On MSNBC: A fucking HALL FULL OF people in wheelchairs outside of McConnell's office

[Miles Archer]

"Protesters are being removed from outside of Mitch McConnell's office. You can see that many of them are in wheelchairs."

[MattP]

1. My mom is in tears

[barbtries]

7. so am i

these fucking bastards

[eleny]

59. your mom has something mitch doesn't - a heart

[atreides1]

2. I bet...

...if the press wasn't there, McConnell would have the Capitol Police push them down the stairs, and then take the wheelchairs so he could resell them!!!

[LOL Lib]

12. I bet you are right too!

Old bastard McTurtle needs to suffer like the poor people in Kentucky that he shits on.

[leftstreet]

3. Here's a short video from Twitter

Link to tweet

[itcfish]

5. I just saw a clip

of the police dragging someone away from McConnell's office.

[PatSeg]

19. Thank you for posting

I'm not going to turn my TV on so early and appreciate the video clip.

[PearliePoo2]

4. How BRAVE of these people to do this protest!

And GOOD on MSNBC to air it!!

I wonder if CNN showing the protest also?

K&R

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Hey Pearlie.....Youtube has become a good source for news videos.

and because you can download videos from there, I have found it handy for copying the various hearings
for later replay.
I am sure this will be up soon, either via news outlet or personal videos.

[PearliePoo2]

28. OK, great! I love Youtube! I use it all the time to see how to fix stuff!

So, how do you find what you're looking for? If I want to find a video of this protest, what do I do?
Type some key words words in the search bar? Thanks!

[dixiegrrrrl]

42. Here..I just typed in "McConnell office protest"

[PearliePoo2]

46. Thanks so much. That's powerful video. How can you not choke up at what's happening?

Fucking ReThugs are shredding safety nets of millions of Americans and people will die.
I loathe them with all my being. Mitch McConnell most of all. Even more than BLOTUS, but it's close.

[DBoon]

31. It is a matter of life and death

Bravery has its reasons

[Honeycombe8]

33. +1. nt

[Alice11111]

90. Brave people. They stepped up w enormous difficulties,

and the likelihood of humiliation. Heartbreaking. Proof that Turtle has no heart...just get rid of them. His phones are permanently blocked. You go into a rotating voice mail that just keeps rotating. On another, it says, we are closed
Another, due to the large volume of calls....

I hope the DNC is smart enough to run adds against McConnell showing this. I won't hold my breath though. Also, we need a good opposition candidate.

A lot of people in Kentucky are pissed at him over the health care bill. We should be maximizing that wedge now w PSAs. Nada. Of course, like Wisconsin and Michigan, we wouldn't want to stir it up the Repubs, would we.

[Leith]

6. Good! Let All of Congress See the Protest!

Ol' Turtle needs to see the consequences of fucking with people's lives.

[forgotmylogin]

95. Anyone know if McCONnell was actually in there?

[awesomerwb1]

8. They don't give a crap about people.

They just don't.

[rtracey]

18. agree

their motto is PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY

[2naSalit]

88. Actually, I think it's more like...

"all for me and ALL for ME!"

[procon]

9. Republican's couldn't care less about the plight of people losing their healthcare.

Now, if they had been CEOs, billionaires, lobbyists, dictators, warlords, despots, Arab princes, or praise singing sycophants, he would have happily listened.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I'm sure that Republican voters will blame it on "liberal instigators" or something.

They can't stand doubts about their mythology of America being fair and a land of opportunity for everyone regardless of circumstances. Myth over reality. Scapegoats over doubting the system.

If it wasn't for the fact that most African Americans know better given this country's history, it wouldn't surprise me if their most religious members accepted such mythology as well.

[Gothmog]

11. This should be an effective protest

[loyalsister]

13. Who would have expected that a wheelchair could be a political weapon?

Bob Kafka's law: "You never look good arresting people in wheelchairs." It's one of the best ways to reveal callousness.

[MineralMan]

14. An excellent one. If they use force to remove

those people, some of them will be injured. They're in wheelchairs for a reason, after all. Nobody wants to be in a wheelchair.

For law enforcement, there is no good way to handle such a situation, and they have no training for it.

