Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.
Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
As the meeting deteriorated, a staff member moved to end it and ushered the visitors into the hallway, where she broke down crying. The staffer was comforted by the teachers who were themselves rattled by Fetterman’s behavior, according to a second person who was briefed separately on the meeting.
“WHY is everybody MAD at me people HATE me WHAT did i EVER do to YOU” idk man maybe bc ur whining like a child because people disagree with you
All he has to do to get them off his back is to resign. He’s not being forced to stay in a job that makes both him and his constituents miserable.
I reckon I like me some fried taters, mmmm hmmm
Bets on how long before this dude records a collab track with Kanye?
questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do”
Oh come the fuck on, you know exactly why.
stroke+ falling in with the right wing crowd isnt doing him any favors. there are many celebrities that had strokes and became looney right wing christians.
Yeah, brain damage and right-wing thinking are heavily intertwined
Apparently brain damage and fascism correlate.
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They need to stop calling him a Democrat. He’s not one.
They need to keep calling him a democrat. He lied about being a progressive to get into office and then made a hard right turn. The only thing more emblematic of the democratic party is blaming the left when pandering to the right fails.
That cock ain’t one of us
I think that stroke might have killed more brain cells than we originally thought. Almost as many as that brain worm.
the brainworms is just keeping rfk jr conscience.
I think this is an insensitive thing to post. I fear it might be true. A more active fear center (even just relative to other brain functions) might explain not only the policy shifts, but also this outburst.
I hope he can get that care he needs (if any). I don’t think his actions (so far) as impeachable, so we’ll just have to wait until he’s served the rest of his term before the people of his great state can replace him.
Insensitive? Fuck that. No district should have to put up with a turncoat no matter what caused it. He doesn’t get a pass for getting so brain damaged he couldn’t think anymore. If anything, that’s an exact reason to impeach.
No district should have to put up with a turncoat no matter what caused it.
Fetterman isn’t a turncoat. He does exactly what party leadership wants.
I hope you never have to experience a life-changing health event.
As far as I know, there’s intentionally no recall procedure for federal offices. So, the system is designed so that districts do put up with turncoats. I would be open to changing that, but I’m not interested in championing such a change.
And I’m not interested in championing further discussion with you, thx.
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
People tend to get mad when you campaign on helping people then turn into a fascist supporter
Probably the immediate about-face he took on every single stance he had prior to his stroke…
Prior to his election. Stop blaming the stroke for a democrat acting like a democrat.
No, no, no. He was a piece of shit before he got elected he just hid it better before the stroke.
John needs the health insurance and his policy is what every single resident in the USA should have. He does not give a shit about the common people. Find another Democrat and toss him out.
Brain damage makes you more conservative
Having higher intelligence correlates strongly to left wing beliefs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289624000254
If people have papers to the contrary lets see them.
Universities aren’t peddling some “liberal agenda,” it just so happens that the more educated you are the more liberal you tend to become. I’m sure that has nothing to do with red states pushing Jesus in schools and rolling back child labor laws…
What if it’s deeper than that. Like not systematic. What if liberals who are educated are just more outspoken. Or that people who tend to need post secondary school are more left leaning. What if it has nothing to do with education at all. I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right. The argument that they are is similar to arguments like people in Alberta saying they’re better than other provinces because they’re rich but really it’s just a product of living in a province where there’s an abundance of natural resources.
I think a major part of it is education and exposure. Conservativism is, generally, a desire to halt or even roll back “progress”. The embrace of traditions and nostalgia for the imaginary “good old days”. You know what your parents and your community taught you. You’ve established what normal is from your small sample size. Why change things? Everyone you know gets along just fine and you like the way it is. Different is scary.
Unfortunately, the world is really fucking complicated. Simple explanations can make perfect sense when your understanding is simple. However, the more you learn about the world, the more diversity you are exposed to, the more context you discover, the more stereotypes get broken… the more accommodating and progressive you usually become.
I see no reason to believe the left are any more intelligent than the right.
But intelligence and education are not exactly the same things.
A stockbroker knows about farms; but not the finer details that make one successful. Much like how politicians say they understand the struggles of the working class but never worked a day in their lives
It is deeper and systemic. Depending on your field of study it could be analyzed any number of ways. I said nothing about intelligence, that’s hard to quantify and we’re all born with the same set of tools more or less. What is quantifiable is the census and voting records of various states around this nation. Being born into a family of poor idiots doesn’t make you dumb, but it does put you at a statistical likelihood of not seeing that potential because college is expensive and the local culture believing higher education=liberal brainwashing.
