They’re politicians, not fucking celebrities. That’s what you got wrong
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In all fairness he was up against an actual celebrity. He did a 180 pretty quick. Hopefully PA fixes this mistake, as he is not liberal anymore.
ugly genocider POS
How does he remain a reliable Democratic voice exactly? Who the fuck writes this shit?
AI
Man I read so much cyberpunk in the 90’s and was so excited for the future, even though those books pretty much predict that all the cool future shit will be used to make our lives stupider, I was optimistic back then. But they were absolutely right. The world just continues to March towards dystopian nightmare, and I hate every piece of new technology that I should love. There was a time that having a computer in my pocket and being able to talk to literal robots in my 30’s was an idea that would have excited the fuck out of me. I’ll never forgive capitalism for turning my dreams into nightmares.
I’ll admit that Douglas Adams hit the nail on the head in regards to AI. In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, AI exists but everyone hates dealing with it because it’s so damned annoying. They avoid it whenever possible, and only interact when forced to do so via things like smart devices that use AI for basic tasks.
For instance, doors are programmed with AI and emphatically love opening and closing for people. In fact, they love their job as a door so much that they have a tendency to loudly and repeatedly thank people for using them, to the point of annoyance.
Douglas Adam’s was right about a lot of things. Good satire mirrors reality in that way.
You're not allowed to enjoy things in the way that you would like to. All ruined by someone else. Only able to hold on to whatever is left.
The one thing the upper classes have never been able to figure out how to take from us is culture. That's why they're obsessed with AI. But the thing is we'll just kinda change what we like, just like every time they try to create something to control and manipulate us. TV and Radio have tried to dictate taste, but still underground acts have become beloved and have reached audiences through the ages. AI can only mimic what already exists. It cannot mimic anything that doesn't exist yet. So start making art. Make physical artifacts of your creativity that a machine cannot replicate. Record a poem on a cassette tape. Practice calligraphy. Make some shrinky dinks! Whatever it is that you create by hand, create it by hand. The techniques you use cannot be replicated by a machine without access into physical space.
his voters hate him now, especially with him running crying to bill maher last year, whining. hes more or less similar to Manchin?
I voted for the fucker and I am so pissed about it. He seemed cool but then became the biggest disappointment. Fetterman can get fucked.
Where does it say that?
Imagine being so bad that people regret not voting for Dr. Oz instead
I can't imagine what insanity Dr Oz would have been taking part in this whole time.
I suppose we'll find out when he's in charge of medicare and medicaid.
Wait what. Please tell me that's not true.
Nah we got brain worm man instead
That’s not better
I don't believe they are going for the same position RFK got HHS... Oz is specifically overseeing Medicare/Medicaid... sadly trump can find room for 2 medically focused junk science pushers.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/mehmet-oz-trump-medicare-medicaid/index.html
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Palm Beach. Nominated as administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Senate confirmation required, but not yet scheduled.
It's called a lateral move.
The worm can’t make any moves in any direction because it’s dead :(
At this point calling him a pro-Israel Democrat is stupid. This sack of shit is a GOP dick sucker.
Didn’t this stuff start happening like right after he had that stroke? Or am I misremembering. If so that really tells some things about the Republican Party
He was always kind of a privileged scumbag who would throw tantrums when he didn’t get his own way. He literally twists words to support his narrative going back well over a decade
He heard fireworks once and saw a black jogger in like 2013. He decided with no evidence this was a crime so he chased the guy and detained him with a fucking shotgun. Sound familiar? 7 years later the same scenario resulted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. And as a result of that during his senate run when people dug this incident up he stated he was the “chief law enforcement officer”, which was bullshit. He was mayor, but he was also really buddy buddy with the cops (technically mayors in Braddock have admin power over the cops but he basically removed that to “make the cops jobs more efficient”, except when he needed the title 10 years later for damage control). He has never apologized for this incident and actively refuses to do so.
He also barely won the mayor position the first time (literally one by a single vote) and the second time influenced the election by using his power to release his opponents arrest records to defame him
The mayor of Braddock is also a small part time position that basically paid nothing. He was able to dedicate himself to it wholeheartedly because his rich dad paid him 50 grand a year to be mayor. He also used family money on several town enrichment projects early in his tenure to win favor. He still collected his meager mayor salary despite getting daddy money.
When he encountered roadblocks to projects he circumvented traditional means and as a result limited the ability for people who lived in the town to comment or intervene in his nonsense. This was probably by design because his plan was ultimately to gentrify the town. He only wanted you there if you were like his rich dad; if you weren’t then you could fucking leave. He wasn’t interested in serving you, he was interesting in “revitalizing the town” aka removing the undesirable elements and bringing in new desirable (read: rich and white) people to replace them.
In the meantime he scored brownie points by doing some gay weddings and having some nice community projects. Bc of course, he wanted the community to be nice. He just didn’t want you to live there if you were poor.
It is absolutely no surprise that he has aligned with neoliberals, with pro israel sentiment, and even with trump. Fuck fetterman. He’s always been a privileged, classist, and racist bully who will bend the rules if it means he gets his way. The stroke changed nothing.
Naa, he was always shit. The grift just can’t continue above the city level so he’s in YOLO mode and seeing if he’ll be re-elected anyways.
Receipts - https://youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM
He wasn't the same when he returned from that stroke. At first it seemed like he saw a glimpse of his mortality and realized the value of kissing up to republicans and grifting off the MAGA base. It's too bad. He was a real bulldog when he was Lt Governor and Trump was trying to steal the election in PA/2020.
So just throwing this out there, a lot of these shit bag traitors require 24/7 assistance to stay alive. Instead of resigning, STAY ON THE JOB, note everything important, names addresses, numbers, private plane serials, etc. odds are, one of the assistants are getting his medication ready in the morning. That's a lot of opportunity for a fatal error that could happen with no one at real fault
Faked it as best he could as long as he could... but has been clear for a while now
Wonder what kinds of kompromat the Mossad or the GOP has on him
There's no kompromat. He's just a fucking snake. If you look back before the election he wasn't too much different than this.
It sounds like he has come out the other side of his stroke recovery changed. It's like the parts of his brain that made him a better representative died with the stroke.
That's HIS rhetoric. This isn't true. He's literally just a con man.
This isn't mentioned often enough. He only looked good next to Oz. He was always a shitty person who behaved shittily. The people that actually dealt with him in their local government know. He's always been a bit of a dumb ass and a bully. Just one slightly more relatable to the average person than that loon Oz.
now dr OZ having control of medicaid/care, people are lamenting about him not being in the senate where he would have less influence.
his stroke just dis-inhibited his true colors. much like how alcohol shows one true colors while drunk.
he's not been the same since the stroke.
I miss Fettermania. What happened to you, bud?
This is who he's always been.
I'm just referencing the time period when everyone loved him, but..
This sure seems different.
Denouncing Trump as a fascist to saying that Trump's fascism is no different from Biden seems like at least a bit of a journey.
Nah, he's been a lying piece of shit snake who will say whatever makes him the most money. The problem is that you were listening to his words, instead of listening to his actions.
I almost started to like him back when that bridge collapsed and I knew that bridge well but whatever fuck Fetterman
Oh look Democrats found another stick in the mud to derail getting anything done. How pathetic.