[PatSeg]

20. They could always use tasers

I've seen videos of police doing outrageous things to the handicapped, the elderly, pregnant women, and even children. All rules of decency seem to have gone out the window. We are living in a bizarre and horrifying era.

[loyalsister]

26. Actually this protest is largely about wanting to be in wheelchairs

.

[MyOwnPeace]

65. Er.........

do you want to explain what seems to be a terrible statement?

I've NEVER met a single person in a wheelchair that wanted to be there!

[loyalsister]

72. This is about freedom

There are people who can't walk and the alternative to a wheelchair is being locked up in a nursing home. Walking is so painful or difficult that having a wheelchair to use is a tremendous relief. Wheelchairs represent liberation for many people.

The proposed cuts may limit or eliminate funding for mobility equipment, and the option to get out of bed with the help of an assistant that provides in-home services that allow people whose bodies are less mobile than average to live independent, and satisfying lives.

[MyOwnPeace]

77. That makes sense.......

and I support that totally.

Thanks for clearing that up - your position is much clearer now.

[loyalsister]

84. I didn't know that until I has a lot of exposure to people with a variety of disabilities

I've heard people talk about how they love their wheelchairs. I've also noticed that when people get new wheelchairs, they often sound like people talking about getting a new car.
As Stella Young noted-- contrary to the big lie, being disabled is not a bad thing.

[irisblue]

81. Given that I cannot walk 8 steps without my cane or walker or leaning on walls

I appreciate your making clear your point.

[MyOwnPeace]

86. I appreciate it too........

I lost my wife to MS after a 13 year battle - a beautiful lady trapped in a wheelchair for 9 of those 13 years. Dealing with those issues makes one VERY sensitive to what all is involved.

THESE GUYS ARE PIGS!

[enid602]

83. Not an option

But they're cutting the Medicare funding that goes to nursing homes, loyal. So even that is not an option.

[loyalsister]

85. Some states will be able to fund both, but others won't be able or willing

Congress IS willing to let people die or actually kill us by withdrawing options.
Gen X is being tested. The population that is reaching the age where these services are most needed are the parents of Gen Xers. The question has been revealed is how many children of baby boomers are as callous as Paul Ryan?

[IronLionZion]

43. Even Bob Dole went there in a wheelchair for another bill

to support disability rights. Republicans promptly told him to F off.

[loyalsister]

58. Yep

It was an international treaty for disability rights. They got some satisfaction from telling the UN to f off, too.

[TNNurse]

66. How many of them even knew who Bob Dole is????

[IronLionZion]

71. They don't make Republicans like they used to

[tblue37]

50. Dems should run this ad with both Ryan and McConnell pushing grandmas:

[FakeNoose]

78. This is great and would be so effective

[tblue37]

94. The Dems ran this in the 2012 election, and it was very effective. They should update it

and run it for the 2018 election.

[NJCher]

93. excellent ad!

Don't you just love the ruthless efficiency of the walker. He just marches right along, even over tree roots. There is not a moment's hesitancy when he gets to the cliff, and he holds his head high as he walks away.


Cher

[RT Atlanta]

15. go protestors!

This is awesome and I appreciate all of them doing this to make the point!

[livetohike]

16. Our democracy is dead. Empathy in this country is dead. I am so

angry while watching this that I am in tears.

[mucifer]

17. I can see at least one woman there is ventilator dependent. She is really brave!

I hope she is going to be ok They better not arrest her.

[loyalsister]

73. Her life and freedom are on the chopping block

Her protesting isn't any more remarkable just because she's doing it sitting down with equipment that allows her to use her body independently.
It's natural for people to fight for their lives when they are under threat.

[Vinca]

21. Republicans should be so fucking ashamed.

[gratuitous]

24. They should be

But I suspect they won't be. I wonder, though, if any of their supporters are still capable of feeling shame?

[get the red out]

52. No

They are vampires.

[Zoonart]

56. Democrats should be ashamed too...

where are they? I didn't see any Democrat Congressman or Senator streak down there to resist opression or to lend support or even to get the fuck out onto the capitiol steps with bull horns and challenge the sleeping MSM to go wide with coevrage of this outrage.
Disabled dragged from the PEOPLES' HOUSE! This is an outrage!

