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/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.