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When a person suffers a life-threatening, life-altering stroke, or cerebral vascular accident, it's time to retire, relax and enjoy life to your best ability. It is certainly no time to be sitting as a U.S. senator for your state, but that's what Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman is doing, and his cognitive disability is obvious.
Fetterman was the last person at a hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse to ask probing questions on Tuesday at the Senate Banking Committee hearing.
His questions led the committee to silently ask their own questions about Fetterman's questions, such as, "What the hell did he just say?"
Fetterman addressed the witness noting that some of his colleagues "went to go to Hawaiis after there was a crash of your bank" and that he "couldn’t believe it."
"And it’s in Fortune, the second biggest bank in U.S. history collapsed and chose to go to Hawaii on that," the cognitively impaired Fetterman continued. "You know, I’ve never been to Hawaii and neither has my family. I guess I’ve never cranked, excuse me, crashed a bank."
Fetterman addressed the witness noting that some of his colleagues "went to go to Hawaiis after there was a crash of your bank" and that he "couldn’t believe it."
Well, if a person with a severe cognitive impairment can allegedly run a country, be a U.S. senator, both in Pennsylvania and California [as in Dianne Feinstein] then what's the big deal? In Fetterman's case, he had been hospitalized for a stroke from mid-February to mid-April this year and admittedly also suffers from major depression.
"So I went up on the Internet and it’s like, it did happen. It did happen. It did happen," Fetterman repeatedly said, holding up a cutout of a New York Post headline titled "Ex-Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker jets to Hawaii after collapse."
"So I went up on the Internet and it’s like, it did happen. It did happen. It did happen," Fetterman repeatedly said, holding up a cutout of a New York Post headline titled "Ex-Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker jets to Hawaii after collapse."
"And it’s in Fortune, the second biggest bank in U.S. history collapsed and chose to go to Hawaii on that," the cognitively impaired Fetterman continued. "You know, I’ve never been to Hawaii and neither has my family. I guess I’ve never cranked, excuse me, crashed a bank."
So his way of thinking seems to be that only if you crash a bank can you go to Hawaii.
Fetterman then asked the witness if he believed it to be a "running joke" in the banking community that the federal government will bail them out whenever trouble struck. The witness, Breg Becker, the former Silicon Valley Bank CEO respectfully said that he didn't "believe that's the case."
"Really? Because every bank you seemingly that crashed, it’s like, ‘we can bail him out. This one crashed, we’ll bail them out,’" Fetterman replied. "So far, everything’s been true. So doesn’t it feel that now if a bank really believed that they wouldn’t be bailed out, now after bailing them out, these couple of bailouts, they are going to."
"Do you not believe that that is not outrageous, that, no matter how deplorable your performance is, you are made as whole and all by… taxpapers [sic]," the Pennsylvania senator continued. "So what do yous believe?"
"Do you not believe that that is not outrageous, that, no matter how deplorable your performance is, you are made as whole and all by… taxpapers [sic]," the Pennsylvania senator continued. "So what do yous believe?"
Okay, that should make anyone who cares about the disabled to cringe and feel sympathy.
Fetterman then asked what would’ve happened if Silicon Valley Bank had not been bailed out before moving on to say, "Is it staggering? Is it a staggering… it’s a responsibility that the head of a bank could literally, could literally crash our economy."
Fetterman then asked what would’ve happened if Silicon Valley Bank had not been bailed out before moving on to say, "Is it staggering? Is it a staggering… it’s a responsibility that the head of a bank could literally, could literally crash our economy."
"It’s astonishing. That’s like if you have, I mean like, and they also realize is that now they have… a guaranteed way to be saved by, again, by no matter, by how?" Fetterman babbled. "Isn’t it appropriate that this kind of control should be more stricter to prevent this kind of thing from going, or should we go on bailing and sailing whoever bank regardless of how… their conduct is?"
After a long pause with no answer, Fetterman said he would give "an example" before attacking Republicans for wanting to introduce food stamp work requirements and asking if Silicon Valley Bank should have a "working requirement" after the bailout.
"Because they seem more preoccupied when then SNAP requirements for works for hungry people but not about protecting the taxpapers [sic] that will bail no matter whatever does about a bank to crash it," Fetterman said, before for what seemed to be an eternity before turning control back over to committee chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
After a long pause with no answer, Fetterman said he would give "an example" before attacking Republicans for wanting to introduce food stamp work requirements and asking if Silicon Valley Bank should have a "working requirement" after the bailout.
"Because they seem more preoccupied when then SNAP requirements for works for hungry people but not about protecting the taxpapers [sic] that will bail no matter whatever does about a bank to crash it," Fetterman said, before for what seemed to be an eternity before turning control back over to committee chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
And while Joe Calvello, Fetterman's spokesperson tries to cover for his boss' cognitive problems, it's clear to even a casual observer that John Fetterman, just like Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein, are not up for the jobs they have.
It's time for them to retire and enjoy the remainder of their lives, because life is more than just political power.
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