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LiberalArkie

(19,297 posts)
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:14 AM Mar 2025

'We're against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids

March 21, 2025

One primetime host on Fox News recently uttered a remark about public education and disabled students that visibly shocked one of his co-panelists.

On Thursday, Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez posted a video clip to Bluesky of a segment from Fox News' "The Five." In the segment, liberal panelist Jessica Tarlov was commenting on President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at shuttering the Department of Education, and her fears that it would negatively impact the quality of education that disabled children receive.


"When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education," Tarlov said. "I don't hear them talking about empowering—

"—Because we're against it," Gutfeld said matter-of-factly.

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https://www.alternet.org/fox-host-disabled-kids/


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'We're against it': Fox host says the quiet part out loud in segment about disabled kids (Original Post) LiberalArkie Mar 2025 OP
Depraved human beings. Passages Mar 2025 #1
No empathy LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #5
Apathy is the new empathy defacto7 Mar 2025 #29
No empathy goes with having no moral courage Uncle Joe Mar 2025 #32
From what I've seen and heard about Gutfield.. AZ8theist Mar 2025 #57
Upper Middle Class Twit? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #62
True! Passages Mar 2025 #65
Sick Fucks. spanone Mar 2025 #2
So what does Guyfield think should happen to these kids? alarimer Mar 2025 #3
Well like they used to back in the 50's or so. Stay at home and let their mom/housewife teach them. Or their personal LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #6
Which would pull millions of Americans out of the workforce NickB79 Mar 2025 #10
Workers easily replaced with more H1B visas from Russia or China? LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #14
They don't care if women are forced to leave the work force Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #42
Handmaid's Tale, here we come NickB79 Mar 2025 #47
Gutfield types think all women should be trad-wives, so he sees no problem. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #63
Exactly. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #30
I suspect there would also be unexplained "accidents" happening alarimer Mar 2025 #40
They don't think they can PRODUCE. Think "Hunger Games" underpants Mar 2025 #51
Trump eugenics program means sick, disabled, old must be culled from the population. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #4
That's exactly what the original 1930s Nazis had in mind. MLWR Mar 2025 #12
Lebensunwertes Leben. Girard442 Mar 2025 #34
yes it is right out of Hitler's playbook. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #45
Yes they are following the Hitler playbook. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #53
Sick,old,disabled..wow,that's hitting close to DOGE's palace...a.k.a.White House. BattleRow Mar 2025 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Tiny Tabby Mar 2025 #37
Yes he told the US generals he did not want any disabled vets in public. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #44
Hunger Games. Trump's DEI EO. Braille in Trump Tower. underpants Mar 2025 #52
Yes and he humiliated a disabled reporterin public. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #54
That's why they hated it at the beginning. The still hate having to pay 1/2 underpants Mar 2025 #55
They broke to a commercial and she was then "removed". Ms Tarov's mail is being forwarded to Salvador. marble falls Mar 2025 #7
Of course they're against it synni Mar 2025 #8
Selfishness is their cornerstone. nt Hotler Mar 2025 #9
And, as the war on empathy continues, Gutfeld gives us a "useless eaters" moment. patphil Mar 2025 #11
Make ads with this malaise Mar 2025 #13
I agree. I'm glad he said it out loud. 33taw Mar 2025 #15
Correct malaise Mar 2025 #16
Yes.. should be lots of ads. mountain grammy Mar 2025 #17
Spread them everywhere malaise Mar 2025 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Tiny Tabby Mar 2025 #19
The right has been against public education for a long time now. Right wing talk radio coined the term "government Martin68 Mar 2025 #20
Maybe the ignorant parents don't want their children to know anything and get uppity Walleye Mar 2025 #28
Try going all the way back to slavery slightlv Mar 2025 #39
Not surprised sakabatou Mar 2025 #21
Gutfeld is a shit who is into exercising his shittiness. dchill Mar 2025 #22
Gutfield is the right wing version of George Carlin, and I think he thought it funny. JohnnyRingo Mar 2025 #24
And at 77 I still respond when a person says "Hey, Retard" like they called my actual name. Throws them way off kilter. LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #26
Yes I agree, Johnny. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #27
The return to... littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 #25
And yet ... they are completely morally AGAINST abortion in any form FakeNoose Mar 2025 #35
Because they're... littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 #36
You do know that the big thing with the rich tech billionaires LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #64
Fuck you where you BREATHE, Gutfield. (nt) Paladin Mar 2025 #31
Of course, providing for disabled kids is a big thing, but more basically Bluetus Mar 2025 #33
They simply want the guilded era. Librarys - those were what the Rockefellers, Gettys and Vanderbilt's had in their LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #43
The reasons it is not possible in this day and age Bluetus Mar 2025 #48
Pro life my ass! pandr32 Mar 2025 #38
How soon we forget ReRe Mar 2025 #41
Gutfield is considered to be the country's foremost conservative comedian. A prime example of MAGA humor. Marcuse Mar 2025 #46
Yeah, Just Jerome Mar 2025 #49
oops... oldsoldierfadingfast Mar 2025 #50
When we start... BurnDoubt Mar 2025 #56
Yet another Nazi comes out of the fascist closet KSL-Washington Mar 2025 #58
I'm against Gutfeld continuing to use valuable oxygen. CaptainTruth Mar 2025 #59
They're against public education of disabled people, or... LudwigPastorius Mar 2025 #60
My Trumper SIL who interprets for the deaf will probably lose her career Maru Kitteh Mar 2025 #61

