a trumphumper

He's just looking for excuses now to cover his ass.

keeping track of which way the wind blows from here to the midterms.

.... go live in trDUMP's fuzzy wuzzy arm pit,... warm and cozy there.

(Manchin re-dux)

PEDO, Rapist, Homicidal Maniac, Liar and All.

Enjoy your cushy job for now, John. You won't get to keep it much longer.

..Just to vote against this prick..

I certainly haven't seen anyone on the Left pumping Iranian, Russian or Hamas propaganda as a weapon against the current administration.

But he wasn't just talking about "some", he was talking about the party as a whole. I don't think that's accurate at all. And his ability to communicate is spotty at best. He can barely string together coherent sentences in interviews.

What I don't expect to see are alleged Democrats vomiting out neocon talking points sourced from a neocon think tank about how the Iranian people are going to "rise up" after they have been repeatedly bombed in their homes, and other utterly silly and moronic points/ideas that have failed to materialize over the last three months.

Thank goodness 😂

which includes only rich white males.

Our America includes and cherishes everyone.

Means killing people all over the planet while our own citizens go without, call me anti-American. This guy is such a piece of shit.

I am RABIDLY Anti- the "America" we are in the days of tRump The Felon/Traitor. I OPPOSE stupid intervention in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Greenland, and everywhere else The Felon/Traitor. wants to stick his little mushroom.

Democrats aren’t pro Venezuela, pro Cuba or pro Iran. Instead, our country has procedures. The Executive Branch ignores those procedures and the Republicans refuse to enforce the procedures. Fetterman ignores the system.

Those of us in PA are not happy.

But, he’s had no shortage of voicemail and email from me. 🤬

...what he's spouting here is simply fascism.

It's not a stroke, it's anti-American prattle.

Why in hell should Americans under active assault by their own government give a shit about directing energy and advocacy, not to mention the fucking money, to these military assaults against other countries?

Anti-Americanism wrapped in imperialistic militarism.

Who foisted this fool on our party?

Make him flip.

And again, I don’t want to hear he votes with Dems 90% of the time.

Heard all of those arguments too many times and every time it comes back to bite Dems in the ass.

Will require one more Seat to flip, but it will also show Dems and Independents that the Party is damn serious about turning things around. Tie his sloppy ass to MAGA and make him deal with the stench.

The worthless piece of shit can’t be allowed to hold Dems hostage after the midterms.

As a progressive. Talk about a scam.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221246982#post26

I'm tired of reading about his latest stupidity. Just seeing his stupid face, wearing his stupid shorts and his stupid sweatshirt, pisses me off. I've had enough of Fetterman. .

I think this slob is just plain stupid. He damn sure is not a democrat

seat would vote with their party 100% of the time. There are a handful of Democrats in the Senate who cross over and don't always vote with their own party, but at least they have the good sense to keep their mouths shut, and they aren't constantly sucking up to Trump so publicly.

Or take a look at what's happening in this country. We're against drumpf's version of America. It's cruel and based on grift, hatred, and wars. They're not trying to make our lives better, they're just filling their own pockets while taking from ours.

He got elected by Democrats and now shits on them.

While I know he had the stroke and it look like his change can be traced back to that, I can't help but wonder if the Trumpers saw a guy who could be corrupted and decided to see if they could buy him?

You can be against dictatorial regimes and against wars at the same time.

Would anyone call Iraq a shining success story? Afghanistan? Vietnam was able to get rid of us and develop on their own.

The MAGA base.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20250503072039/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html

https://archive.ph/0bKU7



When John Fetterman was released from Walter Reed hospital in March 2023, Adam Jentleson, then his chief of staff, was proud of his boss for seeking help for what the senator’s office and his doctor had said was a case of clinical depression. His six weeks of inpatient care had been the latest medical setback for the Pennsylvania Democrat, who had had a stroke mere months before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022, nearly derailing his campaign against Republican Mehmet Oz. But a year after his release from the hospital, Fetterman’s behavior had so alarmed Jentleson that he resigned his position. In May 2024, he wrote an urgent letter to David Williamson, the medical director of the traumatic-brain-injury and neuropsychiatry unit at Walter Reed, who had overseen Fetterman’s care at the hospital. “I think John is on a bad trajectory and I’m really worried about him,” the email began. If things didn’t change, Jentleson continued, he was concerned Fetterman “won’t be with us for much longer.”

His 1,600-word email came with the subject line “concerns,” and it contained a list of them, from the seemingly mundane (“He eats fast food multiple times a day”) to the scary (“We do not know if he is taking his meds and his behavior frequently suggests he is not”). “We often see the kind of warning signs we discussed,” Jentleson wrote. “Conspiratorial thinking; megalomania (for example, he claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around but his sources are just what he reads in the news — he declines most briefings and never reads memos); high highs and low lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self centered monologues; lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room.”

