Summary
In a guest editorial published by PennLive, Cumberland County Democratic Party chair Matt Roan called for Senator John Fetterman’s resignation.
He accused Fetterman of abandoning Democratic values and aligning with Republicans and Trump.
Roan criticized Fetterman’s votes to confirm Trump ally Pam Bondi as attorney general and support a GOP-backed funding bill, as well as his pro-Israel stance and backing of immigration restrictions.
Speculation about Fetterman switching parties intensified after his meeting with Trump, but he denied plans to become a Republican, insisting he remains committed to Democratic priorities.
Fetterman is a jagoff. Western PA disowns you, you Reading prick.
TIL. I’ve been hearing this since I was a kid and could never understand the meaning and whether it was dirty. Thanks for sharing.
Indeed he’s a jagoff.
Yeah, I had no idea this was a Pennsylvania thing. I’ve called people a jagoff before lol
I’d call it a rustbelt thing, but it originates towards Pittsburgh.
Sometimes you get them jaggers stuck to your clothes when doing yard work or they get stuck to the dog. You never get jagged by wild blackberries or a fence? I’m just jaggin’.
The accent for people who want to hear it. [2]
Edit: Also, I don’t know if it’s still like this, but you could tell where the money in the state was going growing up because from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg the roads were shit, then magically they got a lot nicer from Harrisburg to Philly. He’s from the nice side of the state and came to the underfunded side via AmeriCorps and is now acting like every other PA politican. Fuck this dude. His eggs are scrambled.
Haha, this brings back lots of memories, let me tell you…
I’m from the Philly area, our roads are pretty shitty, if yours are even worse that’s really saying something. You can just about tell by feel the moment you cross the state border into NJ
We need a recall mechanism in PA for this bullshit.
We should elect parties, not people. I’m sure it would cause other issues, but it would also solve the issue of being unsatisfied with the senator. Recall him right now and we have to have another election. I don’t trust PA to make the right decision.
Yeah but if you let parties run everything you end up with things like the DNC running Hilary instead of Bernie. And so called super delegates. So I’m not convinced that’s a good solution either.
Or, you know, single party states as the party no longer needs to run individuals and has zero interest in sharing power.
We got Hillary anyway though.
When I think about this, I always remember this CGP Grey video that discussed this concept. It makes so much more sense than the way we do it. Also, removing a politician for not living up to expectations shouldn’t be the end of the world for the party. Instead it should be a way to the party to earn respect.
Edit: correct YouTube link
Well you’d get Hillary in 2008 instead of Obama - which might not have been terrible. Could she have beat McCain? Probably.
Grey’s animal kingdom election series is gold.
It really made me see things differently. But also feel a little hopeless that we will probably never have a fair system. There’s too much money keeping the crappy system alive.
I can’t believe I gave that sack of shit $100
This silver spoon baby convinced the poor he was an every man with a hoodie and shorts and took their money
We burned our Fetterman shirts and broke the coffee mug, that we bought to support this idiot.
As much as I understand and support the sentiment, destroying things that are still functional is a very republican action.
Perhaps deface the mugs (sharpie marks generally survive dishwashers and can be reapplied later for new fun mustaches) and turn the shirts into dishrags or washcloths. (especially fun since in languages with gendered nouns, like German for example, a shirt is a neutral gender and a washcloth is masculine, thus making this really transformational.)
I’m in Pittsburgh if anyone is down to organize, sorry I suck at taking initiative 😅
Honestly, I’d love to protest with you because Iive relatively close to the city, but I getike no PTO and can’t afford to take time off. 💀
He absolutely should
I’m not too familiar with his record before running for the Senate, I’m afraid, but, presuming it was sufficiently different that people had wanted to vote for him and no one had been sounding the alarm, part of me wonders if something had happenned when he had his stroke.
It’s, obviously, not a given but brain damage can cause personality changes. I have very little evidence beyond speculation but I do wonder, from time to time.