[workinclasszero]

61. They are sick evil bastards

There is not an ounce of shame in the whole damned party!

They will literally KILL the old, poor and sick so billionaires can get a ***king tax break!!!

[Thunderbeast]

23. McConnell and the GOP are deaf to conscience and reason

They have the power. They make no bones about using it.

In future elections, they will once again bring up the image of a minority or refugee challenging their God-given right to privilege.

Works every time.

The ignorant white man will put up with ANYTHING as long as you promise that the POC is getting less.

Tribalism and fear mongering.

The poor will die quietly.

The robber-baron kleptocrats just don't care.

They will ensure their place at the front of the line.

Asshats!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

40. I don't think it's all race-related. It's mythology related.

Many of them have accepted the idea that the USA is a good and fair country with equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their circumstances.

My brother lost most of his eyesight years ago. He attended meetings of a blindness group that turned out to be run by a strong conservative. The group repeatedly failed to provide truly helpful information and the guest speakers were blind or visually-impaired people who were "successful" despite their handicap. My brother always talked to them after their talks and discovered that every one of the "successful" speakers had received large sums of money from parents to own a business! Every... single... one.

Lots of white people have been attacked by right-wingers for protesting wars and the like. Again, it's seen as an attack on the "good and fair" mythology of the USA.

Poor white people often accept the mythology too. Even if they're poor and receiving government aid, they often don't place the blame on our economic system. They'd rather seek scapegoats for their situation.

Most African Americans aren't so delusional given their history in this country.

[WinkyDink]

25. Unless one of the wheelchair bound is a billionaire, NO Republican will EVER care. THEY HATE US.

[spanone]

27. mitch just wants a win for his boss.

those people in their wheelchairs are not his real constituents...he works for the white house

[MFM008]

30. Exactly

So maggot can have bragging rights.
That's it.

[Tatiana]

29. God bless these protestors.

Wow... looks like someone on a ventilator? I hope they are OK. These people are heroes.

[lame54]

32. Won't affect this inhumane asshole

[mucifer]

34. Wapo interviewing a lawyer with spina bifida handcuffed in her wheel chair livefeed:

https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/posts/10155261006427293

[Alwaysna]

35. This has happened before

In Missouri 2005 , Governor. Matt Blunt cuts 100,000 people from medicaid and there were protests including people in wheelchairs and oxygen dependent handicapped people . They protested at the capital and his mansion but the Republican wouldn't budge from his decision. He was a one term governor. His pappy is still a senator and still just as ruthless and calloused.

[L. Coyote]

36. There is no provision to pay for the funerals of those they kill for their yuuuuge tax cuts.

There's your new narrative folks!

[RedSpartan]

37. Too bad he doesn't care at all.

[hamsterjill]

38. I stand in awe.

I stand (because I am LUCKY enough to be able to stand) and APPLAUD each and every one of these brave souls.

I have a family member about to die because treatment is out of reach, and it simply cannot get any worse.

FUCK THAT TURTLE!!!!!

[MyOwnPeace]

67. hamsterjill,

you have my sympathy regarding your family member - knowing that we're about to witness many others receiving the same level of care from this regime.

You are also right: FUCK THAT TURTLE!!!!

[mucifer]

39. It's pretty clear the police don't seem to want to arrest them. They are calm and having

normal conversations with the protesters.

One protester interviewed said she "would rather go to jail than die". I really hope the press will report on this .

WaPo has the live feed on facebook . But, I don't see an article yet.

[Initech]

41. Fuck these fucking assholes.

Mitch McConnell is bar none the worst SML we've ever had!

[ButSeeYa]

44. I believe in karma...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

[loyalsister]

45. They are fighting to preserve republican policies

"In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed the Home and Community-Based Services provisions within Medicaid. These provisions are a huge part of Medicaid and are rooted in a simple reality: People with disabilities are less safe, less happy and less free in institutional settings than they are in the community."

https://www.google.com/search?q=george+w+bush+ADA+amendment&oq=george+w+bush+ADA+amendment&aqs=chrome..69i57.19861j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Then, Bush sr. signed the ADA in 1990. His son signed amendments to fix damage done to ADA by the courts in 2008.