No one is automatically better than anyone else based on their zip code, but being in the nicer ones does help, who’d have thought
It’s far darker than this. You’re all one step away from this kind of flip. I mean neurotypical people here (though I doubt neurodivergent are proof against it, normal people are just super vulnerable). It’s all based on identity and once something is part of your identity there is no logic that can shift you.
Thankfully not always. But damn it sure happens far too often.
You go turncoat you gotta accept the stoning
Dude acted cool. Then he has a serious medical issue. Suddenly he chooses to quit giving a shit because he saw his death and chose to be selfish and unappreciative of life. I’m glad I didn’t do that when I nearly died.
Getting brain damage and becoming conservative is quite the statement though.
I didn’t make that statement.
I think the point is that Fetterman did
It’s incredible how many passes he’s gotten since his stroke. He’s been spiraling hard. Megalomania, paranoia, and overall reckless behavior have become more common traits, but according to him he’s fine, he says while seething through clenched teeth.
Gets brain damage
Becomes conservative snowflake
I have had to watch this happen to a close friend.
Back in 2015, I had a buddy who got into a nasty bike accident, and suffered a TBI. He was always a bit of a snarky asshole, but we definitely did see eye to eye on political matters before that happened. But during his recovery, he became a lot more viciously vindictive and outright mean, and also ended up going full MAGA later on. It was weird and depressing to watch a close friend spiral out of control and lash out at people who were previously his very close friends, to the extent that he alienated basically all of them.
It sucks, and it’s very real.
I wonder how much high school athletics have contributed to conservatism via head injuries and groupthink?
its either cte, strokes, or drugs turn into a nutty christian right winger. or if you have something like undiagnosed schizophrenia.
drugs turn into a nutty christian right winger.
Uhhhhh yeah I don’t think so. I think you’re seeing former addicts that go hard for religion, and yeah that’s real… But it’s usually not the drugs that do it.
Honestly, probably a lot
Total Breakdown of the Id?
TBI = severe bump to noggin
That’s SBN. C’mon, mate, it’s like you’re not even trying.
Thanks!
Oh that was just for other readers. Of course you and I know it’s from the German teurer bescheuerter Irrtum.
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teuer bescheuert irrtum🙏 @Mim@lemmy.zipIt’s teurer bescheuerter Irrtum.
Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) are a very broad range of injuries involving the brain and central nervous system localized in or around the cranium and cranial cavity referred to as the braincase or brainpan.
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I have had a couple concussions, and I am generally intolerant of religion as a whole, doesn’t sound like any of the study findings any research on people who weren’t religious to begin with. Unless I’m reading this wrong, which I could be you know, because of the concussions🤣🤣🤣
i think a stroke is more severe than minor concussions. IN A STROKe there actual death of brain cells in the stroke area.
A link doesn’t mean every single person did - maybe each concussion is rolling a die on the gullible idiot check and you got lucky.
Based on what the article said, your general intolerance of religion might be the very symptom they were referencing.
Their research doesn’t suggest that damage to that particular area of the brain causes religious beliefs, but rather that it more or less locks you into your beliefs religious or otherwise.
The injured brain becomes less able to consider other viewpoints, so changing beliefs becomes less likely even when confronted with facts that disprove the belief.
That’s what I’m thinking, if I was already intolerant of religions, then this just made me even more intolerant of religions, it’s not that hard though to not believe in a magical sky daddy, I wish more people followed my lead
Right, it bears pointing out that atheism is in itself a faith, or at least its adherents treat it very much like one to the point that it might as well be one. For me it is the faith in the non-existance of a supreme being or deity.
It really bears pointing out that this is, in fact, not true.
If I walk up to you and tell you that I can turn lead into gold, and you ask me to prove it, only to have me rebut that telling you to prove I can’t… Did you need “faith” to not believe me?
It doesn’t require faith to NOT believe in something. It requires faith to accept religion which cannot be proven.
It does require faith when you’re disbelieving something that has as much proof of its existence as of its non existence. There is no conclusive proof against the existence of a supreme being, in fact like I said in another comment there is physical evidence of one if you observe the universe, which is that all of existence collective is god.
If you zoom into a human being there are millions of microorganisms and bacteria that inhabit us, and at that level of zoom they all look like they inhabit their own little planets, zoom in more and you start to see the very molecules that make us up. But you zoom out and see a person, zoom out and see a planet, then a galaxy, then clusters and so on. Who’s to say that if you looked at the universe from outside of it, it would not be the very body of another living organism?
I think using the word “faith” here may need more explanation. Would you say you have faith that the tooth fairy, Santa, or the Easter Bunny does not exist?
