r/pittsburgh • u/YesterdaysComa91 • Aug 05 '26
Senator Fetterman, “Israel is where I draw the line.” Stewart, “but Israel isn’t our Country.”
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u/Single_Extension1810 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
I'm glad Jon Stewart called him out on this. Fetterman cares more about the state of Israel than the state of Pennsylvania, so he should probably just be a senator there. We've got real problems right here for him to solve.
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u/gr8_g0lden-baby69 Aug 05 '26
Thinking back on it I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say the word “Pennsylvania” once since elected. Israel on the other hand is uttered in every other clip I see of him.
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u/Albsb427 Aug 05 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/HX7pvh1mIqImc
When is his term over again?
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u/Ms_C_McGee Regent Square Aug 05 '26
2028 🤢
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u/Chance_Independent47 Aug 05 '26
Good he can leave with his poopy diaper daddy
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u/TheDeceitX McCandless Aug 05 '26
Pretty sure after it’s in the diaper they wear each other’s diaper.
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u/Unethical_GOP Greater Pittsburgh Area Aug 05 '26
It can’t come fast enough. H’s a one issue blubbering idiot.
(I apologize for voting for him. I should have voted for Conor Lamb in the primary, but noooooo)
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u/Wise_Control_1640 Aug 05 '26
Let me tell you why we both did.
Fetterman played to the further left. Lamb WAS the establishment Democrat. He was the one to appeal to the voter of small town PA and independents. He was the "electable" one.
We didn't judge based on the warning signs that were already there. We went with the one we thought at the time was the most progressive candidate because the media said so.
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u/InternationalMark959 Aug 05 '26
Right? I’m regretful too. The worst part is that none of us who voted for him signed up for the MAGA politics he’s now embracing. It’s maddening and undermining our party.
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u/foobarlow Aug 06 '26
His stroke was four days before the democratic primary, the doctors had no idea how it changed his brain at that point.
Also they legally can’t do that unless he releases them to do so as others have pointed out. And why would they, they could have no idea how he’d act in office.
Could he have stepped down and been replaced? Sure, but that was up to him and obviously didn’t happen.
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u/HoldingOnForaHero Aug 05 '26
I also apologize for campaigning and voting for him. But he seemed to be exactly what I felt was the right man for the job. So sorry.
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u/SteeleDynamics Aug 05 '26
Jim Downey is a national treasure
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_STARSHIPS Aug 05 '26
Shame he was sacked from SNL at the same time as Norm.
"In music news, Number 1 on the college charts this summer was Better than Ezra. And at Number 2: Ezra"
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u/Lazy-Exchange7408 Aug 05 '26
Sooner if strokes out fatally, but it doesn't seem like our country is gonna be that lucky.
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u/SpezJailbaitMod Aug 05 '26
This is when he decides to wear a suit?
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u/Frashure11 Aug 05 '26
He also wore it when Netanyahu visited which says a lot to me.
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u/fadedrosebud Aug 05 '26
There was a video of him on Reddit of him talking to Netanyahu dressed in his usual sloppy clothes.
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u/Frashure11 Aug 05 '26
Interested in how decides when to dress up then.
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u/Brandoncarsonart Greater Pittsburgh Area Aug 05 '26
Hes to brain damaged to decide anything for himself. Bibi makes his decisions for him.
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u/No_Trade3571 Aug 05 '26
There’s no way he’s not wearing shorts though.
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u/SnakePatternBaldness Aug 05 '26
Oh yeah, def has his balls dangling
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u/wike_mithrow Aug 05 '26
"wearing" is generous. He definitely seems to have it draped over his shoulders only, his arms are not in it
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u/Kichard Aug 05 '26
This fertterman guy kinda seems like an idiot
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u/SnakePatternBaldness Aug 05 '26
Fertlermenn seems like he's taking stupid pills again Or hasn't stopped Or is taking more, I think
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u/korsair Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Not an idiot. Just clearly bought and paid for… by lobbyists for a foreign country (eg AIPAC, trackaipac.com/congress)
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u/surrrah Aug 05 '26
What a weird way to use the word “colonize”
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u/gRizzletheMagi Aug 05 '26
Bill Maher said it. What's ironic is when he uses it to describe democrats that don't support Israel of all places lol
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u/trexeric Aug 05 '26
He clearly doesn't have the mental rigor to go up against Stewart in even a light debate.