[Stonepounder]

47. I live in Kentucky.

I can NOT understand why we keep electing this evil, uncaring, asshole excuse for a human. But ole Mitch can do whatever he wants, and the dickheads will still dutifully drag themselves to the polls and vote for him.

Note: I have voted in every single election for the last 20 years, even if I was sick on election day and I have made damn sure I have voted for anyone but Mitch 'Pond Scum' McConnell. (Although that is unfair to Pond Scum. I would certainly vote for Pond Scum before the Turtle.)

[get the red out]

57. Fellow Kentuckian here

Agree 100%! Mitch could kill enough of the population in this state with that bill to go down to 5 congressional seats. He represents a very poor state, where people rely on Medicaid.

People vote for him because he has power, even if it's the power to kill them.

[Rebl2]

69. Please don't

call McConnell turtle . It is an insult to turtles. At least turtles do some good in the world unlike McConnell who is trying to destroy the sick and elderly.

[AllaN01Bear]

48. they (th R's) would just love to have us disabled and elderly dead or in nursing homes !

That would really cost the states more money. they would also love to tell us , "move on."

[Bengus81]

49. Comeon Mitch, have your GOONS push those wheelchair people down the stairs!

This protesting is out of hand......

[get the red out]

51. He has his voice mail off too

He is just such an evil man. So many people here in Kentucky will DIE, and he could not possibly care less.

[Stuart G]

53. k and r...this won't pass in my opinion...

[workinclasszero]

54. The republicans will be pushing them off cliffs soon!

The Koch bros need those billions in tax cuts, the poor things.

[wryter2000]

55. They're heroes

Great visual, McConnell, hauling away people in wheelchairs

[flibbitygiblets]

60. Wish I could be there with them, bless their hearts

[perdita9]

62. Thank you, American heroes

I protest where I can, when I can, but I live far from Washington, DC and I'm grateful for for the people who can make their voices heard on these important issues.

[BigmanPigman]

63. That's a great Idea! The Resistance should copy it for a new ACA March/Roll!

I have been contacting various resistance organizations to get an ACA protest march nationwide to draw attention to this deadline issue. I was thinking of attending using crutches or a wheelchair since my chronic condition will lead to this outcome soon.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

64. How about reaching out to the disabled community instead of just using props?

[BigmanPigman]

68. I AM disabled and that is why I had that idea.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

79. My apologies for jumping all over you.

[Demsrule86]

75. Welcome to DU...your post implies that we are using the disabled as props (we are not)and will be

a GOP talking point or already is. This is terrible to say the least. It only helps the GOP if the disabled stay in the shadows until their appointment with Trumpcare/deathcare comes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

80. "Great idea" came across to me as if in favor of using disabled people as a tactic to get attention.

I wasn't against the idea, just how it was talked about.

[Rebl2]

70. I read in the Kansas City Star

yesterday about a woman with a disabled child (lives in red state KS) that was worried about cuts being made to Medicaid because her child depends on it. At the end of the article she made a point of saying she is a conservative Christian and not some liberal democrat. All I have to say to that is when you voted republican, you voted to have your child's Medicaid cut. No sympathy for you mom, but I do for the child because you have a short sited sighted mother.

[Demsrule86]

74. There is blood on the floor...the GOP are evil...just evil.

[Achilleaze]

76. "Throw them under my limo." - Itchy Mitchy (R)

[bresue]

82. Fabulous!!!! Loved it!!! Turtle deserved it!

[WyattKansas]

87. That chickenshit SOB doesn't give a shit about anyone or who he imposes death on.

The prick would only feel offended if people started lighting themselves on fire in protest, like the monk protesters in Vietnam, because they would leave a foul odor in the air. I seriously do not think that would even stop these evil bastards.

He truly deserves to roast in hell for eternity, along with the rest of his republican frauds.

[Rhiannon12866]

89. MSNBC called this "bad optics." Ya think??

There were some in wheelchairs wearing oxygen masks!

[burrowowl]

91. My God

the Capitol Police are willing NAZIs!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

92. One of the most sicken things I've ever seen

This needs to be played repeatedly in 2018