defacto7

(14,160 posts)
29. Apathy is the new empathy
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:22 AM
Mar 2025

Hypocrisy is the new logic.
Lies are the new truth.
Greed, the new altruism.

Uncle Joe

(64,225 posts)
32. No empathy goes with having no moral courage
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:30 AM
Mar 2025
Yes, demonstrating empathy can require courage, as it involves vulnerability, stepping outside of one's own perspective, and potentially facing discomfort or conflict when understanding and acknowledging another's experience.

Here's why empathy can be a courageous act:

Vulnerability:
Empathy often requires us to be vulnerable and open to the possibility of learning and understanding perspectives that differ from our own.

Stepping Outside of One's Own Perspective:

It takes courage to put aside our own biases, assumptions, and experiences to truly understand someone else's point of view.

Facing Discomfort:

Empathizing with someone who is struggling or experiencing hardship can be emotionally taxing, requiring courage to face the discomfort and pain they are experiencing.

Potential for Conflict:

Empathy can sometimes lead to challenging conversations or situations, requiring courage to stand up for someone else's needs or perspective, even if it means facing disagreement or conflict.

Acting on Empathy:
Empathy is not just about understanding; it also involves acting on that understanding, which can require courage to take action and support others.

Brené Brown's perspective:

Brené Brown, a researcher and author, emphasizes that we can only create genuine empathic connections if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

AZ8theist

(7,099 posts)
57. From what I've seen and heard about Gutfield..
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:50 PM
Mar 2025

He is INCREDIBLY STUPID.

PLUS he's never had an original thought in his life. Simply parrots the fascist and Nazi propaganda he's TOLD to parrot.
Some call people like him an "empty suit". It's a euphemism for BLITHERING IDIOT.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
3. So what does Guyfield think should happen to these kids?
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:21 AM
Mar 2025

Probably he thinks they should have died, but he won't say that part out loud just yet.

I hope something bad happens to him or his family. Hateful.piece of shit.

LiberalArkie

(19,297 posts)
6. Well like they used to back in the 50's or so. Stay at home and let their mom/housewife teach them. Or their personal
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:26 AM
Mar 2025

nanny or a private institution.

NickB79

(20,243 posts)
10. Which would pull millions of Americans out of the workforce
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:17 AM
Mar 2025

To become stay at home parents.

Same thing that will happen if Medicaid is axed and you have to care for your elderly parents after they can't afford the retirement homes.

It will absolutely destroy the economy at the same time our population is falling due to immigration restrictions.

Diamond_Dog

(39,766 posts)
42. They don't care if women are forced to leave the work force
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:44 AM
Mar 2025

After all, it’s a woman’s place to stay home & take care of children …. All women are fulfilled by that.

Diamond_Dog

(39,766 posts)
30. Exactly.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:22 AM
Mar 2025

I hear rwnjs say over and over to stop depending on the government for everything. I fully expect that their “plan” is to tell families of disabled children to have the woman quit her paying job and stay home and care for them.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
40. I suspect there would also be unexplained "accidents" happening
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:29 AM
Mar 2025

Desperate people doing desperate things

underpants

(194,873 posts)
51. They don't think they can PRODUCE. Think "Hunger Games"
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 06:48 PM
Mar 2025

The Everdeen dad dies. He no longer works in the coal mine so their family isn’t producing so they are of no use and nearly starve to death.

Irish_Dem

(79,782 posts)
53. Yes they are following the Hitler playbook.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 06:59 PM
Mar 2025

Cutting federal funds to various groups will be a death sentence.

BattleRow

(2,090 posts)
18. Sick,old,disabled..wow,that's hitting close to DOGE's palace...a.k.a.White House.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:48 AM
Mar 2025

Last edited Sat Mar 22, 2025, 01:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Response to Irish_Dem (Reply #4)

Irish_Dem

(79,782 posts)
44. Yes he told the US generals he did not want any disabled vets in public.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:03 PM
Mar 2025

He said it was a disgusting sight or something to that effect.

underpants

(194,873 posts)
52. Hunger Games. Trump's DEI EO. Braille in Trump Tower.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 06:56 PM
Mar 2025

The central plot of Hunger Games is that Burdock Everdeen dies. No one in the family is producing so that society has no use for them so they can just die (and almost do).

