But, which one are we talking about here? Some of the FettermEn are more intelligent than others.
Posted on 12/08/2023 5:34:29 AM PST by Red Badger
The Pennsylvania progressive's comments follow his staunch support for Israel's war in Gaza, which has also befuddled some of his typical allies on the left.
As stalled immigration negotiations imperil U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is blaming not only Republicans but also members of his own party for what he described as a reflexive political resistance to a border security deal.
“I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border,” Fetterman said in an interview. “It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage.”
Fetterman, a progressive favorite, urged Democrats to acknowledge the large numbers of migrants streaming across the southern border. He cited the nearly 270,000 border encounters that U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported in September.
“Honestly, it’s astonishing. And this isn’t a Fox News kind of statistic. This is the government’s,” he said. “You essentially have Pittsburgh showing up there at the border.”
His remarks come as Democrats increasingly stiff-arm the border talks for skewing too far toward GOP demands — and they're even more striking given his status as a longtime vocal advocate for immigrants. His wife, Gisele Fetterman, was a so-called “Dreamer” who came to the U.S. from Brazil when she was seven years old, a story he highlighted in a video during his 2022 Senate primary. (She became a citizen in 2009.)
The senator’s comments also demonstrate the degree to which he has positioned himself as a staunch ally to Israel during its war in Gaza, an outlook that has deeply frustrated his progressive allies. Fetterman, whose office is adorned with the Israeli flag and a “We Stand With Ukraine” poster, said he is “appalled” that Congress is considering “fucking over” the two countries.
He did not name specific concessions he would suggest making in negotiations with Republicans, saying that he doesn’t want to “paint myself into a corner” ahead of a deal. He did make clear that one red line for him is Dreamers: He would not support any legislation that puts them in harm’s way.
Fetterman added that he remains “perhaps the most pro-immigration member of the Senate” and that the GOP can’t expect to get everything they want in immigration talks. He bashed the House Republican border bill, which that chamber's GOP leaders have insisted on including in any deal as an “OnlyFans wish list" for the opposing party.
Even as he dinged his colleagues, Fetterman acknowledged how complicated immigration reform is.
“I haven't met anyone that can have a really crisp, cogent solution or easy solution on, ‘Well, what do you do when you have roughly a city similar in size of Pittsburgh coming up to the border?’” he said.
What happened to Fetterman? It’s almost like he suddenly grew a brain!
This is the 2nd or 3rd time recently where he was talking sense!
BTTT
Shocking...but maybe he is going to be a pleasant SURPRISE.
I hope so.
I’d like to ask the “Puttin’ on the Ritz” kid a question. Who decided that it was legal for an “asylum seeker” from Morocco to pick and choose which country they want to live off the taxpayers in? I thought the official policy was that you must apply for “asylum” in the first country you arrive at after doing the “asylum chicken run” away from your own country.
Considering how the Democrats so vigorously defended this guy and made him a folk hero during his mental troubles, I'm experiencing a bit of schadenfreude watching the Left recoil in horror as some of his actual positions are becoming known - now that he's apparently coming out of his brain fog.
But, which one are we talking about here? Some of the FettermEn are more intelligent than others.
Post-stroke Fetterman actually is somewhat honest. Perhaps he faced his demons while in rehabilitation and if not voting with his conscience, at least expresses a desire for honest debate and information with his colleagues and the public.
The problem is only complicated because our ruling class of reptiles makes a lot of money off of it. The American political classes is now so corrupt that historians will be writing about it for centuries in wonderment.
How many of him are there?/s
Fetterman appears to be a better Republican than that little turd RINOmney ever was. What happened to him - did someone give him a brain-ectomy and give him a real one?
well, I will take whatever I can get from him! I honestly would have expected him to march arm and arm with the kill the Jew squad.
Fetterman is an abnormal human. Nobody understood how he was chosen to run for the office. Yes, ComDems no longer chose their candidates in the primaries. They chose them in smoke filled back rooms full of those who hate the USA and want to erase all of the history of this great nation.
It is impossible for me to believe we are allowing this. And the courts must know and are being silent. There are a few issue that the Supreme court have made me smile. Abortion and the 2nd amendment (I say that with caution).
May God Bless and guide our great nation again.
There is a shift moving around the world now, so many nations in the West are realizing who the forces of evil are what they actually represent. It is an Old Evil that has haunted mankind since the Garden of Eden.
Often when news breaks on important subjects it is from obscure and unusual sources. Then later, eventually is forced to be accepted by the MSM. But today, the propaganda machine is so refined that it fights to the bitter end to perpetuate a known lie. That is not what our nation has ever been before.
This video I find interesting there is a link here on FR that relates to it, but this I believe is an important supplement of the one already posted.
Already posted:
Geneva: The Head of the Snake (Dec 5, 2023)
https://www.sgtreport.com/2023/12/geneva-the-head-of-the-snake/
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FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4201768/posts?page=1
This is the video:
This is by the son of the man who was a co founder of the WEF. He was assassinated.
WEF co-founder’s son Hussain Najadi, calls for the arrests of Bill Gates, WHO leadership, the WEF, Klaus Schwab, Big Tech and Pfizer_-SD
>They chose them in smoke filled back rooms.......<
That’s real old school..........
I hope he has recovered from his stroke and has found a better way to support America.
I wish him well, second to wishing America well.
It is possible there are some NOT Fettermen.
I am convinced that there are more than 1, NOT Slo Joe’s.
Have been convinced they used one to develop Slo Joe’s Dem Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech. Remember, it was pre recorded. Or it could have been AI too. But It was NOT JOE.
NYT video of speech
https://nytimes.com/video/us/100000007316521/biden-pittsburgh.html
That is not Slo Joe.
And why are there more than 1 doubles? to keep us from comparing 2 and realizing that it is not always Slo Joe speaking.
This is an Obozo Creation.
It looks like it was a mistake to ridicule him while he was down.
I can’t imagine my liking a dim, but.....
Chicago is also the home of the CPUSA. Yes, they have a huge following in Congress. 1984 was the last year they ran a presidential candidate, since then they endorsed the ☭#Dem_Candidate!
I am aware of 3 members of our US congress who received special awards directly from the CPUSA in Chicago.
AZ Congressman Raúl Grijalva
IL Congressman Bobby Rush
Sen. Richard Blumenthal
I once had a link to a video of Grijalva leaving their headquarters in Chicago after receiving his award.
The most recent to receive an award was Blumenthal.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal Helps Conn. Communist Party Celebrate 102nd Anniversary of CPUSA (12-13-21)
FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4021088/posts
FR Comments: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4020956/posts
Alright, who replaced fetterman with a look-alike with common sense?
An inability to toe the party line like 100% of all other Democrats.
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