• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And FDR was in a wheelchair no less. Imagine the current rabid right’s reaction if a democrat president was in a wheelchair?

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      Texas’s Governor Abbott is in a wheelchair, and I don’t see much criticism, but I also don’t know how many people know he is

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        Abbot is a republican. If he were a democrat, the republicans would call him weak for being in a wheelchair

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          100% - the former guy said on national television that he likes “soldiers that don’t get captured” and people still voted for him. The Rs would have no problem with “I like governors who can walk”.