Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.
You may be wondering how many people in Indiana, the state that Banks represents, live with disabilities. The answer is 19% of 5,563,219 residents, so “only” about a million.
I’m surprised this website still exists
Nation wide, about 1 in 4 or 5 Americans have some form of disability…and if lucky, 100% will get old.
So how to make sure voters, especially disabled voters, in Indiana know this? Maybe a couple of Democrats could make sure.
that would require Indiana Democrats to stop trying to be Republicans
The gentleman helped senior citizens as well, that's probably the other 81%
the tea party would hate to see this if they didn't also hate the disabled and poor
Self loathing, for many of them
they learned how to do that? since when
Fascists are the most desperately insecure people you'll ever meet. They engage in endless projection.
It's also very counter productive, because no-one likes a fascist. Fascists don't have friends. Fascists will always throw other fascists under the bus.
Except Clara Pettaci. She stood by her man Mussolini after the Partisans told her to get her dumb ass out of the way. So she died for love. For Benito Mussolini of all people. Know what ? I've long lost track of the point I was trying to make. Rat and fascist thought and behavior are the same.
That insecurity is exactly why the best way to deal with them is to mock them hard and openly for what they say - don't even lower yourself to "debating" them, just directly attack their insecurities and they'll shrink right down because they need the validation that what they're doing isn't wrong
Being disabled and poor are lifestyle choices. In the words of GOP mentor, Ebenezer Scrooge, "They should die and reduce the surplus population."
#ManyMoreAccessibilityNeeds #DontWorryAboutThe1.6MillionTransPeople #ItsNeverAboutTheTransPeople #BiggerAgenda #DEIAProtections
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Actually, 100% live with a disability. That disability is, they live in Indiana!
So they need to be calling him and visiting at his office. Totally unacceptable.
He's recruiting more warriors for the anti trump movement
I lived in his district briefly and we fed half the neighborhood kids. We had first graders come to our house that didn't know their abcs and I used to teach the whole neighborhood. Banks is a vile POS who has done NOTHING for his district.
He already made it clear he hates his constituents when he boasted about mocking them with donuts instead of attending a town hall
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Any person declaring that compassion is “too left wing” or “woke” has lost the plot and failed the Turing Test.
These guys would politicize a ham sandwich or measles. Wait….
I don't even want to know what the ham sandwich one is.
Some tradwife somewhere supposed to be making it for her provider man?
Also, the ham was very dark in color and radically left!
It’s a woke ham sandwich. It’s very left-winged. The ham didn’t even say thank you for giving its life.
Lots of pigs in suits on the republican side tho.
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Hey!!!!! MY MOUTH IS UP HERE !!!😂
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That's not fair to the pig.
About right! Close your eyes and it all makes sense.
no decency, no empathy
They’re all trash-he just said it out loud They will all start saying it out loud now
And they’ll keep getting re-elected. That’s why they think they can act this way.
Until they don’t. Average voters do not like hubris, especially for local candidates.
From where I sit the average voter seems to love hubris. The nastier the better it seems.
The average voter is a fucking moron
Indeed! This last election proved it. Hell, it may have even proved that the American people as a whole are just too damn stupid for democracy, which is why we're going to lose it entirely.
SENATOR JIM BANKS IS A FUCKING EVIL 😈 MAN!
Their president set the tone for how you treat disabled people.
Mocking a disabled reporter right out of the gate. Classy. This Hoosier right here will never vote for that shit (Banks and Young, as well). I raised two, strong, intelligent daughters who formed their own opinions. They’re also Democrats. Great, now I’ll be accused of rigging elections. Ha!
Didn’t know people with disabilities were left or right. DISGUSTING MAGATS
Disability rights is definitely a left/woke issue according to the right.
Included right in DEIA-- diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. There's ableism behind lots of what they're doing (attacks on Medicare, Social Security, vaccines, medical research, special education, accommodations for federal workers, so much ableism).
Righties know how to tough it out! I suppose an explicit "/s" is needed here.
