GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
Because he's the biggest snowflake in the history of the internet. He's always getting his feelings hurt.
Biden 2024 Run Thread
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I guess I never find it funny to make fun of anything associated w a disability.
I am a 24/7 365 days a year caregiver to a spouse of over 30 yrs. We started dating in jr high. She is the strongest most courageous person I know who suffers from a genetic illness that for the last 12 yrs has taken away her ability to stand or walk. Can’t transfer to any seat/bed or the toilet. Can’t dress herself. Can’t get her own meds. Can’t make her own food or get her own drink. Can’t clean herself. Thankfully she can still feed herself and there are other things small though they are. We are extremely fortunate to be able to have purchased things and built our house to accommodate her limitations and make life easier for her. When we travel we have to take a manual medical lift and stay in hotels that accommodate not only power wheelchairs but also medical lifts that fit in the bathroom and under the bed. On our last trip both elevators were broken when we came back from a late dinner at a nice hotel and my wife can’t use the restroom without our lift which was in our handicap room on the 5th floor. We don’t get to our room until 2 am. Next time you visit downtown Stillwater note the handicap parking. 9/10 handicap spaces are at an angle. If you pull all the way up the ramp from a handicap converted vehicle is too close to the curb so you have to stay backed out in traffic to allow enough egress for the ramp and wheelchair. Then the wheelchair has to remain in traffic or in a parking spot while the driver pulls the vehicle forward. She has actually been honked at for waiting in a parking spot while I let the ramp retract/door close and then pull forward.
We’ve actually been cussed at at an OSU football game by OSU fans bc we had to ask them to step off the sidewalk so my wife and another gentleman (that we didn’t even know) using a walker could get past them on the sidewalk as there was grass on both sides and their tailgate was set up on one of the grass areas.
So we all have stories and life is not easy. But it’s not easy for everyone. We all have our hurdles. I don’t tell these stories for sympathy. I share these stories bc my hope is that everyone would just take a minute and look around and see how they can make life easy for just one other person.
Why anyone would chose to mock anyone w a disability like Gogetem did is beyond me. It shows a complete lack of anything heart/soul/spirit related.
And why? To get a few laugh or thumbs up emojis. We should all have zero room in any aspect of our life to make fun of someone w any type of disability. Even if they come age related.
Be selfish about it. Think that one day you might need to have someone wipe your @$$ and you hope that everything you’ve put into the universe makes it possible so someone doesn’t mind wiping your @$$.
I give less than 0 sh!+’s about my feelings.
Make fun of someone who can’t walk or dress themselves like my wife. Make fun of anyone that doesn’t make fun of their own situation. I have zero room for that.
I hope in real life you are nothing like what you post and that has nothing to do with politics.
GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
Good grief dude. Nobody’s making fun of your wife.
noun: handicap; plural noun: handicaps
- 1.
a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult.
"a criminal conviction is a handicap and a label that may stick forever"
Does a criminal conviction keep you from dressing yourself? How about walking?
I hope you never have to care for anyone that way or that you have to depend on anyone for n that way.
Doesn’t matter that it wasn’t my wife. It matters that another person would make those comments. I am tired of this sh!+. Just keep your mouth shut or your fingers still!
I get you hate DEI, but from your previous posts it seems like you have a good position at a bank. Well dumb@$$, it’s people like you who think it’s ok to make fun of people w disabilities (age related or not) that make people like me think you’re dang right we need DEI. I guarantee if you’re willing to type that on a message board you are more than willing to make everyday decisions in that same vein.
What you don’t get is we see you make public comments like that even with anonymity behind a keyboard.
So while that douchery gets posted in public what do you say about people when they pass by or after you see them leave a reateraunt? Or at a game.
It just shows what I said before I asked you to delete it.
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GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
You must have missed it but they talked about their golf handicaps during the debate. Someone made a meme about it that most people, without a stick planted firmly up their butt, found humorous. Have you considered that maybe this type of forum just isn’t for you? Maybe counseling?
JTOSU
Ranger
We have been told repeatedly that Biden’s mentally was extremely sharp. The WaPo and MSNBC ridiculed a WSJ article saying Biden was struggling in meetings. A whole host of Dems were quoted in February saying he was “so sharp and always on his game”.
We were lied to. His performance last week was horrifying. Biden is running for the President of the United States.
What gogetumpoke listed was a joke. Related to a silly debate point where our candidates argued their golf ability.
GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
Nah, the unbiased media and democrats would never try to convince us not to believe our lying eyes.
Nobody's said they are personally impacted by them and then told to suck it up when they explain it.