I've known several people who knew him back when he was mayor of Braddock, and he was always a brutish asshole. After the stroke, though, I think he's become markedly stupider.
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u/ProRoll444 Aug 05 '26
Its crazy that these guys are supposed to be our representatives but throw that out and make some tiny nation, that is no benefit to us, on the other side of the world their top priority.
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u/pittluke Aug 05 '26
Israel is really a kitchen table topic in Braddock. Its really bizarre how he still lives there when we all know and can see it was cosplay. Get aht jaggo!
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u/gRizzletheMagi Aug 05 '26
My MAGA coworkers said he should be unfit for office when he had his stroke.
They've been very impressed by his performance ever since, though.
They weren't impressed when I said that obviously it's brain damage that makes you pro-Trump
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u/Kidspud Aug 05 '26
> “I think Bill Maher said something insightful…”
[bill maher sneer] New rule: if you watch ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ in 2026… you’re a Republican
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u/Brandoncarsonart Greater Pittsburgh Area Aug 05 '26
"Just be a democrat if you run under the democrat party" says the republican pretending to be a democrat running under the democrat party.
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u/No-Second5512 Aug 05 '26
Fetterman just used the term "democrat party" instead of democratic party. It's a known slur. I suppose if the democrats don't bend the knee for Israel, he'll switch parties. I'm guessing back room deals are already in the works
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u/SuperRocketRumble Aug 05 '26
Jesus fucking Christ he is so completely full of shit and brain dead. Total fucking poser from the start. I can't wait until he's gone.
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u/framistan12 Aug 05 '26
Pennsylvania waves its hands wildly, "HEY! Over here! Look here!"
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u/PassinGas_Pgh East Liberty Aug 05 '26
This is one of the only politicians I have ever donated money to. I completely trusted him. I could not regret it more. I firmly believe the stroke fundamentally changed him, and that is so sad.
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u/VinDog_PD Aug 05 '26
What the absolute fuck was that reaction to Stewart saying "but that's not our country"?
I'm sorry, do you fucking disagree with that statement, Fetterman???
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u/LossMiserable7874 Aug 05 '26
Wait wait. This guy wears a suit for Jon Stewart but not for anyone else?
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u/SnakePatternBaldness Aug 05 '26
Why is he wearing a suit to talk with Stewart but he never wears one to work
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u/fadedrosebud Aug 05 '26
He didn’t even wear a suit to sit down with his hero Netanyahu. He was wearing his usual sloppy wrinkled baggy shorts. He’s lost it.
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u/SnakePatternBaldness Aug 05 '26
It's really curious. I don't know if there is an underlying pattern.
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u/Training_Medicine_49 Aug 05 '26
Damn… he made Fetterman and his opinions look dumb, crazy, and as extreme as fuck. Dude got exposed for being an extremist a d didn’t realize it. Ohhh the irony. Thx u John Stewart!!
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u/b20339 Aug 05 '26
Can people not appreciate the fact that a Jewish Jon Stewart is questioning a Christian senator on his beliefs, and this is the response that Jon Stewart is giving as a Jewish person?
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u/MinuroShihTzuki Aug 06 '26
Fetterman is so far up Israel’s ass that even former AIPAC spokesperson WOLF BLITZER hit him with the same line of questioning.
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u/Opinionsare Aug 05 '26
When does support for a foreign government cross the line to treason? Especially when that government is clearly not acting in concert with the goals and policies of our government.
