RIP John Fetterman

not really

but also what the fuck is up with this guy, who is seemingly turning into a poorly dressed joe manchin in record time?

quality thread title and first post

Some people turn into assholes after a TBI?

he was always terrible on israel, that just wasn't as salient, and his one move when challenged on anything is to very loudly triple down.

Seems to be just another trust fund a-hole, just a Democrat one.

kind of looks like a slaphead Ming the Merciless or Gary Glitter, obv a nonce

this fucking guy

I wonder if the local library has a copy of his memoir. The excerpts I have heard aren't good! I have a lot of sympathy for people who struggle with health problems, but refusing to seek treatment for depression to the extent that you also don't follow up on cardiovascular health issues, run for senator, and then win that election only to spend the rest of November unable or unwilling to get out of bed, to the extent you have to drag yourself to thanksgiving dinner is crazy to me

I've spent my life attempting to get my ducks in a row before doing things, but apparently that's wrong! Just run for senator! Have preventable health issues! have really thin skin and take contradictory issues when someone asks if you're going to do your job!

So Fetterman is trying to resurrect the dead-in-the-water SAVE act with a compromise that will make just Voter ID mandatory? Thanks, asshole.

it's pretty obvious from complaints I've read that his office isn't functional enough to take voter feedback or requests right now, so who the hell is he doing this on behalf of? the entire brave productive centrist lane where you deliver things nobody in particular wants is so grating

looks like he's also gonna be the deciding vote for Mullin's confirmation FFS

what a complete embarrassment of a person

I had to sit through a work dinner last night where an older gentleman started talking about politics and opined that this guy was his favorite senator.

as one does.

grimacing and nodding at your work dinner's most respected bipartisan

It's been hard for those guys since Lieberman died.

https://i.redd.it/e85rc5dnkdtc1.jpeg

Gaaah this guy makes me so fucking angry

As we've seen with Diane Feinstein, you can't trash bin senators who insist on serving out their terms, no matter how badly they need to go.

yes you can on a message board

This is one case where you could possibly cyber bully him into another stroke.

just digging himself in deeper

"You know, right now our party, is, is governed by the TDS, and now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished, as a Democrat, to agree something’s good, or ‘I agree with the other side,’ and I would define that by Epic Fury,” Fetterman responded.

“I am literally the only Democrat in America, in Congress, that I’ve come across that’s saying, ‘I think it’s a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime,’” he added.

He made his decision to approve Markwaynejimbob last week, so the confirmation hearing was a waste of time for him. He trusts his gut, not the party or his base. And I trust his gut like I trust Trump’s.

I'm sure you do think it's a great idea, you know who doesn't though, something like 95% of the Democratic voters who put you in office because they actually believed you were gonna fight for them

has his wife left him yet? she basically went totally dark on social media for a while after he went nutso, then I stopped following her

wikipedia still lists her as his spouse, so if there's a divorce afoot it isn't final.

i can totally understand that a traumatic brain injury and/or stroke would affect a person; far less convinced that such things would affect a person in precisely this fashion

struggling to get out of bed does not inexorably lead to 'let's gleefully kill every muslim'

Honestly I don't think it was the stroke. He was probably *always* this guy, and pulled one over on PA voters, myself included. We won't get fooled again, until inevitably we do.

so he confirmed Mullin

has his wife left him yet? she basically went totally dark on social media for a while after he went nutso, then I stopped following her

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otm she was doing the political wife thing to the HILT and doing it beautifully and with what came across to me as a lot of actual care and enthusiasm for people. I hope she's well and if it's not too much to ask for someone who has to live with that guy, I hope she's happy. :/

She made an anti-ICE post a month ago or so and then her social media accounts were deleted.

never forgotten this:

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/john-fetterman-black-jogger-2013-shotgun-20220425.html

Crossing my fingers along with the rest of the internet for her to leave and have a great life with the kids and the dog.

he probably had her deported

"Polling shows that Fetterman’s popularity among Pennsylvania Democrats has swung by an eye-popping 108 percentage points since 2023, from 68 points net favorable to 40 points net unfavorable."

https://prospect.org/2026/05/06/will-john-fetterman-go-full-benedict-arnold/

devastating news for the "you can't reduce something by more than 100%!" crowd

it's a 54% swing lol

that is still a lot

hmm, maybe it depends on what is meant by 'swing' actually, matter of interpretation. this is now the statistics thread

yeah that is some Harry Enten math.

needs more spittle and bug eyes

that's how pollsters calculate swing in this context though isn't it? just is rare for it to be that massive

tbh i don't understand what the + and - mean when they are in front of numbers that pollsters throw around. i would doubt most people really understand even basic statistics

I think it's something like-- In 2023 Fetterman was at 80% approve and 12% disapprove (8% no opinion): 68% net approval
and in 2026 he's at 20% approve and 70% disapprove: -40% net approval

sorry I meant 30% approve in the second one

Of course, to me 70% disapproval sounds worse than -40% approval but wonks gonna wonk.

you forgot to carry the one

This is incredibly difficult to watch. I also think it’s perfectly reasonable to demand a serious examination of this man’s health and whether he is fit to serve pic.twitter.com/sqncIqoepA

— Julian Andreone (@JulianAndreone) May 12, 2026

you're referring to Bill Maher, right

I think Maher is perfectly capable at his job as a smug asshole.

Jesus Christ that guy is a wreck

Is that just aphasia that affects him being able to get out the thoughts in his head, or are the thoughts jumbled?

I feel like I'd need to check his book out from the library to confirm some things, but given how frank the excerpts have been, I would assume the overwhelming depression is part of it

doesn't sound too different from how Elon Musk speaks

I dunno. I have a friend who had a stroke a few years ago, with aphasia, and that reminds me of her very much. Of course, I wouldn't want her in the Senate, either.

no more henpecking, no more TDS

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday defended the amount of money reportedly spent on President Trump’s revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and told critics to “stop the henpecking.”

“Stop this henpecking. $13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair,” Fetterman said on the social platform X, sharing a screenshot of the headline for the Times’ story. “Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th.”

If Fetterman fell into the reflecting pool would anyone help him get out?

I’ll settle for him slipping in the shower

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told his staff he thought he could be the vice presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket in 2028, prompting disbelief, New York Magazine’s Intelligencer reported Thursday.

“Almost all of us had our jaws on the floor, like, ‘Are you out of your fucking mind? You don’t do your job, you can’t raise any money, and your entire party hates you,’” a person who was in the room that day last summer told the publication.

rahm’s running mate, running on trumpism with a human face

Vance/Fetterman maybe

all of us surly, brain-damaged Carhartt dudes can relate to him

I want to know why folks who think that of him are still working for him.

paychecks, future resume fodder for better jobs

Maybe he doesn't make them do anything (vaguely assigns, complains, avoids, forgets?)

FPing everyone who got my hopes up

agreed this thread should only be revived when the title is relevant

agreed this thread should only be revived when the title is relevant

No

the thread title is always relevant. hope springs eternal.

i’m always down for some hope, but it’s from last summer anyway, right?

“Almost all of us had our jaws on the floor, like, ‘Are you out of your fucking mind? You don’t do your job, you can’t raise any money, and your entire party hates you,’” a person who was in the room that day last summer told the publication.

these days i’m sure he’s aiming for president

Well, yeah. Sometimes staffers don’t trash their Senators until they leave the job.

i get that! but yeah when i just read the first part of the quote i assumed he had just blurted it out today or something, thought maybe someone else would think that too. i'm sure there will be a million more reports of things fetterman has done that have sucked, in the tell-all book in a few years which i won't read haha.

god. it's amazing how far you can get by being a big guy in shorts