John Fetterman Stumbles, 'Stutters' During Interview, Requires Closed Captioning After May Stroke

If Stephen Miller says someone is not fit for office, there is a 99% chance that they are not only fit, but will do a good job for the people. 

Even you can't really believe that Fetterman is fit for office!

Deflection and denial noted.

Even you can't really believe that Fetterman is fit for office!

Having hearing problems or stuttering does not make someone unfit for office. Having the name Marjorie Taylor Greene does though. 

I know you are but what am I schtick? "That's all you have". Projection indeed

Thanks, we can never have enough quotes from dead, white, Englishmen.

Relevant or not, the more quotes, the better.

You think Fetterman is qualified and will do a good job for the people? What people are those- Democrat virtue signaling racists?

pennlive

Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s announcement Monday that he’s running for U.S. Senate has prompted critics to raise the issue of a 2013 incident in which he pulled a gun on an unarmed Black man.

Fetterman was the mayor of Braddock at the time, and, according to local news reports, he thought he heard several gunshots near his home just before the jogger ran past. He defended his response to the incident in a statement Tuesday night in which he said that he “made a split-second decision to intervene for the safety and protection of my community.”

Fetterman made sure his son was safe, called 911 and then got into his truck and went after the man, according to a 2013 WTAE report . When he found the jogger, he pulled a gun on the man and ordered him to wait for authorities.

In the 2013 interview with WTAE, the jogger, identified as Chris Miyares, said he believed the gunshots were actually bottle rockets behind the nearby library. He also said Fetterman pointed the shotgun directly at his chest.

Fetterman refuted the claim at the time and said he simply showed the gun to make sure Miyares could see he was armed. He said the gun’s safety was on and did not have a “round chambered.”

localtoday.news

According to several reports In 2013, when Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, he suspected a black man he saw jogging of committing a crime. Rather than call the police, Fetterman, a beacon of racial equality, chose to follow him in a pickup truck and point a 20-gauge shotgun at him as he confronted the man. Fetterman used the gun to hold him down until police arrived. Ultimately, the man was not involved in any wrongdoing.

Discussing the incident in a 2013 interview, Fetterman even admitted that he likely broke the law, but brushed it off because he felt he “did the right thing.”

“I think I did the right thing, but I may have broken the law,” Fetterman said in the interview.

But somehow Fetterman is the progressives’ choice this year?

Had this been a Republican, we all know what would happen now. Al Sharpton would be on every news channel and Jesse Jackson would visit Pennsylvania. The social justice group that buys mansions and siphons off millions of dollars Black Lives Matter would hold marches whining about systemic racism and white privilege. Democrats would condemn the candidate as unfit for office.

If any Republican had pulled what Fetterman did they would already be toast politically. Do you think anyone should vote for someone whose first reaction on hearing gun shots is to chase down the nearest black man and hold him at gun point until police arrive?

Or should they be hypocritical and support someone who hasn't paid for anything in his life. A trust fund Uncle Fester look alike in this case.

meadvilletribune

Public records show — and Fetterman has openly acknowledged — that for a long stretch lasting well into his 40s, his main source of income came from his parents, who gave him and his family $54,000 in 2015 alone. That was part of the financial support his parents regularly provided when Fetterman’s only paying work was $150 a month as mayor of Braddock, a job he held from his mid-30s until he turned 49. He lived in an industrial-style loft he purchased from his sister for $1 after she paid $70,000 for it six years earlier.

Fetterman, 52, grew up, in his own words, in a “cushy” environment in York County. His upbringing helped him get an MBA from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree from Harvard without taking on student debt.

Fetterman now earns $217,610 as lieutenant governor, a job he started in 2019, and his family’s assets top $700,000. His parents supported him financially for nearly all of his 13 years as mayor, aid that he says allowed him to devote himself to public service. He no longer receives that assistance, his campaign said. The campaign did not answer when asked if the $54,000 disclosed from 2015 was typical of his parents’ aid.

Seem to remember you had a real problem with Trump inheriting his money.

Or should they hire someone who failed at his job as mayor; or didn't pay his taxes?

qhubonews

Fetterman, a York County native, took over as mayor of a borough wracked by drugs and crime and the ongoing effects of the steel industry’s decline.

A reminder of the town’s boom days, the still-operating U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Plant, sits across the street from Fetterman’s loft, which he purchased for $1 from his sister, who paid $70,000 for it.

Braddock is 70 percent Black with about 35 percent of its residents living in poverty. It mirrors other once-bustling steel towns in western Pennsylvania that have never recovered from the industry’s demise and the exodus of jobs that served as the borough’s backbone.

During Fetterman’s tenure, the borough saw its  population dwindle  from about 2,200 residents to approximately 1,900, a decades-long trend that has put the current population at about 1,600.

Oz’s campaign has noted that while homicides might have paused for a few years, violent crime overall increased dramatically between 2013 and 2017, according to  FBI statistics .

Turning to old reports in the Pittsburgh media, the Oz campaign has frequently reminded voters that Fetterman and community group Braddock Redux have been sued 67 times for over $34,000 in tax and service fee liens.

The  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  reported in 2015 that Fetterman had more than $11,000 in tax liens placed on a property in Braddock and three in nearby North Braddock between 2006 and 2012, before the last lien was satisfied in 2014.

Asked about the tax liens in 2016, when he first ran for the U.S. Senate, by  WTAE-TV  in Pittsburgh, Fetterman attributed the Braddock Redux tax liens to a “clerical error” and said the other unpaid taxes “fell through the cracks.”

