The Democrat “directed his staff to deliver a gift to the House Oversight Committee to congratulate and salute Rep. Comer and his Team America™ squad as they embark on their historic impeachment journey.”

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I like Fetterman for his policies/opinions and I like the quips like when he was asked about impeachment and he said a fake “oh nooooo” or whatever…but this is so staged and cringy it gets into Fellow Kids territory.

Normal for a politician, below my standard for Fetterman.

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We need votes anywhere and everywhere. He’s progressive AF, let him talk to the kids their way

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Le epic troll! Conservatives seething!!! definitely doesn’t have a pr firm running his public strategy!!!

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I don’t care for Fetterman, but his “slob” attitude and look is stupid. Have some pride in what you do, there’s people all over the world that envy your position, including our own people.

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Styles change over time. I don’t see you calling people slobs for leaving home without their hat.

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I like it. It’s approachable. Like he could be my neighbor.

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Ah, the racist Frankenstein’s monster has worshippers everywhere. One of the things I didn’t like about Reddit was the fawning worship of that ballbag.

He held a black jogger at gunpoint because he fit the description. And no I don’t care that the jogger forgave him. Fuck that guy.

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Ah, the racist Frankenstein’s monster has worshippers everywhere

When you accuse some of racism and then proceed to judge them based on how they look it makes you look no better. Maybe be a good way to have conversation is to not make yourself look like an ass.

He held a black jogger at gunpoint because he fit the description.

How is it racist? Wouldn’t it be racist if he didn’t fit the description? I don’t really have context on what happened, but from what you said there’s nothing seemingly racist about it.

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You should probably look up the story first before jumping in with your “he did nothing wrong” opinion. And your lookism is equal to racism idiocy was just piled on top of that.

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Source?

Otherwise you sound like a troll or a lunatic.

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The jogger thing is true, but a bit of context and then the follow up stories really make the whole thing not worth even addressing

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Thank you, this is interesting.

Looks like he was pursuing him in a truck with his shotgun. That said, it appears disputed whether he pointed the shotgun at him, whether he left his truck, and it appearently was in 2013 which by now is 10y ago.

Still, thanks for the source. Always take the good the bad and the boring with every politician.

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Yawn… try harder.

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As mayor, he heard what he thought was gunshots, and pursued who he thought did it until the police were able to intervene. He was wrong in hindsight, but what long-term harm came of it, other than it being a scary situation?

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The guy seems like he’d even care about your well being, I don’t understand the hate.

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By what standards? He hasn’t done a single thing during his time in office that I genuinely support. Hardly what I’d call caring about me

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Human decency seems a good place to start.

When you care about what happens to all human beings instead of what someone does for you, you’ll understand.

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For the record, are you a way far left liberal with no common sense, or just another run-of-the-mill conservative troll feigning concern over racism?

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Get this man on the ballot.

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democrats are very efficient in shooting themselves in a foot. He’s not getting on the ballot as he doesn’t represent established clique. None of the progressives got anywhere because of Democrats top echelon. US needs an nee party with all progressive Democrats moving there. Maybe then there’s some chance for a country.

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I wish the dems had split when the tea party split from Republicans. We could have ended up with party reform in the Democrat party, just as the Republicans reformed when the tea party loons were brought back in.

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I can’t agree more with the new representatives and especially Fetterman actually calling the GOP on their bullshit antics and nonsense rhetoric, this is exactly what is needed to drum up support for the democrats and paints them as on the offense instead of constantly being on the defense making them look like they’re unwilling/unable to hold their own when it comes to treating GOP like the petulant child they have been/and are since Trump was in office this kind of behavior has exploded exponentially. And destroyed what little credibility they had left.

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Fetterman is what I thought we were finally getting when Pelosi ripped Trump’s State of The Union speech up behind his back.

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