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The worst part of this is all the ridiculous "ableist" rhetoric. I'm a middle aged, slightly plump white female in glasses who is an orthopaedic surgeon. If I wanted to have a walk on tryout for the Baltimore Ravens football team, and was refused, would I be able to sue them for "ableism"? Let's face it, not everyone can do everything. I do something many told me I could not, but it's not really pushing the envelope, just stretching preconceptions.

This is what we saw in the debate - John Fetterman had a stroke that impairs his ability to communicate. Per his campaign, he is supposedly recovering, but we have no medical records available, such as neuropsychiatric testing, to support that assertion. He has suffered brain damage which impairs his ability to understand and produce speech. This is as much a handicap in the Senate as my age and physical abilities would be in the NFL.

Even with the support of technology, he could not produce intelligible replies. This is not a case like Steven Hawking, who with the aid of technology, produced some of the most brilliant thinking of our generation, and was able to articulate it himself. Fetterman cannot listen, process, and reply with any reliability. If elected, he will be a puppet. The real question is, whose?

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