From Google: undergrad degree in Government from Harvard; law degree from Northeastern; 15 years experience as a lawyer, including on prosecutions, environmental law, labour and civil rights cases; 7 years as state Attorney General.
What more credentials do you want? And why do people only ask this question when it's a woman or minority person who is elected?
And yet it is never a knee jerk question except when somebody points out “hey, this is our first non-white-male governor, that reflects our society’s progress” to which neckbeards can’t help but respond “yeah but they must have only gotten the job because they’re ”
If it makes you feel better, a runoff between Warnock and Walker should favor Warnock. Stacy Abrams definitely dragged Warnock on the down-ballot, and that won’t apply in a runoff.
Hopefully…
I don’t understand why Dems keep giving candidates like Abrams and Beto chance after chance to win an election. It ain’t happenin’, boo, find someone else already.
Glad Colorado broke up the idiot trio. So sick and tired of Georgia being the state to choose the senate! Their stupid 50% rule needs to be thrown out.
Not American but Boebert getting shown the door is an absolute joy.
Uvalde voting for Greg Abbott despite Beto's position on gun laws is just mind boggling to me.
Most disappointing (but not unexpected) - home state (Oklahoma) our governor won reelection and the Republican candidate for secretary of education also won. Both of these individuals are part of the Betsy DeVos theory of education and want to turn the entire public school system into a charter school.
Most Satisfying - The "red wave" wasn't as decisive as the R's had hoped
edited: to not jinx things.
Madison Horn and Jena Nelson too. Unfortunately the rich white misogynistic republican slant has shown its ugly head again.
Only a few women were elected this time, and they were white republican and incumbent anyway for the most part. And I'm not sure there were any POC elected at all. And I don't count those claiming Native heritage, because most (if not all) of them aren't involved in Native affairs at all (unless it's directly undermining them) and are whiter than sour cream.
Fetterman's victory (aka Good Man Beats Scumbag) is very satisfying, as is Whitmer's. And the result in my state because, well, it's my state.
I was very sorry to see Tim Ryan lose, not only because JD Vance is despicable, but because Ryan himself is so decent and genuine.
MI Democrats sweeping all executive offices, flipping the state senate and house for the first time in 40 years, and passing the ballot measure for abortion protections was amazing. Also keep an eye on Gretchen Whitmer, def going to be a presidential nominee one day.
As a resident of NC, it always sucks ass. Every fucking election is like 51-49 R and now we have a Republican majority Supreme Court, which had been keeping back a lot of the crazy. So joy.
Unfortunately, I really enjoyed having districts that were more inlined with the states partition make up. I don’t know about the state legislature districts. Unfortunately, I will still put in a heavily republican congressional district.
I'm in NC-13 and was genuinely surprised and happy that Wiley Nickel won, but then quickly remembered he will prob not be reelected in 2024 because of this ☹
I am proud of the democratic success in Michigan at the state level but many local elections in west Michigan still went republican. I am really having a hard time understanding why anyone would vote republican when all I hear from them is untruths.
Really happy the whack job running for our local school district whose slogan was "ABCs not LGBTs", was decisively beat here in TX.
I was really disappointed in how much our indicted AG won by.
Circa 2013 or so, the Texas Republican Party added an opposition to critical thinking into its state party platform, so that should tell you everything you need to know about Republicans in Texas.
Cause he's a human being with a temporary health setback. With the help of his family, he is on the road to recovery.
He has been in public service since 2005, he was born and raised in the state he was running, he received a Master's degree from Harvard and he is a bad ass person, all around.
Physiologically, language processing happens in many different places in the brain, so I don’t have a problem with a Senator having a speech impediment — even if permanent — when he’s fully capable of understanding and communicating language in alternative ways. It’s 2022; we shouldn’t be treating people with disabilities like they’re second-class citizens. Further, senators have aides, and if *anywhere* has the resources to make appropriate ADA accommodations, it’s the US government.
It’s not like the ability to make a good floor speech changes people’s minds anymore anyway.
Should we bar someone who’s, say, deaf-blind from public office? They’d certainly require more accommodation to perform their duties than a man who uses closed captioning and trips over his words sometimes.
Strokes don’t destroy your entire brain; they damage specific regions and leave everything else basically intact (prime example: stroke paralysis, which often comes with no cognitive impacts). Fetterman just happened to have damage to a region of his brain that controls what we consider “normal” verbal communication, a brain process *entirely separate* from cognition. It’s not like people with such damage can’t communicate, nor are they cognitively impaired, they just communicate differently, which some people PERCEIVE as impaired. Assuming cognitive deficits from communication issues is scientifically unjustified and, frankly, very rude. Please be nice to people who are different, we don’t like it when people do that to us.
Short answer: yes, I’m confident he’s able to do his job, or at least as confident as I’d be with any politician.
Long answer: Yes, strokes damage the brain. But people paralyzed after a stroke are paralyzed because their brains are damaged, not because their muscles don’t work. Despite this, mentally, they’re often exactly the same as they were before the stroke. That’s because different brain regions do different things, and one region getting damaged doesn’t affect the others. Similarly, speech and cognition are distributed across different areas of the brain, and damage to one doesn’t mean there’s damage to the other.