They may not have been left or right before, but it’s been clear since Trump mocked the disabled reporter that kindness sorts to the left and cruelty sorted itself to the right.
They do not care about it. They want deaths. "If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population".
It’s always been a left or right thing. The right was eugenicist, anti-disabled people. The left was always for helping. (“Centrism” is about splitting the difference and letting only half perish.)
Sen. Jim Banks (R) needs to be taken down! He’s a horrible person! I wish him every possible bad thing that could happen to him! He deserves worse!
It’s morally and ethically ok to punch Nazis. It’s illegal, of course, even more so if the Nazi is a US Senator, and anyone who throws said punch will likely be criminally convicted and possibly incarcerated. But you’d have a moral and ethical clean slate. Just thinkin’ out loud.
MAGA's founding principle is inhumanity.
Idiot
No one will ever convince me that Republicans are not motherfuckers.
That’s an insult to motherfuckers
What else could be expected from a guy who works for a guy who told his nephew to let his disabled child "just die?"
What an ass.
I think Jim Banks just radicalized everyone who knows this worker, who is related to this worker, who works with this worker- and all their moms. Good work, Jimbo.
Not just everyone who knows this worker, who is related to this worker, who works with this worker, and their moms. *EVERYONE* who has a functioning sense of integrity. The revolution cannot come too soon.
Banks obviously believes in eugenics. H8rs gonna H8.
You know who else really disliked people with disabilities?… HITLER! And we now have a bunch of Nazis fanboys and a Orange Hitler Jr running the government! #FuckNazis #FuckFascism #FuckDonaldTrump #FuckMAGA #FuckElonMusk #FuckTrump #FuckMusk #Refuse #Resist
I wonder if Jim Banks has ever met Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott Or ex Repub Reps Madison Cawthorn or Michael Grimm
Even Abbott hates the disabled.
Pure scum maga!
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JFC! It’s all so evil!
we pay this asshole's salary and make it possible for him to rake in money from donors if something bad ever happens to him, I will surely think he probably deserved it
The Nazis saw the disabled as 'useless eaters' and murdered them, initially using vans converted to gas them with the vehicles' exhaust. That's an extreme, of course, but no far-right government is going to give the disabled the help they deserve--because helping them is 'woke'.
Trump is extreme. MAGA is extreme. Christian Nationalists running our government are extreme. It can happen here. It is happening here. It has happened here. Nazi fascism came to America and has festered here since 1930.
Fwiw, Nazis were inspired by US. www.history.com/articles/how...
Thanks for pointing this out. It appears that fascism is an international exchange of ideas and behaviors that knows no bounds. What "worked" in the USA might "work" in Europe & vice versa. That in mind, might Nazi ideology have then been that much easier to peddle to receptive US stooges? Likely.
Mostly the Nazis just euthanized them if they were in available for that. Then they sent out letters saying they dies a " natural" death". They did the same to their wounded soldiers.
Trump thinks that disabled Americans should die, as reportedly by his family members. T4 math applied bsky.app/profile/sick...
And federal funds to train teachers of disabled children were cut off in Indiana. Presumably he doesn’t care about those kids either.
Fascists despise people with disabilities. -they did then, they do now.
So any job that is HELPING people with Disabilities,Addiction, Mental Health, financial issues etc is a WOKE JOB ? This whole WOKE thing is BS. There was a VERY SMALL portion of democrats who were talking about being WOKE. They take that and pin it on the whole party. Its FAKE outrage by the GOP!
"Woke" is the label used by modern day McCarthyists to dehumanize political opponents as their "communist" and "radical Marxist" ludicrous garbage was getting sneered at.
Apparently I DO have the ability to hate these fuckers even more.
Christianity Insanity worships Fascism and Trump. Gee, l wonder why...
Senator Jim Banks is a sick f#ck. Unbelievable.
