I was a perfectly able bodied 36yr old and then I got pnuemonia. It turned into sepsis and my kidneys failed and I ended up being taken to the hospital in an ambulance and was in a coma for weeks. When I woke up I had severe neurological damage and can no longer walk without assistance and I am severely limited physically. It can happen to you at anytime.
I always try to tell people this. Was abled til age 25, lost my ability to walk over course of 2mo then was bedbound 3 years. Turned out I had a rare genetic disorder that showed no sign before that and was not inherited. It CAN be you.
So good he got relected 3 times Actually it was for ww2 but he ended up being the only us president governing more then 8 years. Also the roosvelt plan or whatever it is called is just such a fucking great deal. Today such a thing would be killed immediatly sadly
@joshuajohnson979 Why do people still think orange man is fit to run a country is beyond me. I’m still trying to think long and hard about what his appeal is? What’s there to love about this clown? Nothing! Everything he claims is doing is to satisfy his own personal needs and mindsets. He doesn’t even care about his own supporters or people.
“Most people don’t think about how they’re only one bad day away from being disabled” true but my anxiety disorder has got me covered. I think about it every day. EVERY FUCKING DAY
He wasn't mocking him. The gesture he done is something he always does and there's evidence to show he has done it multiple times in different scenarios.
They want wage slaves so that the rich have cheap labor, if the worker is defective then they dont want it. The more poor people there are the less valuable their labor which means they can make more of a profit.
No republican has ever said anything agsinst disable people fake news watcher and abortion AKA murder has has nothing to do with disabilities. Only bad would agree with abortion AKA murder
Undergrad I took a disabilities class and something that stuck with me was that the disability in itself isn't a nuisance it's the world's lack of accommodations that makes it hard. And it's so true. You not having the ability to walk isn't as much of a damper as there not being accessible restrooms, door frames, ramps, elevators, sidewalks, cars etc. The gang of 19 started with the bus boycott and because of them ADAPT and IDEA are active today. I'm always cognizant that I'm one bad car accident or diagnosis away from becoming disabled which is why it's important to hear them speak.
Correct, but people often neglect to mention that a society which solves its accessibility issues consistently on a systemic level is also an objectively more efficient one. It is simply better, in the same way housing the homeless simply leads to better outcomes even in terms of pure productivity metrics. The problem of systemic ableism isn't one of morality or empathy or whatever, it's simply a matter of incompetence driven by irrational bias.
@@justsomeguy6336because it isn't accomodated, and not the sort of accomodations that inconvenience anyone else either. Well, really both are nuisances in a way to the affected, lack of accomodation's probably the worse one tho.
It doesn't need to be cancer, you could get IBS tomorrow! My experience (lining up with medical data) told me: You are always just one bad infection away from having having a suddenly very restricted diet. I had no known food intolerances before. Now the list is very long and lets just say the first year of feeling like it's just "everything" actually pretty much applies to what ate before just from Mustard, Carrageenan and Gluten alone.
As someone who is disabled, I don't think a quote has ever scared me into voting as much as this one. To clarify, I don't think a Trump presidency is capable of the kind of maliciousness that would lead to me ending up on the streets, but I really, *really* don't want to test that theory.
Really? Republicans are already okay with forcing women to bear children in the most distressing and difficult of circumstances. We already know they'd prefer that all pregnancies become live births regardless of the pain those births might bring. Maybe it's a good thing that you can't imagine Trump fostering a political environment that would force you onto the streets. It is very, very easy for me to do so.
Given his narcissistic tendencies, his probable drug addictions, his incontinence, his alleged "bone-spurs", and his obesity (and everything which comes with that): YOU FIRST, DONALD.
They're not going to call them disabled, they'll call them "unemployed" or "welfare whales" or something along those lines. A long standing right wing strategy is to divide the working class by singling out a section of itself and framing it as leeching on the rest. Former (thankfully) British PM Rishi Sunak recently singled out people on sick leave as freeloaders, from the BBC: "The prime minister claims benefits have become a "lifestyle choice" for some, causing a "spiralling" welfare bill." Note that if you were born in 1990, British GDP has more than doubled in your lifetime. It's never the working class who benefits from cutbacks in welfare, everything goes to the top!
Their cutbacks to disability services were massively cruel too. I can't remember details, but someone in the government claimed a quadriplegic person with incontinence could/should wait half a day or more sitting in sh!t.
You hit the nail on the head. I grew up very poor in a small town because my single mother couldn't work because she needed to take care of my chronically ill sister. But she didn't accept most welfare programs because she knew we would get bullied by other kids and discriminated against by teachers because everyone in town knew which house was welfare housing and because kids on the lunch program ate separately. Poverty and disability have always been mocked and considered a reason to mistreat and look down on others. Most people haven't taken the time -and don't want to- to consider why people are in need since that would mean they would have to reflect on how they treated people and force them to realize they might have supported cruel policies.
@@garyturner5739the definition of a disabled person should not be left to a government body let alone one which intends to punish or remove "disabled people" en masse
The fucking "you could have the genes for disability" line hit me so hard. Before COVID I was extremely healthy, but after I got it the first time an underlying heart condition emerged and fucked me over and out of a job
I'm a Direct Support Professional and work the graveyard shift at a 24-7 residential group home for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. I myself am neurodevelopmentally disabled. Our lives matter. Our lives are valid. Our value, rights to accommodations and accessibility isn't debatable. We deserve happiness, comfort, for our needs to be met, dignity, and health just like everyone else.
There is also objectively zero practical benefit to eugenics. It's a failed ideology. No person or system can foresee every circumstance, and consequently, things that are assumed to be disabilities in one context are often critically useful or at least beneficial in another. Outside of the incredibly obvious cases of "we can ascertain with basically 100% likelihood that this pregnancy is nonviable and that suffering and infant mortality will rapidly follow", there just isn't a justification for eugenics. It's pointless, costly, counterproductive cruelty with negligible utility at best (and that's before factoring in the obscene cost in every single sense). The same holds true for any form of status hierarchy. Seriously.
If we're being completely honest, even setting aside ANY emotional or moral appeals, it's also just phenomenally stupid and useless to not take care of disabled people, as a society. Especially because there is no single universal way to determine someone's "usefulness" and there never will be. If I remember correctly, a greater capacity for taking care of the less conventionally able, the elderly, the infirm, and so on is not just correlated with a more prosperous society but may actually have some causal contribution toward one. It certainly seems to be the case anecdotally based on specific historical examples that disabled and atypical people have contributed to some of humanity's greatest achievements. Never let anyone get away with pretending that treating disabled people as "lesser" is some kind of pragmatic, cost-efficient decision. It's not. It's objectively an incorrect, dead-end ideology.
As an autistic person, a Trump presidency terrifies the shit out of me. Worried that he's going to start using the "Useless eaters" Rhetoric once he gets rid of Social Security and Medicaid, which I rely upon to get Even the most basic of healthcare. There's a lot of insane "Worst case scenarios", But it's hard to different the ones that are obviously fantasy from the ones that could reasonably happen because Trump is not a reasonable person.
I 100% see the issue. But i would like to add, even if its just a minor tid-bit, that autistic/ADHD people have historically not been discriminated against in the same way as for example someone who is completely non verbal or physically disabled. Its of course partly due to the fact that the idea of autism came during the 40s and 50s. But also in general, autistic people are relatively normal? there are a LOT of reasons to fear a Trump presidency, but i wouldnt put «will send people with ASD to camps» as a main issue.
There's no evidence of him removing medicare or social security. He said he wants to keep it. He does plan to cut general government spending and those were one of them because there's so much wasteful spending in many different areas.
Punching down is all right wingers have to act tough by. Their whole M.O. is cowardice. I doubt you are the threat they like to pretend you are. And they do this to everybody except for their loyalists. It's all huff and puff. What they underestimate is how dangerous people are when cornered.
I've spent the past 8 years, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, taking care of my disabled son. Not one day off. Not one vacation. I've spent all of my savings, lost all of my friends, not one date night with my wife, not one night of more than 3 hours of sleep. I've put my career on what is probably permanent hold. Sacrificed my entire way of life. And if I had the chance to make it all go back to how my life used to be, I wouldn't. I couldn't. I'm a different, better person. And these bastards have a problem with my son. Let me tell you now: I have given all my life for him. What makes them think they have any chance against my resolution and will. They are weak. This is my(our) life. We will not go away.
18:22 Actually Vaush, it is not just $2000 in assets. I used to be on SSI, and I am disabled, but one doctor decided I wasnt anyways. $2000 in countable assets. They dont count your 1st house, nor do they count your only car, and they dont count most material goods like computers. They count cash, investments, banks, and like if you have 2 cars, theyll count the 2nd. Its still an awful rule and a poverty trap, but yea. It isnt that psychotic. All the things you said count, dont. 😊
I thought for sure he couldn’t have been right about that. Thanks for confirming. Not a single disabled person would’ve been counted under vaush’s impression
I’m really fearful because I have lifelong heart disease from birth I was denied care due to a pre existing condition before Obamacare. During Covid I also felt disposable and so didn’t even have Covid till 2023 and at that point I was scared as no one seemed to take it seriously even if you were at risk. We as intellectually or physically disabled people don’t deserve to die due to something we had no choice in. We deserve fulfilling long lives the same as anyone or good health. We are NOT disposable.
