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Lisa Murkowski and Rand 'Satan's Little Helper' Paul, voting for a war powers resolution??
What the what? I wanna meet their shoulder angels and give them a big old smooch on the lips for that.
Rand Paul is an unrepentant piece of shit, but he has always been pretty consistent about opposing the US's military adventurism.
There needs to be legal action that can take place when a candidate actively works against all the principles he campaigned for. He is deliberatly doing the exact opposite of everything voters thought he stood for. This to me is no different than false advertising. It's disenfranchisement of voters.
However, with that all being said, I don't see anyone in Pennsylvania out in the streets protesting this jackass either. So they must either agree with his votes or simply not give a shit.
You mean a senator is going against the wishes of the people!? Never.
We call those recall elections and people in power tend to not like them.
Look up Pennsylvania's laws on that.
In theory it should be the party the politician belongs to chastising those who don't toe the line. But alas, the Democratic party is just as corrupt.
Fetterman ran on a platform that "He's not Dr Oz!" and he's done amazingly well at that!
Unfortunately the root of the problem with Democrat vs Republican is that while the GOP seems to have rock solid blackmail on its representatives, the DNC is a circus.
We've got AOC and Bernie who have nothing in common with Chuckles or the Democrats that voted for more money for ICE's monthly subscription of keep people in cages and randomly terrorize people. Fetterman is indeed an asshole but again it was him or the Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).
The only way out of this chaos is if we the people of the USA can pay attention long enough to get ranked choice voting implemented in enough states. Otherwise even if you can get the circus to all agree on anything, Jill Stein will come out of her crypt and siphon enough votes over to the Green party.
Dr addicted to being on television so much that he tanked his career Oz (I believe that is his middle name).
You're right about the middle name, but wrong about the first one. He hasn't been a doctor since years before the Senate election, so it's just Mehmet.
Not to be pedantic, but even if he hasn't kept up with the licenses to practice medicine he still has a MD or Doctorate of Medicine. Dr. is still an applicable title
Sounds like a foreigner. Somebody call ICE.
He's proven that he's not a Democrat, he's a DINO.
He proves having Brain damage makes you a Republican.
He's just a DICK
There's one recurring theme and unifying driver for everything the right does, and everything that's wrong with society. Empathetic impairment.
All of these criminal con artists fall somewhere on the spectrum of malignant selfishness/greed to straight narcissism/psychopathy/sadism (cluster B mental disorders = mental illness).
Engaging in psychological warfare and disinformation campaigns; pedophilia; rampant fraud and corruption; genocide and crimes against humanity; psychotic conspiracy theories; attacking the weak and vulnerable; the destruction of facts, science, and evidence.
All of these are symptoms of a mental illness epidemic and logical corruption, amplified and transmitted through propaganda.
You said it far better than I did. Thank you
Seriously. Why are we still calling him a Democrat?
Just because he hasn't formalized switching parties, I guess.
If he still caucuses with Democrats, that shit has to be super awkward.
Schiff: "We'd better capitulate even more to the Republicans. It's always worked out so well for us in the pa-"
Fetterman: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!!!!! 'I wanna steal your 3-year-old son's testosterone.' That's what you sound like right now."
Everyone else: "..."
Because as long as he calls himself a Democrat, it's one seat closer to a majority. It's small comfort, but Dems have gotten used to it, after people like Manchin, Sinema, Lieberman, etc. It's better than nothing, or better than Oz.
No he's mentally ill, which is why he gravitates towards Trump and his Israeli handlers
Stuff like this makes him seem compromised. Republicans get the excuse of party loyalty. There is literally no legal or moral justification for voting against this and Fetterman isn't technically in the Republican party to be loyal to.
Idk why you would say that, there are always democrats willing to play spoiler.
Maybe we should elect more than 49.5 of them.
This is such weak ass Elizabeth Warren language, despite how correct it technically is.
I prefer the term fucking Nazi traitor.
The stroke should've killed him.
It did.
I kinda think they should recall him even though a worse person would get installed.
I don’t believe there is a method to recall a representative in the United Stated at the federal level. They have to be impeached and convicted to be removed.
They should make him move to an office in the basement, next to the equipment room. Like make it just as obvious as his Israeli stoogery.
And take his stapler.
Maybe he’ll set the building on fire.
Big grains of salt
They're still working on it before they lay the ballroom foundation. Need to make obstacles for the insurgent cement truck ya know
Lol I just realized that a Democratic RINO is a DINO.
Yes, we know this. Welcome to the party.
Look at you, Suzie, all rebellious n shit. Have you learned your lesson?
The test has determined that she has not.
PEDOPHILE
Should we try conversion therapy of some sort? Or an exorcism? Maybe we could give him a lobotomy.
Not sure who this is, but john fetterman died of a major stroke a while back.
Nah the mkultra plus just makes you stroke out if the conditioning is extremely against your core values. It's also why he can't process audio in public anymore, it's basically inducing PTSD with really specific outcomes.
They did a reverse of this to mtg which was basically just someone asking the exact right questions at the right time and being supportive. Basically helping her heal from the trauma of internalized misogyny that being a woman Republican is.
I don't actually have anything to back up these beliefs but if that's what happened then what's happening in public view to each of them is how it would present. Although I suspect MTG is still just there for the money. But I mean aside from AOC and a few others who isn't?