The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.

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TL;DR: The Senate’s saddest zionist ogre has a Bolsonaro-esque affinity for collecting mental illnesses and is probably going to kill himself soon.

Also, he’s addicted to ruining his kids’ birthdays:

In March, Fetterman suddenly took an early-morning trip to Hartford, Connecticut, without telling his team why — leaving them at a loss for what to tell Gisele when she demanded to know why he was missing one of their kids’ birthdays. Fetterman objected to this characterization, saying to me, “I took a weekend trip in March to visit the grave site of my friend from grad school who died in 1993 — a trip my staff and family knew about.”

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  • Homer_Simpson [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    1 month ago

    Gisele might have disliked what her husband was up to, but his father loved it. Karl Fetterman, an insurance executive, was way more conservative than his son. He used to have a magnet on his refrigerator that warned that his dog bites Democrats, and he watched Fox News constantly. When Fox would air segments about Fetterman’s strong stances on Israel or invite him on as a guest, the senator’s father would, according to former staff, almost always call to say how proud he was.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    1 month ago

    I feel bad for his wife but also her direct comment in the article is really fucking funny.

    My husbands doctors actually think he’s doing just fine, and this other guy is the one they are really concerned about.

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    132·
    1 month ago

    Dude has absolutely ghoulish political views, but this does make me feel somewhat bad for him. Sounds like he is in a seriously bad place, and I can’t imagine the job he’s doing (or the way he’s doing it) would be good for anybody’s mental or physical health.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      39·
      1 month ago

      Always shitty, all the Democrats are good at pretending to be progressive until they have the opportunity to do something about it. The only reason he won was he was running against Dr. Oz.

      Another W for Lesser Evilism.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      I think the stroke, and maybe Covid, hindered his ability to pretend. He’s fully mask off compared to playing the lib aesthetics game years ago. But perhaps that just coincides with him getting to a position he feels no longer requires it.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      65·
      1 month ago

      He was always shitty and his shitty behavior is well documented

      Pulled a shotgun on a black jogger and forcibly detained him because he was “suspicious” and someone set off a firework nearby. Has never apologized and actively refused to do so to this day

      Funded his mayoral campaign with his millionaire dad’s cash. The mayor job paid shit, like a pittance stipend because it was supposed to be an elite job you got when you were already wealthy or one you got fat off of corruption. His rich dad paid him 50k+ a year to compensate and yet he still collected the stipend from the town he supposedly loved

      His actions to “clean up the town” he “loved”were essentially gentrification. Instead of addressing social issues creating crime he aimed to drive up property values to drive out people that were undesirable and attract more “appropriate” residents. This also included just straight up shutting down a nightclub he disliked because he felt it was a “nuisance”

      When his re election came up he abused his authority and released confidential police records that showed his opponent had gotten a DUI right before the election to harm him in the polls. It worked, he won, and got away with it only receiving criticism and no actual penalty

      The dnc later latched onto him and swept most of this under the rug. When the jogger stuff came up during campaigning it was around the time Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in literally the same exact scenario. Despite this he still refused to apologize for his actions and the headlines were mostly buried. Trump was able to roast him pretty effectively because it is extremely accurate that he is an extremely affluent rich boy who decided to play politics floated by daddy’s money.

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        42·
        1 month ago

        The only schadenfreude is that after getting everything a guy could ever want up to and including a national profile all he’s done is make himself miserable.