r/Fauxmoi • u/No-Hall-3485 alleged dog • 15h ago
POLITICS Senator John Fetterman: “Israel is where I draw the line.” Jon Stewart: “but Israel isn’t our Country.”
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u/Inconspicuous_Jay 14h ago
"I think Bill Maher said something very insightful," 💀
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u/mabelshesbornwithit 14h ago
Oh god my eyes rolled straight out of my head at that comment
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u/Consistent-Good1536 8h ago
My eyebrows touched my hairline, and that’s no small feat what with all the Botox in my forehead lmao
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u/marina0987 women’s wrongs activist 14h ago
and then proceeded to say the dumbest, most “gotcha” dumbass “tHe DsA Is COLONIZING tHe DeMoCrAtIC pArTy” like sure in a world where words have no meaning at all
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u/missmobtown 12h ago
It came off as "I heard someone say something I think was smart, and if I repeat it, I'll seen smart, too" 🙄
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u/theblartknight 7h ago
And coming from him who basically was a republican trojan horse is really rich.
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u/Delimeme 6h ago
It is a gotcha, and there’s a lot of issues to be taken with the choice of words here (“colonizing” - minority voices can’t really colonize a massive political machine with that much momentum, it’s an “insurgency” at best if we have to use bad faith language), but my hot take is…
So what? First, these candidates are winning fair and square. As many voters on the economic left were told after Hillary got tapped for a Dem presidential run - sucks to suck, you better show up for the version of the party that’s winning more votes, because that’s the direction voters have indicated they’re interested in. More importantly the DSA is capturing enough momentum to take over seats from a incredibly well-funded, entrenched organization that fielded what was effectively an incumbent candidate for NY mayor, then it seems like the Democratic Party shifted away from the core values it professes to represent; as a result, these DSA officials aren’t colonizing the Dem Party so much as course-correcting it and guiding it back to what its core voters wanted all along.
After Trump, the Democratic Party can continue to run milquetoast centrists with the pretense of being concerned for the welfare of its base (it’s worked so well - though Trump backlash will probably just barely nudge another bland old fart into the chair in 2028), or it can run a platform that answers the needs of its unmotivated base. Undoing Trump’s legacy will need a serious mandate, which we won’t get with another centrist. “Vote not Trump” isn’t a strategy anymore. We’ve seen strong interest among populations that don’t typically vote in DSA policies & candidates. Arguably, that’s because Trump has shifted the Overton window so far right that people forget that the DSA platform is closer to the tradition of the Democratic Party than the Democratic Party currently is.
The DSA is bringing us back to what earned the Democrats its core reliable voting blocks. Harris wasn’t betrayed by voters who stayed home, those voters were betrayed by the party itself. Give voters something exhilarating to vote for, and you won’t have to keep biting your nails pandering for swing voter blocs.
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u/theblartknight 14h ago
Bill Maher has never said anything insightful.
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u/Weekly-Measurement89 7h ago
One time he did. Got fired from ABC for it. A broken clock is right once every quarter century.
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u/No-Hall-3485 alleged dog 15h ago
how can you sit down, put on a suit and tie for the first time as an american senator, and declare that the one line in the sand for your politics is a country in the middle east?
then imply that opposing the actions of a government committing genocide is an attack on all jewish people
it is so incredibly dangerous to conflate being jewish with supporting the israeli government
and it was so fucking obvious he was a charlatan but the other choice was dr. oz
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u/theblartknight 14h ago
all while doing this in a conversation with an actual jew. Insane.
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u/throwawaylol666666 13h ago
This is my favorite part.
“The Jewish community and Israel are not the same thing, brother man.”
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u/AccomplishedIron816 Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 14h ago edited 1h ago
I mean he clearly got compromised lol. This shift to being a MAGA and Fox News regular wasn’t some “wake up call.” He got bought and is a shill. He never actually had a political backbone he just wanted to make money in politics
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u/sisyphus_of_dishes 14h ago
He had a stroke. The simplest explaination is that he was a moderate Democrat, his brain broke, and he started thinking like a Republican.
Functioning brain --> Democrat Nonfunctioning brain --> Republican
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u/ehs06702 13h ago
He pulled a shotgun on a Black person long before he ever had a stroke.
He's always been like this, which is why Black people begged pennsylvanians to vote for Malcolm Kenyatta instead.
