Our new president, who’s picking up a trifecta with a historical senate majority is at best ableist.

He has been quoted as saying things such as “disabled people should just die”.

Because of him, the medical system, research funding, scientific vigor, are all under attack. He will appoint anti-vaxx alternative-medicine conspiracy theorist RFK junior to lead the country in medicine.

He’s volatile and prone to cutting the sort of benefits that give us the sort of measly income and health coverage we scrape by on.

He spews hateful rhetoric, leading to worse impressions of minority groups and an increase in hate crimes during his first term. His political technique uses scapegoating to blame the countries problem’s on, migrants, trans people etc.

That’s why I ask everyone, especially disabled people and vulnerable people, to support each other. Act in mutual aid, act in mutual defiance of our oppressors. Don’t be afraid to ask from help from family, friends, old friends you haven’t talk to in ages. YOU deserve help, you deserve to live, don’t forget that. Let us help each other as an act of love, as an act of defiance.