• anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    This. I mean come on! People bitch about Fetterman turning right. But this guy has changed, he’s not a plant by the right at all. They won’t even entertain the possibility.

    Okay. Hope they’re right.

    • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Fetterman had a stroke, which has been shown to change peoples’ personalities. Fetterman was also an establishment democrat even before running for senate. The fact that fettermans stroke was not enough to get the dems to replace him really makes their judgment of any candidate ring pretty fucking hollow, doesn’t it?

      I feel like this is a really big point nobody brings up when this incessant and obnoxious non-sequitur pops up.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      Fetterman’s value is in being one more seat closer to a Dem majority. He may not be a very cooperative member, he may even be a DINO, but he’s still a Democrat, and he makes it much easier for Dems to take the House majority. Let’s not forget that if Fetterman hadn’t won, we’d be stuck with Oz.

      I’m sick of Dems having DINOs like Manchin and Sinema, but at least they register as Dems (Sinema eventually went Indy, but she was a Dem at the start), so they offer that tiny, but significant advantage.

      It’s small consolation, but if we end up with a one vote lead in the Senate, we’ll see the value of a Fetterman or Platner. There’s a D next to their name, that’s good enough right now.

      And if I couldn’t force myself to vote for Platner, I STILL wouldn’t vote for Collins. There is no scenario where I’m casting a vote for any MAGA Traitor Pedophile.