PF5
Sheriff
apples and oranges...if a preacher got upset with the one, I wouldn´t tell them to quit whining and be a douche bag to them...
It is sad/frustrating/confusing what we were told about Biden. It wasn’t just from Dems it was also from Rs. I still can’t believe what I watched. I shouldn’t have been bc it squares w his interview w David Muir on ABC in Mormamdy earlier this month. But it doesn’t square w some of his campaign stops like the day after. It’s maddening that Joe won’t just go home and be a retired husband and grandpa.
The joke was not about golf. It was about a person’s disability. Someone being able to dress themselves or walk is not funny. Someone’s mental capacity to speak or count is no different than if he would have just substituted the R word. We don’t tolerate that and he was too coward to post a meme w that. We don’t tolerate racial jokes or labels and we shouldn’t tolerate this.
The problem is that Trump is openly mocked people w disabilities and your justification of his “joke” proves we were right to be critical of him for it.
Then the coward tries to cover his butt.
JT we can disagree politically and even get frustrated w each other on a message board. You post good stuff on the sports threads. Be better than someone who makes fun of people w disabilities. Be better than someone who makes excuses for people who make fun of people w disabilities.
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That’s the problem. The meme wasn’t about a golf handicap. The meme was making fun of people who can’t do those things and then was spread across the internet.
Tell you what. If that meme is acceptable, print it off and then share it w multiple families of children w mental (speech and counting) disabilities. Take it to the MDA clinic in OKC on the day they have Duchenne MD patient clinics or the day they have ALS patient clinics. You know. The people who can’t walk or dress themselves. Tell them your name where you work and the position you hold. Tell them where you go to church and your pastor’s name. Tell them how funny you think the meme is and if they don’t laugh (the equivalent of a laughing crying emoji) tell them they have a stick up their butt bc your friends think it’s hilarious.
Bet you won’t do any of that.
GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
See that's just it. You're being ridiculous as usual. I didn't share it any of those places and wouldn't. I shared a political meme in a political forum inhabited by adults .... well mostly adults anyway. It was relevant to the debate and in no way meant to make fun of your wife or people like her. But even you already knew that right? You never pass up an opportunity get your feelings hurt and tell strangers on the internet how tough you have it and seriously have the thinnest skin of any poster on here. That's quite an accomplishment! Again, maybe this isn't the place for you.
That’s a lot of words to say “WAH I want to be a POS to people and I don’t like you calling me out WAAH WAAH WAAH”.
Man we’ve figured out how to carve a good life out of the hand we’ve been dealt. I will give that I over share about our situation but I do it bc 99% of people go through their life without a thought to what some people struggle w in terms of basic life functions on a daily basis. I still take things for granted and do things wo thinking when in hindsight I know my wife can’t do. Just yesterday I put her plate down wo cutting up her food and left her cup on the counter instead of putting it on the bar for her. I misstep like that daily and I live this life everyday. We share bc we want people to stop sometimes and think about what they are doing and how it makes an already challenging life for some people more difficult. In most cases people are receptive to our story and in others like you they don’t care how their life impacts other people.
One aspect of people living with life long disabilities and their loved ones is mental health. Stop thinking about me and my posts right now and think about this.
You live every single day with the knowledge that you can’t do the things listed in your meme. You can’t walk. Can’t dress yourself. Have brain fog bc you can’t sleep at night bc you can’t roll over or scratch an itch on your head or leg. For the rest of your life you won’t ever do any of those things. Yesterday was the best you will ever physically feel. You know the day is coming when you won’t be able to feed yourself.
Every physical inadequacy you have makes you depend on someone else. You have days where you question why you are still alive. You doubt your worth bc everywhere around you you are reminded of what you can’t do. Our world is not built for people w disabilities. But no one knows this better than people living w disabilities and their care givers.
I see that every day in the eyes and words of the most courageous and gracious and strongest people I’ve ever known. I am in awe of my wife and know that my life and my family are the way we are bc or her and her wisdom and love. Think about the person that means the most to you and having to watch them physically and mentally struggle w a disability. It sucks!
Forget having to help them that’s the easier part. Watching them wake up crying bc they know how tough the day is going to be not for themselves but for the people that have to take care of them. That’s the tough part.
Thin skin??? Nah. I’m ok. I don’t need your rebuke to toughen me up. I could have handled the original request better and for that I apologize to you.
As for sharing our situation I was asked directly by another poster why I had a problem to which you chimed in.
That type of banter has no place in public as even you have attended to and it should have no place in a political message board that you insinuate is where grown @$$ men wo sticks up their butts can go to be adults.
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