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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 194 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Feel free to fuck off and die at any time.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 38 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's exactly what the Republicans are saying.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 42 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

His brain damage turned him Republican.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 17 hours ago

That's a cop-out, he was doing unhinged shit well before the stroke.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 84 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This asshole really needs to resign, if this is how he feels about doing his fucking job. If you want to spend time with your family at the beach so badly...by all means, get the fuck out of office and make room for someone who actually gives a shit.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Stroke personality changes are very real. I feel for him in that regard

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Stop shaming stroke victims.
Fetterman was always like this.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He wasn't, that's the narrative after the fact. That thing fucking changed him fundamentally.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Didn't vandalize local business and chase after joggers with a shotgun after the stroke.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

Ignore the reality all you want. The change is real, pronounced and the people around him are sounding the alarm

"In May 2024, Fetterman chief of staff Adam Jentleson wrote Walter Reed Hospital director David Williamson a letter expressing concern over Fetterman's mental health and alleged erratic behavior. Jentleson said that Fetterman engaged in "conspiratorial thinking", "megalomania", rambling monologues, reckless driving, and obvious lies, and was avoiding regular checkups with doctors and pushing away people responsible for helping him with his recovery plan."

Dude was planting community gardens, dedicating his life to children's programs and telling trump to go fuck himself at every turn in calm clear and cohesive speech and now he's erratic, laughing about Palestinian children being systemically killed in genocide and is often performatively the only Democratic senate vote on trump core issues.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

just gently suggesting both can be true - he was problematic before the stroke, but the stroke could also be playing a role in what by all accounts seems to be a change in behavior and long-held policy positions which started after the stroke. Even Fetterman himself thinks the stroke is what was responsible for this change: https://newrepublic.com/post/182504/john-fetterman-abandon-progressives-bill-maher

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 67 points 21 hours ago

Cry harder you fucking MAGAt in "sheep's clothing"...

“I’m gonna vote no, there’s no drama, we know the votes are going to go.”

Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it you brain-addled MAGAt-surrogate fucking traitorous turd. 🤡 🖕 💩 💩

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 49 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to taste of our world, Fetterman.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 41 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

You get beach vacations? I don't even get 5 minutes alone to masturbate. Gotta do it on the city bus like everybody else...

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Look at this motherfucker bitching but can afford bus fare.

I jerk off in the library where it’s free.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not allowed in libraries, look at this asshole bitching while he can jack off indoors. Try jacking off in the woods, get back to me.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

I call that a posh wank, Rockefeller.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You have woods? Every inch of my state is private property. I have to sneak into a cornfield to rub one out.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You have corn fields to sneak off to? Every inch of my state is solid concrete. I have to find an available dumpster.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 20 hours ago

me and my 7 allowed days of PTO a year are gonna tell you to go find a fat cactus to sit on

[–] Karrion409@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Fetterman just needs to go the fuck away for his sake and the sake of others. It's obvious he isn't all there mentally and fucking hates being there so he should make room for someone who is mentally capable and wants to be there.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Stuck with this mofo for another four years.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not sure Dr. Oz would have been any better, though...

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

That's the level of copium I've been mainlining since his heel turn. Like I didn't want McCormick in the primary, and I definitely didn't want fucking Oz, but this is pretty bad.

[–] linkshandig@lemmy.today 9 points 19 hours ago

Seems Dr. Oz is doing plenty more damage in his current role

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago

Take a job that doesn’t fuck your schedule then. Nobody wants you there anyway.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 23 points 20 hours ago

Aww, does someone have to do his job?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Does two strokes cancel out? Because I think he should get another stroke to see if he suddenly becomes a progressive lol

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 8 points 8 hours ago

I think that would just make him more republican.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I can't wait until someone gets this Shrek looking mf out of power.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Not a whole lot the left and right can agree on these days but I think "Fuck this dude for bitching about missing his beach vacation because he has to do the job he was elected for" is fairly bipartisan.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Though his complaint is that him voting no doesn’t matter because of numbers

It becomes more defeatist than whiny

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just read the section on his mayorship of Braddock. This bud has been problematic for a long time. I don't think he's gone crazy lately, instead people got sold a counterfeit product during his federal election that they didn't look much into.

[–] lama@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah some more news did a good segment on him, explaining how he was always pretty crappy: https://youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago

Man. I rather take an empty seat than this fuck. Catch RFK's brain worms to finish the job.

[–] jhoff90@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

A lobster would be a better representative than Fetterman and his MAGA brain damage at this point.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

If brain damage wasn't bad enough... It turns you into a miserable republican fuck.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

FUCK YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOB

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But have you considered how this is hurting him personally? His poor little fascist feelings?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago
[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Eat shit Fetterman! Feel free to retire anytime.

[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

I won't wish death on the guy, but I'll put it this way. Fetterman, if you can't miss your precious beach vacation, you can always resign...

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 hours ago

Poor little brain-damaged baby!

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Strokeout again and die this time

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't think I hate a single Republican fascist more than I hate this worthless fuck.

It would have been better for him and everyone else if that tumor had killed him instead of turning him into a lazy melancholic genocide fetishist.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 points 15 hours ago

Someone call the "whaaambulance" for Festerman.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

"thousands"? Bro, you're underselling it.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

If lifes and even Democracy itself is at stake, this should not be an issue.

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