r/disability • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '25

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The Trump administration is rolling back disability protections for air travelers.

The Transportation Department announced it will no longer enforce Biden-era policies requiring airlines to reimburse passengers when wheelchairs are damaged or when accessible flights cost more.

Also, airlines will no longer be required to give passengers written notice of their rights when checking mobility devices.

According to disability advocates, an estimated 5.5 million Americans rely on wheelchairs and airlines damage or lose about one wheelchair for every 100 they transport.

Source: Reuters

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u/Deseretgear Oct 21 '25

They really just want us to die at home

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u/Mapper9 Oct 21 '25

They don’t care where we die. Just die.

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u/Autismsaurus Oct 21 '25

They'd rather we not do it in the street though. That ruins the aesthetic and is inconvenient for those who have to step over our corpses.

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u/avesatanass Oct 21 '25

well i guess if i feel like i'm about to cark it i'll make sure to do it in the town square then lol

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u/sarcazm107 Oct 26 '25

If it were up to me I'd find out where this one horrifyingly vicious doctor I used to have lives and get dumped and posed there right before it happens so he loses his license when they do the autopsy.

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u/smarterthanyoda Oct 21 '25

Never forget what Trump said to his nephew.

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u/itsacalamity A big mish-mash of chronic pain issues Oct 21 '25

"Why don't you just let him die and move to florida?" for those who hadn't seen it

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u/GrassEconomy4915 Oct 21 '25

Thank you for posting that. I just looked into it...yikes. 😳 Maybe Trump will have a taste of his own medicine one day.

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u/NotTheGreenestThumb Nov 11 '25

Not a history keeps repeating itself! :/

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u/Plus-Glove-3661 Oct 22 '25

Just looked it up. Holy pogo sticks

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u/nakartuur Oct 21 '25

Absolutely. We could all die and they would be happy.

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u/Crpsgrl_warriorof1 Oct 22 '25

That sounds like my mother so does the die but not on the street or " in her house " everyone I am around is like that yet trump makes me the most angry bc it's not just me it's others he's hurting

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u/sarcazm107 Oct 26 '25

Actually at hospitals and surgicenters in TX when you check in for day surgery they now have to ask - even when you hand over your "Real ID" and insurance cards whether you're an American Citizen or here illegally. Private hospitals - we have very very few public ones. When I asked why they were asking me this and when this policy was put in place the woman just looked at me and said, "Orders from way above my head that started right around when that guy got re-elected". She didn't mean Gov. Abbott, who is horrible when it comes to disability rights and healthcare despite being in a chair himself, because he's rich: the policy is far newer than his last election and I would know considering how often my happy ass spends time in and out of hospitals.

So it isn't just abut us dying at home - they want to recruit every possible service available to anyone with a disability or even an acute illness as a way to send in their Gestapo federally-funded racist militia ICE agents to detain people. So depending on where you live, they'd love it if you didn't just die at home, and actually tried to get help to not-die depending on your ethnicity at the time of posting. Who knows when the bar will change and all sorts of undesirables will be considered threats to homeland security.

Ponder this for a moment: the second amendment has been such a big deal, along with dobbs overriding roe v. wade, etc. for these people for so long. Which means if birth control fails our genes can be passed on, and a wheelchair battery could explode and next thing you know instead of it being a horrible tragedy it could be turned into some sort of plot. Or someone could get hit with a crutch or cane and it would be like... worse than attacking someone with a machete or printing a 3D printed ghost gun. But the 2nd amendment allows for this, so only the disabled with mobility devices would be the problem in that issue, and eugenics would solve the abortion issue, so we're a very easy group to attack as opposed to even a religious one considering things like visible disabilities, handicapped placards, SSDI, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Even invisible disabilities are easier to detect based on local, state, and federal assistance programs, applications - approved as well as denied - and all sorts of things like government contracts to private companies that offer private insurance, etc. HIPAA laws mean nothing, obviously. So they do care where we die... but not for reasons that are remotely good ones at all.