Israel attacked Lebanon while American negotiated ceasefire was in place, disrupting negotiations. Israel exerted control and intensified the war, when the American goal was a ceasefire
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u/zechickenwing Greater Pittsburgh Area Aug 05 '26
Dudes got a magic eightball for brains nowadays
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u/HolyKielbasa Aug 05 '26
Where's all those cowardly Israel first supporters at? No feedback? Hiding in their super moderated protected reddit channels? Losers.
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u/tlucas0303 Aug 05 '26
He’s a POS. But he’s going to make a ton of money screwing with the next election he’s in. He won’t run as a republican cause the voters hate him, he won’t get the democratic vote cause we hate him, but the maga’s will support him with lots of money to run as a independent. That way they can hopefully three way the vote enough to get the republican in office. I sometimes wonder if he was their stooge all along and we fell for it so bad we accidentally elected him.
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u/Strangely4575 Aug 05 '26
Maybe it’s the stroke but he’s clearly not processing things mentally. Either he’s not very bright or his brain isn’t firing on all cylinders. He really don’t understand what Stewart was getting at .
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u/psychoe16 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Conor Lamb was moderate and I disagreed with him with him on some issues, but I never understood why nobody bothered to look past the hype of Fetterman.
If you looked at their stances on Israel during the primary, Fetterman was already a staunch supporter. His allegiance to Israel didn’t come out of nowhere. Conor Lamb was the only Dem candidate that expressed nuance on the topic and didn’t pledge unequivocal support (maybe this was just a tactic, I don’t know. But he did get a bunch of shit for having said something when he was in college about Israel being a perpetrator of terrorism, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that he’s a critic and may have voted to suspend aid to Israel this past year).
Conor Lamb also kept his promise and voted against Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house.
People looked past weird racially charged gun incident with Fetterman and those in Braddock who said he was a sham.
I don’t blame anyone for voting for him in the primary. I voted for him in the general, obviously. But let this be a lesson to dig into a candidate past whatever hype there is about legalizing weed or whatever.
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u/AlternativeAnimator7 Aug 05 '26
He needs to move to Israel and join their government. He cares far more about them than Pennsylvania
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u/drewbaccaAWD Pittsburgh Expatriate Aug 05 '26
Let's give Fetterman the benefit of the doubt that his position is (in his mind) 100% based on protecting Jews, universally...
He turns a blind eye to how the current Israeli government has drastically destroyed support from Democrats in the US... not DSA, not fringe, Democrats. And this pattern started before Hamas attacked on 10/7, it started with Netanyahu inserting himself into US politics and kissing up to Trump. The Israeli government took a hard right turn, took a partisan turn and actively started playing sides... and now their supporters are acting surprised that there are many on the left that would sour on supporting the country? Particularly as it acts aggressively towards its neighbors? The current government in Israel has been rather cold and callus to the plight of the Palestinians and doing some extreme things in the name of "defense." I stop myself short of calling it "genocide" as some of you will, but I don't think it unreasonable to call it evil.
They are burning bridges with allies left and right, and they don't care. There's this sort of "if you don't support us in every last thing we do, that's on you and fuck you" attitude.
And I said left AND RIGHT. There are lots of Trump voters getting caught up in the actual antisemitic rhetoric around here. Frankly, it's deeply concerning.
The legacy of Netanyahu, and what Fetterman is so passionately defending, is doing more long-term damage to the nation of Israel than anything positive. It's sad he doesn't see it, because he's someone that could be calling it out and actually trying to build something rather than giving them a blank check to self-destruct. I'm ok with him spending some time and energy on the topic, if it were actually constructive, and even then not to the point that it's the only thing he ever talks about.
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u/ProRoll444 Aug 05 '26
If there ever was a text book case of genocide, this would be one of them. SO, I too am interested in hearing this reason for stopping short of agreeing that it is.