His EO directly mentions DEIA - Accessibility
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/


Donald Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille Because 'No Blind People are Going to Live in Trump Tower': Report
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-braille-blind-people-1118601

The alleged interaction was recounted by Barbara Res, who led construction at the Trump Organization, in an opinion piece in the New York Daily News on Wednesday.

"What's this?" Trump, noticing the small raised dots, reportedly asked the architect who went to his office to show what the residential elevator interiors would look like.

"Braille," the architect responded.

Trump apparently demanded that the architect take the feature out.

"We can't," the architect replied. "It's the law."

"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."



Irish_Dem

(79,782 posts)
54. Yes and he humiliated a disabled reporterin public.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:09 PM
Mar 2025

And told the US military generals he never wanted to see disabled vets in public either.

But it is not just Trump's cruelty.

The billionaires believe all the money in the US belongs to them.
They want it all.
And they refuse to pay for the old, disabled, hungry, ill.

underpants

(194,873 posts)
55. That's why they hated it at the beginning. The still hate having to pay 1/2
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:28 PM
Mar 2025

I can’t find if employers are required to pay half but they are required to withhold it.

The Newsweek headline is wrong. Trump Tower opened in 1983. ADA was passed in 1990. It was t illegal unless that was NY state law.

marble falls

(71,062 posts)
7. They broke to a commercial and she was then "removed". Ms Tarov's mail is being forwarded to Salvador.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:32 AM
Mar 2025

synni

(673 posts)
8. Of course they're against it
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:56 AM
Mar 2025

They're against educating everybody. Stupid people vote Republican.

patphil

(8,725 posts)
11. And, as the war on empathy continues, Gutfeld gives us a "useless eaters" moment.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:34 AM
Mar 2025

Another step down the road to fascism.
There's no love in these people's hearts.

malaise

(292,750 posts)
13. Make ads with this
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:41 AM
Mar 2025

Show them in every town hall, pod cast, highway overpass


ReTHUGS are against education for and the empowerment of the disabled

Response to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Martin68

(27,052 posts)
20. The right has been against public education for a long time now. Right wing talk radio coined the term "government
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:52 AM
Mar 2025

schools as a pejorative term for "public education." I get why the wealthy elite want to monopolize quality education for their children, but I don't get why lower economic red state people are against affordable eduction for all. Perhaps it is a lingering racism dating back to segregated schools.

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
39. Try going all the way back to slavery
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:15 AM
Mar 2025

Or any chattel owning society. It's normally against the law to teach people to read, write, or do math... let alone history and other higher topics. If people are educated in these subjects they can learn on their own what's going on. They can think critically and then rebel against their station in life. For the rich and powerful its important to keep the status quo. It's easier to control the people if they're uneducated. I won't say what I'm thinking about these people right now.

dchill

(42,660 posts)
22. Gutfeld is a shit who is into exercising his shittiness.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:58 AM
Mar 2025

His shit has fairly impressive pecs, I'm betting.

JohnnyRingo

(20,505 posts)
24. Gutfield is the right wing version of George Carlin, and I think he thought it funny.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:11 AM
Mar 2025

At least in his own mind.

It was a sick humor way of saying "Well Duh", but making light of children with disabilities is what keeps them rolling in the aisles. He saw it as a clever rejoinder to Tarlov's liberal tears.

LiberalArkie

(19,297 posts)
26. And at 77 I still respond when a person says "Hey, Retard" like they called my actual name. Throws them way off kilter.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:18 AM
Mar 2025

I think that is why the LBGT early adopted the word "Queer" to take away any derogatory meaning. The first time a bigot said that to someone and they responded with "Yea, What do you need?" I would have loved to see their face with the "DOES NOT COMPUTE" look.

littlemissmartypants

(31,636 posts)
25. The return to...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:14 AM
Mar 2025

Eugenics is upon us. The oversight for the education of these precious children is now HHS. Not an education but "health monitoring." Let that sink in.

FakeNoose

(40,163 posts)
35. And yet ... they are completely morally AGAINST abortion in any form
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:59 AM
Mar 2025

They want all the children BORN, even the ones that are physically or mentally handicapped.
None of it makes sense.

littlemissmartypants

(31,636 posts)
36. Because they're...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:03 AM
Mar 2025

All a bunch of self involved snobs who can't see past the tips of their noses.

