i don’t understand how it isn’t a massive problem to the public that people will often run campaigns on lies and abandon their supposed principles once in office. Fetterman is probably the biggest recent example of this bullshit except he is even worse because he is not shying away from people pointing out how he has “changed.” he hasn’t changed lol he merely lied. he should be followed everywhere he goes with a crowd of jeers and boos and tomatoes being flung at him.
Representative democracy is “trust me bro” democracy. Absolute scam.
It’s wild because in some states we theoretically have the solution to this which is recall elections - but they never get used for this purpose.
yup! one of the things i was thinking of when i left my comment. Americans are not told of their options because an educated population is dangerous. those in power would rather keep us exhausted and fighting with each other.
A couple minutes ago - I saw this Dave Weigel post about Fetterman switching parties.
Have known Fetterman for 16 years and would fall over dead if he did that. Yeah, there are people who knew RFJ Jr 3x that long and would never have seen him backing Trump. But Fetterman thinks his approach could save the party, he doesn’t want to be a liberal Republican who loses his primary
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[Fetterman takes] criticism and ad hominem attacks very, very personally. Fetterman associates the far left with shitposters who joked about his stroke.
https://subium.com/profile/daveweigel.bsky.social/post/3lf76jvmfhs2h
Definition of “people were mean to me online so now I changed my beliefs”
I’m not joking about his stroke
Fetterman associates the far left with shitposters who joked about his stroke.
Nah dude, we were empathetic—not supportive, but understanding—when you were saying things that weren’t monstrous. Now that you’ve come out swinging as a monster, you don’t get that basic human decency anymore.
Democrats would probably enjoy the Sonic games…since they love kissing rings so much.
