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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFetterman mocks free healthcare, calls the Epstein Files a nothingburger, & whizzes on Alex Pretti's grave
Messages obtained by New York Magazine show the Democrat, who has been a thorn in his partys side on a host of issues, mocking free healthcare, dismissing the Epstein files as a nothing burger, and calling Democrats hypocritical for their outrage at the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
How should it cost? Free? he wrote. I dont understand what affordability it is.
Also in January, as the Trump administration was dragging its heels about releasing the Epstein files, Fetterman messaged a staffer: Epstein was a nothing burger. Worst pics Ive seen were from Clinton lol.
Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest, Fetterman, 56, texted a staffer. He was roundly condemned for that. Why are now democrats defending the nurse it was legal to carry. Both legal weapons. Square that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-texts-from-maga-favorite-dem-john-fetterman-exposed-in-bombshell-leak/
OAITW r.2.0
(32,633 posts)Had a stroke. Woke up, not woke.
The dude is a worthless piece of shit opportunist
Dont give his bitch ass an out
Boo1
(471 posts)before the stroke.
themaguffin
(5,419 posts)...dick to Democrats and Americans.
msongs
(74,214 posts)Cosmocat
(15,477 posts)other than ICE goons doing ICE goon shit ...
Rittenhouse was was brandishing an AR during a full on riot ... and used it to kill people.
Cha
(320,703 posts)attacks on girls, Fetterman. And, if it's so "nothingbuger." Why won't PEDO release the files? You maga moron
Johonny
(26,637 posts)Engaged in pedophilia and rape... They don't have those accusation against Clinton. So, apparently he is rock stupid.
SunImp
(2,723 posts)fujiyamasan
(2,059 posts)Id be fine if he just left the party now.
At least it doesnt give us a false idea of our senate numbers. Unless we have a majority not counting him, we shouldnt consider it a majority.
Cha
(320,703 posts)his full blown maga rocker.
But we need his Dem status for the numbers.. and then in 2028 Swap him out for a Real Dem.
And, say Bye turn coat Fascist Asshole to whatever that was.
fujiyamasan
(2,059 posts)I think hes just enjoying being a contrarian ass hole. He thinks hes edgy or something.
Cha
(320,703 posts)thread I'm breathing
Fetterman seems to think he's in the catbird seat and daring us to do anything about it.
JBTaurus83
(1,688 posts)If we come to 51-49.
Cha
(320,703 posts)The vicious murder of Alex Pretti because he had a gun with him.
And, scoff off Rittenhouse because he brought a gun and killed 2 people.
Fetterman is fucking Gaslighting America in a hoodie.
dalton99a
(95,372 posts)sakabatou
(46,351 posts)timms139
(565 posts)legal ,him being under the legal age to carry that weapon to the protest .
Celerity
(54,912 posts)Raine1967
(11,692 posts)scipan
(3,108 posts)I don't want to see him in the Manchin/Sinema position.
Cooper NC
Platner ME
Peltola AK
Sherrod Brown OH
Whoever MI holding
Pappas NH holding
Ossoff GA holding
Celerity
(54,912 posts)JBTaurus83
(1,688 posts)To our numbers.
Celerity
(54,912 posts)LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)David Duke was a Democrat.
John Fetterman is a Democrat
But a racist is a racist,
and a POS quisling is a POS quisling.
Support Democrats.
ColoringFool
(1,104 posts)A Republican, 1970--2008.
Jesse Helms - Wikipedia https://share.google/cuAVkSe1U5s9ZxH8F
David Duke - Wikipedia https://share.google/CgIEC95cKsa1LAppH
LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)Duke ran for office in the 70s and 80s as a Dem.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican
Support Democrats.
intheflow
(30,255 posts)The parties switched ideologies starting in the 1930s. As with many things, white Southern politicians were slow to catch on to reality.
LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)I got a hide for calling Fetterman a POS. I support little d democratic principles, justice, care of fellow man, and the planet among other things. Inasmuch as the big D Democrats work for that, I'll support them. Inasmuch as democratic principles, justice, etc. are part of the Democratic Party Platform, I support the party. People who call themselves Democrats while undermining these principles can pound sand. A racist is a racist. A piece of shit quisling is a piece of shit quisling.
There are a lot of Democrats recently elected who serve more as a check on our principles than as a check on this racist criminal regime. The Polis clemency for Peters, Spanberger's vetoes, Dems voting for the Laiken Riley Act and anti LGBTQ legislation, are prime examples.
