Republican Opposes Redistricting After Trump Uses Slur

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Trump referred to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as "seriously retarded" in a Thanksgiving social media post.

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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

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State Sen. Michael Bohacek, a Republican from a deep-red district, said in a Facebook post that he would be a "no" vote on the state's 2026 redistricting package after Trump referred to Walz as "seriously retarded" in his Thanksgiving Day social media post. Bohacek, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, added: "words have consequences."

Bohacek'e home will firebombed in the near future.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-29 01:04 AM | Reply

"I will be voting NO on redistricting," he said, suggesting that Trump "can use the next 10 months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority."

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-29 06:11 AM | Reply

Bohacek'e home will firebombed in the near future.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-29 01:04 AM | Flag: The Next MAGA Target

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-29 06:27 AM | Reply

Trump referred to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as "seriously retarded"

As is often the case, a word that was used as a euphemism (in this case, for "mentally challenged") is now considered offensive.

Retard (pejorative)
Retard was previously used as a medical term. The verb "to retard" means 'to delay or hold back', and so "retard" became known as a medical term in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe children with intellectual disabilities, or retarded mental development. For context, until the 1960s, the terms moron, idiot, cretin, and imbecile were all genuine, non-offensive terms used, including by psychiatrists, to refer to people with mental intellectual disabilities and low intelligence. These words were discontinued in that form when concerns arose that they had developed negative meanings, with "retard" and "retarded" replacing them. After that, the terms "handicapped" (United States) and "disabled" (United Kingdom) replaced "retard" and "retarded". Disabled is now considered a more polite term than handicapped in the United States as well. This trend was dubbed a "euphemism treadmill" by Steven Pinker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative)

Or, as stated by noted SCOTUS justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a Supreme Court decision:

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-11-29 07:33 AM | Reply

Move to Israel and Die, Zio-Boy.

You have the Morality of Bigoted Murdering Swine. NO real American thinks like you.

Go join them in Hell.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-29 09:41 AM | Reply