Sounds like my Dad, yet he was born a quarter Jew in Budapest in 1936 - in later days, he fantasized about Hitler returning, saying "No more Mr. Nice Guy"!
Fact is, I'm a very healthy man in his mid 20es, who does 5-10h of resistance training per week, gets 10k-20k steps per day, plus 40min high intensity cardio (commuting on my bicycle) per day, but I'm one driver not looking where he is turning away from being paraplegic. None of us is safe from being handicapped.
So much data and historical evidence shows that people with disabilities whether that be physical or intellectual disabilities they were born with or acquired later on, prehistoric humans treat them with care and cared for them. This isn’t the case for every society but it’s overwhelming in terms of the actual evidence we have. It seems like we just regressed as a people and got more selfish
In our culture disabled people regularly get tossed out of jobs or are denied employment if you are unable to perform even simple skills or can't work fast enough. Employers want "normal" employees. State departments of vocational rehabilitation may refuse to help people who are disabled for various reasons or if that disability is concerned mental, not physical. The Nazis in Germany did exterminate the mentally ill.
I'm beginning to feel like the conservatives. Stockpiling canned goods in my basement, researching diy traps, considering pulling all my cash out of my savings. Unlike most of my Latino community, I am a firearm afficionado, and i have been hoarding ammo since 2022. I think I can say that I am a bit concerned with the future, mainly because I am a brown man in Texas.
Shit like this is why I refused to actually get an ASD diagnosis for so long, and I citied it as my reason for not wanting to. Was basically forced into it, much to my dismay!
yup, im all but diagnosed at this point, but i wont go through with it. Just the idea of being on a list like that, basically marked for the future, is NOT something im willing to do
@@jffj1425It's even worse being diagnosed as a child. Heaven help you if you end up in foster care. You might end up under conservatorship so that you can get abused like a child as an adult like my twin sister. Nearly happened to me too, she wouldn't let the doctors finish their psych eval on me so that it would be known for sure that I'm too high functioning for conservatorship.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 ive hear about american foster care, and my god how did it become so terrible. It sounds like prison but somehow the young children have an as high death rate, its insane. Sorry you went through that. Any of it. And i hope your sister is doing better too
"You could have the genes for disability already coded into you, and it could activate tomorrow. You have no idea, man." Autoimmune diseases represent! My body decided to execute some old instructions one day when I was a teenager, and BOOM- there goes a piece of my brain.
Yep. MS at 29. Such fun! However, I'm a New Zealander so don't have to pay for my very expensive medication. Lucky compared to many, not as lucky as some.
This happened to me. Ehlers-Danlos manifested at 25. I was doing a phd in math, busting my ass. No doctor seemed to care. I thought bc I was "useful" tney would want to help me stay in my phd by providing care. Had to fight for leg braces for 8mo, pain meds for 5 years. Ruined my life for a long time.
In the UK, what they did was say that loads of people were pretending to be disabled and that they needed to make the tests more effective, thereby bringing in tougher rules and destroying vulnerable people's lives with the support of the public.
America, the superpower, loves it citizens . America makes it citizens pay 1200 bucks for ambulance and will take your home for your medical bills. Good ol America
Interesting note about the dips in sidewalks. A lot of other nations actually do the opposite. Instead of drooping the sidewalk down, they pull the road up to the sidewalk. This not only is even better for pedestrians b/c water won't pool there, but it also forces cars to slow down at crosswalks, which I think is always good.
No they would applaud that! I remember watching a TV series about what if the Japanese and the Nazis won the war. It was on Amazon prime. The thing that shocked me was that so many Americans were upset when the Nazis lost and the Americans ran the Nazis out of the US in the series.
@@DanicaLee289 Not surprised sadly, nowadays using Nazis as the bad guy canon fodder in a story is going to get outcries of "wokeness" from the right.
Oh Vaush. This means so much to me. I'm one of those "one bad day from being disabled" people who it just happened to out of nowhere. It's SO lonely how no one understands. I would never bitch about this IRL to anyone but other disabled people or my partner sometimes if I'm super emotional that day, but here on the internet I'll say... it's like crossing onto the other side of the veil where everything is different. I've grieved my old life and made a new one and have a wonderful relationship and a job I love and I rebuilt my life and am happy. But it still secretly really hurts even to have experienced this journey; I know I have cptsd from what I've discovered about the medical industry while begging people for care. And combined with having OCD it makes me so scared for my abled loved ones all the time, whenever I see my partner on a ladder I'm like "oh my god this could ruin everything". I promise I don't act like a sad sack irl though.
I'm newly disabled since 2022. I broke my back one day, and that was the end of my independence. I never saw it coming. I'm still trying to come to terms with it. Trump and company scare me even more now.
A Good thing coming from this is, he’s going to lose a larger number of his voters. Disabled people and soilders will not vote for someone who insulted them.
People in the comments bringing up disabled people who did great things are missing the point. I shouldn't have to explain why. If you're saying "well actually some disabled people are useful", you're tacitly accepting the notion that the ones who aren't useful in some way deserve to be discriminated against. This way of lookimg at humans leads to the culling of old people once they reach retirement age, and worse.
I agree but it's about what kind of rhetoric will bring someone over. For example, when we were still making lgbt acceptance mainstream, one common argument used was "lgbt people didn't choose to be the way they are so we shouldn't mistreat them for it". And then, after someone has been accepting of lgbtq people, maybe even found some friends and family who are lgbtq, then they'd realize on their own that even if one _could_ choose to be lgbtq, it still wouldn't be right to mistreat them. Same way now we bring them to our side on disabled people by bringing up all the disabled who have made great contributions to society. And then once they're on our side, we get them on board with the idea that disabled people shouldn't have to justify their existence
Exactly. The conservative worldview is that people exist only to benefit the economy. Nothing else matters to them. Elderly and disabled people providing love and joy to their families doesn't count because it can't be measured financially. That's the problem
Yes, if the argument doesn’t begin at a person’s humanity, and instead is focused on their “contribution” whatever that may be, then the argument is not for that person. A person has value because they are a person.
The fact that from the nephew's account Trump didn't even sound particularly malicious, just genuinely perplexed about why it wasn't better to just let disabled people die, somehow makes it worse.
That's the reason he want to go against Biden: this way biden would make him look "good" Luckly they switched for kamala, which at least was not born when dinosaurs were a thing, although it's still far from bernie sanders (btw bernie sanders is 1 year older then biden, and somehow still looks less retarded then trump is)
@@RyouShi98 If I didn't know what they were, I'd guess they were a superpower or beneficial mutation. Like pre-adamantine Wolverine bone claws or something. Instead they're just these horrid abnormal bone growths that often need to be shaved down during crazy surgeries... That or some kinda freaky sex toy!
Just a reminder that the Republicans' war on woke includes overturning DEI regulations, aka laws that help promote ADA and employment for people with disabilities in state and federal government job positions.
I used to work with special needs kids, mostly Autism Spectrum, but a few others depending on how specialized the different work environments were. Whole gambit of functioning ranges, six year-olds I could banter with and teenagers who mostly communicated by screaming. Kids who'd bite me, and one kid who cried because he was having trouble communicating effectively that he wanted a hug. Some of the most incredible people I've ever had the pleasure to meet and work with were the parents of those kids. Across socio-economic backgrounds, though it always felt like it was mostly poorer families, people on food stamps, single moms, people who I just always had so much respect for how hard they were working with an incredibly unfair hand dealt to them, and who I was genuinely proud to be doing whatever I could for them. Flawed people, always, so is everyone in their own ways, but so many of them were fierce advocates for their kids, just trying to do everything they could to do right by them, as much as anyone could. That work was the hardest and most important thing I've ever tried to do, and there are still a few kids who I worked with in in-home settings who I miss on a daily basis. Those people and their families *should* get more help from the government. Universal Healthcare would be a damned fine start, considering insurance was always where the money to pay me was coming from, but more than that. Nobody should be trapped in poverty, least of all because they're taking care of kids who will never be able to take care of themselves.
I'm physically disabled, but not enough to be unable to work. Just enough for every minute of working to be constant suffering. I don't want to be on Disability honestly. I think I'd probably go insane from boredom. I just want some more laws regarding reasonable accommodations and limitations on what can and can't be asked of me. I have a horrendously bad back that's one accident or bad decision from thousands of dollars for surgery and hundreds of hours of rehab, yet just today I had to spend 20 minutes trying to lift a 400kg bag of buffer that a coworker positioned improperly. She couldn't fix it because she's a she and 4'11". I could fix it though because I'm male-presenting and am 6'3". Does it matter that I might snap like a toothpick? Apparently not. The protections don't come into play until the very bad thing has already happened and I've gone from disabled to completely crippled. Broken system.
