From the article:
The liberal comedian then asked Fetterman whether his shift in various policies had anything to do with his recovery from his 2022 stroke, asking if his near-death experience had given him a “freedom.”
“Absolutely,” Fetterman responded. “There’s a line from the first ‘Batman,’ Joker’s like ‘I’ve been dead once already. It’s very liberating.'”
“It’s freeing in a way. And I just think after beating all of that, I just really [want to] be able to say the things that I have to really believe in and not be afraid of if there’s any kind of blowback.”
So basically yes, the stroke made him a Republican. Pathetic and disappointing, but all too predictable.
Nothing at all unique or special about him, he is and always was a typical politician playing his “constituents” for rubes and apparently succeeding
Someone’s not getting elected again.
AIPAC gotta pay for that healthcare.
Ahh Bill Maher is not a liberal comedian. He’s really not either of these things.
I told my inlaws about that “it takes brain damage to be a republican”
Then proceeded to ask would they vote for him now that you agree with his positions. Both of them said no “because he’s a democrat”
Of course they wouldn’t vote for him. It’s like a sports game to many Republican voters where they just vote for their team regardless of their position.
I’d bet that if a literal socialist ran for office as a Republican, many Republican voters would be on board.
I’d bet that if a literal socialist ran for office as a Republican, many Republican voters would be on board.
Check this out: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/17/aria-dimezzo-sheriff/
“There’s a line from the first ‘Batman,’ Joker’s like ‘I’ve been dead once already. It’s very liberating.'”
You… you get that the Joker was the bad guy right? Who went on to kill a bunch of people? I guess it makes sense that this is your reasoning for becoming a republican but what a weird quote choice.
Dude didn’t even pick a quote from the 1 movie that attempts to cast the Joker as a sympathetic character. I swear…
ah yes, “You ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?”
“Republican plays the game in a liberal area then drops the act once he ‘makes it’”
What has he done that’s Republican?
AIPAC is primarily funded by Republicans.
AIPAC Democrats are just bribed Republicans.
not gonna lie, i kinda just straight up forgot about his ass.
Unfortunately now i have to remember that he’s alive. Maybe that stroke should’ve taken him out of service…
I live in Pa and keep forgetting about him until he pops up in the news. Then I’m reminded that he is the biggest disappointment I’ve experienced in politics. I almost feel like my vote was wasted. Hopefully he at least keeps reproductive rights a thing in this state. I cannot function without my bc because it keeps my endometriosis at bay.
Disappointing but still better than Dr. Oz. Fetterman didn’t change all his positions. He still wants to do things like expand voting rights, supports health care expansion, abortion rights, etc.
He’s not actually a republican, he’s trying to thread the needle to not alienate too many dems while appealing to rural voters, blue collar men, and willing to adopt shitty positions on things like immigration to do so.
It’s money. Yes to brain damage, but also… Yes to money. It corrupts people. It fucks them up. This guy didn’t have much money, go watch the housing show he was on. I bet not many know about that…
I am unable to find even a hint of what you’re talking about about. It’s not mentioned on his wiki page, and Google is useless as per usual these days
Google told me he was on a show called Where We Call Home. Specifically on the 8th episode of the 1st season.
Other than his psychotically unwavering support of Israel what Republican positions has he taken up?
He’s got some strange agriculture sponsored bills, banning oil sales from the strategic reserve, but most of his sponsored bills are aimed at helping low income people stay in housing, some pro union stuff, and a bit of fuckcars. He literally sponsored a bill to cancel school meal debt at the federal level. Not sure why he’s getting blasted here as a Republican other than idiocy that he’s not a AOC clone by the “Palestine became my only issue in the last 5 months” folks.
A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to ensure that striking workers and their households do not become ineligible for benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.
Yea… Real Republican stance. /s
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=456877
That’s it? I’m reading this comment section for 5 minutes trying to find what right-wing things he’s done that are making everyone so upset, and it’s all just piling on with everyone nodding to each other about how bad he is. Comments like “the stroke should have killed him.” Weird.
This is how it goes. The second a politician shows even a fraction less than 100% commitment to the party line, people turn on them. Politics is all black and white and it’s insane. There’s no middle ground.
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This just in: Brain damage leads to conservative values. Conservative votes still matter as much or more than yours. More at 11.
it’s usually simpler than that. conservatives pay more than liberals.
i know a few leftists who have now gone hard right… because they got paid more to spout conservative conspiracy nonsense than they did liberal/socialist stuff.