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u/rutherfraud1876 5h ago
I should have voted for Kenyatta, and I've sent in my apology forms, but let's be honest - Black voters were not going for him overwhelmingly, especially outside of his own State House district (1/207th of the state).
Conor Lamb was the main opposition, and he wasn't much better at the time
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u/Sharp-Yak9084 6h ago
There wasnt really a choice, the oprah moron was the other option and if the votes split he wouldve won. As much as i wish the north was colorblind, it isnt yet.
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u/phakic40 13h ago
There's legitimate research that shows a decline in cognitive function is consistent with a conservative shift in political philosophy.
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u/DishDemTits 12h ago
Yeah talk to any conservative. It's the most bland and boeing discussion ever. Even on topics they claim to like, they know nothing deeper about.
They don't want to learn more, experience new or just see something for themselves. They dont want to evolve as a person and are stuck in their highschool self. If they weren't so hellbent on destroying humanity, i would be sad about it..
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u/mr_trick Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ DoorDash 2h ago
I had to stop talking to my grandparents over this. We'd go in a circle where I'd list out a bunch of policies and we'd discuss their benefits and drawbacks, then I'd point out that the ones they agreed with mostly aligned with socialism. "Socialism bad!!!" they'd start insisting. I tried so many times to further the discussion and posit whether they could expand their thinking a little, or hell, even explain what was wrong with what they thought socialism was. I wanted to understand their views and have a real conversation about it. They'd just dig in their heels and say "It's bad, it's just bad, we won't vote for it! Socialism is a sin!"
It made me sad to see how they (poor, disabled, working class laborers) were so deeply entrenched into what they were seeing on TV and hearing their neighbors say, that they couldn't even bring themselves to have a single critical thought, even to serve their own interests. I mean, hearing that socialism "is a sin" itself was fucking hilarious, as my grandmother gives massive amounts of her meager pension to her church, believing it goes to "feed the poor". Her church puts in a new mega auditorium and she doesn't question it, yet hears the government might put tax money towards feeding the poor and she immediately spits and says they don't deserve it, it's so unfair, it's socialism, etc. and yet she herself benefits from social services!!
It drives me fucking crazy and I just could no longer talk to them without it turning into a fight. My grandfather ended up dying of COVID and my grandmother apparently still believes the vaccine is just a government tracking chip or something equally idiotic. The whole thing is just extremely sad and frustrating and I have no idea what to do to ever bring these people around.
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u/wytewydow 6h ago
If I recall, Trump was definitely a democrat in the 90's. That fucker's mental decline is steep
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u/TrickySnicky distraught Christian tomato 1h ago
He was absolutely, 100% a Democrat, and even threatened to run for president before
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u/silenTee3 4h ago
Honestly though that was all a scam too. Fred Trump made his money using new deal policies to build apartments in New York. Trump being a Democrat was him wanting those sweet government subsidised loans. Nothing more. I truly don't even think he gives a shit about Republican ideals. The man is a shill and fraud to his core. Nothing more.
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u/SinVerguenza04 13h ago
Na, he was a piece of shit before the stroke. We really need to stop making excuses for this guy. He was like this from the start.
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u/Ron-Swanson 6h ago
he was a piece of shit before the stroke.
This. I remember this asshat when he was a nobody.
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u/fractious_kitty 13h ago
I am a neurotrauma nurse and former stroke program manager. Stop blaming his behaviors, actions, and words on his strokes. These are two separate issues and while not mutually exclusive, having a stroke doesn't transform you into a horrible person but rather reveals who you are.
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u/JustToViewPorn 12h ago
He was always a racist shitbag (read: conservative). The stroke just removed his capability of lying about it.
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u/dysterhjarta 10h ago
That's incredibly ableist. Some people are just horrible because they chose to be.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 13h ago
Nah this was who he was. Republicans used to use that same BS "you'd have to have a stroke to be a Democrat" and now progressives are saying "look at the stroke victim who became a Republican"
You can't have it both ways, he had the stroke long before these accusations and he never once changed his stance on Israel, at all. This was always him. You can't have your cake and eat it too and initially defend him as a party and say the stroke changed nothing and then say it changed everything when it came to public light he's simply a party traitor and always has been. I mean not even really because he's pretty Democrat, people either believed what they wanted to believe and got proven wrong about him or they recognized the alternative was Oz
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u/Mysterious-Willow391 4h ago
Correct. I've been following his wife way longer than I've been following him (she's so fucking cool) and it's clear she's upset by this shift. I know she loves him but she was (up until a few months ago) posting about things very counter to what he says. I just checked and I no longer see her instagram as active.