As someone who works with students with disabilities and is disabled themselves, i will tell you that the main thing we can do right now to counteract anything like Aktion T4 happening again is to fight for the right for disabled people to exist in public. The more the average person sees disabled people, the more likely they are to notice and agitate about their sudden absence. Segregationist policies should be avoided, accessibility laws should be enforced, and everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.
You could also get into a car accident and come out of it intellectually disabled. You could develop a brain tumor in high school, which the process of removing intellectually impairs you. It’s frighteningly easy to have happen.
I hurt my head and got a CT scan last October, took the data home on a disk, luckily nothing wrong, it also gives me peace of mind knowing I have no early stage braiñ tumors.
Mental disabilities and neurodiverse stuff aside, Vaush has glasses. Its one of those things that people might not think of as a disability, since glasses are pretty common, not particularly new tech and fairly non-cumbersome. But without them, people lose the sense we as a species rely on more than any other to survive. If you need glasses to see, you are disabled, perhaps not too severely, but you are. And glasses arent cheap either! I damaged a lens on one of mine at work a while back, needed to have both lenses replaced to fix it, depending on type and quality youre looking at a good €200 a piece for those.
I wore glasses from age 13 to 22 when my dad stepped on them. I'm 34 now and I have insurance but I just can't be bothered to get them and right now I can't even get somebody to help me with that kind of stuff (I'm autistic and i lost my last helper because I didn't have a working phone for a while)
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and had no clue what was going on as a teen. It's easy to get caught up in complexities of LGBTQ people coming out as adults, and I believe that intersects with people who have had ADHD, bipolar, autism, etc. Sometimes being mentally/physically disabled can be just as marginalizing.
Somehow the bureaucratic nightmare of applying for benefits as a disabled person feels heavenly compared to the Republican proposition of just crossing you off.
2:56 there's a reason my dad a disabled black man like Honest Abe beyond emancipation. A lot of historians think he had ADHD and severe depression. And my dad dealing with those really found Lincoln doing great things in the face of that very inspiring
@@moejohnson2132 He has repeatedly alluded to how he will destroy democracy if he's elected. "Vote for me and you won't ever have to vote again". He blames everything on immigrants and "communists". He holds a clear hatred for women and minorities. How much more must be made clear?
@@moejohnson2132 Burning of books, believing disabled people should die, hatred of immigrants, the belief that trans and gay people are mentally ill, removal of rights for women and people of color, and more, sure sounds like nazi behavior
The right has long had contempt for the disabled, who were referred to in the original German as "lebensunwertes leben". Most of the time they try to conceal that contempt, but sometimes it just can't be contained.
Oh the topic of 'one bad day away from being disabled' I was diagnosed schizoaffective after giving birth to my kid. Biological standing I was already schizoaffective because it is a dominant gene in my family, however, after giving birth (because of hormones maneuvering) my schizophrenia was 'unlocked' to say it in gamer terms. Now I'm medicated with mood stabilizers and antipsychotics just because... I had a kid. 🎉🎉
Don't feel bad, been given (experimental) Quetiapine was a factor (triggered a spiritual awakening) in making me realize that I'm transgender, as well as being autistic.
I was perfectly abled body and fit until 38, when suddenly out of nowhere (1 month before the pandemic)I had a terrible pain in my back that made me unable to stand up for months. I could move my legs but yet, not walk… it was a chronic pain caused by hernia in my spine for years of working in a desk… After 2 years of physiotherapy, loosing by job and gaining a lot of weight due the impossibility of running and swimming regularly as I use to do, now I can walk (with some pain), but living a life with constant pain in my back and the nerves of my legs 24/7. I can swim again but very slowly and walking a little bit every day. But not in a way that could really help me loose the weight I gained. Now I’m trapped in this vicious cycle where I can exercise properly to loose weight due the pain, by not exercising I gain more weight which makes everything worse. In the top of all I’m not qualified to be considered “disable” because technically I can walk. Doing a desk job is impossible as well since I can’t sit for more than one hour without feeling pain. I need to lay down several times a day to be able do to the minimum. The only reason I’m not homeless is because my partner has a stable job and can support me. I’m trying making some money by teaching private lessons as a language teacher, my income is not even a 1/5 that I use to earn… I feel pretty depressed not only for the constant pain, impossibility of work and my weight gain, but how much this whole thing destroyed my previous lifestyle. I can’t even go to a movie theater or do simple things like walk in a park or do groceries…
I have no chronic bodily pains but I feel nervous when I sit up at a desk and I even have anxiety eating at a table. I do everything lying down on my bed, even eat there. It's not because I'm lazy as I do a lot of walking and often I'd rather stand than sit.
My daughter is special needs. I have been yelling from the top of my lungs to people since 2016 that this man is awful and that he has no respect for disabled peoples lives and no one would listen and Trump supporters do not believe he made fun of a disabled reporter.I told them he did it at a rally.Once I showed them the video they were horrified
it's like this in canada too. it feels impossible to find jobs, and although it differs by province, it's hellish. sometimes i think i would be better off dead.
Messing with mediciad prescription drug coverage is a big way they mess with disabiled people. In 2016 Oklahoma cut my drug limit to 4 medicines under the guise of doctors and big pharma over prescribing. Had to leave state as it was literally killing me
"The handicapped are useless and should just die." What a maroon. An almost immobile guy in a wheelchair progressed science with incredible bounds, and looking back, a crap load of really important scientists was mentally non-standard. Without people like us, the pigeon would probably still be the fastest way to communicate long distance.
Alan Turing had autism. I just watched the Imitation Game (an incredibly gripping film btw) and the quote that made me tear up a lil bit was, “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Exactly right Vaush, the various attacks on disabled people are not spoken aloud, it's done silently. I'm severely disabled, I have something called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, it's a terminal muscle-wasting disease that has left me essentially quadriplegic, on a ventilator full-time, and bed-bound. I did not qualify for nursing until I was put on the ventilator in 2012 at 22 years old. I'm now 34. My nursing costs almost a quarter of a million dollars per year through Medicaid. In order to continue having nursing services and Social Security benefits I can't have more than $649.99/mo. in income from a job, I can't have any investments worth more than $249.99 at any time, I can't have more than $2000 total assets across all financial accounts (regular bank, paypal, venmo, etc.) for more than 90 days receiving a notice after 30 and 60 days. If I were to get married, the limits are not doubled but only multiplied by 1.5 times. I could only make $974.99/mo. the caveat being that household income can't exceed $1499/mo. Another kicker all-around, if you have Medicaid for a disability and work, even keeping below the income caps, they will audit your benefits every month and try to pull every little thing you get. Had a friend who was only making $350/mo. with a freelance gig and it got to the point of them threatening to cut his nursing hours and it all stopped when he quit that job. There are millions of disabled people that could work, including myself, if only we could keep our benefits and make whatever income we could. It would increase tax revenues and slow or completely reverse the decline in the Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare system. But there's still a massive discrimination issue for disabled people. Oh, the stories I could tell of just my own experiences. One time had someone cross themselves as if I was a vampire or demonic entity.
Thank you for talking about this!!! I wish people would address ableism more often. I get why a lot of people don't since disability encompasses such a broad category of people with different nuances, but it feels like I almost never hear about it outside of disabled communities. Discussing this stuff is so important.
Speaking as a disabled person (I'm relatively able-bodied but it's still a disadvantage in my case), the only way I could ever see Trump's logic here would be if the US was SO desperate for resources that we actually have to start doing triage and cutting out all but the most efficient people from America. But this isn't even close to being true, because not only is there more than enough to go around for everyone, but there would be even more than that if we could get proper taxes on the 1% going. Trump is framing this from a logistical standpoint, but his argument is emotional in nature. He believes in selfishness, anything given to anyone else is a crime that needs to be addressed. But society benefits positively from people wanting to be kind and generous, it's a net positive for everyone, even those who already have what they need. It's a strange irony how people with little to give tend to be more generous than those with far more than they could ever spend.
One of my absolute favorite things about you Vaush and all your associated channels is that the stream isn’t different from the posted videos. Can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had the displeasure of enjoying a UA-camr’s videos but then realize those were just the very best clips of them from long af streams. When I watch your streams it feels the same. Clips are just the most relevant portions, but are extremely representative. Such a big fan my guy. A whole ass windmill even
I was on disability for 15 years (bipolar). You can’t earn more than a certain amount of money if you decide to work, but there’s no limit to what you can have in savings nor a limit on the worth of your belongings. You have reviews every few years & I was never asked about anything like that. Maybe if I was capable of driving - but not if I owned a car - I do (and 2 very expensive bikes). You may be thinking of SSI - which is basically for disabled people who haven’t paid enough into Social Security. Also: I applied for & got disability in 3 months. I had to see a psychiatrist once & do a bunch of paperwork. My ex-husband had worked under the table his whole life & had to try to get SSI for years. I think he finally got it & it didn’t pay shit - so the poor stay poor. The whole system needs serious work.