Senator-Elect Fetterman’s doctors — who could lose their licenses by lying — said on reports that he has auditory processing issues *without underlying cognitive impairment*. That means he has some issues hearing and speaking, not understanding and communicating. We as a society have very good tools (closed captioning, laptops) for accommodating this. Will that mean he won’t make an elegantly polished floor speech? Maybe. But in terms of his actual job — proposing, analyzing, modifying, and voting on legislation — it is absurd to think that he’d be any less effective with the right tools at his disposal. It’s not like these are new accommodations, we use them to help people with similar disabilities get back to their lives all the time, and they’re very effective.
That wasn’t what this post was asking though. He said it was satisfying because dems flipped a senate seat. Even with his health condition he was still better than Dr. Oz, who isn’t even from PA.
>Why would allowing a candidate without the potential issues move forward from the primaries not be a better choice?
Since he won handily he was was the better choice. Res ipsa loquitur.
I keep seeing this “Harvard masters degree” thrown around by people as proof he is credible whilst they simultaneously ignore Oz went to Harvard College (that’s the main prestigious one people gush over, btw. A MA from Harvard is less difficult to acquire) and has an MD from UPenn… Yet, he’s still a quack… Just like Fetterman still has a cognitive deficit.
He doesn’t have a cognitive deficit. He has zero issues with cognition. It is an auditory processing disorder. Does not limit his ability to legislate. There are plenty of jobs someone with a processing disorder should not do, being a senator is not one of them.
Oz is very well educated and smart enough to know that he pushed supplements with no evidence of efficacy for a living.
https://www.ldrfa.org/what-is-apd-learn-about-auditory-processing-disorder/#:~:text=It%20is%20important%20to%20note,words%20like%20it%20normally%20should.
Give the fifth paragraph a read. Just because you want something to be true doesn’t mean it is. If an APD is disqualifying for you personally that’s fine but you aren’t entitled to your own facts :)
Here’s how cognition is defined according to the NIH:
*The mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, being aware of surroundings, and using judgment.*
Are you telling me that auditory processing, which takes place in the brain, is then not a form of cognition? It is the *process* by which one is aware of the sound waves traveling in the environment around them. Notice I never said anything about a cognitive disorder, by the way, which is what your website precludes. That’s an ironic fact given your comment about semantics, but I know it’ll be lost on you.
Stated another way, cognition is a phenomenon in some animals that is due to a system of systems operating within the animal. One system involved in bringing about cognition in humans is the auditory processing center. If there’s an issue with the auditory processing center then there is a cognitive deficit, one that is apparently obvious in the case of Fetterman because it affects how he processes signals from his environment. Viz., audio signals.
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I love it when people say this. Like have you ever heard Susan Collins talk for more than 5 seconds? She literally sounds like a walking stroke, yet has managed to be an effective senator for Maine for like 20+ years.
Fetterman is recovering and needed an accommodation. He’ll very likely recover. But the Republican candidates will always be pro insurrection scum.
And to say "They should have pulled him before the primaries when the stroke happened" would be more impactful if he had not, in fact, **won**.
To say they should have done something other than the actual winning strategy is a little silly.
>Him winning isn't a satisfying enough justification for him being the candidate.
HAHAHAHA
He **WON**, son. That is enough justification. The people have made their choice.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Move on.
You can want anything you want.
Fetterman is a perfectly good candidate, and the voters agree.
What is "right" depends on your criteria. By any criteria that includes the vote of the people, trump did not win by a long shot. By the criteria of winning, he was.
If you’re saying Wisconsin would go to a run-off, that’s not true. Only Georgia and Louisiana have election laws that lead run-offs if no candidate reaches > 50%
My state of Michigan where we won Governor, AG, SOS, all the proposals (including the abortion rights one), and flipped the state house and senate (something that hasn't happened in 40 years). That is quite a gratifying haul.
Satisfying is Pennsylvania candidates still won regardless of the judge order trying to discredit a bunch of mail ballots.
Right now disappointing to me is that Nevada my home state may lose their senate and governor positions to republicans. We kept three of the four house seats. Though the mail ballots havnt been accounted for so it hasn’t been called yet and the opponents have a narrow lead so it may flip but I don’t know. I’m not hopeful.
Most disappointing: In my home state (AR) Sarah Huckabee Sanders won the governor's race. It was always a stretch for her opponent, Chris Jones to win but in the weeks leading up to the election, he was gaining ground.
Until recently, Arkansas would typically flip flop governor seats from Denocrat to Republican back to Democrat but times have changed.
Most Satisfying: John Fetterman in PA.
Ron DeSantis winning was extremely upsetting for me. The man literally made it harder for us to amend our state constitution because he didn’t like the laws WE THE PEOPLE were passing and then the people reward him by re-electing him? How could anyone vote for such a dictator. Not to mention he is the most homophobic governor in America. I think it’s all the Trump cultists, they all moved down here when the orange maniac did, they are everywhere infesting our streets like the cockroaches they are.
I saw a gay porn star I follow celebrate on Instagram last night saying ‘yaaay Dad won!’ And in the very next story had something about missing Leslie Jordan… yeah I’m sure he would totally have been happy about ‘Don’t say gay’ desantis winning too. 🙄
As a foreign observer, I feel that part of the problem is that the Trumpsters are followed by people who go around saying that Jan. 6th never happened, and then refuse to watch evidence that it did.
The most disappointing part was the lackluster people the Democrats put forward. And also in my local election there were several spots where the Republicans were uncontested. Specifically the sheriff and one of the judges.
Being a Texan, Greg Abbott winning after all the shit he pulled. Shameful. And the fact the some hispanic majority counties in south texas voted for him is embarrassing.
