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He has changed since he was Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania. He has been treated for a stroke and depression. I applaud his candor and openness in discussing his treatment. Getting medical treatment is not weakness.
However, his political positions have shifted since his term in Harrisburg and Senate election. Each day it seems like he less represents me and shares my views. I'll be pushing for Malcom Kenyatta to run against him in the 2028 primary.
What is more upsetting is that even if he "changed his mind" his current ideals is not what the voters thought they were voting for. It is still unethical for him to completely change his stance after getting the job.
I find your theory that politicians have ethics amusing.
It's not unheard of. Barely even a rarity; it's just that the terrible ones never quit and seem to have a natural lifespan about 30% longer.
Not a conspiracy theory either, it's just that stress-free lifestyle of not giving a shit about anyone.
Strom Thurmond is a great example. That raisin ball of shit was a US senator for 47 years. He lived to be nearly 101. Pissing on his grave is on my bucket list.
They would have ethics if we selectively culled the unethical ones like we're supposed to.
Another Sinema. The Democrats don't do a very good job of vetting Congressional candidates.
Nah, he legit seems to be a Phineas Gage situation (unlike Sinema). Went extreme right wing after a stroke.
Says a lot about being extremely right wing tho...
In 2013, John Fetterman chased a black jogger around his neighbourhood because he though fireworks were gunshots. More importantly, he never apologized.
The plausible deniability is there, I admit. But not apologizing is what makes me think he was always like this. The stroke just made it so he no longer had the capacity to hide it.
He was very against murder in his town, it was his whole thing. If I offer him the benefit of the doubt I can see him pulling that for at least a good reason, and unlike so many other incidents with mega racists he didn’t shoot the guy even though he had the capacity to.
I don’t think Fetterman was ever a genius, to be fair. In fact with more research into him I might even go so far as to use him as an example that you don’t have to be Einstein to be a good person, and that conservatives being stupid is only part of it; they are stupid and hateful. Whatever happened here seems to have pushed him over the edge he was already teetering on.
Damn...not a dig at you, Soup, but "He was against murder" and "At least he didn't shoot the black guy" as defences really shows us where we are at for our country's representatives, huh?
I didn't say he was bad for his constituents. I just gave a publicly available reason that could have contributed to his turn to the right. For me personally, not apologizing after he made a very clear mistake, especially as we saw the increasing reports of black people getting profiled in white neighborhoods, is a yellow flag at the very least.
We have people in this thread asking why Democrats always have at least one guy who turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. The fact of the matter is, we all have prejudicial biases, no matter how liberal or left leaning our politics are. It's not bad to acknowledge and confront them. A lot of privileged Democrat voters though are afraid to look that in the eye, and then they're surprised when people they elect suddenly turn out to be unpalatable to them.
What I was getting at is that his being against murder(along with the rest of the context provided, mind) means that as someone who was maybe seeing that trouble in more places than necessary he may have assumed that the gunshots he thought he heard were because a murder had taken place. Even with all that he still didn’t try to exact his own justice and detained instead of injured/killed.
I’m trying to point at that we can’t necessarily just say “oh he was evil the whole time” and write it off like good people can’t turn rotten for various reasons. The Democrats have a lot of problems and their centrism is a huge fucking problem, but the party is not left enough to constitute “sheep’s clothing”. It’s relativistic politics to make that assumption.
Intentional.
Fetterman is such a huge disappointment to me. There was a point where I would have put good money on him winning the 2028 presidency as a Democrat.
Fetterman is a great example of what happens when you put faith into any Amerikkkan government official.
Yup. Remember how excited people were when Sinema was elected? Surely because this person is gay and weird they couldn't possible betray us, right?
Fetterman's the same way.
A family man from a small town becomes a fascist when elevated to a national stage.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it" -George Carlin
It makes a lot of sense. Fascists love simple "solutions" to complex problems which is what I would expect out of small town representatives.
Fuck Fetterman. I used to love him. His support of trans people was so touching. Now he's a joke. He needs to resign.
He's been bought and or has serious leverage on him in some other way.
That's what I've always suspected, although the brain damage aspect rings true too. My father had some similar issues and as his mental decline intensified, so too did his conservatism.
Yeah, my dad had a TBI in 2015 and drank the orange kool-aid.
Por que no los dos?
Proof that most Republicans just have brain injuries
And dementia. One of the symptoms of early onset dementia is loss of empathy.
Chronic lead poisoning can absolutely cause brain damage, so that tracks.
RFK Jr., Gary Busy, Kevin Sorbo...
Lucy Lawless claims Sorbo has always been an ass, but there does seem to be less restraint since his injury. Empathy seems to require more more brain function then cruelty. I've never heard of someone becoming nicer after a traumatic head injury.
I’m so glad I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for Oz either, I wrote in “Juan Guaidó”.
Skip the "democratic" part. A grifter supports Trump. Nothing new here.
He's definitely different following his stroke, I would not say he went into the running as a grifter.
He suffered a stroke and came out of it as a piece of garbage.
Edit: typo I to > into
This piece of shit is from my neck of the woods too.
Someone should take away his hoodie and make him wear pants as punishment.
Of course this grifter supports it