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Really amazing how much and how well Fetterman hid how much of a garbage human being he is.
The stroke he suffered did a number on him. In a bad way.
Who would have guessed there'd be actual evidence that brain damage makes you more Republican.
70+ years of research into the effects of lead on the human brain.
TBF, still probably better then Dr oz
they are two salient issues of the same desire. placing an embargo on israel could at least slow their roll enough to allow the innocents to shed themselves of hamas and their ilk. or it could have. now, though, those innocents having had to deal with all the aggression thrown directly at them cannot really be faulted for turning away from israel and their supporters
Fetterman is terrible
you don't live in a democracy if your choices are between fetterman and dr Oz
To be fair to the piece of shit Fetterman, he ran on a very progressive platform.
Then he had that stroke and now he's one of the least progressive members of Congress.
The question is, was he always a lying sack of shit? Or did the stroke literally change his mind?
no, i don't get behind any of those excuses
I had to move my family away from Swissvale because of that piece of shit and his poison factories and his looting
he said he was going to clean up the steel mills and then he went back on it, that isn't democracy
I really would like to see some studies on that topic "does cognitive decline skew your position to the right". If it does it's usually slowly over many years. But fetterman had a huge decline suddenly and basically in love with genocide now. (I still believe he didn't think like that before).
Would make sense in a way - stripping away all nuance from the world by means of deteriorating perception makes people only see good and bad or my team / their team.
It would be interesting to see.
There's a condition called cerebral microvascular disease.
Basically individual neurons die, but because the brain is fairly plastic the surrounding neurons pick up the slack.
That is of course until the brain is stressed, at which point the surrounding neurons drop the extra duty to focus on just their own jobs.
Once the stress goes away, the neurons pick up the slack again.
Now here's the somewhat scary part. Something like 5% of adults over the age of 50 have it, to an extent that can be seen on a CT scan.
And 100% of those 90 and older have it.
It's a major cause of dementia in older adults but is usually seen as momentary brain fog.
I don't think Sinema ever had a stroke and I believe she went from "progressive" into a piece of shit once she got elected, so I'm going with "he's a lying piece of shit" as the more likely reason.
Man my dyslexia made me read “I care little about kids dying” and I was like wtf
Yeah, I don't know if it was dyslexia but I initially read "I don't care about little kids dying"...
Fucking I don't ever want to have a stroke and become like that douchebag. I wish I could get my $100 back that I donated to his campaign.
He's a pretty big disappointment. Apparently always been a brat who does what he wants but... Like not at all what we were expecting from him. But now he's elected so he's free from having to care what he does for money.
"The tragedy in Gaza is 100% on Hamas," Fetterman wrote on social media with a screengrab of a Hill headline outlining Ocasio-Cortez's remarks. "Stop using civilians and hospitals as shields, surrender, and release all remaining hostages—and this ends."
What a dismissive piece of shit.
Hamas certainly does not de-escalate the situation, but that's not their role. Hamas and Israel are intertwined entities and they both play God with the lives of Palestinians. As peace loving people, we should be pushing for a ceasefire and a two state system. Anything other than that will only perpetuate the loss of life.
Obligatory "Fetterman is a piece of shit liar".
Why would Hamas de-escalate? They're people are being systemically eradicated and have been for over 70 years.
we should be pushing for a ceasefire and a two state system.
I agree that we should be aiming for a peaceful solution but a two-state solution would be bad IMO. It shouldn't be an us vs them kind of government. Every western government has a system where people of all backgrounds and faiths can pursue any lifestyle or job they wanted, including in the government and elected positions. Why can't be the same here? Why must there be a divide between Muslims and Jews.
"Look what you made me do!"
You think CTE causes people to become assholes?
A stroke like Fetterman's often produces even larger personality changes. Sometimes it's for the better, but often it tends to effect the forebrain where things like empathy and critical thinking happen. If it gets other parts in the hind brain that's where you get the other stereotypical stroke symptoms of slurring speech and poor muscle control.
Fettermen wasn't perfect, but he wasn't this huge of an asshole before the stroke
It doesn't excuse any of his shit behavior either. I just always think "why" is an important question when talking about someone's behavior. Ironically enough when it happened Republicans called for him to resign and Dems blindly defended him. After the personality changes he's Republicans favorite Dem and most of his own party hates him.
I wouldn't be surprised if he runs as a Republican next election.
Edit:
Guess I should have "more of an asshole".
My grandfather had a stroke at 81. He did not in fact become an asshole, he just got a little slower and spent less time working on his old truck. This is 100% on fetterman for having shitty opinions and being bitterly dug in. I don’t think it’s fair to all the wonderful people affected by strokes to give him that out.
I think it probably has a lot more to do with the fact that pro Israel pacs gave him 250k. You’re just viewing the corruption in realtime
He was openly zionist before he was elected, we all just looked the other way or coped with "Well zionism is the default stance in America, he seems like a decent person, so when he actually learns, he'll change his mind".
Only the way he is expressing his view can be attributed to the stroke.
Yeah, I never heard of that and I was paying attention during that time.
He kind of just came out of nowhere and everyone loved him because he wore hoodies?
I remember he was on Colbert once talking about it, and he just immediately rubbed me as an asshole, but that was probably 2023, a year or so post stroke.
He kind of just came out of nowhere and everyone loved him because he wore hoodies?
He was doing a lot of things that signaled to the left that he was on our side, talking about unions, healthcare as a human right, prison reform, banning politicians from owning stock, dude's twitter background was even a hammer and sickle Fox News had branded him with for awhile.
Hexbear, cursed with Casandra Syndrome, saw what he was even before the primary, but still hoped for a berniecrat.
Fettermen wasn't perfect, but he wasn't this huge of an asshole before the stroke
NARRATOR: But he was.
The man got 250K from pro-Israel lobbyists. He's in a position of authority and is being paid to endorse a specific viewpoint that is in direct violation of US and international humanitarian law. I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
This is who hes always been, but the only thing VBNMW liberals saw was that D in front of his name. We tried to warn them, but they always seem to know better
He was running against Dr. Oz. So yeah, still better.
Such a fucking disappointment
"stop hitting yourself"
