Fetterman
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@George-K Have you read “Butcher of Language” op-ed?
A couple of examples cited therein:
When challenged on reducing the cost of insulin, Walker responded: “I believe in reducing insulin, but at the same time, you got to eat right, because he may not know and I know many people that’s on insulin, and unless you have a eating right, insulin is doing you no good.”
… Walker said: “Well right now, people have coverage for health care. It’s according to what type of coverage do you want because if you have an able-bodied job, you’re going to have health care. But everyone else have health care, it’s the type of health care you’re going to get. And I think that is the problem. And what Senator Warnock wants you to do is to depend on the government. What I want you to do is get off the government health care and get on the health care he’s got.”
The last part I bolded goes beyond language issue, it seems Walker wants people to “get off government health care” and get onto whatever health care Warnock has got, seemingly oblivious to the fact that as a U.S. Senator Warnock is also on “government health care.”
I have interacted with many people with poor command of the English language and many of them did their jobs just fine, though their jobs are mostly technical, requiring specialized skills/knowledge, or labor intensive, not ones where command of the English language is all that important (e.g., lawyer or “Director of Communications” type corporate jobs in North America).
As for the Fetterman headline about needing technology to do his job, I haven’t been able to find any NYT article with that exact headline. You got a link?
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As for the Fetterman headline about needing technology to do his job, I haven’t been able to find any NYT article with that exact headline. You got a link?
Multiple cites of that headline, but they all re-direct to a "caused a furor" op ed in the NYT.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/y3f8sl/john_fetterman_is_a_disabled_american_who_needs/
The internet wayback machine has this archived:
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K Thanks, having read the op-ed as archived by the Internet Wayback Machine, I want to go a step further and post this question:
Would we ever support a deaf/mute person to be a U.S. Senator (or any national elected office)?
Sure would. Would support Fetterman if he wasn’t an idiot without the stroke. Who knows, it may have helped his cognitive function. I don’t think it could have damaged them…
But it would be good to have some live demonstrations that it’s an auditory disconnect and not a cognitive one. Unfortunately, to this point we have yet to be given an example where the interviews weren’t pre-scripted giving Fetterman advance access to the questions. I would like to see a debate where the questions were written out but not given in to the team in advance.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Fetterman:
Would support Fetterman if he wasn’t an idiot without the stroke.
Just curious, what evidence would you cite to support your claim that Fetterman was an idiot without the stroke?
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@George-K Thanks, having read the op-ed as archived by the Internet Wayback Machine, I want to go a step further and post this question:
Would we ever support a deaf/mute person to be a U.S. Senator (or any national elected office)?
What does being a deaf mute have to do with cognitive function?
There are three in my wife's extended family. Provided you can sign, they can carry on a pretty rapid conversation, complete with the occasional curse word. They all read and write pretty well...One has a college degree.
So what's yer point, bud?
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@LuFins-Dad said in Fetterman:
Would support Fetterman if he wasn’t an idiot without the stroke.
Just curious, what evidence would you cite to support your claim that Fetterman was an idiot without the stroke?
For Exhibits 1 - 738, I present Braddock, Pennsylvania.
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Uncle Fester gets a teleprompter and what else?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Considering his stroke, I'm impressed with how Fetterman's doing. He gets the question, and despite his speech problems, responds appropriately and seems to "get it."
He's not coming off as an idiot or brain-addled.
Even though he's an idiot.
Not watching, but am slightly interested. This was a risky move. It just takes one off answer…
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I heard he still wouldn’t apologize for pulling a shotgun on a jogger?
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad nope, he didn't. He said, basically, it was "legal."
He also waffled, a lot, on fracking. It was a "I was against it before I was for it" moment.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@LuFins-Dad nope, he didn't. He said, basically, it was "legal."
He also waffled, a lot, on fracking. It was a "I was against it before I was for it" moment.
The whole thing is weird, all he needs to do is say “I’m Sorry” and he refuses to do it. Even the guy he pulled the gun on says he doesn’t have hard feelings. Hell, I think he even said he’s hoping Fetterman wins (which again shows just how bad of a candidate Oz is).