The $2,000 limit for disability social security income is so absurd. Part of the issue is that while the monthly payment can change according to some arcane cost of living calculations, the "$2,000" does not account for inflation. There was an call to action open letter explaining it should be $10,000 but that was written before the pandemic and recent inflation. In some areas the monthly income is over $1,000, so your savings is only worth two months. Fortunately when they ask about assets, they ask about stocks, bonds, trusts, the money in your wallet, (they automatically check your bank account each month) but so far they have never asked about the value of my furniture or computer.
At this point I am convinced Trump just learned a bunch of stuff about the Weimar Republic and Hitler rising to power and said “I like that, lemme copy the whole damn playbook”
Yes! Everytime i deal with transphobes online i try to get them to admit they hate trans ppl and they never have the nerve to. They always say they don't hate anybody and make some excuse on why they're harassing trans ppl online. This is so true
I'm disabled and that $2000 asset thing is absurd. Luckily it doesn't include car which is nice but you are always on the razor's edge. 2k is like a month or 2 of expenses so if something goes wrong you got a very short time to solve it or be homeless. The ADA does work, I was fired once and got a phone call from the government telling me if i was discriminated against they can help. It wasn't but that was shocking.
I completely regret any statements I made on this issue, Trump is currently doing great! At no point in the last 10 years did he fuck up so hard. He is actively making it less likely that the Reps will win in the next few elections. He's acting out of line, but in a way his voters don't appreciate it and that's just beautiful.
23:14 in the Netherlands they actually do you one better. Rather than a dipped curb, they have raised crosswalks which are level with the sidewalk. This has the added benefit of slowing down oncoming cars, making it that much easier for disabled people, and all people, to cross the road.
Funniest part. Everyone can get disabled. It isnt a choice and not everyone is born into it. Rules for thee but not for me, but those rules can hit back
Why don't we pay family members to take care of their sick family members (like those with life long degenerative conditions)? Why do we just assume that this type of labour should be free? Cause you love them? Sure... but that love doesn't pay the mortgage, it doesn't put food on the table. If it was done by someone outside of the family we of course pay them. I had to put my wife in a care facility so I could work AND so she could be eligible for disability assistance. As long as she lived with me, we weren't eligible. So now, the tax payer is paying her disability AND paying for the care facility AND the family is split apart most of the time, when I would have been happy to provide care for her myself.
You have to visit more places in Spain. Barcelona is in a very particular socio-economical situation. But the ramps, bus accessibility, etc, is pretty much everywhere in Spain. Actually surprise to know that they dont have it in Barcelona.
I worked in insurance for a time and one of the products was disability insurance. It was very expensive if it wasn’t offset by a bundled plan or an employer plan. The reason for this is the data showed that most people are or become disabled. Trying to remember stats but it was in the ballpark of 2/3s or 3/4s of people are disabled by 70. Most of that happening in the last 10 years but still
23:11 when I lived in China I remeber noticing that a lot of buildings didn't have good wheelchair ramps and pointed it out to my then GF who was a Chinese national. She told me that China was really bad about accessibility
I was a perfectly able bodied 36yr old and then I got pnuemonia. It turned into sepsis and my kidneys failed and I ended up being taken to the hospital in an ambulance and was in a coma for weeks.
When I woke up I had severe neurological damage and can no longer walk without assistance and I am severely limited physically.
It can happen to you at anytime.
I always try to tell people this. Was abled til age 25, lost my ability to walk over course of 2mo then was bedbound 3 years. Turned out I had a rare genetic disorder that showed no sign before that and was not inherited. It CAN be you.
I don't know what to say other than thank you for sharing that lesson and I'm sorry.
@@cloudofthought no need to be sorry... unless it was you that got the office sick lol
@@despozblehero2262 lol
Yes, and a lot of people think it can't (or won't) happen to them. It can and it does.
Meanwhile, a disabled man, FDR, was one of the greatest presidents this country ever had
Tronald Dump is doing friendly fire
So good he got relected 3 times
Actually it was for ww2 but he ended up being the only us president governing more then 8 years.
Also the roosvelt plan or whatever it is called is just such a fucking great deal. Today such a thing would be killed immediatly sadly
He pretended not to be disabled, though.
mans had paralysis in his heyday
Kennedy had a back problem so bad he was on heavy 'medication' most of the time.
We really do need to stop trump from being elected again.
🎉🥥🌴
we will, we will everyone just needs to register to vote and actually vote this yr
Don't miss next time
@@9000ck Kamala will beat Don-Old.
🌊🎉🥥🌴🇺🇲
Has idiot biden done anything concerning the electoral college?
How Hitler of him.
Someone really should tell him how many times people tried to take out Hitler. The one time he got lucky. I doubt he wants to roll the dice again.
He's always been Hitlerish. Way before he was president.
@joshuajohnson979
Why do people still think orange man is fit to run a country is beyond me. I’m still trying to think long and hard about what his appeal is? What’s there to love about this clown? Nothing!
Everything he claims is doing is to satisfy his own personal needs and mindsets. He doesn’t even care about his own supporters or people.
Exactly. Trump DICTATOR!
So... another reason his administration would want me dead.
Horray.
They want everyone who isn't a slave or just like them (pale males) unalive
Another reason you want to play victim 🙄
@mycrazyopinions3915 MFW, a presidential candidate hating the disabled is "playing victim".
@@mycrazyopinions3915 Trump told his nephew that Handicapped people "should just die".
@@mycrazyopinions3915 Sure...
“Most people don’t think about how they’re only one bad day away from being disabled” true but my anxiety disorder has got me covered. I think about it every day. EVERY FUCKING DAY
Real
Yeah, I mean, that was me and then it happened. Just live yr life as best you can right now.
Uh huh, we already knew that! Who could forget the way he mocked that poor disabled reporter back in 2016?
Disabled people can be mocked just like anyone else. I don’t know why you’d think the trans community can’t be mocked like that.
@@BroderickG Mocking people base on who they are is bigotry.
@@marvelous971-j6mstroke?
@@marvelous971-j6m am i stupid or is this sentence incomprehensible
He wasn't mocking him. The gesture he done is something he always does and there's evidence to show he has done it multiple times in different scenarios.
So they want to take away abortion rights, but if the kid turns out disabled fuck em. Makes sense…
They want wage slaves so that the rich have cheap labor, if the worker is defective then they dont want it. The more poor people there are the less valuable their labor which means they can make more of a profit.
They want to see the parents and family suffer.
@@spaceballs44the democrats do yes that's why they agree with abortion AKA murder
No republican has ever said anything agsinst disable people fake news watcher and abortion AKA murder has has nothing to do with disabilities. Only bad would agree with abortion AKA murder
Undergrad I took a disabilities class and something that stuck with me was that the disability in itself isn't a nuisance it's the world's lack of accommodations that makes it hard. And it's so true.
You not having the ability to walk isn't as much of a damper as there not being accessible restrooms, door frames, ramps, elevators, sidewalks, cars etc.
The gang of 19 started with the bus boycott and because of them ADAPT and IDEA are active today. I'm always cognizant that I'm one bad car accident or diagnosis away from becoming disabled which is why it's important to hear them speak.
Correct, but people often neglect to mention that a society which solves its accessibility issues consistently on a systemic level is also an objectively more efficient one. It is simply better, in the same way housing the homeless simply leads to better outcomes even in terms of pure productivity metrics. The problem of systemic ableism isn't one of morality or empathy or whatever, it's simply a matter of incompetence driven by irrational bias.
No the disability is a nuisance.
@@justsomeguy6336 Incorrect. People like you are a nuisance. Simple, hateful, and easily manipulated.
@@justsomeguy6336depends on what it is
@@justsomeguy6336because it isn't accomodated, and not the sort of accomodations that inconvenience anyone else either.
Well, really both are nuisances in a way to the affected, lack of accomodation's probably the worse one tho.
The "you could have cancer" part really hits home for me. You never think it's gonna be you, but then it's you. Please stay safe everyone
It doesn't need to be cancer, you could get IBS tomorrow!
My experience (lining up with medical data) told me:
You are always just one bad infection away from having having a suddenly very restricted diet.
I had no known food intolerances before. Now the list is very long and lets just say the first year of feeling like it's just "everything" actually pretty much applies to what ate before just from Mustard, Carrageenan and Gluten alone.
As someone who is disabled, I don't think a quote has ever scared me into voting as much as this one.
To clarify, I don't think a Trump presidency is capable of the kind of maliciousness that would lead to me ending up on the streets, but I really, *really* don't want to test that theory.
Same. I was going to vote anyway, but this gave me even more of an incentive to vote against that pos.
