#look at fetterman

[bibleofficial]

this is so fucking funny like ONLY DFW WOULD REELECT THIS 😭😭😭

[nando161mando]

Looks like Democrats found their new rotating villain to stop things from getting better

[doodle-do-wop]

Why do you think Ally just forget about grant and jonas after cmh (haha sorry maybe I was just bitter that like Cammie, I felt like when they appeared in UWS again, it was an alternate universe where zach had friends :D)

It was an alternate universe. Zach had to invent multidimensional travel to grab a new Grant and Jonas so he looked like he actually had friends besides the girls

I genuinely do not know and it could have to do with Cammie herself.

Like sure Camster isn't that thickheaded (okay just a lot but it protects her from the head trauma) but Cammie didn't really focus on Grant and Jonas mostly because she was busy dealing with spy-pigtail-puller Zachary Goode (he's such an annoyance I love him)

We only ever hear about Grant and Jonas in very small hiccups of information like idk Grant being hot and Liz talking about Jonas and Grant being hot and someone vaguely mentioning Jonas' name and Grant being hot (you get the point, he's a sexy lamp)

They might've had a bigger role in drafts but that would've also either taken away from Zammie or had a higher page count than what Ally was aiming for

There could've been a whole deleted scene of Cammie thinking she fell through the multiverse and crash landed on a planet where Rebecca Baxter didn't know how to talk to a boy or even a small Liz and Cammie scene where Liz admits to liking the new, feeling a little bit like a normal girl when in truth she's never been anywhere near normal, even before she became a Gallagher Girl but something just feeling off

We'll never know honestly why Grant and Jonas fell if the face of the earth or why there weren't scenes of them in OTGSY helping Zach and the CPS infiltrate Blackthrone or even just getting more of the boys just being traumatized boys and not knowing how to wear ties right or Grant hating sleeves or Jonas being unused to so many layers and sweating a ton.

[littleapocalypsekitten]

Okie, dokie. I went through the 3rd and 4th drafts of a letter to congresscritter, with the good help of some people on Slacktivist addressing how I should order it, and just sent off an email to Pennsylvania Senator Mr. Clean about the Israel-Hamas war. I know next to nothing about the complexities of the situation / how the U.S. really does the nitty gritty of foreign relations there, but I know attempts at ethnic cleansing when I see them, I guess. I am against terrorists...but also against targeting refugee camps and hospitals. I'm kind of shaky and nervous. I'm an introvert. I just don't contact congresspeople. I vote, but that's it. It is difficult for me to contact public figures, because I feel so small, and crazy, and poor and like a generally worthless person. This is also the kind of issue that people scream at you for on all sides, even if your position is a very "I don't like it when gobs of people die." I figure that Senator Mr. Clean is the guy to contact over my Representative. He's a Democrat and Progressive and loves doing the cool trollish stuff that I would do if I wasn't so introverted and position-of-responsibility averse to run for Congress. (My Rep is a moderate Republican).

[mtb67]

We're on the brink of a government shutdown but THIS is what's important enough to get UNANIMOUS bipartisan support? You're shitting me.

[dostoyevsky-official]

Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”

The exodus of staff from the office of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., continued Thursday with two new departures. The exits of the longtime staffers reflects a deep disillusionment in Fetterman’s office with his disavowal of progressive politics and turn toward the right in both his openness to working with President Donald Trump andhis embrace of strident pro-Israel positions. “I don’t find this as a surprise,” said the former Fetterman campaign staffer, who requested anonymity to protect their livelihood. “I think the staff is probably frustrated that working in the Fetterman office means you’re just working on Israel all the time.” “This is a guy who came in talking about being a champion for labor and he’s gone pretty quiet on it,” they said. “This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans. He’s supporting stuff and it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan, we got Fetterman.’”

[posttexasstressdisorder]

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/hey-democrats-wake-up-20219559.php

The sky is falling. The United States federal government is being illegally dissolved before your very eyes. The workers you rely on to ensure that you don’t eat ground beef tainted with paint chips are being laid off en masse. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided your office last week and asked for your papers, even though you were born in Fremont. A fire tornado is due to touch down in your backyard next Tuesday. Your parents are terrified to board an airplane. Your gay nephew is terrified to go to school. Your 401(k) is in the toilet. MEASLES. Measles have returned and want to eat your baby. Every day you look at the news, and you’re told that the president would like to bring back cockfighting. You and I need reassurance. You and I need to know that someone out there is trying to put an end to all this madness. Instead, we get this.

