Perfect example of brain damage making some one conservative
I don’t think any of this had to do with his stroke directly. I think he is compromised. I think there is a skeleton in his closet that cannot come out, and he is doing anything and everything asked of him to prevent that.
The man literally had a stroke that caused brain damage and he woke up a conservative. 🤷♂️
All conservatives have brain damage. Many are just born with it.
Wasn’t there a study on this - brain damage decreases empathy and so you become a conservative.
The amount of lead exposure during your life would also contribute to this I feel, we are fucked until money gets out of politics as it seems it’s currently a DEI for older/damaged folk. Why do people have to have a fitness test to go and die but our people in charge don’t even have to have a physical in most cases.
As much as I liked the “massive brain damage causes conservatism” narrative following Fetterman around, I’ve been hearing more and more that he was always a duplicitous asshole.
Our country needs a way to recall public servants when they betray constituents. Six years is too long to wait.
It’s a state-by-state option depending on their laws. Time to run for local offices and change the rules.
I’m not sure. His own staff has been abandoning him in droves. I supported him during the election and he without question changed. Was there a conservative quality to him to begin with? Sure, but he was closer to Sanders than Manchin. Unlike Sinema who was just an agent like Gabbard, I do think the stroke heavily exacerbated what little conservatism he had
He literally said in an interview that he felt the progressivism flowing out of his body when it happened
I’d like to read/hear this, link?
That would explain the rightwing shift that some people go through in their very old age.
Maybe conservatism is just an early sign of dementia or other kinds of brain damage.
I think a lot of that conservatism simply shows that they were always an awful person.
Like, when you’re young and you have no money, if you’re a greedy fuck, then you’re a progressive. “I want other people to give me money.”
But when you’re old and you have already made your money, and you’re still a greedy fuck, then you’re a conservative. “I don’t want to give my money to other people.”
You don’t really care about politics. You just care about yourself and your money.
I think sometimes people forget that, even if you’re on the good team, you’ll almost certainly have a lot of bad people on your team.
When I’m old you can have my money 💰
Just now?
I know right! He’s been a bad Dem since his incident! Maybe even before…
According to some, he was like this before the stroke. He was just against Dr. Oz at the time and he’ll make anyone else look sane.
I remember people liking him because he was an asshole on our side, sticking it to Republicans. I guess an asshole on your side is still, at the end of the day, an asshole. In other words, by no means should Democrats nominate Gavin Newsom for president.
The stroke removed his hatred of Dr Oz?
I just upvoted to gain the majority! 50 + 1
He puts the F in etterman. Ffs
If you’re not familiar with him, here is an interview with fetterman by Jon Stewart. He goes off the rails about half way. When Jon pressed him, things got wacky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BMAkJIlnw
This video may be painful to watch. He obviously received a severe mental disability.
Blue team just needs to keep him in the party until the next election. Until then, he votes with the blue team on judge appointments over 95% of the time. If that’s the only worthwhile thing he’s gonna do I’ll take it until he gets the boot. Red team isn’t going to take him either. Sad how a brain injury can derail your life.
Even his wife doesn’t seem to think he’s the same guy.
Is this article from 3 years ago by mistake?
Something that’s become readily apparent since Trump’s first term is that many people are just slow as fuck to notice blatantly obvious things.
Wait, they’re only realizing this NOW??
I imagine the sticker shock one gets from tanking up at a gas station is waking up a lot of zombies from their deep slumber about a great many things.
2000&late
Good. He is not to be trusted now.
In a way, it makes sense. Same donors. Why wouldn’t some of them get bought off post election? The money in legislators is the entire game.
I’m not defending it, I’m pointing out how obvious it is that this would happen since most elections are oligarch influenced. Oh, the oligarch lost? Money just gets more direct now. Probably. To make sure each vote goes their way. No other reason for these anti-American assholes to switch party lines.
It’s probably why they’re so rabid about people like AOC, Bernie, and Mamdani. They can’t buy them off.
People should be able to not just have a politician recalled. If you get enough signatures, you should be able to have them executed for treason at the State level. Id say put it on every election ballot, should the current or previous house of this office be investigated for treason?
I hate how progressives created him and now that they’ve turned his back on them they pretend he’s a democrat problem.
Progressives created him? What are you smoking?
Joe Biden stumped for the guy, but you blame the progressives because you hate them.
Maybe look at the entire reality next time. Everyone campaigned for him because Dr Oz is a nightmare.
But I guess being a smug neoliberal is more important than facts.
I’m a progressive. Fetterman is in the Senate because of grassroots support from Progressives. That Democrats stumped for him only proves that Democrats will support whomever they need to support to defeat Republicans. Progressives like me thought Fetterman was the man before the stroke made him a Republican. (I didn’t know about that whole racist shotgun interaction in 2020 though.)
The great thing about being a smug progressive is you can just make up facts whenever you like.
Oh, so Joe Biden and Barack Obama didn’t campaign for him?
I guess it only counts when Bernie Sanders does it.
Maybe you’ll enlighten me as to which facts I made up?
Pathetic.
All you’re admitting to is liberals help progressives out and progressives act like dicks to liberals.
So you’re incapable of answering the question about your accusation? Wow who would have guessed?
Maybe someone who hasn’t seen you do the same thing a billion times before? You called me a liar. Are you just going to pretend like you didn’t?
It is funny to see you cry about it, I’ll give you that.
Yes this was before his brain damage. But he was probably always lying.
He pretended to be (or was) someone else to his constituents. How is that progressives’ faults??
It was also either him or Dr. Oz. I think we’re better off with Fetterman, out of the two.
Just like Graham Platner progressives bought into him.
Agreed. Just like every MAGAt needs to be wiped from the face of the earth for supporting trump… 3 times, over the course of a decade.
Interesting, could you provide a little more context? I know basically nothing about him other than seeing coverage of where he’s at now
Bernie endorsed and rallied for his senate run.
