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      • darharrison@lemm.ee
        21·
        3 days ago

        I’ve been thinking recently about whether Oz would have been better as a PA senator, hindsight is a bitch. Fetterman is getting rightfully lit up in the news over basically everything recently. Has he made a difference for good on any policy versus what we could reasonably predict Oz would have done as senator?

        • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 days ago

          Despite Fetterman’s turncoating, he has still voted with democrats most of the time. Oz would have voted MAGA on every bill. Fetterman sucks but Oz would have been worse.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
          11·
          3 days ago

          I’ve been thinking recently about whether Oz would have been better as a PA senator, hindsight is a bitch.

          He’s probably doing more damage as head of Medicare and Medicaid then he would have as a senator. Maybe both would have happened, but there was more opportunity for him to fall out of Trump’s graces if he had been in government for a few years.

    • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      2 days ago

      Haha, big funny, but literally downplaying and distracting from the real situation.

      The place is called Butterworth’s and it’s where a lot of the top magas meet people outside official channels. They sit around in suits eating caviar and planning how they’re going to break the world. A photojournalist could literally camp outside and basically show the world who is conspiring and lay out who is setting things up to fall. But they don’t, and that should be pretty telling to people, if they knew.

      On top of that the resturant is part owned by Nigel Farage, a racist brexit politician. You can just sit there and see different ambassadors walk in to chat up some of the most vile people in politics, and then not long after something horrendus is announced.

      It’s basically forecast for who will be involved in bad things to come. Articles like this are trying to point this out. And you making joke about it is literally helping them to get people not to look further into the situation.

  • hark@lemmy.world
    29·
    3 days ago

    The democrats should purge the party of these republicans dressed up (and not even convincingly) as democrats, but instead democrats welcome such characters with open arms and will promote them over progressives. If they want to stop people from thinking both parties are the same, they should really do something about this.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      115·
      3 days ago

      The Democrats want Fetterman and Friends to be in power. They want to enable the Fascists. This is intentionally and by design. The Democrats represent the same oligarchies interests like the Republicans.

      They will not do anything about this, unless forced to. This is why it is crucial to build up an actually progressive third party and apply proper pressure from within the Democrats too, instead of all this “vote blue no matter who” bootlicking we have seen over the past years.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Forget the Democrats, the system as a whole needs to be rethought. Your elected representative should have to serve your wants and needs within a relatively narrow guardrail.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      There’s 2 things that annoy me about that. Well. 3.

      The first is that even if his district isn’t filled with suites, they still would put on a suit or best they got for formal affairs and maybe do business casual.

      They certainly would clean their clothes. Most days he looks like a slob with food stains and whatever else.

      The third thing is it’s entirely possible to get suited tailored to your size. And it’s not that expensive, and we know he should be able to afford it on his salary.