Really? Republicans are already okay with forcing women to bear children in the most distressing and difficult of circumstances. We already know they'd prefer that all pregnancies become live births regardless of the pain those births might bring. Maybe it's a good thing that you can't imagine Trump fostering a political environment that would force you onto the streets. It is very, very easy for me to do so.
Given his narcissistic tendencies, his probable drug addictions, his incontinence, his alleged "bone-spurs", and his obesity (and everything which comes with that):
YOU FIRST, DONALD.
Rocks, meet glass house.
AND ALSO LAST.
Narcissist tendencies? He has full blown NPD, the malignant type, which is very close to psychopathy.
Goring really is a fine specimen of a man huh?
The fact that he's still healthy with his awful health/diet habits is proof there's no naturally occurring karma or justice. :(
He said that about his own grand-nephew!!! My god, the ableism is appalling!
Party of Family Values btw
@@pancakes8670 The hypocrisy is palpable!
@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n normal > handitarded
Its not ableism, its psychopathy.
@@fubartotale3389Yes, that makes much more sense!
They're not going to call them disabled, they'll call them "unemployed" or "welfare whales" or something along those lines. A long standing right wing strategy is to divide the working class by singling out a section of itself and framing it as leeching on the rest. Former (thankfully) British PM Rishi Sunak recently singled out people on sick leave as freeloaders, from the BBC:
"The prime minister claims benefits have become a "lifestyle choice" for some, causing a "spiralling" welfare bill."
Note that if you were born in 1990, British GDP has more than doubled in your lifetime. It's never the working class who benefits from cutbacks in welfare, everything goes to the top!
Their cutbacks to disability services were massively cruel too. I can't remember details, but someone in the government claimed a quadriplegic person with incontinence could/should wait half a day or more sitting in sh!t.
You hit the nail on the head. I grew up very poor in a small town because my single mother couldn't work because she needed to take care of my chronically ill sister. But she didn't accept most welfare programs because she knew we would get bullied by other kids and discriminated against by teachers because everyone in town knew which house was welfare housing and because kids on the lunch program ate separately.
Poverty and disability have always been mocked and considered a reason to mistreat and look down on others. Most people haven't taken the time -and don't want to- to consider why people are in need since that would mean they would have to reflect on how they treated people and force them to realize they might have supported cruel policies.
What's your point? It just seems to be continuous ramble.
@@garyturner5739the definition of a disabled person should not be left to a government body let alone one which intends to punish or remove "disabled people" en masse
@@garyturner5739 maybe you should try reading what they said because they made a perfectly valid point.
The fucking "you could have the genes for disability" line hit me so hard. Before COVID I was extremely healthy, but after I got it the first time an underlying heart condition emerged and fucked me over and out of a job
I'm a Direct Support Professional and work the graveyard shift at a 24-7 residential group home for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. I myself am neurodevelopmentally disabled. Our lives matter. Our lives are valid. Our value, rights to accommodations and accessibility isn't debatable. We deserve happiness, comfort, for our needs to be met, dignity, and health just like everyone else.
Of course you do. I support your right for a full and happy life. Let's all come together and make sure vp harris wins big:)
The fact that a statement so obvious needs saying is insane
There is also objectively zero practical benefit to eugenics. It's a failed ideology. No person or system can foresee every circumstance, and consequently, things that are assumed to be disabilities in one context are often critically useful or at least beneficial in another. Outside of the incredibly obvious cases of "we can ascertain with basically 100% likelihood that this pregnancy is nonviable and that suffering and infant mortality will rapidly follow", there just isn't a justification for eugenics. It's pointless, costly, counterproductive cruelty with negligible utility at best (and that's before factoring in the obscene cost in every single sense).
The same holds true for any form of status hierarchy. Seriously.
If there is a characteristic that robs a human of being thought of as a person, it should be being as plainly evil as Trump.
If we're being completely honest, even setting aside ANY emotional or moral appeals, it's also just phenomenally stupid and useless to not take care of disabled people, as a society. Especially because there is no single universal way to determine someone's "usefulness" and there never will be.
If I remember correctly, a greater capacity for taking care of the less conventionally able, the elderly, the infirm, and so on is not just correlated with a more prosperous society but may actually have some causal contribution toward one. It certainly seems to be the case anecdotally based on specific historical examples that disabled and atypical people have contributed to some of humanity's greatest achievements.
Never let anyone get away with pretending that treating disabled people as "lesser" is some kind of pragmatic, cost-efficient decision. It's not. It's objectively an incorrect, dead-end ideology.
Interesting considering Donnie cannot walk down a ramp without a marine to hold his hand.
Hitler was Jewish. Donnie's disabled. Same exceptions given to those in power
Sounds gay
@@Kasiarzynkamakes sense because he's a gay lover
As an autistic person, a Trump presidency terrifies the shit out of me. Worried that he's going to start using the "Useless eaters" Rhetoric once he gets rid of Social Security and Medicaid, which I rely upon to get Even the most basic of healthcare.
There's a lot of insane "Worst case scenarios", But it's hard to different the ones that are obviously fantasy from the ones that could reasonably happen because Trump is not a reasonable person.
Well, brother just remember that like 40% of us are *super* into guns
I 100% see the issue. But i would like to add, even if its just a minor tid-bit, that autistic/ADHD people have historically not been discriminated against in the same way as for example someone who is completely non verbal or physically disabled. Its of course partly due to the fact that the idea of autism came during the 40s and 50s. But also in general, autistic people are relatively normal? there are a LOT of reasons to fear a Trump presidency, but i wouldnt put «will send people with ASD to camps» as a main issue.
There's no evidence of him removing medicare or social security. He said he wants to keep it. He does plan to cut general government spending and those were one of them because there's so much wasteful spending in many different areas.
@@BlitzkriegOmega there's no evidence of him removing medicare or social security, he said he wants to keep it.
@@teelo523 He also said he didn't know epstien.
Big talk coming from an orange Jigglypuff in a suit that cannot even go down the stairs.
Dude needs to get off his uppers, can't even use rest if he's on uppers
Please do not insult Jigglypuff
Put some respec on Jigglypuff!! 😤😤
but we love jigglypuff
I liken Trump more to a Gumshoos.
Damn bro, Im a Communist, an Autist, and an ally...
Trump *REALLY* wants me dead.
same here
@@marvelous971-j6m Some there
Punching down is all right wingers have to act tough by. Their whole M.O. is cowardice. I doubt you are the threat they like to pretend you are. And they do this to everybody except for their loyalists. It's all huff and puff. What they underestimate is how dangerous people are when cornered.
I be collecting marginalizations like it's girl scout badges.
It sure is cool how being a leftist in America means at least half your fellow countrymen want you ded
I've spent the past 8 years, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, taking care of my disabled son.
Not one day off. Not one vacation. I've spent all of my savings, lost all of my friends, not one date night with my wife, not one night of more than 3 hours of sleep. I've put my career on what is probably permanent hold. Sacrificed my entire way of life.
And if I had the chance to make it all go back to how my life used to be, I wouldn't. I couldn't. I'm a different, better person.
And these bastards have a problem with my son. Let me tell you now: I have given all my life for him. What makes them think they have any chance against my resolution and will. They are weak. This is my(our) life. We will not go away.
I'm glad you made it man. A lot of people involved in those situations in any way "don"t", I barely did.
You can't make people NOT care then...
Yeah ok bro. You’re a broken man and you know it. You’re just coping with your life. You’ll never retire and never be happy again.
Hey man, I know people must say this all the time but please guard against caregiver burnout.
Not one night of more than 3 hrs sleep total or continuous?!
You love your son. Jesus taught us to love.the right wing fails to.understand that.
18:22 Actually Vaush, it is not just $2000 in assets. I used to be on SSI, and I am disabled, but one doctor decided I wasnt anyways. $2000 in countable assets. They dont count your 1st house, nor do they count your only car, and they dont count most material goods like computers. They count cash, investments, banks, and like if you have 2 cars, theyll count the 2nd. Its still an awful rule and a poverty trap, but yea. It isnt that psychotic. All the things you said count, dont. 😊
This! And the poverty hole is real af
I thought for sure he couldn’t have been right about that. Thanks for confirming. Not a single disabled person would’ve been counted under vaush’s impression
I’m really fearful because I have lifelong heart disease from birth I was denied care due to a pre existing condition before Obamacare. During Covid I also felt disposable and so didn’t even have Covid till 2023 and at that point I was scared as no one seemed to take it seriously even if you were at risk. We as intellectually or physically disabled people don’t deserve to die due to something we had no choice in. We deserve fulfilling long lives the same as anyone or good health. We are NOT disposable.
My dad always used to say "They shouldn't be allowed to BREED!!!" about various individuals and groups.
Sounds like my Dad, yet he was born a quarter Jew in Budapest in 1936 - in later days, he fantasized about Hitler returning, saying "No more Mr. Nice Guy"!
