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Why does Fetterman, the largest senator, not simply eat the other senators?
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.
I heard your senator went into the senate and ate everything in the senate and they had to close the senate!
Am I out of touch?
No! the constituents are wrong!
I yield the rest of my thyme.
They must be saving that for Sweeps Week.
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.
I blame social media. Mainlining outrage and confirmation bias through your smart phone is one hell of a way to get high
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
As someone who came of age during Reagan's presidency, y'all just ain't been around long enough.
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.
We could at the very least split him and have two normally sized fettermen.
Why does Fetterman, the largest Senator, simply not eat the other 99?
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
Because the whole damn system is designed to weed out anyone like that before they can even sniff at a senate seat.
And yet here we are with him in Congress. So it actually is possible.
Anyone making season 6 Simpson references should be immediately put in charge of everything.
Come one over to /c/thesimpsons where we constantly play differing difficulties of "Guess The Episode" based on screen shots.
Can I just note, at the risk of venturing slightly off topic, that Fetterman is rocking that stash?
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.
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.
I'm pretty sure the plural is Johns Fetterman. It's like Attorneys General.
Fetterman and his wife continue to impress me with how good at social media they are.
Gisele Fetterman is a secret weapon and almost as funny as the Senator
Fetterman for VP.
Him and Biden together would be comedy gold.
VP? Fetterman for Pres! Biden can be his VP. you know. to help mentor and guide him.
Imagine not understanding the difference between inner forearms and outer forearms...
I hate it when my tattoos disappear
These people can't be THAT stupid, right? Right?!
Ugh. I want off this ride.
Crazy how gop found so many people with the shame part of their brain disabled
To be fair, Krusty the Clown and Homer Simpson are body doubles. Maybe there's a cynical clown version of John Fetterman somewhere.