Wonder why that is?

That and threats of violence is the only way he makes “deals”

... that donation slate has some now been wiped clean. Lindsey Graham will soon introduce his bill asking to appropriate $1 billion dollars for this vanity Ballroom Project. Where the $400 million has gone or disappeared to.. djt repeatedly said was collected via private funding raised to pay for the entire project,... is now an unspoken mystery. trDUMP now wants $1 billion dollars to publicly fund with taxpayer dollars to build his - Fourth Reich - American Nazi Bund Hall, Meetings, Rallies, & Events Center.

Achtung.... !

Fetterman should accept the cash, he has already gone over in all ways except changing to an R after his name.

the nutcases taking out one of our senators. I would not put that past these Nazis.

A 51-R/50-D senate would squash any impeachment ideas, stop any meaningful or in depth oversight, and help keep ShitsHisPants out of prison.

djt would fork over big bucks to make that his reality for the last two years of his second term.

Come hither and allow me to help sharpen your rusty scythe.

Then make a visit upon DonOLD trDUMP and have a nice chat.

But his inexplicable turn to the right seemed to happen after his stroke, which could explains his baffling change.

But he had a serious stroke a couple years ago and spent some time in hospital, I seem to remember he was out for quite a while, the obvious changes took place after that

It looks like the majority of his votes that side with Rethugs seems to be on nominations.
I do believe that the strokes have changed his thinking. Very common with stroke victims.
So, I do think he needs replaced due to residual effects from the strokes.

Why switch? He's already been licking the horse shit heels of the Repugnants ... switch over or stay he's not helping us. Only helping them.

Than to leave the democratic party. The last two democratic senators that did that went from highly courted news makers to nobody's and ex-senators.

He won't be re-elected in Pennsylvania, and his term is up in 2028. I'm a PA voter and I supported him in 2022 as well as most people I know. It's not going to happen again. The Repukes don't want him either.

He's a liar and a traitor. He was a Trojan horse candidate from Day 1, and he fooled a lot of people with his Home Depot couture cosplay game. He couldn't get elected dog catcher here now.

If he switched parties he would easily win their nomination.

Though it would perhaps the biggest possible extra boost for D turnout against him.

... any more than Liz Cheney or Marge Greene are "loved" by the Dems. We're happy that Liz and Marge can walk away from Chump, however we'd never vote for either of them. You'd better learn the difference!

Ok ...

I'd rather know he will vote with Trumpers than fret about if he will support the Democratic agenda.

Maybe it will flip PA back to a real Democrat in 2028.

Dumb and Dumber!

It's part of the responsibility of a poster, IMO - they do a bit of extra work and thereby save dozens of readers from having to duplicate that effort.

Saying something was on Bluesky is like saying "I read it on the internet". Not quite up to DU's standards.

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You just never know rhese days. The bots are already out in force, and things are just going to get worse between now and November. I'm stocking up on salt, because I'm going to be taking a lot of things with many grains of it in the coming months.

If a link isn't supplied, (like in this case, not available from the source) and you want to know more, don't be lazy go find it yourself.

Courtesy and consideration are the responsibility of members of any civilized community.

Responsibility means obligation or requirement.
One is NOT REQUIRED or OBLIGATED to add these things the previous poster demanded.

That is all I am going to say.

you have been here a long time and have a lot of posts for somebody who doesn't seem to get it

of the word "responsibility."

It makes a story look very bad and sus when they don't.

to make clear where it came from.
In this case the link to the graphic was accidentally left off but I figured it was pretty obvious it was from Blue Sky. But looking now, the blue border didn't get included on the screen cap. So maybe not.

I see a lot of posts where links are not included on this board. So obviously it isn't a requirement or a rule unwritten or otherwise.

Not being snark at all, I see what you're saying that you usually include a link. It's good to, so people who are curious can click, and also to prove it.

How many post on this board get deleted because the OP didn't include a link to the story?
I'll answer for you: NONE.

No argument there.

I can't find it.

We have Hannity claiming Trump said something, but that something was not offering Fetterman a bribe. Ther is a Politico article which I linked to. But that article doesn't claim that Trump offered Fetterman a bribe.

... that Fetterman actually owns a suit and tie. Or maybe it's one of those zippered-up-the-back numbers that I'll bet portrait photographers use for clients that don't know how to dress like a grown-up. I know that when my younger stepson got his photo taken in Marine dress blues 20-odd years ago, that's what the photographer used. Dress blues ain't cheap, and most new recruits can't afford them.