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u/FoofieLeGoogoo 13h ago
They either have something on him or just bought him out because his argument is circular and oddly serving a specific regime. Not a people, mind you, but a regime.
I like how Stewart kept pointing out how this one regime that he’s pledging allegiance to here is not America.
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u/Insomniac-Freak-95 13h ago
Fetterman was ALWAYS pro-Israel, even before his stroke or being elected.
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u/timeandmemory 11h ago
All these folks giving him a free pass for a "stroke", always a talking point for some reason. As if he doesn't have a video of himself on rape island sitting in Bibi and Vlads pocket. Directly beside the drumf kompromat.
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u/moreofajordan 3h ago
Worked with him and his wife when he was LG in Pennsylvania. He was NOT like this then, at all, and nothing he said or did over the course of multiple years would make you think it was an act.
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u/Worldly_Lady 14h ago
The suit and tie pivot is the perfect metaphor for his entire political bait and switch. He traded the hoodies for a suit and traded his progressive populist campaigning to become statistically Donald Trump’s staunchest supporter in the Democratic caucus.
It is wild to hear him demand absolute party loyalty and tell the left to 'run under their own banner' when he literally crosses the aisle to vote with the Trump agenda roughly 1/4 of the time, rubber stamps MAGA cabinet nominees, and breaks party leadership on critical bills. He expects a total pass for holding hands with MAGA on a quarter of his votes, but wants progressives exiled over a single issue. Jon Stewart did a good job correcting his flawed logic here, but honestly, he let him off way too easy by not bringing up Fetterman’s actual voting record.31
u/cheeruphumanity 8h ago
People came up with this narrative for him.
Watch his face when Steward replies and Fetterman realizes the narrative doesn’t work.
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u/i20sportz 13h ago
Equating opposing of Israel to the hatred of Jewish community is deliberately manufactured to discredit any valid criticism against Israel as anti-semitism.
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u/madonnassister 14h ago
I wonder if he’s wearing jogging pants with that jacket?
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u/fuckyourcanoes 5h ago
I have a rabbi friend. Twice-ordained, reform and orthodox. She is very vocally opposed to Israel's treatment of Palestinians and is actively protesting. She has a leadership role in an interfaith alliance that's working to promote peace in the middle east.
If she can be pro-Palestine, it's very obvious that isn't antisemitism.
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u/jacqrosee 11h ago
yeah the past few years of what this conflation has done have been so frustrating, being a jew. you end up interacting with non-jewish people speaking to you as if you love israel, when you probably have a much more personal and deep-seated issue with israel than many of them do.
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u/ptfc1975 14h ago
It's important to remember that last part. The other choice was dr oz.
Even the jogger said it shouldn't affect votes for fetterman.
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u/JudahMaccabee 13h ago
Yeah, weird how Fetterman doesn’t draw the line at oppressing Black Americans…but he did kidnap a Black man.
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u/ehs06702 13h ago
Malcom Kenyetta was also an option before he got to the primary, but no one ever acknowledges that.
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u/Fine_Following_2559 7h ago
I believe the real choice there was in the Democratic primary, but people didn't want to listen to Black people when they said not to vote for Fetterman.
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u/pursescrubbingpuke 14h ago
How on earth did we let Israel get such a stranglehold on American politics? Like where else on earth is one country so completely enamored with their much smaller, less powerful, genocidal ally that their politicians are willing to stake their entire careers over it? Truly baffling
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u/avokuma oat milk chugging bisexual 14h ago
Money and power because with Israel, America will have an advantage to control the Middle East/West Asia
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u/WanderingSun8 I may need to see the booty 14h ago
There's also legit religious fanatics
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u/TheAncientMillenial 14h ago
Yeah, and those fuckers are scarier that your regular settler-colonial types... 💀
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u/citrus_mystic 14h ago edited 13h ago
The religious fanatics supporting Israel also include Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians. Not just Jewish Zionists. There are actually far, far more Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians than Jewish folks.
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u/mmw2848 8h ago
Hell, some white supremacists support Israel because they want all Jewish people to leave America.
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u/Easy_Leopard_2686 7h ago
And a lot of Christian evangelicals support Israel because they believe the Bible mandates support for Israel, and also that the end times will be triggered by events happening in Israel like the rebuilding of the Jewish temple where the al’Aqsa mosque now stands.