I hate you, Democrats. I hate you so, so much. Yes, I hate Trump and Elon and all of the s—t-for-brains voters out there who were like DURRR THESE FELLAS ARE JUST WHAT WE NEED TO CLEAN UP WASHINGTON DURRR. But I reserve a special place in my black heart for you, Democrats. You are the representational equivalent of being put on hold by customer service. All you do is let me down. It’s like being a Browns fan if every time the Browns lost, a Tesla ran over my dog. You guys make voting feel pointless.

Starting with you, Joe Biden. You still alive, old man? Well, you could’ve fooled me. Great job staying in the 2024 race juuuuust long enough to torpedo your party’s chances, and then pissing off to Cape Henlopen solely because George Clooney asked you to. Were you a good president? I have no idea, because you were too busy huffing oxygen from your bedside tank to sell your agenda to the American people. Maybe you could have gotten everyone on your side by crafting a really clever sign to hold up.

And who’s this? Why, it’s former Vice President Kamala Harris, who got voters excited for exactly one month before huddling with her advisers and deciding to campaign as a Republican, WITH Republicans. And what other brilliant tactician could tap one of the most beloved governors in America as her running mate and then Tim Kaine-ify him by 75%? Hey Kamala, maybe in your free time you can pursue a life sentence for a homeless man who stole a box of Chiclets from a local CVS. I legit thought you would win in November! Why did I think that? Someone should brain me on the head with a baseball bat.

Speaking of head injuries … John Fetterman! I’m a fellow brain injury survivor alongside John. So when this man suffered a stroke during his Senate race against Dr. Oz, I was like, “Do NOT discriminate against this man just because he had a brain injury.” Little did I know that Fetterman’s blood clot would turn him into the second coming of Joe Manchin. I just got rid of Joe Manchin, and now I have to deal with a taller, weirder one? 

These are just some of the people I was foolishly hoping would put a stop to the meme-ocracy that’s currently eating the world. Democrats keep responding to our cries for help with, “Get out and vote!” Who am I even voting for? Is it you? Is it some asshole company on your donor roll? Is it shrink-wrapped skull James Carville, whose electoral acumen has aged even worse than he has? I’ve gotten more results voting on a new flavor of Lay’s potato chip. 

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with California Gov. Gavin Newsom upon arrival in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

Now that I think about it, how did a state that offers so much sunshine and terrific produce end up with a whole armadaof s—t Democrats, including Adam Schiff, Nancy “once we all die in a rejuvenated smallpox epidemic, the House will be ours again!” Pelosi and Alex Padilla, who thought that a sternly worded letter to a Trump mole would end the administration’s desecration of our national parks. And don’t forget about Dianne Feinstein! Yes, I know that Feinstein is dead. No, that doesn’t excuse her. Stupid, dead Feinstein. I bet she’s lecturing children in hell because they dared to ask for a table fan.

And if you think that my party has more to offer on the opposite coast, may I introduce you to New York Democrats? Oh look, it’s Little Mister Punching Bag, Chuck Schumer! A Palestinian American resident of this man’s state was just kidnapped by ICE and remanded to Kafka State Prison down south without cause, and Chuck’s first instinct was to essentially say, “Now we all know this young man is brown, which means he hates the Jews.” Totally. Way to see the REAL story going on here, you empty tin of pomade. And somehow Chuck has even greater moral fortitude than Eric Adams, who probably couldn’t commit murder without accidentally leaving his Turkish passport in the victim’s hand. 

I can’t believe how useless most of these Democrats have proven in the fight to preserve something, anything, functional in this backwater of a country. Oh, do you want me to give the RBG girlboss treatment to Sonia Sotomayor, who skipped out on retiring while Biden was in office because she just loves writing terse dissents? What about Hakeem “Next Pelosi” Jeffries? Will he bamboozle the opposition with his fearsome repertoire of debate club hand gestures? Judging by those signs from the other night, I’m thinking no. No as all f—k. 

I don’t expect you geniuses in charge of my party to listen to my plea, but I’ve been shouting into the wind for decades now so I may as well do it one final time. Democrats need to give voters like me a reason to care. Our current president is an asshole, but he sure knows how to get people to care one way or the other. Part of that success has been from brute force political messaging. Part of it is from the voraciousness of capitalism mutating this country into a place where everyone is told they’re equal but no one WANTS to be equal. When Donald Trump runs on a platform that boils down to F—K OTHER PEOPLE, tens of millions of Americans eat it up because they’ve been conditioned to hate other people: their boss, their movie stars, that guy that cut them off on the drive to work, everyone. 

