After his flip to the dark side post election, I honestly don’t know why there aren’t a lot more people cosplaying as Republicans. That side is so easily duped that anyone who comes out faking hate for moinorities, or claiming the government is a swamp you could easily win and then just flip afterwards.
I do have a friend who ran for county judge as a Democrat and was defeated. Four years later, she ran as a Republican and won. Her politics are the same as ever, but that ® on the ticket makes the locals fill in her bubble every time she’s up for reelection.
That is awesome.
To wholeheartedly promote Republican policies requires brain damage, which we don’t yet have the technology to reverse.
I could easily lie about that stuff and be convincing enough to enought morons to make them think I’m on their side. You live near enough conservatives and christians and you learn how to fake it.
Literally the opposite of what he was elected to do. Such a shame. He’s a piece of shit, and I hope the worst for him.
I voted for him and I’ve never felt so betrayed by a politician I was actually kinda cool with being in a position of power.
Brain damage made him go from sorta quietly right leaning Democrat to a full-blown Republicrat.
At least we know definitively that brain damage is what makes people support conservative views.
The dementia epidemic is what’s going to start WW3
The war powers resolution failed 49 to 50 as the Pennsylvanian was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans who control the Senate. Three Republicans — U.S. Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Susan Collins, of Maine; and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska — voted with Democrats.
Saying that Fetterman’s vote was deciding is silly, when it was a 49 to 50 vote - every vote was deciding.
And the Republican dissenter votes are purely performative. They pull this shit all the time, with the same persons. Who would never vote against their party, if the vote could truly fail. Especially Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski do this all the time. Hence the people here blaming the Democrats for being captured are sheep being tricked by the Republican performance.
There are four Republicans more reliable than this Democrat.
Ummm Mitt Romney is gone and I wouldn’t call Collins or Murkowski reliable.
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Thank you. You never know how much coffee I’ve had when I get to a post
Typical trolling insult from you.
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I mean, they’re reliably baffled
Trump and Epstein raped those kids
Yep, it’s all in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES ™
I wish there was a way to get them out of office. Too bad the US system doesn’t have a vote of no confidence.
I guess the only way is to sue him for misrepresentation since he changed parties after being voted by the Democrats.
Piece of absolute shit.
My conspiracy theory is he is paid to be the sacrificial lamb, if it weren’t him it would be someone else. I am more angry at Schumer and then the rest of the Democrats for letting Schumer lead.
Yeah this is a well known tactic in the US government. Backdoor dealings outline how to make a split vote and pick a fall guy to protect the party’s image.
I.e. the Democrats failing to stop Trump’s war in Iran a few weeks ago where some random nobody was the fall guy that time. It looks like Democrats tried but failed and they can blame it on some inconsequential Rando who isn’t up for reelection
The military industrial complex owns everything. The machine exists for their benefit.
This fucking traitor is a disgrace to his party and his country
Traitor, sure, but not to his party. The Democrats always have a designated villain so that they can pretend like they tried to do something, or stop something, but oh shucks looks like we just didn’t have the votes this time :(
Schumer is the party, he’s thrilled about the senseless bombing of Iran
Republican Senator John Fetterman
There needs to be recalls on elected officials who drastically change their views like this fuckup.
He basically turned into a Con and still got to remain in his position!
“Rotating villain strategy” would like a word with you
I knew that he was a piece of shit from the start, because of his stance on fracking and Israel.
It’s what happens when neither the press nor the party actually vet candidates. Instead they ignore any compromising history and then collaborate with them to sell the public a new image.
He has always been a lazy contrarian. His dad basically paid for his first public office as mayor where he did nothing for the town but raise cost of living by marketing the town as a vacation spot for tourist. During this tenure he also held one of his constituents at going point for the crime of being a poc and jogging near his home.
As Lt governor he was out of office 115 days out of the year and only had 4-5 hour days the time he chose to show up. He was also largely absent from presiding over the state Senate…which he was legally required to do.
Anyone who’s ever worked with him has gone on the record about how he doesn’t want to do anything unless he gets to do it his way, even if his way is the worst way possible. He’s just a spoiled nepo baby pretending to be blue collar. His dad is literally a CEO and owner of a huge insurance company, is a large conservative donor, and bankrolled his sons life well into his 40s.
Let me guess…he voted not to limit his war powers?
correct
cast the deciding vote against the latest effort to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran
Parties (and/or the people) really need a way to recall member that runs on bad faith and switches after elections. From Sinema to Fetterman, there’s always at least one fraud in the DNC.
The DNC always have a “bad democrat” that jump lines while letting all the other mainline democrats vote in
Lieberman retired so we had to have someone to take his place.
Don’t forget Manchin.
Sinema.
I thought of him after I wrote that. Does anyone know if Fetterman has a trawler he can yell at reporters from the back of?
We should buy him a caboose at the Amtrak
Manchin is a little different, because there was no way we could have gotten a different Democrat in that seat anytime in the recent past. West Virginia votes for Republicans 70/30. They resisted the Southern Strategy a bit longer than other now-red states due to WV Democrats’ historic ties to the coal industry and labor unions. But US politics is all culture war bullshit all the time now, and WV is about as MAGA as they come. Manchin sort of got grandfathered in, due in large part to his reputation for “owning the libs” as it’s now called. We’re lucky we had a nominally Democratic senator warming that seat for as long as he did, because he would at least vote with Democrats some of the time. Plus, it allowed for a Democratic VP to break the tie when it was 50-50, whereas it would be 51®-49(D) were the same seat to decide the balance today.
Dude you almost gave me a pitchfork attack
They work it out, so they only lose the vote by 1, but if more were needed to lose, they would lose those by 1, while the rest pretend to be against it.
Duh. Fetterman is a MAGA dempublican … nearly republican. Hell he practically might be full blown MAGA republican soon enough. He got the TDS now. Brain damage done him in.
This is the guy voting to allow the war to persist:
Why are you guessing? The headline says that already.
He’s GOP. Let’s drop the DINO nonsense. Refer to him as a Republican.
There are no Republicans anymore, that was just their larval stage before they morphed into their final form - MAGA. Republicans should only be referred to in an historical or scholarly context.
The Republican party is as dead as the Whigs. They’re all MAGA now.
That’s a superb point!
The old Republican party died a long time ago - with Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
Can’t everyone just run as Republican? Then vote whatever you actually want.
Sure…what harm would you like to inflict onto what group?
Harm1. Harm2. Harm3.Group1. Group2.
Group3…
Its just too fishy that there is always, conveniently, a singlr dem vote in the senate to support right wing bullshit.
That’s called rotating villain strategy.
I don’t think all Democrats are working directly with MAGA. But I’d believe it if these Republicans hiding in the Democrat party meet together to find the absolute minimum number that would need to support MAGA bills to get them to pass. They probably cycle who betrays US citizens so they can deny claims they only ever vote MAGA.
This kind of maneuvering is exactly what the elected officials spend all their time doing, and no they don’t spend any time actually writing laws. Laws are written by corporations and sold to the politicians who are just playing a dumb fucking popularity game.
What a fucking piece of shit.
