"His only preexisting condition was trusting Trump."

[Grown2Hate]

FUCK. Incredibly well done, heartbreaking, devastating... effective.

[rsdsharp]

1. I don't mean to come down on you specifically,

But this is the third thread about this with no context whatsoever. Who said it, about what or whom?

[Grown2Hate]

4. No worries! I get that can be frustrating. There

was a woman explaining how her father trusted Trump and after the AZ shutdown was lifted, went out to karaoke with friends. He was a healthy 65 year old. 2 weeks later, he was on a vent. He died 5 days later.

Her heartfelt words, side by side with vibrant pictures of this man, and then with him dying on a vent, looking scared... it was INCREDIBLY powerful.

[rsdsharp]

12. Thank you.

[IrishEyes]

5. This was said by Kristin Urquiza

Her father died of Covid-19. He was a supporter of Trump. He trusted Trump that it was okay to go out. He went to a karaoke bar and got the virus. He died soon afterward in the hospital without his family while holding a nurses hand.

[rsdsharp]

11. Thank you. That's heart breaking.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Trusting Trump is not a disability, and framing it as such is ableism.

[frazzled]

6. Nobody mentioned disability

This was about a woman whose father had no pre-existing conditions, but because he believed Donald Trump that the virus was “nothing” got it and died anyway.

Has nothing to do with disabilities.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. ok but it's also not a preexisting condition

[frazzled]

8. It's called metaphor

Try to understand that

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Pathologizing a political belief is not a good road to go down, metaphor or no.

[frazzled]

13. It's pretty damned pathological

to have witnessed everything we have seen these past four years and still to take Donald Trump seriously and or stand behind him, and especially put your life in his hands by taking his advice on how to behave in a pandemic. And that is what happened in this story.

Sorry, but trusting DT at this point is pathological.

[DSandra]

3. Gullible-ness is a pre-existing condition

Trump has been the pied piper.

[Cha]

10. KR!