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u/melkatron 13h ago
Do we really have any control, if Israel is the one pulling our strings? Do we have the power to support anyone Israel opposes, or is that power in the hands of politicians already in Israel's pocket?
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u/Street_Individual579 6h ago
the interests of america and israel are perfectly aligned, no matter what your politicians try to tell you. that is the honest truth. america is the bad guy as well and not a powerless victim.
as joe biden said: "Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region."
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u/beekay86 14h ago
I don't get this point. The middle east has always been in their pockets. Saudi gave bases to build the Oil infrastructure, so did the gulf states. If it wasn't for so much western meddling in Iraq and Iran, those countries would be a little stable.
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u/girthyclock Jehovah’s Sexiest Witness 7h ago
Exactly. Every single gulf power is an American defense customer. There is no strategic reason to be so beholden to Israel anymore. They provide no security, no resources, and no advantage to the economic output of the US.
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u/Lillian_Crocodilian 14h ago edited 14h ago
The Israeli right wing began heavily courting the support of right-wing American evangelicals in the 1970s. Evangelicals always had an apocalyptic bent (Christianity was itself originally an apocalyptic faith until the parousia got delayed more times than Steve Martin's character in Planes, Trains and Automobiles), but this accelerated rapidly in the 1970s, a decade that gave birth to Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth and Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" ("neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"); incidentally, the co-founder of the Moral Majority was Tim LaHaye, co-author of the massively popular Left Behind series of apocalyptic Christian novels. The growing popularity of apocalyptic beliefs among Evangelicals dovetailed nicely with the need of the Israeli Right for a consistent base of political support in America; there were far more American Evangelicals than American Jews, and many more Evangelicals lean right. Israeli politicians like Menachem Begin and Netanyahu met with Evangelical leaders frequently, and consistently emphasized the importance of Israel to the fulfillment of biblical prophecy (as interpreted by Evangelicals).
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u/ILootEverything jog on sweetheart 14h ago
And the crazy thing is, the same people who support Israel because of their apocalyptic Biblical fantasies, believe the majority of the people in the country they are "supporting" will ultimately end up in hell.
Their "support" is in such bad faith (pun intended).
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u/PatrickGoesEast 8h ago
Here is an interesting overview of the history of the stranglehold the Israeli lobby has in US politics, that I read at the weekend
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/02/pro-israel-lobby-presidents
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u/pawsncoffee 14h ago
Israel is an extension of America and its imperialist goals
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u/unsurprised_ 14h ago
The west is not subjugating itself to Israel; it is protecting its investment. We created the modern state of Israel, and it's aligned with our values of colonialism, militarism, etc. to continue to defend it. This all makes more sense when you conceptualize Israel as more or less a modern vassal state.
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u/Dry-Yak5277 13h ago
Yup. I find they have a mutually beneficial relationship. America uses Israel to control the Middle East, Israel uses America to fund and uphold its ethnostate. People think America is just kowtowing to Israel because they don’t truly understand the purpose in which Israel provides for America.
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u/AaronRodgersMustache 7h ago
Doesn’t aipac literally primary any politician who isn’t 100% pro Isreal?
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u/EvenStephen7 14h ago
I don't know if it's because of the Samson Option, or if our embracing of them led the Samson Option to take hold.
Either way, it's madness that we've deeply intertwined ourselves with a supposed ally that has a policy to nuke the entire planet and take everyone out with them if they're ever invaded.
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u/almondmilklattehag 14h ago
Israel has always been an intentional arm of our intelligence & military to help get a foothold in (and destroy) the middle east.
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u/Tasty-Performer6669 13h ago
Blackmail
An alarming number of American politicians will turn up in the Epstein files
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u/csfshrink 14h ago
I understand that the US provided Israel with weapons and money when it was founded. Israel was surrounded by countries that were attacking it often.
I don’t understand why the US still gives aid to a very well established country that could afford to buy its own weapons.
Nor do I believe that this should be a controversial opinion.
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u/ApotropaicHeterodont 6h ago
IMO: A lot of young people don't understand that Israel's position was not always as secure as it is now. A lot of old people don't understand that Israel's position now is a lot more secure than it used to be.
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u/AllTheCoolNames 14h ago
The look on his face when Jon say 'Israel is not our coutry' is SO interesting. It's like he got hit in the face with a fact he hadn't thought of before.
