PA-SN 2022 megathread: Shrek vs. The Wizard of Oz

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https://twitter.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1560776974146195456

Is he taking another vacation?

Regardless, imagine if a Democrat did this. They'd be called "Communist sympathizers." Fetterman ought to tar Oz the same way.

Also, might I add how thematically out-of-touch he is still being by apparently assuming that the average person reading his tweet can just drop everything they're doing on a whim, like him, and just travel halfway across the world.

Even if you have a lot of the same dynamics with diasporic politics, the tenor around US-Vietnam relations is very different from, say, Iran or Cuba, and there's been a bipartisan consensus that stronger relations with Vietnam are necessary since rapprochement 20 years ago. Not that I think voters particularly care, but attacking on this front pretty easily opens you up to counters on "being soft on China" and whatnot.

I really don't think this is as bad for Oz as the spin on that Tweet would suggest. There are more post-Đổi Mới immigrants from Vietnam than a lot of people think, and those voters are swingier than the refugees we all know and love in the Leipverse.

The video of Oz in Vietnam was from 2019.

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Oz's team doubles down on the comment

https://twitter.com/retripp/status/1562182474003791873

Aw, Fetterman just lost the vegan vote

I should ask the vegan from Philly I dated what she thinks about him

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Yesterday: Fetterman was fat and thus deserved his stroke

Today: I'm PA's doctor! I'll heal all of you

https://twitter.com/JessicaTaylor/status/1562417980411183104

I am as far from an Oz supporter as one can get, but the obesity crisis in America has reached disgustingly high levels. Doctors should not be afraid to tell their patients they're overweight, though many are scared to now because of the kindness over facts cult that has infested much of academia.

With that being said, Fetterman has lost like 150 so this just makes Oz look like an even bigger douche.

This isn’t glandular… this is just fat

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Incredibly damning for Oz - an actual drug counselor sat with him on a panel - and the way he handled the panel actually persuaded him *away* from Oz

https://twitter.com/abcnewsstudios/status/1583104882210242562

Sounds like Dr. Öz really pulled a Drumpf on the counselor

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Huh, finally an article that is a bit critical of Oz for once!

(but InsiderAdvantage and Co/efficient told me he was winning 25-30% of the black vote )

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1586092995157409796

I've said before that Fetterman will still overwhelmingly win the black vote. The vast majority of black voters are Yellow Dog Democrats who detest the Republican Party and all that it stands for. My uncle is an example of this. Most of us will vote straight-ticket Democratic, as we have for generations, and this year is no different. Republicans have much greater potential for minority gains with Asians and Hispanics.

Republicans always had higher baseline levels of support (i.e. >10%) with Asians and Latinos. I don't expect that to change anytime soon.

This raises the question of how much support among black voters would be an overperformance for Oz. 20% sounds out of the question for the foreseeable future, but 10-15% might be realistic for PA Republicans?

Nor was Ms. Bervine swayed by attack ads aimed at Mr. Fetterman’s advocacy for clemency for long-incarcerated men. “I know enough to know that there are a lot of men that are in prison that shouldn’t be in prison,” she said.

That was a common point of view on 52nd Street, a formerly grand corridor of Black entertainment and commerce that has struggled in recent years. Some businesses were damaged during unrest in 2020 over police shootings of Black people nationally. Banners fixed to lamp posts urge, “Never Lose Hope.”

On the sidewalk outside a secondhand appliance store, Barry Williams, 67, was cleaning a stove with steel wool.

A homeowner, he was concerned about rising costs — “the food taxes, the property tax, gas — first it went down, then it went right back up again.”

But Mr. Williams, who said he was a Democrat who voted regularly, pushed back on the Republican message that inflation was tied to Democratic policies in Washington. “I think it’s everybody’s fault,” he said. “I can’t blame it on the Democrats.”

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Affirmative Action is toxic to the Asian community, even for Asians who lean left, so the issue being brought up is not a good thing for Dems.

This fact has nothing to do with the Stephen Miller ad citizenZ posted.

I don't see how the pending SCOTUS ruling will help, given that affirmative action in college admissions massively benefits domestic White applicants at the expense of domestic Asian applicants.

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Slightly off topic, but does anyone know how Giselle Fetterman got a green card? As far as I can tell she overstayed a VISA illegally after the Reagan amnesty and married John Fetterman in 2008. She already had her green card by 2004 and got her citizenship in 2009

From her Wiki page:

Fetterman was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2] When she was seven years old, Fetterman came to the United States as an undocumented child immigrant with her mother and younger brother, taking up residence in a one-room apartment in New York City.[3][2][4] They left Brazil due to violent crime in their community.[2][5] In New York, the family lived in poverty, and furnished their apartment with furniture they found on the street.[3] Fetterman said that her family often depended on food banks and thrift stores.[2] Her mother, who had a PhD degree from a Brazilian university and had worked as a nutritionist and educator, took jobs cleaning hotels and houses, and was often denied pay due to her status as an undocumented immigrant.[2][5]

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Slightly off topic, but does anyone know how Giselle Fetterman got a green card? As far as I can tell she overstayed a VISA illegally after the Reagan amnesty and married John Fetterman in 2008. She already had her green card by 2004 and got her citizenship in 2009

From her Wiki page:

Fetterman was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2] When she was seven years old, Fetterman came to the United States as an undocumented child immigrant with her mother and younger brother, taking up residence in a one-room apartment in New York City.[3][2][4] They left Brazil due to violent crime in their community.[2][5] In New York, the family lived in poverty, and furnished their apartment with furniture they found on the street.[3] Fetterman said that her family often depended on food banks and thrift stores.[2] Her mother, who had a PhD degree from a Brazilian university and had worked as a nutritionist and educator, took jobs cleaning hotels and houses, and was often denied pay due to her status as an undocumented immigrant.[2][5]

Yeah but that doesn't tell anything specific about how she recieved her green card which is next to impossible for illegal immigrants.

Assuming this info was true in the early 2000s, crime and lawlessness in (post)-dictatorship-era Brazil?

link

As described above, if you entered the United States illegally and have more than 180 days of unlawful presence, you will need to leave the United States to apply for a green card at a U.S. embassy or consulate. In order to avoid the three- and ten-year re-entry bars, you’ll need to apply for a “waiver of inadmissibility” to return to the United States.

To qualify for a waiver, you will have to show that your “qualifying relative” will experience “extreme hardship” if you are not allowed to live in the United States. For this particular type of waiver—called an “unlawful presence waiver”—a qualifying relative can be a spouse or a parent who is either a U.S. citizen or U.S. green card holder. (You can include information about how the hardship faced by your children would impact your spouse, but children by themselves are not considered qualifying relatives for unlawful presence waivers.)

When preparing your waiver application, you have to make the case that the hardship your relative would experience is “extreme.” There has to be a strong reason that you and your relative can’t live together in your home country, as well as a compelling argument that your relative will suffer if you aren’t allowed to live in the United States.