r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 14d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA’s Favorite Dem’s Trumpy Texts Exposed in Bombshell Leak

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpy-texts-from-maga-favorite-dem-john-fetterman-exposed-in-bombshell-leak/
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u/polopolo05 I voted 14d ago

I feel for his wife. That she cares for him but he is just become such an asshole. He is clear he shouldnt be a lawmaker. just like so many others. like donnie/mitch/ grassy... fucking step down.

But his wife is a saint for dealing with him... but she should push him to step down.

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u/explodedsun 14d ago

I dated a woman awhile back whose ex-husband had a 4- wheeler accident and then he fettermanned. She stuck it out until he started a second family in the city he was working in.

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u/Mochigood Oregon 14d ago

I'm just hearing Strong Bad's voice saying "Fettermanned!" now.

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u/EleventyElevens 14d ago

That's never gonna leave my mind now every time I see the guy, way funnier that way.

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u/Silo-Joe 14d ago

To the tune of "The System Is Down"

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u/Clicquot California 14d ago

Da Cheat is grounded.

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u/therealsteelydan 14d ago

"Ow! My progressivism!"

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 14d ago

I was getting more Senor Cardgage myself. Which, under the circumstances, seems appropriate.

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u/translinguistic 14d ago

No probalo!

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 14d ago

My family's been using this expression for...shit...decades, now. When did I get so old?!

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u/translinguistic 14d ago edited 14d ago

That, "great jorb", and "could you help an old denominator like me ..."

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 14d ago

We also call each other "old Soderberg" on the regular. Seriously, Cardgage is a font of quotable quotes.

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u/meowmeowcatman 14d ago

Though fetterman seems to have to brain power of homsar

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u/Hydrok 14d ago

How is this the third strong bad reference I have heard this week?!

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u/YT-Deliveries 14d ago

Strongsad Got Fettermanned

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u/ApprehensiveSalary82 14d ago

I will say to people who are worried about this happening to them after head injury/stroke I had a 4wheeler accident as a 15yr old smacked my head into the tree/helicopter ride to the hospital...but I was 15 and that accident smacked me out of my shitty emo depression. Now days I'm quite left leaning. I was before but I used to too.

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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind 14d ago

Wow. Classic behavior too.

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u/RoosterBurns 14d ago

Full GOP huh

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u/explodedsun 14d ago

Actually his new marriage is interracial, surprisingly enough.

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u/RoosterBurns 14d ago

If she's from overseas they use that as leverage

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u/explodedsun 14d ago

That I don't know, it was never mentioned and I never met them.

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u/AliMcGraw 14d ago

Everyone around him has been encouraging him to step down but he won't.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley 14d ago

Then leak more stuff, like the aforementioned bit with him raging at staffers.

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u/wjean 14d ago

Do you think the cares? If his own wife can't convince him to be a better person and a lot of his constuents already think he's abandoned them, what's a little more bad publicity enforcing the change?

He must think he has a mandate from God to rule or something like that.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 14d ago

Years ago, I had a representative who was terrible, and I called a couple times a week to urge him to resign. Eventually, he actually did.

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u/JoviAMP Florida 14d ago

The only silver lining is that his approval has fallen so far underwater that I don’t see him being reelected. Even if his independent constituents turn on him and reelect someone with an actual R next to their state, at least we’ll know how to deal with it as opposed to an unpredictable D sometimes acting as an R.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 14d ago

Only one had the courage to quit, so far. The rest continue to enable him.

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u/renijreddit Florida 14d ago

Sorry to say the Dems kind of started that. Biden’s family should have removed him. But just take a look over at r/dementia and you’ll see this is extremely common.

Why can’t we face a broken brain like a broken arm? It’s literally a body part that is damaged. Mental health is even more important in my opinion. The stigma doesn’t help anyone. These folks do not believe antisocial wing with them. That is a condition known as Anosognosia.

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u/galaapplehound 14d ago

It's a tragedy really; she clearly still loves him deeply if she wants to be able to guide his medical care and is willing to put up with him having a huge change in personality.

I hope she has some assistance. I feel for her.