I don’t know how we solve this problem, but actually WANTINGto solve it is a good first step. I see little evidence right now that Democrats — especially you, Gavin — have that desire. I’ll still vote in every election out of obligation, but how many others will just stop doing it entirely now that you’ve failed them so consistently? I have a hard time trusting a bunch of people who couldn’t even think to start up an ASSHOLE chant on the House floor during Trump’s speech last week. I’m wagering that younger generations are even more disaffected. Those people will be lost forever unless you f—kers finally understand what’s happening outside your office window. 

And if you don’t get your s—t together now, I’ll know it’s because you don’t want to. I’ll know that you never cared about democracy. That you never cared about fixing the Constitution that’s currently sitting at the bottom of Sam Alito’s toilet. That you never cared about women or gay and trans folk or the poor or Muslim Americans or even Jewish people. I’ll know that you only care about yourselves, same as the president does. If you careerist scum want to prove me and every other voter wrong, you’d better get started right now. The clock is ticking. 

[papasmoke]

john fetterman looks like the kind of medieval simpleton they'd tie a cowbell to so you'd be able to find him when he thoughtlessly wanders off in the middle of a blizzard

[aqlstar]

your response just proves my point. you're a reactionary. i think mahmoud khalil is a horrid person. i also think you if actually looked at all the facts, ICE decided to black bag and disappear the guy because the trump administration is trying to see how much they can get away with as they ramp up deportation efforts against the undocumented, documented immigrants and even US citizens. the administration is literally quoted as saying they didn't have proof he did anything illegal when they arrested him. this is not about israel to them. this is not about stopping antisemitism. but because they use that as a public shield, and it's an abhorrent antisemite in the crossfire, you are willing to celebrate it as a win and ignore the larger context of why people on both sides of the protest issue are against what has happened to him. you will celebrate fetterman bc he said one thing you like and ignore how much he has turned on the people who volunteered and donated to him by becoming the new manchin.

For the one million and seventh time, you do not have to do anything illegal to be deported on a green card. Here are the relevant laws:

Anyway, I recognize that Trump wanted to do something highly sus by deporting him without a trial. Thankfully, that was blocked, and he is awaiting trial.

Like I said, a win.

[thingstrumperssay]

God damn, John Fetterman!

This also means that it's likely that other states will also do an in-person recount. Milwaukee for example didn't get to finish counting, which makes it likely for a Wisconsin recount.

If we can get Michigan to do the same and they all turn out blue, that's a win for Harris. It would also make Trump's win look extremely suspicious.

Even if it doesn't work out, I do still like his energy. (I also just wanted to rhyme "damn" with "Fetterman")

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

“Dear Democratic leaders: We need you to take the FIGHT to Donald Trump and the oligarchy he is ushering in to power. Stop being silent--or worse--looking for "common ground" with a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist who attempted a coup and incited the Jan. 6 terrorist attack. If you can’t do that, then step aside because we need fighters, not doormats for the MAGA agenda.” The above is my best effort to sum up the growing anger and frustration I have heard from fellow Democrats since the election—especially now that we are just days from Trump being sworn in. It’s also exactly how I feel.

When Presidents Obama and Biden were about to be sworn in, we didn’t hear Republican leaders declare a desire to find common ground with them. Instead with Biden, GOP leaders of Congress joined with Trump to literally attempt to overturn the 2020 election—and even after the Jan. 6 attack, nearly 150 voted against certifying the results. And with Obama, we heard people like then GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell infamously pledge, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Making the Democrats silence now even more jarring is that leading up to the 2024 election, Democratic leaders literally called Trump a “fascist” and warned he was a “threat to our freedoms and democracy.” So where are the Democratic leaders now about how they will protect our freedoms and democracy from this fascist? Where is the passionate message about the Democratic strategy to stand up to Trump in his second term?! We are not alone in sensing something is deeply wrong with the Democratic leadership. We are seeing a growing number of articles calling out the Democrats silence. Rolling Stone recently featured an article titled, “Democrats are already rolling over Trump,” noting that, “The resistance is over” as many “Democrats signal a new era of enhanced Democratic subservience.”

In Axios, the co-founders of the publication penned an column focusing on, “Trump's ever-expansive power,” noting that “Democratic opposition is weak and largely powerless.” And just a few days ago, former Republican Mona Charen wrote an article for The Bulwark slamming Democratic leaders that began with these two words in all caps: “ENOUGH CAPITULATION!” She continued that Democrats have “responded to the election with acquiescence bordering on servility.”

