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Trump would never agree with people he says are destroying America, want to destroy the First Amendment, are communists, murder babies and are mentally deficient.

From Salon

“Crooked Joe is so mentally deficient that he needs to trot out some retreads like Clinton and Obama,” he said.

More than 250 people were sterilized in Vermont, with two-thirds of those women and many labeled as “mentally deficient,” according to the University of Vermont.

Although the trial was designed to help South Florida heal after Cruz’s crimes shattered families and left Parkland students struggling with lifelong trauma, it also sparked a discussion over capital punishment as well as whether society should show any sympathy to killers who may be mentally deficient due to possible prenatal alcohol exposure.

Lennox Castle itself was built in the 1830s but it was not until a century later that it opened as Glasgow corporation's hospital for "mentally deficient" people.

From BBC

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