• Emberleaf
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    219 minutes ago

    This isn’t really all that hard to understand. Just follow the money. That’s all you have to do.

  • @[email protected]
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    153 hours ago

    Fucking hell — I won’t mind if the guy gets another stroke and we can actually get a decent candidate at this point.

  • @randon31415
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    395 hours ago

    Just once I would like to have a Republican senator running on an ultra-conservative platform get elected and the reveal they are secretly an ultra-progressive.

    • @[email protected]
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      103 hours ago

      I’ve actually given this considerable thought.

      The MAGA party seems pretty easy to trick. They don’t believe in facts so you could literally be a progressive behind closed doors, so long as you’re racist in public.

      The problem isn’t necessarily the voting bloc. The problem is the Republican establishment. You start voting with the Democrats and Republicans more influential than you will start batting at you. You could fight this by calling out fake news, that your opponents are part of the problem. They are Washington insiders, part of the swamp.

      But you really have to have the cult personality to do so.

      • @meco03211
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        51 hour ago

        Also you have to be fine being openly racist and shitty. Then just hope the left will understand your motives and forgive.

        I think it’s easier for dems to move right as they get older on account of mental decline. Fetterman had a stroke. RFK had brain worms. Brains don’t magically “get better” with age. They can however be injured and get worse.

    • @coyootje
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      136 hours ago

      I really don’t understand what’s happened to him, he seemed like a decent guy when Biden got elected and now he’s insanely MAGA all of a sudden? I thought he had morals and decency, guess I thought wrong. Almost no politician has those.

      • @Thebular
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        175 hours ago

        I really think it’s the stroke, it was pretty immediately after that when he went full MAGAt

  • Flying Squid
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    246 hours ago

    Just fucking change parties already. You’ve gone full MAGA. You were full MAGA months ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    287 hours ago

    Why is it always these types of guys that are DINOs? The allure of the racist redneck lifestyle is too enticing?

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      236 hours ago

      Fetterman is an interesting case. He was pretty strongly Democratic until his stroke, then he seems to have made a pretty sharp turn to what we have now.

      • @Raiderkev
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        126 hours ago

        I low key wonder if someone at the hospital put fox news on in the background while he was recovering.

        • @halcyoncmdr
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          285 hours ago

          I think it’s quite simpler than that. It’s brain damage.

          Personality and mood changes are common after strokes.

          • @[email protected]
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            53 hours ago

            Yeah ive met quite a few stroke victims, it can range wildly in effects from my grandmother who just lost hearing function in one ear to people whos personality and basic human functionality is destroyed. It is terrifying concept to have something do that type of damage to folks.

          • @eran_morad
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            53 hours ago

            Consistent with what it takes to be a republican automaton.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      There’s always room for a Manchin. I’m guessing the one guy who grabs that ring has it made for life from then on, and in the entire Democratic legislature, the odds of there being no willing takers are essentially zero.