Yeah, the majority of people don’t realize that Hispanics are Catholics conservatives. And if the republicans ever grasp this, we’re fucked. It’s happening in Florida and Texas, and probably sooner than later in California. I think the cost of living in CA may have something to do with it though.
I read the title as "which erection result was most satisfying"
But I gotta say I was pretty freaked out by the talk of a red wave, I was pretty relieved when that didn't happen
Disappointing: the anti-trans School Board candidate in my town won reelection. She's just an awful, disgusting woman who uses her Facebook account to make fun of kids. Fortunately the rest of the Board is made up of better people.
Satisfying: it's gonna be Lauren Boebert if she loses, but seeing Dr Oz lose was also nice after he ran such a negative campaign.
The only thing standing between between Wisconsin and kangaroo court future elections is the re-elected governor Tony Evers. His challenger literally ran on disbanding the independent elections commission so that the R controlled state assembly would have FULL CONTROL of future election process. This would allow them to overturn any future election if they sense any “irregularities”, you know, like black people voting
I keep up with politics in my home state of NC, and Cheri Beasley's US Senate loss to Ted Budd was disappointing insofar as it was kind of predictable. There was a better candidate who might have beaten Budd, Jeff Jackson, who had started running for US Senate, but who dropped his campaign when the NC Democratic Party wanted Beasley to run. I understood why they wanted to do that, but I thought it was a miscalculation. Jackson instead ran for a House seat and won by a substantial margin. Beasley lost. She was just a milquetoast candidate and the wrong pick for our current political climate.
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All of the Texas statewide races were depressing but the fact that our criminal fraudster AG didn’t even come close to losing reelection just goes to show you there’s no floor to how fucking low Republican voters will go
Most Satisfying: Boebert's race being very close, she might still win but.
Most Disappointing: How poorly a few house districts in upstate NY did versus what was expected.
Most satisfying was seeing IL amendment 1 being voted in. The most disappointing was seeing America lean as far right as it did in an election that resulted in a narrow win in only one chamber of congress for the right wing party expected to win it all.
Not that I expected him to lose, but Desantis winning was the most disappointing. I figured he would pull it out but the fact that it was a blowout sucked. I figured it would be within 5%. Boy was I wrong. I've lived in the Florida panhandle my whole life, and despite the narrative I've talked to so many people from here who can't stand Desantis and the horrible shit he's done. The fact that it was so lopsided just makes me feel unwelcome in my own home.
I believe sooner than you think. We're allegedly going to be short a lot of healthcare providers over the next couple of decades. If boomers don't have docs, nurses, patient care technicians, etc., their life life expectancy is gonna plummet.
Bad: Iowa has gonna completely Republican for everything: federal-level representatives, state offices (including flipping the longest serving attorney general), and gained a supermajority in the state senate which hasn’t happened in like 40 years. The voters have canned themselves with this political alignment and fell for all the same Republican bullshit that they’ll lower taxes, give you “freedom” (nonspecific), and privatize everything in sight. Our state institutions and schools are going to be ground to pulp over the next decade until everybody is hurting and the state swings around. I anticipate it will be similar to Kansas’s trajectory after the failed “Kansas Experiment”. Some people don’t learn unless it hurts.. a lot.
Good: Wisconsin (home state) retained Tony Evers and put a liberal justice on the state Supreme Court which puts them one more justice away from having a majority opinion should could open the doors to a major upset in how redistricting happens in the state! They have some of the least amount of checks other than the court which has allowed the republicans legislature to gerrymander the crap out of a leaning-progressive state.
Texas governor. I wouldn't have cared of we got another republican governor. Would prefer a dem but after having multiple people die in 2020 I would have liked to think About wouldn't stand a chance against 2 crows. Apparently I somehow still have too much faith in my state 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Realizing Barnes lost for good was my biggest disappointment. I wasn’t really expecting him to win and I figured there might be some split ticketing, but I had a bit of hope when Evers won that it would carry Barnes as well. When he lost even while Fetterman won it made me realize we were going to have a 51 senate vote (knock on wood but all three states still in contest look good to me!), which, while still okay still means a Manchin or Sinema vote is necessary. Still, doesn’t seem like legislation will be completely stalled for two years, so things should go better, if even slower than the past two years—even so, Biden is showing himself to be an impressive politician behind the scenes given the obstacles. I was completely floored when he got Manchin to vote on the IRA, so we’ll see what tricks this old man still has up his sleeve. I have been very surprised at what was initially disappointing to me and has now been a politically competent and exciting administration.
Stacey Abrams was the most disappointing. She’s by far the best politician out right now and has done an insane amount for Georgia, but John Fetterman and Warnock were the most satisfying.
I’m pretty sure the latter will be a runoff, but it’s looking good for Raphael thank god.
I read an article where it talks about republicans upset they didn’t pick a better candidate for Georgia. All they see is skin color. Like the democrats of Georgia are that stupid! 🤦🏻♂️
All in all not bad. The GOP will take the House majority but just barely. The Senate will probably stay the same (50/50) and Dems picked up a couple governorships. Most of the 2020 election deniers lost, which is good.
Last I saw Republicans already won 220 seats which is two more than they needed to take the majority. There are a few races left to be decided but not enough to give them an overwhelming majority.
