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The Pennsylvania senator dismissed the demand for further investigation as “moot.”
Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.
During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Fetterman was asked to explain why he hadn’t signed onto a letter from Senate Democrats that questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls’ primary school miles from Tehran. The strike killed 175 people, many of them young girls.
“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”
Fetterman was referring to a line in the letter describing Donald Trump’s military campaign as “a war of choice without Congressional authorization.” The letter did not describe the war as “dumb.”
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The headline is misquoting him, the full quote is:
“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”
Still glaringly stupid, but the headline makes it seem like he’s in denial it happened. He didn’t say the words
“leftist” or“craze”Edited for accuracy!
Appreciate this.
Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.
bad vibes to John Fetterman but also bad vibes to the journalist who misquoted the title
He says that, but then votes against the investigation. Fuck this guy.
What game are they trying to play here 🤔?
New Republic is definitely left leaning but they are typically factual (citation). This is not their typical fare.
Hmmmmm 🤔?
Hmmmm 🤔?
There is no game, THE GUY VOTED AGAINST HAVING AN INVESTIGATION.
It doesn’t matter that he said that when he votes the opposite
This is 100% a click-bait post.
Here’s the full interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zE4v--qcPs
Skip the comments, though, unless you enjoy reading bots and spam.
John Fetterman had medically confirmed brain damage.
Does anyone on any side think this brain-damaged flip-flopper has anything important to say?
The right seems to like a lot what he says, probably consider him one of the “good ones” until it’s time to pair down on who to shoot next.
If the Democrats were a functioning opposition party, they would have forced Fetterman out when his staffers started reporting his erratic behavior. But Chuck Schumer needs Senators to, “go against him,” and thwart any legitimate opposition the party can muster, so we let this brain damaged, mentally ill man occupy one of fhe highest positions of power in the nation.
“dozens” is a really weird way of spelling “over a hundred”.
It is, indeed.
FFS, even saying a “dozen dozens“ would be underselling the actual death toll of that particular war crime.
The world honestly would be a (slightly) better place if that stroke was just a smidge more fatal…
Can the Democrats sanction and eject this senator? He seems to be a Trumper in disguise.
in disguiseThat would involve actually doing something, and 90% of them are utterly useless.
No, he’s just an honest Democrat.
Senator Sling Blade has been an Israeli tool for years.
Motherfucker should have just been a Trumper. He’s as stupid as everyone else in the administration and would fit right in.
Looking back, it’s like what the fuck, it was this guy or Dr Oz? Like did Pennsylvania even actually have a choice?
He was a lot less insufferable before the stroke.
Brain injuries absolutely DO change people.
Unfortunately he wasn’t. He was a dick before the stroke he just had an incredible campaign/PR team that managed to successfully spin him as a progressive. I learned about him summarized in this video
23 minutes in i get Ahmaud Arbery vibes when he pulled a gun on a complete stranger.
There’s a fan theory about the show King of the Hill.
I think it was season 2 that Peggy Hill went sky diving. The parachute doesn’t open, and she seeminly falls to her death. Except then you find out that she survived, and is now in a full body cast.
Fans noticed that before those events she wasn’t very aggressive, or stuborn, or stupid. But after the fall, those are the traits that would define her character going forward.
The theory is, the brain damage from the fall changed her. And thats a good in show way of saying “the writers hadn’t found her personality yet”.
They blame the stroke he had just before the 2024 primary for his personality change, but there were clues that this was really him all along. Another excuse I’ve seen which I find slightly more believable (but only because the groundwork for it was already there) is that he became highly dependent upon social media - and thereby more radicalized - after his stroke prevented him from communicating normally.
His “brain injury” was indeed caused by a stroke. It was the stroke of a pen, signing off on that big, fat check that someone gave him in exchange for his vote.
I say John Fetterman is an amoralic peice of shit and will go to hell.
John Fetterman lives under a bridge and eats any traveller who can’t answer his riddles
Fetterman, Randy Fine, Trump, Lindsey Graham, Rubio, Ted Cruz. It’s amazing to think about how his gallery of absolute revolting ghouls have all received the majority of votes in an election in the US. The American public have preferred these freaks to whatever was the alternative.
I don’t know how the US can be salvaged. At the minimum, a massive portion of the country needs to be sent to reeducation camps.
It’s really a shame he didn’t die in that car crash.
Brain damaged fool says what?
Huh?
WHICH ONE OF THE SIX SCHOOL BOMBING STRIKES IN IRAN, FETTERMAN? WHICH FUCKING ONE DOESN’T DESERVE INVESTIGATION?
When it comes to Fetterman, I wonder how many people get brain damage and suddenly become more progressive instead of regressive?
I know some people say this is who they suspect he always was, but…
He had a helluva PR campaign to reform his image. I believed it at first until i finally found a video of someone giving a rundown of his background and his actions began making a lot more sense. Suffice to say i’ve found him to be an extreme disappointment but because i wasn’t in his district and therefore voting for him I never dug into his history or background.
That same video is what revealed what a shithead he is.
I should keep it saved to share.
I once had an idea that it would be funny if Trump got hit on the head and turned woke: We’re gonna add so many genders your head’s gonna spin. You’ll say, “Donald, there’s too many genders, we can’t keep track of them all!” Too bad, we just added 10 more genders
I sometimes wonder if that happened to me. I had a little head trauma and some interesting liberating experiences in the following months.
I also read a lot of hopeful transhumanist scifi around that time, changed my antidepressants and went through a great personal loss.
So I can’t confirm it, but I do wonder how much smashing my head on a door frame contributed.
Jfc, it’s so unfortunate his stroke was caught in time to save his Phineas Gage ass.