I'm thinking much of congress is getting sicker everyday. Bernie tried to stop American bombs going to Israel and 30 dems voted against Bernie. They are okay with supporting genocide, even Corey Booker. I am in shock. They lost their conscience when they took campaign money. Zombie Congress.😟
Pretty sure no Dem has ever expressed, or indeed had, opinions that are anywhere close to this offensive. Even surer that Harris wouldn't have been randomly firing workers, bankrupting companies, axing cancer/other health research, or crashing US and world stock markets.
Banks is scum
Sadly he is from a district where such behavior is condoned or minimized by a large number of the constituents.
Just to clarify. I meant he has always won large support so I am surmising that his constituents are not yelling and screaming for him to apologize. I could be wrong and they all demand a recall.
Wow, must be hell to live there.
I cannot wait till the day I leave this state.
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Cruelty is the Republican brand.
If someone didn't want to be disabled obviously they aren't just working hard enough at NOT being disabled. Lazy disabled people trying to live off the government dime!
he's evil period
Jim Banks is scum
We need ANGRY 😡 and SAD 😢 reactions on this app.
Jim Banks doesn't like federal jobs? Then he should QUIT his ASAP.
Hey Jim Banks …I hope your days of ever having a seat anywhere are coming to a swift end. You are a ruthless asshole. Karma always finds you. Know it.
An example of how calloused the GOP truly is.
People have to stop electing these horrible people.
It's so gerryrigged that violence is the only way out now.
This should be on billboards throughout his district.
Didn't he also admit afterward that he didn't' even know what the job was?
I hope trump turns on this jackoff
Tramp? No chance.
Ultimately he turns on them all
Super sleazy man
Trump & the members of GOP NSDAP have a list of people considered lesser human beings than their White Conservative Herrenrasse. POC, LGBTQ, Non-Christian, etc. Trump displayed how he feels about the disabled early on. Banks wants a spot in the footwell of the Resolute Desk with Vance & Rubio.
sounds like Jim deserves to have the Kraken unleashed on his cruel ass. postcards, emails. calls. no need to be all that civil. since he clearly doesn't deserve his job.
Don’t forget to submit prayers for him via his church’s convenient webform:
Done.
That guy needs to go. Add him to the list.
Yuk, what a disgusting asshole
Very Nice
What a sick, entitled fuck.
Who went to the camps in Nazi Germany: Communists and socialists Media people Professors and teachers LGBT Mentally and physically disabled. Anyone who spoke against Hitler Jews It won't be any different here.
Asal.
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The cruelty…
He's a turd. So is everyone that voted for him.
Sorry he lost out
Calling anything that has humanity with such an empty word. True fucking evil
The job was helping people with disabilities. Sadly that is what they consider "woke."
This.
I really don't want to be around when the Karmic return ticket comes for these folks. It's not going to be a pretty site.
These motherfuckers are Russian assets
Senator Jim Banks (R) is a self riteous piece of shit.
SMH for America 🫠
These neoliberal types are ghoulishly obsessed with categorising the old,infirm and disabled as surplus to requirements. Their requirements that is. Why? They're constitutionally incapable of formulating one single positive idea. It's always 'cut back on this', 'get rid of that'.Always.
What vile creatures these freaks are. Assholes for the sake of being assholes.
Ponder that thought / comment for a moment. Helping people with disabilities is woke. What is the alternative? My mind goes to dark places. I thought that mocking the reporter was a one off but apparently it's a more common reaction.
Dude should have jumped in the elevator and choked that smug POS!
They are All Trash. Glad Adam and Liz are out. Maybe a new party should be formed
I’m disabled from my military service, but I guess I don’t deserve care either, huh?
Thank you for your Service 🇺🇲
They don’t see disabled as human. But that’s because they’re not human either. To be human is to care and empathize with others. This douchebag is a monster and some day the angry mob (and history books) will come for him, too.
I'm disabled. Last night I had a nightmare that 'ICE'/his unidentified goon squad banged on my door and dragged me out of my home and threw me in the back of an unmarked dirty white van because I had 'stolen money from the US', living on SSI, Medicaid & EBT. 😭😭😭
He is just following President Koresh's lead www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
How did Indiana and Ohio grow to become the two dumbest states in the Midwest.