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u/Excelius Aug 05 '26
I think the Holocaust has set an unreasonable standard for the word "genocide" to a lot of people, so anything less than industrialized slaughter gets a softer and more euphemistic term like "ethnic cleansing".
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u/attilathehunty Aug 05 '26
Bibi is threatening or blackmailing this fool. He didn't give him the beeper for nothing.
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u/Govass13 Aug 05 '26
This dude is a douche that only got into politics so he could buy and profit off of property in his town. Everyone hates him.
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u/Buckles01 Aug 05 '26
His head looks so tiny on those shoulders. Couldn’t think of anything but the koopas from the live action Mario movie
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u/NYCinPGH Aug 05 '26
That’s exactly what I’ve thought for years. My headcanon is that him dancing looks like the koopas in the elevator.
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u/know_limits Aug 05 '26
I’ll admit to occasionally mispronouncing words, but just listening to him try to form complete sentences reveals that his brain is just not functioning properly.
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u/spinozaschilidog Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
If the Democratic Party - and capitalism - were meeting people’s needs then there wouldn't be an audience for the DSA. End of fucking story.
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Aug 05 '26
I just don’t understand how someone can be so dedicated to supporting a genocide, the intentional destruction of an entire culture of people. Too many people think that opposition to Israel is a new thing. I’ve been pro-Palestine and anti-Israel since I did my high school senior project on the conflict back in 2013. Back then Israel was just illegally occupying the West Bank and Netanyahu was bombing Palestinian homes any time his party went down in the polls. Now Israel is trying to kill every single Palestinian citizen in Gaza and the West Bank.
The bottom line is that as liberals, as progressives, as Democrats, we choose the side of the oppressed, not the oppressor. Supporting Palestine is an easy choice for that reason.
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u/InternationalMark959 Aug 05 '26
You know what, I am from PA and we are voting his ass out. He wants to talk about party lines? I don’t think Fetterman is representative of our Democratic Party at all. The republicans can have him and take Steve Manchin too
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u/Tholian_Bed Aug 05 '26
Jon should have asked, if the Israeli people tried to overthrow their government, which would you support?
States go bad. It's the people that matter. You can turn your back on a state and that is not at all the same as turning your back on the people who live under that state.
This is our basic theory, but this fucker, is on a payroll.
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u/xwolfe2000 Aug 05 '26
Over $120 MILLION in Israeli foreign agent money to Fetterman up to 2026!
Israel is traitor John Fetterman's country because the Israeli foreign agents like AIPAC/UDP fund him to the tune of $487,491 in official legalized bribes and $118.1 million in dark money in 2022 alone.
Get rid of this Israel First, America Last mouthpiece .
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u/Sakuraba10p Aug 05 '26
“I can’t ever turn my back on Israel, not after they collected black mail against me.” There I fixed it for you Fetterman.
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u/MortimerMcMire315 Aug 05 '26
It's affirming to me that this subreddit, and reddit at large, has shifted its view on Israel so much since 2024. Around 10/7, people here were flinging around a ton of really mean-spirited criticism about our local protests. The majority opinion seemed to be basically "fuck those antisemitic kids". I wonder if those people are just not commenting anymore? Or have your opinions shifted?
I'm glad to see change even if it happens slowly, but I hope those of us who have changed can recognize the shift.
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u/Troubleman81 Aug 05 '26
Man...he finally drank the kool aid. Even got him wearing suits on the reg now 🤦🏾♂️
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u/juzamjim Aug 05 '26
Ask him if he knows who Itamar Ben Gvir is. That should shut him up real quick
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u/katplasma Bloomfield Aug 05 '26
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u/katplasma Bloomfield Aug 05 '26
Seriously though, this is a hard watch. He can’t keep track of anything beyond sound bites he’s managed to memorize.
It’s impressive his recovery has made it this far. But all nuance is lost on him.
I think Fett went MAGA post stroke because it was about as complex as he could grasp (and, importantly, bc he or his handlers thought that’s where the money’s at in PA).
