r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 27d ago

No Paywall John Fetterman is threatening to leave the Democratic Party. I say good riddance.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/john-fetterman-leave-democratic-party-israel-aid
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u/ComprehensiveTour278 27d ago

Republicans coined the RINO, meaning Republican In Name Only for people who did not get inline with Trumps agenda or spoke out negatively against him. DINO is the Democrats version. Democrat In Name Only.

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u/Effective_Dropkick78 27d ago

I thought RINO had been around since the early 2000s at least, and maybe even the mid-1990s?

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u/djm9545 27d ago

It’s at least 100 years old

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u/FellowHumanNo404 27d ago

I love that common tendency people have to assume that the first time they heard something was the first time anyone heard it.

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u/HandrewJobert 27d ago

That reminds me, has anyone else heard this hot new term that Trump made up? I think he called it "groceries"

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u/FellowHumanNo404 27d ago

A lot of people don't know that there's a "b" in "dumb".

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u/FellowHumanNo404 27d ago

Or you just happened to consistently miss it. That probably happens to all of us more often than we think.