Sorry, my home state of Missouri has that honor.
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He is a typical MAGA Republican. No shame.
Jim Banks needs to trip up a sidewalk curb
Assholes can only put out shit.
Jim Banks has sex with children probably. He’s one real first class piece of shit.
Jim Banks (R) was almost certainly a bigoted twat before he opened his mouth & he kindly confirmed it before our very eyes! What an absolute ****, except he lacks the warmth & the depth!
It's not enough. Close, but need to go much, much further to depict such dumbfuckery! I very much appreciate your effort though. 🙂🌸
Republicans are in a contest about out-assholing each other that quip pulls Banks even with puppy-in-face-shooting Noem.
Pot calling the kettle black, eh?
MAGA cruel, greedy, racist, misogynistic, and bigoted, shitty horrible people
When is he up for reelection?
This is his first term, we’re stuck with this twatwaffle for SIX effing years. We could’ve had Dr. Valerie McCray but the racist, misogynist constituency of IN voted for Banks instead🤬
Maybe voters there can try to recall him. Is that a thing there? Here in Colorado, people have tried to get enough signatures to recall our governor.
I’ve never seen that happen in my lifetime but it sure sounds like a good idea. He hasn’t lived here in years! He lives in Virginia and occasionally flys in for a photo op. We are so heavily gerrymandered it’s hard to get out from under the thumb of the R’s.
The vicious cruelty of the Republican religion. An idolatrous cult that worships Mammon and Moloch in the old, traditional, child sacrifice, way.
His church might want to be notified they have a worshipper of false idols among them. They have a convenient prayer webform:
The Evangelicals are technically the religion of the GOP, but it hasn’t been Christianity since sometime between Reagan and the impeachment of Clinton. They threw out the New Testament entirely, except for some cynical misreadings of Paul, and the rest is just pre-Roman Middle East cruelty.
Here is my response to Sen. Banks: “No one works less and takes disproportionately more from the Federal Govt. than the U.S. Congress.”
Congress.... the highest paying PART-TIME job in America.
Shut down Banks so he can again verbally assault a constituent. He has no right to serve in congress. He's a loser.
Because the Senator is dead inside.
Indiana, you can do better!
Apparently we can't.
I’m in Texas, I get ya. There are a majority of betters there, I’m sorry your Senator is the worst if y’all.
That is pretty woke. The gop way is force the motheres to birth the child, then don’t give them any support!
Yup. All about the unborn, but once your born you're on your own 🖕. NO neonatal care, NO daycare, NO school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, NO NOTHING! When you're Pre Born you're good, but when you're Pre School YOU'RE FUCKED. That was the was the late GREAT George Carlin 40yrs ago saying that!
Absolutely!
Use of the term "Woke" in this context exhibits the kind of intelligence that fights against the top performing economy in the world and backs Yam Hitler's 71 day destruction of same. And his empathy is on par with the paucity of brains.
What a jerk 🤬🤬🤬
Fvckin’ Nazi
Get your f****** sneakers on and let's march!
Tomorrow, Saturday April 5th, will be a beautiful day to do it too! ✊
So, jobs are only important if they are to service able- bodied people only?
How very Christian
Full time Trumplican. No care for anyone but themselves. Vote never for an incumbent.
Unbelievable asshole. People voted for a person like that? FFS!
😡😡😡😡😡😡
This from a spineless, ass-kissing, traitorous politician.
Hot wheels doesn't need anymore help since he got that big payout...so why don't all the other disabled people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a big payout too? ...oh wait, that's right...
Odd, doesn’t that hit pretty close to home for someone who is cognitively disabled?
Yeah not cool. Find another way to insult him. He’s an asshole—does that work for you?
How can your society tolerate such hate?
I don't know! It's horrifying. These people claim to be Christians too! They know nothing of teachings of Jesus! 💔
We are spinning over this shit. There will be protests today. Lots.
