John Fetterman

[Ben]

So nobody saw this coming, right? This is totally out of the blue and unexpected. Only an extremist would have suggested something like this might happen.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/02/16/gisele-fetterman-shares-statement-about-her-husband-admitting-himself-to-the-hospital/

[BobR]

Depression worsening after a life altering event, who would guess.

If I had to make a SWAG I would bet on suicidal ideation. Normally that is what gets you an immediate trip to an inpatient facility after a chat with another health care provider.

There will be two camps on his decision. The first, mostly libs will praise him for seeking help and bringing a light of truth to how mental illness is real and can strike anyone at anytime, a heroic battle against inner (and outer) demons. The other camp will be wanting assurances he can fulfill the duties of his office. Having already missed votes and missing more is it time for him to resign and battle his obvious and not so obvious demons?

I kind of feel sorry for the guy, he has no business being where he is but but because the vote in a majority is more important than the person it does not surprise me he did not withdraw when he had his stroke, much of which I would bet is because his wife wanted the glory and recognition of being a Senator's wife, much like the precedent Dr. Jill set with her sock puppet for a much higher office.

bob

[Ben]

I kind of feel sorry for the guy, he has no business being where he is but but because the vote in a majority is more important than the person it does not surprise me he did not withdraw when he had his stroke, much of which I would bet is because his wife wanted the glory and recognition of being a Senator's wife, much like the precedent Dr. Jill set with her sock puppet for a much higher office.

bob

I'm not a lib, and I hope he gets the help he needs. There was a lot of talk that his harridan wife was the mastermind behind his running, with the idea of being the stealth senator. It's going to be really interesting, when he resigns (which he will), if somehow the push is made for his wife to take his place.

[Perd Hapley]

One ought to have the same compassion for Fetterman, Biden, Feinstein, and other non compos officials of the foreign occupation, as we ought to have had for that twisted puppet of hatred, Osama bin Laden. Which is not say they deserve the same fate. Rather, our compassion for them as humans should not cover over the fact that they are enemies; tools of a foreign power, who knowingly work for the destruction or enslavement of their fellow citizens.

[K Frame]

I'm not going to bark at him about this. As my knee problem lingered through November, December, and January I was struggling with depression from it.

I understand it.

Should he have continued to run/been elected? That's a different issue.

[Perd Hapley]

The stroke they lied about was just prior to the primary. His campaign could easily have endorsed one of the other candidates. But Fetterman is a horrible human being, and apparently his family is the same.

[HankB]

The stroke they lied about was just prior to the primary. His campaign could easily have endorsed one of the other candidates. But Fetterman is a horrible human being, and apparently his family is the same.

Pre-stroke Fetterman was an empty suit . . . and that's a charitable description.

[K Frame]

The stroke they lied about was just prior to the primary. His campaign could easily have endorsed one of the other candidates. But Fetterman is a horrible human being, and apparently his family is the same.

As I said -- different issue.

[Pb]

And the GOP didn't run someone who could beat this guy.  Their incompetency continues to not surprise me.

[WLJ]

And the GOP didn't run someone who could beat this guy the machine.  Their incompetency continues to not surprise me.

FIFY

[cordex]

And the GOP didn't run someone who could beat this guy.  Their incompetency continues to not surprise me.

I don't think that is the correct way to frame the situation.  If Fetterman can win, it isn't a case of people comparing the candidates and choosing the best one, or the most "electable".  Oz is hardly my choice as a good candidate, but he is at the very least mentally competent.  As were (at least as far as I know) the other Democratic candidates in that race.  The fact that Fetterman beat anyone gives lie to the idea that it is simply a case of the GOP running better candidates as we hear every election.

The point is, in many races the relative quality of the candidates simply doesn't matter.  It's not that the GOP runs bad candidates - although they often do - it is that Democrats don't have to run good candidates to win.  Whether that is because straight ticket Democrats are just that much more common or motivated than Republicans, or because of Democrats' near total capture of established media and entertainment, or something altogether more nefarious I leave as an exercise for the reader.

[MechAg94]

I don't think that is the correct way to frame the situation.  If Fetterman can win, it isn't a case of people comparing the candidates and choosing the best one, or the most "electable".  Oz is hardly my choice as a good candidate, but he is at the very least mentally competent.  As were (at least as far as I know) the other Democratic candidates in that race.  The fact that Fetterman beat anyone gives lie to the idea that it is simply a case of the GOP running better candidates as we hear every election.

The point is, in many races the relative quality of the candidates simply doesn't matter.  It's not that the GOP runs bad candidates - although they often do - it is that Democrats don't have to run good candidates to win.  Whether that is because straight ticket Democrats are just that much more common or motivated than Republicans, or because of Democrats' near total capture of established media and entertainment, or something altogether more nefarious I leave as an exercise for the reader.

I agree with that. 

[Ron]

I agree with that.

+1

[WLJ]

LOL WUT? Jane Pauley suggests there could be a President Fetterman.
https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2023/04/02/lol-wut-jane-pauley-suggests-there-could-be-a-president-fetterman/

[Perd Hapley]

LOL WUT? Jane Pauley suggests there could be a President Fetterman.
https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2023/04/02/lol-wut-jane-pauley-suggests-there-could-be-a-president-fetterman/

Not sure what's so funny about it. They've put a potato in the Oval Office before.

[RoadKingLarry]

The current potato In the oval office is one with a big nasty black, rotten core.

[Hawkmoon]

Whether that is because straight ticket Democrats are just that much more common or motivated than Republicans, or because of Democrats' near total capture of established media and entertainment, or something altogether more nefarious I leave as an exercise for the reader.

These options are not mutually exclusive.

[Perd Hapley]

The current potato In the oval office is one with a big nasty black, rotten core.

Racist!

[zahc]

I agree with that.

I do not agree with that. The GOP couldn't win against a candidate with brain damage. A glaring example of GOP incompetence. Everything else is just an an excuse.

[MechAg94]

I do not agree with that. The GOP couldn't win against a candidate with brain damage. A glaring example of GOP incompetence. Everything else is just an an excuse.

Or cheating.  Gotta have some proof of that though. 

I don't recall anyone saying the R candidate was all that great.  The R's have the same issue Democrats have in some places.  Very few good candidates, none in some states.  Or at least none that survive to the state/national level.  Lots of big money interests pushing candidates voters don't like.

Of course, there is some wishful thinking.  Only a few years ago, DeSantis was a hair away from losing to a gay, cocaine addict.  Done well since then, but it was real close that first time.  If he had lost, not sure where Florida would be today.

[Bogie]

Thing is, the woke see brain damage as being a plus - huge victim card.
 
And the party now seems controlled by the Woke.

[Ben]

Holy moly:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1648733167468048385
https://twitter.com/i/status/1648743274893709313

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2023/04/19/disturbing-john-fettermans-opening-remarks-at-subcommittee-hearing-today-should-be-cause-for-alarm/

[BobR]

^^^^ That is painful to watch. But truthfully, who really expected anything different?

https://twitter.com/drefanzor/status/1648387924071940097

bob

[WLJ]

I took the car keys away from my mom long before it got that far.

[Ben]

But truthfully, who really expected anything different?

bob

None of us here, I would think. Yet it certainly makes you think about the sick minds who pushed him into this, and the sick minds on social media and in the MSM who promote him as "totally normal".

Though I do assign some blame to him. Regardless of the stroke, he seemed to have the wherewithal to check himself into whatever rehab, so he seems to have enough wits about him to know that this was a bad idea and he should have said no. That wife must be something in the sack to have pushed him to this.