I saw him just yesterday for the first time and I thought he was talking for Republicans.
Surely the democrats have updated their vetting process after Kristen sinema… right?
Not unlike the Russian pawn Jill Stein, Sinema had roots in the Green Party – often bankrolled by GOP megadonors in order to spoil the vote. Psychopaths with no loyalty go to the Green or Libertarian parties to get some easy money and set themselves up for a future in heartless lobbying to spoil on behalf of the other side.
The best you can do is hope for is a long history of public service and taking hard stances before they were popular – in other words, leading from the front with courage (like Sanders for example).
With Fetterman one cannot fully rule-out the massive stroke he had, which commonly alters behavior as he had an extensive public service history and at least in my view at the time was more progressive pre-stroke.
I am very curious to see who rises to the occasion in PA to take his seat in '28
I’m an Arizonan and I’m still so pissed about that cunt!
It’ll never not be funny to me that he started leaning heavily towards MAGA only after sustaining literal brain damage.
He won’t change sides, he gets committee power from being in the majority party. He would have switched in a 50/50 split but not now.
He lies and says he’s a Democrat
His name is Fetterman
We dream in color, he dreams in red
His name is Fetterman
This guy looks like he should wear a helmet
Jeffries looks like the only time he’d laugh is if he saw a homeless person fall down.
Sometimes you can judge books by their covers
If he’s smart he’ll hold out for the big money like Haley Stevens got. Don’t sell yourself cheap.
Why would he charge his affiliation? There’s no reason to unless you’re running… You can just kinda quietly change sides
You know, pull a Federman
He’s officially irrelevant now and I am so happy.
I’ll never have to hear about him or Susan Collins again.
I had forgotten Collins lost. Man, what a great day.
Did he get voted out?!
No, but originally he was supposed to help keep a dem majority, but that crumbled when he started voting republican.
Now it doesn’t matter because they have a majority without him. So he can just sit in his corner for 4 years until he’s primaried.
Not yet— 2028, and he’s despised by both sides.
Takin out da trash
Oh shit! I didn’t expect that
“The Democratic Party has gotten too extreme…”
Lol, the one guy on CBC even talked about having a Fetterman resistant Senate majority
We call that an unfettered majority. 😁
Wrap it up folks, internet done for the day. TheRealKuni wins for today.
Love it.
What kind of fool would jump from a functional ship to a sinking one?
Just Fetterman and Stevens I guess.
In this season of House of Cards, those two carry on TV’s grossest affair.
Stevens is getting that sweet blood money from aipac, cushy lobbying gig maybe. Federman too, though he probably doesn’t realize he’s useless to them now. No cushy job or blood money for him.
One with brain damage.
The part of his brain that contained ethics, morals, human decency, and simple logic died when he had that stroke
Either that, or the bit that led about being a Democrat.
stevens is out of the party in her state, she has very little power unlike fetterman.
Pretty fucking funny.
Why did they not get thrown out their party beforehand?
I’ve heard that Fetterman still votes with Dems on most things, which tend not to be the things we hear about. If he officially left the party, he may be inclined to actually vote with Republicans on all that other stuff, too.
TBF, I thought he already had.
Has in spirit, not in title. He’ll switch almost immediately to make sure the dem’s headline senate control is a little more tenuous and looks worse on paper.
Going from a possible 55 or 56 to 54 or 55 doesn’t really change the math too much. It would be big if dems only took a slim majority.
How is he actually still a candidate? Genuine question, I don’t follow US politics that closely.
He’s not, but he still has the rest of his term to serve. Unfortunately there is no recall mechanism either.
No recall mechanism/sanction for lying about intentions after the vote is the core problem of modern democracy. We read news in real time but takes 4 years to throw the liars out. Its too easy for the corrupt lot.
I wouldn’t say core problem but it’s definitely a critical component missing from any ernest attempt at actual democracy.
Yeah, it seems easily fixed. Also, instantly recallable delegates are a feature of anarchist systems, which representative democracy should learn from.
The challenge of designing/iterating on a better system is easier than the political challenge of getting a chance to try it.
And then you have to defend that chance from saboteurs, enemy propaganda, poisoning the discussions on how to proceed, sanctions, invasion, literally anything and everything the old world can do to try to smother it.
Can… can he be impeached?
Not for his voting patterns
The House and Senate have complete control over their members.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
It would take 67 votes in the Senate, but they absolutely could expel him. That won’t happen because it would require getting now 12-14 republicans on their side to kick him out, and he’s useful to republicans.
I think that’s the only real solution to the problem that’s laid out in the current legal framework. It’s historically pretty difficult to pull off though.
Doesn’t impeachment require actual illegal acts?
Impeachment is what Congress can do to other branches.
I believe you are right. I think the correct action they would take in this case is “expulsion from the Senate”
Which as far as I know can’t be done except by the body itself or if they are criminally charged with something
Senate seats are only up for reelected every 6 years so he has not had to be a candidate.
Bringing that heat upon himself when it won’t even help? He’d have to be some kind of brain damaged. Wait…
