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Here's the funny thing about Meryl Streep's speech, even if she was alluding to Trump: It wasn't really a political speech. It was more about common decency, respect for one another, and values we should all strive to in our lives, and that we should expect in others.
The more I keep reading all this stuff, all this vitriol, all this inability of some to see the danger in a person like Trump, I realize we're failing as Americans when people accept the things Streep was speaking about in others, regardless of whether they're in politics or not. These things are like, bare minimum traits we should expect in others.
So, I find it amazing how something so simple gets so politicized, that people draw a line between such basic standards we should hold others to, and ourselves.
It just so happens that she was referring to the person who is going to be president, and the same applies, plus some: the person who holds that position should be held to an even higher standard than we hold ourselves. Every single one of us regardless of political persuasion should demand that of a leader. Their political affiliation is irrelevant.
So here go... four years of arguments and battles over what constitutes decent behavior that has NOTHING to do with politics.
- it was 100% political. if Streep actually cared about bullying disabled people, she would have mentioned those kids who kidnapped and tortured that disabled...********
- .. Trump supporter.********
- so omg what you're saying is that you accept this behavior in Trump and don't believe he should be held to the same standards as anyone over the age of 3?monospaced
- Politics aside you can't really argue that mocking a disabled person is an acceptable act by anyone commanding respect.monospaced
- Those gestures were typical of Trump's quirkiness at the time. It just happened that one reporter he was making fun was disabled with similar characteristics.********
- You can watch him using the same gestures when he talked about Ted Cruz.********
- https://www.youtube.…********
- It's okay guise, he acts like an 8 year old bully all the time!inteliboy
- +1fadein11
- Well known fact that Donald suffers from involuntary spaz-hands syndrome. Just terrible luck that he had a particularly bad episode while talking about someoneFax_Benson
- with a disability. Trump's the real victim when you think about it.Fax_Benson
- There you go - being a massive, massive, cunt is 'quirky'.face_melter
- Psychological projection, victim blaming, bullying, obfuscation. omg does it all.monoboy
- Be careful of MSM lies and false flags.********
- yeah, beware of those, but don't question the bullshit spewing from completely delusional, bible thumping, mouth frothing hate mongrels and liars like Alex Jonemonospaced
- it was 100% political. if Streep actually cared about bullying disabled people, she would have mentioned those kids who kidnapped and tortured that disabled...