He’s officially irrelevant now and I am so happy.
I’ll never have to hear about him or Susan Collins again.
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I had forgotten Collins lost. Man, what a great day.
Takin out da trash
Oh shit! I didn't expect that
Did he get voted out?!
No, but originally he was supposed to help keep a dem majority, but that crumbled when he started voting republican.
Now it doesn’t matter because they have a majority without him. So he can just sit in his corner for 4 years until he’s primaried.
Not yet— 2028, and he’s despised by both sides.
What kind of fool would jump from a functional ship to a sinking one?
Just Fetterman and Stevens I guess.
The part of his brain that contained ethics, morals, human decency, and simple logic died when he had that stroke
Either that, or the bit that led about being a Democrat.
stevens is out of the party in her state, she has very little power unlike fetterman.
Pretty fucking funny.
Stevens is getting that sweet blood money from aipac, cushy lobbying gig maybe. Federman too, though he probably doesn't realize he's useless to them now. No cushy job or blood money for him.
In this season of House of Cards, those two carry on TV's grossest affair.
Why did they not get thrown out their party beforehand?
I've heard that Fetterman still votes with Dems on most things, which tend not to be the things we hear about. If he officially left the party, he may be inclined to actually vote with Republicans on all that other stuff, too.
One with brain damage.
Lol, the one guy on CBC even talked about having a Fetterman resistant Senate majority
We call that an unfettered majority. 😁
Love it.
Wrap it up folks, internet done for the day. TheRealKuni wins for today.
TBF, I thought he already had.
Has in spirit, not in title. He'll switch almost immediately to make sure the dem's headline senate control is a little more tenuous and looks worse on paper.
Going from a possible 55 or 56 to 54 or 55 doesn’t really change the math too much. It would be big if dems only took a slim majority.
It'll never not be funny to me that he started leaning heavily towards MAGA only after sustaining literal brain damage.
Bringing that heat upon himself when it won't even help? He'd have to be some kind of brain damaged. Wait...
How is he actually still a candidate? Genuine question, I don't follow US politics that closely.
He's not, but he still has the rest of his term to serve. Unfortunately there is no recall mechanism either.
No recall mechanism/sanction for lying about intentions after the vote is the core problem of modern democracy. We read news in real time but takes 4 years to throw the liars out. Its too easy for the corrupt lot.
I wouldn't say core problem but it's definitely a critical component missing from any ernest attempt at actual democracy.
Yeah, it seems easily fixed. Also, instantly recallable delegates are a feature of anarchist systems, which representative democracy should learn from.
The challenge of designing/iterating on a better system is easier than the political challenge of getting a chance to try it.
And then you have to defend that chance from saboteurs, enemy propaganda, poisoning the discussions on how to proceed, sanctions, invasion, literally anything and everything the old world can do to try to smother it.
Can... can he be impeached?
The House and Senate have complete control over their members.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
It would take 67 votes in the Senate, but they absolutely could expel him. That won’t happen because it would require getting now 12-14 republicans on their side to kick him out, and he’s useful to republicans.
I think that's the only real solution to the problem that's laid out in the current legal framework. It's historically pretty difficult to pull off though.
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He lies and says he's a Democrat
His name is Fetterman
We dream in color, he dreams in red
His name is Fetterman
"The Democratic Party has gotten too extreme...."
The Governor has the mandate now. Call that fuck to heel.
Currently there's no legal way for a state to recall their senators. States have tried in the past, but all the attempts were defeated in the courts.
In reality, even with a hypothetical friendly court, there's no way the case would make it all the way through the appeals process before the senator's term was over and they were either voted out or reelected.
Honestly, this is a good thing. It means that no Republican governor in a trifecta state can recall a Democratic senator.
This guy looks like he should wear a helmet
Jeffries looks like the only time he’d laugh is if he saw a homeless person fall down.
Sometimes you can judge books by their covers
Why would he charge his affiliation? There's no reason to unless you're running... You can just kinda quietly change sides
You know, pull a Federman
Thankfully, the margins are wide enough now that it wouldn't even really matter if he did.
STFU Johnny, you're out of your element.
I saw him just yesterday for the first time and I thought he was talking for Republicans.
He won't change sides, he gets committee power from being in the majority party. He would have switched in a 50/50 split but not now.
Better to keep a man on the inside, especially since he can't flip control and can keep voting with the regime anyway.
Lol, it won't be enough.
If he’s smart he’ll hold out for the big money like Haley Stevens got. Don’t sell yourself cheap.
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