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Julia C's avatar

I watched Fetterman struggling with the same exact issues that I deal with as someone with significant cognitive dysfunction. Mine is due to Mast cell disorder, Dysautonomia/POTS, and I was worsened in 2020 by a hypoperfusion stressor/brain injury. I have extreme word finding difficulty, I know that what I’m looking at is a table but I can’t recall the word “table”, or I can’t recall simple words or phrases. I once asked my sister “what’s that word you say when you do something to someone and then you feel bad about it?” I couldn’t recall the word “sorry”. I can read a recipe and follow it but if you try to read it verbally to me, forget it. That’s where Fetterman’s screen obviously made sense to me as someone who can read a book but wouldn’t process an audio book properly. It’s nothing to do with hearing, it’s your brain connecting and processing what your hearing. With all that said….this is just one of the contributors to exactly WHY I cannot work anymore! I can’t be relied upon to do my job properly anymore, and I was a nurse so, needing a sharp working brain was kinda a big deal. Gee, what other kinds of jobs should probably require rational though processes? Fetterman, as well as Biden, are not fit to work now because they clearly cannot be relied upon and a huge part of the country willfully just wants to just ignore that.

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Jon Stephenson's avatar

It says a lot about Fetterman that he doesn't think all that is disqualifying. His concept of the job is to just vote the way he's told, not to listen to debate or constituents.

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Julia C's avatar

I know a huge part is denial. When you become disabled or get a significant life changing illness, you don’t want to admit to yourself at first that you have to give things up and can’t live the same way you lived before. Some people accept their reality and adapt quickly, I did, others continue on trying to pretend nothing happened to them. But you obviously can’t do that when your job affects so many others. I’m not sure what he thinks is going to happen *if* he happened up get elected. Does he honestly think he’s going to show up in the Senate chambers wearing an oversized black hoodie sweatshirt and that every single interaction he has with a constituent or fellow Congressman will be planned ahead with a television captioning screen?

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CMCM's avatar

Fetterman is just there to cast a reliable Democrat party vote as directed by Chuck Schumer. He won't contribute any more than that, and he doesn't have to hear or discuss anything. He could serve as Senator even if he were in a coma. The new thing in the D. party seems to be to put mentally compromised people in office because they can be more easily controlled.

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Jon Stephenson's avatar

Maise Hirono. She thinks she's smart, though.

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