Yes, there are some Democratic fighters in Congress but what is lacking is a unified strategy! We, Democrats are so desperate for someone to resist that we are overjoyed that Michelle Obama announced this week she refuses to attend Trump’s inauguration. Democrats in Congress shockingly appear to be acting like Trump actually “won in a landslide” and has a “mandate” –a lie Trump and his allies keep peddling. In reality, Trump won less than 50% of the vote (33% of all registered voters to be accurate.) And instead of the GOP gaining seats in the House—which happens in real landslide elections--they had a net loss of one seat meaning they have a three seat margin, which is the smallest majority in nearly 100 years.

One of the worst Democrats in this regard is Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman who over the weekend travelled down to Mar-A-Lago to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s one thing for a Senator to meet with Trump in Washington, D.C, but Fetterman made a spectacle of visiting Trump because it helps him politically. (I wish Trump would put Fetterman in his administration, enabling Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro-who is a fighter--to appoint a real Democrat to this Senate seat.) Some of these “let’s give MAGA a chance” Democrats are supporting Trump—or the MAGA agenda on issues like immigration—because they believe it helps them politically. They have put their re-election efforts over protecting us. Please never forget who they are.

[...] But right now, we can each play a role in taking the fight to Trump from getting more involved in grassroots organizations, volunteering on campaigns and even running for office. And for those who want to do something this Saturday, there is the People’s March in Washington, D.C. and in locations across the nation sponsored by a host of groups from The Women’s March to Planned Parenthood to The Sierra Club. Will we see any national Democratic officials speak at these events?! Keith Ellison said something else in our interview that stayed with me about the next few years under Trump: “We're all gonna get tested a little bit.” He’s right. The question is how do each of us respond?! The answer must be: We stand up and fight!

Dean Obeidallah is saying what needs to be said: Democratic leaders and politicians should fight, not coddle, Trump and Trumpism.

[bitchyblue]

Script for contacting your local reps

If you are able to make a phone call, this is usually best. If not, email them.

Here's how to find them.

"Hello [senator/congressperson]

I'm calling to urge you to please stand with Senate Democrats in opposing Trump's government spending freeze and the unlawful actions taken by an unelected billionaire. We elected you so that you'd stand up for us, and that involves ensuring that we have governmental protections like the EPA, FDA, and federal funding for Medicare & Medicaid. Everyone deserves clean water and safe food, so please work together to oppose these illegal and dangerous actions."

I was calling my senator, John Fetterman, so I included this information. Feel free to look at your own rep's voting record and either applaud or express disappointment similar to the following:

"I am disappointed at the Senator's voting record lately, such as co-sponsoring the Laken Riley act, and would ask that he side with Senate democrats and stop helping the MAGA fringe accomplish their agenda."

I promise it's fast, it's important, and you will feel better.

Here's a video of Senate Dems holding the floor to oppose one of Trump's crazy nominees. Don't let them make you think this insanity is going unopposed. It is very opposed. Let your reps know you've got their backs, they just need to get yours.

[redistrictgirl]

Chuck Schumer twelve hours ago:

Electoral powerhouse

Ideologically respectable across the tent

Fantastic at whipping votes

Concerns over strategy handwaved by entire Democratic leadership

Chuck Schumer now:

DOA after this term

Drawing heat from the entire base, both progressive and centrist

Has failed to gain explicit support on the CR from even a single Democratic senator not named John Fetterman

Criticized not just by firebrands like AOC, but leaders like Jeffries and even ghouls like Seth Moulton

He’s making Kevin McCarthy and John Boehner look like master strategists. I’m stunned.

[harrisonarchive]

George and Astrid in 1977; photo © Astrid Kirchherr.

“Astrid was the one, really, who influenced our image more than anybody.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology

“I had the strongest friendship with George. He was one of my best friends. We saw each other often, and he always looked after me, got in touch constantly to ask if I was healthy and if I have everything. Today […] I still meet up with his wife Olivia and his son Dhani.” - Astrid Kirchherr, translated from Hörzu, 2005

“[Olivia] is a special lady and a wonderful woman, she is only what you would expect from someone married to such a wonderful man as George. [...] I was invited to a beautiful memorial service with Olivia and their son Dhani, who is so like George, at their beautiful home where George was happy being a gardener.’” - Astrid Kirchherr, Liverpool Echo, August 26, 2003

