• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Just from his huge switch pre-stroke from “progressives are the future, vote for me I’m a progressive” to openly complaining people think he’s a progressive and multiple hard right views…

    I really think he’s one of the people that get big personality changes after a stroke.

    My mom went the other way and became a much happier person and more sympathetic to issues facing others, unfortunately the change can happen either way.

    It’s either that, or he pulled a Sinema and just lied about being a progressive to get elected

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      11 months ago

      multiple hard right views

      I haven’t seen any hard-right views from Fetterman.

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      11 months ago

      I’m wondering if he’s posturing for a future presidential run, and the party has told him that he needs to temper his progressive stances if he ever wants to run as a Democrat.

      If so, definitely a bummer as he seemed like the exact type to not do that.

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      11 months ago

      I’m also curious how biased the information they are given during briefings is. I can totally see how the information the people have and the information presented (or not presented) in briefings could influence congresspeoples opinions.

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        11 months ago

        Would you even say that about someone who is nicer now, or are they just faking it and their meaner behavior was their true self?

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          11 months ago

          He was faking it for office. And the VBNMW crowd ignored the warnings from the left and elected him. Same with Eric Adams, Hakim Jeffries, and a shit ton of others

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        11 months ago

        “He changed after a stroke” is just a sad cope to not feel like they got gaslighted by normal politician things. Yeah you bought the same lie they all sell… “noo he had a stroke and changed!!”