“Fetterman?” one speaker yelled from a stage near the steps of City Hall.

“Jagoff!” protesters shouted back in unison.

“Fetterman?”

“Jagoff!”

in Fetterman’s case, it describes a politician who campaigned as a Bernie Sanders–loving populist and vowed to help Democrats advance their priorities past the party’s two obstructionists, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin—only to reprise their roles once in Congress and cozy up with Republicans.

“He ran in the 2022 primaries against Joe Manchin, and now he’s become Joe Manchin,” says Mike Mikus, a longtime Democratic operative in Pennsylvania. “An unprincipled Manchin.”

He’s sided with Republicans on denying immigrants due process, voted to confirm a 2020 election denier to lead the Department of Justice, and approved a GOP budget that freed Trump to slash spending without oversight. His recent actions have enraged progressives, mystified colleagues, and alarmed former and current aides.

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    If brain damage makes you a complete piece of shit, then you were always a complete piece of shit in sheep’s clothing. I feel like blaming the stroke is just people trying to cope with the loss of someone they thought and hoped would be good that turned out to be a red coat.

    Fuck Fetterman.

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      Just gonna say I actively have to suppress my piece of shit tendencies which at this point have merged with the call of the void. But they are there and if I do start giving in it’s the type of shit that’d get ya side eye in Idaho. But I do not want to be my worst tendencies so I do my best to beat it with a stick, also suppress it with open bloodlust towards those I see as valid targets with no moral implications such as Nazis, WASPs, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventist, and cults of any and all types.

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      Disclaimer: This isn’t a defense of the guy. From what I hear, he’s been a pos for a long time. He was just able to con voters as an “everyman”.

      That said, brain damage isn’t drinking. It doesn’t “reveal” who someone truly is. Damage to the brain can and does change the way it functions at a fundamental level, which can dramatically change how a person behaves and thinks. This isn’t to say the actions of brain damaged individuals are entirely excusable - harm is harm and should be addressed. But suggesting it was always what the person was really like is severely misstating what brain damage is.

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        Drinking doesn’t reveal who someone truly is and prolonged drinking does damage your brain. It can even go as far as to induce psychosis

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      It’s an insult to everyone who weathers a little brain damage without becoming a zionist conservative shitbag.