Politics Merkley makes it official: He's considering a run for President

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No, I decided to point out that using a word that is offensive to many people, is just that. Offensive.

It's not "good vs evil". I happen to work with people with various disabilities and using that term (in passing) is offensive.

Why not just go "sorry, I'll try harder" instead of sticking to your guns?

It takes less effort to just change 1 word than it does for you to keep coming up with excuses for saying it.
I'm on this side. I grew up saying that word but it doesn't mean anything to me to stop saying it. I may slip up from time to time but I try.

If there's anyone on Earth that deserves a little protection and sympathy it is someone who has a condition that is no fault of their own.
 
I'm on this side. I grew up saying that word but it doesn't mean anything to me to stop saying it. I may slip up from time to time but I try.

If there's anyone on Earth that deserves a little protection and sympathy it is someone who has a condition that is no fault of their own.
My brother contracted a mental illness just before he got out of the Marines. I never use that term and am offended when I hear it.
 
To me it means a higher ranking officer dismisses somebody of lower rank....
Exactly. Except that in the military you often got to quit standing at attention and/or break formation.
 
Not entirely true. Sometimes I do put up a feeble argument but in the end I always lose. And you know what, I almost always wind up apologizing for not seeing it her way in the first place.
My apology always ends up being "I shouldn't have raised my voice"

1 out of 25 I admit to actually being wrong.
 
My apology always ends up being "I shouldn't have raised my voice"

1 out of 25 I admit to actually being wrong.
Yeah, women must get together and as a group decide that they need to make men apologize for raising their voice.

What can I do? I can't cook and I can't clean for a damn.
 
To me it means a higher ranking officer dismisses somebody of lower rank....and a Crosby Stills and Nash song


Yeah..CSN&Y if memory serves ..same platter that had Suite Judy Blue eyes, almost cut my hair..wanted to play with those guys just once back in the day.., oh, and yeppers, bud, you are obviously not one of the kiddies , nor am I.
 
Merkley won't even win his own state.

He voted against closing the ‘catch-and-release’ loopholes used by child smugglers, and his reckless open borders policies are responsible for the permanent separation of thousands of American families who have been forced to bury their loved ones.

No one is taking a public safety lecture from Sen. Merkley, whose own policies endanger children, empower human smugglers and drug cartels, and allow violent criminal aliens to flood into American communities.

The victims of Sen. Merkley’s reckless open borders policies include his own constituents: a 65 year-old Oregon woman who was sexually assaulted by an illegal alien that had been previously deported 20 times prior, and a young Oregon girl who was allegedly raped several times by a twice-deported illegal alien.


Sen. Ron Wyden shares equal blame with Sen. Merkley for these American women's lives being destroyed, and their lame attempts to shift blame and distract from the facts will catch up to them.
 
Stupid, dumb, idiotic, moronic, foolish...


Or if you're talking about the person themselves, you just use their name.

Those are all substitutes for the word retard, and no less offensive to the target.

But hey, call a spade a spade.
 
Merkley won't even win his own state.

He voted against closing the ‘catch-and-release’ loopholes used by child smugglers, and his reckless open borders policies are responsible for the permanent separation of thousands of American families who have been forced to bury their loved ones.

No one is taking a public safety lecture from Sen. Merkley, whose own policies endanger children, empower human smugglers and drug cartels, and allow violent criminal aliens to flood into American communities.

The victims of Sen. Merkley’s reckless open borders policies include his own constituents: a 65 year-old Oregon woman who was sexually assaulted by an illegal alien that had been previously deported 20 times prior, and a young Oregon girl who was allegedly raped several times by a twice-deported illegal alien.


Sen. Ron Wyden shares equal blame with Sen. Merkley for these American women's lives being destroyed, and their lame attempts to shift blame and distract from the facts will catch up to them.
Undocumented aliens have a lower crime rate than American citizens as a whole.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/trump-illegal-immigrants-crime.html
 
Whooptie frigging do. Such a tired argument. ASSUMING it to be true.

Example....(not my wife) American's wife was killed by an illegal alien driving drunk. He's been caught and deported ten times.

Liberal....AMERICANS DRIVE DRUNK TOO.

So stupid.
you have some of the most nat'l enquirer tabloid headlines
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Stupid, dumb, idiotic, moronic, foolish...


Or if you're talking about the person themselves, you just use their name.

I wouldn't call a developmentally disabled person any of those things
 
Damned if I know! You made the statement, that seem to imply there is a good word verses the hated word. Can you give us the preferred word?

He did. Apparently, you have trouble reading
 
Yes, and no preferred word.

Your post is a dumbass. I would have used a more derogatory familar word to you, but I have more class
 
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Working for two days to make an answer for someone else that failed to answer days ago is not class. Perhaps another word you know does fit.
That someone would wait two days and log the time it takes a forum member to post in a thread begs the question....who failed?
 
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