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The GOP tried to smear James Talarico over his absence from the campaign trail with a nasty whisper campaign about his mental health. Instead, they ended up insulting millions of Americans. (link in comments)

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It also ignores the fact that his flu is made more difficult because he has Type 1 Diabetes, and people don't understand how serious that is. Of course, MAGA would probably say he gave himself the disease.

Excellent read. Thank you for speaking out about this. People need to know they’re supported. The political arena has become more toxic than ever, and I really hope we’re shifting out of the corruption and building towards a better future. Things look a bit rough, but we continue to shine through. 💚

I can’t thank you enough for speaking out about this. I kept seeing people post about why the rumor was absurd, but by framing it that way, it concedes that there is a problem with getting mental health help. Even if the rumor is true, so what. I hate being stigmatized and your words meant a lot.

Now FOX is claiming the left fixated on the story and he was really laying in bed thinking about Trams children. They are so disgusting.

🇨🇦 Talarico = <2 weeks - Flu McConnell = ? Months - ?? Fetterman = ? Weeks - ?? Talarico back on the job. The other two ?? Is McConnell alive ? Alert ?

While GOP was busy trying to smear Dem. candidate and millions of Americans, turns out their own candidate Paxton was partying in Dubai with his girlfriend, who is not his wife, and two American fugitives indicted on healthcare-fraud charges, who "gave" him $190,000 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

wsj.comExclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate RaceTrump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms

Most of these people have probably never had the real influenza flu and think it only makes you sick for 2-3 days. Not so. Real influenza (not the incorrectly named “stomach flu”) can easily knock you on your ass for two weeks. We are also having an earlier start to the flu season than usual.

On CNN yesterday one of the conservative commentators was trying to equate the lie about Talarico's absence to the lie about McConnell being dead. And that's just comical to me. We had all these people claiming that they spoke to McConnell for 20 minutes and he was in the best shape ever.

But he couldn't release a proof of video or call some show to prove it. Then when McConnell is finally in the public, he's in a wheelchair, feeble, and not knowing what is going on. Okay, so people were wrong about him being dead, but so were the idiots who claim he is mentally sharp.

Please understand; these people are so dense, they talk to rocks in their backyards when they feel lonely.

🇨🇦 Republicans are sooo smart. Yes idiots, jump on Talarico. Use the Schmitt approach. I don’t think Schmitt’s face-plant hurt too much, he bragged about his attack later 😵‍💫

🇨🇦 They’ve been taking lessons from Sen Schmitt on how to attack Dem Talarico. Same dance, different names, same big face-plant! 🫥 🥵 🤣😅🤣😅🤣

Can't beat him on policy, so smear him on mental health. Then act shocked when the millions of Americans who've been through the same thing take it personally. The cruelty is the point and the backfire is the bonus.

Probably wasn't a smart thing to do, since many Americans sympathized when John Fetterman was dealing with similar issues and got a lot of sympathy.

I am old enough to remember when Tom Eagleton, who was George McGovern's running mate in 1972, was forced to withdraw from the campaign after it was revealed he was treated for depression and received electro-shock treatments. I thought we had evolved way beyond that. Apparently not.

Of course Republicans are gonna weaponize rumors of an opponent seeking mental health treatment, even if (as in Talarico's case) the rumors are lies, even if (also in this case) they have to make up those rumors themselves.

Oh, for sure. I was just pointing out that for having depression, a well-respected candidate was removed from the ticket. I don't put anything beneath the Republican Party at this point. Given that they are also running scared and desperate,we might expect even more nonsense in the coming weeks.

Americans are so weak. All we have to do is Boycott FB, Amazon and pros sports and this whole thing goes down but no we have to watch men play with their balls ... pro athletes have clout yet they lick Dolan's boots. We are a nation of cowards.