Posted on 10/23/2025 6:19:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats are about to get MUCH ANGRIER after hearing what John Fetterman just said on Fox News.
As they threaten to primary him, Fetterman’s doubling down — calling out the rot inside his own party.
Hannity sat back and enjoyed every second as Fetterman torched Democrats for abandoning common sense just to spite Trump.
By the end, Hannity was so impressed, he half-jokingly asked Fetterman to join the Republican Party.
A major meltdown in the Democratic Party started last week after John Fetterman appeared at a NewsNation town hall and did what few in Washington have even attempted — he tried to turn the temperature down.
There, he said: “I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.”
“I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody—anybody to Hitler.”
At that same town hall, Fetterman also shared an inconvenient truth about his own party’s talking points on the shutdown, pointing out how health care subsidies were “DESIGNED by the Democratic Party to expire at the end of the year,” adding, “This is NOT something taken by the Republicans.”
Now, Democrats are threatening to primary him.
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But those threats don’t seem to be working. On Hannity Wednesday night, Fetterman doubled down on every comment that angered Democrats — and threw in a few new ones for good measure.
He began by saying Charlie Kirk’s death proved his party’s “extreme rhetoric” has gone too far.
“I refuse to do those kinds of things [call people fascists and Nazis] because that kind of extreme rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of extreme actions, like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk,” Fetterman said.
“It’s like, that’s just basic humanity there… I refuse to be a part of comparing people to Hitler and those things because if that’s what’s required to win, then I refuse to.”
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From there, Fetterman exposed how Democrats are letting their own base GO HUNGRY over the shutdown just to score political points against Trump.
“Two million Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to help feed themselves and their families. Two million,” Fetterman stressed.
“And now that’s going to be suspended because our government is shut down. I can’t ever vote for that kind of mass food insecurity like that.”
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He’s right: according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, millions could lose access to food benefits if the budget impasse continues. Currently, the website looks like this.
And yet, party leaders seem more focused on defying Trump than on feeding families.
To threats of being primaried, Fetterman issued this defiant message:
“I’m not afraid of telling the truth. I’ll be the Democrat that refuses to lie to the base and pretend that this [shutting the government down] is right. I’m proud to stand with Israel. I’m proud to say that we need to secure our border. I think it’s entirely appropriate to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities.
“And now I refuse to call on my fellow citizens as they’re fascists or Nazis or those things. And if somebody wants to primary me or the party wants to vote me out, it’s like I’m going to go down being honest and telling you that this is wrong to do these kinds of things. And I refuse to do that. I think we need to be a big, big tent party. That doesn’t sound like it.”
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At the end of the interview, Fetterman spent two full minutes torching his own party for abandoning common sense just to spite Trump.
The music told Fetterman to wrap it up, but he just kept going — raving about how much he LOVES Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” and how disgraceful it was for Democrats to not stand and clap for Laken Riley’s family at the State of the Union.
On top of that, he said, “I will never understand why it’s controversial to round up and deport all of the criminals here that are in our nation. And I’m proud to just agree that we need to secure our border.”
Hannity loved it so much, he half-jokingly asked Fetterman to join the Republican Party by the end.
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Fetterman continues to prove he’s a rare kind of Democrat — one that, in his own words, puts country over party, and speaks uncomfortable truths.
As he said himself, if the Democratic Party takes him down, he’ll be remembered as “the Democrat that refuses to lie to the base and pretend that this is right.”
“We ran on that. We ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it,” Fetterman said of Democrats.
“I don’t want to hear any Democrat clutching their pearls about the filibuster. We all ran on it. I ran on that in my … so, like, that’s, yeah.”
During his election he could barely put a sentence together. Who would have known Fetterman was the most common sense democrat out of the bunch.
Fetterman betrayed the established doctrine of the democrat party by stating he placed the interest of the nation above the interest of the party.
For that open transgression against the democrat Prime Directive he will be branded a heretic and severely punished.
When the Treasury get billions every date, why cut off food stamps?
When one realizes he’s probably the last real democrat from a party that died a long time ago. He’s now a rarity amongst the rabid, violent, anti-American, godless communists, and they hate him for sticking up for America as we know it.
That may be...bt look how he votes. Almost straight line DIM.
Fetterman votes the vile Dem position 95% of the time. Who’s kidding who!!
I don’t trust him.
“”Almost straight line DIM.””
If he was sincere about everything he said at the Town Hall, I would say he’s “seen the light”...may have taken awhile but paired up against that female representative Dean at that event, she was pretty obnoxious..maybe he doesn’t want to be considered “one of them.” She’s always irritated me but I didn’t know before that, that she is an attorney...obnoxious comes with the territory in that case..dems not attorneys - but even that could work!!!!
“Two million Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to help feed themselves and their families. Two million,” Fetterman stressed.”
“Compassion is not defined by how many people get government help, but by how many people no longer need government help.“ - Ronald Reagan.
Quoted from my memory, the actual wording may vary.
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I don’t place any trust or hopes in Leftists like John Fetterman or Bill Mahr, who occasionally stray from the Democrat Party and seem to put common sense above their party line.
We don’t want or need these people to become Republicans - we have enough RINOs already, and that’s all they would be.
However, it is a very good thing that they exist and that they have these rogue moments - it weakens the Leftist propaganda machine and spreads a littke doubt.
The Left relies on gaslighting its own voters - they literally have them calling a circle a square and saying 2 plus 2 is 5.
The fact that a few Democrats get embarrassed by the gaslighting and are driven to occasionally speak the truth - that’s a good thing for it provides cover for others to do the same.
I don’t want Fetterman on our side - but I like it when he occasionally blurts out something true.
regarding henry
I sure hope he’s got good security.......
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