Fetterman is becoming a bit of a dick. Just when we could us a strong rational voice who can prioritize and articulate important issues for American, we sometimes get gobbledygook. He’s a mixed bag. Maybe he can explain his positions better because sometimes i can’t follow what he’s doing.
Is there some strange tradition in the Democratic Senate caucus for one or two of their number to turn into conservative dealbreakers? Are we going to see Fetterman being a staunch defender of the filibuster now?
I am agreeing with Fetterman, you guys need to fucking chill out. All he is doing is meeting with the cabinet appointees, it’s not like he has already voted! Both parties should be meeting with them. Hold your disappointment & disgust with him until after the Senate vote for God’s sake!
They get stomped on because they think they to all vote the same. The same with Republicans but they are worse since their leader is Trump. It’s like we don’t have a 3rd equal branch of government anymore
No they get stomped on because a lot of them operate under the misguided notion that they should be fair and equitable in their dealings with the visgoths who have taken over an already out of control right wing loony party. Read the room or they're going to read it for you.
It would depend on the candidate. The Senate has a job to do & what party you are with doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the candidate is qualified. It shouldn’t be by party & that goes for both parties!
You are of course, correct. In a *perfect world, magical thinking* type of way. In the political reality we are about to (hopefully) live through, any Senator who votes for any cabinet pick should struggle to win reelection. Complicit capitulation is unacceptable.
It’s not a perfect world, magical thinking type of way, it is their literally job & it needs to go back to exactly that instead of the bullshit we have now. I agree with you being complicit & the paid for Republicans have already been warned about not voting for their nominees
Again… you must start tagging him every time you use his name or it is meaningless. I too really wish @johnfetterman.com would fuck off and go to hell.
I don't know what happened to his belief system in democracy but is has definitely changed in a drastic way. I sure hope some one steps in and primaries him when the time comes. I no longer trust him.
I'm not sure what Republican even means anymore but Dems have definitely gotten all too comfortable moving further and further right of center ever since the tea party
He is trying to be this middle of the road democrat but his messaging is awful. When he also wants to start dressing the part, maybe people will take him a bit more seriously
His breakdown was massive. The vultures were circling him, and then humanity stepped in and stood by him and supported him.
Nursed him back to health. This is the thanks.
I can't hit like because it's all horrifying. Also we could add Trump pulls US out of NATO, Putin comes to Mar a Lago, Trump sends Troops To Isreal, National Guards rounds up immigrants...
I actually had to have a conversation about signs of an unhealthy relationship with an intern a few months back after he said, "You knew Fetterman? I think I can fix him." 😂😂😂 It was not how I thought the conversation would go.
No time for pieces of shit, no excuses for or from them, at no time any second chances.
This is it folks
Believe who they are the first time! He and all the others about to cave can fuck off then get the fuck outta the way. He's a coward, he will be primaried he's over.
Or switch parties. Memory issues ... evidently, he is oblivious to the GOP attacks on his party, extending him grace and understanding during his health crises.
The irony being when he was campaigning, pre-stroke, he used Manchin and Sinema as campaign lines. “I’ll be the 51st vote”. We need Kenyatta or Lamb to primary him
I really wish he hadn't outed himself as an unrepentant bro when he talked about working with Fuckface without even considering how many women he's willing to kill, not to mention that the fucker is a traitor and convicted felon. Just one of the guys to occasionally disagree with.
Cancelled my monthly contributions to him a few months ago. I even feel more justified in that decision given what he has become lately. We get rid of Sinema (a former progressive) and get Fetterman (a former progressive).
I really wish Fetterman would realize that Trump is an authoritarian, whose goal is to break up government into pieces he can sell off to the highest bidder. I also wish he would buy a fucking suit and act like an adult.
Kamala Harris said to stay in the fight, he's staying in the fight. Why do we democrats always eat our young? A.O.C. being passed over again is more bullshit.
It’s not in his interest at the moment to remember all these people. It’s time for him, I suppose, to score some points and play the good boy in dingdon’s camp.
He might as well cross the floor.
Been following him for a while
Don't think @fetterman.senate.gov sees Manchin or Sinema as models.
Maybe he'll disappoint me
But he did spend a lot of time this past election in rural PA, so maybe he understands better than the new left Twitteratti (BSratti?) what it takes to win elections in PA?
Fetterman isn’t up to any skullduggery. He’s a Senator in a state that Trump won and the other D - long-term Senate incumbent - lost. Obviously, his seat needs to stay D. Listen carefully. He’s saying every nominee will get a fair hearing from him and he’s inclined toward Rubio, period. Winning PR
He ran on a very progressive platform, won a majority of Pennsylvanians’ votes, and then literally said, “Ha ha, I’m not a progressive!” Skullduggery is much too nice a word for it.
I don’t think that’s inconsistent with what I wrote. 1) I think it was others who labeled him a progressive; I don’t think he used that label. 2) The best outcome for all of us is that he doesn’t lose to a Republican next time. Let’s wait and see how he votes.1/2
He 💯 percent ran as a big liberal. He flew a trans rights flag outside his office window; he sold legalize weed t-shirts from his campaign website. Pennsylvanians voted for that guy. He sold out.