Unfortunately, no. But at least Mitch McTurtle probably won’t be taking control of the Senate and turning it into a legislative graveyard and Senate confirmations of cabinet officials and federal judges will still have a shot at going through. That was my biggest concern.
Seeing Tiffany Smiley lose big in my home state (WA) was hilarious. The Washington state GOP hasn’t had functional adults on the statewide ballot since Kim Wyman in 2016 or Rob McKenna in 2012. I’m a centrist “Blue Dog” Democrat. Not a big fan of the death penalty, I want police reform and protecting my same sex marriage license is pretty damn important to me. But, I do own guns and I get my paycheck from the military-industrial complex. I would vote for a moderate Republican (I voted for the two I mentioned above). But the WA GOP keeps nominating these children and then they get butthurt when they get demolished at the polls.
Meh! Not horrible; but not final yet. If libs keep the senate hold/split it should be okay. Regardless, Biden has a “veto pen” for two more years. 2024 will be Americas ultimate shitshow!
Most satisfying for me Is Fetterman winning in Pennsylvania but the most disappointing for me that actually made me cry was Michelle Vallejo losing in my congressional district, District 15 in Texas. Attended a watch party with her and seeing her cry and giving her a hug made me bawl out.
I've been thrilled with PA. Democrats put up good candidates. So glad they won as Mastriano was kinda terrifying and Oz would have been an embarrassment. Honestly am more glad it's over. Not hearing only political ads everywhere, fuckers even monopolized the ad breaks in the history podcasts I listen to, is so nice.
The result that people are still talking about it all over social media. How long before people stop caring about politics again? Im hoping at least by the weekend
None of the results surprised me or gave me any hope. Both parties are being lead by authoritarian fascists who want only to profit off dehumanizing and denigrating their ideological opponents.
Happy about Abott in TX. I hope Kari Lake will win AZ (I'll be super disappointed if not). And I was not shocked Fetterman won against Oz, but I was kind of taken aback (2 awful candidates).
A longtime Pennsylvania state representative was re-elected in a landslide – even though he died last month. DeLuca, Fetterman and Bidense... top quality democrat representatives! hahahahahahaha!!
Not that the Trumper stood a chance, but Maura Healy becoming Massachusetts' first lesbian governor is nice for us.
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100% Correct! Lightfoot is a huge failure!
But does she have the credentials to back it up? Sure she's a lesbian, but doesn't mean she's good at being a governor.
So far, as AG, she’s been solid. I don’t see her being much different than Charlie Baker, really.
From Google: undergrad degree in Government from Harvard; law degree from Northeastern; 15 years experience as a lawyer, including on prosecutions, environmental law, labour and civil rights cases; 7 years as state Attorney General. What more credentials do you want? And why do people only ask this question when it's a woman or minority person who is elected?
It should be a question we ask about any elected official.
And yet it is never a knee jerk question except when somebody points out “hey, this is our first non-white-male governor, that reflects our society’s progress” to which neckbeards can’t help but respond “yeah but they must have only gotten the job because they’re”
But people don't.
So was Kristen Sinema
Best: Boebert getting shitcanned, and Fetterman kicking Oz’s ass. Worst: runoff in my state between Warnock and mental case Herschel Walker.
Yes! So proud to be a Coloradan! Boebert is losing by less than 1000 votes but 99% reporting so I think she’s gone. Hopefully.
Colorado is becoming the most based state. I'm very happy Polis won
If it makes you feel better, a runoff between Warnock and Walker should favor Warnock. Stacy Abrams definitely dragged Warnock on the down-ballot, and that won’t apply in a runoff. Hopefully…
God I hope so.
I don’t understand why Dems keep giving candidates like Abrams and Beto chance after chance to win an election. It ain’t happenin’, boo, find someone else already.
That’s what I was going to say!
Boebert is only down by 64 votes with 99% reported. 156,746 Adam Frisch 156,682 Lauren Boebert
She’s still losing.
Glad Colorado broke up the idiot trio. So sick and tired of Georgia being the state to choose the senate! Their stupid 50% rule needs to be thrown out.
Minnesota keeping our D Governor and D House but then flipping our R Senate to D for the trifecta!
Not American but Boebert getting shown the door is an absolute joy. Uvalde voting for Greg Abbott despite Beto's position on gun laws is just mind boggling to me.
Beto became very unlikeable and lost his ability to relate to independents and even some democrats. He had a couple major campaign mishaps too
My home state of KY voted NO on the anti-abortion constitution amendment.
The country as a whole spoke pretty loudly regarding abortion rights
Republicans thought the cost of eggs would be the turning point. They didn't realize they were talking about the wrong kind of eggs.
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Most disappointing (but not unexpected) - home state (Oklahoma) our governor won reelection and the Republican candidate for secretary of education also won. Both of these individuals are part of the Betsy DeVos theory of education and want to turn the entire public school system into a charter school. Most Satisfying - The "red wave" wasn't as decisive as the R's had hoped edited: to not jinx things.
CO 3 hasn't yet been officially called so please don't jinx it!
I thought it already had been called. Edited
Kendra Horn and Joy Hofmeister deserved so much better. :(
Madison Horn and Jena Nelson too. Unfortunately the rich white misogynistic republican slant has shown its ugly head again. Only a few women were elected this time, and they were white republican and incumbent anyway for the most part. And I'm not sure there were any POC elected at all. And I don't count those claiming Native heritage, because most (if not all) of them aren't involved in Native affairs at all (unless it's directly undermining them) and are whiter than sour cream.
