biden doesn't stutter. Hasn't in 45 years in office. 1000s of recordings of him out there where he's fine. This is nonsense made up by indignant leftists to cover for his inability to speak a coherent thought these days.
Biden has a Fixodent problem along with early stage dementia. Watch him 10 years ago. he was lucid, well spoken, now he's become a doddering old fool. Sorry I'm not voting for anybody who will be in their 80's while in office.
Biden doesn't stutter. Hasn't in 45 years in office. 1000s of recordings of him out there where he's fine. This is nonsense made up by indignant leftists to cover for his inability to speak a coherent thought these days.
Jesus Christ. Don't you guys know any speech therapists?
Stuttering as a youngster can be overcome as an adult.
Duh.
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