Sen. John Fetterman’s latest high-profile vote backing Donald Trump angered Democrats, who lambasted him as “shameful” and a “traitor.”

On Wednesday, Fetterman again voted to block another war powers resolution to constrain Trump’s authority to wage war on Iran without congressional approval.

It was the seventh time Democrats have attempted to rein in Trump’s power.

This time, however, Fetterman was the deciding vote after three Republican senators — Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Rand Paul — supported it.

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    23 days ago

    You know, Fetterman has talked openly about his struggles with suicidal ideation. Just saying, with the right letter campaign, we might be able to solve this one.

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      23 days ago

      Considering his less than ideal body shape, it’s also not unreasonable to hope for a major cardiovascular event

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        23 days ago

        Well, we could start sending him some red meat gift baskets, but it might get a little pricey.

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    23 days ago

    Zionist first rule over US is only issue to him, and most Senators. He’s just a bit more upfront about being a traitor over the others.

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    24 days ago

    Fetterman has been called a traitor for a lot longer than that. Ever since the brain damage, he’s betrayed everything he was supposedly supporting when elected. That sack of shit can’t fuck off fast enough and the moment his ass is out of office I hope and expect he finds he doesn’t have a friend in the world.

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    24 days ago

    Words alone have lost all meaning, we need action.

    Are they going to do anything about it or say he’s a traitor today and then keep working with him like normal the next day? I’m starting to think they support the Republicans with all this inaction.

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    23 days ago

    Almost 60% americans are against the war, it truly is the #1 democracy.

    And they’ll stay true to themselves, they won’t learn anything from anything ever. I bet some of them will even be asking for a third term.

    Their arrogance is well deserved, USA! USA! USA! The land of the free hahaha

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    23 days ago

    Asshole. Complete asshole. Dude should be thrown out of Congress for the campaign he ran in PA primaries and then the general. I mean Dr. Oz would have been worse but at this point by how much. Everything is fucked.

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    23 days ago

    Didn’t I hear that he got brain damage or something like that AFTER becoming a senator?

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        23 days ago

        I was sort of under the impression that he had changed partway through, but perhaps he was like a Tulsi Gabbard in the end.

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      24 days ago

      If he changes parties then he’s just another ® senator.

      His current position as spoiler maximises the amount of attention/power/leverage/bribes he can receive.

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        23 days ago

        ding, ding, ding… It’s much more lucrative to be pursued than it is to be part of the machine. He’d be a relatively progressive republican (at least according to them) and he’d be getting criticism, instead of praise from the fascists.

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        24 days ago

        Exactly this. Let’s not give him all the credit when we have other terrible but less famous boot licker R Senators like John Curtis who also equally cast the deciding vote.

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    24 days ago

    I wish there was some mechanism to remove him from office earlier. Vote of no confidence, Some sort of lawsuit, Breach of voter representation

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      24 days ago

      His entire personality flipped after he got literal brain damage and he’s been voting solidly in the dumbest way possible ever since (so pretty much always whichever way the Republicans are voting). Unlike several others I don’t think this is a blackmail thing, I think he literally lost like half his IQ overnight.