Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.
Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
As the meeting deteriorated, a staff member moved to end it and ushered the visitors into the hallway, where she broke down crying. The staffer was comforted by the teachers who were themselves rattled by Fetterman’s behavior, according to a second person who was briefed separately on the meeting.
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
People tend to get mad when you campaign on helping people then turn into a fascist supporter
No, no, no. He was a piece of shit before he got elected he just hid it better before the stroke.
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
Prior to his election. Stop blaming the stroke for a democrat acting like a democrat.
Brain damage makes you more conservative
Universities aren’t peddling some “liberal agenda,” it just so happens that the more educated you are the more liberal you tend to become. I’m sure that has nothing to do with red states pushing Jesus in schools and rolling back child labor laws…
What if it’s deeper than that. Like not systematic. What if liberals who are educated are just more outspoken. Or that people who tend to need post secondary school are more left leaning. What if it has nothing to do with education at all. I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right. The argument that they are is similar to arguments like people in Alberta saying they’re better than other provinces because they’re rich but really it’s just a product of living in a province where there’s an abundance of natural resources.
I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right.
But intelligence and education are not exactly the same things.
A stockbroker knows about farms; but not the finer details that make one successful. Much like how politicians say they understand the struggles of the working class but never worked a day in their lives
It is deeper and systemic. Depending on your field of study it could be analyzed any number of ways. I said nothing about intelligence, that’s hard to quantify and we’re all born with the same set of tools more or less. What is quantifiable is the census and voting records of various states around this nation. Being born into a family of poor idiots doesn’t make you dumb, but it does put you at a statistical likelihood of not seeing that potential because college is expensive and the local culture believing higher education=liberal brainwashing.
No one is automatically better than anyone else based on their zip code, but being in the nicer ones does help, who’d have thought
I think a major part of it is education and exposure. Conservativism is, generally, a desire to halt or even roll back “progress”. The embrace of traditions and nostalgia for the imaginary “good old days”. You know what your parents and your community taught you. You’ve established what normal is from your small sample size. Why change things? Everyone you know gets along just fine and you like the way it is. Different is scary.
Unfortunately, the world is really fucking complicated. Simple explanations can make perfect sense when your understanding is simple. However, the more you learn about the world, the more diversity you are exposed to, the more context you discover, the more stereotypes get broken… the more accommodating and progressive you usually become.
It’s far darker than this. You’re all one step away from this kind of flip. I mean neurotypical people here (though I doubt neurodivergent are proof against it, normal people are just super vulnerable). It’s all based on identity and once something is part of your identity there is no logic that can shift you.
Having higher intelligence correlates strongly to left wing beliefs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289624000254
If people have papers to the contrary lets see them.
Thankfully not always. But damn it sure happens far too often.
Dude acted cool. Then he has a serious medical issue. Suddenly he chooses to quit giving a shit because he saw his death and chose to be selfish and unappreciative of life. I’m glad I didn’t do that when I nearly died.
Getting brain damage and becoming conservative is quite the statement though.
I didn’t make that statement.
I think the point is that Fetterman did
stroke+ falling in with the right wing crowd isnt doing him any favors. there are many celebrities that had strokes and became looney right wing christians.
Apparently brain damage and fascism correlate.
Yeah, brain damage and right-wing thinking are heavily intertwined
I think that stroke might have killed more brain cells than we originally thought. Almost as many as that brain worm.
the brainworms is just keeping rfk jr conscience.
I think this is an insensitive thing to post. I fear it might be true. A more active fear center (even just relative to other brain functions) might explain not only the policy shifts, but also this outburst.
I hope he can get that care he needs (if any). I don’t think his actions (so far) as impeachable, so we’ll just have to wait until he’s served the rest of his term before the people of his great state can replace him.
Insensitive? Fuck that. No district should have to put up with a turncoat no matter what caused it. He doesn’t get a pass for getting so brain damaged he couldn’t think anymore. If anything, that’s an exact reason to impeach.
No district should have to put up with a turncoat no matter what caused it.
Fetterman isn’t a turncoat. He does exactly what party leadership wants.
I hope you never have to experience a life-changing health event.
As far as I know, there’s intentionally no recall procedure for federal offices. So, the system is designed so that districts do put up with turncoats. I would be open to changing that, but I’m not interested in championing such a change.
And I’m not interested in championing further discussion with you, thx.
questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do”
Oh come the fuck on, you know exactly why.
John needs the health insurance and his policy is what every single resident in the USA should have. He does not give a shit about the common people. Find another Democrat and toss him out.
They need to stop calling him a Democrat. He’s not one.
They need to keep calling him a democrat. He lied about being a progressive to get into office and then made a hard right turn. The only thing more emblematic of the democratic party is blaming the left when pandering to the right fails.
That cock ain’t one of us
You go turncoat you gotta accept the stoning
“WHY is everybody MAD at me people HATE me WHAT did i EVER do to YOU” idk man maybe bc ur whining like a child because people disagree with you
All he has to do to get them off his back is to resign. He’s not being forced to stay in a job that makes both him and his constituents miserable.
Well at least he’s got enough brain cells left to realize he’s loathed now. Thats not much but its something.
I reckon I like me some fried taters, mmmm hmmm
Bets on how long before this dude records a collab track with Kanye?
Let’s make a trade, Republicans… we will help you oust McConnell if you help us oust Fetterman. Both do not belong in the senate.
They’d never go for it because Fetterman is helping them. Say what you want about republicans but they do not deviate from their racism and hatred. Fetterman shouldn’t even be allowed to call himself democrat anymore.
This. If a member of the Democratic party deviates too far from the party’s objectives and ideals, how can the party allow them to stay? The Democrats should kick him out.
But republicans like fetterman, why would they do that?
McConnell would be ousted but he will just stare at nothing at stay in the Senate.
Sad to see