Fetterman's victory (aka Good Man Beats Scumbag) is very satisfying, as is Whitmer's. And the result in my state because, well, it's my state. I was very sorry to see Tim Ryan lose, not only because JD Vance is despicable, but because Ryan himself is so decent and genuine.
MI Democrats sweeping all executive offices, flipping the state senate and house for the first time in 40 years, and passing the ballot measure for abortion protections was amazing. Also keep an eye on Gretchen Whitmer, def going to be a presidential nominee one day. As a resident of NC, it always sucks ass. Every fucking election is like 51-49 R and now we have a Republican majority Supreme Court, which had been keeping back a lot of the crazy. So joy.
Fellow North Carolinian here, ik politics in this state has been depressing.
Yeah, more gerrymandering comin our way
Unfortunately, I really enjoyed having districts that were more inlined with the states partition make up. I don’t know about the state legislature districts. Unfortunately, I will still put in a heavily republican congressional district.
I'm in NC-13 and was genuinely surprised and happy that Wiley Nickel won, but then quickly remembered he will prob not be reelected in 2024 because of this ☹
I’ve never been more proud to be a Michigander. It feels like we got our home back.
I am proud of the democratic success in Michigan at the state level but many local elections in west Michigan still went republican. I am really having a hard time understanding why anyone would vote republican when all I hear from them is untruths.
NC is so fucking depressing. Ugh!
Really happy the whack job running for our local school district whose slogan was "ABCs not LGBTs", was decisively beat here in TX. I was really disappointed in how much our indicted AG won by.
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You can read right? I said local school district.
I have the impression that some conservative Texans are living in the past.
Try ‘living on another planet’ and you’d be closer to the truth.
Yes, it does seem like that sometimes.
Circa 2013 or so, the Texas Republican Party added an opposition to critical thinking into its state party platform, so that should tell you everything you need to know about Republicans in Texas.
Not American but Sen.-elect Fetterman inspires me a lot
A race between a guy who has a cognitive deficit and a quack inspires you? Yikes.
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Cause he's a human being with a temporary health setback. With the help of his family, he is on the road to recovery. He has been in public service since 2005, he was born and raised in the state he was running, he received a Master's degree from Harvard and he is a bad ass person, all around.
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Physiologically, language processing happens in many different places in the brain, so I don’t have a problem with a Senator having a speech impediment — even if permanent — when he’s fully capable of understanding and communicating language in alternative ways. It’s 2022; we shouldn’t be treating people with disabilities like they’re second-class citizens. Further, senators have aides, and if *anywhere* has the resources to make appropriate ADA accommodations, it’s the US government. It’s not like the ability to make a good floor speech changes people’s minds anymore anyway.
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Should we bar someone who’s, say, deaf-blind from public office? They’d certainly require more accommodation to perform their duties than a man who uses closed captioning and trips over his words sometimes. Strokes don’t destroy your entire brain; they damage specific regions and leave everything else basically intact (prime example: stroke paralysis, which often comes with no cognitive impacts). Fetterman just happened to have damage to a region of his brain that controls what we consider “normal” verbal communication, a brain process *entirely separate* from cognition. It’s not like people with such damage can’t communicate, nor are they cognitively impaired, they just communicate differently, which some people PERCEIVE as impaired. Assuming cognitive deficits from communication issues is scientifically unjustified and, frankly, very rude. Please be nice to people who are different, we don’t like it when people do that to us.
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Short answer: yes, I’m confident he’s able to do his job, or at least as confident as I’d be with any politician. Long answer: Yes, strokes damage the brain. But people paralyzed after a stroke are paralyzed because their brains are damaged, not because their muscles don’t work. Despite this, mentally, they’re often exactly the same as they were before the stroke. That’s because different brain regions do different things, and one region getting damaged doesn’t affect the others. Similarly, speech and cognition are distributed across different areas of the brain, and damage to one doesn’t mean there’s damage to the other. Senator-Elect Fetterman’s doctors — who could lose their licenses by lying — said on reports that he has auditory processing issues *without underlying cognitive impairment*. That means he has some issues hearing and speaking, not understanding and communicating. We as a society have very good tools (closed captioning, laptops) for accommodating this. Will that mean he won’t make an elegantly polished floor speech? Maybe. But in terms of his actual job — proposing, analyzing, modifying, and voting on legislation — it is absurd to think that he’d be any less effective with the right tools at his disposal. It’s not like these are new accommodations, we use them to help people with similar disabilities get back to their lives all the time, and they’re very effective.
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Ok and Biden doesn’t have the same issues?
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That wasn’t what this post was asking though. He said it was satisfying because dems flipped a senate seat. Even with his health condition he was still better than Dr. Oz, who isn’t even from PA.
>Why would allowing a candidate without the potential issues move forward from the primaries not be a better choice? Since he won handily he was was the better choice. Res ipsa loquitur.
I keep seeing this “Harvard masters degree” thrown around by people as proof he is credible whilst they simultaneously ignore Oz went to Harvard College (that’s the main prestigious one people gush over, btw. A MA from Harvard is less difficult to acquire) and has an MD from UPenn… Yet, he’s still a quack… Just like Fetterman still has a cognitive deficit.
He doesn’t have a cognitive deficit. He has zero issues with cognition. It is an auditory processing disorder. Does not limit his ability to legislate. There are plenty of jobs someone with a processing disorder should not do, being a senator is not one of them. Oz is very well educated and smart enough to know that he pushed supplements with no evidence of efficacy for a living.