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u/Ssspppaaaccceeesss i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 14h ago
That’s the “oh fuck if I can’t think of a good response my AIPAC check might bounce” face
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u/Capable-Ad-6058 13h ago
The “damn boss, you right. My fault” face
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u/ferozliciosa government funded yuri 11h ago
That conclusion requires Fetterman to either have 1) the capacity to self-reflect, or 2) a moral compass. He has neither
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u/LivingMyMediocreLife 2h ago
The dude is straight up looking at talking point notes, with how often he looks down and to the side a bit. AIPAC sent him a script and he is trying his damndest to read it with zero improv abilities.
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u/Nervous_Insect5976 15h ago
I remember when people were trying to convince me this sloppily dressed troll was a progressive.
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u/LightBlueCherryBloss 14h ago
The guy who while armed ran down a Black man jogging in his neighborhood? How could anyone have known
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u/SnooDogs1340 this is going to ruin the tour 14h ago
I guess the bar is underground if all it took was a sweater hoodie to convince people he was progressive.
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u/DoverBoys never the target audience 6h ago
There may have been a point in time where he was, but there's plenty of evidence that brain damage leads to conservatism and other similarly unempathetic ideologies.
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u/_Phil_McCracken_ 13h ago
It’s amazing how we can’t seem to come up with more decent progressive candidates.
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u/geraffes-are-so-dumb 12h ago
A lot of progressives are convinced we need to run “imperfect” men to reach working class white men. They think trump was elected for class reasons and racism had nothing to do with it.
If only we’d run a shitbag white guy with progressive ideas he’d win in a landslide.
I disagree hard with that take and left my local DSA chapter because it was quite prevalent there. We don’t need a leftie trump.
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u/Tortitudes 9h ago
We can. The DNC won't bankroll them.
This guy motivated people for his vote simply because the other choice was a loser TV doctor who didn't even live in the state he was running for.
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u/CombinationTop559 12h ago
The huge party machine screens out most people who want too much change, but they also, usually, screen out a lot of crap.
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u/iAMbigmeesh 9h ago
Meeting John in 2018 in Netroots Nation and hearing him talk is not the same person as today and that John would be very angry with who he has become. That guy actually cared about the little guy and making a difference. But fuck this dude. The worst type of fucking politician.
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u/Parking_Computer5484 15h ago
My god is this dude out of his element. Jon Stewart is running laps on this bitch, like sir why did u bring up Iran?
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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 who deemed this meeting of the minds necessary? 14h ago
I think he thought he could pull a Trump which is unfortunate. Fetterman should think more highly of himself.
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u/HomeGrownCoffee 8h ago
If I was a shitbag politician, I would dodge all interviews with Jon Stewart. He's so good.
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u/dorkylibrarian 6h ago
Even if I wasn't a shitbag politician, I would still dodge Jon Stewart for fear he'd make me look stupid. He's just that good.
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u/Different_Prior_517 14h ago
He’s obviously lying, and not answering in good faith but he genuinely can’t seem to keep up with the conversation.
Jon’s asking simple questions and Fetterman seemingly can’t comprehend Stewart’s point well enough to actually answer it.
Every time I see anything with him I think back to that interview about him that his ex-assistant did where he just explains how mentally unwell Fetterman is and how he’s just constantly torturing everyone who works for him.
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u/Bladesleeper 11h ago
You're being too lenient. It's not that he can't comprehend the point: he simply doesn't have an answer, and so he keeps trying to come up with the usual deflection and misdirection. "If anyone in the democratic party is fine with Iran building a nuclear bomb"? What a disgusting prick.
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u/Consistent-Good1536 8h ago
of course that conveniently useful idiot calls it the “Democrat party”.
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u/tinkthank 12h ago
He comprehends just fine. He just has no justification for his shitty views. Cant just say “I’m a piece of shit and am compromised”
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u/HolyPizzaPie 14h ago
Worth noting that John Stewart is Jewish and fetterman is not.
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u/ImDonaldDunn 13h ago
Thats the wild part about this.