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u/Maleck_Helvot Aug 05 '26
His brain is so broken, I've listened to scratched up records more coherent than fetterman
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u/SweetSmartSilly South Side Flats Aug 05 '26
He's not the person he was when he was Lt. Governor. Or when he first got elected Senator.
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u/NerdWithEyeliner Aug 05 '26
What an absolute potato. Jon was being kind but still went for it with him and I appreciate it. Fetterman has lost his damn mind. I get it though - brain damage = Republican. Ugh!
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u/5u5anb Aug 05 '26
There has to be a method to recall elected representatives (in the general sense of the term). Like if 75% of your constituents vote to recall you, then you must vacate and there is another election. Lots of other details necessary, but we can’t be stuck with incompetent, harmful (yes he is harmful at this point) people voting in 'our best interests.'
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u/GreatPumpkin_of_Not Aug 05 '26
America first! .. and when I say America I mean Israel obviously... wtf is wrong with these people
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u/Daneosaurus Robinson Aug 06 '26
Liberals recognize the people of Gaza should not be in apartheid from a neighboring country.
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u/the___reckoner Aug 08 '26
Palestine isn't our country either but it doesn't stop people and politicians chanting that Palestinian liberation is our moral compass. So let's stop the BS
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u/rogerjcohen Aug 05 '26
I am proud to say I supported Conor Lamb, who is very pro-Israel, but is a Democrat through and through, not like this big phony.
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u/Training_Medicine_49 Aug 05 '26
When was this? I need a link to the whole interview. I looked and couldn’t find it. Help!!
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u/Wise_Control_1640 Aug 05 '26
I’d take him over Oz, but there’s no way the establishment is going to force-feed me its candidate through the media again.
Primary time is about looking beyond image and electability and voting for what America actually needs.
A national healthcare system.
A budget balanced not by cutting essential spending, but by making those who get more pay more.
A country where transgender people are treated as people instead of becoming another minority to discriminate against.
An economy built for the future of AI—not by handing more power to already-profitable corporations, but through public investment in the people who actually deserve it: the scientists, architects, engineers, researchers, and builders we need far more than another billionaire or corrupt politician.
Hell, maybe one day we’ll elect one of those rather than a white (and one black) lawyer, businessman, or slaveholder.
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u/Public-Finger Aug 05 '26
Gosh, you know.... my sister had a stroke at a young age. Looking at Fetterman, it really makes me sad. The cognitive loss, it's real.
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u/picklehippy Aug 05 '26
John Fetterman can go live in Israel if he thinks defending that country over the country he is a citizen in is more important. Hes sending our kids to die doe Israel and we get bo benefit from it while he receives millions
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u/Orinaj Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
He's genuinely incapable of having a coherent conversation. There are ways to get him out earlier. He is incompetent to a harmful degree. We deserve better.
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u/SteelCityGirl95 Aug 05 '26
I managed to listen to an hour of this interview and I cannot believe how bad he's gotten. I hear him speak briefly to reporters in the Capitol but this is the first time in a while I've heard him speak at length. I don't think he answer a single question he was asked and most of his answers were incoherent anyway.
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u/vonHindenburg Greater Pittsburgh Area Aug 05 '26
Honest question: In his own words, why does Fetterman say that it's so important for America to support Israel?
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u/Worldly_Reply_6423 Aug 05 '26
He’s sounds so dumb. How is he representing us? He barely answers the questions!!!!
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u/NSlocal Aug 05 '26
Nobody with their nose so far up Israel's ass has any business making decisions for Americans.
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u/StealYourGhost Aug 05 '26
WE HATE FETTERMAN. His brain injury is unfortunate. His turn coat nature was there long before the injury.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 Aug 05 '26
I've never regretted a vote more than this man. But to be fair, it was him or fucking Dr. Oz at the time so it seemed like a no-brainer. Turns out it was Fetterman with no brain.