Two more aides left John Fetterman’s office in recent weeks, the latest in a stream of staff exits amid the Pennsylvania senator’s shifting political persona and questions about his health.
Fetterman aides Madeleine Marr and Caroline Shaffer parted ways with his team, according to two people familiar with their departures and granted anonymity to speak freely. They left shortly before New York Magazine reported that current and former Fetterman staff are increasingly concerned about the Democratic senator’s mental and physical health, one of the people said.
Staff inside Fetterman’s office had been bracing for the magazine’s story in the days before it was published. Fetterman has denied that he is not fit to serve, calling the report “a one-source hit piece.”
One of the things I enjoy is that while his office is burning around him, John continues to send out the same, boring, campaign pledge emails like nothing is going on.
I tried to get removed from the list a few times (I never gave him a dollar) with no luck.
But now I’m enjoying the completely out of touch email blasts from him and his team. Just the same playbook, plodding along, not even acknowledging that people are concerned about his mental health.
“Hey friend, it’s John. What if I told you … now give me $5.”
He’s not the same person he was before his stroke. He’s catastrophically brain damaged. He should be impeached and replaced.
Jeez. He’s brain damage is so bad I’m afraid he’ll buy a bowflex.
What’s wrong with a Bowflex? I never bought one, but I’ve used a couple of them a few times. They seemed to be a decent combination bench, if a bit more complicated than necessary.
Did he invent the thing? I read that page and his Wikipedia page, and neither seemed to mention Bowflex. I vaguely remember the murder suicide thing, was never into WWE/WWF
He hung himself on his bowflex after murdering his wife and child.
Gotcha, I missed that part.
calling the report “a one-source hit piece.”
That source: Fetterman.
Fuck that fool.
What are the odds on him flipping parties?
Increasing, but I think still unlikely. I think the most likely scenario for that to happen is he loses his primary but stays in as an independent.
He needs to lose and get tf out of politics, he clearly can’t handle it
he will be primaried anyways, so it doesnt matter, he has to become independant, and republicans wont vote for someone like him, unless hes a magat to begin with.
Republicans won’t vote for him, but if he runs as an independent, he could draw off enough low-info democratic voters that the republicans could with the general.
1 in 6
Another bait and switch. Sinema, Liebermann, Manchin, Pelosi, on and on. Maybe Dems and leftists should take a lesson and plan a decades, centuries long games. Not like Clintons, Harris, Obama either. We can learn from their successes and failures, in this Sun Tzu Art of War, though. Realpolitik.
Putin has had literal decades of his time without interruption and without New stupid people being voted in every 4 to 2 years to plan his destruction of the United States and I am not in for that
Wrong inference.
Yeah, it sounds like the beginning of an argument in favor of dictatorship.
How is envisioning a better long term plan for a better future for our citizens, looking at what the Heritage Foundation/liberals, neolibs, cons and neocons have done, moves and counter moves, learning from the successes and failures from each side, developing a long term plan for the direction we envision, then finding and running candidates, learning from successes and failures, and adjusting our plans accordingly a set-up for fascism? This is exactly what founders, despite their shortcomings did when when they drafted the Declaration of Independence, planned and executed a revolution, which was replete with risks and sacrifices, then developed a new socioeconomic model (liberalism, in the global sense of the term), drafted a Constitution, ratified it? They envisioned a system far into the future and potential risks and a rough map of sidestepping those risks, which is why, when questioned by a citizen on the type of government we’d been given, Franklin answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
We are on the verge of losing it because the most liberal of liberals have been playing checkers, and the most greedy and ruthless have been playing chess. We get too caught up in immediate battles and lose sight of the bigger picture. Too many concessions have been made. I don’t know if we can save our republic; but I think we can save our country, and we need to think about these issues and develop that plan and move forward playing chess, before it’s too late.
I was agreeing with you about your response to GP.
Ah, my mistake. Thanking you for clarification.