I am an atheist so far as I can say that there is no intelligent deity that snapped its fingers and created the universe. But I cannot definitely conclude that the universe itself might not be the living body of a god. An atheist™️ would say that there is nothing transcendental about the universe itself, despite the proof of their very eyes that it is transcendental. If you’re not in awe at the sheer magnitude of the universe then maybe you’re too self centered to realize how truly insignificant we are in the greater universe.
An atheist would say that a god needs some kind of intelligence, but does the lack of intelligence and will makes a being less of a being? What do we make of plants and bacteria then?
I know the biblical god isn’t real. I know the Ancient pantheons are also not real. I don’t know that there is no such thing as a supreme transcendent being. But I think there’s enough prove to make an argument that there might be one.
For me it is the faith in the non-existance of a supreme being or deity.
I agree. I prefer to consider myself agnostic rather than atheist.
I’m really a dishonest agnostic since I can’t really imagine a proof of deity that I wouldn’t discount as a hallucination.
I did have a dream many years ago in which I woke up with absolute proof that God existed, but then I went back to sleep.
When I woke later, I couldn’t remember what the proof was. If the proof was real, and God let me forget it, then he’s an ass and he doesn’t deserve my belief.
I think the problem is that most people think of god as non material. In my view m whatever you want to call god is a material thing and you are touching it right now. And there’s absolutely no conclusive evidence to prove that this isn’t true and most thought exercises will have you reach the conclusion that there is a high likelihood that we are indeed part of a bigger thing that could be defined as god.
I guess a big divide here is how you define god, for most people it’s this intelligent and willful being. But that’s just what a human, who fashions gods in his image, thinks a god is.
For me intelligence is not a requirement for supremacy. I believe the universe itself for all intents and purposes is god. It has no will and no intelligence but that doesn’t make it any less powerful.
It’s an ideology. The problem with it, is that like any ideology. Many turn it into their identity. And if you attack or even dismiss the ideology, it is as if you’ve done it to them personally.
That said there’s more clear evidence for atheism than there is for any other theist belief. But it does get tiresome to combat against constant fantastic and unprovable claims.
Do you realize that your anecdote is literally meaningless in the context of statistical analysis?
It was more of a question, but you kind of inserted yourself into my statement, so I’m not going to engage with you anymore. You can get your feelings hurt elsewhere
Do you realize…
Dude started out by mentioning a couple of concussions and ended by stating he might not understand the research because of the concussions, so perhaps the answer is…maybe not.
I think it was more like money damage… Being offered enough to completely abandon former thoughts and goals.
he was pretty much a A-HOLE before he strokes, the stroke just removed all inhibitions from him.
There might be a typo, but you said the same thing twice.
🤔
Sounds about right
Yet with your combined superior intellect Democrats have lost control of all 3 branches of government and the supreme court. Maybe you guys are not as superior as you believe you are?
I’m not American or a Democrat and you’re dumb
The Judicial system, which includes the Supreme Court, is a branch of government.
“Nuh uh!”
-MAGAt
Does the block function work in Lemmy?
Oh look it does
he got the passes til he started to become the AIPAC cheerleading for ISRAEL, and went crying to BILL MAHER of all people.
WHY IS THIS MAN STILL IN OFFICE
Between this and the other story earlier this week, its crystal fucking clear that he is not well. Does nobody close to him care about his clear brain damage from his stroke? It’s like the entire federal government is weekend at bernie’s and the whole thing is being run by staffers
I think your system has made it abundantly clear that neither competence, nor mental state, nor age, nor criminal record are limiting factor to be a politician in the US.
If anything, they’re prerequisites.
They let Feinstein legislate with full blown dementia. As long as they can do what the lobbyists paid them to, these kinds of people likely aren’t going anywhere. It costs a bit of money to own a representative and their owners want as much ROI as possible.
I mean, that sounds so reductive to me, but it’s the only thing that makes sense.
He’s paranoid and seeing shadows, but he supports Israel so it doesn’t matter if he’s losing his mind. As long as his hallucinations are telling him to vote with the major party positions, they might as well just be another staff advisor.
I think the dems are trying hard to resist the popular momentum in the progressive side of the party, and letting his seat be re-filled would open a vulnerability. There’s a small chance that a special election would cause them to lose the seat entirely, but the nationwide sentiment is in their favor - it seems to me they’re more worried about a progressive challenger. But that’s just speculation.
Nancy Pelocy basically pushed around a corpse in a wheelchair.
He’s apparently pushed away anyone close to him that has shown concern