It won't happen until after the election, of course. The payoff will be bigger then.

Selling out would expose the idea to the whole country.

DINO, DINO

Maybe he just has a bad case of OCD (Obsessive Contrarian Disease).

If he did change parties, I agree with those who think he'd become an independent. Finally, a political situation where "the lesser of two evils" actually fits.

Believe it, but I wish there were receipt.

For all practical purposes.

Where he (Hannity) allegedly got a call from Trump offering such a thing, from the internets (because the OP didn't add any context) :

And Trump has said, if Fetterman does, he’d reciprocate. In his typical unsubtle fashion, the president conveyed as much to Sean Hannity in March and asked Hannity to play intermediary.

When Fetterman sat for an interview with the Fox host the next day, Hannity delivered the pitch, recounting Trump’s marching orders nearly verbatim.

“‘Your job is to tell him: He’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big,’” Hannity told Fetterman, recalling Trump’s instructions.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/04/fetterman-switch-parties-republican-00904177?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=9a53e0e3-a790-481a-9ffb-563faa26df9d

That is the story. Not much to it. Just good for clickbait headlines - "Trump offers bribe to Fetterman!"

I don't take anything Trump says at face value. I also don't take anything Hannity claims that Trump told him at face value, either.

Hannity told Fetterman that Trump told him "Your job is to tell him: He’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big."

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWB0LZABBA8/

Is that Trump offering Fetterman a bribe? Not really.

Mattie told Hattie about a thing she saw. It had two big horns and a woolly jaw.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/04/fetterman-switch-parties-republican-00904177

I guess we're just living in such boring times, there is so little going on, there are so few really important issues to look at, and this administration is just so uncontroversial that there's just nothing to write about or dicsuss, so therefore we have to make shit up so we can get clicks. Do I have that right?

Yes, I seriously doubt the honesty of Sean Hannity. Always. How about you?

Hannity did not actually say that Trump offered Fetterman a bribe, by the way.

out of whole cloth.

Offering great financial gifts in exchange for political favor sounds like a bribe to me.

obviously you can blow it off if you want.

It seems like a "bribe" to me though SCOTUS weakened what bribes are in politics so legally it probably isn't and obviously the orange shitbag gets away with everything anyway, so whatever

But even Hannity doesn't claim that actually happened.

Seems pretty clear to me

I see what you mean. "He’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big.” Hannity may have been implying that Trump implied that Trump would give Fetterman money in exchange for Fetterman switching parties. Who knows with those liars?

But "if he runs as a Republican he will have a lot of money" is not the same as "I will give him money to switch parties."

I think with Trump the bribery all goes one way - into his own pocket.

How much much money Trump throws around, Pennsylvanians are not gonna vote for him again. He betrayed us.

Would he change to the Republican Party? Not for money.

Was Al Gore s VP running mate in 2000 before he switched sides a few years later, I never say never

!

I make phone calls but what else can we do?

If he has an otherwise 80% progressive/Democratic-leaning voting record, he'd wear out his welcome with the Republican MAGA caucus pretty quickly, wouldn't he? Also, why would he want to hitch his wagon to a losing cult party and an increasingly dementia-ridden cult leader? As soon as he goes against Trump, Trump/MAGA will instantly jump all over him.

I think Joe Manchin was 89%.

but "owning the libs." Fetterman gives them leverage.

Random memes on the internet are a ludicrous way to get news.

Not interested in the drip, drip, drip fake political intrigue and trying to coax a bunch of extractions from Schumer.

Democrats are pretty tired with him at this point, and for good reason. He needs to decide why he’s caucusing with democrats, if all he’s doing now is tearing the party down and using Trump’s own talking points against the party.

I voted for and supported Fetterman and was born and raised in western Pennsylvania. Honestly have to say that Fetterman is pretty much in line with how people out this way think. Dems here outside Allegheny county are centrist and value tradition.

Fetterman is probably way more black and white about things than most though. That's the rub. Stances like his unconditional support for Israel seemingly came out of the blue. Supporting Trump's nominees shouldn't be surprising since most people believe presidents should be able to have who they want in their cabinet.

Dems should recognize that Fetterman just marches to his own drummer.

if he chooses to run again as a D and has a primary opponent although I don't expect him to run for re-election.

Trump is bribing Fetterman, officially.