From the article:
The liberal comedian then asked Fetterman whether his shift in various policies had anything to do with his recovery from his 2022 stroke, asking if his near-death experience had given him a “freedom.”
“Absolutely,” Fetterman responded. “There’s a line from the first ‘Batman,’ Joker’s like ‘I’ve been dead once already. It’s very liberating.'”
“It’s freeing in a way. And I just think after beating all of that, I just really [want to] be able to say the things that I have to really believe in and not be afraid of if there’s any kind of blowback.”
So basically yes, the stroke made him a Republican. Pathetic and disappointing, but all too predictable.
Was this stroke before or after that whole dress code thing? I remember his antics being amusing when they wanted to do away with the dress code rule that was never technically written down anywhere and he shows up on shorts and they immediately change their minds and codified it.
“There’s a line from the first ‘Batman,’ Joker’s like ‘I’ve been dead once already. It’s very liberating.'”
You… you get that the Joker was the bad guy right? Who went on to kill a bunch of people? I guess it makes sense that this is your reasoning for becoming a republican but what a weird quote choice.
Dude didn’t even pick a quote from the 1 movie that attempts to cast the Joker as a sympathetic character. I swear…
ah yes, “You ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?”
Nope.
If you place any faith in formal politics or the critters that engage in it, you must be one naive excuse of a leftist.
Now he’s a Republican? Give me a break.
If that brain damaged asshole had any integrity he’d resign because he’s no longer capable of doing the job he was elected to do.
He’s literally not representing the people who elected him anymore. It’s practically political malpractice.
It’s OK, because Nicole Sidman is going to take back the seat in November.
Cotham rose to prominence with a speech on the statehouse floor about her own abortion that drew national attention in 2015.
She ran for her seat, which was heavily Democratic and included east Charlotte before redistricting, as a Democrat and strong supporter of abortion rights. But she switched parties in April 2023, giving the Republican-led General Assembly a supermajority in both houses. That allowed Republicans to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes at will and pass laws they had long sought, such as a stricter abortion limit that lowered the cutoff in most cases to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Cotham ran on protecting Roe V. Wade, then switched parties to help dismantle it. She’s a true bottom feeder.
Yeah same with that rep from Hawaii. Like how tf we just let these people get past vetting?
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I told my inlaws about that “it takes brain damage to be a republican”
Then proceeded to ask would they vote for him now that you agree with his positions. Both of them said no “because he’s a democrat”
Of course they wouldn’t vote for him. It’s like a sports game to many Republican voters where they just vote for their team regardless of their position.
I’d bet that if a literal socialist ran for office as a Republican, many Republican voters would be on board.
I’d bet that if a literal socialist ran for office as a Republican, many Republican voters would be on board.
Check this out: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/17/aria-dimezzo-sheriff/
Lmao. She unfortunately didn’t win, though.
That was a fun read. She seems really cool.
Distrust runs deeper than reason. I’ve experienced this with my political preferences too
This just in: Brain damage leads to conservative values. Conservative votes still matter as much or more than yours. More at 11.
it’s usually simpler than that. conservatives pay more than liberals.
i know a few leftists who have now gone hard right… because they got paid more to spout conservative conspiracy nonsense than they did liberal/socialist stuff.
It must be so easy to grift money out of conservatives. Just spout some conspiracy theory about how ‘they’ are actually behind the bad things in the world and watch the money pour in, regardless of how little sense it makes.
How are you grifting them when you’re doing exactly what they’re paying you to do?
Money speaks loud.
I’ve semi-seriously considered asking my wife if we should start selling Trump /F-biden etc merchandise on etsy. I feel like we could be making huge profits on stuff we cobble together from the clearance rack at the craft store and a tiny bit of elbow grease. A little red white and blue, some aged (or faux aged) wood, maybe a little cowboy hat, the word Trump…
Just throw a little of the profits to some progressive candidate.
When people are paying me to say things, it’s always some kind of deception. Usually I am tricking risks into thinking they’re merely costs in an elaborate post-hoc fashion.
