What the fuck happened to him? He seemed so promising just a few years ago.
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Brain damage. He had a stroke a few years ago and switched from liberal to conservative real fast.
He was always like this, he just became more abrasive after the stroke.
We just closed our eyes and looked the other way when he showed himself to be a rabid zionist and assumed he'd grown from when he chased a black man through neighborhood with a shotgun.
You see him go against AIPAC-backed corpo dems in the primary and interpreted some labor rhetoric and putting a hammer and sickle in his profile pic and it's easy to mislead yourself.
It's what happens when you don't do the critical part of critical support.
This is different from Sinoma who simply lied about all of her positions.
I think this is the most charitable interpretation.
He was never particularly liberal... he just had enough money to throw around in grand acts that people assumed he was generous and cared about regular people.
Never trust someone from York county.
I can forgive virtually everything else he's said... But suggesting Biden grant a pardon to a man who has shown no remorse or even an admission that his alleged crimes might be wrong is so far off the path of wisdom that i dont think its even fair to count his seat "blue".
Really, you could cut the headline to "Fetterman made his first post on truth social", and I'd still be disappointed, the rest just put a cherry on top.
Goddamn, either this guy was one hell of a fraud, or brain damage does really cause conservatism.
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so he understands that trump is guilty, of treason, and he wants him off the hook.
Post summary says he's calling for a pardon on the campaign finance fraud case (the porn star hush money). So assuming that's an accurate summary he's not calling for a pardon on treason. Also it's a state crime so it's not one the president can pardon anyway.
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I can't believe I shook this guy's hand at a campaign rally once. Fuck you and your hoodie, Fetterman.
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Maybe the public is right to distrust institutions.
Congrats to Fetterman on being the New Joe Manchin. He'll never have to make another fundraising call again-- must feel good.
I imagine he has a bright future as the Dem or republican frontrunner in a future presidential election.
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Did that stroke cause a personality change? Seems like he is suffering from magabrain.
There will always be just enough Democrats like him to fuck us over. Every time, without exception.
I wonder what happens to a party without core values that can't be trusted?
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Man this world is weird.
Okay I know what happened, he historically died, but a time traveler took over over his conciousness right before his death and now controls his body. John Fetterman is dead, this is just some time traveler fucking around with the past.
/s Shout outs to Travelers, go watch it its great.
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Oh my god, I hate that I've voted for this dude multiple times.
This dude was pretty wacky from the get go. It was funny watching people flock to him like dumbasses to a flame.
2028, the year we will be finally rid of both of these dingbats from politics (hopefully)
Been a fraud since his pro zionist stance
"Just elect local progressives to form the future of the democratic party! Maybe next election season you'll get one!"
- Local "progressive" was never that progressive, especially to non-whites the media made it look that way and blame his stroke, and is now a Trump supporting fascist once he's in office.
At some point Charlie Brown stopped trying to kick the football, we should too. Better than Dr. Oz, but so was any random person in Pennsylvania.
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