So Pennsylvania Lt. Gov and Democratic Senate candidate @JohnFetterman had an exclusive interview with @NBCNightlyNews reporter @DashaBurns. Like 37.5 MILLION hard-of-hearing Americans, Fetterman, who had a stroke in June, used closed captioning.
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The GOP has been pushing the narrative that @JohnFetterman isn't fit for office, yet it's Fetterman speaking to reporters and campaigning across the state--not his opponent, @DrOz.
As the GOP and some pundits do when Biden, a life-long stutterer, stumbles on a word,they did the same with Fetterman over @DashaBurns interview. And Burns told @LesterHoltNBC that in her pre-interview talk, Fetterman would pause, but showed no video.
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An ableist argument in the US posits that #disabled people aren't fit for office. About 15% of American adults (37.5M) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing, use captions like @JohnFetterman and may have slower responses to others' speaking.
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Of the candidates for PA Senate, @JohnFetterman is the only one with a proven record of public service. If you want a cardiothoractic surgeon, @DrOz is your guy. But for policy that benefits PA, Fetterman offers that. Oz's ideas would harm many in PA.
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Chris Matthews is trending for his ableist comments about @JohnFetterman on @Morning_Joe where he claimed captioning would "rig" the debate for Fetterman. Someone read him the #ADA and explain "reasonable accommodations."
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In January, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) had a stroke. He's been back in the Senate since April.
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L.A. City Council meeting going on right now is so brutally emotional and rage-filled, it's too bad that the men and woman who caused this, who harmed several communities so deeply, left the chamber. They should have been forced to listen to all this pain, in two languages.
One woman said the meeting itself was illegitimate. A Black woman pastor said that no Black child is a "monkey" and noted that the first human was a Black woman. Several people have said they are with "the Blacks." EVERYONE is calling for all three Council members to resign.
I've worked in L.A. on extended stories, but I never lived there. Listening to the deep pain and outrage from each speaker has been gutting. That audio tape was horrible and these are the people it touched personally, who now call themselves "the Blacks," due to Martinez. Awful.
Our friend @SER1897 is always interesting. Here he's got Watergate and the Oregon gubernatorial race + other politics du jour. I've written that THE most qualified candidate is Tina Kotek, who was OR speaker.
Watch "Wake Up, Oregon! Wonkette Bonus Chat"
Tina Kotek (D), Christine Drazan (R) Betsy Johnson (I) are all politicians. Kotek was OR speaker, Drazan minority leader and Johnson a state senator. Kotek was the 1st out lesbian in the US to be elected speaker of a state legislature. And OR Gov. Kate Brown is bisexual. But....
As happened in Virginia a year ago when 67k Democrats voted Glenn Youngkin into office, Dems are being lured by Drazan due to an anti-Dem backlash over homelessness and crime. If GOP talking points on the dangers of LGBTQ people get folded into the Drazan narrative, oh well...
I did so much work this week + The Wife was really ill from 3 days of chemo + had a couple of bleeding incidents with the trach + I'm in a serious amount of pain from my own illness. But we had our 23rd anniversary + we are both still alive. Am I a glass half full girl or what?
We held hands and watched Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune and Shark Tank, like some straight couple in the Midwest and it was pretty enjoyable. I had some Patti LaBelle peach cobbler that our friend brought and The Wife was able to blend up some soup and honestly--this is real love.💜
I think a lot about what true love and intimacy are. Lying in the dark together, holding her hand, at this perilous time in our lives, is the most intimate of moments. It's something you can't quantify. But it takes your breath away that you can be so blessed to have it, still.
Whenever these events happen it's invariably the person themselves who did it. Also, no one says Antifa except the GOP. So...expect to see the follow up news story on this where it's revealed a GOP did it. Also. where's the original news story, Tudor Dixon?
Very disturbing story.
"The Secret Service also failed to note key details of the incident in an electronic message formally alerting senior leadership to the motorcade’s delay."
Wow.
"In fact, many other Secret Service agents on Harris’s detail and at the White House, as well as Harris, knew her driver had actually hit the side pavement of a tunnel." washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…
"The Secret Service has had a long, troubled history of covering up its own mistakes and misconduct, with the most senior leaders and managers often relying on the shroud of secrecy covering presidential security to cover up agency foibles and failures." washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10…