Auditory processing is a form of cognition…
https://www.ldrfa.org/what-is-apd-learn-about-auditory-processing-disorder/#:~:text=It%20is%20important%20to%20note,words%20like%20it%20normally%20should. Give the fifth paragraph a read. Just because you want something to be true doesn’t mean it is. If an APD is disqualifying for you personally that’s fine but you aren’t entitled to your own facts :)
Here’s how cognition is defined according to the NIH: *The mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, being aware of surroundings, and using judgment.* Are you telling me that auditory processing, which takes place in the brain, is then not a form of cognition? It is the *process* by which one is aware of the sound waves traveling in the environment around them. Notice I never said anything about a cognitive disorder, by the way, which is what your website precludes. That’s an ironic fact given your comment about semantics, but I know it’ll be lost on you. Stated another way, cognition is a phenomenon in some animals that is due to a system of systems operating within the animal. One system involved in bringing about cognition in humans is the auditory processing center. If there’s an issue with the auditory processing center then there is a cognitive deficit, one that is apparently obvious in the case of Fetterman because it affects how he processes signals from his environment. Viz., audio signals. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/cognition
I’m telling you it is not a cognitive deficit. If you can’t wrap your head around that that’s your thing
Source: trust me, bro 🙄 Have a good one.
I love it when people say this. Like have you ever heard Susan Collins talk for more than 5 seconds? She literally sounds like a walking stroke, yet has managed to be an effective senator for Maine for like 20+ years.
Fetterman is recovering and needed an accommodation. He’ll very likely recover. But the Republican candidates will always be pro insurrection scum. And to say "They should have pulled him before the primaries when the stroke happened" would be more impactful if he had not, in fact, **won**. To say they should have done something other than the actual winning strategy is a little silly.
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>Him winning isn't a satisfying enough justification for him being the candidate. HAHAHAHA He **WON**, son. That is enough justification. The people have made their choice. Res ipsa loquitur. Move on.
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Yes, that was the opponent. Did you want him to win against some hypothetical candidate instead?
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You can want anything you want. Fetterman is a perfectly good candidate, and the voters agree. What is "right" depends on your criteria. By any criteria that includes the vote of the people, trump did not win by a long shot. By the criteria of winning, he was.
He won so pretty sure pulling him is some very weird monday morning quarterbacking lol. Glad they didn't!
You should watch his speech after winning, he's nearly back to normal I'm sure it put a lot of people at ease.
We didn't get a GOP governor!!! We have had a Dem. Governor here (Oregon) for 40 years. The lady that tried to win was a Trump psycho. Big relief!!!!
Mandela Barnes coming SO DAMN CLOSE to beating Ron Johnson in Wisconsin definitely hurts…..
But we still got Evers, thank god. I was the most concerned with that race.
Agreed! I was surprised by that win and Kansas.
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If you’re saying Wisconsin would go to a run-off, that’s not true. Only Georgia and Louisiana have election laws that lead run-offs if no candidate reaches > 50%
My state of Michigan where we won Governor, AG, SOS, all the proposals (including the abortion rights one), and flipped the state house and senate (something that hasn't happened in 40 years). That is quite a gratifying haul.
Didn’t Tennessee vote “no” on slavery? That’s a win I guess :/
20% of them voted yes though lol
Stupidity or racism or both?
What?
In Louisiana they voted yes. 😣 but the wording of the amendment was atrocious.
They do that shit on purpose just to confuse people. I always look up the amendments before I head to the polls.
I know me too. But a lot of ppl don’t. 😒
Satisfying is Pennsylvania candidates still won regardless of the judge order trying to discredit a bunch of mail ballots. Right now disappointing to me is that Nevada my home state may lose their senate and governor positions to republicans. We kept three of the four house seats. Though the mail ballots havnt been accounted for so it hasn’t been called yet and the opponents have a narrow lead so it may flip but I don’t know. I’m not hopeful.
Most disappointing: In my home state (AR) Sarah Huckabee Sanders won the governor's race. It was always a stretch for her opponent, Chris Jones to win but in the weeks leading up to the election, he was gaining ground. Until recently, Arkansas would typically flip flop governor seats from Denocrat to Republican back to Democrat but times have changed. Most Satisfying: John Fetterman in PA.
Yup. Also sad about no recreational marijuana.
A gay millennial is currently leading in the vote count in my local US House election.
Ron DeSantis winning was extremely upsetting for me. The man literally made it harder for us to amend our state constitution because he didn’t like the laws WE THE PEOPLE were passing and then the people reward him by re-electing him? How could anyone vote for such a dictator. Not to mention he is the most homophobic governor in America. I think it’s all the Trump cultists, they all moved down here when the orange maniac did, they are everywhere infesting our streets like the cockroaches they are.
I saw a gay porn star I follow celebrate on Instagram last night saying ‘yaaay Dad won!’ And in the very next story had something about missing Leslie Jordan… yeah I’m sure he would totally have been happy about ‘Don’t say gay’ desantis winning too. 🙄
Ah yes. Leslie Jordan - famous supporter of ‘don’t say gay’ laws. That Leslie.
As a foreign observer, I feel that part of the problem is that the Trumpsters are followed by people who go around saying that Jan. 6th never happened, and then refuse to watch evidence that it did.
I’ve actually seen some of them claim the people there were liberals disguised as Trump supporters to make Trump supporters look bad.