I like that this implies the left just don’t give enough fucks to bother to pay or even fight for their values which is what is hinted at in these articles. They’re limp dicks and somehow always proud of it. I agree with the headline that people who lean left don’t have any fight in them to pull together and actually rally like they do on the right. Seen many people on the left go to stand up for some values and get destroyed. The left can’t muster anything more than “har har the right are stupid dumb dumbs” as every single person has watched the left choke for over a decade and lose tremendous ground on all their issues while the right votes in assholes like Trump who they only like because you all hate him so much.
Its as if the left has zero concept of what a leader does socially because they all stand by as right wing snipers continue to pick off every single one of them. And each time its a loud signal to never stand up for left values publicly or you risk massive harassment from both the left and the right.
Here is the trick, the left isn’t a block of anything or anyone. There is no leader bc there is no group, no cohesion bc it’s not what makes people want to be leftists.
I have personally worked with Fetterman a number of times while I was working for Allegheny county. He had some moderate stances on things like Israeli support, but not like this. Also, he spent his entire time as mayor of Braddock pushing a lot of very progressive things. He actively turned down opportunities to not be living in his office, and get highly paid, in order to fight a large amount of resistance he faced, even among the people he directly worked with in Braddock. He had a provable, positive, long term, impact on Braddock. He demonstrated that a lot of progressive ideas works, because Braddock implemented them, and it worked. This had a impact on how Pittsburgh, and Allegheny county in general, looked at the future, and how to best design it.
He has demonstrated he is staunchly pro-labor and, in the past, has demonstrated so via sacrificing political payola to do that, among many other progressive things. So I am very conflicted at this serious increase in, what was previously a relatively moderate, stance on Israel. I have to wonder if it was the stroke, or did he strike a deal with AIPAC.
I think most people that were adults when 9/11 happened dont expect peace to ever be possible between the arabs and the west, and see hamas and all the other extremists as suicidially determined genocidal crusaders.
Especially so since Hamas knew they had no chance of winning any conflict they started with the Oct 7th attack but did it anyway, and maintain popular support in gaza even now.
It’s not that older Americans necessarily want to see Palestinians slaughtered but don’t see any peaceful alternative to ending the conflict, and see it more as a ‘fuck around and find out’ situation, so long as Israel doesnt start putting people in ovens (for some even if they do).
As an aside, geopolitically, thats kinda the point of (funding and arming and training and informing) Hamas. To make peace impossible, because peace benefits the west.
For the sake of spreading their ideology and increasing their support, their backers want a forever war.
It’s pretty crazy how Hamas has demonstrably agreed to a ceasefire multiple times, israel rejects it, and we still have people whining about how Hamas doesn’t want peace.
The answer is Israel leaves and goes back to make a state in Germany where it should have been made in the first place.
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Ok. What if I break into your house, lock you up in the toilet and regularly beat you and your family up? Worse, the Police is actively supporting it. Would you fight back any way you can? Would your actions be called “terrorism” or “extremism”? Would you not fight back even when you know the odds are against you? Fuck off, Zionist.
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wont take palestinian refugees is because theyre such rabid dogs
Calling an entire people “rabid dogs” definitely tells me this is totally not fueled by racism of any kind and that you’re definitely on the right side of history
hamas, not palestine as a whole.
The point is Hamas didn’t exist before the state of Israel. It was created as a response to Israel terrorists stealing Palestinians land.
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Fwiw if anyone is confused, he’s still a Democrat in office and self description, he’s gone rightward on a few issues, namely immigration and Israel, and no longer considered himself a progressive.
Some of the comments might seem like people are saying he literally switched parties, which is wrong. Even symbolically i think its the wrong sentiment too.
This guy ran on being a progressive democrat and abandoned all his principles after getting elected. He is currently one of the most Genocidal Democrats, bowing down to israel on a daily basis.
As the primary AIPAC donors are republicans you might as well consider Fetterman a Republican.
Given the opportunity, this kind of slimeball is ready to lieberman/manchin/sinema it up to tank a critical vote on major legislation.
If you think someone is lefty because they dress like an unemployed teenager then you are the true disappointment
I thought he was a lefty because he campaigned as one.
You shouldnt trust what politicians says. Look at what they do
Or what he’s really saying is that he never believed what he said before but felt pressured into agreeing with an ideology. And now that he knows the worst that can ever happen to him is death, and that’s alright, he is a lot more candid. That doesn’t agree with progressivisms mentality of agree with the correct thing or be shut up.
