Agreed.
Posted on 10/23/2025 6:59:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
You don’t erase a radical past. You rebrand it.
Control isn’t always about silence. Sometimes it’s about agreement.
When conservatives crave unity more than truth, deception becomes easy.
A “common-sense” mask can hide the most dangerous ideology.
Fetterman’s rebrand started in 2022. The campaign ends in the White House.
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BRIEFING
... Senator John Fetterman isn’t a Dem with an identity crisis. He’s a psyop. Let’s get into it.
You can see the entire blueprint if you just stop staring at the dirty hoodie long enough. Every piece of his history lines up like a case file: the Clinton-era AmeriCorps progressive grooming ground, the Obama-style activist mayor years, LGBTQ flags flapping off the statehouse, a hard push for pardons and commutations that law enforcement publicly hated, and a Marxist/BLM worldview he quietly scrubbed the second it turned inconvenient. None of that vanished, guys. It just got repackaged.
The story the media, and way too many on the right, are peddling is simple: “Finally! A sane, working-class Democrat who tells it like it is.” Come on, guys. Really? You’re buying this snake oil? This isn’t some political evolution for John Fetterman. It’s backroom engineering by slick consultants who get paid obscene amounts of money to turn activists into presidents. Just ask Barry. Somewhere around 2022, Fetterman’s team flipped the switch from progressive radical to “common-sense” populist. He probably saw The Squad collapsing under its own insanity and decided to switch gears. Smart move, actually. But let’s be real, it’s the same guy, voting the same way, just wrapped in new optics. Fetterman didn’t stumble onto the moderate middle; he discovered a marketing lane.
He’s testing out the next Democratic prototype: a “reasonable” leftist who talks like he hates the radicals but still feeds the same machine. A populist costume for Marxist wiring.
DEBRIEF
Fetterman’s rebrand isn’t random; it’s patterned, calculated, and documented. His history reads like a manual for building the next Democratic psyop: start in the activist trenches, collect the right allies, reframe the optics, and wait for America to forget who you were or think you had some “come to Jesus” awakening.
THE ORIGIN STORY: AMERICORPS & BRADDOCK
Before he was Pennsylvania’s “everyman senator,” John Fetterman was the poster child for Clinton-era activism. His political DNA starts with AmeriCorps, the government-funded “service” program built to funnel radical young progressives into government-approved activism. That’s where he learned how to moralize policy and dress ideology up as compassion.
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DOGE: AmeriCorps was a viper’s nest of DEI and climate change initiatives. With a budget north of $1 billion the agency was rife with fraud, waste, and abuse failing 8 consecutive audits. Biden’s Inspector General admitted that he had no idea when the agency could pass an audit. DOGE is gutting the agency.
After AmeriCorps came Braddock, the struggling steel town he used as his own personal political laboratory. Fetterman didn’t just move there; he branded himself as its savior. The media loved the optics: a tattooed, Harvard-educated bald progressive “reviving” a dying Rust Belt town. But behind the photo ops was the same formula AmeriCorps taught him: frame decay as injustice, pitch government as salvation, and call it compassionate service.
Except, oops, it didn’t work.
Braddock didn’t thrive under Fetterman’s leadership. Actually, it flatlined. The population kept shrinking, poverty stayed high, and violent crime actually went up. The “model town” story was a mirage built for campaign ads.
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In his entire tenure as the mayor of Braddock, John Fetterman cast a single vote at a city council meeting and it was a meaningless one. It was a procedural vote for borough president. So, what happened next? This is always our favorite part of the story. What were the results? How did Braddock, Pennsylvania, fare under the leadership of John Fetterman? That’s really the only question that matters and again, we want to be as fair and objective as we can be. So, we’re going to tell you that under his tenure as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the seas did not rise. That is true. Braddock is still on dry land. Of course, it’s very far from the ocean, but it’s still dry. So, his climate policy worked. He can be proud of that. Unfortunately, everything else fell apart in Braddock.