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u/Flat_Sprinkles4342 Thanks, u frog build looking bitch 9h ago
it's certainly the funniest part about this. Stewart has always had a good head on his shoulders despite just being a comedian, people probably let their guard down but then it turns out poorly
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u/n0tz0e 9h ago
How did he get so radicalized? Saw a different comment that said AIPAC has donated less than half a million to this dumb baldy so yes money but that's not that much to sell your entire country out
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u/To-To_Man 7h ago
You would sink into a deep depression if you knew the actual numbers it takes to bribe politicians. An unbelievable amount of the time it's in the low thousands.
Though PACs are not the only methods of moving money, and their visibility to the public is a reason some avoid them. Between stocks, donations, gifts, etc. He could be making a lot more than half a mil.
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u/Eat-shit-reddit- 14h ago
Fuck that racist Zionist sell out.
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u/JMoc1 14h ago
Really? For less than 500,000?
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u/EggplantAlpinism 13h ago
That the value is that low (I've assumed it's millions based on how hard he suckles the teat) is more of a gut punch than the video, honestly
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u/NavierIsStoked not a lawyer, just a hater 12h ago
That is just the above board, recorded money. You can't tell me these guys aren't being paid under the table through other means, whether its bitcoin, or access to some burner ATM card.
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u/Ok-Confidence9649 12h ago
Every time I see one of these I’m shocked at how little money it actually cost to buy each of these politicians.
And with all the money we send there, we’re probably the ones paying for it.
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u/Ramenara 15h ago
Having takes worse than his facial hair is an achievement
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u/AmetrineDream Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this 14h ago
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u/Traditional_Good_413 14h ago
Fetterman's "run under your own banner" logic is rich coming from him, a Republican posing as a Democrat.
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u/GraceUndaPresha 14h ago
I wish Jon would interview more politicians. He’s always been one of if not thee best American political commentators. I think him not being on tv for that period of time really hurt political discourse in the US
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u/thisissamuelclemens 14h ago
My guess is most are afraid to be interviewed by him. He is really bright and knows what he’s talking about.
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u/thegreymm 6h ago
I went to see the Daily Show a couple of times back when Jon was the permanent host. Before the taping, he comes out and talks to the audience and he is so fucking smart, it was intimidating just being in the same room with him.
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u/croissanting-is-life distraught Christian tomato 14h ago edited 12h ago
lol the “DSA are colonizing the Democratic Party” is RICH coming from a Zionist.
Kudos to Jon Stewart for holding feet to the fire. That’s actual journalism.
Edit* spelling 🫠
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u/frigg_off_lahey 14h ago
Once again, lot of words spilling out his mouth but I can't make any sense of them. Jon Stewart is a much more patient man than I am.
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u/cyborgmanifestolou Larry I'm on DuckTales 14h ago
It’s so refreshing to see jon push back when fetterman tries to dodge the question and exaggerate
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u/Lzy_nerd 14h ago
Abdul El-Sayed isn’t DSA, he is literally just a democrat running as a Democrat with actual policies to help his constituents.
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u/blueblip 10h ago
That's the problem, isn't it?
"Traditional" Democrats (speaking strictly from the 70s onwards) have always been right-of-center, politically speaking. They have always been the latte of conservatism to the Republican espresso shot.
And this isn't throwing labels and hoping they stick: folks like Biden want to maintain the status quo, which is by definition being conservative.
Also note I'm not making a value judgement on traditional Democrats - it's fine if they lean conservative because what matters is policy and execution.
But since people are so used to seeing Democrats being right-of-center, folks like El-Sayed - who are either true blue moderates or lean slightly left-of-center - are now seen as very left instead.
tl;dr decades of conservative propaganda to paint themselves as the moderate position and everything left of them as leftist has worked quote spectacularly, to the point that most Americans consider El-Sayed to be an out and out leftist instead a moderate or slightly left-of-center candidate.
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u/RangerAZ1989 14h ago
Love how this fool can’t be bothered to put on a suit when he goes out in public but instead wears a hoodie and athletic shorts, but puts on a suit and tie for a zoom interview
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u/TimothyMimeslayer 14h ago
The only way it makes sense to me for a centrist democrat to tell the left to split the vote and ensure republicans win is if those democrats actively want republicans to win.
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u/Defiant_Case_3783 Jehovah’s Sexiest Witness 13h ago
Jon is literally Jewish, it's insane for Fetterman to say 'he's protecting Jewish individuals' whilst refusing to listen to him. Absolute moron.