@@KOZMOuvBORG why did he want hitler to return?
And let me guess,he was a republican…
As an asexual I don't want to breed anyway. But they will force you to keep your uterus so it can kill you with cancer.
@@KOZMOuvBORG☠️
Fact is, I'm a very healthy man in his mid 20es, who does 5-10h of resistance training per week, gets 10k-20k steps per day, plus 40min high intensity cardio (commuting on my bicycle) per day, but I'm one driver not looking where he is turning away from being paraplegic. None of us is safe from being handicapped.
So much data and historical evidence shows that people with disabilities whether that be physical or intellectual disabilities they were born with or acquired later on, prehistoric humans treat them with care and cared for them. This isn’t the case for every society but it’s overwhelming in terms of the actual evidence we have. It seems like we just regressed as a people and got more selfish
started when money was developed.
In our culture disabled people regularly get tossed out of jobs or are denied employment if you are unable to perform even simple skills or can't work fast enough. Employers want "normal" employees. State departments of vocational rehabilitation may refuse to help people who are disabled for various reasons or if that disability is concerned mental, not physical. The Nazis in Germany did exterminate the mentally ill.
I'm beginning to feel like the conservatives. Stockpiling canned goods in my basement, researching diy traps, considering pulling all my cash out of my savings. Unlike most of my Latino community, I am a firearm afficionado, and i have been hoarding ammo since 2022. I think I can say that I am a bit concerned with the future, mainly because I am a brown man in Texas.
I feel you. Worst comes to worst, share what you got with others willing to stand up to tyranny.
I’m also a lefty gun owner. There are more of us than they realize. I got your back, and I think a lot of others do as well ✌🏻🇺🇸
Shit like this is why I refused to actually get an ASD diagnosis for so long, and I citied it as my reason for not wanting to. Was basically forced into it, much to my dismay!
Yeap.
You're on The List.
yup, im all but diagnosed at this point, but i wont go through with it. Just the idea of being on a list like that, basically marked for the future, is NOT something im willing to do
@@jffj1425It's even worse being diagnosed as a child. Heaven help you if you end up in foster care. You might end up under conservatorship so that you can get abused like a child as an adult like my twin sister. Nearly happened to me too, she wouldn't let the doctors finish their psych eval on me so that it would be known for sure that I'm too high functioning for conservatorship.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 ive hear about american foster care, and my god how did it become so terrible. It sounds like prison but somehow the young children have an as high death rate, its insane. Sorry you went through that. Any of it. And i hope your sister is doing better too
"You could have the genes for disability already coded into you, and it could activate tomorrow. You have no idea, man."
Autoimmune diseases represent! My body decided to execute some old instructions one day when I was a teenager, and BOOM- there goes a piece of my brain.
Yep. MS at 29. Such fun! However, I'm a New Zealander so don't have to pay for my very expensive medication. Lucky compared to many, not as lucky as some.
This happened to me. Ehlers-Danlos manifested at 25. I was doing a phd in math, busting my ass. No doctor seemed to care. I thought bc I was "useful" tney would want to help me stay in my phd by providing care. Had to fight for leg braces for 8mo, pain meds for 5 years. Ruined my life for a long time.
In the UK, what they did was say that loads of people were pretending to be disabled and that they needed to make the tests more effective, thereby bringing in tougher rules and destroying vulnerable people's lives with the support of the public.
They want to be America so bad
Sounds a lot like the US.
I've read about this so much that I wonder if the UK's disability benefits system is even worse than America's.
as someone whos disabled this is what terrifies me most about the new fascists. ive noticed magas hatred for a long time.
...Ok Don. YOU FIRST.
I'm here
@@DonCitrus And you were the first reply. Good job! 👍
No really. People like Trump are not only "useless eaters", but "harmful eaters".
@@DonCitrusnice job!
@@DonCitrushey
America, the superpower, loves it citizens . America makes it citizens pay 1200 bucks for ambulance and will take your home for your medical bills. Good ol America
Interesting note about the dips in sidewalks. A lot of other nations actually do the opposite. Instead of drooping the sidewalk down, they pull the road up to the sidewalk. This not only is even better for pedestrians b/c water won't pool there, but it also forces cars to slow down at crosswalks, which I think is always good.
Me, an autistic person: *chuckles* I’m in danger…
Being disabled in America should allow me to apply for refugee status to a country with universal healthcare and, ya know, empathy. 🙃
Canada is not a place you want to be as a disabled person (if you mean this by universal healthcare)
@2008-wii-remote "Man VA, I'm feeling sad"
Canadian VA "hmm yes, take yourself out and you wont be sad"
@@2008-wii-remote Canada is too cold. Honestly I'd love to go to Australia.
@@codymoon7552 my leader (I'm Canadian) is just a woke fascist.
There are no countries with empathy. 😢
If donald trump legally changed his name to adolf hitler, do you think any trumper would recognize how similar they are?
They would just say he’s joking around or some shit
no they are stupid to know the similarities.
no
No they would applaud that!
I remember watching a TV series about what if the Japanese and the Nazis won the war.
It was on Amazon prime. The thing that shocked me was that so many Americans were upset when the Nazis lost and the Americans ran the Nazis out of the US in the series.
@@DanicaLee289
Not surprised sadly, nowadays using Nazis as the bad guy canon fodder in a story is going to get outcries of "wokeness" from the right.
Oh Vaush. This means so much to me. I'm one of those "one bad day from being disabled" people who it just happened to out of nowhere. It's SO lonely how no one understands. I would never bitch about this IRL to anyone but other disabled people or my partner sometimes if I'm super emotional that day, but here on the internet I'll say... it's like crossing onto the other side of the veil where everything is different. I've grieved my old life and made a new one and have a wonderful relationship and a job I love and I rebuilt my life and am happy. But it still secretly really hurts even to have experienced this journey; I know I have cptsd from what I've discovered about the medical industry while begging people for care. And combined with having OCD it makes me so scared for my abled loved ones all the time, whenever I see my partner on a ladder I'm like "oh my god this could ruin everything".
I promise I don't act like a sad sack irl though.
I'm newly disabled since 2022. I broke my back one day, and that was the end of my independence. I never saw it coming. I'm still trying to come to terms with it. Trump and company scare me even more now.
A Good thing coming from this is, he’s going to lose a larger number of his voters. Disabled people and soilders will not vote for someone who insulted them.
The idea of accommodations for disabled people helping everyone is called Universal Design. Definitely worth learning about
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look into it.
People in the comments bringing up disabled people who did great things are missing the point. I shouldn't have to explain why. If you're saying "well actually some disabled people are useful", you're tacitly accepting the notion that the ones who aren't useful in some way deserve to be discriminated against. This way of lookimg at humans leads to the culling of old people once they reach retirement age, and worse.
It's a shame, we disabled people are only seen when we are "useful" any other time we are shoved into a room and forgotten.
I agree but it's about what kind of rhetoric will bring someone over. For example, when we were still making lgbt acceptance mainstream, one common argument used was "lgbt people didn't choose to be the way they are so we shouldn't mistreat them for it". And then, after someone has been accepting of lgbtq people, maybe even found some friends and family who are lgbtq, then they'd realize on their own that even if one _could_ choose to be lgbtq, it still wouldn't be right to mistreat them. Same way now we bring them to our side on disabled people by bringing up all the disabled who have made great contributions to society. And then once they're on our side, we get them on board with the idea that disabled people shouldn't have to justify their existence
Exactly. The conservative worldview is that people exist only to benefit the economy. Nothing else matters to them. Elderly and disabled people providing love and joy to their families doesn't count because it can't be measured financially. That's the problem
Yes, if the argument doesn’t begin at a person’s humanity, and instead is focused on their “contribution” whatever that may be, then the argument is not for that person. A person has value because they are a person.
The fact that from the nephew's account Trump didn't even sound particularly malicious, just genuinely perplexed about why it wasn't better to just let disabled people die, somehow makes it worse.
Hitler said pretty much the exact same thing. He used the term "lebensunwertes leben" (life unworthy of life).
and trump supporters still think he isn't a nazi.
@@marvelous971-j6m More like, they know he's a Nazi, and they're fine with it, because they're Nazis too.
In Hitler's Germany disabled people were deliberately left outside in the cold until they died.
Im impressed you spelled these german words correctly, dont see that often by english people
@@goldholz I studied German for 4 years in high school and my 1 year of college in my youth.
I’m disabled and the feeling is mutual toward that orange C.S.
i have autism and i hate trump.
I hope CS stands for what my first guess is.
Donald Trump's mental deficiency is okay. Stable genius
What do bone spurs count as?
