Posted on 05/17/2023 11:38:04 AM PDT by grimalkin
Sen. John Fetterman's (D-PA) team is calling out detractors who mocked the senator's health struggles while questioning witnesses at a hearing on Tuesday.
The junior Pennsylvania senator's team says they have been "clear and open" about his "auditory processing challenges" as Fetterman recovers from a stroke he suffered last year, adding that doctors "expect his abilities to improve."
“For many months, we have been clear and open about the fact that John still faces challenges with auditory processing challenges as a result of his stroke. His doctors expect his abilities to improve, but in the meantime, if pathetic losers want to make fun of someone who struggles with speech as the result of a stroke, that’s up to them,” Joe Calvello, communications director for Fetterman, told the Washington Examiner.
While questioning the former Silicon Valley Bank CEO and other bank executives, Fetterman struggled at times with his speech when asking whether they believe it is "a running joke" that the government will always bail out a bank when it fails.
Clips of the Pennsylvania Democrat questioning the former bank executives circulated online, and some people mocked Fetterman's speech patterns during the exchange.
Fetterman has been back working in the Senate for a month, after he checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February for treatment for clinical depression. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning last month, Fetterman discussed his battle with depression.
"It’s like, you just won the biggest, you know, race in the country," Fetterman said. "And the whole thing about depression is that objectively you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost. And that’s exactly what happened, and that was the start of a downward spiral."
Fetterman was elected in November 2022, only months after he suffered a nearly fatal stroke. The junior Pennsylvania senator uses special closed-captioning tools and professional transcribers in real time to assist him in his duties in the Senate.
“Auditory processing challenges”, are not just hearing deficits that may improve; they are COGNITION/NEUROLOGICAL deficits that impair the ability to understand and communicate oral and written language. The man is cognitively and neurologically unable to do his job, not unlike Joe Biden, but from different disease processes. He needs to be recalled.
Vote for a turnip, you get a turnip.
fetterman's puppetmasters play the always reliable victim card.
I-O! Maybe Fetterman’s brain had a “White Out” LOL!
Bwahahaha!
There are only 537 elected officials in DC to keep this country operating and safe. It is sad that some of those ‘leaders’ have damaged brains that are addled by medical conditions or advanced age. One would think that a cognitive test would be administered before each is allowed to take an oath of office!
“Why could he possibly be depressed?”
That’s easy. He’s married to a feminist.
“Mike Judge was 500 years late with his prediction on American society collapsing...”
Well, that’s probably the only way he could get the film made. If he made it look too much like modern society, even the idiots who run a Hollywood studio might have noticed the message he was pushing and then they would have put the kibosh on it.
We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!-PJ
Could you imagine Fetterman, Harris and Feinstein on Jeopardy?
Everyone knew he had problems...and the Dems still elected him. When Roe v Wade was overturned, he had a huge rally and gave away pink shirts. I’m sure that upped his votes enough to take the win.
They couldn't even make it to the studio on their own.
“...if pathetic losers want to make fun of someone who struggles with speech as the result of a stroke, that’s up to them,” Joe Calvello, communications director for Fetterman, told the Washington Examiner.
Well, ain’t Mr. Communications Director clever. Here we were expecting members of the “Greatest Deliberative Body in the World” to be able to, you know, “deliberate”, comprehend language and such, and not be depressed to the point of institutionalization. Now he comes along and shows us that having any concerns about those things are the morally equal of taunting handicapped children and rubbing their faces in a dog pile for laughs.
Decent people would set the standard for the US Senate about a millimeter from rock bottom, so Fetterman, Feinstein, Biden, and Harris can all be above average, and their staffs can get big paycheck for operating their strings. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Auditory processing means fester has vascular dementia due to the stroke
His team but not him LOL:-)
LOL! But his choice. He could cut her loose now while his income is relatively modest.
trying to manipulate public opinion by playing the victim card, the sympathy card, and pity card
Quit making excuses for him. He sick and needs professional help and is not in a mental state to make decisions on anyone’s behalf.
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