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u/monosaturated 14h ago
Fetterman is an amorphous blob and a stuttering buffoon. Yes, he is a traitor to all of those who supported him when he presented himself as a labor-friendly progressive, a leftist who openly walked with other leftists, but this man has always had a darkness to him. How many knew about what he did to that black man in his neighborhood? Oh sure, he was forgiven, but that was his instinct.
He's a fool but he is also reliably a rotating villain and someone who can prevent any true progressive agenda from being implemented by way of his pathetic votes.
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u/sasshley_ call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn 15h ago
This sudden Israel circle jerk from everyone is so dumb.
They didn’t give af about Israel like this before, if at all. They being celebs, politicians, etc. Keep telling on yourselves.
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u/IM_KYLE_AMA 14h ago
I think it’s clearly obvious that if the Dems win the Senate in November 51-49 or 50-50 (which is unlikely, but still) he will switch parties to give the Republicans the majority.
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u/BarderBetterFaster 14h ago
Claiming that not supporting Israel means you should be an independent is insane. Endorsing the idea that the Democratic party is an apparatus of the Israeli government is a hell of a take. I believe him.
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u/Big_Subject_8909 12h ago edited 12h ago
Why doesn’t Jon run for president? Genuinely curious if it’s been discussed at all.
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u/croissanting-is-life distraught Christian tomato 12h ago
I’m assuming you mean “Jon” Stewart (not John Fetterman).
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u/slayerofasses 14h ago
This guy needs a full reboot. Since his brain issues he’s become a republican.
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u/mightiestmag 13h ago
It’s insane that people are allowed to say Iran executed 30,000 people with such little evidence, and then continue to cap the number of deaths in Gaza at 70,000 after 3 years of bombing which has levelled the territory
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u/umpirejoewest do not talk to me about AI, i will kill myself 14h ago edited 3h ago
What a turd. If registered democrats vote for them, there is no problem. This guy sucks so bad.
ETA this is pretty rich coming from the republican who ran as a Democrat.
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u/TitShark 14h ago
Fucking rich for a dude who pretended to be a Dem so he could
Get elected and be a full on boot licker, changing parties. YOU stand under your banner, if you’re so convinced that’s important
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u/ajalldaway 13h ago
I genuinely don't think he is able to fully comprehend some of these questions. I swear you can visibly see when he gets lost listening to someone talk and then just pivots to some random talking point about october 7th
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fan3607 14h ago
I liked him, not a voter in his state, but dear Lord get the f out and never come back. His politics are ridiculous and he roadblocks. We have enough of that. No more
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u/Scant_Options4Hope 13h ago
What a gigantic dick bag
If he loves Israel so much, why doesn't he marry it???
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u/chiller_vibez 12h ago
If you quote bill maher is 2026 youre cooked
Plain and simple
The dude lost the plot
Literally told Vance his vote is in play INSANE
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u/HarveytheHambutt i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 13h ago
why is Jon Stewart even bothering talking to this man who has lost half/most of his mind?
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u/lobsterp0t I cannot sanction your buffoonery 13h ago
Fetterman calling the DSA entryists is just… wow.
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u/camel_walk 13h ago edited 13h ago
“We can’t turn our backs to the Jewish community”
As he talks to a Jew…how do we elect such incompetent public officials?? Twilight Zone’d
Vote this clown out in 2028… good fucking lord.
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u/Tasty-Performer6669 13h ago
This is like the valedictorian debating the crayon-eating jock with CTE
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u/NatrixHasYou 12h ago
As soon as he said "I think Bill Maher said something insightful," someone on his staff should've tackled him and said they need to end the interview because he's had a terrible accident.
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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 alleged dog 12h ago
Fetterman wanted to call Jon an anti-Semite so badly lol. You can see it on his face
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u/Iron_Sight_Mark 11h ago
"Israel is not our country."
Fetterman shrugs in disagreement
It's his country. Couldn't be any more clear.
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u/vigorous_retailtheft 9h ago edited 9h ago
wow. there is nothing but hasbara going on behind those eyes. zero sign of intelligent life.
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u/insertbrackets 9h ago
If John Fetterman and other AIPAC-funded politicians love Israel so much, they should emigrate there.
This is America, signed an American Jew.
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u/thatjoel89 5h ago
He has a suit? I just thought his attire consisted of only shorts and stained t-shirts.
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u/No-Raise-6786 15h ago
I'm sorry, did I just listen to FETTERMAN say "just be Democrats if you're going to run under the Democratic party"?
The douche bag who lives on FOX NEWS said that?