But it’s always a lie
I like that this implies the left just don’t give enough fucks to bother to pay or even fight for their values which is what is hinted at in these articles. They’re limp dicks and somehow always proud of it. I agree with the headline that people who lean left don’t have any fight in them to pull together and actually rally like they do on the right. Seen many people on the left go to stand up for some values and get destroyed. The left can’t muster anything more than “har har the right are stupid dumb dumbs” as every single person has watched the left choke for over a decade and lose tremendous ground on all their issues while the right votes in assholes like Trump who they only like because you all hate him so much.
Its as if the left has zero concept of what a leader does socially because they all stand by as right wing snipers continue to pick off every single one of them. And each time its a loud signal to never stand up for left values publicly or you risk massive harassment from both the left and the right.
Here is the trick, the left isn’t a block of anything or anyone. There is no leader bc there is no group, no cohesion bc it’s not what makes people want to be leftists.
https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1dddsf5/alberta_mla_shannon_phillips_quits_citing/
And that’s fine you never want to accomplish anything. Lose ground everyday but you can’t keep calling them all dumber when they’re winning ground and power everyday
In line with this, there’s also an immense left-to-far-right pipeline in media simply because the left will hold you accountable even if you agree with them but the right doesn’t give a fuck as long as you say the thing.
I listened to a podcast about one such author. I forget what about but she wrote a book based on IIRC a flawed interpretation of whatever subject leading the whole thing to be basically wrong.
People pointed out it wrong, sales plummet, author gets butthurt and defensive, now they’re playing the antivax circuit I believe it was.
(Sorry, the podcast was background noise for powerwash simulator so I don’t remember specifics lol)
Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)?
That’s it. Naomi Klein was on the Factually podcast by Adam Conover and she gets mistaken for Naomi Wolf CONSTANTLY, and wrote a book based off of the rabbit hole she went down when she looked into “other Naomi.” I was able to hone in on the episode too if anybody wants it - The main theme of the episode is how smart people become conspiracy theorists, hence the relevance of the Naomi Wolf confusion.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0B6sLOKXrwDJPxhEjzHyRC?si=862d3c203a644fb0
Read her Wikipedia article. It’s interesting, especially this part:
Sarah Ditum wrote in the New Statesman, "Perhaps it’s not that Wolf is a feminist who’s degenerated into conspiracism, but instead that she’s a conspiracy theorist who happened to fall into feminism first.
I did not expect a Fox News article in a leftist community. What else does 2024 have left up its sleeves?
This is beyond disappointing.
This was actively campaigning, taking money as, and presenting oneself as a progressive.
This goes way beyond disappointed.
This made me smile.
Without the clarification in your edit, I can see why you got downvoted lol
Yeah, it dawned on me after the first downvotes.
Is this another Joker quote?
If you think someone is lefty because they dress like an unemployed teenager then you are the true disappointment
I thought he was a lefty because he campaigned as one.
There is no such thing as a “leftist” on a campaign trail.
You shouldnt trust what politicians says. Look at what they do
Yeah, problem is they have to be elected before you know, and I believe he had a more progressive record as mayor.
Damn, Fetterman. What happened? You used to be cool.
I’m wondering what Giselle thinks of all of this. I haven’t heard a peep from her since he became a senator, and I feel like she was a good influence on him.
I thought she deleted all her social media or went private a few months back. Haven’t investigated further.
You should’ve seen it coming. His name isn’t Unfetterman smh.
Still beats Dr. Oz, but sucks he decided to become more of an asshole.
The only way that he beats Oz is that he caucuses with the Democrats. And I HATE when games make me do stupid things because of their dumb mechanics.
Good metaphor, and I agree. But I’m practical above all else, so votes blue no matter who.
As someone who owned a “Kucinich for President” bumper sticker I’ve given up hope of ever voting for someone I actually like in a general election.
Yeah, first past the post means unless you’re a die-hard neoliberal you’re not getting who you want and just have to do damage control.
I don’t think I’d be happy in a ranked-choice system. Representation seems like a pretty bad implementation of a consensus algorithm.
What’s your preferred alternative?
Direct democracy would be my most preferred method. But that has scaling issues.
I fear this is what’s gonna be normal. The money gets to them and we get at least 1 new Sinema every election cycle.
There has been, and always will be, just enough to make sure legislation cannot make it through the Senate.
Dude is literally not the same dude. The dude was replaced with another dude and this is that other dude.
I’m a dude.
Someone’s not getting elected again.
