RIP John Fetterman

not really

but also what the fuck is up with this guy, who is seemingly turning into a poorly dressed joe manchin in record time?

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Some people turn into assholes after a TBI?

he was always terrible on israel, that just wasn't as salient, and his one move when challenged on anything is to very loudly triple down.

Seems to be just another trust fund a-hole, just a Democrat one.

kind of looks like a slaphead Ming the Merciless or Gary Glitter, obv a nonce

this fucking guy

I wonder if the local library has a copy of his memoir. The excerpts I have heard aren't good! I have a lot of sympathy for people who struggle with health problems, but refusing to seek treatment for depression to the extent that you also don't follow up on cardiovascular health issues, run for senator, and then win that election only to spend the rest of November unable or unwilling to get out of bed, to the extent you have to drag yourself to thanksgiving dinner is crazy to me

I've spent my life attempting to get my ducks in a row before doing things, but apparently that's wrong! Just run for senator! Have preventable health issues! have really thin skin and take contradictory issues when someone asks if you're going to do your job!

So Fetterman is trying to resurrect the dead-in-the-water SAVE act with a compromise that will make just Voter ID mandatory? Thanks, asshole.

it's pretty obvious from complaints I've read that his office isn't functional enough to take voter feedback or requests right now, so who the hell is he doing this on behalf of? the entire brave productive centrist lane where you deliver things nobody in particular wants is so grating

looks like he's also gonna be the deciding vote for Mullin's confirmation FFS

what a complete embarrassment of a person

I had to sit through a work dinner last night where an older gentleman started talking about politics and opined that this guy was his favorite senator.

as one does.

grimacing and nodding at your work dinner's most respected bipartisan

It's been hard for those guys since Lieberman died.

https://i.redd.it/e85rc5dnkdtc1.jpeg

Gaaah this guy makes me so fucking angry

As we've seen with Diane Feinstein, you can't trash bin senators who insist on serving out their terms, no matter how badly they need to go.

yes you can on a message board

This is one case where you could possibly cyber bully him into another stroke.

just digging himself in deeper

"You know, right now our party, is, is governed by the TDS, and now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished, as a Democrat, to agree something’s good, or ‘I agree with the other side,’ and I would define that by Epic Fury,” Fetterman responded.

“I am literally the only Democrat in America, in Congress, that I’ve come across that’s saying, ‘I think it’s a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime,’” he added.

He made his decision to approve Markwaynejimbob last week, so the confirmation hearing was a waste of time for him. He trusts his gut, not the party or his base. And I trust his gut like I trust Trump’s.

I'm sure you do think it's a great idea, you know who doesn't though, something like 95% of the Democratic voters who put you in office because they actually believed you were gonna fight for them

has his wife left him yet? she basically went totally dark on social media for a while after he went nutso, then I stopped following her

wikipedia still lists her as his spouse, so if there's a divorce afoot it isn't final.

i can totally understand that a traumatic brain injury and/or stroke would affect a person; far less convinced that such things would affect a person in precisely this fashion

struggling to get out of bed does not inexorably lead to 'let's gleefully kill every muslim'

Honestly I don't think it was the stroke. He was probably *always* this guy, and pulled one over on PA voters, myself included. We won't get fooled again, until inevitably we do.

so he confirmed Mullin

has his wife left him yet? she basically went totally dark on social media for a while after he went nutso, then I stopped following her

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otm she was doing the political wife thing to the HILT and doing it beautifully and with what came across to me as a lot of actual care and enthusiasm for people. I hope she's well and if it's not too much to ask for someone who has to live with that guy, I hope she's happy. :/

She made an anti-ICE post a month ago or so and then her social media accounts were deleted.

never forgotten this:

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/john-fetterman-black-jogger-2013-shotgun-20220425.html

Crossing my fingers along with the rest of the internet for her to leave and have a great life with the kids and the dog.

he probably had her deported