Bill Kristol became a Democrat. I welcome him. Fetterman can't leave soon enough. Our problems run deep. trump gives cover to that deeply seated rot, ironically, while exposing it and implementing it openly. He draws fire while Republicans enable and many Democrats roll over. Our party leadership, of late, has only done whatever it takes to eek out a chance to hold the gavel for a few sessions, never building a plan for democratic principles for the long term. We are cowed by bigots and donors into meek acquiescence to the demonization of our principles and the people we supposedly champion.
Fuck Fetterman. Calling himself a Democrat shouldn't give him carte blanche on this site. He is a narcissistic quisling.
MLK was a good man who stood on his principles of love and justice.
At some point we need to hold members of OUR party to defending and promoting OUR principles. I'm not talking about electoral purity tests. These sellings-out are perpetrated by Dems who already hold office, and being in the minority provides them cover.
yardwork
(69,663 posts)I've lived in NC since the 1970s. Jesse Helms was a vile racist radio host who became a vile racist politician.
You are correct that it's not relevant to say "Jesse Helms was a Democrat." The entirety of his political career was as a right wing Republican. He never switched ideologies.
What's happening with Fetterman is something different.
LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)being called out as a quisling.
TVguyCards
(15 posts)This is a myth not supported by historical evidence and one that the right tries it's best to platform every year when MLK Day rolls around. In fact if we're being honest, MLK, Jr. never identified as a member of either party although he did mostly vote for Democrats. His focus was on advancing civil rights than advancing a political party.
Britannica has a very good article on this.
Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat?
LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)I was coming from the point that it did not matter if he was. He never held or ran for political office. The power he was seeking was for the people within themselves through the principles of justice and love. He appealed to politicians based on that. Party affiliation and platforms were in flux during his time.
Now, the different platforms and principles are clear. The centrists are selling ours out to data centers, private prisons, and private equity.
Autumn
(49,022 posts)Helms is dead, Duke is active in promoting antisemitic and white nationalist views. Do we still have to support them?
LuvLoogie
(8,925 posts)Calling yourself a Democrat should not give you cover for shit votes or executive actions.
Autumn
(49,022 posts)Passages
(4,522 posts)Alex Shultz@AlexShultz
New: I spoke to a dozen sources about John Fetterman's dwindling inner circle; his closest confidant is now an unpaid adviser named David Safier, who's jokingly referred to as "chief" by staffers. Fetterman's actual chief of staff quit yesterday
Link to tweet
Emile
(43,296 posts)Johonny
(26,637 posts)I hope his staffer explained to him just how fucking stupid he is.
He officially is worse than Joe Manchin. Joe wasn't this level of stupid at all.
Emile
(43,296 posts)of the time, Fetterman votes with the democratic party 92% of the time.
ck4829
(38,097 posts)D_Master81
(2,688 posts)I figured he did what he did out of strategy to stay in his seat. Fetterman is worse and is from a much more blue state than WV
Botany
(77,876 posts)Time for Fetterman to have a stroke 2.0 and get him out office.
dalton99a
(95,372 posts)Firestorm49
(4,566 posts)Raine1967
(11,692 posts)If my husband did such a 180 politically, we'd have a real problem.
GCG
(120 posts)As first lady of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Fetterman founded the Braddock Free Store, a non-profit organization that provides local lower-income families with toys, diapers, baby formula, clothing, household items, and furniture.
She has pushed for the United States Congress to take "humane and compassionate" approaches to immigration, and petitioned that immigrant families should not be separated. She spoke in favor of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for attempting to end the program.
Omnipresent
(7,524 posts)Does he not know that Pennsylvanians arent going to accept this behavior, even if he changes parties.
-misanthroptimist
(1,835 posts)...than what happened to Fetterman.
Borogove
(634 posts)D_Master81
(2,688 posts)At this point Im assuming he is being paid by someone to just shit on the Democratic Party because no one watching the current state of politics should be thinking the way is to go towards MAGA and the right
flvegan
(66,533 posts)CousinIT
(12,765 posts)So - there's THAT.
Fetterman just needs to GTFO - switch parties or go Indy. Good fucking riddance.
MadLinguist
(919 posts)Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum with impunity. Fetterman knows this, the twisted dick.
republianmushroom
(22,742 posts)awesomerwb1
(5,156 posts)What a disaster.
PCIntern
(28,597 posts)He was a repressed Pennsylvania-typical-hick-asshole who saw which way the wind was blowing and latched onto the candidate for Governor at the time (whom I knew personally). After his injury hes lost frontal lobe editing and youre seeing the real guy now. Yep.
ck4829
(38,097 posts)WinningAgain
(10 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,584 posts)PIG!!!
TrunKated
(284 posts)Ars Longa
(581 posts)So of course he disses other people for complaining about wildly exorbitant
health care!
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