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.
“At least he’s not Dr. Oz” This is the new way to politic.
Yup. Just not be the person who will actually abuse other humans and that’s all you need. No values or standards. No connection to your voting base… Just not the other.
Fuckkkkkk I’m so done.
If that brain damaged asshole had any integrity he’d resign because he’s no longer capable of doing the job he was elected to do.
He’s literally not representing the people who elected him anymore. It’s practically political malpractice.
I don’t know if I’d go quite that far. There’s an old saying about Pennsylvania. It’s basically Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.
It’s OK, because Nicole Sidman is going to take back the seat in November.
Cotham rose to prominence with a speech on the statehouse floor about her own abortion that drew national attention in 2015.
She ran for her seat, which was heavily Democratic and included east Charlotte before redistricting, as a Democrat and strong supporter of abortion rights. But she switched parties in April 2023, giving the Republican-led General Assembly a supermajority in both houses. That allowed Republicans to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes at will and pass laws they had long sought, such as a stricter abortion limit that lowered the cutoff in most cases to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Cotham ran on protecting Roe V. Wade, then switched parties to help dismantle it. She’s a true bottom feeder.
Yeah same with that rep from Hawaii. Like how tf we just let these people get past vetting?
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/
That was a fun read. She seems really cool.
Lmao. She unfortunately didn’t win, though.
Distrust runs deeper than reason. I’ve experienced this with my political preferences too
This is beyond disappointing.
This was actively campaigning, taking money as, and presenting oneself as a progressive.
This goes way beyond disappointed.
This made me smile.
Edit: your comment made me smile. The way it is phrased, each sentence begins with “This”. That’s why my comment started with “This”…
Is this another Joker quote?
Without the clarification in your edit, I can see why you got downvoted lol
Yeah, it dawned on me after the first downvotes.
I did not expect a Fox News article in a leftist community. What else does 2024 have left up its sleeves?
“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?”
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.
There is no such thing as a “leftist” on a campaign trail.
You shouldnt trust what politicians says. Look at what they do
Yeah, problem is they have to be elected before you know, and I believe he had a more progressive record as mayor.
Also, his opponent was Dr. Oz. Pretty much anyone else is an improvement.
Damn, Fetterman. What happened? You used to be cool.
I’m wondering what Giselle thinks of all of this. I haven’t heard a peep from her since he became a senator, and I feel like she was a good influence on him.
I thought she deleted all her social media or went private a few months back. Haven’t investigated further.
You should’ve seen it coming. His name isn’t Unfetterman smh.
I fear this is what’s gonna be normal. The money gets to them and we get at least 1 new Sinema every election cycle.
There has been, and always will be, just enough to make sure legislation cannot make it through the Senate.
Dude is literally not the same dude. The dude was replaced with another dude and this is that other dude.
I’m a dude.
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.
When people are paying me to say things, it’s always some kind of deception. Usually I am tricking risks into thinking they’re merely costs in an elaborate post-hoc fashion.
But it’s always a lie
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1dddsf5/alberta_mla_shannon_phillips_quits_citing/
And that’s fine if you never want to accomplish anything and lose ground every day. You can’t keep calling them all dumber when they’re winning ground and power everyday.
In line with this, there’s also an immense left-to-far-right pipeline in media simply because the left will hold you accountable even if you agree with them but the right doesn’t give a fuck as long as you say the thing.
I listened to a podcast about one such author. I forget what about but she wrote a book based on IIRC a flawed interpretation of whatever subject leading the whole thing to be basically wrong.
People pointed out it wrong, sales plummet, author gets butthurt and defensive, now they’re playing the antivax circuit I believe it was.
(Sorry, the podcast was background noise for powerwash simulator so I don’t remember specifics lol)
Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)?
That’s it. Naomi Klein was on the Factually podcast by Adam Conover and she gets mistaken for Naomi Wolf CONSTANTLY, and wrote a book based off of the rabbit hole she went down when she looked into “other Naomi.” I was able to hone in on the episode too if anybody wants it - The main theme of the episode is how smart people become conspiracy theorists, hence the relevance of the Naomi Wolf confusion.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0B6sLOKXrwDJPxhEjzHyRC?si=862d3c203a644fb0
Read her Wikipedia article. It’s interesting, especially this part:
Sarah Ditum wrote in the New Statesman, "Perhaps it’s not that Wolf is a feminist who’s degenerated into conspiracism, but instead that she’s a conspiracy theorist who happened to fall into feminism first.
It must be so easy to grift money out of conservatives. Just spout some conspiracy theory about how ‘they’ are actually behind the bad things in the world and watch the money pour in, regardless of how little sense it makes.
Money speaks loud.
How are you grifting them when you’re doing exactly what they’re paying you to do?
I’ve semi-seriously considered asking my wife if we should start selling Trump /F-biden etc merchandise on etsy. I feel like we could be making huge profits on stuff we cobble together from the clearance rack at the craft store and a tiny bit of elbow grease. A little red white and blue, some aged (or faux aged) wood, maybe a little cowboy hat, the word Trump…
Just throw a little of the profits to some progressive candidate.
Still beats Dr. Oz, but sucks he decided to become more of an asshole.
The only way that he beats Oz is that he caucuses with the Democrats. And I HATE when games make me do stupid things because of their dumb mechanics.
Good metaphor, and I agree. But I’m practical above all else, so votes blue no matter who.
It’s nice when there are two Democrats running here in California so I can actually vote based on policy instead of party affiliation.
As someone who owned a “Kucinich for President” bumper sticker I’ve given up hope of ever voting for someone I actually like in a general election.
Yeah, first past the post means unless you’re a die-hard neoliberal you’re not getting who you want and just have to do damage control.
I don’t think I’d be happy in a ranked-choice system. Representation seems like a pretty bad implementation of a consensus algorithm.
What’s your preferred alternative?
Direct democracy would be my most preferred method. But that has scaling issues.
Nope.
If you place any faith in formal politics or the critters that engage in it, you must be one naive excuse of a leftist.
Now he’s a Republican? Give me a break.
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
Insert “leftists are not liberals” meme
Fetterman is truly for the left, he stands for the working class against the wealthy.
Everything else is a distraction, and he realizes this fact. We need more lawmakers like him, not noisemakers like AOC going off about the unimportant issue of the week.
Seize back control our society from the rich and everything else will follow.
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.
Dems and Leftists are brainwashed morons that cannot and will not abandon the teamsports mentality.
That’s a Republican talking point, but it’s also true. Though I would say just Leftists, not Dems in general. Leftists always prefer purity tests over positive change. Mainstream Dems are pragmatic.
Republicans are also brainwashed morons that cannot and will not abandon the teamsports mentality. Dems/Leftists just have it worse at the moment with the hordes of braindead zoomers defending literal rape and murder by Hamas
I guess his refusal to wear a suit while on the house floor could fall into the “fuck your feelings” category.