Fetterman was, according to Jentleson, avoiding the regular checkups advised by his doctors. He was preoccupied with the social-media platform X, which he’d previously admitted had been a major “accelerant” of his depression. He drove his car so “recklessly,” Jentleson said, that staff refused to ride with him. He had also bought a gun. “He says he has a biometric safe and takes all the necessary precautions, and living where he does I understand the desire for personal protection,” Jentleson wrote, referring to Fetterman’s rough-and-tumble town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. “But this is one of the things you said to flag, so I am flagging.” Another red flag, Jentleson added: “Every person who was supposed to help him stay on his recovery plan has been pushed out.” Fetterman was isolated, had “damaged personal relationships,” and was shedding staff. The turmoil in his office continued over the following year. Since winning election in 2022, he has lost his closest advisers, including three of his top spokespeople, his legislative director, and Jentleson. His circle of trust has shrunk, and people I spoke with made it clear that they expect more staffers to depart.

When Fetterman first caught the attention of the national press, journalists wrote about him like he was a benevolent ogre crossed with a folk hero. More specifically, that’s how I wrote about him. “This is the tale of Big John Fetterman, the giant who lives in an abandoned car dealership beside a steel mill,” my 2018 profile in the Washington Post began. “He’s six-eight, arms covered in ink, head as bald as a wrecking ball.” At the time, Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, which looked a lot like the left-behind corners of the country that had flocked to Donald Trump. He was running for lieutenant governor of the state, and it was easy to see his appeal: He was a bit introverted and curmudgeonly, but funny, smart, and passionate about the fate of communities like Braddock, tattooing the date of each murder that occurred in the town during his tenure on his arm. Endorsed by Bernie Sanders, but also sympathetic to fracking and other positions that cut against the progressive grain, he cruised to victory that year.

snip

for the fact that after the election we're going to hold the senate 51-49, and he's going to flip to give the senate back to the rethugs........

it is going to happen

I’ve been saying, if it comes down that close, don’t pop the champagne.

words of wisdom ?

I deployed to serve in Iraq but I have disagreements with the foreign policy establishment going back to maybe Reagan. Doesn't mean that those that disagree are anti-American and if troops fight for "freedom" than Americans have the freedom to dissent from the President or any foreign policy choice.

and increasingly anti-Fetterman.

It seems like he’s running point on the propaganda designed to dissuade possible GOP and Independent defectors. It’s another branch that dehumanizes Democratic Party members from the inside. Now some can say “even Democratic senators will admit the Party has lost its mind and can no longer be trusted” to rationalize either not voting or voting for the “grownup” and “American” GOP candidate. It also helps normalize all the illegal or norm-breaking actions of this administration. Every percentage point matters, especially with the wiggly swing voters.

But branding the democratic base as "anti-American" is straight up Republican propaganda, full stop.

There's no good reason for a democratic politician to say that, ever.

Go shove your hoodie up your compromised ass.

because Fetterman isn't capable of grasping the implications.

Most guys who pull this, like Joe Machin, are trying to play a cynical long game, but it seems that Fetterman genuinely isn't capable of that kind of intrigue and instead has no meaningful social interactions beyond scrolling social media and maybe watching some segments on Fox.

He's either a textbook example of personality change resulting from being disabled by a near death event, or else an example of the effects of relying on the Internet for social connection after being disabled by a near death event.

Trump talks about. What has Trump done to make any poor person's life better. Bomb a girl's school? Does he know how many poor people in the world died due to Trump? Does he give a fuck?

What has Trump done to improve people's lives in Cuba, Venezuela or Iran? He doesn't name it, because Trump hasn't done shit.

Yeah, in other words we're against the United States invading countries and starting a war without the Congress' having their say. That must be why we're "anti-American".

... I hope he recovers his senses.

And hope even less

Literally every week I have to read something about Fetterman crapping on us as slobbers up to the felon and the right for reasons known only to himself.

I thought the guy was legit at first, but he seems a real dipshit lately.

He might as well be Sean Hannity.

He'll change parties in an instant to keep Democrats from taking the senate, if it makes the difference. Count on it.

That's a big Libertarian magazine & I mean actual Libertarian, not Rand Paul Fauxbertarian.
I wonder if they went off on Fetterman for being a war monger? Libertarians are very anti-war but something tells me that didn't happen.

Fetterman really changed a lot after the stroke, didn't he? It's sad to see how much he's changed and his empathy, conscious, and compassion are really in the dumpster. I don't wish a stroke on anyone as I lost my dad to a stroke rather recently. It was awful and I am still grieving over it.

I don't know if it's health related or whether he's hoping to ride Trump's coat tails to wealth and re-election, but this dude has lost it.

As part of that "Democratic base" that he's snipping about, I take complete offense. I am not anti-American. I am anti-Trump.