“Fetterman?” one speaker yelled from a stage near the steps of City Hall.
“Jagoff!” protesters shouted back in unison.
“Fetterman?”
“Jagoff!”
in Fetterman’s case, it describes a politician who campaigned as a Bernie Sanders–loving populist and vowed to help Democrats advance their priorities past the party’s two obstructionists, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin—only to reprise their roles once in Congress and cozy up with Republicans.
“He ran in the 2022 primaries against Joe Manchin, and now he’s become Joe Manchin,” says Mike Mikus, a longtime Democratic operative in Pennsylvania. “An unprincipled Manchin.”
He’s sided with Republicans on denying immigrants due process, voted to confirm a 2020 election denier to lead the Department of Justice, and approved a GOP budget that freed Trump to slash spending without oversight. His recent actions have enraged progressives, mystified colleagues, and alarmed former and current aides.
TL;DR By being Republican.
Their brains are made of the same rotten soup?
Fuck him, let him get confused and play in traffic.
TL;DR: brain damage
Brain damage
Brain damage, mayn. Pretty fkn obvious.
One of my best friends has had multiple TBIs. She doesn’t always make the best decisions, but she is still a good person with the same morals and core values she has always had.
In the case of Fetterman, I feel like you’re really giving brain damage too much credit for his consistent willingness to do harm to other people.
Even other people with brain damage have spoken out against this guy.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/as-fellow-stroke-survivor-fetterman-disgusts-me-20341662.php
I mean, regardless of anecdote or how people feel, stroke survivors personalities shifting and becoming more selfish, conspiratorial, and hateful is a well known and documented medical phenomena. Like many such things, it happens in some cases and not others, and on a spectrum of impact.
I don’t know if anyone, Fetterman included, knows for sure the truth.
I’ve had a stroke. I didn’t become more selfish, conspiratorial, or hateful. I just became more sympathetic to brain trauma survivors after relearning how to walk.
Fetterman just sucks.
The behavior that results following brain damage usually correlates with where the brain damage occurs.
To say that this would fully explain Fetterman is to pretend that there is a single imaginary area of the brain that works as a moral compass and his was completely wiped out following his stroke.
That’s not to say he couldn’t be more easily manipulated or persuaded by outside forces because of the brain damage.
With a stroke, the whole brain is being affected. It’s a partial or complete lack of oxygen.
Everything is on the table.
Everything is on the table. Something like production of speech into meaning can be damaged following a stroke, so that somebody could very clearly write down what they want to say but lose the ability to verbally express the same words.
There is no single area of the brain that fully regulates or controls moral behavior. Even with global damage you may see decreased functioning. You might expect randomness or inconsistencies in behavior, but this seems like a pretty consistent pattern for him. That’s what makes it hard to believe brain damage is the full explanation.
You made a claim.
I made a scientific claim that counters yours with evidence from a trusted, scientific source.
Either cite a scientific source that directly states such a personality change cannot occur in this way from a stroke, or you’re just arguing against science with vibes and feels and no one here needs to take you seriously.
You’re confusing personality and morality. Those are two separate things.
I never argued that a personality change couldn’t occur. Personality change in humans following a brain lesion from an injury is neuroscience 101.
That is not what this is.
I’m arguing that Fetterman’s support of things that contradict who he (still to this day, claims to be) are harmful to the people he is supposed to represent should not be excused as simply a consequence of his stroke.
Everyone insists it is brain damage or illness or whatever.
He is a con artist, plain and simple. He saw an opening to run on a populist platform and did. And then he very rapidly pivoted towards the party that will always vote for him no matter what he does.
The sad truth is that there are a LOT of very blatant con artists in the “leftist” sphere. Mostly we just don’t talk about them because the hope is they are still doing more to “raise awareness” while they get rich or because… we just can’t be bothered to deal with the massive waves of hatred that come the moment you point out the kind of stuff they say or just how massively rich they have become and so forth.
I agree with you 100%
And the thing about con artists is they’re in it for the money. Everything is a sales pitch to them. There are no values, and the more you allow people to do this shit without calling it out, the more ammunition you give to the argument that voting is a waste of time bc they’re all the same.
Somebody who is willing to advertise themselves as supporting something good, while accepting money from the people that are contributing to the thing they’re calling bad ::cough:: Ro Kahnna ::cough::, then they are exactly the same as the people they’re pretending to call out.
Their loyalty is to the highest bidder, not their values, or their party, and definitely not to the public.
Never trust anyone from York County.
If brain damage makes you a complete piece of shit, then you were always a complete piece of shit in sheep’s clothing. I feel like blaming the stroke is just people trying to cope with the loss of someone they thought and hoped would be good that turned out to be a red coat.
Fuck Fetterman.
*turncoat.
Red coats at least had the decency to hold onto their views.
I couldn’t decide which term was better. I went with red because maga. Turncoat fits better though.
Fuck him anyways! Will my homies hate fetterman.
Yes they will, hopefully all of them.
Unfortunate typo but leaving it so your content makes sense to late comers.
It’s an insult to everyone who weathers a little brain damage without becoming a zionist conservative shitbag.
Disclaimer: This isn’t a defense of the guy. From what I hear, he’s been a pos for a long time. He was just able to con voters as an “everyman”.
That said, brain damage isn’t drinking. It doesn’t “reveal” who someone truly is. Damage to the brain can and does change the way it functions at a fundamental level, which can dramatically change how a person behaves and thinks. This isn’t to say the actions of brain damaged individuals are entirely excusable - harm is harm and should be addressed. But suggesting it was always what the person was really like is severely misstating what brain damage is.
Drinking doesn’t reveal who someone truly is and prolonged drinking does damage your brain. It can even go as far as to induce psychosis
He’s a grifting piece of shit like the rest of them, what a shocker. No one actually wants to serve the public anymore they’re just in it to line their pockets.
It’s a sign of the times that an obviously unwell person like him can continue having a political career.
Beyond the obvious, I wonder who replaced the staffers that apparently left in droves. Maybe somebody saw an opportunity to create another monster a lá RFK or even DJT.
And then this:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bestowed only Trump and Fetterman with mementos celebrating the exploding-pager strike targeting Hezbollah militants that resulted in 32 deaths and thousands more injured. Fetterman (…) accepted a silver beeper from Netanyahu
A silver beeper???
All it takes to join MAGA is some severe brain damage.
He’s giving people with brain damage a bad name.