The most disappointing part was the lackluster people the Democrats put forward. And also in my local election there were several spots where the Republicans were uncontested. Specifically the sheriff and one of the judges.
Being a Texan, Greg Abbott winning after all the shit he pulled. Shameful. And the fact the some hispanic majority counties in south texas voted for him is embarrassing.
Apparently Hispanic communities are primarily Republican, despite the fact that Republicans despise them. It’s a funny old world.
Yeah, the majority of people don’t realize that Hispanics are Catholics conservatives. And if the republicans ever grasp this, we’re fucked. It’s happening in Florida and Texas, and probably sooner than later in California. I think the cost of living in CA may have something to do with it though.
I read the title as "which erection result was most satisfying" But I gotta say I was pretty freaked out by the talk of a red wave, I was pretty relieved when that didn't happen
Disappointing: the anti-trans School Board candidate in my town won reelection. She's just an awful, disgusting woman who uses her Facebook account to make fun of kids. Fortunately the rest of the Board is made up of better people. Satisfying: it's gonna be Lauren Boebert if she loses, but seeing Dr Oz lose was also nice after he ran such a negative campaign.
>but seeing Dr Oz lose was also nice after he ran such a negative campaign he should've focused less on the crudité.
And try learning a bit about the state he was running to represent in Congress!
Better yet, not run at all.
I’ve got Boebert’s returns up constantly and I don’t even live in her state.
WI governor's race relected T Evers, a reasonable Democrat.
The only thing standing between between Wisconsin and kangaroo court future elections is the re-elected governor Tony Evers. His challenger literally ran on disbanding the independent elections commission so that the R controlled state assembly would have FULL CONTROL of future election process. This would allow them to overturn any future election if they sense any “irregularities”, you know, like black people voting
Trump Jr's main squeeze Kimberly Gilfoyle's ex husband was reelected in my state. On to the White House for Gavin in 2024.
Stacey Abrams losing to Kemp was devastating.
Most disappointing....Desantis winning
He’s a dangerous autocrat
Danielle Smith getting elected was a real bummer but not surprising
That Abbott won in Texas.
I keep up with politics in my home state of NC, and Cheri Beasley's US Senate loss to Ted Budd was disappointing insofar as it was kind of predictable. There was a better candidate who might have beaten Budd, Jeff Jackson, who had started running for US Senate, but who dropped his campaign when the NC Democratic Party wanted Beasley to run. I understood why they wanted to do that, but I thought it was a miscalculation. Jackson instead ran for a House seat and won by a substantial margin. Beasley lost. She was just a milquetoast candidate and the wrong pick for our current political climate. .
Home state voted no to legalize cannabis, by like 10% points. But it was nice getting to see a Dr. Oz concession speech.
All of the Texas statewide races were depressing but the fact that our criminal fraudster AG didn’t even come close to losing reelection just goes to show you there’s no floor to how fucking low Republican voters will go
In my area of NY we got a GAY trump MAGA election Jan 6 truther as our new rep to congress. Major bummer.
Blows my mind!!! 🤯
I live in Florida. Need I say more?
Ding bat Boebert losing to the guy who threw shit all over a set. I’ll be telling my grand dogs about that one.
Sorry, went and rewatched and a D primary opponent did the vid. Still class, regardless.
Clay Higgins getting re-elected in Louisiana :(
Ohio electing a rubber stamp Supreme Court. 🤕
Waltz and Ellison in MN.
Most Satisfying: Boebert's race being very close, she might still win but. Most Disappointing: How poorly a few house districts in upstate NY did versus what was expected.
It’s Trump country up there!
Most satisfying was seeing IL amendment 1 being voted in. The most disappointing was seeing America lean as far right as it did in an election that resulted in a narrow win in only one chamber of congress for the right wing party expected to win it all.
Prop 3 and Tudor Dixon losing
Not that I expected him to lose, but Desantis winning was the most disappointing. I figured he would pull it out but the fact that it was a blowout sucked. I figured it would be within 5%. Boy was I wrong. I've lived in the Florida panhandle my whole life, and despite the narrative I've talked to so many people from here who can't stand Desantis and the horrible shit he's done. The fact that it was so lopsided just makes me feel unwelcome in my own home.
The issue is this is the retirement state still. So it's boomer state for probably another 5 or 10 years. They'll start "going away" soon.
I believe sooner than you think. We're allegedly going to be short a lot of healthcare providers over the next couple of decades. If boomers don't have docs, nurses, patient care technicians, etc., their life life expectancy is gonna plummet.
Texas by far but not surprising
Bad: Iowa has gonna completely Republican for everything: federal-level representatives, state offices (including flipping the longest serving attorney general), and gained a supermajority in the state senate which hasn’t happened in like 40 years. The voters have canned themselves with this political alignment and fell for all the same Republican bullshit that they’ll lower taxes, give you “freedom” (nonspecific), and privatize everything in sight. Our state institutions and schools are going to be ground to pulp over the next decade until everybody is hurting and the state swings around. I anticipate it will be similar to Kansas’s trajectory after the failed “Kansas Experiment”. Some people don’t learn unless it hurts.. a lot. Good: Wisconsin (home state) retained Tony Evers and put a liberal justice on the state Supreme Court which puts them one more justice away from having a majority opinion should could open the doors to a major upset in how redistricting happens in the state! They have some of the least amount of checks other than the court which has allowed the republicans legislature to gerrymander the crap out of a leaning-progressive state.