The country is largely racist and angry from watching Fox. Those of us that don’t watch Fox are devastated by our fellow Americans hatred and ignorance.
Not well. It's torn us apart. From our country to our families, hate has divided us.
The answer is USA is swarming w selfish assholes who only care about themselves and their wallets. It's our repulsive reality.
These are absolutely horrible people.
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That would be appropriate for censure I suppose. It’s an idea but unsure.
P R I C K!
I mean, to be fair, I don't think "Helping people with disabilities" is what anyone would call a *right* wing job, and I'm pretty sure assholes like Banks assume "if it's not right wing, it's woke."
Obviously, when it comes to the disabled, Banks subscribes to the viewpoint Alan Grayson accused the Ratpublicans of, “Just die!”
There is #NoBottom for the #GOP. They are Godless & Brainless
And talk about a DEI hire- isn’t Banks a prime example of that?
I’m embarrassed he’s from IN. He’s an asshat!
@papst-ny.bsky.social
Cruelty is the point with Republicans. Yet, people continue to vote for them. The definition of insanity in a nutshell.
Because cruelty isn't a bug with their voters. It's their ethos.
I wouldn't be upset if someone hypothetically kicked Senator Jim Banks right in the nuts.
Jim Banks was speculating about the fired worker. No speculation is needed with respect to Banks; he definitely deserves to be fired. The voters have the power and should send the dickhead back to his termites nest.
Another one who should meet Luigi
[Insert heaps of bad words here]
That’s exactly what I would expect a Trump ass-licking Nazi prick to say.
There’s a special place where Jim Banks will end up and it’s going to be very warm….
Bastard.
There’s a special place in hell for these people.
Typical Republican response. When are people going to realize they DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU?
A lot realize that, but they are ok with it as long as the people they hate are held down even more
OMG - how low can we go? Banks was hurtful and mean to this fired federal worker - how could his “I don’t give a shit” behavior be acceptable to anyone?
He gets re-elected easily here in Indiana so to a majority of Hoosiers, his behavior is quite acceptable.
What the Hell is wrong with these people???????
He gets elected by telling those Hoosiers that he is a godly man who believes in fiscal responsibility and small-government values. 🤮🤮🤮
And, they buy it.
Indiana was the first state that went to Trump. Not two minutes after the polls closed, they were calling it. So no, Banks's remarks & lack of shame shouldn't surprise anyone.
The old tell ‘em what they want to hear and they will always elect you to represent them….pathetic!
That is a left wing, liberal, woke job. That makes me proud to be left wing, liberal, and woke.
Jim Banks is a Widdle Jerk who knows how to do only one thing well -- Kiss Trump's Fat Ass! ...Get him OUT "N.O.W.," Indiana!... If he did this to an innocent Federal Worker, he'll do it to any one of you who live in Indiana! 😡... Don't think he won't!
These people are monsters.
Another day, another a*shole.
these are not nice people
Oh I think I know why, Jim Banks is a cunt.
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Republicans politicize everything so ridiculously. Would Republican government workers please stand up?
Jim Banks can go fuck himself. And the voters of Indiana must guarantee that he does.
These aren’t Republicans, they are MAGAts!
One and the same.
When Senator Banks loses his job, we can say "you probably deserved it"
Now we all know why Speaker Pelosi shitcanned him from the January 6 Commission...
Time to lose his job or more.
What a fucking prick
Unshocking. Nazis believe people with disabilities don't deserve to live.
How dare a U.S. Senator talk to someone in that manner, especially in light of the fact he knew nothing about what the employee did and how essential his work was.
Can I see the part of the Constitution that says that's HIS call?
He also wasn’t “complaining” about any job losses only concern for the disabled. I am out of fucks to give for fellow Americans who treat anyone let alone a dedicated concerned citizen helping people in need. Jims Christianity makes me proud to agnostic.
He needs to lose his seat.
That’s because this is all about group competition Trumpanzees see the disabled, poor, and minorities as “unfit”. These people have no shame, no decency, & are completely unprepared to live peacefully in a society with other people.
