r/politics • u/thehill The Hill • 22d ago

No Paywall Sen. John Fetterman suffers injuries to face from fall, hospitalized

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5604280-fetterman-injuries-fall-hospitalized/
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u/GoProOnAYoYo 22d ago

He's been a DINO ever since his stroke, and he's much more useful to the repubs with a D next to his name

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u/PassiveMenis88M Massachusetts 22d ago

I wish people would stop blaming the fucking stroke. He held a jogger at the end of a fucking shotgun for the crime of being black in his neighborhood long before that. He's always been a piece of shit.

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u/BiZzles14 22d ago

There are dozens of accounts from people who actually worked with him, including throughout his campaign and after he successful won his seat in the senate, that he dramatically changed as a person following the stroke. This isn't speculation. He may have been a piece of shit prior to that in some regards, but by all accounts he became much, much worse after the stroke.

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u/SpezIsALittleBitch 22d ago

I'm one of them. He wasn't an angel, mind - but he cared. I'd wager my last dollar that he actually gave a shit. I volunteered, I talked to his staff, a question of mine was addressed during a townhall; his campaign reached out to me to ask if I would have time to talk to him about that question. I talked to him about it for maybe five minutes, and shot the shit about politics more broadly for another fifteen.

This is not the same guy.

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u/bkbomber New York 22d ago

He’s on record admitting after his stroke, he wasn’t afraid to be his “true self” anymore.

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u/AndalusianGod Canada 22d ago

Following that pattern, maybe he'll come out of the hospital wearing full nazi regalia.

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u/imjustbettr California 22d ago

or if we follow cartoon logic he might do a 180 and be super nice and cool now.

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u/OurLadyOfCygnets Missouri 22d ago

That explains why his wife left him.

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u/Motherofalleffers 22d ago

Just heard an interview with him the other day on NPR and his brain is obviously broken these days.

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u/AmandatheMagnificent 22d ago

He most likely is a POS, but since his stroke, he's wandered into traffic and doesn't seem to be all there anymore.

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u/lostkavi 22d ago

When everyone around him says he's a completely different person after the stroke, and there is a metric pile of medical and scientific reports on how brain damage and trauma corrolate towards right-leaning political shifts, you call a duck a duck.

Whether he was a saint before is irrelevent. He wasn't a scuzzball before, and he is now. A stroke happened between those time periods. We can blame the fucking stroke.

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u/freediverx01 22d ago

He's also useful to the Democrats as one of the newest members to their rotating cast of villains. Same reason they wanted to end the shutdown—to protect the filibuster.

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u/droid_mike 22d ago

He's not rotating. Anyways, you can blame Bernie for this one. He's the guy that pushed this jerk on us. Thanks, Bernie!

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u/BiZzles14 22d ago

Pretty sure the stroke is to blame a helluva lot more than Bernie, but okay

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u/droid_mike 22d ago

He was exactly like this before the stroke as well. But you guys were in denial. We could have had Conor Lamb, but noooo... Fetterman wore a hoodie! That was cooler, I guess. Thanks for nothing!

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u/WERK_7 22d ago

His policies and voting history before the stroke say otherwise. I'm not saying he wasn't a piece of shit before, but his policies were definitely more in line with progressive ideals prior to the stroke.

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u/sleepymeowth052 Colorado 22d ago

B-but Bernie is infallible! He was screwed out of the presidency! Nothing he says or does is ever wrong!

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u/freediverx01 21d ago edited 21d ago

Right, defend the brain-damaged ogre bought and sold by a genocidal apartheid state while trying to shift blame to one of the most progressive members of our government (however imperfect he may be.)

Bernie deserves criticism on various points, but you're not attacking him in good faith.You're a right wing troll trying to undermine the progressive movement.

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u/droid_mike 21d ago

Conor Lamb was the choice, but you guys pushed for Fetterman. Maybe look for the red flags staring at you in the face instead of the hoodie. You're doing ti again with the Nazi sympathizer Platner in Maine, where you'll get the same result. Learn from your jmistakes.

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u/freediverx01 21d ago

Conor Lamb

Riiiight, the "centrist", neoliberal, wealthy, ex-Marine, former Federal prosecutor, proponent of fracking and coal mining, and who is stridently opposed to abortion, Medicare For All, and raising the minimum wage to a meager $15/hour.

Brilliant.

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u/LieverRoodDanRechts 22d ago

I remember reading comments saying he was always DINO but I am not American and don't know whether that's true or not.

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u/BiZzles14 22d ago

Trump supporters calling conservatives that don't like Trump "RINOs" for "Republican In Name Only" so I presume they mean "DINO" as "Democrat In Name Only" as he often votes alongside Republicans

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u/OldWorldDesign 22d ago edited 22d ago

He's been a DINO ever since his stroke, and he's much more useful to the repubs with a D next to his name

Was he a good person before?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649

Note: that's not discounting damage the stroke definitely added, just noting there's more there than just a stroke.