Fetterman: I’ll Never Understand Progressives Who Won’t Support Biden
Sen. John Fetterman has a message for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party: get in line behind President Joe Biden.
“Get behind Joe Biden’s policies, or you’re gonna get behind Trump’s policies,” said the Pennsylvania Democrat.
Fetterman made the remarks during a sit-down with reporters in his Senate office on Tuesday, answering questions with the help of a tablet that displays an instant transcript of reporters’ spoken questions. He continues to recover from an auditory processing disorder caused by a stroke that happened during the 2022 campaign.
To illustrate his point, Fetterman hearkened back to his own support for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign as the mayor of Braddock, even after he had supported Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primary.
“In 2016, you know, I was a surrogate for Senator Clinton. And it’s just like, you have a choice,” said Fetterman. “And if you don’t get behind Senator Clinton, you know, you are voting for Trump. And that’s exactly what happened in Pennsylvania, and it’s devastating.”
Maybe we should hear from somebody who does understand then.
that’s okay John, I don’t see how a progressive can support Israel like you do so we can call it even.
Get behind austerity Neoliberalism or you’re getting behind austerity Neoliberalism
Can anybody confirm if the /r/politics circlejerks are even real people? For a good 4 years I never met anyone who fit the /r/politics vibe outside of that subreddit.
Like I’m trying to emphasize that for 4 years, no notable user in a niche subreddit, nobody on Discord, nobody on other forums, no real life colleague or family member ever actively engaged with that subreddit. The place was always weird.
i have, i met them playing bar trivia. they always wanted me on their team because the host always asked super niche music and sports questions that i knew the answers to but they also would always try to pick fights with me in between rounds about politics. it didn’t bother me much bc i would just get drunk and lightly bully them over it.
90% of those posters must either live in DC or work directly in party politics around the US.
It’s regional.
I think some locations, like NYC, DC, and significant portions of the west coast are where you’ll find /r/politics enlightened centrists. The lattermost I can confirm for myself.
New England is half Raytheon Libs and half MAGA Chuds
Honestly think they prop up a solid quarter of all American flags sold worldwide
The outer periphery of the Bay Area, especially if you nudge toward its east side away from the coast, is like half bazinga tech liberals that commute to the city up to an hour or two because it’s that unaffordable to live there, even for them. The other half is full blown MAGA chuds with Thin Blue Line flags and huge child crushing trucks.
Can anybody confirm if the /r/politics circlejerks are even real people?
Real DNC flaks. Reddit has been controlled opposition since the '00s.
I still remember when they posted some airforce base as one of the most reddit addicted cities in 2013. Here’s an archive of that in fact!
A bunch of 20-somethings stuck in front of computers for 14 hours a day… What else are they going to do with their time?
She’s not on reddit, buy my partner’s grandma buys her talking points at the same store for sure.
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RES reminded me that the redditor who posted it, TheExtremistModerate, is a fan of the Iron Front.
The Iron Front (German: Eiserne Front) was a German paramilitary organization in the Weimar Republic which consisted of social democrats, trade unionists, and democratic socialists. Its main goal was to defend social liberalism and democracy and freedom against totalitarian ideologies on the far-right and far-left.
totalitarianism/authoritarianism ww2 both-sidesing really matured into the ideology we see today in the post-war years… i wonder how exactly they presented it then? the idea that communists took marching orders from moscow is prewar but i don’t think ‘totalitarian’ and horseshoe theory was there yet. i mean the spanish & french did red-liberal united fronts contemporaneous with Three Arrows
I was a fan of that too.
When I was 9.
TheExtremistModerate, is a fan of the Iron Front
It was a trending meme back when /r/Communism and the other leftist subs weren’t entirely de-moderated and neutered/banned by admins. Not shocked to see he got in on the party.
But the whole “Which side would you Stan in 1930s Germany?” was already horribly cringe and gross. Just a bunch of armchair dweebs fantasizing of a time and place when hunting your neighbors for support was socially acceptable.
Somehow this is the second best person in the Senate.
The word “progressive” in the US is like the word “middle class” - it hardly means anything.
Remember folks, Progress, just means “marginally better”.
They started that shit the day after Biden won.
And I’ll never understand how progressives could vote to break a strike, John, but that’s who you’ve thrown your hat in with
I saw those posts immediately after 2022 midterms. Can’t wait for Biden to lose and the entire Dem establishment and the media will blame the left for it.
Excited to hear how Trans People Should Have Voted Harder as we get another round of street protests and cop killings.
If I were Biden I would simply be a better president
no more half measures walter
This strike is gonna really hurt his momentum.
I will never vote in this country ever again.The libs have convinced me, in my next local election I will vote for Joe Biden
I don’t live in the US
Joe biden for mayor of Rome!
Joe Biden, Premier of (Australian State)
getting the cookers going by telling them the only way to vote out Daniel Andrews is to vote for Joe Biden
Walking over to a bunch of Vatican cardinals with a
sticker.
Damn. That stroke really did a number on him.
Even before he had a stroke, Fetterman said that he was not a socialist. He supports unions and policies like Medicare for All, but he denies being a socialist.
That’s called being a coward.
If somebody says they are not a socialist, I tend to believe them. People who think Fetterman is a socialist are doing vibes-based politics.
it’s called being a liberal
CIA stoke gun got him in line real quick.
Hillary Clinton would have carpet bombed Syria. She expressly stated she was going to No Fly Zone them and in private conversations said Libya was a model for how to toppled Assad.
how could she have done that? i mean without starting a war with russia and immolating us all. that’s what restrained Trump too, he loved bombing Syria when he did, he didn’t actually have a friendlier disposition on that front
It’s HER TURN to start WWIII
Pretty sure there were already US troops in Syria “doing stuff” so it wouldn’t be that hard to just start escalating things to the point that “oops, we did a carpet bombing”.
like you could’ve escalated Syria into a world war for sure, if you wanted, but i what i don’t see is a reason Clinton would’ve been more obliged than Trump to have done that.
I mean, Libya was a Clinton project right? Turned that place into a nightmare for, practically no other reason than to show that “I’ve got what it takes to run with the Boys!”
practically no other reason
the reason was the ownership of the oilfields. there is no reality in which Trump or some other republican would not have jumped right on that.
Which is weird, 'cause with my baby brained understanding of Ghadaffi, he would regularly swing back and forth between being okay working the USA and that seems like it could have made better long term sense to keep him around as a handy face/heel instead of fully going through with a coup that can’t be good for oil production/distribution.
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i mean clinton would’ve came in in '17, the deployment of russian forces kind of nixed either party’s ambition to do a libya in syria
Alas…
Who must go?
The H A R M R E D U C T I O N
are already wiggling around here, too.Thanks, federated guests!
Harm reduction i say as I lift a comically large anvil above the white house
500,000 dead Ukrainians is harm reduction?