“I was in London then [in the late Sixties] and George said he needed a photo for the inner sleeve of his Wonderwall album. I said, I just don’t feel like it, and anyway I haven’t got a camera. He smiled and said, ‘Darling, I just need to click my fingers and there’s any camera you want!’ So I had to do it, and I do really like that picture. Then later George said, ‘Come over to London and I’ll set up a studio for you and you can be a photographer here.’ But I was so unsure then if I was any good or not, that I just couldn’t accept his offer. I’d had years of being called ‘The Beatles’ photographer’. I’d go into a magazine with my portfolio, and all they would want to talk about was The Beatles. They didn’t care if picture was out of focus or not, especially in the ’60s, as long as it had a Beatle in it. So I started to question myself. Are you actually good, or are you only good because you took pictures of The Beatles? And under those circumstances, I didn’t feel as if I could do it any more. I still take pictures - but these days they’re just in my mind.” - Astrid Kirchherr, The Beatles: Classic, Rare & Unseen

“He was then [in the early '60s], he still is now: my Georgie boy.” - Astrid Kirchherr, translated from Spiegel, 2/1994

“George was always my favorite, his kindness and his wit. He was just a wonderful person and whenever I was in trouble, like with money and things, he was always looking after me and he invited me a couple of times to London and later on to Henley. I just miss him terribly because he was like a little guardian angel for me, I feel like I am in a way lost without him.” - Astrid Kirchherr, Astrid Kirchherr: A Retrospective

“[Kirchherr] last saw George Harrison in mid-2001, months before he died, when he invited her to [Friar Park] for a last weekend with his family. ‘I remember we had a little walk in his park, and I was so full of love and joy to be with him that I cried,’ she says. ‘He said, “You must not cry, I will always look after you.” He had no fear. No fear whatsoever. I miss his presence, but I’ve got the feeling he’s still around me.’" - Peter Fetterman Gallery, Artists: Astrid Kirchherr (x)

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I have to say, I admire the Dems' bold commitment to never winning another election, it's really quite something. DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, tripling down on Orange Man Bad, adding generous helpings of Rocket Man Bad for good measure, openly defending blatant corruption, fighting tooth and nail against wildly popular immigration reforms, repeatedly beclowning themselves by screeching about how Trump's tactics will backfire right before they work spectacularly... typically midterms don't go well for the party in power, but it looks like this one's gonna be a bloodbath for the Dems instead.

(Yes, it's probably a bit early to be making that kind of prediction, but if their massive losses in November didn't lead to reflection and course correction, I don't think anything else will.)

You forgot tripling down on trans nonsense like transing kids and having men in women's sports, locker rooms, and prisons. I've never seen a political party so boldly and eagerly take up the super unpopular side of so many issues in such a short period of time after those sides were resoundingly rejected by voters.

And the hilarious thing is, there's no way out for them. The old guard in the party tied themselves to these issues to placate the base and the base wants to go even further to the left. The few moderates like Fetterman and Shapiro are never going to be in the position to influence anything, and will only be increasingly marginalized within their own party. Honestly, if most of them weren't about to die, I would say there's a very good chance of the older RINOs breaking off to join the younger moderate Dems to form a real third party within the next ten years. But once McConnell kicks the bucket (and it's even money on who croaks first, him or Biden) you pretty much only have Collins and Murkowski who might be peeled off, and even then I think you maybe get one, at best.

Midterm elections are funny things sometimes, so I don't want to make predictions either way. In recent history, the only time an incumbent party gained house seats in the midterms was in 2002 when the GOP picked up a bunch of seats, but that was because of the groundswell of popularity for Bush after 9/11. If the Dems completely lose the plot and the pro-illegal riots that are just starting up in LA spread, I could see a similar pick up happening for Trump. But a lot of things would have to go his way and against the Dems to sail against those historical headwinds. We'll see. Most people are predicting the Republicans keep the senate, though. So that's something.

[mariacallous]

So Chuck Schumer turned to The New York Times to help him. write a pathetic, whiney, gross, self justifying piece about "oh no I was totally right and the hero of the story" on Biden dropping out and there's one part that I think will stay with me for awhile. At the Senate meeting when everyone else was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, Fetterman stuck with Biden and told everyone to "have some spine" which Schumer made sure to tell us he pulled Senator Fetterman aside and "scolded" him saying that the Senators had spine!

and clearly Chuck thinks this moment makes him look great, but in reality it makes me like Fetterman a lot more than I have in the last few weeks because he was right, it was moral cowardice and pathetic and spineless all of it. Idk if a full throated defense of the boss in June would have saved things, but 3+ years of cowardice lead to that moment and if they'd all just had spines... *sigh*

also interesting that Chuck talked to *everyone* but the President of the Senate, weird how he was asking Obama to "talk to" Biden but not... his Vice-President? or to her at all, weird...