Brain damage leads to conservative values. That should be pretty obvious by now. That’s why conservative leaders are against environmental and consumer regulations. More lead, more PFAS, more conservatives.
There was a guy I knew in high school, he was never the brightest bulb, but he had the rare gift that he realized that he was kind of an idiot and would listen to and try to learn from people that knew more about something than he did. Overall a pretty nice guy, I don’t think anyone really had anything bad to say about him, he leaned a little conservative but if you took the time to explain something from a liberal point of view you could definitely get him to change his mind sometimes.
I mostly lost track of him after I graduated, I heard somewhere through the grapevine that he had died, turns out those rumors were somewhat exaggerated, but he did get a pretty significant brain injury, spent a brief time in a coma, had some surgeries, nice scar on his head.
Next time I ran into him a few years later, he had taken a pretty weird turn into some paranoid bullshit, talking about some apocalypse or civil war that he seemed sure was coming and how he was learning to make his own arrows so he could keep hunting when ammo ran out.
This was a few years before Trump’s first term, I can only imagine he’s spiraled further into crazytown since then.
TBH, he might turn out to be right and we’ll be begging him to teach us his ways.
Studies have proven that true.
He tricked us when he was mayor of Braddock Pa and when he was lieutenant governor. I hope people aren’t stupid enough to vote for him again, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he switched parties and won as a repug.
I feel so vindicated, I never bought this silver spoon baby’s Everyman schtick and would get downvoted to hell for calling him out. “Look at me im wearing a hoodie in the house!” All a distraction. He was always one of them, never one of us.
He did used to do shit like this https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1256162
They should gift him all the removed flags as toilet paper, since that’s how he might as well be using them now.
Him and about 3/4 of the rest of them should just fuck off to the nazi party. And I include Schumer and Jeffries in that.
Bonafide useless turd
Only two years too late! Great job everyone
I mean, I’d still take him over Dr. Fucking Oz.
Not only betraying his constituents but also a big israel shill
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Philly brother here, you got my vote, cuz!
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Goodbye.
After watching/listening to this, I think Pennsylvanian Democrats just hoodwinked themselves (and the rest of America), looking for any alternative to Doc Oz
Fetterman was a good candidate, until his stroke. Studies have demonstrated that stokes often lead people to adopt conservative values, and that seems to have happened to Fetterman.
However, we should pump the brakes on his resignation. He is still a Democrat, and he adds to the close minority that Democrats have. He fulfills a similar role as Manchin did in the Senate. He may support the Republicans now and then, but he still gave the Dems the majority, which kept the Dems in charge of all committees, including investigative committees.
The Dems have the possibility of gaining the majority in Congress with just a few more seats. Mike Waltz’ seat is up for grabs in Florida, and it was considered a safe Republican seat, but it is being challenged by Josh Weill, a Dem who is running a vicious Republican style campaign, and the Reps are extremely worried it might flip. Weill has raised 10x the money of his generally disliked Republican opponent, and still has about 10x the money on hand for the final stretch (April 1 is the election), versus about $100K for the Rep. Weill commercials, which look and sound like Republican attack ads, and never mention that Weill is a Democrat, are flooding thebairwaves, with very little response from the opponent, whose entire campaign is based on supporting HitlerPig. A few flips like that over the next year or so, and the Dems might get the majority.
Of course, Weill is still at the mercy of the Florida election system, which is fully rigged. I doubt DeSantis will let Weill win. Sorry to piss on the parade.
The bottom line is that Pennsylvania is a bright purple state, and very unpredictable. If Fetterman resigns, he might well be replaced by Republican, putting a Dem majority even further away.
Apparently, you’re joining the jagoff pride parade with him.
You, barneypiccolo, appear to be a jagoff.
Might well be replaced by a Republican? Doubtful.
Pennsylvania will not be fooled again.
Whatever, you P-burgers have always been a weird bunch, even from a Cleveland perspective.