"The Worst Part Of Having A Mental Illness Is People Expect You To Behave As If You Don't." --Donald Trump, probably
@@RyouShi98 a poor excuse for dodging service
That's the reason he want to go against Biden: this way biden would make him look "good"
Luckly they switched for kamala, which at least was not born when dinosaurs were a thing, although it's still far from bernie sanders (btw bernie sanders is 1 year older then biden, and somehow still looks less retarded then trump is)
@@RyouShi98 If I didn't know what they were, I'd guess they were a superpower or beneficial mutation. Like pre-adamantine Wolverine bone claws or something. Instead they're just these horrid abnormal bone growths that often need to be shaved down during crazy surgeries...
That or some kinda freaky sex toy!
Just a reminder that the Republicans' war on woke includes overturning DEI regulations, aka laws that help promote ADA and employment for people with disabilities in state and federal government job positions.
I used to work with special needs kids, mostly Autism Spectrum, but a few others depending on how specialized the different work environments were. Whole gambit of functioning ranges, six year-olds I could banter with and teenagers who mostly communicated by screaming. Kids who'd bite me, and one kid who cried because he was having trouble communicating effectively that he wanted a hug.
Some of the most incredible people I've ever had the pleasure to meet and work with were the parents of those kids. Across socio-economic backgrounds, though it always felt like it was mostly poorer families, people on food stamps, single moms, people who I just always had so much respect for how hard they were working with an incredibly unfair hand dealt to them, and who I was genuinely proud to be doing whatever I could for them. Flawed people, always, so is everyone in their own ways, but so many of them were fierce advocates for their kids, just trying to do everything they could to do right by them, as much as anyone could. That work was the hardest and most important thing I've ever tried to do, and there are still a few kids who I worked with in in-home settings who I miss on a daily basis.
Those people and their families *should* get more help from the government. Universal Healthcare would be a damned fine start, considering insurance was always where the money to pay me was coming from, but more than that. Nobody should be trapped in poverty, least of all because they're taking care of kids who will never be able to take care of themselves.
A lot of parents who abyse autistics are good at faking being good people.
I'm physically disabled, but not enough to be unable to work. Just enough for every minute of working to be constant suffering. I don't want to be on Disability honestly. I think I'd probably go insane from boredom. I just want some more laws regarding reasonable accommodations and limitations on what can and can't be asked of me. I have a horrendously bad back that's one accident or bad decision from thousands of dollars for surgery and hundreds of hours of rehab, yet just today I had to spend 20 minutes trying to lift a 400kg bag of buffer that a coworker positioned improperly. She couldn't fix it because she's a she and 4'11". I could fix it though because I'm male-presenting and am 6'3". Does it matter that I might snap like a toothpick? Apparently not. The protections don't come into play until the very bad thing has already happened and I've gone from disabled to completely crippled. Broken system.
This clowns mindset should classify him as “mentally disabled”. He seems very detached from reality.
As someone who works with students with disabilities and is disabled themselves, i will tell you that the main thing we can do right now to counteract anything like Aktion T4 happening again is to fight for the right for disabled people to exist in public. The more the average person sees disabled people, the more likely they are to notice and agitate about their sudden absence. Segregationist policies should be avoided, accessibility laws should be enforced, and everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.
As an autistic my IQ drops to double digits when I'm out in public. I have to skip class to do homework because I can't do it at school.
Dude... I'm a mixed race bisexual trans man with autism and ADHD... Trump really, REALLY wants me dead
i have Autism and Cerebral Palsy and Trump wants me dead too.
You could also get into a car accident and come out of it intellectually disabled. You could develop a brain tumor in high school, which the process of removing intellectually impairs you. It’s frighteningly easy to have happen.
I hurt my head and got a CT scan last October, took the data home on a disk, luckily nothing wrong, it also gives me peace of mind knowing I have no early stage braiñ tumors.
Mental disabilities and neurodiverse stuff aside, Vaush has glasses.
Its one of those things that people might not think of as a disability, since glasses are pretty common, not particularly new tech and fairly non-cumbersome.
But without them, people lose the sense we as a species rely on more than any other to survive. If you need glasses to see, you are disabled, perhaps not too severely, but you are.
And glasses arent cheap either!
I damaged a lens on one of mine at work a while back, needed to have both lenses replaced to fix it, depending on type and quality youre looking at a good €200 a piece for those.
I wore glasses from age 13 to 22 when my dad stepped on them. I'm 34 now and I have insurance but I just can't be bothered to get them and right now I can't even get somebody to help me with that kind of stuff (I'm autistic and i lost my last helper because I didn't have a working phone for a while)
they want to camp us and i’m supposed to feel bad he was pecked in the ear
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and had no clue what was going on as a teen. It's easy to get caught up in complexities of LGBTQ people coming out as adults, and I believe that intersects with people who have had ADHD, bipolar, autism, etc. Sometimes being mentally/physically disabled can be just as marginalizing.
Somehow the bureaucratic nightmare of applying for benefits as a disabled person feels heavenly compared to the Republican proposition of just crossing you off.
When Vaush said "They can't just say that they hate x race" I legit sat there thinking a minute why racists would hate x-rays bru
bro... 💀
X-rays are douche bags, ngl
They like skulls and bones. Thinking back to "are we the baddies?"
2:56 there's a reason my dad a disabled black man like Honest Abe beyond emancipation. A lot of historians think he had ADHD and severe depression. And my dad dealing with those really found Lincoln doing great things in the face of that very inspiring
Now I'm not saying he's- yes I'm saying he's literally Hitler.
Delusional
@@moejohnson2132 He has repeatedly alluded to how he will destroy democracy if he's elected. "Vote for me and you won't ever have to vote again". He blames everything on immigrants and "communists". He holds a clear hatred for women and minorities. How much more must be made clear?
@@moejohnson2132how?
@@moejohnson2132 Burning of books, believing disabled people should die, hatred of immigrants, the belief that trans and gay people are mentally ill, removal of rights for women and people of color, and more, sure sounds like nazi behavior
The right has long had contempt for the disabled, who were referred to in the original German as "lebensunwertes leben". Most of the time they try to conceal that contempt, but sometimes it just can't be contained.
Disabled people are in that bubble of "DEI" Being used as whatever slur is convenient At the moment.
The German socialists concealed that contempt like the American socialist does.
That actually explains alot
Right, as what happened during the Reagan administration as when one of his lackies threw disabled people into the street,
based
Always be compassionate because someday you will need it yourself.
Oh the topic of 'one bad day away from being disabled'
I was diagnosed schizoaffective after giving birth to my kid. Biological standing I was already schizoaffective because it is a dominant gene in my family, however, after giving birth (because of hormones maneuvering) my schizophrenia was 'unlocked' to say it in gamer terms. Now I'm medicated with mood stabilizers and antipsychotics just because... I had a kid. 🎉🎉
Don't feel bad, been given (experimental) Quetiapine was a factor (triggered a spiritual awakening) in making me realize that I'm transgender, as well as being autistic.
First they came for the handicapped, and I said nothing…
I was perfectly abled body and fit until 38, when suddenly out of nowhere (1 month before the pandemic)I had a terrible pain in my back that made me unable to stand up for months. I could move my legs but yet, not walk… it was a chronic pain caused by hernia in my spine for years of working in a desk…
After 2 years of physiotherapy, loosing by job and gaining a lot of weight due the impossibility of running and swimming regularly as I use to do, now I can walk (with some pain), but living a life with constant pain in my back and the nerves of my legs 24/7.
I can swim again but very slowly and walking a little bit every day.
But not in a way that could really help me loose the weight I gained. Now I’m trapped in this vicious cycle where I can exercise properly to loose weight due the pain, by not exercising I gain more weight which makes everything worse. In the top of all I’m not qualified to be considered “disable” because technically I can walk. Doing a desk job is impossible as well since I can’t sit for more than one hour without feeling pain. I need to lay down several times a day to be able do to the minimum. The only reason I’m not homeless is because my partner has a stable job and can support me. I’m trying making some money by teaching private lessons as a language teacher, my income is not even a 1/5 that I use to earn…
I feel pretty depressed not only for the constant pain, impossibility of work and my weight gain, but how much this whole thing destroyed my previous lifestyle.
I can’t even go to a movie theater or do simple things like walk in a park or do groceries…
I have no chronic bodily pains but I feel nervous when I sit up at a desk and I even have anxiety eating at a table. I do everything lying down on my bed, even eat there. It's not because I'm lazy as I do a lot of walking and often I'd rather stand than sit.
My daughter is special needs. I have been yelling from the top of my lungs to people since 2016 that this man is awful and that he has no respect for disabled peoples lives and no one would listen and Trump supporters do not believe he made fun of a disabled reporter.I told them he did it at a rally.Once I showed them the video they were horrified
Party of Pro-Life, y'all.
Nah, he's pro-perfectionism on humanity, meaning one single race, no disabled people, only heterosexuality, and making people think the same.
To win against Ableist, we must become Cainist
In the name of Kane!
Something about a Donkey Jaw
it's like this in canada too. it feels impossible to find jobs, and although it differs by province, it's hellish. sometimes i think i would be better off dead.