People kept fleeing. Braddock’s population is currently at its lowest level ever recorded. The median income in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is $14,000 a year. More than a third of households in Braddock live below the poverty line. Braddock, by the way, has one of the highest crime rates in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2018, shortly after Fetterman left office, Braddock’s per capita murder rate was higher than it is in some of the most dangerous countries in the world. Honduras and Belize are safer than Braddock, Pennsylvania. So, that’s a failure and in a functioning system, a record like this would have disqualified John Fetterman from ever running for anything again. He failed demonstrably as a leader. It had a higher murder rate than Honduras and the lowest population ever recorded. Sorry, climate change didn’t improve the town.
Nothing like a nice coffee and a paranoid fantasy in the am.
I think you spelled ‘psychopath’ wrong.
Fetterman talks moderate, but votes radical Left.
I agree with much of what the article says.
Yep he has not voted against party when it made a difference. Not a single time and don’t think he ever will.
He’s less of an op than Manchin was. Fetterman was pro-Israel before the Dems got Islamized.
I think Fetterman is being the new Joe Manchin. A useful ‘reasonable’ voice that they use to get the GOP to agree to stuff they wouldn’t otherwise because that will get them a vote for the reasonable dem. Manchin was a tool used to manipulate negotiations to favor the dems and so will Fetterman be.
John McCain built a career on being a "sensible Republican" who was willing to "break ranks" and "vote his conscience." He reveled in the image.
Why shouldn't Fetterman pursue a similar niche? Not because he believes in any of it, but simply as a matter of political expediency.
For if it were for real, he would no longer be a Democrat, because being a Democrat would be against everything you now believe as a result of eperiencing a true epiphany.
While it’s fun to listen to him state the obvious about Democrats, I cannot think of a SINGLE VOTE by him that supported Trump when Trump actually needed his vote. With Murkowski, sometimes she actually does vote with Trump, with Collins she usually votes with Trump, as with most other RINOs and flakes (as in Rand).
So, while Fetterman is entertaining, that’s about all he is for people on our side.
Interesting. Yep they created Obama. Obama 2 in the works?
Or not.
Agreed.
“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.”
In this thread, I know all of the history he expanded on about Fetterman in Braddock. All along, on the surface, I have been both encouraged and yet mystified by his seeming change, and simply just do not trust it. I have even ventured into the territory where I have allowed myself to consider that his stroke changed him, in ways that strokes can sometimes do to people, although not always for good.
But I have not allowed myself to believe it is a real change in Fetterman.
I try to keep open the possibility that people, even older, established people can change. My primary source of that consideration can be seen in both David Horowitz and Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom were hard Leftists whom I would regard as "True Believers" or "Inner Party Members" of the Left, but I believe both have genuinely changed.
Like the author of this piece, I am not convinced that Fetterman has undergone a genuine conversion. I remain skeptical.
It’s easy to be a liberal when a child.
Once an adult, making adult decisions and having to pay or deal with the consequences, these liberal ideas no longer sound so cool.
Fetterman may have grown up.
No one I know cares about Fetterman’s deep inner philosophy. I’d rather have him as a Republican than man child Rand Paul or homo boy Lindsay Graham.
All the political world is a stage, and each...
Fetterman has always been a chameleon on the inside. Only thing that stays the same is his cloak on the outside.
With him, always keep in mind that old phrase that actions speak louder than words.
He is still a democrat and has not totally renounced and left the democrat party in light of their push for violence and chaos.
The deal is that he is waiting for the current democrat wokester nutcases to throw him out so that he can say he was trying to save the party from ruin by promoting a return to more normalcy.
Where is the commie wife? Does she still support him?
Another option:
The tide is turning.
The left went to far, peaked out, and you’re seeing a rise in the popularity of more conservative ideas.
Illegals are getting the boot (their votes will be less).
Elections and voting is getting cleaned up.
Fetterman may see the handwriting on the wall and want to be on the winning team.
Good article. He is clearly a fabricated candidate like Obama was. Obama was originally intended to initially be a vice-presidential candidate, but he grew too popular and took out their designated nominee. The Dem establishment might make the same mistake again if they aren’t more careful this time.
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