LiberalArkie

(19,297 posts)
64. You do know that the big thing with the rich tech billionaires
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 04:36 AM
Mar 2025

Is young blood. The younger the better. They believe that will extend their life. Young organ donors are better also

https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/347828f8-6e7f-4a9b-92ab-95f637a9dc2e

Bluetus

(2,288 posts)
33. Of course, providing for disabled kids is a big thing, but more basically
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 10:41 AM
Mar 2025

Last edited Sat Mar 22, 2025, 03:03 PM - Edit history (1)

we have a national interest in having the best educated population in the world.

50 years ago, most of the innovations were coming from the USA: transistors, space exploration, pharmaceuticals, telephony, computers and everything else, and much of that emerged from research at great universities. Today the most important thing in 90% of the universities is recruiting (with millions of dollars of NIL money) the next great point guard or quarterback, many of whom have no intention of ever getting a college education or degree. In the past, philanthropy from alumni funded libraries or research centers. Today, much of that money goes into the NIL pool, and the university makes up the difference by charging runaway tuition rates.

The center of technology today is not Silicon valley or Austin. It is in Asia. Just about all the new energy products come from China or S. Korea. Hard drives come from Indonesia and elsewhere.

When you look at education levels ranked by state, the ten most educated states are al blue states
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-educated-states

But the Republicans want to eliminate education. Their goal, evidently, is for everybody to be like Oklahoma or Mississippi. I really don't care what OK or MS do to themselves, but the idea of eliminating education will just add momentum to our race to the bottom as a nation.

LiberalArkie

(19,297 posts)
43. They simply want the guilded era. Librarys - those were what the Rockefellers, Gettys and Vanderbilt's had in their
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 AM
Mar 2025

homes. Education was bringing in scholars from Europe to teach their children and the universities were for those children. Only the top. Business was handed down to their children (what we now call nepo-babies) because they believed that knowledge and wisdom and business sense was genetic. They still do.
I remember Joe Ford the CEO of Alltel telling all of us that he had looked over the world trying to find his successor and only 1 person was qualified. His son Scott.

They are going to have a major problem replacing the American work force. Remember when the railroads imported the Chinese laborers because they did not want to pay Americans to lay the track. Even earlier they did not want to pay immigrants to work the farms in British Colonial America so they brought in the Africans and Caribbean slaves.

I think they really want something that is not possible in this day and age.

Bluetus

(2,288 posts)
48. The reasons it is not possible in this day and age
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 03:15 PM
Mar 2025

Those old businesses are not very relevant anymore. The e industries of the 21st Century are largely very technical, requiring many workers who are well educated.

The billionaires are still operating under the presumption that the USA is the richest country and that we can dominate economically simply by owning properties and pushing paper. The world is not that way anymore. The center of economic gravity is migrating from the US to Asia and the Middle East.

Choosing to close our Department of Education, leaving "education" largely to the religios fanatics and cultists us a death sentence for our country.

But the billionaires just don't care. They can go anywhere. They don't care what happens to the USA.

ReRe

(12,164 posts)
41. How soon we forget
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:36 AM
Mar 2025

This all goes along with Donald Trump's attitude about anything lesser than the billionaire class. Fuck public education. Fuck Medicaid, SNAP and all that. Fuck Trump's great nephew. Fuck the disabled. Fuck those mothers and kids in Sudan who need the AIDS meds. Fuck Medicare (the poor) & Social Security (the elderly). Fuck 'em all. In other words, fuck the 99%.

The entire Republican Party needs to be impeached along with their dear leaders in the Administration & in the courts. Impeach them all. But that won't happen unless Republicans with a brain don't wake up to the facts I mentioned above and do something to save themselves and everyone else in the 99%, which they are a member of. Democrats cannot do it alone.

Marcuse

(8,793 posts)
46. Gutfield is considered to be the country's foremost conservative comedian. A prime example of MAGA humor.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 01:16 PM
Mar 2025

BurnDoubt

(1,469 posts)
56. When we start...
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:37 PM
Mar 2025

"Culling The Herd", we need to start with the Psychological Deficients at the top of the ticket and work our way down 'til we run out of dumbfucks. Evolution will take care of the rest. Have you seen the 80% of men overlooked by 20% women? Did you notice the Red Hats? No wonder Rape is the only hope to get laid for these guys.

KSL-Washington

(13 posts)
58. Yet another Nazi comes out of the fascist closet
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:52 PM
Mar 2025

This sounds like it comes directly from Nazi Germany. Disabled people were sent to the death camps along with the other undesirables like Jews, Gypsies, gays. Only good Republicans, err Aryans, were wanted in the 3rd Reich.

Republicans have no shame and they have come out of the closet as the fascists they really are. I continue to be disgusted more and more by the hour.

Maru Kitteh

(31,247 posts)
61. My Trumper SIL who interprets for the deaf will probably lose her career
Sun Mar 23, 2025, 12:13 AM
Mar 2025

I’ll be sending tots and pears.

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