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Sen. John Fetterman casts deciding vote against limiting Trump’s war in Iran
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There are four Republicans more reliable than this Democrat.
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Piece of absolute shit.
My conspiracy theory is he is paid to be the sacrificial lamb, if it weren't him it would be someone else. I am more angry at Schumer and then the rest of the Democrats for letting Schumer lead.
Yeah this is a well known tactic in the US government. Backdoor dealings outline how to make a split vote and pick a fall guy to protect the party's image.
I.e. the Democrats failing to stop Trump's war in Iran a few weeks ago where some random nobody was the fall guy that time. It looks like Democrats tried but failed and they can blame it on some inconsequential Rando who isn't up for reelection
The military industrial complex owns everything. The machine exists for their benefit.
I wish there was a way to get them out of office. Too bad the US system doesn’t have a vote of no confidence.
I guess the only way is to sue him for misrepresentation since he changed parties after being voted by the Democrats.
After his flip to the dark side post election, I honestly don't know why there aren't a lot more people cosplaying as Republicans. That side is so easily duped that anyone who comes out faking hate for moinorities, or claiming the government is a swamp you could easily win and then just flip afterwards.
I do have a friend who ran for county judge as a Democrat and was defeated. Four years later, she ran as a Republican and won. Her politics are the same as ever, but that (R) on the ticket makes the locals fill in her bubble every time she's up for reelection.
That is awesome.
To wholeheartedly promote Republican policies requires brain damage, which we don't yet have the technology to reverse.
I could easily lie about that stuff and be convincing enough to enought morons to make them think I'm on their side. You live near enough conservatives and christians and you learn how to fake it.
The war powers resolution failed 49 to 50 as the Pennsylvanian was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans who control the Senate. Three Republicans — U.S. Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Susan Collins, of Maine; and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska — voted with Democrats.
Saying that Fetterman's vote was deciding is silly, when it was a 49 to 50 vote - every vote was deciding.
And the Republican dissenter votes are purely performative. They pull this shit all the time, with the same persons. Who would never vote against their party, if the vote could truly fail. Especially Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski do this all the time. Hence the people here blaming the Democrats for being captured are sheep being tricked by the Republican performance.
Let me guess....he voted not to limit his war powers?
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cast the deciding vote against the latest effort to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran
Parties (and/or the people) really need a way to recall member that runs on bad faith and switches after elections. From Sinema to Fetterman, there's always at least one fraud in the DNC.
The DNC always have a "bad democrat" that jump lines while letting all the other mainline democrats vote in
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Duh. Fetterman is a MAGA dempublican ... nearly republican. Hell he practically might be full blown MAGA republican soon enough. He got the TDS now. Brain damage done him in.
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Why are you guessing? The headline says that already.
Literally the opposite of what he was elected to do. Such a shame. He’s a piece of shit, and I hope the worst for him.
I voted for him and I've never felt so betrayed by a politician I was actually kinda cool with being in a position of power.
Brain damage made him go from sorta quietly right leaning Democrat to a full-blown Republicrat.
At least we know definitively that brain damage is what makes people support conservative views.
The dementia epidemic is what’s going to start WW3
Republican Senator John Fetterman
What a fucking piece of shit.
There needs to be recalls on elected officials who drastically change their views like this fuckup.
He basically turned into a Con and still got to remain in his position!
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He’s GOP. Let’s drop the DINO nonsense. Refer to him as a Republican.
There are no Republicans anymore, that was just their larval stage before they morphed into their final form - MAGA. Republicans should only be referred to in an historical or scholarly context.
The Republican party is as dead as the Whigs. They're all MAGA now.
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Can we start calling him Fecalman? Cause he's like a walking piece of shit yeah?
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Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema, and now Fettermann. - All Democrats in name only who are really Republican plants.
What do Democrats have as alternatives? Liz "fucking" Cheny and Adam Kinzinger???
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No, Manchin is very different from Sinema and Fetterman.
There was no chance of a progressive, or really even a democrat in Manchin's seat. Manchin never really changed what he was.
Sinema ran as a progressive and then went mask off. ~~Similarly for Fetterman, just a slightly different cause.~~
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People like Fetterman and Sinema prove that the Democratic party is controlled opposition at this point. When GOP congress critters go against their party platform they get kicked the fuck out. Their leadership tears into them and turns the base against them.
The Democratic party leadership is bullshitting us. They use token dissenters to get out of taking a stand. Schumer and Jeffries and Ken Martin are allowing the fascists to run the show with no pushback.
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Its just too fishy that there is always, conveniently, a singlr dem vote in the senate to support right wing bullshit.
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Yet another unfortunate Fetterman L
Bet he fucked kids
So if he had another stroke, would he go further right-wing, or would it reverse the process?
More brain damage would take him further right because right wing views are caused by damaged brains... He'd become full maga....
Hoping for locked in syndrome, until whoever still gives a shit about him gets sick of wiping his ass for him and pulls the plug.
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...do you think he's been caught up in the pedo-asset honeypot?..
Nah I think this is just him doin it for love of shame
John Fetty Wap Man is a Republican.
I'm seeing fifty complete cunts.
I cannot wait to be rid of this dishonest jackass. Dude was always blood thirsty and corrupt but masqueraded as a progressive and now the brain damage has him dancing for republican bribes. I really hope voters hold him responsible for this betrayal. They didnt hold him responsible for his abuses of power in the past, but I think the tide may have turned for him. Too bad these Senate terms are so long.
Can’t everyone just run as Republican? Then vote whatever you actually want.
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