If I stroke out just pull the plug, I can't risk becoming a Republican.
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Dude, he didnt become a republican because of the stroke.
He's always been one. and a piece of shit asshole too
his locals have been saying that from the damn start.
Why is the senator of Pennsylvania doing at a conference in and about Texas?
Just republican things. You wouldn't understand.
He’s getting paid to deliver Republican wins. Fetterman loves the money. I doubt he cares which party he aligns with as long as the grift keeps paying.
Practically everyone in office is getting paid to deliver something.
For example, Biden was paid to stop minimum wage.
Trump was paid to invade Iraq.
You can tell what they were paid for by watching what they do. Viola! That's what was paid for.
Dollars are free speech and corporations are people.
because he is
Yes, we know. Dude is just a Republican plant.
I'm convinced that it's his stroke causing a personality change and possibly cognitive decline.
his locals that have known and dealt with him long before the election have all said he's been a fucking cunt his entire life.
the stroke had nothing to do with anything
I'm convinced the stroke was fake and his run as a democrat was a ruse to get elected on false promises
oh, did the new rotating villain drop early?
I think this one has been teased for a while.
Never trust a motherfucker from York county.
If you listen to him, he clearly still has issues with speech after the stroke. A speech impediment isn’t inherently disqualifying from being a lawmaker, but such a dramatic change to someone’s brain should have automatically triggered a re-election that allowed the voters to evaluate if he could still perform his duties to the same degree as when he was elected by the people.
Except, the stroke happened before the election. The stroke happened before the primary.
The people of Pennsylvania elected him to office knowing that he'd had a serious stroke.
Yeah dog. Welcome to representative politics. The primary was never even close. Stroke was a few days beforehand. His campaign talked up his recovery. Feel free to look up quotes about just needing surgery for a pacemaker and how he’d be fine. All the messaging stayed progressive; campaigns are run by staffers, so him being absent meant nothing for outward appearances. And who would progressives have voted for after he won the primary—Doctor Oz? Or should everyone have banded together to call the Fetrerman campaign liars and form a write in push for one of the primary losers? And risk losing Pennsylvania to DOCTOR OZ?!
Pennsylvanians were lied to and they have no true representation. But there’s no mechanism to fix that. You’re supposed to wait a couple years and just take what you get, because it’s more important that you follow the rules than it is to be heard. And that’s called democracy.
Politician finally tells the truth that should be the title
Fetterman accidentally tells the truth
Can't really fault him, ive been making the same mistake thinking he was a lifelong republican all along as well.
"Accidentally"
He definitely said it accidentally. That doesn't make it untrue.
Tldr:
“Let’s revisit after the midterms, and let’s see what happens – you know – if I happen to be 51,” said Fetterman, who was elected to the US Senate in 2022. “I don’t know.”
If he has to put an R by his name to block Dems, he'll do it.
But the grift money for being the most conservative Dem is a shit ton more than being a random Republican.
So he's not going to do it unless there's a reason, and that would likely come with a lump sum bribe.
He's advertising that he'd be for sale to all the billionaires who want trump to be unaccountable
Should be illegal to run as Democrat get elected then switch to other party. If you want to switch Should have to run as that party. If I lived in that state I be PISSED! ASSHOLE should be recalled. The fact that voters in Pennsylvania aren't protesting at the capital demanding just that.
I don't think political parties should be written into the law at all, but in general the ability to vote to recall a politician should be. Some states are able to do that, and there should be a new election if they are recalled.
I'd support a law that would automatically trigger a recall vote if a sitting representative changes party affiliation.
Of course since states have full control over the election of their representatives I suppose it may have to be 50 laws, but still
I don't get why the Democrats don't just boot him out of the party?
Because he takes all the blame while they all get to cash their bribe checks as well.
Because a dino still sits in a blue chair, and for them it can be all about the identity of the chairs in the room.
But yeah. If the numbers swing hard enough on the midterms he won't need to choose sides because it'll be safe enough that they can boot him now and primary him later.
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If the switched side ne would paraded around as the Spostate and then quickly forgotten
"Accidentally"...
Either this guy's brain was so deprived of oxygen that it's now unable to lie, or - more likely - he's sending not-so-subtle messages to his soon-to-be new political family.
His brain was so deprived of oxygen. Just five more seconds and he'd be a brain dead vegetable. Instead he's got just enough brain function to be a Republican.
Also see: McConnelling.
Sorry, John, but this isn’t out of context.
Democrats winning 51 seats will not be enough to resist Trump. He will switch sides and vote maga the rest of his term.
Trump will just veto anything the Senate passes anyway. The real advantage to having a majority will be to be able to appoint the majority leader and also lead the various subcommittees. Plus it'll better position the Democrats to take a larger majority in 2028 (which is also when Fetterman can be primaried.)
Yeah, exactly. I didn't think anything would get passed.
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What a doofus. With "allies" like Uncle Festerman, who the fuck needs political opposition?
Please dont disparage Uncle Fester. He is loyal to his family and always has been.
Anyone who is loyal to a party is putting a party over their constituents. I'd say whichever party he was going to say is a problem. No representative should be voting for what the "rest of the group" is voting for but rather what the people they represent want. If 65% of his constituents say they want to end U.S. sanctions on Cuba it shouldn't matter what they want, or the party wants, his vote should be to end sanctions on Cuba or be immediately ousted for being corrupt.
You are correct about this. The key problem for him specifically is actions are not reflecting what the majority of his voters wanted. But this does also address another problem (not so much for senators but for representatives in the House), the number of people they represent.
We need an expansion of the House and redistricting so that each seat only represents a limit of people, so they can actually talk to those people and know what their interests are. Too large a chuck of population and that becomes muddled, and so party lines is far simpler to manage, assuming the votes still stand. But for local issues, which are often what bills are about, how can party line always be the best option, or even matter? Some things are politically bounded, they're what's best for the people in that region, and if the rep doesn't even really know who that is or what they want...
Granted, they have a staff to do a lot of this, but the population number per is still too high.
Oh, and Fetterman is damaged goods, they need a new senator. Of course, look at Kentucky, they didn't even have one of the senators for 90+ days (and I still have doubts).
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