Fetterman is the most mentally disabled individual to ever run for Senator.
Some highlights:
Fetterman starts off his first answer by saying Good night
When asked about his position on fracking: He short circuits and says this:
"I support fracking and I support fracking and I support fracking and I support fracking"
When asked about the minimum wage: he mumbles something incoherent about "signal moms".
This was the worst clownfire of a debate I ever seen.
Here are some memeworthy highlight clips:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1585062323936722944?cxt=HHwWgIDU0aPyov8rAAAA
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1585067077051682817
https://mobile.twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1585062620746625024?cxt=HHwWgMDRhceDo_8rAAAA
https://mobile.twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1585070506922823680?cxt=HHwWgMCq0cvOpv8rAAAA
I hope after tonight it will be impossible for the Dems to somehow successfully rig it for Fetterman.
Fetterman is an actual stroke patient.
He gets zero benefit of the doubt on anything he says
Where I hail from, "Good evening" is a greeting, "Good night" is a farewell. Can't speak for PA, but I'm guessing it's not that different.
1930 is evening. If the debate started at 2300 local time, I'd be more tempted to offer the benefit of the doubt.
That's how it works in anywhere that speaks American English.
Fairly certain that's how it works in British English too.
I lived outside the Harrisburg area from 1995 to 2016, and spent a year somewhere in there in Pittsburgh, too. My dad was born and raised in Philly. "Good night" is ALWAYS a goodbye, never a hello.
From a less regional but more temporal perspective, I worked nights for a long time.
Coming into work, dealing with customers at midnight or 2am, didn't matter, it was always either "good evening" or an ironic "good morning". "Good night" would be said at 6am on leaving the shift, even though it was morning or day at that point, because good night is always a parting comment.
If you wanted to say the words "good night" in your opening preamble, it would be "I hope you're having a good night so far", and would never just be abridged to "good night".
"Rough night?"? Sure. "Fun night?"? Okay. But it was always a question, never a greeting, and even then, never "good night?".
Just as "Good morning" is a greeting and "Good day" is a farewell.
I did once work with a Tamil guy who would begin conversations with "Good night", but he wasn't a native speaker of English. (He would also ask people on the phone "What is your good name?" which I thought was cute.)