And is spite of doing things that would ensure only the survival of the fittest, the generally don’t believe in the science that the theory of evolution comes from
It’s kind of amazing, isn’t it? You’d think at least they’d care about the planet their children will inherit, but alas, they don’t. 🤦🏻♀️ Some of them willingly sacrifice their children on the altar of their ignorance. Case in point: www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/t...
And Banks said he didn't know what his job was when he made the remarks. What a jerk. 20k + federal workers deserved it, Banks? Are you fu*king kidding? You're job is only safe because you're new and voters have short memories, unfortunately. Too bad; YOU deserve to lose YOUR job.
He most certainly did know when he did this interview.
Senator banks had better think hard about his future.
Too bad there is no gerrymandering in the government jobs, besides politicians and Trumps rich friends and family!
Senator Banks should be ashamed
He has no shame
Indiana WTF? Imagine being an elected politician getting paid a lifetime pension with medical benefits from taxpayer money , who is part of a congressional body that created federal agencies with federal taxpayer money budgeted to run each agency, AND behaving so dishonorably.
Imagine being an elected politician and thinking that means you can freely shit all over people you’re supposed to be serving…oh wait…
Dude is like so cool… “If you’re not born just perfect and privileged, then fuck you”! Lovely man: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ban...
With that smug smile.
He looks like he sells used Cybertrucks.
You just make people with disabilities dependent on you when you help them.
The Trump Party is a 21st century version of the Nazi party. Wars and concentration camps are inevitable. Houses and property will eventually be taken from “non-deserving” people and give to party loyalists. Children will be “invited” to join Trump youth groups. Putin is celebrating the US collapse
Keep the receipts.
No bottom.
May all these “people” get the karma they deserve. In his case a long painful illness.
No doubt he was once slightly inconvenienced by a Disabled person and is now out for revenge.
Doing administrative work, so woke right now.
What a scumbag
It's their default settings that make them look as bad as they actually are. It's "Ready. Fire. Aim" . The collateral damage isn't important to those guys who have never missed a meal in their lives, and don't know the price of bread or milk.
Best part was the Banks didn’t even know what the man’s job was when pressed.
What a disgrace
His phone ☎️ His office and his tenure is in our hands 👊🤌🗽🫸❤️🩹🫷🤌🫳🤝
Perhaps his eternal fate too? His church has a convenient prayer webform:
that's woke af. Our emperor Trump hates people with disabilities, and has been showing it since 2015 and his mockery of reporter Serge Kovaleski. DEI is classrooms of people with DIVERSE abilities, treated EQUITABLY, and fully INCLUDED in all activities. That's what Trumpies oppose, point by point.
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
despicable
How do they live with themselves?
Senator Jim Banks should lose his job.
Well, Christianity says to hate all people!...oh wait>>🤔
Might want to alert his pastor that he’s not comprehending their teachings:
He is going to hell
Sue his ass!
Eugenicist
I do hope voters remember this
That's rich coming from a taxpayer funded welfare queen himself who only works 3 days a week, if that. Your oppression is their profession.
Lots of very bad people in power.
we need to start killing people
Well banks you don’t deserve your job, don’t elect him again
Senator Jim Banks needs to fuck all the way off
So now it’s woke to have disabilities? 🤦♀️
There was a time in these United States when a despicable human of this ilk would never have voiced such an opinion in public much less bragged about it & stood on it. Repugnant.
I agree and also I appreciate your furious vocabulary. 💕
Omg
‘Jim Banks’ means ‘anal fungus’ in several Native American language trees.
Spoke by someone who will likely have a pension and lifetime healthcare benefits after leaving office. He only has to serve 5 years, not even a full term for a Senator. Fucker.
No empathy = evil. Banks is an evil POS
Banks is a Christian college grad fail.
Fuck that guy.
I question if Banks is even human.
The right’s use of certain buzzwords tells me immediately I don’t need to take them seriously.
It’s like alt-right mad libs