How can you support Fetterman after blasting Trump so long about his taxes?

Or this gem about wanting to release criminals convicted of second degree murder.

nypost

One has to marvel at these Republicans, Ted Cruz, Stephen Miller, Monica Crowley, etc, who groveled to and lied for Trump for 6 years and counting , having the gall to declare on someone else's fitness for office. 

But you know, it is what it is. The Democrats have to get much much tougher on these fools over the final four weeks of this campaign, and all the campaigns. The media is not going to do it. The media is just both sides ism, and they always will be. The Democratic candidates have to muster their strength and take it to the far right traitors. 

having the gall to declare on someone else's fitness for office. 

Trump is capable of having a conversation. 

Trump is capable of having a conversation. 

We know - plotting to subvert democracy, dogwhistling racists, lying to the American people thousands of times, insulting gold star families, asking Russia and Putin to help him with his political career, conspiring to cheat on his taxes,making thousands of factual mistakes in his lifetime of "conversations". Yes, Trump is quite the talker. 

The only campaign that was proven to collude with Russia was the Clinton campaign.

Dr. Oz is an intelligent, articulate, and accomplished surgeon.

What does Fetterman represent?

And that come to light during the "big lie" investigation run by the Democrats.  

Dr. Oz likes the cowboys! Oz is a freak who eats vegetables!

Thats the fetterman campaign in a nutshell

Yes, Trump is quite the talkeR

i am glad we agree trump satisfies the basic level of fitness for office and fetterman doesn’t. 

Uh, pathologically lying 30,000 times is not a requirement for office. It is the opposite. 

Maybe you want to give him a kiss. 

Uh, pathologically lying 30,000 times is not a requirement for office.

Uh.. as even the man who compiled that list has stated, he didn't  document 30,000 lies.  It is, ironically, a lie to constantly repeat that claim. 

Second, when did I ever say lying was a requirement for office? 

There were 30,000 instances of Trump lying. There werent 30,000 different subjects he was lying about. He told the same lie in some instances dozens of times, across twitter, facebook, at his rallies, in speeches and in interviews. He would repeat the same lies over and over, as Goebbels might do. 

Ok he didnt tell 30,000 lies, but he lied 30,000 times. 

motherjones

Now the   Washington Post ‘s Fact Checker team   has finished its final catalog   of the extent of the former president’s efforts to mislead and misinform us. According to its tally, Trump made more than 30,000 “false or misleading” claims during his presidency. Half of those lies were told during his last year in office, according to the   Post ‘s database:

This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump’s tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency—averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

What is especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths kept rising the longer he served as president and became increasingly unmoored from the truth.

Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year—and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.

Here’s a chart of the exponential growth of Trump’s cumulative “untruths”:

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Due to the incredible volume of falsehoods, the project was a massive undertaking. “It’s just a terrible time suck,” Glenn Kessler, the editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker team,   told   the   Mother Jones Podcast   in June. If Trump were to win a second term, Kessler said at the time, “The   Post   may have to hire a few more people for us to keep it up.” I’m all for hiring more journalists, but in this case, I’m glad some of my colleagues were spared this fate.

ere were 30,000 instances of Trump lying.

Kessler never claims that.  How could he?  A significant number of things you claim are " lies" are actually verifiably true statements that Kessler feels didn't provide the right context.  That's why Kessler doesn't claim he documents lies, he claims he counts "misleading" statements.  He interprets facts in a partisan way and calls any other interpretation false.  It's incredibly transparent manipulation.  I posted an article years ago by an economist who went through the first  100 "false" Trump statements on the economy and he found that something like 25 were objectively, verifiably  true.  Like Trump accurately stated the amount of regulations his administration had cut but Kessler marked it false because he didn't state how many were left in place. Bizarre things like that justified calling it misleading.

Fact checkers, particularly Kessler,  are just partisan opinion pundits.  Any Republican pundit could find the same percentage of "lies" from Biden (of course hidin Biden avoids speaking to the press so the opportunities are fewer) The fact that people still think otherwise is sad.  

The Toronto Star had a reporter whose job was to catalogue every one of Trump's lies. His name is Daniel Dale. When Daniel Dale left the paper to go to work for someone else the paper stopped the counting. They also posted an account of every one of the 5000+ lies Dale had catalogued. And organized them under topics. 

I randomly opened the section on hurricanes

Trump repeatedly said that the Coast Guard saved 16,000 lives during hurricane Harvey, when the actual number was 11 or 12 thousand. One could write the first instance off as laziness or getting misinformation. Then after the original claim was corrected by media, Trump repeated the false figure over and over again across a time span of weeks. 

Someone told him he was wrong, but he would rather just keep presenting the falsehood because otherwise he would have to admit he was wrong. 

This is essentially the story of his life. He has repeated falsehoods tens of thousands of times because he doesnt care about the truth, at all. He literally ignores people who correct his mistakes. When someone endlessly repeats false information even though they know it is false they are LYING. 

The fact that people still think otherwise is sad.  

What is sad is that you are going deeper and deeper into defending Trump. 

"The Democratic candidates have to muster their strength and take it to the far right traitors"

What strengths? 

The man who wanted to free second degree murderers needs to talk about that.

This man somehow manages to make Joe Biden look coherent and engaged. 

It's cruel that someone so damaged and unwell is  being subjected to this  process. He should be in rehab trying to recapture basic cognitive functioning skills. 

Fetterman actually lives in Pennsylvania