#incapacity — Public Fediverse posts

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Pulitzer winner Mike Luckovich just offered this up. It may be my favorite ever. So right, on so many levels.

Our Toddler King, Lord #TrumpVirus the Stable Genius, is not wearing any #cognitive clothes at all, & more people are noticing.

Lawrence O'Connell tonight called for invoking the 25th Amendment (incompetency of a POTUS), saying Sir is "obviously insane".

Some "here" may have said that too!

#TRUTH #Cuckoo #25thAmendment #psychopathology #incapacity #insanity #dementia #BrainSpurs

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
 
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
 
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
 
[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits

by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025

Excerpt:

'Trapped out of work'

"The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.

"Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.

"#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.

"However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.

"The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz1g8q9o
#DisabilityRights #UKPol #BudgetCuts #TaxTheRich #AbolishTheMonarchy

@ewolff Why wouldn't an insurrectionary undereducated corrupt co-creator of killer-training games rail against a self-confident, well-informed, freedom-loving, patriotic democratic majority of the American people?

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Incitement #Incompetence #Incapacity #Treason #ElectoralFraud #Racism #DefraudingAmerica

Changing the Work Capability Assessment

It's been announced that the government will propose in a forthcoming White Paper to abolish or reform the Work Capability Assessment.  This is the pro-forma points system used to determine whether or not a person has limited or no capability for work.

In What's wrong with social security benefits?, I made a series of proposals about how the WCA could be refomed. Here's an extract.

https://observant-paulspicker.wordpress.com/blog/changing-the-work-capability-assessment/
#Socialsecurity #incapacity

Phrase of the day:
"Trained incapacity"

In #sociology, trained #incapacity is "that state of affairs in which one's abilities function as inadequacies or blind spots."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen#Trained_incapacity

#Thorstein #Veblen