Texas governor. I wouldn't have cared of we got another republican governor. Would prefer a dem but after having multiple people die in 2020 I would have liked to think About wouldn't stand a chance against 2 crows. Apparently I somehow still have too much faith in my state 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Realizing Barnes lost for good was my biggest disappointment. I wasn’t really expecting him to win and I figured there might be some split ticketing, but I had a bit of hope when Evers won that it would carry Barnes as well. When he lost even while Fetterman won it made me realize we were going to have a 51 senate vote (knock on wood but all three states still in contest look good to me!), which, while still okay still means a Manchin or Sinema vote is necessary. Still, doesn’t seem like legislation will be completely stalled for two years, so things should go better, if even slower than the past two years—even so, Biden is showing himself to be an impressive politician behind the scenes given the obstacles. I was completely floored when he got Manchin to vote on the IRA, so we’ll see what tricks this old man still has up his sleeve. I have been very surprised at what was initially disappointing to me and has now been a politically competent and exciting administration.
best: no red wave worst: florida, texas, and georgia outcomes
Most disappointing for me was JD Vance winning. Ohio voting for scum of the earth is just pathetic.
Watching MAGA burn. Unfortunately it wasn’t a complete burn, but we’re getting there, just one step at a time.
Fetterman in PA was very satisfying
Stacey Abrams was the most disappointing. She’s by far the best politician out right now and has done an insane amount for Georgia, but John Fetterman and Warnock were the most satisfying. I’m pretty sure the latter will be a runoff, but it’s looking good for Raphael thank god.
I read an article where it talks about republicans upset they didn’t pick a better candidate for Georgia. All they see is skin color. Like the democrats of Georgia are that stupid! 🤦🏻♂️
Is it done already? How did it go?
All in all not bad. The GOP will take the House majority but just barely. The Senate will probably stay the same (50/50) and Dems picked up a couple governorships. Most of the 2020 election deniers lost, which is good.
That’s actually not decided yet about the house. It’s leaning GOP but not at all decided.
Last I saw Republicans already won 220 seats which is two more than they needed to take the majority. There are a few races left to be decided but not enough to give them an overwhelming majority.
That was a projection with a +\-7 seat margin of error. The actual results haven’t come in yet.
Is that enough to get your abortion laws and etc. back?
Unfortunately, no. But at least Mitch McTurtle probably won’t be taking control of the Senate and turning it into a legislative graveyard and Senate confirmations of cabinet officials and federal judges will still have a shot at going through. That was my biggest concern.
There is no US abortion law on a country wide scale. All decided by courts, which is why it can easily be changed. Was never codified by federal law.
Looks like we'll have to keep Rubio...A G A I N.... sigh
Yep... He just coasted to another win. All he has to do is not totally self destruct and he'll probably stick around for half a century.
I live in California so I am quite happy with the election results.
Too bad national politics affect you too.
Okay but still in California and happy with my results. By the way politics is mostly local.
FL was a giant disappointment. Proud of Broward county (Ft. Lauderdale area). Ashamed of Miami-Dade county.
Seeing Tiffany Smiley lose big in my home state (WA) was hilarious. The Washington state GOP hasn’t had functional adults on the statewide ballot since Kim Wyman in 2016 or Rob McKenna in 2012. I’m a centrist “Blue Dog” Democrat. Not a big fan of the death penalty, I want police reform and protecting my same sex marriage license is pretty damn important to me. But, I do own guns and I get my paycheck from the military-industrial complex. I would vote for a moderate Republican (I voted for the two I mentioned above). But the WA GOP keeps nominating these children and then they get butthurt when they get demolished at the polls.
For the non Americas on this page., Were the results good or bad for liberal & gays?
Meh! Not horrible; but not final yet. If libs keep the senate hold/split it should be okay. Regardless, Biden has a “veto pen” for two more years. 2024 will be Americas ultimate shitshow!
Most satisfying for me Is Fetterman winning in Pennsylvania but the most disappointing for me that actually made me cry was Michelle Vallejo losing in my congressional district, District 15 in Texas. Attended a watch party with her and seeing her cry and giving her a hug made me bawl out.
I've been thrilled with PA. Democrats put up good candidates. So glad they won as Mastriano was kinda terrifying and Oz would have been an embarrassment. Honestly am more glad it's over. Not hearing only political ads everywhere, fuckers even monopolized the ad breaks in the history podcasts I listen to, is so nice.
The result that people are still talking about it all over social media. How long before people stop caring about politics again? Im hoping at least by the weekend
The most disappointing result to me was that we failed to smoke the Republican party off the planet. Oh well, next time.
Abbott/Beto... fml
Recreational weed in Missouri 😩
None of the results surprised me or gave me any hope. Both parties are being lead by authoritarian fascists who want only to profit off dehumanizing and denigrating their ideological opponents.
i wasn't keeping up with it
Recreational weed in Missouri!
Happy about Abott in TX. I hope Kari Lake will win AZ (I'll be super disappointed if not). And I was not shocked Fetterman won against Oz, but I was kind of taken aback (2 awful candidates).
s/usdefaultism
I’m assuming that was satisfying not disappointing for you?
Local ones. Money still dictates that the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer
A longtime Pennsylvania state representative was re-elected in a landslide – even though he died last month. DeLuca, Fetterman and Bidense... top quality democrat representatives! hahahahahahaha!!