I’m not predicting the future, rather I’m saying the opposite- too early to tell how this will turn out and lip service about considering the nominees tells us nothing. Sure, Trump’s nominees are all-star villains. But historically, the opposition usually largely supports giving the Pres his cabinet
I tend to agree. He's a political animal. He's in 50/50 state and Casey (moderate, well-liked incumbent Dem just lost -- if barely). He travels back to Purplesvania often. He knows the vibe in the state, and he knows his seat is very vulnerable. He will still be that "51st vote".
Totally. I think some folks misunderstand the moment. Biden failed to make a forceful positive case for his policies (by choice or inability), which left a vacuum that was filled with negative voices. The result is what we see now -- backpedaling to regain footing, to find solid ground.
Brain damage from strokes. Well known to cause personality changes and sociopathy. He will likely never be the same kind empathetic person who was voted into office. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an ultra hard right shift politically, possibly even a party change.
In the end, he is another self-centered, self-serving douchebag politician who has proven himself to be feckless and weak. His hard man, blue collar posturing is just that...posturing with no integrity.
I think we need to face facts: white men aren't good at representing us. (They are the group consistently worst at empathy and with the most narcissists.) Patriarchy/supremacy enables them to be mid while rest of us work harder. (Not saying no good white men, just among reps: tiny fraction.)
Those Democratic politicians and progressive activists and pundits who are now trying to reach out to Trump and MAGA—whatever their motives—will surely be burned.
Seriously,
Democrats
helped
him
get across the line, and took care of him after his stroke. What a self-serving,
slob, white male,
privileged asshole he turned out to be.
We will remember. #Traitor
We here in Pennsylvania need to find a good strong candidate that will stand up to Jeff Yass and his billions
Yass financially supported Dave McCormick from CT and Dr Oz
I have to wonder after he took money from @aipac if he now is taking money from other sources If Yass is the $ support we loose
He won't. PA dem party is irresponsible. Unless it divests from corporate control and honestly drives hard to win back the working class it will end up like the looney toon gop. Maybe that's what they want. Don't underestimate Hanauer's pitchforks.
He certainly didn't represent himself as a Trump supporter. He was all for Democracy and his constituents. Our cherished institutions have been taken over by payoffs, threats, intimidation, and blackmail. I guess we should all just pick one or maybe all four.
he has brain damage from his stroke and why the dems left him in was for a vote-a singular vote-which did no favor to fetterman since he should have been in TBI rehab. He probably beyond repairable now and his lack of reason and judgement, calling folks Hamas to supporting Fascism is proof.
I don't disagree on Fetterman being a disappointment, but please don't just blame the stroke. As someone who had 2 strokes at 40, I learned that stroke does not necessarily mean damage to judgment, reasoning, or intelligence. A person's deficits depend on the brain region affected and severity.
I know this and I know which lobes his doctors said were affected; I also know he discharged himself from rehab. You are being defensive as if I had said it about all-please read more carefully the words that are wrote and not between the lines-thank you
Yea, he seems like he lost something when he had his stroke. If politicians think we have forgotten 2016-2020, they are in for an eye opener. The lies, corruption, coverups, hate, bigotry, treason, insurrection. America will NEVER heal until justice is served.
The amount of time we spent defending him on social media and doorknocking - and if us regular volunteers are pissed, I can't even imagine how his closest staff & advisors are feeling at his betrayal. He's always had main character energy but it's gone from annoying to disgusting. Also, poor Gisele
He was still better than Oz, but that's not saying much. I was pleased to see him fighting for recovery, but now I wonder if some marbles were lost along the way.
He is entitled to opinion. But faith in his judgement gone. People stopped hearing what Trump says/ following the natural consequences of that to a logical conclusion. The guardrails are off. He/Musk - corrupt flunkies doing his/their bidding. Only rebels in the House stand between him and tyranny.
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Is this the result of his serious/long mental health battle
Or
Ha$ he been bought
He has become dangerous
Either
To himself AND to us
Or just to us
We must rethink our options
And his Democratic future
We can't afford for his
Manchin/Sinema to be completed
He is no longer a Dem
And it doesn't seem that PA
Is a state where you can recall him
So forget it.
https://bsky.app/profile/realtuckfrumper.bsky.social/post/3ldvryidzky27
The only reason he’s in the Senate is democrats wanted to keep the seat and his opponent was out of his fascist mind
We stood by him and supported him
Now he's into his Manchin phase, I'm not liking it.
No sir.
Not one bit.
Democrats are for the people!
Nursed him back to health. This is the thanks.
This is it folks
Believe who they are the first time! He and all the others about to cave can fuck off then get the fuck outta the way. He's a coward, he will be primaried he's over.
No capitulation!
#FuckFetterman
PA people were warned about him.
Maybe it can happen again.
He was supposed to be the Democrat to bring Democrats back to the real people.
He might as well cross the floor.
Don't think @fetterman.senate.gov sees Manchin or Sinema as models.
Maybe he'll disappoint me
But he did spend a lot of time this past election in rural PA, so maybe he understands better than the new left Twitteratti (BSratti?) what it takes to win elections in PA?
#RenMakesMusic
#GoodWillHunting
#WeAreAllHuman
#Listen
#IsThisTheWorldWeCreated, Freddie?
#Renegades
#TikkunOlam
Democrats
helped
him
get across the line, and took care of him after his stroke. What a self-serving,
slob, white male,
privileged asshole he turned out to be.
We will remember. #Traitor
Yass financially supported Dave McCormick from CT and Dr Oz
I have to wonder after he took money from @aipac if he now is taking money from other sources If Yass is the $ support we loose