Messing with mediciad prescription drug coverage is a big way they mess with disabiled people. In 2016 Oklahoma cut my drug limit to 4 medicines under the guise of doctors and big pharma over prescribing. Had to leave state as it was literally killing me
"The handicapped are useless and should just die."
What a maroon.
An almost immobile guy in a wheelchair progressed science with incredible bounds, and looking back, a crap load of really important scientists was mentally non-standard.
Without people like us, the pigeon would probably still be the fastest way to communicate long distance.
Alan Turing had autism. I just watched the Imitation Game (an incredibly gripping film btw) and the quote that made me tear up a lil bit was, “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
I hate the way the depict Turing, yes he was Autistic, but he was also very kind and considerate to others, a very passive man.
Exactly right Vaush, the various attacks on disabled people are not spoken aloud, it's done silently. I'm severely disabled, I have something called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, it's a terminal muscle-wasting disease that has left me essentially quadriplegic, on a ventilator full-time, and bed-bound. I did not qualify for nursing until I was put on the ventilator in 2012 at 22 years old. I'm now 34. My nursing costs almost a quarter of a million dollars per year through Medicaid. In order to continue having nursing services and Social Security benefits I can't have more than $649.99/mo. in income from a job, I can't have any investments worth more than $249.99 at any time, I can't have more than $2000 total assets across all financial accounts (regular bank, paypal, venmo, etc.) for more than 90 days receiving a notice after 30 and 60 days. If I were to get married, the limits are not doubled but only multiplied by 1.5 times. I could only make $974.99/mo. the caveat being that household income can't exceed $1499/mo. Another kicker all-around, if you have Medicaid for a disability and work, even keeping below the income caps, they will audit your benefits every month and try to pull every little thing you get. Had a friend who was only making $350/mo. with a freelance gig and it got to the point of them threatening to cut his nursing hours and it all stopped when he quit that job. There are millions of disabled people that could work, including myself, if only we could keep our benefits and make whatever income we could. It would increase tax revenues and slow or completely reverse the decline in the Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare system. But there's still a massive discrimination issue for disabled people. Oh, the stories I could tell of just my own experiences. One time had someone cross themselves as if I was a vampire or demonic entity.
"Oh people just feed of welfare cause they are lazy"
Meanwhile:
Thank you for talking about this!!! I wish people would address ableism more often. I get why a lot of people don't since disability encompasses such a broad category of people with different nuances, but it feels like I almost never hear about it outside of disabled communities. Discussing this stuff is so important.
Speaking as a disabled person (I'm relatively able-bodied but it's still a disadvantage in my case), the only way I could ever see Trump's logic here would be if the US was SO desperate for resources that we actually have to start doing triage and cutting out all but the most efficient people from America. But this isn't even close to being true, because not only is there more than enough to go around for everyone, but there would be even more than that if we could get proper taxes on the 1% going.
Trump is framing this from a logistical standpoint, but his argument is emotional in nature. He believes in selfishness, anything given to anyone else is a crime that needs to be addressed. But society benefits positively from people wanting to be kind and generous, it's a net positive for everyone, even those who already have what they need. It's a strange irony how people with little to give tend to be more generous than those with far more than they could ever spend.
One of my absolute favorite things about you Vaush and all your associated channels is that the stream isn’t different from the posted videos.
Can’t even tell you how many times I’ve had the displeasure of enjoying a UA-camr’s videos but then realize those were just the very best clips of them from long af streams.
When I watch your streams it feels the same. Clips are just the most relevant portions, but are extremely representative.
Such a big fan my guy. A whole ass windmill even
"whole ass windmill"
xkcd 37 has genuinely made my life more joyful.
5:03 The camera was being burnt by Trump's radioactive field.
Honestly they’re kinda lucky it was only a phone. If it was a genuine film camera it would have immediately combusted into flames
I was on disability for 15 years (bipolar). You can’t earn more than a certain amount of money if you decide to work, but there’s no limit to what you can have in savings nor a limit on the worth of your belongings. You have reviews every few years & I was never asked about anything like that. Maybe if I was capable of driving - but not if I owned a car - I do (and 2 very expensive bikes). You may be thinking of SSI - which is basically for disabled people who haven’t paid enough into Social Security. Also: I applied for & got disability in 3 months. I had to see a psychiatrist once & do a bunch of paperwork. My ex-husband had worked under the table his whole life & had to try to get SSI for years. I think he finally got it & it didn’t pay shit - so the poor stay poor. The whole system needs serious work.
Trump brought out the ugliness permeating the nation.
Great comment.
As a disabled person, the feeling is mutual Don
18:55 you’re absolutely right about the ridiculous requirements, but to be fair, i don’t think ALL things you own count as “assets”
The $2,000 limit for disability social security income is so absurd. Part of the issue is that while the monthly payment can change according to some arcane cost of living calculations, the "$2,000" does not account for inflation. There was an call to action open letter explaining it should be $10,000 but that was written before the pandemic and recent inflation. In some areas the monthly income is over $1,000, so your savings is only worth two months. Fortunately when they ask about assets, they ask about stocks, bonds, trusts, the money in your wallet, (they automatically check your bank account each month) but so far they have never asked about the value of my furniture or computer.
The way I think of it is that the majority is temporarily abled, and then life will eventually come for us
At this point I am convinced Trump just learned a bunch of stuff about the Weimar Republic and Hitler rising to power and said “I like that, lemme copy the whole damn playbook”
"don't worry the process doesn't begin or end with your brother" - Vaush 😂😂😂
12:58 Too bad I chose to not be born a billionaire. Man was I stupid.
Yes! Everytime i deal with transphobes online i try to get them to admit they hate trans ppl and they never have the nerve to. They always say they don't hate anybody and make some excuse on why they're harassing trans ppl online. This is so true
2:25 why are you saying that? We disabled people are definitely getting some.
Pain begets compassion, which inturn beats back incel brainrot.
My stepsister's doctors told her because of MD she wouldn't live past 30 or be able to conceive. Her son is 25 and she's doing great.
I think it's the combination with being a N**i that makes it hard.
I'm disabled and that $2000 asset thing is absurd. Luckily it doesn't include car which is nice but you are always on the razor's edge. 2k is like a month or 2 of expenses so if something goes wrong you got a very short time to solve it or be homeless.
The ADA does work, I was fired once and got a phone call from the government telling me if i was discriminated against they can help. It wasn't but that was shocking.
Reads like the reveal of a villain in a movie like wtf.
Why did the bullet miss 😢
I completely regret any statements I made on this issue, Trump is currently doing great!
At no point in the last 10 years did he fuck up so hard. He is actively making it less likely that the Reps will win in the next few elections. He's acting out of line, but in a way his voters don't appreciate it and that's just beautiful.
@@Chrissy717 amin
Cry lil' bro.
@@Thanatos_4444 get banned lol
@@riasimonovska6590 Cope.
Trump's so old his first car was a covered wagon.
Hes so old that when he was born germany was occupied by the allies 💀
@@pindol69 TRUE, Harry S Truman hadn't even officially ended the hostilities of World War Two.
Make you wonder if those bullets shot at him and his audience, disabled them instead, would he sing a different tune? Probably not
23:14 in the Netherlands they actually do you one better. Rather than a dipped curb, they have raised crosswalks which are level with the sidewalk. This has the added benefit of slowing down oncoming cars, making it that much easier for disabled people, and all people, to cross the road.
Funniest part. Everyone can get disabled. It isnt a choice and not everyone is born into it.
Rules for thee but not for me, but those rules can hit back
As a disabled person, I feel the same about trump and his fans.
Why don't we pay family members to take care of their sick family members (like those with life long degenerative conditions)? Why do we just assume that this type of labour should be free? Cause you love them? Sure... but that love doesn't pay the mortgage, it doesn't put food on the table. If it was done by someone outside of the family we of course pay them.
I had to put my wife in a care facility so I could work AND so she could be eligible for disability assistance. As long as she lived with me, we weren't eligible. So now, the tax payer is paying her disability AND paying for the care facility AND the family is split apart most of the time, when I would have been happy to provide care for her myself.
You have to visit more places in Spain. Barcelona is in a very particular socio-economical situation. But the ramps, bus accessibility, etc, is pretty much everywhere in Spain.
Actually surprise to know that they dont have it in Barcelona.
Dude... A laptop is more than 2k... This is disgusting. The point of the disability help is to keep them at parity with healthy people...
I worked in insurance for a time and one of the products was disability insurance. It was very expensive if it wasn’t offset by a bundled plan or an employer plan. The reason for this is the data showed that most people are or become disabled. Trying to remember stats but it was in the ballpark of 2/3s or 3/4s of people are disabled by 70. Most of that happening in the last 10 years but still
Yet another reason why i can't bring myself to join the redphill. As someone who is autistic, this would make life suck.
23:11 when I lived in China I remeber noticing that a lot of buildings didn't have good wheelchair ramps and pointed it out to my then GF who was a Chinese national. She told me that China was really bad about accessibility