this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
510 points (97.8% liked)

politics

19072 readers
4821 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 250 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome, as is everything I know about fetterman.

It is very strange how much life has changed since even this extremely dated reference was made.

My kid just started kindergarten. The principal and some of his teachers have visible tattoos.

My kindergarten teacher was an ex nun who refused to let me write with my left hand.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard your senator went into the senate and ate everything in the senate and they had to close the senate!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Am I out of touch?

No! the constituents are wrong!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I yield the rest of my thyme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They must be saving that for Sweeps Week.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I sometimes wonder if I live in an alternate reality where a significant subsection of the population has gone absolutely insane. The insanity all seemed to take off around 2016.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I blame social media. Mainlining outrage and confirmation bias through your smart phone is one hell of a way to get high

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Social media is a turbocharger to the misinformation engine that is corporate media (especially Fox 'News' and shit like Limbaugh, Beck, Infowars, Rogan, et al) post-Fairness Doctrine.

The idea that the FCC shouldn't A) reinstate the doctrine, and B) have its regulatory boundaries extend to ubiquitous cable and streaming services is fucking nutballs. Thanks, Reagan!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some day we’ll look back at rage bait (and social media, in general) the way history looks back at opium. The tech and connectedness have remarkably advanced humanity - but unchecked, the algos and constant need for engagement have been ruinous and criminally detrimental to society.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As far as I’m concerned, tech companies are no better than Phillip Morris peddling tobacco to children. Checking your “likes” is the new age version of smoking.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There's a town hall video with John McCain around 2008 where an elderly woman tries to suggest to him she's worried about Obama because he's not white. John McCain shot her down and defended Obama and stressed we should only focus on the political differences of opinion, and his own supporters booed him. This all had been coming for so long.

Edit: I was corrected, she did not exactly state what her problem was with Obama, but it's clear that it was bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we're thinking of the same clip, you're slightly misremembering it. The woman was insisting Obama was a Muslim, and that's what McCain was shutting down. But yes, the crowd booed him for clarifying that.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It actually started really ramping up in 2008-2009. Tea Party, birthers, so on. It's amazing what happens when someone who wasn't white was elected president.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It actually started with Newt and his bullshit back in '96....well, actually it started with fucking Reagan and his trickle down bullshit back in '80...then again, maybe it started when

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer. It's just that the crazies, racists, and terrorists in the Republican party stopped being scared to come out in public around 2008 and even more in 2016.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes I think the end of the world actually did happen in 2012, it's just that the fallout is happening over a longer time scale than anyone anticipated.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most soul crushing part is when you realize it’s not an alternate reality; this is where you’ve been all along and you feel betrayed by everyone you’ve ever known for hiding it from you, even about their own stupidity.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

As someone who came of age during Reagan's presidency, y'all just ain't been around long enough.

load more comments (13 replies)
[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I wish we had more of him. The OG can stay in PA and make a clone to be senator for every other state. I know I'd vote for him.

Why the fuck can't we get more elected Democrats like him? He's personable. He's down to earth, and he's willing to make fun of the right wing wackos instead of cowering in fear. A good 3/4 of all the other elected Dems are a bunch of pussies who have the wit of a goddamn potato.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We could at the very least split him and have two normally sized fettermen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Why does Fetterman, the largest Senator, simply not eat the other 99?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Because at the heart of it most of them are still spineless corporate shills. Fetterman, AOC, Russ Feingold etc are outliers who snuck past the checks

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the whole damn system is designed to weed out anyone like that before they can even sniff at a senate seat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

And yet here we are with him in Congress. So it actually is possible.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone making season 6 Simpson references should be immediately put in charge of everything.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Come one over to /c/thesimpsons where we constantly play differing difficulties of "Guess The Episode" based on screen shots.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Can I just note, at the risk of venturing slightly off topic, that Fetterman is rocking that stash?

load more comments (25 replies)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I'm sure there are plenty of body doubles available out there for 6' 8" dudes with incredibly distinct facial features and skull geometry that would keep a 19th century phrenologist in business for years.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

By this time next year we should 8 ~~Fettermans~~ Fettermen. And they, too, will be Senators. Then 16, 32, 64, 128 et celery et celery.

Soon ... no more Senators. Only Settermen.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm pretty sure the plural is Johns Fetterman. It's like Attorneys General.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fetterman and his wife continue to impress me with how good at social media they are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gisele Fetterman is a secret weapon and almost as funny as the Senator

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fetterman for VP.

Him and Biden together would be comedy gold.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VP? Fetterman for Pres! Biden can be his VP. you know. to help mentor and guide him.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Crazy how gop found so many people with the shame part of their brain disabled

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine not understanding the difference between inner forearms and outer forearms...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I hate it when my tattoos disappear

These people can't be THAT stupid, right? Right?!

Ugh. I want off this ride.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How has he not had Terry Crews be his body double yet?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson are body doubles. Maybe there's a cynical clown version of John Fetterman somewhere.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›