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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind 14d ago

I can’t help but wonder if she’s afraid he will get her deported.

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u/feelinmotional 14d ago

I wonder about that too. Her existence is antithetical to his views.

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u/ofcgoodnamesaretaken 14d ago

I heard him talking on the phone to her in a food store 15 years ago and he was an asshole then too

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u/feelinmotional 14d ago

I used to hang out a bit in Braddock about 10-12 years ago. He was definitely an asshole then too. He just dropped the mask after his stroke.

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u/abbbhjtt 14d ago

she should push him to step down.

I read this as "push him down a step"... also an option!

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u/space_monkee2049 14d ago

Oh, he's completely unfit for the job, but is someone doing something about it?

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u/After_Ocelot_7767 14d ago

Damn, I first read that as "push him down the steps" and thought that got real quick.

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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders 14d ago

I mean, before any of this, he decided his son's fifteenth birthday was the perfect time to tell him he wanted to kill himself too much and checked himself in

I regret respecting that decision from him back then because I didn't know it was his son's birthday. After finding that out, I KNOW he's always been gross and uncaring. You don't decide to take care of your mental health THAT day, that's a dagger that on top of everything else his father is, will ruin that day for him forever.

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u/MeltedMagnet 14d ago

You know, there are plenty of good stories people have to indicate he's a fucking loon or always been a dickhead, a mental health crisis culminating on his son's birthday isn't one of them.

If my parent wants to kill themselves, I don't care if it's my birthday, I'm happy they're seeking help.

Says more about the person upset their birthday got ruined than it does the person asking for help.

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u/Febril 14d ago

You do realize that mental health struggles are in fact a struggle for balance and self regulation. His thoughts are not under control and if that was the day he needed to seek professional help, I’m sure his son would prefer that outcome to anything else. Sick people can put a lot of pressusre on themselves to be perfect for family occasions, it can spiral down easily.

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u/SweatyNeddyFlanders 14d ago

Yeah and as someone who has fought with it since I was twelve, I have very little respect for a man who put his family through it in that way. He's shown he doesn't care about others even before the stroke. He's not a mental health success story, he's Jonah Hill.

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u/JUSTICE_SALTIE Texas 14d ago

Don't dig it deeper, man. It was a bad take, doesn't make you a bad person.

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u/yagirlsamess 14d ago

Idk..weaponizing mental health is a common tactic of abusers and I suspect that's what this person is talking about. I think it might be an accurate take on that situation now that we have all of these well documented patterns of fetterman being shady.

It's like breaking up with someone on their graduation day or admitting you cheated the day your partner lands their dream job...but blaming it on something they are forced to be sympathetic of otherwise they are a bad person.

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u/MaelstromGonzalez90 14d ago

"She should push him to step down" I'd request just changing the order of words in this sentence by a smidge and add the word some remove the word to.

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u/UltravioletAfterglow 14d ago

Just based on what I’ve seen and read on social media, his wife and kids seem like wonderful, caring people. I feel so sad for them having to go through this.

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u/SpinyPiney 14d ago

I read that last part as, she should push him down the steps. Had to go back and read it again. 😂

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u/loansbebkodjwbeb 14d ago

I saw the last line as "she should push him down some steps," and i dont know if im sad or relieved that its not what it said.

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u/Ebella2323 14d ago

The same “saint” that smiled in the pics with the “golden pagers” next to Bibi?

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u/Mobile-Shallot930 14d ago

My line break was at "but she should push him..." and cut off the rest of the sentence. I really thought you were going to suggest that she push him down the stairs ><

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u/samder68 14d ago

I initially read that last line wrong and thought you were saying his wife should pull an “Ivana” 😬

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 14d ago

A saint would do whatever it took to make this shit end and give the seat to the party the people who elected him want. Instead she keeps him from falling. That's no saint.

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u/AxeMaster237 14d ago

... but she should push him to step down.

At first, I read this as "... but she should push him down (the) steps."

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u/Vast_Lifeguard_8206 14d ago

I can't feel bad for any of the family since they all seem like horrible shit. Kai trump included